iTunes 9 just saved my electronic life.
Many people in my generation are computer wiz-kids who can make anything with a circuit board work. I am computer retarded. My sister types faster than I thought possible mainly because all she did in middle school was IM her friends. And internet conversations have to be quick because you not only never know when your mom will walk in, it takes forever to tell a whole story so you get really good at quickly entering one sentance at a time.
I was never really big on AIM - I talked to fast for how slow I typed, so I just called people! It seems, however, that missing that AIM step put me behind everyone else in learning how to work all this stuff. Don't ask me how, I just know it did.
My ineptitude eventually caused me to become iTunes retarded as well. When I bought a laptop in college I did not get rid of my old computer so I kept my iTunes on there. But then I wanted to listen to music while waiting for class, so I imported some CDs on my laptop. One thing lead to another and I had two iTunes accounts on two computers. Well, I couldn't make my iPod mix with 2 computers, so I just bought a second iPod and have 2 in my purse, so depending on what I want to listen to I have the red one or the white one.
The biggest problem with this is now my computers both live in my studio in the basement and I only got wireless internet. So I bought new stuff on the "Just has a little music to take to class" account. But I can't watch TV on that iPod. See, I told you I was completely stupid.
Now there is iTunes 9
I carried the old computer upstairs, plugged it into the internet, cried while attempting to update my 3 year old software, and can now OFFICIALLY merge my accounts. I might cry again (but from happiness this time)
I can once again carry around only one iPod. Seeing how I only have 800 songs and 15 TV shows it wasn't like I was out of room on one of them.
Bless you Apple for making me seem a little less mentally slow.
Megan
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
Tuesday, September 8, 2009
Things you may not know about me
You may be asking yourself 'do I really need to know more weird things about Megan?' and the answer is probably no, but while you are here, you might as well read it. Who knows you may realize something about your self - doubtful, but you never know.
I'm afraid of yogurt - seriously. I don't think it's going to kill me, but the smell is so awful is makes me throw up, so now when I see yogurt I practically run the other way. I once fell backwards out of a chair when someone thought putting it near me would be funny - it wasn't.
I worked at Starbucks, but I have never had a whole cup of coffee. The most I've ever had is a few sips, maybe three at the very most. I hate the stuff and have never really wanted to acquire the taste for it. I love my Diet Coke and I will go far out of my way to get one if need be. The coffee phenomenon is totally beyond me.
My dad worked out of town so much when I was a kid that when I was 8 I sat my mom down and told her that dad must be having an affair. I said that he was always going 'away on business' and that when ever I called him a Woman (his secretary) would answer! Mom laughed at me and told me dad would never have an affair - which I get now, but at 8 I was convinced and didn't want to talk to him. It's funny now because my parents are super devoted and my dad loves my mom more than anything on Earth - oops, sorry dad.
On the subject of my dad - he has the worst ADD of anyone I've ever met. It drives my mom and me crazy. If we're eating dinner and talking about traffic then I mention I need to have major surgery, my dad will look out the window and in the middle of my sentence go 'You know the traffic here really does suck.' My mom always says 'Shiny Balls' - it means that dad got distracted by something and may never come back to the conversation.
As a kid I thought that ghosts and aliens wouldn't know I was in bed if the covers were all the way over my head, so I slept all the way under my blanket every night for more than a decade. I thought they would just think that my bed was lumpy..... oh I marvel at how weird I was sometimes.....
I've only been grounded twice. The first time I was grounded for something that I actually did not do. The second time I did something really dumb and had to go to the hospital in an ambulance - but I wasn't grounded for that. My mom screamed at me when I got released and said I was grounded for 3 months for 'almost dying' - she said that she would have been locked in an asylum if I'd died so I couldn't watch anymore TV. Seriously.
During a hospital rotation for Health Occupations class I had to work at a funeral home for 2 weeks. I had never seen a dead person before. I made it through the 2 hours and drove back to school for the rest of my day. I walked into AP Lit and passed out onto the floor. The funeral home let me stay in the office and fold letters for the next 9 days.
My favorite assignment for Health Occupations was at the Kansas City School for Boys. It's a program for psychologically disturbed or abused boys. They live there and the classes are really small, 3 or 4 per teacher. I loved it so much I went for 2 sessions, so I stayed for 6 weeks. I helped one boy more than the others because he listened to me, which was new for him. He was really sweet, about 8 years old. My last week he wasn't there so I asked the teacher where he was. She said that yesterday after I had told him it was my last week he freaked out and tried to attack his therapist. Turns out he was there for stabbing a boy in his 1st grade class. Two other girls in my class had similar things happen there, I can't figure out why they kept letting high school girls in, but I guess they needed the help.
