May 2002 archive
(81 entries)
May 31, 2002
Oops, I'm at a convention
Oops, I'm at a convention
I just remembered that in a dream last night, I accidentally
went to some big sci-fi fan convention (I won some tickets and went so I
wouldn't waste them, but I wasn't really interested in being there) and met
someone incredibly important. I don't even remember who. I just remember
I was sitting on a display, bored, and this incredibly important sci-fi person
(maybe he wasn't important, because right now the only person coming to mind
is the Young Owen Lars) came and sat next to me. I remember the jealous
stares of the fans.
Where is that again?
I'm doing data-entry at work these days, putting the descriptions on photo negative envelopes into a database. The latest one, from 1958, mentions U-M's Geography Department. Do schools still have geography departments? Could you major in Geography? What kind of job opportunities were open to Geography majors? Mapmaking?
When was the last time you studied geography in school? The last time I remember was sixth grade, over ten years ago.
Prepare to be destroyed ...
Prepare to be destroyed
... by the most addictive website on Earth: What's Better?
Patrick Roy is in there somewhere. Pick whatever's up against him.
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May 30, 2002
Yawn I went to bed
Yawn I went to bed at 9:00 last night. You would think that by going
to bed at such an outrageously early hour, I would get an outrageous amount
of sleep. But I got 9 hours, a perfectly normal night. Which means that
the rest of the time, I'm not getting enough. Sigh.
The Uncommunicative Haircutting Lady
I never know what to call the person who cuts my hair. Hairdresser sounds like something my grandma would say and stylist sounds a bit too la-di-da for someone like me, whose hair has no style whatsoever. So she ends up being "The Woman Who Cuts My Hair" or "My Haircutting Lady".
Anyway, my haircutting lady is out on maternity leave, so I made an appointment with someone else at the same place. When I was a teenager, I resented the fact that haircutting ladies always tried to talk to me. But now I've come to accept it as part of the process. So it was very disappointing that this woman was entirely uncommunicative. The only exchange we had was when she said, "So, when do you finish school?"
"I just graduated, actually. From college."
"When?"
"May 4."
"So you graduated from college then?"
"Yep."
"I'm sure people have told you this before, but you don't look old enough to be graduating from college..."
(and then the clincher)
"...but that'll work out well for you when you're older."
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Zonk! I was so out
Zonk! I was so out of it at work yesterday. My eyes refused to focus
when I looked at the computer screen and I kept sort of leaning forward,
almost falling asleep. When I called to make a doctor's appointment, they
asked me what my regular doctor's office was and I almost said Ann Arbor
Animal Hospital.
May 29, 2002
Indecisive little me
One of the things I don't like about myself is that I'm wishy-washy. When I was in France, I was sure that I wanted to work in France when I grew up. When I came back and took my English Language class, I was sure I wanted to go into linguistics. The next semester, when I took Survey of Computing, I was sure I wanted to be a web designer.
I'm easily influenced, but I'm also adaptable and happy in many different kinds of jobs. I'm going to have to find a way to combine these or try each of them in turn... all the while hoping I don't hit on another one while I'm at it.
The Wednesday Whimsy
If you could breathe underwater (and assuming that water pressure and temperature no longer negatively affected you), what would you do?
I would visit the Gungan city. Oh sorry, Katie puts me in a Star Wars mood. This question makes me think of those funny artificial breathy things Qui-Gonn and Obi-Wan used in Episode I. I suppose I would use it to keep from drowning... I don't think it would make me go out on the water any more than I do.
You are an ocean spirit, and you can do whatever you wish with the mortals who cross over your part of the sea. What would you do with those unsuspecting travelers?
Reverse their genders, then turn them back once they float past my little part of the sea. I am a mischievous little ocean spirit.
You, a land faring person, have fallen in mutual love with a mermaid/merman. You could choose to become a mer-person, or he/she could choose to become human, but either choice would be permanent. Both of you have family, friends and lives in your homes. Do you stay together or not? Either way, how do you deal with the situation?
I think it would be quite difficult, as I know absolutely nothing of the merculture. But it would also be a learning experience. If my family could come visit me, I guess I'd be up for it.
Describe a recent dream.
