Rogue Idea

well last night i went out with my friends to play tennis and of course not much happened on the courts because they hit too hard and i cant really run around and get all the balls that are out of bounds. and then whenever i DO get the ball, then im the one who hits it out of bounds on their side…so then it just ended after a few more plays between two of my friends while i sat and drank water. then we went out to eat and talked for a long time while getting some drinks at this place. i had a mocha and i really didnt think it would do much. but yeah i did not get ANY sleep last night i just kept moving around in bed and trying to get comfortable to sleep. i saw the clock at 2 am, then 4 am, then 6, and then finally at 7 i had to bring arisu out so that was the end of the night for me. i am still trying to stick with my only one hour a day online plan because being on the computer is completely draining all of my energy away!!!!!

other than that, nothing much else has happened. i took a practice mcat yesterday (no writing part) and i got a 31 so that was gay i have 10 more points to go. okay thats all for now i am charging my batteries so i can take pictures of my tennis bag later =)

so earlier i ran into an article that came up about how facebook and myspace are used by predators to stalk kids. even though at the very beginning of all this ‘internet’ stuff there was LOTS of news almost every night about kids being lured out and molested, kidnapped, etc - it still happens now but its not news worthy anymore to where they would report or watch out for more cases like that. i’m sure it still happens though. anyways i just wanted to note that after seeing something i saw today that facebook is a VERY good stalking tool if you were trying to find someone.

first thing is you can find people through other people. if you were looking for someone you saw hanging out with person A, you can find person A, then search through their friends and then find the person you were looking for. from that you already know what school and what that person’s name is. you can have privacy settings now, but seriously if someone knows what school you went to, they could just find more school related resources outside of facebook.

second thing is people put their real PHONE NUMBERS on there. yes, phone numbers. i dont have mine on there but a lot of people do. with a phone number you can pinpoint at least a city that the person is in and even an address in some cases.

then another thing is what i saw today - i’ve seen this a few times before but i didnt really think about it this way until today cause of that article i saw. anyways basically say someone you know(or that i know , hehe lol) drops their cell phone in the water while having a party on their yacht. lets not talk about how that couldve happened but anyways so then they get on facebook, which is where they go on to keep in touch with people online. and they start a group that is PUBLIC and invite everyone on their list of friends to join so that they can go and see the message and leave their cell phone numbers so it can be entered into a new phone. granted some people email the message privately, but MANY people just join the group and then post the number on the wall. a lot of these groups are public, so that means i can go on there and now i know the personal cell phone numbers of lots of people even if they dont know who i am. another thing is since this is connected to schools (at least most of it is) a lot of people use their real name or their real name is in their email address that can be displayed. so now i know your real name, the school you go to, who youre friends with, and your cell phone number so i can call you while breathing heavy.

and since facebook now lets people who arent in any registered schools sign up, basically that just opens up the door for more crazies to join in. both facebook and myspace have ‘privacy’ controls now, but seriously even if i cant see your profile i already know what you look like and what school you go to. and the size of a school is not even the size of a pin on a map so it really narrows down the area.

annddddddd the whole point of this - is to say that today i put my profile as private on facebook =) even though it was already pretty private but now i made it even more private. facebook is probably for more ‘older kids’ though while myspace is like …anyone who can get on the computer. facebook is like upperclassmen from high schools and college students, which i guess would be less appealing to peds and crazy pyscho child molestors but it is basically PERFECT for finding anyone in the right age bracket and is where more people put up more ‘real/true’ information on their profiles and use ‘real pictures’ of themselves.

okay well i’ve been slowly getting more and more interested in learning tennis lately. lets take a look at my background in tennis. wait, i dont have one. lol. okay anyways my friends played every once in a while at the gym so i decided to come along and play too. i have 4 racquets, one that i dont know where it is, it is brand new and never used - but lost somewhere in my house. one that i got a long time ago for god knows what reason since i didnt play at that time either. and then two that i bought for 20 dollars each at walmart that are jr racquets when i played once with my friend. i also have a very very old one that i had when i was like in 5th grade, again i only used it once. okay so i enjoyed the thought of playing and i wanted to get out there and not have to do jump roping everyday for cardio. but of course as soon as we started meeting up a little more to play school is over and now i dont want to have to drive there just to play tennis.

