Quick blog (yeah right) [Taken from Live Spaces Blog, 18 agosto 2005, 3:14]

This blog'll be quick... I gotta keep working. Mmmmm... well, I've got my first payment for the PHP page, which is quite good. Except for the fact that it kind of binds me to finish the project whole and on time. And I don't like to be bound.

I was supposed to be at MM's at 6:30, but I ignored my alarm clock (which is also my cellphone) at 5 AM. I was woken at 6:32 by a call from MM, asking me whether I was coming with him. I lied "Yeah, on my way!", got my bag ready, washed, combed, got dressed, told my mom where I was going, & biked to MM's place in 8 minutes, where he was already waiting with a reproachful face. We left early cause Hugo had class at 7 (we actually got there at 7:30)

Well... I was supposed to have Env. Sciences mid-term today (we call it Parcial), but I didn't. Some guy got hold of the same test from last semester, and the teacher saw it in the classroom, and so she decided not to do the test. Funny thing... I had just read that exact same test with that guy 60 minutes before in the cafeteria.

(This blog's not so quick. What the heck.)

Afterwards, I went to MINEDUC to find out about a job offering about Oracle or SQL Server. It's actually nothing more than transferring XL tables into a proper DB. I think they decided to hire me, although I have to show them what I can do with one table before they start paying me.

Then I went BACK to campus, checked my email, then went swimming (YAY!!!!!!!). But I had forgotten my black swimsuit, so I had to use a spare white one. It was almost transparent, though, and not as hydrodynamic as my usual one (one of the pockets is always filled with water and drags me back).

Then I had my 15-min-a-week piano lesson. For some reason, the teacher was really pleased with my performance, although I only played exactly the same I had played last week. And last week he was NOT pleased. I don't understand him.

Then I went back up, near the library, and met Lucía outside with Melanie (her I hadn't seen in a while). They both seem to be working at the I2 building (infectology, biological research, and stuff. Their major's Biochemistry). I thought she was leaving, so I asked her to come with me, but she was NOT leaving.. she was leaving at 7. So then I went all the way to the bus stop to take my bus back home. I took the long route (2 Centro, 206), but the midstop is just beside the National Library, and for some reason I just decided to stop by... at least once in my lifetime. I found the place where they keep all the newspapers, and read some of the ones from 1944, the year of the 20Oct revolution here in Guatemala. I now know history books DO tell the truth. And I don't know... I usually don't like reading the newspaper, but I REALLY LIKED the old ones. They're much classier... I think that, in that time, people really spoke about things that people really needed, about the stuff they really cared about, and everyone really WANTED to write in the newspaper... it was something GRAND (that's what I sensed). Now it's practically nothing. Paper. Garbage. A poo-lifting tool. At least that's what it is to me. I think that, today, most people write not for the pleasure or necessity of having other people understand or listen to what they have to say, but mostly because they have to. It's either their job or their last resort.

I spent like an hour inside the newspaper room, and took the 206 bus(I actually took two buses, but it doesn't matter). (Oh, and on the way, I think a lady in my bus got her cellphone stolen. I saw the one who did it... I would've done something but I was surrounded by lots of people in the bus. It was pretty crowded.). Then I got my bike from MM's and came back home. Here, I played some XBOX (yeah, I got XBOX!), and then slept for 3 hours or so (I even told Rosa to wake me up at 10, since when I've been working).

Well, that's all. So now I've got the new MINEDUC project, I still have to do MSDN translations (but not now... I haven't been sent all the material I need), I'm still taking the MSDN tests (I just don't know when I'm gonna do THAT), I've gotta practice my piano lessons, I've got a Env. Sciences test on monday, I've got a PHP page to do, I've got Modelation homework for tomorrow (which I already did), and a Compilers presentation for friday. It's a funny thing that people like me get all stressed out and plan their lives... make their lives... out of stuff like this. Some of it is almost meaningless. What I tell myself is... It's all for the money.

And... work I've done tonight... fixed the zip/OCR upload (now it really really works), Modelation homework, and... hmmm... that's all folks. I'm gonna keep on working.