Rain, rain, don't go away

It's early. Extremely early.
I can hear the weather outside.
It's rainy. Extremely rainy.
And warm.

I'm excited.

Google Reader?

As many of you my readers have probably long ago discovered, Google/Gmail has a feature called "Google Reader" with which you can subscribe to your favorite websites, such as news and blogs, and it tells you when said sites have been updated. (For example, how many of you discovered THIS post via Google Reader? Exactly.) I suppose it saves time, avoids pop-ups, and eliminates annoying website art/advertisements.

But isn't that half the fun?

It's like shopping online. Sure, you don't have to get dressed. You don't have to leave the house. You don't even have to make a phone call. With a click of a mouse you have yourself a sofa, magazine, fur coat. Ok, sure, it's great. But, isn't getting up and going to the store nice? Getting helped at the store? Trying the clothes on before you buy them? I appreciate these things.

Google Reader makes me think about this. I LIKE going to my friends' blogs and well, judging them. What sort of layout have they chosen? What font do they use? Which blogs are on their blogroll?

I'm sorry, Google, Reader is just not my favorite feature.

Also, one day I am going to have a post entitled, "Products for the Lazy American."

Is This Bad?

Everytime someone compliments me at work, for example,
"This coffee tastes really good" or
"You are an excellent latte artist" or
"The service here is great"

...my first thought is, "tell it to the tip jar."

But instead, I smile, and say, "I'm so glad."

Blue Mind

I haven't been myself lately. By this I mean I've just been doing things that are, in my opinion, out of character. For example.

• I've worked out. This I cannot explain. I LIKED it, too.
  
• I've been patient. A friend of mine needed help with Spanish, and I'm a Spanish major, so I said I would help him. Now, going into it, I was like, Ok, I have to stay calm and not get frustrated with him. And I HAVEN'T. I've been very calm and patient! This is a big thing for me.
  
• I haven't kept my room neat. I don't really consider myself a "clean person," but my room is the messiest it's--dare I say it--EVER been. Just lots of things are just lying around.
  
• I've been drinking water. And I've been getting healthier. Weird how that works.

I don't know why I've been doing these things. Must be something in the water. (Get it? Cause I'm actually DRINKING water.)

I'm Tired

This semester wore me out.
Now it's over.
That's all.

While You Were Freeping

I found quite a gem while poking around Poynter the other day. This gem is a series by the Detroit Free Press on Christ Child House, a non-profit on Detroit's west side. Take time to read the stories, watch the videos, and look at ALL the photographs. Trust me.



This series, honestly, is an example of what I aspire to and why I do what I do and I study what I study. The reporters who worked on this story worked on it for three years. Three years. Is there any one thing that I've done or worked on for three years? Three weeks? Three DAYS?



I mean, school, sure. Projects and papers galore. I suppose I have finished great books on my own, without it being a school assignment. I suppose I have done meaningful, albeit possibly mostly personal, work in South America and the poor poor city of Detroit, so I guess the question kind of falls apart, but you get the idea. These people worked on something important. They shed light into an infamous and sometimes dark and scary aspect of society, the foster care system; they spotlighted a great organization, Christ Child House, and, more importantly, the children who live there.

That there be what I likes to call journalism.

New Prez, etc.

I've been busy.

Ok, I know I know, I've already written about Obama. All's I'm sayin' is, I saw him less than a week ago. Here in Columbia, MO. And now he's a president. THE president. I win!

Also, within the last week, I "celebrated" Halloween (I was a Jonas Brother, or as they say, a "JoBro"), and, highlight, I saw Girl Talk, one of my most favorite "musicians" ever. It was pretty insane. This video will just give you a very small taste of what it was like. It's just his introduction.

EDIT: Blogspot won't let me upload a video! See my Facebook page.