I can't remember any recent ones.
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I should adopt a dying
I should adopt a dying language...
For a while, when I was still thinking about doing a senior thesis, I considered doing it on dead and dying languages.
May 28, 2002
The Pea
I have an old velour (or some such material) blanket which has been christened "The Pea" in my family because it's sort of a pea-green color. This creates great homonym-related hilarity in my family. Okay, maybe I'm the only one who laughs.
My mom was sitting in the office the other day and shivering. I brought The Pea in and wrapped it around her. "Are you cold?" I asked her, "Maybe you will be warmer if I Pea on you."
I also Pead on the dog in the back seat of the van on the way back from Ohio this weekend. Heh heh.
That's my sister!
When it came time to fill out the roommate form at SOAR (Student Orientation and Registration) last week at Albion, Becky wrote that she'd like to have an international student as a roommate. Sometimes she's a pretty cool person.
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Teatime My mom has 'Tea'
Teatime My mom has 'Tea' at work today, meaning that she brings in
the snacks for our teatime. I'm going to be serving so she can pick up my
sister. We have Tea at 3pm every Tuesday and Friday here and I always look
forward to it, playing the Tea Police if I suspect someone might have forgotten.
Do you have any fun work traditions?
Who can we offend? Why
Who can we offend?
Why did the Detroit Free Press pull this cartoon but run this one?
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The Tuesday This-or-That?
1. Charcoal or gas BBQ grill? Don't think it matters much to me...
2. Beach or pool? I'd say beach, but I don't know... sand is so rough and coarse. It's not soft... and smoothglaaaaaaaaaaaagh...
3. Sneakers or sandals? Depends on the situation and the outfit - I like the opportunity to wear either.
4. Sunblock or suntan lotion? Sunblock. Otherwise I turn bright red. It sometimes fades into a tan, but I look ridiculous for a few days.
5. Iced tea or iced coffee? Iced tea. Or hot tea, if ya got it.
6. Touristy beach town or quiet camping trip? I hate camping, but I also hate tourists. I suppose the beach town would be the lesser of two evils, but then we get back to that sand, which is rough and coarse...
7. Theme park or baseball game? Yechh. Getting bored standing in line, or getting bored waiting for the game to be over. I suppose I'll pick the theme park, because there might at least be something good at the end.
8. One or two piece swimsuit? (ladies...which do you prefer to wear; guys, which would you prefer a woman to wear?) I have a very sensible two piece.
9. Bicycling or rollerblading? I've never been rollerblading, but I haven't been bicycling in years. I'll say rollerblading because you're closer to the ground.
10. It's 95 degrees outside. Do you prefer to go outside in the heat, or stay in and hide behind the air-conditioner? I hate air-conditioning, but if I can put it on a low setting, I'll stay indoors, away from the bugs and burny sunshine.
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Chile trip Less than two
Chile trip Less than two weeks till Chile! I haven't started packing
or shopping or anything... and I haven't quite gotten my mind around the
fact that I'll need to take a winter coat. Fancy that! What kind of present does one get
for people one wants to impress, who bought one Christmas presents, are going
to host one for three weeks, and created a lovely person for one to love?
The Monday Mission
1. What happened this weekend that made you smile? Echhh, grave-hopping trip to Ohio. So not too much. Tuna salad sandwiches and graphic novels, I guess.
2. Did you make someone smile today? If not, will you try? I told my mom to smile and she faked one, but then when I started being silly about the great horror film "It Came From the Carpet", she gave me a real one.
3. Have you any clothes or accessories you love to wear but just totally embarass the person you are being seen with? Alex and my mom hate my hawaiian shirts.
4. What was the catch phrase you said the most in High School? Hmmm. I remember doing a lot of laughing like Beavis and Butthead, but no particular catch phrase, other than "Heh heh heh. Cool."
5. Who are you remembering this Memorial Day? (or for those not celebrating it, tell me about someone worth remembering) I'll post more on my Memorial Day adventures later today... maybe during my lunch break.
6. Do you think you are a good friend? Most of the time, yes. I have a tendency to get out of touch because I think I'm too "busy" to keep up on correspondence. I also hate using the phone, so sometimes people will call me and I just won't call them back. Bad friend. Bad!
