Xtina the ho
10.31.02
So Christina Aguilera is frustrated with everyone calling her a ho while all she's doing is trying to shed her teenager look.
Well, uh, last I checked, taking off all your clothes isn't the way to show people you're growing up. My sister took off all her clothes and ran around the house and neighborhood, but this is when she was about 3 and 4.
When I think of a "grown up" woman, I think of people like Nicole Kidman who are elegant, sophisticated, and classy. Showing people you're not a teenager anymore requires choosing the RIGHT clothes, not taking them all off. Going naked screams, "LOOK AT ME. LOOK! I AM MAKING A STATEMENT. A STATEMENT, DO YOU HEAR?" And most often, people will just snort in disgust and look away.
03:30 AM [link]
I feel loved
10.31.02
Tomorrow night is Big/Lil night. All new members rank the top 10 people they want for their Big, which is basically a mentor kind of role and you're supposed to have a special bond and stuff. MY Big is a psychotic bitch who I didn't even rank in my top 500, but she went and cried to the person in charge and therefore got me. She's in Brazil now and she's probably going to get knocked up by someone there and not be allowed back in the US. After she left (she's doing student teaching there, and I can't figure out WHY she would choose Brazil of all places), I found out that no one else in the sorority likes her either.
ANYWAYS, for about a week and a half, the new members have no clue who their Bigs are, and we send them notes and presents and emails and clues (which are usually false) and basically lead them on a wild goosechase trying to figure out who we are. It all comes to a close on Big/Lil night when they go on a scavenger hunt and find their Big in the end.
I took my first Lil this semester, and she is AMAZING. I absolutely love this girl. And she emailed me (at the fake email address I made just for her) and said, "I'm super excited to find out who you are!!! I know that whoever it is, i'm in good hands! Thanks so much for all the gifts you've given me so far! I think we're gonna make a terrific pair! I love you already and I don't even know who you are." I got sniffly and teary eyed when I read that.
I JUST finished making all her presents she gets tomorrow night; you can go to the Greek store and buy a bunch of stuff with your sorority's letters on it, but it is SO much cheaper to buy crafting stuff and make your own. Plus, that means each Lil will have unique things that no one else has. That's NOT so good for me, though, because I am just about the most uncreative, unartistic person alive. My little sister got all those genes in my family.
Speaking of my sister, I call home today, and she's all dressed up in a costume to hand out candy to trick-or-treaters. She goes, "I'm wearing some things from a green ballet costume you had, and some things from a green ballet costume I had. I'm a green whore."
She promised me pictures. Hopefully she'll deliver so all my readers can see just what a green whore is.
01:53 AM [link]
Site stats
10.29.02
I put my counter up one month ago today, and in that time I've had just over 400 page visits. This makes me a happy girl. What makes me even happier is that after I put the counter code on every page, I've seen that visitors are actually exploring the site and spending time here. Thank you! This motivates me to update more and come up with new ideas.
NaNoWriMo starts on Friday...I'll probably create a "fiction" section and post my novel there. Unless it really really sucks.
1% of my visitors use Netscape. If you are in this 1%, can you please tell me why? Do you really hate yourself that much? Join the (much happier) masses and download IE.
17% of you are still using IE5, and 82% of you are really smart and are using the most updated version: IE6.
About 10% of you come from a continent that isn't North or South America.
The majority of you come from either my time zone or the Pacific Coast of the US.
01:29 PM [link]
IEIEIEIEIE Bono!
10.28.02
Melantha wrote a guest entry for my "I'm In Love" section. Can't say I agree with her, but no one comes between her and her Bono love. *g*
Also added an opinion for the Sophie Ellis-Bextor CD.
02:31 AM [link]
The goodness that is Robbie Williams
10.28.02
Robbie's official site is putting out one new song per day from his upcoming album. I missed yesterday's, since they're only available for 24 hours each, but I remembered in time to hear today's. It is SO GOOD. I've had it on repeat, and it's restarting for the 5th time now. And since Amazon actually offers an import copy of it at a nice price ($19.99), I went ahead and placed an order for the full album.
