But as I drift into my short, bleary sleep, I will begin the blog on my phone.
The internet owns my life. I spend significantly more hours online than outside (and its not even winter yet). I spend more hours online than sleeping, eating, and exercising, combined. Half of my interactions with friends are online and half my recreation is too. My biggest woe when I first moved to columbus wasn't the lack of couch, bed or desk. It was the lack of consistent, nearby web access. The internet owns my life. And i'm kind of fine with that.
Lets expand on these points. My only true communication with OSU at large is through the internet, whether its listserv emails or checking the websites for info. I handle financial aid online, sign up for classes online, even have class discussions online. If it were really bad, I'd go to school online, but I like physical interaction too much to really do that, and student affairs is kinda hands own so I doubt my degree is offered.
Socially, I hang out online. Literally, I just did a big google hangout, which is video chatting with multiple people, with Dungeon Daddy, Heavy Spy, Micki Granger, Mother Mapster, Spotty Sister and her boytoy, and Tenshi joined us later (its the twins' birthday today!) We have had an ongoing massive skype chatroom (better than facebook messages) going all week, but we wanted more visual interaction, so we videod. It was the first time many of us met the boytoy and probably quite intimidating for him. I also found that our interactions and conversations were much more natural and fluid than through chat (shocker, I know) which was refreshing. I forgot how easy it was for heavy spy to make us all laugh or how silly we could be hanging pens in our hair to see who could looks the weirdest when Mother Mapster signed in. She just facepalmed.
The night before I also lost sleep after video chatting with Pokeboss, Red Button, Captain Peanut, and Shyly Sue Hoo.
And ill leave it on a cliffhanger there because im off to sleep finally. Ill publish for those ambitious enough to check before I send the reminder, but know there's more to come.
I'll pick up where I left off four days ago. Sorry. I had a midterm and big paper project that has taken my time up this week.
I spent last Saturday chatting with my old staff from Summercamp. It's always fun hearing updates from the old days. Can I even call it the old days if it was only two months ago? I got an email from Santa Claus recapping a big program I did with him last two years about choosing majors. It was cool to see how things improved and I also felt the love after hearing about the learning curves of putting on a program with a new staff member, who is great but just, well, new. Hearing about the woes of new rules for RAs or the challenges of supervisors or residents kinda make me miss the drama but also be excited for all the new things I'm doing.
Because I don't really know where to go next with the blog, I thought I'd talk about what's on my mind right now: baseball. I hear a lot of people speak poorly of baseball. They don't understand it. The same way I don't understand why soccer is a big deal. But right now has been an especially great time to be a baseball fan. The last day of the regular season was literally the more exciting day in sports history. 4 different teams had nailbiters, with the Rays coming back in the 9th and then 12th innings with a walkoff homerun by team celebrity Evan Longoria. The Red Sox crumbled from its lead in the standings to no playoffs, beaten by the lowly Baltimore Orioles. The Cardinals came back from 10 games out a month before (a very long distance in baseball terms). I could go on, I'm kinda on a sports high after Game 6 of the World Series where the Cardinals came back from literally the last STRIKE not once but TWICE to tie the game and then win in walkoff fashion. No other sport has the drama, which only comes from a long season, the sheer intensity in every pitch (or moment if you don't have pitches) and the strategy for every substitution, defensive shift or called steal. Seriously, I'm sad more people don't appreciate baseball. I understand, they don't get it. But you're just missing out on something grand. And I'd be happy to explain it to you.
Final note, since I am skyping with people and they are posting stuff about Lion King 3D. I saw it in 3D (for free during OSU move in). It was nice to relive a childhood experience, which I hadn't seen in about 7 years and have flashbacks to ethical discussions, Hamlet and belting I Just Can't Wait to Be King as a 6 year without a care in the world. I hear more people that bash than praise Disney these days as a money grabbing business with prejudice undertones, but I don't get that. Disney helped give me a wonderful childhood. It is not the standard to a good or bad childhood, but I do feel bad for kids who missed out on those epic moments of Aladdin flying his carpet on a computer animated scene, or Mulan choosing to leave her family behind, or Simba calling for his dad. So good.
Speaking of nostalgia, if you want to revisit another defining childhood media experience, rewatch Batman: The Animated Series. As an adult, going through those shows again, I was still blown away. Almost every episode has such depth, quality and even deep emotion, that I can't believe they showed this to us on afternoon television. Finally, Dungeon Daddy recently told me that half his freshmen college students had not seen Star Wars. I just went through this with my sophomore staff members like Red Button and have a few other friends I know haven't seen all the originals either (Nemesis, Bridges, I'm thinking of you). This just make me sad. It almost makes me wonder if there was some amazing television, movie or book experiences that filled those holes. I can only think of a few things that may be worthy of replicating the developmental aspects television and movies gave me as a kid. Who knows what sunk in and what was just entertainment, but looking back, I'm glad I had safe, quality media experiences. And I hope that someday my kids can have the same. I won't force my childhood on them (though I'm really glad my parents showed me Looney Tunes, Flintstones etc), but I would like to share that with them. I guess I should buy the DVDs while they are cheap and just keep a working player around forever.
This wandered away from my topic of internet owning my life. Needless to say, I am on facebook a lot and chat with like 5 different programs. And relive many of these media experiences online too. So yea, case in point.
I'm out for now. See you sunday!
Listening to: Jack's Lament from Nightmare Before Christmas. Love this song and movie. More nostalgia!!
Playing: Sadly nothing though I want to play many things. I hope to get a little Fallout in some time soon since I never finished that.
Reading: Article after article on globalization, internationalization, and cross cultural awareness. That class owns my life.
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