Emi's Journal

Kids are really impressed by dead fish, but knowing what you’re going to do with them when you’re done is a good idea (the fish, not the kids).

Mac OS 10.5 Leopard is worth EVERY penny!

DONUTS! YAY!!!!!!!!

Following tradition, I’m headed to my grandma’s for the donut feed! I love Halloween!
So, on Halloween I will be making myself sick on homemade donuts. And making sure the pumpkins stay lit (but not on fire! Hehe…).
Good times, good times! I’m excited.
I’ll also be getting all the stuff to setup my snake tank! Exciting!

So, in a moment of boredom and random thoughts, I decided to start this “Discovery of the Day” thing. So I figure you learn something new every day, and maybe I should see what I’m learning. And I want to post more… That’s part of it too.
So, I figure I can post something that I discover that day.

Today’s discovery:
Flavorite Mac & Cheese is not as good as Kraft.

So, I got my internet kit yesterday. Yay! Modem! Self-installation kit! Yay!

So I set it up, get the splitter set up, and all that good stuff. The modem is all ready to go, and I plug it the ethernet. I get routed to a Comcast setup page, which sucks…. So I download the setup wizard, and run it. It stalls. I try again, it stalls. I try again, and leave it for a couple hours, and it still is stalled when I get home.
OK. So that is not going to work. Plan B. Contact Comcast. I head over to the Clubhouse, where there is free wifi. It’s closed, it’s 10:30, it’s late, and dang, it was COLD! But I was determined, so I sat on the back deck and used the wifi to chat with a rep online.
We go through some stuff. I give her the MAC of my modem, and she asks for my account number. I don’t know what that is, so I ask where to find it. She signs off. And the chat closes. Wow, that was helpful.

So I ended up going home and testing it, still not working. I get on the weak open wifi network here, and try again. Get a different rep, go through pretty much the same conversation, but she tells me there is no account associated with the modem.
“You have no account.”
Ummm… But I have a modem? And a self-installation kit? Huh?

This morning I go back to the Clubhouse and use Skype to call Comcast. A sales rep helps me set up an account. He thinks it’s really funny that I got all the stuff, but no account. He got my $20 a month deal though, so everything is OK. The guy was nice, and that’s always good.

I come back to my apartment. Have an account now, YAY!
I try the setup wizard again. Guess what? STALL!
I reset the modem, just in case. Guess what? IT STALLS!

Back onto the weak wireless network, back to a live online chat with a rep. My 4th Comcast rep!
This one sets up an account for me, and gets my modem configured.
Hey look, I have internet!

How many people does it take to set up Comcast high-speed internet?
Five, apparently.

I was riding the bus to class this morning, and heard a couple people in the back of the bus discussing majors. I’m not sure what led to what I heard, but they were trying to figure out how a 9th grader could possibly know what they want to major in.
Of course, I had to smile.
Let me tell you how that works: sometimes you just know. When it’s so perfect, it fits everything you have known you would do, it includes what you love…. Sometimes you just know.

Boy, it’s only Tuesday and I am exhausted!
It seems like a lot has been going on. Well, maybe because a lot has been going on.
I moved into my apartment this weekend. Now Ret and I hang out, and we’re having a good time. Between romping at the dog park and quick walks, he seems to be doing OK. He barks sometimes, but not as much as I expected for his first few days.
Yesterday was busy too. Mondays in general area always busy. Between 5 hours of class, 2 hours of work, and the leadership meeting, I keep busy. That, and I went home at lunch to check on Ret.

Well, I need to go to class now. It’s Application Preformance day in Japanese…. Oh boy.

I love rain. The sound of rain, the feel of rain, the smell of rain… I love the rain! It’s pouring right now, and it’s such a refreshing sound. It’s like we’re being washed clean. We’re being cooled off. We’re starting fresh. The rivers are rising, the puddles are returning, it’s so nice!
A few weeks from now I’ll be sick of the rain. The transitional period, though, is great.

Oh, I do hope it isn’t pouring on Saturday… That would not be fun to be moving in.

Well, that’s hard to say, since I haven’t really found my specialization yet…. As a Fish & Wildlife student I like to say I have an interest in “virtually everything” (other people call it a diverse range of interests).
So on that note…. If I could have any business, I think it would be a sort of “freelance try a bunch of jobs and find what you like” kind of thing. My short attention span would LOVE being able to have a different job every few weeks. It would be like a temporary/seasonal job thing, but you’re guaranteed to be employed at all times. How cool would THAT be? You could do everything, and not have to do it long enough to get bored by it!
Yup, that sounds good to me.

You know those days where you just can’t sleep? Sometimes you know why, but then there are those days where you just can’t sleep and you have NO idea why.
Well, I think I’m having one of those days, in week form.
It seems so strange to me. I feel tired, I yawn, but the second I lay down to sleep I’m awake. I need to sleep sitting up or something, because that seems to be when I’m tired.
This used to happen a lot, but it hasn’t really happened since, well… When did it last happen? Maybe in Independence? Maybe even when I was at Central. But lots of stuff was coming me up then, I had lots on my mind. Even after I left, there was lots on my mind.
So I guess I’m moving on Saturday, and that’s a big deal, but I feel like that’s all ready to go. I guess I’m kind of worried about Ret, but we’ll be OK.
Midterms are next week, I guess that could be it. But the thing is, I’m not really worried about them. Not looking forward to them, of course, but I’m not really worried. I stopped getting test anxiety back when I realized whatever I got was what I got, at that point there was nothing more I could do, and that’s OK.

I don’t know what’s keeping me up, but I’m tired and I want it to stop.
Tomorrow I get out of class at 4:00. I think I’ll come home and make lists and stuff of what I need to do. Maybe then I’ll stop being up at what I have come to recognize as weird hours.