Archive for the ‘General’ Category

Article From New York Times

Wednesday, September 21st, 2005

Article from the New York Times, I posted it in whole here because you have to be a member to see it on the site plus I don’t think they keep them in archive that long for free members. I will post my comments about said article in the post above this to keep the length of this post down.

September 20, 2005
Many Women at Elite Colleges Set Career Path to Motherhood
By LOUISE STORY

Cynthia Liu is precisely the kind of high achiever Yale wants: smart (1510 SAT), disciplined (4.0 grade point average), competitive (finalist in Texas oratory competition), musical (pianist), athletic (runner) and altruistic (hospital volunteer). And at the start of her sophomore year at Yale, Ms. Liu is full of ambition, planning to go to law school.

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Happy Ass Grab Day!

Wednesday, September 21st, 2005

A friend was noting how soccer/football players like to pat each other on the ass before going out and playing the game. So we came up with a new holiday. Happy Ass Grab Day! With the motto ‘show a little love, pet a butt.’

International Drink Like a Pirate Day!

Monday, September 19th, 2005

Arrgghhh me mateys. So I was talking with my mom on the phone and called today International drink like a pirate day. It might make an interesting holiday, don’t ye think me mateys.

Argggh Matey talk like a pirate day!

Monday, September 19th, 2005

Arrgh ye landlubers, today is talk like a pirate day. So all ye scurvy rats better remember. Or it is off to walk the plank with you while I drink rum!

Random Thoughts

Tuesday, September 13th, 2005

Picked up the EQ2 expansion today, not sure it was worth it since I haven’t played in over a month and with school and all probably won’t have a ton of time to play now. We’ll see how it plays.

Sims 2 Nightlife comes out tomorrow, it looks interesting, too bad I can’t play it on the laptop, oh well guess I’ll hang out downstairs to play it. Which is good, spend time with Dan that way.

Been sick the last two days with a cold and it hasn’t been fun at all.

Reading Gilgemesh for history it is really good actually. Impressive what people wrote 3000+ years ago. They were quite good at getting their ideas across through a story.

Ordered new glasses today, my vision got worse, blegh, well my astigmatism in my right eye did anyways. The new glasses are hot. They are black frames with colours around the inside. Which I really like. I’m getting them with a new thing so that the lens change color in the sun, so I won’t have to carry around my sunglasses. The glasses cost a fair ammount, but much cheaper then getting them without insurance, yay for vision coverage when your eyes suck.

On that note the eyedoctor has this new vision test thing. Rather then putting drops in your eyes and diluting the pupil to scan the retna. They have a nifty machine that gets a much better view and no drops that screw up your eyes for hours, bonus! It cost a bit more then the other way, seeing as the other way was free, but it is a better option overall, so it was worth it. Nice east and quick. My eyes looks good, which at least means I’m not likely to go blind anytime soon yay!

My foot still hurts, but it is much better then Sunday, which is good, was just a muscle bruise I guess, which I’m glad of broken bones would not be fun. Especially not in the foot, well let’s be honest it won’t be fun anywhere.

I’m somewhat off my diet because of the sick thing and the whole no kitchen thing. I need to get back on it, it was working well, though the counting calories thing is a pain. Maybe I’ll use a spread sheet to do it rather then on paper.

Oh on that note, we now have a stove! They came yesterday and installed the stove and microwave, so of course we ordered in last night and tonight for dinner. Mainly because there are no dishes in the kitchen since we still don’t have the countertop, so it is hard to cook still, but at least we can now if we want too.

Other then that not much else has gone on in the past 2 days or so. Such is the exciting life I lead. Of school and home with the puppy and hubby.

Colds suck and my foot hurts

Monday, September 12th, 2005

Today is my whine post. I’m not in class today because yesterday I fell down in a parking lot. My foot got caught in a pothole and I landed hard on my foot, knee and hand. My foot got the worst of it. My hand is fine though my wrist is a bit iffy. My knee has a bruise and my foot is in pain. It was really bad yesterday it hurt to move on it. I used a heating pad on it for a few hours last night.

This morning though we decided it would be better for me not to go to class, that way I won’t be messing it up more by walking all across campus. So i am home today. Which isn’t too bad, but it still hurts some, less then yesterday but still.

I also have a cold, half of it is alergies, I hate fall, all the pollen and such is out in full force and so is my urge to sneeze. But I apparently caught something as well, I had a sore throat/ear on Saturday and it expanded to a full blown cold yesterday and today.

So I’m at home in pain and with a cold, whine!

I have glasses again!

Wednesday, September 7th, 2005

The frames came in yesterday so I now have glasses! and don’t have to wander around at midnight in sunglasses. I am quite pleased with this fact, yay glasses!

Random Rumbling

Sunday, September 4th, 2005

Went to the other bookstore today and they are out of the Micro Economics Packages to, so looks like I may have to bite the bullet and spend the extra 60$ blegh.

Went to the applestore as well and got my nifty keyboard cover thing for the laptop. Had lunch at the Jungle Cafe thing which was nice and got a sparkly glass. Also went to William and Sonoma, they had a sale on the stand mixers. So we got this one:

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It was over 30% off so we got a really nice deal on it. Dan has been wanted one for a couple of years, so I’m glad we finally got him one.

Not much else going on it is a quiet holiday weekend. We watched the end of season 2 of Law and Order last night from NetFlicks and will start on season 3 this week. I have a bit of reading to do for homework but nothing major for any of my classes yet.

Oh I still don’t have my glasses fixed hopefully I will by Tuesday, since the sunglasses look just isn’t me.

Have a good day all I think I am off to play some Sims2.

Katrina Donations

Tuesday, August 30th, 2005

Anyone interested in donating money to help out those who were in Katrina’s path can donate to the Red Cross. Remember your donation is tax deductable and can help out a lot of people who no longer have homes thanks to the huricane.

And yes we’ve already donated.

New Religion for me

Saturday, August 27th, 2005

Flying Spaghetti Monsterism, I’ve found my new religion. I have been touched by “His Noodly Appendage”.