Ahhh Project!

So in class we have this big project due next week. Yay. Not. I really don’t like talking in front of people. At first it all seemed good but then none of us could get a copy of the book until this week. Most of us are probably going to be using the eBook version school which will be interesting. Yesterday we finally decided what chapters we are each going to read and hopefully that will get the ball rolling. I just hope that I can stay awake long enough and find internet so that I can get my part done. I'm a huge procrastinator so this will probably get very interesting right around…hmm.. Tuesday. Yeah I know that is pretty late but that is just the way I work. Plus I have work until eleven this whole weekend. Dun dun duhhh!!!!

Scavenger Hunt!!

I love scavenger hunts!! They are more fun with cameras and cars though!! Ugh we still have seven things left to find off the list. Not including the ones off the Fry's blog that I haven't even looked at yet. Go me!!! Well time to get back to work!! Woo!!!

Traveling

I've never thought about traveling anywhere online ever before. I like traveling in real life so much. I want to go all over the world. That is one of my life goals. I like the excitement of going and seeing the new places and having the memories of going to the place. For one so young I feel like I have gone a lot of places even though most of them are inside of the United States but still it is better than some of the people I know who have not even left this side of Washington state. I do not know if I would enjoy "traveling" to a virtual world. I don't even know where any are or how to get there but if I had to choose one I would probably choose somewhere where I could take my friends or somewhere where they have already been because I'm kinda shy. I'd rather go with someone that knows the place so I wouldn't have to find everything out all by myself. I'd still rather travel somewhere in the real world than the virtual world though.

Kevin Freitas

I really enjoyed Kevin's visit last week. He was fun to listen to and it was fascinating how much of his life is online. I believe that he said that he has been blogging for ten years. TEN YEARS!!! I'm surprised that people can have been blogging that long. It's impressive. I couldn't help but look up some of the things that he had talked about. Especially the Frost Park Chalk off!! That was awesome. It is so cool how one guy starting something as simple as a drawing competition in a park can escalate to something so huge and help save the park form being closed off! That and the pictures were really amazing. I am totally planning on going to check out the chalk off if/when it starts up again. I also really liked how Kevin is planning on letting the site go on by itself with just some little help here and there and how he is keeping it a nonprofit thing. It's just there because he wanted it to be.

Well Placed Trust??

The only reason that I do my financial business online is because it is so simple. I don't do much. Just check the money in my account, transfer funds and once a month I pay my rent check. It is nice to be able to just get to the closest computer and make sure everything is going alright. That and when I had to pay my rent through a check every month it would be late most of the time because I could never get everything I needed together, checkbook, pen, envelope, stamps, postbox. If it was too late then there would be a fine and I can't afford that I don't have enough money. I know that it is potentially really dangerous to do all this online but I have also had an experience where my wallet was stolen and I used my online banking to transfer my funds so they would be harder to get and I believe that, that helped save me from losing the little money I had. I guess I trust the bank websites. I just hope that, that trust is well placed.