Gettin' ready for some cash.

As some of you may know, I am expecting a great amount of cash in my near future. Like, specifically, a shitload.

You can read all about it here.

To give you a little sampling...

"The Time Warner-owned Web pioneer said Thursday that it has agreed to acquire Bebo... for $850 million."

Whobuntu?

So now that midterms are all, mercifully, over, I turn my attention to what matters most - anything that isn't midterms.

When I was recently in Chicago, I was having a problem with my computer because of something or another and every time I typed, it would skip like every 3rd keystroke. It was the most annoying thing that I could imagine. Actually I can think of hundreds of things more annoying, but that doesn't quite have the same punch, does it? After evaluating all of the possibilities to fix it, I naturally took the most drastic approach - I installed a whole new operating system.

That's right. I've been a non-Microsoft Windows user for a bit over a week now and, my gosh, is it fantastic. What I'm rockin' now is Ubuntu which is a type of Linux. It's something that I've been thinking about for a while and I'm very glad I did. The community-driven principles are something that I wholeheartedly believe in.

The irony is that I have a bit of a history of making fun of Linux users and computer-nerds alike. They are generally ranked just above Republicans and slightly below art-school students in terms of groups that are both easy and gratifying to make fun of. And, like all good Windows-using, Democrat-voting, business-school students, I basked in the itty-bitty perceived moral superiority I had over the "others".

So, when I finally bared my soul to Kathryn and told her that I was going to be switching my digital allegiance from the safe Redmond umbrella of non-geekdom that I have cowered under since I first used a computer to the masses of Open Source geeks, nerds, long-hairs, 1337 h@x0rZ and the like, this was her response:

"So are you going have to make fun of yourself now?"

Well played, m'lady. Well played indeed.

4/4

So far, in all the rush of doing midterms, I have gotten A's in all 4 I've taken. And Saturday morning is the make-or-break one. Which I will fail because I'm getting cocky.

After the midterm rush, expect a whole gaggle of fun times to be had right here.

I've been waiting a long time to say this:
Happy Leap Day! One year ago today, I was 21. Is your mind blown?

The envelope.

So today is obviously Valentine's Day. And I obviously got Kathryn a card. And since I am obviously a big dumbass, I didn't think to check that the envelope was big enough for the card. It wasn't. And now I'M the jackass.

I had 2 midterms today. It's Concordia's cute little way of saying "We don't want you to feel joy. Fee deadline is coming up. Save your money for that, assholes."

School.

Wow. School this semester is really kicking my ass. It's amazing that when you actually do all of the work and are challenged mentally how draining it is.

If anyone knows me at all, they know a few truths about me. I am lazy. I am a world-class procrastinator. WORLD CLASS. And I generally don't get things done. So about a week ago, I had an epiphany! Sort of.

What happened is I stumbled onto this thing called GTD. It stands for Getting Things Done. And I am sold. It is basically a complete system for organizing your life and it is all very exciting.

There isn't too large a hump for getting your life in line with GTD, but the grand irony is that since starting this, I haven't really blogged. Hence, I am NOT getting things done. Most of my non-school or study time is spent obsessively scouring the odd corners of the internet for any tips or tricks to help me GET THINGS DONE.

"So what else is new in your extremely awesome, things-have-been-gotten-done life, Bebo?" one may ask. I would answer to that person, "Much."

In no order, some things of my world:

- Obama is really awesome and I think he would be voted Prime Minister of Canada with about a 98% margin if he ran up here. Oh wait... he can't speak French. So he'd get like 51%.

- I am in a group this semester that is the exact opposite of my rag-tag gaggle of miscreants from last semester. I enjoy it.

- I am in another group for a different class that consists of me, the worst human being ever whose name is pronounced "A Booty" - aka Badonkadonk, and a tall odd Asian man that NEVER goes to class. I want them to never talk to me again.

- I drink more Perrier than anyone should.

- Lost is back and it is GOOD.

- Every single female that lives on the island of Montreal wears boots. And everyone here kind of talks like Yoda. Whereas I would say, "This soup is good," a Montrealler says, "It's good, the soup." And another thing. I pronounce Montreal as MAHN-tree-all, they pronounce it MUNCH-re-all. I would say that they are correct because it's their city.

I am very sleepy and I have to go to Financial Accounting tomorrow, so I leave you with this quote:

"I'm touching all the candy" - Greased Up Deaf Guy

Super Duper Pooper Tuesday!

So as most of you know, today is the big day for the primaries. I voted about a week ago via absentee ballot. I promise promise pinkie swear to post something with a little substance to it very soon (as soon as I get caught up with my homework) but until then, I just wanted to share a thought for the undecided voters amongst us.

A simple equation.

What do you get when you add together...

1 Ginsu knife


5 cloves of garlic


and 1 big fat hungry bastard in a rush to cook up some spaghetti sauce?


*** WARNING : SEMI-GRAPHIC PHOTO AHEAD ***


One sliced and diced ass finger.


And what did we learn, class?