Robbie, will you come back to the States? *puppy dog eyes*
01:39 AM [link]
What did I do last night?
10.27.02
Here's how my time last night was spent:
Three new entries in the I'm In Love section.
Three new CD reviews: A-Teens, Kaci, and Dixie Chicks. Go ahead and laugh. I have strange tastes in music.
11:03 PM [link]
Strange roommate
10.27.02
When I told my roomie I didn't need her to sweep under my desk, she said:
"You're going to die! And then you're going to come crying to me, 'Lauren, I'm dead!' And I'm going to tell you it's your own damn fault!"
It's good to know she cares.
10:59 PM [link]
Rewind to the 80s
10.27.02
Last night my sorority had a date party, and the theme was Rewind to the 80s. For a date party, everybody brings a date (whether it's a boyfriend or a best friend; there were equal amounts of male and female dates), and we rent out a club for the evening. Since it was 80s themed, everybody dressed the part.
I wore a spandex mini skirt that was the devil. Every time I took two steps it nealy crept up to show off my thong. Speaking of my thong, since the skirt was so spandex-y tight, you could see the outline right through it. This defeated the whole point of wearing a thong, which is so you don't see the outline of your underwear. Oh well. I wore this with a white t-shirt, demin jacket, and stiletto heels.
I don't know if anyone actually spandex skirts in the 80s, and I'm sure if they did, they wouldn't have worn stiletto heels with them, but I didn't have a lot to work with. My wardrobe is firmly grounded in the 00's. Or whatever you want to call them. When it WAS the 80s, I remember being very in awe of all the older girls who wore day glo and high tops. I wanted high tops so bad when I was little. I didn't get them. Another coveted accessory: those plastic shapes that you pulled the bottom of your shirt through to make a little tail that hung at your side. Nopes, didn't get one of those either.
I DID have several shirts with little mirrors puffpainted onto them. I thought I was hot stuff when I wore them.
Remember Dance Party USA? I worshipped the outfits the girls on that show wore.
So there I was Friday night walking from the car to the club in my more-hooker-than-80s outfit. In fact, if a cop had passed, I'm sure he would have picked me up for suspected prostitution. I did get looks from two groups of guys we walked past, who I told in a very loud voice that I did not normally dress like that.
The party itself was a blast, everybody went all=out. The guys were the best part, it was hilarious what lengths they went to to get costumes for the night.
If the pictures turn out okay, I'll put them up when I get the roll developed. : )
01:46 AM [link]
Aliens and pumpkins
10.24.02
What a long day. Productive, I supposed, but this morning seems like such a long time ago. I fell asleep in both of my morning classes, but I still managed to go shopping before going home to take a nap. Aeropostale was having a box sale at the student union. I picked up three sweaters for $60. Not bad at all...
Then I went to see my criminal justice advisor for the first time ever, and he scared the dickens out of me. He had this sign on his door that dictated what you have to do in order to talk to him. First you have to knock and wait for him to tell you to enter. Then you have to prop the door open. Then you have to stand until he tells you to sit. Then when you leave, you have to ask him if he wants you to close the door behind you. I'm not kidding here, it was like something out of a movie. I half expected him to be like the Soup Nazi, one misstep and "No advising for you! Come back one year!"
He WAS helpful, he got several problems cleared up for me and advised against taking this one class before I took one they're in the process of making a prerequiste. So now I'm taking Philosophy of Law in place of Procedural Rights.
While I was talking with one of my sorority sisters today, I mentioned my evil public admin prof. Apparently she had him for the same class back when she was a political science major. And apparently her advisor, the head of the political science department, apologized to her when she mentioned that she had him. All I can say is YIKES. And why the hell is this guy still working here if the head of the polsci department thinks he's a horrible teacher?
Then my sorority sisters carved pumpkins and delivered them to all the frats on campus. I'm sure it would have gone much faster if we actually had sharp knives in the house.
