Have taken a vow of silence to protest the plight of honey bees

Okay, not really. I'm in SLC this week for professional development and just barely got Internet access in my hotel room. (Am still waiting for the in-room massage therapist and the ice cream cart.) Will post soon, especially with stories of yesterday's visit to the Salt Lake City Library. I now want to marry it and have its babies and sleep on the floor of the stacks every night like Natalie Portman in Where the Heart Is (but not pregnant, obviousl...

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Hilarious

Today in school, during one of the many breaks we have to wait through, my clique played an incredibly awesome questionnaire/storyline game. So awesome, I have to blog it here. =)The game goes like this; We have to answer a series of ''meme-styled'' questions, compile them. Then someone will fit the meme-answers into a series of sentences so that it will sound like it's a complete story or at least, a PWP.So what my story/PWP sounded something like this,"I met Russell Brand at the Neoprint place."Q:"Does he look ugly?""Definitely, you bet!"Q: "How many times did you had sex with him? And where?""6, at the Neoprint place."Q: "Wow, what did he...

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Happy Friday

Neighbor kids killed my daffodils. I'm pretty sure. Also their parents appear to have run over what was left with their car. This means I must kill the entire family and possibly eat their flesh. Or just move, and start planting daffodils and crocuses and lavender and other honey-bee-attracting plants where demon monkey spawn won't kill them.But speaking of honey bees, have y'all heard about the honey bees and how they're dying out and everyone is real worried? Because yeah. The honey bees are dying out and everyone is real worried. Turns out one-third of our food supply is dependent on honey bee pollination, so it's kind of a problem if there are no more bees.Haagen-Dazs has created a website all about what we can do to help the honey bees. We can learn more about them, we can not kill them,...

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Pleasant news

My suspicion as stated in my previous post is proved accurate! Those individuals in my course are indeed metalheads. *throws black coloured confetti and horns up* I am so happy to know like-minded people are within my vincity almost everyday now and that I finally feel normal for once. Haha!Anyway, to have a short introduction of the 2 awesome people, we have Timothy who listens to old school metal and abit of black metal (at least that's what I know so far) and Anitha who listens to trash and power metal. Very extremely nifty. =) Now, I have a reason to dig out my (scant amount of) metal shirts and iron them. Haha! We might even go to gigs together next time! How nifty can things get? ^^Can't wait to hang out with them more, inside school or outside. lol.Looks like I won't be a retired metalhead...

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This morning's heart attack

. . . was brought to me by Cicada, with this picture:My heart stopped for a full minute before I read the part about the glass separating the swimmers from the bears. Not that the bears aren't working on a plan as we speak. Because they are. And I hope Cicada's visit does NOT coincide with the day that they break through the wall and start feasting on little children.I moved to Alaska during the days of Binky the Polar Bear, who was famous for mauling people who got too close to his cage at the Anchorage Zoo. It was my introduction to my new home state, if you will."Welcome to Alaska. Try not to get eate...

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The Happy Working Song

This week I've made important strides towards becoming a responsible adult who will not die buried in a mountain of filth. My biggest accomplishments?Hauled down the spring & summer clothes. Going through the winter clothes to see which ones I actually wore this year. And which ones actually looked okay while I wore them. The rest need to go. And then I'll have like 4 things left.Filled my car with gas, even though it cost $50 to do so and when I saw the price I was sorely tempted to just start sucking on the end of the gasoline pump nozzle and end it all.Got an oil change, which was about 3 months (or 1,000 miles) overdue. I sense that my car is happy with me now, and has temporarily shelved her secret plan to kill me in a blazing inferno. To further appease her I will purchase fuel...

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Content

I met Yvonne in school today before I was about to depart school for home, it's a great feeling to meet someone you know for years in school. It made my day easily. I hope she'll be free enough for us to meet for lunch sometime soon. =)I received a deck of Absolute Vodkas from Morten who is from Norway, very nice gift indeed. The deck is significantly thinner and they handle well for cuts. This made my day too. Thanks, Morten! Nifty namecard you got there too. =)I also received my Subway membership card this evening, now my wallet is getting abnormally thick. >_>I realised my blog is getting scant and very uninteresting, my apologies. I am developing a thing where I have difficulties getting my thoughts out in complete coherent sentences, people call it "Writer's block" I believe. I...

