pretty much smack dab in the middle of finals week and I don't have a whole lot to do. I had one take home final due yesterday morning and a final test yesterday afternoon, and that's about it for my "crazy" finals week, other than a presentation on my feature story bright and early Friday morning. I kind of feel guilty for not being stressed out, high on caffeine, and trapped in the library like so many of my fellow college students, but then I think that I served my time in the last couple weeks what with all my term papers... and, well... by God, I deserve a break!
so now I'm finding little things to fill my time... like spending lots of quality time with Oprah. I watched her show this afternoon and read some of her magazines this evening. I do like that Oprah lady. I did some laundry too, and some other semi-productive things, but mostly I've just been a bum and it has been true bliss.
I had a dream that Aurora, Kelly, Chelsea, and I got to go to a taping of a Queer Eye episode. I secretly entered Aurora in a contest to go, and she won, and we went to this huge warehouse where there was a ginormous party... it was the event that the Straight Guy was "made-better" for. anywho, I had a puppy in this dream. an adorable little black lab/retriever mix puppy that ran away from me as soon as we got there. then I saw Carson and he had my puppy on a leash, and he said, "this dog is the sweetest thing!," with his crazy collagen-injected lips flapping. I got to meet Carson and Ted, which was exciting by itself, but I was really just excited about my puppy. Later in the dream, I got my puppy back as a full-grown dog, and it turned out that his name was Bruce Red Rubber Ball Watkins. I called him Rubber for short. Red Rubber Ball was his middle name. oh man. now, of course, I want a little black lab puppy so I can name him Red Rubber Ball. because, after all, not only do I like Oprah, I like puppies.
sorry for the rambling. no need to continue reading. cause I'm done now.
December 17, 2003
December 14, 2003
who stole my coke?
On the last day of class here at UMD, a strangely exhiliratingly sunny december 12, I found myself down in the venden* reading the Statesman*, drinking a coke. I finished up with the Statesman, once again amazed by some of the stuff they are allowed to publish and thinking that I could do so much better (I know, who am I kidding?)... anyway, I needed something else to do and not having any homework and not feeling like studying, I decided to go grab a Ripsaw*. I left the venden and ventured into the Bohannon concourse and snatched a Ripsaw, and then went back to my spot in the venden. To find my can of coke had disappeared. My already opened half-full can of coke.
Gross.
Now, call me crazy, but unless someone stole it to get a sample of my saliva to do DNA testing (I know I ain't fathered no kids but there is the distinct possibility that I have committed murder in the past few days... amanda - peep? oh never mind), stealing someone's can of coke is really only good if they haven't opened the can and drank from it and filled it with their gross cold germs and any other spooky fluids they may have floating around their body.
so this is my note to whoever stole my coke from the venden:
you owe me a can of coke and you're getting a nasty cold, jackass.
(*UMD and Duluth references for non-Duluthians:
venden: a big room full of 20 vending machines and many uncomfortable picnic-table-like "study" tables filled with students in various stages of eating, talking, and drooling facedown on their arms
the UMD Statesman: the high quality news publication of UMD. check out their site to see true journalistic integrity: http://www.d.umn.edu/statesman
the Ripsaw: "the News and Entertainment Weekly of the Twin Ports" - Duluth's alternative newspaper that I look forward to reading every week. Especially the cartoons. Check out their site too. http://www.ripsawnews.com
In other news, finals is upon me and I'm about to go have a study session for one of my two tests. good luck to all of you who have finals and papers left... Also, I would talk about the capture of Saddam this morning, but there is too much swirling around my brain to make sense of it all.
Gross.
Now, call me crazy, but unless someone stole it to get a sample of my saliva to do DNA testing (I know I ain't fathered no kids but there is the distinct possibility that I have committed murder in the past few days... amanda - peep? oh never mind), stealing someone's can of coke is really only good if they haven't opened the can and drank from it and filled it with their gross cold germs and any other spooky fluids they may have floating around their body.
so this is my note to whoever stole my coke from the venden:
you owe me a can of coke and you're getting a nasty cold, jackass.
(*UMD and Duluth references for non-Duluthians:
venden: a big room full of 20 vending machines and many uncomfortable picnic-table-like "study" tables filled with students in various stages of eating, talking, and drooling facedown on their arms
the UMD Statesman: the high quality news publication of UMD. check out their site to see true journalistic integrity: http://www.d.umn.edu/statesman
the Ripsaw: "the News and Entertainment Weekly of the Twin Ports" - Duluth's alternative newspaper that I look forward to reading every week. Especially the cartoons. Check out their site too. http://www.ripsawnews.com
In other news, finals is upon me and I'm about to go have a study session for one of my two tests. good luck to all of you who have finals and papers left... Also, I would talk about the capture of Saddam this morning, but there is too much swirling around my brain to make sense of it all.
December 09, 2003
this is my favorite movie info. site:
Greg's Previews I like to go there and read gobs of pointless information about movies that won't be released for like three more years. or may never be released. it's one of my favorite forms of procrastination. the only thing that rates higher is blogging. which is what I'm doing. I love the internet...
I feel the need for some caramel-colored carbonated caffeine-enhanced beverage to help me slog through this feature article. this is not going to be fun, folks, but hopefully it'll be better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick. here I go!
I feel the need for some caramel-colored carbonated caffeine-enhanced beverage to help me slog through this feature article. this is not going to be fun, folks, but hopefully it'll be better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick. here I go!