7. (continued from MM 2.20) That outing tonight was a blast ... but that was last call. I totally overdid it and shouldn't drive, anything we can do while I try to "dry out?" I'll drive home. I'm sure I had little or nothing to drink. Otherwise... we'll go see a movie. I have no life and don't like to do anything but watch movies.
BONUS: Do ya love me, now that I can dance? I'm sorry, but I only have eyes for Alf.
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A widdle dwinky-poo I had
A widdle dwinky-poo
I had a Vanilla Coke (as opposed to a vanilla Coke, which I've had before at Steak & Shake) for the first time this weekend. I thought it was pretty tasty - sort of like a Coke float without the ice cream.
I also rediscovered Ceylon tea this weekend. We ran out of Earl Grey and there was a small packet of Twining's Ceylon Orange Pekoe there, so I tried that. Ceylon is very good with milk.
"So if I win, I
"So if I win, I can touch Yuu?"
Once again, I find myself getting addicted to Japanese cartoons. Alex has borrowed a whole new set of Marmalade Boy tapes
and we're watching our way through them. We're on episode #20, which made
me realize, last night, that I've spent about 10 hours of my life so far
watching Marmalade Boy. Eek. Alex also bought me, for our eight-monthiversary,
a little stuffed Totoro and two volumes of Maison Ikkoku, a graphic novel about an apartment building full of funny characters.
The Sunday Op-Ed
1. Painting What did I have a fun time doing to Robin's room with Robin and Cheryl during the summer between 9th and 10th grades, while being introduced to Dave Matthews Band as we listened to Andy Freeth (then known as Andy Freak)'s copy of "Under the Table and Dreaming"?
2. Canada Where do international students studying in the U.S. need to fill out a form to go to, presumably to ensure that they'll come back?
3. Pets What does the Chia brand produce?
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May 25, 2002
Eight from the Eighties
1) What's in your room? Waaaay too much junk. Instead of cleaning up, I just dumped it all in here and haven't put anything away in quite a while. I can't find anything. It's a black hole. The dog refuses to enter.
2) Do you have fame? No. Except online, where I have many faithful readers, both here and at the JH site. Mwah.
3) Are you on a road to nowhere? Nope. I hope not. But there seem to be many happy options open to me.
4) Ooh, are you a little runaway? No. More of a homebody. Maybe it wouldn't be so bad to go to U-M and come back and live in my house. Sigh.
5) Have you ever felt the earth move, under your feet? Is that song from the 80s? I didn't know. Anyway... no. But according to Alex, they have tremors all the time in Chile, so maybe while I'm there...
6) I've been waiting, for a... coffee shake (coffee ice cream and milk - no coffee involved) for almost a year and I finally got one. Mmmmmmmmm.
7) If you love somebody... you cuddle and watch SNL with them. Those are my plans, anyway. Also... you should tell them that you love them. Both romantically loved people and family members. It's a good thing, as The Martha would say.
8) Tell me lies, tell me sweet little lies. I think Ted Nugent is cool. I eat squid for every meal of the day. I am a math whiz. I speak Japanese. Is that enough for you?
I don't think this reflects me at all
... but it does have my favorite Simpsons character on it, so it must be posted.
[via Rien d'Importance]
Trials of a good hair
Trials of a good hair day Why is it that my hair gets worse and worse
until the point where I finally give in and make an appointment to get it
cut... then as soon as I make an appointment, it starts behaving itself and
I start wondering if maybe I shouldn't cut it after all? Stupid hair.
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The Friday Five
1. What's the last vivid dream that you remember having? See Wednesday.
2. Do you have any recurring dreams? Sometimes I get deja vu in dreams - I realize that I've dreamt about a place or a situation before. But I don't really have any dreams that repeat themselves.
3. What's the scariest nightmare you've ever had? I once dreamt that I killed my family. I woke up and I didn't want to go back to sleep.
4. Have you ever written your dreams down or considered it? Why or why not? I record my dreams when I remember to. I find that if I write them down I'm more likely to remember my dreams the next night and so on. And sometimes my dreams are so ridiculous I just want to remember them for later.
