Summer/Soundhound

Well, gang, from what I've seen so far of it, this summer might be awesome, terrible, or a weird, unfortunate mixture of the two. Here's the run down so far.

• I've applied to no less than eight jobs in about two weeks and haven't heard back from any of them. It should be noted here that I have spent the last academic year trying to find a job and have gotten lots of interviews, but no job offers. (I really hope it's not that I'm horrible and unprofessional and ugly in person.) I am disappoint.
• I traveled six hours total to help my boyfriend move out of his dorm room. It was a long, sleepy adventure.
• I just realized that taxes last month basically wiped out all the money I had in the bank, so I had to ask my parents for money for the first time, as an adult. It kind of sucked a lot.
• I got my grades for this past semester. Straight A's. Word.
• I realized that even if I work full time during the summer (assuming I get a job that starts in June), I can only hope to make $2000 maximum before having to leave for London.

That's about it so far. Hopefully things start improving. In the meantime, I wanted to share with you all a really neat little app available for iPods, iPhones, smart phones, and whatever else have you. It's called Soundhound. It's an app that will allow you to record a snippet of a song with your microphone, and then it will search its databanks and find the name, artist, album and all the other info about that song! It's super amazing. You can even sing a little bit of the song into your microphone and it will find the song info for you. Now, when you hear a really awesome song on the radio, you won't always be left wondering who it's by and the name and all that. You don't have to try and remember some of the lyrics or anything!  Just record and search. I've used this app plenty of times so far and have found at least a dozen new songs to listen to. (Loving it!) The best part? It's FREE!

Granted, the Soundhound database does have a few holes in it, so if the song is really super obscure, it might not be able to find it for you. I've only experienced this once before, and I was able to find the song the old school way (searching some of the lyrics). This app is still definitely worth downloading.

Anyways, next time I'm thinking I'll post up part of a short story I wrote for Creative Writing class last semester. It's actually semi-autobiographical and deals with the issue of interracial couples and culture clashes. Hopefully it's not too horrendous.

Until next time!

~Becca