And then I wrote 3 1/4 pages of an 8 page paper I have to write for astronomy. I'm writing about aliens. Honestly. The amount of work that the SETI Institute (Search for ExtraTerrestrial Intelligence) is putting into it and how scientifically advanced they're getting is really scary.
And now I'm looking at two applications...one is for taking a position in my sorority and one is for taking a position on the Panhellenic Executive council. For all you non-Greeks, Panhel is the council that oversees all sororities on campus. I definitely want to take a position within the sorority, namely VP of Scholarship, but I don't know about the Panhel one. I think I'd rather take a cabinet position for Panhel, which are less time consuming and give less responsibility.
12:51 AM [link]
Ex-boyfriend stories
10.23.02
I've been remembering stupid things my ex-boyfriends did tonight, and it may be the half-asleep state I'm in, but I'm laughing so hard that I decided to share with everyone.
Ex #1: When he first saw the movie The Matrix, he decided that dressing in solid black was SO COOL, so he went out and bought a solid black wardrobe and wore it for like, the next two years. However, when he first got the clothes, he neglected to save some money for shoes. SO he wore his white sneakers with his black clothes. I'm dying now just thinking about it. Yeah, he's soooo suave.
Ex #2: This boy, upon learning that I don't cook or do laundry or make my bed, told me that if I had any hopes of marrying him, I better domesticate myself. He was dead serious, too. He ALSO told me that I don't have good childbearing hips. Again, totally serious. I am now delighted to find out that Melantha's boyfriend now tells her often that she needs to be domesticated too. Making a mockery of my ex's is just so much fun, especially when other people are doing it.
And may I point out, Ex #2 was 19 and I was 17 when he told me this. Which makes it even more hilarious.
01:50 AM [link]
I love my little
10.23.02
SlayTPG1: I just got a little
MColbyB: huh?
MColbyB: TELL SPILL IT GIRL!
SlayTPG1: What?
SlayTPG1: A little
SlayTPG1: I'm her big
SlayTPG1: As in little sister/big sister
MColbyB: i thought you ment you got some play lol
*smacks her head on the desk* Matt is brilliant, really.
I just found out five seconds ago who my Little is, and I'm very very happy now. : ) Now I have until Halloween to send her misleading clues and gifts so she thinks that her Big is anyone except me.
12:30 AM [link]
Iraq is raising our drug prices!
10.21.02
My dad is a funny one. I emailed him this morning teasing him that Bush is FINALLY talking about something other than Iraq. The news article that caught my attention:
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Bush (news - web sites) moved Monday to bring generic drugs more quickly to the market by blocking pharmaceutical companies from filing multiple patent-protection lawsuits that can stall the cheaper products for years. More
My dad emailed me back saying, "The topic has been a big thing lately with several big drug companies blocking generics for many years. It's a hot political topic. Also, he believes Iraq is behind the whole thing."
I should have known. Of COURSE Bush will blame our perscription drug problem on Iraq!
04:40 PM [link]
Updates
10.21.02
Updates to the site:
Check the I'm In Love section, three hotties are now there.
New music opinions: Aurora UK and Kylie's Light Years
New book opinions: Mapping the Edge, Iced, His Dark Materials, The Flanders Panel, and the Anita Blake Vampire Hunter series.
The weekend is over. I'm sad.
I really like the color of Tylenol PM. It's the prettiest shade of blue.
02:28 AM [link]
Reality shows and reruns
10.21.02
This cracked me up so much I had to post it:
luckycorvettegrl: ooh. I haven't visited in awhile! I've missed blogs! Do you know, sometimes when I go to visit your page, I feel like I'm in a reality show but not a real show, via the internet if that makes any remote sense..
luckycorvettegrl: and missing blogs is like missing episodes....
SlayTPG1: LOL!!! There are archives
luckycorvettegrl: I know. but that's like reruns.
12:24 AM [link]
Rules of hot chocolate
10.20.02
Something I just learned: the boy mentioned in the previous blog entry has been electricuted FOURTEEN times. Yes, fourteen. Apparently he works around power lines. It seems to me that there would be safety procedures and heavy life insurance in such cases. It certainly explains a lot, though.
