Messages From Afar

Hello Again

2007-10-12T00:09:00.000-04:00

So...facebook is fun. It has been a really long time since I've posted on here and I blame facebook. But I'm here again and I'm going to remind you of my extreme nerdiness. Ashley and I are designing a Star Trek game. Heck yes. We've been doing lots of research too. Ashley is researching Voyager and I am researching The Next Generation. We've also got Michael helping us. We ask him lots of questions about Deep Space 9.
So our game is like a board game, with some RP mixed in. At the beginning of the game you get to draw your crew from the crew cards. There will be separate piles for the Senior Officers to make sure that everyone has a captain, engineer, etc. You also draw a goal card that gives you a specific task to perform. Then you roll the dice and move your ship across the across the grid of the four quadrants. Neat isn't it. The RP element comes in because there are different cards that you will need to draw, guest star cards and scenario cards. These cards will present you with a situation that you have to find a solution to. The other players then vote on whether or not your solution worked. To win the game a player must complete so many goal cards. This game is going to be the best ever, but it probably will only be appreciated by a select few Trekkies.

Doctor Who

2007-07-02T14:40:00.000-04:00

Well I'm at the library again, downloading Doctor Who. I'm so happy because the BBC took down all the new episodes of Doctor Who last week, but I found them this week. Now I wouldn't have minded much if the BBC had decided to enforce it's copyright laws a few months ago at the beginning of the season, but they started now, with two episode to go. Taking down the second of the three-part season finale is just mean. I would have had to wait about a year until it came on Sci-fi to see what happened, and even then I probably would have been on break so I wouldn't get to see it anyway. But it's alright now, because I found it on youtube. And I'm happy.
In other news I started teaching my self-defense class. I'm not sure how it is going to work out though. The first class I mostly talked and I think i scared all my students. Self-defense makes you paranoid. Anyway, I hope they loosen up next class.

Rambling

2007-06-20T15:08:00.000-04:00

Well it's been almost a month since my last post and that means that it's time to post again. I don't know that I have much to say. I haven't been doing much really. I never found a job and I've kindof given up. I helped with the dissection lab and that was fun. I was going to teach a self-defense class starting today, but no one called me to sign up for it. I'll probably try for that again though.
I looked at the books that I need to order for school next semester and I got pretty excited. I forgot that I was going to take Computer Science Fundamentals. The book is about Java which means that I'm finally going to learn programming. Yay. This will be fun. I'm excited about my other classes too, but I have this sinking feeling that Biochem and Ecology are going to cause me much suffering. That's why I'm ordering my books so early, so I can start working on Biochem. I've been learning my amino acids at night while I watch DVDs from the library.
The Creature from the Black Lagoon is pretty good, but those long underwater sequences don't hold the same novelty as they did fifty years ago. I wish that the DVD was in 3D. That would have been exciting. The only time that I screamed during the movie was when the 'archaeologist' yanked the 'fossilized' arm out of the rock wall. That was very distressing.
I'm getting the first season of Chip 'n Dale from the library this time. It was my favorite show when I was a kid. Mom doesn't remember it at all. I guess she was getting stuff done while I was distracted. Anyway, that's a fair sized post and now I'm going to read up on the Creature from the Black Lagoon on wikipedia.

;-) (This signifies that I am tired of coming up with titles)

2007-05-21T14:46:00.000-04:00

Yay. I'm at the library and I found a plug so I will be here a while. I had to go to a room in the library that I've never been in. The silent study room. I was all alone, but now there is a nice old man reading a book in the corner opposite me. I hope that my typing is not bothering him because I'm only assuming that he's a nice old man. Anyway. I just joined Facebook. There are a lot of people on there that I want to keep in contact with and I know that I need all the help that I can get since I'm very bad at keeping in contact. I think that everyone I know between the ages of 10 and 25 is on Facebook. Except Elisabeth and Jillian. If I don't make you my friend right away, it's because there are too many people and I'm overwhelmed. Anyway, I guess I'll get back to finding everyone.

WiFi, I love you so

2007-05-14T16:39:00.000-04:00

Well, I'm back home again, and I miss my internet very much. Right now I'm at the library. It got free wifi which is very exciting. It seems to be working pretty well too. I just hope that Tilion's battery lasts until I can download the new Doctor Who episode of YouTube. I can't seem to find a desk next to a plug. Very upsetting. Perhaps I need to explore more...or ask a librarian. That might work. When Tilion's battery runs out that's probably what I will do.
Either this desk is a bad height, or one week of not typing has messed me up, but I'm having a lot of trouble. Sad times. Well, I'm off to spend time with my dear friend Wikipedia. Ah, I missed him.

FREEEEEE!!!!!

2007-05-03T14:08:00.000-04:00

Raindrops keep fallin' on my head
But that doesn't mean my eyes will soon be turnin' red
Cryin's not for me
'Cause I'm never gonna stop the rain by complainin'
Because I'm free
Nothin's worryin' me

I'M DONE!!! I have nothing, I repeat nothing, that I need to study. That is a wonderful feeling. I can clean my room, call my parents, bathe, read a book, take a nap... anything. I am free. I don't have to think about complement cascades, or Kuhnian revolutions, or how to correct for boyency, or how to spell boyency... I refuse to worry about my summer job and packing up my room right now. I'm just going to sit here on my bed and think happy thoughts, and I can think about whatever I want to. YAY!!!!

Whine

2007-04-30T23:14:00.000-04:00

My day wasn't going to be that bad. It started out fairly well. I took my Spanish final, aced it, then went to the grassy bowl to study Immunology. That was nice. Then I went to lunch. I thought that lunch opened at 11:00, but apparently it didn't. So I went and checked my mail, then I remembered that I needed to fill out an application for graduation. So I did that and it asked me to list the classes that I needed to take my last semester. So I did that but I wasn't sure I had them all so I went to check with Dr. Hartz. That was a bad thing. She was tallying up all the classes that I had taken and she told me that I only had 10 hours in my biology electives and I needed 16. That was not good because I'm taking Biochem and Ecology next fall and they are both very hard lab sciences. And next spring I'm taking Senior Seminar and Selected Topics in Chem to finish my minor. Squeezing in an extra 6 hours of biology electives is not as easy as it sounds. So I went to my room to get my paperwork and see if she was right. Then I ran around like a chicken with its head cut off, harassing all the professors to see if they had any ideas and if they would let me do research for them. It was stressful. Not what I needed when I still have 4 finals to go. After about three hours I finally decide to do research with Dr. Hill in the fall and take Molecular in the spring. Drs. Hill and Hartzell are haggling over what Dr. Hill can make me do that will count for biology and not-so-much with the chem, when Dr. Hartz decides to find out what she was thinking when she told me that the schedule we had planned was fine. So we go to the registrar to get my folder and when she looks at it she realises that I came in before they revamped the program so I only need 10 hours of electives. After three hours. During finals week. When I have five finals. I was unhappy. But relieved. But still unhappy. So all that stress got directed towards my Analytical ACS standardized final that I'm taking tomorrow at 8 am that I cannot study too much for. This is not going to be a good week.

I swear I do homework

2007-04-28T01:31:00.000-04:00

If I was a bad guy I would want my theme music to be this cool. I mean, does it get much better than a full orchestra and a choir singing about how awesome you are in Latin? I think not.
Elisabeth borrowed Final Fantasy: Advent Children for me from Stephen. Now I'm obsessed with hair. Seriously someone must have spent a really long time looking at hair. The villain's hair looks just like mine except that it's white.

I would make such a good gamer nerd girlfriend. Stephen keeps trying to set me up with his friend. It's pretty funny actually because Elisabeth is dead set against the whole idea of setting up friends. This past year people keep trying to set me up, and I'm not sure how I should take this. Ashley is convinced that I should marry our friend Michael and have little trekkie babies, and when we were in England Ben was trying to set me up with a guy from his work. So what it really boils down to is whether I want a gamer nerd, a sci-fi nerd, or a computer nerd. I'm so nerdy sometimes I don't know what to do with myself.

Earlier this week I was on a Star Trek fix, Ashley and I found a bunch of things like this. Then we found Star Trek New Voyages. Rabid fans with too much time and money on their hands.
Then I got into a gaming fix and played Final Fantasy, and read lots of OOTS comics. Somewhere in their I finished watching all the fourth doctor episodes and started in on the fifth.
I promise that I am doing my homework and getting passing grades in all my classes.
I also made Barnaby this way cool aran sweater. That was a while ago, but I like it much better now that I'm not working on it anymore. It is hard to make up sweater patterns for oddly shaped bears.

I'm going to go to bed now and then wake up tomorrow morning hopefully and study some immunology. Doesn't that sound like a great motivation for getting up in the morning?
Yay. Complement cascades.

Heck Yes!

2007-04-03T22:10:00.000-04:00

What breed of horse are you? Find out!
Arabians are arguably the most beautiful breed of horse in the world. The bright, enourmous eyes, the graceful arching neck, and the famous dished face. You have a fiery temper, it takes quite a rider to tame your spirit. In a good mood, you may be found elegantly trotting the length of the fence with elevated gaits, and your mane and tail waving like flags in the wind. Everyone envies your beauty... but beware if they make you mad!
Your owner is most likely to be rich, and own a famous arabian breeding barn. You'll probably have an entire web site dedicated to you.
Your colour will most likely be: Reddish Bay, Dapple Grey, Palomino, or a glimmering Chestnut.

Love/Hate

2007-04-01T23:21:00.000-04:00

I love/hate being a biology major. I especially love/hate immunology, though at the moment I am leaning strongly to the latter of those two emotions. I love Dr. Hartz/hate her tests. I am going to get an F on this test tomorrow.

Planes are fun

2007-03-04T23:54:00.000-05:00

I flew back home on friday and it was quite the experience. First I am a good little traveler and I get to the airport in plenty of time to catch my flight. This time I got there a little after 1:00. My flight left at 2:44 and I was checked-in, through security and waiting at my gate by 1:30. I wasn't sure that I was at the right gate at first because there wasn't a gate listed on my boarding pass and the flight number was wrong on the little sign. But the time and the city were right and I realised that Delta only had the one gate. So I waited at the gate and read my book and it was nice. About 2:40 I began to get a little worried because I could see that my plane wasn't there yet. Sure enough, at about 2:50 they decided to announce that the flight was delayed because of maintenance or something like that. So we wait and they announce that if you have a connection before 4:45 that you need to see about later connections. My was at 4:45 so they said it would be alright. So we finally get on the plane and take off and the actually flight was fine. We get to Cincinnati and circle around for about 10 min, then we start coming in for a landing and I can see the airport and then I notice that we're not going down anymore, we're going up. A little while later the pilot announces that the tower got us a little to close to another plane. That was comforting. So we circle around for another 10 min and we make it all the way down this time. I get off and walk very quickly to my next gate. I look on the screen as I go by and it says the plane is on time (it's about 4:40 at this point). I follow the signs until I'm sure that I'm in the right place, the signs have numbers and my boarding pass has number, but lo and behold the gates have letters. So I look on all the little signs above the people and find St. Louis. This time it's the right flight number and everything. It still says that it is on time, it's not boarding yet, but there is a line of people waiting, so I sat down and waited. And then I waited some more. They announce that the plane will be leaving shortly so please stay in the area, and I start wondering if I should call my mommy and tell her what is going on. But I figure there's really no reason because I made my connection, so I wait some more. Somewhere around 4:55 they announce that the flight is delayed. Whoa, big surprise there. It was only supposed to leave 10 min ago. So I'm thinking about calling Mom again, but they are acting like it's only going to be a few more minutes so I wait. They they announce that it's delayed again, so I go to the phone and call mom and tell her that I'm going to be late. She's didn't seem very concerned because Dad was the one picking me up. They announce that they are going to start boarding soon, so I get off the phone and go back to my seat. I only had to wait a little bit and then they let us make our way towards the plane. We all get on and wait, after a bit the captain tells us that they are having some problems fueling the plane. I've got a window seat so I can see the people messing around with stuff and that amuses me for a while. I read my book for a bit and then the captain says it's all taken care of and they did the whole safety review bit. And we sit there, and we wait. The captain gets on again and he sounds a bit annoyed. He informs us that the airline won't let us take off because there is an employee that wants to go with us. So we wait. Again. I'm starting to get a little miffed. About an hour and a half after we were originally supposed to leave, the guy shows up and we finally take off. After that the all the announcements were made by the copilot. I suspect that the pilot was too miffed. The flight to St. Louis was relatively uneventful. I got some pretty pictures of the sunset and the clouds though.
When I got to the airport I found Daddy pretty quickly. He had bought a book and some gummy bears, but he had been waiting a while and was kinda miffed too, but not nearly as much as the pilot and me. I told Daddy the whole story, and then I said that I wouldn't be surprised if they lost my luggage too.
We waited for my luggage for a while and looked around a bit and then decided that they had lost my luggage. I was not surprised. I waited a long time in the line to tell them that my luggage was lost and then we went home. My luggage came the next day, but I'm still not pleased about that flight. The great part is that they kept saying "Sorry for the trouble. Thank you for choosing Delta." These people are incorrigible.

Winnie the Pooh

2007-02-25T14:45:00.000-05:00

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Life, the Universe, Everything

2007-02-19T11:39:00.000-05:00

Blah. That is how I feel right now. I am sick and stuffy. It doesn't help that I am taking Immunology right now, so I know exactly what and what is not happening in my body right now. I can't get a break from studying. Anyway I already told some people but, this is what I did last weekend:

Ashley, Katie and I decided to do this a while ago. College is really the only time you get to do crazy stuff with your hair. So we all dyed the ends. This way, we can cut it off later. I'll probably get mine cut over Spring Break (which is Mar 4-11). After I explained the logic of it to Dr. Hill he said it made him regret not dying his hair in college. It was pretty funny.
I pretty much ran out of room on my flickr, which is sad. So here is a picture of me and my friends at the Valentine's banquet this year:
Heck yes. We are cool. I have to go to Spanish now. I will add to this post later.

edit: So, yeah. We decided to go Goth to the Valentine's Banquet. I think it's really funny. I was looking at the picture and wondering why I make such a good goth and I realised it was because I am so pale. Look at me. I'm like the whitest white girl that ever lived. I look like I'm dead. Oh well. I have fun wings now. I made them the day of the banquet. Hot glue is my friend. I think that I'm going to have to bend them back or something because I've got like a five foot wingspan and I had to go sideways through all the doors. It was a problem. But I like them anyway.

