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a laugh (or two) for the road

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So tired today. So it’s nice to laugh. I have no idea what I’m doing this weekend. Too bad I can’t be spontaneous and take a trip over to KC for the renaissance festival. Sigh.

Bad jokes courtesy of [info] faecrafter.

 This pirate walks into a bar with a big ship’s wheel down his pants. The bartender says, "Excuse me, sir, but do you know you have a ship’s wheel down the front of your pants?"
And the pirate says…
Aaargh, it’s driving me nuts!!

1. Two antennas meet on a roof, fall in love and get married. The ceremony wasn’t much, but the reception was excellent.

2. Two hydrogen atoms walk into a bar. One says, "I’ve lost my electron." The other says, "Are you sure?"
The first replies, "Yes, I’m positive…"

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Way to break the losing streak

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So, I went to my last game at Busch Stadium (well, the original Busch Stadium, anyway) last night. I think it was my first game at Busch in about seven years. I’m sure I’ve told you how every time I actually attended a game in the past, the Cardinals (bless their souls) lost. Even when I went with my dad on Father’s Day and got to sit in the Post-Dispatch box, they lost. It was sad. And then when I stopped going to the games (because they stopped giving me free tickets for getting straight A’s…ah, the days of high school when I actually got straight A’s…) and just occasionally watched the games on tv, they lost. It got to be that I just didn’t want to pay attention. It was like if I ignored the games, then they’d wiin. Sometimes it would work, sometimes not. Though of course last year when they went to the World Series and majorly flopped against the Red Sox (wonder how that movie Fever Pitch is selling in our town, since it’s got the ignoble loss of our Cards to said Sox in it) and I was paying attention…see, they lost.
So, last night I went with my parents, they’d gotten some free tickets for the terrace (read: highest level) along the left field line. Good seats, as it turned out, because it rained a little last night during the game but since we were so high up, we were underneath the distinctive arches so we didn’t get rained on at all. Yay! I got to see two home runs (Edmonds in the 1st and Molina [Yadier? His first name is really Yadier?] in the 2nd), which was glorious, but unfortunately there were no fireworks, since I think they’re trying to save money. Oh well. The Cards were winning until the 7th inning even though they had only gotten 5 hits (vs the Pirates’ 17 or something like that) when the Pirates tied up the game. Boo! The Cards went through three pitchers that inning, and alas that Chris Carpenter didn’t get his 22nd win. He pitched well until that inning though, so go him. Finally the Cards got some hits in the 8th but no runs…so onto the 9th with a tie. We held ’em til it was our turn, then Hector Luna gets on base and steals 2nd, to be in scoring position…and then Eckstein made a nice base hit that ESPN termed a ‘bloop’ but allowed Luna to score, so yay! We won! And I was there! Yahoo! :hehe: I just hope they can keep winning.
The magic number is down to two. If the Cards win today they’ll have a tie on the division championship…if Houston loses they’ll be the champs! Go Cards! I would really love to see you be able to play the World Series at Busch one more time (and make a better showing than last year!)…
So, softball stuff and biking stuff now.

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Bring them home, now

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bring them home now

Too bad I missed the boat…the tour was here for Labor Day weekend. Amazing the amount of things that go on when I can’t get to them…there was the Japanese Festival at the Botanical Gardens (with real sumo wrestlers!) and the Greek festival, which I made it to for dinner tonight with Kate, yay! But lots of other things were going on and I was being nice and helped my mother with the Queeny Art show (which Bernard showed up at! Yay for collegues coming to support the arts). I will admit an ulterior motive or two in that they fed me and some profits went to my newly-acquired digital camera (double yay!) and I actually http://www.blogger.com/img/gl.link.gif*like* my parents, so I suppose it wasn’t a bad deal.

Now I have to go take care of the clothes that weren’t dry *at all* from the longest spin in the dryer and take a peek at my anatomy/physiology book. Until the next time!

