Fools!

Happy April Everyone - you know what that means...watch out for pranks all day! Leave it to Google, who have a monopoly over most things on the internet, to pull a trick on all of its customers. Not that it was super convincing, but fun nonetheless. Google claimed ot have changed their official name to Topeka to honor the city in Kansas that wants to change their name to Google.

Just for fun and in case you didn't know, the history of playing jokes on April 1st is thought to have come from Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. Check this out for a list of classic pranks that TV stations, radio stations, and newspapers have played on their viewers.

I am Back!

After a week spent relaxing and enjoying the sunshine - I am back into the swing of things at school. I had a great time catching up on some much needed rest over my Spring Break. It was so refreshing to come back to nice weather instead of snow! As for the week of no technology, I hate to admit that I actually enjoyed it. It was kind of a relief to be unreachable for a little while. I didn't feel like I had to be in constant connection and I could just enjoy being outside and going on adventures. I say this with complete understanding that having no technology would be completely impractical to my life on a long term basis. I still think it was a nice break and gave me an appreciation for the minute by minute access I have to news, information, and everyone's lives. I am finding it kind of hard to get back into the swing of things though. Email and Facebook usage are back to normal but the blogging and my Twitter account have suffered a little. Hopefully this will come back without completely starting over because I was just getting used to these various means of communication.

Happy Groundhog's Day

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