Spring Break

The end is near. I can taste it. 10 more days and I'll be free from school (temporarily). I don't really have any FINALS finals next week. I have our portfolio for English, the usual test in Marketing, a project presentation for Graphic Design, and an online final for History of Graphic Design that I'll probably take this week. The end of the quarter will be a gradual process. There will be no clear-cut line between "AHHH FINALS! KILL ME!" and "WHOO, I'M DONE!"

Our last class meeting for English will be the last of it for me. Then I get to spend ONE whole day back in San Diego before I get on a plane and head to Texas for a week. So much for enjoying my time back home, a place I haven't visited since this quarter began. In Texas I will be visiting my boyfriend's mom with, obviously, my boyfriend and his brother. I'm excited to go because I've never really been to Texas. I say "never really" because I've stopped there on layover to Florida, but I don't think that counts since I never left the airport.

To me, Texas has the reputation as being heavy-handed on the law and full of conservative hillbillies (is that redundant?). I have this visual of "King of the Hill" in motion picture. I just hope my time spent there will be more stimulating than standing in an alley drinking beer, or in my underaged case, root beer.

Daylight Savings

I woke up this morning not knowing it was Daylight Savings. It wasn't until my boyfriend and I compared our cell phone clocks to my desk clock that we knew something was a bit off. If it wasn't for the automatically updated times on our phones, I'd probably still be an hour behind. Then again, my macbook updates the time for daylight savings, as well.

Considering our advancements, I still find it amazing how much we depend on technology today. Going back to the daylight savings example, not many people look at their calendars and remember to change their clocks. We rely on our phones and computers to automatically remind us.

Daylight Savings is only one of many examples. We rely on TiVo and DVR to remember our shows for us. We rely on the Internet as a whole to get all the information we need (Wikipedia, Google, etc). Visiting a library is seemingly useless, as the Internet provides us with resource databases like ProQuest and LexisNexis at our fingertips.

If I can't remember something off the top of my head, it takes me about 5 seconds to find my answer. Let's use today alone as an example. My boyfriend and I wanted to see what was on TV. Never mind a paper copy of the TV Guide. I have tvguide.com bookmarked in my browser, set to my location and cable service. We wanted to know how to dress for the day according to weather so, without stepping foot outside or even opening the window, we check weather.com for today's highs and lows. We wanted to get dinner and catch a movie. Never mind using a phone book or calling Mr. Movie Fone. Click. Click. Click. We have our answer almost immediately thanks to yp.yahoo.com and movies.yahoo.com. After watching Watchmen and being partially confused by the plot and characters, I went home and wikipedia-ed the plot summary to make sure I got the full story down.

Accessing information is faster than ever now, and yet we still find something to complain about. We're never fully satisfied. I remember a time when my Internet would take a good 10-15 seconds to load each page. Ah, dial-up... Now it takes half a second to load and I still wish it were faster. We're quite the spoiled race, don't you think?