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October 21st, 2007 ~ Sunday

1:32 p.m.

Can you hear me now?

Last night, around 10:30 at night, I got a phone call.  When I answered it, there was a pause, and a woman came on saying I had a phone call from a deaf person.  She explained that it was a phone call through the internet, where the person would type and then she’d say what they were typing.  I had no idea such a service existed!  And…I don’t know anybody who is deaf, so I was confused as to who would be calling me.  Indeed, it turned out to be a wrong phone number.  And he kept calling me over and over (about 4 more times)….

I’m trying to decide whether or not I want to walk to Vons today.  It’s about 1.6 miles away from my house…which means I’ll have to walk over 3 miles total.  But it’s a nice day, and I don’t need to buy anything that will melt or go bad…and it’s a nice day.  It’s not 102 degrees or anything. 

Has anybody else been absolutely exhausted this week back?  I have.  Both yesterday and today, I woke up after noon because I was so exhausted.  And both times I woke up, it wasn’t because I was done sleeping.  I woke up, looked at the clock and thought…man, it’s late.  I should wake up.  Hmm.  Maybe a good long walk would do me good =)

Okay, I’m going to go practice.

Maybe you should, too… ;)

 

 

October 9th, 2007 ~ Tuesday

1:$1 p.m.

NO.

Today, I am in Fresno.  fresNO.  Get it?  Eh?  Eh?

It is warm in Fresno (84 degrees right now and climbing), but I am inside.  There is nothing to do.  My parents have no cable television.  No video games.  At least they have wireless internet so I can sit at the dining table and play on my computer.  I brought George with me, and so I will be doing a lot of practicing, I think.

I also have no car right now, because it is at Toyota.  Their job today is to try and find out why my car randomly does not start.  That’s always a nice little surprise.  There’s nothing like being somewhere and not being able to leave.  If you’ve ever seen me in the parking lot revving my engine…that’s why.  That’s the only way to force my car to start when it dies.  How very sad.

Otherwise, nothing going on.  Yesterday was a lovely 4 hour and 15 minute drive to Fresno.  I always feel a certain kinship on the road with people who drive the same speed as I.  We go around the same people.  We never pass each other.  It’s nice.  And I listened to Demetri Martin’s album (he’s a comic), and sat in my car laughing to myself.

Okay, well…I guess I’ll go practice.  There’s really nothing else to do….

 

 

October 5th, 2007 ~ Friday

11:29 p.m.

A Slave To Technology

So there’s a downside to being in a technological society.  And I’m really a part of the technological society.  When I was 7, I was sent to a science and technology magnet school for the gifted, so I started at a pretty young age.

I bought another iPod.  I am both really excited and horribly depressed about this.  It’s accepting the fact that I’m probably not going to see my old iPod again.  Though I’m not sure if I’d feel better or worse if it showed up.  And the new one isn’t white :(  It’s silver.  Psh.  Silver.  Whatever.  (As you can see, I’m still pouting over having to buy a new one)  The format is cool and all but…it’s not the same.  I said the same thing when my old computer died a quick and sad death. 

And no, I didn’t put a mean and menacing message engraved in the back.  In the end, I decided that, at the small chance that a 4th grader would find my iPod and filp it around….I don’t want to frighten them with my bitterness.  I’ll just keep that to myself.

Also, I rented MySims for Wii.

Oh my gosh.  This is THE video game for control freaks.  I can feel my inner control freak thriving and getting happy and excited every time I play this game.  I rented it yesterday afternoon, and…it’s basically all I’ve done since I got home.  Well I practiced, too, but only for an hour and a half because I played too long on the Wii.  For some reason, I thought Sims was some sort of virtual dating kind of game, and I thought that was a really sad concept.  Think about it: people at home, pretending to date on a video game?  But then I saw the cute commercials of the short stubby characters, and thought I’d give it a try.  And now I can’t stop.  I also really have no reason to stop, since I’m on vacation, but still.  There has to be a point where it becomes unhealthy.  It’s when you become all pale and antisocial and withdrawn, and the only light you see is the flicker from your tv.  Hehe.  That’d be really sad.

