You know what I hate? Software that doesn’t work.

You know what software doesn’t work (either that or I’m too dumb to figure out how to make it work)? OpenX.

You know what I’m being forced to install and configure right now? OpenX.

In other news, I tried to talk with a Dell customer service representative to set up a laptop exchange (if you don’t know what’s wrong with my laptop, then you’ve been missing out on some awesome Dell fail stories), but apparently they’re doing network and software upgrades, and they can’t pull up my information.

Who does network and software upgrades in the middle of the day in the middle of the week? Aren’t you supposed to do maintenance in the middle of the night or on weekends when the company’s closed?

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Topic #114: What is the last good book you read? Write a short review. Try to find the book on Amazon, and report your review there, so you can make sure to help the author – then add a link to that review.

I’m actually going to bring back my book review section on my blog in the near future once I get a chance to go to the library. More on this in a few days.

So Far in 2011…

Number of Taco Bell tacos eaten: 24

Number of times I did my own laundry: 4

My parents and I went around doing some errands today, and one of our stops involved going to an office located inside the College of Chicago – Glenview. Right outside the building, there was an intriguing tree that I took a picture of. It literally has flowers growing out of its trunk without any branches or leaves to go with it.

In other news, one of my buddies who is taking classes at the same community college that I will be taking classes at later this summer informed me that most people there are stupid and the classes there are a joke. I’m not sure if that’s a good thing or a bad thing.

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Topic #113: Should schools control what kids eat for lunch? Some schools in Chicago now ban lunches from home for health reasons – kids either eat the school food, or nothing. What do you think about this?

I’m pretty indifferent about if schools should control what children should eat for lunch, and I don’t think I have enough background information about this issue to make a valid judgment about if it’s something good or not.

In a way, it’s a good thing that schools are moderating eating habits of children because eating healthy while young could enforce healthy eating habits in the future. As we all know, America is way too fat, and if students bring lunches from home, the stupidity of the fat adults will obviously be projected onto the types of lunches they make for their children.

On the other hand, taking away the autonomy of being able to choose what one eats for lunch might cause a lot of opposition. Although nutrition specialists make sure the school food is made so it meets the needs of the children, the fat parents might think that it is insufficient, or that their children need to eat more unhealthy food to become more fat like them.

So for the good of the future and to reduce the number of fat people, it’s obvious that professionals should take over food service for students, but an attempt to do good might lead to much more negative results, like students not eating at all as a display of protest and becoming frail.

So Far in 2011…

Number of Taco Bell tacos eaten: 24

Number of times I did my own laundry: 4

I’m finally back home after finishing my first full academic year at university.

I woke up relatively early this morning to take a shower and spur into action, finishing the rest of what I need to get done before moving out. I hopped in the shower and stood there for about five minutes waiting for the water to get warm. It stayed freezing cold the whole time.

I decided not to take a shower and gathered up my garbage to take outside. On my way down I saw a sign next to the elevator.

It would’ve been helpful if I had seen that sign earlier.

After I finished packing everything up, my parents arrived in Madison and we started loading the car. My mom helped me out a bit, but overall, it took about half an hour to get everything to fit in the car. I ended up sitting in the back corner with a guitar in my face and storage boxes pushing me toward the door.

After I finally arrived back at home, I stepped out of the car and took a picture. I originally did so to add it to the foursquare listing for my subdivision, but I decided to throw it up on Flickr and my blog as well.

And the remainder of the day was spent slowly unpacking everything and sitting around resting and attempting to recover from the dizziness resulting from the car ride.

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Topic #112: Describe the unhealthiest meal you’ve ever eaten. How did you feel afterwards? Did you eat it by choice? Did others eat it with you? Under what circumstances would you do it again?

I eat unhealthy meals once in a while, but I don’t think I’ve ever eaten a meal so unhealthy that it would be considered the unhealthiest meal I’ve ever eaten. Whenever I eat unhealthy meals, I don’t really feel any different. I realize that a lot of people feel bad or angry with themselves because they know they’re harming their own bodies by eating excessively bad foods, but I don’t feel that way at all because I stay skinny regardless of how much fat I eat.

So Far in 2011…

Number of Taco Bell tacos eaten: 24

Number of times I did my own laundry: 4

I’m finally starting to pack everything up. My lease actually ended today at 12 PM, but I had a top secret discussion with a top secret individual and got another day to move out. I finished doing all my laundry today, and I’m starting to get all my belongings stored in boxes for moving.

