Author: etoiline

cheese it…

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A poodle was walking down the street and passed three dogs. She stopped and said, ‘Whoever can best use the words ‘liver’ and ‘cheese’ in a sentence will get a date with me.’

The first dog said in a deep voice, ‘I love liver and cheese.’

The poodle commented, ‘That is the most boring sentence I’ve ever heard.’

The second dog said, ‘I hate liver and cheese.’

‘That is even more boring than the first!’ the poodle replied.

The third dog answered, ‘Liver alone, cheese mine!’

One of these days I will remember jokes like these and have them ready for the times when I have to show off my particularly witty side. Alright, so this one’s not quite so witty, but at least I would have something to say.

MCAT is a week from Saturday! Dear Lord, remind me why I’m doing this again? Oh, right, because I have this insane thought that I might make a good doctor. Eegggh.

Links for me. Or you, I guess

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Because my mommy might buy me a digital camera for my birthday.

Howstuffworks “How Digital Cameras Work”

Digital Camera Buying Guide

Hotshot DC’s

DC HQ (with reviews)

From TechTuesday

And Office tips to make yourself more efficient. Yay.

stay hungry. stay foolish.

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From winterson.com: three stories. A transcript of Steve Jobs’ speech to the 2005 Stanford graduates.
“…stewart and his team put out several issues of the whole earth catalog, and then when it had run its course, they put out a final issue. it was the mid-1970s, and i was your age. on the back cover of their final issue was a photograph of an early morning country road, the kind you might find yourself hitchhiking on if you were so adventurous. beneath it were the words: “stay hungry. stay foolish.” it was their farewell message as they signed off. stay hungry. stay foolish. and i have always wished that for myself. and now, as you graduate to begin anew, i wish that for you.”
BTW, this site also has the wonderful mistranslation of Star Wars: Episode III as mentioned in my blogspot. Read it. You will laugh.

Return of the Engrish

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Some of you out there might remember the terrible Lord of the Rings english-chinese-english translations from a few years ago. I’m sure you can find them out there somewhere, (try engrish.com), but now I have something more current: Star Wars Episode III in Engrish! Beware the F-word a few times, which, remarkably, did not show up in the original film 😉 I hope you enjoy. I laughed.

Perhaps my ‘ship will still sail

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Small HP Book 6 spoilers ahead, if you haven’t read it yet.

If you’re an obsessed Harry Potter fan, Voldemort isn’t the problem. It’s Hermione versus Ginny.

I didn’t really hear about the ‘scandal,’ but if you’ve read my main journal you know that Harry ends up with Ginny in Book 6 of HP rather than Hermione, as I would wish (you know, the bookworm with the sometimes-popular hero), and rather abruptly too, in my opinion. Of course, I’m biased towards H/Hr, since that’s the easiest fantasy I can imagine, but I’m not quite as vociferous about my ship as other people out there. I want everybody to be happy and not die, lol. But I still think, even if I wasn’t the type of shipper I am, I would have problems with the way the romance was written in the book. I mean, (switching fandoms for a moment) I was all for the romance with Anakin-Amidala, which could have been sweet and poignant and made Anakin’s change from good secretive lover to evil-ass bad dude all the more powerful, but unfortunately George Lucas can’t write that way, and neither can JK Rowling. Ah well. On the whole it was a good book so I can overlook *some* things…

lazy sunday indeed

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Shortly, I hope to get some MCAT studying so this day isn’t a total lazefest. I have a bit of an excuse in that I spent the last four days getting up at 7 am and not getting to bed before 1 any night. Erm. Which is partly my fault, the late getting to bed part. Ah well. This is what you get when there are Important Studies in the Advancement of Science going on.
The only thing befitting of the title of ‘activity’ this afternoon when I finally dragged myself out of bed (after finishing The Wounded Hawk, the second book in the Crucible series by Sara Douglass…a must read for historical fantasy lovers…I hate that I have to wait for the next book!) Cece and her bf and I walked to the Loop for some Fitz’s root beer floats. Mmmm. At least it was sort of exercise-y, if totally negated by the ice-creamy goodness of the floats. Then I came back and slept until just a little while ago.
Soon. Soon I will be productive. I really don’t want to have to take the MCAT again, though I probably will. Oh well. More time to study science.
By the way, happy 25th birthday to Harry Potter (and JK Rowling, of course, who is 40 today…) Yes, I just am that much of a fangirl. I always thought it was sort of cool that JKR decided to set the series up so he was only a month older than me 😉 Cece still hasn’t finished the sixth book so I’m still waiting for someone to chat about the book with. So silly. But fun. So there. Though, I can’t believe I’m going to be 25 in less than a month. I feel so old, sometimes.
Eh. Back to business, I guess.

