I feel sick whenever I think about my lack of writing recently. This blog – a continuous collection of my thoughts over the last few years of my life – is the greatest tangible work I have ever created. It means a lot to me, and I so desperately 
want to keep writing! However, my life is dead. [sigh] My summer classes are overwhelming. It’s been almost 20 days since I last wrote here; a record in the history of my blog. To put my homework level in perspective, since the last time I posted here my classes have ended, I had 3 days of summer break, and classes started back up again. I’ve already had my midterms! These summer mini-mesters are an incredible time crunch, and my free time has taken a powerful blow. My plans are to do my best to get something up here before the end of the week. It’ll either be a blog, another radio show, or perhaps a combination of both. For the record, my voice may be accompanied by a fellow geek / computer lover / programmer / Japanese music listener. Her name is Dusty and, well, I guess you’ll find out the rest on the air if it all works out =o)
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Scott; You’ll be all right. It might feel like you’re drowning now, but keep your head up and you’ll make it. You’ll be tired in the end, but you’ll be all right. –unknown? |
read comment #3 about the mysterious origin of that quote.
An mp3 for you =o) Boa – Duvet insturmenta .mp3
First and foremost, I want to say that I feel great being able to sit here and write again. I placed my writings on temporary hiatus for the last two weeks (as the last two weeks of classes 
were squeezing all of the writing time from my schedule) but now I am finished, I’ve relaxed, and I’m ready to fall back into sync with my normal groove. You know that commercial for that fabric softener where snuggle bear is running over a grassy hill waving his arms and saying “I feel free!” Yeah, that’s pretty much how I’m feelin’ right about now ^_^
Congratulations Scott; you’re a complete and total loser. Aside from acing all of your classes last semester (including the Calculus III ‘elective’ you took for fun) you managed to completely waste the three days of summer you had. While some would already consider it crazy to sign up for summer classes that begin the week after final exams of the previous semester, they would at least be able to justify the action by fun and exciting weekend. Yet, yours was nothing of the sort. You sat around and did nothing at all! You didn’t even write in your blog for crying out loud. You just… sat there, all week! Sure, you may have made some little flash movie to instill laughter into a few strangers who may happen to watch it, but other than that you didn’t do anything. You didn’t go out with friends, you didn’t go see a movie, you didn’t do anything fun! And, to top it off, the night before summer classes resumed you sat on the couch for two hours and watched Nova!
postscript: You’re such a weirdo. Why do you write to yourself in the second person?
Yes, it’s true. “I did absolutely nothing all day and, you know what? It was everything I imagined it could be.” I kicked butt all semester and the last two weeks (during which, for the record, I had a total of ten exams (!)) and needless to say, when it ended I was completely drained. It took a few days of me doing nothing to recover from it. But, I’ll confess, it was beautiful. With the exception of perhaps being able to spend that time with someone I’m close with (which is something that, well, let’s not go there) I don’t think I would have wanted to spend it any other way. So, now that you know what I’ve been up to (which amounts to essentially nothing) I’ll continue by telling you a whole bunch of stuff I’ve been meaning to write about. [sigh] I feel so wonderful. That weekend off really did it for me. Finally, is this what it feels like to be free?
Oh! That reminds me. GET YOUR SONG HERE: 
I haven’t posted an mp3 in a while so I figured now would be a perfect time. I have about seven trillion songs floating around my network. This, great irony lies within the fact that both of the songs I’m about to give you will be reposts. But, hey, I love them! So, with no further adieu, I give you the download links.
BELIEVE_ME.MP3 – This one’s appropriate because, well, it’s both light and uplifting. The English translations (which can be located somewhere around this site if you look around for a while) of the Japanese lyrics are quite appropriate for the occasion. What occasion? The shifting of my life! These next few months will be a really big change for me. I mean, in the next four months I’ll have switched colleges, gotten out of the house, moved out of state, and be living with roommates. I don’t know which is the scariest. I’d probably rank the living with other people as the most intimidating. Hmm, no, that’s a poor choice of words. Perhaps I’m the most uncertain as to how I will feel regarding that subject. I’m trying not to make any preconceptions about what things will be like; I’ll just take it all in as I go. Wow, I got really off topic. Next…
EVERYTHING.MP3 – As all my dedicated fans know, this has been my all-time number one favorite song for many years! I’ve since grown to love Japanese RNB as one of my favorite (and, thankfully for me, relaxing) music genres. I don’t know why I like this song so much. I have some guesses, and most likely it’s a combination of reasons. First of all, the only English in this song is “You’re everything” repeated throughout the entire song! Then, at the very end, right as the music comes to a stop, she says “You’re my everything.” [awe!] I like it when Rambo runs up a hill and shoots all the bad guys and blood squirts out and stuff. Oh, sorry about that, I felt I was getting a little feminine there, so I had to compensate. Anyhow, I also like Misia’s voice because it’s both soft and deep. I definitely don’t want to use the word emotional, but I can’t think of a better way to describe the passion she puts behind her voice. I really enjoy it. Therefore, I’m sharing it for all to download!
PS: If I get busted by the JBI then someone will have to bail me out!
