December 2004 archive

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December 31, 2004

It was either that or Spongebob Squarepants

Sometimes I forget that, due to the scarcity of yellow underwear in Ann Arbor stores, my ass is currently expressing the sentiment:

Aloha from Hawaii, Summer 2005!

Then I remember and I have a little giggle to myself. This has been happening all day. Bless you, Kohl's, and your strange and cryptic underwear selection!

Happy New Year, all!

Tsunami tragedy

I felt like I was obliged to say something about the tsunami disaster, but I couldn't think of anything original to say. It's terrible and catastrophic and disgusting. I didn't really have anything to add to what all of the bloggers around me have said and I felt bad about that.

Yesterday on the news they were having a story about the Americans that were killed/missing (because American news loves Americans) and I suddenly had the feeling that someone had recently told me they were going to Thailand for Christmas Break. I can't remember who. So now I'm scared for a person I actually know, and I don't know who it is or even if it's just my overactive imagination inventing the conversation.

I wish I still had nothing to say.

December 30, 2004

Tree Fingies

I'm doing a meme. I haaaaaaaaaaaaaave to - Jez said. Else spiders!

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Go away, Mr Clown, you scare me

Here is a thought that I had while listening to the radio and driving to the mall today:

If it weren't for the fact that we are made of two different - and probably incompatible - materials (being human flesh and music) I might sew Squeeze's "Tempted" to my skin.

I don't think I should be left alone with my thoughts anymore.

End-of-the-year reflections

Everybody's Doing It So Why Why Can't We? Or rather, I? I've seen this on quite a few blogs now, so it's my turn. I don't share everything on the ol' blog, so some answers may be vague or avoided, but that's the price you pay for not knowing me in real life!

[Someday there will be real content on this blog, but I have no amusing observations about life right now because I sit at home all day and play The Sims.]

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1. What did you do in 2004 that you'd never done before?
Make websites for money, learn PHP (sort of), commute, get a big girl coat and a laptop...

2. Did you keep your new years’ resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
I don't remember making any last year and don't see any reason to start now!

3. Did anyone close to you give birth?
Everyone's Favorite Project Manager and his wife, to Finnian Charles in November.

4. Did anyone close to you die?
I lost my paternal grandfather in September.

5. What countries did you visit?
France, England and Canada.

6. What would you like to have in 2005 that you lacked in 2004?
Free time in order to do fun things without feeling guilty for doing something other than homework. A real live grownup job.

7. What date from 2004 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
There doesn't seem to be one, but there are very few dates etched upon my memory anyway, from any year. I think I'm not good with dates or the remembering of them.

8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
I was rather proud of myself for being a leader rather than a follower in my Marketing class. Surviving the summer without quitting and running home (although I'm not sure that was an achievement - probably more stubbornness and laziness).

9. What was your biggest failure?
Personal.

10. Did you suffer illness or injury?
A touch of plague here and there and an eye tic, but nothing serious.

11. What was the best thing you bought?
Mon petit chouchou, mon cher Isidore.

12. Whose behavior merited celebration?
I'm very proud of my mommy, who's recovering very well and doing a lot better after her knee surgery.

13. Whose behavior made you appalled and depressed?
Michigan voters, a friend.

14. Where did most of your money go?
Isidore and bubble tea!

15. What did you get really, really, really excited about?
Isidore, the end of my internship. Alternative Spring Break to some extent, perhaps.

16. What song will always remind you of 2004?
Uh... Nothing in particular. Probably a few of them. "Kathy's Song" by Simon & Garfunkel? I am never really up on my modern music, so probably nothing that actually came out this year.

17. Compared to this time last year, are you:
i. happier or sadder? I think I feel sadder than this time last year.
ii. thinner or fatter? Probably about the same.
iii. richer or poorer? Richer.

18. What do you wish you’d done more of?
Applying for internships, progress on the job search, concentrating on schoolwork, socializing.

19. What do you wish you’d done less of?
Crack cocaine-- I mean, wasting time, waffling around in confusion, being lonely.

20. How will you be spending Christmas?
Already done spent it: Opening presents, eating, opening presents, seeing friends and family.

22. Did you fall in love in 2004?
Yes.

23. How many one-night stands?
None.

24. What was your favorite TV program?
Probably the Sunday night Adult Swim lineup, Jeopardy! and now Lost. They're the only things I made a conscious effort to see.

25. Do you hate anyone now that you didn't hate this time last year?
My internship boss... I didn't even know him last year!

