February 2010
66 posts
I am extremely unimpressed by the red carpet...
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I agree. I can only hope for better looks at the Oscars…which is over a month away (March 7).
January 2010
105 posts
PS, FOLKS, DO YOU SEE WHAT I DID?
I threw in a lil bit of HTML hyperlinking…which I’ve known how to do from my time at The 217. Yes, I am at home on a Saturday night playing with hyperlinking and not doing homework or drinking.
Not to toot my own horn, but
I am a great girlfriend.
I not only bought my boyfriend a ton of cool shit for Christmas (Waffle House coffee mugs, chocolate covered espresso beans, North Face E-Tip Gloves, some man moisturizer, etc.), I just bought him the Good Eats: The Early Years cookbook by Alton Brown (his favorite cooking show, of course—class nerd) AND (dun dun dun) Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, the violent,...
“Suzanne, your breath smells like jungle juice. It’s disgusting. Please...”
– Jimmy. He doesn’t like my beloved Rips very much :(
Funny thing I saw today:
I was driving to get my coffee and candy, and I saw a man walking his two dogs: one bigger one (some kind of lab maybe) and one fluffy little white one. I was about half a blog behind him, and I noticed that randomly, the two dogs sat in the middle of the walk. As I got closer, I realized he must have been teaching them how to sit, because every twenty feet or so, the two dogs would sit.
For some...
The Apple iPad Is For Old People →
sidewalkbagatelle:
THIS IS WHAT I’VE BEEN SAYING.
Right after the conference ended, my dad emailed me and said “Only $499 … is this for mom?” And I said “Yes, yes it is.”
Because what the fuck does she need flash or a webcam or anything for? She wants to look at the internet, send emails, look at photos and read books in bed when my dad passes out early and she doesn’t want to have the lights...
“Hi Suzanne… I wanted to see if the season of Dexter (season 2) we are...”
– A voicemail from my mom.
I have mentioned before that I am trying to make...
like going to the gym more than once a semester, and not eating vodka sauce four times a week.
The gym thing is okay. I actually like working out- I feel good about myself during and afterwards, though sometimes getting myself there is a little difficult. And I have more laundry to do, which is annoying, but fine.
The eating better thing kinda just SUCKS. I am not on any specific diet or...
Confession:
Watching Susan Boyle’s “I Dreamed a Dream” performance on Britain’s Got Talent makes me tear up.
Howard Zinn, author of A People's History of the... →
I have been meaning to read A People’s History for a long time, but haven’t gotten around to it— sadly, this was what reminded me. Hopefully I’ll carve out some time to do so soon.
Errors:
I have repeatedly typed these spelling errors today:
Pheonix
Advertizement
Jugde
OKAY, SELF. GET IT TOGETHER.
The woman sitting behind me at the Champaign...
My nostrils do not appreciate this.
Chicago cancels July 3 fireworks →
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Whaa?
I'm sure some of you can agree that Dunkin Donuts...
I wish it was more socially acceptable to sit there, as one would in Starbucks, and do homework.
Something about that doesn’t seem right, though.
exhausted
missjacobi:
8 hours of work.
4 hours of class.
every tuesday from now until may.
ugh.
I am just beyond impressed by this. I think a few others I follow work during the day and go to classes at night (Pepper Sprout?), and my gosh, what an accomplishment. Here I am whining about being tired about 6 hours of class and no work…
You guys are awesome!
Spoilers!
howimetyourmothersource:
Question: Dude! Please, please, something, anything on How I Met Your Mother? —Rebecca. Ausiello: Look for Neil Patrick Harris to channel his inner Don Draper in the upcoming episode guest-starring Carrie Underwood. Also, Harris’ real-life boyfriend, David Burtka, returns as Lily’s high school stalker, Scooter. Spoiler alert: He’s still really into her. Oh, and did you...
I gave myself a final grad school semester death...
I just signed up for two law classes. I dropped an eight week pretty easy class to do this.
I know myself. I know that bullshit classes are not good because I blow them off, don’t to the work, and therefore don’t do well. I’ve had the law professor before, and I know that even though it’s challenging, it’s also extraordinarily rewarding.
I just really need to go...
In high school and during freshman year of college
I planned my outfits the night before. Maybe every day, maybe not down to the last detail, but I had some vague idea of what I wanted to wear in the morning. Sometimes I even laid the outfit out.
