craziness

I'm off to Nepal tomorrow. That's one long flight. I'm looking forward to seeing someplace completely different from here. It should be eye opening. I have two times set on my watch now. Here and Nepalese time. It's 4:47AM there now. Maybe I should have gone to bed early.

Those tsunamis are awful. I can't believe it. They just said the death toll is now over 50,000 with even more expected. I want to find a way to help. So many people...

zzzzzzzz's

I have been sleeping all the time. Any free time I have, all I want to do is nap. We're talking 10-12 hours a day. I'm so tired. I'm taking vitamins and everything. I hope this goes away soon. I'm tired of being tired.

Art

I really want to get back into art again. I'm thinking of implementing a one drawing per day minimum. Even if it's a 5 minute drawing. Perhaps I do something like that for 30 days and fill up a sketchbook. It would be interesting to see what I'd draw in Nepal. I'm spending an entire day on a plane. Maybe I could draw my food or my hands or my plastic fork. It's actually easier to find something to draw when you're confined to a small space because there are fewer options to choose from.

I had a wonderful morning.

Nothing to Report

Life is pretty tedious these days. I'm just trudging through. I'm finished doing work for 3 classes. 3 more to go. I should be researching right now. It feels like it never ends but once this paper's done, I just have 2 exams. Easy-peasy. Hopefully. This school thing has worked out rather well. It's raining again in Boston. It rains every Tuesday. Luckily not too many Fridays. Only 14 more shopping days left. My exams are totally screwing with my shopping schedule! I will continue my story another time. Patti will follow your guys' advice and get a box to put the boots in.

Patti with an i

Once upon a time, long long ago, there lived a spry little girl named Patti. (Patti with an i.) Sometimes when Patti wrote her name, she liked to dot the i with a little heart. Patti was a happy little girl skipping along through the magical world of Destiny. One day, Patti was playing around with her best friend, Shirley. (Shirley with an e-y.) Shirley was an intense little girl with a flair for the dramatic. Usually the girls got along very well. They played and picked flowers and ate magical candy gumdrops from the side of the road.
Shirley had a magical looking glass. When she looked into it, she saw beautiful wonderful scenes of herself. There was only one small problem. The looking glass was slightly broken. Every so often, as soon as Shirley looked into the looking glass, there would be thunder and the sun would go down. All would become dark. Then Patti and Shirley couldn’t play. It was frustrating to wait until the sun came back out. They would miss out on fun times. All the magical sun-powered toys would stop working. The third time it happened, Patti had an idea. She suggested that Shirley only use her looking glass at night, when the sun was already gone. Suddenly Shirley turned bright red and steam came out of her ears. She was very angry and yelled at Patti. “I can’t believe you would ask me to do that! It hardly ever happens and I NEED to see myself in my looking glass. I will NOT wait until the sun goes down. How dare you even ask that. I HATE YOU!” This made Patti very sad. Usually Shirley was so nice. She didn’t understand why Shirley got so angry. She waited a few days, and as little girls do, they forgot about the whole event.
The following week in school, Patti learned what to do if somebody does something that bothers you. You’re supposed to say, “Don’t do that!” She tried it out in school when somebody pulled on her braid. And…it worked! This was quite a discovery for Patti. She no longer needed her magic bubble protection. That afternoon, after school, she went home, and Shirley came over to play. It was raining outside, and when Shirley came in, she put her wet dirty boots right on Patti’s rug. Patti took a deep breath and said, “Please don’t do that. Can you leave them outside? When you do that I need to spend a lot of time cleaning it up.” Shirley turned purple. Her eyes turned into little slits. She grabbed her boots and turned right around and ran out of the house. Patti was very confused.

What should Patti do?

Gentleman Pedestrian

The other night I was about to pull into the parking lot when I saw that this guy was walking on the sidewalk, so I stopped to let him walk past. He stopped, looked at me, and gestured for me to go in first. What a gentleman! Would he have done the same if I had been a man? Should I have insisted that he go? I was quite impressed by this pedestrian.

It looks like the Messenger 7 beta is finally out. http://messenger.msn.com/beta I see they decided to go with the term 'nudge' for the feature that shakes the IM window. Before I left MS, I sent a bunch of emails with naming suggestions for this feature. Nudge was on my list. I wonder if that's where they got it from. I can't remember all my suggestions. I think I liked 'jolt' too, but it was already an energy drink. (Yahoo calls this feature 'buzz.') It looks like some of my stuff didn't make it into the beta. Bummer! That's pretty much what happens after you leave anyway. But winks got in and that's very exciting to see. I hope they come out with some new free content!