Crumpled Notebook

So my friend Jeff did a blog just tonight about college memories. So I’m totally copying this from him, who copied it from someone else. Anyway, he listed some good ones of mine, especially from my Sophomore year, which were most of my good memories. The first five were great moments in my life, especially Grease night with “the gang” (not to be confused with “the group” from HS) and the all-nighter/Barren River Lodge breakfast. I think that night was one of my most favorite nights ever in college. Heck, Jeff and I even managed to make someone cry and she didn’t hate us for it!

Other than that, I have to say the many road trips my friend Bea and I took (South Carolina, Nashville, etc…) and as an overall, being roomates with Crystal my first year (yeah yeah, we know, you should never live with your best friend…). She got me through it somehow though and we ended up alright. Oh and of course, how could I forget, my dog Ozzie :-)

Okay, so you guys can tell me some of your favorite college memories if you want. And you should want to.

At some point today probably Firefox will surpass 50 million downloads. If you care, and you should, you can watch the live counter here. And if you haven’t already, Get Firefox.

So yes, I know it’s been like 11 days since I posted, and my last one was about firefox too…so I promise something new this weekend. Maybe a new page, a new post, something different.

This post at adot’s notblog is a perfect example of why I think Firefox is great. When was the last time Microsoft asked me what they could do to improve Internet Explorer. Hm, well, how about not crashing my computer for starters. I’m not saying that they don’t have some kind of forums that asks people…they very well could, but I don’t know about it (not that I care at this point). And it’s not just the asking. The whole “open source” just makes sense. If I can write some code that will help everyone else, or debug something, or in this case, better the bookmarking system, I can do it and submit it (not me, cause I know nothing of the sorts, but you get my drift). What a thought, my own personalized browser, where I get to choose what features I want to install and use. Man, and I used to think Ross was a nerd. I should have known better. He’s always right (haha!).

You ever have one of those weeks. You know, the really crummy types that make you just want to crawl in bed for a few days. I just had one of those. Actually, I had a couple or so of those. But, this post isn’t about how I had a crummy week. It’s about how one little simple, unexpected thing made the past couple weeks so much better. On the surface it may not seem like a big deal, but deep down, it’s like the sound of the ice cream truck in the middle of a smoltering hot, humid and sticky Kentucky July.

So yeah, I had one of those days. All it took was a few words from someone I care about to pull me out of the hole I wanted to go hide out in. I actually wanted to cry I was so touched. Who and what isn’t important (not for blog purposes anyway). What’s important is that we get to have little moments like that to help make up for the bad things. I truely believe that one good, totally unexpected, thing is worth more than any one bad thing.

So Kris is packing right now…moving out tomorrow for the big city of San Fran and her new job that starts Monday I belive. I think I’m dealing with it by not dealing with it really. I’m trying to just see it as, not so much a goodbye (cause of course it’s not), but just a little distance. Either way, it still sucks. I’m really going to miss Kris.