Well, the time has come. I’m starting that again. This morning, I woke up to my alarm at 7, and just laid in bed for 15 minutes because I didn’t want to make the effort of getting up out of...
I just discovered that one of my favorite Citizen...
I am not ok with today.
fishy:
I still haven’t seen the sun, and teaching is/was hard, and I thought I caught up enough on sleep this weekend but apparently I didn’t, and I don’t feel good, and I have way too much work to do and not nearly enough time.
All I want to do is get under the covers and sleep until June. But I’m at the gym, doing work, waiting for spin class, hoping it’ll get me out of this mood.
I SO feel...
52 MILLION people tuned into the Saints v. Vikings...
Holy shit.
Ok, those followers who work out and are good at...
I’m doing pretty well on my working out these days. It will take a long time to get back to where I used to be, but consistent, slow and steady is my mantra right now.
Anyways— does anyone have any good running song recommendations?
I traditionally run to rap and/or hip hop, but I have recently found that isn’t working out so well. Maybe I’ve just exhausted my options...
All my roommate does is fight with her boyfriend
and use bitchy and sarcastic tones of voice.
It’s really fucking annoying when I am trying to read for class.
That’s all. Rant over.
In other sports related postings:
Seeing athletes celebrate wins with all the confetti and bottles popping is one of my favorite things ever.
I think this dates back to the days when the Bulls (the dream team with Michael Jordan, Scottie Pippen, etc) would win championships. I remember watching those games in my parents bedroom and I would get so nervous I would have to run out of the room when it got suspenseful.
I want to...
My heart is pounding fast cause of these damn New...
itsamazing:
I’m not a huge football fan but I try to follow the Saints as close as I can for the past couple years. I’ve literally been pacing around my condo this whole Saints-Vikings game. Heart’s beating super fast. I swear it’s just about stopped at certain parts of this game. I’m shaking. Literally can’t sit still. I don’t get this way unless I’m watching the Blackhawks. Now I know how my...
As a result of a misunderstanding, I have a credit...
This is bad news.
I have always used my debit card, but recently I had an issue with it -some asshole stole my debit identity and charged $300 to my account- so now I only use credit.
This whole trust issue (as in, trusting I won’t go over my limit) is really difficult.
I really like to shop. I like buying other people things. I consider myself a generous person.
I told Jimmy that, and...
I had the most delicious, post-workout lunch...
(but failed to take pictures because I was ravenous).
It consisted of:
Spring Mix lettuce (I like that they’re spinach in there, but don’t like spinach enough to completely forgo the lettuce)
A Trader Joes crabcake, which took 3 minutes to cook
crumbled goat cheese
Jack’s salsa (I know they sell it at Costco)
It was sooo easy and quick to make.
Since my lunch was late...
Class, schmass:
I had two of my four classes today. I gotta tell you, being a third semester (the final semester in my grad school) is pretty sweet. There is a new bond between my very small class and I- there are only about 25 of us after all- a bond that sounds like “let’s make this semester awesome because it’s our last.”
My first class is an economics of human resources class....
So, this is really it.
I have been going to school full-time since I was six years old. I graduated from college a semester early (so, in December of 2008), but never left Champaign or school. I started graduate school in January of 2009. So, despite graduating, I never really had the satisfaction of graduating. It just seems like I kept going, only I switched around the topic of class conversation.
Well, tomorrow...
Cleaning House
peppersprout:
I’ve decided that I need to purge my ex from my space (after nearly 2.5 roller-coaster years) and one way to do this is to get new bedding, although my bedding is currently about 4 years old and needs replacing anyway because it is getting old and nasty.
I’m a big fan of white bedspreads and I have a big down duvet. Does anyone know of a textured white duvet cover (perhaps...
AP News Alerts on my phone:
When they go off, I assume the worst, or at least relevant information, like news about the death toll in Haiti. Getting an alert for Avatar winning a Golden Globe for Best Motion Picture-Drama is not relevant enough for an alert. Not only slow on the uptake (I already knew), but poor use of news alerts.
There is a very odd combo of sounds in my...
The mixture of Dexter’s slightly monotone narration from my parents’ bedroom, my brother and his friend on the electric guitar and drums (which were just moved to our basement yesterday…another reason I’m happy to leave) filtering through the air vents from the basement, and my iTunes on shuffle (so therefore, anything from RHCP to Atmosphere to Pitbull to Janis Joplin) is...