As you can probably tell by the date time stamp on this post, it has been well more than a week since I last did a reflection. Well this is for many reasons, I never intend to take a hiatus from my writing or other works but it always seems to inevitably happen at some point. I am a creative person after all, during these times where I disappear I continue to be creative but I forget to keep up with all my creative works. I find that this often happens. Life gets busier and busier as we grow older, I understand that ever so slightly more nowadays. My intent to update this blog on the regular seems to be disrupted sometimes by other life events, which honestly makes me forget about things I need to do. Well what has happened in the past few weeks? Where the heck have I been? To put simply, I was getting a job, doing finals, and starting my move. The job is a wonderful position with flexible hours and I could not be happier in it, getting to the point where I was able to work took quite the effort, but that is alright. So despite the delays in that I am fully employed now, well partially employed as I am a part timer and a college student. I honestly really would like to get maybe another job, but I am unsure why. I think I might be a workaholic now, if I am not busy then I feel worried about becoming busy. So maybe hours and cash somewhere else on top of this might be a wonderful addition. Unless of course I got a lot of support on this blog here, in which case I would be writing and making all day rather than working a traditional job. But let’s be real, that takes time and the interest of people out there. God, that would be cool. Writing full time would be a blast honestly. But alas I must have other things that make money first. So my new job is the excuse for my hiatus, but also my finals. Woooo! I have five classes, or had, one of them I completed in the first two weeks of school so really I have four classes. Despite this, those four classes all decided to be difficult in their own ways. I had a class where we got to watch movies and write presentations for and that was a really cool class. The final was rather easy in my opinion, it was a four thousand word paper which honestly isn’t too bad as I tend to sit down and write a lot fairly often so I wasn’t super concerned. It was due the two weeks before finals week, so I got that done super quick and it turned out really good. I got to pick the topic and I really liked it. A bunch of the people in my class freaked out and apparently did it the night before it was due which honestly amazes me about the sheer lack of responsibility in some of my peers. This was a paper we had eight weeks to work on after all, it’s incredible that they had yet put pen to paper before that night. Most complained that the deadline was nine 9:00 AM despite our professors saying on multiple occasions that it was supposed to be midnight Thursday but they wanted to give us extra time. Apparently the individuals in my class lack listening skills that they have advertised to have. Oh well. I try not to judge people, but as this class was an honors class I hold those involved to a higher standard. To judge everyone with the same standards as everyone else is incredible asinine, however to judge those who are in some way different and more prestigious I see no reason to not hold them to a higher standard. I probably will go into my standards and things in some other blog post so as to not make this reflection too boring. Regardless of my judgment, the paper was four thousand words with eight weeks to work on and I completed it in a night two weeks before it was due and edited it until it was the best it could be. Otherwise, I had to produce a video for my fermentation science class which was wonderful to do. It was quite enjoyable to work on, I could not have asked for a better group. Then I had to finish reading a book for my Computer Science Ethics class which was most interesting. I liked the book, but they talked too much about virtual reality for my taste. I’ll have a review of the book coming out fairly soon. Then we were supposed to take a test over it, this professor made the course fairly simple. He made his quizzes be true or false questions over the chapters in the book then made the final essentially all the questions previously asked but shuffled a bit. At least that was what he was going to do, he decided at some point that instead of having his test be like something he had done before that instead he was going to have his final be an essay. An essay? Why was it an essay? A computer science professor grading us on grammar and content? What? It concerned me, but I did it and made a 100 so it was ok. I technically had two hours to work on the essay because the essay had a time limit, but I only used half my time. I wrote about seventeen hundred words in about an hour and edited it in that time. I was quite impressed, and so was the teacher. Finally, my final class. The bane of my existence, database design. Now I understand how to do all the things, I am just annoyed with having to use a seventeen year old textbook for a class that is supposedly relevant to today and building things that don’t make sense in the real world. Anyways, despite my personal issues with this class’s content, my classes voted to take the final exam a week early and to have the final project be due at the end of finals week. Ok, no big deal. The test was in the middle of the week and I had 3 days to study for it. Well that didn’t happen, instead of studying I spent three days working on a computer AI project that I decided to invent. I started to lightly study the day before and the morning of the exam and I expected to make a 56 probably. Well I did fairly well on it actually, so that was really interesting. Not helpful to my studying mentality, but interesting. Then I had to go and work on the project, which was horrible. If you have ever had to use Microsoft Access for more than 5 minutes while trying to develop SQL in only Microsoft Access and nothing else you will want to jump off a bridge. So I started my project with a week and a half to do, and went “Oh dear lord this is horrible I’ll do this later” 2 hours into it. I expected to do it finals week and it would be no biggie, it was supposed to work out that way. Guess what? The teacher changed the due date from Friday to Wednesday on Tuesday of Finals week! Yay! Just randomly, no reason given. So I ended up doing the entire project in a day instead of a week, and I had to cancel work. I sent a really funny email at 2:30 in the morning to my bosses saying hey this is what happened. They laughed and let me off and I got it all done. Went into work the next day, thinking alright I’ve got everything done with classes there’s little stress to come. That was a lie. I get an email from housing saying “Hey, you can and should start moving asap!” I wasn’t supposed to move until May 5th through 7nth. Say what????? So I had to start moving, with no backup since I was told I could move in super early! Yay! I called my friend and he helped me move all night, which was wonderful! So I have been moving for the past 5 days. Up and down 4 flights of stairs, which has been awesome for my weight! But my right calf hates me. Gotta love it. I am so happy I got to move early, and I really like my new place (which is in the same apartment complex) but like I was hoping to have some time to be able to throw things out and pack things up so it would be super easy like a day move. So soon, I will be optimizing my storage system so that all my stuff is in milk crates, ammo boxes, and plastic boxes. Honestly it’s gonna be awesome, I can’t wait to do it. But I have to go through everything once I have moved. My plan is to make a carpentry woodworking table in my new apartment so that I can work on stuff upstairs. It’s gonna be great! I just need to move everything and get my first paycheck. Super excited for it though. My grandpa gave me a carpentry book and I have been looking through it and I have some big ideas on how to make the bench. Stay tuned I guess, whenever I make that I’ll be posting it here. So to reflect, I have been way too busy to work on my blog, but you know what that’s ok. Now I will be coming back and swinging happily into the groove of blogging yet again. A nice refresher, well not nice, just a refresher. 

Now I am gonna go back to moving my things up and down stairs again and getting that stuff done. Thanks for reading! Go read something else of mine!

-Ben