February 2002 archive
(156 entries)
February 28, 2002
Friends
I hate hate hate hate hate Ross.
I love love love love love Gunther.
Chandler reminded me of Alex in this episode - from his nasty long hair to his sad jealous behavior. It was excellent.
(Alex's reaction to this post: "How do you build a house of cheese?")
Jimmy is better than John or Winona
I'm Weekend Update Jimmy!
Take the Jimmy Fallon recurring SNL character quiz here.[via Promo]
Which John Cusack Are You?
Which Winona Are You? [via Blogatelle]
Babyface Try to match the
Babyface
Try to match the bloggers with their kindergarten-selves at Babyface.
Beware! Much changed/dyed hair color involved! I got 4 out of 14.
[via Babyface participant Katie (who I did not get correct...)]
My teeth I think I
My teeth I think I am subconsciously (now that I realize it, I suppose
it's consciously) concerned about the frailty of my teeth. When I nearly-slip
on ice or stairs or any of the thousands of things that make me picture death,
and my imagination reels with thoughts of what could have happened, one of
the worst things that comes to mind is falling face-first and landing on
my teeth. Maybe it's because there are so many nerves in the mouth, I know
that this would hurt. Maybe it's because tooth-breakage is more permanent
than, say, a cut or scrape to the face. Ugh, I have to stop thinking about
that now.
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Dead arm!
I woke up with a very painful arm, having slept on it funny last night. As I woke up and went through the day it got better, but I just performed some acrobatic feat to get the CD player to receive the remote signal (change to track 17) and seem to have reinjured it. Yowwwwwwwwww.
When I wake up in pain, it makes me want to go back to sleep and have another go at starting the day.
Remote controlsWouldn't it be nice
Remote controls
Wouldn't it be nice if all electronic appliances
had "page" buttons, like cordless phones do? If you had a room like mine,
you could hit the "page" button and the remote control would beep to let
you know where it was. Maybe there are remote controls like this already.
Do you have one? Would you like to invent one for me? Ah, there it is. Charles Aznavour on repeat, please, CD player.
What-a-mess at the beachUpon first
What-a-mess at the beach
Upon first entering the room, I was not completely sure that Roommate
was not here. That is how messy the room is. There was a shoe sticking
out from under the blanket on the couch and it took me a moment to realize
that there was no foot in it.
Strangely enough for the fussy, organized
perfectionist in me (who, I must admit, only makes appearances once in a
while), I am not at all upset by the mess, but rather intrigued. If it weren't
for the not-fun experience of coming home to a messy room, I would just leave
it like this when I go home tomorrow. Coasting...
I had hoped to be a waffle
Take the Which Breakfast Food Are You? Quiz.
February 27, 2002
This
Jillian, Nick and I are talking about weblogs and diabetes and Jillian being drunk and haiku and how much computers suck.
The name "Freedom Alliance" scares
The name "Freedom Alliance" scares me There are freaky weird conservative
Republican girls behind me talking about how they want to do internships
with the NRA. Or possibly the Michigan militia. Walk away slowly. No sudden
movements. Here is something to amuse them.
Ann Arbor, Cultural Paradise
I think I take growing up in Ann Arbor for granted. Just down the street from me, we have the Thai/Laotian grocery, the Indian grocery, and the Middle Eastern grocery. Not to mention the Korean/Greek restaurant across the street. Heh heh.
Christianna and Nasko were saying how the US doesn't have real feta and I said "I bet they do in Ann Arbor," which is what I say about any exotic foodstuff you can't find in the Albion area. Nutella? Orangina? Cornichons? Raclette cheese? Dal? Tapenade? Kriek? I know where you can get them. I should remember how lucky I am to have grown up surrounded by all of this cultural diversity and exotic food and by all of the hippie-yuppie Ann-Arborites who support places like Zingerman's, Merchant of Vino, and Big Ten. Thank you, Ann Arbor.
Zingerman's can't quite do a real French baguette, though. I don't know what it is.
