NuríSpark

where is Nurí

2004-07-10T23:38:00.000-04:00

Guess what, bloglings? On July 4, 2004, our plucky hero started his new life in MODESTO, CA.

I'm now in my first real apartment since graduation from college. SCARY, eh? Hex yea.

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2006-01-12T11:18:00.000-05:00

This blog was almost given the title

"HELLZ TO THE YES"
or
"Why I should ALWAYS listen to my father"

That last one was just in case he ever visits my website. *grin*

I got the job I had been jazzed up about. It took a little under a week for the president to extend me an offer, but now it's official, I've signed paperwork and I'm preparing to start work immediately.

*SUPER huge sigh of relief*

It's a load off of my mind to know that I will no longer be unemployed. I like the ability to

pay my bills

start paying off my college loans

eat Ramen only when I have a craving for it

eat out when I feel like it

afford cable TV with a DVR and not scream at Comcast for being greeeeeedy bitches.

That's hot. Real hot.
You're reading the LiveJournal of (no official title) Technology Director and Preflight Specialist. Ho-double-T.

Finally woken

2005-12-29T06:50:00.000-05:00

Now that I'm settled in my new apartment, I can explain that I am not floating around the house of Kristin & Jim. I'm actually sitting at my desk, waiting patiently for my computer chair to arrive from Ohio -- because I hate sitting in a straight-backed chair... it hurtses.

My new place is about the same that I lived in Spain, but it's definitely a lot more organized ... but with less cupboard space.

Lovely. Lovely.

2006 shall not kick my ass, but rather it shall be a year of successes and new experiences which will make me pleased to be alive, educated and loved. Or so help me g-d.........!

Finding Nurí

2005-10-03T14:55:00.000-04:00

Hey there Bloglings!

It's a hot and humid 3:15 in the morning from my new city-of-choice to live: Chicago.
As of October 3, 2005, I've officially left California and its 95%-ne'er-do-well 2004-2005 life of torment behind me to be closer to friends, family and hopefully a much more successful career. In what, is the question -- but once I'm in it, it'll be updated here for all of my fans to see and they will wave at me and I will shout at them!

Be joyous, bloglings! For a new epoch has come... hopefully a long and successful one with luck, love, money and other pleasant things.

Good thing this isn't a LiveJournal site.

2005-08-03T06:08:00.000-04:00

from LiveJournal's Terms of Service:

MEMBER CONDUCT
You agree to NOT use the Service to: Upload, post or otherwise transmit any content that is in LiveJournal.com's opinion to be unlawful, harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, tortious, defamatory, vulgar, obscene, libelous, invasive to another's privacy (up to, but not excluding any address, email, phone number, or any other contact information with out the written consent of the owner of such information), hateful, or racially, ethnically or otherwise objectionable.

and so when I got this email:

Dear LiveJournal user nurispark,
It has recently come to our attention that your entry located at http://www.livejournal.com/users/nurispark/145609.html is invasive to another's privacy, as it displays his full name without permission. This is in violation of our Terms of Service, to which you agreed when you created your account, and so we require that you remove the name "M**k T******n" from this entry as soon as possible, but by no later than 12:01am on Sunday, August 7th, 2005, to ensure that no further action is taken against your account.

First of all, I didn't even know this was a concern ... like that anyone cared about my usage of a name, initial or whatever until I got that email saying "you've been a bad bad boy, nurispark. Thou shalt be punished."
Had he told me he wanted his named removed BEFORE he went to the Abuse Team (which was SO mountain-from-molehill of him... typical, really. I'm shocked I was surprised by his hehavior...) I would have removed it, no questions asked. But I no likey threats. I guess I just bristle at the thought of someone trying to go over my head to do something so easily accomplished... although knowing him... he probably would have been all "this is urgent."
So I'm like... ok... I'll go edit it out, LiveJournal... no blood shed. And I marched right up to Semagic and edited that file so fast I made the entry wince.

Who am I to violate terms of service?

I also enjoy the aforementioned party's continued "I'm not playing mind games" saga, whereas in this new episode: he never had a problem with me using his name or full name before in my journal... and decided to exact vengance all willy-nilly, and only his precious dogma and his search for *scoffs* enlightment will know.

But then...

I realized how convenient it was that Blogger and LiveJournal are totally seperate entities.
Lovely how that works out, really.
Especially since Blogger's Terms of Service apparently don't touch upon this particular issue (if it does, my quick review of it didn't uncover anything of consequence.) I'm smugly going to let this blog sit for a ripe and bitter old age until I decide to just get over it and possibly delete it because I realize how petty I myself am acting and want to just get over it.

