Onajide | artist

I thought LoudTwitter would have posted my tweets but, it hasn’t for some reason. Anyway, I’ve been overly busy again and the past few days have flown by. I’m now writing for Examiner.com and went to a gallery opening Thursday night. Yesterday, I thought was a televised faculty meeting but, there was nobody in the media room when I arrived on campus for my first faculty meeting of the year. My contract doesn’t require me to attend faculty meetings and every Friday this year has been filled with things to catch up with. I’m feeling like I’m running an obstacle course.

I’m not normally one to listen to the talk of politics but, with Obama having been elected and, my renewed hope for the future has me reading and listening more than ever. I am surprised, however, when I hear talk about turning the country into a socialist state. Those people are as unaware of what that really is as are most people have no experience of socialism, nor communism. And, a lot of that talk is just another way of saying they’d never support a non-white in office.

Okay, time to get a move on. This is another day filled with much to do: Broward Artist Inst., write doc on artists using the web, write museum article, Miami Web Developers Meetup, by then should be the end of the day.

Every time I think about what has happened my body just shivers with emotions and my eyes well up. To think that what I’ve been through, my parents and grandparents, today is SO amazing and unbelievable. I remember traveling across the US by car as a child being forced to drive 20-30 miles out of the way in order to find a place that would rent us a room for the night, being denied service in restaurants for not being white, called names, being treated like unwanted stepchildren and, you know many other things. Finally, we’re really, really moving past all that. My gawd, this is an emotional time right now. Momentus occasion indeed.

I can’t believe it’s been so many days since my last update. So much seems to have taken place in the past few days that I’ve lost time as to what is what.

It’s been very difficult learning mysql, php, and linux. While I’m learning them, there has been much confusion and, some frustration. I’ve been reading more books and less PDFs and online docs, which I find extremely difficult to read because you can’t flip pages back and forth, look in the index and, making references with other texts is next to impossible.

Anyway, text books are the way to go.

Halloween? Blah, just another day. It’s not a holiday I find interesting for the most part. Maybe I should find a reason to feel otherwise. I need to find some new friends, friends that want to do the things I want to do. Going to the clubs has never been a big part of my life but, going there with other people is good but, going alone is not fun. Even saying that I’ve wanted to go out a few time in the past month or so. However, clubs make me unconfortable.

RefreshMiami held its 3rd meetup in a row at Yahoo! Latin America (Coral Gables, FL). There are always some interesting presentations and October was no excpetion.

I voted early today. If you can vote early, do it and save time. Early voting is the smartest thing about voting since I can remember. Tuesday’s only for voting is just stupid.