So tomorrow is thanksgiving (or more or less 12 mins away from writing this word!). How many weeks left in the semester (including finals): 4. How many weeks to I go to Italy: 5ish? yeah cool.
I have a few things to chop at in this post.
One is I did nothing today. I was going to work on a paper to be that is going to be due very soon but said to hell with it. I brought all my books home in a small clothes hamper. Somewhere around 25 books. I took them out of the hamper, put them into piles on the ground of my mothers to- be TV room, ex-sewing room - current limbo room where DSL is at. great. I looked at them, they look nice. In piles corresponding to each paper or subject (4 papers - no friking kidding - hope one comes out even half decent...). They will sit there until tomorrow when maybe i will pick one up and read it in between helping with thanksgiving afternoonish feast and playing with two very cute soft-coated wheaten terriers. Then i go see grandma, dad, and watch extended edition of Greys Anatomy on v. large plasma TV - my only kick anymore...
This is thanksgiving. We spend a lot of time money and patience on one big meal that will make us fat (for some people) and sleepy (damn, triptophan). I am not against the spirit of the holidays - though it may sound. I like em a lot - they are fun. But, I am critical of what they have become, something very different than i remember when I was younger - and i expect them to stay this way & get worse.
The Anti- Consumer:
I went to Target tonight. I love going to Target. At the same time I am fed up with capitalist BS buy me buy me. Now of course Target is so much better than Wal Mart (or is it?). You see a different crowd at Target - a better dressed more quasi- intellectualized possibly wanting to look cooler etc. More moms with short hair cuts and square glasses. Hrm... odd. Whats the difference? Seriously.
No difference. Its just a societal thing. One of the little things that make us middle class feel more "IN" to something or another.
Just like the thing at the Maine Mall tomorrow night. At 8pm they are going to have this tailgate party till 1 am when all the stores will open up with insanely low prices -
RIGHT
- 1 AM.... 8pm to 1AM then you shop till like 3 AM. You should be asleep. WHY would you shop AT 3 AM? I would do it maybe once - and probably regret the sleep loss for days after. All that money you spend at 3 am. Why would you stand in a parking lot from 8pm to 1am..... WAITING IN THE MAINE COLD.
On the way down stop at Beans and get one of those -30-degrees sleeping bags - lord you'll need it.
LOVELY.
I am fed up with technology. I love Apple - even though their products die on me more than I wish. I beat them up - use every day - they should die then. Their products make my life better. Everytime I use a windows system I get so tense and almost full of anxiety - it is so backwards. Anyway to the point. I am on the verge of making a decision to buy a new iPod. Should I wait should I fix the one i have? Should I just get the current one that is out there and be happy with a functioning iPod?
I want to get one/fix this one before I go to Italy - because 1. I am not hauling around CD player/MD player and disks - 2. MUSIC is very essential to how I travel - it helps me get through things on this kind of trip.
So my current iPod is a G4 click wheel 20 gig. The battery lasts for 13 mins. Most of the songs load ok - a lot of the songs don't and skip to another song 1/2 way through the song - or you hear part of a song you listened to 5 songs back in-between songs (that 2 second gap) YEAH? And it clicks - the hard drive makes a clicking noise. Dead iPod - no. Battery dead - almost. HD dead - no, all diagnostics point to HD OKAY.
ARE YOU LYING TO ME????
So do I buy a battery for iPod clicky and see if that helps it? that 40 bucks... and then buy a new HD if I am still having problems at 149 bucks... NO i am better off buying a brand new G5 video 30 gig. THEN they will announce the G6 touch-screen (who knows if that is going to be what it is). AT MACWORLD in January when i come back from italy........ SEEEEEEE!! THE PROBLEM... i hate technology for this reason.
While at Target I played with the Microsoft Zune... NOT impressed... Backwards windows, stupid controls, etc... but i do like the larger screen - and how you can put your own pics on the screen - THATS IT. Seeing that made me realize the Apple just might introduce the G6 model sooner than later...
I think... I might spring for the 40 buck battery - install it myself - because I had to go into the case twice already to re mount the HD and see if that gets me through Italy. If it stops working I will throw it into the Grand Canal in Venice and wait for the G6 to come around.
Not impressed with technology...
I like CDs (at home) I like holding something. Why is the music industry going this way? I have so many iTunes purchases but they feel SO FAKE. Seriously. HERE WE GO into the digital age. Okay sure, I will be dragged along by the speeding train of tech like everyone else.
One day I am not going to care.
But until that day I am a poor consumer trying to have something that works.
Also not impressed with Pitchfork.com - but then again what else do a bunch of barely musically educated hipsters have to say anyway? Though I did like the Steve Reich interview - because it was mostly him talking (SO MANY MISTAKES IN THE INTERVIEW TOO!).
Wow I sound like a grouch tonight!
I am really not - quite content right now spending a day doing nothing. I think i will go to sleep.
