As My Luck Would Really Have It

Yesterday I made the comment, “As my luck would have it…” Apparently it was an understatement. Most you probably don’t know, but there is such a thing as ‘The Starling Bad Luck’. I don’t know who my ancestors managed to cross, but they put a curse on the good Starling name. Now before some you ladies out there start thinking twice about adding Starling on your name, let me explain this: It only affects the men in our family by birth. My brother, my dad, my dad’s brothers, my nephews, my grandfather, me…we all have it. To put it simply: nothing is easy and nothing ever goes our way. Now let me tell you why you just got all that back-story.

Most of you may or may not know, but I dropped my only class this semester. I was having one of those college quarter life crises where I didn’t know what I wanted to do with my life anymore. Since that technically made me an inactive student at FSU (because I didn’t take summer classes), they withdrew me. No problem, I dropped my class, walked down two floors at the University Center, and filled out a re-admission application. Yeah, that was back in October. Well I called last week because I hadn’t heard anything as to my status. Admissions said that my paperwork was sent to the CS Department for the Dean’s approval. So I call the CS department and my advisor is out for a few days. Wonderful. So I left her a voice mail. She calls me back this Monday and says that my paperwork was sent back to Admissions. Tuesday, I call Admissions and they don’t got any stinkin paperwork. Marvelous. Then the nice lady said that she would call the CS department and see what the 411 was.

Yesterday I get a voice mail from Admissions saying that there was a mix up. It appears that when I dropped my class, I checked this box for automatic re-admission. Admissions didn’t see it and the Computer Science department didn’t see it either. The Dean of CS on the other hand did. So technically I’ve been a registered student the whole time. Oh, and I probably failed to mention that class registration for Spring 2005 closed a long time ago. That means I have register on Jan 5 and FSU is going to be kind and waive the $100 late registration fee. Gee thanks.

Today’s “special” update is the Official 2004 JoshuaStarling.Com Christmas Card. Enjoy! (Adobe PDF)

The new “Ronald McDonald” in Japan. (Give it a few min for the commerical to load)

Hot Seat Gunner.

A modern day troll.

Microsoft’s Interview Questions.

Apparently the Geo Test yesterday wasn’t good enjoy for some people. Give this one a try.

Never saw that one coming.