Summer’s almost over…
From two entries ago (so still on this page…):
Come summer though, I’ll probably do something. I keep planning a lot of things to do, but never do them (story of my life). [March 14, 2010]
Sure, like that really happened. Wishful thinking as always. [Insert meta-ing about meta posts here.]
It is now July, and I haven’t done much aside from my fourth co-op term (done this item Sept. 3rd) and the Math Orientation website. John and I visited each other a lot, and I went to his cottage last weekend. He is there now, while I am studying for STAT231 (BS231) — lucky him! I also took another Japanese course this term, and already had the exam. Two courses and co-op — never again.
I remember back in high school, the summers I would just waste away doing nothing. I think all I did was develop random useless scripts on the computer and play RO. I used to stay up until 5-6am, go to bed, and then wake up in the early evening to resume what I was doing before. What a waste! This summer, I am working full-time, on the computer doing side projects/websites, and playing RO again. That is mostly just the weekdays, too. Weekends usually have consisted of John coming down (from Toronto) or me going up via Greyhound. There (or here) we spend our time lying around doing nothing at all.
Such contrast from the high school summers.
It’s a bit depressing that I will never have a high school summer again, as I will never have a summer where I won’t be in school still or working full-time. The only time I can imagine having a ‘free’ summer like that is when I am very pregnant/having small children. That won’t be for a long while though :)
Awesomely enough, my summer has also been filled with Pokemon. I think I have also progressed from a fan to avid fan.
From the beginning of the Orientation week planning, I suggest Pokemon because it’s awesome — it made it to being the theme. I am the webmaster for the website, so lots of Pokemon for me there. Designing/developing that hackery was/is fun. Check out the glory. A lot of the hours spent aren’t even visible to the user, sadly. The secret special FOC pages are what I spent most of the time on. There the four FOC can view/edit the applicants’/leaders’ information. Not exactly difficult with PHP/MySQL, but it takes more time for error handling/data checking when not just writing things for myself. A couple forms and things from the main website that the leaders/applicants used also took some time as well. Frankly I’m surprised no one from the CSC or elsewhere has attempted to break/hijack the entire thing. Everyone has generally been nice — only a few spams and stupid things.
In addition to that, I just bought Pokemon SoulSilver. I previously… acquired… the ROM image from the vastness of the Internet and placed it on my… piece of DRAM that magically allows games to be played on the DS… but the game kept freezing and once erased my save file. After 5+ times of restarting the game, I just decided to buy the thing. First time I bought a DS game. I was so excited to learn that it came with a little pedometer thing — the PokeWalker. Sounds really lame, but you can put a Pokemon from the DS game ‘on’ it, and take it for a ‘walk’. I thought it was just steps => EXP, but you can apparently play little item/Pokemon games on it. It has a little concept of currency which you can trade for the ability to play a little game to get an item, or play a little game to find a Pokemon and fight/capture it. It reminds me of those old Nanos and Tamagotchis. I’m pretty impressed, I must say.
The graphics of the DS game are super hot, too. :D
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