(Of course, maybe I'm just being dumb and you can find this stuff anywhere but Albion. I've only lived in three cities in my life: Ann Arbor, Albion, and Grenoble. I should get out more.)
Independence looms ever nearer
Wanted:
Small, clean apartment in a non-scary neighborhood, with full bathroom and some sort of kitchen-like area where one might learn to cook or at least heat frozen foods. Location: unknown so far, but probably somewhere in France, assuming I get the assistantship.
I've never lived alone before. I imagine it will be quite lonely. I dno't know how to make friends.
I imagine it will be rather pricey, but I've never paid rent before. I don't know how much is normal. I don't know how much money it will require to feed and house me or if the money I get from teaching will be sufficient.
I don't know how to apartment-search. I don't know where to start. Especially in a foreign country, where I will have to arrange it before I get there.
I imagine I will get bored quite easily if I'm only teaching twelve hours a week. I wonder if I would be a) able to or b) legally allowed to find a second job. I should take another Spanish class while I'm over there. But that's another money output, rather than input.
Yargh. Growing up is hard.
srah | 9:14 PM | TrackBack | Tags: assistantship, on my own |
Senioritis
All this week, I've sort of been coasting to Spring Break. I hope that's what I'm coasting to. I hope that I will be motivated when I get back, rather than coasting throught the last two months.
I picked up my cap and gown earlier this week. I feel like the end is near, but not near enough. I think the daily countdown will begin after the break.
Nine things
Nine Things That Make Me Laugh:
- Anna's blog
- "Kids in the Hall", etc.
- The episode of "Just Shoot Me" where someone brought back candy from China that made everyone on the show hallucinate and made me laugh so hard I fell off the couch
- A really good greeting card
- Rob
- Patito when he doesn't try to make me laugh
- My Roommate wearing a dress
- Becky's impressions
- Being tickled
Nine Things That Make Me Cry:
- Stress
- Thinking about spending next year away from the Patito
- Lack of sleep
- Too much sleep
- Men crying
- The feeling of impotence (non-sexual)
- Anger
- When someone's father dies in a movie
- The funeral scene in "Four Weddings and a Funeral"
Nine Things I Love:
- Patoot
- The Internet
- Speaking French
- Learning
- Ice cream
- Plaid
- Things that glow in the dark
- Raclette
- Hearing French spoken
Nine Things I Don't Understand:
- People who aren't here to learn
- Math
- The "Greek" system
- Bulgarian
- Religious fundamentalism
- The meaning behind most Alain Souchon or They Might Be Giants songs
- Male obsession with lesbians
- Why the couch is more comfortable than my bed
- People who keep trying things even if they are absolutely no good at them the first time (I admire them but I don't understand them)
Nine Things In The Room Now:
- Me
- Fish (7 - 1 = 6)
- DePalmas on the stereo
- Magnetic Poetry on the refrigerator
- Two dead/dying plants
- A stuffed bear, tiger, rabbit, and pig
- Dirty dishes
- Harry Potter's Forbidden Corridor in LEGO
- Clothes strewn all over
Nine Facts About Me:
- I am distantly related to Princes William and Harry on their mother's side
- I generally hate poetry (especially the whiny teenaged sort) but will sometimes make exceptions
- My ears aren't pierced but I own a few pairs of earrings that were mistakenly given to me as gifts
- I adore peach iced tea, like sweetened iced tea with lemon, but hate regular iced tea
- When I was in middle school, my best friend was a foot taller than me and people would call us The Jolly Green Giant and Sprout
- I used to collect pencils
- Now I think I collect postcards, if anything
- When I was born, the umbilical cord was wrapped around my neck and the only thing keeping it from strangling me was that I had put my thumb between my neck and the cord. Now that I think of it, that may have something to do with my stranglation fears...
- I was a National Merit Finalist
Nine Things To Do Before I Die:
- Visit every continent
- Find something to do that makes me happy
- Do that
- Learn more languages
- Take over the world
- Write a book (about what? I don't know. It would be cool to see my name on a book...)