When it comes to hot chocolate, my rule of thumb is that you must put in twice as much mix as the directions call for in order to prevent it from tasting like sweetened hot water. This means two packets instead of one if it comes in such a form.
02:37 PM [link]
Drunk boy on my futon
10.20.02
Tonight (Saturday, despite what the heading says) I had an interesting visitor in my room. My sorority sister who lives in the room next door had her boyfriend come up for the weekend, and he brought two friends with him. One is sort-of dating that girl's roommate, so there are two couples staying in that room. The third boy got lost while they were all at a bar, and everyone decided to come home without him. By the time he found his way back, all the sleeping spaces in that room were taken. Since MY roommate is friends with him, he ended up staying on the futon in here. OH joy.
It ended up being pretty hilarious though. This guy doesn't have all the lights on upstairs; when he speaks, it's like he has to go slowly because his brain won't work very fast. The last time he was in my room, he spilled his beer on my vanity top and decided to wipe it up with my washcloth. Yeah, lovely, I know.
So tonight he's rather intoxicated, and roomie is screaming at him to keep his shirt on, and she gives him a sheet to put over the futon for him to sleep on. For some reason, he decided to fold the sheet up and stuff it over the towel rack. Then she starts spraying him with body spray, because he reeks of bar smells, and he nearly choked to death.
He ends up with his shirt off, much to roomie's dismay, and we start talking to him about his tattoos. He has seven of them, most of them are Japanese symbols. He had to think for about five minutes before he could remember what some of them meant. One of them means "blood and guts". Or so he says.
Then roomie goes to brush her teeth, and the boy lays down on the futon and watches me type. He starts commenting on my typing skills and says, "You're like *makes typing finger motions and fast-sounding sound effects* and I'm like, 'Holy shit' ". Then he starts talking really quietly, and I can't tell if he's talking to me or himself. By the time roomie comes back, he's passed out, way over the edge of consciousness.
We have now made him hug a teddy bear in his sleep, and I took pictures. I will post them when I get them developed. : )
My stomach hurts from laughing so hard at him, I need entertainment like this more often.
04:23 AM [link]
Friday night fun
10.19.02
Tonight I was running through the rain with a pair of men's underwear in my coat pocket. The girls I was with had a duffel bag that contained, among other things, a jock strap, a condom, and a porn DVD. Anyone want to guess what I was doing? I'll share after I get some amusing guesses. ;)
02:48 AM [link]
Puking
10.18.02
Today's blog entries are dedicated to my sister's boyfriend. My sister puked last night after getting off a ride at an amusement park, and instead of being disgusted, he was concerned about her and gave her his sweatshirt so she wouldn't have to wear her puke-stained one.
I need a man like that. Lindsay, where did they breed him?
03:54 PM [link]
Yay Shannon!
10.18.02
Congratulations to my very best friend in the world, Shannon, for getting a bid at Delta Zeta at OSU!
12:28 AM [link]
Three wishes
10.17.02
If I had a genie who offered me three wishes, one of them would be that the Japanese restaurant in town would be directly across the street from my sorority house. It's in walking distance already, but it would take about a half hour to 45 minutes to walk there, wait for the food to be prepared, and then walk back.
And this might be pushing it, but I also wish they would give me sushi for free. : )
07:59 PM [link]
Viagra
10.17.02
To all those spammers who have bombarded me with at least 20 viagra ads in the last two or three days:
I may date older men, BUT THEY'RE NOT THAT OLD!!!
Thank you.
02:58 AM [link]
Corporate crime doesn't exist. Riiight.
10.16.02
Great. A half hour after I start looking, I find the first article on organized crime. And it insists that corporate crime does not exist anymore. It was written in 2000. Shows what THEY know.
EDIT: An hour later
I finally found a plenthora of articles, but in the strangest places. Like this journal called Technological Forecasting and Social Change. Now I just have to spit out two pages or less of outlined phrases by Friday. I can do that.