Hiya

2007-01-27T15:14:00.000-05:00

Well, it's been a month since I posted and that is the limit that I like to set for myself. So here is a post...I have some pictures from England on my flickr. I shall now tell on of the more amusing anecdotes from my trip. It happened the first night in our hotel at bath. I was very tired. We left Dayton the day before at noon, drove to Atlanta, flew in a plane for ~9 hours, got to London between 7 and 8 am, drove to Stonehenge, toured Stonehenge, drove to Bath, toured Bath, went to our hotel, and then we were told we had to stay up until our meeting at 8 pm was finished. I was very tired. I had a bit of time before dinner, but I was afraid that if I took a nap, I would never get up again. So I decided to explore the hotel (it was a pretty old Victorian house that had been converted to a hotel). So I came down the stairs and was deciding which way to go next when an elderly gentleman passes in front of me on his way to the lounge. The conversation that ensued went a little something like this:
Elderly Gentleman: *something unintelligible*
Me: *looks blankly at EG from within jet-lagged stupor*
EG: *repeats unintelligible query*
Me: *continues to stare blankly* "Hello?"
EG: "You don't speak Brazilian?"
Me: "No..."
EG: "You really should learn."
Me: *blank stare*
EG: *Stream of unintelligible words*
Me: *blank stare*
EG: *More unintelligible words"
Me: *blank stare*
EG: "Blush prettily and say 'Obligada senor'"
Me: "Obligada senor."
EG: *laughs* "I told you that you have very pretty eyes."
Me: *blushes uncertainly* "Thank you?"
EG: *walks off chuckling to himself*
Me: *left in confused jet-lagged stupor with burning cheeks*
To flee the scene of awkwardness, I continued with my original plan of exploring the hotel, ducking into random corridors whenever I heard someone approaching. Later that night at dinner I told the people at my table what had happened. To which Ben's response was something along these lines: "You've been in this country less than 12 hours and you are already getting hit on by strange men. That's it, we're not letting you go off by yourself anymore." So after that I pretty much hung around Ben and George all week. George goes to our school, (he's my new roommate's boyfriend) and Ben is his brother-in-law. Ben didn't know anyone besides George before this trip. When Mr. Bernie expresses concern about this, Ben's wife replied "He'll be fine. He's a people person". We all had fun times.

London Bound

2006-12-27T21:20:00.000-05:00

I am back at school for tonight because tomorrow at 12:00 the Great London Adventure begins. We leave school at noon to go to Atlanta and then we fly to London. Yay. My Christmas present this year was a digital camera. A Canon PowerShot A530. I like it lots. Karen got me a 1 GB card so I can take lots of pictures. I've posed some on my flickr already. If I find an internet cafe in London I may post some while I'm there, but no promises.

Edit: So I have to tell you about my little adventure that I just had. I call it WWMD: What Would MacGyver Do?
So I got back to my dorm room and I had to unlock my door. I've never done that before, I never even used my key because Ashley locked my door when I left. So I turn the key to the right and I feel a lot of resistance so I turn my key to the left and the door opens. I am happy and I prop the door open with my backpack while I drag my stuff it. Then I sit at my computer for a couple hours researching London, watching Doctor Who and whatnot. I also finish sewing my sweater together. Then I get the bright idea to go look at my new sweater in the mirror. There is only one full-length mirror on our hall and it's in the bathroom. So that's where I went, allowing the door to slam shut behind me. After admiring my handiwork in the mirror I return to my room only to discover that it is locked. Now it is still Christmas break and there is hardly anyone around. I've got nothing on me, no key, no card, no shoes. After trying every thin flexible thing that I could lay my hands on I begin to walk the halls in vain hope of finding someone with a key. I did manage to find EJ who is an RA and going to London with me. She was spending quality time with her boyfriend. But it turns out that the RAs only have keys that will unlock the doors on their hall, so no help there. I call numerous telephone numbers with no luck. One of the girls that I had found on my walk down the halls had locked herself out and she had gotten Night Watch to let her in. So I called that number and didn't get an answer. This is after midnight by the way. So I proceed to call Night Watch every half hour. In the meantime I was trying every thing that I could think of to get in my room. I went around and looked at the other doors to see how they worked and I found a bit or wire to work with. I was trying to get the wire to hook over the thing so that I could pull it. Then I got the idea to get some yarn in the door, weight it so that it would drop down to underneath the door, and then pull it up and pull from both sides of the thing. It was a brilliant plan, maybe I'll draw a diagram later. So I ripped out the seam in my pretty sweater and implemented my plan. It took a lot of work and I lost my needle to the other side of the door, but I finally got the yarn where I wanted it to be. Alas the yarn was not strong enough, not to mention the fact that I was wrong about which way the thing faced, the card that I borrowed from Tyler should have worked darn it. Defeated I went down to call Night Watch one more time before settling down to sleep in the lounge. Miracle of miracles I finally got someone. The nice lady came to my rescue and unlocked my door for me. After she left I got my key out and started fiddling with the lock to see what was up. Apparently you have to turn the key all the way to the left and then turn it straight up again before the door will be unlocked. It is a bad system. If you turn the key too far to the right the door locks again, if you don't turn it far enough to the right the door won't unlock. It is probably the dumbest lock ever and I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of other people got locked out of their rooms too.

I'm home

2006-12-18T23:06:00.000-05:00

So I learned last week that you loose a lot of sleep over weddings, even when they are not yours. I think that when I get married I'm going to need to set a limit to the number of parties people are allowed to throw for me. I slept most of the way back on sat and I was still tired when I got home.
So to inform everyone I am here for about a week until the 27th when I'm leaving again FOR ENGLAND!!! I'm going to England for eleven days. I'm going to Stonehenge, and Bath, and London, and Dover, and Canterbury. I am excited. Eric is coming too. I'm going to be so exhausted when I get back to school because I probably won't sleep at all when I'm there. We're going to see castles, and cathedrals, and plays, and when I'm not doing all that I'll be getting lost in London or watching BBC. It will be so fun. I can't wait.
If anyone wants to do something this week, you should call me. Otherwise I'll probably just stay at home and sleep, knit and play with Archie.

Surprise, I'm alive

2006-12-06T14:45:00.000-05:00

I know that you all thought that I was dead, but I'm not, yet. This next week may kill me. I have a test in History of Life tomorrow, a speech in Comm Friday. Then next week I have take home test for Fine Arts, paper for Comm, History of Life final, Comm final, Group Presentation sans group, Intro to Lit final, and Spanish Final. Yeah I'm most excited about that presentation in Fine Arts. There are three people per group, one dropped out of school, one decided his grade was good enough already and that left me all alone to do a presentation on Stonehenge. I like Stonehenge now, but I expect I won't in a week.
To de-stress I've been spending a lot of time on YouTube with this guy:

who I found because of this guy:

Doctor Who is my hero. I like him lots.

I will be sad when I have to go home back to my dial-up internet. I will miss YouTube. I tried watching Doctor Who when I was at home for Thanksgiving and it took about a half hour to get five minutes. I nearly died. When I go to London at Christmas I will wear scarves and look for police boxes and Doctor Who on DVD. Maybe I'll even buy a Dalek action figure.

Mom is right. I should never do drugs.

I'm Nerdy in the Extreme and Whiter than Sour Cream

2006-11-06T17:56:00.000-05:00

So...I haven't posted here in a while... I've been busy. The Henning Museum opened this weekend. You should all come and see it. I did lots of hard work in it. I found out today that a bunch of people came to visit Eric and Dan this weekend BUT NOT ONE OF THEM CAME TO SEE ME!!! I'm sensing a pattern. It's pretty much really, really depressing. People say they love me...but, I don't know. Anyway I spent all day sat in the museum which is probably why I didn't see any of the visitors (even though I told Eric to bring his parents by). We had lots of crazy fun waiting for people to come by. We had a grand total of I think 87 people on sat. Pretty good. People really seemed to like what we did.
So after the museum opened I thought that I was going to get my life back, but apparently not. I signed up for classes on wed and had a talk with Dr. Hartz. She says that I need to start applying for graduate schools now. Which means I need to (a) pick a graduate school, (b) pick a major/decide what I'm going to spend the rest of my life researching, and (c) take the GREs. I'm not really sure which one of these to freak out about more, but I'm pretty sure freaking out is in order. Besides all this I need to start looking for a summer internship. It would be nice if I could find one in Missouri, but i guess it's nice to know that I can go to Maryland if nothing else. I really don't want to go to Maryland though. And I would need a car. So I thought that I had taken refuge at my tiny little Christian school, but life is catching up to me.
In other news I apparently singlehandedly made the word 'snog' the hall word, and Ashley has made 'White and Nerdy' the hall music video. My hall is so cool.

I can see my house from here

2006-10-08T04:35:00.000-04:00

So it is now 4:28 am. But it's okay 'cause I didn't get up till 2:00 p.m. today. My roommate isn't here and so I was doing schoolwork. Then I decided to look up how close Oxford was to England because I wanted to see if I might be able to visit the Bird and Baby while I'm there at Christmas (I'm pretty sure I can. Yay!). Then I discovered something really, really cool. The satellite feature on Google maps. I'd always seen it but never used it. That was very, very silly of me. So after touring all of England and Scotland I realized that I might be able to find my house on this thing. And I did. Then I found church, and Jill's house, and Eric's house, and grandma's house, and the library, and SCCC, and Dairy Queen, and all kinds of other things. It was amazing. It is also rather difficult to figure out what things are when you are used to seeing them from the side and not from above, but it is super fun. I've decided I'm going to get Elisabeth, Jillian, and Ashley in here to show them around town. I'm hoping that they are all coming home with me for Fall Break. I know Jillian is. Elisabeth still has to get final permission from her Dad, and Ashley might need to stay and catch up on school. But I think that they will all end up coming. We will probably end up coming on sat the 14th. I'm very excited. This will be fun. Anyway, you should all try to play with google maps now because it is very fun. I like it a lot.

Yay for the internet

2006-09-22T19:42:00.000-04:00

Llama Song

Why Do We Do It to Ourselves

2006-08-30T00:37:00.001-04:00

National Science Foundation: Science Hard

Home Again, Home Again Jiggity Jog

2006-08-22T10:23:00.000-04:00

So here I am back on good ol' Bryan Hill. I'm laying in my new bed right now trying to decide if I should shower and go get my picture taken, or not. I woke up with a headache. I think I have a laughter hangover. Jillian, Elisabeth and I were up till 1:30 last night having a welcome back party. Let the good times roll.
I now live in what is affectionately been dubbed "The Palace" aka North Hall, the brand new dorm on campus. It's very different and very far away from everything else on campus. But I think I like it. I live on NE 4th aka The Garden. My old roomie Ashley is the R.A. We have movable furniture here. So there are good and bad things about movable furniture that I found out yesterday. It is very hard to arrange, especially when your room is smaller than everyone else's and you cannot find your roommate. But our room is dang cool now. My bed is high though and I need to get a step stool. I really wanted a little milking stool but the Dayton Wal-mart doesn't have them. I don't know why not, there are cows all over the place. I'll post pictures when my room is fully assembled and I can either (a) get Ashley to take pictures with her new digital camera, or (b) pry her new digital camera out of her cold dead hands. It was really hard to unpack because I had a nice system going in Long and now I'm surrounded by drawers and storage everywhere. It is bewildering. But I think I found an arrangement that I like.
So when I showed up Sunday night I didn't know who my roommate was, or if I even had one. I found out that I do have one. Her name is Summer and she plays soccer. She is a sophomore and transferred to here from another school. I think she may be frightened of me because she doesn't talk to me unless she has to. But when she does talk to me at length I like her. So this will be an interesting experience.
I think I will go see if Ashley is awake and if she has aspirin.

Star Wars Monkey

2006-08-05T01:40:00.000-04:00

So for all of you out there who are wondering "How does her mind work?" I give you this example. Okay, make the thought bubble appear...Oh, what have we got here? Oh! It's a monkey!!! Yeah, pretty much how I operate. Seriously. One time when I was falling asleep (I fall asleep by making up stories and pretty much letting my imagination run rampant) and all I saw was space and then this cow came floating through, really slowly, and then when it was in about the middle of my view it turned and let out one big long MMMMOOOOOO. Then it turned away and continued with its floating. Then I laughed. People wonder how I handle the long hours at the Pfizer company store. There's hours of mindless entertainment just waiting for a chance to be set free in this little brain of mine.
Here are a few more of my favorite flash cartoons:
There She Is Another sickeningly cute Korean flash, but not nearly as bad as the eggs,
8 Bit D&D This pretty much just cracks me up and makes me want to play D&D,
One Ring to Rule Them All There are sequels to this and they are funny.
Hahaha I am such a nerd.

News from the Fishtank

2006-07-13T23:03:00.000-04:00

So I researched dwarf puffer fish and learned many interesting things. First and foremost of which is that Dwarf Puffer Fish and Long-tailed Zebra Danios are probably the worst combination ever. Brilliant. Apparently the adorable teeny tiny 1.5" puffers are notorious nippers and will nip other, even much larger fish, to death. My Danios are prime targets for this treatment because they are long-finned. There is a chance however that my puffer may not exhibit this behavior which is what I am hoping for. But this is all beside the point until I can be assured that he A. will live and B. will not spread disease to my other fish which means about three weeks in the quarantine tank.
I also found out that these guys are really picky about the food they eat and will sometimes eat only live food. Well that is a behavior that my puffer exhibits which may be the reason he was starving to death in the first place. So I have had to procure live food for him which means hatching brine shrimp. This is not the easiest operation and makes my room look like the abode of a mad scientist. But I managed to do it and miracle of miracles my fishie ate. It was really fun. Baby brine shrimp are teensy tiny; little itty bitty specs. So its fun to watch the fishies try to catch them. Hard to see the little buggers are. So everything was good and Puffer was looking much happier and heathier and his tummy even unstuck from his spine. Then all the brine shrimp died (I followed the directions and turned the air off, unfortunately I needed to turn it back on and I did not realise this. FYI the life expectancy of a jar of baby brine shrimp with out air is about three hours). So I began the process to hatch the brine shrimp again (the process takes about 1 hour BTW). Puffer slept all night, and then he slept all day. When the new shrimp hatched I tried to feed them to him, but he didn't want any. I didn't know what was wrong. Then the shrimp all died again (I still hadn't learned about the whole air thing. What? Living creatures need to breath? I am a biology major and had a whole semester of Zoology?). So anyway, at about 6:30 I declared a fishie emergency and called in an expert. Unfortunately Elisabeth was at VBS (Darn kids). So I watched Master of Champions and So You Think You Can Dance and waited. So Elisabeth called me back and I explained to her the whole situation (she revealed to me the whole air thing) and we came up with the most likely problem. Constipation. My fish is constipated. I don't know if a fish can die of constipation, but I really hope not. So I am hatching yet another batch of brine shimp (drat them) and we will hope for better things tomorrow. On the upside Puffer looks a little better now and is moving around to find the best spot to sleep and Elisabeth says that baby brine shrimp are incredibly nutritious so Puffer should have gotten some good stuff out of his meal. The outlook is pretty good. I have to go salt some eggs now.

