Author: etoiline

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the friday five:

1. What was your first Halloween costume? First? I have no idea. But my mom used to make me these really great costumes like Rainbow Brite and She-Ra and several princess outfits…I always loved dressing up on Halloween.

2. What was your best costume and why? Well. The Rainbow Brite costume was actually for a school play, but it was exceedingly well done. I had a yarn wig that looked exactly like the real cartoon thing 😉 lots of colored lame fabric, boot tops, the works. Even had a little purple star sticker for my cheek 🙂 But I would have to say *my* best costume is my Legolas one, as I made it myself.

3. Did you ever play a trick on someone who didn’t give you a treat? Nope. It took me a while to figure out that was where the phrase came from, that you were giving the person a choice between giving you a treat or you giving them a trick…

4. Do you have any Halloween traditions? (ie: Family pumpkin carving, special dinner before trick or treating, etc.) We always get together and have some sort of party. We have to have this special halloween punch (secret family recipie don’t you know). Now that no one is trick or treat age, we all just play games and wait for the adorable little ones to come to the door.

5. Share your favorite scary story…real or legend! Er. I’m not really a fan of scary stories anyway…we’d always just read something out of the ‘Really Scary Stories’ series. Although I suppose one sotry that really freaks me out is a short story by Ray Bradbury that I can’t even try to think of the title or it will creep me out again.

Happy Halloween!

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It’s here smile I love days when I get to dress up. And I might get to dress up doubly because there could be mucho partying going on this weekend. Yay! I’ll get to wear clothes I made wink Renaissance festival tonight, elf tomorrow. Whee fantasy!


to Peter Jackson, visionary director of the Lord of the Rings trilogy. Thanks for making life exciting wink

And congrats to Dr. Holloszy who finished writing a grant yesterday and so took us out to lunch. Yay!
Isn’t it absurd how much fun it is to dress up? big grin

Oceano

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by Josh Groban. Listen to it here.
Piove sull’Oceano
piove sull’Oceano
piove sulla mia identita
Lampi sull’Oceano
lampi sull’Oceano
squarci di luminosita
Forse l in America
i venti del Pacifico
scoprono le sue immensita
le mie mani stringono
sogni lontanissimi
e il mio pensiero corre da te
Remo, tremo, sento
profondi oscuri abissi
E’ per l’amore che ti do
e per l’amore che non sai
che mi fai naufragare
E’ per l’amore che non ho
e per l’amore che vorrei
e’ per questo dolore
E’ questo amore che ho per te
che mi fa superare queste vere tempeste
Onde sull’Oceano
Onde sull’Oceano
che dolcemente si plachera
Le mie mani stringono
sogni lontanissimi
e il tuo respiro soffia su me
Remo, tremo, sento vento intorno al cuore
E’ per I’amore che ho per te
che mi fa superare mille tempeste
E’per l’amore che ti do
e per l’amore che vorrei
da questo mare
E’ per la vita che non c’e
che mi fai naufragare
infondo al cuore
Tutto questo ti avr
e a te sembrera
tutto normale
I wish I knew Italian.
[more] or you can listen to “You Lift Me Up” here.

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ridiculous ways to spend money

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I would join Friends of Josh Groban if I wasn’t such a cheapskate. Er. I mean, if I didn’t have to pay for rent, the car inspection, new tires, license renewal, the heinous first phone bill, and getting ready for the halloween/housewarming party we’re having on saturday. Meh. Perhaps I’ll join when I know that I’ll have enough money to last the rest of the month. One of these days I should join the John Mayer fan club as I really do like him…not that I don’t like Josh Groban. I’ve absolutely fallen in love with his new single ‘Oceano’ (you can listen to it at joshgroban.com), it’s just the most wonderful thing ever. Excepting the LotR soundtracks, of course. I keep waiting for the information about pre-ordering the special edition soundtrack to come out…just like I’m waiting for the RotK calendar info to come out. Silly people, don’t they know we’re impatient?
Matrix Revolutions comes out next week, which is exciting. And soon after that the extended edition of TTT comes out. I really need to get a dvd player. Or a computer with a dvd player. And call me crazy, but I want to get an iBook with the Panther OS X. And it’s that sort of thing where theoretically I have the money for all these things, but what happens if something comes up down the road? I mean, I was even responsible and turned down a premiere screening of RotK out in california because it would cost about a thousand bucks. A little more than a computer. Meh. And I still don’t have the computer.
I love special edition soundtracks or cds, but it’s that extra $10 that I hate. I’ll still end up buying them, and most likely online because there are super-special editions only available online, and possibly like last year I’ll get the RotK soundtrack a few days before it was released. Erm. Someone could always be nice and provide me with a gift certificate or two…
and in a little over a month the Pirates of the Caribbean dvd comes out. Sheesh. Hollywood just keeps coming up with ways to part me from my money, most of it hard-earned.
Another random note: while I’m glad the concept of streaming music was invented, now I REALLY want this Oceano song. Sigh.

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Lisolette
Your medieval name is: Lisolette. Quiet and artsy,
you’re different from the crowd. You have a
taste in music or art and are sometimes
depressed and private. You’re naturally lovely.

What is your Medieval name?
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You are Peace
You are Peace.

You are at peace with your self and the world
around you. You have balance in your life and
exude tranquility from every pore of your body.
People are constantly asking you “what is
your secret?”

What Emotion Are You?
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Happy Legolas Day!

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Happy Legolas Day!

Today has been dubbed Legolas Day because October 25th is the first day of the Council of Elrond and therefore the first time we are introduced to Legolas in the Fellowship of the Ring book. Silly, but hey, gotta feed the obsession somehow. And yes, Punz, I think someone should buy me daggers for my next birthday wink

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The Brainteaser Test

You answered 25 out of 30 questions correctly!

Congratulations! Your score is in the 96th percentile. This means that if one hundred people took the test with you, your score would rank higher than 95 of them on average.

When we analyzed your test, we also discovered that when it comes to linguistic-mathematical ability, you measure in the 100th percentile. This score indicates you have unusually strong abilities when it comes to understanding numerical representation in words or “word problems.” You’re highly proficient at translating words into numbers. This can be very useful when solving a problem in real life. When people are discussing a vague problem that needs a specific solution, you’re able to cut through the extraneous information to a clear answer.

Whoo! Someone thinks my mathmatical ability is high…maybe I should save this for my med school application? hah.

By being a college student you earn $68.42 per hour.

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Where does this figure come from?
Average lifetime earnings of a high school graduate is $1,087,500
Average lifetime earnings of a college graduate is $1,613,000
A 4-year degree = (40 classes) * (3 days a week) * (16 weeks of class)
(on average) = 1920 hours in class
For every hour in class, students spend 3 hours in a lab, tutoring center,
or doing homework.
(1900 hours in class) * (3 hours) = 5760 additional hours
Use the difference between what a high school graduate and
a college graduate earns ($1,613,000 – $1,087,500) = $525,500
Divide by the total number of learning hours (1920 + 5760) = 7680 hours
For a grand total of $525,50 / 7680 hours = $68.42 per hour
from the StL Community College FactFinder