so, it started ok. I decided to buy a car.  ( the adventures of buying a new car.... )

I've reached information saturation and I don't know how to focus my paper any more. The idea I wanted to do has basically been done by several people already and I still need a preferably  (by the professor) experimental way to approach the topic. if not that then at least an analytical critique.

so, this is what I've got so far. If anyone is ( Read more... )

For my public policy class I have to write a paper that will be 1/3 of my grade and since I can't do gay marriage like I wanted I decided to pick pornography or, more practically, obscenity laws ( Read more... )

ok.
crazy snow day and i've done nothing but sit on my ass and read things for class.
so i've been productive, and i did shovel the sidewalk this morning, but still....i want out of my house and that's not forthcoming so instead, links about my cat:
there are some things I will never consider attractive. for an example note the picture here. (btw, ( Read more... )

I promise that eventually I'll start posting and have interesting things to write (ok, maybe not interesting, but at least things for anyone who does still read me). Right now I've been obsessing over my final and just not participating in life. The final is on Tuesday though, so after that I can do normal things again like : buy food, vacuum, and ( Read more... )

i changed my car battery yesterday! It only took an hour and a half too! The bolts on the connectors were so unused I couldn't get them off and had to buy a wrench set at the autozone to unscrew them. my old battery was really old too! When I removed the cover that held it stable i got a wiff of my grandmother's old battery plant - ah, brought back ( Read more... )

surprisingly i like my current professor.
He reminds me of the profs I had in college. He's engaging, intelegent, covers a lot of material, actually read the book, and can relate what he's talking about to the real world in meaningful ways.

I will find him again!
He's teaching forecasting next semester, but he also said he didn't see any reason to ( Read more... )

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my boss is pregant.
in case we missed the memo, i dislike babies, this also equates to pregancies, and being interested in anything to do with pregnancies and babies.
here is a convo with a co-worker as my boss was passing around the 1st ultrasound photos:

[9:18:29] me: umm.....  [intrest, interest, interest]
[9:18:41] Him: exactly!
[9:18:48] me: [ ( Read more... )

ok.....they levitated mice...and the first one didn't like it so much, so they sedated the second one.
I'm still getting a good laugh from the descriptions in this article!
http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20090909/sc_livescience/micelevitatedinlab

and sarah palin continues to spout the company line like a good puppet in the wall street journal. Or ( Read more... )