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Soap Box Sunday, October 29, 2006 Kitten in Action
He's ferocious! Saturday, October 28, 2006 New Member of the Family
The best part of successfully defending one's thesis is spoiling oneself with a present. A friend of mine bought an elliptical machine. I adopted this little boy. His name is Bodhi, as in Bodhisattva, not Bode Miller, the skier. He's between 3-4 months old and was in the shelter for 6 weeks? How is that possible? He's so cute! He LOOOOOVES being around Nick and me. He just purrs and purrs. Soooo adorable! Thursday, October 26, 2006 More Local News Once again, secret documents from Los Alamos National Labs have been found outside the lab--this time in a trailer home being searched for meth. Classy, huh? Apparently there were both paper and digital documentation that should have never left the lab. I'm wondering if these secret docs keep surfacing right before elections... Today's gas price in Albuquerque? $2.08/gal! Woohoo! Remember to fill your tanks before the elections everyone! In the "what's up with that" category, we have the Moscow Ballet performing The Nutcracker November 15th at an Indian Casino just outside of town. We have a world famous dance company performing Christmas themed ballet at an Indian Casino? Hmmm...only in New Mexico! Wednesday, October 25, 2006 The End of an Era Frontier restaurant, located directly across from campus, has been a 24 hour restaurant for the last 15 years. It's a great place to get pancakes at 2am when you can't sleep (or are just stumbling out of a bar) and have cinnamon buns as big as your head! However, starting this Friday, 24 hour Frontier will be no more. They will be closed from 1:30am and 4am. At least they will still be open most of the time. I remember being in Frontier at some bizarre time, probably after midnight at the very least, and having a rather shady character stand up from a booth and say in a very loud voice, "Can I have your attention!?" I thought for sure the place was about to be robbed. Instead, he yells out, "I LOVE THIS WOMAN!" with the woman in question cringing in the booth. Was pretty fucking funny. There was another time when I was in the typically long line to order when I heard the following conversation behind me:
Ahhh, nothing beats a late night at the Frontier! Monday, October 23, 2006 Funny Bumper Sticker
Saturday, October 21, 2006 My Personal Nightmare is 3/4 Over I passed in my motherfucking thesis. (Hmmm...my spellchecker tells me that motherfucking is two words. I'm surprised it recognized it at all.) I'm not even psyched about it. I'm just tired. I feel like I was in a wrestling match. I defend the thing next Friday and I just can't care right now. Actually, I'm not that worried about defending. The research is solid and I feel good about it. Hopefully my committee will feel the same. I'm going back to sleep now...zzzzzz Thursday, October 19, 2006 WTF Is She Saying? There's this ad running now and quite frankly, I couldn't tell you what it's for. It's got two little kids playing $10,000 Pyramid and I swear the girl, giving the clues, says "Poops a neighbor" to which the boy replies, "Things a baby does" and she replies "Yeah!" So, my rational mind KNOWS she's not really saying "poops a neighbor" but it beats the hell outta me what she is saying. Do you know? Tuesday, October 17, 2006 Damien's a Bad Ass And here is what is left over from his pus-volcano. I get to make sure it doesn't scab over (GROSS) and give him antibiotics. So, I predict that by the end of thee week, I might be missing a hand.
Sunday, October 15, 2006 You Have GOT To Be Kidding I have a project due Tuesday morning, my thesis due to committee on Friday and I'm talking at a symposium Friday afternoon and now my cat has pus coming out of his head. Jesus, what next? Friday, October 13, 2006 It's That Time Again! It's time for the Balloon Fiesta! This year (like last year) I went to a balloon glow, which takes place at night. I can't pull off going in the morning this year. You have to get there by about 6:30am if you want to see the balloons launch in the morning and that's just killer for me. So instead, I have 2 pictures from last night's Balloon Glow. Pretty cool, huh?