5. Have you ever had a lucid dream? What did you do in it? I don't remember one.
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May 23, 2002
The Thursday Threesome
Onesome. Readin. Tell me about your favorite book you read as a kid. I had a lot of favorite books. I've been thinking about that over the last week, that I should blog a list of some of my favorites. Here are a few examples.
Twosome. 'Ritin. Everyone does a Senior Research paper. What was YOUR Senior Research Paper about? Oh, everyone does a Senior Research Paper, do they? Well I certainly didn't. And I am all the better for it. It would have been amusing to do it on dying or dead languages or the historical relationship between the French and English, but I never got cracking and I don't really mind. I studied abroad instead.
Threesome. 'Rithmatic. Using those 'rithmatic skills to balance the checkbook...so, what store seems to have the most entries in your register, and what the heck have you been buying there? Hmm. Perhaps Border's? They have books, CDs, and DVDs, so I suppose I shop there a lot. Must support the Ann Arbor economy. Heh.
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May 22, 2002
I'm the cheese whiz
English is "cheese". German is "käse". Spanish is "queso". Portuguese is "queijo". All very similar words.
So where the heck does "fromage" come from?
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The Wednesday Whimsy
Humanity is starting over, and you have been chosen to lead it. You must now choose only 20 people for New Humanity Colony. Who would you choose, and why?
I would choose teachers, but you still have to have people to do labor. Good luck getting teachers to do it. I guess I would have teachers and teenagers/young people to do the work and be educated.
You have succeeded in securing the basic necessities for your people. Now it is time to begin developing your society's infrastructure and culture. What are your first priorities?
Education education education. Why does it seem like that's all I ever talk about in a Wednesday Whimsy?
Humanity obviously started over because of existing problems. What do you see as Old Humanity's biggest problems, and how will you steer New Humanity in a different and better direction?
Old Humanity's biggest problems are ignorance and lack of education.
Describe a recent dream.
I dreamt I was in a fabric store that had those mechanical ponies where you put a penny in and it rocks back and forth. I stood in front of the pony and stopped it from moving, and I felt bad for the kid who was on it, so I set a penny on top of the box so that he could go again. Then this fat little kid came along and grabbed it off the top. I followed him and stopped him and asked what he thought he was doing. He didn't think he'd done anything wrong and had no problem with stealing. I got really frustrated with him because he kept saying he did nothing wrong and I kept telling him he stole the money and he should be ashamed of himself. I was following him around the store and lecturing him when his mom showed up. She was the owner of the fabric store, but she was also someone I've seen before in real life - maybe from church or from my elementary school. She started yelling at me for yelling at her kid. I told her what the kid did and she told me it wasn't my place to tell her kid how to act. She didn't seem to have a problem with stealing either, because she didn't discipline the kid herself. She went back to the long line of people who wanted fabric cut and I continued scolding the kid, until my mom was through the line and we went out on the street, speaking French and looking for a convenience store.
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May 21, 2002
Dumb srah brought her CD player to work but no CDs
I have just discovered (I think I knew before but forgot) that my mom owns the 2-CD set of the soundtrack to A New Hope. I love the Binary Sunset part. Aw, I love the whole thing. I wonder how much of Star Wars' popularity is due to the music.
Speaking of A New Hope, I've been wondering since Sunday - is Princess Leia's title a hereditary one or an elected position? Was she elected Princess of Alderaan or did Bail Organa go from being a senator to being a king? How's that going to work?
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Would you like to know how I feel about this computer?
I hate this computer. I hate this computer I hate this computer I hate this computer. The monitor is about eight feet above my eye level, so I have to tilt my head way back to look at it. By lunchtime, my neck kills me.
On top of that, the keyboard is sticky. Not jam-sticky, but sticky in that I have to pound on the keys to get them to register. I was hoping it was something that could be fixed - some dust lodged in there that was impeding the pressing, or something - but I shook it around a bit and sprayed compressed air all up in it and it didn't really do anything. May I share with you how tempting it is to unplug the keyboard and take it apart, to see if there's something I can do inside? I've never done that with a keyboard that was still in working order, so I'm not sure that it would be a good idea even if I felt comfortable doing it. And it probably wouldn't do any good - I think it's just a sticky keyboard.