I keep telling myself that this is just a confused person who's just getting my dander up and people love to throw words around to make themselves feel better and superior... I think I'm doing that myself, really... but zippity do-da-day... it's time I let my blogs chew on something bloody all over again... remember that nice little fiasco with the Tarzan project and the fun that ensued?

Chew on this one, bloglings.
I may even entertain the idea of getting movable type on the server. I shall answer to no one.

Auld Lang something

2005-07-26T17:32:00.000-04:00

One year and 24 days ago, the country celebrated its day of independence; and I celebrated my move to California amongst good friends. I had a boyfriend named Mark, but he was... shall we say, mostly crazy (or more aptly, he is most likely bipolar) for many many things. A 1.5 month relationship not-withstanding, it was short but mostly pleasurable.

A year later, I'm a bit more in touch with my thoughts and feelings, finding out who my really good friends are and of course drawing for money and for fun.

My birthday is coming up in late-August, so please remember... I have a paypal account: NURISPARK is my username! The gift of cash is very welcome

The times they are a movin'

2004-12-01T22:13:00.000-04:00

I don't know if you knew this, but I moved from my swanky little apartment into a house with my friends Mikel and Ashley. Now I'm in a house with 2 cats, a dog and many many fish

You are my satellite

2004-08-13T00:50:00.000-04:00

Let's hear it for a month, 1 week, and 1 day in CA! The new apartment is shaping up nicely and I'm starting to REALLY like it here. Only have made a few new friends, but (sigh) like all good things, they take time.

I've started going to a once-a-month Queer Professionals cocktails/dinner in downtown Modesto, called The Birdcage ... it's not extremely original, or make much sense... but y'know... a bunch of queers en mass, intelligent or not, aren't terribly articulate... dunno why.

I'll end this blog with a simple question:

? Who wants to find me a boyfriend ?

about damned time!

2004-06-29T23:30:00.000-04:00

So I finally got a big push to update the site, since I'm waiting to move to California -- and updated the site... there's lots more changes, but I got the main architecture done!

get along, lil doggies

2003-09-29T23:45:00.000-04:00

Nur�Spark has moved to Pazol.com! Yee-friggin, haw!

Installed the new Google Toolbar v.2.0Beta. It's ...

2003-07-28T00:40:00.000-04:00

Installed the new Google Toolbar v.2.0Beta.
It's got a blogger feature. Woo hoo.

Verena is in Chicago/MN.

Perhaps I'll catch a glimpse of her -- if I can afford it. (note to self: Must make more money.)

Welcome back blogs! Now to get the accents workin...

2003-06-06T18:29:00.000-04:00

Welcome back blogs! Now to get the accents working again... hmmm. I did re-arrange the comm bar and I think I like it there. ... but now EVERYTHING in the site is dead! what happened?! oh no!

Anyone wanna hire me? I'm really good at what I d...

2003-06-06T18:07:00.000-04:00

Anyone wanna hire me? I'm really good at what I do!

It's been a while since I've blogged anything spec...

2003-05-25T15:36:00.000-04:00

It's been a while since I've blogged anything spectacular ... but this is about 22 days late:

I've graduated from Miami University of Ohio!

I'm unemployed. I'm bored. I'm living in my parents' basement. I know the proper use of an apostrophe with a plural possessive noun. Yeah, baby!

I've been spending this month enjoying the company of my friends, looking for work, and sleeping like it's going out of style (and annoying my mother in the process.

I also have a new car. I must find a job if I'm to continue to make payments on it so I don't get bad credit. So anyone who wants to donate money ... I have a paypal account.
Make a donation with PayPal - it's fast, free and secure! And even better! I get $!

Nur�Spark will soon be getting a new home. As soon as I find a new server and domain name -- any suggestions for a domain name? Email me!

Finals week is here! After the first day, one pap...

2003-04-28T21:31:00.000-04:00

Finals week is here!
After the first day, one paper turned in! One more exam on Friday, and FREEDOM (for a bit!)
8 days, 6 hours, 44 minutes, and 47 seconds left until I graduate from Western & Miami University!

It's official! My senior thesis has been approved...

