Tuesday, February 5, 2008

Anybody out there?

... probably not, but I'll post anyway. I'm tired and sore. Yesterday I got out of class early so I decided to go for another walk/run totally about 4.7 miles for the day, and I am paying for it today. Out of shape.

I have also concluded that a blog like this should go deeper than just what I did on any given day. I will work on that.

But for today, I am not feeling so deep on this "super fat tuesday"...

Monday, February 4, 2008

Whoa, 6 months later...

where have I been? Heres some of what has happened since my failed attempt at a diet:

1. I luckily got my classes last semester after sitting at the computer ALL DAY and webportal crashing

2. the diet died

3. I got a job at the San Diego Assessor Recorder County Clerk's office in public info (I answer phones and help customers, thanks David!)

4.I got a new camera (canon 40d) courtesy of my pops, a new 70-200mm 2.8 IS lens courtesy of my very generous grandparents, the new sigma 10mm 2.8 fisheye and 580exII flash courtesy of my wallet. lots of new pics!

5.I got into the TFM major which I am really excited about, now all the fun classes!

6. I am now 2 weeks into the spring semester and got all the classes I wanted (but only 12 units this time:
- Basic Television Production
- Basic 16mm Film Production
-Cutural Aspects of Media
- Women's Health Across the Lifetime (yes, I did say women's health)
I really like the first 3 classes. Womens health is boring, but it should be fairly easy

7. A new diet regimen has begun. It started this morning with walking/running with my dog around the middle school. Its serious this time, time to get back into shape!

A couple of my newest images for good measure:




Friday, August 3, 2007

Diet day 1

today the diet went pretty well... for me at least. Steven, Kathy and I met Steph for lunch at Panera.
I had:
low-fat chicken noodle soup
half strawberry chicken poppyseed salad
fruit "cup"
strawberry smoothie (strawberries and low fat yogurt)

Dinner:
Corn
Rice
Watermelon
a little salad
tiny piece of steak

Then I went to play some bball with Cory. We played 21. He beat me 2 games to 1. Somehow he hit more shots in the dark. Noteworthy- Cory got stuffed 3 times.

After we were done, we watched the pad game (outstanding finish) and Cory failed me when devouring 2 pieces of fried chicken and an ice cream sandwich after admitting to eating approximately 10 oatmeal cookies. Thats disappointment sauce right there.

Now I am tired.

BCH over and out

Diet? Whats that?

Yesterday I decided I need to start a diet. I figured if Ian could do it, then so can I. Cory will be joining me as well and though Steph wants to, she definitely doesnt need to.
The plan:
Eat healthier and smaller portions. Drink water and juices. Exercise. Ambitious I know, but I can do it.

Today is day one... 2 hours into the day and so far so good - for breakfast I had a banana and water.

We'll see how this turns out.

Friday, July 27, 2007

Casa Del Olsen

I did some shooting today since I had my camera at the Olsen household and wanted to try some real HDR and infrared so here's the results. I think it looks like a resort.

Wednesday, July 25, 2007

SDSU, What a Joke!

Im starting to get really annoyed with college. Not because classes are hard (they aren't really) or because i don't want to go, but because registration is a complete and total joke. At least at SDSU it is anyway.

I think they accepted way too many people for the amount of classes there are. I am a television and film major. This fall I should be taking a 16mm film class, a television production class and audio production class along with some GE classes. The average number of seats in those classes is 22. Registration has only been open for approx a week and a half or so and already the average number of seats left is less than 10. And my registration isn't until August 20th. So basically, I have a little less than a month left before I register to hope and pray that 10 seats arent taken up in those classes... the chances of that - slim to none. And that isn't just for classes that I would like because I like the schedule, those are the ONLY sections for those classes.

In other words, there is only 1 section for each of those classes that I am REQUIRED to take before I can get into my major, plus 2 more classes that have to be taken after those 3, and I am supposed to go into the major before junior year.

I am SCREWED. And what is sad about that is that I am on the Dean's List with above a 3.5 GPA, in the top 10% of my college (Professional Studies and Fine Arts), will have 40 units when I am done with Summer School (when the average Sophomore will have between 24-30 units), and I am going to be screwed out of classes I need to take.

I feel like I won't be able to graduate in 4 years not because of my grades or effort, but because I can't get classes because there aren't enough. And my family is paying for this!

And this comes after registering last semester when our online registration system crashed the day of registration. I sat at the computer for 8 hours trying to register. When it finally came back up, Everyone who was to register in that time period got on all at the same time and crashed it more times. By the time I was finally able to get on, my schedule had to be totally repicked because of all the seats that were gone. Instead of SDSU just reissuing registration times, they just let it be a free-for-all which screwed everyone in the end.

There is definitely a need to fix this registration issue and maybe its just SDSU that has this problem. My sister registered a month ago at SFSU. Stephanie registered before school was even over at UCSD. I dont even register until 7 days before class starts. Does that seem right to you?

I am fed up with this bogus system.

Tuesday, July 24, 2007

Yuck


Last week in Bio lab, we were supposed to swab something and then wipe it on some gel in a little dish. Stephanie and I decided to swab my cell phone to show how gross phones are (since we knew it was going ot be about bacteria). That photo is the result.

Gross indeed.... Now go sanitize your phone.