So la la la, here I go suffering. I am now kneeling on the chair, which helps my neck but won't do much good for my knees. Yargh. I need a booster seat. Has no one heard of ergonomics?
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May 20, 2002
Episode II: Attack of the Musical Trivia
You did so well on the previous set, I've done another. I will give you a hint - one of them is a repeat from last time (a different song from the same musical). Have a guess!
1. What's that?/It's a candy bar wrapper [RENT]
2. Just one look and I can hear a bell ring [MAMMA MIA!]
3. With my razor and my basin I can always earn my pay [MAN OF LA MANCHA]
4. He loves to hear the little brook a-gurgling and listen to the merry village chime [PIRATES OF PENZANCE]
5. Husbands are a boring lot and only give you bother [KISS ME KATE]
6. What we need is a free-range consultant [BY JEEVES!]
7. They're drawing a red line around the biggest scoop of the decade [GYPSY]
8. It's got to be drummed in your dear little ear [SOUTH PACIFIC]
9. You dance with us; we dance with you, in molasses [1776]
10. I'd tremble with every clang-clang [THE MUSIC MAN]
For more musical quizzes, see Bob's or Roommate's. :)
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What? I am listening to
What? I am listening to my multi-version single of Gigi D'Agostino's
"The Riddle". Track 4 is a strange techno thing, and I think the voices
in the background are saying "Automatic uses for remote control - synthetic,
genetic command your soul". Heh. That's alright - I didn't know what the
song was about in the first place - something about a hole in the ground.
The Monday Mission
1. When was the last time you went out with a true love of yours? What did you two do that made it so special? Last night I went with Alex (and my family) to see Attack of the Clones, to dinner, and home to watch Sir Ian McKellen's Saturday Night Live episode on tape. I am happy just to cuddle and be around him.
2. Which far-away friend would you most like to see again? I was just thinking a few minutes ago about Shannon West, from high school. I'm not sure where she is now. I'd also like to see the old gang from Grenoble - Juliette, Ioanna, Renate, or the Belgians.
3. Any high or low points about this past weekend? What went on? Hmmm. High points: Moby on SNL and Attack of the Clones. And Alex made me an omelette. Low points: It's hard to tell if the French intern likes us or not and I had to go shopping.
4. I've been thinking about getting a buzz-cut for the summer, a big change for me. Have you ever made any drastic changes to your appearance? I got contacts and I used to wear them all the time. Now I go back and forth and mostly wear my glasses when I'm going to work because it's very dry here.
5. How long do you think a couple should date before they get married? Or if you are married, do you think you should have waited longer to get hitched? I suppose it's up to them, but I would suggest at least a year. I know someone who just got married after knowing the other person about a month. Hmmmm...
6. I just found out my long-time friend does not like Star Wars (!) and has only seen the original 1977 movie! Have you ever discovered anything new or shocking about a long-time friend you thought you knew everything about? I found out a couple of weeks ago that Jillian has smoked cigarettes, cigars and a pipe. Who woulda thunk it?
7. Well we had a nice picnic and saw the sunset, but now it's dark and I think we should liven things up. Let's call some of your friends and go out. Who do you want to invite and where should we all go? Geez, do we have to go out? I am such a homebody. Can't we just have Alex, Robin, Cheryl, and Bob over and watch a video?
BONUS: Why can't ya be good to me? Alf gave me strict orders not to.
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Attack of the Clones? More like... Attack of the Bong!
Heh heh. Title has nothing to do with anything, except Gobie on SNL.
Yup, so we went to see it this weekend. We took the French archives intern with us, so when they were making comments about the Jedi Archives and things like that, we were making archives-jokes and our row was laughing when no one else was. Heh heh. Family full of archives dorks.
I liked it! I agree with the Free Press that the romantic scenes were painfully bad, but there was a lot to enjoy in there, especially for the geeks. Plenty of references to future events and previews of things to come in Episode III. I actually have some hope that the Prequel Trilogy will be watchable. So my verdict is: excellent for the fans, okay for everyone else. As it should be. Nyah.
