Today the stock market ended up 936 points, the biggest one day ralley ever for Wall Street. This comes after the biggest one week drop the market has ever experienced. NBC Nightly News feed for the eastern and central time zones had a big error, the markets where DOWN 936 points.

And it makes the image really bad with the CNBC.com logo on it. Ouch!

I really want to get into video editing and I’m looking for a real video editing software. I have Adobe Premiere Elements 4 and the reason I hate this version is because Adobe doesn’t support AVCHD codec. They finally support it in this version. But I’m thinking of switching to Sony Vegas Home Studio. Anyone have used either the new version of Adobe Photoshop Elements 7 or used Sony Vegas Home Studio?

Plus, I’m going to start blogging on this website instead of sticking with personal issues. I’ll still do personal issues but I’ll add in more content to the site, especially since the presidential election is coming soon.

So far it’s been an interesting weekend.  Parents are in Lafayette and I have the house to myself.

Party Time! (If only I knew people to come over)

Anyway I decided to take some time off from playing with my phone, the Nokia E71, and to do some research into my life decision.  I haven’t looked deep into the program and I may be making a couple of college trips.  Since the economy is hurting, jobs are lost and some are predicting a recession until 2011, I might as well take my time.  This is just on the degree they have, haven’t looked into the admissions process.  Here’s what I’ve found so far.

Texas Tech - Texas Tech has a degree in new media.  This was my first choice in deciding between Texas Tech and LSU.  They offer a journalism degree that specialization in old media (broadcast and print), new media (blogging) and a mix of audio and video editing.  The downside to Texas Tech - Lubbock!  It’s nothing but farmlands and deserts once you go past Fort Worth.

Georgia Tech - Georgia Tech has the same thing as Texas Tech but Georgia Tech focuses on web design with a mix of journalism and video editing.  The downside of Georgia Tech - Atlanta!  Nothing but traffic.

Vanderbilt University - Unlike Texas and Georgia Tech, Vanderbilt’s journalism degree is focused on science and technology.  The downside of Vanderbilt - can’t find any.  Would like to know where in Nashville Vanderbilt is located.

While working on a new design for my other blog, controlaltdelete.tv, I accidentally deleted the theme from this site and uploaded the new design.  Only problem is that it went on the wrong site.  I do not have a backup of the old site, which means I’ll have to do a new design.

Sorry for the confusion and we apologize for the inconvenience.

UPDATE: As you can see, the problem has been fixed.  Thanks to Dreamhost for keeping a backup of my Web site.

What was supposed to be a economic bailout for failing banks did not pass the house. The bill was 12 votes short. At the end of the year the stock market fell 777 points, the biggest drop ever.

It’s only going to get worse.

If anyone watch the networks today, the finger was to blame. Republicans blame the House Speaker Nancy Pelosi for turning away Republicans from voting because of some comments she made while on the floor.

I’m not buying it. This bill wasn’t going to pass even if Pelosi didn’t speak.

Several polls have indicated that Americans were not in favor of this bailout for banks because of some bad investments they made. Could you believe that Congress listened to the public for their input?

I believe so.

I wasn’t in favor of this bill because we should not spend tax money to bail out banks that gave huge mortages to people that wasn’t suppose to get it in the first place. Not to mention this bill screams “Socialism” because that’s pretty much what this bill does.

Since this is an election year there’s always a surprise a month before the November election, called “October surprise”.

This was it.

And it’s going to cost McCain and the Republicans.

I deserve this weekend of ‘nothing’.  After several class of mind-numbing, soul crushing of a fall semester, I did something that many people would not do if they were behind in school work.

Nothing!

I did absolutely nothing and I encourage everyone to wake some time off recharge your body to breathe a little easy.

I enjoyed watching LSU beating Mississippi State  and really enjoyed Alabama beating Georgia in the first half.  Hopefully, the Saints will continue the success of LSU when they beat San Francisco tomorrow afternoon.

As for what lies ahead, it’s a free-for-all.  It doesn’t look like LSU has what I want to do so I’ll have to go somewhere else.  So far, Texas Tech has what I want to do; Bachelor’s in Electronic Media.  A more in-depth look starts next week.

This is a continuing post from a few hours ago on where my life goes from here.  I still stand by statement that people have become real jerks after the storm.  Case in point, my biology class.  My issue with missing notes still hasn’t been resolved.  I’m pretty sure the professor is ignoring me, even though I’ve included a screen shot of my problem.  So much for professors taking it easy on students, like we caused the storm to severely affect everyone’s issues.

One more item to bring up, ITT-type of colleges are out.  I want the college experience.  I already went to a community college where all of my classes where at night and not a single person in my class was the same age as me.

You might think I’m being spoiled and that I have high standards.  Kiss my ass if you do.  I’m in control of my life and I want something I want to enjoy.  I don’t want a General business degree or something where I going to hate down the road.  I want what I want, nothing else.  I’m in control, even though it may seem like I’m not at the present moment.

I’m really pondering dropping out of college.  It’s been six years and not only do I still don’t have a degree but I still don’t know what I want to do.  I went from General Business Administration to moving out of state for Information Technology to back in state for Journalism.

