Anyway, yeah, I haven't blogged. Redundancy noted. It's not that I'm experiencing blogger's block or anything - I just really haven't felt the need to write as I did before. Huh. Maybe I managed to find peace with my inner self. Maybe my outer self is now a perfect reflection of the real me, and I no longer feel the need to express my hidden thoughts and emotions through this little corner of the WWW. Have I achieved internal honesty?
Possibly. Anyway, I do somewhat miss the blogging habit. I would call it one of my hobbies (one which I cannot easily relate to the products sold at Hobby Lobby). Now that I think of it, blogging isn't the only hobby I've recently neglected. There's swimming, and gymnastics, and meeting random people on the internet - I've done none of those for months now. At least for the whole of 2009! [Generic interjection denoting surprise]! Maybe I just don't feel the need to because I'm content with my life's state as it is right now? Maybe my life's gradient is approaching 0, and with it my life's "speed" (rate of change)? Maybe I'm reaching a stable point in my life? (Danger, Will Robinson, Danger). Hmmm, not according to my short-to-medium-term future plans. These involve quite a bit of novelty :) :D.
I believe I should blog about what has happened these days in order to connect this entry with current reality (or at least with our perception of it). Three weekends ago, I went to the CMU Computer Science and Machine Learning Departments Open House event (or CMU-CSD/MLD OH for short), during which I met a lot of CMU professors, students, and prospective students, went to grad student parties, played Rock Band, turned 25 years of age, sprained my right ankle while ice skating, visited my family in Chicago on the way back, visited Marcelo (G) at his apartment in Chicago which he will change soon, and came back to Austin with my ankle still hurting. Two weekends ago, I accompanied the RW team to Orlando, FL to Disney World! We got on all the rides we wanted to including the teacups, and I got a chance to use my Heely's! (though it hurt to do so because my right ankle still hurt a lot).
And since I got back from FL, my main objective has been to read and understand the 4 books that were recommended to me by LvA. I just finished Chapter 7: Computational Learning of the book Machine Learning by Tom Mitchell (great book, everyone!!). I'm also done with almost half of another book (The Design and Analysis of Algorithms, though I think there must be dozens of publications with that name). I haven't even started with the other 2, but I will. And I'll finish them, too. I hope.
And that's been about it. I also bumped into (metaphorically) Corin at the Randall's store at the end of Walsh Tarlton tonight while getting a gallon of milk and gave her my new number in case she wants to go hang out at the pool one of these days.
(Spontaneous attempt to properly parenthesize that last sentence:
I also bumped into (metaphorically) (Corin) at (the Randall's store at (the end of Walsh Tarlton)) tonight (while getting (a gallon of milk)) and (gave her (my new number)) (in case she wants to (go hang out at (the pool) (one of (these days)))).
Disclaimer: Accuracy not guaranteed.
I also have a 4-page text about a certain topic ready to post here, but it needs to be a little revised. It was written a bit impromptu-style and I'd like it to be of a quality better than this blog's average entry quality (which isn't such a high standard anyway). This is so vague... this must be making no sense at all for the unfortunate bold reader who is still reading this.
Oh yeah, and besides these things, I'm also planning a trip to Toronto with Marcelo (M) next weekend, which contains a trip to the Niagara Falls. I'm going to see the Niagara Falls :D! Cool, huh? Ticket's bought and rental car's reserved. I'm going into some tripping!
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