Illness

It is days like today where i wish we could use the internet to go to class in place of walking twenty minutes in the rain/snow/slush when you're sick with a fever that decides to break as soon as you sit down in your first class of the day.  I've done online classes, and since there is apparently less effort in taking a class on your computer, the online professor feels the need to make you do massive quantities of work to compensate.  Either way getting sick in the first week of a new semester is just bad.  It consumes my every thought, seeing as though a running nose and a throbbing head combined are impossible distractions to ignore.

On top of feeling like a walking corpse due to the adverse effects of flu medication, I had to walk over what were once sidewalks and streets that had been turned into a raging river.  It would be so much easier to just do a virtual lecture via iChat or some equivalent on crappy days, that way the school doesn't have to cancel classes on on especially bad days, and students don't have to suffer the torment of wet weather on not-bad-enough days.  It wouldn't cost any extra money seeing as how iChat is free, and it would be no more extra effort to arrange than speed-walking through the wind and pouring rain.  Any flaws in this suggestion?

Day two

So things aren't looking too great right now.  My classes are fine but my boyfriend has been really sick since saturday.  He had a fever of 104 yesterday and almost went to the hospital, but hes somewhat better now.  I felt tired all day and now I have a headache that won't go away and my body feels sorta cold and achey.  It would be just my luck to get seriously ill in the first week of new classes.

Besides that for my media class i've downloaded some of the software and created a flickr account as well as a second life account, but currently they're just sitting there since i have no idea what to do with them.  After i finish writing this i'm going to look up old family pictures for class tomorrow morning.  Luckily my dad is a computer nerd and scanned all of our old photos years ago.

back at SB

So i'm very new to this whole blogging world, i'll more than likely use this as an outlet to bitch and complain about the stressfully boring life that i have.  I live on campus at SUNY Stony Brook on Long Island, NY.  I'm originally from NC but i've lived in NY and have been supporting myself for over three years now.  I'm putting myself through college via student loans and grants while working part time at a grocery store. I'm now a first semester senior finally after transferring colleges twice; doing so has put me about a year behind where i'd like to be.

Today was my first day back to class for my spring '09 semester, and this blog is for creative/thinking purposes for my Introduction to Visual Interpretation class, taught by Professor Phillip Baldwin.  The class really grabbed my interest since a lot of the software we will be exploring is mac-related and i just got a new macbook for christmas and have no idea how to maximize my use of it.  Sooo we'll see where this narrative takes me throughout the semester.

-Ashley