Goals, Goals, Goals

Summer is coming to a close, and I’ve just completed a few months of working at my first big-girl job. It made the summer busy and very lazy-free, but I learned a lot and I ended up getting used to the schedule at the end (only at the end, but there you go). Now that I’m moving back to the sweatpants-wearing - ramin-eating - movie-watching - flat-out-lazy-days phase of my year, I thought I’d put some things into perspective and actually make some goals for myself. If all goes well, I will be able to scratch off everything that is specific to this phase, except the movie-watching. Sorry, not giving that up. Here we go:

1. Complete my wardrobe:

I don’t have any clothes. I know people always say this, but most of those people just don’t like what they have. I, however, honestly can’t make through a week and a half without re-wearing some shirts, and it’s getting a little embarrassing. I also decided to move on from the typically college/high school look of sweatpants and sweatshirts during the week. By the end of this school year I want a complete classy wardrobe that makes me look trendy and young. I don’t need closets upon closets of stuff, but I would like to make it over a week without having to do laundry.

2. Pimp out my computer:

Now that I’ve spent a summer in front of a computer, I’ve learned some things in taking care of my stuff, especially when odd things happen. I am attached to my computer and will continue to use it lots and lots, so I’d like it to work with my needs. That’s only fair in a loving relationship. This includes getting my own printer. It will be nice not having to sucker my roommates into printing out my labs for me, and I’m sure they will appreciate it too. I also need to get myself an external hard drive. I’m losing space on my computer because itunes likes to take my money. And based on the space left on my ipod, I’m going to need some more room.

3. Learn to cook actual meals:

I like to cook, and I do think that compared to most college-age kids, I do pretty well for myself. Here’s the thing: I never know what to make at the end of the day. I really just need to call up someone every night with, “Hi. What do I want to eat tonight?” I don’t. And because of this, I usually throw some water in a pot and rotate through my spaghetti-mac&cheese-ramin dinners. Now that I’ll be living in a house with a decent kitchen, I’d like to hone in my “meal” making skills.

4. Cut back on the procrastination:

This one will be tough. I have been a horrible procrastinator my whole life (hence the lack of blog entries since…), and now that we have the jumbo cable package (way to go roommates!), I will be faced with even more distractions. If I work at this, though, it will help with a lot of flaws in my day-to-day living, and my grades should go up. It will be nice to get homework done well before the seconds leading to class. I may need some nagging for this one.

There we go. I think this is a pretty solid and achievable list.

Possessed

I'm starting to think my computer is possessed. It’s either that, or I was given a trick computer as part of a little intern initiation thing. Little late, guys, but thanks.

There’s nothing really disturbing about the things that happen with my computer while I’m at work. Just little things where you can’t think of anything to do but lift your hands off the keyboard and tilt you head to the side a little. Like dogs do. It’s almost like my computer is making fun of me.

I’m going to go with the whole possessed thing, because weird thing started happening right on Friday the 13th. I was writing a response to a friend when I accidentally grazed the little mouse thing that’s placed in the center of the keyboard. All of a sudden the screen flashes and the browser reloads the page to the Microsoft Community Forums. I’ve visited that site a few times at work, but not that day. And the page isn’t bookmarked anywhere.

Right. Lifts hands off keyboard…

Same day, I’m reading another webpage. This time, without hitting anything, the browser closes. Odd. I opened Firefox up again and went about my business. About a half hour later, the program I’m using doesn’t respond. This isn’t all that unusual, so I start up the task manager and end that program. The program closes – and then that old browser window pops up.

Lifts hands…

Since then I’ve had window freezes, error messages, mouse moving around when I’m not touching it, and other oddities of that nature. Today I was trying to show a coworker part of this program I’m working on. Three times I tried opening the thing, and three times the whole program froze up and need to be closed. Until he left. Now it works great.

Very funny, stupid computer, very funny.