Thursday, July 31, 2008
do i look like a computer repair person?
...apparently so.
yesterday the internet went down for everyone with wireless. lucky, myself and the big boss man are wired into the network and don't have to worry about such things, but whenever anyone has a problem it immmediately becomes MY problem and i am expected to fix it.
yesterday was a little more difficult than today, as the cause for the wireless not working is the mcdonald's across the street. apparently they've supersized their wifi hotspot and now we're all on mcdonald's free wireless and not our own network. changing the channel doesn't work, so some of my coworkers are currently storming around the office... sigh.
today's problem was the copier/fax/printer/scanner/minibar (paying attention?) and it won't recognize the new wireless card someone here bought in light of yesterday's shenanigans...
but i fixed it. IP address and all. i know next to nothing about these sorts of things, but right now i'm feeling absolutely brilliant! eat your heart out, bill gates.
yesterday the internet went down for everyone with wireless. lucky, myself and the big boss man are wired into the network and don't have to worry about such things, but whenever anyone has a problem it immmediately becomes MY problem and i am expected to fix it.
yesterday was a little more difficult than today, as the cause for the wireless not working is the mcdonald's across the street. apparently they've supersized their wifi hotspot and now we're all on mcdonald's free wireless and not our own network. changing the channel doesn't work, so some of my coworkers are currently storming around the office... sigh.
today's problem was the copier/fax/printer/scanner/minibar (paying attention?) and it won't recognize the new wireless card someone here bought in light of yesterday's shenanigans...
but i fixed it. IP address and all. i know next to nothing about these sorts of things, but right now i'm feeling absolutely brilliant! eat your heart out, bill gates.
Tuesday, July 29, 2008
my father may be the funniest person i've ever met...
...and i didn't know that until yesterday.
my father, the electrical engineer who sits in front of a 4-monitor setup designing circuits all day, is apparently HILARIOUS. i've heard him say funny things before but yesterday and today have marked a new era in my father's humor.
last night my sister was watching tmz, and i walked into the kitchen just in time to catch my dad saying "whatEVER".
which may not sound like the most entertaining thing on the planet, but when you hear it coming out of the mouth of a fifty-something engineer whose glasses rival coke bottle bottoms in thickness... well, new perspective.
and the following conversation tonight:
me: (tearing into a box) my new earrings are here!!!
*rip shred shred shred*
me: (putting them on) they're uh... a lot bigger than they looked.
dad: you look like a hot latino mama.
me: ...
my father, the electrical engineer who sits in front of a 4-monitor setup designing circuits all day, is apparently HILARIOUS. i've heard him say funny things before but yesterday and today have marked a new era in my father's humor.
last night my sister was watching tmz, and i walked into the kitchen just in time to catch my dad saying "whatEVER".
which may not sound like the most entertaining thing on the planet, but when you hear it coming out of the mouth of a fifty-something engineer whose glasses rival coke bottle bottoms in thickness... well, new perspective.
and the following conversation tonight:
me: (tearing into a box) my new earrings are here!!!
*rip shred shred shred*
me: (putting them on) they're uh... a lot bigger than they looked.
dad: you look like a hot latino mama.
me: ...
clearly commies and al qaeda are the same.
Seriously, McCain?
I am incredibly disappointed by this article. I love John McCain, I really do, despite the fact that I am a libertarian and all about pro-choice and legalizing marijuana and gay marriage. There's just something that appeals to me about an ex Vietnam POW with a solid paper trail as far as the eyes can see... however, this latest installment in McCain's political saga has left me feeling confused and a little bit disheartened about my new favorite candidate (I miss you, Mayor Giuliani!)
It's no secret the majority of the American public want an immediate, or at least scheduled, withdrawal from Iraq. And the politician's job security, in most cases, depends upon the public's opinions and desires. Understandable. Fine. I expect to hear nothing but withdrawal from Iraq from Mr. Barack Hussein Obama... HOWEVER...
I expect much more from someone who knows firsthand the results of a half-assed attempt at eradicating commies, or Viet Cong or terrorists.
McCain knows what happens when there's not enough military power behind an invasion - the POWs that are "lucky" enough to survive get hung from meathooks and had their fingernails forcibly... removed... with hot tongs. I kid you not, I have read McCain's biography as well as done extensive reasearch for a project on POW conditions during the Vietnam "conflict". In any case, McCain has seen what happens when a government cannot fully back an invasion, and imho, he should realize that it just becomes a bloodbath.