2003-04-13T16:42:00.000-04:00

It's official! My senior thesis has been approved!
It took a long time, but it was turned in (almost) on time. I handed it to Bill and Gail at the Senior Appreciation Dinner.
The next day, I was informed I was approved. This means I can graduate!

Yay!

Spring break is over. I broke things at Jen's h...

2003-03-16T21:39:00.000-05:00

Spring break is over.

I broke things at Jen's house... I was sad that my butt had caused them. Roopa said they all laughed and didn't care. I love my friends. -- I must add them to my friends' page --- because no one cares but me.

I also need to finish my senior project. It's due April 7th. EEEEEEP!

65 days, 14 hours, 18 minutes, and 12 seconds left...

2003-03-02T12:57:00.000-05:00

65 days, 14 hours, 18 minutes, and 12 seconds left until I graduate from Western & Miami University.

NEWS! I've turned in my first chapter (1 of 2)'s ...

2003-01-03T15:12:00.000-05:00

NEWS! I've turned in my first chapter (1 of 2)'s rough draft of my Senior Thesis Cultural Aspects of Color & Design.

I stopped by Mike Barolsky and Brad Nudell's respective houses not just to see my old kid friends but to talk to their parents... just to get some perspective. Dr. Barolsky and Mrs. Nudell really gave me a lot to think about. I wonder what I'll do with the information I've gotten from them. Was disappointed that Brad was sleeping when I came over... but I totally empathize... he'd just driven up from FL -- and I don't think he had someone in the car with him. SAD. Poor Brad. That was bad. Egad! I'm almost a college grad!

I think Jody Nudell is right -- it's better to just go to a university and get my Masters/teaching certificate and work while I'm in town... I'm just not sure I like the idea of living in Youngstown.

I've gotten a reply from Bill about my meeting with him and Nancy for my review of my rough draft. Sunday at 4pm is the proposed time! Which means Alison and I get to spend Saturday baking nummy treats and watching Chicago! the movie. Ahhh. Visual lovinz with my Karen. Is there anything sweeter? I wouldn't know... because I made cr�me br�l�e last night.... MMM mmm nummy. Mom and dad were thrilled. I love impressing my parents.

Tra la la... happy new year, bloglings! 2003 should be an... interesting year.

Seriously! I just wanna friggn graduate! Is that...

2002-11-20T03:27:00.000-05:00

Seriously! I just wanna friggn graduate! Is that so hard? No.

I've been thinking a lot about my hands lately. If I had Parkinson's disease, and that meant I couldn't draw anymore... what would I do with my life? I don't think I could speak very well either... my grampa Sam had it... and he was hard to understand sometimes. Guess that means Spanish is out. I want food. Mmmm. Pickles!

I go home in a few days and I'll be all stressified! Wee! Then again, I'll see Lucila and Tom and Yas and Elizzy. I'll have fun. Maybe just a bit. But I'll have lots of work to do and Thanksgiving and Hanukkah too! Oh my!

3 day weekends are fun. So was Austin Powers 3....

2002-10-21T05:19:00.000-04:00

3 day weekends are fun.

So was Austin Powers 3... but it wasn't so good that I felt that I needed to see it in a theater... thanks WinMX! You're great!

my blogs aren't erased. they're just hiding... I'...

2002-10-05T03:28:00.000-04:00

my blogs aren't erased. they're just hiding... I'm not sure why.
I've backed them up on my HD, but I don't know what I'll do with them
I am considering a 'Blogs Revisited' page. Thoughts?

I think what sucks the most isn't just my classes ...

2002-10-02T05:11:00.000-04:00

I think what sucks the most isn't just my classes -- the profs, for the most part, are nice people. What annoys me is that from like, April to September, all my blogs were erased. EVIL! I want them back.

How much do I love Verena?! My CD of all my photo...

2002-09-06T02:37:00.000-04:00

How much do I love Verena?! My CD of all my photos arrived today. she sent it to me all the way from Germany. I hope she gets lots of good things! Food, sex, movies, chocolate, whatever her lil German heart yearns for! You got it, tomato!

Much love from Nur� and his blogs to Vereney.

Did I forget to mention I'm in the third week of c...

2002-09-05T18:26:00.000-04:00

Did I forget to mention I'm in the third week of classes in Oxford? Yea. Back at good ol' MU.

Working at MCIS, taking 400 level senior classes and in my lovely single.

So busy, lots of the time, but it's worth saying that I'm enjoying being busy and speaking Spanish and English fluently. It rocks.

Sorta lonely though. *sigh*