OhBuoyancy!

1. Finish up and email my articles (need to do that today actually)
2. Read for fun, not because I want to pass my classes. Starting Tropic of Cancer today.
3. Relax, if that’s at all possible.
4. Start my Lit. paper or at least decide on a topic.
5. Publish this post that’s been sitting in drafts for months.
6. Shopping maybe?
7. Look for new job? I had been thinking about getting a second job just for the summer, but now my job is changing in a way that means $20 less every week, so now I need a new job altogether.
8. Sun.
9. Remember what I’m forgetting.
10. Wii!
11. Clean out my reading queue.
12. Taxes, ugh.
13. List stuff on ebay.

In lieu of a regular post, seeing as my life is quite hectic right now, I thought I would post a few links to things I have been meaning to post about, some old, some newish.

Caring for Your Introvert: Yes, ladies and gentlemen, I am for the most part what one would call introverted. This is a good piece to read if you know any introverts and still an interesting read if you are one yourself. I don’t like the title of it though, I don’t think we need to be “cared for;” it would be better titled “Understanding Your Introvert,” or “How to Act (and Not to Act) Around Introverts.”

What Would Jesus Buy?: Trailer for a Morgan Spurlock (of “Supersize Me”) film on consumerism. I have not yet seen it, but looks very um…interesting. Check it out.

Super Mario Galaxy in Amsterdam: This site is not in English, but it’s the pictures that are great. It’s the celebration of the release of Super Mario Galaxy in Amsterdam. The first pic is awesome.

Bake a Book: Gizmodo post about book technology (yes BOOK technology) with thermo-reactive ink. Basically, the pages are blank until you bake the book in the oven, then words show up.

50 Years of Lego: So I missed posting about the birthday of the Lego brick, but here’s the timeline (also Gizmodo).

Polaroid to Nix Polaroids. What?: Yep, no more instant photos (aka Polaroids!) from Polaroid. Next thing we know Aunt Jemima will quit making syrup, rain will stop being wet, and we’ll here that the John Montagu (look him up if you must) never ate sandwiches.

Defend Your Coffee Habbit: I must have at least 2 cups of coffee every afternoon, if I do not you do not want to be around me. I’ve used each of these defenses at least once.

Bradley Hathaway Interview: A wonderful interview with Bradley Hathaway from HM Magazine. The best parts are what he says about love, both God’s love and romantic love. If you don’t know who Bradley Hathaway is, educate yourself, you won’t be disappointed.

And I’ll end with a quote:

“American movies have been using satire for years to take the edge off sex and violence. Occasionally, perhaps sex and violence should be treated with the seriousness they deserve.” – Roger Ebert

Accidentally hitting the power button while playing (and beating) one of the bosses in the final level of Super Paper Mario. Definitely a downside of having a power button on the controller.

Anyway, Cornerstone Florida is next weekend and I’m definitely going. So I’ve decided that from today until then, to only listen to bands that I’m excited about seeing there. This includes:
Family Force 5
Kids In The Way
Showbread
As Cities Burn
As I Lay Dying
Chasing Victory
Copeland
The Dark Romantics
Haste The Day
Maylene And The Sons Of Disaster
Underoath

I will also finally get to meet both Ward and Jesse in the flesh.

Not too eventful so far, maybe that’s the point.

We got a new TV and entertainment center last week.

It has a built in QAM tuner so now we get a bunch of digital channels some are HD and that’s pretty cool. We also get on demand movies that other people are watching, which is pretty weird. It would be awesome if it weren’t for putting up with their rewinding and often completely stopping the movie. But just watching the regular shows I watch in HD is amazing, the most impressive so far was House last night. I just wish CW would magically appear in HD. It also makes me wish my PVR picked up QAM signals.

Playing Wii on the new TV is hard to get used to my tennis score went down dramatically, it’s um, different and hard to explain. I also got two new Wii games. Cooking Mama: Cook Off, which is a little less streamlined than I expected, I kind of feel like they weren’t finished with it, but it’s fun none-the-less. Today we went shopping in Destin/Santa Rosa and I got Marble Mania which is pretty darn fun.

I had an interesting thought the other day. I wonder if anyone has ever drove a jetski (or boat for that matter) to school (meaning the local community college). The campus is right on the water, and many people around here (not unlike myself) live on the water. It wouldn’t take any longer, and there’d be less traffic, that’s for sure. I brought the thought to my mom’s attention and she assumed I wanted to buy a jetski to drive to school to save on gas…

Leicee invited some people over Friday night and we watched Open Season and ate pizza. I also brought my Wii, so we had a little Wii party. Wario Ware gets very confusing. I should have took more than one picture, but I didn’t, so I’m not even posting that one.

Currently listening to the new My Brightest Diamond entitled Tear it Down. It is a remix album, and while I’m not usually a big fan of remix albums, it, um tears it up.