December 08, 2003
I swear to almighty God above, if whoever is out there honking their freaking horn repeatedly does not stop very soon, I will come down there with a hammer and destroy their windshield. seriously, it's been going for the past five minutes! it's not even a steady rhythm... it's intermittent honking. one long honk, two short honks, one long honk followed by one short honk. there's no pattern. you would think if they were going to annoy everyone on this side of goldfine b and goldfine c, they could establish some sort of rhythm, but no.
amanda can't hear it down on her end of the hall. am I the only one who can hear it? am I going crazy? is the end near? I think it must be.
no, it's not! I got up to close my window and saw one of the girls down in goldfine B (in the apartment that we spy on sometimes, tee hee) shutting her window. thank goodness I'm not dying because it would be really sad if the end was heralded not by a choir of angels but by some really weak horn honking. that would be the way I would go out though, wouldn't it?
in the meantime, the honking still hasn't stopped. FOR PETE'S SAKE. I am now considering egging this person from the stairwell window if they do not cease and desist soon.
wait! I think... yes, maybe... but it's too soon to hope. YES! it stopped.
I'm feeling kind of grinchy this december. despite putting up christmas lights and listening to christmas music and going christmas shopping, I'm not really feeling "in the christmas spirit." I feel like christmas is still a couple months away. could it be due to the fact that I have term papers galore to write this week and then finals next week? hmm, I don't know, could be. nothing like extra-long term papers and sitting for exams to kill any christmas-y feelings of joy and wonder. actually, I'm going to colorado for christmas and I get to see a bunch of my extended family and I'm really excited about that! I just haven't quite realized that it will be christmas during that time...
anyway, I have to go step carefully into the shower before I go take a really long grammar test. I definitely want to be clean for that. here's to the christmas spirit!
amanda can't hear it down on her end of the hall. am I the only one who can hear it? am I going crazy? is the end near? I think it must be.
no, it's not! I got up to close my window and saw one of the girls down in goldfine B (in the apartment that we spy on sometimes, tee hee) shutting her window. thank goodness I'm not dying because it would be really sad if the end was heralded not by a choir of angels but by some really weak horn honking. that would be the way I would go out though, wouldn't it?
in the meantime, the honking still hasn't stopped. FOR PETE'S SAKE. I am now considering egging this person from the stairwell window if they do not cease and desist soon.
wait! I think... yes, maybe... but it's too soon to hope. YES! it stopped.
I'm feeling kind of grinchy this december. despite putting up christmas lights and listening to christmas music and going christmas shopping, I'm not really feeling "in the christmas spirit." I feel like christmas is still a couple months away. could it be due to the fact that I have term papers galore to write this week and then finals next week? hmm, I don't know, could be. nothing like extra-long term papers and sitting for exams to kill any christmas-y feelings of joy and wonder. actually, I'm going to colorado for christmas and I get to see a bunch of my extended family and I'm really excited about that! I just haven't quite realized that it will be christmas during that time...
anyway, I have to go step carefully into the shower before I go take a really long grammar test. I definitely want to be clean for that. here's to the christmas spirit!
December 02, 2003
December 01, 2003
...getting ready for hellweek
I just had a really wonderful thanksgiving and long weekend, and for the first time, I was really dreading coming back to school. usually I really look forward to coming back to duluth, and I've felt more this year that duluth really is my home but coming back here yesterday just sucked. two days off from school was really just the thing I needed... laying around my house, watching movies with my mom and chelsea, having a roaring fire, getting some christmas shopping done, seeing so many of my friends from high school, stuffing my fat face... I'm pretty sure I gained the dreaded "freshman 15" as well, all in one sitting. who cares if it's two years too late? better late than never, I say.
but now I'm facing the last two weeks of class and then finals week. next week, I have a total of three papers and one test, all in the space of three days. all this, coupled with the relaxing-ness of my break, made me really just want to stay curled up on my parents' couch with my purring drooling cat, reading return of the king until the end of time.
anyway, here are some highlights from my weekend:
-my step-aunt, slightly tipsy, looking around the kitchen and saying, "there are a lot of frogs in here!" even though she lived with my parents for several months and should know by now that my mom collects frogs
-watching some old movie with ingrid bergman til 3 in the morning with my mom while eating lots o' pie
-sleeping til noon twice in a row... it was delightful
-going to the grocery store with my parents where they decided that they wanted to bake brie, and they had some guy at the deli counter explain it to them... and then I ended up doing most of the work
-I baked a brie!
-listening to the latin music the olive garden plays when they put you on hold (it's an italian restaurant, why the spanish-language music? I don't know)
-having my friend's boyfriend go all mike tyson on me and try to bite off my earlobe... ahhh, good times
I hope everyone else had as an enjoyable break as I did, and that you were also completely unproductive. my stomach is trying to eat itself so I had better go stop this act of cannibalism.
but now I'm facing the last two weeks of class and then finals week. next week, I have a total of three papers and one test, all in the space of three days. all this, coupled with the relaxing-ness of my break, made me really just want to stay curled up on my parents' couch with my purring drooling cat, reading return of the king until the end of time.
anyway, here are some highlights from my weekend:
-my step-aunt, slightly tipsy, looking around the kitchen and saying, "there are a lot of frogs in here!" even though she lived with my parents for several months and should know by now that my mom collects frogs
-watching some old movie with ingrid bergman til 3 in the morning with my mom while eating lots o' pie
-sleeping til noon twice in a row... it was delightful
-going to the grocery store with my parents where they decided that they wanted to bake brie, and they had some guy at the deli counter explain it to them... and then I ended up doing most of the work
-I baked a brie!
-listening to the latin music the olive garden plays when they put you on hold (it's an italian restaurant, why the spanish-language music? I don't know)
-having my friend's boyfriend go all mike tyson on me and try to bite off my earlobe... ahhh, good times
I hope everyone else had as an enjoyable break as I did, and that you were also completely unproductive. my stomach is trying to eat itself so I had better go stop this act of cannibalism.
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