John Mearsheimer, one of this century's most outspoken political theorists, suggested in the early 90s that in order to liberate Kuwait from Iraqi forces, quick, strong, and decisive action was necessary to achieve a victory with minimum casualties. McCain has stated that he believed that America's invasion of Iraq would closely mimic the above scenario - get in quick and get out just as quickly. Well obviously that didn't happen, but is the next best thing really a planned withdrawal?
Even if it is "safe" to withdraw, I forsee the results going something like this:
-the less troops that are there to keep the peace, the more endangered the remaining troops become
-that prison break in afghanistan - what's to stop those terrorists from taking a hike to iraq to set up camp there, hm?
-THE INFRASTRUCTURE WILL NOT WITHSTAND A PLANNED WITHDRAWAL. if OUR government goes, so does their current non-taliban stance.
-a weakened infrastructure is the best time for a terrorist to sow the seeds of rebellion
I am FULL of word!vomit today but I can't stress this enough - I think McCain is a great person and an intelligent man, but this is just idiotic.
I am incredibly disappointed by this article. I love John McCain, I really do, despite the fact that I am a libertarian and all about pro-choice and legalizing marijuana and gay marriage. There's just something that appeals to me about an ex Vietnam POW with a solid paper trail as far as the eyes can see... however, this latest installment in McCain's political saga has left me feeling confused and a little bit disheartened about my new favorite candidate (I miss you, Mayor Giuliani!)
It's no secret the majority of the American public want an immediate, or at least scheduled, withdrawal from Iraq. And the politician's job security, in most cases, depends upon the public's opinions and desires. Understandable. Fine. I expect to hear nothing but withdrawal from Iraq from Mr. Barack Hussein Obama... HOWEVER...
I expect much more from someone who knows firsthand the results of a half-assed attempt at eradicating commies, or Viet Cong or terrorists.
McCain knows what happens when there's not enough military power behind an invasion - the POWs that are "lucky" enough to survive get hung from meathooks and had their fingernails forcibly... removed... with hot tongs. I kid you not, I have read McCain's biography as well as done extensive reasearch for a project on POW conditions during the Vietnam "conflict". In any case, McCain has seen what happens when a government cannot fully back an invasion, and imho, he should realize that it just becomes a bloodbath.
John Mearsheimer, one of this century's most outspoken political theorists, suggested in the early 90s that in order to liberate Kuwait from Iraqi forces, quick, strong, and decisive action was necessary to achieve a victory with minimum casualties. McCain has stated that he believed that America's invasion of Iraq would closely mimic the above scenario - get in quick and get out just as quickly. Well obviously that didn't happen, but is the next best thing really a planned withdrawal?
Even if it is "safe" to withdraw, I forsee the results going something like this:
-the less troops that are there to keep the peace, the more endangered the remaining troops become
-that prison break in afghanistan - what's to stop those terrorists from taking a hike to iraq to set up camp there, hm?
-THE INFRASTRUCTURE WILL NOT WITHSTAND A PLANNED WITHDRAWAL. if OUR government goes, so does their current non-taliban stance.
-a weakened infrastructure is the best time for a terrorist to sow the seeds of rebellion
I am FULL of word!vomit today but I can't stress this enough - I think McCain is a great person and an intelligent man, but this is just idiotic.
Monday, July 28, 2008
perplexical circles.
mom: so about that blog... can i read it?
me: NO! i mean... please don't.
mom: what if your employer finds it? why can't i read it?
me: (thinking.. you have no idea i was cheated on by my ex... multiple times. and i have no intention of telling you because i already have to hear about how you hated him anyway and i can't bear another i-told-you-so). there are things i've written about that i don't talk to you about and i don't really feel like sharing. and no, my employer won't find it and i haven't said anything mean.
mom: are you writing mean things?
me: no
mom: so i can read it?
me: NO! i mean... please don't.
mom: what if your employer finds it? why can't i read it?
me: (thinking.. you have no idea i was cheated on by my ex... multiple times. and i have no intention of telling you because i already have to hear about how you hated him anyway and i can't bear another i-told-you-so). there are things i've written about that i don't talk to you about and i don't really feel like sharing. and no, my employer won't find it and i haven't said anything mean.
mom: are you writing mean things?
me: no
mom: so i can read it?
and the 7th thing i like the most that you do...
thought - i can't get enough of this miley cyrus song. wich ultimately both disgusts and entertains me. i saw the music video for this song and (if you haven't seen it) it has a ton of teenyboppers in it, holding stuffed animals, presumably from their boyfriends (i use the term loosely) singing along. mostly they just look like puppets with miley's voice coming out of their mouths, but what struck me as odd was that i can relate to the lyrics in this song and so do the little girls in the video, probably... and i definitely can't relate to them. it's a weird feeling.
do i think they have any idea what love is?
no.
do i think i do?
yeah.
