In case anyone was wondering, I’m still alive.
I didn’t stop blogging for any particular reason. In fact, I have a pretty good pencil review in drafts. I just haven’t had the opportunity to take the pictures that I wanted and upload them with the post.
This year is crazy. I started taking transit. At first it was awesome. It quickly deteriorated into the same miserable commute I’d been suffering all of last year, except now I have to deal with loud music coming from headphones, and smelly people sitting next to me.
I was stretched thin to the point of not having a single evening off per week, until I got fired by my high school math student last week.
I immediately forgot about her because the 2 hours a week I was getting paid for got swallowed up in the other things that I have to do, and my mother annoyingly cheered me on about all the free time I would now have. Nope. The cheerfulness just made me more angry about all the time I didn’t have.
I cried in my boss’s office yesterday because I could not see how I could possibly finish everything that I had to do in the time that I had.
Instead, I’m blogging today. Now I understand why in first year, my boyfriend would play video games all night fully knowing that he was failing first year engineering.
Choir is working out to be a LOT of work, but enjoyable. I wish I could manage the choir for a living. I would be very good at that. I’m the first executive secretary to actually get the choir competing in the International Championship of Collegiate A Cappella
Instead, here I am researching about nonperiodic inspection intervals for condition based monitoring.
Did I say I was still alive? Maybe just barely.
I can see!
I recently went to the optometrist for my one-month checkup to see where my eyes were at. He told me that I read all but one of the 20/20 line correctly, so I guess my vision is close enough to corrected.
Practically, I’m no longer frustrated, and I feel like I can see as well as I did with my contacts before my surgery. The only side effect that I’m noticeing now is that my eyes are more sensitive to irritants, like when I wash my face, I have to be more careful than I was before not to get any soap in my eyes.
For all intents, I can see.
Oh, and whatever people are saying about starbursts or whatever, I have no idea what people are whining about. I notice nothing but pure vision. Happiness.
I forgot my sunglasses today, and for the first time, I felt aware of what I was looking at. For the past few weeks when I’d been wearing my sunglasses almost everywhere, I would look at things or people out of the corner of my eye, and realize “oh, they can’t see that I’m staring at them” and stare.
Today, I was staring at things and people as usual, and realized that people can see what I’m staring at!
I’m paranoid about hiding my thoughts and goals for whatever reasons.
I think I’ll paint my nails right before the next time my family hosts an onslaught of guests. That way, I won’t have to help out with anything in the kitchen either.
I have been a faithful LG user for 7 years.
LG TM-520
In high school, I bought the LG TM520 and it was great. It was hardy, the external display was always on, so I could check the time while I was on the phone, it was cute (considering it was 2002), it had a loud piercing ring, it had dynamic search (searches your phone book as you start typing the number), it was everything a high school kid could ask for in a cell phone.
Alas, I have a fickle heart, and I got tired of this great phone. I was careless with it and dropped it all the time, only to wonder “why won’t it break?”
LG VX-4600
So I got the LG VX4600 because of its flashing lights. It was cuter, and it did everything that TM520 did, except for the dynamic search, and the external display turned itself off during phone calls. Those were things I could live with, though I still do miss that dynamic search. Then, I started a downward spiral of crappier phones…or perhaps LG started making crappier phones.
I heard about this hot new phone that was coming out in 2006, the LG Chocolate. It was the first slide phone that I had seen, and I loved the heat-sensitive keys. I waited for months for it to come out, and when it finally did, I purchased it on the day that it came out.
LG VX-8500
I loved it! I loved the high-resolution screen, the camera that was crappy, but the first I had had. I loved the speakers that pierced its ring through a shopping mall, and the customizable ring tones that a girl just couldn’t do without. I started hearing bad rumors about it, about how many people who had the phone had run into problems with it. I hadn’t experienced the problems myself, so I thought maybe I got a good batch, and shrugged off the things I heard.
Then about 2 months after my 1-year warranty had passed, my phone started to act up. I would open the phone, and it would start acting like I was scrolling through the menu. It would start making phone calls to people in my phone book when I just wanted to look at their information. I knew that my phone had started having the problems everyone else was having. I checked out the web. There were scores of people demonstrating the same problems as myself.
LG VX-8550
So last year, I bought another LG phone. The LG VX8550, the Chocolate Spin. The salesperson told me that it was the LG Chocolate, with all of the problems corrected. It featured haptic feedback and redesigned ’send’ and ‘end’ buttons, so I was satisfied and I bought it. It wasn’t that I was tired of the Chocolate. I was happy with it, so it made sense to buy the new and improved version of it.
I’ve seen new and exciting phones being developed in the one year and 3 months that I’ve had my Chocolate Spin. It hasn’t been easy holding myself back from being an idiot and buying a new phone, but sensibility has prevailed.
Since last week, I’ve found my phone turned off when I go to use it. How odd. It has been randomly shutting down without my noticing it. Sometimes, I use it, put it down, and two minutes later, I pick it up to use it again, and it has turned itself off. The battery is never low, so I have no idea what’s going on. The only thing that strikes me is that it has been 3 months after my warranty ended. Somehow, LG has mastered the art of making cell phones that last approximately one year.
With LG, I’ve definitely had a series of attractive phones. Yet somehow, all my loyalty has been for naught. I guess they just don’t make them the way they used to. I see that most cell phones without plans cost around $300. I just can’t believe that the device costs $300, and they last a year. Worst investment EVER.