Another thing that I’ve been busy doing is cleaning. Apparently, if I leave a mess in my room, for every hour the housekeeping people spend cleaning up, I get fined $35 from my security deposit. I’ve been cleaning for a few hours so far and I still have quite a bit to finish because this building tends to get a bit dusty.

I was hoping to stop by the Badger Herald office tomorrow morning to scan some more papers in so I don’t have to bring them home, but I don’t think I’m going to make it. I think I’m going to sleep instead.

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Topic #111: Write about something you used to believe, but don’t anymore. What changed? If you had to pick one of your beliefs right now that is most likely to change in the future, what would it be?

I can’t really think of anything worth writing about that I used to believe that I no longer do. Of course, I probably had some misconceptions about particular things or people, but I never believed any false myths such as the existence of Santa or the tooth fairy.

I remember during my kindergarten class one day that my instructors purposely made a mess in the classroom while we were outside playing. It was near St. Patrick’s day, and they claimed that the leprechauns came in while we were outside and messed up the classroom. The only problem was that one of our instructors was outside with us while the other one was missing, and the other instructor was already in the classroom when we came back inside. I tried explaining this to my classmates, and accused the other instructor of making the mess, but the they blatantly told me that I was completely wrong and that the mess was the work of the leprechauns.

I never actually liked that school that much to begin with anyway. It was a religious school.

So Far in 2011…

Number of Taco Bell tacos eaten: 24

Number of times I did my own laundry: 4

Seeing as I don’t really have much left to do around Madison, I decided to go to the Badger Herald office today to do some cleaning around my work area and do some maintenance on the computers to prepare for next semester. Then I made a revolutionary discovery.

I don’t know if I think this is so awesome just because I haven’t really paid attention to copy machines before, but the massive copy machine that we have in the office has an awesome scanning feature. I put a stack of my notes that I took this past semester on a feeding tray and hit the Scan button, and the machine automatically scanned hundreds of pages and compiled it into a PDF file.

I was so amazed at this that I started finding stuff that I didn’t need to scan, and scanned it anyway.

So now, every possible thing that I could possibly want scanned is now digitized in PDF form. Which also means, now I don’t have to keep all my old papers, because they’re all stored online in GMail and Acrobat.com and stored on my external hard drive.

*high-five* for cleaning out old papers.

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Topic #110: Describe your first encounter with a celebrity. What celebrity would you most want to meet? Least?

I’ve never actually had a first encounter with a celebrity who I would consider to actually be a celebrity. I have met and made friends with some relatively famous people, but I wouldn’t really consider them to be celebrities, and neither would they.

If you know me at all, you probably already know that the celebrity I most want to meet is Avril Lavigne. I’m pretty indifferent to pretty much all other celebrities, so I don’t particularly have any other celebrities who I would like to meet, or any celebrities who I particularly don’t want to meet.

So Far in 2011…

Number of Taco Bell tacos eaten: 24

Number of times I did my own laundry: 3

As of today, I am officially majoring in psychology and sociology and minoring in criminal justice at my university. I managed to meet with all of each department’s advisors and declared my majors within the past one day.

I realize that most people were convinced that I was going to major in computer science, but I decided against that a handful of months ago. The computer science courses at my university were literally the worst classes I have ever taken. The things I learned had almost no real-world use. The homework assignments and projects that we had to do were built so unrealistically that nobody would ever make such programs in the first place, but if they did, they would use a completely different and more logical method. The main reason I wanted to major in computer science was because I thought programming was interesting and I liked working with computers, but the material I was learning in my classes was nowhere near what I like to do.

In other unrelated news, happy Friday the 13th.

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Topic #109: Do you think Donald Trump would make a good U.S. president? Compare and contrast Donald Trump with Ross Perot.

I don’t think that Donald Trump would make a good United States president. I don’t know that much about Donald Trump’s background, but I do not think his attitude and way of doing things would lead the country in the right direction. Donald Trump does not give the impression of being an intelligent, calm, collected, and wise person.

I have no idea who Ross Perot is, but based off a short segment I read off his Wikipedia page, it appears like he has past political experience and has gained a relatively large support base. If I was voting for the next president and my only two choices were Donald Trump and Ross Perot, I would most likely go with Ross Perot.

So Far in 2011…

Number of Taco Bell tacos eaten: 24

Number of times I did my own laundry: 3