Tip of the Day

If you use a computer at the library, be sure to remember that you’re actually using a computer at the library.

Or else you’ll end up like me, and when you’re done using the computer, you’ll habitually go to turn off your wireless mouse, spend 15 seconds looking for the off switch, then realize that this isn’t actually your wireless mouse and you’re not actually using your laptop.

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Topic #75: What’s the biggest lesson you learned so far this year?

The biggest lesson I learned this year is not to wait under the sign if you’re waiting for the bus if the stop is near a corner, and to instead wait at the corner.

As you can probably see, I’m defining “big” differently than expected. I didn’t want to sit here thinking about the most important or meaningful lesson I’ve learned (and even if I did think of something, I probably wouldn’t share something meaningful to me anyway), so I decided that because buses are big, I would use that instead.

This happened back on October 28, 2010. I made a vlog abot it back then, and in case you didn’t watch it or weren’t around that long ago, here it is again.

(Yay for recycling content.)

http://youtu.be/5FMq5WdquYE

So Far in 2011…

Number of Taco Bell tacos eaten: 21

Number of times I did my own laundry: 2

Tip of the Day

When walking outside and zipping up your jacket at the same time, keep in mind that massively large, extremely fast, black creatures generally don’t inhabit populated cities. Or else you’ll end up like me, think you saw one, and jump back in surprise before you realize that it’s actually only a shadow.

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Topic #74: Close your eyes. Count to ten. Then imagine a beautiful ancient castle (tastefully remodeled to include central heating, kick-ass wi-fi and WordPress.com ready laptops everywhere). Now walk down the endless main hall, a hall filled with amazing rooms of wonder. Go into the 2nd room on the right. What’s inside?

I open the door to this mysterious room and suddenly get blinded by light. As my eyes adjust, I notice that instead of walls, this room has windows. The bright light comes from the sunset that’s shining extraordinarily brilliantly into the room. I look around and see a bunch of grand chairs that look extremely soft and comfortable.

I approach one of the chairs and feel it, noticing that it’s made out of velvet. I keep rubbing my hand on it back and forth for the satisfying feel of softness. After I become content, I take a seat inside the chair. My whole body sinks in enough that I’m almost completely surrounded by plush chair and every part of my body is comfortable. I lean back to realize that the back of this massive chair is also just as soft as the seat, and I sink deeper and deeper into the back of the chair.

I look to my right and notice that my laptop is sitting on a table just within my reach. I grab it and open it up to notice a note that says “This laptop’s processor has been upgraded to the best processor available on the market compatible with your hardware and operating system, and its memory capacity has been maximized.” I open up my laptop and do what I usually do on a daily basis on my laptop.

After I get tired, I get up and go to the room next door. I open it up and realize that it’s a massive room, again with windows instead of walls. There’s a massive bed in the center, twice as big as a king-sized bed. I jump in the bed and my body sinks in the perfect amount so there’s no pressure anywhere. Then I fall asleep.

So Far in 2011…

Number of Taco Bell tacos eaten: 21

Number of times I did my own laundry: 2

I have two exams next week.

In case you were wondering.

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Topic #73: Grab the nearest book (or website) to you right now. Jump to paragraph three, second sentence. Write it in a post.

The closest book to me is The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales by Oliver Sacks. This book is essentially a compilation of stories of people with unique and intriguing disabilities and health problems. I originally bought it because I needed to read a few chapters out of it for my psychology course, but the stories are so interestingr that I’m most likely going to keep it and finish reading the rest.

The random page that I opened up to was the beginning of Chapter 8 titled “Eyes Right!” I tried putting the second sentence in the third paragraph in a post, but I couldn’t really think of anything, so I decided to just explain what the story was about because I’m pretty sure many people would find it intriguing.

The story features someone named Mrs. S. who has hemi-inattention, or the ability to pay attention to an entire half of the world. In Mrs. S.’s case, she was hemi-inattentive in her right brain hemisphere, which made her oblivious to anything on the left side of her body. That means, when she puts makeup on her face, she forgets to put makeup on the left side of her face; when she’s eating food, she only eats off the right side of her plate.

The second sentence on the third paragraph is: “She cannot look left, directly, she cannot turn left, so what she does is to turn right – and right through a circle” (Sacks, 77). Because Mrs. S. learned of her impairment, she devised a solution to adapt to it – instead of trying to look to her left and being unsuccessful, she would keep going right until she came full circle.

So Far in 2011…

Number of Taco Bell tacos eaten: 21 (+3 from a few days ago that I forgot to add in)

Number of times I did my own laundry: 2

Today was a miraculous day.

Yellowcard finally released their next album, When You’re Through Thinking, Say Yes, the first album since Paper Walls in 2007 and a hiatus.

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Topic #72: What was your favorite class when you were in high school or college? Was it your favorite class at the time you took it? Why or Why not?

When I was in high school, I had two different favorite classes, based on two different criteria. One of my favorites was AP Computer Science because it was extremely easy and I was able to finish the work quickly without much effort and get perfect scores. Because I finished early in class all the time, and I had a group of friends who also excelled in the class and finished early all the time, we were able to play multiplayer games for a majority of the course, either through the school’s network or with multiple people on a single computer.

My other favorite class in high school was Law in America. I was never actually intending to take that course, but I took it along with four other social science courses during my senior year of high school because I ran out of other classes to take, and I still had to fulfill my social science graduation requirements. I’m glad I took it though, and I realized that the non-history social science courses were actually pretty interesting. I feel like I learned a lot of interesting and useful information from my law course, and my teacher was an extremely likeable person who had a personality that I like in an instructor.

After coming to college, my favorite class so far is Educational Psychology 321: Development in Adolescence. I’ve always been intrigued by the changes humans experience during adolescence, and my favoritstic views towards adolescents got stronger after I had a positive experience being a P.E. leader during my senior year leading freshmen. In addition to the content being interesting, the instructor was a highly knowledgeable individual with a great persoality. Whenever I went to see him outside of class, he was very open to my opinions and made sure that I would excel in his course.

So Far in 2011…

Number of Taco Bell tacos eaten: 18

Number of times I did my own laundry: 2

Picture of the Day

I’m So Good at Missing the Bus

Nowhere to be seen…

(Taken on an Apple iPod Touch)

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Topic #71: Write a haiku about something that drives you nuts. Remember, 5, 7, 5.

Peanuts and walnuts.

So good; they make me want to

Drive and buy some nuts.

So Far in 2011…

Number of Taco Bell tacos eaten: 18

Number of times I did my own laundry: 2