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It was my junior year of high school. I had a teacher who was impassioned by the JFK’s assassination. Frothing at the mouth obsessed with Dallas on November 22, 1963. I think he was in Kindergarten and it affected him deeply.

I was a history know-it-all in high school. I was a walking copy of Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know. The conspiracy theory around JFK whet my appetite for useless knowledge.

Since that spring, I have soaked up all the mumblings. I’m a casual observer. They’re a sociology case study wrapped in a psychology case study dipped in a need for psychoactive drugs. I don’t ascribe to any one particular theory. My pal Katy and I have our own theory. It involves Marilyn Monroe and LBJ.

On Twitter last night, this article, The ‘Faked’ Oswald Photo Is Probably Real showed up in my stream. Now I’m tangled up online search updating my little brain on recent “facts” that have surfaced in the few years I have lapsed in my data. I’m retraining myself from buying The Kennedy Assassination–24 Hours After: Lyndon B. Johnson’s Pivotal First Day as President.

I still say Oswald was a patsy.

Tweets spread fast. This tweet from 9 days ago

Became this:

and this:

and this:

and this:

Ain’t it swell!

As you know, I live online. Fluffy is beginning to wonder if I am like Darth Vader. Can mom survive without her fingers on the computer. I have been using  Wakoopa to track my program usage.

Wakoopa is great for tracking what software you use regularly. I consulted my Wakoopa tracking widget when I cleaned out my hard drive before I installed Adobe Dreamweaver (currently number 5). However it doesn’t track internet other than I have been using Mozilla Firefox all.the.time.

For now, all I have is my bookmarks toolbar to provide the data as to which sites I frequent. It doesn’t give me numbers, per se. If a site is important to me, it will get a spot. My Firefox toolbar is has so many bookmarks in it that they are all icons only. Here are the ones I use for blogging and Type-A Mom regularly.

1. Twitter- goes without saying.
2. tr.im- Shorten and track you urls. This is great for huge links that need to go into emails. Many email programs break long links, rendering them useless/
3. Facebook- again, you already knew that.
4. SocialSpark- A monetizing agent. Remember the Liz Strauss Sear’s thing at the bottom of my page at Christmas time? those were from SocialSpark.
5. Hulu- Softening my brain for Alec Baldwin and his alien friends to eat.
6. Woot!- Crappy electronics for cheap.
7. Amazon Associates- Link products and you earn commission if they are purchased that visit.
8. Blip.fm- Internet DJ in the hizzouse!
9. Twitter Search- Quick way to look up hashtags and other keywords.
10. Web Developer- Forum for web deisgners and code writers.
11. Gamehouse- Tons of games for as low as $5.99. Plus, a free game download every day. They have Nancy Drew games!
12. This American Life- You know Ira Glass on NPR. This is the archive of all the shows. Listen free online of download episodes for 99 cents.
13. Digital Photography School- Find out what all of those letters mean on your camera.
14. Google Docs- Type-A Mom editors know how much I love this. Create forms, spreadsheets, documents etc and share them with others online.
15. Dynamic Drive- “the #1 place on the net to obtain free, original DHTML & Javascripts to enhance your web site!”

Enough geekness for now. I have my least test today and my final for my Web Design class is due at noon. Buh-bye!

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I knew this attempt at college was going to be a learning experience. Twelve credits was a bad idea. I was fooled last quarter. My course load was completely online.  They way the classes were scheduled beautifully. One course as only four weeks long. Two were one credit each and could be done at anytime before finals. One was on a strict timeline of assignments and tests.  The last was a loose schedule of assignments and assessments. It was work, but work I could handle.

Winter quarter has it out for me. Only one class is online. The others are labs.  Not labs in the scientific sense. :abs in the self-paced, have to go to campus sense. Blah. I thought i could handle it. I thought “I have time while Bear is at school to go in and get my tests taken.”

WRONG!

Here we are with twenty-one days left in the quarter. That’s three weeks for those of you who haven’t had your morning coffee.  I have only opened my Accounting textbook once. I have set foot in the Accounting lab a grand total of zero times. Have I told you I have absolutely no mathematical  I am rocking the online class. It’s a Dreamweaver/CSS course. I have gotten all 100% except one (stupid me forgot to check my links) and I enjoy the work.

My stomach is in knots as I try to make a study schedule. Which is unusual, because I am a high caliber procrastinator. I produce my best work at the last minute.

Is this a sign of age? It matches the wrinkles on my forehead.