I was working on homework for my interviewing class just a few minutes ago when I heard a voice.
"Even in the wizarding world, hearing voices isn't a good sign."
Thanks, Miss Granger. 10 points shall be awarded to Gryffindor for your wealth of knowledge.
It was a man's voice. At first I thought it was my father. A bit odd, I thought. For my dad to be awake this late and speaking so loud and clearly. Hang on, that isn't his voice at all, I rationalized. It's the weather radio!
Oh noes. We's abouts ta get ourselves a storm up in here!
Or something like that. I just saw lightning outside of my window (although I did not hear the thunder.) Old mother faithful is saying we have a tornado watch until 5 am. I wish Mother Hubbard didn't start talking as soon as I opened the page. RAGE.
On a related note, I despise my online writing class. It is labeled as a writing course. It's supposed to be "Writing for the Web" not "How to Format a Webpage 101." If I wanted that, I would take an HTML course. Or I'd just pay one of my computer friends to do everything for me. I thought it was going to be a course about adequately personifying yourself for an online audience. We regularly have to check out obscure blogs and webpages and write about our feelings toward those pages. Excuse me? Yes. "There's too much purple." "I don't like all of the white space." "When I look at this page, I want to punch babies."
MORE LIGHTNING. me gusta.
"When this page opens, it sings to me. Literally. I can't make it stop." "This link is no longer available."
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Wednesday, January 30, 2013
Monday, January 28, 2013
We Are What We Wear, We Wear What We Are
Things my friends have posted about on Facebook in the last two hours:
- Pictures of cats
- Pictures of themselves in headphones
- Pictures of themselves skiing
- Pictures of themselves with their siblings
- Youtube links without previews or descriptions
- Selling of pies
- Acceptance to vet school
- Pictures of Manhattan looking strange
- Lazy days
- Pictures of museum trips
- Pictures of friendship related to the Lion King
- Being Mitch Daniels' favorite person
- Jeff Saturday's retirement
- Work
- Weather conditions being distasteful
- Upcoming television shows
- Fog
- Asking for friends to accompany to a concert
- Tired, therefore meaning the gym is a priority
- Who they were at 18 years old
- Spam about profile views
- Some nonsense about sleeping for hours on end
- "If you're sad about being alone on Valentine's Day, just remember nobody loves you on any other day of the year either :| "
- The lack of brains by a geology professor in matters related to Physics (a neutron is composed of an electron and proton, therefore making the charge neutral)
- A joke about birds tweeting
What does this all mean? Several conclusions could be drawn:
A. I'm on facebook too much
B. People are, thankfully, not posting their minute by minute activities
C. My friends are a fair representation of who I am (minus that Jeff Saturday posting. Who cares!)
D. Being alone on Valentine's Day is no more depressing than being alone every other day.
E. We could all use a little more pie.
- Pictures of cats
- Pictures of themselves in headphones
- Pictures of themselves skiing
- Pictures of themselves with their siblings
- Youtube links without previews or descriptions
- Selling of pies
- Acceptance to vet school
- Pictures of Manhattan looking strange
- Lazy days
- Pictures of museum trips
- Pictures of friendship related to the Lion King
- Being Mitch Daniels' favorite person
- Jeff Saturday's retirement
- Work
- Weather conditions being distasteful
- Upcoming television shows
- Fog
- Asking for friends to accompany to a concert
- Tired, therefore meaning the gym is a priority
- Who they were at 18 years old
- Spam about profile views
- Some nonsense about sleeping for hours on end
- "If you're sad about being alone on Valentine's Day, just remember nobody loves you on any other day of the year either :| "
- The lack of brains by a geology professor in matters related to Physics (a neutron is composed of an electron and proton, therefore making the charge neutral)
- A joke about birds tweeting
What does this all mean? Several conclusions could be drawn:
A. I'm on facebook too much
B. People are, thankfully, not posting their minute by minute activities
C. My friends are a fair representation of who I am (minus that Jeff Saturday posting. Who cares!)
D. Being alone on Valentine's Day is no more depressing than being alone every other day.
E. We could all use a little more pie.
Sunday, January 27, 2013
Yo, thanks for coming
But really, I just wanted to use you as a human bike lock.
What is a human bike lock, you ask? Allow me to paint you a picture.
We ride bikes together. I go inside, because I didn't really want you coming with me, I just wanted you to keep an eye on my bike. But, seeing as how you also had to ride a bike to watch my own, you have to watch both bikes. Easy as pie. I'll be joining you in an hour. Maybe longer.
Hope you brought a book.
Or an iPod. At the very least, you've got your cell phone.
Or did you forget to charge it last night? Looks like you'll be writing novels in the snow.
