Wednesday, February 25, 2004

Dude-ishes.

Current Mood: Giddy and silly Listening To: I-2-I - Tevin Campbell Heh, it's been a weird weekend/beginning of the week. I went from not doing anything to doing everything, so that's why I haven't been too terribly active. I have some major posting to catch up with, and hopefully I can get all that done after my math quiz. I've been in a major Disney kick lately, and I really want to watch Hercules. Meg is so cool. And what a great name. 10 points to whoever can guess where these lyrics come from: Open up your eyes take a look at me If the picture fits in your memory I've been dreamin by the rythym like the beat of a heart And i won't stop until I start to stand out Some people settle for the typical thing Livin' all their lives waitin' in the wings It ain't a question of 'if', just a matter of time Before I move to the front of the line And once you're watchin' ev'ry move that I make Ya gotta believe that I got what it takes To stand out Above the crowd Even if I gotta shout out loud 'Til mine is the only face you see Gonna stand out 'til you notice me If the squeaky wheels always gettin the greese I'm totally devoted to disturbin the peace And I'll do it all again, when I get it done Until I become your number one No method to the madness and means of escape Gonna break every rule I'll bend them all out of shape It ain't a question of 'how' just a matter of when You get the message that I'm tryin to send I'm under a spell, I'm in over my head And you kno I'm going all of the way, till the end To stand out Above the crowd Even if I gotta shout out loud 'Til mine is the only face you see Gonna stand out 'til you notice me, yeah If I could make you stop and take a look at me instead of just Walkin' by There's nothin' that I wouldn't do If it was gettin' you to notice I'm alive All I need is half a chance, a second thought, a second glance'll prove I got whatever it takes It's a piece of cake To stand out Above the crowd Even if I gotta shout out loud 'Til mine is the only face you see Gonna stand out Stand out, hey Stand out! (Yeah, yeah, yeah!) Stand out! (Hmph!) 'Til mine's the only face you see Gonna stand out 'Til you notice me

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Monday, February 23, 2004

Damn crickets.

Current Mood: Eh. Listening To: "Downfall" - Matchbox Twenty I skipped math again this morning. I feel sort of bad, but I really needed the extra hours. My stomach hurt and my head was swimming went the banshee first went off, and I just rolled over and died. A couple hours later, though, I felt a million times better. I actually got up, put on JET's "Are You Gonna Be My Girl" and started dancing like a looney. The day has been pretty nice out, a little cool with just the t-shirt, but the fact is I'm finally wearing one. Although it's supposed to rain again this week. Gee, we haven't had that for awhile. But meh, at least we had a gorgeous weekend. For that I'm thankful, and hopefully the weather will continue to warm up. I hear lately that the gym is absolutely overflowing with people. Everybody's trying to get in and work off those last calories before Spring Break, apparently. It sort of makes me laugh, and then just earlier I got really sad because I realized that I won't be able to wear my brown bikini until I find the bottoms. I haven't the slightest idea of where they are at all, and it's so horrible, because it was like the perfect suit. I suppose that's a good sign for the new season, though - I'm worried about my bathing suit for once, and not what'll be under it. Megan scores! Another funny thing today was the amount of times people looked me up and down as they walked past. I wore my penguin hat, a black and white shirt, khaki kapris things, red socks, and black and white shoes. I felt so cool, lol, though I think I may have scared a few people. It was utterly hysterical, though. It took so much will power not to just burst out laughing everytime somebody looked my way. Eh, clouds are starting to roll in now. Damn you, clouds!! Damn you!! I've been doing a ton of reading lately, in case you're wondering. I did that today after class, out by the Wescott fountain. I saw Natalie pass by, and we waved and all that, and that's all I've seen of her today. Heh, that's just sort of funny to me. I also saw my friend Lindsey, though, so that was nice. Of course, nobody could stop and talk - they were all going to class. Pffft. Who does that anymore? One quick word before I leaveth thee - Once A Month, Mother Nature Gets A Really Twisted Sense Of Humor. Thank you.

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Saturday, February 21, 2004

Ponder this.

