Frustrations and other Musings...

Ok, so this might go over some of your heads, but I find it absolutely mind boggling! So I have never really had the best of luck with wireless connections on my laptop, and I never could managed to connect to Netgear routers. But recently its gotten to the point where I cant even connect to the WSU wireless. Every time I try and connect it doesn't accept my password or school ID. And now it has progressed to where it crashes every time I try and connect. So I thought it might have just been my user, since I have the inept ability to mess things up. So I set up a new user on my computer and low and behold it connects just fine. So then I switched back to my main user and it stayed connected. Its kinda cheating but hey it works for me. Maybe you can explain to me why network manager crashes when I connect using my main account but when I connect with my second user and switch back its fine...

As for the problems with network manager, I blame the boy entirely. He has had the worst luck on his Sabayon computer with network manager and I think its beginning to rub off on my Ubuntu baby :(

Other than that not much else has been going on in P-town. It snowed a while back which is crazy, its been sunny and somewhat warm for the last month and all of a sudden overnight it snowed a couple inches. Then as soon as it came, it was gone, and back to being sunny. The other day we got a bunch of rain which was very exciting ( as some of you don't know, I love the rain, nothing better than a rainy morning ). Well it was the weekend and no one was in town, I was all by myself in the suite so I went on an adventure to the little market and bought some yummies to consume later in the lonely evening. And on my way back I took some pictures on my new phone because 1) I was excited it was raining and b) my phone doesn't take that bad of pictures and lastly, I have figured out a way to get them off my phone without emailing every one to myself. So here it is in all its glory, my attempt at a picture blog:

I have a lovely pair of white keds ( only one of which is actually mine ) and I decided they would look nice with the outfit I was wearing that day. Well I promptly forgot that rain and white shoes do not mix. Now I have a lovely pair of mud-stained off-white keds.


While I was walking down the hill back to the dorm I noticed something rather random. There were piles of Splenda packets scattered on the sidewalk. They looked as if they had been strewn there in haste by someone trying to get them somewhere in a hurry. I like to think that there was a great AA meeting going on in the dorm full of diabetics who needed their sugar rush, but they were out of sugar substitute packets for their coffee. So they sent one lone errand boy out into the rain to fetch their blessed sugar substitutes before the members went crazy from their lack of caffeine. Because no one can drink coffee just by itself, even coffee with Splenda is better than black coffee. But as the errand boy was returning from the market, he was suddenly attacked by a giant garbage eating squirrel. The mutant squirrel, fond of bothering poor students near the back entrance, stood between the boy and his goal of completing the errand, being recognized as completing such an important task and subsequently saving the school from the wrath of the groggy AA members. So, in an act of courage the boy lept past the beast, dropping a few of the precious packets ( a small sacrifice ) on the rain soaked side walk and ran as fast as his little boy legs could carry him to the door. When the boy returned with the packets he was proclaimed a hero and never was sent on another errand again. ( Or thats how I imagine it happened ).


After I returned the the dorm I went down to work and, as always, there was no one there. ( Maybe the other victims of the mutant squirrel weren't as fortunate )


So then I attempted to connect my poor laptop to the wireless, and only after making a new user, was I able to connect. But I just want you to know that my laptop is impossible! See, my laptop was recognizing a 66% signal strength from my wireless connection. Now I want you to look at the computer in that picture, see above the monitor that little grey rectangle. That's the wireless access point. Why on earth do I get 66% connection when I'm 4 feet from the access point?! Its mind boggling!


Then after my shift was over I trudged back up the stairs only to come across this little reminder of how much I love living in the nerdy, honors hall. I've commented before on the comments on the hall signs, I guess I just have to keep them coming....

Once I was back in my humble abode I took a moment to sit down and bask in the glory of our 6' tall poster of Despereaux. None of us have ever seen the film, but when the theater gives away free giant posters, you take one. The real trick it getting it to stay up there.

Well thats all I can think of for interesting pictures I've taken. Someday I may take some more and share them with you, but this is enough for now ( this blog has officially reached the length: tl;dr ) I hope you all enjoyed some of the anecdotes I added as captions for the photos, I tried to go back to some of my roots and write blogs like in the good old days of Myspace ( did I do goods? )

That is all from the pulpit,
see you all next time freinds!

