The real world is looking really scary right now. Seriously, one month from this writing, I will be on the cusp of my full time job, getting ready for a summer that has no class waiting at the end of it. I will have completed and walked the stage all of 7 days ago, and I think then it will settle in.
I'm in the real world.
I remember when Matt blogged about his experience going in, and I looked at how he was reacting and thinking to myself that I wouldn't be like that. Truthfully though, I have been and have had my capstone to help me put things off. Let it be known that my final project has only about 3 hours of hard work left! But then; then what will happen?
I've been good about Gaia, though I am wavering between being completely disenchanted with it and continuing to work with it. On one hand, there is potential for very decent RP there (something gone from chat rooms in Yahoo), but on the other hand, the amount of idiocy could very well render something like this either unmanageable or without people. Given the average literacy of the Gaian "n00b" I fear more the later than the former. I long for text-based paragraph-driven RP. I haven't gotten to game all semester because of capstone, and my imagination has been fed hundreds of ideas. I literally do feel like I might explode if a group comes my way that wants to game over summer. I don't care if it is D&D, a Pern spinoff, Star Wars, or any number of other systems. I just want to roll some dice, tell some stories, and have some fun. "Gah!" I say!
As I just mentioned, my capstone is almost complete. I have left the writing of two side blocks, and then cleaning up the Gantt Chart module. It turns out that jpGraph was every bit as easy to use as I could have hoped. Now, all that remains is to buckle down the security, speed up some code methods, and let it fly! I was thinking of possibly using jpGraph cache options, but I want to run that by the Xoops development forum. Obviously for heavy traffic sites, any kind of cache is helpful, but the converse of that of course is the requirement of additional server configurations. That's for a second version though, as I promised to deliver on May first. Yes, 5-1 as in two days.
I wasn't planning on sleeping this weekend anyway!
(Update: My spell checker liked n00b, but not Gantt. Go figure.)
In response to "They need to perfect time-stretching":
I’m scared out of my wits regarding the future as well; to the point where I discovered I had stopped eating two days later… Best of luck for us both,
-Daniel