Don't you dare step inside the lobby. You knew what you were getting into when you offered to ride with me. It's not my fault you didn't grab handwarmers and extra gloves when we left the house.
It's 60 degrees today? Splendid! You won't freeze to death!
Wait, 5 degrees on Friday? Maybe you should have grabbed the handwarmers. We live in Indiana, silly. It's not like you can actually predict the weather. They may say Friday, but really, they mean now.
NOW.
Like when I'm getting my hair cut. Right now. I want it cut right now. I'll just hack it all off. No regrets. No worries. No responsibilities. Less shampoo. Less hassle.
No ponytails or messy buns. This could be a problem. Maybe just a trim.
Is this a stream of consciousness, you ask?
Yes. Yes, it is.
I'm a dead man walking.
What is a human bike lock, you ask? Allow me to paint you a picture.
We ride bikes together. I go inside, because I didn't really want you coming with me, I just wanted you to keep an eye on my bike. But, seeing as how you also had to ride a bike to watch my own, you have to watch both bikes. Easy as pie. I'll be joining you in an hour. Maybe longer.
Hope you brought a book.
Or an iPod. At the very least, you've got your cell phone.
Or did you forget to charge it last night? Looks like you'll be writing novels in the snow.
Don't you dare step inside the lobby. You knew what you were getting into when you offered to ride with me. It's not my fault you didn't grab handwarmers and extra gloves when we left the house.
It's 60 degrees today? Splendid! You won't freeze to death!
Wait, 5 degrees on Friday? Maybe you should have grabbed the handwarmers. We live in Indiana, silly. It's not like you can actually predict the weather. They may say Friday, but really, they mean now.
NOW.
Like when I'm getting my hair cut. Right now. I want it cut right now. I'll just hack it all off. No regrets. No worries. No responsibilities. Less shampoo. Less hassle.
No ponytails or messy buns. This could be a problem. Maybe just a trim.
Is this a stream of consciousness, you ask?
Yes. Yes, it is.
I'm a dead man walking.
Tuesday, January 15, 2013
A Time to be Happy! (communications shout out!)
Cue Byrds quote NOW!
If you don't know what I'm talking about...shame on you!
But, siriusly, guys. Today is a beautiful day! Well worth all of the exclamation points I'm about to throw out there in the blogosphere!
FIRST OF ALL: 1000 people have looked at my blog! Yay! And by the time you, the loyal reader, are looking at this, the number will be far higher! Congratulations and thank you for increasing that figure!
SECOND (but not any less important/exciting!): I am alive! Yes! Not that there was any ever doubting as to my existence/general liveliness, but I am breathing! I have life in me! That alone is worth celebrating!
THIRD: THE EXCLAMATION POINT IS ALIVE AND WELL! Never ye fear, I shall resuscitate it should it happen to suffer from over-usage this evening.
FOURTH: Planning for various service projects this semester (in a very service-oriented semester) has begun! Only the second week of class AND I CAN FEEL THE BLOOD FLOWING! I can feel the involvement juices collecting, ready to burst out NOW! RIGHT NOW!
FIFTH: Caps lock will also be alive at the end of the night. I swear upon my pet frog's grave in Paxton, Massachusetts.
Okay, so I never had a pet frog. Nor did I lose any pets while living in Paxton. But it was a noble effort at promising the safety of the caps lock key. Just trying to help a brother out.
Really, guys. The idea of potentially interviewing someone at a radio station, along with starting up a straight/gay unity celebration on campus...MY BODY IS READY FOR RUNNING! YES!
Side note: heard the "I Have a Dream" speech on the drive to school today. This may have pumped me up a lot. I think it has a lot to do with my current mood, actually. Love that man. Love that speech! Love rhetoric! I LOVE COMMUNICATIONS!
If you don't know what I'm talking about...shame on you!
But, siriusly, guys. Today is a beautiful day! Well worth all of the exclamation points I'm about to throw out there in the blogosphere!
FIRST OF ALL: 1000 people have looked at my blog! Yay! And by the time you, the loyal reader, are looking at this, the number will be far higher! Congratulations and thank you for increasing that figure!
SECOND (but not any less important/exciting!): I am alive! Yes! Not that there was any ever doubting as to my existence/general liveliness, but I am breathing! I have life in me! That alone is worth celebrating!
THIRD: THE EXCLAMATION POINT IS ALIVE AND WELL! Never ye fear, I shall resuscitate it should it happen to suffer from over-usage this evening.
FOURTH: Planning for various service projects this semester (in a very service-oriented semester) has begun! Only the second week of class AND I CAN FEEL THE BLOOD FLOWING! I can feel the involvement juices collecting, ready to burst out NOW! RIGHT NOW!
