There’s a First Time for Everything
I have never known T-Rex to bring up a valid and insightful point before!
Meh.
I feel like part of the minority here, but I’m just not that excited about the iPad. My apathy is twofold. One, Apple’s justification for the iPad’s existence is to fill in the gap between the iPhone and the MacBook. I really don’t see a gap there that needs filling. In any instance where my phone isn’t powerful or large enough to do what I need, I have my laptop with me. In any case where I need something more portable than my laptop, my phone does the job. An intermediate device is just not necessary.
Second, it’s lacking in several departments. No camera? No Flash? No multitasking? No USB port? And any iBooks I buy via Apple’s store can’t be viewed on any other eBook reader I may have? Are you serious, Apple? I definitely have some hardcore fangirl feelings for the brand, but wow did they miss the mark on this one.
Filed under Uncategorized | Comment (1)Mingling Dream with Reality
Have you ever dreamed a fight with your significant other? I have, twice now. It’s so awkward to wake up and look at the person you were just flat-out screaming at in your dream only to realize that they never actually did anything wrong. Until the lingering anger fades, things feel very conflicted. Not to mention I’ve never decided if dreams are an expression of subconscious feelings or just coincidence. Am I really secretly (even to myself) harboring anger over something? I can’t imagine what it could possibly be. Or maybe it was just a dream.
Filed under Uncategorized | Comment (0)It’s Quiet Around Here
I miss my dog. The woman who is taking care of him is head over heels for him and spoils him rotten - he gained 3 pounds in his first few months at her house. I know he is happy and well taken care of and fitting in nicely. But man do I miss having the little furball on my lap. This is the first time ever in my life I have lived without a pet in the house. I definitely don’t miss the extra cleaning and the fur all over my clothes, but just having them around made it feel like a happy home. Colin and I have no official plans, but it seems we’ll be together for the foreseeable future, and I’m wondering what I’m going to do with my pangs of longing for a pet. Perhaps he’d agree to one of those hideous hairless cats or something - but it would be a battle. What do you do with someone who grew up in a household that considered animals unclean and unfit to live in your house, when you’ve never been without? Somehow I think a goldfish just isn’t going to cut it for me.
Dealing with my guilt over visiting Merlin is another matter… at first it was great to see him but now it’s getting harder and harder to have to leave him behind. But not visiting at all doesn’t sound appealing, either. I imagine this is what it feels like to try to remain friends with an ex you’re not quite over. Damned if you do and damned if you don’t.
Ah well. I’m going to visit him tomorrow and maybe I won’t be feeling so melancholy then.
Filed under Uncategorized | Comment (0)2009 Book Reviews
Well, I only managed to read 10 books in 2009. But in light of the whole GRAD SCHOOL thing, I think that’s not entirely unforgivable. As usual, you can read my reviews in detail at my Library Thing.
Five-Star Books:
- The Consolations of Philosophy by Alain De Botton
- The Ultimate Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy by Douglas Adams (a re-read of an all-time favorite)
Four-Star Books:
- The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde
- Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto by Chuck Klosterman
- Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
- Outlander/Dragonfly in Amber/Voyager by Diana Gabaldon (first three in the series)
Three-Star Books:
- Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Marquez
- In Her Shoes by Jennifer Weiner
All-in-all, I didn’t read any books in 2009 that I flat-out didn’t like, which is an improvement on 2008. I’m only a few hundred pages from finishing my first book of 2010. I hope to read more than ten books this year, but the aforementioned GRAD SCHOOL may hinder that. Either way, you can look forward to the annual book review next year!
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