It’s officially Fall Break! Yay! I was originally planning on camping at Lost Maples this weekend but it just didn’t quite come together. It would’ve been really amazing to see this time of year, but I’m happy to have a day off either way. And it’s probably better this way because I would’ve had to skip my last 2 classes today to go claim a campsite with Cory before it got too late, but it turns out my Lifespan test was postponed to today at 3:30. I was supposed to have the exam on Tuesday, but there was a chemical spill at the science building and they cleared the whole building! [Chemical Spill Clears BSB] They made us keep a good 50 feet from the building, blocked off the roads.. it was a big deal! I felt bad for all the professors whose students were outside with their midterms in hand, unable to find their class and with no idea what to do haha. I’m sure they had to take their midterms all over again! They ended up letting people back in the building like 3 hours later. Obviously my class was long over by then so that’s why I took it today.
I don’t know why I’m looking more forward to this weekend than others before. I guess just because I have a full extra day to do NOTHING, which is how I usually spend my weekends haha. Well, I say nothing.. what I mean is nothing really productive. I do a little homework Sunday nights but other than that it’s a lot of spending time with Cory (can’t complain!) and watching movies, eating good food, napping.. things that I’ve come to find may not be “productive” but are essential to my well-being. Seriously! I guess that probably sounds like I’m rationalizing being lazy, but really, those are the things that make me happy. So spending a lot of my time and energy on those things is a good thing. I’m overall a really happy person, and I think that has a lot to do with it.
Other things… tonight I’m hanging out with my friend Morgan! We haven’t really hung out since last semester. I was dating Ben then, and living with Lacey. Weird how circumstances change so much so quickly! It sucks living here sometimes because I don’t like having people over since I don’t know my roommates very well. And a lot of times I wish Cory lived here. It was nice when I was dating Ben because if I wanted to see him he was just 5 minutes away. But at the same time, living 3 hours from Cory gives me a chance to spend time with my girl friends. Because I know if he was here I’d never leave his side! I mean I probably spend the majority of my time with him anyway and we don’t even live in the same city. He’s gonna get sick of me one of these days haha. I cannot get enough of that boy.. Nothing he doesn’t already know though
Hi Cory!
Another little side note.. I just heard about a site called Grooveshark that’s kind of similar to Pandora. I LOVE Pandora, but you don’t really get to choose the actual songs you want to hear, just the genre. I like that when I don’t have anything in particular I want to hear, but Grooveshark lets you choose specific songs and make playlists out of them. Both have cool features so I’ll probably switch off between them.
I’ve come to realize this period of time – whether you define it as this decade, this era, this generation – is marked by convenience. Among other things of course, the past decade or two has seen a huge surge in consumer products geared toward convenience. There are a lot of great things about that, because it means we can use our time more efficiently and generally makes life easier. Obviously there are plenty of negatives too.. laziness, depersonalization, etc. I think as long as you pick and choose the conveniences in life that are most beneficial without being detrimental, you’re fine. Like take microwaves for example. They make it quicker and easier to get food cooked, as long as you don’t eat eggrolls and hot pockets all the time haha. But the reason I bring this up is because it seems like every day I find something else new and exciting that makes my life just a little bit easier. Case in point: Redbox. Not only are movies only $1 a night (which is awesome because who needs a movie for more than a night?), but you can reserve them online to make sure no one else gets the one you want, and just show up to any Redbox (they’re everywhere), swipe your card, and your movie pops right out. Netflix is the same concept except you don’t even have to leave your house haha. Another convenience that I love: iPhones. Everything about them is meant to be convenient. There’s an app you can get for iPhones called Shazam, and it identifies songs that are playing. So if you hear a song you like and want to download, or you hear a song and cannot think of the artist’s name, you turn on Shazam, it listens to it for like 30 seconds, analyzes it, and then tells you all the info about that song. As if that weren’t enough, it also gives you links to watch the music video for that song on YouTube, read the lyrics, and download it on iTunes. It cracks me up to think back to when I was my youngest sister’s age and we had only gotten dial-up internet in our house like 3 years before that. There was no such thing as Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, and no one blogged. How did people survive?!
Anyway. I don’t know why I explained all that stuff as if no one knows what Redboxes or iPhones are. Even my dad has mastered the art of technology. My grandparents.. well I think maybe they were a little too far past the threshold of learning by the time computers made their way into every household in America. But anyone 60 and younger could probably tell you what DVR or a Blackberry is. What a world we live in…