You're a total perfectionist. So go ahead and congratulate yourself on a "perfect" score. The truth is, everyone is sick of living up to your standards. And you're probably even sick of them yourself.
Ice cream, you scream? So this was in my archives as a draft, but never published. Thought i'd throw it out there... it's kinda funny.
Your Icecream Flavour is...Neopolitan!
You aren't satisfied with just one flavor. They say variety is the spice of life and this shines through in your Ice cream of choice! Just don't eat all the chocolate and leave the strawberry and vanilla behind!
Punch an' Pie New webcomic, from the same writer who brought you Queen of Wands... Different artist, though, whic kills me. Aerie should have kept up the drawing. Anyway, this is a spin-off about Angela, who in some strange way I think I liked better than Kestral anyway.
You are a pretty serious non conformist. You live a life hardly anyone understands. And while some may call you a freak, you're happy with who you are.
"I like hats... no wait, that wasn't it." I so need this hat. Seriously. With a hat like that, and a pinstripe suit... I would be a fox. (or a pimp, if I got some platform shoes and a cane and stuck a feather in the hat). Ha.
Russian Party So I went to Chad's Russian party last night (that is, a party for all the people who finished the second russian language module). It was actually a lot of fun. I got to meet his classmates, and his instructor, Igor. The party was held at the house of one of the student's boyfriends... Joe Acaba. Joe now wants me to come back to another party at some point and get drunk. Which probably won't happen, but is pretty funny.
Slow dancing in a burning room... So school and work (but mostly school) have kind of been ruling my life lately. Which is to say, I have had no life, as I'm still dog tired from whatever it is I'm getting over.
But. Today I finished my Stats midterm. Yay! Now all I have to do this weekend (school wise) is write a presentation, write some part of my first year project paper, write a paper proposal for linguistics, and write a results section for stats. And something else, I'm sure, but I can't remember it.
Also, in the realm of annoying, it looks like I may end up spending my birthday giving make-up exams. How lovely.
And... you may have notice the I implemented the labels feature... it's really more for my benefit than yours, so I can find stuff kinda quickly. I'm trying to figure out if I can make the labels less prominant, but don't hold your breath as I don't have much time to devote to it. And it may take me a while (read: possibly years) to get all of my archives tagged... there are like, 1060 some-odd entries. Seriously.
John Backus died Saturday... which is sad. He invented Fortran, but I'm more familiar with him due to his work on the Backus-Naur form, which is a formal language to describe programming languages (similar to Chomsky's grammer for natural languages).
Dream Psychology So I started reading Freud. I mean, I have this idea that, as a "psychologist", I hsould have some knowledge of his writing. So I started with his book, Dream Pyschology. I'm through the first chapter, and it's... everything I expected from Freud. I don't really know what I think of it so far. Other than I'm pretty sure that my current dreams are more a product of the cough syrup with codine I'm taking at night, and less a product of some secret unfulfilled sexual desire. But that might be just me.
Yeah, still coughing. Did practically nothing this weekend, cause I felt like crap.
being sick sucks (in case you wondered) Actually, that's about all I have to say. I'm at school now, but I'm still sick... grad students don't get sick days. and I techinically took one yesterday. Blah.
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay! Just in case you wondered, I'm now coming down with whatever Chad has. Sypmtoms are fever (I just took asprin to head mine off before it gets much higher, but Chad's has been spiking over 103 even with contant tylenol), aches, amazing headache, barking cough, conjestion, sore throat and fatigue. It is not (according to Chad's doctor) a) the flu, b) pneumonia, or c) bronchitus. What is it? They have no idea. They gave Chad antibiotics, but I'm not sure that's the answer.
and 50 million cool points to the perosn who can name where my post title came from.
Vegas and back again... This week is Spring break for me... yay! So we took a couple of days and flew out to Las Vegas. Which was awesome. We got a cheap airfare and hotel deal (staying at the Hilton!), which made it even better.
Day 1: The trip out there Brian, Chad and I flew from Houston to Vegas, with a layover at DFW... was suposed to be like, 2.5 hours, ended up being closer to 4. Luckily, DFW is huge and has lots of places to eat and sit and play cards. Ate Bennigan's, played Chrononauts. With the time difference, it was close to 2am when we got to Vegas, and closer to 3am by the time we got checked into our rooms. High point of the day: The hilton magically upgraded us from one room to two rooms, no extra charge.
Day 2: The Strip We ate the most expensive breakfast buffet eVar, and headed out to try and see some of the sights. We bought these Power Pass things that got us into most of the attractions, which I would highly recommend. After spending like, 30 minutes at the fashion show mall to pick up our passes, we went to Circus Circus to visit the indoor theme park (which was ok, but not all that great). 1st high point of the day: saw the girl who plays Claire in Heroes, doing the tourist thing and riding the coaster at Circus Circus. After that, we stopped at New York New York, which was probably the most well themed casino I've ever seen. The guys rode the coaster, but I can't ride coasters anymore... Then we went to Excalibur, and bought tickets for the Tournament of Kings dinner show (which was really cool). Before dinner, we managed to take the train to the Luxor... my new favorite hotel. @nd high point of the day: seeing hte Luxor. It's awesome. We did the museum thing there, and I took about a million pictures. Then back to the Excalibur for dinner. After dinner, I dragged the guys back to the Luxor, where I proceeded to spend most (all, really) of my vacation money on Eqypt stuff (three statues: Thoth, Osirus, and Isis with her wings spread). We got done there, and started walking back down the strip, stopping at the M&M store, and at the Bellagio to see the fountains. I discovered that hookers can be bought for $50, or two for $99 (no, I didn't ask, they were advertising). We finally gave up waiting for the trolley, and took a taxi back to the hotel.
Day 3: The dam Woke up, ate a slightly less expensive breakfast buffet, and got on a bus to go to the Hoover Dam. What was suppoed to be a 4 hour tour took more like 7, but we had a good time, anyway. We didn't eat lunch, and thus were starving when we got back to the Hilton. So we stopped at Quark's, in the Star Trek Experience. Ate Hamborgers while being insulted by both Ferengi and Klingons. Then we did the rest of the experience... the star trek museum and the two rides. Hihg pont of the day: Star Trek. In general. Also, the three of us got our picture on the bridge of the Enterprise. Very cool. Chad and I stayed up for a bit, so I could play slots... I left almost $25 up.
Day 4: The trip home Had to be at the airport at like, 4am to come home. ate breakfast at the airport, and had naother 2 hour layover at DFW. Played more Chrononauts. Got home at like, 3:30pm, picked up the dog from the kennel, cooked dinner, and played video games until 11 or 11:30.
All in all, it was a great trip. There's a few things I'd like to go back and see/do, but overall I think we got our money's worth. I'm staying in the Luxor next time, I think :)
Today we woke up, and Chad's sick... he's going to the doctor this afternoon, so we'll see what the deal is then. Hopefully I'll either avoid getting sick somehow, or get it over with before the break ends.
Belief is a beautiful armor / But makes for the heaviest sword I survived my midterm. And today started both March, and Spring Break, as I have no classes tomorrow. Sometime this weekend, I'm am headed out for destinations unknown... Vegas, I think, but for a while it was looking like Grand Canyon or possibly Boulder.
Hopefully we'll figure it out before we leave ;-) Brian is coming with, which will be cool.
And I should probably clean the house, instead of blogging. But Chad's gone to karate, and I'm not terribly motivated to clean by myself.
This is my brain..... in part, at least.
You aren't satisfied with just one flavor. They say variety is the spice of life and this shines through in your Ice cream of choice! Just don't eat all the chocolate and leave the strawberry and vanilla behind!