I'm so tired

I'm back, but first I'd like to say




Okay, now back to business.

I got back from Toronto on Saturday after a supposed eleven hour drive turned into a thirteen hour drive after a ton of highway construction. The only good part about adding two hours to my trip was at least I had some amazing bagels and David Sedaris audio books.

For the past few days I have suffered from a great amount of fatigue and just plain woe. I did not have internet on the road or barely at home because of my parents living in the middle of the woods. Currently I am just hoping to make it to Minneapolis or somewhere in the MidWest next year so I can get out of here.

Just wanted to give an update. A more concise one will come soon, but I just did not want you guys to worry. Now for something fun.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laq2rNiWDYQ

Vote

NPR wants you to vote for the top 100 Science Fiction and Fantasy titles of all time. Here is the survey:

http://www.npr.org/2011/08/02/138894873/vote-for-top-100-science-fiction-fantasy-titles?sc=fb&cc=fp

Ten I chose in no specific order are:

ANIMAL FARM by George Orwell (All animals are equal, but some animals are MORE equal still gives me chills)
ENDERS GAME by Orson Scott Card
FLOWERS FOR ALGERNON by Daniel Keys
FRANKENSTEIN by Mary Shelley
I, ROBOT by Isaac Asimov (He also wrote giant books on Shakespeare criticism)
THE HANDMAID'S TALE by Margaret Atwood
THE LORD OF THE RINGS TRILOGY by JRR Tolkien
NEUROMANCER by William Gibson
THE WATCHMEN by Alan Moore
SOLARIS by Stanislaw Lem

Clinic

Okay guys this is my first crack at poetry. Do not be alarmed at my mental state, but I am really mad at a piece of legislation and the closing down of crisis clinics in my area. Here it is "Clinic":

I am cut open like a trout
Feast upon the entrails
Consume the bloody mass

Picking the lillies by the day
War became an open day
Sometimes I believe in god

Sometimes not

Willow, willow
I was eviscerated by the tree
They feast upon my lillies

They gut me like a trout
I watch as they slowly let me die
I watch as the monsters eat my entrails

Sometimes I believe in god
Mostly not

There is a knight who should save me
Sometimes a fairy comes my way
Both do not cut off my head,
But leave the scourge to eat my entrails

There is war
I pick lillies as the soldiers go by
No coat hangers to rid the baby inside

They gut me like a trout
Entrails soaking the lillies
The unwanted child allowed to die
Sometimes I believe in god

Forever not

Savior!

Today at work we had to do a tutorial for a new technology that I unfortunately do not have. I thought it was going to be dumb and give me ample scribble-in-my-notebook-time. Then I was amazed.

It's called a livescribe pen. What it does (I will attach their website below) is that it is just like a regular pen, but it has a camera and an audio recorder. What it does is that while you are writing on their special paper it is recording the strokes of your pen. When you are doing an interview or talking to yourself it records the audio of the person's dialogue as you write. After you record the audio and write down what the person said you can do a playback of what the person said by touching the pen to the paper where you want to start the audio. It automatically starts.

You can connect the livescribe to the computer and the pen with its little camera has recorded what you have written by the pen strokes and voila your handwriting is on the computer. No scanning, you just upload the file onto the computer from your pen onto the livescribe website through your pen. If you recorded audio with the writing, you can watch as the audio highlights the words the person is saying. If this is confusing, here is the tutorial: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gO5GwLFlN3s&annotation_id=annotation_752605&feature=iv

Why is this important? Well it is mostly if you are a person who cannot write on a computer like me, and like a good, sturdy legal pad. What is even better is that my ideas usually come faster than my handwriting so I can have audio.

I wish I knew about this technology back when I was talking notes frantically and could not keep up. I sound like an advertisement, but it really is one of the greatest technologies I have seen in awhile.

Here's the website:
http://www.livescribe.com/en-us/

Return from Silence

Lovely ladies I miss you very much!

Sorry I have been so absent from the blog, but I have had troubles with the internet ever since I got home from IC and the internet completely went out on Tuesday. I just got internet back today after two hours on the phone (ugh!) with tech support and a new router. Also, the reception where I live sucks, so the most I can get here is two bars, but mostly I have to get away from my house to get reception, so sorry for the missed texts.

I start my internship Monday, so I can finally have some structure to my day. Unfortunately most of my friends here have moved away, have kids, or I do not speak to them anymore. Most of my days are spent reading books and watching films. My brother is somewhat of a comfort, but soon I am going to talk to my parents about moving away, maybe even to Boston, although I am leaning more towards IC currently. The stress of living at home with no friends and nowhere to go has gotten to me. I have unfortunately become accustomed to late night conversations with friends, sidewalks and entertaining community activities. For shame.

Tomorrow I will look over your blog posts and write my comments.

Sorry if this note is poorly written. Here is my apologies in the form of a funny YouTube video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bTbAsmPOKo