South Carolina

Swine flu runs rampant across the U.S.

Being sick sucks.

Facebook

Well, cleared out my Facebook friends list. Many years ago, when Facebook first came out, I did a few social experiments with it. I would pick random schools and try to get as many people from that school to add me. I had several methods, but they nearly all worked. I think, at the height of it, I had over 1200 friends. I eventually grew bored and stopped. Now, years later, it had widdled down to around 800. I just decided to finally clean it out. It is now down to 286. More will be cleared out eventually. I just felt like a prick though, while doing it. Clicking 'remove friend' seemed some pompish. I took out people I never knew, people I never liked to begin with, and people that I will probably never talk to again.

I guess not

I think I might have the only blog that no one anywhere reads.

Going to Harbin, China tomorrow. It is ridiculously cold there. BRRRRR

I'm signing my new lease today. I can only hope that the landlady got the place cleaned, so I can move in.

Does anyone but me read this?

I originally made this to keep family and friends updated on my time in China, but the website was blocked for most of my first year here. I know I have a link on my Facebook to this, but I'm fairly certain that NOBODY has looked at this site but me. Maybe it has to do that I don't update. I'm going to start updating, I guess, but I also wonder about whether or not I should really talk about what happens to me. I know that a lot of companies check online to find out about potential employees. I try to keep what is accessible to the entire public at least semi-respectable.

My google status changed again. I used to be numbers 1,2,4,and 5 on the search resluts for michael flanagin without quotes. That was a happy day for me. I felt important. I have been knocked down to numbers 3,4,and 7. Still top ten, but not as good as it used to be. I guess there was a time when a lot of people visited my Facebook, LinkedIn, and bloc.net pages. Maybe I should update more to keep the traffic up.

There is a Michael Patrick Flanagan (notice that the only difference in our names is the AN at the end of the last name instead of my IN) on wikipedia. He was apparently a former U.S. Representative of the House from 1995-1997 for the state of Illinois.'

This leads my desire to do something monumental to get my name on wikipedia. Maybe I can break a Guinness World Record or get on television or something. Wikipedia is my next step on my search for immortality.

Holy Crap

I can't believe this works in China now. Figures, since I'm heading back to the States for winter vacation that I'd find the blog working now.

Dream/Movie Ideas
Muppets go to Haunted Mansion
Fallout Adaptation

Me Brain Hurts

I discovered today that my brain is acting a lot like my old computer.

It has been overwooked by previous tasks (grad school thus far).

Junk is clogging up the memory, and the RAM is being eaten up by other things.

I need a good defrag (vacation) to fix me up, but I won't get that until after I'm done with finals.

So close, and yet so far.

One More Week

Well, I'm almost done with my core classes. In less than a month, I will be on my way to Beijing, China for my language training. I guess, I'm in a state of denial about the whole thing. It hasn't really registered for me that I'm not coming back to the states for at least a year, probably 18 months.

I'm going to miss all the friends that I made in the IMBA program thus far. They're mostly 2-year tracks, so they'll have graduated before I return. I'm going to attempt to make a trip out to Europe this coming summer in order to hang out with a few of them, but that will probably depend on cost.

More posts to come.