FIFTH: Caps lock will also be alive at the end of the night. I swear upon my pet frog's grave in Paxton, Massachusetts.
Okay, so I never had a pet frog. Nor did I lose any pets while living in Paxton. But it was a noble effort at promising the safety of the caps lock key. Just trying to help a brother out.
Really, guys. The idea of potentially interviewing someone at a radio station, along with starting up a straight/gay unity celebration on campus...MY BODY IS READY FOR RUNNING! YES!
Side note: heard the "I Have a Dream" speech on the drive to school today. This may have pumped me up a lot. I think it has a lot to do with my current mood, actually. Love that man. Love that speech! Love rhetoric! I LOVE COMMUNICATIONS!
Sunday, January 13, 2013
Refrigerator Escapades
Last night, I was perusing through the refrigerator to find toppings for ice cream (#generalizedstatementaboutpeopleeatingicecream) and found instead FIVE JARS OF PICKLE PRODUCTS. 4 jars of pickle spears/whole pickles, and 1 jar of relish.
I hate pickles.
Thankfully, this is not *my* refrigerator, therefore the contents of said kitchen appliance do not solely exist out of my choosing (there'd be far more hummus.) But, really, five jars of pickles? Do we really need that many pickles? I understand, there's dill pickles, sweet pickles, buttered pickles, pickled vegetables that are not cucumbers, spicy pickles, dill relish, sweet relish, kosher pickles, etc etc etc. But what does this all mean?! I am not a pickle connoisseur. I would not be able to tell you whether a pickle was dill or sweet. But five jars of pickles?
I also found a chocolate frog from Honeydukes. We visited the Wizarding World of Harry Potter back in April. That's not much less than a year ago now. That poor little frog, which was not made from the best quality chocolate, is just sitting in the back of the refrigerator, waiting to be freed, if not eaten. I can hear him crying from my room "I thought I was going to escape on the Hogwarts Express! I thought you would be like Harry and be too enthralled by the card to notice me sneaking away!" Wrong. Oh how wrong you were, Mr. Frog yielding a Gryffindor card. Luckily, the Helga Hufflepuff frog was put out of his pentagonal box misery not long after purchasing.
This therefore leads me to the conclusion that perhaps, in order to be noticed more, the chocolate frog should be pickled. A little vinegar never hurt anyone! Except I'm sure that the chemical compounds existing in vinegar would most certainly break up that little frog quite soon into immersion. Or would it? Acid...base...good thing I'm not majoring in anything science related! #loveliberalarts
I hate pickles.
Thankfully, this is not *my* refrigerator, therefore the contents of said kitchen appliance do not solely exist out of my choosing (there'd be far more hummus.) But, really, five jars of pickles? Do we really need that many pickles? I understand, there's dill pickles, sweet pickles, buttered pickles, pickled vegetables that are not cucumbers, spicy pickles, dill relish, sweet relish, kosher pickles, etc etc etc. But what does this all mean?! I am not a pickle connoisseur. I would not be able to tell you whether a pickle was dill or sweet. But five jars of pickles?
I also found a chocolate frog from Honeydukes. We visited the Wizarding World of Harry Potter back in April. That's not much less than a year ago now. That poor little frog, which was not made from the best quality chocolate, is just sitting in the back of the refrigerator, waiting to be freed, if not eaten. I can hear him crying from my room "I thought I was going to escape on the Hogwarts Express! I thought you would be like Harry and be too enthralled by the card to notice me sneaking away!" Wrong. Oh how wrong you were, Mr. Frog yielding a Gryffindor card. Luckily, the Helga Hufflepuff frog was put out of his pentagonal box misery not long after purchasing.
This therefore leads me to the conclusion that perhaps, in order to be noticed more, the chocolate frog should be pickled. A little vinegar never hurt anyone! Except I'm sure that the chemical compounds existing in vinegar would most certainly break up that little frog quite soon into immersion. Or would it? Acid...base...good thing I'm not majoring in anything science related! #loveliberalarts
Wednesday, January 9, 2013
Thoughts I'm Thinking
2013.
Where did 2012 go? Looking back to 2012, I did a lot. I ended a job at CVS, I took on a new role with Disney, I moved to Florida in January and didn't move back to Indiana until August. I did poorly in school, took the summer off from classes, and had a very strong Fall semester. I officially became a Communications major, and decided that grad school is in my future. I went to a Phillies Spring Training game against the Blue Jays! I returned to Massachusetts for the first time since 2007 to see my roommates from the College Program version 2.0. I saw a lot of movies at the theater in 2012: J. Edgar, Beauty and the Beast in 3-D, The Vow, The Amazing Spider Man, Brave, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Looper, Wreck-It Ralph, Magic Mike, Silver Linings Playbook, The Hunger Games, The Dark Knight Rises, Pitch Perfect, and Mirror Mirror. There are probably more...but that's not the point I'm attempting to make (if there's really any point at all.)
