Well, my pocket PC seems to be dying.

I plugged it in overnight to charge and when I unplugged it this morning it was still at 33% power remaining. I figured it must be my charging cable that wore out, so I attached it to my car charger durring the drive to Riverside, when I checked it an hour later, it was still at 33%.

I have to try more stuff when I get home, but either my battery is shot, or the unit can’t re-charge anymore. I have another battery, somewhere, so I guess I’ll try that next. But if it’s the unit itself that can’t charge, I really can’t use it anymore. And they haven’t made stand alone PDAs like it in years, I don’t think. Maybe I’ll have to get one of them crazy new PDA-Phone Hybrid things.

For our last bio lab last thursday, we took a journey out to the UCR botanical gardens.

Wow. Plants. Amazing. *eye roll*

To get to out last plant, we had to get to it. And my partner sugested a route that seemed okay at first, but would ultimately require walking higher than if we had taken any other path. Oh well, at least I was able to take this interesting picture of the campus:

Finally, on the way back down, we ran across a snake on the path! John-Mark stopped dead in his tracks when he spotted it. I was like, “What is it?” And he was like, “Some sort of snake.” So I moved closer so I could actually see it (he was walking ahead of me). And when I saw it, I was like “Oh, it’s just a Rosy Boa. It’s harmless.” So I tock a picture to share with you blog readers. Yep.

And that was the botanical gardens. Glad I never have to do that again.

On Febuarry 8th 2008 I attended the Understanding Careers at Disney event at the ABC Riverside Building in Burbank, CA!

Below are some photos from that day on and around the burbank studios, followed by the Agenda of the Event.

Disney Diversity Forum

Understanding Careers at Disney

Friday, February 8, 2008

9:00 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.

ABC Riverside Building, East Dining Room

  9:00 to   9:15        Welcome Introduction: Wes Coleman,

                EVP & Chief HR Officer

  9:15 to   9:45        Company Overview: Jeffrey Thompson,

                Vice President, Global Diversity

  9:45 to 10:00 Take Elevators to 2^nd Floor for Break-out Sessions

10:00 to 11:45  Disney Careers Break-out Sessions

Break Out Session Agenda

        10:00 to 10:15  Kick-Off Speaker

        10:15 to 11:15  Panel Discussion & Open Q&A

        11:15 to 11:45  Networking Session

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• • Marketing, Brand Management & Creative Careers

Riverside Building, 2^nd Floor, Room A

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• • IT, Engineering & New Technology Careers

Riverside Building, 2^nd Floor, Room B

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• Finance, Accounting & Business Operations Careers

Riverside Building, 2^nd Floor, Room C

11:45 to 12:00  Take Elevators to 1^st Floor to East Dining Room

12:00 to  1:30  Lunch Buffet & Networking Session

Thank you and we look forward to meeting you!

CINDY MCSHANE

Corporate College Relations Manager, Talent Acquisition

(818) 558-2213 or Tie-line (8247) 2213

Disneycareers.com

So last night I left my laptop running for an hour and when I came back the screen was blank. Not sure what was wrong with it, I tried a ctrl-alt-del and the computer instantly powered off proceeded to re-boot. I never was able to get it to boot  after about an hour of trying. I don’t know what’s wrong with and will have to try a few other things.

So today I took my older laptop to school with me, and that’s what I’m using to write this post now. I met my ME175B group in the Mechanical Engineering Lab today and pulled out my laptop because I needed Internet access and there where no more working computers available in the lab. I normally change up my computer wallpaper every couple weeks, but once I stopped using this computer I  left the current one up. So when everyone saw this:

I got to spend a few minutes discussing what I thought of Lindsay and Hilary. This was never my favorite wallpaper, but I do still think it’s a decent photo of Hilary. Anyway, I then decided to change my wallpaper to something a little more appropriate:

And then I had to explain who Ashley Tisdale is! LOL

The weirdest thing is, when Nick asked me who she was, my first reaction was to say “She was in High School Musical 2.” Why did I add the 2? Just saying “High School Musical” or “Disney Channel” probably would have been better. Oh well, not important.

I hope I can get my primary laptop back up and running. I have Hayden Panettiere as my new desktop only on that machine. Actually, I do have a thumbnail of it:

But I don’t have the full size or the source file to remake it.

Anyway, Hilary got a political whipping tonight in Iowa. Obama beat her by 9% and Edwards managed to edge her out as well. So much for being inevitable!

On the republican side, Huckabee beat Romney by, one again, a 9% margin. I’m still for Guliani, but I like Huckabee and am quite pleased that Romney didn’t win.

Five days ’til New Hampshire!

Three random news articles, each of which kinda creeped me out.

• 3 Boys, Ages 8 and 9, Charged With Rape, Kidnap of Girl, 11
• Study: Blondes Make Men Act Dumber
• Friend: Missing Student Led Double Life as Porn Star