Confession...

I like to cook. x.x

Though I feign as if I have no knack for it. 

I only cook when I like and what I see in a couple of magazines. 

I can tell you that... I love how Martha Stewart's team puts together meals and recipes.

Every time I see one of those 4 recipe cards in the magazine... I have the urge to cook them because they look so darn good and they are relatively easy. Recently.. I have been on a huge cooking binge. All of them are comfort foods. Composed of either chicken/turkey/fish or greens.

>...> I'l post some food dishes up that I made in the past that have been ...delicious.

Bogus Reaction -Notes of Life-

A cautionary tale-

Never anger the beast or thou shalt reap from the consequences.

-Even if you stepped on a hidden land mine of rage without meaning to...

-It happens to me most of the time... I should be used to it but, I'm still learning to control my                      own reactions or stupefied about the silliness of the argument/anger. 

                                 -I can't fight at all. I'm not much for fighting and don't have a knack for it...

So here is the story-

I ask for help the other day to get my bed fixed. I wait b/c he is angry with me from a previous moronic argument. I sleep on a futon...and here comes a new day. Made breakfast...everything is going swell. He walks over to my room and checks out whats wrong with the bed. He stands there... not helping me remove some old masks (putting those up after the bed was fixed) from the bed. He looks over to my desk and tries to rearrange it. I said its fine...please don't touch... he gets angry...walks out "To hell with you"...SLAM goes the door. 

It ends there. Nothing else happens. Just that. No fixing... none at all. If he were a repairman... he'd be fired with no money and condemned with a bad review.

Its one thing to get angry but its another when one starts to slam doors for no particular reason.

All I did was ask for my bed to be fixed...not for things to be rearranged on my desk. 

No need to act like a child (running out of a room and slamming doors).

Really? I mean, really? I wake up with a sore back from sleeping on a futon the night before and you don't hear me complaining about it. 

I guess I have to sleep on the damned futon until his anger subsides.  ~sigh~

I hope playing with the curtains is as fulfilling as helping your daughter out. Jerk.

1984... Again?

In high school, I had to read the book 1984 for my junior year and thought I would never had to pick up the dusty book off of its shelf again! I’m glad I used it again. I suppose I thought I would never have to use it until I had children of my own to pass it down as my mother has given me a copy of 1984. The book that I used dated back to the 70s and it was beginning to show signs of browning along the inside of the book, but luckily for me I wouldn’t have to “kill” it by carrying it around in my backpack. My father also had a copy of the book, but his was too tarnished to even bring to school let alone use it. The book he had look like he analyzed the pages over and over again (there was notes and tabs still inside it as well as underline/highlighted section of words).

In regards to the presentation that my group prepared, I thought it was good. I just wish my Aunt’s influence wouldn’t mess with me this time but it did. When I got nervous in the front of the class, I started with a normal voice…but then…suddenly as it hit me…my Aunt’s New Yorker accent came up and I couldn’t control it! You see…I practically live with my Aunt during the summer and have visited her every summer! When I’m with her I naturally go into New Yorker speak (haha, newspeak, get it?) with her and when I get really nervous I do that which is natural to me…which is to speak in a New Yorker’s accent. It’s pretty weird how that goes…

Anyways, my group did a fantastic job on 1984. I was very pleased with it. The slideshow, the speakers, and the points made it all work out. If you want the summary of 1984 I think my friend, B-lovely, have pretty much summarized the book and have captured the essence of it. There is a link on the bottom if you wish to check it out.

http://brittslovelyblog.blogspot.com/2009/12/1984.html?showComment=1260809750107_AIe9_BF2SwwL1OaO31WJK8g0kd5rHsLEBXtZblVA1_fk_Y8lNb2X3FjZxg3gaUgT6lKoxNnX7Sk8ZI9BaVj4UxZHH0FXSe6zBfsIoNI1_lqpc6qElIWbjYcS42rd2SYV5FUF2SpgL9kz4KVa0WZ2s04PM6rXgi_0_rmSNpcpwkuAFLG1EtzJPZxqKQHwfdFK1gUEmB4HQwMLOeEKsZpy61bKrcgNqy97mA#c7725981241941541229

Physical vs Digital

First of all, I do not think every document is going to be digitalized. Sure, a lot of data will be digitalized but, not every photo, piece of text, or newspaper clipping is going to make it to being digitalized.

Second, I would prefer that there is a digital as well as a physical copy because I’ve learned in the past that computers cannot be trusted unless it has a backup hard drive that keeps the data on the computer saved on the backup. I have had a history of computers crashing on me! Due to either computer viruses or my computer was the 1 in 3,000 made that had a malfunction and only estimated to last for a couple years before it going completely dead! I lost photos, essays, and medical files before I started investing in a backup drive for my computers (time capsule for my recent Mac computer).

Third and final point: I love being able to flip the pages of a catalog. It’s the only type of mail I get and I enjoy receiving them! Sure, I like shopping online as much as the next person but, I just like the physical aspect of the store catalog in my hands. I really don’t understand as to why I like it more than the online catalogs. Is it the feeling of it in my hands really make a difference? I don’t know but, I like it.

Guest Speaker: Erik Hanberg

A speaker came to our class the other day. His name is Erik Hanberg and he is a man of the future. He says that there are more jobs to be found in the virtual world and that you might make it big by just making one "black swan." Black swans rare events that are beyond the realm of normal expectations, such as YouTube or Google. He also writes and owns his own business online and works along his web designing wife who has ninja powers over the designing process(jk)! Anyways, he gave me the inspiration to make my own site and hopefully it will become the ever so rare black swan.

Scavenger Hunt

I had no idea I had to bring my computer to class! I left utterly useless just sitting there in class! I tried helping in other ways such as suggesting sites and writing down those sites. All and all, I think it would have been so much easier if I had my laptop...the only problem is that I'm not allowed to bring it to school because the Mac laptops tend to crash very easily or at least my Mac laptops do. My last Mac laptop that my family bought in March crashed once before and we brought it to the Genius Bar in the Apple computer store to get it fixed. The man behind the bar tells me that I have been moving my laptop too much and it should remain stationary the entire time it is on! Even though a laptop is made to be portable as well as versatile! I heard; now don’t quote me on this but, a 3rd of computer laptops are going to crash within three years of purchasing them. Maybe my computer was the lucky one of the bunch and crashed three years earlier within our warranty so, we were able to fix it without any additional charge!

Convergence....?

What the heck does convergence means?! I looked it up in the dictionary after I thought about the possible meanings for the word...I thought I might've known the actual meaning from dissecting it into parts and go back to what I have learned about the route word but, that didn't help me much. I actually cracked open a dusty dictionary and I swear, there was a bat flying out of its moldy pages and a couple of moths slowly floating away from me. Anyways, I looked up the meaning of the word convergence and this is what I got: a coming together from different directions, especially a uniting or merging of groups or tendencies that were originally opposed or very different.

Is this the meaning that my professor met for the students to find? I think not! So, I did what every student would do in this day and age…Go online and look it up on Wikipedia! There! I found the answer! Convergence has something to do with programming language, telecommunications, and routing protocol! It all makes sense to me now! Thank you Wikipedia! You’re the best!