11:08 PM [link]
Stupid criminology professor
10.16.02
My stupid criminology professor (the one who has the caffeine addiction) decided to tell us TWO DAYS before our research prospectus is due that she wants us to use journal articles for our sources, not books. Her words: "I thought I was specific by saying academic sources, but every person who's visited my office hours has used books. I want you to use journal articles." Stupid woman.
So now I'm browsing the online research databases, and I can't find anything on organized crime. I have plenty of books and chapters from anthologies (THOSE are okay, though, according to her), but all these journal articles are on things like sex offenders. There are LOTS of articles on sex offenders. And things like, "Criminal Violence: The Roles of Psychopathy, Neurodevelopmental Insults, and Antisocial Parenting". You'd think with Enron and WorldCom there would be renewed academic interest in organized and white collar crime. But nooooo.
This same criminology prof has a crush on my friend Damian, much to Damian's girlfriend's (one of my sorority sisters) amusement.
10:31 PM [link]
American Idol part II
10.16.02
My sister's choir teacher made it onto American Idol. I wonder if she'll make it past Simon's scathing remarks and into the finalists.
I'm eagerly waiting to find out who the judges are going to be since Paula Abdul and Randy Jackson aren't coming back. And if Simon ever decides to leave the show, I'm going to have to stop watching.
05:36 PM [link]
Which Kallurian are you?
10.15.02
Tara made a quiz, and I got me as a result. Woo hoo! Take it and tell me which Kallurian YOU are.
Which Kallurian Are You?
brought to you by Quizilla
09:05 PM [link]
Damn imports
10.15.02
Ace of Base apparently has a new CD out, and OF COURSE, it's only available overseas. What is UP with that? And of course when I'm in the willing mood to pay a little extra for imports at Virgin Records, they DON'T HAVE the CDs I'm looking for! The import section at the Virgin in Columbus, Ohio is a measly five feet long. And they have import copies of CDs that you can already get in the US. NO!! I want the snazzy Euro-pop junk that Americans don't seem to be able to digest very well. This includes the Spice Girls solo albums (I still need Emma's and Posh's), the new Atomic Kitten one, any kind of Belgian dance pop (Kate Ryan, La Luna), Sophie Ellis-Bextor, the future Robbie Williams albums that I predict will NOT be sold in the US, the second All Saints album, and thank HEAVENS Kylie Minogue is apparently here to stay, because otherwise, I would have to give up my American citizenship.
And it's not like any of these people wouldn't do well in the US saleswise. All you have to do is give the single to Clear Channel, and they'll play it on every radio station in existance 50,000 times per day, and then tell everyone to go out and buy it, and the American public will go, "Oh, okay, this is the next big thing, we're not being manipulated by the industry at all," and buy it, thereby sending it to the top of the charts.
I'm breathing, really.
12:32 AM [link]
Pictures
10.14.02
Here's a picture of me and my sister, who's all decked out in her Homecoming dress.
In other family news from the weekend, our Akita puppy graduated from obedience school. This is him in his graduation hat.
EDIT: 4 pm
At Lindsay's request, here is a picture of her and her boyfriend. The boy is 14, if you'd believe that.
02:00 AM [link]
Trashy guy
10.12.02
There goes MY crush on Colin Farrell (Minority Report, Reign of Fire):
"Look, I'm into casual sex now," he tells W magazine's November issue. "I've been in love three times. That's enough for a 26-year-old. It really is. For the time being. So literally, I come into town and bang whoever I can — but I'm not mean or egotistical about it."
Uhhh...do I even have to say anything? He said it all, right there.
So if I've been in love twice now, and I'm 19 and have 7 years to go before I'm 26, what does that mean for me? If you ask me, it sounds like this guy has a wounded ego and is trying to soothe it by acting all trampy -- because everybody knows it's so COOL and MANLY when guys sleep with random women all the time. *do I even have to note my sarcasm here?*
And being in love is a good thing. But go ahead, Colin, be a lonely lonely man for all I care.
