Hi humans.
Voicemail is a pretty nice invention. It lets people deliver vocal messages to you without you having to be there.
The keyword with voicemail, however, is “message.” The point is that you leave your message so you can establish successful and as-complete-as-possible communication with the other person as soon as they listen to the voicemail.
A few days ago, someone I know (who will remain unnamed) left me a voicemail that was such a failure that I had to write about it.
The intent of this person was to remind me to do something (which I had already done). Instead of leaving a message along the lines of “don’t forget to do this,” they instead left the message, “call me back.”
Now, unfortunately for me, this person is important enough that it is in my best interest to call them back as soon as possible. The problem was that I did not have my phone with me. The only reason I was able to listen to the voicemail was because I get my voicemails sent to my email inbox, and I can listen to them anywhere I am.
So, the easy solution is that I just go get my phone and call them back, right?
Not quite that easy.
I happened to be almost a mile away from my apartment where my phone was, and it was raining outside. So in order to call this person back, I had to walk almost a mile in the rain back to my room to get my phone.
Which I did.
I’m sure you can imagine how annoyed I was when I found out what their message was.
The worst part was that I had to proceed to return to my previous location by retracing my near-mile-long trail of steps back through the rain.
So here is a public service announcement. If you need to deliver a message to someone, SAY YOUR MESSAGE IN THE VOICEMAIL, INSTEAD OF JUST ASKING TO CALL YOU BACK.
Have a nice day
Ignore the blurry black thing at the bottom-left corner of the photo above – my dad accidentally included the camera’s cord in the picture.
The next photo is of the screen above the ceremony area. The Kohl Center is usually a basketball stadium, which is why this was there. During the ceremony, it was used to give a close-up of the speakers and graduates, as well as closed captioning for the hearing impaired.
The last two photos are of the ceremonial area before commencement began.
All the other photos my dad took of me are too blurry because they were seated so far away. There were, however, professional photographers taking pictures of all the graduates, so once those get processed, I’ll be able to keep those as a souvenir of the ceremony, and possibly post them up here if they’re not too awful.
Kyra had to be locked in the main office a majority of the time so she wouldn’t interfere with the photographer’s work, so I stayed in the office a majority of the time with her so she wouldn’t get too lonely. I do, however, regret not bringing my laptop, because I got pretty bored in there.
After finally getting our photos done (and being gently forced to do some poses and kicks for individual photos, which consequentially led me to overextending my leg muscle as a result of not stretching enough prior to the shoot), we bought way too much fried chicken on the way back, and had dinner back at the Mundelein location while playing League of Legends.
If anything, I think this is more fish fried rice than it is beef fried rice.
Oh, the mysteries of Chinese food.
wtf.
Of course, I also visited Ed while I was at his house, but his goldfish seemed mighty worthy of a photograph and a placement on my website. Now they are on their paths to becoming Internet superstar sensations.
