Now, as far as digital music goes, I fully agree with this: If something happened to your computer or ipod, the music you paid for would just disappear. I've had so many issues with computers that I just can't trust them to not fail. For example, back when I was doing my undergraduate years, everyone was required to use laptops that were rented from the school. These laptops were cheap Dells, and it wasn't unusual for the hard drives to fail. Fortunately it only happened to me once. If it wasn't for the fact that I backed up everything on CDs, I would have lost a ton of stuff. I absolutely, completely, do not trust electronics.
I duno if I give off a computer genius vibe, but if I do, I wish I didn't. I mean, I know how to do basic stuff with a computer - and that's usually the sort of thing people ask me to do. But sometimes I get comments like, "THE INTERNET IS BROKEN" when the router isn't working right for some reason, and they expect me to magically fix it even though I don't know what's wrong in the first place. Sometimes my parents even call me and expect me to do tech-support over the phone, argh. I AM NOT QUALLIFIED FOR THIS. Sob.
Anyway. Moving on to tourism and stuff. I don't think she gets sucked in to souvenier places and tourist traps out of a desire to show that she went somewhere rather than actually visiting the place. I think she genuinely enjoys that sort of thing, ugh. She really isn't the sort to enjoy the outdoors... or historical sites... or any of the things I like, really. SIGH. Comparing it to Paris, it we went there, she'd spend hours at the Eiffel Tower, but bypass the Louvre.
I've been living in Saskatchewan for about a year now - it was around this time last year that I set up in my apartment. I sort of get along with my colleagues from the English department, but they aren't really friends per se... it's more like an odd combination of a coworker relationship and a rival relationship. So, we're not really close. I guess I'll meet someone who I'll be able to hang out with eventually, but gods, is this frustrating. It took me four years to make friends back in Nova Scotia, and then I had to leave it all behind.
Anyway. You're right about never hearing about anyone fighting off a moose. It's always bears. I think part of it is that bears are more likely to come into a city or camp, whereas moose tend to mind their own business. So, bears are more troublesome. However, you generally don't have to worry about a bear the size of a small pickup truck hurtling through your windshield at 100 km/hr. They're also dangerous outside of cars too, of course, but since they generally mind their own business it's usually just hunters that have to worry about them, I guess. They might be delicious, but man, I would never want to piss one off.
On the subject of writing, you're right - planning to be a bestselling author rarely ends well. I mean, okay, it's a nice thing to dream about, but so few people are as successful as, say, Stephen King or Neil Gaiman, and it's entirely unrealistic to expect that kind of result. It seems strange - perhaps also egotistical - to think, right before the novel is even finished, that one will have that kind of success. I just don't understand what motivates this sort of behaviour.
Since I'm not big into fandom (I normally don't care at all), the Supernatural fandom didn't really scare me away from watching the series. As far as television goes, it's pretty okay. I gave up about 1/4 of the way through the second season - not because it was bad, but because I don't have the patience to sit there and watch television episodes. It's just this 'thing' I have. Can't stand it. I can usually sit still long enough to watch a movie, but I watch them rarely - so watching episode after episode of television, even if I only watched one per evening, was just a bit much for me.
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I duno if I give off a computer genius vibe, but if I do, I wish I didn't. I mean, I know how to do basic stuff with a computer - and that's usually the sort of thing people ask me to do. But sometimes I get comments like, "THE INTERNET IS BROKEN" when the router isn't working right for some reason, and they expect me to magically fix it even though I don't know what's wrong in the first place. Sometimes my parents even call me and expect me to do tech-support over the phone, argh. I AM NOT QUALLIFIED FOR THIS. Sob.
Anyway. Moving on to tourism and stuff. I don't think she gets sucked in to souvenier places and tourist traps out of a desire to show that she went somewhere rather than actually visiting the place. I think she genuinely enjoys that sort of thing, ugh. She really isn't the sort to enjoy the outdoors... or historical sites... or any of the things I like, really. SIGH. Comparing it to Paris, it we went there, she'd spend hours at the Eiffel Tower, but bypass the Louvre.
I've been living in Saskatchewan for about a year now - it was around this time last year that I set up in my apartment. I sort of get along with my colleagues from the English department, but they aren't really friends per se... it's more like an odd combination of a coworker relationship and a rival relationship. So, we're not really close. I guess I'll meet someone who I'll be able to hang out with eventually, but gods, is this frustrating. It took me four years to make friends back in Nova Scotia, and then I had to leave it all behind.
Anyway. You're right about never hearing about anyone fighting off a moose. It's always bears. I think part of it is that bears are more likely to come into a city or camp, whereas moose tend to mind their own business. So, bears are more troublesome. However, you generally don't have to worry about a bear the size of a small pickup truck hurtling through your windshield at 100 km/hr. They're also dangerous outside of cars too, of course, but since they generally mind their own business it's usually just hunters that have to worry about them, I guess. They might be delicious, but man, I would never want to piss one off.
On the subject of writing, you're right - planning to be a bestselling author rarely ends well. I mean, okay, it's a nice thing to dream about, but so few people are as successful as, say, Stephen King or Neil Gaiman, and it's entirely unrealistic to expect that kind of result. It seems strange - perhaps also egotistical - to think, right before the novel is even finished, that one will have that kind of success. I just don't understand what motivates this sort of behaviour.
Since I'm not big into fandom (I normally don't care at all), the Supernatural fandom didn't really scare me away from watching the series. As far as television goes, it's pretty okay. I gave up about 1/4 of the way through the second season - not because it was bad, but because I don't have the patience to sit there and watch television episodes. It's just this 'thing' I have. Can't stand it. I can usually sit still long enough to watch a movie, but I watch them rarely - so watching episode after episode of television, even if I only watched one per evening, was just a bit much for me.