The wonders of open source software

So I was dinking around in the terminal today (yea, that's not a good way to start a sentence) and I came across these nifty little easter eggs, I don't know if you will enjoy them as much as I do XD


If you can't tell, I wanted to know more about the apt-get command, so I typed "apt-get --help" and I guess the "APT has Super Cow Powers", random. But now I was curious, so I googled this anomaly and discovered that if you typed "apt-get moo" you got a nifty picture of a cow asking "....Have you mooed today?..." Who knows, but apparently they had a little too much fun writing this.

Pardon my Lateness...

Well, not much excitement has been going on down in P-town. Its midterms time and everyone has been studying like no tomorrow. Its been crazy. This whole semester has been crazy. Not my best. I actually failed a physics exam. Now I hate to say but I am usually that girl who says "Oh, I did terrible" and then gets a B+. But this time when I say I did terrible, I really mean I did terrible. I have never actually failed an exam before. This was a new experience. I still haven't decided if I like it yet, but I always have my withdraws if things continue in this manner. Oh and I felt kinda silly this weekend. I wanted to hang out with the boy on Friday after all my terrible exams and projects (I also wanted to get his advise on some homework) but when I got on facebook I saw his status was "In Pasco for the weekend" I was just like "thanks for telling me" I had no idea he was leaving. I was a bit annoyed at first. But then I remembered a few weeks ago when I took a spontaneous road trip to southern Idaho and failed to mention this to him. I'm still not sure if he didn't tell me on purpose as payback or not... heh.

Other than that, weather has been weird, its been awfully warm with random days in which it will be about 20F and frosty and then go back to 45F the next day. Oh I got a new cell phone a few weeks back. I have had the same silver razr for about 5 years now and I thought it was time to upgrade. Sadly Verizon doesn't have very many exciting phones. I was going to go for a generic phone, but I got suckered into getting the LG Dare, and I actually kinda like it. It is a bit silly being a touch screen and all, but I like it. Its no iPhone, but as a phone it works pretty well. It also has an awesome camera, so bam 2 for 1, now I dont need to get a digital camera.

Today I watched the Oscars, that was a little disappointing as always. I have a hard time with the oscars, becuase one I love them, but I am always disappointed. A lot of the time the people I think should win don't. I feel that most of the time the awards are always political. I hate when films win for reasons other than the ones they won for. Ok, let me explain. Milk won the oscar for best original screenplay somehow. I don't think it really deserved this award. I mean I'm sure it was a good film and had an interesting message and all, but I definitely don't think it deserved the best screenplay of the year. The other nominees definitely had better writting, I think Milk only won becuase it was controversial, and people wanted to make a statement (also, the acceptance speech was a bit uncalled for) but oh well, thats my 2 cents and they dont really matter. But I was excited that Kate Blanchett won, I love her and am happy to see she finally got and oscar, now I really want to see Revolutionary Road! But I do have to say this year was a bit of a let down, not very many good movies came (or at least ones that I wanted to see) I am very excited for next year though, there are a bunch of films I cant wait to see!

In other movie news, I watched Memento for the first time this weekend, and I have to say I really liked it. Its definitely worth seeing. I can't believe I went this long in my life without seeing it. Oh well. I also watched Monty Python and the Holy Grail with the subtitles for "those who don't like the film" for the first time (you know, the ones randomly taken from henry VI) and I will say it made the movie all the more enjoyable. I've owned this movie for years and have never actually watched it with the subtitles. I am very glad now that my roommate recommended it. However, I was also disappointed this weekend, we wanted to see Coraline but it wasnt showing in P-town, we would have to go to Spokane, and thats a bit too far of a drive. Maybe the roomie and I will check it out next weekend, after we sign a lease for an apartment that is...

Speaking of apartments, the boy's apartment complex made Digg, that was pretty exciting. And its true, some of the wifi names in that place are pertty interesting... Maybe I will take a screenshot next time I'm there and show you.

There sadly hasnt been much else to talk about, I did have some things I wanted to share, but sadly I forgot all of them. :\ Oh well, here is a little something from a blog I wrote about a week ago that I never posted >_<:

Just dinking around on facebook this morning and I have to say I don't think their ad software works very well. I am in the Washington State University network and I keep getting ads for the Gonzaga basketball online store... Seriously facebook?

Also, It's the eye of the tiger, it's the cream of the fight Risin' up to the challenge of our rival!!

My roommate was watching some movie the other day and I have seriously had that song stuck in my head non stop for the last three days. Its midly annoying and mildy amusing at the same time.

