Feb252009
Weird Week
Filed under Self by Kim at 10:43 pm on Feb 25 2009
This has certainly been a week of weirdness. For one thing, this is the longest Jack has left me alone in the house since we moved in. Sure, I often run off without him to do things he would find boring or what have you, but it doesn’t work the other way around, Jack being somewhat more of a homebody. The house seems strangely larger when he’s not in it or about to come around a corner or call to me from upstairs. I don’t even sleep in the middle of the bed – it’s just habit to sleep in my spot and it feels like I have to leave room for him, or I can’t take up his space.
Combine that with weird dreams and weird work hostility and weird attention span issues and 
getting the baby in the king cake (when so many people are talking about babies and I had a freaky baby dream) and the cats being extra clingy (they really love you, sweetie) and things seem a bit like they all shifted to the left a degree without warning me.
So while I was trying (and failing) to take pictures of paper products for a blog post, I took this weird self portrait. Paper product reviews will have to wait. (Note to self: You do not need to drop $100 on a light kit.) (Particularly when you think you might drop $200 on a Blackberry Storm.) (In fact, self, please stop thinking of 3-digit things you want to spend money on.)
Did I mention that our Chemistry lab instructor is into new-age self-tapping? And that we did some yoga stretches? In lab? Actually the yoga stretches kind of help. But I really hope to be able to get an A in the class without the benefit of doing accupressure extra credit. That said, I could probably use some stress-relieving placebo effect!
1 TAOon 26 Feb 2009 at 9:37 am
I think 2009 is going to be the year of weird. Lighting pictures is always so tough. Yesterday the two halogen lights I use for that both blew out. Weird. One other question: The BB Storm doesn’t have WiFi capabilities which I find odd. Will that be a problem for you?
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Kim Reply:
February 26th, 2009 at 1:34 pm
Those halogen lights come with so many warnings! Like, if you get a fingerprint on the bulb it will explode.
Someone else mentioned the wifi lack to me and I hadn’t honestly thought it would be a problem. I guess the advantage of the wifi is that when you can get it it is faster? I mostly need a giant screen phone because so much is blocked at work & I’d like to be able to contact the outside world.
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2 TAOon 26 Feb 2009 at 1:47 pm
Stoopid bulbs. I’m sure they’ll be expensive too.
Phone WiFi is good if you have wireless at home, work, or hang at a coffee shop. It’s faster and you won’t rack up data charges while using it (depending on your carrier plan). The iPhone has it so I was surprised when the Storm didn’t. Other BBs have it too.
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