The Long and Winding Road

I been debating for quite awhile now. Every since Myspace, Facebook, and Twitter came onto the net I been thinking of not creating anymore website. I have two website at http://journphoto.tripod.com/ and http://journphoto.angelfire.com/. Nobody these days makes website anymore like they did ten years ago. Everyone is on Myspace, Facebook, and Twitter promoting themselves. Heck people five years ago were on Friendster but nobody uses that site anymore. People are also socializing on YouTube by posting up videos. I guess people gave up on learning HTML. I still have a hard time knowing the codes.

My first website that I created was in July 1997. Ever since then I been working on website. I kept coming out with one every two years. My last good website was in February 2001. That site had photos that I have taken at the San Francisco Zoo, Ocean Beach, and the International Auto Show. It took five years to come out with another website which only had random photos.

I would blame my brother and sister for hooking me into Myspace and Facebook. It beats joining Match.com or Yahoo Personal (yes I paid to socialize with people). I have met good people and sending messages back and forth. I even met them in person.

I recently took the liberal to work on blogs. I enjoy typing to ease my mind. It makes me feel better about myself. It is a way for people to read what I am thinking. Of course my grammar stinks badly and I rely on spell checking a lot. I take time to read what I am typing before posting anything up.

I just thought since I been logging onto Myspace and Facebook I should give up on making website. Beside I don’t have the time to work on them with college and work. I’ll be working on photoshop since I still take pictures. It just time will tell if I’ll ever make website again.

One Month Already?

It has been a month since I began San Francisco State University. I have to admit that it is much different compare to Diablo Valley College and Contra Costa College. I am dealing with a lot of reading plus participation during the class. My Asian American Studies (History of Asian American) class the instructor picks students to answer questions from the reading. When he picks me I freeze up unable to answer the questions. I have hard time doing the reading. It is finding time to do the read plus do the other work in my Journalism class (Reporting). In journalism I have to be in the street of my neighborhood (Parkmerced, Stonetown, and SFSU) a total of 10 hours per week. That is being on the street day and night which I been doing ever since the semester began. There is not much stuff going on in my neighborhood. I have to say that the neighborhood does not have any crime. The only only even that I have seen occur is the Farmer’s Market. I been checking up-to-date information what been going on through people that live there plus checking out the internet.

I find it difficult for me to wake up early. I drive to San Francisco State University Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. I come on campus 8 in the morning but my first class does not start until noon. My last class does not end until 3:25 in the afternoon. I can’t go home until 7:30 in the evening because of traffic leaving San Francisco. What I do after I get out of my last class is study at the library, Borders, Starbucks, or Barnes & Noble. That would be the only way I can kill time to avoid traffic. I refuse to be stuck in traffic. It is too much stress to wait for a long time on the freeway. There is not even a carpool lane in the city. I would take BART but I am carrying my backpack with books and binder, my camera bag, and notebook computer. I have invested in USB flash drive but I rather have my notebook computer with me if there is no available computer to use on campus. It would be easy for me to live on campus but I can’t afford it, my parents don’t want me to leave home, and also I am working at Sam’s Club as well.

I am working at Sam’s Club Sunday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday. That is also hard for me to do my classwork. My supervisor ask me to work Friday evening for the holiday and days there are nobody to work their shift. Even more load for me to handle.

I have until the end of December to survive the first semester at San Francisco State University. Do I think I can do it? I’m crossing my finger that something better will occur as the days are passing by. I don’t want to be dropping any classes. That is going to delay my chances of finishing up SFSU soon. As long as I am not going insane I would make it through the semester. There are things that I have to give up in order for me to do well.

Associate and Managers Leaving Comments on Myspace/Facebook

I have to admit that I am on Myspace and Facebook 24/7 and I have most of my co-workers onto my listing. What I don’t get is that most of my co-workers add everyone that they work with onto their listing including supervisors/managers. Do you think that is a bit overboard? I find it odd to see an associate and managers/supervisor have each other on their listing. Everybody that I work with are on Myspace and Facebook especially managers/supervisors and they leave comments saying bizarre stuff. I have one co-worker that adding managers/supervisors on his listing and that is a bit scary. What funny is that he is a lazy worker that gets away with crime. I’m sorry but I am tired of people that waste their time not doing their job. What I don’t get is why add them if they’re going to know every single status comment you leave on your profile or theirs? It’s cool if you’re a classmate but if your have the instructors on your listing that would be odd because he/she might be wondering what you’re doing online a lot. I’m sorry but don’t we all have phones to call each other telling them that we had a good day at work or just e-mail them saying it instead of posting a comment? I’m cool with posting my status and leaving comments on people’s profile but I believe it is overboard to have your managers/supervisor on your listing.