26. What was the best book you read?
Book? What is this book of which you speak? I devoured the library at the abbey, but that's not saying much because it was all textbooks and trashy romance novels. I think it'll be The DaVinci Code - it was very entertaining.

27. What was your greatest musical discovery?
iTunes. :) That and Badly Drawn Boy.

28. What did you want and get?
Isidore! Big girl coat!

29. What did you want and not get?
Coatrack!

30. What was your favorite film of this year?
Hmmmm. Nothing is jumping out at me. Prisoner of Azkaban? There were a lot of pretty good sequels (PoA, Spiderman, Shrek) but nothing new and original that I remember taking me by surprise. I can't remember the beginning of the year, though. Did Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind come out in 2004?

31. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?
I went to Albion to hear Sam Donaldson give a lecture. I was 24.

32. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
Money, time, love and friendship.

33. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2004?
More skirts! Scarves galore!

34. What kept you sane?
Friends (thank you).

35. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?
Colin Firth, I guess. Who woulda thunk it? I always teased my sister for liking him.

36. What political issue stirred you the most?
Gay marriage, perhaps.

37. Who did you miss?
An awful lot of people, considering I was so miserable and lonely for so much of my summer. Now that I'm back, I do miss the people I met this summer.

38. Who was the best new person you met?
Does Jez count? Otherwise, probably my roommates at the abbey or some of the HCI n00bs.

39. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2004:
Don't mix your work and home lives. Work stays at work. And I don't think I have the ambition and drive for the Corporate World.

40. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year:
"I'm 23, will I ever see 24?" Coolio, Gangsta's Paradise (Because, you see, at the beginning of the year, I was 23... oh never mind, this one was hard.)

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mp3 meme thingy

Turn on your WinAmp, WMP, ITunes, whatever you play music with. Turn the shuffle on. Push play, then fast forward and write down each song as it occurs in this list, and it will be a fortune:

How you felt about high school: "Coming In To Land" by Badly Drawn Boy
How you feel about life now: "Habanera" from Carmen ("Si je t'aime, prends garde à toi!")
How you feel about the future: "Colombia Tierra Querida" by Cabas (Oh my god, am I moving to Colombia???)
The way your crush feels about you: "Let the Sunshine In" by the Fifth Dimension
Your best friend’s secret: "Money Talks" by AC/DC
The story of your life will be titled: "Starry Starry Night" by Don McLean (and the next song was "Perfect" by Simple Plan!)

[via Confessions of a Girl Geek]

December 29, 2004

All gussied up in Christmas presents

"Over the knee" socks + short srah = thigh-high socks. 'Tis very strange-feeling.

Nine West calls the color of these socks "dusk oregano." Where do they come up with this stuff? Is oregano a different color at dusk?

December 28, 2004

Unconscious Mutterings

Last unconscious mutterings of 2004!

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December 27, 2004

Ordience porticipation

So, what did you get for Christmas?

(Why should I have to do all the writing around here, anyway?)

May require some searching!

There is a tradition in some countries in Latin America that it is good luck to ring in the new year wearing brand new yellow underwear. Not only yellow underwear, but yellow underwear that was a gift. So get shopping for underwear for the people you love!

Guess whose sad, pathetic self will need a visit from the Social Bunny?

Merry Christmas, Internet. Long time no see.

I got The Sims 2 for Christmas. Isidore has been otherwise occupied and not able to play with you folks. We'll be back... eventually.

December 25, 2004

Holiday Download Extravaganza: A is for...

Texas - In Demand

A special video treat for Xmas. Texas? What does that have to do with the letter A? Watch and see. Dreeeeeeeeeeeamy.

December 24, 2004

Holiday Download Extravaganza: B is for Black Lab!

It's Christmas Eve! I don't have time for a summary! Enjoy the music!

Black Lab - Keep Myself Awake

December 23, 2004

The booty ye deserve!

I think it's been months since I mentioned either pirates or ninjas.

I'm sorry.

I've been so caught up in other things that pirates and ninjas just haven't been at the top of my mind. Can you ever forgive me? Well how about if I link to this? Does that help?

How about if I tell you that MaTT got me pirate band-aids for Christmas and there was a RUBBER MONKEY in the tin? How about that?

Please?