- Go skiing (I'm not in any hurry to go skiing, but I suppose I should do it before I die)
- Eat octopus/squid (ditto)
- Say goodbye
Nine Female Celebrities I Like:
- Cate Blanchett
- Julia Roberts (if only for that documentary about orangutans where a baby orang peed on her)
- Aimee Mann
- Queen Elizabeth I
- The Queen Mum
- Gwyneth Paltrow (many people don't... I kinda like her. so there.)
- Betty Crocker (help - I am scraping the bottom of the barrel!)
- Audrey Tautou
- Abigail Adams
Nine Male Celebrities I Like:
- John Hannah
- Neil Dudgeon
- Ian Hart
- Kevin Kline
- Kevin Spacey
- Moby
- Jean Reno
- Alan Rickman
- Edward Windsor
Nine Music Groups I Like:
- Serge Gainsbourg
- The Beatles
- Alain Souchon
- They Might Be Giants
- Daft Punk
- Dave Matthews Band
- Moby
- Edith Piaf
- Travis
Nine Movies I Love:
- Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain
- Sliding Doors
- Pandaemonium
- 1776
- It Happened One Night
- The original Star Wars trilogy
- The Pirates of Penzance
- French Kiss
- The Fellowship of the Ring
[via Closer Proximity]
mEEK! I get very nervous
mEEK! I get very nervous speaking French to Antoine's brother and
friend. If they were girls or unattractive, I would probably not have as
much of a problem. Don't tell Alex.
February 26, 2002
Programmer's drinking song
99 little bugs in the code,
99 bugs in the code,
Fix one bug, compile it again,
101 little bugs in the code.
101 little bugs in the code,
101 bugs in the code,
Fix one bug, compile it again,
103 little bugs in the code...
[via Agent Vulga]
srah | 6:14 PM | TrackBack | Tags: programming |
That's nobody's business but the
That's nobody's business but the Turks
I have six They Might Be Giants
CDs and I'm pretty sure I haven't listened to any of them in about a year.
I am doing so now. Nice to hear from ya, Johns. People who are really
into TMBG scare me a little. Who am I to talk? I have six albums. That
doesn't mean I understand them. Maybe I just like accordions. I'm going
to stop blogging now, because I'm not producing anything remotely interesting.
srah | 6:04 PM | Comments (0) | TrackBack | Tags: |
Moby
He's so cute. If you're not a daily Moby-reader, you should be. I only wish he had a blog-format that allowed you to link to specific entries. But, alas, no. Begone with ye now and read the archives.
srah | 5:03 PM | TrackBack | Tags: bloggers, celebrity blogs, moby |
Hey BlogSnobbers!
If you didn't know it already, BlogSnob's moved to a new server so there's a wee change to the code you might want to make.
I did know and forgot to tell anyone. Bad llama.
THE Perot? Srah is going
THE Perot?
Srah is going on another depressing job search at Yahoo! and Monster.
Would Perot Systems,
based in Dallas, TX, belong to an H. Ross Perot by any chance? Eeeeee! I
DON'T WANT TO WORK IN CUSTOMER SERVICE. I HATE THE TELEPHONE. STOP THROWING
THESE CUSTOMER SERVICE RESULTS AT ME. Waaaaaah. This is depressing. Who
came up with "Monster" for the name of a job search site, anyway? Does it
mean something? Is there some kind of symbolism I'm missing? Their motto
is "never settle". So... restless monsters. Don't get it. What if I never
find anything I like? I give up. I'm joining the circus.
So true... especially the English part
 | Yuoo ere-a zee Svedeesh Cheff! |
[via Rien d'Importance and Le monde du vieux bandit]
Dream
I am even dreaming about online quizzes. I dreamt I took a Which South Park character are you? quiz and I was Scuzzlebutt, the kindly (but dead) monster who lives in the hills above South Park. Where his hand should be, he has celery. And where his leg should be, he has Patrick Duffy, star of TV's Step by Step.
I have been trying to remember this quote for days
"Goodness, I had no idea! For you see I have been on Mars for the last decade. In a cave, with my eyes shut and my fingers in my ears."
