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I have been debating whether or not I should bring my tablet to the dorm. On the one hand I could be drawing things and updating various sites with more recent art... and I could even make some visuals to go along with some of these blogs. On the other hand I'm not entirely sure how much time I would have to do such things... also that would be one more thing to have to take back after the semester is over. Hardly anyone has seen the dorm, but I have been trying to avoid moving things here because I am trying to keep the transport process simple. Once I actually have my own place it will obviously be a different story. Dorms are just too short-term.

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So a couple of friends of mine have recently decided to give the ol' Weight Watchers a shot. Given my own tendency to go back and forth between wanting to lose weight and general love of all things full and flavorful, I have decided that maybe it is time for that pendulum to swing back the other way and see if it takes this time. I am familiar with the methods and system of Weight Watchers, having previously attempted it in a less than up and up fashion. At least two other people I know have done it and lost about 60 lbs, so it is clearly doable. I just need to work on the things that have always held me back... specifically when it comes to eating. It isn't that I eat too much, quite the opposite in fact. I usually forget to eat or wind up not doing so due to a certain lack of food in my dorm room. I have no fridge so anything I get has to be durable. Additionally I do at times forget to keep track of the relevant information for to make calculations. Anyhow I digress... I am thinking that at this point, what with so many other people doing it at the same time, perhaps my motivation with be better?

What can I say? It would be nice to have a hotter bod to go with this adorable face.

/vanity

Also.. I need to watch Sealab 2021 and Firefly again. It has been too long and I have really been jonesing them lately.

My Musical Misadventures Part 1

So last Thursday I went about getting ready for class in my usual way. I had just put on my coat and headphones when I noticed that sound was only coming out of the left side of said headphones. This is not an unfamiliar experience to me.. I have had the same thing happen before on a couple occasions. Usually this occurred when previous iPods were on their way out, and so I would just deal with it. In this case, the iPod was still relatively new and I was not looking forward to the prospect of replacing it. Given how many times this had happened in the past, I considered myself fairly knowledgeable. The running theory was that I must have plugged the headphone jack into the port wrong and accidentally damaged the connector.  I listened to it in its half-working state for the day and brought it with me to work as I normally do. However once I got to work I noticed that it had stopped making sound completely. This was very not cool. On my walk to work from the car I stopped by the Best Buy Mobile that I had bought it from and asked them if they knew of anything I could do to maybe fix it. They informed me that there was nothing that they could do, but if I were to bring it to an Apple store it could be taken care of as they have the tools for such things. Relieved at this news I went about my way and lived a very non-musical life for the next day. After class on Friday I had nothing going on, so I did as was suggested and took it to the Apple store in Oakbrook. They told me that there was nothing that they could do, but that there existed websites that could fix such things. Just on a hunch the guy tried his own headphones in my iPod and lo! The blasted thing worked! It turns out it was merely my headphones on the blink and not the iPod. In my defense, when this had happened previously with other iPods I tried other headphones, but to no avail. So they sold me some new headphones and I went on my way, bobbing my head to the music that was no longer exclusively in my head.

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So the Oscar nominations are out and I managed to see all but 4 movies nominated for Best Motion Picture of the Year. Of those four I would have willingly watched "127 Hours", "The Kids Are Alright" and I guess "Winter's Bone" though I don't recall having heard of it. I can't wait for the various award ceremonies to be over because I can't wait to stop hearing about the fourth movie. I get it... "The Social Network" was well made and will continue to win several awards... but I really don't care. Firstly my distaste for Facebook and other social networks isn't exactly a secret. Secondly I am not a fan of Jesse Eisenberg. He comes across to me as Michael Cera with slightly more ability to emote. *shrug* Just not my thing. I really hope "The King's Speech" does well, it was a superb movie. Actually all the movies that are up for Best Motion Picture of the Year were pretty great.

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This is technically my second blog and shall be of a much more personal nature. The other is more for my professional endeavors, so if that is what you are looking for then I suggest you go there.

I am an English major, but I am not the best at it. At times my grammar shall be less than perfect... but this is my personal blog and I do not write for perfection. I would point you here for my meaning: Bad Grammar. Stephen Fry puts it far better than I could.

This is going to be a short entry as I have to wake up for class in a few hours.