10:48 PM [link]
Little sisters
10.12.02
I saw my sister kiss a boy! She's 14, she doesn't need to be kissing boys yet!
Tonight is the Homecoming dance for her high school, and I went with her and my parents to pick up her boyfriend and do the obligatory taking-lots-of-pictures routine. She is going in a group of about ten people; it totally brought back memories of my high school days. I never went out to dinner; for both junior and senior prom, the guys in our group cooked dinner for us at my best guy friend's house. Granted, dinner was never more than pasta and chicken, and senior year, my date decided to put the marinated chicken back in the freezer and then no one could find it. But it was fun, lots of fun...
But my sister should NOT be kissing boys!
07:14 PM [link]
New Clothes Day
10.12.02
Today my mom and I went to Platos Closet to do some shopping. For those who may not have one in their area, it's a thrift store marketed towards teens. I used to cringe at the idea of wearing other peoples' clothes, but one day I noticed my mom's closet was filling itself with some DARLING pieces. I asked her where she got them from, and she let me in on her little secret.
I ended up with ten shirts and two pairs of pants, all for $90. At first I balked at the total, but then I thought, "I have walked into Express and bought a pair of pants and one shirt and didn't bat an eye when the total was MORE than this. Multiple times." One of the shirts I got was even one from Express that I have wanted forever and ever, but never got around to buying. I also have a new pair of red pants, which I have wanted for a while, but haven't been able to find any that aren't obnoxious (I'm a classy lady. *g*).
My mom, by the way, now refuses to shop anywhere except the thrift stores in the city. She frequently comes home with something like an expensive, name-brand outfit that still has the tags on it and dances around chanting, "I got it for fifteen bucks!"
On another note, I just saw The Knockaround Guys with two of my girlfriends tonight. They didn't like it but I adored it. It sure didn't hurt that all four main characters are absolutely drool-worthy and more likely than not find their way into the I'm In Love section of the site. Which I WILL get started on. Probably once I'm back at school after Fall Break is over.
02:29 AM [link]
NaNoWriMo
10.10.02
Tara brought it up and Melantha talked me into it...I've decided to take part in National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) and write a novel in 30 days. If only for the pure joy of saying, "Don't bother me! I'm writing a novel. I have a DEADLINE." Depending on how crappy it is, I may post it here as I go. Here's the snazzy graphic I got for signing up:
11:50 PM [link]
Congrats
10.10.02
This blog entry is dedicated to my uncle, whose brand new hair salon in Beverly Hills opens today. Everybody go visit him and get $150+ haircuts. ;)
02:24 PM [link]
Scheduling
10.09.02
Being the nerd that I am, I decided to outline my schedule for next semester the day that the information came out. It took me a few hours, because I had an annoying setback...
I'm in the honors program here at BGSU, and I have an advisor from the honors department and an advisor from the criminal justice department. I only saw my honors advisor last semester, and she filled out a new checklist to see how far along I was in the classes I need for my major. WELL, after staring at it tonight and wondering where the DHS classes I needed to take went, I realized that she had used the OLD criminal justice checksheet, and that was what I had used to make next semester's schedule. One of the classes I was going to take isn't even on the NEW criminal justice checksheet, which my graduating class is supposed to use. *sigh*
Despite that, I think I'm finally done. 18 credit hours again, since I'm a workaholic. It's the maximum number of hours we're allowed to take. I picked the following classes:
Research Methods: "Survey of research methods including research design, measurement and sampling, survey, experimental and field methods and data collection and analysis. Emphasis on interpreting and critically evaluating research for human services."
Interview & Observation: "Development of interviewing and observational skills used in working with diverse populations in human service fields. Examine interviewing from various perspectives for different purposes: clinical, forensic, organizational, and social."
Crime Prevention and Security: "A critical examination of crime prevention and security practices and approaches; emphasis on evaluating the effectiveness and problems of various approaches."
Procedural Rights: "Rights afforded to individuals who come to the attention of the criminal justice system. How these rights are created and rejected by the court system. Focus on the Bill of Rights, 14th Amendment, and Supreme Court cases."