I’ve signed up for three summer classes. Two of them begin today, and one of them begins in late June. It’s weird… think of my summer as a hotdog. 
I’m taking Differential Equations the entire length of the hotdog. Then, I’m taking Western Civilization (prior to 1750) condensed into the first half of the hot dog, and I’m taking Western Civilization (after 1750) over the other half. The result is two already-short summer semesters crammed into five weeks each and topped off with a long and continuous math course. Heh, get it? Leave it up to DiffEQ to get me thinking about discontinuities! I’ve Aced every math class I’ve ever taken, so I think I’ll do fine in it. I met my Western Civilization professor and he seems like a really cool guy. I’m about to leave now to go to my DiffEQ class. Being that it’s one of the few DiffEQ classes offered in the summer, I’ll probably know a lot of the people in it from my Calculus I, Calculus II, and Calculus III classes.
I got my schedule back for the Fall semester at my new university! And, well, it looks like I got screwed. I was out of town (and even still, unable to fly to TN) over the registration time, so I faxed-in a form to have my advisor register my classes for me. I got my schedule back, and it had me in some class I’ve already taken and gotten credit before. So, I have to get that worked out. I can’t modify my schedule until August, so it’ll be a last minute thing when I finally figure out what classes and times I’ll be in. However as of this moment, I feel confident I’ve figured out what I can take (assuming the classes aren’t full or something). I’m majoring in Biology with a minor in Chemistry, therefore pretty much all the stuff I’ll be in over the next two years is science related. I’d be in Organic Chemistry I, Microbiology, and Invertebrate Zoology (along with some other ‘fluff’ but required classes like a health class [sigh]). Anyhow, I don’t know why, but Organic Chemistry intimidates me. I’ll go in there and work really hard at it, but, I don’t know what it is. Perhaps I’ve been around people who’ve taken Organic as they’re taking it and have heard nothing but dreadful horror stories of consecutively failed exams, incredibly large amounts of studying, and hours spent in unsuccessful attempt at completing homework. 
My play is to go in there prepared to kick some serious periodic butt and spend overkill amounts of time on it every day until I get comfortable for what’s expected. It’s easier for me to overexert in the beginning of a class and be able to slow down as the semester continues than it is if you wait until you start getting bad grades to start kicking it up a notch.
I wonder what it will be like living around other people? I know I’ve written about this ten times in the last few months, but it’s such a foreign concept for me. I’m not antisocial, I’m just… I don’t know. “Private”, perhaps? While I do have the ability to enjoy myself around other people, I nearly always prefer to simply be alone, working by myself, in my room. It’s easy for other people to see that as a plethora of different negative traits (like selfishness, stuck-up-ness (whatever the word is for that), depression, bitterness, and all these other things that are simply not who I am!) so I hope I don’t come across the wrong way. One thing’s for sure, I’ll continue to try my hardest (as I’ve done at my current college over the past two years) not to share the fact that I have a website in which I write essentially everything that goes on in my head. There’s the Scott of the mind, and there’s the Scott in the flesh. While possibly one day they’ll be united into one, right now they are quite different and need very different environments to thrive. Plus, the domain name in itself is becoming more and more embarrassing. I mean, Scott is hot? How lame. [sigh] But since I get like a gazillion website hits from all over the world I don’t want to change it. I’m kinda stuch with it, so scottishot it will remain.
Oh! OH! OHHOHOHHOH! I almost forgot! I have tons of pictures to share with you! And stories that go along with them too. I’ve decided to place them on a separate webpage that hopefully I can update every few weeks. I’m trying to figure out a good way to locally (and co-remotely) store photos with the ability to add descriptions to them with a php script. I haven’t found the perfect one yet, so at the moment I’m editing raw files. Anyhow, check it out. The PHOTOS link is on the right side of this page.
Hey! That’s Peter! Wait, if you don’t know who Peter is, you haven’t visited the photos page !
I guess that’s about it. I’ve gotta run to class now. Later guys! –Scott
I feel a need to put something up though. So, here ya’ go. I’ll bet from this you can figure out the type of project I’ve been working on lately. Hopefully the “little thing I’m working on” will be done before Wednesday. I think it’s best described my audioblogs… but with video… half the length, ten times as funny. We’ll see how it goes =o)
check out the incredibly lame promotional material today.
Yes, I was just about to blog tonight. But then, the idea struck. Since I hadn’t udpated the About Scott webpage since 2003, I figured it was my responsability to do so immediately. By the time I finished, it was 1am! So, after having screwed myself out of the time to write a decent blog tonight, all I can give you is a link to the new and uber-cool About Scott page. 
Notice that I actually used multiple pictures of myself! This has never before been done in ScottIsHot history. So go check out the About Scott section of this website! I’ll write tomorrow; I have a TON to talk about. Goodnight world.
ps: Check the new Contact Scott page which lists my new public AIM screen name which just so happens to be “g1o”. It’s the letter G, the number 1, and the letter O. If the number 1 looks like the letter l then one might almost be able to say the screen name sounds like the word “glow”. Perhaps it’s the word “go” with a 1 in the middle? However you want to remember it works I guess.
pss: Have you ever been addicted to A Flash Animation?
