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I think I need to start watching Battlestar Galactica again

2011-04-11T21:39:00.001-07:00

the last time I tried to watch Battlestar Galactica, it was winter break of '09-'10, during the hiatus right before the final season of Lost began. basically I watched a season and a half and ended up foaming at the mouth and yelling "WHAT'S THIS GOT TO DO WITH THE ISLAND?!" and throwing cats at the TV.

2011-04-02T12:10:00.000-07:00

Nick: I think I might dress up as Jack for Halloween.
Connie: Everyone should dress up as a Lost character for Halloween. Are there any Asians?
Me: There are at least four.
Connie: Okay, I wanna be... Sayid. Is that a person?
Me: Yes.
Nick: Who's going to be Kate?
Connie: I WILL! Is Kate the pregnant one?
Me: No.
Connie: I want to be John... John Gault.
Me: Locke.
Connie: John Locke.

2011-03-16T13:50:00.000-07:00

Last night I tried to work on my thesis. Obviously, I started to fall asleep. So I played 10 levels of Fury of the Furries:

Then I was totally awake because the forest levels are stupid hard, so I went to pet the cat:

I don't remember anything else, because cats give you sleeping sickness. I woke up at 7 in the morning with half of my makeup still on and half of my thesis outline still not done.

Now I'm at work. Somebody give me a nap break, please.

seriously, Royal Pains

2011-02-28T23:42:00.000-08:00

did season 1 even happen?

Look at how Sun and Frank are holding hands, though

2011-02-10T10:13:00.000-08:00

Lesson planning for my Lost class is turning out to be fun.

Too fun, in fact. Yesterday, I spent hours cutting those out, rubber cementing them to cardboard, and then cutting out the cardboard dudes.

They turned out really cool, but now I just want to play with them, and nothing gets done.

Less fun: I really need a way to convert VOBs to AVIs and have it actually work. /white whine

2011-02-05T03:04:00.001-08:00

is it possible that having a naturally kind of low body temperature makes me more susceptible to infection?

also, have you noticed that all my medical question posts happen in the wee hours?

sleepdriane.

I just learned a lot about toxoplasmosis from Royal Pains

2011-02-01T01:39:00.000-08:00

This show hasn't been that great since they introduced the second white girl and dropped the Divya/Evan interaction.

But I kind of want to go to a Great Gatsby-themed party now.

Even though I didn't like the book that much.

Toxoplasmosis apparently correlates to a high rate of male births, and now I want to know why. TELL ME, SCIENCE.

Also, I'm going to stop reading about toxoplasmosis now.

Also, seriously, Divya and Evan, please.

okay important question

2011-01-22T02:08:00.000-08:00

is Raphael Saadiq still dating Joss Stone? because frankly, I am slightly heartbroken.

it's okay. the boy is still better anyway. but you'd think someone would have thought to mention this to me.

this post is a little embarrassing. I expect it will get worse with time ~~just like my xanga did~~.

I was going to spam this blog with Taiwanese pop music

2011-01-19T13:32:00.001-08:00

then I realized I could just make a new blog for you to ignore where I can post that sort of thing

Raphael Saadiq is my favorite lately

2011-01-14T23:04:00.000-08:00

2011-01-06T16:37:00.000-08:00

Winter break is pretty much over. I've been sick for two days of it, nearly trapped in unknown lands by San Diegan mudslides for another one, and spent most of it in the company of dashing foreigners who perform culinary feats with cream cheese. But now I'm at work, and have been at work since 9 this morning with a one hour break at about 1, and am contemplating the deeper mysteries of Microsoft FrontPage 2003 installations. Our company retreat is coming up. I am not invited, which is fine with me because I get two days off next week, but is also displeasing because my workload has ballooned up to the size of Jabba the Hutt.

Extra hours mean extra pay to make up for the two days I miss, though, and since all I'm really doing is installing Windows 7, a lot of it is spent google image searching "Jabba the Hutt." I've found you the most family-friendly picture, by the way. None of that young hussy Princess Leia and her bikini.

Just kidding. I like Leia. She's pretty bomb. What am I talking about? I think I'm starting to get hungry. I'm also running out of leftovers, though, so dinner might be cupcakes and Pop-Tarts. Unless I get fancy and break out the frozen bagels. Aforementioned dashing foreigner overestimated the amount we needed by about 8 bagels, so this round's on me, y'all.

2011-01-03T11:51:00.000-08:00

"But wait, the flashes in season 4 came before the flash forward at the end of season 3 and the Oceanic Six plot in season 5 did too."

the metric system strikes back

2010-12-29T18:37:00.000-08:00

boyfriend: I should check how much sugar I need.
me, reading recipe: one half to one... deciliter.
boyfriend: yeah, I already put two, because I forgot that I was using cups.

I'm serious though, Kevin was only in the BSB because he was Brian's cousin.

2010-12-29T01:28:00.000-08:00

and you know it.

lyrically, this song actually has almost nothing to do with my life, but the chorus kinda does

2010-12-16T10:31:00.001-08:00

just in time for awkward field technicians, too

2010-12-15T15:40:00.000-08:00

I love reaching that point in finals week when you've been up until 4am, 4am, and 5am on consecutive nights, and so you get kind of delirious and start bragging about it to all your sensible friends, and they go "um, that's not something to be proud of."

OH, BUT IT IS, MY FRIENDS. BUT. IT. IS.

Also, living next door to work is great, because this can happen:

10:20am: turn in paper
10:30am: arrive home, fall asleep
11:55am: wake up
12:00pm: be at work

be jealous.

"butt thermometer" also ranks pretty low

2010-12-10T15:35:00.000-08:00

My favorite two-word phrases in the English language are "garlic bread" and "lunch buffet."

My least favorite, at the moment, is "graduate school."

I don't think it really hit me until I started half-heartedly working on this application that I really cannot half-heartedly work on this application. There's a little thing called a "Statement of Purpose" (a contender for my least favorite three-word phrase in the English language) where they want you to have some sort of idea of what you're doing with your life. What are you going to study? Why are you going to study it? How much do you want to be here?

They might not love my honest answer, which is that I'm going to study anything that they want me to study out of abject terror that I might have to do something with my life if I stop being in school, and that I am totally willing to travel 8000 kilometers to avoid being an adult. Lalalala.

I'm kind of kidding. Fact! I'm really interested in all of the programs I'm applying to. I wish they would let me apply to four instead of three, because they all look fantastic, wow.

Fact 2! I was kinda hoping I could get by on looks for the rest of my life, rather than having to get a job. soooooo

Fact 3! I was kinda hoping that if the looks thing fell through, someone would just tell me what I should do with my life and a career would just sort of fall into my lap. This is how elementary school worked, and I demand consistency.