It’s not about job security as the main reason why I want to quit.  It’s just really hard for someone that’s always working double-overtime on studies and I get average results.

I’ve been dealing with this issue for a long time.  Trying to find something that I’m really interested in.  And when I find something I want to do it’s either something I don’t want to do or it’s completely out of reach.

This semester has been the hardest semester I’ve ever dealt with in my life.  Gustav only made it worse.  Not only do I have classes that I don’t understand the content of the course but I have professors that either don’t speak English or won’t even try to address an issue that needs to be corrected that I’m having.  Hurricane Gustav made the situation worse by canceling classes for a week, causing everyone to speeding up the course load and causing everyone, including students, to be real jerks.

Before I go into details, I need to bring my readers up to speed about how I got into my life crisis.

After graduating from high school in 2002, I really wanted to get away from the people I was with.  My class was full of selfish, egotistical brats that I celebrated the day I left that school.  There were some people I really enjoyed being with but I loathed the majority of them.

My first college I went to was the University of New Orleans in the fall of 2002, majoring in General Business Administration.  I didn’t know what to major in and my parents suggested the major to me.

I ended up dropping the a majority of my classes on the first day.

Still no knowing what to do in life, I really started looking into other colleges and the majors that they offered.  That’s when I discovered Tarrant County College in Fort Worth, TX as a Information Technology analysis.

When basic keyboarding typing and learning how to write an antique computer language is part of the degree program, it wasn’t for me.

I found another college in Plano, TX called Collin County College that offered a much better degree program that was designed by Cisco Systems, makers of routing computers that run much, if not the majority, of the Internet.

Majority of my classes at night plus teachers that worked and cared more about their jobs than teaching a class was the main reason I left the college and came home to New Orleans.

When I came home, everything had changed.  Hurricane Katrina basically flooded New Orleans to point of extinction and all of my friends that I were with in high school had moved on.  Some graduated and got high-paying jobs.  Many were married with kids.  And I was late to get together, most either ignored me or moved out of state.

Now I’m at LSU and once again, I’m in the dark shadows of my life that I don’t know where to go.  I thought changing my major to Journalism would be up my alley since reading stories about Internet corporations and I though to myself, "I can do that!"

I still wanted to major in it, even if the job market for journalism is sinking to bottom with no end in sight, just like our economy.  I’ve always wanted a challenge.

Now I’ve been told it’s really difficult to get in.  I need a 3.0 GPA to be accepted and the school is kept very small.  The number that people that graduate is the number of new students they’ll let in.  My GPA is a 2.4.  I knew this going into LSU, thinking I can still get in.  If I kept telling myself I can get in, I can get in.  I finally found something I’m interested in and it’s out of reach with no step ladder in sight.

The sinking feeling is now setting in that I can not get in.  Now I don’t know where to go.

I want a college degree.  It’s just that colleges don’t offer what I want.  I want something with web design, maybe a minor in video and audio editing.  Heck, even after writing for The Daily Reveille and some journalism classes I took at Nicholas State, I’ll add a minor in journalism as well.  Double minor are two words that would never come in my vocabulary.

As I stated earlier, this semester has been really hard on me.  I’m sweating a lot.  I’m always tired when I wake up, even when I sleep for eight hours.  I’ve had some sleepless night.  I’m always in a panicked mode and I’m always mad at myself.  I’m breathing heavily, even though I’m in shape and not overweight.  Sometimes I’m even having panic attacks, especially in classes that I worry about the most.

Judge want you want from this post.  Is this a cry for help? Absolutely.  Should you be worried about me?  Not really!  This is not a suicide note.  I have no intentions on killing myself.  Feel like giving up is not the same as killing yourself.

Just looked at the time and notice that I’ve written for 2 hours now.  Need to get some sleep.

I’ll probably cry myself to sleep, like I’ve been doing for sometime now.

While looking at my logs on my Web site, I’ve noticed an increase in traffic to my Web site.  This is somewhat good consider when you enter my name on Google (gregschultz has the correct link, not gregory schultz), this Web site does not appear.  Good job everyone for going the extra length to find me!

Now that readers are going to my Web site, I’m going to post ideas for upcoming columns that I would like you, the readers, to contribute.  You can do this by entering comments at the bottom of this post.  I’m trying to set it up to post the comments automatically.  This should be accomplish by this weekend, but don’t hold your breath on that statement.

Also, I would like some feedback on my style of writing.  Please post constructive criticism comments and not the ‘you suck’ comments.  Those will be deleted!

Thanks for finding me!

I’m back to using Windows Vista as my main OS for my notebook.  Main reason is because I miss the right click on the mouse.  Another reason is that all of my programs run on Windows and the alternatives on OS X are not free.  So Windows, I’m sorry for cheating on you.  I gave into peer pressure and I should have stayed with you instead.

There is another issue that really bothering me and I don’t know what to do about it.  This issue is very troubling to me and I don’t want to get into details about the situation as of now.

But anyway, I’m back to Windows.  Yea!