I am a practicing clinician, a recent doctoral graduate who finally graduated school but will never leave school, a huge technology lover, a man constantly fighting off the fat, and a father.
Today I closed off access to my old blog at blogger. As much as I loved the domain name, I really didn’t see the point in migrating back to blogger even though I no longer needed a killer support app for Blackberry, which was the main reason I went to WordPress. It was kind of a quiet moment for me even though there really wasn’t any build up. I am quietly shutting off unnecessary pieces of my internet life as I get more into the real world and realize how much my public life can affect my personal life.
I started that blogger site almost seven years ago, on January 06, 2006 Wednesday. Wow. In that seven years so many things have happened. I had initially started that blog after moving from Xanga to start a new online life. Yes, a new online life. On Xanga I had started blogging when a girl I had a major crush on at work was using it and I thought it would be a way to get to know her. I still remember feverishly making blogs in the middle of class breaks on campus in the Knowledge Common library and hoping she would see it and make comments. Wow. And after that failed spectacularly I decided to just axe everything and try to move on to something new. Hilariously I remember still giving this girl my new domain name at blogger, so not really moving on. Wonderful life choices I made. And to think of where I am at now with W and how WEDDING NEXT YEAR! Wow. Things really have changed and so much for the better for me. I cannot believe how much my life and progressed in seven years. Fabulousellis indeed.
The beginning of that blog was really something else. I was totally immersed in my third year and I was in the middle of some very frantic exams and schedules that made me super super stressed out and absolutely emotionally wrecked. And now I sit here, finishing off my round of marking the exact same classes I used to be in, freaking out in. Except now I have the hammer of Thor and I am not massively freaking out if my GPA is going to drop or not. I’d love to see where I will be in seven years from now. Or maybe I don’t. It will be wonderful to look back seven years from now and just think “Damn did I goof up”. I want to point out the above image that I sat in doing my first round of teaching. I was fluctuating with weight and fat and I also was highly highly motivated to teach at this time. I had a super super grand time working with these kids and teaching high school science. I think I look goofy here but that’s the beauty of it. In seven years I am going to look back and think how goofy I looked in 2013.
I’d like to reflect on one of my technology choices of my third year. I was using the Toshiba M40 Satellite that was loaded with Centrino CPU and Nvidia 6600 GPU. It was a beast and it ran Doom 3 quite well. It had terrible battery life, the keyboard was flimsy and the whole thing felt really cheap plasticky. But it was super thin for a 15 inch laptop with a gaming card and it had a glossy screen that looked cool at the time. I wish I still had it actually. I could have repaired that HD problem so easy. It would be pretty interesting to see how this thing ran with an SSD now. I remember eyeing this thing with complete envy after I couldn’t get the M30 special edition the year before and got an iBook instead which kind of killed all the Windows only apps I needed at the time. I was also using terrible Sony MDR-V700DJ headphones that were complete fakes and I was too naive and unlearned to realize that when I bought them off a bunch of high school kids in the mall. I don’t use them obviously. The Logitech Z-3s I still use. They don’t sound stellar but they are definitely good enough for me when they are paired up with my external USB DAC/Amp Creative XFi card. I loved the design of the Z-3s and jumped on the opportunity to have these solid aluminum kits when a water damaged box at Compucenter went on sale. The Panasonic shelf system is totally useless to me and sits in the kitchen and pretends to be useful.
I got this 4th gen iPod 20GB with my iBook G4 at the time and this thing made my second year AMAZING. I felt like a boss walking with my white earbud cords knowing I had the cutting edge of mp3 technology in my pocket. It wasn’t as commonplace as the iDevices are now and I just felt so cool. It still works if I rmemeber right but I can’t find it right now.
I am proctoring two midterms tomorrow morning and afternoon and then I’m playing Starcraft II. 🙂 I should actually goto sleep right now instead of doing a personal history flashback.
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