The fireworks were quite impressive later that night. If you ever get a chance, you should definitely make it to the Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta! Wednesday, October 11, 2006 Theses and Babies What do the two have in common? Well, apparently when one is working on a thesis, one dreams about having a baby. My friend, who is still in the stage of proposing her thesis, had a dream about having a baby who kept running away from her, just out of reach in these caves underground. We clinical psychology graduate students all work in the basement of Logan Hall, underground, and my friend has an office that is in this weird room that has a door that closes like a vault. It essentially turns the room into an sensory deprivation tank and is nicknamed "the cave" complete with stuffed bat hanging from the ceiling. So, I believe Dr. Freud would agree that her dream was about how elusive her thesis has been even tho she's been toiling away in the basement in her own personal cave. For me, I recently had a dream that I had a baby and gave it away, just like I'm going to have to give my thesis to my committee next Friday. Luckily, in the dream, it was not a traumatic event but something I was proud and happy to do. I hope I feel that way in 9 days. Speaking of Strange Events... Here is the strangest thing that happened at UVM when I was there. Downtown Burlington Vermont was full of bars, as I've mentioned. Most of these bars were either in the basement or first floor of buildings with apartments and other offices above. It was Parents' Weekend (just as it was last weekend when Michelle Gardner-Quinn disappeared) when a freshman was walking along the main street downtown with her parents. Above her was a party in one of the apartments. Somehow, a bowling ball that was part of a piece of art (or so they said) fell out a second story window and struck her right on the top of her head! Her skull was fractured but she did pull through. As I recall, they were worried about her developing meningitis or she did develop meningitis, one or the other but at least it was a happy ending. I wonder how she is now. Tuesday, October 10, 2006 WTF Is Going On? You know, it's bad enough when these whack jobs (yes that is a technical term) target high school kids, but who the fuck in their right minds think that adding more guns to the classroom is the answer? Why not take a look at the Amish. They forgave the nut who killed 5 of their little girls and even went to his funeral. 'Acourse, he WAS dead so it wasn't like they had to get even but I digress. The most recent event that just has me shaking my head is the disappearance of a 21 year old from University of Vermont, my alma mater. Vermont is such a wonderful, beautiful place and I hate to think it has lost a certain innocence it had. When I was there, no one locked their cars or even their dorm rooms. No one I ever ran into were pushing drugs. (That might be because there were 52 bars in downtown Burlington then. Booze ran free everywhere it seemed.) The most annoying thing I can remember about being in Burlington or of UVM were the religious protesters outside the women's health clinic. Anyway, my thoughts go out to Michelle Gardner-Quinn and her family and I hope the campus of UVM can regain its reputation as a place where you feel safe letting your kids attend. I truly loved it there. If it weren't for the cruel winters and lack of jobs, I might be there still. Sunday, October 08, 2006 A Good Read Looking for something to read this afternoon? Try this. It's entertaining, informative, funny and sad....everything you could ask for. Saturday, October 07, 2006 This is What I'm Aiming For Forget the Nobel awards. I'm never gonna get that. However, it is possible I may stumble upon something for which I could win an Ig Nobel. This year's award winning research included a study showing the dung beetles are actually finicky eaters, why people don't like the sound of fingernails on a chalkboard and my personal favorite, "Termination of Intractable Hiccups with Digital Rectal Massage." Basically, this guy had incurable hiccups and went to an ER. The ER doctor was desperate and didn't know what to do so as a last resort, he stuck his finger up the guy's ass and the hiccups stopped. The poor doctor now wishes that someday he will be remembered as a great cardiologist instead of the guy who stuck is finger in someone's ass to cure the hiccups. Now see, I could totally win a prize someday for doing something stupid but having it turn out serendipitously. Friday, October 06, 2006 Charming I just got the following email:
Jesus. As if I didn't have enough reasons to not like being on campus. Tuesday, October 03, 2006 OMG OMG OMG OMG Connie Nielsen is Stabler's new partner on L&O:SVU while Mariska Hargitay is on maternity leave. (I think 6 episodes?) You know her. She was the sister in Gladiator. Even as a tough NY cop she's gorgeous. Don't get me wrong, I love Mariska Hargitay but Connie Nielsen isn't on TV much, at least not here in the states. There goes another hour of my life every week. Sorry! Usually my phone has a stutter-tone if there are messages. Haven't had any messages lately. Didn't really think anything about it. But then I got a message on my cell that states someone left a message on my home phone. I picked up the phone and there still was no stutter-tone. Regardless, I called for messages and there were TEN new messages! Oops! The were from as far back as Friday. So, if you called and left a message and I never called you back, I'm very sorry. It's all the stupid phone company's fault. Monday, October 02, 2006 More TV News (Because even I am tired of my thesis.) ER will run 12 original episodes before going on hiatus then will be back with 10 more original episodes. Great idea if you ask me. Nothing pisses me off more than a repeat the 4th week into the "new" season. And NBC finally admitted that ER tanks when repeated. It's rather heart wrenching at times. Who wants to watch that twice? In case you've been looking for Medium, you're out of luck...until January. It will return after football season on Sunday nights. Which to me means NBC has thrown it to the wolves. Thanks to Survivor getting rid of the ethnic groupings of the "castaways" I no longer have any interest in watching anymore. Two whole shows of the controversial teams and then split them all up? Brilliant. This year during the Treehouse of Terror, Dr. Phil will be lending a voice. Now THAT is scary! |
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