...and this, my friends, is why i am so perplexed by the fact that i love this song and feeling kind of selfish and righteous like "HOW CAN THESE CHILDREN POSSIBLY HAVE ANY IDEA WHAT THE LYRICS MEAN?!?!"
and then i think, "does miley, either?"
probs not.
do i think they have any idea what love is?
no.
do i think i do?
yeah.
...and this, my friends, is why i am so perplexed by the fact that i love this song and feeling kind of selfish and righteous like "HOW CAN THESE CHILDREN POSSIBLY HAVE ANY IDEA WHAT THE LYRICS MEAN?!?!"
and then i think, "does miley, either?"
probs not.
"perplexical" is all mine.
today i was faced by another episode of the recurring phenomenon that is west point boy.
once upon a time, when i was still dating r., he cheated on me. well really that would be more like "several x upon a time" but who's counting? anyway, once upon a particular time when rick and i were "broken up" i found myself on a train to boston to see rachel during fall break. at grand central, a cute boy sat across the aisle from me. lo and behold, being the friendly people that we are, we started chatting and ended up watching a movie together before he got off in RH (but not before exchanging phone numbers - !!!!) and ever since, he and i have had this on again, off again flirtatious relationship and for a while, i was convinced i was in love with him. maybe i still am... at least in love with the IDEA of him. nervewracking, especially since the rest of me is at least falling in love with the reality of someone else.
love or not, WPB has the uncanny ability to pop in and out of my life, full of compliments and lovey sentiments, whenever i need him. it is the strangest thing, but it seems he has a sense for whenever i need to hear from him. and that is side of him that i absolutely love. but whenever we try to hang out... it fails miserably. and i hate myself for getting my hopes up, i hate him for letting me get them up, and i hate myself for being such a wimp and getting SO HURT each and every time things fail. he was supposed to come visit me a few weeks ago and it fell through and things haven't been put to rights, really... despite a message stating (very clearly) that he would like me for his birthday. uh, WHAT?
does this make me a horrible girlfriend/girlWHATEVER-I-AM-SINCE-WE'RE-NOT-OFFICIAL to J.? i'm on the fence about this. sometimes i need to hear i'm pretty. someone out there thinks i'm pretty - and tells me when my boy does not. have i done anything? absofuckinglutely not. i know how it feels to be on the other end in that situation and can't do that to someone else. but where do you draw the line? is it okay to receive compliments from someone you're attracted to whom you're not dating?
i guess i worry about emotional cheating, but at the end of the day, the person who i tell all my thoughts to is my boy, and not wpb. and i trust him not to hurt me, too, and i can't say that about the other one.
once upon a time, when i was still dating r., he cheated on me. well really that would be more like "several x upon a time" but who's counting? anyway, once upon a particular time when rick and i were "broken up" i found myself on a train to boston to see rachel during fall break. at grand central, a cute boy sat across the aisle from me. lo and behold, being the friendly people that we are, we started chatting and ended up watching a movie together before he got off in RH (but not before exchanging phone numbers - !!!!) and ever since, he and i have had this on again, off again flirtatious relationship and for a while, i was convinced i was in love with him. maybe i still am... at least in love with the IDEA of him. nervewracking, especially since the rest of me is at least falling in love with the reality of someone else.
love or not, WPB has the uncanny ability to pop in and out of my life, full of compliments and lovey sentiments, whenever i need him. it is the strangest thing, but it seems he has a sense for whenever i need to hear from him. and that is side of him that i absolutely love. but whenever we try to hang out... it fails miserably. and i hate myself for getting my hopes up, i hate him for letting me get them up, and i hate myself for being such a wimp and getting SO HURT each and every time things fail. he was supposed to come visit me a few weeks ago and it fell through and things haven't been put to rights, really... despite a message stating (very clearly) that he would like me for his birthday. uh, WHAT?
does this make me a horrible girlfriend/girlWHATEVER-I-AM-SINCE-WE'RE-NOT-OFFICIAL to J.? i'm on the fence about this. sometimes i need to hear i'm pretty. someone out there thinks i'm pretty - and tells me when my boy does not. have i done anything? absofuckinglutely not. i know how it feels to be on the other end in that situation and can't do that to someone else. but where do you draw the line? is it okay to receive compliments from someone you're attracted to whom you're not dating?
i guess i worry about emotional cheating, but at the end of the day, the person who i tell all my thoughts to is my boy, and not wpb. and i trust him not to hurt me, too, and i can't say that about the other one.
