After a bitter battle with UT I am finally able to register for classes – actually my registration time started yesterday and now I won’t be able to do it until 7:00 pm tonight.  Hopefully my classes won’t be gone by then.  It’s absolutely ridiculous how terrible the administration systems are at UT.  Ok, not everyone who works in UT administration is terrible, but I feel that there is a large lack of communication between the departments.  Anyway, I’ve sorted out my schedule – oh yeah, and pickaprof is now called MyEdu? That’s new.

I’ve signed up for a “temp schedule” as I like to call it.  This is a schedule that I will be satisfied with and will not be a waste of my time if my desired schedule falls through.  The only differences between this draft and my desired schedule is that I wish to take J315 and J355; however I cannot enroll in them because I am still yet to be a J student at UT (still waiting on my acceptance letter.. maybe December/January).  When I get that notification I’ll edit my schedule last minute hopefully with the help of the J advisors.

UPDATE:

Shortly after I submitted this post I checked back to see if my classes were still a-go.  Nope.  The E 316K I had chosen has closed.  SEE HOW RIDICULOUS THIS IS?!

I spent the day as an actor for a short film.  I delivered flowers and ate a red bell pepper; it tasted bad.  Afterwards there was extra blood so we did a small photo shoot on top of Katie’s building in the Upper East Side, enjoy.

C Train; downtown.

C Train; downtown.

Filming for New York Film Academy.

Filming for New York Film Academy.

Katie with the boom mic.

Annie, lead actress.

Lindsay; Upper East Side.

Katie; Upper East Side.

Getting ready.

Magnum photographer and total badass Peter van Agtmael was at the International Center of Photography autographing his new book, 2nd Tour Hope I Don’t Die – an amazing collection of photographs that document the war in Iraq and the war at home that soldiers face once they return to their lives in America.

My autographed copy of 2nd Tour Hope I Don't Die by Peter van Agtmael.

Peter van Agtmael at the International Center of Photography, NY.

Selling tickets to comedy shows on Times Square.

Street vendor trying to stay dry.

Wedding photos in Times Square.

Family on a train bound for downtown Manhattan.

Custodial work.

Montessori school.

Woman on phone in the kitchen.

Saw this advertisement on the side of Facebook earlier today.  It doesn’t even give you an option to say “no,” what kind of question is that?

Went to Harlem to get some Chinese food.  My total came to around $6 but since I was paying with a card I had to make the total over $8 – in order to do this I ordered some crab rangoons (sucked) and a can of coke (was not placed in bag).

Logged into Twitter and saw a pretty cool trending topic: #beatcancer:

So in case anyone out there really is reading this: #beatcancer

Not feeling well today and having to walk through the rain to get some lunch wasn’t great either.

A couple shares an umbrella outside Central Park.

Pidgeon jumping from curb.

A woman scuttles past rows of apartments in Harlem.

Decision are made regarding sadwiches.

I’m not sure if you’ve heard of Omegle before, but it’s a flash based web client that connects you anonymously with stranger in a chat interface.  Sometimes it’s really cool and can connect you with people on an international scale, allowing you to have a nice conversation and understand someone else’s perspective on the world, all from your living room.

And then, sometimes you just come across crazies:

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Oh yeah, P.S. Sorry @josh_pope for using your name – clearly it was for science.

So after I stayed up all last night working on my design from last night, I posted the finished result on Twitter and received a lot of feedback.  Biggest issues were that is was ‘choppy’ and ‘cluttered’ – and I agree.  At some point last night I was looking for new portfolio ideas and came across Slideshow Pro again.  I had this awesome tool back in 2005 (December, to be precise) when my father bought it for me for Christmas.

I have since forgotton my password and apparently also my username.  I sent an email to the team asking if they had any of my information on file and that I had purchased it way long ago and was wondering if that could do anything for me (the program has been updated significantly since I last used it).

To my surprise I got an email back this morning (on a Sunday!) saying that he had my information on file but it was from their old database system and couldn’t pull up anything more than I had been registered – so he set up a new account for me and allowed me to re-download Slideshow Pro.  Now that I have this tool, I used it to tweek my site and voila, I think it appears much cleaner and more presentable.