Fact 4! It's definitely naptime.

this post is about Pop-Tarts

2010-12-08T15:30:00.001-08:00

Pop-Tart flavors I will be eating next week:

Choc-O-Lantern
Orange Cream
Pumpkin Pie
Gingerbread
Chocolate Banana Split
Wild Berry!
This one chocolate kind from the UK
Ice Creme Sandwich

although Wild Berry is technically pending, and I've had them before, and I've had Ice Creme Sandwich before. But I haven't had Wild Berry! in probably nearly a decade, wow. Did you know they don't sell them here anymore? I'm making my favorite NYU student bring them back for me.

Anyway, look at that list. I'm probably going to die of happiness, and that's okay.

Statistics for November

2010-11-28T16:46:00.000-08:00

Days I've been sick: 7/30
Separate times I've been sick: 2
Number of huge paper-type things I have due this week: 2
Highest body temperature: 100.4° F
Lowest body temperature: 95.3° F
Current body temperature: 96.8° F
Number of times I've played StarCraft 2, which I bought months ago and still have barely gotten a chance to play: 0
Polkas I've danced: best ever
Days until the boyfriend gets back to this continent: 18

woohooooo

I've been sick for four days

2010-11-18T11:22:00.000-08:00

and, as such, ignoring a lot of homework. Then going "but I'm siiiiick" when people call me on it.

also, I have a google doc I'm working on for my Scandinavian 170 class about neglected daughters in the Finnish folk tradition, but filename right now is 170-daughters and now it just looks like I'm really fertile.

this is an unnecessarily unpleasant post. wanna see what I made while I was sick?

it's stuck in your head now.

I am going to die of cramps

2010-11-10T14:07:00.001-08:00

probably today.

also I shouldn't own a debit card

2010-10-21T23:28:00.000-07:00

I've bought three flavors of Pop-Tarts on eBay and one more from an online Pop-Tarts store because it's super special limited edition. Shh don't tell boyfriend, he doesn't know about the last one. It may or may not be his Christmas present.

I think buying Pop-Tarts on eBay is weird, but it's the only way to get all the flavors.

I'm still missing Wild Berry though. Anyone on the East Coast wanna help a sista out?

I'm teaching a course on Lost next semester

2010-10-21T23:25:00.000-07:00

It's almost official. I got a sponsor yesterday.
It was all:

Me: So I don't know how familiar you are with Lost...
Sponsor: HAHAHA. Oh. I'm pretty familiar with Lost.

Which sounds like something I would say if someone asked me if I was familiar with Lost, so I think we'll get along just fine.

I own zucchini now

2010-10-18T14:24:00.001-07:00

and tomatoes onion rice lettuce cheddar tortillas beans chili powder bread eggs yogurt bell pepper butter.
along with the food I've been living off of for the past month, which is mostly peanut butter and pasta.
not together, ew.
anyway shoutout to connie for teaching me that grocery shopping doesn't have to make you cry.
or it wouldn't, if they sold wild berry pop-tarts on the west coast. WHYYY

I've pretty much got this down

2010-10-08T13:21:00.001-07:00

I think last night was my 5th? 6th? all-nighter ever. Anyway, it's enough that I know what's going to happen.

during the all-nighter, I'm all

YEAH TECHNO WILL KEEP ME AWAKE
OK DISNEY TIME
ok I'm too tired to even sing along in my head
ok I don't want to hear anything else ever again

after, I'm all

I AM SOOOO AWAKE
I AM soooo awake.
I am lacking in motor coordination, but I'm STILL AWAKE
I am zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

EDIT: I forgot the part where it feels like I've been kicked in the ribs

Masochism.

2010-09-28T18:32:00.001-07:00

To your left here is the kind of thing I've been staring at for the last two days trying to transcribe. That's right: Finnish newspapers from 1888, painstakingly scanned and turned into PDFs by your friends and mine at Historliallinen Sanomahlehtikirjasto, but, alas! It is not that simple.
1. They are in columns.
1a. This renders copy-pasting basically useless.
1b. Crap.
2. The typeface is ridiculously old school. You remember how it was always hilarious to be like "oh, the Conftitution!" because the "s"s looked like "f"s? It was, take my word for it.
2a. It's less funny if you don't speak that much of the language you're trying to read.

Anyway, now I'm going to go translate those, so thank you for letting me vent to you. I am sitting in front of a fan, and it is supposed to fix my brain. But I don't think it's working, and I'm sure you'll agree.

guess how much I have to pay to prove I can speak English

2010-09-24T22:42:00.000-07:00

$170.

how much you wanna bet I completely fail, too

honestly people honestly

2010-09-24T13:24:00.000-07:00

so today I got an email from my department telling me that my graduation date is May 19th, 2011. to which I say: NO. CRAP. when did I get this old? I DON'T KNOW. 20 feels old. IT SHOULDN'T. I think I age prematurely. but crap. there is so much stuff I need to get done this semester.

I don't feel like figuring out how to make bullet points. so.

BULLET POINT ONE. senior thesis. so if you have any specific questions about the Romani population in Finland, I would appreciate the input.

BULLET POINT TWO. even though I technically don't have to start the thesis until next semester, I have to outline it thoroughly very very soon so that I can summarize it on my applications for the University of oh yes you guessed it HELSINKI because I would really like to be on the same continent as my boyfriend, thanks, and also because they have some cool looking programs.

BULLET POINT THREE. I'm so facilitating a LOST class next semester. said boy wants there to be a distance learning option, ell oh ell.

BULLET POINT FOUR. I bought StarCraft II like two weeks ago and have not had a single second to play it past the first three missions. I hate myself.

BULLET POINT FIVE. setting aside time to eat. hahaha no

I miss LOST

2010-08-03T11:11:00.000-07:00

Pretty Little Liars is fun though.
The IT Crowd is on Netflix Instant Watch and it's so good. BFF and BF both recommended it, so I couldn't not watch it.
I tried to explain it to my roommate. She was all "So it's like The Big Bang Theory?"
and I was all :\
it's way, way better. I don't think I can watch TBBT anymore because it's just not good enough.
all my posts are about food and TV. this is what I do.

we call this freeform

2010-06-23T10:04:00.000-07:00

So the boy and I are trying to make sure that I know how to actually make food so that I don't panic and die of starvation and get eaten by cats after he leaves. That would be bad.

Worse, though, is the fact that I am learning something about food that isn't half made of preservatives: it goes bad.