[via Kyle Flood Dot Net]

Lost, in translation

I am an upstanding member of the community and would never do anything wrong. But if, theoretically, I had decided well into the season that I wanted to see the deserted-island drama Lost and had downloaded or was currently downloading the first eleven episodes, then what follows is what I would think of the episodes that I had seen (but of course, you understand, it's completely hypothetical because I would never ever download TV shows from the Internet):

Alfie and I were watching episode 3 today and noticed that the supervising producer is Javier Grillo-Marxuach. I love it when his name pops up in the credits for things because he went to my high school. He's about 11 years older than me so I've never met him, but I'm still somehow proud of him.

In Episode 2, the crash victims find that there's a sixteen-year old distress signal being transmitted in French. One member of the group, who spent a year in Paris ("Drinking, not studying!") is called upon to translate the distress call. She translates it almost completely in that the gist of the message is communicated, but what is odd is that she translates every sentence wrong. The translations don't match up with what the French woman is saying.

"Il est dehors..." ["He* is outside."]
"She's saying 'Please.'"
"Veuillez nous aider..." ["Please help us."]
"She's saying 'Please help me. Please come get me.'"
"Si qui que ce soit puisse entendre ceci..." ["If anyone can hear this..."]
"I'm alone now."
"... je vais essayer d'aller jusqu'au rocher noir." ["... I will try to go as far as the black rock."]
"I'm on the island alone."
"Veuillez nous aider." ["Please help us."]
"Please, someone come."
"Ils sont tous morts." ["They are all dead."]
"The others, they're..."
"Ils sont morts." ["They are dead."]
"They're dead."
"Il les a tués." ["He killed them."]
"It killed them."
"Il les a tués tous." ["He killed them all."]
"It killed them all."
"Je vais essayer d'aller jusqu'au rocher noir." ["I will try to go as far as the black rock."]
(battery dies)

Uh, I hope this mysterious black rock isn't important, because it didn't make it into Shannon's translation at all!

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* "Il" can mean "he" or "it," but I think think that since there's no context, my first thought would be to translate it as "he".

Holiday Download Extravaganza: C is for The Cure!

Do you ever sit around the house and wonder what The Cure were up to in 1996? I'll tell you - they were recording the only Cure album that I own: Wild Mood Swings. That's what.

The Cure - Mint Car

Holiday Download Extravaganza: D is for Dee-lite!

(Oops - didn't get around to posting yesterday.)

At a party, I was once informed by at least two different people that this song reminded them of me. I still don't know why that is, but there are a lot of songs that would be worse. I'm glad that people don't connect me with a dirge or something - at least this one is high-energy!

Dee-lite - Groove is in the Heart

The lunatics have taken over...

My dad and I went Christmas shopping at Borders the other night and he bought an early Christmas present for the whole family. We got home and were deciding what movie to watch when he told me about the DVD he'd bought for us. I wondered which new release or British-TV-series-on-DVD he'd thought of, since these are the sort of thing we usually get.

I tried to guess. "Have we seen it recently?" I asked. "I haven't seen it for... probably about thirty years," he answered. "Wait, have I ever seen it? Then why do you think I'd like it?"

Turns out, my dad knows what we like after all. Although I'd never heard of it, Le Roi de coeur was apparently very big in the 60s and showed in Ann Arbor for something like three years straight. It's a French movie about a Scottish WWI soldier (played by Alan Bates) who is sent to defuse a bomb left in a French town that the Germans hoped to destroy so that the British forces couldn't take it over. The inhabitants of the town hear about the bomb and evacuate, but leave behind everyone in the insane asylum. When Alan Bates' character is looking around the town, he leaves open the doors and gates to the asylum and the residents escape and take over the town, declaring him their king. They are crazy and innocent and don't understand the war or death that's going on around them and he comes to be attracted to this way of thinking. It was really quite lovely - if you're looking for something to rent, this is certainly something very different!

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December 21, 2004

Half-Blood Prince release date announced!

July16July16July16!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11

Holiday Download Extravaganza: E is for Everclear!

Christopher Brookmyre introduced me to this song.

"This is gonna sound a little obsessive..." starts Zal in The Sacred Art of Stealing. DI de Xavia recognizes later that he was quoting Everclear. So srah scoured the Internet, discovered the song, found it and held it to her bosom. And her ears, because it turns out that's where she hears.

'Twas a gift from Christopher Brookmyre's heart directly to me, and now I share it with you, dear friends.

Wait, that does sound a little obsessive.

Everclear - Unemployed Boyfriend

December 20, 2004

They're willing... for the shilling...

"I used to sell cookies too, you know," I said to the Brownie who came a-shilling at my place of employment. She seemed singularly unimpressed. I gave the best eight years of my life to the Girl Scouts and for what? I can't even impress a first-grader!

