Below are the 5 most recent journal entries recorded in Josh's LiveJournal:

Saturday, October 26th, 2002
8:06 pm	Oh and by the way, I know what day it's on. We already had the conversation with it being on the 27th. I was just convinced that friday was the 26th, thereby sat was the 27th, so you can just bite me ;) Current Mood: chipper (4 Comments |Comment on this)
2:45 pm	Hmmm, I can put my words in this thing? Ummmmm, ya, so it's been about 24 days since my last post. Quite a lot has happened since then but I really don't want to take the time to write it all down. So in recent memory...last night's concert was one of the high points of my week. The moment we finished and the crowd started cheering all of the late nights staying after 10:00 were worth it. I had forgotten the high you get from preforming in front of a large crowd. I am really looking forward to getting some more work done in NW. In other news, finished 3 midterms this last week. Oddly, my hardest was my 2 unit naval science class. Before class started on thursday I had a small crowd of people asking me questions about what they should know, the most amusing part was that most of the people in the class are actually in the Navy, as opposed to poor civilian me. Only thing I blanked on was the command chart for a destroyer at sea. Finally was able to take my classics midterm, after it had been delayed for a week because the prof. forgot what time class was and missed the first midterm (how many of you have wished for that to happen?). Well, I'm off to go study.......lol, actually I'm probably going to hang out with my roommates and possibly some of the noteworthy guys and not get anything usefull done, there is a reason I'm a fifth year ;P (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Wednesday, October 2nd, 2002
11:52 pm	I suppose if I am going to have one of these I might as well post in it. So.....Had pretty good day. Went to my first class as at 10 and tried to not sleep through the whole thing. It is a fun class, but it is entirely slides so the lights are always off, which is dangerous. My 11 o'clock class was great, especially since it was only till 11:45 so I was able to get to noteworthy right on time. The class was all about Mardi Gras. The prof. gets off topic quite easily and loves telling stories. She was talking about values of various beads and what people were doing for them, interesting to say the least. Show on Sproul was all right. I got several of the items which I was having a problem with before and the audience seemed to enjoy it. During the song High I had a great experience, we got to the second to last section and I started in on the VP and it all just seemed to flow together. I felt a connection to the group, as opposed to us trying to find the right notes and consciously trying to tune them all, it was neat. Had lunch with Lauren, which was of course a lot of fun. Learning all about the new person in your life is just a pleasure. You spend time just trading life experience and laughing at, yes at, each other for hours. Life is good. Went to my history 103 discussion at 2:00. For those of you who don't know, that is one of two classes I need to graduate. It is a discussion with three students and the prof. for two hours every Wednesday. It is fairly hardcore history theory and with that number of people you can't hide. I had read most of the assignment for the day and was able to talk about everything that was brought up during the class. I am leading the next discussion on Wednesday on Herman Melville's Typee. Men's chorale was fun, for a change. I am really enjoying singing 2nd tenor. It is more of a stretch for my voice and since I spend the majority of my time in noteworthy singing falsetto it is nice to use my full range. After rehearsal I went to dinner with Mark and that was enjoyable. I like getting to know people, especially if I am going to continue my quest to make noteworthy into friends, rather than people who see each other for practice and then never again. Noteworthy rehearsal was a lot of fun. Normal telling people to shut the hell up and pay attention, but we got a lot of work done tonight. Commented to both Brandon and Mark it was one of the first times I felt that we were really working together. Everybody was smiling and laughing as we worked, it was fun to sing with everybody. We seem to be moving into the stage where we are in a rhythm of putting new stuff together and polishing things for performance, rather than frantically learning notes. Gives me a good feeling about the rest of the year. Got home about 10:30-45ish and got on the phone with Lauren, of course. Grabbed some food, hamburger helper, and put in the On the Rocks CD I got from Lauren. Witting this thing and then I'm headed to bed. See Lane, bed by 12:30, notice any homework being done? This ended up being a bit longer then I planned, but whatever works. Current Mood: content (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Friday, September 27th, 2002
12:11 am	Well, today was interesting, not really in a good way. I am really unhappy at work at the moment since I feel in over my head. I suppose I should give some back ground information first. I am the system admin. for a law firm in San Francisco. I was working for a different law firm as a full time file clerk over the summer and started hanging out with the guy who held the position I currently hold. He thought I would make a good replacement for him when he went off to law school about 2 months ago. I was supposed to have some pretty extensive training in this job, but due to a situation beyond my control, which included the guy training me being treated for testicular cancer, I only received limited training. It's not like I haven't had tech jobs before. I was a network analyst for EDS for about 8 months and had a lot of good hands on experience. The problem I am discovering is that I have always been the guy behind the guy. This is the first time I am nominally in charge of anything. My job at the moment isn't even really tech related right now. My main task is to facilitate the move of the law firm across the financial district. I have hired a cabling vendor to run about 100 cat-5 cables in the new office, purchased a xerox copier after several weeks of talking to every copy vendor in The City, and am trying to get a phone system together in time for the move. It's the phone system that is giving me a headache right now. I was all set on a system and things were going great, until I found the vendor had lied to me about the capabilities of the system and the capability he lied to me about was the number one thing the senior partner said the system had to have. So I walked into work today back at square one with the need to have a phone system installed by Oct. 21 hanging over my head. Since I was in charge getting the system together it was my fault the vendor burned us, which led to being talked to by one of the partners, who is a great guy outside of work, but at work he is a bit condescending. However, I worked through it today and made progress. It funny though, sitting there in a corner office with a view of the bay bridge and treasure island contemplating how to spend thousands of dollars and wishing you could walk over and just have to file some papers. Filing was relaxing, this is......not. I did get a couple of calls from people at work today, including Lauren, which served to really brighten my day. Knowing that even after knowing you for a week, some people think you are pretty cool stuff. Basically if I didn't have to work my life would be so great right now. I would have plenty of time to study and hang out and practice music, instead of cramming all of it into little chunks of time. However, money is good and I really need it. So I will have to persevere another week. Hmmmmm, mostly done complaining about work, next time I should talk about the multitude of things which have recently gone right in my life, like getting into music again and all of the things that entails. Well off to bed before class Friday. Goodnight Current Mood: frustrated (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, September 26th, 2002
8:50 am	Hmmmmmmmm Well, this is my first entry in something I got into because I wanted to know more about the people I was starting to hang out with. I don't know how much time and effort I'll put into this, but I'm willing to give just about anything a shot. Plus, anything really interesting in my life will be easily read in any number of other journals. Current Mood: annoyed with work (4 Comments |Comment on this)