Here's the thing, though... I think that for all intents and purposes, they could have started here, or at least combined Episodes I and II. What did we really get out of Episode I that couldn't have been explained with a little dialogue? He was a slave? Whoopedy doo, doesn't seem very important, so far anyway. He's had a crush on Padme forever? Whoopedy doo. If they'd just started with them already together, we could have skipped over all of the embarassing romantic stuff, like Anakin molesting Padme's shoulder and spilling drool all over it. "Sand is so rough and coarse. Here, every thing is soft and smooooogllaaaaaaaaaghhhhh..." Seriously, if I were her, I would have run away a long time ago. Sure, he's pretty good-looking and very intense, but he's also obviously insane.
Oh, and my answer to #3 on last week's Wednesday Whimsy has changed. I have decided that the sexiest Star Wars character, much better than either Obi-Wan Kenobi or Han Solo is... Yoda. Mmmmmm, Yoda. Are you going to think less of me for having a crush on a Muppet/digital character? His toes are very cute.
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May 17, 2002
Srah's Musical Trivia update
Correct answers to the ones that have already been guessed are posted and the only one that hasn't been guessed is #2. Any takers?
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The Friday Five
1. What shampoo do you use? I usually use Suave, I think. Usually peach or chamomile. Lately I found this Jasmine something or other but I don't remember who makes it.
2. Do you use conditioner? What kind? Nope, not usually. My hair's too long at the moment and it gets weighed down by conditioner. If I do, it's usually the accompanying conditioner to my shampoo, or whatever Becky has lying around.
3. When was the last time you got your hair cut? Waaaaaaaaaaaay too long ago. My hair cutting lady went on maternity leave in January and I haven't bothered to get my hair cut since.
4. What styling products do you use? Sometimes I use mousse. I don't know what it's supposed to do or if it does, but sometimes my hair looks better if I use it.
5. What's your worst hair-related experience? I always had short hair when I was little, then my mom finally let me grow it out in fourth grade, so it was this awful growing thing with short bangs and the back long. Not nice. I also used to put my hair in braids when it was wet and it sort of crimped itself, except for the ends. I thought it looked cool. It didn't.
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May 16, 2002
Srah's Musical Trivia
I'm not boutsta do this every day, but here's a quick quiz, as I'm listening to musicals right now. You've got the quote, now name the song and the musical it's from.
1. You are the girl whose eyes met mine just as your boat sailed by [Flower Drum Song]
2. At last, all too well, I can see where we all soon will be [Jesus Christ Superstar]
3. There are shrines I should be sacking, ribs I should be cracking, eyes to gouge and booty to divide [A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum]
4. Would you fight my Bill?/What, fisticuffs? [Oliver!]
5. Mama, come find me before I do die [1776]
6. There's nothing to do but sell it all - the cow wouldn't take it back [Brigadoon]
7. Small house of Uncle Thomas... [The King and I]
8. Three bucks, two bags, one me [Annie]
9. Hello Mrs Garfine, is Charity home from school yet? [Bye Bye Birdie]
10. Chicks and ducks and geese better scurry [Oklahoma!]
That's enough for now. If you do very well, perhaps we shall play again.
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May 15, 2002
How friggin' young do I look?
Last Sunday we went out to brunch at Weber's for Mothers' Day. The waitress looked us over and asked "Is anyone here under 12?" Argh. I am almost twice under twelve, if that makes any sense. Every time I start to think "Hey, no one's asked me in a while if I want a children's menu," along someone comes to shatter my dreams. The stupidest thing is that they try to give a vague look around the table to let you think that they aren't talking about anyone in particular - that they don't necessarily mean me, but maybe my grandpa or someone.
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How do you say "Down Under" in Spanish?
The question you're all asking yourselves: How many days is it now until srah goes to Chile?
The answer is: 26, I believe. And I know you'll be disappointed, but you're not getting a countdown. I don't have any memories yet. Heh.
It will be my first time in the southern hemisphere. It will be the beginning of winter down there. I'm trying to remember, but I can't quite get my mind around it. I will meet lots of people and try to speak Spanish to them and convince them that I am not a total moron and that I am worthy of their son/nephew/cousin/etc. I will see many interesting furry animals including the majestic moose. Crazy, different, new experiences. Woooooooo(t)!
