Where do you do your online shopping?
Amazon all the way. I'm a fan of one stop shopping.
Yes, I'm even lazy on the internets.
I've been awake now exactly an hour and 15 minutes, but that's just long enough to assume that this is one of the worst days of my life.
Ok, not one of the worst days (I think that honor goes to the day my mom left my dad, and as I was bawling my eyes out that I may never see her again my dad started telling me what a whore she was...yeah, that definitely takes the cake), but it's one of those days where every little thing that could possibly go wrong has.
I was up until 3am last night working on a paper for a group project due today in my advertising class. Today is our big presentation of the semester, so I was a little stressed out. However, my subconscious has quite the sense of humor and decided I wasn't stressed out quite enough, so it gave me this delightful little dream about oversleeping and rushing to get all of my stuff together. That scare woke me up 3 minutes before my alarm went off.
Of course, after this dream I was terrified of not getting everything ready in time, so I threw some clothes on, grabbed my flash drive and ran out the door in two minutes flat, hearing my door lock behind me.
The second I heard that click, I realized that I forgot my key inside.
I stood there in shock for about 3 minutes, trying to pry open the door, to no avail. Thankfully though the college gods don't hate me enough to make my life completely miserable, and at just that moment I heard the familiar clanking of keys and rustling of garbage bags.
The cleaning people! I begged the guy who came around the corner to open my door and he did (THANK YOU Mr. Janitor Guy!). So I ran back inside my room, grabbed everything I needed and dashed out the door once again.
So I ran to the Macintosh lab, the refuge of all graphic design majors. Of course though, the Mac lab just happened to be full (who goes down there to do homework at 10 am?!). I then ran to the library, which was also full.
Panicked, I decided there was nothing I could do but try to relax a little, and I did that by going to the cafeteria for a cup of coffee and a bagel. I toasted my bagel and slathered it with cream cheese. I figured since my day sucked so much, I deserved to go cream cheese crazy.
Except what I was slathering on my bagel wasn't cream cheese.
No, one of the lights in cafeteria was out, so all of the little condiments in pots looked exactly the same. The moment I finished preparing the second bagel half I realized that it was in fact BUTTER. Any bagel connoisseur will tell you the amount of cream cheese you have to put on a bagel is FAR higher than the amount of butter you have to put on. I tried to eat it (my mama taught me to never waste food), but after one bite I was so sick to my stomach I couldn't eat anything. Instead I just chugged a cup of coffee and ran to the library, which THANKFULLY at this point had a computer open.
All of this happened in about half an hour.
I just came back to my room after a long hot shower, and I refuse to leave until my class at 12:30. With the way today has been so far I might get hit by a truck or something. THEN this might officially be the worst day of my life.
What's on your Top 5 video games list?
Submitted by mileena.
1. World of Warcraft - No explanation needed.
2. Xenogears - a highly underrated Playstation game. It's an RPG with a really intriguing and complex storyline with beautiful animations scattered throughout.
3. Final Fantasy VIII - The only Final Fantasy I've ever gotten into. Plus, Seifer is a fucking hottie.
4. ToeJam and Earl - It's fun, hilarious, and an easy to play game. They don't make games like that anymore.
5. Zombies ate my Neighbors - Once again, they don't make games like this anymore. It's funny, cheesy, and just a good timewaster.
Hello, hello!
Here is my first (public) post in Vox! My good friend Carina gave this to me a while back but I'm just now posting in it. I noticed they added some really cute new themes so now I'm interested in posting, haha.
I'm really not sure how often I'll be posting in here, but I'll probably use this mostly to post private stuff for only close friends to read, you know, so everyone and their mom won't be able to read my most personal thoughts on my domain.
Anyway! If you happen to find my Vox, you are welcome to add me. Please specify how you know me though, like if you found me from Bebedawl or something. Thanks. :)
I had the scariest dream I've had in a long time last night. One of those dreams that even as a 20 year old who knows better I had to get out of bed right after it and make sure my door and window were locked. I don't remember much about it, but I remember Patricia Arquette was her character from Medium in it and there was some sort of psycho killer on the loose.
At least as an adult I could wake up right after and say, "wow, that was pretty cool".
I forgot how much I loved Jewel until today. I really miss her circa 1996.
You know what I hate? Adult ed. students in undergraduate classes. All they seem to do is cause a distraction to everyone else.
