She was outside of the pool fence, trying to taunt me to come play with her prized squeeky crab.

1. Battery life (or lack there of)

2. Touch screen. Because, oh yeah, I wanna watch a movie that has a fingerprint in the place of Tom Cruise’s head.

3. Lack of buttons. Sure it’s slick and nice, but when you wanna type an A and you type SDF instead….

4. Zero removeable memory. Every other phone on the market has some type of removeable memory. What happened to Apple?

5. Cingular only. A little bird flock of birds told me that Cingular sucks.

School has started up again, and in my Spanish 102 class we are reviewing things from last semester.

Today we were going back over numbers, family, descriptions, and dates.

Our professor asked us to describe (in Spanish) our mothers and fathers, aunts, uncles, cousins, brother, sisters, and etc. He then asked us to describe our novios if we were a girl, or our novias if we were a boy. Novio = boyfriend.

The boy who sits behind me shouted out, “Boys can have novios too! I have one. His name is Charlie.”

Our professor shrugged and rolled his eyes a little bit. The baseball player sitting next to the boy scooted his chair as far away as he could, without wanting to be extremely rude. We moved on to describing our sanchos (sancho = 2nd boyfriend, boyfriend on the side).

Twenty minutes later the boy shouted out again. “Ohh! Novio means boyfriend?! I thought it meant cousin! I am not gay, just to clarify things. Ladies, I am open!”

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So the other day my dad took me on a tour of the new air traffic control tower at Sky Harbor Airport.

This is a picture of the room my dad will work in, when everything is finished. Ryan, one of my crazy cousins, is breaking lots of FAA dress code rules. As you can see, he is wearing cargo pants with pockets on the side, a t-shirt, and a ball cap. Tch, tch.

This photo is taken 19 stories up, at the top of the tower. Down town Phoenix is in the background, and a work station is in the foreground. Each one of those dots on the computer screen represents an airplane in flight.

I suppose the funniest part was the braille labels on everything. I guess it’s good that the government cares about all of its blind air traffic controllers.