What've I been up to you ask? It's been a while since my last post, so here's a quick summing up. I graduated from Brown College with my associate's degree, maintaining a 4.0 GPA.

I went on a trip to Iowa with my parents last week. Heres a photo of my sister, mother and I in Iowa.

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I also have acquired a Mac Mini (Dual Core 1.66ghz, 80gb, 2gig) and despite being among some of the most hardcore windows users, ie: I write freakin' parameter taking batch files (people say I'd prefer Linux, I disagree) I have been quite enjoying Mac OSX, though it is a very different experience from windows. They are both very good systems, though work differently. If you go into Mac OS not expecting things to be different you’re going to hate it. It’s a completely ideology change, more so than what shines through merely on the surface. I believe Mac users hate PC’s merely because they don’t realize the ideology change and the same goes for PC users hating Macs.

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Here follows a couple images from me playing with OSX in no particular order.

I always write when I’m tired… I think the walls fall down when I’m tired or something, but oh well. What’s new with me you ask again? Well, I graduate on I believe June 22nd, my life after that: unknown. I have no idea what I’m going to do. I’m completely idea-less. Last month or so’s been a little testing on me, as I began to get over my what I now label daylight savings time depression a good friend of mine comes to me with some very serious problems, and I’m not sure what to do about the situation at all but that’s neither here nor there. Most of my friends are back and I’ve been trying my best to become a social being again, but its hard I tell you. You go eight months and only have contact with humans on the occasional breaks, you end up awkward, even more than I was to start… And theres a part of me that just wants to be alone, part of me that completely identifies with Thoreau. The part that asks why I should need to even enter society let alone interact with it. I don’t know what to think, I try not to control my thoughts. I spent a portion of tonright reminiscing about elementary school with another good friend. We are on a search to find a girl by the name of Nyssa, whom we went to elementary school with and were good friends with. Jeff actually managed to find a post on a website from 1997 of a response she had written. http://www.learner.org/jnorth/1997/challenge/manatee/0003.html anything newer though is lacking. We haven’t seen her since Jr. High and she just dropped off the face of the earth.
I realized the other day through comments of a person I usually hate, especially for comments that he made about me today, that I am completely mentally immature, and infact a huge ass for it, as my unwillingness to let it go combined with other situations has added to me getting away with things other people would not.

Well now for what seems to have become a nearly monthly update of the life of Jesse Donat. As you can see I've changed the title of my Live Journal. Should I change the color scheme? I've had this for a while, and it' nice but I need change. As many of you know already from my nearly constant pestering, I've changed Oasisband.net. I've put a lot of work into the site recently, and am preparing to roll out an updated movies page as well, even considering redoing the database, again, which is a lot more work than I really want to do, but it would allow for a very improved user experience.

I've come to a realization. Every year after daylight savings time I become horribly depressed for a period of a few weeks. Check my first entry; it was on Apr. 16th, 2004. That's practically two years ago today. As crazy as it sounds, I think it's the extra sunlight. Whereas some people get depressed from lack of sun during the winter, I think I actually suffer from the reverse. When I signed up for live journal two years ago it was because I just did not feel right and needed a place to just write down some crap. Well that mysteries solved.

What else is up? On the school kind of thing I graduate after this term ends like June 26th, if all goes as planed Valedictorian none the less. What I do after I graduate with my Associates degree, damned if I know. For this quarter I was supposed to get an internship. Joel, the gracious host of our Oasisband.net actually offered me one and I am taking him up on it, which should be interesting to get some semi-professional coding experience. This quarter I was set up to have two classes on Monday / Wednesday and one class Tuesday / Thursday, but the decision was made to move the third class to Monday / Wednesday, so at the moment I have two days of class each week with a four day weekend. Talk about a light load, especially compared to last quarter where every day I was getting at least one, sometimes two very complicated assignments. Last term ended up being the toughest yet, and I had doubts about maintaining my 4.0 but Forshizzle assured me I would, and I did.

Also, if you havn't played Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, you should. It will blow your mind. It is one of the greatest games I have played in quite a long time. But be forewarned, it is very addictive. The first weekend I played it I started at like 9 am Friday straight through until Sunday at 4 pm, with a break on Saturday as Andrew Gross stopped by with Forshizzle and we went to Chipolet. Also, I have a myspace account setup now, its lame, almost as lame as MySpace is in general. http://www.myspace.com/donatj Well, that is about all I can think to write at the moment.

I have some choices to make by September. Through an error on my and my fathers part, Brown apparently costs twice as much as I thought it did. This heightens my wanting to go to the U of M instead because at the end of this quarter I will have paid what I was comfortable paying for the entire thing. On the other hand though, with this much invested its kind of a waste to go to a school where the credits will not transfer to. Then again, if I do finish at Brown I'll have very little of my personal college savings left. I need peoples opinions here. Should I finish the next three quarters and get my Associates Degree at Brown or should I transfer to the U of M where I wouldn't be able to finish without getting a job of some sort first.