I'll bet you didn't know that I was a Girl Scout for eight years. I'll bet you never would have guessed it from someone as rebellious and tough and... okay, I bet you would have.

I don't even know who this girl belongs to, but in exchange for buying one box of Peanut Butter Patties, she gave me a picture she drew of a dragon with smoke coming out of his nostrils after he set a bush on fire! This kicks ass. I wish I'd thought to throw in a little bonus on my sales... maybe if I'd had more success, I'd still be selling cookies to this day!

No, that would be even more pathetic than I already am.

Holiday Download Extravaganza: F is for Foo Fighters!

This song was on the soundtrack to the X-Files movie. I don't quite know why or whether it actually played during the movie. It doesn't sound particularly X-Filesish to me - it wasn't written by Mark Snow* or performed by Johnny Mathis. I like it anyway.

Foo Fighters - Walking After You

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* Is it really sad and nerdy to know the name of the X-Files composer? It is? Oh. :'(

December 19, 2004

Sudden realization

... you mean, presents don't wrap themselves?

Stupid joke that I made up today

Q: What is Luke Skywalker's favorite color?

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Holiday Download Extravaganza: G is for Jean-Jacques Goldman!

BAGPIPE SOLO!

Okay, I suck. But this is another lovely lovely French song with great lyrics. I think I like this old standard more every time I hear one of his songs and this is one of my current favorites.

Chansons pour les pieds is a wonderful album that - if presented to me for any type of upcoming holiday event - would not be thrown on the floor and stamped upon.

Jean-Jacques Goldman - Je voudrais vous revoir

Clubs Trump

At Marshall Field's today I saw a big display for the new fragrance "Trump".

My first objection to this fragrance is that "Trump" sounds like "frump" or "stump." This is not an attractive image for a cologne. It's just not an attractive word. Trump trump trump. (In doing a little research for this post, I discovered that a "trump" is a fart in UK English.)

Putting the sound and meaning of the name of the cologne aside, Trump? The connotation is that by wearing this cologne, you will be associated with Donald Trump. So you will be seen as a failed/failing businessman with one of these on his head?

Do not anger me this holiday season, or it's a bottle of eau de fart for you!

Unconscious Mutterings

Meme! Meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeme! Meeeeeeeeme! Right. Free associations have been free-associated. Read on for mine or click the icon to do your own without being tainted!

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srah's Holiday Solutions

Dear The Stores At The Mall,

Please stop having sales on cute clothing and shoes. It is the holidays and I am supposed to be spending my money on presents for loved ones, not on myself.

srah

Dear My Loved Ones,

So... you'll all be getting cute size 6 shoes for Christmas, because my eyes are unable to see beyond them. As these shoes will not fit you, I think the best thing to do would be to re-gift them to me. And then you can give me the presents you were planning to give me in addition to these re-gifts. You will feel great pride for getting me something I will be sure to enjoy as well as the excitement of wondering if I will like your present! We both win!

srah

December 18, 2004

Holiday Download Extravaganza: H is for The Hollies!

At last, ladies and gentlemen, the mystery is at an end. From December 1 to December 25, there are 25 days. And there are 26 letters in the alphabet! I could have left out something like Z or X or Q but no, ladies and gentlemen, I opted instead for I. Because I did. So there.

So here we are at H. Once again, a lovely song because I am, occasionally, a hopeless romantic.

The Hollies - The Air That I Breathe

December 17, 2004

Holiday Download Extravaganza: J is for Journey!

For some reason, I always have this swelling of pride when the singer says that the boy was "born and raised in South Detroit" even though I am not from Detroit and I don't even know what's in South Detroit. I am retarded like that.

Journey - Don't Stop Believin'

December 16, 2004

They may take my social life, but they'll never take...

I am DONE! I am SUBMITTING MY LAST TAKE-HOME EXAM! I am DOING A LITTLE DANCE OF FREEDOM! I am NEVER GOING TO DO ANY WORK EVER AGAIN!

(Note to my teachers next semester and any future employers: Please ignore that last part.)

Holiday Download Extravaganza: K is for Kyo!

Lost our internet connection last night, so this one's a little later than usual.

This is a song by a French rock group. It's kind of funny to see French rock videos because they get all kitted out like they're Limp Bizkit or Korn or something and then they sing a song that's rather sweet and poppy. Poor dears can't help it - it's the chanson tradition which seems to pervade all French music and force them to sing intelligible lyrics. Not rockish at all, those intelligible lyrics!

