Aaaaaahhh!!! Feeling a general wave of nausea. ARGH.

I don\’t know what it is, maybe from traveling or too much thinking?

On another note, the top 10 airlines don\’t even include an American airline. Not a surprise that asian airlines dominant the top 10. With all the airlines I have traveled (and can recall), my favorite has been Southwest. Friendly, happy attendants with their bad jokes. Leather seats. Honey roasted peanuts (why did they change to dry roasted peanuts recently!) And open seating.

\”Do you believe in God?\” she asked him.

\”I am an academic of religion. It\’s hard for me to be close to something I study.\”

She looked at him again, \”Do you believe in God?\”

An excerpt from a book I read recently. I have always found some organized religion just incorrect in their teachings. That interpretations from a Bible are absolute. Things are black and white. When I was 10, my CCD teacher spoke of something like that. And at that tender age, I was shocked by it, finding it injust and unfair. To some, that could be what led me \”astray\”. Yet recently, I realized it\’s not the religion that is \”corrupt\”. It is the one who interprets it, the organized religion. Man could be corrupt, but God is not.

Even though, nowadays I have described myself as an atheist, lacking a lot of spirituality.

There was an atheist rally I attended once in Berkeley. It was funny. More in the sense that they praised science almost as religious followers praised God. But there is a difference, theories can be disproved. The Word can only be misinterpreted, but is set in stone.

pass my potato! :) I am a tater tot!

And a baked potato!

Out of a sudden anxiety, I decided to go to the campus helpdesk for help on my powerbook, even though I knew the answer already. It was really strange to be the \”customer\”, because for the last few years at Berkeley I always was the one who issued the solution, the only fix. Every time a resident came to me with a computer problem, I could determine a solution within minutes. With this, I faked a sad, serious emotional state when I pronouced a computer dead. That the hard drive was unreachable.

So I was slightly surprised when I had two people stare at me as I told them the troubled history of my powerbook. They seemed to frown in concern as I described how Eris kept freezing over and over again. They even said \”awwww\” as I described my previous reformat. Then suddenly another consultant came along. He quickly listened to a few symptoms I described. He pronouced the hard drive dead and quickly whisked away to his cubicle. Just like I would have.

There is often a lot of whining and screaming in my project office. It must seem like a scary place to people who pass by. I have been going \”ARRRRGH!!!\” for the last hour ever since my hard drive has decided to act up. \”Cannot save\” it says when I try to send e-mail (because I have it set to copy locally). \”iTunes cannot use your library. Your disk may be full.\” it whines. I tell terminal to mkdir, but it screams back \”No space left on device.\”

Have tried many things such as repairing permissions and cleaning out my trash. Backing up data in progress.

But doesn\’t it know there are 22 gigs free?!

I am surprised at my own coordination and my ability to catch the ball. So I think I am going to buy a baseball glove (following breaking-in instructions).

This is how I sometimes waste time. Doing unproductive things!

doreen: ppl don\’t have personality anymore
doreen: i should splash a can of paint in their faces

Well said!