Personally, I dislike this. If you're going to sell huge cans of refried beans that are just going to go bad if and when I try to ration them, then I hate you. And yesterday all the tofu was bad and I just sort of tried to curl up into a ball on the floor and die, but the boy didn't seem to understand how I was responsible for this apocalyptic catastrophe.

The point: my mom brought by more tofu and a tomato & pesto flatbread from Trader Joe's.

The other point: The Trader Joe's website is a.) useless and b.) looks like Wondermark, which is my favorite webcomic in the universe, and so I keep expecting the TJ's website to be funny, and it's not. What gives?

commuting makes me stupid

2010-06-21T13:00:00.000-07:00

I'm living in San Francisco for the month and working in Berkeley, and I woke up fifteen minutes after I needed to be out the door today, so I have eaten:

one Pop-Tart

two V8 V-Fusion juices

today. I'm stopping by my house in Berkeley to get a jar of peanut butter to take back to San Francisco after work.

I will then probably eat a lot of the peanut butter.

And I will come home.

And I will regret it.

This is my summer life, y'all.

Summer goals are going swimmingly

2010-05-31T20:48:00.000-07:00

I'm already almost through season 1 of That 70s Show.

You may call me a high achiever.

Career ladies

2010-05-12T22:49:00.001-07:00

I need to stop referring to the guys I talk with when I'm calling tech support for work as my tech support boyfriends.

But honestly, when you get a good one, you get a good one.

Lucas and I had a good thing going for a while, but he got all weird on me at the end when I asked for some kind of commitment re: quotes for repairing an out-of-warranty machine. We're distant now.

Adrian and I had a really short, kind of awkward relationship, because we have the same name and that's the only level we really connected on.

George was a nice guy, but we had communication issues.

Josh today was like my sweet angel of patience who stayed totally calm and talked me through things while I tried to disconnect and reconnect things and panicked, and then he emailed me after I had to rush off, and that was very thoughtful of him.

I bet I get a lot of work done.

2010-05-03T08:33:00.001-07:00

Wait, so my Berkeley e-bill (fees and stuff) this month is charging me $0.00, but I still have to pay the $0.50 convenience fee for paying it online? Shut up, Berkeley.

In which, irrelevantly, I review Windows 7

2010-04-29T14:58:00.000-07:00

I like the snap feature of Windows 7 where you can split the screen up among two windows.

I don't like the shake feature where you shake a window and all the other ones minimize, though, because I like swinging the windows around the screen sometimes for fun and I don't like it when it changes things.

I give it a 0 out of 10 for this alone.

just kidding I love it

hem hem

2010-04-21T15:54:00.000-07:00

I'm hungry, but not hungry enough to pay for anything.

booooo.

this is actually for work

2010-04-19T13:42:00.001-07:00

hi guys, don't mind me. I just need to test some stuff out.

header 1	header 2	header 3	header 4
tables	are fun	just like	your mom
second verse	same as	the first	;-*

Herb Caen? Who dat?

2010-04-04T13:47:00.000-07:00

As a native San Franciscan from the Parkside district who spends too much time on the computer, I know very little about San Francisco.

And I kind of knew that. But I didn't know just how little. It's kind of embarrassing how much more people from Finland know about my hometown than I do.

For example, I had not ever realized that the last scene of Raiders of the Lost Ark was filmed in San Francisco City Hall:

Which shows you how long it's been since I watched that movie, since I've now been to two proms there and never noticed.

I also didn't know that the external shot of the airport in Berlin in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade was filmed on Treasure Island:

This is just so sad. What else didn't I know, guys?

Also: sorry about the image sizes earlier. my bad, my bad

I'm not interesting enough for a blog

2010-03-24T23:32:00.000-07:00

I made a tumblr, actually. I sit there and picspam about things.

so mostly it just looks like

a lot. you should follow me, if either of you people who still occasionally read this have a tumblr.

I hate trying to figure out what to wear. Honestly, I need to chill out about it. And go to sleep already. I guess it's not that early, but gosh, I have nails to do, dangit.

so silly. did you know there was a time in my life when I did homework? screw it, it's spring break.

there is nothing I want to listen to on iTunes

2010-03-04T19:01:00.000-08:00

Days away from turning 20. Trying to think of the benefits. I don't get to use "BUT I'M A TEENAGER" as an excuse for my general irresponsibility anymore. But 20 doesn't sound terrifically wizened, does it? And I'm a twentysomething, which automatically makes me annoying. (I guess it makes me a twentynothing, actually.)

Right. It doesn't get me out of tomorrow's midterm, though. BACK TO WORK.

things I know

2010-02-01T20:36:00.001-08:00

today at Finnish Café, we talked about LOST.

1. I picked the right major.
2. I HAVE HARDLY BUGGED YOU AT ALL, BLOG.

LOST

IS

TOMORROWWWWWW

we like TV

2010-01-28T23:22:00.001-08:00

Today I finished the total LOST rewatch I started 26 days ago. With just under 5 days left until the final season of LOST begins, I find myself clinging to my other, less heartbreaking shows as I realize just how much of a roller coaster this is going to be.

So here, in whatever order I feel like, are a bunch of shows that are awesome, and you should watch them.

1. NewsRadio

Have I been over this one? NewsRadio is my favorite show of all time, and that includes LOST. I know, shocker. If you're in the USA you can watch most of them on hulu, but if you're not, there are other places as well.

2. Golden Girls

Shush, you. These women are EMPRESSES and I will never take no for an answer.

3. Doc Martin
Everyone should be watching this. I mean, it's not airing new episodes in the UK at the moment, but Hulu has quite a few episodes and the rest you can find, if you look. But yes. I'm in love with this show.

bleah I'm tired. There, entertain yourselves.

it's been like a month since I posted

2010-01-07T01:41:00.000-08:00

but I'm still just about as boring. what did I accomplish in 2009? I transferred schools, I guess. I took a yoga class and it was stressful. I moved out of my house. but most importantly, I quit Heroes. good grief, what a drain.

GOOD. GRIEF.

and I got some cool shirts, that was also fun. oh, and I started taking Finnish, which I've only wanted to do for my entire life.

there, that was fun.

mejor!

2009-12-05T18:09:00.001-08:00

For those of you who have lost track, the majors I have gone through trying to find the right one:

1. Psychology. After AP Psych, I decided that this was the only thing I wanted to major in, ever. I took classes in it through the end of my last year at CCSF, even though I decided somewhere before the last semester that what I really wanted to major in might be psychology OR it might be

2. Anthropology. I took 3 classes in anthro in my last? semester at City, and applied to some places as a straight up anthro major. And I was so going to do that, wasn't I? Totally. Depending on where I got in. And then I got into UC Berkeley, where I just kind of went for my dear darling

3. Scandinavian. And I love it, and that's not the question, because I'm doing it, end of story.

When I came to Berkeley, I intended to minor in Anthro still, because I got good grades in it and therefore assumed I liked it. I took one class in anthro for a day and ended up dropping it, because I remembered that I don't like most anthro classes.