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Enjoy life

So I know sometimes I snark on L**** for being a cow town (which it is) and not having a Target (which it doesn't). But it also has many good things, one which is Le Nonne Ristorante. I went there for dinner on Friday night with my friend AuD who is about to go become a world traveler and then move to Miami for a schmancy internship.It's in a lovely converted Victorian house on a pretty street close to downtown. The other nice thing about the location is that if you turn up before 5:30pm, like we did, there are a couple of other nice houses across the street that have been converted into interesting shops like this one, which carries Fair Trade...

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Being a force for social change can be exhausting, y'all

But I'm not a shirker. So I press forward.I had to bawl out some neighbor kids for ripping up my roommate's flowers. Only I tried to do it in a nice way and refrained from setting anyone on fire with my eyes. They were still across the street when I realized what happened, one of them holding the victimized flowers in her hand, and they still tried to act like they had no idea what I was talking about. Anyway. I feel like I taught them a Very Important Lesson about why we don't rip up flowers that don't belong to us. They must have really taken it to heart, too, because the next day all my crocuses had been yanked up and ground into the sidewalk. Which, yes, I feel is justifiable grounds for beating people with a shovel.And then I had to write a nice letter to D*seret Book informing them...

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Seven Guilty Pleasures

Only, to shake it up, I'm going to list 5 real ones and 2 fake ones. Let's see if you can guess which are lies.Fritos--Because they have crack inside them. Salty, salty crack.Regency romance novels--Because face it, sometimes you wish there had been more making out in Pride & Prejudice.Kenny Chesney--Because pulling one over on that scrunch-faced Zellweger is kind of hot.Not Exercising--Because sleep is so much better when it was almost exercise.Anne Geddes--Because even though contorted naked babies shouldn't be cute, sometimes they are.Television without Pity--Because sometimes it's more fun to have a really funny mean person just tell you what happened.Movie theater popcorn--Because maybe a heart attack wouldn't be so bad if there were popcorn involv...

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Change

Well, it's been 3 days into the school term at my next studying destination - NYP. Not sure of what to say of it, but it's definitely a far far vast gap away from what I experienced back in JC, in terms of lecture-speed and the depth of the topic covered. For example, in anatomy and pysiology's cell structure portion, they only listed down the organelles and gave 1 liners for their functions with no detailed pictures accompanying the notes. It's, unfortunately, very brief. Sigh. But, I am slightly challenged for the Radiation Physics module, it's been more than 2 years since I thought in terms of physics, but, I see no problems so far. It's just formulae and subsituting values. =) The timetable is very staggered as well, with many breaks in between, and quite abit of early dismissals. Definitely...

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Clutter on my mind

I've added a few new feeds to my Google Reader in the last week or so and one that I'm really liking is Unclutterer. I, myself, am a clutterer and a hoarder. I accept this and tell myself that it's endearing and sexy of me. I did a pretty good cull before moving to England, but that was almost three years ago. (Please excuse me while I lapse into a vegetative state for a moment at this most awful realization.)Anyway. One Unclutterer post is called "Tough Questions for Your Things" and gives you questions to ask yourself when deciding whether to purchase (or keep) an item. I'm thinking this could be a very useful exercise for me. Another site, Zen Habits, has an article called 18 Five-Minute Decluttering Tips to Start Conquering Your Mess. So. Let's take this journey together, shall we?Unclutterer's...

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Behold the hair cut

So yeah, it's fun and I like it. And it takes like 10 minutes to do in the morning, which I am all for. Now I can spend the rest of the time on meditation. And bust-increasing exercises.This weekend was all kinds of good, beginning with the part where L**** decided to give me a freaking break and stop with the snowing. The kiddies came up and we did Baby Animal Days and got to be all one with the baby pigs and lambs and horses and calves. And if anyone heard the part where I mistakenly told Savvy that a baby calf was, in fact, a baby llama, please just wipe that from your memory. Because I'm pretty sure you're on drugs and I didn't actually...

