Diary: April 2011

April Photos

April was pretty awesome, I think.

I didn't talk about it in the March summary, but it was important. I stopped logging everything. I stopped recording every calorie I ate, every drink I drank, every cigarette I smoked, every store I visited. I have found it both difficult and easy (in a way I'm having trouble verbalizing) to give up the tracking of my own life. I think food it less frustrating, but I keep being frustrated that I don't have the data. By April, I stopped trying to do the Photo-Per-Day project, and it felt OK. Not great, but OK. I feel like it was kind of a failure, but I also feel like I have a lot more time. Not in any chunks big enough to add an activity, but I feel less hurried all the time. I don't have 3 or 4 things to log on my phone every time I change location.

On a related note, I changed phones. Grayskale and I switched from theiPhone 3G to the HTC ThunderBolt. As Grayskale says: "the speed makes up for the instability." That pretty much sums up our experience. For example, one of my favorite applications, Words With Friends: on the iPhone, I'd open the app, get myself a drink, head outside, and then see if my turn had loaded. On the Thunderbolt, I open the app, and about 50% of the time, I have to relaunch it before I can play. 10% of the time, it crashes badly enough that I have to sign in again. The other 40% of the time, I can just play. But in all these cases, it's still faster than waiting for my turn to load on iOS4. My favorite Thunderbolt story goes like this: our friend M has an iPhone 3G also. He was shopping online for his girlfriend, and the pages were loading really slowly. I turned my Thunderbolt into a WiFi hotspot, and he tried using the connection through my phone and his phone went faster. The network loading is ridiculous. Speed tests indicate that our mobile network is faster than our "high speed" cable internet connection. It's lovely.

In other news, the Bruins are in the playoffs, and we signed up for HBO to watch A Game of Thrones. I'm really enjoying it. Since we had access to HBO anyway, we started watching True Blood. What a delightful guilty pleasure that is. I'm still not an Anna Paquin fan (I will never forgive the planet for allowing her to be Rogue), but this is a fun piece of fluff.

Mostly, I think, I emerged from one of the worst cases of seasonal depression I've ever gone through. Luckily, it doesn't hit me that hard. But this seems like it was a particularly tough winter all around, and I'm glad it's over.