note to self: Stop balancing in arabesque near sharp corners.

note to self: Never, ever eat a whole bag of popcorn by yourself in 2 hours. You need to eat super health food for 3 years to get that out of your arteries.


A little hilarious, but mostly upsetting:
Conan kills people?

One week, he joked about Michael Jackson/actress from Thriller, and Jackson died about 1 week later.

The same day Conan did an Ed McMahon memorial, Billy Mays was on the show. Five days later, Mays died.

The Ed/Billy show happened in between the Jackson joke and Jackson death.

crisp, Ohio summer air - refreshing after SC humidity

Elvis Costello - I like him for some reason. interesting music all the time.

my brother - I see him this weekend!!! I haven't seen him since March!! I'm going to bother him so he gets really tired of me. =P

1. I had a dream about riding a train through West Virginia. Have you ever been there? Beautiful to look at, terrible to travel through. We were going uphill most of the time, the hills leaning and twisting, though it was a slow ride. Things were falling out of the train.

2. SC. My gosh. Michael Phelps and that Sheriff. Now the governor. *facepalm* I keep trying to tell myself: At least we don't have Texas' governor. ...Or was he a mayor? Anyway, I can't get past that "we should secede" claim. I don't care if he's not claiming that any more. He no longer wields power; he's a laughingstock.

3. Freaking Ohio governor, too. He's cutting library funds. At least 30%, says one library's main site. He wrote this letter, apparently.
( letter cut )

Soooooo...am I not getting something? How can the library continue to provide all the services he just named if you're cutting funds? Where the hell does Ohio go from here if important facilities lose money? My home region is getting more screwed up. WTH?

Oh. And? I'm SO tired of the "kitchen table" reference from all politicians. Families preparing their own budgets, blah, we know, stop reminding us. You're not going to make us feel better until you cut your own damn salary.
SERVED!

Blacku weather forecast - SWIMMIN' HOLE! (Family Guy, in case people out there don't watch it)

hominy - apparently it's corn. nom.

young adult (YA) lit - so fun, so fun, and so dramatic.

lemon - good on fish

feet - they show themselves off

youtwitface.com - :3 read about it.

Who would spend $18 on a YA book called The Vampire Diaries?

Yay, joining a 100 Books/Year challenge! I'm also going to rate the books as I add them. Working backwards and updating the post date every time I add, here are all the books I have finished in 2009.

Also, 1,000 lines worth of poems, all memorized within 2009! omgz!

bold = everyone should read
italics = would suggest to a few people
nothing = at least i finished it

( All teh books an' teh poems!! )

(sad/angry emoticon)

1.
Decided to see if chocolate was a cause for migraines, so I gave it up. After going two complete weeks without a migraine (the same as February's record!), I had a little chocolate and got a migraine. That was a full week ago, and I've had many more since then. I don't care about potential risks and not wanting to suffer while studying tomorrow; I want my freaking chocolate cereal. Mmmm, intense coco tastes good. I really don't care if I'm risking losing a good study day tomorrow; I'm probably going to be in pain anyway with this heat.

Besides, this is a good time to test if taking in more water/liquids in the morning will prevent migraines. That's today's probable cause. ...There's a new probable cause every day. ...Actually, no, it was totally my fault for not drinking enough of anything before being at the zoo for 2 hours in the 90 Carolina heat. This mid-westerner does not have summer smarts.

2.
More troubling news: I don't know math. Honestly. Besides + - x and sometimes dividing, I'm at a loss. Word problems in computer science. "Calculate the total trip time and cost of gas based on the formulas provided above." ...I see random formulas, but can't put them together. I haven't had a real math class since 2004. I only know how to calculate the number of pages a day I'll need to read in a book before it's due.

Math is so logical that it's impossible to understand. Instead of solving the problem, I question how this problem came about anyway. The moment you question logic, it disconnects and becomes chaos. How profound.

Will someone please tell me why a cup size A bra needs to have a wire in it? What's there to support? I'm ready to rip those wires out. How can someone move with those in? Why did I buy these bras in the first place?