Good day

2006-07-10T18:37:00.000-04:00

I saved a little dwarf puffer fish today. I went to Petsmart and saw him there. He's so tiny, about an inch long, and he was in a tank with a bunch of larger semi-aggressive fish. His tummy is all shrunken and he came right up to the glass and said, "Save me!" So you see why I had to. Even though I never buy fishies when they have other dead fishies in their tanks I made an exception. He's in my one-gallon upstairs right now. I really hope that he lives. He's just too pretty to die. (Whoa, random Firefly quote out of nowhere).
So even though since I was really little my favorite section of the library has been the fairy tale section in the non-fiction, I had never thought to look for the reciprocal section in the adult non-fiction. What a fool I was. It occurred to me today when I was at the library and I immediately looked it up. It was amazing. It was like the day I found the juvenile section all over again. Amazingly enough I managed to limit myself to only two books: English folk tales and Dragons. Have I mentioned how much I love the library?
So after that I went to Wal-mart and picked up my pictures. There were some really good ones too. I am in the process of uploading them to my new Flickr right now.
And then I went to Kohl's and bought a fun new shirt for $4.20. It has cool sleeves.
I am in the process of teaching myself html now. I got impatient for my nerd to come. Hopefully this blog will presently undergo a stunning change for the better. If nothing else I have learned all about colors with the help of this. Super fun and educational too.

I have no mind. I'm the village idiot.

2006-06-28T22:40:00.000-04:00

So I watched West Side Story the other night for the first time. I then proceeded to watch it another three, now going on four, times. To be fair though I needed amusement whilst cleaning my room in preparation for painting it. But I do like the movie and it has taught me some things that I shall now list for your ammusement.
1. Snapping makes you cool.
2. I need to dance more.
3. I need to get a cool jacket/wear my cool jacket.
4. Buckling your belt on the side of your pants instead of the front makes you cool.
5. I have neither grace nor poise.
6. If I am ever found in an awkward position with the murderer of my sibling by the lover of my sibling, I should sing a song.
7. I need to train my friends to be cool enough to sing a song like Officer Krupke on the spur of the moment. 'Cause that makes you cool too.
8. When I am old I want to be called Doc. 'Cause old people named Doc are cool.
9. I need a cool nickname like A-rab, Ice, Anybodys, Snowboy, Riff etc. etc.
10. When you're a Jet, you're a Jet all the way from your first cigarrette to your last dying day.

Your results:
You are An Expendable Character (Redshirt)

An Expendable Character (Redshirt)		85%
Beverly Crusher		80%
Deanna Troi		75%
Uhura		65%
Chekov		60%
Geordi LaForge		55%
Mr. Scott		55%
Worf		50%
James T. Kirk (Captain)		45%
Jean-Luc Picard		45%
Mr. Sulu		45%
Leonard McCoy (Bones)		45%
Data		43%
Spock		42%
Will Riker		30%

Since your accomplishments are seldom noticed,
and you are rarely thought of, you are expendable.
That doesn't mean your job isn't important but if you
were in Star Trek you would be killed off in the first
episode you appeared in.

Click here to take the Star Trek Personality Quiz

It's a Strawberry Day

2006-06-16T00:09:00.000-04:00

Today I had Special K with strawberries in it for breakfast. I’m wearing a new item of clothing that has strawberries on it. I had fresh strawberries on my ice cream for desert and right now I’m eating strawberry flavored yogurty-covered fruity dots. I should have had a strawberry-flavored icee too, but I got blue raspberry instead and it spilled all over me. Because I wasn’t supposed to have it. You have to pay attention when it is a strawberry day or you get in trouble.
Today I found 3 black jelly beans in the gumball machine. Score. They were a little chewy, but still good. As a reward I dusted the gumball machine and counted out his money and it made a pretty penny and I put it in me pocket and I took it home to Jenny… Anyway I’ve got $2.67 in mostly pennies to take to the store to buy more candy. I think that I need to hire me some cute little kid to go to Wal-mart and put all the pennies in the self check out. Sounds like the best plan to me. Or I could take the pennies to the bank and have it roll them for me, but that just sounds like too much trouble.
I went to the library the other day and I was really happy to find three books and two DVDs waiting for me that I had not expected to be in yet. I was very happy. It made me think. I think that when the library made it possible to reserve items online, it was one of the best things that has ever happened to me. I love my library. And I love librarians. The ones at my library all know me by name. I told them that they should just dedecate an entire reserve shelf for me. Seriously. Mom always knows when I'm coming home because a few days before she starts getting calls from the library. I keep a picture of my library over my bed at school. Libraries are the best. And my library rocks. They get the newest DVDs so I don't have to pay to watch them. Why do people pay for movies? Go to the library.
It's much nicer to not have to pay for movies and get them for an entire two weeks. Mom can make it through an entire DVD of Farscape without having to rent the DVD again. And that is saying something.
I think that I have lauded strawberries, gumball machines and libraries enough for one night. I'm going to check my e-mail now.

Bio Major I am

2006-06-02T16:11:00.000-04:00

Im honor of the new Pirates of the Carribean movie coming out July 7, I redecorated Captain Jack's cage accordingly.

How great is that. Jack really likes all the sticks in it too. He tore off most of the green napkin to put in his nest, but he left a little so it does still look like a tree. I had great fun.
In other news Mommy found a dead bird in the yard today that was in a rather severe state of decomposition. I named him Stewart. I collected all the bones and put them in sherbert container. I'm going to let the maggots finish eating all the flesh and then I'm going to clean the bones and attempt to put them together. I think that Stewart broke his wing though because there were a lot of bone fragments under his head. No matter what I still have his head and jawbone so I can put those together and have that. But I hope that I'll be able to get a bit more. Bird have a lot of teeny tiny little bones though so I'm not overly hopeful. Oh well. Here's a picture of Stewarts bones. They're pretty well cleaned off.

I like being a bio major. It's really fun sometimes.

Home again, home again jiggity jig.

2006-05-17T00:31:00.000-04:00

Well, I'm back at home now. I'm trying to adjust to not haveing insane amounts of homework to do all the time. I'm also having problems with having to do things other than eat, sleep, and study. I was having a conversation with Mom in the kitchen and I kept unconsciously opening the pantry door and reaching for food even though I wasn't hungry. I wasn't sleeping or studying so my subconcious mind was telling me that I should be eating. College is bad.
I played with Jack tonight. I put a towel on my bed and a bunch of random boxes and bits of cardboard and let him run around while I watched Stargate. He likes cardboard tubes. He thinks he might like computers too, but since I won't let him get anywhere near them, we may never know. We did discovered this amazingly fun new thing called "Bucket O' Sticks" I think it's Jack's new favorite plaything. He was like a little chid at a playground that didn't want to go home. I had to take a bunch of the sticks out to catch him again. I bought some fishies on Saturday. Three long finned Zebra Danios. They seem to be very happy. Their recovery time was amazing, almost as soon as I let them out of the bag they were swimming around and playing with each other. The Snail doesn't seem to care about them, though I didn't expect that he would. I found out last week the The Snail like lettuce. I think he ate his body weight in lettuce in about an hour. The Snail is a glutton. But he's nearly indestructable. He survived Dr. Hartzell, he can survive me.

Mmmm...goo

2006-05-02T00:06:00.000-04:00

I want to melt into a puddle of goo. There is just something about my imaginings of the ability to ooze that sounds very appealing right now. I really don't know why. I finished Genetics today. I am happy about that. I have two more finals to go. Two more 8:00 am finals. Why? Why I ask? As if Calculus-Based Physics and Organic Chemistry aren't difficult enough, they have to have finals at 8:00 am as well? So I will be done Thursday morning after my Chem final. My 8:00 am Chem final. I think that someone in administration is trying to kill me...or drive me mad...if it's the latter I think that they may have succeeded. I already know that the entire Biology faculty is plotting to stop us all from eating meat. Secondary amines. Hah! I laugh in the face of parasites.
Here's a picture that amuses me.

Somehow, the doghouse of solitude seems like a bad place to go. Or is that just me?

Just before it came up I said "I hope I'm not Neo."

2006-04-25T21:08:00.000-04:00

You scored as Neo, the "One". Neo is the computer hacker-turned-Messiah of the Matrix. He leads a small group of human rebels against the technology that controls them. Neo doubts his ability to lead but doesn't want to disappoint his friends. His goal is for a world where all men know the Truth and are free from the bonds of the Matrix.

Neo, the "One"

83%

Batman, the Dark Knight

79%

William Wallace

75%

Lara Croft

75%

Indiana Jones

67%

James Bond, Agent 007

67%

Captain Jack Sparrow

63%

The Terminator

63%

Maximus

63%

El Zorro

46%

The Amazing Spider-Man

42%

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Blah! Blah, I say!

2006-04-24T23:19:00.000-04:00

I am ready for school to be over. This semester has not been overly fun. Taking three lab sciences was not a good idea. In chapel today they awarded all the various scholarships and certificates to people. I decided that when I was an alumnus I would have a scholarship to "The student in the natural sciences, declaring an intent to continue their education in the field of research, that has the most ambition and who also bathes regularly." I think that I might be able to get that one. If I haven't told you I am now an advocate for extra credit for bathing regularly. I tried to convert Dr. Hartz and Dr. Impson, but they didn't seem to be as keen on the idea. Come on. It's good for everyone. Especially during finals week. Elisabeth thinks that I should start a petition and post it all over campus. Maybe I'll start a blogring or something. When you get to that point when you reward yourself for finishing your physics homework by bathing...something is wrong with the world. When there is a little voice in your mind saying, "No, no. You cannot bathe yet. You must wallow in your stench and filth until all those physics problems are finished.", something must be done. Extra credit for bathing I say. Make the classroom a nicer place for all.

Love is in the air

2006-04-01T15:49:00.000-05:00

This might explain why no one has been able to pick out my love language for me. I've got three. Basically anything but gifts will work.

My primary love languages are probably
Physical Touch and Quality Time.

Complete set of results

Physical Touch:		8
Quality Time:		8
Acts of Service:		7
Words of Affirmation:		6
Receiving Gifts:		1

Take the quiz

Pop. Tire

2006-03-24T00:25:00.000-05:00

So there are many things that have occurred in my tank since I last spoke of them. I figured that you were all dying to be updated on the drama that is my fishtank, so here you go.

The Party Tank
Jillian's mommy found a tank at a garage sale for $10 over Christmas break and Jillian gave it to me. It is another 10 gallon, it is taller than my other one and it came with a under gravel filter, a light, crushed coral, a magnetic scraper. It rocks. I call it the party tank because when the fluorescent light is turned on, it flashes a few times before it stays lit. Jillian said that it looked like my fish were having a rave. The front two corners are also curved, so that everything looks funny through them. The fish seem to like that.

Fire
Rainbow and the party tank went to Florida with me and while we were there we picked up a new fishy. A Fire Dwarf Gourami. I was a little afraid when I put him in because of Rainbow's aggressive behavior toward Emerald (resulting in her untimely death). When I put Fire in Rainbow did indeed begin to nip at him. Fire didn't seem to care too much. After further observation we determined why. Fire is stupid. Really stupid. I believe that it is a result of inbreeding. Dwarf Gouramis are normally mixed red and blue, and they have to be bred for a solid color like Fire is. So Fire happily swam up and down in the corner while Rainbow tried desperately to assert himself. It was funny. Rainbow's strategy eventually became to hide from the stupid fish. At all costs. Everything was good. I thought that it would work out. When I got back to school there was much homework. Much homework. So I didn't notice until wed. night that Rainbow's fins weren't looking so good (this was about the fourth hour of the physics marathon). Thurs night I set up the party tank and transferred Fire into it. Fri. morning Rainbow died. I think that what happened was that Rainbow stressed himself out over the new fish and trying to hide from the stupidity. His fins got a little ripped up. Then Fire, being the bright one that he is, caught sight of those trailing fins and decided they would be fun to play with. Whatever happened, there was definite nipping on the part of Fire. I hold him responsible. He will not be with us much longer.

The Snail
Before spring break the Zoology class was studying mollusks and I asked Dr. Hartzell if I could have one of the apple snails when they were finished. He said I could. When we got back from spring break we discovered that everything that was in the tank had to all appearances died. But there was one little snail that was still stuck to the side of the tank. Elisabeth said that if it had suction, it was alive still. So I got a little specimen jar and brought him back to my room. I wasn't entirely certain that it was alive, but I scraped a little of the algae off the side of my tank and put it in for him. I don't think that he ate it. But he did crawl up onto the side of the jar. Later when I picked it up to look for signs of life he fell off. We did this three times over the course of two days. The third time I decided that it must not be random motion and that he really was alive, but very weak. So I put him in the big tank. The next time I looked he was halfway across the tank and happily gorging himself on the overgrowth of algae my tank had acquired. I think that Dr. Hartzell might have starved the rest to death. So The Snail is still happily eating and appears quite strong and healthy from what I can tell.

The tadpoles
Jillian and Aaron caught a pair of mating frogs last week and have been keeping them. They gave me some of the eggs for Rainbow and Fire to eat. Fire nibbled on them a bit, so when I transferred him I put the eggs with him. I then forgot all about them with the drama of Rainbow's demise. So last night at about 2:00 am I discovered 9-10 little tadpole merrily frolicking about the party tank. They are happily eating the algae off the rocks I put in there and so far none appear to have died. Fire doesn't seem to care about them so I guess I'll raise them up into froggies and then set them free. I think that if I tried to set them free now that they would die from the transfer, the cold, or the predators.

Tire
In general I avoid buying fish a Wal-mart just because of the poor health and myriad of diseases that they can have. But today I saw a fishy that was just so cute and so sad that I had to save him. Especially because all that my one tank has right now is a snail and that is sad to me. He is a Peacock or Tire Tread Eel. He's so sweet. I love him already. He's buried his little self in the gravel and all you can see is his little tail and his nosie sticking out. He's about three or four inches long right now. He's going to have lots and lots of fun playing and digging in my aquatic soil. At Wal-mart he and his brothers didn't have anything to play in. It was very sad. One of his brothers was laying on his side and looked like he would die any minute. Poor little thing. But I rescued Tire and he will be happy and cute and play and play. And I will post about him.

More quiz

2006-03-19T23:44:00.000-05:00

Hehehe. Take my diabolically difficult and strange quiz. If you get all of these questions right, you really do know me.

Me like fysyks

2006-03-16T04:05:00.000-05:00

I would just like to announce that after nine straight hours of hard work, I have completed my physics homework. All of it. Every last problem. I did it all. I have a really bad headache and I am going to bed now, well satisfied with my 90.63% avg. score.

