A lot has happened in the past 2 weeks and I think now is about time I caught you all up. I’ll try to go in order here and keep it as concise as physically possible for me, by which you can expect a couple pages of rambling.

All right, so, I finished my first summer session. I can pretty much assure you at this point that I will NOT be doing that again. Why, you ask? Well off the top of my head: there’s nothing open on campus, the dining halls don’t serve meals on weekends (and what they do serve is utter crap), you have to go to the same classes every single day, and you never get a break or a way to pace yourself. The only good thing I can think of was that I had 4 of my guy friends there with me and we all lived on the same hall. Good times. Good times. I got a bit ahead with 7 more credit hours completed (of course all A’s in my 3 classes: Foundation of Graphic Comm, Biology and Bio Lab), but, yah, not worth it.

On the day of my last exam I moved all my stuff out and visited the Apple store… where I bought my first Apple computer, a 15” Macbook Pro. His name is Lucian. I may draw you his personification some time in the future. Oh, and I got a free 8Gb iPod Touch as a result, because of the “Back-to-School” promotion! As if they had to sweeten that deal anyway.

Also, is it normal to want to nuzzle your Mac laptop lovingly and coo sweet nothings at it?

The new unibody design is sooooo gorgeous. It is functional and simple and sleek. I fell in lust as soon as I saw it for the first time, around Christmas, and knew I would not settle for anything less.

I also love love love the iPod Touch more than I thought I would. I love the concept of apps and there are so many cool ones out there with absolutely breathtaking interfaces--although they are hard to find amongst all the utter crap ones. It’s like trying to find a piece of gold in a 20 foot tall trash heap which coincidentally has lots of fake coins made out of chocolate and plastic that look very similar until you actually pick them up and examine them thoroughly.

My absolute favorite interface on an app is either “Convertbot” or the word game “Lexic” which are both not only functional and easy to use, but a work of art in themselves. My most used app would have to be “Dictionary.com.” I love having a dictionary/thesaurus I can carry with me everywhere and look up new and exciting words (I usually can only do that when I’m at my computer). Why yes, I’m a nerd, thanks for asking.

The iPod, I realize, needs a name too. I’m working on it, but nothing is jumping out at me right now.



Actually I’m getting tired of talking about me and it has taken me three days just to force myself to write this much for some reason or another. I think I will wrap this up right here and continue with my cruise to the Bahamas last week in another future journal. I think that is best for both you and me. Contrary to popular belief, I do not particularly enjoy spouting endless monologues about myself, and one can only take so much listening to someone else ramble on and on about his or her exploits. Believe me, I know.