so none of my friends are into that type of thing around here and i ended up posting a thing up online to see if i could meet anyone in the area that would want to play with me. i got a few replies and no one sounded crazy so that was a good sign. anyways i replied to a few of them so i could see how often they wanted to come out since i didnt want it to be just like a weekly or every other week thing i wanted it to be pretty often. well i met the first guy (the other two are girls) on this past wednesday and he was SO nice. my first impression when i saw him in his car was he looked a little scrawny but after he got out he was in pretty athletic shape. then he asked me a few things like why i wanted to play tennis and then he taught me all the rules and stuff. and he said next time we meet hes gonna start ‘pushing more, physically’ lol. anyways he was pretty serious i thought first which i didnt really expect but then i kinda liked it cause then he was teaching me all this stuff like how the game works which i didnt know. so hopefully i can learn a little more from him enough to at least keep the ball off my side of the court and not hit it out two courts down =(

other than that not much else has been going on except studying at home. oh and also i am restricting myself to the internet for 1 hour a day (unless im working on something) and so i will be online a lot less that way i can focus more on doing what i need to do everyday. also, i think im getting addicted to being ‘on’ the computer. i mean even whenever i leave her i have to have it on. even if im watching tv its gotta be on too. even if im playing with arisu it needs to be on!! so to stop the addiction and get my priorities straight i gotta restrict the hours i’m on everyday =)

so today i log in so i can talk about how pissed i am that i have to re set up my databases. and i see a comment from frankie, so i click on it to go look and thennnnnn….. i was like…. “!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!” yeah. because i completely forgot that i put my blog on the default template and for a second i thought ‘omg its all gone!’ so yeah i think later ill fix that. but right now i’m thinking of how lazy i am about fixing my database thing. i dont really know what happened but i told the thing not to delete my databases…so they are here somewhere but i cant find them. So i guess ill just make a new one. luckily i have my little database chart so its not gonna be that hard but its still a pain in the ass.

okay so today i have a couple things to do, setting up my databases, fixing my wordpress template, doing my laundry and vacuuming my room. okay i gotta finish all those things before i leave to go play tennis at 2 pm. and its 9:30 right now so i better go because i know i work slow =)

Yay!! i’m very excited about this summer because I’ve already promised myself i’m actually gonna like…do stuff and not just sit around. so yeah i have a lot of stuff to do on my list but for right now this weekend i’m just gonna relax. After three crazy finals its finally over and now i can move on so i can study even harder for other things like the mcat. which i am scheduled to take in august on the first day of school (yes i know, i didnt think it was the first day). Yesterday i got my first professional massage!! haha well not really professional, but a student trying to be a professional. anyways i heard about it through a friend and damn i felt good afterwards =) then i ate lunch with chau and she treated me to some ‘tap chicken’ thing. not really sure why they call it that, its just chicken thats kinda spicy.

Arisu is running around like crazy again inside. I’m kinda of sad cause i didnt keep up with training her everyday so yeah i need to get back to training her so she can calm down more and know the commands really good. Well at least i’ve done a couple of things right. like she doesnt run out the front door whenever someone opens it, she doesnt jump all over the place when she knows im holding her food bowl, and she doesnt beg for food at the table. what shes really bad at right now is stealing shoes and biting on the remote controls. so lately i’ve put up all of the remote controls and tried to remember to put my shoes up. her potty training has been really good though. She hasnt had any accidents in like a few weeks now and barks whenever she wants to go out to potty so that is really good.

I’m debating whether or not to resell my books back. I kind of want to but then i’m not really done with them yet. okay well thats all for now i’m gonna clean my room today