P.S. I almost gave up several times, but I told myself that I had to work until four, and that's what I did and I got all the problems done.

P.P.S. I hope you all realise what a huge accomplishment this really is. I am excited.

Quiz Thingamajiger

2006-03-14T22:31:00.001-05:00

Please take this quiz thingy. I am very curious as to what the outcome of this will be.

Spring Break Day 1 and 2

2006-03-12T09:20:00.000-05:00

Well, I'm back. And instead of going to church I have decided to post on my blog. Yay priorities. But florida was not nice to me. I have allergies, sunburn and a swollen ankle. Though my sunburn is rather funny. I used sport sunscreen which is not a greasy and as an unknown consequence, does not spread as well. I have tribal markings. So does Jillian. Elisabeth tans. We don't like her anymore. So I'm sure that you are all dying to know what I did so I'll break it up by day.
Day 1 Sat
Drove for 9 hours to Jacksonville. I slept a lot. There was much crocheting. We bought fireworks to set off at the beach. When we got to Jillian's house there was much lazing about. Set up fishie tank. Ate tacos. Went to sleep.
Day 2, Sun
Hot water heater broke. Four women + No hot water = Late to church. Jillian's church is a lot bigger than either Elisabeth or I expected. And a lot more cavernous. I got so lost in that thing. We were introduced by Jillian and her parents as "This is Elisabeth. This is Michelle. They are family." Much hugging from people I did not know. Went back to Jillian's house and then Nic came over. We watched Singing in the Rain while Nic drew a picture of Aaron as a My Little Pony. We ate tacos on the floor. After Nic left we went paddling around the lake in the canoe. Jillian and Elisabeth paddled. I sat in the middle and got splashed with cold water every time Elisabeth switched sides. Then we went and ate tacos again. We celebrated Elisabeth's 20th birthday by eating cake and singing. Elisabeth got a bubble bath with rose petals (Jillian's daddy managed to get the hot water heater to work temporarily. I am unsure as to the details). I was introduced to Iron Chef America. I...am going to leave that alone. Went to sleep.

Ware the Craftycelticcrazycar

2006-03-04T02:11:00.000-05:00

So, in about seven hours I will begin one of the pivitol events of my life. My first road trip sans adults (somehow the trips with Eric don't count. They just don't). Whoo hoo. This will go well. Nine hours in a car with Jillian and Elisabeth. We need to nickname Jillian's car for the trip. Something like Craftmobile, or Celtic Crafter Caravan, or Crazycar. Oh yes. It will be fun. There will be celtic music sing-a-longs, there will be much crocheting, knitting and other crafty things, there will be bread, there will be chocolate, there will be discussions about favorite weapons, there will be the FHBC. Ware, ware the Craftycelticcrazycar. If you live between Dayton, TN and Jacksonville, FL, beware because I have no idea which roads we are taking and we might be coming near you. Consider yourselves fortunate that there will only be one lone fish and not a whole menagerie. Captain Jack, Kazi and Commi (Jillian and Aaron's geckos), Agro (Aaron's snake), Elisabeth's beta, and Jillian's new mouse Snow White will all be staying with a woman who lives just off campus. Don't you wish you were her.

Randomness Born of Stress

2006-02-22T11:09:00.000-05:00

Soo...haven't updated in a while. Seemed like I should. Umm...I study...a lot...and I don't have a life because of that. As they say here at Bryan, I'm dating my Physics book. I like physics. I don't like mathemeticians. They are weird. And stikingly illogical. At least the ones in my class...are...illogical. I cannot form proper sentence structure anymore. I am tired. And stressed.
You should go here if you are so bored you are checking my blog. Watch the egg song. Apparently everything in Korea is as sickeningly cute as that. I think that the fruity-oaty bar comercial from Serenity is going to have some competition for Weirdest Anime Song That Gets Stuck In My Head All The Time (WASTGSIMHATT). I am starved for amusement I think. I am resorting to having WASTGSIMHATT competitions.
Emerald and my snail, Zorro, died last week. I don't know why, but I have a suspician that Rainbow had a fin in it. I think that I want to go back to my original plan of having a school of Neon and Cardinal Tetras, but I'm afraid that Rainbow might kill them all. I'll probably have to resort to getting Mollies again. Rainbow liked them. He's such a troublesome little murderer I mean fishie. So... I'm going to watch the egg song again. The sickening cuteness has some strange and perhaps evil hold over me.

YESSSSS!!!!! I'm cool.

2006-02-07T10:21:00.000-05:00

The Movie Of Your Life Is A Cult Classic

Quirky, offbeat, and even a little campy - your life appeals to a select few.
But if someone's obsessed with you, look out! Your fans are downright freaky.

Your best movie matches: Office Space, Showgirls, The Big Lebowski

If Your Life Was a Movie, What Genre Would It Be?

What about Donnie Darko?

Mwahahahahaha

2006-02-03T14:27:00.000-05:00

Well, that was fun. People may call me weird, and they have, but can I help it if I have a healthy sense of mischief and an overactive imagination? Just look at my parents. And if you think that my mother is not mischievious, spend some time with her when she is sleep deprived and working an Awana event.
It is nice to know that I can rely on my friends to help me out when I need help with my master plans. They do it in a timely manner as well.
Well that's super fun. I just get an air matress delivered for our Presidential weekend guest to sleep on. Poor child. She has to stay with Ashley and me. I hope she likes Batman. It's funny though. When I came for Presidential I didn't get an air mattress...
I think that I am going to have to leave my room now to prevent myself from giving it to the temptation to bounce on the mattress until it pops. Hmmm...perhaps it's true...I am turning evil.

2006-01-31T01:02:00.000-05:00

Eric...

Michelle is sick

2006-01-24T12:32:00.000-05:00

Michelle does not like being sick. It is not fun. But I slept for like three days straight. That was kinda fun. But now I can't sleep at all because I can't breathe. That is not fun. I got to read a whole book for fun and I watched lots of DVD's. That was really fun. But now I am way behind on schoolwork and that is not fun. I think that I am getting better though. My profound thought for the day is that I feel pretty good, and as soon as I get rid of all this mucus I will be all better.
I've decided that I want to knit myself a brown coat (hehehe browncoat). But I can't find a pattern that I like. I may end up just buying one, but if I do, everyone will ask me if I made it (cause I have that rep now).
I'm pretty sure no one reads this anymore and I think that if I want them to I should write about something a little more interesting. But it is hard and my head is full of snot.
Last night there was some guy in the lounge who was adamantly proclaiming that Star Wars was better that Star Trek. It took quite a bit of restraint for me not to yell in his face with my plague breath that Star Trek was in fact superior. Star Wars is alright, but it's basically an adventure movie set in space. In Star Trek space is the adventure. To me that is much more exciting. Or could be that I really like engineers and expendable crewmen. Speaking of which, if you have the patience for it to load watch this. It amuses me. Trekkies are cool

Its that time again

2006-01-04T01:44:00.000-05:00

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TOLLERS!!!
Unfortunately I don't have any fun Tolkien-related stories to tell this year. But I'm re-reading The Fellowship of the Ring at the moment and my new favorite word is mathom.
Got to go now. Very busy watching episodes of Firefly. What were they thinking when they cancelled it?

Random Stuff

2005-12-03T15:50:00.000-05:00

So I slept for 12 hours last night. 2:00-2:00. I ate a chocolate cookie and two-thirds of a wonka bar for breakfast. I am avoiding getting out of bed because I don't want to clean the wreakage that remains after the Christmas Banquet preparation. So I've been crocheting a teddy bear and reading people's blogs for about two hours now. I wish that I didn't have homework to do. As my roommate told me the other day "Michelle, I think that you would be really fun all the time if you didn't have any homework." to which I replied "You're probably right." Homework makes me disagreeable.
Our hall is well onto its way into being completely transformed into the Wood Between Worlds. If you don't know what that is, quickly go read the first bit of the Magician's Nephew and get back to me. If you don't know what the Magician's Nephew is, it is chronologically the first book in the Chronicles of Narnia. If you don't know what the Chronicles of Narnia is get off my blog, you are not my friend. So anyway, at our Christmas party we told the girls that we were going to have supplies for them to make trees to go on the walls and for them to make their doors into pools of water. Everyone's room is another world. Get it. YAY!! It makes me so happy.
WHERE WILL YOU BE DECEMBER 9, 2005?

To end I will share this beautiful quote from Tolkien's Essay of Fairy Stories that I found on wikiquote. It gives me the urge to swoon.

"I have claimed that Escape is one of the main functions of fairy-stories, and since I do not disapprove of them, it is plain that I do not accept the tone of scorn or pity with which 'Escape' is now so often used. Why should a man be scorned if, finding himself in prison, he tries to get out and go home? Or if he cannot do so, he thinks and talks about other topics than jailers and prison-walls?" ~J.R.R. Tolkien

I can't help but post this other one too.

"If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world. ~ Mere Christianity

~C.S. Lewis

Ahh. I wish that the loves of my life weren't old, married, dead Englishmen.

2005-11-28T15:32:00.000-05:00

This is Captain Jack in her cage. Isn't it the most amazing cage you've ever seen.
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Well-Deserved Nap

2005-11-16T19:08:00.001-05:00

So...I just woke up from a five-hour nap. But don't be jelous, I also just had three tests in less than 24 hours. I did well on the Psychology and Pentateuch tests, but I did really bad on the Essential Cell Biology one. I think that from now on I will only take classes whose name begins with the letter P. I could get D.T. to change the name of Women's Self-Defense.
So after I did so bad on the ECB test I went to my room to get my blue paint. Painting yourself blue does wonders at relieving stress. So my blue paint was in my closet and when I got it I had this thought. "I really just want to throw everything out of the bottom of my closet and sit in there." So I did. I sat in there for an hour. I am not clausterphobic. I don't know why, but sitting in the dark amidst my clothes made me feel safe and warm. I think I'm going to go there more often.
Just when I was about ready to come out, my roommate walks in and proceeds to have a 20-minute-long conversation with Jessie, one of the girls on the hall. So I had to stay there. I knew that if I came out just then I would have to endure a lifetime of jokes about "coming out of the closet". So after they left I got out of the closet and went over to Jillian and Elisabeth's room for our FHBC meeting, otherwise known as Tuesday night dinner. So I told them that I had spent the last hour in a closet and then Ashley comes by to tell me and Elisabeth our psyc. scores, because she is the grader for that class, and then I told them all the story. I think it's hilarious. Do you think that it's good or bad that my depression amuses me so?
So then Jillian, Elisabeth and I painted ourselves blue and menaced random people around campus with pikes. Jillian has pictures, hopefully I'll get them too soon.

The Marginally Long-Awaited Update

2005-10-28T13:17:00.000-04:00

So there's lots of exciting news in the growing realm of Michelle's pets. First of all, Rainbow lets me pet him now. How exciting is that? If I put my finger in the water, he circles around it and then I can pet him. Who says fish aren't fun.

Last week I got a new fishie for my tank. An Emerald Rainbowfish. She's pretty. Right now she is staying in the quarentine tank because I don't want Rainbow to get sick if Emerald is. Last time I got fish from the Fish Store they had Ick (see previous post from a long time ago). So she has to live in the little one gallon for about 2-3 more weeks.

I have a mousie. His name is Captain Jack. Elisabeth and I saved him from being snake food because he was so cute. He has a hole in one ear and he is very exploratory. He's a pirate mousie. Captain Jack. We made him a poop deck, a crow's nest, some rigging, an food barrel, an ale barrel, some Jolly Rodgers, a ship's wheel, and a little sign that goes on the outside of the tank and says The Black Pearl. It's quite fun. I'll put pictures up when I have them. He's a spoiled little mousie.

The other day Aaron found a bat outside his dorm. This is not normal for bats to be out in the day because they go into a sort of hibernation during the day and if they are too cold, they won't wake up. So Elisabeth and I met Aaron as he had this bat in a gladware container wondering what exactly he should do. Elisabeth, being the future vet, offered to take care of it. So we took the bat up to the Essential Cell lab and I sat with it in my lap while Elisabeth went to her room to go get a heating pad and box and towels and stuff. So she comes back a little later with all this stuff and Jillian who was in the room and now wants to see the bat (he was really cute and tiny). When we attemped to transfer the bat to the box however, it turned out that I did a very good job at warming him up, and was now warm enough to fly. And he did so. All over the room. So we all look at each other, and then we all yell "DOORS!" and ran and closed all the doors in the room. Then we watched the bat for awhile. Elisabeth got a pillow case and was trying to catch him. Jillian and I were busy ducking and laughing. Dr. Wood opened the door because he wanted to set up for his class and we all yelled "SHUT THE DOOR" at him. That was really funny too. They we sent Jillian to get some nets and let Dr. Wood in. He gave us more funny looks when we explained what was going on. So we eventually caught the bat and took him to Rudd and let him go there because we knew that bats live at the top of Rudd. And he flew off into the woods.

So that's what I did this week. Besides taking three tests.

Michelle needs *

2005-10-15T23:14:00.000-04:00

After reading a couple of these I decided it was amusing enough that I might try it. So I did. These are the funniest of the first 20 that came up.

Michelle needs Rene to nick the Fallen Madonna to sell it for much needed funds for the Resistance.

Sounds like a plan to me.

Michelle needs Jesse to fix her jack-in-the-box toy.

It’s been broken so long I didn’t even know I had it.

Michelle needs to learn to be more careful with her Voodoo.

I’ll practice more I promise.

Michelle needs to go to some golf etiquette school and maybe her dad should too, or else get a new caddie.

I didn’t think that my golf etiquette was that bad, but I think Daddy should definitely go.

Michelle needs to learn to perhaps be a bit more diplomatic in her interviews

Probably true.

Michelle needs to stick to gospel her voice sounds better for gospel.

I did not know that.

Michelle needs help

Apparently we all do.

Michelle needs to move on with someone else since Tony's no longer around

NO! I’LL NEVER LET GO!!

Michelle needs to talk to her Adviser and Accountant.

Is that the same person?

Michelle needs to choose [Answer: None of your business, obviously she is
choosing RnB since she's coming out with an RnB album next year]

Really? That’s exciting. But what about the fact that my voice sounds better for gospel?

Michelle needs to increase her income.

Amen!

Michelle needs techie help!

I think I’m doing alright.

Michelle needs to get the 2004 candidate names to Jeff so that the election may proceed.

Maybe Jeff should get off his fat behind and get the names himself.

Michelle needs to finally leave him for good,

That’s good advice. Goodbye Jeff. I’m leaving you for good.

