Beatles

I've been listening to the Beatles a lot lately, it's very uplifting happy music (as opposed to my usual depressing music, which I found effects the mood greatly)

I talked to AJ today and he's thinking about things to do this summer. He has to go abroad for three weeks, its part of their requirement for their college, and so he's thinking about places to go and what classes he has to take. He said he hates CS and doesn't want to do it for the rest of his life, even though its easy for him and he thinks its kind of interesting. Well, AJ, I'm incredibly jealous at your ease of coding and natural born skill.

What else, what else. Today there is a little pumpkin carving thing, so I'm going to it with some girls from my dorm.

Had a few updates from Nikki, she's very busy out in California, studying and riding her electric scooter around. She had lice for a while, I hope that's over.

Definitely want to travel a lot, village to village taking photos, maybe even writing a book. A backpack, my watch, some sneakers, and random work around the world. I'll wash my clothes in rivers, bathe in ponds, etc. I just hope I don't have to catch my own food. But that would be an interesting experience in survival too.

Don't worry, I'll send postcards when I reach civilization.

Work work work

I have a bunch of stuff to do this week, including a take-home exam in Jewishness, an in class exam in Hebrew today, a meeting with my robot team, a lab due tomorrow, etc.

I may apply to the IBM internship again for this summer, after all, it pays 6,000$ and that is pretty good for a summer job. I've been thinking that I might end up at some computer thing after college but once my loans are paid off I'd like to travel around the world, go south when it's cold in the north, and vise-verse. There are a lot of places on my list of places to see before I have to settle down and have a real job and house.

For instances, places to visit because life is too short to wait until I'm old:
France, Spain and Germany again (but different parts)
Italy
Portugal
Sweden, Norway, Finland, Lithuania
Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, Switzerland
Greece, Turkey
Romania, Bulgaria, Moldova
Israel
Australia
India, Nepal, Bangladesh
Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Georgia
Thailand
The entire South American continent



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Bleak

There is just about nothing I loathe more than cold weather, on the bright side it is pretty warm in my room.

My hand hurts every once in a while, sometimes when I type, sometimes when I'm holding a pencil and writing. (Well, these days both hands hurt at different times)

I'm just waiting until the day I can move to California, granted that I don't go completely insane before I get there

Then again, there's always italy, france, australia, all sorts of countries with weather that would make me happier than I am here.

As for what I'll do when I get there? Whooo knows. I'm determined to figure out what the meaning of life is, and why we're all here, and what our purpose is. Maybe I'll write a book, a manifesto, about how backwards everything is, and how it should be. It has to be better than this. This decade is all wrong for me. Even in elementary school, I remember being consistently disappointed, alone a lot. Wishing I could grow some wings and fly away, fly right over Slaten field at recess and leave this place.

Salsa!

That's me from behind in my green jacket with my watch on my right hand.


So to take a study break this weekend, Noah and I went to a salsa On2 social in Troy, NY, not too far from Albany.

It was a lot of fun, there was a lesson and afterwords, salsa, bachata and chacha music. It was also 2 peoples' birthdays so there was cake.

Unfortunately, I was blocked in most of the pictures. See if you can spot Noah. (they made us switch partners all of the time, during the lesson, so there's a great picture of noah dancing.

Airplant

One of my airplants died, I noticed the flower was turning pale and all of the leaves one by one from the base of the plant were just falling off (it looks like the bottom rotted, most likely there was water in the base of the plant and killed it).
That's too bad.

Time for lunch, lab#2 of the day, then studying all weekend for Bob's test.

Where is the world going?

"The iconic American family -- married couple with children -- will account for a mere 22% of households."

http://www.businessinsider.com/the-average-american-is-a-dying-breed-2009-10

Vermont - Massachusetts - New York

Yesterday, before returning to Bard, Noah and I took a drive up to Vermont and Massachusetts, we were in the Adirondacks and the Berkshires. It turns out, these states are less than an hour from Albany! How cool!
So we went up a trail when we pulled off the side of the road, and saw an incredible view.

In a Coffeeshop

I'm in a coffee shop, noah and I both have our laptops out, and I'm doing my reading for class while he is drinking a cup of Mocha Latte and looking at jobs.

Planet

I'd like to move to my own planet far away from here.