Trogday
For the Strong Bad fans: Thought you should know it’s Trogdor’s 3rd birthday today. This brings back good memories. Play the game.
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2005 Year-in-Review
Here it is once again, in words by season and in photos by month; this is my 2005 Year-in-Review.
Winter was my last quarter in Informatics, full of hours in MGH with Trevor and Rufino for our “Information Solutions for CIRGE” senior Capstone. It was 19 credits of hard work, followed by the infamous trip to Canon Beach with the INFO Crew. Spring was a complete shift in gears with no more classes at the iSchool and a full load of economics. It was a relatively laid-back quarter studying trade, growth, and political economy, with lots of sunshine, cranberry juice-breaks with Paul, birthday parties, and well, the dreadful job search. Then, happily, I graduated. Summer was nice, real nice. I started work at Atlas with the great NC team, doing website usability consulting, and adjusting to an 8-5. Mainly though, it was free time with Ryan, Jackson Johnson on CD, Capoeira, Harry Potter 6, parks, and outdoor barbecues; ending with a family trip to Chicago and DMB at the Gorge. Fall? A weekend in Las Vegas with Ryan and friends, my first trip to New York, and a bit of Texas Hold ‘Em. After the series of holidays (which I do adore), the final days of the year were spent in Nicaragua, doing volunteer work, sleeping on the floor of an orphanage, and burning a paper man on the street at midnight.
January
IUGA LAN Parties
February
Working on Capstone in the MGH Group Room
Oh Time, Oh Me
“There are not enough hours in the day,” my roommate and I often to say to each other at night. You know what it’s like, how in the midst of your hustle and bustle, you glance at the clock and feel that, “It’s already x o’clock?”-feeling. It’s been a familiar sentiment of mine lately.
It became most apparent to me during this past holiday season. I felt like I was attempting to “squeeze in” Christmas throughout the month. I guess I’ve been spoiled, especially my last two years of college. Those three weeks of winter break to soak in the holiday hooplah really can’t be beat. Work really changed the picture of what the holiday season looked like. And each evening, those hours after five would just fly by with the usual business, preparing for my trip, and holiday festivities. But now that it’s over and a new year has sprung, I’ve found myself even more “out of time”, retiring to bed a little defeated each night.
Free typing test
According to www.powertyping.com, I can type 105 words per minute! With 9 mistakes. This what Ryan and I do for fun because we’re awesome. Unfortunately, he can’t “remember” his score.
Feliz Año Nuevo
Happy New Year!
I spent New Year’s eve by the beach in San Jorge, lying in a hammock, followed by a great dinner (much appreciated after days of orphanage food), a beer (much needed after a week in the third world), and dancing under the starry starry sky of Central America. 2005 was a pretty amazing year, to say the very least. Maybe later I’ll do that month-by-photo post like I did last year.
Nicaraguan New Year’s Tradition: Burning el Viejo
An old tradition is to burn the ‘old year’. Some people construct a man dressed up with very old clothes and full of gun powder which they hang up in streets and when New Year has come, they burn it.
From: http://www.vianica.com
Yeah, I prefer fireworks; watching the viejo burn was a bit creepy. More on my trip later. Hope everyone had a jubilant New Year’s eve. The past year has shown me that you never really know where life will take you next. Here’s to ‘06.