Michelle needs to transfer to a different school

No, I’m thinkin’ I’m pretty good where I am.

What Michelle needs to do is win

Good plan. But what am I winning?

2005-10-05T16:58:00.000-04:00

This is the Sound of Music meets Braveheart. Brave of Music, or Sound of Heart, or The hills are alive with the sound of fighting...free-ee-ee-dom.
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2005-10-05T16:55:00.000-04:00

So here we are. I don't know how much you can tell, but we really are all blue. Just like in King Arthur.
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2005-09-29T20:57:00.000-04:00

I really wish I had a digital camera so I could show what I have looked like this past week. Waiting for film to develope stinks.
Friday was Homecoming and the theme was New York, so Elisabeth and I dressed up like models. Stephen was a cab driver. Aaron was a mob gangster and Jillian was his China doll. Aaron got some toy guns and we spent a decent portion of the night blowing each other apart. It was fun.
This week is Spirit week as well. Yesterday was Tacky Day. That was fun. Today was movie character day. Elisabeth and I took advantage of this fact and painted ourselves blue like the warrior women in King Arthur. We also went into the woods yesterday and got some big sticks and then borrowed Aarons hatchet and made pikes. I like pikes. Apparantly the creepy security guard does too. He drove by when we were making them last night and said that he "admires our pleasures". Weird.
So anyway. Yay for blue paint, pikes, and ancient celtic warrior women. I'll get pics up here as soon as I can.

Abundance of Surveyage

2005-09-26T16:46:00.000-04:00

The first bit of this survey was a little bit more stupid than the rest. So I decided not to do it.

5 SNACKS I ENJOY:
1. chocolate
2. biscuits
3. cheese
4. nuts
5. anything with chocolate (but without coffee)

5 SONGS I KNOW ALL THE WORDS TO:
1. I Just Wanna Be a Sheep
2. Liars Go to Hell
3. The Hallelujah Chorus
4. Agnus Dei
5. Pretty much every other song that I like or have ever sung

WHAT I WOULD DO WITH 100 MILLION DOLLARS:
1. Go to Scotland
2. buy a castle
3. buy/make medieval clothing and accessories
4. buy lots of yarn and crochet hooks and pattern books to feed my growing obsession
5. buy a jet so I could travel back and forth from my castle in Scotland
6. buy presents for people I like

5 PLACES I WOULD RUN AWAY TO:
1. Scotland
2. Never land
3. Narnia
4. Ea (Middle Earth/Numenore/Varda)
5. Avalon
6. Tir-na-nog
7. Atlantis
8. Lyonesse
9. Albion
10. Who’s seeing the pattern?
11. Oh and Manitoumi too

5 THINGS I WOULD NEVER WEAR:
1. denim jumper
2. burka
3. http://www.promdressshop.com/images/Promdresses/P675lg.jpg
4. Intentionally matching outfits with my mother/sisters/any children I ever have
5. um…a…big…chicken…outfit. Yeah. I won’t wear one of those.

5 FAVORITE TOYS:
1. Bear bear
2. Tilion
3. yarn
4. fire
5. Molymods

5 FICTIONAL CHARACTERS I WOULD DATE:
1. Faramir (from the book not the movie)
2. young Horatio Hornblower
3. Beren
4. Robin of Locksley
5. Jonas Quinn

5 BAD HABITS:
1. Procrastination
2. avoiding doing homework
3. playing on Tilion when I should be studying
4. Ignoring my homework
5. filling our surveys

5 FAVORITE TV SHOWS:
1. Stargate Sg-1
2. House
3. CSI
4. Rough Science (how I mourn thy loss)
5. Arthur (it does rock Melanie)

5 PEOPLE I TAG TO DO THIS:
this is stupid too.

2005-09-25T13:07:00.000-04:00

So sometime last week I wrote this really long post about lots of stuff that has happened since I've been at college and everything, and when I went to post it, blogger said that it was down and apparantly did not save my really long post, so...that was frustrating.
Probably for a little while I think that I will just write short posts so that they don't die. 'Cause now I don't feel like writing everything again.

Exciting new update

2005-09-02T00:03:00.000-04:00

So something exciting happened in the little world of my fishtank this week (You know, it almost getting so my fishtank needs a name). Rainbow learned a trick. He will now accept food from my hand, or fingers as it were. I was studying in my red chair next to the fishtank and I look over and, even though I had already fed him that day, Rainbow was feigning starvation. He was swimming up and down and stareing at me and presented an overall image of a severly starved, lonely and pathetic fish. So I got up and dropped a bloodworm in the tank for him. He jumped up and gobbled up this relatively long bloodworm in absolutely no time at all. So I dropped a few more little ones in. He gobbled them up to. I was then that I had the idea to get a long bloodworm, and hold it between my fingers to see what Rainbow would do. He went straight up and ate right from my fingers. I was so excited I called Elisabeth right away. Then I ran down the hall to tell Ashley. Needless to say, Elisabeth was a bit more excited than Ashley was. So, since then, I've made Rainbow eat from my hand before I will feed him. He was a bit timid at first, but today he was pecking at my finger as if he was trying to eat it. It's quite and interesting sensation to have little fish lips nipping at your finger. I believe that I will choose to think that Rainbow is giving me affectionate little fishie kisses. It's quite sweet when you think of it like that. The plus side for Rainbow is that he is now getting fed more often because it amuses me to feed him now. I hope that I will be able to get Rainbow a tankmate(s) soon. He looks really lonely and bored to me.

Blah, blah, blah...andblah.

2005-08-25T20:56:00.000-04:00

Sorry I haven't posted in like a month, but I've been a little busy. I'm still busy, but now that I am back at school the original reason for creating this blog has been reinstated and so I'm going to post more. I'll divide this post up so that it will be easier to read. I have a feeling it's going to be rather long.
My Fishtank
So my Australian Rainbow fish is the only one left in my tank. The rest all died and I buried them in the garden and played the Rutter Requiem for them and it's all very sad. I think that Rainbow looks lonely and he probably is. Elisabeth informed me that it is mating season and that is why Rainbow looks so pretty right now. Jillian thinks that I should get him a girlfriend. I think he's too young and he would eat any babies that he would have anyway so I'm planning on getting some nice Neon and Cardinal Tetras to swim around and keep him company. Tetras are little fishies and they will school if I get enough. When I first got my tank it was my original plan to put them in there, but I got distracted by the Mollies I guess. Depending on what Elisabeth says I might be permitted to get one more relatively large fish to go in my tank, but I'm going to wait until the tetras are all settled in before thinking very hard about that.
School
Going pretty well. I don't know if I'll be able to stand Organic Chemistry at eight am all semester, but I made it one day without falling asleep. I even have a vague idea of what we talked about. I'm taking 16 hours this semester but I am also sitting in on a 4-hour calculus-based physics course which sorta makes it 20. There are only three other people in that class so Dr. Wells said he'd even grade my homework and tests if I wanted to do those too. I don't know if I will.
Ashley and I are having a lot of fun as roommates. We have a great hall of freshmen girls that we are playing mommy too. It's kinda fun. We got a phone call from one of the guy RAs last night at one saying that someone had left the oven on and Ashley had to go turn it off. The base floor of our dorm has guys. They ran out of room in the guy's dorm so they had to put them there. They have their very own entrance, and the stairways have been blocked off, so we hardly know they are there. Except when Matt decided to test out the bass on his stereo. Bethany did a fun little stomping dance.
I've talked to Eric a grand total of three times since I got here. I met his roommate Brandon who seems kinda quite, but then he was standing next to Eric so who knows... So I can't really tell you how many people Eric has met yet, I've been a little busy holding snakes and whatnot. Maybe I'll see him at the All-College picnic on saturday.
Other Stuffs
So Ashley is going to have a van and we are tentatively talking about her driving me, Jillian, and Elisabeth to St. Peters for fall break. And Eric can come to if he wants I suppose. I think that it would be really fun. Jillian wants to see Forest Park and all the other cool stuff that we have in St. Louis (as she lives in Florida, actual trees really excite her).
Having a new computer is amazing.
Crocheting is fun.
I am sleepy, so I'm going to bed. After I do my homework.

2005-08-25T20:51:00.000-04:00

This is a top that I crocheted. It looks like it was hard to make, but it has a lot of holes so it wasn't really that bad. I like it. I had to change the original pattern a bit. The sleeves are actually a smaller size, and they are longer than what the pattern said. I also added the ruffle at the bottom so it would match the sleeves. It's pretty fun.
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2005-08-25T20:49:00.000-04:00

This is Tilion, my computer. I love him very much. He's very fast and it's very nice. He downloads stuff really really fast.
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2005-08-25T20:45:00.000-04:00

These are the dragons that I crocheted. The little green one is named Egan. The blue one is Ena, and the mommy is named Ciara.
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OUR AMAZING SURVEY

2005-07-28T11:19:00.000-04:00

1. IF YOU COULD BUILD A SECOND HOUSE ANYWHERE, WHERE WOULD IT BE?

Michelle: Scotland

Kellie: here=St Louis

Melanie: I don't even have a first house!

2. WHAT'S YOUR FAVORITE ARTICLE OF CLOTHING?

Melanie: My converse

Michelle: You know my weird top with the really flowy sleeves and "it ties up here"

Kellie: Mrs Andrich clothing

3. THE LAST CD YOU BOUGHT?

Melanie: The Bravery

Michelle: ...I think the Newsboys

Kellie: Braveheart Soundtrack

Michelle: I wish I had Bo Bice's hair

4. WHAT TIME DO YOU WAKE UP IN THE MORNING?

Melanie: Whenever my little neighbor comes over and knocks on my back door a million times

Michelle: whats morning?

Kellie: 11-12

Melanie: You all stink! I hate you. I'm sending my neighbor to your house for the rest of the summer. I slept till 10 once. Today I woke up with Maddie licking my feet. Why did my mom have to go to Chicago?

5. WHAT WOULD BE YOUR DREAM VACATION DESTINATION?

Melanie: Narnia

Michelle: Scotland to find a hot guy with red curly hair and green eyes who knows JRR Tolkiens wife maiden name and his library card number

Kellie: Italy and Brazil

Michelle: That's not fair I want to go to Narnia

Melanie: Get your own stupid wardrobe!

Kellie: I have a sneeking suspision that one day I will come to visit you two and you will both be sitting in your wardrobes murmering to yourselves about hapy and a 2500 mummy

Melanie: I want to go to Never Never Land

Michelle: thats cool too

Melanie: Matt and I could become spies. Then I could travel the world.

Kellie: I sitll hate the fridge even if it is a freakin' spy...thing....

Melanie: Peter pan is cool. Black Beauty is not.

Michelle: Peter Pan is hot. Becca thinks so too

Michelle: Black Beauty is gay

6. WHAT'S YOUR FAVORITE KITCHEN APPLIANCE?

Melanie: Im going to blow up my kitchen (like Angelia Jolie did) someday

Michelle: microwave...I want my doggie at school because I have to pick up the food off the ground

Kellie: A dishwasher I am, I am, I am; a dishwasher I'll always be, I really hate this stupid job, somebody buy a real one for me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

7. IF YOU COULD PLAY AN INSTRUMENT, WHAT WOULD IT BE?

Melanie: the electric guitar

Michelle: bagpipes...in scotland with my hot scottish man

Kellie: bass gutair, drums, electric guitar, harp, flute, spoons, fiddle, viola,...

Michelle: pan pipes

Kellie: ...fife, trombone, trumpet

Melanie: You're a homeschooler

Kellie: You're a freakin' genius, I'm glad you finally figured that one out =)

Michelle: These are good for 4 year old cookies

Melanie: I called you a "homeschooler" because homeschool families always play tons of instruments

8. FAVORITE COLOR?

Melanie: white

Michelle: white

Kellie: black

9. WHICH DO YOU PREFER, SPORTS CAR OR SUV?

Melanie: one that runs and has four wheels works for me

Michelle: blue sports car! convertable!!!!

Kellie:sports car!!! convertable!!!!!

10. DO YOU BELIEVE IN AFTERLIFE?

Melanie: no I believe we have aliens in our tummy and we have to pay the church of Scientology tons and tons of money to forgive us for our sins so the aliens come out

Michelle: whats the afterlife? does it have something to do with heaven?

Kellie: yeah

11. FAVORITE CHILDREN'S BOOK?

Melanie: Melanie Mouse's Moving Day

Michelle: The Happy Man and His Dump Truck

Kellie:If You Give a Mouse a Cookie

Melanie: lets start a mouse club
Kellie:the mickey mouse club? what?

Melanie: M-i-c-k-e-y- m-o-u-s-e

Michelle: I think there was a mouse in The Happy Man and His Dump Truck. He had a dump truck and took animals for rides in his dump truck.

12. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE SEASON?

Melanie: KELLIE JUST TOLD ME TO SHUT UP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Michelle: When I read that I thought it meant "season of a television show"

Kellie: that would be season five of stargate

Melanie: Sam is cool

Michelle:yeah!

Kellie: I say Daniel!

Michelle: Daniel's a geek though

Kellie: yea, Hot Geek!!!

Michelle: That's true

Melanie: I like Fullhouse and Power Rangers.

Michelle: Buff guys are stupid

Melanie: no one is buff in Full house are they? Danny Tanner looks totally gay!

Michelle and Kellie: Jessies pretty Buff! His hair!

13. IF YOU COULD HAVE ONE SUPER POWER, WHAT WOULD IT BE?

Melanie: I would just buy a gun and blow apart my house like Angelina Jolie(she has weird lips. He so should have stayed with Jennifer. At least she has "good hair")

Michelle: I want like eyes that can zoom in and are x ray and a little bit of telekinesis so I can move cells around. that'd be awesome!

Kellie: I want to be a birdie.

Kellie: Melanie wrote that, she's mean; shut up again!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I want to fly. FLY! With a cape, not feathers!

Michelle: I want to fly too...like a birdie

Melanie: fly like an eagle into the future. Fly like andeagle let my spirit carry me I want to fllllyy like an eagle. WHAT is that song from?????? I think space jam

Michelle: I want to have wings like appendeges with feathers

Kellie: what are appendeges

Melanie:go to college

Michelle: It's actually A-P-P-E-N-D-A-G-E-S

Kellie: HA! You go to college! Wait, no, preschool! Ha

Michelle: Your mom goes to college

Melanie: no she doesnt

14. IF YOU HAVE A TATTOO, WHAT IS IT?

Michelle: I have a butterfly over my heart

Kellie: I dont think I have a tatoo

Michelle: maybe we should check

Melanie: I dont think we should write that on here

Kellie: lets move on

15. CAN YOU JUGGLE?

Melanie: why are surveys so gay

Michelle: do I look like I have any athletic ability

Kellie: Matt (Wilhelm) is a court jester

16. NAME ONE PERSON FROM YOUR PAST YOU WISH YOU COULD GO BACK AND TALK TO?

Melanie: my cousin Jarrod

Michelle: Mrs McEwen my first grade teacher. She rocked she called me baby doll.