But here's the thing. On Monday I got back a paper I did for my Scandinavian Myth + Religion class. I got a B+ on it, which... I don't know, is that a good grade? At CCSF I didn't really deal in Bs, because that's not how we roll. But I understand that this is Berkeley now, and that maybe it's good to get a B+ on a paper. I honestly don't know.

But I was too ashamed to look at the comments on the paper, because the first ones I saw were reasons that I didn't get an A, basically.

Today I finally mustered up the courage to look, and actually, a lot of the comments were good. Among the comments is one that says that I should explore things in an anthropological perspective.

Whoops.

sleepy sleepy sleepy

2009-12-03T18:27:00.000-08:00

me: haha i am sooo lazy, i may end up eating fahrozen dinner
me: not that there's anything wrong with that
z: nope.
z: birds do it
z: bees do it
z: even monkeys in the trees do it
z: oh wait . . .
me: LET'S DO IT
me: LET'S MICROWAAAAVE

Mah brain's gone

2009-11-24T15:07:00.000-08:00

Shamefully, I'm watching clips of the Tyra show right now, and it's one where she's talking to burn victims and they're all like "I won't even wear shorts," and I realize that no matter how much I've heard that, I think being a San Franciscan has made me really not feel like this is a big deal. Is this seriously a big deal to some people? (Wearing shorts, not body burns, duh.)

that's fun

2009-11-22T16:24:00.000-08:00

z: bum bum bum SAN FRAAAAAAAAAANCISCO
z: OPEN YOUR GOLDEN GATE
me: :D
z: YOU LET NO STRAAAAAAAAANGER WAIT
z: OUTSIDE YOUR DOOM
z: oops.

Smiling Faces

2009-11-22T08:52:00.000-08:00

Did we notice that LOST's season premiere got pushed back to February 2nd?

Whenever I think about it, my face kind of goes /:

Actually, maybe it would be helpful to everyone here to show you the progression of my face when I am thinking about LOST, just so you can tell when I'm thinking about LOST and when I'm legitimately spacing out:

/:

\:

]:

]8

]8<

}8

D8

D8

D8

]X

]:

|:

Now you know.

Hey look, I'm not doing my homework

2009-11-06T11:46:00.001-08:00

FlashForward is making me a little nuts.

Doesn't it kind of seem like:

1. Them knowing about the future is exactly what's causing it to go the way it is, and so we already know how this is going to end and it doesn't matter what caused it?

2. Mark Benford is a pain in the behind to Olivia, especially re: Lloyd? Honestly, isn't that going to just drive her away? (At this point, I'd pick Lloyd so hard over Mark "Trust Issues" Benford.)

3. There aren't enough falafels in front of my face right now?

I guess the whole show just seems a little pointless, and it's all coming true because they're MAKING it come true. Honestly. I'm pretty sure the whole thing is Mark Benford's fault, running around and shooting up people that he knows are going to become his enemies, freaking out at the wife he knows might leave him, doing a horrible job of acting out crying.

And I feel like this show is just half a step away from saying "The universe has a way of... course-correcting," as our dear Eloise Hawking from LOST would say.

Also, falafels. Come on!

Okay, I should wait to write these things until the end of the episode. I still want falafels, though. And I wish they wouldn't wait to have exciting moments until the last seconds of the show.

you don't really need to know

2009-11-03T01:11:00.001-08:00

hey, do any of you have a copy of The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists or Rules of The Game by Neil Strauss? thanks.

me: nah i'm just gonna skip this season [of LOST] i think
zaz: LOLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL.
zaz: I just threw my head back and laughed till I coughed

P.S. hey guys, I realize I may not have been completely honest with you guys up to this point, but I should probably let you all know that I'm a Yankees fan. so... yeah, bite me, I guess.

berkeley ward is different

2009-11-01T22:40:00.000-08:00

the median age has gone down by like 20 years. Not really, I guess, but quite a bit.

Carter: (looking at his socks) I don't know whose socks these are.
Carter: I found them in my suitcase after a trip.
Carter: I hope there aren't any hypodermic needles in them.

I can be creepier on my blog because no one reads it

2009-10-13T12:46:00.001-07:00

Last night I dreamed that I was playing with Jack McBrayer's hair.

Until he got sick of it and asked me nicely to stop.

It was very soft.

30 Rock comes back in two days and hearts and hearts

P.S. for those of you keeping track, this is my second 30 Rock cast member dream, after this past summer's Dancing With The Alec Baldwin dream. Sometimes, my subconscious loves me.

Wilt thou me, Freyja, thy feather-garment lend, that perchance my hammer I may find?

2009-10-12T22:29:00.000-07:00

So I've decided that, as a Scandinavian major, I should be learning about Ikea furniture and how to put it together.

Guys. There are no words in Ikea instructions. THEY ARE PICTOGRAPHS.

I know that I'm the last person who got to learn that, but I finally did, because I'm in the middle of moving to a place closer to campus and that is the kind of thing my mom and I did last Saturday.

I also learned that my mother is way better at working with both tools and her hands than I will ever be. Fact.

On a less frustrating note, here are some things that I love right now:

1. Doc Martin. It's like the rural English village version of House, only much more lovely. The first six episodes are on Hulu, and others are elsewhere. They broadcast it in Finland, apparently!

2. Community. This is my favorite new show right now. I don't even know. It's kind of beautiful and endearing, and it's... it's a little heart-warming, isn't it? As much as I'm reluctant to admit it, I kind of love that about it. But I still think it's hilarious. Also, Joel McHale? Freaking gorgeous. And hilarious and amazing. (I don't like Britta very much, though.)

3. Norse mythology. I'm taking a class on this right now. Crimony, those Norse gods really love their beating up people, don't they? Beautiful. I'm kind of a huge fan of Loki; it's kind of awesome when he just keeps TALKING in Lokasenna, even though it's also a little painful. Also, I like Freyja a lot more than I should, but she's kind of awesome. And I love her + Loki + Thor in Þrymskviða.

4. Ankle bandage. I love it.

5. Cheez-Its. Good gravy.

me: i'm going to marry a box of cheez-its
me: and then i will eat it
me: and then i will be arrested
me: or locked up somewhere
me: because that's all kinda weird
me: but you know what?
z: LOL
me: i will be happy.

