Road Trips and Pet Peeves

Spending the weekend in Fresno was a good time, although it seemed all too short. I suppose that would have to do with arriving home late on friday night, filming all day saturday, and leaving around 4:30 sunday afternoon. Filming went well, although it was a bit crazy trying to get a 5 year old who just wanted to play with us to do what needed to be done on camera. Other interesting events entailed on saturday as well. In the morning when we were getting ready to leave to film the mother of the girl we had planned on using decided that it wasn't going to work out with their schedule, so we lost out actress. After scrounging around for a while trying to find a new actress and having no luck, the mother called back again and said that if we could babysit her for a few hours while the rest of the family was gone than she could be in my movie after all...so thats what we did! I haven't reviewed the footage yet, but I am being hopeful that it turned out just fine.

Now onto the next topic of the post, since this is such a smooth transition and all. After arriving home this evening and getting everything unloaded, I decided to catch up on my internet stuff, checking emails and such. Well when i went to go to the different sites where I am normally logged in perpetuously, I was mysteriously logged out of everything. This is quite odd, and rarely if ever happens. So I began to think to myself 'self, did you log out of your emails before you left?' The answer was, of course, 'NO, why would I do such a thing? I would have no need to, since it is my computer and theoretically I am the only one that uses it.' Well after heading over to MSN to check my mail there, I discovered that, indeed, someone had been on my computer over the weekend. Now you might say "Erika you are just being anal" Well my reply to you is "this person did not have permission to use my computer, therefore should not have been on it in the first place." Not only did she use my computer, but I saw proof of who it was, and all the history was deleted, leading me to believe that I am not just imagining things and that my computer had truly been used without my permission. Now before you yell at me for being too protective of my technological belongings, you must first note that I have confronted this particular girl about such things in the past. I don't see it as a matter of me being rediculous, although feel free to correct me if I am wrong, but rather I see it as a lack of respect towards me and my belongings on her end of things. I don't care who you are, if you want to use someone else's stuff you need to ask permission first. Permission had never been granted to this individual to use my computer whenever she felt like. Also, keep in mind, that I will be confronting her about it again in the next few days, but she is currently in bed making this an impossible thing for me to do at this point. I have enough respect for her to not wake her up while she is sleeping.

End rant. AHh I feel much better now.

What are your thoughts on others using your belongings without permission?