Corrections: "Historical, philosophical, and sociological analysis of strategies and institutions designed to punish and change the behavior of criminal offenders."
And a CJ seminar on serial homicide. Is it scary if I'm excited about that one?
01:23 AM [link]
Sexy men
10.08.02
After making the effort to go to bed at a (relatively) decent time last night, I woke up this morning with a fever (And technically it's yesterday morning, since no one will read this until Tuesday, but oh well). Skipped all four of my classes and wilted away in my bed. I haven't skipped a full day of classes yet this semester, and I don't plan on doing it again. I missed getting my exam back in Criminology, hopefully the prof will email me back soon and let me know how I can get my grades. She's a caffeine addict, and she has a habit of finishing the day's lectures early because she talks too fast.
I'm adding a new section, you can look to your right *points* and see the link that says "I'm In Love". There's nothing there yet, since it's bedtime and HTML always makes my eyes go crossed when I'm tired. I'm gonna have good dreams after surfing the 'net for pictures of the elf I'm in love with. Yes, elf. He's hot. And NOT a pretty boy. Thank you.
03:32 AM [link]
Calling Mr. Sandman
10.07.02
It's 3:15 in the AM, I have to be up in five hours, and I am not the least bit tired.
New favorite song: Atomic Kitten's Walking on the Water. I've had it on 'repeat' for about the last hour. I only liked one song off their first CD, but I'm liking everything I've heard off their new one.
My insomnia has made me productive. Check out the new opinions: one on a Kylie CD, and two on books (Martha C. Lawrence's Elizabeth Chase novels and The Lake of Dead Languages).
I promised Melantha I'd dedicate an entry to her greatness, since she tripped my counter to 100 at my pleading (I was making sure the DIV was long enough to fit three digits, don't look at me like that). So here goes: Melantha, of the viking kitties and Captain Smiley, I am in awe of your greatness, please let me serve you.
Okay, now I'm just making myself laugh. Go check out her page. She has a new layout that's just beautiful.
Off to find the Sandman.
03:33 AM [link]
Spanish idiots
10.06.02
My hatred has a new target: the Spanish Conquistadors. As my astonomy book says, "Unfortunately, we know little more about the extent of Mayan knowledge, because the Spanish Conquistadors burned most Mayan writings." I've always been fascinated with the Mayan, Incan, and Aztec histories, and it absolutly kills me that the arrogant SOBs of the past ruined my chance of learning more about them.
It also makes me physically cringe when I think about the fire in the library of Alexandria and all the knowledge we lost there. I MUST be a nerd.
Along this same lines of thinking, I absolutely hate people who think that today's society is smarter and more superior than the people of the past. So many people are surprised when they learn how long ago certain discoveries were made. Why? Why can't people in 500 BC be smart too? I'm in awe of the creations and discoveries that were made so many years ago.
03:18 PM [link]
Spoiling Disney
10.05.02
New Favorite: Ranch dressing with sun dried tomatos and feta cheese. Made by Hidden Valley. Yum.
Rant: What is with all these straight-to-video Disney movie sequels? The Peter Pan one even made it to the theaters. I understand that there is a profit to be made here, but we're screwing with tales that are older than time. If they mess with my personal favorite, Sleeping Beauty, they're gonna have to answer to me.
In the latest sequel, one for Beauty and the Beast, the Beast is back in Beast-form. Why? The whole point of the original movie was that someone fell in love with him and therefore turned him back into a handsome prince. And now all that was for naught?
I officially don't recognize the sequels as Disney movies. They're money-hungry Disney-exec grub.
09:42 PM [link]
Libraries
10.05.02
I am a very studious girl. I spent my Saturday at the LIBRARY. Actually, make that plural. For some reason, The Powers That Be at BGSU decided to make a separate science library and stick it on the other side of campus. I have never used the libraries to research before, my knowledge of them up to this point was the Reserve Room where professors put articles on reserve for us to come read.
