Ah college

I'm back to college and the first week is done. It went well I think. Not to happy with my schedule, don't know what I was thinking when I planned it but oh well. We've been playing a lot of Frisbee and learned two new games called Ninja and Waa. They're pretty cool especially ninja, hence the name of the game. L...O...L...Been kind of a boring week and I wish I was working but there is pretty much no such thing as a job in this area. I'm keeping on top of my work do, I said I would get at least a 3.0 so that's what I'm aiming for. I don't really know what else to say. I heard this story about a mud covered troll which I will have to tell when I get home. It's hilarious beyond belief! Yeah...so, other than that nothing much has really happened, just kinda getting back in the swing of things I suppose.

Vampires suck? The movie?

This new movie came out that most of you have probably heard of. It's called Vampires Suck and it's a parody on the Twilight Saga. I haven't seen it yet but the previews to it look really funny and from what I hear so far, the previews give it no justice! This is not what this specific post is going to mostly be about. It will of course be about vammpires because that's been a long time coming, but it won't focus on that movie. More on the Twilight series than anything else.

At the begining of the summer I decided to read the Twilight series so I can no longer be a hypocrite and finally have some sort of backing as to why it is a sucky series. I was able to make it through the first three in the series but I couldn't finish Breaking Dawn. It dragged on way to much, so I just skipped to the Eclipse novella, The Short Second life of Bree Tanner. It was well written unlike the other books. It is an idiotic idea that the vampires in these books sparkle in the sun like diamonds though. This made me think...are they all like this?

I went on to read Insatiable by Meg Cabot which is a really good book. The writing is pretty good, a lot better than Stephenie Meyers in my opinion. In this book, the vampires don't sparkle. They can turn into mist to get into places that have been made holy. Being splashed with holy water and stabbed in the heart is how these vamps get destroyed.

Another book I read was Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter by Seth Grahame-Smith. In this book, vampires are destroyed by having their heads cut off, usually in a pretty violent matter.

These different books lead me to wonder where the authors are coming up with these ideas. Some of them are decent and 'normal' ideas, like beheading. But...sparkling like diamonds and turning into mist is a rather obnoxious idea even for a fiction story. I plan to read Dracula by Bram Stoker at some point in the near future in hopes that that tale sounds a little more 'realistic'.

Multimedia, part 1/3

I did the Flickr thing. Got an account, uploaded a picture of my dog Maggie and I played around with the editing tools. It was pretty easy to edit it so that makes it better but I personally don't like this image sites. It's just not my thing. They're cool and everything but I just see no purpose to them. If I want to share my photos with people then I'll put them on my Facebook and be done with it.

Flickr and the Picasa program are easy to use and it's pretty quick to learn them. I used the Flockdraw drawing tool as well. That I liked. I'm entertained pretty easily. Those kinds of things are fun to me and I like that I can just draw whatever without any sort of 'box' to stay in.

I used these things to edit my photo and just played around with them but they're old things. It's something that I'm trying for the 23things but I will most likely never use them again after this.

IT'S MY BIRTHDAY!!!

Today is my birthday!!! I made it to 19! Lol. I'm excited for two things: 1.)My kick butt Dr. Seuss Shoes are on their way here as I type. I'm so excited. I'm hoping that if I can wear shoes to work today, I'm going to wear those. And second...I have to work today! I'm actually really excited about that. Most people don't really like or mind working on their birthday but I am perfectly content with it. I have tomorrow off though =) If I didn't work today I would probably just spend my time packing for school and on Facebook saying thanks to a bazillion people for the birthday wishes.

Here's a keynote. I learned this morning that having your phone connected to your Facebook can destroy your morning. My phone is set to receive notices from Facebook when people do pretty much anything such as writing Happy Birthday on your wall. I turned my phone on and woke up to about 32 messages from a combination of Facebook and friends saying Happy Birthday. It's great and everything but it takes awhile for them to all load up. Anywho...Happy 19 years to me! Should be a great day!

DR. SEUSS SHOES!!!

One day I was using Stumbleupon for the 23 things and I stumbled upon the converse website! The awesome thing about this is they have a new series by Chuck Taylor All Stars. It's the Dr. Seuss Shoes series and they are totally sweet. I cannot possibly show all of my excitement through this post alone. THESE ARE ALL THE AWESOME DR. SEUSS SHOES!
I ended up going home and buying a pair. I really wanted the red and white striped ones because that is the classic Seuss pattern but they didn't have my size in women's and I so didn't trust the whole conversion from women's to men's sizes so I bought this pair...

SOCIAL BOOKMARKING!!!

THIS IS SO FRICKING SWEET! I was looking over the next 23 things step on social bookmarking and I was thinking to myself why do we have to do this? Then I kept reading more and Stumbleupon was on the list of sites for the Exercise section. I've always wanted to check out that sight so I was super excited about it cause I know alot of people that are absorbed by that sight as much as they are Facebook. I was checking my interests and all that jazz which is really easy. Then I went and started looking through different pages and one came up that I think is so funny. It's the world's 18 strangest bathrooms! Some of them are so cool but others are just so weird and pointless.

Technorati is a cool website if you're big into blogging. It's cool that it tracks the popularity of the blogs by linking and other factors. If you blog alot and like to look through different blogs, it comes in handy when you want to find the most popular blogs. It searches through all the blogs too so you can look at certain blogs that pertain to your search. If you want something specific or are just bored and want to look at the popular ones, then Technorati is a good site for you.

LinkedIn

I have a LinkedIn account. I went to get one and it said I already had one so I guess that worked out well. Lol. I filled out the profile and everything. It was super easy. Just as easy as filling out things for other sites. I have a few connections I think but I don't go on everyday and check it. I only go on when I remember that I have it.