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What was the best thing about your weekend?

I know I haven't been posting lately, but the best thing about this weekend was being finished with orientation.  I'm starting school again and we had orientation from July 10 until July 13.  It was full of "team building" stuff with the people in my dorm.  I actually start classes today and I was excited to find that I don't have to take any math classes (I tested out of all of the required ones).

What's the best April Fools' Day prank you've ever had pulled on you?
Courtesy of Team Vox.

I hope it's that the Qotd and Vox hunt are leaving, otherwise I'm going to be disappointed =/  I usually don't fall for them or figure them out fast so there's never been an amazing one pulled on me.

If you had one month to live, what five things would you do?
Suggested by Acerebel.

1. Travel to Japan with a group of friends.
2. Take care of things so my family could live in peace.
   
3. Tell several people what I really think of them.
4. Eat tons of exotic foods.
5. Write a book.
   

What compliment are you most often given?

That my eyes are amazing.  I think it's because most people like bright blue eyes and when I'm in a good mood you can tell.  I used to blush every time I got the compliment, but now I've gotten used to it.  

Personally, if SF ends up looking like this, I'd move there in a heartbeat!

Architecture: Scallion-Shaped High Rises Dominate SF Skyline by 2108

http://io9.com/356872/scallion+shaped...

If you think San Francisco is pretty now, wait till you see it in the future. Local architecture firm Iwamoto Scott proposes this curvy, colorful cityscape for the city by the bay, to accommodate a population that's slated to double by 2108. Some more details and pics after the jump.

Well, now I have learned that person two is a complete asshole.  Somehow he found out that my boss talked to me yesterday, (since no one was around and we were in a closed office my boss must have been unprofessional and told him).  Now he just dumps his work on me and directs me like I'm his slave.  I'm really sick of him, he only moved in a few months ago and started lots of problems.  Now he thinks I'm his or something and it's really annoying me.  My Valentines day was ruined by this person =(

At least I get the end of next week off, I really don't want to be there more than I have to now....

Is there anything you've done that you wish you'd apologized for, but didn't?

Well, my supervisor recently talked to me about me saying 'no' to people when they asked for me to do work.  Apparently, this has happened on three instances, the first, I remember and it was a joke which has been cleared up.  The second was when I was asked by someone only half a level above me to do something, and I carefully explained that I was working on a project for someone else and would tell him once I finished.  Well this person told my boss that I just didn't help them and didn't explain the back story so I'm getting in trouble for this.  And the third time I have no recollection of, at all.  I am known as a very helpful person and readily help everyone in my area.  So it's sort of disconcerting when I find out that people are going to my boss before approaching me about this.  Even if I've explained something a myriad of times, I will help people who request for my help unless I have an important matter.  If I have an important matter then I always make sure to explain that I have something that must be done first and that as soon as I have completed the task at hand I will help them.  So now that three people have gone to my boss I have been directed to take all work anyone gives me no matter how much I have to do!  This worries me because I am supporting a program used to track the companies savings initiatives and if I get swamped I may not be able to keep it running. 

On top of this, I have been informed that a co-worker of mine will me fired on Friday and I will be responsible for all their work.  I wasn't concerned of this when it was suggest that it might happen, mainly because I could tell people that I had something of higher priority and I would help them when I was done.  Now that I don't have that liberty I'm not sure I'll be able to handle all of the work.  As if to compound the problems, another co-workers quit today, and it was insinuated that I will be taking about half of their responsibilities.  This is going to make my life hell, I had planned on leaving this position in early August, but now I think that I'll leave as early as possible (Late May).

I personally don't understand why there has been such a sudden change of heart.  In every quarterly evaluation I've had I get great marks and everyone is very impressed with my quality of work.  With these two people leaving I'm ending up the bottom of the totem pole so to speak.  My main problem is that I ask people how I'm performing or if I'm professional etc and make it easy for anyone to talk to me, yet, people always tell me that I'm doing great and end up talking to my boss before they ever even consider talking to me.  In the end, to answer the QotD, I wish I would have said sorry to the third person that is said 'no' to.

They may be expensive but they're the most amazing things on the market.  

10 Sci-Fi Techs We Could Build If They Weren't So Damn Expensive | Gadget Lab from Wired.com

http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2008/01...

Someone went ahead and did it: calculate the cost of constructing a military-grade giant robot. The result, when you throw in flexible aluminum alloys, seven engines, thirty helicopter motors and a computer fast-thinking enough to keep it upright, is $750m a piece. That would get you half a dozen Eurofighters, a trio of Raptors, or about 125,000,000 copies of Peggle.