St. Louis in da house

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Take a look at what Justin is wearing in this pic from people.com. I love it when St. Louis gets on tshirts. Hah. But apparently *NSync is still doing things, like organizing bowling parties…just not singing. Not that the world needs more *NSync, but you know, they promised to come back, and the Backstreet Boys have done it, sort of, so let’s get the other guys, just for old time’s sake.

Ah, nostalgia 😉

meandering

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So on the Today show this morning there was a girl who was born with Spina Bifida which affected, among other things, the formation of one of her feet. Because of infection and other things and after 57 surgeries she ended up having the lower leg amputated, but is doing just fine as a sophomore in high school with her prosthetic. She lives in Oklahoma, and as part of the Today Show’s Christmas in July, she received a full scholarship to OK State with tuition, room and board, and books for four years, whenever she gets to college.
I’m happy for the girl, but I’ll admit a certain bit of jealousy that she got the full scholarship. Because then I think that even though I was 3rd in my high school class I didn’t get a full ride anywhere. Almost at Mizzou, where I probably should have gone. All because I fell in love with Wash U while a frosh in hs. Sigh. I’d really love to not be paying off student loans right now. Seems like I keep having super huge emergency payments due (mostly centered around the car, bless its little 12-year-old heart, er, engine) so I’m not making any money, seems like. Cece talks about getting a second job. I don’t want to do that, but it sure would be nice to actually have money coming in instead of paying it out. At least I have a nice bike out of it…

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Hello, Harry

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Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by Rowling, GrandPré

The St Louis Post-Dispatch review is semi-spoilerish and can be found here.
SPOILER WARNING: This post contains my first thoughts about reading Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, which I finished this afternoon. I bought it last night at the midnight release party, read for about two hours before I went to sleep, then finished it after helping Olga move out, such as it was. She was mostly packed before I got up. I turned the last page sometime around 6 pm. So of the 18 hours that I’ve owned this book, seven were spent sleeping and two or three hours were spent helping Olga and watching the movie Paycheck. So it took me a little over eight hours to get the whole thing read. It’s about 200 pages shorter than the previous book, which was disappointing to me. I mean, I know that the 820 pages of OotP was a pretty hefty doorstop, but dammnit, I like to read! Keep me occupied for more than a day, eh?
But she did keep me occupied for a day, so hats off. Lots of things behind the link. I suppose if you are totally unaware of anything HP there are spoilers everywhere. I do mention who dies, so if you don’t want to know that, DON’T CONTINUE READING! Otherwise, please read and let me know how you felt about the book, the direction the series is going, anything at all.

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Yet another good book series

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Dead Beat by Jim Butcher

I am Michael Carpenter.

I am one of those honored by God to serve His Will as a Knight of the Cross. My faith is strong, unshakeable — and deadly to the truly evil. It’s my job to seek them out, to get them to change if I can, and to stop them if I must.

And I am not alone in this. Never alone. God watches over me and sees that I am sent where I am most needed. I carry the holy sword Amoracchius at my side — that nail you see in the hilt came from the Cross. The other Knights stand by me. My wife and children are just as fierce as I am — God help you should you try to find out if it’s otherwise. And there are others.

Together we all stand, shoulder to shoulder, against the darkness. Our faith has been tried, tested, and proven resolute. No matter the cost, no matter how bloodied you might make us, we will not bow, and we cannot fail. God’s Will be done — on Earth, by our hands.