blister fingers

I hit some golf balls with Dan today at the range and now my fingers hurt. I've got some nasty blisters because I forgot to put on my glove until I was 3/4 done with the bucket. Catching up with Dan was pretty cool, but man, my golfing is ugly. I haven't swung a club since new year's day. I have to get into the groove here before summer comes. Right now I'm working on my golf camp brochures to give out, since I will be coaching 2 different weeks. I can't wait, especially since I love kids. Finally-- tonight we leave at a 2:30 in the morning, so watch out NYC, here we come.

Phantom

So today is Sunday. High school friends are also home on spring break so I get to hang out with them. Funess! Today I'm going to watch Troy at Emily W's house. We can talk girlie talk and hang out. I'm so excited to get caught up. Yesterday we had a pow wow at my house. The Phantom of the Opera sound track rocked, you guys!
Note for those of you who don't know. The phatom's mask changes during the movie as his emotions change. Isn't that cool? I find that fasinating. Also in the book he was much more evil and dark, and you didn't really feel sympathy for him. In the broadway and movie version you actually wanted him to win the affection of others. I think I like the nicer image of him. It gives the story less depth, but in some ways it is more satisfying.

BBC quiz

Ha, so I stole my favorite questions from this quiz at the BBC news website. See if you know the answers. (This stuff really did happen) I got 5 right out of 7, but I only put 4 questions on here.
The answers are at the bottom of this post.

Question 1
What began this week and ends on 2 August 2012?

A: The return voyage of the Cassini spacecraft from Saturn to earth
B: A new cycle of the study of the Talmud, a Jewish holy text that takes more than seven years to read
C: A scientific study to ascertain whether the so-called "seven-year itch” – the point at which partners are said to tire of their marriage - has any basis in fact


Question 2
In a controversial case in Bangladesh this week, four babies aged between three months and two years old were put on trial. But what were they accused of?

A: Fraud
B: Criminal damage and looting
C: Burglary


Question 3
This week, a US food company was forced to halt production of a new range of sweets, after being threatened with a boycott. Why were the sweets controversial?

A: They came in a range of meat flavours including beef and bacon
B: They were found by a consumer magazine to contain a record number of artificial colours and flavourings
C: They were shaped to look like animals killed on the road


Question 4
Why are Indian scientists maintaining a colony of 500 fat rats weighing 1kg or more?

A: The rats have sensitive noses, and could be trained to replace police sniffer dogs
B: The scientists are hoping to identify a gene that leads to obesity
C: The rats fur is especially fine, and can be used to make clothing for astronauts


Answers
1:B Jews read one page of the Talmud each day. The book of rabbinical laws and commentary has 2,711 pages, and takes seven years and five months to complete. One cycle finished this week and thousands of followers promptly returned to page one again.
2:B The court eventually dropped the case and suspended four police officers over the case, which highlighted the widespread practice of filing false complaints to harass people.
3:C The US food giant company Kraft decided to halt production of the sweets shaped like flattened snakes, chickens and squirrels after after animal rights activists said the sweets encouraged cruelty to animals, and threatened a boycott.
4:B

Mosaic Floor

Today seemed like Saturday all day long since I had nooooooo classes. Ah, the life, it was wonderful. I have made it my goal that before break is over I should be at least half done refinishing my bathroom floor. We ripped out the old linolium and bought a huge container of broken tiles and blue colored grout. I am going to do a mosaic with all the pieces. Unfortunatley it is a lot more work than I expected. First you gotta lay out all the tiles where you want them and then pick them up and mix the cement stuff, then smooth it down and then put the tiles back, stick caulking between them, wipe off the extra gunk, and finally seal it with glaze stuff. It seems like there are a million steps, plus I'm afraid I'll mess it up and then not be able to fix it. Even still this project is exciting; I can't wait to see it once it is done. When I'm done I'll do a before and after picture to show you the transformation.

The ever elusive purse with a long strap

So today was the last day before spring break. Time goes by much slower when you are conscious of it. Every 5 minutes I would check my watch to see if class was over yet. Finally I can be carefree, finally we are that much closer to going to NYC. We are going to have so much fun. I got an email today confirming our reservations at swing46, this jazz dance club with live music and dinner. They say you have to dress up to go and it seems like a very stylish classy place. Later on I'll have to put up some pictures of our trip. I just can't wait, although I must find a cute black purse before we leave. No one wants to walk around New York looking out of place. You have no idea how hard it is to find a purse with a long enough strap to put around your neck these days. They just don't make any cool ones like that anymore. The long-strap ones are limited to momma purses or suitcase sized ones and I definitely don't wanna carry a momma purse! Oh, the worries of being a girl. Feel lucky boys, you can shove everything important you own in a wallet and in your back pocket. Plus you can't leave anything in your pocket behind like I tend to have the habit of forgetting my purse at places, and then have to back track my steps and hope the world is a good place without theives and robbers who may see a lonely purse and help themselves to all the good stuff in there like makeup and tissues, right? Although on the bright side purse shopping CAN be fun, but usually I find things when I don't need them, but when I really search for something it stresses me out and can't be found. I've concluded that shopping plays games with your mind. Resist the temptation... or not, and go shopping anyway in order to find things you weren't really looking for in the first place.

(On a side note: like *ahem* pretty brown boots that friends trick you into buying that you really don't NEED.)

There is such a thing as a free lunch

Kristin and I went to talk the professor of this new honors class that we want to take next semester. I am so excited about it. Not only do we get 3 credits for planning our own non-profit organization, but I can imagine its pretty hard not to get an A in a class you design yourself. We'd be organizing the gathering and sending of textbooks to schools in the Phillipines that don't get much funding. How awesome is that? The fact that it is a class, but yet I could see myself doing on my own time is just too cool. Plus we got free lunch just for showing up. Nothing says thanks for meeting with me like grilled cheese and green tea.