Pretzels dipped in yogurt. Interesting.

2/3 sweet green tea, 1/3 Coca cola. Yum.

If I had a blender, I'd make a banana-coffee milkshake.

I'm in freaking love with my english prof right now. On the down side, she won't stop reading us picture books and half the novels she assigned were terrible. Those are easily forgivable. She cancels class randomly because she hasn't planned any book/project discussions or videos. The class is fun, but it's more fun with a lenient teacher with a sense of humor.

We have a paper and a final project, but guess what? We get to choose what we do! Not pick from a list of topics for the paper, but choose our own book/article to suggest for reading, not take a suggestion that we don't care about. =D Best of all, the final project I chose was writing a chapter for a young adult novel, plus letter to a publisher, plus an in class critique. =D

For everyone:
http://www.hulu.com/watch/27594/late-night-with-conan-obrien-conan-works-for-ups-71808

STOP trying to do a pirouette while holding an open beverage.

(Tom Tucker)

my brother's graduating this week! - from grad school! mah ownleh sibling!

Andy Richter - he looks more like a baby every day

McCain and Obama - sense of humor. they actually have it!

Internet is down. Won't be back up until this post disappears because i'll be able to take it down at home and not at the library!

first use for my 'annoyed' icon though!


ETA: OMFG I GO HOME AND IT'S ON! WTF IS GOING ON?

first day of Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien

first day of summer classes, oh the pain!

Jessie's second niece was born in the morning. I got to take a peek when we dropped by for a minute. My first view of a day-old (barely) baby and my first time in a real hospital (I'm glad it was for a good occasion). Baby and Mom were tired and precious.

I have a roommate! =D

I survived yesterday! =D
So much walking, so little food. My body is tired but my brain is well. Opposite of this week. I won't bore you with details of yesterday. Just... It's getting so hot out there. My feet no longer exist; all the walking.

I have 12 books on the textbook list for this english class that's starting monday. I was thinking, since it's Adolescent Literature, the books will be short with big print. Wrooooooong! *faints ahead of schedule* I dun wanna read them ahead.

I have to buy shoes, shoes, shoes. Flats for all teh walking, 2 pairs of ballet slippers, 1+ pair pointe shoes.

Every time I try to edit anything for this writing class, I get dizzy. Even if I feel ok, the minute I edit anything, whoosh! Been happening since the first assignment was due. Is my brain too full from dance? I thought the thinking for these two classes was different.

Can any fellow artists explain this?

Late afternoon is a great time to sit on a front porch, in white-washed wooden rocking chairs, drinking sweet tea and listening to softly tuned bluegrass on the radio. Southern culture. I want it.

A few people in my writing class have very thick southern accents. I'm picking it up.

Spent some time with one of my church groups yesterday. There are number of foreign people there, at MSN. It's surreal hearing all the accents talking at the same table. I can't understand accents of romantic languages. Germanic and Slavic I'm more familiar with somehow. The three Brizilians, all speaking at once, were easier for me to understand than any Spanish/French/Italian languages. I'm not sure if one guy is from Mexico or Puerto Rico; his accent is far too thick and it's not like I can tell the difference anyway. "Three Brazilians and a Mexican" sounds like the set-up of a joke. ...But yeah, I like being with people from other countries, even though I'm shy and don't ask about what I want to know. I love linguistics and culture differences more than I let on.

Orbital - every song is different

Mary Doria Russell - author

livejournal - =D

I'm feeling kind of bad right now, so I'm going to get this off my chest.
( has a sad )

It's been SO HARD getting caps and junk for EVERY EPISODE of Late Night with Conan O'Brien during his last month of taping. In the process, I discovered that I no longer have patience. Enjoy my blood, sweat and tears. Enjoy the nostalgia, silliness, and excitement.

( clicky teh linky! )

LJ is 10 years old today?! =D

Know what's great? Sitting outside on a cloudy day and eating cheezits in the wind.