Friday, May 30, 2003

I'm so annoyed. I ordered a keyboard protector online from a site that said it was in stock and ships in 1-2 business days...3 days later, they're still processing shipping and since this business day is pretty much almost over, it will be 4 days but if they don't do anything over the weekend, 6 days and then with the cheapo shipping another 3-5 days. If they sold this thing in stores I would have bought it there but they don't and I'm losing my patience with slowness. my internet connection is fast and yet the world refuses to keep up.
~me~ at 3:56 PM

Thursday, May 29, 2003

I think my eyes must be slightly different since now when I wear my contacts I can't focus quite right. And since my insurance doesn't cover eye exams, I need to find a good yet cost efficient ophthalmologist. I wonder if optomologists are cheaper because they don't go to med school. Speaking of eyes...I think my irises are the coolest. If you look at them up close, as I often do in the morning, you'll notice that there's a dark rim on the outside and then it's a light tan background on the interior with flecks of green and then a sun like shaped rim of a golden brown on the inner boarder around the pupil. You have to see them to know what I'm talking about but at the last exam, several of my classmates, for some odd reason, were noticing my funky eyes. I wonder what a good eye exam goes for these days...I suppose I could just wait until christmas when I can go see the doctor I've seen these past 10 years but he retired so I'm not sure if he's completely stopped seeing patients. He has the coolest machine that measures vision. Yet I need to wear my contacts next year since glasses get in the way (though they serve as a great barrier to splashing body fluids...okay not great but better than bare eyes). I wonder if Sue at the student health center has a list of docs who give student discounts (there's a few dentists that do this). Well, i've got to get some sleep.
~me~ at 12:04 AM

Tuesday, May 27, 2003

Okay and they find possibly the dumbest people to be on this show. The questions are so damn easy and they get them so wrong it's not even funny! Oh well, serves me right for watching shows like this...
~me~ at 8:55 PM

by the way, I do know people who work at news stations from oregon but clearly they are the few intelligent people who managed to sneak in
~me~ at 8:47 PM

Okay, I'm getting pissed off at the idiots of the local nbc news station. The guy they think is the Baton Rouge Serial Killer was arrested in atlanta and within a period of 10 minutes, they have interrupted Dog Eat Dog 3 times to tell us the EXACT SAME THING and if that weren't bad enough, they repeat the same info within each "breaking news" segment! Nothing new is ever revealed but they feel the need to repeat the same info every 3 minutes! This is painfully reminiscent of the breaking news when I lived in Eugene and the stupid ship they were towing off the coast was going like 1 mile an hour and then they just left the covereage on of a boat out at sea being towed by a tugboat during a soccer game!!! What kind of idiots do they hire?!? Is there some sort of cap on abilities and intelligence to work at a news station? Like can your IQ be no higher than 60 to be employed and then less than 50 to climb the ladder?!? Aarrgghh!!!

~me~ at 8:45 PM

I just watched The Princess Bride. I love that movie. What else...one of my friends is being sent to Afghanistan to help train the new afghani national army for the next 8 or so months. He said he'd send photos of the place. Now I know it's not going to be spectacular but one of my classmates went to the Czech republic and said they had beautiful beaches so I'm curious if there are a few beautiful spots in afghanistan. Now that my relaxation period is over I need to get back to preparing for the board exam (le sigh). I also need to get more physical activity since all this studying and eating in the past 2 weeks has made me a bit too flabby even for my lazy-oriented self. And since I also enjoy reading normal things, I've combined exercise and fun reading into one event. Since I can't figure out how to slowly jog on a treadmill (I have a rhythmless rhythm to jogging that causes me to have issues with treadmills) and reading is awfully challenging while running, I just walk fast and read (though that is giving me a headache too). Or I ride the stationary bike and read but that makes my butt sore after awhile. I'd rather ride a regular bike and I live close enough to a park on the lakefront to do so but there's no hills and riding around in flat circles isn't too exciting as riding with a destination in mind (like I did in eugene). I could get roller blades but according to tristan and shannon, a bunch of teenage skateboarders laughed at them so I couldn't imagine what they'd think of me. And again, I could go really fast but with no place to go but around in circles, that gets boring fast. I mean if I were racing someone (on bike or on roller blades) then it would be more interesting.
what else...well I've been checking out the discussion boards on the ipod and have discovered that many people are still complaining about having old ipods that don't have all the functions of the new ipod. Seems stupid to me since that's why there are new models...an advancement on the old ones! Of course the old ones aren't going to have and do everything the new ones have...it's called progress and it happens in every industry. So I like to piss them off by telling them to grow up or at least go complain elsewhere. THey get so catty it's so hilarious! The best is when the apple moderators delete the complaining topics because they're not useful and then the person who posted the deleted topic will post another topic complaining about their post being deleted and asking why it happened...so of course I just post this one phrase in answer to the question "because it wasn't useful." There are other people who do the same thing so it's really another form of entertainment.

~me~ at 5:03 PM