There are about a thousand other things I'm sure, but that's all I've got for now. If you are still reading, good for you - you now know some odd things about me. Yay
Megan
I'm afraid of yogurt - seriously. I don't think it's going to kill me, but the smell is so awful is makes me throw up, so now when I see yogurt I practically run the other way. I once fell backwards out of a chair when someone thought putting it near me would be funny - it wasn't.
I worked at Starbucks, but I have never had a whole cup of coffee. The most I've ever had is a few sips, maybe three at the very most. I hate the stuff and have never really wanted to acquire the taste for it. I love my Diet Coke and I will go far out of my way to get one if need be. The coffee phenomenon is totally beyond me.
My dad worked out of town so much when I was a kid that when I was 8 I sat my mom down and told her that dad must be having an affair. I said that he was always going 'away on business' and that when ever I called him a Woman (his secretary) would answer! Mom laughed at me and told me dad would never have an affair - which I get now, but at 8 I was convinced and didn't want to talk to him. It's funny now because my parents are super devoted and my dad loves my mom more than anything on Earth - oops, sorry dad.
On the subject of my dad - he has the worst ADD of anyone I've ever met. It drives my mom and me crazy. If we're eating dinner and talking about traffic then I mention I need to have major surgery, my dad will look out the window and in the middle of my sentence go 'You know the traffic here really does suck.' My mom always says 'Shiny Balls' - it means that dad got distracted by something and may never come back to the conversation.
As a kid I thought that ghosts and aliens wouldn't know I was in bed if the covers were all the way over my head, so I slept all the way under my blanket every night for more than a decade. I thought they would just think that my bed was lumpy..... oh I marvel at how weird I was sometimes.....
I've only been grounded twice. The first time I was grounded for something that I actually did not do. The second time I did something really dumb and had to go to the hospital in an ambulance - but I wasn't grounded for that. My mom screamed at me when I got released and said I was grounded for 3 months for 'almost dying' - she said that she would have been locked in an asylum if I'd died so I couldn't watch anymore TV. Seriously.
During a hospital rotation for Health Occupations class I had to work at a funeral home for 2 weeks. I had never seen a dead person before. I made it through the 2 hours and drove back to school for the rest of my day. I walked into AP Lit and passed out onto the floor. The funeral home let me stay in the office and fold letters for the next 9 days.
My favorite assignment for Health Occupations was at the Kansas City School for Boys. It's a program for psychologically disturbed or abused boys. They live there and the classes are really small, 3 or 4 per teacher. I loved it so much I went for 2 sessions, so I stayed for 6 weeks. I helped one boy more than the others because he listened to me, which was new for him. He was really sweet, about 8 years old. My last week he wasn't there so I asked the teacher where he was. She said that yesterday after I had told him it was my last week he freaked out and tried to attack his therapist. Turns out he was there for stabbing a boy in his 1st grade class. Two other girls in my class had similar things happen there, I can't figure out why they kept letting high school girls in, but I guess they needed the help.
There are about a thousand other things I'm sure, but that's all I've got for now. If you are still reading, good for you - you now know some odd things about me. Yay
Megan
Thursday, September 3, 2009
Why I watch so much TV
I am obsessed with my TV. If it was not me and I met someone else who watched as much TV as I did I would think they were kind of psycho - but here's why you shouldn't I'm psycho.
I like stories about other people's lives. In school I was that girl who read more books than were actually assigned and had talks about books at lunch at the teacher's table. But sadly, today we live in a world were everyone is writing spin-offs of other successful authors. Every book is just a very well plagiarized version of Harry Potter, Twilight, Kite Runner, The Other Boleyn Girl or The Devil Wears Prada. So finding a great book is much harder than it looks. Oh, and I do NOT do sad endings. This eliminates 65% of the books out there. In my happy little world people do not die at the end of the story. They can die in the middle - but not the end - they need to find peace and happiness at the end.
