Drama at work. Will explain later. Perhaps.

Erg. Eating bad. Sleeping bad. Drinking too much caffeine. Spent $2.50 to print out one stinkin' page of clip-art quality art work, all because I forgot to print it out at home. Erg.

In case I don't get a chance to write this later, Happy Birthday Erica!

In my audio class, my teacher decided to add five more people, so basically, if you want a computer of your own during class, you have to come early. His idea is that we'll be spending time outside of class mucking around with ProTools. Like who has the time?! I think I'll end up using SoundForge or something to work on my projects for that class cuz there ain't no way I can come to Santa Monica too often to muck around with their ProTools station. For those of you that don't know, ProTools is a highly sophisticated audio editing program that requires a specific hardware to work. Whudaheck?

Dang it, gotta go. If I don't get to the animation lab early, then my seat gets taken and so do the good lightboxes (mainly, ones that work).

Finally, a confirmation that someone else remembers the Britannica Boy!

I had to work tonight so I missed most of the Oscars and my VCR messed up and didn't record it. Dang it. LoTR:RotK rules!

My schedule for this week:

Mon -- 10:30 am to 4:15 pm
Tue -- school
Wed -- 3:45 to 10:45 pm
Thu -- school
Fri -- 10:15 am to 5:00 pm
Sat -- 4:15 to 10:15 am
Sun -- church, 4:00 to 10:45 pm

This weekend my sister and bro-in-law are set to come. My Mom's going nuts making kimchee for them and whatnot. My Dad jokes that she goes all out for my sister and my brother but not for me. Sad but true. :*I (Not really. It's more like her efforts towards me is spread out throughout the days. After all, I'm pretty lazy.)

I'm already running behind on homework. And sooo tired. What else is new?

(BTW, to answer your question, I used SpyBot Search & Destroy and Ad-Aware. The spyware on my computer was on both their lists but still wasn't able to get rid of it.)

Boo-Yah! Take that, you sneaky little spyware! It took me two weeks, almost to the exact hour, but I finally bested your Spaniard!

Apparently, two weeks ago, while I was... perusing for files of a "downloadable" nature, I managed to download and install some sort of spyware. It caused my cpu usage to shoot to 100% whenever I tried to open any windows. Anyway, I looked up online (using another computer, of course) to figure out what was wrong, and basically, I found out it was either spyware or adware and downloaded a couple of programs to get rid of it. Well, they got rid of a bunch of stuff that I didn't even know was on my computer, but my cpu problem still lingered. So I looked more online and found out that these programs don't get rid of all the spyware on my computer. So I physically looked and found some suspicious executables. So I deleted those and still the problem existed. Then I found out that certain .dll files can cause this problem. So I looked through all the .dll files on my computer, found a few suspicious ones in my windows directory, and proceeded to rename them one by one til I found the culprit.

That totally worked!

Anyway, I ended up deleting related files (files that were installed at the same time, or were from the same company... damn you roing.com!), but mainly it was this one .dll file that once I renamed, solved everything. So this is the first time in two weeks that I've been able to do anything on my computer. Gotta be careful from now on.

So yeah, the entries from the past two weeks have been from school. Anyway, I can now finally catch up on all the stuff that I wasn't able to do. One of the things that I've been meaning to do is send an e-mail to a couple of co-workers who are not more than 2 or 3 years younger than me, and sending them a link to a video of the commercial from the late 80's of the Britannica Boy.

OKAY, y'all remember the Britannica Boy, right? "I've always wondered where my mandibula was...." Remember??? I remember in 5th grade of this one kid who got new glasses and complained that he looked like the Britannica Boy! I can understand maybe the 20-yr-old not remembering, but c'mon!

I'm a coward. Yeah, you all know that. But in this industry, networking is everything, and I've been a nasty little cowardses. Well, basically, I'm starting to recognize a lot of people in my classes since I've had classes with them before. There isn't a formal track program here, but there's enough of a progression of classes that you end up with similar schedules every semester. Anyway, there are a few people that I've met through other people, and I'm somewhat of a coward when it comes to facing these people by myself. Erg. I'm only thankful that those people looked past my cowardice and approached me. That's one thing that I will definitely have to work on. Meet new people, and say hi to those I have met before. The main problem is that I have a really hard time remembering names, but people are usually very forgiving of that. But blatant ignoring them... well, that's another matter. I'd hate for that to bite me in the butt later. I've already got one lead, though, through a friend at church. She's got a friend in the industry. Sweet.

Yesterday I ate up a lot of gasoline to come to a class I'm going to drop and to watch a really expensive movie ($9.50!) and drive around aimlessly for more than half an hour total trying to find parking in this frustrating city. Santa Monica reminds me so much of Berkeley. Both good and bad. Well, without the homeless and tall buildings, and with offices for pretty famous studios.

Gettin' kicked out. G'nite.