For the new folks...

After the wonderful Midsummer Night's Dream Birthday party hosted by albumlady, I seem to have gotten a few new subscribers. I figured I'd welcome to them and let them know a few things of interest about me.
I'm an Eternal Graduate Student. I've been a graduate student since 1990 at Georgia Tech working on some variant of a PhD. I managed to get my Masters degree after about a year and I've been pretending that I've been doing the PhD every since. Whether I'll ever graduate is still up in the air although I will claim that its "just around the corner" as I have been doing for the last 6 years. I got my undergraduate at Ga Tech as well in 1990 so I've been there longer than pretty any place in my life.

I'm currently a faculty member in the Information Technology department at Clayton College & State University in Morrow, GA. Its hard to believe those folks even made me full time as well. I'm certain they will rue the day that they allowed me torture innocent young lives for my own amusement. In any event, it feeds my paycheck addiction at the moment and I can teach part time at other universities from time to time to help beat the credit card and student loan debt into submission.

I joined Livejournal in October last year due to the urgings of jerseygirl1 with the express mission to "cash more than my fair share of reality checks". I have been lucky enough to avoid most of the traditional LJ Drama that seems to be pervasive in this medium. I've met dozens of new folks. Some great. Some not so great. And I've managed to reconnect with some old acquaintances and friends from days gone by as well. All in all, the show hasn't been bad. Especialy for the cost of admission.

Read my user info. I mean every word in there and it'll give you a good idea about who I am and how I see the world.

Welcome to my blog space. Hope you enjoy the visit.

I hate it...

when I can't sleep. Tons of shit to do and most of it not finished. And I have four lectures for tomorrow that aren't prepped yet. And Its 6am in the morning.

Just coouldn't rest. And of all things, its because i'm more than a bit worried about my roommate. My roommate is having a bad day. Scratch that, he is having a bad week. Scratch that, he is having a bad month. Scratch that, he is having a bad last two years. I suspect that if we pushed it, he might even say that he is having a bad life. Yeah, I think I we could say that.

And unfortuately, as much as I want to sympathize with him, at the moment I can't help but think that he can only see the bad stuff and not the good stuff. And that somehow he has brought all this on himself. I'm trying to feel some sorrow but it only ends up being the kind that a college professor gets when he realizes that he has a student in his class that just doesn't get it and probably should change majors. You'll do anything you can for them but you know in your gut that the problem lies with them and nothing else.

*sigh*

I really don't like having roommates in general. There have been exceptions in the past that worked rather well. but in general, they seem to create more issues with me than they solve.  I'm happy in my solitude. I guess it goes along with that "I don't get lonely" quirk that I have.

Ah well, at least he pays his share of the bills.