What I don't get though is what's in the main library. It's 12 stories tall, and everything seems to be on the main floor. The main stacks, the reference stacks, and the government documents are all on the first floor. I know the fourth floor is the pop culture library, and the top floor is a study area, but what makes up the other 3/4 of the library, I have no idea.
I've heard people say they've gotten lost in it, though.
They don't have regular fiction novels at the library, you must go to the BG community library for that. To which I say, WHY? My life would improve dramatically if I could just pick up a book to read on the way home from class. I do not like the decision making process that went into this.
I DO like the government documents section though. I nearly burst with happiness when I found all the FBI reports and stuff they have there.
Now after being so productive and getting all the books I need to do two papers, I am going to play a video game. Too much productiveness is not good for Brooke.
04:46 PM [link]
General Hospital
10.04.02
Thanks to my roommate, I am now addicted to General Hospital. I'm sitting here needing a shower after walking home from class in the rain, and what thought is crossing my mind? "I have to wait until General Hospital is over, I want to see what happens to Jax!"
Stupid soap operas.
03:48 PM [link]
Working hard
10.04.02
I decided to not play video games today and to work on the page instead. I wrote five new opinions. Two are CDs (Velvet Chain and Robbie Williams) and three are books (Burning Time, Bait, and Artemis Fowl). Two of the book opinions are mean ones. I'll try to be happier tomorrow.
Listened to the new Leann Rimes CD the whole time I was working, and now I'm bursting with the need to sing
Baby shame on you if you fool me once
Shame on me if you fool me twice
You've been a pretty hard case to crack
I should've known better but I didn't
And I can't go back
Here's a toast to Leann finally going un-country. *holds up glass*
01:41 AM [link]
Robbie!!
10.03.02
This entry is dedicated to Melantha, because she's the only person who I know will appreciate this as much as I do...
From Billboard.com:
Robbie Williams has re-signed with EMI to a long-term multi-album recording deal understood to rank as the most expensive in British history. Industry insiders suggest the global pact could be worth upwards of £50 million (U.S. $78 million) for at least six albums, given that all the earning potentials reach the levels assumed....
...Williams will release his fifth EMI solo effort, "Escapology," in the U.K. on Nov. 18, in time to capture the Christmas market.
YEAH BABY, YEAH!! Excuse me, I have a trip to the UK to book, because Lord knows he's not releasing it Stateside.
01:25 PM [link]
Justin's a ho
10.02.02
Okay, first Justin was hittin' the strip clubs after breaking up with Brit, then he was connected with that dancer Jenna Dewan, and then he was reportedly sleeping with Janet Jackson, and now he's dating Alyssa Milano and is all excited because he had a crush on her when she was on Who's The Boss, BUT he just bought Jenna a new BMW and she's moving into his house. Can I say huh? And poor Brit having to hear about all this, it's bad enough breaking up with someone without having the whole world speculating about your ex's sex life. Britney can hang out with me any day, we can bash men together.
04:47 PM [link]
Photographs are up
10.01.02
I just added sixteen photographs to the new "photography" section. I'm still struggling with the javascript I used, for some reason it's giving me a white border on the top and left of the new window that pops up with the picture in it, and at least one of them is giving me that annoying IE picture shrinker/expander button. Can anyone help?
I don't think I'll be adding any more to this section now that it's up. The sixteen pictures I put up are my favorites. The rest of the prints either didn't develop well (too blurry, no contrast, scratched negatives which were the bane of my existance), are experimental stuff that I never really utilized (one involved making half the picture the positive side and the other half the negative side and was quite a headache) or else disappeared (MUCH to my dismay).
I might take more in the future, my beloved camera is sitting in my closet lonely and neglected. The only thing stopping me is the fact that I don't have access to a darkroom. 3/4 the fun of being a photographer is developing your own pictures. I used to eat my lunch in the photography classroom so that I could eat in 5 minutes and use the rest of the half hour to work. I miss that class (although I DON'T miss the hot guy who flirted with me all semester until I asked him to the Valentine's Day girl-ask-guy dance, after which he never talked to me again).
03:03 AM [link]