So I think people were under the impression that I liked my old blog background. I guess since I chose it, that is a fair assumption, but really I have always thought it was kinda ugly. Perhaps I am the only person who would purposefully choose the ugliest blog template, but it was different, and I like different. The green was actually ok, the orange with the green was not so cool. I am not really crazy about this one either. The sides kinda remind me of my grandma's couch. Anyway, I would actually like black best, but I fear it would be too boring. I don't think my words hold enough interest to make it compelling with merely a black background. It would also be really cool if I knew how to put links on the sidebar and stuff, because I definitely don't. I go to the settings area, and all I see is HTML and that scares me. I don't mess with that stuff. If anyone has any helpful hints as to how I can add things like links and pictures let me know. then maybe I will get a better background. (In my defense, I don't like any of the ones they offer. I want to design my own.)

sidewalk chalk vandals

So today is April the 20th, and this very much excites all 5 hippies on the campus at A&M. ( The number 420 means weed. awesome.) They banded together, and in a valiant effort to spread the word about the "ultimate relaxing tool", decorated the sidewalks with that oh so mature sidewalk chalk method. There were drawings of five-pronged leaves all over the place, along with various phrases indicative of drug use. (There was one particularly humourous spot where someone drew something that looked very much like a peacock. Going by context, I am guessing this was supposed to be a marijuana leaf, unless NBC was somehow involved in the whole ordeal. Maybe it was the vandal's first try at a leaf. The other vandals had formerly restricted him to the simpler job of writing 420 as large as possible everywhere they went. Now we understand why.) At the same time they used the sidewalks of campus to push their political leanings. OK, fine, express your love of THC, but implying I should vote for Bob Marley as president? Too far. I understand that along with my freedoms as an American comes the necessary allowance of free speech, but sidewalk-chalk propaganda? I didn't see those words anywhere after We the People...
There were also numerous peace signs. Perhaps that is part of the platform of Bob Marley. I am sure he would promote peace as president of the US. oh wait, he is DEAD.
It was nice that one of the vandals used the opportunity to write love notes to his sweetheart mary jane though...

I really thought that as a college student I wouldn't run into things this silly, but alas, some people never grow out of it. It kinda brings the nostalgia back from high school when I sat next to that kid in computer class who drew marijuana leaves on word art EVERY SINGLE DAY. The teacher would always make him erase it, and he would promptly start over. As the rest of the class was entering data into excel, he would painstakingly form each point of the leaf. This was, it seems, his primary concern and solitary pleasure in life. He sure had success written all over.

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I am sitting in the student computing center right now and somehow I got the chair that is considerably higher than everyone elses. We are talking a solid foot and a half higher. This makes for awkwardness. At first I felt around the chair bottom for a little chair-putter-downer lever, and then realized that these are the ones that spin to adjust height. I don't think it is worth the embarrasment of sitting amidst a full row of computers and spinning in circles. I shall remain hopelessly teetering above the CPU's and heads of all the computing students. It is strange to look down at my neighbor, who happens to be about 6'3''. I believe it is strange for him as well, considering the look he just gave me as I leered down at him. Don't worry, I looked away really fast. You know, maybe I don't mind this. I have leering power.
Imagine me sitting in this chair, and as people walk past just turning towards them and slowly staring them down at eye level. That would seriously freak some people out.
But I remain a shy giant in this world of seated folk, and so will continue to loom in an embarrased, appropriate way.