25 years later...

2006-01-26T13:20:00.000-08:00

Photoshop Experiment 2

2005-11-23T12:06:00.000-08:00

Photoshop Experiment

2005-11-23T00:21:00.000-08:00

Tech Junky

2005-11-22T17:03:00.000-08:00

I would not be able to function in today's society without these key items: the Internet, TV, my I-pod, my digital camera and my cell phone (Oh, and cigarettes. But I'm addicted to them so there's not much I can do about that)

It's interesting because I never considered myself one for all this technology. For example, my family didn't get a computer until way after all the normal people did. And when we finally got one, and I was introduced to this crazy World Wide Web, I didn't pay much heed to it because I didn't really get what it was about. Emails? What were they? I was clueless about cyberspace, so I just stuck with writing letters and doing research at the library.

If you read my 50 Things About Me list, you'd also know that I didn't catch on to the IM craze until I was a junior in college (which is probably why I still get so excited about it and overuse smiley faces and LOL). And I didn't get a cell phone until way after everyone else did.

But I realized the other day, when the Internet was down in my office for the whole day, that I am completely and utterly addicted to all things techy. I am obsessed with technology! I am a tech junky. In some form or another, it takes up all of my waking hours. And it's kind of scary, because I don't think I could live without it.

Here's a typical day in the life of Jenny:

Wake up.
Walk to work while listening to my I-pod.
Stare at the computer while at work. For eight hours, I keep myself busy on IM, gmail, Flickr, The Washington Post, the New York Times, Pitchfork, Craigslsit, and Photoshop.
Walk home while listening to my I-pod.
Watch TV.
Maybe talk on the phone to my mom or send a text message.
Watch TV.
Go to sleep.

Do you see what I mean?

Technology rules my life.

50 things about me

2005-11-21T05:04:00.000-08:00

Even though I hate pink, I have a pink cell phone and a pink I-pod case.
I am a shopaholic.
I believe in karma.
I would love one day to have my entire house done feng shui style.
My bedroom has one wall that is exposed brick, which I am obsessed with.
I have had a twin bed until only three months ago, when my mom decided it was time for her 25-year-old daughter to upgrade to a full size.
I pluck my eybrows almost every other day.
My I-pod has almost 2,000 songs, but I only listen to the same five artists over and over again (Fiona Apple, Broken Social Scene, Sufjan Stevens, TV on the Radio, Built to Spill).
I saw Fidel Castro give a four-hour speech in Cuba. What it was about -- I have no idea.
Every year around Christmas, my mom and I make dozens upon dozens of Christmas cookies (See #12).
If I were a crayon, I would be green.
When I was 12, my friend and I ate almost all of the Christmas cookies in one night. The next day, my mom made me bake them again because we had none to give away.
I read my horoscope on MSN and in the Washington Post everyday.
I am not very good at keeping in touch with people.
I don't like when people ask me, why are you so quite? Freakin chill! Why are you so loud?
If Lauren was a boy, she would be my boyfriend.
I get tan very easily, but in the winter I get freakin white as a ghost.
I used to know almost every word of Terminator 2, and I have no idea why.
I detest cinammon flavored gum.
If I ever have a daughter, I would like her to take ballet lessons.
When I was 16, I figured I would have been married and had one kid on the way by now.
I don't like to talk on the phone, except to my mom.
Sometimes I find showering annoying and wish I didn't have to.
I have had my driver's side window smashed in three times.
I drove a green Neon in high school and named it Jayda.
I often think about what store I would choose for my wedding registry.
If I have learned anything in lfe, it is to do what makes you happy and follow your heart; screw what everyone else thinks.
I think Havaianas are the best flip-flops. I almost cried when I thought I lost one on a bus in Costa Rica.
I like my steak meduim rare.
My mom always told me, "never trust a man who doesn't drink." This is very true.
I overuse ellipses (....) when I'm writing emails and on IM. And I use them the incorrectly. Ellipses are used to indicate an omission, especially of letters or words.
I don't know how to type correctly.
I got into the IM craze years after everyone else.
I never in a million years thought I would go back to school, but I am going next year for a degree in graphic design.
You will never see my hands without rings. The only time I take them off is in the shower.
I wish I had cooler handwriting.
I have never seen the Sound of Music.
I have seen two shooting stars in my life. One on the beach in Costa Rica; one when I was standing in line for the Haunted forrest around this past Halloween.
I've touched the water at the Cape of Good Hope. It was freezing.
I celebrated my 21st birthday in Singapore.
I don't get people who haven't seen Goonies.
I would like to visit, in no particular order: Austin, TX, Mexico City, Israel, Greenland, Prague, Egypt.
I sailed around the world on a cruise ship with about 300 students from across the country.
I throw away pennies sometimes when I clean my room.
I am 3/4 Polish, 1/4 Cuban.
I lived in South Jersey, right outside Philly, until I was 11.
I used to be addicted to peanut butter and chocolate chip sandwiches when I was in high school.
I think it would be cool to be a mermaid.
I rarely put sunblock on, and know I will regret it when my skin becomes gross and leathery.
People think I'm half Asian.
I like my steak meduim rare.