Reynolds & Reynolds – Job Searching

Driving 2 hours to Dayton for some final skills tests and hopefully an interview at Reynolds & Reynolds. Hoping this will turn into a nice job offer. I’m pretty excited about this company and would love the opportunity to work for them. From what I’ve seen they have a great atmosphere and many opportunities for coworkers to bond. Sports leagues as well as events like cooking competitions. If not just for the fun they would be on their own, they sound like great times and great ways to learn more about the people you work with. Everyone I’ve talked to from the company has been very nice and they’ve been great at trying to accommodate with my free time and work around my school schedule. I’m excited to get to meet more people today and see what the area’s like around their Dayton campus. Oh, and did I mention they have on site workout facilities. How could you not be excited for that?! Working out and playing soccer, I’m gonna be in better shape than I was in high school in no time at all. I think I’ve gone on enough now so wish me luck and I’ll update when I know more. Everyone have a great day.

It’s Been Too Long

Wow. It’s been way too long since my brother or I have posted. We’re slacking bad, but hopefully we can start getting back on track. It’s been a pretty crazy year which is partly why I haven’t posted. With all the work I have to get done for my senior capstone project and wanting to hurry up and graduate already, I find myself forgetting about many of the things I used to do. I’ve scheduled myself a lighter semester so hopefully I can start posting more as well as getting back to reading again. The books I want to read are starting to pile up next to my desk and I’m not even halfway through the one on top of the stack. On top of everything else going on, I’m a little unsure of some things in the personal area of my life. Not conflicted per say, but unsure on if I’m really feeling the way I am about someone. And if I am feeling that way, should I even have those feelings for them? Would it be going against a friend of mine if I did? Most importantly, does this person have similar feelings? Oh well, it will be what it will, so I try not to dwell on it much.

Let’s get back to fun and upbeat topics. I’ve recently acquired quite a bit of music from my brother to add to my library and it included some great stuff. Some more Michael Bublé, which is always a great listen. Also a couple of Kings of Leon albums, another John Mayer album, Lee Brice, Paramore, Punk Goes Acoustic 2, and a new one that I’d never heard of – Sequoyah Prep School. Oh and I almost forgot some of Elton John’s greatest hits. I’ve added a few movies to my collection recently as well and there are many coming out in theater’s soon that Id really love to go see. One the top being This Means War closely followed by, yeah I know I might take a little flack for this one but it looks really good, The Vow. I’m a sucker for those kinds of movies and I have my wonderful mother to thank for that. And I don’t mean that sarcastically at all, she really is the best mother anyone could ever have. She’s always there for my brothers and I when we need her, be it as a loving and caring mother or even a friend to just chat.

Well I’ll try to post more here on out and I definitely will after graduation and I have time to do so since I won’t have anymore homework that takes up my time. Time to go to the indoor track meet and hopefully I didn’t miss my roommate run already. Lol.

First Day of Fall Semester

So it’s the first day of classes for fall semester. I’m determined to get back in shape this year. Up and out of bed at 7:30, went for a 30 minute run, came back to the apartment and showered. Then I had myself a healthy breakfast and chilled in my room, listening to some music. After that I got ready and went over to work for about a couple of hours before my first class. 11:00 AM, first class of the day, Intro to Sociology out at the front of campus. It seems like it will be a fun and interesting class. Then I had Elementary Arabic 1 after that at 12:00 PM. That will definitely be an interesting class, possibly one of my harder classes this semester. Back to work for another hour and then I had Programming Languages at 2:00 PM. I have a feeling that it will be quite possibly my most boring class this semester and I may or may not hate every minute of it. Finally after that I get a break which consisted of calling a faculty member to find out when I could stop in to their office to take a look at a computer issue they are having. Talked to my boss for a few minutes and then I eventually got a late lunch and went back to my room to listen to some music and chill out. After relaxing for a few hours I went to my 7:00 PM Digital Photography class. Seems like it could be neat, learning about the progression of photography since it started and how to compose photos. To end the day I went straight from Digital Photography to watch the comedians that came in to start the school year. They were alright, but I think that by far the final comedian, Geoff Keith, was absolutely amazing. If you’ve never heard of him you should check out some of his standup. Amazing. And now I’m chilling in my room getting ready to go to bed since I have to get up to cover someone’s shift at work. All in all today was a pretty decent day, of course being my last first day of classes helped a little.

Chipotle BOGO

Sweet! Chipotle was having a buy one get one free deal if you watched a video on Facebook and printed off the coupon. So I got two burritos today. The deal is good until the 10th of this month if anyone is interested.

New Tattoos!!

I finally got them! Got them done last night. The guy did a really good job. Place is called Raw Ink in Ada, OH. Thanks a bunch to Dave for the great work.  Here’s some pictures:

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New Clothes!

