Blinded by the light

Blogging for a class is always a little awkward, because I feel obligated to keep my posts school related and G-rated, but at the same time no one wants to read 400 words about what makes up a digital camera or why it's important to keep all your files backed up on an external hard drive. Actually, I don't even know what a hard drive really is. Plus if I'm already doing homework and projects for my classes, the last thing I want to do is write about it...and since I haven't yet done my readings for Electronic Journalism (but I'm really excited to read them during new Jersey Shore commercials), I can't even post my reactions/responses to what I read.

In other news, I'm graduating in May which means this is my last semester as a college student, which also means that it's about time I start growing up. I had one of those 'growing up' experiences today. It began in Walmart when my boyfriend and I were buying lamps and light bulbs. We got a little lamp for the nightstand and then a big lamp to put somewhere in the living room. We weren't sure where but I knew we wanted more light, so we got the lamp with three light things and then had to trek back to the opposite side of the store to pick up light bulbs. Being the energy efficient people we are, we got energy saving bulbs. Turns out the watts are different on these lovely eco-friendly bulbs, and when we bought 23 eco-friendly-watt bulbs, they are the equivalent of 100 regular watt bulbs. Surprise, when you put 100 watt bulbs all over your house (and in a little tiny nightstand lamp) you will promptly burn all your retinas out.

So now I'm sitting here blinded by the light, wearing sunglasses inside (exaggeration) and looks like I can't properly do my reading homework because I'll be too busy caring for my injured eyeballs.

But for the record, our living room finally has sufficient light.

"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that." -Martin Luther King, Jr.