Oh I also went on a late night adventure to Safeway with the roomie the other night and got some wonderful little plants to replace the ones she killed last semester. The purple one is exciting because it looks exactly like one that our friend from Florida left us last year (which sadly died).
And today I heard from a friend that Kanye West was wearing a letterman's jacket from my high school and I was in disbelief, but this blog says otherwise. Its mind boggling how such a famous person like that would get a letterman's jacket from somewhere as random as kamiakin. Too much fun!

Well those are all the thoughts I have running through my head right now so I am off to bed! Night!

That Was a Joke, HAHA, Fat Chance

So I was dinking around on my computer today and I came across this picture that I took a couple weeks ago and remembered that I wanted to blog about it, but I never got around to it.


Anyway, the story behind the picture goes a little like dees:

So there had been this sign up in the stairway of my dorm for the longest time advertising for a hall meeting to select the government. Anyway, the only way the hall can manage to get residents to attend is by providing free food. So for this meeting they were going to have ice cream cake (as you can see). But one day I was walking home from class and something caught my eye. There had been an addition to the sign. In small print below the cake sign someone had scribbled in "The cake is a lie!" Now I would like to say I burst into laughter at this point, but I am not that outspoken so I chuckled to myself quietly and took a picture right away. Only in the Honors dorm would such a comment be made. I then proceeded to run upstairs and tell my roommates about my discovery. For some reason they were not as excited as I was about it. I don't think any of them understood, which was a real shame. Thus I figured I should share this story on the internet, since it might get better reception there. I only failed at the sharing part. I tend to do that a lot.

So there you have it, the story of exactly how nerdy my dorm is. And I just need to make a note here: HUGE SUCCESS!

Random Misadventures of an Eventful Wednesday

Wow two posts in a single week, it must be a record! Actually today was full of some exciting events I just felt compelled to tell the internet about them.

Well today actually started out pretty lame. I had to go in to work at 8 am this morning. Now most people would say 8 isn't that early, but for a college student who doesn't have class until noon, this was ridiculously early. Anyway, I stumbled out of bed early this morning and wandered over to the building I was working in and on the way I ran into a guy who was totally the evil twin of none other than my dear friend Party Pete. He looked exactly the same down to the khakis and black pea coat. The only way I knew it wasn't actually him was the cigarette he had in is his hand. Thus the only rational conclusion would be that I found his evil twin. After that I sat around the helpdesk for a couple hours listening to the techs banter on about the funniest things. From one's hatred about stats to another's complains of a hang over, the conversations were quite entertaining.

Next was my first computer science class of the day which went by rather slowly and wasn't too exciting. That was followed by my other comp sci class which was mildly interesting. The best part was before the class started. You know how people tend to sit in the same seats every day in classes, well I always sit two seats from the wall in my cs class and there are always these two guys that come in right before class starts and sit in the two chairs next to me. Now this week a third guy decided to come and sit in the seat next to me, disrupting the seating bliss we had. So then I got put in the awkward position of splitting up these three friends. With only two seats and three friends, one had to sit on the other side of me. I don't know if its just me, but I love watching people be awkward. Part of me wants to sit one seat over on Friday so that all three of them can sit together, but the other part of me wants to witness the awkwardness, mwahahaa.

Ahem, after that I trekked over to the physics building for none other than my physics class. Which is always entertaining since I sit with Party Pete and Cassette Disc. Today we had a quiz with these stupid clickers that act like remotes that you input your answers on. Anyway, they look stupid and in fact are rather pointless (its just because the professor is too lazy to grade quizzes, or rather pass them off to the TA to grade). But they are a new fangled technology, so I guess they have to learn that its stupid somehow. Well Party Pete decided to trace his "cleeeker" (as the professor says) and turned it into a fun little guy with a sophisticated curly mustache, a comb-over, a tux shirt and a cape. He then proceeded to write out the rest of his notes with his left hand (he's right handed) it was more entertaining watching him than keeping track of how many times the professor drops his microphone.

On my way back home from class I got the prime opportunity to be a creepy stalker, it was too much fun. See when I walk home I take several short cuts through buildings. And today there was this poor guy who happened to be taking the same short cuts I was. Now it started when I walked through the Conner museum which is a really random building and really people only enter it to pass through it. So I followed him into that building and he didn't think twice when he held the door open after him. But then I continued to follow him out of the same exit and across a courtyard into another building. This time he gave me an awkward look while holding the door open behind him. As we were walking down the hall he continually looked behind himself to see if I was following him (I assumed) the best part was when he turned a corner and took a quick look behind and started walking faster when he saw I turned at the same corner! So then I followed him out of the building and he hurried off in the opposite direction I was headed. I never realized how much fun it is stalking people (even if its unintentional)!