Tomorrow I go out into the world!!  I need to get an iPod case =)  Man, that fries my cheese.  Not only did my iPod disappear, but my really cool case disappeared, too.  Boo.

 

 

 

October 2nd, 2007 ~ Tuesday

7:38 p.m.

Oh The Humanity!!

I really miss my iPod.  For those of you who don’t know, my iPod disappeared awhile ago.  I really want to believe that it just fell out of my backpack…but that means it would’ve had to jump over my big fat wallet, I would’ve had to leave part of my back pocket open, and my iPod would’ve had to go around my wallet to jump out of the hole.  Still, it beats the alternative: theft.  Considering that I only have my iPod in my backpack, and that my backpack only goes to school and back to my house, and considering I don’t have thieves at my house…well, that leaves one very bleak possibility.  I’d rather believe in my own incompetence than something bleaker. 

But I miss my iPod.  :(  And I didn’t realize that Apple Stores don’t do engraving.  If you want your iPod engraved, you have to buy it online.  And I’d really like mine engraved.  This time, instead of putting something nice like “Music is Life” I may put something more menacing.  Like….”if you steal this I’ll kick you”.  I haven’t hammered out the details yet, but something along those lines.  Or I could just make a list of things I like.  George.  Moose.  Pie.  Sleep. 

I have nothing to do.  It’s weird.  I don’t think I’ve ever had nothing to do in the last….5 years for sure.  That’s when I switched to the year round schedule.  Well that was 4 years ago, but that last year before I came to year round….that was a busy year, too. 

Sigh.  My iPod. 

Oh, and I sent my dad a birthday card at the beginning of August, and it JUST TODAY got sent back to me, saying I didn’t have enough postage.  What’s that about?  Stupid post office.  Also today, I discovered, on digital radio on my television….the 90’s channel.  Yes, it’s music all from the 90s!  I’m very excited.  This was really the decade for me.  For some reason, I don’t have any memories of listening to music (with the exception of classical music and talk radio…because that’s what my dad listened to) until the 90’s.  Thus far I have heard TLC, Mariah Carey, and New Kids On The Block!  You know what’s scary?  I remember the words from the New Kids On The Block song.  Yes, that’s what’s in my head. 

Lovely.

Well, I guess that’s all for now.  I’m hoping if I wish hard enough, my iPod will magically appear.    >_<

 

 

October 1st, 2007 ~ Monday

9:01 p.m.

Happy October!!

I can’t believe it’s October already!  With October comes Fall.  Fall is my favorite season.  It’s starting to get nice and cool (I used to call it “flannel weather”….when flannels were fashionable.  Which was when grunge music was really popular.  Which was….in the 90s.  I don’t care.  It’s still flannel weather!), and soon…plant life will start dying.  I know that sounds morbid, but when you’re allergic to everything that grows (except orange blossom and eucalyptus), it’s rather nice when thing are not blossoming.  Even though it was rather warm today, I remain optimistic that Flannel Weather will begin shortly.  I think I still have a flannel stashed somewhere….

Right now I’m watching Heroes.  I love this show.  I love Hiro.

The first week of vacation has been surprisingly busy for vacation.  I’ve still had meetings and have had lessons and what not.  Still, I have been sleeping in abundance, which is always appreciated.  And I’ve been practicing J  George is getting quite a lot of attention these days, and I think he’s happy about it.

Oh!  My sister has a Wii (her husband bought it on a whim…just happened to find it at Best Buy…grrr).  So we spent some time over the phone and managed to connect to each other.  I was SOOO excited about having a Mii Parade…except there’s only one person in the parade.  I don’t know what’s going on.  And it’s my brother-in-law’s mother.  That is not exciting at all, with all due respect to his mother.  My sister is getting a much better deal.  I have made Miis of…well….Hiro, Yo-Yo Ma, Conan O’Brien, Edna Mode….I tried to make a Harry Potter but it didn’t work.  I couldn’t figure out how to do the scar on his forehead.

Anyways, happy October. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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