Evolved Model Creations

Well, it’s been a few weeks. I finally get a break now. Over the last two months, I have been working my butt off with unbelievable amount of…well, work. I’ll try to quickly summarize what it was it has been like during my MIA.

Last week’s 4×100m Relay (Anchor)

1) Completed a 120 page tax return for a client. Not only is it long, it’s dead complicated and hard to organize. I slaved over 40 weekend hours getting it done. I’m glad that’s finally out of the way.

2) Still running, going to Track practice daily, and competitions on the weekend. My team (Hunter College Track & Field) recently came in 2nd in the CUNY Indoor T&F championship, losing only by 4 points. It was a huge disappointment, since one of our top athlete was sick and didn’t attend that weekend. We swear that this would not happen again for Outdoor Season.

3) I made my first publication. A small, but first add to my resume. It is printed in the Hunter College Athletic Newsletter and will soon expand elsewhere. Now, I’m just waiting for the results from the Fiction Short Story and Non-Fiction Essay Contests.

4) Despite being an English Major for Creative Writing, I’m terrible at Literature courses. It is now halfway through the semester now and I have actually done well with 3 papers and an in-class midterm (which are usually nightmares for me). For weeks, I’ve had to turn in a minimum of 1 paper and 1 test a week. Not unusual for college, but these are hard and exhausting considering how much of the above I was juggling at the same time.

5) I still have financial problems, but they’re better now. Hopefully, they will be gone by the time this semester is over.

And so, things are now a bit calm for now. I can’t even remember the last time I felt as relaxed as I am now. I’ll be getting back to building Gundams this weekend and hopefully, bring up more news.

For now, I have a review for my recently acquired toy.

A few months ago, I started experiencing problems with my 5th generation Ipod Video. The headphone jack became defective and only one side of the headphones made noise. I figured out that it was the jack since my headphones still work fine with other devices and when I push the plug in hard, it works fine. In an attempt to fix it, I cracked it open and tried tightening the jack by adding some bulk to it. Not only did this not solve the problem, the modification was too much to fit in the ipod and cracked the screen. I only used 0.5mm sterene sheet and yet, it was too much.

I think most of you should recognize that quote. Anyway, the ipod still works fine and I could fix it with replacement parts, but I’m not going to (for various reasons). I still use it as a hard drive for transferring files. But for my entertainment needs, I have this:

An 8gb (actually 7…Apple is a liar) Ipod touch 2nd Generation. The beautiful case is imported from Korea. These photos don’t even come close to how awesome it looks like in person. It comes with a Screen protector, the front plate, a plastic wood-like back plate, and a dragon plate for the rear. It took a while to get the case since the merchant shipped me the wrong case at first and I had to return it. However, he paid for return shipping and included a free extra sticker in the 2nd shipment. Overall, I’m very satisfied with it’s looks.

I’ll be reorganizing this weekend and will most likely get an update up on models soon. Look forward to it.