So that's been about the extent of my day. Oh I have recently found my new favorite band (well maybe not my absolute favorite, but they are high up there). Anyway, its White Rabbits, they have a really fun, unique sound and don't sound like every other alternative/indie/punk band out there right now.

And with that I will leave you to go to homework or get ready to watch Lost! And I wish you a Happy Hump Day!

Hooray for 6 More Weeks of Winter, Oh Wait...

Ok, so its been a while and I was going to update last week but just didn't get around to it. But I have a couple of funny stories from last week, so this one might be kinda long. They also might not be as funny as I thought they were at the time. But this is because I wrote all my notes down on the crossword I was doing in my philosophy class and accidentally threw the paper away. Anyway, I do remember some of it.

For me the funniest thing that happened last week was during the aforementioned philosophy class. For some reason the professor decided to call role during the second week and he did so by calling out last names. Now this professor is a tiny old man and he has just about the most monotone voice I've ever heard, think Ben Stein. Now Ferris Bueller's Day Off is one of my favorite movies of all time (if you haven't seen it I recommend doing so now, its the epitome of classic teen movies from the 80's) and during one scene Ben Stein is calling roll just like my phil prof did. Now in the movie one of the characters named Cameron Frye is absent so he keeps calling his last name "Frye....Frye....Frye....". And in my class there happened to be a student enrolled with the same last name who also happened to be absent. Now I kid you not, while he was calling roll, my prof sounded exactly like Ben Stein. It was too funny. I actually laughed out loud in class and then felt like a dork for doing so.

Also my phsyics class is too much fun. See I have a professor who's first language is probably not english, and sometimes the way he says things is just too hilarious. Take for instance all of last week. We have been discussing the basics of electronics, boring right. Not when your professor continuously has to vigorously rub the robs to induce a charge. Maybe its just the people I am sitting next to, but there is an absurdly high ratio of "that's what she said" jokes to lecture.

Sadly, I can't remember much more than that. Oh last week one of my teeth that were broken in the accident broke again so I had to go to a local dentist here in town to get another temporary fix before I get my crowns done in May. Anyway, the most frustrating part was that I had an appointment at 8 am on a Wednesday. So I get up at the butt crack of dawn and head out to go to the dentist, which everyone loves doing right when they wake up. Anyway, I got the address and figured that I could find it easily. Wrong, I spent about 20 minutes driving up and down the one stupid road looking for this place that I passed about 10 times. Not the best way to start the day. But the oddest part was that when I finally found the stupid place there was already about 15 people waiting around in the lobby. I just thought to myself 'No way do this many people willingly sign up for dentist appointments at this ungodly hour'. It was amazing since there are about 20 dentists in the whole town, it seems like patients would be a bit more spread out, but I guess a lot of people needed to see a dentists that day or something, who knows.

Other than that not much has been going on. Still trudging through my classes. Well today is the Super Bowl, that's somewhat exciting, except that I'm not watching it. As always I'm stuck at work. It was rather fun, about an hour before the game started my roommates freaked out and wanted to go get pizzas and the 3D glasses that Safeway was giving out. Of course they were out of them though. There was also about 3 billion people at Safeway today. It was like a zoo. The funniest part was before we left all my roommates were running through the suite yelling about what we needed to do. When we left the suite there was a guy sitting out in the lobby outside our door and he just gave us this look when we walked out. One of my roommates went on to explain that we had to get ready for the superbowl and his response was 'Yea, I heard'. Heh, sometimes they forget how sound travels further through dorm walls than normal walls.

As for work, things might be looking up for me. Since they are shutting down the labs in the residence halls I will have to move to another department. I got an email the other day saying they wanted me to job shadow the helpdesk coordinator. Hopefully that would mean a promotion! But who knows.

Well I wrote this yesterday and as of now it is officially Groundhog Day. This morning was hilarious, I was woken up to the song "I Got You Babe" playing on my radio! Now this is funny to any one who has seen the movie Groundhog Day (which I recommend you should!) The real question is will they play it again tomorrow morning? heh. Anyway, that is all for now, sorry this has kinda been the mega post. >_<