Plugged In?

I'm so tired of shoddy internet connections! Mine on campus has been glitching out through the last few days, it's incredibly, incredibly frustrating. I'm hoping that today's ease-of-use continues again, though. It's been nice to not have to restart my dear Daniel anymore—I had to do it twice last night!

Instant Connection

I saw an interesting post today—something to the effect that, while we are all random people in random places talking about random things…these are still the strongest relationships in our lives. For me, at least, this is true—my best friend and I haven't seen each other in two years, yet we're closer now than we were when we met, two years ago.

I'm curious about what it says about me, society, everything, that this can be so true, and for so many people.

Okay, Omegle

I've recently re-discovered the joy that can be Omegle. Granted, it can be icky and creepy and 'eww-go-away,' but the od time I've met interesting people through there, and had interesting conversations. Because I admit to falling farther and farther down the Sherlock rabbit hole (bad analogy, I'm sorry!) I've recently used Omegle for finding new blogs to follow…and you know, it's not all that bad.

Google Thyself

So because I'm a paranoid job-hunter, I searched my name on Google today, to see what was brought up. Nothing particularly horrid or wonderful, but there were a few things that I'd forgotten that i had memberships at, ant they showed up. Hmm. Too late to do anything about that, now—nothing incriminating, though, I think.  An old website from where I had worked for years showed p, and a few things affiliated with that….

Happy to not that less than two pages in, there was no longer anything related to me showing up. FOr me, that's a plus, because it's minimal exposure.

How often do you Google yourself, for a quick check? What's a satisfactory amount of hits?

Crawling Connection

My internet connection has been, sadly, steadily slowing down over the last twenty-four hours. I'm really hoping that the University's update tomorrow morning will help that—otherwise, I don't know what do to, because I'm really not tech savvy enough to distinguish between the computer itself having issues, or the connection.

Does anyone have any hot tips for this? I'm quite frustrated, as this is a new computer as of November, and this shouldn't be happening!

Internet Interrogation

So I've switched to Google Chrome, and I have to say, I'm not sure I'm in love with it. I'm hardly high-tech enough to know much about browsers and whatnot, but Firefox isn't updated for retina display (therefor out of the running) and I've been having some issues lately with Safari, so I decided to try Chrome, as every one seems to rave about it.

Now, I don't know if my issues are Daniel (the new computer, remember…?) related or browser related, but either way, I'm getting ab it frustrated. Chrome isn't much better than Safari most of the time, and sometimes I swear it'd be faster on bloody Safari! For all that Chrome boasts about its speed, either my internet sucks on campus, or these browsers do.

As none of my friends have this issue, yet most of them seem to use Chrome, I'm going to hazard a guess that it's Daniel. Hmm. This could get expensive….

Tumblr Troubles

I've become a rather hooked Tumblr'er (does anyone know the 'correct' term for that…?) since the new computer (Daniel) works so much better with it than Alex ever did. The downside to being drowsy all day and sleeping in every morning, though, is the staying up late…with nothing to read.

Wow, can anyone say first world problems here…?!

That's embarrassing.

Pontificate

It's been a long time—too long, in fact.

I moved into my residence room today (scary!) and met my roommate, who seems pretty well matched. After the fiasco that was my OSEF matching, I was definitely needing a good pairing. We both like tea, don't drink, and have difficult-to-pronounce names. Sounds superficial, but it'll work. Our room is small, and we're both slightly on the messy side, so we've designated a room-tidy day and laid out some ground rules for us both. I haven't yet told her about my orientation, but I think it'll be okay. I'm really hoping so!

What else has gone on this month? I went back to work (I don't remember if I've already said that or not…) for three weeks, made a decent amount of cash, and have got lots of financial stuff sorted out. Hmm….

Oh! Friday night—I was loading stuff into the van, because it's a full day's drive here, and felt something on the bottom of my foot .I went to scrape it off, and misjudged it, instead lifting off the callous on the pad before my pinkie toe. I suppose, in my favour, it was my right foot. Usually this happens to my left….

Anyway, night before I leave, I busted my foot. Hurts to walk and all that—it's really a pain in the ass all around.

I feel like this blog has gone from being somewhat substantial, maybe-even-meaningful to a simple rundown of my day-to-day (or week-to-week, case in point) doings. I want to get back into some actually thought-provoking things…. Is it against internet etiquette to actually say that, though…?

My question for the day, becase I haven't done one in so long, is: how do you live with internet caps? I only get 75GB a month now, and that's costing me nearly $40 a month!! That's…almost 53¢ a gigabyte! Eep. YouTube restrictions, starting now!

Sh-Sh-Shopping!!

I had such a very productive evening today…I've spent it eating yesterday's leftovers (I've always wanted to eat out of one of those funky little take-out boxes, and Wok Box has them. Score!), avoiding the scholarship essay I need to work through (read: write!)…and looking at planners for next year. 

I've been through the At-A-Glance site, which is the company that out out my beloved 'little black book.' They call it a collegiate planner…that's really not nearly as much fun. 

