Lots of Jewish Conversations Today

Earlier in the day, Morgan and I were talking in our Holocaust class about how we didn't really plan on havng the class together. She said the following little gem:

"I was going to write on your wall something like, 'I can't wait to see you! Yay Holocaust!' and then I was like, 'Wait...'"

And now later in the day, I start talking to Madeleine online and the IM happened. To put this a little in context, earlier in the conversation both me and Madeleine were talking about how her classes start on September 8th, which this year is Rosh Hashanah. Which then led us to talking about growing up with Jewish people - or not, in my case.

New School Year, No Slacking On The Blog

Okay, so I was a little busy this summer. You know, working 2 jobs plus and all. But that's no excuse for not posting for all 3 months. So now that I'm back at school and have things to procrastinate, I'm thinking that posting every now and then might be nice. I'm considerate that way.

That said, I still have nothing up on my walls really. Which is upsetting for me, because by now they're usually completely covered.

Blog Pimping Time!

It's blog pimping time!

I haven't posted in a few days because I've had something of a life. I am now a partial poster on the larger Drugs & Donuts blog roster. There's also posts from GGM repeat offenders Allie, Anne, KellyPaul, Morgan, and Casey. And I think it's pretty funny, actually.

So go read it. You know, when you've read mine.

Can I Tell You A Secret?

So on a whim the other day, I e-mailed Frank Warren of Post Secret-creation fame, because he was coming to Binghamton University on the 2nd. I was expecting to get some sort of automated response, or some flunkie e-mailing me back about how busy he was.

Instead, I get "Hi Alex, call tomorrow. - Frank"

To put it simply? My reaction.

So keep an eye out in the Ithacan this week for a real article (!!!!) by me, or keep an eye online for that one. I'm really excited, he was really cool and very interesting to talk to.

Blog Numba FO

That's right. Four of them.

There's this one, which is just for fun. And all of my stupid ramblings and such about...well, nothing. News II Electric Boogaloo is for, well, News II. Pretty obvious, judging by the title. It has my Ithacan articles and my Dipity on it, and nothing else really of importance. Same with the Wordpress blog, because that was another News II experiment. The fourth?

Ithaca's Imprint Magazine. I'm psyched.

So Much for Wireless. Thanks IC.

Let me make this clear. I'm not thrilled with the internet here. I never am. So when I heard we were supposed to get the hookup with campus-wide wireless, I was psyched. I was even more excited when the tech guys came into our apartment and tried to hook us up.

I was not so excited when the wireless didn't work. And I'm not about to pay for fast internet when there's the possibility of wireless actually working this year on campus.

Oy.

I Hate My Bookmarks

So for the last 3 weeks when I go to bookmark stuff, this same link and picture comes up.

Not that it's not funny, but really, when I want to favorite something, I want it to stick. Like the House ads, or the Joe Biden bobblehead that I found for far too much money (but seriously, I want one. Belated birthday gift, people?).

Is This Real Life?

No, no it is not. It is cartoon life.

So after that last post about Coldplay becoming Simpsonized in September, it got me thinking. What would I look like as a character from several popular television shows? So after some snooping around on the internet, I found out.

Let's start out with The Simpsons, with me being the one in the tight pink shirt as Homer stares at my yellow knockers in the bar. This looks nothing like me, obviously. The girl has way more skin tone than me (although I'm gaining ground after the Outer Banks trip). She does have a decent figure, which is nice. But her shoes are fugly, her hair is all wrong and the eyebrow-less thing isn't right at all.

I got a little closer to what I look like with the South Park avatar creator. The hair was closer to what it looks like (especially when it's humid out and it goes to shit), and it had eyebrows (although not in black like mine are, compared to my brown hair. Mine are a remnant of a dark childhood head of hair, and stubbornly refuse to change hue no matter what hair dye I put in them as I dye the rest of my head). Regardless, the necklace, the hair, and the shirtdress were closer to what I likened myself to as a cartoon.

Plus, South Park totally gives me license to curse as much as I want. Which...is good (I'm a lady on the inside, I swear).

Hands down, my favorite was the "Mad Men Yourself!" feature on the Mad Men site over at AMC. It lets you pick whether you're a "Suit" or a "Skirt," and then you go from there. Clearly, this is what I might look like a few decades ago (or a few decades from now, with the hair), but I like it. This was the first cartoon maker that even when you pick yourself a less skinny model for your bod, it still looked sexy, especially with the clothes they give you. And that's a plus for me, because I'm not a stick. With the hair, lipstick and eyebrows? Not going to lie, it kind of looks like what I was going for at senior prom.

Plus, it puts me in the world of one of my favorite shows in the world.

Now if they only did this for House? I'd be totally sold.

DSC, Please Hold

Today started my second foray into summer school administration/teaching, and I gotta say, it was rocky.

This year rather than being coordinator assistant in a middle school, I'm an Ed Options supervisor/teacher/person in a high school program. So that was my first clue to get out of the middle school meeting halfway through (although it was nice to see 3 of my previous teachers from middle and high school wondering why I was there. I accidentally insulted one, I think, by saying I was way too young to teach...).

Anyway, the whole program I'm working on is online. Which is cool. The bad news is, the server for the school (and the district at large) tends to crash the day before it's needed by everyone involved with the summer school. Especially us, whose whole program is on the Internet. And us, who need to get logged in before we can do/grade anything.

A bigger problem here is with DSC, or Data Service Center. In addition to being the people who take care of all the grades, report cards, and attendance records, they're also the people who need to log you into the system before you can get paid. Which...it says I'm logged into, but I don't remember ever getting a user name or password. I did last year, but I don't remember the password or how the hell my old supervisor misspelled my name (something like Alexandria Polumbo). So I can't get paid my $13 an hour.

I finally got it all worked out with my name spelled correctly and my password securely in place, but it still meant I had to listen to a video game version of "Let it Be" for 20 minutes. Oy.

Firefox Is Not A Fan of This Blog

This isn't really important, it just seems that Mozilla refuses this blog a spot on my Bookmarks toolbar. Actually, it doesn't deny it a spot so much as the link never works. It sends me to Google Ads or to comment on my own blog.

And even I'm not that pathetic.

Yet.

Edited to Add: For now, things seem like they're working. But I had to RSS feed myself to get it. Ugh.

Just kidding: Still issues and kinks, but better than before.

A Fail of Epic Proportions

So all 3 of you that read this are probably wondering why the heck I'm using a different blog than my last one. The reason is pretty simple.

I failed.

But really, though. I wanted to delete the Gmail that I had because it had a stupid name and because I barely used it for anything. Fair enough.

What I didn't realize is that my now-defunct Gmail account was directly linked to the blog, and since I had deleted that Gmail, I couldn't update it anymore.

Oops.

So here's the new one. Enjoy. Spread it around like wildfire. Like rufus.