So Willie didn’t see his shadow.
Phil did.
Whose prediction will reign supreme? GROUNDHOG BATTLE!
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To the Polls!
I voted today. Did you?
2006
Happy New Year, everyone!
Welcome to 2006! (except Gord, who is still mired in measly 2005 as I write this. Heh.)
May it treat you kindly, and be filled with joy, luck, and happiness!
To all my friends, live, laugh, and love this coming year! You guys all rock!
… I just totally made my blog sound like that of a 15 year old girl. Oh well. :p
I’ve got lots planned for 2006; lets see how much of it I can make happen.
To Do:
-finish wedding plans
-graduate university
-find a “career” job
-move to wherever that job is
-invent something that stabs people over the internet
-actually get married
-keep business afloat
-don’t go crazy
$1,000,000 Idea
So this guy makes $900,000.00 with a single website in 4 months. Doing what? Selling Pixels.
Pixels. For $1 each. And he’s sold 912,000 of them.
Seriously, where’s MY $1M idea, eh? Preferably one selling virtual goods instead of physical ones?
He’s even got a few copycat sites already. Wish I’d thought of that. Even copycat-ing and making “only” $1000 would have rocked.
Job Hunt Begins
This past weekend I spent a while on Workopolis and Monster.ca, carefully filling out all my info, uploading my resume, setting up job alerts, etc. Saying I graduate in April (and can thus start April/May ’06), filling out all my relevant employment history, the type of job I’m looking for, all that good stuff. You know.
Today, my phone rings and interrupts my studying time. It’s an unfamiliar number, so I let it go to voicemail.
I listen to the message.
It’s an offer for an interview!
…
… for a call center in Cambridge. D’oh.
As Josh pointed out, though, at least I know the system works, and that potential employers can contact me if they need to.
In semi-related news, I have a really cool Super Mario Bros. ringtone.
In unrelated news, I’m just going to assume no one who reads this blog still uses IE, since no one has said anything. Good.
Happy Hallowe’en!
This weekend rocked! For once none of us had any homework for a whole weekend, so we got to have some fun.
On Saturday we went and did a corn maze. That was pretty cool. I found out I’m actually pretty damn good at following a map on foot. So if you’re ever lost in a corn field, and the corn field has a carefully drawn map, you know who to call.
But it was really fun. ^_^
This evening we carved our pumpkins! Whee!
We decided on a Simpsons theme this year. I did Devil Flanders, Robyn did Kang, and Paul did Vampire Mr. Burns.
OMG N3wb!
Gah. Some people.
What the hell is up with everyone being so quick to take offence these days?
It’s kinda a long story, but please bear with me.
I belong to a forum for independent women small business owners. It’s a great resource, and we can all share advice and experiences. This forum has a “private” area, that’s only accessable by members, and not, say, Google or random customers. The point of having it is to be able to have discussion about ‘sensitive’ issues, without worrying about customers reading it. Issues that involve things like how much it actually costs to produce some products, discussions of future plans for the business, and the occasional rant someone posts about how an annoying customer has emailed them 47zillion times.
Lately there’s been some drama regarding who’s “allowed” to access the provate forums, originally stemming from one person copy/pasting posts from there and sending them to someone outside that forum, who then caused a big stink. Same ol’, same ol’.
So there began a discussion about how to make the private forums more secure Currently all you need to be given access is to provide your business number OR website address to the Admin. Since anyone and their dog can have a website, this was causing a few minor problems. Anyone and their dog can still have access to the public forum.
During the discussion, it was suggested that maybe also having a time/post count limit to join as well, because we’ve had instances of people joining the private forums only to snag all our personal info (which granted, isn’t all that personal: website address, maybe email) and then spammed everyone “advertising” their services. They have a “registered business”, but that’s not what the private forums are for, so someone thought maybe requiring members to have X number of posts, and/or have been a member for X length of time before they can apply to the private forums, to weed out the spammers and whatnot. I was one of the ones who voiced an amount of support for that idea, since I’ve seen it work quite well on other boards. It’s not a perfect system by any means, but it requires that anyone new actuallyinteract with other members, and everyone can get to know them for a little while before they get to jump right in to reading more personal information.