Anyway, this one is about teenaged angst and wanting to run away from everything. Lyrics are here (in French). Have a listen.

Kyo - Je cours

Dream

I had a dream where we went to meet a distant cousin. He lived on the shores of a big lake. My mom parked the car and went in to meet him, leaving us behind in the car. The waves from the lake kept getting higher and higher until they were so high they would touch the roof of the car. I decided I should back up and get farther away from the lake so I started up the car while the waves were receding and put it into reverse... and it went forward. I got really scared because the sand was so wet we couldn't get enough traction to go backward. So I put it into drive, put my foot down hard on the gas and managed to turn the car around so it was facing the other direction. My mom came out and invited us into the guy's house. There was some kind of issue with the guy's grandsons, who gave us cereal and wanted to make us skydive.

December 15, 2004

Holiday Download Extravaganza: L is for Lovin' Spoonful!

I dunno. You know, it's kinda nice. I think it's rather a sweet song. Hee.

The Lovin' Spoonful - You Didn't Have to Be So Nice

December 14, 2004

My First Post

Let me introduce myself. I am Srahmom or Alfiemom or Mommy. I had knee replacement surgery in September and am preparing to go back to work next week after being off for almost three months. Currently, my life is spent walking and riding our stationary bicycle.

Walking in the Mall
In late October my therapist told me that I could finally start walking in the Mall. I was very excited since it meant that I could go somewhere else other than the physical therapy clinic and the doctor's office. Walking was slow, I had to use my cane and was passed by little old ladies using their walkers. I frequently had to stop to rest my throbbing knee. It was hard work and the change in scenery wasn't even noticed.

Things are starting to look up
I've continued to do all my exercises and I'm a lot more confident walking. I no longer have to stare at the floor to avoid all the cracks that pop up so I can trip over them. I actually look around while I walk. It's a good thing too. It is the Christmas season and there are people out there who are not looking around for me. The mall is very crowded. People walk out of the stores without looking where they are going, so I have to stop dead in my tracks to avoid running in to them. They swing their bags from side to side and to and fro, frequently hitting me in the knee. Let's not do that anymore! In fact I would like you all to go home when I go to the mall to walk or perhaps you could just stay out of my way.

Commercial Advertizement
Since I have been walking I have noticed a new shop at Briarwood. It is called Chez Pierre a Genuine Taste of France. I went in a few weeks ago to see what they carry. It is a lovely shop filled with wonderful French items such as (my favorite) chocolate, mustards, peppers, wine, olive oil, linens, porcelins, etc. All are very reasonably priced. And the proprietor is French. I hope you will stop in at Chez Pierre, located in the same aisle as Jonathan B. Pub and the Village Theatre.

Better than Nader

Congratulations to Marn's Big Adventure, winner of the 3500-5000 category in the 2004 Weblog Awards. Alas, I dropped from 2nd to 7th place (although running in a completely different field than last year!) but did manage to finish above 5.0%, as hoped! Thanks, you guys!

Holiday Download Extravaganza: M is for Mr Mister!

In Scattergories, that would be worth two points!

These kids today with their hippin' and their hoppin' and their bippin' and their boppin'... they don't appreciate a good song with Latin in it.

Mr Mister - Kyrie

December 13, 2004

I am such a nerd that I kind of want to punch myself.

Kind of?

I've mentioned it a few times already - I'm redesigning the blog over break. So please do tell: what would you like me to improve? Usually I only hear complaints right after I make a change, so let's have some input up front! How can I improve your user experience? What would you like to see in the interface? Don't make me user-test you!

*dies a little inside*

I have got a hat...

You know what this blog hasn't had enough of lately? Whining about the weather. C'mon, you know you all miss it!

I have recently found myself thinking that winter really isn't that tough. I don't know what all the fuss is about... little brown furry things with short stumpy legs and great long noses...

Nope. Apparently what I thought was winter was, in fact, an anteater. A winter, I have discovered today, is a huge savage beast, ten feet long, with masses of sharp pointed teeth and it looks like this--

Right. Stop that; it's silly.

Point is, it's a freaking nightmare out there today. I'm sorry I doubted your powers, winter. It will never happen again. You're cold, you're windy, I hate you and I have months of you to look forward to. Are there good library jobs in Bermuda?

Holiday Download Extravaganza: N is for Nina Persson!

The editing of Information Architecture continues. Tired. Need sleep. Can't think of a commentary. This is from the soundtrack from Boys Don't Cry. Nina Persson was the lead singer of the Cardigans. Song is pretty. Night night.