Current Mood: Headache, tired, hungry. Listening To: Get What You Need - JET 1) When I die, I want to die like my grandfather--who died peacefully in his sleep. Not screaming like all the passengers in his car." --Author Unknown 2) Advice for the day: If you have a lot of tension and you get a headache, do what it says on the aspirin bottle: "Take two aspirin" and "Keep away from children" --Author Unknown 3) "Oh, you hate your job? Why didn't you say so? There's a support group for that. It's called EVERYBODY, and they meet at the bar." --Drew Carey 4) "Instead of getting married again, I'm going to find a woman I don't like and just give her a house," --Rod Stewart 5) "The problem with the designated driver program, it's not a desirable job, but if you ever get sucked into doing it, have fun with it. At the end of the night, drop them off at the wrong house." --Jeff Foxworthy 6) "See, the problem is that God gives men a brain and a penis, and only enough blood to run one at a time." --Robin Williams 7) "If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an infant's life, she will choose to save the infant's life without even considering if there is a man on base." --Dave Barry 8) "What do people mean when they say the computer went down on them?" --Marilyn Pittman 9) "Relationships are hard. It's like a full time job, and we should treat it like one. If your boyfriend or girlfriend wants to leave you, they should give you two weeks' notice. There should be  severance pay, and before they leave you, they should have to find you a temp." --Bob Ettinger 10) "My Mom said she learned how to swim when someone took her out in the lake and threw her off the boat. I said, 'Mom, they weren't trying to teach you how to swim." --Paula Poundstone 11) "A study in the Washington Post says that women have better verbal skills than men.I just want to say to the authors of that study: "Duh." --Conan O'Brien 12) "Why does Sea World have a seafood restaurant?? I' m halfway through my fish burger and I realize, Oh my God.... I could be eating a slow learner." --Lynda Montgomery 13) "I think that's how Chicago got started. A bunch of people in New York said, 'Gee, I'm enjoying the crime and the poverty, but it just isn't cold enough. Let's go west.'" --Richard Jeni 14) "If life were fair, Elvis would be alive and all the impersonators would be dead." --Johnny Carson 15) "Sometimes I think war is God's way of teaching us geography." --Paul Rodriguez 6) "My parents didn't want to move to Florida, but they turned sixty, and that's the law." --Jerry Seinfeld 17) "Remember in elementary school, you were told that in case of fire you have to line up quietly in a single file line from smallest to tallest. What is the logic in that? What, do tall people burn slower?" --Warren Hutcherson 18) "Bigamy is having one wife/husband too many. Monogamy is the same." --Oscar Wilde 19) "Suppose you were an idiot ... And suppose you were a member of Congress .. But I repeat myself." --Mark Twain 20) "Our bombs are smarter than the average high school student. At least they can find Afghanistan ." --A. Whitney Brown 21) "Ah, yes, divorce..., from the Latin word meaning to rip out a man's genitals through his wallet." --Robin Williams 22) "Women complain about premenstrual syndrome, but I think of it as the only time of the month that I can be myself." --Roseanne 23) "Women need a reason to have sex. Men just need a place." --Billy Crystal 24) "You can say any foolish thing to a dog, and the dog will give you a look that says, 'My God, you're right! I never would've thought of that!'" --Dave Barry 25) Do you know why they call it "PMS"? Because " Mad Cow Disease" was taken. --Unknown, presumed deceased Got that in an e-mail. Good for a few laughs, at least.

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Friday, February 20, 2004

I need a magical wardrobe.

Current Mood: Dreamy Listening To: Building A Mystery - Sarah McLachlan I've been reading a lot lately; I seem to go through phases. This will be two weekends in a row spent entirely reading - I can see that now. Granted, that's only if I don't run out of things to read. >_> Details, details. A while back I was talking about The Grail Prince, the one based on Sir Galahad of Arthurian legend. Well, for Christmas I got the author's other book - Queen of Camelot. My dad sort of stole it before I could read it, and then my mom picked it up, and so finally this week they sent it back to me, and yesterday I started it (since I was officially free from tests and the like). I'm about half way done. The book is two books in one, and I finished the first book about an hour ago. It is so good! I don't know if this happens with anybody else, but I'm pretty sure I'm in love with these characters. Especially Arthur, but let's not go there. It'll just get scary. So anyway, after that hellish week of testing, I plan to really relax this weekend. I know I haven't gotten enough sleep, my eating habits suck right now, and I'm slacking off on the work out thing. Hopefully I'll be able to pull myself together over the next couple days and get back into some sort of norm. That will include OB, of course, though if you don't see me on quite as often, blame the books. It's certainly not my fault they're so fun and captivating. To redeem myself a little about the food thing - yeah, the food here sucks. I'd just like to get that out of the way. The RFOC (Real Food On Campus - ha ha, funny) may serve pretty good food, but let me tell you that it's pretty much the same stuff I'd end up eating if I ate out. Hot dogs, hamburgers, fries; pizza; sandwhiches and "subs"; and sometimes, mexican. Although they've been slacking with that last one, and it's my favorite. Hence the reason I hate going down there to get dinner. To be nice to the RFOC, they do have good breakfast foods. But there you go. This sandwhich I just got there is one of the most unappetizing things I've ever made. If nothing else, this has forced me to realize that cooking skills are vital here if I have any hope of retaining a healthy diet. This summer, between getting a job and possibly attending some summer classes, I'm going to learn to cook. As much as I hate the idea of "growing up", in some ways I really, really need to. So that's what's cooking in my crib. Yo. I really want to get back to my book right now, but I'm afraid if I start again, I won't stop, and there's a couple more things I want to do tonight before I finally cave in and snuggle up with some good, British folklore. Mmm, Arthur. Shin's okay, too. ^_~

