“They tell you read this, eat this, don’t look around…”

I was told earlier on in the day that my ego is inflamed and needs to be brought back down to earth. That I crossed the line of confidence and stepped into the cocky realm of things.

Ladies and gentlemen, I understand where you’re coming from when you tell me this. I’ve been told many times before, these same exact words. And I feel sorry for all of you. You don’t get it.

These people are products of staying the course and never trying to exit their skin and see what they’re really capable of. And maybe that’s cause they’re not capable of much. But I am and it’s my turn. I’m gonna shine on and leave my mark.

People are scared of my confidence, my abilities, my style, my ego, my charm. And that’s okay. There needs to be a division in society; it helps people grow and realize there’s more to life than being another number or statistic.

I get it.

i’m not going to be speaking about monitor or television resolutions, but rather, the more popular type of resolution at this time of year, new year’s resolutions.

now normally people discuss this the day of new years, january first, however i have decided that today, sunday january fourth, would be an appropriate date.

so without any further delay, here we go:

• make cash money: school is soon over, which means that student loans are going to become payable soon. also, life has it’s expenses, which are not always cheap. there’s only so much free stuff you can get online or at the grocery store on the weekends. so i want to make sure i set myself up for the next year or few with a good job, preferably within my field of study, web and interactive media. this means working for another design firm, or possibly creating and establishing my own. but also, i’d like to research google ad-words and see what it can do for me. small, achievable goals.
• create beautiful things: i’m a designer. this shouldn’t be a surprise. i want to recreate my portfolio, which needs a major facelift. i also want to create an application. whether it be for the web or for mobile interface. i want my mark to be felt and i want to have people use my creation. i’ve got ideas, more so for the web, but i’ll start jotting down notes for an iPhone application of sorts and then possibly read up on how to create iPhone apps.
• read/listen more: recently for Christmas I got the Artie Lange book, Too Fat To Fish. A few weeks ago I downloaded the audiobook from iTunes which was great up until Artie Lange himself stopped reading, which happened around chapter six, so it’s a good thing i have this book in hand now. not only this book, i think there’s a lot of other books out there that might be worth looking at. i’m focused more on the web and design type books, but i wouldn’t be opposed to a good biography or comedy book. as for fiction, forget about it. i love movies too much… too much to even consider reading a book. i’ll say this as well, i want to keep reading the newspaper on a more frequent basis and maybe subscribe to a few magazines while i’m at it.
• watch more flicks: this past year i canceled my netflix account. i don’t feel bad about, considering i had the same movie for months at a time that i ended up never watching. whatever i’m over it. but i’m not over my fixation with cinema. i love it. so in 2009, i want to access the movie theatre more. but under a few conditions… 1)AMC brings back student rates 2)better movies are made 3)michael bay never makes another film that i successful. ok maybe not that last one, but i want better films and i want them to be cheaper. AMC you really suck for taking away student rates.
• make a film: also for Christmas, i received a camcorder from my girlfriend. it’s awesome. i love it. i took it with up to wisconsin for new years. i pulled so much footage on that trip…i couldn’t turn it off. this was the perfect gift for me though. i really have been wanting to get back into my old hobbies. one of them being radio/podcasting which i was able to do earlier in the year. but now i want to start creating mini films again. i’m thinking a documentary/podcast. something that is reoccurring but contains a story/purpose.
• graduate: that’s it. i finally feel ready and want to finish this stage of my life. school is amazing. i love it, and maybe i’ll end up going to graduate school to advance in my field even more, who knows. but i do know that i want this to be my final year of under-grad. it’s been long enough, i realize this, and i’ve really enjoyed it, but i think it’s time to continue moving forward. 

that’s my list so far. i don’t know that i’ll add to it. maybe offline. but i want to revisit this next year and see where i’m at. have a good year everybody.

i’ve been doing a lot of microblogging instead of actually writing in this big white space that has been taken over by videos and photos. but i want you to know that i haven’t forgotten, i just haven’t wanted to write anything as of late. at the same time, i have just become addicted to the twitter machine.

so if you have been paying attention to the tweet updates on the left you’ll know that i was recently in detroit for the chicago bears game at ford field. road tripped it up there with my uncle, cousin and his friend and stayed at the Renaissance center; which is a really nice hotel, apparently the tallest building in all of the detroit metro area as well. and hey, as soon as we got to the lobby we saw a couple bears players walking through. so not bad at all. and across the street or river was windsor which reminded me of days of old when we road tripped it to toronto a few years back. anyhow, detroit is really a blah kind of city with not much going on except for a bears game. 

