Spring Break-ing

*sigh* I always get sick when I come home. It's a bad habit that I really need to outgrow.
..as if I have any say in it.

It's spring break for Tech, UVA, and William & Mary (I think). Has been for a few days now, though the technical start was Monday. Still, with a decently long list of things that I want/need to do in this week, I haven't done much. Gotta work on that.

For starters there's "I'll just get ahead on schoolwork!" which I always say when some form of break--usually the much-needed type--comes along. Another bad habit. Ideally, I would just stop saying this altogether because, as those who know me would probably expect, I never go through with it. I'm lazy and sleep too much on breaks and in general get sidetracked pretty easily. Which, after typing that last sentence I went off for ten minutes and looked at a few websites...for example. Er, that and I've read seventy-six chapters of Death Note this week (I'm so bad! But it's so good!).

In other matters, like I've told everyone that's asked me if I have an internship for this summer, I will say that I am half-assedly looking for something. Possibly work. Possibly research. I honestly don't know yet. Preferably not a full-time job like last year at AOL. Not that it was bad--in fact I loved it--I'm just not thrilled about the whole nine to five aspect.

What I would really like to do is work on a project for the Google Summer of Code (SoC for short). Tim did it last summer so I've been pestering him for information and help. Unfortunately the SoC requires a good chunk of work, though if anything happens I'll keep you guys up to date.

Other than that I've a few other things to keep me busy. For my math class--which I am trying to get honors credit for--I have to learn what a Hausdorff dimension is. Too bad wiki pages don't always give the simplest of explanations. Also, John, Tim, and I were thinking of working on a programming contest which MIT is hosting. It's called BattleCode and deals primarily with artificial intelligence--a field none of us have any experience with--specifically programming a player for a neat real-time strategy game they've made. Not too sure how far we'll get into it this year.

Last, but never least, is the latest writing assignment. Alina gives these out every once in a while, although it's been a couple of months since the last one. This one calls for a story two to four pages long and using the words "defenestrate" and "akimbo" (neither of which, in my opinion, gets ample usage). As always--as usual really, I don't always finish..--you can check my piece out over at my deviantART page. There's a link over on the right, click it now anyways. It has writings, and you should really comment on them.
Please comment. *whimper*

Hmm, that's all this attention-deprived artist has for now. Later~