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LOL

I was really getting misanthropically bored out of my dear skull and then Vika sent me a thingy that cracked me up. Really pleasant intermission of my weekend-shunyata. ^_^She sent me this link to this picture:HAHA! Then we went on to talk about printing sci-fi stories and porn on toilet paper. And saying that we could start a business by charging people by the minute in the toilet with the special toilet rolls. L...

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Organic Chemistry is love!

One very bored Saturday noon and I am watching this lecture on my own accord... Such a nerd I am. Reminds me so much of those crazy lectures back in JC. Yummy stuff....

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Ya das ist ein sexy head

So I got my hairs cut this morning and I am Loving. It. Don't have pictures yet to show, but will get some up soon. Here's a preview of what you'll get, though.Picture 1: Aged hag with 2-month-old pony tail and 3-inch bat poop roots who hates hair and possibly self.Picture 2: Smoking hotness.To get more specific, do y'all remember my precious niece Savvy? Yeah. I got her haircut. So add some height, boobs, and crow's feet and you're there.Am pretty sure that, if nothing else, this move will cement my Favorite Auntie status. Plus I'm taking her tomorrow to pet baby piglets. Which are her brand of crack, much as baby lambs are mine.I can't l...

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Death and some servings of melancholy.

Death because I woke up to a piece of news that someone living 2 floors above me committed suicide at my apartment block in the wee hours of this morning. He [rumours from the market says he's a father of a 10 year old boy and a sole breadwinner] landed near the rubbish chute area, not a very nice landing spot if you ask me. Anyway, it's not something you see often here in Singapore, so it caused quite a stir amongst the neighbours. I just think it's a nice detail to take note because you can tell tales of it to new tenants in the future and start a new horror craze or something. Lol. Geez, I better stop elaborating or commenting on this incident because I feel unnatural cold breezes around me suddenly. I just wish the guy will be delivered from that wrathful experience and let the soul rest...

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Et cetera, et cetera, et cetera!

One of the most interesting aspects of my job is the so-called "reference interview." When people come to me with a question I have this small window to make sure that I understand exactly what they're looking for. The way I do this is by asking questions of my own--questions which are meant to narrow down the focus of their inquiry. I try to make it quick and simple so that I don't overwhelm them or make them sorry that they walked up to my desk to be grilled.Only here's the thing, and it happens all the time. People don't want to answer my questions! They get all cagey and try to be as vague as possible about what they're looking for. As though...

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And the Schrute Bucks go to . . .

First off, I can't believe people actually took the time yesterday to write poetry about the fluid-filled sacs accumulating on my body. You are true friends. Secondly, I couldn't believe how dang clever my true friends are. Or how good they are at memorizing the work of Shel Silverstein.This was a hard, hard choice. But I must declare a tie for first place between Mad Hadder and Before. Mad Hadder secured my love forever with "To assist with your fist /Seek a right wing with grist." And Before managed, with perfect meter, to tap into not one but two of my secret anti-feminist fantasies. Well done to both of you!Note: This was posted before I read Cicada's brand-new contribution and started hyperventilating at my desk. Even if she did call me a whore.So now it's a three-way tie, yipe...

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Of boredom and mental struggle

I did the impossible today. I took up the initiative and went for a jog this evening, which wasn't too much of a success truthfully. I was in the mindset I could at least do a continous jog for 15 minutes or something, so I used a rather quick pace and went for a steady run. Shit, I, then, realised my body wasn't in the right mode for it, plus the after-effects of my week long illness made my body really incapable of such cardiac activity. Adding into account that I have not attempted any form of cardio exercise since the end of my NAPFA test back in JC2, I felt incredibly unfit at the end of the run walk. But the sweating part is pretty awesome to feel. =) Ah wells!That's the part about boredom, because 2008 feels like one big shunyata if you ask me. Nothing is really happening...Now about...

