Books vs. E-Readers

So we have two main ways to enjoy literature: the book, and the e-book. I am unbiased when it comes to this topic: a book has a charm that an e-book cannot replicate, and an e-book has a practicality that a book cannot replicate.

Scenario: THE BEACH
You're in a sundress, sitting on a towel, toes in the sand. What do you want? A book. How do you want your book? A real book. Why? Unless the wind ruffling through the pages of a novel bothers you too much, the romance of reading a book on the beach is irreplaceable. Pros: romance, no chance of sand damage, easy to share. Cons: book can get wet, your pages ruffle, people can see what you're reading.

Scenario: COLLEGE
You're in a lecture hall, told to turn to page 458 of your psychology textbook. One hour later, you're on a city bus to go get some more toothpaste and towels, and you need to finish chapter 14 of the latest John Greene novel. Two hours later, you need new hairstyles for a night out with your best friends. What do you want? An e-reader loaded with your textbooks, novels, and magazines. Why? Instead of taking up precious space in your dorm room, you can tote around a small tablet. Pros: you can turn to certain pages in your textbooks quicker, you don't need to dog-ear your books, and you can search the magazines for keywords. Cons: a target for delinquent thieves, especially while out and about.

Two different cases, two different answers. I believe that hard copies and an e-reader would be beneficial. Here is a video guide to purchasing an e-reader.

Blog Finder

I really enjoy reading other people's thoughts on life. I would like to think that that is why you're reading this right now, as well. Blogs are a wonderful tool to share thoughts with anyone and everyone instantaneously. However, it's not that easy to find blogs. Sites like stumbleupon have made it easier to discover new internet material, but that's not just blogs. Google blog search helps, too, but isn't what I'm thinking of. What if stumbleupon teamed up with Google blog search to create the ultimate blog search: an engine you could plug your general tastes into, that would output all different types of blogs, not searchword specific.

New Day

What if there was a new day in between Saturday and Sunday? When no one killed, no one hurt, no one died, no one worked, no one lied, no one hungered, no one cried?

What if all of humanity agreed to live in harmony for one day a week? Would they return more eager for vengeance, or would the day of nonviolence change them somehow? Would they deny their inherent human nature, or would they embrace it with even more vigor after being deprived of the ability to commit violent acts, even for as short of a period as a day?

Dieting

My lack of success with dieting must be contributed to something. My PCOS should be managed with metformin, and diet and exercise. Lack of recipes, lack of time to make the recipes, lack of dedication, too much access to unhealthy foods, lack of willpower, lack of time to exercise? What is it?

Recipes To Try:
hamburgers stuffed with jalapenos and cream cheese
turkey blt lettuce wraps

Motivation:
easy ways to cut carbs

To Do:
keep healthy snacks on hand at all times
take metformin regularly

I guess that's all I really can do.

Career Choices

Why should certain people feel better than others about their career choices?

A teacher should be grateful for a doctor's knowledge when they find her cancer early, but a doctor should be grateful for a teacher's empathy and patience that allowed her to teach him the very basics that allowed him to advance in the field. Those who can, do, and those who can but don't want to, teach. Everyone is so impressed by titles like "forensic anthropologist" but no one is that impressed by the title "artist". However, the minute you add something in front of the artistic title like "sketch artist" or "physical therapist" instead of just plain therapist, people get impressed. I wonder why? Is it because they believe that it requires no "real life" skills to be a psychologist or a painter? Most people couldn't paint a pretty picture if their life depended on it, they don't have the three dimensional skills to do so.

It just pisses me off. Why can't we all live in peace?

Drugs

Today was the date of my first official drug deal. It wasn't for me, and it wasn't for anybody I know. 30 years from now I may find that stupid. Oh well. I didn't get caught. I didn't get in trouble.  It was only $20 worth of weed. I really want to smoke it, now that I have it, but you know. Can't do that, because I'm being randomly drug tested by my parents.

Drugs aren't even that bad. I know everyone thinks that I'm being innocent and other things, but weed doesn't even matter. You can't really overdose on weed.

College

So I have pretty much made the decision to go to West Chester University. I am an undecided major, but am thinking of updating my major to psychology. It's something that's always interested me, and besides having obvious personal ties to the field, I believe I have something to contribute to the world as a psychologist. I just spent an hour looking at the psychology major on College Board. It looks really interesting. I think I could thrive. I just emailed the office of admissions about changing my major.


My headphones are so broken. They are duct taped together. I have to scrunch up my shoulders to let the right one lay against my ear so I can even hear it.

This song is stuck in my head. I guess I'm just going through some kind of cute guy emo song phase or something.