lots to do

Well, I did it again, dang it: I missed my primary registration window for the second summer term this year, so I’m stuck waiting until April 18th for my secondary window to open up. I don’t understand why there are only certain times that you can register for classes anyway; it pisses me off. I did this I believe it was last year, too, because I don’t pay any attention until shortly after the window has closed, and then I realize, “Hey, I’d better sign up for classes.”

In better news, I’m getting about $100 back from federal taxes and about $90 from state, which will be nice. It’s definitely needed as I’m apartment searching for this summer and next year. I’ve found a place that may have an opening for about $350 a month, plus gas and electric, and it’s right on Nicholasville Road so it’ll be close to campus. I’m hoping I can get that at the beginning of May.

As for classes, it doesn’t look like any I need will be available during the four-week summer session (May), so I can continue working at Lexmark for that month and then take two engineering classes in the eight-week session.

I’ll spend today running errands, programming in Ruby (which I’ve very much fallen in love with), and later hanging out with Kelly. Last night everyone was over at Todd[1]’s doing two very different things. Todd, Todd[1], Brent, Chris, Eric, Chase, and Greg were watching Rambo Part II while Hannah, Kelly, and I painted in the next room. I took a video recording with my phone and it’s pretty funny because you see the girls looking all serene while they mix paints but all you hear in the background is machine gun fire.

So back to this pretty Ruby stuff. Even though Todd tells me it’s an old idea, that everything is an object is exciting to me. Things you’d think were literals, even, such as numbers, are objects, so you can call methods on them. Example: 1.week.ago and 1.month.from_now. ‘week’, ‘ago’, ‘month’, and ‘from_now’ are all methods being called on the number 1.

I’ve been amazed also at how clean everything has stayed in my project at work. I’d initially written it all in PHP and the reason I started trying Ruby and Rails out in the first place was the PHP was getting clunky. It’s very nice in Rails because all the data that I was having to pass via function parameters or through the POST or GET method in PHP, I don’t have to pass at all in Rails because they’re just class variables, or I store an object in a session variable and have that.

Kelly and Hannah are all crafty and are talking about selling the little felt wallets they have on some DIY site. They were thinking to charge only $3-5, I think they should charge at least $5, and Todd[1] was all for $7. They’re incredibly cute and I told Hannah I would like a purple one. I was going to just buy it from her but she won’t let me; she’s just going to make me one. I’ll have to take a photo of it and put it on here to kind of advertise for them, haha.