A glimpse of my life...via Facebook

Since I haven’t updated in so long, I think the best way to update you on my life is to just copy all my recent posts from facebook, with a little more elaboration. Here goes.

Anita Pere My phone erased all my contacts. Please send me a message with your number!

That’s right, folks, I am victim to what one techno-geek blogger calls “The great T-Mobile Sidekick Data Outage of 2009.” You can probably understand how a journalist loosing all her contacts and calender appointments presents a problem. The message boards seem to indicate that most people are back online now, but I’m not. The whole experience has been so frustrating. I will never own another Sidekick again, so help me God, and my mom isn’t going to upgrade to a new Sidekick (she has the first model, and of course she had no problems whatsoever. Go figure.)

Anita Pere need suggestions for a nice parting gift for the people I’ve been living with rent-free for the past year and a half. I know a little about video and photo editing, maybe I could make them some sort of multimedia project? Halp.

It’s true, I’ll be leaving Waco soon and I’d like to do something nice for my adoptive “Waco family.” Any suggestions? I have some pictures of them playing at the lake with their dogs, and I was going to make an iMovie show out of that, but that’s all I got in the works. Suggestions are welcome (no, make that needed).

Anita Pere Maybe the lights will go out and I’ll get to leave work early!

The lights flickered a lot that rainy night, but apparently the office gods thought it best I stick it out.

Anita Pere back to the grind after a good, long weekend. Boo.

I posted this my first day back after having a great time at Dan and Amberla’s wedding in Tulsa! And Amberla’s bachelorette party—that was my first time in a limo! Woo! And of course Johnny made a very handsome best man.

(Oh, and thanks to Chuck Foxen for the picture.

Anita Pere ice cream man robbed just now. While waiting to talk to a cop, I was approached by a man speaking Spanish and, after years of Spanish classes, I asked him to speak English. I suck.

Low point? Possibly. But you try to say a sentence like “I would have gone to the store, but Lupe told me he’d go if I wanted him to.” Yeah, then Spanish would make you cringe, too.

Anita Pere Newspapers to go non-profit? Texas is already a step ahead http://www.texastribune.org/

It just might be the salvation of my people.

Anita Pere Journalism friends–is there a generic term for a Jupiter Jump? Maybe something along the lines of inflatable toys?

Turns out sometimes you have to go with wordy, such as “inflatable structures.”

Anita Pere “No one should die because they cannot afford health care, and no one should go broke because they get sick. If you agree, please post this as your status for the rest of the day.” – Barack Obama

Yes, I support a public option, in case you didn’t know that.

Anita Pere Taking suggestions for nicknames. Johnny supports “Ani.” My name’s just so old fashioned.

Truth be told, I like the idea of a nickname, but I just don’t see myself being bold enough to tell people to call me something other than Anita. I probably wouldn’t answer to anything else.

That’s all, folks. Good night.

(Wow, there’s a lot of religious undertones in this post, right? “Office gods?” “Salvation of my people?”)