tomorrow afternoon i’m headed towards new york city. i’ll be there for a week. celebrating a very special birthday. exploring the city. you gotta live life.

school started today. alright it started on monday really. i’ve got a nice balance of classes here with motion graphics, physics, math and effective speaking. i think you can see the two classes i’m most looking forward to. although i’m not sure it’s going to be a cake walk this quarter. first time i’m doing a “full load” with no real interactive design classes. a little different, but i’m willing because it seems like forever since i was last in school even though i took those online courses. it’s just nice to be back in the atmosphere of things and downtown and not in an online cafe in greece. although maybe that wouldn’t be so terrible either. 

i’m a moving machine right now. today was non-stop, this past weekend was non-stop, and i guarantee you that in the city that never sleeps…it will probably be non-stop.

keep an eye out for photos, tweets, stories, etc…

So I’ve just finished my first assignment for my current set of online courses. The first five weeks I will be taking Project Management, followed by Chemistry. Yes, it all sounds too exciting I know. Anyway, if you remember last February when I took my online course, the first assignment dealt with introducing yourself and whatnot and there was this one entry that really made me laugh. I wrote all about it, follow that link to look back.

This time around, same assignment. I was just telling Veronica on the phone how I wish I would have saved my previous assignment cause it would’ve saved me some time. 

So nothing really going on except that I will have plenty of time to blog (which probably means I won’t blog very much), since I have my online courses. Again, I will be traveling to Greece in August, so there should be some mobile travel blogs coming your way. Speaking of which, hopefully I will be able to blog via the new iPhone 3G that I bought. I know that typePad has an application, but I hope that Tumblr is working on one as well. Anyone know? That’d be good.

-Bos

Ok, so let me give you just a quick background on this post…

It’s really early here and I haven’t been able to sleep all week. So I decided to log on and start my assignments for my current online course, Physics. The first assignment is described in bold below. Read that and then continue… 

By Friday, February 15, 2008 please write a three-paragraph autobiography and post it to the appropriate Discussion Area. Your autobiography should include your name, online study experience, and areas of interests. 

Alright so not a very difficult first assignment. Pretty standard of what you do in any first day of class, you introduce yourself, blah, blah blah. Well the other part of the assignment is to read your classmates posts and then respond to them. This part I dread because all the posts are pretty boring and pretty much the same. But today I struck gold! I clicked on this kid Graham’s post, and it was so unexpected, so entertaining, that i had to copy and paste it for you all to read. Please continue… 

My name is Graham. I am living in Pittsburgh and going to the Art Institute of Pittsburgh but I am originally from Cleveland, Ohio. I hate it here in Pittsburgh with a passion and cannot wait to get out of this dump.

I came here to study video games and become a writer in the industry but for some reason, the Ai’s do not view literature as a form of art anymore, and therefore I am sadly stuck in the wrong school. I am desperately and frantically searching for a way out of this school because it has become the biggest scam I’ve ever seen in my life. I am paying 70 thousand dollars for an education in a field that I don’t want, and on top of that, I am not even getting that unwanted education. My time spent at the AiP has been the worst three years of my life, and I have been to prison!

My goal at this point is to find a college somewhere in Houston that will take a transfer student from an unaccredited college. If I find a school, I will then begin studying literature, specifically fiction writing. If I do not find a school to transfer into, well, then I will be yet another one of those people that drop out of college and struggle through life. I will never quit writing and I will never give up on my dream. I have already written stories for numerous games so all I need is to get my foot in the door of a design company. I chose Houston as my destination because it is the home of the company that I want to work for the most, TimeGate Studios.

I have absolutely no understanding of how physics works and frankly do not really want to understand it. I am happy with knowing that when I drop an apple, it falls. I know that physics is become more and more prevelant in the video games now so I figured I would sign up for an introductory course to it and see what I can figure out. The way I see it, any knowledge I can grab now will help me when I get to Houston. I am planning on being out of here before the end of the quarter though so I don’t plan on even finishing this class.

Are you kidding me!? Here’s my response to our friend Graham…

Graham, I’ll be honest, your rant about Pittsburgh and Art Institute made me laugh. It sucks that you’ve wasted so much money, that just sounds like poor planning on your part. Who knows.

Anyway, I know everyone has their own opinion on what you should or shouldn’t be doing, but it sounds like you know what you want to be doing, so just do it.

I hope all your posts for this course are as passionate as this one. Have a good day. 

Graham might be the greatest thing to happen to online courses and helloBos. I really and truly hope this kid continues to post like this on assignments. This could be epic!