6. Notre-Dame de Paris. The musical. I found it all on youtube and basically was watching it all day off and on. It's based on The Hunchback of Notre Dame, and it's maybe kind of mediocre compared to, say, Les Misérables, which is the love of my life, because apparently I'm a closet theatre dork, but I liked it a lot. I was, I believe, watching the Paris cast, and the Gringoire and Frollo were pretty much amazing. I adore the book, also, but I don't see how that's relevant.

Cheating On California

2009-10-06T13:30:00.001-07:00

Today in Finnish, we looked at pictures.

Of WEATHER.

And SEASONS.

Okay, guys. I live in San Francisco. I mean, our weather varies enough over the course of a day that it gets bothersome to try and dress for it, yeah. But honestly, with the exception of something like two times a year that it hits the 80s-90s and makes us all cry because we're big babies about it, the temperatures throughout the year are basically from the 50s to the 70s. It has its advantages! I acknowledge this, and love it dearly most of the time. It's quite comfortable, often.

But WEATHER. SEASONS. As we went through the pictures and were supposed to identify what month it could be, I realized that I had no idea. We looked at sun, and I thought it must be fall. We looked at fog, and of COURSE my first thought, honest to goodness y'all, was that it was July. Because that's the way San Francisco is has been will be. Always.

We looked at rain, and I MISSED IT SO MUCH. It's been so long. We looked at snow, and I honestly must have looked like a complete idiot through the whole slideshow; I just kinda went :O and then 8O and 8D and I haven't seen snow for a long time. (And that time, I had to study for AP US History, so I didn't even touch it.)

I can't find the exact picture, but here's one of the same street from this flickr:

Yeah. Basically gorgeous. Then I got really sad. My bets are on PMS, honestly. Which would explain sitting around last night watching Jafar videos for like a long time.

Duh

2009-09-25T10:00:00.001-07:00

Sometimes I forget that not everyone knows about the Sunset.

Yesterday in unofficial off-campus non-picket-line-breaking Finnish, we were going over things like "I live in x place" and "it is foggy/sunny" and things, and so I said I lived in San Francisco, in the Sunset. My teacher asked me if it was foggy there, and I laughed, because I thought the answer was pretty obvious.

But then I realized nobody actually really got it, so I just answered. But I can't help it if y'all don't know that the Sunset lives in a state of near-perpetual fog (untrue, but I like to propagate that myth so that everyone leaves me alone and I feel like a sailor, arr).

(By sailor, I mean pirate. Another duh moment.)

bi-monthly blog entries

2009-09-25T09:33:00.001-07:00

In my backpack right now:

-a Jedi robe
-a cape
-a lightsaber
-swashbuckling boots
-a peanut butter and Nutella sandwich.

yikes.

oh and some folders of notes.

I'm really into Community. The show. With Joel McHale, who is a severe hottie. And really really tall. Haha, I like everyone except Britta or Brita or whatever.

Ooh, there's a theme song this week.

My life is so TVified. I was reading Connie's blog like half an hour ago and I realized just how lame my life is. But that's cool. FlashForward looked good, so I'll have something to do at break besides thinking about how boring I am. Namely... thinking about how exciting fictional people are.

Pirates of the Stranger Monkey Tides and things

2009-09-11T13:33:00.001-07:00

EXHIBIT A: Depp back for new 'Pirates' film coming in 2011

Summary: Not willing to leave well enough alone, Disney's next Pirates of the Caribbean movie will be coming out in 2011 with the full title Pirates of the Caribbean:On Stranger Tides.

EXHIBIT B: wiki article for Tim Powers' pirate novel On Stranger Tides

Summary: In 1988, Tim Powers wrote the pirate-themed novel On Stranger Tides, which won the Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel in 1988.

EXHIBIT C: Ron Gilbert discusses Monkey Island and On Stranger Tides

Summary: In 1990, Ron Gilbert created the critically acclaimed computer game The Secret of Monkey Island, largely inspired by Tim Powers' 1988 novel On Stranger Tides.

EXHIBIT D: PotC IS the Monkey Island movie

Summary: Monkey Island fansite World of Monkey Island reported that there had been a movie based on computer game The Secret of Monkey Island, itself inspired by 1988 novel On Stranger Tides, slated for release in 2000, but production had been halted. Much of the crew ended up working on the movie Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl.

I don't know if this is shady or if it's just weirdly circular. But I'm turned around, anyway.

I do this because I care

2009-08-06T12:15:00.000-07:00

Dear Ian Somerhalder,

Please tell me you're kidding about The Vampire Diaries with that girl from the newest group of Degrassi kids. You're far too pretty for this. Come back to the Island, please.

XOXO,

Adriane

also, I was just sitting here and my thumbnail shattered. The white part, obviously, but it's so weird and ragged now. ew.

my new favorite song

2009-08-03T12:47:00.000-07:00

or, even better:

guys, I've been singing this song all weekend. ah, summer days.

Last summer, I think I did some meme that was like "7 songs you're really into right now!" and I really thought it was more like "5 songs that defined your summer!" so here are the 5 songs that defined my summer:

1. Delilah - Tom Jones
2. Sloop John B - Kingston Trio
3. I Want To Be A Pirate - The Ben Gunn Society
4. The Pirate's Gospel - Alela Diane
5. Delilah - Leningrad Cowboys feat. Red Army Choir

because SOMEone named my brother figured out that if I was on the Xbox, he could use my computer, and I started playing Sid Meier's Pirates!

My first game was really bad and I aged and got thrown in jail and there was a lot of mutiny. But guys: my second game: I beat like 7/9 of the notorious pirates in my first two years. Unfathomably lucky. And I was a doctor, so I aged really slowly. The only problem was that I defeated the pirates so fast that my quest items were a lot of capturing Treasure Ship Things (whyyy can't I remember the right name for them right now?), and so those took forever to find.

Also I still have a lot of towns to sack, so I should get to that. I was making them all Dutch, which is hilarious, because the Dutch are so... hilarious. Why are they all redheaded? I didn't even think that was a stereotype for the Dutch.

I still don't know if I liked strawberry better or maple syrup

2009-07-25T15:14:00.000-07:00

Does anybody else remember these?

More importantly, does anybody else break down in tears in the frozen aisles of the grocery store because Waf-Fulls don't exist anymore?

...uhh me neither.

TV is my friend

2009-07-16T10:41:00.001-07:00

I was going to blog about something the other day, but I don't remember what it was. Sylvia probably knows. Instead, I'm going to talk about the Emmys.

Here's the list of nominations, or at least the ones people actually have an opinion on.

