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Thursday, May 31, 2001
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It's funny how electricity is a part of you. I mean, even though you have to pay a bill for it, I think we all take it for granted. You know, that we can leave and come back to a clock flashing the correct time. That with a few clicks we can check our email, chat with a friend, walk around the while on the phone. We use it to keep our food cold, cook, see (past 9 o'clock). All day, I've felt out of place. Like there was something missing. I haven't been able to do anything productive, because the fact that I don't have electricity right now is so prominent on my mind. It was like when I first moved into the apartment. I couldn't unpack, because Amy was still there, with all of her stuff in her room that was soon to be mine. I felt like something was wrong, like I wasn't complete. It's the same way with the electricity. I've spent all day in the computer lab, finishing my template, updating my updates page, surfing the web for nothing in particular. The last place I want to be is in the apt., because the thought of no electricity drives me nuts. Hopefully NYSEG people will come at a reasonable time tomorrow. I'm the one who has to wait around for them (lucky me) and David said they could come anywhere between 8:30 and 4:30. Yay for me. What a way to spend the first day of my weekend....
- Lizzardie, at 11:55 PM
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I noticed that this site is named Words of Lizzardie, while my quotes pages are named Words of Wisdom [insert page number here]. Clearly, subconsciously, I am completely aware that my words - yeah, the ones that come from me personally - do not contain much wisdom.
- Lizzardie, at 7:55 PM
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I'm not quite sure anyone has read this yet, but if anyone has, I've changed the template on this. This is the final design for now. I'll probably decide at some point that I don't like something about this, blah, blah, blah - I'm always changing things. But I've found that editing a template is much more difficult than plain html editing. HTML is easy, if you know the syntax. Templates, on the other hand, do not always do what you want them to. Anyway, if you don't like the design or you can't read it, please let me know. Actually, if you don't like the design or can't read something on any of my pages, please let me know that, as well. I know the backgrounds are busy, with lots of colors and designs - I like them that way - but I do edit so that I can read the pages on my computer, which doesn't have the greatest resolution. All computers are different, though, so who knows, you may be straining your eyes and I really don't want you to have to do that! =)
- Lizzardie, at 5:25 PM
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I was going to take a few minutes to voice my irritations at a few things. Nothing really big - my shower likes to change water temperature completely randomly, my floors are uneven, all employees in the Cornell financial aid office are double agents for Satan - nothing big, really. But now something big has come up, and therefore, I'm going to have to bitch quite a bit about it.
So, I get up this morning, as I am wont to do on days I have class, a little before 8. I turn on my computer, then proceed to get dressed, brush my teeth and make myself a large mug of coffee with a good dousing of cream and sugar. I then head off to acctng like all good students do. After acctng, I always come back to take a shower and make myself breakfast. So, I walk into my apartment and head towards my room. When I get there, I see that my alarm clock is not on. I look and my computer is off as well. I find this strange, as I left them both on while I was gone. When I realized that the power was off in the entire apartment, I call the wonderful people at NYSEG. Turns out, our power was scheduled to be turned off this morning because the subletter who was supposed to call and put the electric bill in his name (David) never did.
Well, no big deal, right? I mean, David was there, and I basically threw the phone at him, telling him he needed to get our power back on. So he talks to the people at NYSEG, gives them all of the information they need and everything. So we should get power now, right? NO! We don't get power until tomorrow. So my first thought is damn, I can't go a day without my computer! I then think, well, it's a good think that I don't have class tomorrow, because I would never be able to get up in time without my alarm clock blaring at me. But then I realize that these are insignificant compared to the other ramifications (I'm using big words - can you tell I'm upset?) - I can't cook, using the stove or the microwave. I can't open the fridge or freezer, because I need to keep it as cold as possible in there for as long as possible. I don't even know how long it will stay cold in there, so who knows how much food is going to be spoiled because of this. Come 8, 9 o'clock tonight, I'm either going to have to leave the apartment or go to bed, because no electricity means no lights. Those in Ithaca know that lately it's been pretty chilly out (maybe this is normal here, but I'm not used to it for end of May/beginning of June), but guess what? That's right - I have no heat tonight. And given how cold I was yesterday when the thermostat was set to 60 degrees, I can only imagine how cold I'm going to be now that there will be no thermostat to monitor the temperature. And to top it all off, I'm the one who has to wait around tomorrow for NYSEG to show up.
David did apologize to me, saying that neither he or Eric (the other subletter -they're friends) have lived in an apartment before. Okay, so I've kinda lived in an apartment before - the townhouses, I suppose - but I've never actually had to deal with bills, other than my credit cards, which I monitor with the eye of a hawk. But seriously, how much common sense does it take to know that electricity is pretty important. I mean, if I had to, I could get along fine without a phone. It might drive me nuts, but I could do it. Cable - I've done fine without that for the past two years. Even internet, my biggest connection to the world outside of Ithaca, could be expensed. I could just live in the computer lab. But electricity? I need my electricity!!!!!