Kellie: there are no people in my past. I am a home schooler.

17. WHAT'S YOUR FAVORITE DAY?

Melanie: boo on surveys

Michelle: March 15 1952

Kellie:days are gay

Melanie: Michelle what is March 15 1952?

Michelle: *laughs* I dont know

18. YOUR DREAM JOB?

Melanie: can I have a lifeline?

Michelle: working for Mr Risch. I had a dream last night that I was driving along the highway and Mr. Risch pulled alongside me in his van a screamed at me and asked if I wanted to work right now.

Kellie: jobs are gay. An English teacher in a foreign country?

19. WHAT'S IN THE TRUNK OF YOUR CAR?

Melanie: jumper cables used to fix matts truck...and a hello kitty thing to put in my window when it is sunny and a banana

Michelle: I dont have a car but if I did I would call my trunk "the boot"

Kellie: you mean my granny mobile?

20. WHICH DO YOU PREFER, SUSHI OR HAMBURGER?

Melanie: Sushi rocks...I sound like Hannah Lance

Michelle: cookies

Kellie: Ive never had Sushi and hamburgers are boring
Melanie: GO Michelle! Welcome to the dark side!

Michelle: give me cookies!

Melanie: C is for cookie!

Michelle: B is for Bunny...

Kellie: I never watched Sesame Street!!

Melanie: thats not all from Seasame Street! J is for Jason he wants to kill me!

24. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE FLOWER?

Melanie: daisies or the ones Matt picked for me

Michelle: the pretty purple smelly one in my backyard

Kellie: daises

25. WHAT WOULD YOUR FIRST 3 PURCHASES BE IF YOU WON THE LOTTERY?

Melanie: a lama.

Kellie: Mel? Thats all three purchases? You want three lamas?

Melanie: I want a ticket to Boston to give to Matt so he can visit his sisters...and meet the gay guy and his cat. Then again...maybe I dont want my boyfriend to meet a gay guy.

Michelle: Yeah! Hes a little "metro"

Melanie: and so is Eric

Michelle: and I want Scotland

Melanie: You want three Scotlands????

Michelle: and a bunch of swords and what else would I need to conquer England?

Melanie: a lama

Kellie: I want 2 new friends and a car that's not a stinkin' granny mobile...actually, I like Lama's so scratch the 2 new friends and get me a cow and a lama

Melanie: cows are gay

Melanie: and so is Eric

Kellie: Not all of them...cows I mean...

Michelle: Cows are lesbians

Melanie: cow-a-bung-a

Kellie: What?

Melanie: thats what the ninja turtles say!! duh.

Kellie: umm...true, cows are lesbiens, bulls are gay but NOT ALL OF THEM! I"M SO SERIOUS! I KNOW STRAIGHT COWS!!! IT's THE LAMA"S THAT ARE GAY! MELANIE"S LAMA"S ARE GAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Melanie: Kellie step away from the cocaine!!!! Stop it! I told you its bad for you.

Melanie: hold me like you did by the lake on Naboo

*Everyone dies laughing*

Kellie: I'm very,very creeped out and deffinitely not the only on in this room that's "on somethin'" I'm scared...

Michelle: Hapy is my friend

Melanie: Ill never let go Jack! Ill never let go!

Kellie: This is the song that never ends, yes it goes on and on my friends; some people started singing it, not knowing what it was, and they'll continue singing it forever just because it is the song that never ends....

Michelle: somebody get me a cigarette

Melanie: earlier werent we saying that we feel like we have "actually matured" since the last time we saw each other...

Michelle: Hapy will protect my lungs

All Girl

2005-07-09T01:39:00.000-04:00

I was having a conversation with Melanie as we drove back to St. Peters after taking Kellie to meet her Dad. We were talking about how we aren't girly girls, but we can be girly. I wrote this essay last semester for Dr. Legg's class (I love Dr. Legg, and you will too Eric) and it pretty much sums up how I feel about myself and my femininity (or sometime apparant lack thereof). Dr. Legg has all the freshmen in his classes pretend to be a member of the opposite sex for a day and then write a paper about what they learned. He says it amuses him greatly. So this is my paper.

All Girl
I awake to the sound of my alarm going off. Wearily I open my bleary eyes and focus them on the numbers before me: 8:00. I hit the snooze button and close my eyes again. Today I am going to sleep in. When I get up thirty minutes later, I hop in the shower and attempt to cleanse myself as quickly as possible. “This isn’t working.” I think despairingly. “My hair is too long to take a five minute shower.” My day as a boy has begun.
I put on jeans, a t-shirt and my tennis shoes, quickly comb my hair, grab my backpack, and head off too botany class. When I see my friends, I don’t smile and wave as I normally do, I simply nod instead. But my girlish giggling spoils the effect. And so the day goes on, me attempting to do the things I know a boy would do and failing for the pure unchangeable fact that I am, in point of fact, a girl.
There were a few successes. I was able to convincingly pull off a classic guy greeting where the right hands of two parties are smacked together and then quickly pulled apart with the fingers curled. I fearlessly killed a wasp for one of my friends armed with nothing but a can of Lysol. And as time went by I found myself thinking more and more like a guy. I had the strange urge to do push-ups and eat massive amounts of food. My scientific mind began to wonder if my mental mindset was causing my body to produce more testosterone than normal. I felt like myself, but I also felt vaguely different. When I hurt my finger it didn’t seem to hurt as much as it ought to, and I ignored it. Somehow the trace amount of blood encrusted on my nail filled me with an odd sort of pride.
Despite the possible testosterone-induced anomalies, I am not in any doubt about my femininity. It seems that in this day and age stereotypes are what define masculinity and femininity. If you enjoy shopping, looking nice, talking about your feelings then you are feminine. If you enjoy getting dirty, building things and acting tough, then you are masculine. Girls should be concerned with their beauty and boys should be concerned with their brawn. But this isn’t right. This is not true masculinity and femininity. It is no wonder our society is full of people confused about what sex they are. There are men who enjoy “feminine” things and become convinced that they are women trapped in men’s bodies. They don’t know how else to resolve this seeming conflict.
But killing bugs and doing push-ups doesn’t make me masculine, just like giggling and playing with my hair does not make me feminine. It goes so much deeper than that. Being feminine has more to do with the way I think and perceive things than my actions. Yes, it is true that some actions are feminine in nature, but they are a result of the inner femininity. God created woman to be a helper for man. We are detail-oriented and pick up on things men miss. We are created to be companions and are therefore very attuned to the feelings and emotional state of others. We are mothers and caregivers and so feel the need to help others grow. All of these things are generalized statements about women and in individuals some aspects may be stronger than others according to the way that God made us but it still holds true. So though in stereotype I may seem to be more like a boy, in the central core of my personality and character, I am all girl.

2005-06-09T19:12:00.000-04:00

Here is another picture of my skirt. It's reversed because I took the other one of myself in the mirror.
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2005-06-09T19:10:00.000-04:00

This is a picture of the skirt that I crocheted. It took a long time, but it's finished.
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Requiem for a fish

2005-06-09T19:03:00.000-04:00

Silver has passed on. She was having problems swimming and it turns out that she was having problems with her air bladder. She died yesterday in a one-gallon that I set up for her to spend her last hours in peace. I buried her in the garden and I am playing the Rutter Requiem for her as I did for her friend Black when he died. Rainbow, Cremecicle and Black Mollie and taking it alright. They are all extremely healthy and I don't think that we need to worry about their health, but they are all very upset and venting their pain by chasing each other around the tank.

Update on my fishtank, again

2005-05-15T23:13:00.000-04:00

I thought that I would let all of you know how my fishtank is doing because I know that you are all dying to know anyway. I got a new fishie last night. It is a Cremecicle lyretail molly. I think she might possibly be pregnant too, but I don't know yet. She's really pretty and goldish on the top and silver on the bottom. She seems to be getting along with everyone Ok. She followed Rainbow around when she first met him just like Silver did, which is rather curious. Apparently Rainbow is a ladies man. I also got some more ghost shrimp since I only had one left. The guy at Petsmart said that he put in three but when I got home there were five so I owe Petsmart sixty cents. Silver seems to be thrilled with the new shirmp. She goes around nipping them and terrorizing them. As the smallest fish in the tank I think that she really likes having something to pick on. Black has become, as Mom puts it, 'Queen of the Tank'. When we first got back here Silver and Rainbow were ganging up pn her and trapping her behind rocks and stuff like that. I think she got fed up, 'cause now she goes and nips everyone. She's been nice to Cremecicle though from what I've seen. Cremecicle has some issues though 'cause she's afraid of my hand. When I go to feed them Cremecicle swims away and the other swim towards me 'cause they know I have food. So Cremecicle didn't get much to eat today, the others ate it all before she could. Hopefully once she gets hungry enough she'll get over her fear. Everyone should come see my happy little fishies and shrimpies. They are fun to watch. Just ask Mommy. She spends an awful lot of time watching them and then giving me behavioral updates.
Another thing I guess I ought to tell everyone from here is that I have official sucumbed. I now work for Mr. Risch. I'm really sorry April. I can no longer comfort you and tell you not all your friends work for your dad 'cause I'm pretty sure that they all do. I couldn't find a job that was related to biology, so I figured I might as well work where I knew people and the pay was pretty good. I think that I'm still going to look around for another part-time job or else I'll be really bored this summer. Ok, well that's all that I think you will read. My posts get really long sometimes.

One Day More

2005-05-04T00:42:00.000-04:00

There is a song in the musical Les Miserables. This song is about the French Revolution and has no bearing on my life but I have fixated on it because there are a bunch of people singing "One day moooooooore" and that is a very nice thing to think of today because I only have one day more and I will be done with my freshman year of college. It might be a sad thought and cause me to thing of all that has happened since I came here and the people that I have met and sappy junk like that. But it the middle of finals week. I'm tired. And stressed. And I've been eating entirely too much chocolate because that is the only thing that keeps me happy. Well, Jillian gave me a kubaton and that made me really happy. It's a big metal stick that goes on a key chain and you carry it around and if someone grabs you, you stick it in their pressure points and cause them great pain and then take them down and shove your knee in their kidney. Or you could step on their head, or choke them, or lots of other painful things. So I have to study some names of some stuff. Animals and parasite and other evil things like that. I'll be home in less than two days, but I'll be done with school in less than twelve hours which is almost as good.

Epitome of a Bio Mojor

2005-04-27T19:05:00.000-04:00

So I've been having fun lately. I have been studying like a mad woman. I'm going crazy. I'm not sure that I'm exagerating because today I was walking around in a shirt that has the cardivascular system of a fetal pig on it and carrying around a box of Giant Microbes (Yay). Elisabeth, Jillian, and i made shirts last night to help us study for our practical today that was all about the fetal pig. Jillian had a shirt with all the internal organs on it. It was fun and it freaked out quite a lot of people. It also got a lot of compliments from certain other people. Isn't that interesting. So I'm coming home on May 5 with all my stuff. I will be very tired and will probably spout random classification information but if anyone wants to do something, just let me know.

Update on my fishtank

2005-04-02T14:41:00.000-05:00

So right before Easter Break when I was packing Elisabeth discovered that Rainbow had Ick. Ick is a bacterial infection that causes little white spots to appear on fishies. So I left my key and asked Jillian to take care of my fishies while I was gone and give them medicine. She did and when I got back Rainbow's Ick was gone, but now Silver had it. But Silver's wasn't as bad and we managed to get rid of that pretty quickly. So my fishies were happy and healthy. Jillian's fishies weren't so lucky. Her fishies got Ick too (apparently the store we bought fishies at had the Ick and since all the fishies there share water...). So both Jillian's fishies died and then her lone surviving shrimp died and she was left with nothing. We had to boil all the stuff that was in her tank because it was so bad. So yesterday we went to Chatty to get more fishies. While we were there I decided to get my Cardinal Tetras that I had wanted since that store was the only one we had found them at. I also got a Black Mollie to replace Black, except that she was pregnant (yay for baby fishies). So when we were acclemating my fishies we found that Rainbow had Ick again. I was really disappointed because I didn't want to put my Ick-free fishies in there, and I especially didn't want the baby Mollies to get Ick when they were born. Jillian had ended up ordering a fish because she wanted a dwarf puffer and they didn't have them there, so I begged a home for my fishies. So this morning I was awakend by a call from Jillian. She told me that Black Mollie had popped. I ran over to Jillian's dorm to see. There were only two babies. We suspect that Black Mollie gave birth in the night and ate the rest, 'cause fishies do that. So I took the babies out and waited to see if she'd have any more. She didn't. So I put the babies back in, took Black Mollie out and brought her over to my dorm. I didn't really want to put Black Mollie in an Ick-infested tank, but we didn't have another bubbler to put her in her own tank, and if we left her with the babies she would eat them. The Cardinals are so small that they can't eat the babies even if they wanted to. So Rainbow and Silver have accepted their new tank mate pretty well. But then she is a large, formally pregnant, black fish. She's kinda... pushy. So I put in this really, as Elisabeth puts it, bad butt medicine. This medicine has formaline in it, what they use instead of formaldehyde nowadays. This medicine will kill any bacteria in the tank, the good and the bad. If I put to much in I can burn my fishies' gills and then they won't be able to breath. So this medicine is serious stuff. Hopefully all the Ick will die, all the fish will live, everyone will get to go in the right tank and it will all be good. I'll keep you updated on the exciting world of my fishtank.

P.S. We also got some Ghost Shrimp that are in Jillian's tank right now too. We got some with eggs so we can have Ghost Shrimp babies too and they will be fruitfull and multiply and fill the fishtank, and we'll have Ghost Shrimp forever and ever and never have to buy them from the store again.

Random stuff

2005-03-30T00:11:00.000-05:00

Where are you guys? I posted all kinds of fun stuff for you to comment on and like 3 people did. I give of my time and effort to amuse you and this is what I get. I'm putting off Biblical foundations homework for you right now. *sigh*
So Ashley is going to be my roommate next year. Isn't that exciting? Her mom is paying me a lot of money.
My fishies are doing well. They had Ick, a bacterial infection, but they are almost over it now. Poor Jillian lost two fish to the Ick. But she took really good care of my babies while I was gone over Easter Break. Her poor fishie fought for about a week before finally succumbing. It's quite sad.
In other news, scientists discovered soft tissue in the thigh bone of a T. rex on Thursday. They were trying to transport it in a helicopter, but it didn't fit so they cut it, and found soft tissue. It was still squishy and everything. There were red blood cells too so they can do DNA sequencing on it. It's really amazing. The one scientist is now encouraging museums to break open their dinosaur bones to see if there is any soft tissue in them. This makes me really excited because soft tissue couldn't possibly survive for millions of years. It proves that the earth is young. Yay. Ok, I'm gonna do homework now. Possibly.

