Whats the deal?

First post!
Heh, if this were slashdot, I guess first post would mean something. So, since this is a public journal, I'll start by introducing myself. And hopefully no one I know will read this.

So, who am I?
My name is Andrew Cristina, and I live in New Orleans, LA. I'm 21, and I still have at least a year left until I get my B.S. in computer science at the University of New Orleans. I'm about 5'5 or 5'6; I never cared much about keeping track of that. I weigh about 140 to 160 pounds, depending on what time of the year I weigh myself. Right now I'm probably 155. I have brown hair, brown eyes. Sometimes I get lucky and my hair appears coppery red if the sun is bright enough, usually it just looks blond if the sun's out. I usually have something like a beard, and its sometimes red too. Thats the only reason I keep it around; I like red hair. Well, I'm also lazy, and usually too busy in the mornings to shave. So, enough about how I look... most of you (if anyone reads this at all) will never meet me, so you probably don't care one bit what I look like.

So what do I do?
I work for Dr. Sheila Tejada as a research and lab assistant in the computer science department. I work with Sony's robotic dog, the Aibo. Currently, I'm writing software to allow the dog to interface to this thing called Virtual Synergy. V.S. is a modification to Unreal Tournament that allows humans, software agents, and robots to collaborate in a 3d virtual enviornment. The application domain for V.S. has so far been Urban Search and Rescue, but we will be applying the system to other things soon. That should be enough about my work, because I'd like to avoid this journal being a techie journal. If you want tech, go to my web site or email me. I'd be more than happy to talk at length about the work I do.

So, why did I decide to keep a journal?
Mostly because I wanted to avoid working on my Bioinformatics homework. And I saw my friend Emily's journal. And it would be really nice to keep a journal. I downloaded a client to write my journal entries; it looks easy enough. It also looks like I can have private entries, so I can write about my depression in private, without the fear that I'll say something about someone they don't want said. That makes things easy on me.

So, what can you expect from this?
Well, if your reading my journal all the time... you can probably expect a lot of complaining about school, my mood, and life in general. You can also expect to have a decent idea about whats going in on my life; you'll know when I finally get a(nother) date, when I'm sick, when I've got something working with that stupid robot dog.
Also.. if your reading this often, and you like reading this... you should email me, or post a comment or something. I'd be kinda neat to know someone was interested in my life. And if your a cute girl who lives near New Orleans, thats a big plus ;-)

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