digitalphiltrum

so christmas is over and i have finally emerged from my little mini winter break. back to work and back to reality. AND back to my little peice of the webosphere. did you miss me?

i had a pretty good christmas, nothing terribly special. but the awesome thing about christmas this year is that i received enough gift cards and money to go out monday and purchase myself a new digital camera. i chose the Nikon D50. it is slightly below the much-worshiped D70, but not enough to concern me.

now that i have a rockin new camera im going to have to start posting pictures again to my album. i’ll let ya’ll know when that happens. in the meantime, let me share a funny christmas story with you…

so i was helping my baby brother (ok…hes not really a baby, hes 20) empty presents out of the trunk of his car on sunday and i happened to notice that the handwriting on the tags of said presents was a little bit…oh how shall i say it….girly. like full out graceful loopey loop girly. and then i noticed that all the presents were wrapped very neatly, with a bow on top. i turned to the brother and say….”did you get someone else to wrap your gifts for you?”. well, turns out, he had a lady-friend up from VA for a couple of days who he somehow convinced to wrap his gifts for him. he tells me that “she offered!” but i have to say, when i offer to do something for someone, it doesnt mean i really want to do it, im usually just being nice. but he let her wrap all his gifts. “you better have taken her out to dinner afterward” i said to him. and his response was, “i compensated…”

::hanging my head in shame::

my baby brother is a whore.

CHRISTIANS BEWARE: satan is now spawning himself in the form of recycled white paper!!

well…i was convinced of it by the time i left my exam last night….ya know, 3 and a half hours after i got there. i have to say, i did a hell of a lot of work in college. i typed papers until there were blisters on the little tips of my fingers (ok, that might be a slight exaggeration, but it is at least possible), but i never took an exam that was so purely evil. i was a writing major for a reason, im good at bullshitting–really good at it. the key to successful bullshitting, just like the key to successful theft, is confidence. people are easily fooled, so if you sound like you know what you are talking about, they’ll usually believe you. computers on the other hand, not so easily fooled. and when you are asked to write computer programs….on paper…with a pencil…it just isnt right.

but….im fuckin done.

at least till mid january.

i am happy to report that in 5 hours i will 1. officially be done with my java class, 2. have time for something resembling a social life on the weekends again and 3. be a much more pleasant person to talk to (this is not to be confused with me saying i will be a pleasant person, because i wont–you know that–but i will be slightly less crazed-angry-stressed-out-bitch-ish than i have been*).

so yeah. wish me luck on my final.

*please note implied emphasis on the word ‘slightly’.

so let me tell you about my day yesterday…

it started off on a really good note, with me sleeping in until 10am because i took off work because….well…i can, and never do, and i have this really big important project that i need to finish by next monday. so it was necessary (except the sleeping till 10 — that was not necessary, but it was a nice perk). and then i showered and ate breakfast, both very wonderful. and then i checked the weather report to see that they were calling for a maryland style blizzard (anything over a quarter of an inch) to begin AT ANY MOMENT!! this was more than wonderful, this was spectacular, as i have class on monday nights and really really really didnt want to remove myself from the apartment to go do tedious java programming via distance learning.

so yes….SNOW — very exciting.

so i opened the blinds to watch for the impending blizzard and started work on my really big important project. an hour passed. project going well….still no snow. two hours passed….project still going well….still no snow. three hours passed and OH MY GOD I HAVE TO GO TO CLASS SOON WILL YOU PLEASE SNOOOOW NOW.

and there were flurries!! and life was wonderful and perfect and happy.

but then it stopped.

so i had to go to class. i cant say for certain, but there is a slight possibility that i might have thrown a teeny weeny temper tantrum involving loud complaining, kicking of feet and several strange word combinations.

shockingly enough, as soon as i got to class, the snow began.

and there was much sadness and gnashing of teeth as well as several accidents (as maryland drivers cannot drive if there is even the slightest chance of any form of precipitation — or even humidity — or cloud cover).

of course, it did snow all night, which neither got me out of class nor delayed my work day. it simply annoyed me even more by adding 15 minutes of car cleaning-offing to my normal morning routine.

all in all — it sucked. where is my blizzard?? the news channels promised blizzard!!