Anyway, I think I've found the one! It's a lot bigger than this year's (8" x 9 7/8" versus 3" x4 1/2"), but I think with all that I'll be doing, extra, it'll work. I might need to either a) clear out a permanent home for it in my purse, which it might not fit…at all, or b) get a new purse for it. I need to get a new purse anyway, mine's starting to fall apart, and I would really like something more modern. The one I have is practically my mother's, it's not me at all. It's sort of become me, but still….

I want function, always, but a little more style with it…. I've looked into the Miche bag system—look them up, it's really quite interesting—and I've decided I want their 'Prima' bag with the 'Katheryn' shell. It's still brown, like mine, still has pockets and compartments, but it's a bit larger, it's more modern, and, frankly, I'm tired of this utilitarian look. I want a little more poshness.

I was told not to do it, as it's not leather, but honestly, it's not like I'll use this for forever, and I'm really not nearly as into leather as some people I know. Sure, it's nice for shoes and everything, but it can be such a pain in the ass sometimes…and there's the whole 'dead animal' thing. Not really my cup of tea!

So I guess I have a few things to purchase in the next little while…. I've come into a bit of money, what with grad, so maybe I should treat myself? What do you think?

Fritters and France and Friends(?!), Oh My!

I'm in the middle of cooking this recipe (oddly enough, I'm doing it almost word-for-word, which is really weird for me!), and thinking about my exchange. If you didn't know, I'm going to france at the end of this month (the twenty-ninth), and will have almost no chances to blog while I'm there. The company I'm going with strongly advises against brining my computer. I'll get into that another day, though.

Anyway, I bring my exchange partner back for August (we'll call her JR for the sake of argument), and I'm sort of worried about what she'll think of us here. From all accounts, French mothers are the cooks, laundresses, housekeepers. (I was told not to panic if my clothes disappeared, it probably means that Mom JR has taken them to clean…!)

Here, though, I cook, if anyone does. I do most of my own laundry (when it's not sitting in a heap, waiting to be folded). I don't rely on my mother for everything….

What spurred this on, though, was the thought of my 'cooking clothes.' Anyone would say they strongly resemble 'workout clothes'…probably because they're the same. When I'm cooking, I'm usually choreographing, too. I dance my way through chopping, mixing and baking; all with loud (generally latin and/or Zumba) music blasting. I'm sure I look a fright—chop-chop-shimmy-bounce-bounce-slice-pour-twirl!

So, if you walked in on that, what would your first response be?

Attempt

I really did work to get a post out last night, but my internet was being flunky. Jolly. I did write on the SixAwesomeCanadians blog, though, so I'll link you there and pretend I was here, too!

SixAwesomeCanadians

Money, Time, Life

So I finished White Collar Season Three over the wekend, now I'm (im)patiently awaiting the fourth season, this summer. In the meantime, I've been watching Smash, and I'll watch Bones as soon as it's up on their site. (That's one I'm excited about—that baby will be born!!)

It's a lot of TV these days…hmm. I should change that…with more exercise!! I trained for and received my Zumba®B1 last Sunday, so I'm now licensed member of ZIN!

Money-making schemes and time-wasting-schemes. Life is good.

Criminally Good

So I've started watching White Collar again…I have to say, I like it more than…waitforit…The Big Bang Theory. I've been slowly chewing my way through that, but White Collar is so much more…. I guess I have a thing for crime shows. (CSI, CSI NY, Bones, Crossing Jordan, et cetera….) Speaking of Crossing Jordan, there's a show I should re-watch! I used to watch it every morning before work…hmm. Maybe I'll look into that after I'm done White Collar's four seasons.

Cool!

What's your favourite type of TV show to watch…?

Sun-shiney-day

What a day!
I've made my anniversary gift for my SixAwesomeCanadian friends, with lots of help from a few of them. The first post went up today, and I'm so excited! As of midnight tonight, it's officially our anniversary.

To any 6AC that is reading this…I love you, and I miss you. We should talk more!

Also, my fellow 6AC member and I 'lightened' our hair today with honey and conditioner. So far no drastic results, but we'll see. My hair still has to dry completely. I'm really looking forward to this!

Anything else…? Oh yeah, I did some English homework today. I have math, too, but I'll do that in my spare block tomorrow, before class.

What do you do when you have stuff to do, but have prioritized it away?

YouTube

So, I'm one of the millions of people who spend too much time on the internet, an YouTube is one of the bigest culprits, increasingly so. While I'm there, I have a few people who I'm interested in, and watch regularly.

Then, there's a few of my subscriptions that upload irregularly, but have some amazing stuff—I'd really like to see it taken further. One of these videos is Watercolour, which I watched today. The channel it's from, Director343, has some very promising work.

I find a lot of his stuff really quite funny, and enjoy them a a great pick-me-up. Then, there's the deep ones that make me really think…such as Watercolour.  Watch it, it has so many applications to so many different facets of life.

I really admire Director343 for making this—really, every—video. I rarely, if ever, have the courage to shoot a vlog that isn't part of my 6AC group. Never mind a plotted, time-taking video that tells a story!

So, my question to you today is, what do you think of Watercolour? Or some of his other videos, like The Ginger, or Futuristic Lullabye?