Hmm. . .I wanted to write about something

But I can't remember what now. I was thinking about it while playing Tiger Woods 2k5 earlier this afternoon. Oh well, I guess I'll just write something else.

Our friend Mike came over yesterday morning to spend the day with Diana and I. While Diana was working in the morning, Mike and I managed to watch a few movies, return a few movies, and get lunch. When Diana came back, we went to Indian Valley and played 9 holes of golf. While I have been hitting the ball decently at the range as of late (for some reason), I haven't practiced my short game at all since the last time I was out on the course, which was well over a year ago. All things considered (and people talking in my backswing a few times) I played pretty decent. Shot mid-40's. Highlight of the day was on the 6th hole I believe. Its a dogleg right so it set up really well for my drive. I was a bit angry after losing a ball on the last hole, so I really ripped into it and hit it exactly as planned, playing the dogleg. The hole was I think around 360 yards and I didn't have more than 75 to the middle of the green. I made par on the hole but at least the drive was about as perfect as a drive could be. Hopefully I'll get to play once or twice this coming week.
After golf, we all came back to the apartment, ordered pizza, and watched Paycheck. Except for Ben Affleck, the movie is really good. Perfect for a wannabe-engineer/computer dork like myself. Nothing much happened after the movie (came back to my room and watched some Family Guy episodes and talked about our Lost (which happens to be the greatest show on TV. . .even when there's no new episodes until this fall) theories.) Mike left Saturday, early afternoon. I was then forced to sit around and do nothing for the rest of today. How grand. Just like every other day.

I guess thats enough for this post. If I remember what I wanted to write about, I will. If not, at least you have the story of the life of Joe Magyar, Friday July 1st 2005 to keep you entertained.

A quickie before bed

Heh, I know the title sounds. . .um. . .heck, its 1:30 in the morning, you can't seriously expect me to come up with non-subliminal context in a blog posting! That just would take all the fun out of writing in a blog this late/early (depending on if you're a night person or not).

As I said in my previous post, I would be reviewing things as I saw fit. Well, I see fit.

War of the Worlds
movie
Didn't know much about the original story/broadcast so this is my first real experience with the story. I generally liked it, but damn! The ending was terrible! As I said on the way back home from the theatre, I really do believe that they could have done ANYTHING else and the ending would have been better. I really wish the movie would have just ended with Tom Cruise bringing his "daughter" back to her mother and then walking away. As it stands, the ending not only brought up unanswered questions, but also tried to explain *highlight for spoiler* why/how the aliens were defeated/killed. ARG!
Other than that, the acting was overall decent (its Tom Cruise. . .don't be expecting an award-worthy, except MTV award, performance) and the special effects were worth the price of admission. Definately won't be seeing it in theatres again though.

Graduation and such

Haven't written a blog posting in a while so I figured I'd do a quick catch-up of whats been happening.

1. Made deans list again and graduated from Elon, 3.337 gpa


2. Went to Disney world for a week and set up two interviews for jobs at Elon


3. Interviewed for Web Application Developer and Web Designer jobs at Elon, not enough experience for either


4. Have been looking and applying for jobs practically every day, have yet to get any call backs, even from Best Buy (makes me seriously wonder if I'll get a job in computers. . .I mean, if Best Buy won't even call back a college graduate, what chance do I have working somewhere "real")


5. Went to the final round of the US Open at Pinehurst No. 2, spent way too much money


6. Started playing golf again, thanks to graduation money

My 22nd birthday also came and went in that list of events. I didn't get a job on my birthday so it was just another boring day, except for dinner at Olive Garden.

I'm really getting a little crazy at this point. Sure, having a week off at Disney and then a few more days of sleeping in was great, but I didn't finish college to sit around all day. I want to get a job, any kind of job, that will let me use my knowledge and keep on learning what can't be taught in a classroom. I guess until that happens, I'll keep sitting in front of my computer, checking for new jobs pretty much every hour.

On the bright side of not having a job, I have been able to start golfing again, which is great. I never wanted to stop golfing, but when you have class all day/afternoon, and no real source of income (at least to sustain a nasty golf habit), it becomes very tough. Diana and I have gone to the range a few times in the past week. On Monday, we went to a free clinic that some pro from Raleigh was giving. Because of the looming bad weather, we were the only two there so we got a free 1 hour lesson. It was great for both of us. Diana got some pointers that seemed to really help her. And I was able to use the pointers to and almost get my swing back into shape. The pro also seemed to really like my swing and I think found it hard to believe that I haven't seriously been golfing in the past 4 years. We'll see how I do when I get back out on the course at the end of this week.

Thats about all the news I have. Since I have no job and spend a lot of time in front of the computer, I think I may start blogging a little more. Rather than having these huge long posts as I normally tend to do, I'll try to make shorter posts, as ideas and thoughts come to mind throughout the day. Also, I'll be starting to write about the various worlds of entertainment I enjoy. By that, I mean amateur movie, music, video game, etc. . . reviews. So, for the first installment of my reviews.

Batman Begins
movie
I saw this on my birthday and holy hell was I impressed with it! All of my friends that had seen it before felt the same way. While I wasn't fond of the beginning (ok, so you're in jail and beat up the other people there because they're bad and then you get out and climb a mountain and learn to fight from these guys. . .wait, why the hell are you not in Gotham?), I liked the movie overall. Great action sequences and a good amount of storytelling. This is what Batman movies (and comic book movies in general) should be like. Definately the best movie I've seen this year.