iPads and Squishees : a very good day.

A long, busy day for this kid. Here are the highlights – with photos, huzzah!

8:23am -9:40am : Woke up, showered, prettified myself for the day – all that jazz. Then, I went surfing…

Web surfing, of course. I live in London, Ontario people – come on now!

As much as I’d love to try surfing for real, it wouldn’t really fit into my morning routine, what with having to fly to the coast and all.

Plus, I like to multi-task by eating breakfast while I take my morning jaunt around the net.

I don’t suspect it would be very easy to balance my cereal on a surf board.

I eat big breakfasts, fyi. Brain food:

10:15am - A REALLY BIG THUNDERSTORM CAME!

10:20am - The sweet thunderstorm was over and I went back to studying.

11:45am ish - Drove downtown to get the zipper on my broken boot replaced.

I was ticked off that I had to pay $40 to fix a pair of $250 boots that I’ve owned for less than half a year, so I bought myself a red squishee and walked around downtown for a while.

1:00pm -2:00pm ish - Went Grocery shopping, because I didn’t actually make it to Loblaw’s before the store closed the other night. #fail

2:45pm - Watching TV and chopping celery in my kitchen. Suddenly, I realize that it’s 2:45 in the afternoon and I start busting my booty to finish up with the produce preparation.

A phone interview in the J-school studio at 3:30pm means I need to leave the house at 3:00pm to make it in time.

3:07pm - locking my front door and putting on my shoes at the same time. I jog to school in the rain and arrive, soaking wet, with 2 minutes to spare

3:30pm – 3:51pm – A great interview with an official from the Alzheimer’s Society of Canada for my medical feature story.

I spent the next two hours transcribing said interview / answering emails / chatting with classmates…

and then it was off to yoga.

6:30pm – 7:30 pm – Ommm….

(I would have taken a photo, but cameras aren’t allowed in the class. I wonder why that is?)

8:00pm ish – The fun begins. I drove on over to Chaucer’s for GEEK DINNER LONDON! (#gdldn)

I got to touch my first iPad tonight and it was dirty magical.

James was kind enough to let me play with his brand new bouncing bundle of joy…

And then she was called away for something even dirtier…

(Yes, this was my idea. Yes, I’m a nerd. Stfu.)

Then, the iPad got passed around the room, that little floozy!

I think more than 30 people had a hand in this crowdsourced portrait of Monsieur Picard. Comic Jamming 2.0 or what? The possibilities are endless with this thing!:

But it’s not the gadgets that bring me out to Geek Dinner, of course – it’s the awesome people (PHRONK) I get to hang out with when I’m there.

… people who just happen to have sick, sick gadgets – like Bill Deys, who has so kindly let me touch both his Nexus One smartphone and his Amazon Kindle.

Oh, how I want an e-reader… and server colocation.

Someday… When I’m less poor and more rich.

As for the iPad, I’m waiting for it to come to Canada and depreciate in price a little bit before I rush out to buy one.

It’s a sweet, pretty toy – no doubt about it – but I get by just fine with my laptop and blackberry.

I’ll probably buy an iPod touch soon to bridge the gap, but I think I’ll wait on the iPad until the next generation comes out.

Hopefully, it will be able to withstand my blender.

(viaJ-Jack)

I saw this in the hall at Chaucer’s, btw, and I like it. So I took a picture.

And then I drove home from Geek Dinner in the rain. The pretty spring rain

It’s now 2:02 am and I AM LE SOFA KING TIRED!

G’Night, e-homies.

<3, i’Nizzle