My Day in 'Bama

Today I went on a day trip to Troy, Alabama. What's in Troy, you ask? Troy University of course! That's right, the very same university Lawrence Tynes played football for. In case you didn't know, Tynes is the kicker for the NY Giants (favorite team, favorite player). And he grew up in the Pcola area. I got to meet him last year at a Blue Wahoos game. 

Anyway, Tynes has nothing to do with why I was there. That was just an exciting aspect of being there. I was there for an interview. I'm not going to speculate on here about how it went. I should hear back next week. So it's back to waiting. 

The campus was beautiful. Beautiful buildings. Lots of green space. Great dining hall. Football. 

Troy is in the middle of nowhere. I had an interesting 3 hour drive there. My car and my phone did not like me along the way so that was great. Lots of farms. Goats, cows, corn. Good times. Oh and it rained the whole way up there. Torrential downpour type rain. 

Overall I would say it was a successful day trip. Here are some photos from campus:

Youtube, Signs from God, and little bit of crazy.

So my day hasn't been crazy enough already, but when I went to the TED website it had a nice little message saying that their website is offline for maintenance. They had a link to their youtube videos though so at least I could still do this. So today's TED talk will be embedded from youtube. But firtst, a little about my day. (Hopefully you want to hear about it...)

I woke up an hour before my alarm was set to go off, so I just got up anyway. I had work at 8, and it was a long day because we are getting close to being done training so we're really getting into our positions. It's challenging, we'll get the hang of it soon enough though. After work I went home, relaxed a bit and then went to church. I wore this new pair of heels to church, and they're real nice and totally acceptable for church. This old lady totally looked at my shoes, judged me, and definitely gave me some dirty looks. Perfect. Power went out during mass (a sign from God?), but then came back on. I got out of church and then was going to go to BWW to watch the LSU/Bama game, but by the time I was able to get there it was just way to crowded. So then I tried Red Robin, but again way to crowded. So I decided to just go home, until I decided I really wanted a drink. But where to go? So I ended up at the liquor store which happens to be right next to the Panera I work at. Pretty sure my manager saw me leaving the liquor store, and I definitely have work in the morning so that was interesting. Then I went into Publix to get some soda and also milk (I will be needing coffee in the morning), and my total came to $6.66 (another sign from God?) Finally, I'm back in my apartment, watching the LSU/Bama game (Geaux LSU! in case you're wondering), and relaxing a little.

30-Day Challenge #1: TED Talks
Day 22

So, since today's talk has to be a TED talk from youtube, I found a TED talk about youtube. It's by Margaret Stewart, and it's about youtube's copyright stuff. It's interesting to see how they find copyright infringement and what gets done about it. Enjoy!




Oh, and last Snowtober update: my parents got power back for good (hopefully). It only took a week. It's Halloween in CT today. haha. Schools have lost a full week because of this storm, so on top of the week they lost for Hurricane Irene, they are prob going to lose spring break. I mean, it's not even winter yet. Oh well. Remember, remember the fifth of November.