Sunday, July 27, 2008
welcome, i suppose?
here's my blog... dr. d seems to think i'd make a great professional blogger and i twitter with such frequency that i thought perhaps it'd be worth a try.
i suppose the custom is to tell you a little about myself... there's not much to tell, really. i'm a 22 y/o soon-to-be 1st year law student, self-proclaimed shoe addict, and someone whose brain works a little too hard for her own good. i constantly think about EVERYTHING, and lately EVERYTHING has been a little something like my boy + moving to school + shopping (always shopping). right now i'm working as the office coordinator for an environmental consulting firm, which involves lots of filing - and consequently, lots of time to think. sometimes i feel like i start off the day as a full tower of jenga blocks and by the end of the day i've spent so much time taking pieces out and examining them that just a little nudge will topple the whole thing. or a pile of pick-up-sticks, but that metaphor was a little too difficult to think about while trying to pay attention to american dad.
22 is probably too young to be feeling like a clock is ticking, but ticking it is. i've spent so much of my life counting down to things - when i was dating rick, i spent 3 years counting down to visits to pgh, his visits to my house, the weekends. i counted down to my 21st birthday. we all had a countdown to aphi's installation, to our graduation, to indiana jones, to batman, to the last day of classes, to finals, to summer... my life has just been full of countdowns. and now i'm finally at a place in my life where i want time to slow down or stop completely and my brain is just ticking away, counting down to the end of summer, to moving to law school, to seeing j... and i am at once terrified and exhilarated. i guess a little bit of a back story is in order... i'm obsessing a little right now because i've been dating a guy for the last 3 months and he is WONDERFUL but we'd agreed to see each other for the summer and then reassess our relationship before i move... well i'm moving on the 10th so that reassessment is sneaking up on me. for the first time in my life i know i'm dating the nicest man i've ever met and i would do anything not to lose this... but i'm feeling a little helpless and have been spending a good deal of time obsessing. i'm in limbo with the clock ticking and don't know whether it'll be heaven or hell at the end. it's terrifying.
i suppose the custom is to tell you a little about myself... there's not much to tell, really. i'm a 22 y/o soon-to-be 1st year law student, self-proclaimed shoe addict, and someone whose brain works a little too hard for her own good. i constantly think about EVERYTHING, and lately EVERYTHING has been a little something like my boy + moving to school + shopping (always shopping). right now i'm working as the office coordinator for an environmental consulting firm, which involves lots of filing - and consequently, lots of time to think. sometimes i feel like i start off the day as a full tower of jenga blocks and by the end of the day i've spent so much time taking pieces out and examining them that just a little nudge will topple the whole thing. or a pile of pick-up-sticks, but that metaphor was a little too difficult to think about while trying to pay attention to american dad.
22 is probably too young to be feeling like a clock is ticking, but ticking it is. i've spent so much of my life counting down to things - when i was dating rick, i spent 3 years counting down to visits to pgh, his visits to my house, the weekends. i counted down to my 21st birthday. we all had a countdown to aphi's installation, to our graduation, to indiana jones, to batman, to the last day of classes, to finals, to summer... my life has just been full of countdowns. and now i'm finally at a place in my life where i want time to slow down or stop completely and my brain is just ticking away, counting down to the end of summer, to moving to law school, to seeing j... and i am at once terrified and exhilarated. i guess a little bit of a back story is in order... i'm obsessing a little right now because i've been dating a guy for the last 3 months and he is WONDERFUL but we'd agreed to see each other for the summer and then reassess our relationship before i move... well i'm moving on the 10th so that reassessment is sneaking up on me. for the first time in my life i know i'm dating the nicest man i've ever met and i would do anything not to lose this... but i'm feeling a little helpless and have been spending a good deal of time obsessing. i'm in limbo with the clock ticking and don't know whether it'll be heaven or hell at the end. it's terrifying.
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