So I was chatting with some other people on the text game the other day, and we were talking about our personality types. And then we all went to this online test thing that told us what kind of people we were. As it turns out, I'm an "INTJ", or "Introverted, iNtuitive, Thinking, Judging" Want to know how my head works? Go to [ http://typelogic.com/intj.html ]. And then go to [ http://www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/JTypes2.asp ] and see what you are.

I was actually pretty surprised how much the first page correctly describes me. Especially the parts like "Typical INTJ career choices are in the sciences and engineering" and "they tend to have little patience and less understanding of such things as small talk and flirtation". Heh, that's me right there.

Yikes, I'm busy. Really, really, really busy. So I forgot about this for a while. But anyway.

The new job has been going really well. I've been fixing a few things here and there, and the rest of the time I get to do homework. So it's not all that horrible on my schedule. And I got my first paycheck from the new job today... much better than shelving books, I can say that much. Do I miss the old job at all? Not a bit.

I've been obsessing over some programming for the last couple days... the forums from the text game crashed for some reason, and I've been trying to piece together bits and pieces of the database to recover as many posts as possible. It's fun... I just like it too much and ignore homework because of it, heh.

So yeah, about that educational stuff... I had a few tests this week, which were all pretty easy. I'm definitely not looking forward to writing a 7-page paper for english, though. And the math test won't be too great either. Ick.

I've been going to daily Mass on campus, too. It's really nice, especially because I wanted to go to Steubenville in the first place because of all the Catholic stuff there. There's not a big group of students who are active in campus ministry activities and stuff, but there are enough to get noticed. And to top it all off, the head of the computer science department goes to daily Mass a bunch too. So, I'm happy about that. And I get to eat lunch with the "Mass crowd", too. Instead of by myself in a corner. Which was getting a bit old, I guess.

Oh, one more thing. I've moved the date for getting my new car back to Christmas break. 8 more months is too long to wait when I'm this obsessed, heh. And I decided that a car loan won't be so bad after all... I'll pay what I can, which will be at least half, and then I'll just have to pay an extra $800 or so in interest by the time I pay it off. Insurance will be a big pain, though. Stupid "18-year-old-males-are-guaranteed-to-get-drunk-and-wreck-their-cars" stereotypes. Doesn't a completely clean record for 2.5 years mean anything?

Hmm. Well, the new job has been going pretty slowly. I don't know enough yet to start working on any of the projects we have to get done, and stuff isn't broken enough to keep me busy. (Not because it's running Windows. That's just an anomaly.) So I've mostly been sitting around more in our little basement office-cave thing doing nothing of much significance. Next week should be a bit more interesting, as my boss says he's going to start training me in some of the other stuff we do.

Homework this week actually ended up being surprisingly easy. I still have a bunch of calculus problems to do for Monday, but most of the other stuff I was able to get done during the week. It might get a little interesting when I have a bunch of exams in the same week or something. But oh well, I suppose I can always take a day off for that.

Oh, one more thing... my dad's old car thing pretty much started to die recently. The muffler doesn't really muffle anymore, so it sounds like a car straight out of a demo derby or something. Kinda funny, but not very practical. So anyway, today he went and bought a 2002 Honda Civic. Now I'm temporarily jealous, heh. I'll just have to wait until May when I buy a Scion tC. Heheheheh.

So yeah, that's that. Only 12 more weeks of classes to go for this semester!

After a decently stressful English class (we were told to write a summary in class of something we hadn't explicitly been assigned to read, heh) I got to run back to the library to start my new job. It's nice to be somewhere familiar for a change, heh. So, for the first 2 hours, my boss went over a bunch of the administration tools and passwords and stuff like that, then he went home and I sat around staring at the phone for a while waiting for people to have problems. That didn't work too well, so I wandered around for a while saying hello to other staff people and stuff, asking if they had any computer problems. Sigh, no luck. So I went back down to the basement and poked around and organized my desk (I get a desk! Whee!) for a bit. Then I got a phone call! Happy joy excitement! Even though it was only a patron trying to figure out how to put files on her flash drive, it was still something. But oh well. I get to start on some projects that will keep me busy tomorrow, or something.

But I think it'll be a great job. I liked shelving books enough, and computer stuff can't be nearly as tedious.

Oh, and I was talking to someone in my class who said that his dorm floor has LAN parties all day and stuff. Sigh. Not fair. But I guess I have to figure that the experience (and money, for that matter) that I'll gain from the tech job isn't worth the money it would cost to stay on campus and play LAN parties and not study and flunk out of college or something.

While my first week of college doesn't end until tomorrow, I only have two short classes then, so it doesn't really count. So anyway, I'm not quite sure where to start. It's all so different from what I've always done before that I'm sort of numbed by all the new things. Sure, classes at the career center were a bit of an adjustment toward regular school life, but all of a sudden I have 17 hours of lectures every week, not 12.5 hours of lab time.

I've been decently busy the whole week, finding errands to do and stuff. I'm a bit concerned that I won't have time to do anything but school and work once my job starts on Tuesday (things like, for example, getting a haircut or something). However, it'll only be ridiculously busy for 5 weeks, then I'll have 3 hours to spare whenever I need them during the week.

So, academic stuff... well, with all the classes, I'm being forced to quickly adjust to taking notes, which is something I'm not experienced with. But I think I've figured out how to put down what I figure I need to know. I guess we'll find out when I take exams, eh? Programming is really easy. Too easy. But since I don't have time for more than I'm doing now anyway, I won't complain too much. Calculus is, well, calculus. The professor in that class has a really strong Asian accent, so I hope I don't get completely lost once we get a bit deeper into the material. Spanish will probably be my toughest subject. Memorization = bad. History should actually be a lot easier than I figured it would be. The teacher has some nice (and simplifying) methods of telling us how to get ready for exams. And there's english... I don't want to write 7 pages! *whines*

Waking up at 6:30 is really messing up my internal clock, too. I keep waking up at about 3:00 AM, jumping out of bed, and getting all set to eat and go to school before I figure out that I still have 3 more hours to sleep.

And, still haven't really "met" anyone yet. I went in assuming that I'd be put in classes with the same people for a bunch of time, like I was at the career center, but I guess I didn't realize that when the whole class is pretty much lecturing, there's not a lot of time for talking to classmates. I'm kinda assuming that once I figure out who the other computer science major people are, I might find some people with common interest to hang out with on campus. But I don't really mind stuff like eating lunch by myself... I'd do it at home anyway, the fact that there are a hundred other people in the room doesn't bug me that much.

And, that's all I can remember to talk about at the moment.