I loooove that 30 Rock got 22 noms because that's the way life is supposed to be. And then here's my play-by-play of the categories in which I am emotionally invested:

Outstanding Comedy Series

I love How I Met Your Mother, and Flight of the Conchords (from what little I've seen of it) is excellent, but 30 Rock is pretty much my favorite of the three. Pretty much entirely my favorite of the three. And I liked the Star Trek thing on Family Guy, but the rest of the episode was kind of annoying. I always just skip through it on Hulu and watch the ST parts.

Outstanding Drama Series

The end.

Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series

Alec Baldwin makes me laugh out loud. Like a freaking hyena. I also love Jim Parsons on TBBT, and there is a special place in my heart for Tony Shalhoub, even though I stopped watching Monk after Sharona left. Steve Carrell is usually pretty funny; I haven't seen much of the American version of The Office, but I guess I'm pretty down with it. Jemaine is Jemaine, and I will also not argue with that.

Here's what I will argue with: Charlie Sheen. No.

and believe it or not, I don't care about any of the Outstanding Actors in a Drama Series. I also don't really care about Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or Movie, but I have one thing to say: Kevin Kline, I still think you're handsome. Or I guess I don't know if you still are. You were an awesome Pirate King in Pirates of Penzance, that's what I'm REALLY trying to say.

Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series

Tina Fey Tina Fey Tina Fey

mostly she's the only one I know. Is anyone watching The United States of Tara? I haven't heard ANYone's opinion on it.

Other lead actresses are Not Relevant To My Interests. Sorry, ladies!

Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series

Neil Patrick Harris is kind of amazing. And I love Jack McBrayer. So much. But I would give this one to Tracy Morgan, who, after one day of showing episodes of 30 Rock to my brother, quickly became one of the most frequently quoted people in my household.

And when I did watch the American version of the Office, I had no idea that Dwight was supposed to be the equivalent of Gareth, and I just so happen to like Gareth way more and also danced a polka with someone who looked kind of like him at the Dickens Fair one year. So Rainn Wilson is not really my thing, okay. Moving on:

Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series

Let's see if you can guess who I want for this one. Here's a hint:

ahahaha that one always gets me.
you know, I'm a little surprised that Terry O'Quinn was nom'd for S3 and not S5, though. He was really fantastic this time around. But I'd still be rooting for Michael Emerson. An Emmy for M.E., amirite?
And yeah no one else deserves it, command decision.

Only one more category I care about:

Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series
Because if ~~Jenna~~ Jane Krakowski doesn't win, then... maybe someone else was more qualified? Except I can't really imagine that.

ETA: Just found out, via Doc Arzt, that The Incident is also nominated for Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series, Outstanding Sound Mixing For A Comedy Or Drama Series (One Hour), and Outstanding Single-Camera Picture Editing For A Drama Series. Yes please!

nothing you care about, I'm sure

2009-06-14T23:03:00.000-07:00

I get really picky about my Top 25 Most Played. I'm not sure how long ago this happened, but apparently the top 25 are no longer Krang's giggle from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (161 plays) followed by 24 Värttinä songs. Somehow the Bulgarian chicks got in there (all the way to #11, somehow) and then, thanks to the younger bro, Metallica got its filthy little white boy hands to spot #24.

something must be done. It is time for some infinite repeat.

Mom Attacks

2009-06-01T22:53:00.000-07:00

While emptying out my pockets in a rush this morning, I inadvertently put three coins on a piece of paper on a table.

When I came home, it was to this:

thanks, Mom.

tick tick tick

2009-06-01T09:44:00.000-07:00

The McClintock effect, also known as menstrual synchrony or the dormitory effect, is a theory that proposes that the menstrual cycles of women who live together (such as in prisons, convents, bordellos, or dormitories) tend to become synchronized over time. -Wikipedia

The thing about my particular Singles Ward is that most people are in their late 20s-early 30s, so those are the people I hang out with at church, because I'm old and don't trust anyone under 50. (KIDDING. Sometimes.)

And the thing about Mormon women over 25 is that their biological clocks seem to start ticking a lot louder a lot sooner. Whatever, I'm not 20 for another 8 months, so it's all the same to me.

But I think that my biological clock is trying to synchronize to those of the people around me. I'm not getting any younger, here.

cough cough cough

2009-05-21T07:52:00.001-07:00

I hate that I have become one of those people on the bus who takes the free Examiner, removes the Sudoku/crossword section, and then leaves the rest two seats away like I didn't.

Also, I have that cough that makes it sound like I probably also have active TB and that keeps everyone away from me pretty well. And my jacket is big and kind of needs to be washed.

If my high school freshman self rode on a bus with me now, I would probably make her nervous.

P.S. my LOST countdown widget makes me sad :(

finals and finales

2009-05-12T08:39:00.000-07:00

let's take a look at this week so far:

monday morning: discovered that I might be a closet Britney fan.
monday: totally thought that guy was going to shoot me in the sanctity of my own office.
monday night: locked self in bathroom in order to finish paper due on tuesday, in the hopes that being away from anywhere comfortable would help me sleep.
tuesday morning, approx. 1:00: cat wants to come into bathroom, does, runs around in little circles, drools on laptop's 'z' key.
tuesday morning, 6:20: apparently my alarm went off and, instead of hitting the snooze, I turned it off, and THEN I somehow changed the display theme? and then I reset the alarm for 6:30.
tuesday morning, 6:30: turned off the alarm and switched the display theme back.
tuesday morning, 6:35: awakened by mother.

I don't really want to look at that paper again, but I should probably double check it.

things I learned last night:
1. if you place a magnet next to a beehive in the making, it will be built in a cylindrical shape found nowhere in nature.
2. once cats figure out that knocking stuff off your furniture bothers you, they will use it as a threat.
3. pretty sure that Nestor Carbonell actually hasn't aged since at least 1996. Richard Alpert was clearly typecast.

it's okay, Richard. we love you.

and coming up:
today: test
wednesday: paper, test, LOST SEASON FINALE
thursday: actually watch said LOST finale
sometime before monday: write 10-page research paper

do you know what, though? nothing feels quite as familiar and delightful as extreme sleep deprivation at the beginning of the week. OH how I've missed this.

unbe-weave-able

2009-05-11T14:26:00.001-07:00

So I'm watching part of the America's Next Top Model True Hollywood Story, which is intense and awesome, and FUN FACT. Remember this moment?:

Well. The REASON she SURVIVED (there's a very, very audible crack when her head hits the ground) is that she was PADDED BY HER WEAVE.

BY HER WEAVE.

Excuse me, I have to get one of those. Now.

WebMD isn't good for me

2009-05-04T23:29:00.000-07:00

Today, it told me I needed to seek prompt medical attention.