Nina Persson - Bluest Eyes in Texas

December 12, 2004

Holiday Download Extravaganza: O is for O-ZONE!

Do you want to be hip and sophisticated and European? Well, you can't. So instead, just check out one of the big European hits of the summer - a completely retarded song from... Moldova, I believe.

Thanks to my three Romanian co-workers this summer, I have learned a whole lot of useful Romanian. Namely, I learned how to say "Kiss me," then forgot it. Now, thanks to this song, I can say "happiness" and "Hello, it's me, Picasso." That will surely come in handy! The lyrics (and their English translation) can be found here.

O-ZONE - Dragostea din tei

'If he had a guitar, he'd be a rock lobster!'

Mr B------ and I went to the grocery store today and there was a man dressed in a lobster suit. We considered taking him with us to Qdoba and buying him tacos until he was full.

Ten imaginary dollars to the first person who knows what I'm talking about!

Unconscious Mutterings

Too late. Twelve hours of Information Architecture. Can't think. Must free associate.

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December 11, 2004

The Mummy

And here I thought your Christmas present, dear readers, was going to be a crapload of music!

The music will continue, of course, but I have another treat to brighten your holiday season. Some time this evening, I hope, we will have the first post by a new featured guest blogger: srahmom!

Let's give her a hand, ladies and gentlemen...

To do over Christmas Break

Buy Christmas presents (since I haven't bought a single one yet)
Apply for jobs
Figure out what I'm doing next semester (I've registered for classes... but that doesn't mean I need to keep them!)
Read a book... for fun!
Redesign the blog
Invent a time machine and extend Christmas Break by about five weeks

I've already been nominated - go nominate someone else

Nominations are open for yet another blogging contest! This one is aimed at smaller blogs and no political blogs are allowed. If you want a favorite lesser-known blog to get recognition, nominate it now!

Also:

"As an extra incentive, if you nominate a blogger between now and December 17th, your name will go into a special drawing for this week's "door prize": a free custom skin from Web Divas."

Holiday Download Extravaganza: P is for Pop Project!

Here's a tune from a local band that Matt introduced to me last spring. I hope they don't mind me posting their mp3 for WORLDWIDE CONSUMPTION FROM MY MASSIVE READING AUDIENCE!

If this makes them rich and famous, I hope they will buy me a bubble tea. *rolls eyes*

Pop Project - Feel Nine

December 10, 2004

Step one: Get a job. Step two: Get a life.

Last night, after the last class of the semester, the students and professor of my Marketing class all went out to the bar for a drink. It was interesting because I'd mostly only associated with engineers all semester and hadn't really met any of the MBA students. We had a few drinks, chatted it up and then my classmates asked me, at one point in the evening, what I do for fun.

I couldn't think of anything!

I finally scraped up that I like to watch movies. I started to mention blogging, but apparently they don't talk about blogs all the time in the Business School the way that they do in the School of Information, so I gave up trying to explain and scrapped the idea altogether. So I only like to watch movies and nothing else in the whole wide world.

Is it because I'm a full-time student and have no time for fun? Or am I just fundamentally boring, with no interests whatsoever?

I need to get me a hobby.

Holiday Download Extravaganza: Q is for Queen!

I went bowling last weekend with SOCHI and SAA. There were an emcee and a DJ at the bowling alley (he spun, she announced), both of whom were quite awful. I couldn't tell if the emcee was a retarded Australian or a stupid American pretending to be Australian or a stupid American pretending to be British and coming off as vaguely Australian. Anyway, the music they were playing was pretty awful, but we soon caught on that you could request things from them and that once in a blue moon, they would stop with the country music and actually play what you'd asked for or something resembling it that was actually in their collection. They didn't have Hungry Like the Wolf so we had to settle for Rio. They didn't have Lovecats so we had to settle for Friday I'm In Love.

I decided to give them free rein. I went up and asked if they would play "anything by Queen". I like a lot of songs by Queen. I figured they'd pick Bohemian Rhapsody, We Will Rock You or We Are the Champions, all of which would be okaaaay, but I was kind of hoping for something a little less overplayed-in-sporting-venues.

I got something that was less overplayed in sporting venues, but it was Another One Bites the Dust. I hate Another One Bites the Dust, if only because I know the W

We'll collect the moments one by one/ I guess that's how the future's done - Feist, 'Mushaboom'

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We'll collect the moments one by one/ I guess that's how the future's done
- Feist, 'Mushaboom'