At my college they recently started a program for adults who already have businesses to take relevant classes for a reduced fee. On the surface it sounds like a nice plan. Not so much for the younger students. Apparently these people think they've been asked to be assistant professors.
Take this one man in my entrepreneurship class. He seemed innocent enough. The first couple of weeks of class he'd volunteer anecdotes about running his own business and I thought having him in the class would be a benefit.
The past month or so he's done nothing but correct the professor and ramble incoherently about his business (I still have no clue what he even does). One girl in our class mentioned that her father works for a medical supply company and although the company gets free shipping, they still charge customers shipping. This man BLASTED this poor freshman for a good 10 minutes about how her father was an immoral bigot. It got so bad my professor had to tell him to shut up (okay, he was a little nicer about it than I would have been).
Honestly, if you're paying to take a class, try to learn from it and not try to correct the professor who has much more experience than you.
Sometimes I worry about weird things. For example, the other day I was talking to my friend on the phone and he mentioned he thought the government secretly had the cure for cancer (he went into this whole schpeal about it that I won't bore you with). That was when I asked the big question I've always wondered about but I've been too afraid to say aloud:
Do we really want to?**
It SOUNDS cold hearted, but there's science behind it (well, not so much science as a theory). We all learn in 10th grade biology that viruses change shape constantly. That's why you need to get a different flu shot every year, because every season the virus changes shape. The more a virus changes however, the more serious and immune to treatment it becomes. If this is true, imagine how deadly the common cold will be in 1000 years. The entire world population could be wiped out in a matter of months.
This isn't being helped by all of the medicating we're doing already. When I was 4 my mom sent me to play at the neighbor's house with a kid I'd never even seen before. Why? He had the chicken pox and she wanted me to catch them early. Sounds reasonable. Expose your kids (and yourself) to some harmless bacteria to build up your immune system, right? With people going crazy with Lysol, hand sanitizers, and taking antibiotics for everything under the sun (I heard about a doctor prescribing it for the FLU?! Since when is that an infection?!!) it's tough to get some "healthy" bacteria into your system. Personally, I don't mind getting a few more colds over my lifetime to build up my immune system that much more.
ALSO (wow this is getting long) I just read this article about how humans are currently living far beyond the planet's means of natural resources. The article says that if humans continue AS IS, we will need two planets worth of resources by the year 2050. Now imagine they found a cure for HIV/AIDS tomorrow. In 50 years how many MORE people will that add to that problem?
A few years ago I told my mom I wanted a tattoo. She begged me not to get it saying, "you need to think about what that'll do to you in 50 years".
Shouldn't we feel the same way about our descendants?
**Before anyone comments saying "if you knew anyone with cancer you wouldn't say that", I have an aunt who finished her second round of radiation for cervical cancer a couple of months ago and an uncle who just died in August from lung cancer. I'm not saying people should be made to suffer, I'm just wondering where medicine should stop for the sake of the future of the human race (as dramatic as that sounds).
Also, sorry for the rant that goes on forever. Didn't realize I had that much to say when I started.
Just so you can understand what I'm dealing with right now, here's a list of all the little nuissances plaguing my mind:
1. 3D animation project at the very top of the list. I'm a little less than half way done and it's due tomorrow. We've had 3 weeks to work on it. I know, I'm a procrastinator. It doesn't take long to realize when you have absolutely no interest in something, and 3D is definitely not my cup of tea.
This project's actually coming out kind of well, so maybe I'll post it when I'm done.
2. Halloween stuff. So many things to do this weekend and so little time. I've got a dance to go to, then a party at a friends house, AND I was just invited to another party. What's a girl to do? Maybe Paris Hilton DOES have skill at what she does (and I'm not talking about porn). Party hopping isn't as easy as I thought it would be.
3. Advertising group project. What do you get when you put together five people who are supposed to work on something very important and only one gives a shit about it? Pretty much every group project I've worked on in my 15 years of schooling. We have two weeks to make a survey to distribute to 100 people to find out their likes, dislikes, and interest when purchasing a car. What do we have so far?
Question 1: What kind of music do you listen to?
If this doesn't have "complete disaster" written all over it I don't know what does.
So those are all the things I'm stressed out about at this very moment. And what am I doing? Sitting here writing about being stressed out.
Smooth Shannon, smooth.
Do you listen to podcasts? Are there any you'd recommend?
Inspired by Alex.
Audiocrush baby! The updates have been kind of scarce recently, but I still love them and the wait is always worth it.
In other news, new vexel:
Yaah.
