Brinner

This is how excited I was to eat breakfast for dinner...aka Brinner. And how excited I am for midterms to be over and to go to NYC!

The New Backyard Swingset

Do you know what all of the above logos are from? I can guarantee anyone from my generation and maybe even my parent's could identify at least 3 of the 4 without thinking too hard.  And forewarning...this whole post is slightly contradictory, considering it is posted on exactly the forum I may or may not be analyzing. But alas, I think its interesting.

I wake up every morning and generally check my email before I step foot out of bed.  I have some imperative need to know if something needs my immediate response since I've been sleeping for the past (hopefully) 7 hours. Similarly, we're a facebook obsessed generation. Even my MOM has a facebook now. And she is incredibly good at navigating the cyberspace gossip network.  But what did we do before all these crazy forms of communication? I can catch up on the latest happenings of some distant friend from high school Biology class who goes to college half way across the country (without necessarily gaining the title of creeper). There are obvious advantages to this free flowing network which connect people from far and wide; the lines of communication are kept open for far longer than was usually possibly pre-internet days.

I remember clearly the day I first got an AIM screen name in middle school. I logged into my new account to some unpredicted frustration...I had zero friends. Except for my stinky older brother who helped me sign up for it in the first place. And-with one computer in our house and absurdly slow dial-up internet, there was little chance I'd be talking to him anytime soon. However, that problem solved itself pretty quick.  These days you can be "chatting" in far too many different windows and probably lose track of which conversations are happening where, but this has also made our generation incredibly skilled at multitasking (maybe not studying at the same time...but oh well), and typing. Classic typing classes are hardly necessary anymore as kids are typing very efficiently far before having to crank out essays.

Ironically, my writing of this post has been interspersed with facebook and g-chatting...surprise surprise, the internet is taking over our lives. I am definitely not opposed-I thoroughly appreciate being able to watch my favorite tv shows as soon as they appear online, and keep in touch with my family and friends on a consistent basis. But are future generations going to skip the sandbox and swings and plop right in front of the blue screen??

Where do the weekends go??

How is it that I spend most of the week looking forward to the weekend, and then before I know it, Sunday night has approached and its already over!? Despite the fast pace of this past weekend, there were definitely some fun times (including lots of birthday celebrating). Friday afternoon meant serious roommate bonding time (aka. Target shopping and Qdoba) and then meeting up with friends to celebrate birthday numero uno. Generally the idea is to mature as you grow in years, but as witnessed in the accompanying pic...this isn't always the case :-).

Saturday brought birthday numero dos-my best buddy and his friend. We met at the bowling alley where some serious domination of my ego took place. My bowling skills just aren't up to par with these guys and their personally engraved bowling balls and gloves. But they still cheer for me when I get a strike (which happened twice on Saturday!). This was the big 4-0 birthday for my buddy and his parents got some delicious pizza and cake for us to munch on. I gave him Avatar on DVD for a present because that is one of the first movies we went and saw together. Luckily, I suffered no bowling injuries this time around, however we're up for a rematch tomorrow-so I could be in trouble. Here's the gang right before we dug into that cake!

A busy two weeks coming up before spring break-a MUCH needed break from the craziness of second semester senior year!

Tryin' Something New...

So I've kept a journal here and there before, but never had the guts to start a blog (technology has just about outdated the good 'ol fashioned paper - so I'll give this a go).  I apologize in advance if any of my posts etc. are insufferably boring to you. And I won't be hurt if you stop reading right...here.

Anyways, as one of my inspirational bloggers said-this is the perfect time to start since you're graduating in a few months and entering the real world (yikes...). So here goes an attempt to leave a mark on cyberspace and if nothing else, something to look back on in the future. I like to write and occasionally use some fancy words, but this by no means suggests that I can drop a complex compound sentence with perfect comma/semicolon placement. Higher education is just dandy, but I'm still human. To those grammar police readers (cough cough my English teacher brother cough), give me a break and stick around for awhile.  Also, because text can get pretty boring after awhile, I'll throw in some pictures here and there of some of the crazy and not so crazy adventures over the next few months. Sorry this post tells you absolutely no details about me as a person, but I figure they'll come out little by little as I go along. As for now- Happy almost weekend! And as for the sunset picture...the below zero temps are making me miss summer more than ever. Thank goodness for all four seasons :-)