- Sideshow Cecil, The Simpsons (ep: The Brother from Another Series)
I know you don't care, but it's been bothering me. It's just sarcastic enough to have been the Comic Book Guy, but I couldn't find it when searching for his quotes.
I have no life.
srah | 2:25 AM | TrackBack | Tags: quote, the simpsons, tv |
Haiku galore
Stinking fishies are
living in a dirty tank.
They like oxygen.
Neighbors came by and
sprayed each other with canned whipped
cream. Don't muss our space.
The Heart and Stomach
of a King is perused in
my History class.
Elizabeth re-
placed the Virgin Mary in
the new English church.
She fooled around with
sev'ral men but was still known
as the Virgin Queen.
Programming is hard.
Even Visual Basic.
Non-logical mind.
It is good to know
for sure that you do not have
a brain infection.
What is your advice
for making a long-distance
relationship work?
Winter storms approach.
Snow and rain to come, so srah
hides under blanket.
I have cursed Katie
with the plague of unending
haiku. Eh, tant pis.
I am not yet tired.
I could write haiku all night.
Not a good idea.
I will regret this
in the morning when I can't
open my eyelids.
srah | 1:44 AM | TrackBack | Tags: classwork, haiku, poetry |
Many would disagree Are you
Many would disagree
Are you Addicted to the Internet?
Average@Internet-User.com (41% - 60%) |
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February 25, 2002
The Frenchies are here
Antoine's brother and best friend have arrived. Pas mal! Boyfriend is scared and threatened by tall, handsome, older Frenchmen, but we went down and said hi and Antoine introduced us as Sarah who lives upstairs and Alex who practically does. So he's laid his claim on me and will growl at any oncomers. Heh heh. Ils ne parlent pas anglais... comme c'est bien d'être obligée de parler français. C'est trop facile de laisser entrer des mots anglais lorsqu'on parle avec un français bilingue.
AAAH!
I am still thinking
in haiku. Help me! Help me!
Where is the off-switch?
Olympic Recap
It's been a while since my last Olympic Update, and I'm sure you've all been missing the latest results on the one and a half countries I follow. (There are too many French athletes to follow them all, so we just count the medals).
Final French medal count: 4 gold, 5 silver, 2 bronze (tied with Switzerland for 8th)
Final Chilean medal count: 0 gold, 0 silver, 0 bronze (tied with a hillion jillion other medalless countries for 26th, I believe)
Chilean Alpine Skiing results
Men's Downhill: Maui Gayme - +8.50 (48/55), Mikael Gayme - +9.24 (50/55)
Men's Super-G: Duncan Grob - +8.77 (33/58)
Men's Giant Slalom: Maui Gayme - +7.78 (62/78) (first run), +14.06 (49/78) (second run)
Chilean Biathlon results
Women's 15k individual: Claudia Barrenechea - +15:00.9 (67/72)
Men's 20k individual: Carlos Varas - +19:28.9 (86/87)
Men's 10k sprint: Carlos Varas - +7:56.8 (86/87)
Women's 7.5k sprint: Claudia Barrenechea - +9:33.7 (74/74)
Congratulations to the athletes and happy return to your regularly scheduled programming to NBC viewers.
Ewwwwwwwwww... Just out of curiosity,
Ewwwwwwwwww... Just out of curiosity, when's the last time the floor
in the Palenske lab was cleaned? I don't want to put my backpack there anymore.
I think it is coated in a heavy layer of dirt. I hope it's just dirt.
srah | 11:19 AM | Comments (0) | TrackBack | Tags: |
Promoguy's Monday Mission
1. What part of your body would you most like to change? Explain. I'm pretty happy with my body at the moment. Maybe my knees and ankles would be less bony or I would have thicker/wavy hair.
2. What are the Blogs you absolutely must visit each time you log on, no matter what? Cleo, Krista, Katie, and Bob
3. What part of your (current or most recent) significant other's body would you most like to change? Oh dear me, I can't *HAIRCUT* think of a *HAIRCUT* single thing that *HAIRCUT* I would *HAIRCUT* change.