Went to the mall earlier to get out of the apartment for a while. Walked around a couple of stores looking at coats, didn’t really see anything I liked. Went to Pac sun and found some good black skinny jeans. I’ve been needing a new pair for some time, so I got a couple of pairs. Saw some nice v-necks there, picked up a purple striped one. Grabbed a nice red flannel and almost a blue one but I didn’t end up getting that one. And finally I saw a whole rack of 3/4 length sleeve shirts. I haven’t one of those forever. I only got one but I’m sure I’ll be checking out the other ones that they had eventually. I’ve got some pictures of what I got in a slideshow below. Sorry for the low quality but it’s the best I could get.

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Made up my mind

So, I changed my mind. I think I’m gonna get the forearm piece and the ‘make believe’ wrist pieces. They’ll be coverable with long sleeves. And working in a computer related field will most likely involve air conditioning so I think I’ll be okay with long sleeves for working. By the time I get past being okay with it, either tattoos will be more acceptable in the working society or I’ll be up high enough in the system, making enough money, that it won’t matter. Just because I have the tattoos is no reason to respect me any less if I’ve earned it.

Why? And what does it mean?

Ever have a dream where you’re hanging out with a friend and she’s in a relationship with someone but the two of you end up kissing? Not like an intentionally planned kissed. Like one of those moments where your eyes just meet and then the kiss just slowly happens? At least right after that I remember apologizing because I knew she was in a relationship. But it was like time froze and we were in a completely different world of our own. Then some time had passed and we were hanging out again, I believe it was the same day, but now two more of our friends were there with us in what seemed like my dining room in my house. Our other two friends are in a relationship together. I don’t remember what we were doing but I think something happened to my friend that is in a relationship with another guy. I can’t remember what, if she like stubbed her toe or something. I just remember her making it into my arms and I just held her for a bit. Then there was a switch in this part where originally we were standing but then somehow we were sitting on the dining room floor. Our other two friends were sitting at the table. Then, as I was holding her, about to help her get up from the floor, she leaned and kissed me again, but I distinctly remember not kissing her back this time. Then there was another lapse in the dream and she was out of the room and I’m still sitting on the dining room floor with our friends at the table. This time they saw the kiss. And the only thing I remember them asking me was, “Why would you do that to [insert friends boyfriends name]?” I remember replying, kind of harshly I think, “I didn’t. If you didn’t notice, I didn’t actually kiss her back!” Then I got up and walked out of the room, a little aggravated at my friend who asked that question. Then the dream ended. I don’t know how to take it or what it means. I would never try to break up my friends relationship when she is happy with it currently. I don’t know. I have a feeling I’m going to be doing a lot of thinking for a while. Just what I needed. Not. What could it all mean? That’s my only question. I will admit that I do have some feelings for this friend and sometimes I think of how it could be if we were together. At least I don’t have a lot of work to do seeing as I’ll probably be pondering over this for a while.

Sleep

It’s been a while since I’ve posted anything here and I haven’t thought of anything to post but I’m just laying here in bed and can’t seem to fall asleep. So I’m listening to music and just writing whatever I think of as it comes to me. I went to the indoor track meet today to support my roommate and some of our friends. It was a good time and there were some cute girls there so that’s always a plus. I’m heading home sometime tomorrow for the rest if our 3-day weekend and I have a dentist appointment on Monday. Blah. At least maybe tomorrow my legs will feel a little better. The second day after the workout usually seems to be the worst for me anyway. Bruno Mars is playing now. I really like his album. This song, Talking to the Moon, is a good one that I really like. I think the slow song did me in, I’m starting to get tired now. I think I’ll finish with letting everyone know that I just recently added some updates that I received, from our design editor, to the Polaris website. If you haven’t already you should stop by the polarismag.org site and look around. I still have a thing or two that I need to add, but for the most part it is all updated so go check it out and maybe submit some of your work. Deadline for submissions is February 25, 2011 EST. One more quick thing, check out my friend’s newly independently released album on iTunes. Her name is Kenley Shea and the album is titled Seek the Joy. Go check it out and support your independent artists. And so with that I bid the all farewell and may everyone sleep well as I hope to do. Goodnight.

I Want A New Tattoo

So, I’ve been thinking about it and I really want to get another tattoo. I have two now so this will my third and I just like them so much. I don’t want anything off the wall or really crazy because that just wouldn’t be me. But I’ve been looking around and I found a couple of ideas that I like, but I just can’t decide which. The one that I found is on both wrists and it says ‘make believe’ across the wrists and has two little bands around the left wrist above the word believe. Another one is getting ‘Omnia Vincit Amor’ around one wrist or I’ve considered possibly getting that written down one of my forearms. Another thought that came to mind was maybe getting the ‘make believe’ with the bands on one wrist and ‘Omnia Vincit Amor’ around the other wrist above the word make. I’ve included a couple of pictures of the three ideas so take a look and let me know what you think of the ideas and which sounds particularly the best to you.