Time for a long-awaited update!   At least, I would assume it's been long-awaited.  I've been waiting a long time to write it.

First, a recap of Aida.  Then a brief rant about my biochem test (well, maybe we'll skip that one), then a recap of my first encounter with a LAN party.  I'll cap it off with a stellar shopping trip.  (It's been an unusually ( Read more... )

Uh.  They didn't get written yet.  BUT I saw a snake today!  Here's the story ( Read more... )

I went shoe shopping today.  (Really, I go shopping every Thursday on my day off.  But we spend more on gas than we do on stuff, except for the trip when we bought a wedding dress.)  Alas, the cute red shoes were nowhere to be found.  Granted, it was a different DSW that I went to... but still.  (On a side note, I called that DSW and had a guy ( Read more... )

It wasn't really a near-death experience.  But it was, shall we say, a close brush with the shadier side of life...

The setting: a crowded bus stop outside the Wilk.  We exit the bus, thanking the bus driver, and head for the crosswalk.  Rachel and I are on our way to Family Life 100.  As we stand at the crosswalk, waiting for the walk sign to flash ( Read more... )

Apparently there is some famous scientist guy named von Bekesy who did research on hearing and came up with a theory called Place theory.  We spent a good 15 minutes discussing this theory in Sensation and Perception today.  After about 5 minutes I started spacing out because it really wasn't that interesting... and then every time my professor ( Read more... )

Story one:

Pirates 3 is good.  You should go see it.  And stay til the credits are over, because there is a little clip at the end (at least there was when I saw it).  I got out of the movie at 3 am only to discover my gas tank was nearly empty... a frustrating yet hilarious (to the observer, and me only later) sequence of events ensued... I managed ( Read more... )