Blogger partnership Blogger has a
Blogger partnership
Blogger has a big new secret partnership
coming up that says is "going to make a lot of Blogger users happy and drastically
increase the quality of the Blogger service." I'm praying that it's comments,
but it probably isn't. Maybe the ol' spellchecker's back. Tell us, Blogger!
John Hannah likes to avoid me
When I went to see Pandaemonium at the London Film Festival, John Hannah was in the U.S. When he was filming "Alias" in the U.S., I was in France. Ho hum.
Well, the announcement came yesterday that ABC has picked up John Hannah's pilot, "The Oath" (renamed "Meds" - I gotta make some time to fix that!) for next fall.
It's described as... "a one-hour drama featuring renegade doctors trying to undercut the frugal HMO that runs their San Francisco hospital. ABC compares its mix of comedy and drama to "M*A*S*H.""
Excellennnnnt, as Mr Burns would say. Which means I'll have to have someone back here in the U.S. taping it for me every week. Oh boy. We can hardly handle four Rebus films and the two episodes of "Alias"! But it will be quite entertaining to see new John Hannah stuff every week!
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The Wednesday Whimsy
The life of a Jedi (light) offers strict discipline, complete control over passionate/selfish/hurtful emotions, no place for love or family, sacrifice of your own desires, constant duty to safety and justice for others, and deference to the wisdom of your elders. The life of a Sith (dark) is made up of complete indulgence in your desires, control over others, no responsability or deference to anyone, the ability to take whatever you want, and cool lightning-zappy fingers. Regardless of the intergalactic political situation, which side of the Force would you choose?
I like to be a good girl. I think I would choose the light side. If I were on the dark side, I think I would feel too guilty. Or I might just leave the Order altogether. But I suppose part of the training is learning how to give up things like family and love. And you can always be a rebellious Jedi like Qui-Gon and not trust your elders too much...
Have you ever dreamed up your own Star Wars character? If yes, tell us about him/her and how he/she fits into the existing Star Wars world. If not, then which Star Wars character would you choose to be, and why?
I would like to be Wedge Antilles. He survives the whole IV-VI trilogy without bringing too much attention to himself. Plus, through the magic of time travel, that yummy Obi-Wan Kenobi is his nephew. Heh.
If you could get stranded with any Star Wars species, group, or character on any Star Wars planet, who/where/why?
Ewoks are cuddly, but they also like to eat people. So maybe not them. Obi-Wan Kenobi is cuddly, too. No, wait, he's a Jedi and can't give in to his desires or fall in love with me. So I guess I'll have to be stranded with Han Solo. Mmmmmmmmmmmm.
Describe a recent dream.
I had a dream last week where I was in the parking lot behind our family's church with a Brita pitcher, filtering water. The water I was filtering had these clear centipedes in it and they kept growing and multiplying... echh!
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May 14, 2002
Not Eminem in underpants...
...but that would be a good Disturbing Search Request.
The second picture on this page is such a lovely combination of bad things. Please tell me that this is really Eminem.
I'm glad I'm not a celebrity. People would be dragging out all kinds of awful pictures of me. My sister would be selling them on Ebay.
Why do I like this picture? It's an embarassing photo of Eminem, we hope. Also, it's a photo of Eminem in an Alf t-shirt. Echhhh. It is also a pink Alf t-shirt. And to top it all off, Alf is saying "Hey, nice underwear!".
Ah, childhood memories.
In our house, I was never threatened that Santa would bring me coal for Christmas. Instead, I was threatened that I would get nothing for Christmas but underpants. The ultimate punishment was the threat of "Alf underpants". I don't know if anyone in my family ever saw any Alf underpants in the store, or if it was just an empty threat, based on the fact that the only thing worse than underpants was underpants with my least favorite television character on them.
Have you ever had/seen Alf underpants?
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May 13, 2002
The maid-of-all-work filling in at the receptionist's desk
I just used the phrase "the line is engaged". What century am I from, again?
Harry up!