Easter Break

2005-03-22T00:25:00.000-05:00

I forgot to tell you. I am coming home for Easter Break. Ann is going to visit her new boyfriend in Chicago so mom is coming to pick me up in Mt. Vernon thurs. morning. I'll stay until sunday morning and then we have to drive back. If I feel especially motivated I'll come to the sunrise service on sunday.

2005-03-21T23:51:00.000-05:00

Yay for side ponytails. This is my RA Kami, Me, Ashley, and my roommate Ann.
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2005-03-21T23:43:00.000-05:00

This is Silver. Rainbow is hiding under the rock.
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2005-03-21T23:41:00.000-05:00

This is my fish tank. Isn't it AWESOME!!
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2005-03-21T23:36:00.000-05:00

I learned how to post pictures. Isn't this fun?

2005-03-21T23:09:00.000-05:00

My fish tank

2005-03-19T16:40:00.000-05:00

I decided that I needed to tell people about the thing I am most excited about right now. My fish tank. I think I mentioned before that Eric brought me my fish tank when he came. That fish tank was a one-gallon. When I put it all together with the gravel and plant that I had gotten it seemed really claustrophobic. Probably 'cause I'm now used to Elisabeth's 20 gallon. So I went to Wal-mart and got a 10-gallon. Why not. It was only about $10 and I had a pump, gravel, plant and pretty much everything else I needed (I also have a friend that has extra fish everything that she lets me borrow). So I set up my new tank but this was the week before spring break so even though I really wanted fish, I couldn't get them and then leave them unattended for a week. Not to mention the fact that you really aren't supposed to put fish into a brand new tank for about a month because the nitrifying bacteria haven't had a chance to grow and your fish will poison itself with it's own poo. So the Wednesday before spring break we had Zoology lab. There are certain people in Zo lab that think of it as the pet-procuring lab. These people happen to be Jillian, Elisabeth, and me. This week we were studying Crustaceans. So I ended up going back to my dorm with 5 crayfish. The plan was to keep them until the lab after spring break so the class could look at them then too. They would also help my bacteria grow and since they're so hardy they wouldn't kill themselves. Good plan right? Well, they didn't kill themselves, but they killed each other. Crayfish are rather murderous little beasts. One that I dubbed Permanent Time Out Girl killed another the morning after I got them. Then she started eating it. I fed them shrimp that night and they seemed fine. When I left Friday afternoon they all seemed pretty happy and were co-existing quite well. When I got back from Spring Break one was in moldy little chunks all over the tank, one was laying upside down with Permanent Time Out Girl standing over it, and one was cowered behind a rock. I removed the dead ones, but by Tuesday night the one behind the rock had died too. I'm not sure why that one died because I made a rock barrier between the two remaining so they each had half of the tank. So I took Permanent Time Out Girl to lab on wed and told Dr. Hartzell that she was a killer. Dr. Hartzell said that he would release her into the creek and she would probably do quite well there. I found out yesterday that she died during the night and he never got a chance to release her. Quite sad actually. But I don't care anymore because I got to go to the fish store yesterday. YAY!!! I have fish.
I like fish much better than crayfish. And so does everyone else (some girls can be pretty silly in their fears sometimes). I got an Australian Rainbow fish, a Black Mollie, and a Silver Mollie. They're so fun. They are very active and swim a lot. Silver likes to follow around Rainbow. I don't know why. Rainbow is going to grow quite a bit so it will be interesting to see what happens then. Black Mollie likes to hide out in the little cave I made with the rocks. That makes me happy that he likes it. Silver is being kinda strange today. She keeps making these sideways figure eights along the front of the glass. I guess it's more interesting than going circles. Rainbow is looking for more food. I fed them last night and Rainbow just went after all the food so I had to give them some more so that Black and Silver could get some. I'm thinking I might feed them again. Rainbow is still growing after all and he eats most of it. Elisabeth would get on me though. You're only supposed to feed fish every other day or they get fat. Oh well. I fed them anyway

Uhhh...make up your own title

2005-03-14T14:47:00.000-05:00

Well I haven't posted in a whole month so I guess I need to. Part of the reason I didn't post was because I had spring break and that took an awful lot of work to get to. Professors here at Bryan can be awfully sadistic.
So anyway most of you know I was at home on spring break 'cause you saw me. That was fun. Kinda exhausting though. I had a birthday but I think once you get past 15 birthdays kinda loose something. I don't really get so overwhelmingly excited. Maybe because I don't get toys quite so much. I'm really tired right now because I haven't gotten all that much sleep this weekend. I think I'll take a nap. This was a pretty pathetic post so I'll try to post again soon. But sleep is important to Michelle.

Yet another Random Post

2005-02-18T14:49:00.000-05:00

Well, I decided that I needed to post something else to stop you people from bashing the Notebook. *sigh* you lot are horrible friends to make fun of me when I was crying.
So, I don't really have anything to talk about. I'm waiting in my room to see if Eric will call me. He supposed to get on campus sometime today, but I don't know when. So I'm waiting. Elisabeth is on my bed making a baby bonnet. I'm not sure why, but she is enjoying herself so that's a good thing. She says she's making it to use up her yarn. Now she's stopped talking 'cause I told her I was going to post whatever she said.
I guess I'll just tell you about her because I haven't done that yet. Elisabeth is Irish. Very Irish. She has curly hair and a temper. I just think she's kinda funny when she get upset. She gets upset when we do math. I'm not sure why that is. She's my lab partner. She was my lab partner for Botany and Chemistry last year and for Zoology and Chemistry this year. She really likes thing that live in water. She worked at the Tennessee Aquarium for the past three years. She got them to put her fish tank in the Botany lab. She's got some rock that was put in a coral reef in there. Now all the sponges, corals and stuff are growing on it. She's also got an Oyster Toad Fish. I call him Ugly. She used to have a really cool eel, but Dr. Barnett killed it. It's an aquarist superstition that if you name a fish it will die. Guess who named the fish and guess what happened. We call Dr. Barnett Fish-namer now.
She's also got a tank in her room. It has some of the same thing in it, but she's got a crab in it that we call Crabzilla. She's also got an upsidedown jellyfish named Squishy (it's ok to name invertebrates by the way). I think that she should get a black sea urchin and name it Shadow Urchin. Then we could write a comic book about Crabzilla vs. Shadow Urchin. We'd make millions. But she's not going for it.
I guess that's a long enough post now. I think I'll work on my scarf that I am knitting.

Bawling I tell you

2005-02-15T01:58:00.000-05:00

Alright guys, it's 2 am here and I am still awake. Why you ask? It's because I'm bawling my freakin' eyes out that's why. I just finished watching The Notebook. Most of you know how I generally do not like chick flicks and think that they are stupid and have no basis in reality, but this one... I like.
If you do not cry after watching this movie, you have no heart and should be cast out of society.
Girls: watch this movie and dream 'cause it's never gonna happen.
Guys: watch this movie and take notes 'cause this is what the girls are dreaming of. This is what every girl dreams of. I guarantee it.
The Notebook is about this old woman who has lost most of her memory, and every day her husband comes and reads to her from this notebook. He tells her the story of their lives and their love and tries to get her to remember. There were two scenes we fast forwarded through but it's pretty obvious where those are. They also do not have very great morals all the time... but oh my goodness it's sad. You just have to watch it. You have to. Kami, my new RA, and I bawled for like the last 15 min straight. Ashley was there too but she had read the book and knew what was going to happen.
This movie might not be terribly realistic, but it has some basis in reality. This is the kind of love we are shooting for people. True love. Better than Princess Bride even because this love lasts. They're like 80 yrs. old and he won't leave her and he calls her his sweetheart even though she doesn't remember him at all. It's so sad and beautiful and heartbreaking and sweet. Ok. enough of the movie review. I'm going to cry myself to sleep now.

No Longer Desiring, But Still Intending

2005-02-06T15:38:00.000-05:00

I don't know why, but for some reason God has laid it on my heart to post this essay I wrote. I wrote it for English last semester after we read C.S. Lewis' The Screwtape Letters. If anyone has never read that book, read it. If you have read it, read it again. I had already read it before, but when I read it last year there were things that stuck me differently, or things that I had missed. So anyway, I hope this helps some of you.

No Longer Desiring, But Still Intending
The Screwtape Letters is a book written by C.S. Lewis nearly half a century ago, but the subjects are just as relevant, if not more so today. It is a series of chapters written as letters from a senior demon, Screwtape, to his young nephew, Wormwood. These letters give advice about how Wormwood should tempt a human whom Screwtape calls “the patient”. Through this process we are given a glimpse of the spirit world and the battle that is going on every moment for our souls. By using demons as his characters Lewis confronts his readers with startling insights into the various techniques and efforts put forth by demons into separating us from God, Who the demons call “The Enemy”. Many of the ways the demons in the book distract and misdirect the patient bring to mind things that I struggle with myself.
One of the letters I found most valuable dealt with what Screwtape calls the “law of Undulation”(Lewis 36). The law of Undulation is the law that says humans are continually subject to change in all things. Our feelings, our moods and our spiritual life are in a constant state of fluctuation. Like a wave, our lives are a continuous series of peaks and troughs.
The application of the law of Undulation that Screwtape particularly addresses is the relationship between God and man. There are times when I feel so close to God, when I seem to understand so clearly His will. Feelings of elation and intimacy with God fill my soul and I spend my days trying to please Him and learn more about Him. This is a peak. Then there are times like the one I am going through now. I feel as though I am in a thick fog. I know God is there and I catch glimpses of Him and sometimes faintly hear His voice, but try as I may, I cannot find Him. I cry out to Him to sweep me up into His arms again, but He doesn’t. I can’t understand, and I don’t know what I should do. This is a trough.
As I read the eighth letter of The Screwtape Letters I began to see what it is that God is after. Screwtape says, “Now it may surprise you to learn that in His [God’s] efforts to get permanent possession of the soul, He relies on troughs even more than on the peaks…” (Lewis 37). Screwtape goes on to explain how because God loves and values the freedom that He has given us, He sometimes removes His presence from us. God wants us to become like Him and follow Him of our own volition, not because He forces us, but because we truly want to.
“He leaves the creature to stand up on its own legs—to carry out from the will alone duties which have lost all relish. It is during such periods, much more than during the peak periods, that it is growing into the sort of creature He wants it to be. Hence the prayers offered in the state of dryness are those which please Him best.” (Lewis 39)
Reading these words I felt elation once again. My feeling of distance from God was not outside of His plan, but was a natural occurrence in the process of growing closer to Him. This time is an opportunity to show true devotion and love. I can accomplish more in this time than in any other and I am now resolved to do so. This resolution is reinforced by one of the final statements in the letter, “Our cause is never more in danger than when a human, no longer desiring, but still intending, to do our Enemy’s will, looks round upon a universe from which every trace of Him seems to have vanished, and asks why he has been forsaken, and still obeys.” (Lewis 39)

Works Cited
Lewis, C.S. The Screwtape Letters. Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc. New York, 1976

This post is not terribly exciting.

2005-01-26T21:23:00.000-05:00

Just warning you all (oh drat I almost said y'all. There's no place like the north, there's no place like the north...) that nothing stupendously exciting has happened to me recently. I pretty much just decided that it had been too long since I posted and I had better write something if I want to maintain contact with those that don't live on this hill with me. Well, i take that back. Something exciting did happen to me, but it's no the sort of thing to share in mixed company (unless they were all bio majors perhaps) let alone the internet. But anyway...
So I feel like I've been back here forever but we haven't even had a full week of classes yet. How sad is that? This sadness is due in part to my schedule (which I've probably aready complained about to you). On MWF I go from 8-1:20 straight with only a half hour break for lunch. On M I then have Women's Self Defense, which is totally worth it, from 8:30-9:45. On W I have Zoology lab from 2:30-5:20 and AWANA from 6:30-8:30 (so early to leave AWANA, freaks me out). My one friend tried to convince me to take Chem lab on M 2:30-5:20, but I refused. So anyway MWF is packed full, but I only have Christian Life formation on T and Chem lab on Thurs. This is not working out for me. Dr. Hill said that when he was in college he fixed his schedule so that it would turn out like that. I hate it. I have to get up at 7 every other day. I see the freakin' sunrise on my way to classes. I've never seen this many sunrises in my life. I'm the girl who on her break stayed up till 3:30 am every single day and didn't get up till at least 11. Ask my mother. It's true. So I'm a wee bit stressed, I'm missing meals, and I've got a cold. I'm really not as grumpy as I sound. It's just the thought of 7 am that drives me crazy. I am not a morning person.

So anyway, on sat. I went to America's Thrift Store (which is right next to McKay's). It's this really big thrift store, and I got two sweaters, one is all orange, and a formal dress. I am so excited about this dress. I got is for 4.88 and it reminds me of Judy Garland's dress in Meet Me in St. Louis. I almost didn't get it 'cause I didn't think that it would fit, and you can't try it on 'cause it's a thrift store, but Ashley convinced me to get it and it fit perfectly. I was really excited. Then we went to go see Shall We Dance. I didn't really think I would like it because I thought that it was a chick flick and I'd rather see something where there are explosions (I am a girl, I promise) but it was a really good movie. Some of the outfits made me want to scream a sermon about modesty... But it was still a good movie. I would sign up for dance lessons and then go see the movie right before your first one, 'cause that would work out really well.

So, I guess this post is long enough now. If you don't think so tell me and I'll scrounge up something else to ramble on about.