4. At what age would you consider yourself as "old?" Sometimes I consider myself old now. It's all relative. It sort of depends on who you're hanging around and how chronologically/mentally/emotionally old they are.
5. I hear many stories about children who show potential in a certain area, only to have their spirits crushed by parents or teachers because they are told they aren't doing it right, or will never amount to anything. Was there a point in your life where you feel like you were discouraged in some manner that had an effect on your life? 8th grade Geometry. I wasn't directly discouraged, but I think I was indirectly.
6. Eek! I left home without my Visor today, I feel nearly naked! What item(s) make you feel naked when you walk off and forget them? Usually if I leave without any clothes on, I feel naked. I don't need one, but I usually feel naked without a bra. Did you need to hear that?
7. I believe we are all artistic in some form or fashion. Not just limited to drawing or painting, but carpentry, baking, music, gardening, collecting, you get the idea. What is it you do that best expresses your artistic side? Making webpages. Perhaps not best demonstrated by the tasteful satin background on this page, but... ya know... I like to bake, but I don't think I'm artistic about it.
BONUS: Stop, hey... what's that sound? Everybody look what's going down...
srah | 11:17 AM | TrackBack | Tags: memes, monday mission |
Dream
I think I dreamt that all of the Umbrella Groups were forced to create very gay bands. How can you be very gay, anyway? I don't know, but we were.
srah in haiku mode:/ There is no stopping her, so/ don't even try it
Boyfriend took quizzes
and found that he was Belle and
he loved Aragorn.
Christianna left
goat cheese in my fridge. I am
scared to open it.
Roommate said she put
air in the fish tank. I thought
she blew with a straw.
Dively has a man?
Must learn details of smooching
with Jeopardy champ.
Le frère et l'ami
d'Antoine sont ici. Ils ne
parlent que français.
(Is "parlent" one or
two syllables? It is hard
to haiku in French.)
There are some loose leaves
in my tea. They are getting
caught between my teeth.
It is too late to
write any more haiku this
evening. Good night.
Check out the rabbit haiku!
I never wrote one
but Dave's bunny incites me
to give it a try.
I invite you to
leave your own bunny haiku
in his comment-thing.
As for me, I say
that the pancakes-Oolong makes
me hungry... for which?
February 24, 2002
Interesting Srahs
Just in case you were interested...
Srah Srang (The Royal Bath) is, as best as I've been able to understand, an important lake in Cambodia near the Buddhist temple of Angkor Wat. I think it would be really cool to go there.
Scottsdale Ranch Animal Hospital is a veterinary hospital in Arizona. In addition to routine medical service and surgery, they offer grooming and boarding. As a human being, I think it would be slightly less interesting to go there.
The Software Reengineering Assessment Handbook is from the Carnegie-Mellon Software Engineering Institute. Not very interesting at all, sorry.
I am slightly interesting.
Bad Mommy
Caroline is dying. I water her. I put her by a window where she would be in a bright location without direct sunlight. I think I've been keeping her at room temperature. I think she hates me.
Roommate has somehow inherited seven little fish that no one (including her) wanted. Great, more stuff for us to kill.
Bad srah! Bad!
I'm a Wind Spirit
I love to FROLIC with the elves
I'm the plain classic brown Doc Marten...
I'm mellow, down to earth, and a little on the conservative side
Which Doc Marten are you?
[all via Blogatelle]
Celestial Ball
The Celestial Ball was great fun. I wish I still had the digital camera so I could show off everyone's dresses. Yen and Marie looked sexy. Laura wore a Vietnamese dress she bought in Hanoi. Samata and I had scarves. My dress was a big hit. I liked Stephanie's and Serafina's dresses, too. My boyfriend is a cutie patootie little duckling and he and Samata's date, Sean, appropriately played the role of Man Whore and danced with all the girls, especially those who didn't have dates. I danced like a maniac, all over the floor. We had little stereotypical foods to represent (almost) all of the Umbrella Groups - bagels and cream cheese for Jewish Student Union, chicken wings for Black Student Alliance, little pink triangle cookies for Break the Silence, etc. We ended up with a lot more food than I expected and I bet a lot of it went to waste. Most of the people there were members of Umbrella Groups and we didn't attract many people from the outside.. I bet we only sold about 50 out of the 150 tickets we printed. I hope we didn't lose too much money on this...