INTERVENTION PLZ

Rest In Peace, Bea Arthur

2009-04-26T00:27:00.000-07:00

you were the best.

Hi there, I'm cheating on you with my LiveJournal, and also I'm old

2009-04-12T00:37:00.001-07:00

But this post was important, so I'm putting it here too.

If you've been paying attention, all I really talk about is LOST, because the only other thing I do is sitcoms, so this is, indeed, a LOST post. I promise not to make every post a LOST post, because that is what my LJ is for, after all, but like I said, this one was important and isn't about LOST so much as it is about the very talented Jeff Fahey.

Anyway, I have an important question.

What happened between 1990 and today to turn this:

into this?:

Again:

And again:

And yet again:

Don't get me wrong. I adore Frank Lapidus, and this:

is my background right now. Not gonna lie.

I just... wow. Just wow.

Gosh, it reminds me of how long ago 1990 was. I feel very old.

for your edification

2009-03-19T22:55:00.001-07:00

speaking of time travel...

2009-03-15T16:49:00.000-07:00

I remember watching this commercial when it was on like a million years ago, but of course, I had no idea that Josh Holloway was in the beginning of it.

why I love facebook

2009-03-13T14:00:00.000-07:00

People/studies/common sense seem to be panning social networking sites a lot these days for making people even more lonely than they would be if they had actual lives.

It's easy to see where this is coming from. But I disagree.

For years, I have felt like an outcast, forced to either hide my bizarre practices or have them ridiculed mercilessly.

Then came facebook.

The opposition is still strong.

But I don't feel so alone anymore.

Pity party

2009-03-11T16:39:00.001-07:00

Today I got scammed by a supposed magazine company (honestly I should have known better but I don't like hanging up on people), had a massive nosebleed (in the middle of trying to watch 30 Rock, gosh), and accidentally read a LOST spoiler (it was vague, i.e. it gave several possible scenarios, but most of them basically make me want to cry and that's all I'm saying).

And now I don't feel like going to Anthro Club in twenty minutes, but I signed up, so I will. And maybe it will be awesome, who knows.

Luckily, I was able to go to the bank when one of my classes got canceled and get my debit card canceled. And luckily, I had decided against napping and was fully awake when my nose started bleeding, and luckily, I was able to find someone I knew on campus and she brought me tissues.

There's no upside to the LOST spoiler. But I guess it mostly evens out, because at least I have Hulu right now.

Here's the thing, MyHeritage face recognition

2009-02-26T22:02:00.000-08:00

Ethnically speaking, I am not Asian. And I have come to accept this, finally, but MyHeritage hasn't.

But it's much better than being told I look like Larry King, which is what MyHeritage does the rest of the time.

I'm having an 80s kind of day

2009-02-19T22:51:00.000-08:00

TV

2009-02-14T23:33:00.000-08:00

Right now, TV is kind of depressing. Between my favorite female character dying on last week's LOST and How I Met Your Mother not back until March (and Heroes STILL being mostly crap) (and Degrassi STILL being ON THE AIR), the rest of this month is going to need some serious work.

Also, I got into U of Montana, for some reason, but I'm too lazy to fill in this stupid paperwork. Anyway, I don't want to get Lyme disease or meningitis, and judging by the number of vaccinations I'd have to get, I would have to say... UMT ain't for me.

That's okay. I'll always have this:

hello blog

2009-02-13T13:07:00.001-08:00

I'm putting my ANTM 12 fafarazzi team on the sidebar there, and maybe, just maybe, I will remember to update it.

I don't have anything interesting to say, so I'm going to type quotes from pre-LOST the other day/week/whatever:

during Toyota commercial
commercial guy: Finally, a car that revolves around you.
brother: Aah! How do you drive it?!

me: You haven't been with me when I'm watching any of these episodes for the first time, have you?
brother: Nope.
me: I apologize in advance for any bodily injury you may sustain.
brother: I don't accept your apology.
me: I don't really care.

This week, I was happily watching LOST in the privacy of my mom's room and feeling very nicely isolated when I got a text message from my stepsister in the kitchen: "Stop talking to yourself."

In case anyone was wondering what I'm like during LOST, that should give you a pretty good idea, no?

Today's Lesson of SCIENCE

2009-02-03T00:15:00.001-08:00

I believe you have my stapler

2009-01-30T08:48:00.000-08:00

My new favorite toys are office supplies.

My stapler, for one, is automatic. I used to have a hard time with it, because it wouldn't bite half the time until I waved the stupid pieces of paper around for like a minute, and then I would run out of desk space and accidentally get binders shoved into it. I've finally gotten the hang of it, and now it's my second favorite. It goes "gaziza" when it staples, which, as any NewsRadio fan knows, is a street aloha and also the greeting of the future.

Close runner up to the stapler is Post-It notes, which are mostly fun to flip through because I don't really want to waste them. I'm considering it, though.

The pièce de résistance is, of course, the staple remover. I'm pretty bitter about this one, because I had this lovely black one that made tiny little amazing squeaks, and it was my favorite. Someone took it out of my tiny drawer, though, so I'm pretty bummed about that. I went and grabbed myself a brown one instead, although what I really want is a red one of my very own, just in case you were wondering. This thing is so fun. I make it open and close in time with the people talking on the phone, which is juvenile but pretty harmless, I think.

Oh, I almost forgot about the finger protection thingy. It looks kind of like a thimble, but rubber and has bumps on it? You can turn it inside out and I have no idea what it's for. If anyone knows what it's called, let me know.

In other news, I got accepted to WSU Vancouver (WA, not Canada) (I know, I had no idea either), and in other other news, LOST is having a really good season so far, isn't it?

Kickin' it on the news tip

2009-01-26T12:33:00.000-08:00

I don't usually read Jon Carroll's column now that I have to actually hunt through the datebook to find it, but I was lucky enough to stumble across it today. Haaaah awesome.

LOST spoilers, if anyone cares.

lost LOST lost LOST

2009-01-23T11:44:00.000-08:00

CAN I JUST SAY:

I want to marry LOST.

Right now.

Actually, I want to marry the guy who says "Previously on LOST" at the beginning of the episode, and I won't allow him to say anything else.

We will be so happy together, you don't even know.

GUYS

2009-01-21T10:37:00.001-08:00

TONIGHT IS THE NIGHT.

Except also tomorrow is the morning, because I can't watch until then.

I made a fanmix, and it's here. If you comment on it, you may have some Spork Points.

2009-01-12T00:00:00.001-08:00

Aging

2009-01-10T22:46:00.000-08:00

I would like to point out to everyone that I am currently watching (on youtube) Lifetime's Intimate Portrait of "Maude" and "Golden Girl" star Bea Arthur and loving it.