- Lizzardie, at 2:28 PM
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Wednesday, May 30, 2001
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I wish this thing was like Word. You know, I type something in, and when I make a mistake (since I don't actually read what I'm writing) the program corrects it. If anyone is reading this, you're probably going, wow, how did Liz get into Cornell? Her grammar is horrible. All I have to say is that it's amazing how little grammatical skill you need when you're using a good word processor. Unfortunately, this is not word processor.
- Lizzardie, at 11:06 PM
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Real quick, I just have to say that my stats prof. was wearing a One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish shirt yesterday, and I thought that was pretty cool. =)
- Lizzardie, at 4:08 PM
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Okay, I have about half an hour before I have to go to my next class, so I thought I would first fulfill my promise to clarify on what exactly is going on in my little world right now. Some of you know all this and will probably be bored to tears by this post, but others of you have no clue. Let me first mention that it is freezing in here. Isn't it almost June? Why is it so cold outside? Anyway, let me set the scene for you all. Picture it if you will. It's the beginning of Liz's sophomore year at Cornell U. She is quite content to come back to Ithaca and continue her pursuits of a B.A. in mathematics. She starts taking this math class. And realizes how much she hates the class. I mean, really, who needs all that theory? Certainly not Liz. Plus, she's certain that she doesn't deserve a passing grade because she isn't quite sure she's learned anything that semester, yet she receives more than a passing grade, she gets a decent grade on all of her tests and homeworks. She just doesn't understand. And then those other classes she's taking? They're useless. She'll never use psychology or anthropology. Why is she taking them? She realizes that she's going to have to take a lot more useless liberal arts classes the next 3 years in order to get her degree (no offense to those in the Arts school - it just turned out that it wasn't for Liz). Somewhere in the back of her mind, Liz remembered wanting to switch to an engineering program her freshman year, but that she'd dismissed the idea, as internal transfer has a reputation for being a pain in the ass. But maybe it wouldn't hurt to see if it was possible. So she went to the engineering advising center, and lo and behold, they said they would most likely let her transfer in as an Operations Research and Industrial Engineering major! Well, that's exactly what Liz wanted to do! They also mentioned this thing called the co-op program, where Liz could go and work for a company for about 7 months and get some experience in her field of study. So, Liz sent in an application to apply to be an OR major and signed up for the co-op program. Her application was approved, after a long February of job fairs and interviews, Liz landed a co-op position at Pitney Bowes (they make postage meters and other things having to do with mail - I have a feeling none of you knew that) in Stamford, CT. So, having just completed her sophomore year at Cornell, Liz is well on her way. She'll be in Ithaca all summer, taking her first semester junior year classes, so that she can go work at Pitney Bowes in the fall.
Phew, that's over! =) Yeah, so I'm really excited about working in the fall, and as many of you know, I've never been to CT before, so it will be a whole new experience for me! And so far, the so-called "co-op summer of hell" is treating me okay. I'm taking Financial and Managerial Accounting and Engineering Probability and Statistics II right now (350 and 360, for those who know what I'm talking about). I'll finish these classes and start 2 new ones at the beginning of July. I'm sad, because not only will I not be seeing my friends from home, I won't see most of my friends from school, as I'm in Ithaca when they're not and I'll be away when they're here. Luckily, though, I have enough friends around this summer that I'm not concerned at all about being lonely, and I'm sure I'll meet people in CT when the time comes.
So, I think that about does it for background information on the latest happenings in my life. Okay, it's far from the complete picture, but it does explain why I'm in Ithaca this summer and not in Romeoville (or somewhere else, working). I'll try and fill in the rest as time wears on, but I promise I won't post another one of these loooooong background things again - it's boring not only for you, but for me as well! Now I must go, as Acctg. section calls me.....
- Lizzardie, at 2:45 PM
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Tuesday, May 29, 2001
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All right, welcome, welcome! You probably got this link from somewhere on my site, so you should already know that the purpose of this is to keep my friends (who I might not get a chance to catch up with as much as I would like) updated on what's going on in my life. This includes both friends from home and Cornell friends, as I will not get a chance to see most of you for quite some time. This doesn't mean that I don't care what's going on in all of your lives, though. It's just that I don't have a lot of time to tell the same stories in several different places, so I've condensed it all to just be here. But, if you really need to talk to me or you want my advise for whatever reason, please, please email me/call me/IM me. I would love to talk to you! All of you! Anyway, I'm going to try and update this at least once a week. Hopefully more. But you know how it goes. It seems that most of the time, I'm either too busy to do anything (including write stuff down) or things are so dull that I have nothing to write about. You'd think I'd use the dull times to get caught up from the busy times, but that would be way too easy. So, this should keep you all update on your Liz-Trivia while I'm completing co-op summer and then into the first leg of my actual co-op. Hopefully none of you are too too confused, but things should be clearer soon, for those of you who have no idea what I'm talking about. Until then....
- Lizzardie, at 12:22 AM
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