I've found that a lot of people get irritated with me because I never "respond" to their messages, when in reality I only ignore a very small percentage of messages. So, let me explain the process of messaging me so that you'll know exactly what happens. I rarely ever keep my IM windows on my screen, they're always covered up by other windows, and usually my phone is somewhere across the room. I rely solely on the notification sound to tell me that I've received a new message. In the case of my phone, I only use the vibrate settings (which is actually quite loud when sitting on a hard surface) and never use a ringtone. Sometimes, if I'm really focused on something, I merely don't hear anything. Yes, I do get that into some of my programming things sometimes, and when you're playing a game, it can also get quite loud and harder to hear notifications. I do try to check on my messages on my computer and on my phone every once in a while just to make sure I didn't miss anything.

I started off sitting in front of a computer (what a surprise) and appeared to be some sort of programmer for a school. I was talking to the dean (who is a woman, it's important later on) about some sort of application submission system for the school, which was apparently a very top-notch school and only selected a few students who applied each year. After the dean left, I find out that I live with another male and a female. The guy seemed to be my boyfriend, I had that feeling that we were in some sort of close relationship, so I'll refer to him as my boyfriend.

It's a collection of awkward and sometimes boredline insane conversations that I've had with various people or groups of people, wherever we might have been chatting. I feel selfish keeping them all to myself and not letting the rest of the world share in my (or our) laughter. Don't worry, I've removed any last name or major identifying information so people can't go spam you elsewhere. Enjoy! Warning: Some of these conversations may be deemed inappropriate for younger audiences. Please respect your parent's wishes and only continue if you believe 1000% that they would approve of you reading these things.

This game was actually a lot of fun which I definitely wasn't expecting based on the images I had seen beforehand, but I'm a huge fan of the puzzle-type games and figuring out how to get through the levels, rather than just straight-out blowing stuff up with random weapons like most games tend to be. Anyways, the eggs can sometimes be a little hard to spot. A couple of them are completely hidden from view and I just happened to pick them up randomly exploring the map (because I refused to leave the level until I found them). I have to say, the ones near the beginning of the game seemed harder to find. Maybe it's just because I got used to finding them and figured out all the possible hiding places so it wasn't fooling me anymore. Either way, here's a guide to finding all the eggs in Okabu!

Working at the supermarket is not all fun and games, you run across some fairly odd and ignorant people who always think they're right and go out of their way to make your life miserable. It's not only the customers, either. Sometimes the employees can turn your life into hell too, especially when you're a supervisor. Now for a collection, or more of a recollection, of memories from my time as a supervisor. I feel like making one of those Law & Order introductions here. "In the retail industry, the attitudes of customers and employees can be especially inappropriate. In supermarkets, the dedicated employees who must put up with these people are known as supervisors. These are their stories. (Dun Dun)"

It's a big issue you may not know about, but there is a scenario in driving that appears very uncommonly but causes quite a bit of confusion when an accident occurs. Suppose you are heading east and you are in the right turn lane to head south. Another car, heading north, made a wrong turn and is in the left turn lane to make a U-turn (assume that it is allowed at this intersection). The person making the U-turn has a green light (not a green turn arrow) and the person making a right turn has a red light and the 'No Right Turn on Red' sign is not lit. If both cars make the turn and collide, who is responsible? Refer to the visual representation below if you are confused.

Telling someone to write about an important event in their life is like telling a politician to give a public apology speech. Does the politician really feel sorry for what they did? It's highly unlikely, they're only sorry they got caught, because everyone knows that people tend to believe it's alright to do something as long as you don't get caught doing it. This is because people tend to have different views of themselves than those views they cast upon others. It's alright if they're going twenty miles an hour over the posted speed limit, but if someone else flies by them on the interstate they instantly think, "Wow, where's a cop when you need one?" The same thing goes for everything else in that person's life. If you go up to someone and ask them what the most exciting thing they had ever done was, they'd give you their honest opinion. Yet if you reviewed their life and what all they had done, you might find something else in their life you think is more exciting than what they just told you. If someone doesn't see something in their life as being important, there's not anything you can do about it. It's their life and their opinions. So if they don't see anything in their life as being important, then asking them to write about an important event in their life is meaningless. All you'll end up getting is a load of crap that they made up, just like with a politician's public apology.

This was an external assessment I had to complete for my IB Mathematics SL course in high school that I recently found again and thought I'd share with everyone. I have no idea what grade I ended up getting on this.

Everyone gets frustrated when they're trying to follow someone's directions and they left out a key piece of information that causes an unwanted result. Most people reading this are probably thinking of instances with electronics. However, my example has to do with cooking (who would have ever thought).

As a kid, I always loved scrambled eggs and when I tried by first fried egg, I fell in love. I watched my mom several times cooking fried eggs as she continuously made it seem like a piece of cake. The problem: I was never there at the beginning as she was preparing the pan. For years I tried to replicate the technique of frying eggs but they always fell apart when I tried to scrape them off the pan. My solution was to spray it with no-stick spray. That didn't help. I continued to try yet they always ended up becoming scrambled eggs after they fell apart. I also found out that scrambled eggs that are made by first frying the egg and then scrambling taste a lot better than scrambled eggs that are scrambled first before touching the pan (you should try it some time).

Day 1: Sunday, April 24, 2011 - Later in the afternoon around 7:00pm, I was called over to a register by a cashier who had a question. The customer wanted to know if the $40 she put on her fuel card would count towards her fuel discount at the end of the transaction. For those of you who don't know, our store offered fuel discounts in the form of barcodes that would print at the bottom of the receipt depending on how much you spent. I told her that it did not. She began complaining to the cashier and I that it didn't make sense and that it should, at which point I simply stated that tobacco, alcohol, gift cards, and tax did not count towards the overall fuel discount. As she continued to complain about it, I further explained that fuel cards and other gift cards do not apply because you are not actually spending the money at the time the card is purchased you will be spending it at a later date. She settled down enough to complete the transaction, but I was called away by another cashier so I do not know if she continued to complain or not.