Some people watch lots of movies. I love lots of movies and am very outspoken about my favorites - but for the most part movies are just too short. I want to sit and watch someone's life for hours, days even - 1.5 hours doesn't make me love them. You can't really go on a journey in under 2 hours. Epic 3 part movies (LOTR for ex) are much better - these I feel like are worth the effort.
Real people are great, don't get me wrong, but with TV everyone has a destiny - it's built right in. I wake up and have no idea what's going to happen - but TV is a constructed world in which life can be molded in such a beautiful way. Kind of like apples in the market - the organic ones are healthy and natural but they have spots - the pesticide-riddled ones are still pretty good for you and they are way shinier. I like life to be a little more epic and shiny than just plain real life.
And now Wearhouse 13 and Defying Gravity have finished downloading - so I'm going to my happy place.
: )
I like stories about other people's lives. In school I was that girl who read more books than were actually assigned and had talks about books at lunch at the teacher's table. But sadly, today we live in a world were everyone is writing spin-offs of other successful authors. Every book is just a very well plagiarized version of Harry Potter, Twilight, Kite Runner, The Other Boleyn Girl or The Devil Wears Prada. So finding a great book is much harder than it looks. Oh, and I do NOT do sad endings. This eliminates 65% of the books out there. In my happy little world people do not die at the end of the story. They can die in the middle - but not the end - they need to find peace and happiness at the end.
Some people watch lots of movies. I love lots of movies and am very outspoken about my favorites - but for the most part movies are just too short. I want to sit and watch someone's life for hours, days even - 1.5 hours doesn't make me love them. You can't really go on a journey in under 2 hours. Epic 3 part movies (LOTR for ex) are much better - these I feel like are worth the effort.
Real people are great, don't get me wrong, but with TV everyone has a destiny - it's built right in. I wake up and have no idea what's going to happen - but TV is a constructed world in which life can be molded in such a beautiful way. Kind of like apples in the market - the organic ones are healthy and natural but they have spots - the pesticide-riddled ones are still pretty good for you and they are way shinier. I like life to be a little more epic and shiny than just plain real life.
And now Wearhouse 13 and Defying Gravity have finished downloading - so I'm going to my happy place.
: )
Tuesday, September 1, 2009
New New Testament
Sometimes I get annoyed at God. Moses and the Israelite got tablets and Joseph had dreams, all I have is a book that was finished a thousand years ago and had to be translated a dozen times for me to even understand it. King James did his best, but most of the time I can't figures out who thine is or which one was thee and which was thou. The young adult versions are even worse - it's a little creepy to have the Bible written like a teen drama with slang and modern day 'examples' about Lisa and her boyfriend drinking in his pickup.
I know that God said no more chats through burning bushes or heaven opening up - but come on! I mean would it really be that bad for God to just send us a new chapter after revelations that tells us if sexting is a sin or how skimpy my string bikini can be before I need to say a Hail Mary? How about a few verses on rap music or on internet porn? Jesus didn't have to worry about lusting because no women wore daisy dukes in Bethlehem. I think we could all use a few updates about whether or not shopping on the Sabbath is really ok when I'm busy the other 6 days. And what about the premarital sex thing - can we clear up the language here and maybe clarify the wording on 'coviting thy neighbors wife' - I know some people who could really use the insight.
Allison (the smartest girl I know) said something the other day that stuck with me - she said that she knows something is what God wants when it makes her feel at peace. I like that and I think she's right- now if only I could relax long enough to feel the peace. But while I'm waiting for peace to wash over me, I wouldn't mind a giant road sign saying "Go THAT Way ---> Love God"
I know that God said no more chats through burning bushes or heaven opening up - but come on! I mean would it really be that bad for God to just send us a new chapter after revelations that tells us if sexting is a sin or how skimpy my string bikini can be before I need to say a Hail Mary? How about a few verses on rap music or on internet porn? Jesus didn't have to worry about lusting because no women wore daisy dukes in Bethlehem. I think we could all use a few updates about whether or not shopping on the Sabbath is really ok when I'm busy the other 6 days. And what about the premarital sex thing - can we clear up the language here and maybe clarify the wording on 'coviting thy neighbors wife' - I know some people who could really use the insight.
Allison (the smartest girl I know) said something the other day that stuck with me - she said that she knows something is what God wants when it makes her feel at peace. I like that and I think she's right- now if only I could relax long enough to feel the peace. But while I'm waiting for peace to wash over me, I wouldn't mind a giant road sign saying "Go THAT Way ---> Love God"
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