(PS: Michael Moore is at it again, of course. I still can’t believe that the country re-elected Bush. I’m proud of the St. Louis island of blue in the sea of Missouri red. Sigh. No more politics tonight! Tired and wishing the holiday was a day longer…)

All the pretty pictures

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…that will surely show up now that I have a digital camera. Yay for my mother, who is very nice and said she would get me one for my birthday. Alas, neither of us could decide on which one to get before my birthday, and there were no sales, and there was no(t alot of) money. So we waited until after my birthday, until today, Labor Day (thank goodness there is a holiday after the Queeny Park show!) when there was in fact a sale of sorts and a helpful salesperson named William at Sears. I did end up paying the difference between a 2 year and a 3 year warranty, but it will probably be worth it with all the things that I hear can go wrong with said cameras.
We went to the mall near my parents’ house, since my mother wanted to drop off some film (at another place, which was unfortunately closed, being a holiday) and we had tried Best Buy &c, so we figured why not give it a try. There was a nice selection, and the aforementioned William actually owned the camera that’s now sitting beside me on my bed *pets* so that turned out to be a good thing. Hopefully he wasn’t full of bs and being a slimy salesman like some of them are. There was a whole weird thing with checking out and when we finally did they didn’t have any in stock, so we had to drive to another mall to get one that was. Well, we didn’t really have to, but I wanted it today, so we did. Eventually I will install the software and have lots of pictures to show you all. Eventually.
But I promised myself I would look at my A&P book tonight, so this is me signing off…

Peace, dude.

Claire’s america

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From Elizabethtown Official Movie Site – Directed by Cameron Crowe, recently updated with a cute little journal mockup courtesy of everyone’s favorite flight attendant, Claire. You really should read it. I want someone to make a cool map for me like she does for Drew…
Lala Salama Safari Njema-Inshallah. Tutazumguza Kesho. Ndege Yako. A Swahili benediction meaning, “Sleep well. Travel Safely – God Willing. We’ll speak tomorrow.” I just thought it was cute.
I really hope they release the score to this movie. The site was just updated to include short samples of the songs picked for the soundtrack, but the score is sweet and simple and beautiful, and I want it.
Another good quote from the journal: “Our brightest blazes are often kindled by unexpected sparks.” Samuel Johnson. Also learned that gin is useful for repelling mosquitos. Who knew? It disinfects and drives the nasties away!
Guess it’s time for lunch.

Happy September

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AOL News – Male Chromosome’s Demise Exaggerated, Study Says
I can’t believe it’s a new month already. Geez. My birthday is already last week. Sigh. Time marches ever on, tempus fugit, etc, etc.
So I suppose you could call me an adult now, being that I’m 25 and I signed up for a retirement plan at work and I get to pay my car insurance all by myself and I have renter’s insurance. I’m really beginning to hate insurance, because I’m the sort of person who would never ever need it until it was gone. Here’s hoping that never happens.
I really do need to find another way to make money, though. You people aren’t buying anything from my affiliate links 😉 Hopefully once this Fall Festival of Art is over, we might have enough for a digital camera and that will make it substantially easier to put things online. Keep an eye out for ebay auctions from us!
I just got an email from my softball coach informing us that only one of the three games that were rained out will be made up. One game that we only got to play three innings (but scored 20+ runs to the other team’s 3) apparently counts. Poor other team. The one game we do get to make up will be after the tournament on the 10th. Go fig. Seems sort of like a moot point after the tournament, eh? I guess if we go out in the second round like I’m a little worried we might (since we’re playing a team that’s beaten us every single time we’ve played them, including the games last year) it gives us another chance to play. As long as it’s still light out, I guess. Whatever. BBQ tonight!

these colors blow my mind

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If you think you know colors, then check this out. Amazing how nearby colors (ahem) color your perception.
I’ve been playing around with the blog, upgrading the MT software to version 3.2. Now with unlimited blogs! Lots of fun plugins! More ways to procrastinate!

