I’ve had this picture floating around my picture folder for a few days — I wanted to post it but I hadn’t gotten around to it until now.
Mainly that was due to the mad scramble to move all the files from my old computer to my new one. Yes, thanks to a generous friend (thanks again, Matt) I now have a comparable computer where I can actually do normal functions on a computer without having to wait ridiculous amounts of time.
Today is also my birthday.
It’s odd really.
I can remember not too long ago I was posting on here for my 16th birthday — coincidently I’m feeling the same as I did that day. My birthday feels secondary…perhaps even thirdary or fourthdary. I don’t feel like today is important, I have so many other more important things to worry about besides having a party and being lazy.
I have to think about work tonight as I’m working the graveyard shift in order to do inventory; I have to think about next week and when I should get a head start on my homework because I have photography classes at night 3 days a week at MATC (Madison Area Tech College); I have to think that if I do have a birthday party, will I have time to fit it in and not be too tired to finish my homework; I have to think about coming up with money to pay my parents back for my new camera.
I guess my personal portrait somewhat represents how I feel right now: I’m looking at one thing, but my ideas, thoughts, actions are being jumbled in all different directions and centered on something I never intended to look at.
Happy bday again….I could fill this comment box with all sorts of cute “i remember when” comments…but you’ve probably heard them all already several times around the dinner table.
Anyway….FYI…instead of “thirdary and fourthdary” I believe the words are “tertiary” and “quaternary”.
Also, the 2006 word of the year was coined by your good friend Colbert: truthiness (noun)
1 : “truth that comes from the gut, not books” (Stephen Colbert, Comedy Central’s “The Colbert Report,” October 2005)
2 : “the quality of preferring concepts or facts one wishes to be true, rather than concepts or facts known to be true”
Enjoy today’s tidbit of semi-useful knowledge.
Colbert has made quite a big deal out of his “Word of the Year”…I think it was nominated by Newsweek when they featured him — maybe it was the A.P., I don’t know.