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I'm sure Shel Silverstein would have a field day with this

There's a cyst on my wrist.A ganglion cyst.It can now join my eye twitch, scaly skin, and fast approaching seasonal allergies as Reasons to Flee in Terror. I expect to have aliens bursting from my abdomen any day now.According to the Interwebs, this thing is also called a "bible bump" because the folk remedy used to involve smashing it with a heavy book. The current medical wisdom now counsels against smashing body parts with heavy items, as that may actually cause further injury.Who knew?Anyone who can write the best Shel Silverstein-like poem (or limerick) about my nasty wrist gets 100 Schrutebucks.(image from answers.c...

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Meme time!

Since there has been alot of negativity (I have gotten well, anyway) around this place recently, I shall inject some mindless crap now. I yoinked this meme from Valie, if you want to know. So, decant your grey matter and let me type chunks of information that will be largely irrevelant to many of your lives! Yay.----------------------1. If your lover betrayed you, what will your reaction be?You said it. That person is a lover, love knows no boundaries. Forgive but remain aware of his/her misgivings. Then again, I have severely limited experience in this field of expertise, who am I to pass comments?2.What will you do if you do not share the same feelings as the person who likes you?It depends entirely on the context, dear interrogator. If it involves some trivial details like food or what...

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It can't love you back, people

I went to the temple this morning and when I got to the front desk the sweet elderly temple worker asked my roommate and I if we had cell phones with us. I smiled and said, "No."I refrained from adding, ". . . because I was raised by humans." Even though that's what I think every single time. You already know I have strong feelings on this issue.But seriously, in the temple? My mom volunteers in the Anchorage Temple and they've had problems with people's cell phones ringing inside their lockers, over and over and over again. I told mom that she should use her master key to unlock the locker, take the cell phone out, and leave a note on the outside of the locker which reads, "Your cell phone had to be removed because it was causing a disturbance. It is being held for you in the temple president's...

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This reader's advisory stuff is getting easier

It's nicest when people ask for books and it turns out that we have the exact same taste. Because I can just tell them about all my favorites and they think I'm this brilliant mind-reader. And usually we become best friends and I invite them to join our book club.Sometimes people come in who are interested in something completely cool, like the elderly gentleman who read The Kite Runner and became fascinated with Afghanistan. So it was always fun to have something waiting for when he'd come in. By the time we'd gone through everything in the collection (and some things that I ordered especially for him) he could probably have taught a university class on the subject. Those are the fun days.The less fun days are when people come in who hate everything good (read: everything that I love). Because...

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It is possible that I am a genius

So remember how last week we were talking about the singles scene (aka suckfest)? Well I have possibly come up with a brilliant new idea. I got an email from a lovely Stake Relief Society President who was very interested in our discussion. In her stake she works with the Young Single Adult and the Single Adult committees. They're worried because the single folk are dropping out like flies and they aren't sure how to best meet their needs and keep them involved.So her question is this: "What would work? I'm curious what your readership would say about what activities they would be interested in. Any clues?"I responded that this is a tricky, tricky thing. First of all, you're frequently looking at a group made up of diverse ages, interests, and life situation. It's hard to plan something that...

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Triumph!

Several weeks ago I made a professional goal--namely, that I would make friends with the surly 12-yr-old who tried to call me a f****** b**** when I told him his time was up on the computer.This is not because I have some compulsive need to have everyone like me. Because I don't. Much. But I happen to like 12-yr-old boys, and I've always had a soft spot for the punk ones. This soft spot was strongest when I was about 10-14 years of age and was always falling for the Bad Jr. High Boys. Now it is more of a benevolent, legal sort of interest. Plus I know that their lives can be pretty crappy and they need safe(ish) places where they feel welcomed. I'm absolutely fine with banning adults who make my life hard, but I don't want to do that to a kid. Kids have enough problems.Anyway. I'd like to...

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