2013 means new opportunities! (No it doesn't.) 2013 means changing my life overnight! (That's a far-fetched idea.) 2013 means doing things I wouldn't normally attempt! (Possibly.) While my mindset and approach to life cannot simply change overnight as a resolution would prompt, I can make a list of things I would like to accomplish in 2013. The span of an entire year (minus 9 days) is a reasonable request, I think, so should be easily accomplished. Without further adieu, I present to you all this morning, THE LIST.
1. I want to go to a baseball game (doesn't matter if it's in Indianapolis, Chicago, Cincinnati, Cleveland, etc. but it will happen.)
2. I want to go to a concert (Company of Thieves is coming to Bloomington this month. Weather permitting, I really want to attend.)
3. I want to visit my sister more (she's getting married! I need to help her plan this wedding!)
4. I want to get up earlier (sleeping in feels like you're wasting the day away.)
5. I want to pay more attention to my cat (and not by means of hacking off her fur...)
6. I want to open a savings account to start saving for moving to Florida.
7. If a movie comes to the theaters that I want to see, I will go see it! I don't need someone to go with me!
8. I want to get all A's in my classes, for the entire year. This includes spring, summer I, summer II, and fall. It can happen!
9. I want to be able to dance. Maybe that means white girl dancing, but I want to be able to dance when out with my friends and not care how I look.
10. I want to visit my friends more. You live in Michigan? Let me drive to Michigan. You live in Massachusetts? Fly to me. (haha) You live in Florida? I'll move in with you. I'm really bad at staying in touch with friends AND THIS MUST IMPROVE.
Yessir. Ten things. Easily accomplished. Make dreams happen! Make the magic happen! Pixie dust EVERYWHERE! If you can dream it, you can do it!
Where did 2012 go? Looking back to 2012, I did a lot. I ended a job at CVS, I took on a new role with Disney, I moved to Florida in January and didn't move back to Indiana until August. I did poorly in school, took the summer off from classes, and had a very strong Fall semester. I officially became a Communications major, and decided that grad school is in my future. I went to a Phillies Spring Training game against the Blue Jays! I returned to Massachusetts for the first time since 2007 to see my roommates from the College Program version 2.0. I saw a lot of movies at the theater in 2012: J. Edgar, Beauty and the Beast in 3-D, The Vow, The Amazing Spider Man, Brave, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Looper, Wreck-It Ralph, Magic Mike, Silver Linings Playbook, The Hunger Games, The Dark Knight Rises, Pitch Perfect, and Mirror Mirror. There are probably more...but that's not the point I'm attempting to make (if there's really any point at all.)
2013 means new opportunities! (No it doesn't.) 2013 means changing my life overnight! (That's a far-fetched idea.) 2013 means doing things I wouldn't normally attempt! (Possibly.) While my mindset and approach to life cannot simply change overnight as a resolution would prompt, I can make a list of things I would like to accomplish in 2013. The span of an entire year (minus 9 days) is a reasonable request, I think, so should be easily accomplished. Without further adieu, I present to you all this morning, THE LIST.
1. I want to go to a baseball game (doesn't matter if it's in Indianapolis, Chicago, Cincinnati, Cleveland, etc. but it will happen.)
2. I want to go to a concert (Company of Thieves is coming to Bloomington this month. Weather permitting, I really want to attend.)
3. I want to visit my sister more (she's getting married! I need to help her plan this wedding!)
4. I want to get up earlier (sleeping in feels like you're wasting the day away.)
5. I want to pay more attention to my cat (and not by means of hacking off her fur...)
6. I want to open a savings account to start saving for moving to Florida.
7. If a movie comes to the theaters that I want to see, I will go see it! I don't need someone to go with me!
8. I want to get all A's in my classes, for the entire year. This includes spring, summer I, summer II, and fall. It can happen!
9. I want to be able to dance. Maybe that means white girl dancing, but I want to be able to dance when out with my friends and not care how I look.
10. I want to visit my friends more. You live in Michigan? Let me drive to Michigan. You live in Massachusetts? Fly to me. (haha) You live in Florida? I'll move in with you. I'm really bad at staying in touch with friends AND THIS MUST IMPROVE.
Yessir. Ten things. Easily accomplished. Make dreams happen! Make the magic happen! Pixie dust EVERYWHERE! If you can dream it, you can do it!
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