Snow day

Whoop---eee, classes were all canceled after 2:00 today! The excitement, the joy. Yay. And... a delay for tomorrow. What a perfect way to make a college student happy. That means more time to work on my papers due soon, right? Ha no. It means, all the more time to procrastinate. Whoop-ee. This weekend was fun. Went to a friend's 19th Birthday party. Tami, you had better appreciate the pink lemonade chapstick that I scoured the earth to find, and your "special" collective present. Ha ha.

Let it Snow

Aint the penguin cute? Awww, it is all in the wintery theme. WAKE UP little peguin!!!! I had to scrape my car off 4 times today because the snow just never stopped. It was one of those big flakey snows that aren't good for making forts or snowballs. While walking between classes I wanted to open my mouth and try to catch the snowflakes on my tongue but I refrained, in order to not scare the passerbys. We canceled our Bible study tonight, so I will miss my girls. Boo hoo. I personally believe that snow is only good for canceling things you DON'T want to go to-- like classes.

Alias and Lost

Goody. Guess what is on tonight? That's right Alias and Lost. 2 of my most favorite shows. Can't wait. Don't miss them!!!!

Ribbit

My voice sounds like a frog. My throat feels like there is something giant lodged in the back of my espophogus, rubbing it raw. My nose is stuffy and that mixed with a sore throat makes it hard to breathe. I sound like an 80 year old woman snoring in her sleep or a smoker with a wheasing problem. Being sick is misarable. All I could think of during my classes was, I wonder if I look like a ghost. Whoooo, I bet my face is pale. What if a just collapsed right here? Everyone would think I just died of boredom. I wanted to skip class, but I just can't. Something inside my brain says you slacker, you can't skip class, you are a goody-two-shoe. No skipping class for you. What if you missed something important? What if the professor would hold a grudge against you? What if, what if. If only I weren't sick.

The thought that counts

Yesterday we celebrated my dad and pappy's birthday. We ate spaghetti and cake with the whipped icing, as opposed to that super sugurary kind, which make it at least bearable. I told my dad I would get him absolutely anything he wanted on ebay. And guess what he chose? A ring. I didn't want to give him a ring. He'll just get tired of it after a month. I don't even think I would pick jewlry, if I could pick from anything. Then again after a while you feel like there is nothing that you could possibly want after a while. How many tools can you have if you are a dad or earrings and flowers if you're a mom? People refer to the cliche, its the thought that counts. But not really. So what if you say, awwww, that's nice, that took effort. You don't want to be the one that is labeled the crappy gift giver. But really, how is it possible to be continually thinking of new stuff to get? It becomes stressful and then you realize, man, I can't afford giving presents. I liked it better when my mom just writes my name on whatever. AND then, the worst is when you are really excited about something and expect joy on their faces when they open it, but instead you get a confused look, what is it? CRUSH. stomp. stomp. All that "thought that counts" down the drain.

Chess

So I really don't want to do all the work I gotta do. I have a bunch school stuff that is starting to pile up. Why work now when I can wait till hours before it is due and torture myself? My life would be empty without procrastination.

So what do I do instead? I dwindle down the time by playing chess on the internet with people I don't know. The reason I like this variety, is becasue I can take all the time in world to make my decision on where to move next. Nothing pressuring you except for the 3 day limit, but even I don't take that long. I am determined to become a formidable opponent. Yeah, yeah, nerd. Ha ha. I'm not horrible, but not so great either. Check out Gameknot where I like to play. There's nothing to download, Yay. Give me a challenge.

Choked

So, I gave the presentation on the poem that I wrote about earlier and I totally choked. Usually I am a pretty good public speaker, but today I don't know what happened. I was prepared, yet when I got up in front of the class I was nervous, I did the whole shakey voice thing, lose your place doo dah. Ohhh, mortifying. I actually like giving speeches. I don't get nervous. What is wrong with me? You know that feeling after you do poorly on something that you know you shouldn't have, and so you just feel like an idiot? Well that was how I felt today. Luckily I supppose I have plenty of time to realign my ducks. Whew.

So tonight, I'm having some pals over to watch Signs because they keep on refering to it, and I listen in my oblivious stupor. It had better be as good as the rumors. We shall see.

That lady

So tonight I'm dragging Tami and Katie (who volunteered) to go hear that lady speak. You ask what lady? Good question, I forget her name. Ha ha. I only know that she is the lady that played in the tv show touched by an angel. Jeepers. My memory is so bad. What is her name? Basically I want to go just for the purpose of going, even though I don't expect it to be the most thrilling thing in the world. You know what is cool? When people surprise you. Of course I mean the good surprises. My mom just randomly called me to tell me that she was getting me a new cell phone. How neato is that? One of those flip kind to replace the orange, lizard decorated old one, that has a strange smell of clinque Happy perfume... but that is another story.

argggh

Hello children. Sorry for the hiatus. I meant well in updating, but well I got distracted. Please forgive me. I will be good. I will update much more often. So I have a paper to write tonight. It is 1:03 in the morning and I have not started yet. Boy tomorrow is going to be infused with coffee pickmeups. So I have to do a feminist critique on "To his coy mistress" by Marvell. Why did I sign up for this one? I didn't know it was a poem on the first day of class. Poems are so subjective. Somehow certain people think they all- absolutely all- have to do with sex. Can't a person write a poem, just to write a poem, without the hints of sexual repression or whatever? I think its a load of crap most of the time. Plus in history we read this thing about fairytales not being so innocent. Do you realize how gruesome most of them started out being? Little red-riding hood ate her gradmothers flesh and the wolf really ate her in the end. Sick isn't it? Well now that I have ruined your childhood memories, sleep well.