This is me

Since I got my orange laptop cover at Christmas, it's been my goal to make it look as me as possible. Thus far I seem to be succeeding.

As if a ridiculously orange cover wasn't me enough . . . It's a somewhat eclectic mix, one that I love quite a bit. Whenever I get new stickers, as I did yesterday, I get more excited than I probably should. Yesterday's additions include Rodeo Arcade & Maker.

By far the all-time favorite sticker though is my media pass from the Real Salt Lake home opener earlier this year. One other person on campus has one of those; her name is Taylor and we're journalism BFFs so we covered the game together. The day we went to that game was the day I finally knew without a shadow of a doubt that I wanted to write sports.

Every sticker on here means something to me and represents a little of who I am. Well, except for the random green one. I don't know where I found it even but I thought it looked cool. It's by no means a comprehensive representation of who I am but I like to think people can look at it and learn at least a little bit about my personality. Hopefully they wouldn't think that's all I am, though. When people fail to imagine each other complexly we get into all kinds of trouble.

As I mentioned yesterday I did indeed spend my evening reading The Fault In Our Stars. I read it all. Cover to cover. It was wonderful. I forgot how intense and thought-provoking it was. Though I knew exactly what was going to happen, some of it felt as raw and intriguing as the first time I read it back in January. My favorite part of reading again was probably annotating. I have this weird aversion to writing in books so I use Post-It notes instead. It was probably more brilliant this time around than it was before.

It probably makes things a little inconvenient for others if they borrow my books but such is life.

Last YouTube video I watched: On Leaving [I strongly encourage you watch this video. It's especially worth your time]

Mac-in' it up

I realized yesterday that I am officially a Mac user.

Up until this past summer I had been a PC user, though not for any particular reason. We've always had a PC at home and when I went off to college I brought with me my brother's HP laptop; he sure wasn't going to use it being in South Africa for two years. By the time freshman year was over, Landon [the HP laptop] just about had it. The day I left my dorm room it stopped working. Fancy that, I needed a new computer.

So I got a lovely white 2010 Macbook. And I could not be happier with it. [I have yet to name it.]

When I got into my media writing lab this year, I luckily signed up for the the one that took place in a Mac lab. There's something about Mac keyboards I just really love; it's a nerd thing. I would have done just as well in a PC lab but the Mac lab makes me feel even more nerdy, so how could I not love it?

I obviously use my Macbook every day and every Friday I was in the Mac lab guess what kind of computer I worked on. Those who use Macs know that in order to right click, you use the command key on the keyboard.

Yesterday I was in a PC lab in order to take the benchmark exam for the communications major. Countless times, whenever a red or green line appeared underneath something I typed, I automatically went for the command key, which obviously doesn't exist on PC keyboards. I ended up hitting the control key who knows how many times. And every time after I realized I could use that fancy little gizmo known as a mouse. Go figure.

My name is Anna. I longboard, play the ukulele and love Ovaltine. I am officially a Mac user.