Run for Life
my thoughts for today are back home in Santa Barbara, where my parents participated in a 5k/10k walk/run this morning that i can't be at because i'm across the country. the reason this walk/run is so important is because it's a Run for Life, which means that all of the money raised from the registration fees and donations goes directly to Coach Watkins and his family, Coach Watkins being the great guy who has cancer that i wrote about in December. i donated money but i still wish i could be there at the actual race. i'm sure there was a great turnout, though, because he really is one of the nicest guys ever.
{edit 10:37pm ~ there were 720 people at the run!)
yeah. i'm just thinking of him and hoping that he's doing okay, relatively speaking.
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so i've been reading that trilogy by Isabel Allende, right? there's one thing that really bothers me in these books. Alexander's (the main boy) mother has cancer, and it's really bad in the beginning of the first book. but then he goes to the Amazon and gets some of the Water of Life and brings it back for his mom at the end of the book. then at the beginning of the second book, his mom is okay ~ her cancer is in remission due to the Water of Life. at least it's only in remission and not completely magically cured, but it still bothered me that Allende treated such a serious disease so lightly. and you know, this magical cure would not have bothered me at all one year ago. but now that i know someone battling cancer and someone else who died of cancer, that magical cure just seems so ... i don't know, it just annoyed me.
in other non-cancer-related news, i am officially snowed in here. they shut down transportation between the colleges. i guess it's pretty cold too, 'cause there's even some ice on the radioactive part of the pond. (okay, actually it's heated ... for the geese ... >.< but it's more fun to say it's radioactive.) currently it's 14 and feels like 5. in spite of being snowed in, however, the college is still open as of now, so i still have to go to work tonight. ah well, c'est la vie. oh, and you know the windows are drafty when there's ice on the inside. >.< this was in the bathroom, though, where there's all the steam on the windows that's frozen. the windows in my room are very drafty too, but i have no ice inside ... yet. on the positive side, i can use my window ledge as a refrigerator. XD!
yesterday i moved a huge monitor to the yearbook office, only to find that tower for it that we had picked up previously doesn't work. it's a G4, and when you turn it on, instead of making the pleasant Mac start-up noise, it makes a mean beepy noise and then doesn't show anything on the monitor. grrr. these are, after all, just throw-away computer parts i picked up from work since the yearbook has no money for a new computer, but they're supposed to work 'cause they usually get rid of old computers by donating them to other schools. if they don't work, then they go in the computer graveyard, but this one didn't come from the graveyard. but then we were looking at the other offices in the Pagoda (where the yearbook office is) and we found a room that was unlocked and completely empty except for ... a Mac! so we're wondering if we can steal it, since there appears to be no one in that office. we know who used to be in the office, so we're trying to find out if he's gone or what.
AND last night i finally uploaded the evil website i've been working on that i've mentioned before in several posts!!! w00tn3ss!!! there's a few things i forgot, but it's mostly up now. behold my beautiful layout! the image map on the main page was my first time making one, so i'm happy it works and stuff. i think it looks very nice, if i do say so myself. at any rate, it's much better than what they had before.
and i'm done rambling.
{edit 10:37pm ~ there were 720 people at the run!)
yeah. i'm just thinking of him and hoping that he's doing okay, relatively speaking.
~ * ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ *
so i've been reading that trilogy by Isabel Allende, right? there's one thing that really bothers me in these books. Alexander's (the main boy) mother has cancer, and it's really bad in the beginning of the first book. but then he goes to the Amazon and gets some of the Water of Life and brings it back for his mom at the end of the book. then at the beginning of the second book, his mom is okay ~ her cancer is in remission due to the Water of Life. at least it's only in remission and not completely magically cured, but it still bothered me that Allende treated such a serious disease so lightly. and you know, this magical cure would not have bothered me at all one year ago. but now that i know someone battling cancer and someone else who died of cancer, that magical cure just seems so ... i don't know, it just annoyed me.
in other non-cancer-related news, i am officially snowed in here. they shut down transportation between the colleges. i guess it's pretty cold too, 'cause there's even some ice on the radioactive part of the pond. (okay, actually it's heated ... for the geese ... >.< but it's more fun to say it's radioactive.) currently it's 14 and feels like 5. in spite of being snowed in, however, the college is still open as of now, so i still have to go to work tonight. ah well, c'est la vie. oh, and you know the windows are drafty when there's ice on the inside. >.< this was in the bathroom, though, where there's all the steam on the windows that's frozen. the windows in my room are very drafty too, but i have no ice inside ... yet. on the positive side, i can use my window ledge as a refrigerator. XD!
yesterday i moved a huge monitor to the yearbook office, only to find that tower for it that we had picked up previously doesn't work. it's a G4, and when you turn it on, instead of making the pleasant Mac start-up noise, it makes a mean beepy noise and then doesn't show anything on the monitor. grrr. these are, after all, just throw-away computer parts i picked up from work since the yearbook has no money for a new computer, but they're supposed to work 'cause they usually get rid of old computers by donating them to other schools. if they don't work, then they go in the computer graveyard, but this one didn't come from the graveyard. but then we were looking at the other offices in the Pagoda (where the yearbook office is) and we found a room that was unlocked and completely empty except for ... a Mac! so we're wondering if we can steal it, since there appears to be no one in that office. we know who used to be in the office, so we're trying to find out if he's gone or what.
AND last night i finally uploaded the evil website i've been working on that i've mentioned before in several posts!!! w00tn3ss!!! there's a few things i forgot, but it's mostly up now. behold my beautiful layout! the image map on the main page was my first time making one, so i'm happy it works and stuff. i think it looks very nice, if i do say so myself. at any rate, it's much better than what they had before.
and i'm done rambling.