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Tuesday, February 17, 2004

Something to Discuss!

Current Mood: Headache, Hungry, and (insert H word here. Have fun. ^_~) Listening To: In the Middle of the Night - Billy Joel I admit it, I'm a Billy Joel fan. Mr. Piano Man is just an old classic. He's another one of those guys that just makes you feel good whenever you hear his stuff play. And I just can't help myself. Right, that's not what I wanted to talk about. Tonight I went and saw a play with Natalie called Prymates. It was for her theatre class (the same one I took last semester), and since I like plays so much anyway, we both went. It was written by somebody on campus, I think, and it had some really fabulous actors in it. Four person cast, so it was strong, but the play itself - the written piece - well, it could have been better. It was really hard to pin-point a specific theme. And while plays often don't have just one, there's at least one main one that they all follow, and that was really hard to see in this play. Sometimes that adds to the mystery, but for me, it only hurt it. Although it did bring up a few interesting subjects: using animals as test subjects (the animals in question here were a gorilla, and to some lesser extent, a bunch of chimps), funding for research on AIDS, people who go through strokes, and things like that, and then of course, there were morals in general. So here's the general idea: Mr. Guy wants this gorilla named Graham to use as testing for AIDS. He's mapped their DNA perfectly or something, and he's sure that if he can use Graham as a test subject, he can find a cure for the disease. However, this lady, Ester (who is also deaf, so the whole play was in sign language), who had a thing with this guy, has been working with Graham for 25 years or something and refuses to give him to that sort of treatment, so she ran away with him. The play starts, then, with Guy and his translator (Allison) finally finding Ester and it goes on from there. Like I said before, great acting. Especially the gorilla. Frankly, he was my favorite character, but you can imagine, it's sort of hard to relate to a monkey. Ester was next. Overall, though, the play itself was hard to relate to, and I think that's part of the reason it sort of bugged me. It could have been better - the script could have been better. But, the point of this is, what do you think about using animals as test subjects? The thought of using a gorilla as one - especially one like Graham, where he has a name and even a personality and you know him - sounds pretty horrible to me. Using anything bigger than a mouse, basically, makes me feel sort of ill. It's animal abuse, no matter how much it might help the human race in the long run. Some might argue that if you use the gorillas, what stops you from eventually using humans next? There's only, what, a three percent difference in the genetic codes, right? We're not that different. (I'm not positive that's the number, but I know it's in the single digits.) Then again, some would argue that we are - the fact that we are thinking creatures and that we clearly are the dominant species allows us to do what we will to our surrounding environment. I don't agree with that. We may be dominant, but we also have a responsibility towards our environment. And studies have shown that we clearly are not the only thinking/feeling creatures on the planet. They may not have the same thought processes that we have evolved with, but it's there. They nurish, they protect, they care for, and they mourn. They use their habitat around them to get what they need, and they make tools out of it as well - there's a type of monkey or gorilla I think that uses sticks to get ants out of their homes and eat them. You wouldn't inject your cat or dog with AIDs, either, would you? How is it okay to do the same to other animals? Just because you're not attached to it, doesn't mean the animal is worthless. I'd love to hear what other people have to say about this, and anything relating. Getting a number of different points of view is fun.

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