I am so old, everyone. So, so old.

1000th post

2009-01-08T00:09:00.000-08:00

Hey guys, so it's my 1000th post on this friggin thing and so I have something VERY SPECIAL for you:

BREAKDANCING TIME! I am not kidding when I say that I want to sit there and watch that over and over for the next several days.

I have a new favorite thing ever

2009-01-07T23:45:00.001-08:00

It's over here and it is currently both my facebook profile picture and my desktop. Fun fact: if I were giving out orchids for awesomeness on a daily basis, Dan would get one right now.

I'm bored

2009-01-06T00:02:00.000-08:00

and I'm a fangirl and Brandon Boyd is pretty.

New thingy

2009-01-01T02:15:00.000-08:00

Year. New year. Thing.

So far this year, I have:

1. mocked Kellie Pickler's intellect and the Jonas Brothers' Jonas...osity
2. played one full game of Monkey Island 1
3. watched 3 episodes of Fresh Prince of Bel-Air and 2 episodes of Spider-Man
4. had a vaguely surreal experience (this was while playing Monkey Island. It was very confusing)

All in all, a successful year. Bring it on, 2010.

Problem solved

2008-12-23T12:17:00.000-08:00

At various points in my life, I have stopped to ponder certain recurring questions. One of these: Do I, in fact, like the All-American Rejects? (Like like?)

Today, that question is answered.

So. Much.

Has everyone seen this enough yet?

2008-12-22T20:26:00.001-08:00

I wouldn't be surprised if I'd posted it like twenty times on this blog already.

It's that UK LOST promo from back in the day? Season 1, I guess.

I still love it, except that Boone and Claire dancing, while pretty, makes zero sense.

With grade power comes grade responsibility

2008-12-22T10:07:00.000-08:00

I love my job.

1. I get to see the class rosters for the classes that I'm signed up for next semester (and any others, tyvm).

2. I get to see my final grades for this semester as soon as my individual teachers post them, and QED before they come out online.

I am very happy about the latter. As it turns out, I'm not such an idiot after all. I am, in fact, this happy.

I am not so happy about the former. As it turns out, those people I thought I got to leave behind gracefully when I graduated from high school? Some of them don't go away so easily. I feel a little bit like this:

Try watching the Jin video with the YTMND in the background. That is an approximation of my brain right now.

Television Without Pity, thank you.

2008-12-20T10:56:00.001-08:00

TWOP put out a Year in Review 2008: TV's Biggest Disappointments list, and number 1 hit close to home:

"1. Heroes Season 3

Holy crap, this show is bad. It was good back in the first season, but it is so the opposite of that now that we feel like we might as well be watching DVR'd episodes of The View in its timeslot instead. And there's nothing worse than watching The View. Except maybe watching Peter whine, Mohinder hem and haw, Hiro act like a 10-year-old (literally), Parkman talk to a turtle, Tracey continue to exist, characters piss on the time-space continuum so relentlessly we don't even know what's real anymore in the story's timeline, and an enraging lack of screen-time for all the least annoying characters (Sylar, Elle, HRG, etc) while we got to spend a painfully significant amount of time with not one, but two Peter Petrellis and a million of the other, far too many characters there are on this show. Were we not explicitly promised a more cohesive and sensical season this year? Because this season has been everything but that, and if there's one thing we hate, it's lying liars who lie, Tim Kring. -- Mindy Monez"

THANK you. Except I don't think Elle is one of the least annoying characters, thanks.

On a lighter note

2008-12-20T10:33:00.000-08:00

Body Count

2008-12-18T23:02:00.000-08:00

I actually thought Mark Felt was already dead. I was actually thinking about that the other day. Like yesterday or something.

I knew Majel Barrett-Roddenberry was alive, though. I was also just talking about her the other day. More specifically, talking about how she was my IDOL. :( Also talking about how much more I would respect Heroes if SHE would be the next Star Trek alum on it.

I don't remember anyone else that I knew about dying this week, but I would not be surprised if they did. It seems like a lot of people that I know about have been dying lately.

I guess Scott Ruffalo. That was pretty shady stuff. Still is pretty shady stuff, I guess, now that they've ruled it a homicide after all.

And the Culkins' sister. And Beverly Garland. I mean, those weren't this WEEK, but they were this MONTH.

Aw man. What a month.

flashback

2008-12-14T21:50:00.000-08:00

Community College: It's good for you?

2008-12-10T23:36:00.000-08:00

Yes, it is. Holy crap do I love CCSF. My finals are next week, and right now I have three.

I used to have four.

One of them was in a class in which I have 100.7%, and today my teacher came up to me during a test and told me I didn't need to take that test. Or the final. He didn't even give me a study guide.

On another one of them, I need to get 55% to get an A in the class.

The third class is totally curved. I will be fine.

The fourth is open book + open formula sheet. The teacher points out that this is not the same as open note, and frankly, whatever helps him sleep at night is totally fine with me because he's awesome.

In other news, Spike has finally discovered the dried flowers that I've had on my chest of drawers since 9th grade. And he's finally skinny enough to get up there and try and eat them.

The things I put up with.

Vote CCSF for president.

You know

2008-12-09T19:49:00.000-08:00

Myotismon was pretty hot, except for the whole puppy-kicking thing.

Matt was pretty hot too, though, and he didn't kick puppies, so I guess he wins.

Annnd I still love the movie. Hahaha I'd forgotten about Yolei, she was kind of insane. First series please.

Why is it that the bunny form of Kokomon is stronger than the big scary canine form? I'm starting to wonder how scientifically sound this movie is.

Hey, why wasn't Ken in the movie? He was kind of really important. I think I will have to investigate the chronology of this.

Or not.

I'm putting off my finals, yes. Is it that obvious?

P.S. Heroes? Thank you. Really. I appreciated it. So. Much. (Except does it seem like what they're doing is making a bunch of mistakes at the beginning of the season and then just fixing them at the end? It's not progress, per se, is it? But I shouldn't complain too much. All I'm saying is that you can only Nikki/Paulo so many times.)

ETA: Ken marries Yolei?? Nooo no no no weird.

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2008-12-07T00:50:00.000-08:00

If I were a man, I'd be Joel McHale.

In which I defend my potential major choice

2008-12-05T22:37:00.000-08:00

So Finland is awesome. And I can prove it:

Sweden, you're pretty cool, too:

Norway and Denmark and Iceland, y'all are also pretty cool:

(did everyone know that I am a sucker for the song "Shenandoah"? This is because it was used in the edition of The Oregon Trail that I had. True story.)

You know what, I don't need to justify my possible major to my blog. It isn't paying attention anyway.