16 posts tagged “random”
My next computer will have no less than 4GB of memory. Unfortunately that won't help the situation at work.
*does nothing for 5 minutes while waiting for Visual Studio to load*
Very productive.
I will start posting regularly again.. promise :-P
As of 10:30am Friday morning, I am completely done with my undergraduate degree! It hasn't fully set in yet, but I'm still excited! I can spend the entire weekend doing whatever I want... without having to worry about any school work :D. So... what have I done with my first complete day of freedom? I cleaned and did laundry, lol. I cleaned out my car, washed the kitchen, bathroom, cleaned and dusted my bed room... Strange as it sounds, I've actually been looking forward to cleaning this weekend. I haven't had time to thoroughly clean anything in weeks. Less than an hour after cleaning my bedroom, I accidentally flung BBQ sauce all over my desk and bedroom carpet :(. For a minute there I felt like my ex-roommate who lost most of our deposit by destroying her bedroom carpet with beer, pop, juice, gum, and dirty shoes. She's also tried to decorate the entire main floor of the apartment with ground beef. Erm, gross. Anyway... Matt and I are going to Tiara's for a hot tub party later tonight to celebrate finishing classes :)
In other news... I ended up spending a few hours in the emergency room on Wednesday because of severe lower abdominal pain. It pretty much came out of nowhere. I couldn't stand up straight, I threw up, and had stabbing pains in other areas as well. The nurses thought it was either my appendix, an ovarian cyst, or a kidney stone. I had a CAT scan after a nurse killed my vein with an IV. I wouldn't look while she was putting the IV, but apparently I was bleeding all over and I ended up turning green :-P. The abdominal pain stopped as suddenly as it started. The CAT scan came back normal, so the appendix was ruled out... they're thinking it might've been a cyst, but there wasn't any fluid. I'm pretty sure they ended up thinking it was most likely a kidney stone that I passed before the CAT scan. Either way, it was very unpleasant. I have a massive, multicolored bruise on my arm from the IV, and the right side of my abs seems a bit sore every once in awhile, but things have pretty much calmed down. I scheduled a follow up doctor appointment for Monday. Hopefully they'll be able to tell me that everything is normal. Thanks to Noelle for taking care of me :)
The past few weeks have been quite eventful. I have more to write regarding my job search, but this post is getting long so I'll wait.
Pictures of Red Bull's office: http://www.designverb.com/2006/08/22/red-bull-hq-london-whoohoooo/. *wants to work there*
I feel like dancing :) Contributing factors include: caffeine, gorgeous weather, and the fact that I'm almost finished with college!!!!
That was ten minutes ago... when I was outside. Now I'm sitting in the library searching for motivation to write my second to last paper of my undergraduate career. And I'm boredboredboredbored. Who cares about the Industrial Revolution anyway? :-\. Maybe I'd have more luck working on this outside :-P.
Only four more days of class and sixteen days until official graduation!!
I'm thinking of taking a picture of myself every day for a year to see if/how I change throughout the year. I can't decide if I want to do all head shots, or full body, or a combination. If I did the same pose in all of them, I could set up some kind of animated image to string them together and see my self morph from April 27th 2008 me to April 27, 2009 me. Sounds like a fun project. I also think it's a great time to start since it's my birthday. Inspired by this (and no, I don't expect my head to become square :-p...). Yeah... I get bored a lot.
It's almost 9pm and I have a paper several papers to be writing. I'm sitting here playing with my camera and thinking about how I should start making ice cubes instead, lol.
And playing with maps.live.com. <3 the house I grew up in :)
I keep coming upon addicting things that are distracting me from paper writing. The latest is the multi-player speed typing game, Type Racer. Each player has a little car that advances along a dotted line. The faster the player types, the faster the car goes. Players compete to see who can type a random movie quote the fastest.
Matt: i'm engulfed in the typing
Me: I know! I wanna be speed typing, not paper writing :(
Matt: Saturday!
Matt: maybe we'll skip dinner and just do speed typing :p
Such dorks, hehe :-D
Vox is also distracting. Back to the paper!
Go to: http://maps.live.com
Type in an address and hit "Search Maps"
Select "Bird's eye" from the menu on the map
Zoom in all the way.
I have to admit that this is pretty intriguing, but does anyone else find it slightly creepy and a bit of an invasion of privacy?
I've briefly mentioned this before, but Blueberry (my cat) constantly acts like she's starving to death and hasn't eaten in a week. It gets extremely annoying when she sits by her food bowl and meows incessantly, and gets under my feet / trips me whenever I come home or go into the living room / kitchen area. She gets fed 1/4 cup of food twice a day, which is the vet recommended for my cats growing up, and which is the amount of food she's been given her whole life.
I used to always give in a lot, partially out of annoyance, and really because I feel bad that she might truly be hungry. Seeing as she's gained a good deal of weight since I brought her home (she was in good health), and that after I do give in several times in a row, she tends to throw the food up all over the apartment, I'm beginning to think that she may not really be hungry. I'm thinking that she associates food with attention, and has been conditioned that she will be fed every time someone comes into the general area in which her food bowl is located. When I have the patience to ignore her and am able to objectify the situation (e.g. it's not healthy for a cat to gain 1/4 of her body weight in three months, and she just ate an hour and a half ago), she eventually shuts up.
So... I've decided to take a new approach to the situation. Every time I come home, I will take her away from her food bowl asap and spend a few minutes paying attention to and focusing on her. I'm hoping that this will get her to realize, or at least break the association, that a person coming home isn't linked to food, and that begging for food / eating isn't a means of getting attention.
This might sound stupid, and it may take awhile to fully accomplish my goal, but I think it's at least worth a shot. I tried it today when I got home from class and had success. She started her usual meowing/getting under my feet routine. I almost immediately picked her up, took her away from the bowl, and started petting her. She started heading back over to her food bowl a couple times, at which point I got her attention and called her name her until she came back. I sat with her for a few minutes before getting up and going about my business and she hasn't begged for food at all, even though I was in the kitchen! Yay for a new project, lol.
The fact that my (new-ish) interview pants are getting uncomfortably snug is a clear sign that I need to start passing on all of the good food (i.e. chocolate, ice cream, cake, pizza, and alcoholic drinks, lol) that I've been consuming lately. I also need to rearrange my schedule to include going to the gym a few times a week. I'm getting pudgy -cries-. Must stop the flub!
It was 65 degrees when I left for work this morning. 11 hours later after, I had to brush snow off of my car. It's almost Easter and it's still snowing! I want Spring :-P
