Now What The Hell Am I Going to Do With This Giant Box?
Last night, I built another light box using foamboard, tape and lots of free time. First I thought I was a knitter, now I think I’m a photographer so I decided I really needed this light box to set free my pseudo-artistic abilities.
I had a few problems with my creation:
1. One of the lamps broke and I need to return to home depot for an exchange.
2. I only bought two lamps but because of the size of the box, I think I need four for adequate lighting.
3. I bought the wrong bulb for the lamps, 50w as opposed to 75w.
Even with these discrepancies, I managed to take a decent photo of a ball of my favorite yarn.
Now I’m going to tell you about my computer fiasco, an ongoing heartbreak. You see, I’ve owned a custom built computer for about 4 years or so, maybe more. I decided it was time for an upgrade and ordered another custom built computer from ibuypower.com (a company which you should stay as far away from as you possibly can). I experienced a lot of mysterious restarts and spent even more money to try to correct the problem. In the end, I got fed up with the whole thing and returned the computer within 30 days to take advantage of their full refund offer. Of course, I’m out about 100 bucks for shipping expenses but, c’est la vie, right? They claimed it would take about 7 business days to process my refund but guess what? It’s week 3 and I’m still waiting.
Meanwhile, I ordered another computer through Dell, a Dimension, that so far hasn’t caused me any problems (it runs Call of Duty 2 beautifully!). I don’t really use it to do homework, you understand, it’s about preformance.
I skipped my grammar course last night because I was feeling under the weather and a little stupid. I have two midterms next week and I feel unprepared and ready for failure. I’ve never been good at studying or taking exams. For me, they only serve to point out what you don’t know and force you to memorize information that you instantly forget the moment you turn that blue book in. People say that there is life after college but all I see is the dreary world of Graduate School. WHERE DO I SIGN UP?
October 12th, 2006 at 4:13 pm
I have been really bad about attending classes lately. I have zero motivation to sit and feel uncomfortable when randomly called on to answer a question I definetly didn’t know because the teacher didn’t understand the universal gesture for “Bitch don’t call on me”, that is, avoiding eye contact and flipping papers rapidly.
October 13th, 2006 at 11:53 am
I can soooo relate to your college woes. Last night I was looking through my university/major options, and it occurred to me that in a best-case scenario I’ll be graduating by the time I’m 25, with 7 years of college under my belt and 3 degrees of varying usefulness.
Glad to hear you’ve had a good experience with Dell. My laptop is a Dell Inspiron 600m, and I love it to itty bitty pieces (most of the time).
February 8th, 2007 at 11:53 pm
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February 9th, 2007 at 12:43 am
i found your blog through jen’s website! i must say, i am in the exact situation as you are (not about the light box or the computer although i do use a custom build too). i have two midterms nextweek, chemistry and math (and japanese but meh), after college all i am seeing is grad school too, i am currently only in 1st year and i am already worrying about everything. i can only imagine what it’ll be like later on.
i am worrying so much because i’m living a HUGE LIE. and im trying to correct this lie by doing well in school, if i do well in school, this lie could be covered seamlessly without anyone finding out.
hopefully no one will find out