If I were an author, I think I would be pretty jealous of J.K. Rowling. Everyone else's editor/publishing house is on their backs, pushing them to put out another book. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix was, I believe, originally supposed to come out last summer. Then they pushed it to the fall. Then to spring/summer of 2002. Then September. Now the vague "fall 2002", which is what the clerk at Border's told me on Saturday. I've heard rumors that she hasn't even started it yet. And is the publisher going to complain? No. "Oh, you're not going to have it done till fall? Oh, that's all right. Just don't take it anywhere else. Finish it when you can." Grrrrrrrr. C'mon, J.K.!
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I am an evil person
I broke the law the other day. I resisted for as long as I could but I finally gave in and did it. Later I discovered a way I could have gotten around it without breaking the law. I am a naughty person.
I was at a red light at about 1am, waiting to turn left. And waiting. And waiting. Something was wrong or the sensors weren't picking me up... I don't know. I tried backing up and going forward again to see if I could trip a sensor... nothing. So finally, after much suggestion from the Pato, I looked both ways and zoomed through. Naughty naughty srah. I watched the light as I drove away and it never changed. It was still the same hours later when I went by again. Argh.
The Sunday Op-Ed
Mom
Who doesn't get shown enough appreciation?
Flowers
What did the Patito inundate me with when we first started going out?
Children
What does future teacher Erin Lewis call "germ factories"?
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Eight from the 80s
1) Have you been working for the weekend? I've been cleaning my room. Mmm, fun. I brought home all of my junk from school and now I have to find a place to put all of it. I'm going through and throwing out all of the things I didn't throw away last time I did a major cleaning, because "I might need it later". Yeah. Three bags of balloons? Not going to need them.
2) Can you do magic? No. I had a professional magician in my graduating class at Albion. Ooh ahh.
3) Are you like a rock? I am not at all muscular. Neither am I flabby. And I don't drink a lot of milk, so I probably don't have strong bones. I am jelly incarnate.
4) Who keeps you hangin' on? Eh? Uh... me. Everyone. I don't know how to interpret this so I shan't.
5) Are you runnin' down a dream? Eh? I'm so confused. Sure. Sure, I am.
6) When's the last time you just got lucky? I won enough to earn one raffle ticket at Casino Night. I didn't win a digital camera from that ticket, but on the other hand, I didn't win free tanning either, so that's pretty lucky.
7) Do you go crazy 'bout a sharp dressed man/woman? Sure! It's nice to see someone in something different. That's why it's nice to see college boys in suits and Fox Mulder in a t-shirt. Fox Mulder in a t-shirt. Fox Mulder in a-- sorry, got a bit lost there.
8) Hit me with your best shot. WHAM! And GEORGE MICHAEL!
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May 10, 2002
Yet another Michigander to be proud of...
Eminem has a new song out that I have to listen to every time it comes on the radio, because he talks about my beloved Moby and it shows how stupid Eminem is. Plenty of people listen to techno - just not Americans. And I don't know if what Moby does is really techno anyway.
I remarked to my mom that Eminem is Americentric and she replied that he's more Eminemcentric than Americentric. This is true. If you listen to the refrain of his new little ditty, the last word of the four lines are "me", "me", "controversy" and "me". Which I think pretty much sums up the themes of Eminem's entire oeuvre.
Here's Moby's response...
Ah, America After he gave
Ah, America
After he gave a lecture at one university, a student came up to him and
said, "Thank you for your talk, Mr. McCullough. I didn't know the 13 colonies
were all on the East Coast," the historian said.
Dream
I dreamt last night that Robin, Cheryl, and Harini were freshmen at Albion and lived in a suite in Wesley. Then I made a big group of my friends (I think them, but also Antoine, Christianna, CKane, etc) go to see "Panic Room" with me even though it was midnight already. There were so many ads and previews that the movie didn't start until after 1am. When we got out of the movie, I had no idea where we were. I thought it might be Spain, but I saw a sign in French and German. I recognized a landmark (something I'd seen before in the dream but not in real life) and decided it was either Geneva, Switzerland or Vienna, Austria. Since I've never been to Vienna, I decided we were in Geneva. We came to a roundabout and there were two traffic police directing traffic around the roundabout. Each one had a card that had one symbol on one side and another symbol on the other. Neither symbol made any sense in the situation, so I didn't know whether to go or stop when she kept waving at me as I crept towards the roundabout.