I mean, seriously, where the heck has the summer gone. Oh…well I know at least where mine has gone–and that’s not necessarily down the drain. I have accomplished a lot this summer and I have no complaints what-so-ever!

Renee and I are going back to our repsective school starting this Monday. It sucks because I have really enjoyed having someone so sweet and dear to my heart at home. We have done a lot together and suprisingly we haven’t fought…no…actually we have gotten along almost perfect. To tell you the truth, it is kinda eerie how well we do get a long. This semester I’m sure is going to be tough on the both of us. She is such a great girl…I bet the cats are now contemplating which portion of the bed they’re going to get when she leaves .

More and more I have been structuring my life for the next 4 to 5 months. A project management software title piece has been uploaded to my webserver and it’s been implemented to cover almost everything of importance in my life. It’s funny though, the damn thing has been projected for 4558 hours of work until the end of the 3rd business quarter 2005. Hmm, the logic is a little screwy but the damned thing adds hours for each and every little project.

Lots of tasks this fall and lots of school work. I hope that my brain is ready for it!

The one thing that I’m most scared about for this upcoming semester is time afforded to me. Or, for that matter, the lack thereof. So in light of this I have really begun to use my website to organize various parts of my life. I have done this because, 1, I’m a dork, 2, while I may be able to keep things somewhat organized on paper…the web is better.

For instance, I have implemented a bug tracking system for myself. I have done this because I simply cannot keep track of everything that may need to be fixed on a particular website. This bug tracking system will be nice because I can allow other people to view it as well…such as my boss who is working (many times) directly on the project with me.

Other areas of organization that I need to work on are calendar based things. Schedule will be of utmost importance this semester…so I need to be able to keep track of it better!

Hopefully this semester will work out for the better!

My cat is running around the house chasing imaginary things…not really sure what…but he is alerted by something. Teddy has been quite talkative lately with not a single hour going unnoticed by meows…not really sure.

On other fronts work has begun post-vacation. I feel like I’m energized to take on anything…but that may slowly crinkle away…hoping it doesn’t. School will be starting for me on the 29th. My current classes are listed on a page of my blog if it is of interest. One of the hardest courses is surely going to be my IS20 class (or at least that’s what everyone is saying).

Hopefully I will have more to write about later!

So I finsihed watching Coach Carter today with Renee. I have to admit…I thought the movie wasn’t going to be all that good…I thought that it was going to be nothing more than a pseudo inspirational movie that might be forgotten tomorrow. To my benefit…I was wrong. This movie was actually quite good.

Reading reviews across the Internet there are two things that I must agree about when speaking about this movie. 1, the direction in the movie was shoddy at times. I tend to agree with this but also disagree. The director seemed to move away from conventional Hollywood and push it further, but the director remained well within the reigns of, say, Law & Order. I guess it is the style of camera work one tries to use when shooting a film which tries to depict the ‘hood’.

Number two, the movie had a strong amount of philosophical background…and I liked this. This philosophical background wasn’t very much Matrix’esqe, but it was more along the lines of Martin Luther King type speeches. It sought to not only give a movie with kids coming out of the lesser situation and into a better condition, but also to make the viewer think about the progression of one’s own self in life and film.

The one thing that quickly stood out in this film and will more than likely stick with me for a while is a quote:

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our dark that most frightens us. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people don’t feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine as children do. Its not just in some of us; it’s in everyone. And as we let our own lights shine, we unconsiously give other people the right to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

56 hours until vacation starts and subsequently Todd becomes a lazy man!