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Theoretically everything should work right now, please let me know if it doesn’t. I’ve got an idea for a new layout but I’m not sure when I’ll be able to work on it.
This weekend is the St. Louis Fall Festival of Art, and my mother will have a booth. Please head out to Queeny Park (550 Weidman Rd, a few miles west from the intersection of 270 and Manchester, friday night, saturday and sunday) and support her and the other artists this weekend. It’s a juried show so all the artwork there is very well done.
Betty Shew~Paper Art

it’s been a quarter-century

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it's MY day

Happy Birthday to me. Yes indeedy, I am 25 today. Two and a half decades. Egad. I feel so old compared to most of my friends. I know that there are people out there my age, but where did they all go? Eh. Happy thoughts. Friends coming into town, parents bringing fondue for lunch (who needs the Melting Pot when you’ve got parents with a fondue pot?), probable drunkeness tonight, and a new futon. Whee!
I’m a little surprised that I didn’t get more cards in the mail (the only one is from my grandparents who sent it last month :haha: ) but maybe more will come today. Or maybe not. I don’t guess it’s all that big of a deal. I’m old enough that presents/cards shouldn’t matter, right? (But come on. It’s still a lot of fun to get mail…) I’m hoping a package of perfumes that I ordered will come today, that would make a nice birthday present. It’s not a digital camera, but hey, it smells good and that makes me happy.
I hope you all have a wonderful day. I’ll tell you about the MCAT and Amanda’s wedding and etc etc, later.

Prepared? No.

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What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, than in some sense we are. The mere aspiration, by changing the frame of mind, for the moment realizes itself. — Anna Jameson

Sooo…the MCAT is tomorrow. Scary proposition, that. From the practice tests I’ve taken it’s pretty clear that I won’t do all that well. Alas. My mom points out that no matter how I do my parents will still love me and I can always take it again, but I’d sure like to get it over with. It seems a silly thing to have all med school dreams pinned on a test, but I don’t know how else they would evaluate you. What I want to know is, am I really going to need to know how fast a ball is falling when dropped from 20 meters at ten seconds into the fall for med school?
Appropriate, perhaps, that this was my word of the day for Wednesday (don’t know what happened to Thursday’s. apparently Thursday was wordless.):
Word of the Day for Wednesday August 17, 2005
dilatory \DIL-uh-tor-ee\, adjective:
1. Tending to put off what ought to be done at once; given to
procrastination.
2. Marked by procrastination or delay; intended to cause
delay; — said of actions or measures.
I am inclined to be dilatory, and if I had not enjoyed
extraordinary luck in life and love I might have been
living with my mother at that very moment, doing nothing.
–Carroll O’Connor, [1]I Think I’m Outta Here
And what is a slumlord? He is not a man who own expensive
property in fashionable neighborhoods, but one who owns
only rundown property in the slums, where the rents are
lowest and the where the payment is most dilatory, erratic
and undependable.
–Henry Hazlitt, [2]Economics in One Lesson
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Dilatory is from Latin dilatorius, from dilator, “a dilatory
person, a loiterer,” from dilatus, past participle of
differre, “to delay, to put off,” from dis-, “apart, in
different directions” + ferre, “to carry.”
I have been dilatory about studying for said test. Wish me luck. I will need it.
(On a totally non-related note, Roswell Season Three is out on DVD. Awww, the last season of my favorite tv show. I may just have to get it today, on prinicple. I miss that show.

midnight rambling

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From oneword., when I should be studying. Just thought I’d share a little writing blurb with you.
The prompt was “midnight.”

I thought I had seen it all but the night was more beautiful than ever. and I knew that I had someone waiting for me on the other side of dawn, and that made it all the sweeter. who knew that the darkness of the night would make the morning worth waking up for?
It’s pretty silly, but that’s what you get from a brain saturated with MCAT-ness. Please pray for me. It will be good or it will be bad, and there’s nothing I can do about once it’s over. I don’t think I’m prepared enough (haven’t even written practice essays) but my mother is convinced that I test well and everyone thinks I’m smart. Quite a trick, eh, to have all these people thinking I know what I’m doing all these years?
On the upside, I got invited to my first bachelorette party. Strip club and dancing 😉 On the downside, it’s on Saturday, so that will be a loooong day.
Another upside: time off tomorrow! Downside: studying! Sigh. Hopefully the studying will be on the upside.