Happy Birthday Tollers

2005-01-03T14:33:00.000-05:00

For those of you who do not know, today is the day on which my beloved John Ronald Reuel Tolkien was born. Do not feel bad if you forgot. This is in fact the first year I have ever remembered his birthday on his birthday. If I can't remember it, I can hardly expect you to.
In honor of our remembrance of J.R.R. Tolkien, I will tell you the story of how I ransomed Frodo.
While I had hoped to receive DVD Extended Edition The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, I knew that most of my family had no idea what that even was, and my chances were pretty slim. So when the envelopes were handed out at the end of unwrapping presents, I decided that all my Christmas money this year would go to buying it myself. I had doubts. I am in college, and since I never eat breakfast in the cafeteria I spend quite bit of money on food. But on Christmas morning when I was opening presents with my immediate family, Karen gave me an envelope that said inside "For your Frodo Fund". That is when I decided for certain that I would do everything I could to ransom Frodo.
I got the last of my Christmas money on Saturday, so I couldn't go ransom Frodo until Monday. I looked up where I could get Frodo though and tried to find the best deal. On Monday morning I woke up bright and early at 9:00. I was putting on my shoes when Mom informed me that there was a race for the van this morning and that I was in the lead. Apparently Dad wanted the van to take Karen's bookshelves that he had built her to her apartment. I informed Dad that I had reserved the car three days prior. I had submitted my proposal and it had been approved. He asked me if I had a receipt. I took the car. Normally I would have let him have the car but I had been planning this for days. I had to rescue Frodo. I could have taken his car I guess, but I've never driven it (it scares me) and I was driving to Chesterfield to see if they had the shiney blue shirt I wanted in the right size.
So I drove out to Chesterfield. I went to the Wal-mart on the way, but I couldn't find Frodo. I searched and searched and finally found the place he was supposed to be, but he wasn't there anymore. So I went next door to Best Buy. I searched and searched and searched. I couldn't find the Extended Edition. So I finally gave up. I drove to the mall. I had a bit of trouble doing this because the other people on the road wouldn't let me change lanes, but I finally made it. Then I searched and searched for the shiney blue shirt, but I couldn't find it. So I left. I was a bit frustrated at this point. I decided to try to get to the O'Fallon Wal-mart. So I took O'Fallon Road off of 94. It seemed promising. O'Fallon Road turned out to be this small winding road that they were doing a bunch of construction on, but it did eventually lead to Highway K. Eventually. I made it to the O'Fallon Wal-mart. And I began the search for Frodo. After my experience at the other Wal-mart I had more of an idea of where to look, so it didn't take as long. I found Frodo. There he was, all alone, tied up. I grabbed him and we practically ran to the checkout. I got a little worried because the cashier couldn't find the thing to take the bonds off of Frodo, but she borrowed one and it was all good. Frodo's ransom was a little more than I had expected, but I paid it anyway.
Frodo and I made it out to my car. I locked all the doors and set Frodo in my lap. Then I began to talk to him. I told him all about how I had been trying to rescue him all day, and how much fun we would have. Then I told Frodo how I got a picture frame that said best friends on it for Christmas, and how we could take our picture with Bear Bear and my boots and put it in there. I told him all about Bear Bear and Boots and how much he would like them. Then I spent a while explaining to him that I was not materialistic. I'm not sure he believed me.
When we got home Karen and I spent a little time admiring him and then we watched the Fellowship of the Ring. This was around 1:00 or so. Karen had to leave and go back to her apartment so I watched the next two movies by myself. This was probably just as well because I stayed up until 3:30 that night and I don't think anyone else in my family would have lasted that long. I took breaks between DVDs to eat and stretch and stuff like that, but it was still pretty intense. I didn't mind though. I think my favorite part was in the Return of the King at about 2:00 when I saw that they had put in some deleted scenes in the Houses of Healing. I was literally squealing with delight and bouncing up and down in my chair. I was happy. Frodo was happy too. He made good friends with my new squishy gumdrop pillow named Chewy. He's bright orange. Frodo's been sleeping on him a lot, in fact I think he's sleeping on him right now up in my room. So anyway, that's the story of how I ransomed Frodo. I could have bought a formal dress at full price for what it took to ransom him, but it's ok. I've watched him all the way through twice already. Once the first day, and then I watched all the cast commentary. I also watched The Two Towers and half of Return of the King with Karen. And I've just started on the appendix on the Fellowship of the Ring. I'll probably watch some more of that tonight. But I also have to watch the first season of Stargate Sg-1 and the first two seasons of Quantum Leap, which is what Mom got for Christmas. Mom wants me to help her take down the Christmas tree now so I have to go.
Happy Birthday Tollers.

AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!

2004-12-05T19:28:00.000-05:00

*pant* so exhausted. Can't talk long. Must write. Many papers due. Think week before finals worse than finals. Man who invented chocolate good. My hero.

Dr. Hill's Birthday

2004-11-20T19:12:00.000-05:00

Dr. Hill is my Chemistry professor and thursday was his birthday so Elisabeth, Jillian and I decided to celebrate. We had so much fun. Elisabeth and Jillian are two other freshman bio majors, Jillian was my roommate at Summit. The three of us started our own little club, the FHBC, future housewives of Bryan College. We cook and knit and crochet and now we throw parties for our science professors.
Elisabeth asked Dr. Hill what his favorite molecule was, so he told her and drew it for her and told her why it was his favorite molecule. (men are so funny and easy to surprise, why is that?) It was this molecue with two 5-ring carbon chains that he got his doctrate on. So we made little cupcakes and got these food coloring markers and drew the element names on the cupcakes and arranged them in the shape of the molecule. We also got a whole bunch of balloons and wrote elements on those. An interesting thing we found out about Dr. Hill is that he translates the Bible into Kingon for fun, so I got on-line and looked up how to write aned say happy birthday in Klingon (it's now my favorite phrase and you will no doubt be hearing it from me next time you see me).
So on thursday before we had lab, we all sneaked up to the third floor admin. Jillian went and got the rest of the science faculty involved while Elisabeth and I hid and guarded the balloons, three garbage bags full, and cupcakes. We hid the balloons in Dr. Hartz's office, snuck into the chem lab and I drew Klingon on the board, Jillian distracted Dr. Hill, and Elisebeth arranged cupcakes in his office (we aren't allowed to eat anything in chem lab). I snuck out of the lab and pretended I was just walking up the stairs. I talked to Jillian and Dr.Hill for a while and then we let him go into the lab. We waited to take a picture of him looking at the board before we ran down to Dr. Hartz's office, grabbed the balloons, and ran to Dr. Hills office. There the three of us each took a bag and started shaking it furiously to get the balloons out while laughing insanely. This is when Dr. Hill came in. Then he left. Dr. Hartz came into see what we had done and got Dr. Hill to come back with her. He really liked his molecule, he had to rearrange it a bit. Then we gave him a card Jillian had made, it had a recipie on one side (stuff like 3 crazy bio majors, 5 g. latex, 20 g C6H12O6) and on the other side Jillian had manipulated wire into the shape of happy birthday and put a picture of us on it which she had burned the edges of, because something Dr. Hill always says is that all chemists are closet pyros.
So on the whole I think Dr. Hill really liked it. He's such a fun professor. And we decided that we were now celebrating all the science faculty's birthdays from now on. We've already made plans for Dr. Barnett, the botany prof.

Kara

2004-11-08T14:07:00.000-05:00

Alright, I know that you were all thinking that Ann was my only friend. But that's not true. I have lots of friends. I've just been to busy to write about them. So there.
Kara Layden is my RA. She is one of the funniest people I've ever met. Her parents foster babies until they are adopted so Kara loves little kids and pretty much acts like them most of the time.
Probably sometime during the first month I was here Kara stole my magnetic duck and put it up on her door. I didn't notice for awhile so she made fun of me quite a bit. I told Lisa about it ove IM and she told me to steal something of Kara's. I didn't think I could do that 'cause she always locks her door and she doesn't have a roomate.
So like a couple days later I was coming out of the bathroom and noticed that Kara was down the hall and she had left her keys in her door. So I took them. Not the best thing to steal as you will see. So I ran back into my room and showed Ann. She thought it was hilarious. So I hid the keys under my pillow and we both went to sleep. Kara came in a little later, but since we both looked like we were asleep, she didn't say anything.
The next morning my plan was to put the keys in her door right before I left for class, but she was standing there. She then proceeded to tell Ann and me about how she came back last night to get some things so she could spend the night at her friends house and how she then lost her keys. (*hides face*, I am so ashamed)
When she couldn't find her keys she got really upset and searched her room top to bottom several times. She then decided she wasn't going to go to her friend's house, but she couldn't do homework because she left her backpack in her car along with her phone so she couldn't call her friend either. So she went and woke up one of the other RAs and they went to her friend's house (the same on she was going to sleep over with) to get her spare key. So after throwing rocks at her window for several minutes her friend finally woke up and gave her the key. And so Kara came back to the dorm and went to sleep.
So back to when Kara is telling this sad story to me and Ann. If Ann hadn't been there I probably would have broken down and given Kara back her keys, but Ann was playing along so I did too. When I got back from class I stuck the keys in Kara's door and went back to my room. Kara came into our room a little later and after flat out lying to her several time I finally let on that I had taken her keys. Kara forgave me and now loves me and guards her keys more carefully.

Matt

2004-11-08T13:57:00.000-05:00

Something significant that happened this past friday is the death of a freshman named Matt Wilhoite. He died in a car accident. I didn't know him because he was on the basketball team and a commuter, but a lot of the other sports people are taking it pretty hard, especially the basketball team. Please pray for his parents, he was an only child.

Survey

2004-10-31T20:49:00.000-05:00

Welcome to getting to know your friends. What you're supposed to do is>copy (not forward) this entire e-mail and paste it onto a new e-mail > What's up with these retarted arrow things in the middle of the sentences? that you'll send. Change ALL of the answers so they apply to you ONLY. Yeah I'm gonna answer the ones that don't apply to me.>Then, send this to a whole bunch of people you know No, send it the ones you don't know too. *INCLUDING* the >person who sent it to you. The theory is that you'll learn a lot of > little known facts about your friends.Yeah, I'm sure. It's fun and easy. Loads of fun... You might be >surprised (but you won't be) with some of the things you learn about people you think you >know. > >
1. IF YOU COULD BUILD A HOUSE ANYWHERE WHERE WOULD IT BE? umm in colorado on the side of a mountain with huge windows overlooking like a stream.... that'd be awesome.
Sound good to me meagan.
2. WHAT'S YOUR FAVORITE ARTICLE OF CLOTHING? my boots
3. IF YOU COULD HAVE CHOSEN YOUR NAME WHAT WOULD IT HAVE BEEN? when I was little I would have canged my name to Christina. Now I'm ok with my name
4. WHERE IS YOUR FAVORITE PLACE TO BE? I miss my house
5. WHERE IS YOUR LEAST FAVORITE PLACE TO BE? Concepts of physical Fitness class. blah.
6. WHAT TIME DO YOU WAKE IN THE MORNING?
8-9>
7. WHAT'S YOUR FAVORITE KITCHEN APPLIANCE? kitchen? what's a kitchen?
8. WHAT MAKES YOU REALLY ANGRY? homework
9. IF YOU COULD PLAY ANY INSTRUMENT, WHAT WOULD IT BE? the harp
10. FAVORITE COLORS? white, red violet, blue green and everything else
11. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE SEASON? um... all of them. But not so much summer...except it has camp...so all of them
12. IF YOU COULD HAVE ONE SUPER POWER, WHAT WOULD IT BE? zoom/x-ray vision. Cause then, I have like a microsope in my head. And that would rock. (It's kinda sad that I already knew that and didn't have to think about it.)
13. DO YOU HAVE A TATTOO, WHAT IS IT AND WHERE? no
14. DO YOU JUGGLE? WHAT? no
15. THE ONE PERSON FROM THE PAST YOU WISH YOU COULD GO BACK AND TALK TO? THE INCLINGS!!!! Except I wouldn't talk. I would just behold their presence and listen to them. (The inclings were a group of men that included J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis. They met at a pub and read their unfinished works to each other. Ahhhh...where's a time machine?)
16. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE DAY? saturday
17. WHAT IS IN THE TRUNK OF YOUR CAR? *cries* I wanna car
18. WHICH DO YOU PREFER, SUSHI OR HAMBURGER? neither
19. FROM THE PEOPLE YOU WILL EMAIL THIS TO WHO IS MOST LIKELY TO RESPOND FIRST? I don't know who I'm sending it to yet. I might just post it on my blog. Hey, that's a good idea.
20. WHO IS LEAST LIKELY TO RESPOND? uh...John Kerry...i guess
21. WHO DID YOU RECEIVE THIS FROM? Meagan
22. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE CARTOON? Strongbad!!! Yes Jill, I have converted.
23. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE MEAL? anything not made by the Bryan cafeteria
24. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE DESSERT? again, anything not made by the Bryan cafeteria
25. IF YOU COULD GO ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD, WHERE WOULD IT BE? uh...Scotland

Worldview homework

2004-10-30T22:23:00.000-04:00

Hey, who wants to help me with my homework? I know you do. I have to interview two people who aren't in any of the worldview classes right now, and all the freshmen and new transferes are in a worldview class right now and I don't know many people who aren't freshmen or transfers. So I'm gonna ask you. It's just one question. What are the two most difficult objections to the divinity of Jesus Christ? Now don't let me down. At least two people have to give two answers each. It's probably alright if both people say the same thing though.

McKay's

2004-10-28T23:07:00.000-04:00

I'm going to tell you guys something really exciting. I found out last saturday that DisneyLand is not the happiest place on earth, no, the happiest place on earth is a store in Chattanooga called McKay's. What makes this place so magical you ask? Well, people bring their old books, cds, videos and DVDs to this place and sell them, then the happy workers at McKay's price these new aquisitions and sell them to others. My friend Ashley took me there on saturday and we spent several joyous hours looking through everything. I spent a little over $20. I bought nine books and five cds. I bought a copy of Handel's Messiah, the complete Messiah, for $1.45. AHHH!!! I'm soo happy and excited. And I got a copy of The Phantom of the Opera, really good book, for $.90 and The Jungle Book for $.25. AAAAHHHHH!!!! It's better than the book fair, and it all year long. I love that place. I'm gonna be broke soon and my dorm room's gonna be stuffed with books. YAAAYYYY!!!!! Don't you see what a wonderful, happy, magical, beautiful, gorgeous, exciting place McKay's is. EVERYONE SHOULD GO TO MCKAY'S!!!!!!!! K, I'm done.

Ann

2004-10-28T19:47:00.000-04:00

Ok, I'm going to start by helping you get to know some of my new friends. We'll start with Ann.
Ann Grisham is my roommate. She is a freak. ;) No seriously, I love Ann. We are so blessed to have found each other. She loves the outdoors and goes running all the time, she ran cross country in high school. She is an Eled major, but she doesn't much act like it. She hopes someday to be a missionary to Colombia and work in the schools there. She is completely and utterly obsessed with Columbia. She had an exchange student, Maria Paulo, live with her for a while. I think Ann and i get along so well because neither one of is what you might call a girly-girl, and in a girl's dorm, let me tell ya, you are surrounded by girly girls.

Whence come these messages

2004-10-27T20:09:00.000-04:00

Welcome to my blog, friends. I did not in fact create this blog out of peer pressure, but rather out of a desire for communication. Since it is apparent that there are only two amoung you who know how to use a phone, one of them being my mother, I decided I must communicate in another way. So when I have time I will post interesting things that happen to me and interesting things that my interesting new friends do. But don't expect too much, I am a bio major after all.