srah | 11:12 AM | TrackBack | Tags: albion college, dancing, international student union |
February 23, 2002
Country Lanes
Bowling! I am the Bowling Queen! I came in 2nd, then last. Why do I always end up in pain when I try anything remotely athletic? My shoes were too tight and my fingers hurt. Good evening.
February 22, 2002
Friday Five
1. Hey, baby, what's your sign? Do you think it fits you pretty well? Virgo. I think so. I am (was moreso before) very organized. I can't remember any more Virgo traits at the moment, but I think I have a lot of them.
2. What's the worst birthday gift you've ever received? Erm... unwanted clothes?
3. What's the best birthday gift you've ever received? Erm... Money is always good...
4. What's the best way you've celebrated your birthday thus far? I like anything where my friends and loved ones are around. Nothing sticks out in particular. My 10th was pretty memorable just because we still have the Silly Stories we wrote at my sleepover, typed up, printed out as a book and illustrated. :)
5. What are your plans for this weekend? Laundry, hosting a prospective student tonight, talking about France at a local church youth group Saturday, Anchorsplash Saturday afternoon, Celestial Ball Saturday evening, big free open NOTHING on Sunday. Sunday good.
srah | 11:56 AM | TrackBack | Tags: friday five, memes |
February 21, 2002
Cafeteria Food, etc.
I complain about cafeteria food as much as the next person. But really, we're quite lucky. We may not have a noodle bar, like Wooster, but we do have a lot of interesting foods. You can always find something to eat, if you have enough imagination.
I think that's what's wrong with Albion students in a lot of cases.
There's nothing to doooooo in Albion... I have no problem finding things to do with my friends. Playing games, watching videos, going to the movies, campus-sponsored events, visiting friends, going out to dinner, or sitting in Baldwin or the KC or someone's room for hours and talking... I've never really been bored. Freshman year, we would hang out on our own hall. We made paper dolls of everyone on the hall and gave them to our RA. Jillian and I would make up songs. We danced around, dressed up, talked... nope, we weren't bored. There was plenty to do in Albion. Maybe if you had friends instead of drinking buddies, you would have things to do, too.
There's nothing to eat in Baldwin... One of my favorite things to eat is a pita and some hummus from the sandwich bar, plus some tomatoes and sour cream from the Mexican bar. Most people don't think like that. They look at what's on the main bar or the deli bar and if they don't like it, they leave. They don't think to combine things. They have no imagination. When there's chicken, I cut it up and put it on a salad. Even a turkey sandwich can be nice with some Grey Poupon on it. Take some French Onion soup and add cheese from the pizza bar and croutons from the salad bar! Run a bagel with cottage cheese and tomato sauce through the pizza oven! Try something new, even if it looks funny! You would be surprised at how good Shepherd's Pie actually is. If there's any rice pudding left at dinner, I'm putting it in an ice cream cone and stealing it.
I don't know what my point was. They expect to be spoon-fed, I guess. They want activities and food served to them the way they like them and if they don't get it, they'll whine and complain about it. I'm glad I'm not like that. I hope I'm not like that.
srah | 5:02 PM | TrackBack | Tags: albion college, food |
Oooh, special date/time
Where were you at 20:02, 20/02/2002?
It's a palindrome many times over. Luke says it will never happen again, but Christine points out that we have one more - at 21:12, 21/12/2112. Probably not during my lifetime.
I was watching Fefu and Her Friends, an Albion College Theatre production, at 8:02 yesterday. It was okay.
[via Blah Blah Blog and LenLowLand]
Obviously the writer of the rhyme didn't see me at Salsa Night tonight
What day are you?I am so white. I have no hip motion. I am so uptight. El Patito dances like a little duck - he shakes his tail feathers all over the place.