Well.
You’d think anyone who supported that idea had asked for a human sacrifice. People started going on and on about how it’s soooo unfair to new people to exclude them just because you don’t know a thing about them. Or how what we’re really saying is that some of us think we’re better than everyone else because we have more posts (which is obviously the only reason we support such an idea, of course).
OMG, call the whaaaambulance! It’s an emo-gency!
The thing that gets me is that these are all GROWN WOMEN! Business owners! More specifically, grown women business owners who run online businesses. You’d think they’d never been online before, what with being so shocked that anyone might disagree with them.
Hallowe’en Planning Time!
It’s September! Time to think about… school? Nope! Hallowe’en costumes! ^_^
I originally wanted to do a Harley Quinn costume. I still do, but due to various things going on right now, I just don’t want to attempt to prance around in skin-tight spandex all day.
I thought about other “Batman” ladies, but they’re pretty much all skin-tight as well.
So I’m thinking maybe I’ll just feminize a male character. Why not?
I was thinking the Joker, ’cause he’s pretty recognizable. I just need to figure out what version to do.
The two I like best are 1: the Joker from Batman: the animated series that I gew up with, and the slightly sleeker Joker from the Justice League. They are pretty much the same, except they have different coloured shirts and gloves. OooOOOooohhh.
Thoughts/comments/suggestions appreciated.
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Finally Friday
I spent all day yesterday writing my History final exam. It took all day because it was a take-home essay and not a normal exam, and as such is expected to be exponentially better than any essay that could be written during a normal 2-hour exam.
*whew*
Tonight is my computer exam. After calculating my marks in that class so far for this semester, it turns out I need to score 1% on this exam to pass the class. Of course, I intend on scoring much higher than 1%, but still. ^_^
The past two days have sucked. I’m back in Guelph now, and my allergies have just exploded. Probably because I wasn’t here the whole time to “ease into” a Guelph-style August. Ick. Ow. My poor, poor sinises.
Blah.
Finished!
I am now officially finished my summer semester. Except exams of course, but I’m through with homework and assignments until September.
Woo.
I did really well this semester too. ^_^ Now we’ll see if exams can crush me.
I’m also now officially on the Ortho Evra patch. My Dr. and I decided to switch from the Depo shot ’cause I’d been on it so long, and it’s really not meant to be used any longer than that.
Since pills and I don’t get along, I opted for the Patch. It costs about the same as Depo, except now I have to shoulder the full cost because when I turned 24 my parent’s health plan won’t cover me anymore. The only reason it covered me that long was ’cause I have been continually in school.
The thing i’m definitely going to miss is the lack of periods. I doubt I’ll actually start getting them for a couple months, though, ’cause it’s supposed to take a while after you go off the shot, but who knows. It better take a while.
Hopefully they won’t bring the agony they used to, since this time around they’ll be controlled by external hormones. I don’t fancy walking around in baggy sweaters with a hot water bottle strapped to my abdomen just to be able to stand up again. I’d also prefer not to throw up every month.
Yeah.
I had my reasons for opting for Depo over anything and everything else.
Still. I’m not to keen on the fact I’ll be back among the ranks of beings that bleed for 5 days straight and don’t die. ^_~
I’ll be sure to report any side effects. I didn’t have any at all with Depo, really, except maybe a small amount of weight gain, but I went on it right around the time I was supposed to get the “freshman 15” anyway, so I can’t be sure.
I wonder if I’ll react differently, though, since Evra is progestin + estrogen, whereas Depo was just progestin.
Oh, and if no one’s noticed, Josh has actually updated his blog. A few times, even! He still hasn’t implemented comments, though. *pokes Josh*