[via Monday's Child]
February 20, 2002
It's srah!
Sort of like It's Pat, but not.
It's srah! In a beige sweater! With her hair in a ponytail!
BLUE
|
[via Rien d'Importance]
Blogging into the void
I went to dinner with this and had this. Later, I moved on and had dinner with this and this (should have used flash. darn).
This year's International Week theme is Mexico. Tonight was the Mexican dinner. Yum yum yum. I was very upset that most people seemed to be ignoring the Mexican food and eating sandwiches or something. I tried a little of everything.
1) Some kind of salad with avocado in it. Mmmm, avocado. Avocado and lots of it. The French words for "avocado" and "lawyer" are the same word. When the lawyers went on strike last year, I played dumb and made everyone imagine little green avocats carrying banners and signs.
2) A nice vegetable salad. Carrots, radishes, beets, egg, more carrots (zanahorias), green beans, and I forget what else, in a vinegary kind of sauce.
3) Some kind of desserty thing with apples and bread. Not the best thing on the menu.
4) Homemade (home-fried?) tortilla chips. Mmm. Very good with...
5) Brazilian black bean ragout, as it has been labeled. Brazilian, rather than Mexican, but very tasty. Mmmmmmmm.
6) I would normally never even look in the direction of rice pudding, but I was being multiculturally understanding and adventurous. I'm glad I was.
srah | 11:29 PM | TrackBack | Tags: albion college, food, international week |
Withdrawal! Withdrawal!
The Intranet seems to be working fine, but we have no connection to the Internet. Oh dear oh dear oh dear. Here I am surfing Krista, Bob, and Roommate's pages - which, of course, they can't update 'cause there ain't no Internet access. Poopety poo poo. Details of my dinner to come later.
srah | 11:28 PM | TrackBack | Tags: internet connection |
News for Alfie
NSync in space! I can't think of a better place to put them! Is it true that sound doesn't travel in space, because there's no air for the waves to carry on? I really don't care about why sound doesn't travel, as long as it doesn't.
[via Xkot]
Blech
It's raining. I overslept but didn't sleep well last night. I think I'm sick. I feel cranky. I don't want to anything ever again, but I have a boatload of things to do between now and Sunday. Rain is depressing. No squirrels today, except for srah and Alex as squirrels.
Fun with the digital camera
Here are the things we got up to tonight.
How to make Roommate disappear
EmotionAlex and EmotionSrah
(mouse-over for captions)
Aren't we cute?
Ooooh, artsy-fartsy
(mouse-over for captions)
The Worst Picture Of Me Ever
Alex said "Be... Albion". I didn't know how to be Albion, so I made this strange dramatic face. The face, the angle, and the light have conspired to make me look like I am some kind of horrible Jim Henson creation gone wrong having a religious experience. It is quite a sight to see.
February 19, 2002
Honors Social Event
I have such a love for Trivial Pursuit that it drove me to attend an Honors Social Event. I think that these events are planned to give the planners something to do, as the only people who showed up were those who are already freakily gung-ho about Honors and do strange things like attend Honors Council. I've only talked to her in person twice, but it's gotten to the point where I really can't stand to be within hearing distance of D's voice. She has spent so much time in the Theatre department that nothing she says sounds remotely sincere.
We sucked at Trivial Pursuit. It was unpleasant. We got all the hard questions. I still think we should have gotten the blue pie piece for saying "Erin go bragh" meant "Long live Ireland" when the card said it was "Ireland Forever". It's a translation problem. But the goat-muppet ruled that it was wrong. Grrr. Chickens are the most abundant fowl on Earth in case you wondered.
Here's another thing I want to whine about, while I'm at it: If you are having an event, especially an Honors event, from 5 to 7 in the evening, you had better provide me with food so that I don't have to scramble out of there at 6:55 and scrape up what's left in the cafeteria that they haven't put away yet.
Didn't I make some kind of resolution about not talking about Honors? I think I did. Oops.
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I think I'm a meme-aholic
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