You haven’t forgotten that I’m doing nanowrimo just because I’m not posting it here, right? You know why I’m not? Because Livejournal has a feature that allows you to friends-lock posts so you control who reads it for future electronic rights protection. Since I am insane and holding out the slim-to-none hope that one day I can be published, friends lock is the way to go. I’m also too lazy to do the same to this blog, and since I have no idea who reads it, this would be a bad place. But if you have LJ, head over to artorius rex novare and comment on one of the posts you see there. I might be nice and let you in J So yeah. Been hard juggling orgo and writing, and will most likely spell disaster for both, but at least I have something to look forward to when I’m killing myself over orgo. Reactions suck!
Don’t you just want to get the Extended Edition of the Return of the King? Yahoo 50 minutes of bonus footage! I DO want to sit in my chair for four hours straight! Just over a month til it comes out…I shall have it! And in about half a month I shall have HP & PoA and Spidey 2. Whee!
Onto the ickiness. Read on for more ranting. Warning: exceedingly long, because I’m tired and out of it.
Author: etoiline
it’s not like we knew ourselves that long
StandardSo far behind in both orgo and nano. I’m going to die. Er. Perhaps not. Just be really disappointed in myself. So, to make myself happy, you have this pretty gratuitous music post, since all I wanted to do was waste a little time and learn the lyrics to a JM song. Regardless, I thought I’d share my newfound love of Ben Jelen, which has beautiful piano music mixed in with very nice beats (I recommend the song Rocks, which is not about the hard pieces of stone nor a particularly loud band, but a love song), Keane, which also has amazing piano and beautiful lyrics (I recommend the song Somewhere Only We Know, which you’ve heard on the radio, and several other songs that I can’t think of just yet) and the
Graham Colton Band, who you might remember from sometime in 2003 when I mentioned that they opened for John Mayer the first time I saw him at Riverport/UMB Pavilion for an outdoor concert. Yay! They have good lyrics too. Are you sensing a theme?
As follows are the lyrics for my favorite John Mayer song right now. It’s called Tracing. It’s such a pretty song. I can’t wait until he puts out a new cd. Can I just say that he has the most remarkable way of combining words to make meaningful lyrics?
What a depressing way to start the morning
StandardI can’t believe that more than half the country wants Bush in office again. He’s just…inept, and silly, and doesn’t seem to have his own opinions. His advisors do, perhaps they should have been the ones running. “Didn’t make any mistakes in the last four years” my foot.
I still hope and pray that Kerry can pull ahead, but I have to be realistic and say that it doesn’t look like he will. And then I think of how awful it will be under four years of full Republican control. Here’s where I fall into the trap of not being very good at articulating my political feelings. I can’t enumerate exactly what it is I don’t like about the GOP, other than everything seems to get just a little more expensive, a little more unfriendly. The thing is, if they control everything, if there are any problems, they can’t blame ‘partisan politics,’ it will be their own fault.
This was such a nasty election year. It makes me sad that in a way, even though I cast my vote like I should have, in a state that was swinging at one point, but in both the presidential elections I’ve voted in, it seems like it didn’t count. I guess I helped the Carnahan family, who sends a congressman and a secretary of state into office for Missouri. But if you look at the map, you see the cities, with their typically better educated constituents, voting Kerry, and the rural areas voting Bush. We didn’t really have a chance. Bah.
It’s just depressing to think that whoever is elected is going to have half of the country hate him right off the bat.
Oy. Civic duty is good and all that, but it would be nice if I could vote for the Democratic candidate that I like and have him (or her, as in the race for governor) win, without trouble.
I have to say yay for Illinois, with Barack Obama winning the senate seat…I wish I could have voted for him. He sounds like a great guy and I think he’ll go far.
Katie Couric asked her guest this morning, a former Clinton aide, if Hillary was going to run in 2008. The lady said, “We haven’t even picked this term’s president and you’re talking about 2008?” She’s the front runner though. And I’m pretty sure that no one will like the Republicans in four years.
*last minute shout-out to Dems*
VOTE!
StandardPlease please get out there and vote today. This is going to be a close one and every vote will count.
<a href=”http://www.johnkerry.com”>John Kerry for President</a>
I’d like to say I don’t care who you vote for as long as you get out there, but that’s not wholly true. I do want you to get out, even if you are voting Republican, but I’d really rather you vote for Kerry 🙂 Good luck to both men. It’s going to be a crazy night. Let’s hope that we have a president by the end of it. Go Dems!
all things new
StandardNew! New! New! Layout at etoiline.com. Check it out. Please say something nice about it. Took me long enough. And yes, I know this site needs a new layout, and I have just the idea…I just have to get the photo. One day, grasshopper.
and a funny:
A man was praying and asked, ‘God, how long is a million years to you?’
God replied, ‘Oh, about a second.’
Then the man asked, ‘God, how much is a million dollars to you?’
God replied, ‘About a penny.’
So the man then asked, ‘Well God, may I have a penny?’
And God said, ‘Sure, just a second.’ “
second star to the right
StandardSo you probably noticed there’s a new layout. I don’t know what it is about me and layouts but I just don’t have a quick turnaround with them. Had the picture done about two weeks ago but was just now able to get all the coding done. Hah. Done. There are still some weird things, like why my posts are getting progressively more indented as the archives scroll on…guess I’ll have to look at the code again. Ah well. Hope you like. Feel free to comment or gripe. It’s still in progress, be warned.
And yes, I know that the Peter Pan movie came out last year and the dvd came out way back in May, but I just got it myself and truly adored it. Jeremy Sumpter is too cute for words and another notch in the ‘jailbait’ section. I don’t care. The picture was too much fun. Thank you ohsomuch to Thia for her glorious star brushes. Exactly what I was looking for.
Happy Friday before Halloween! Yay dress-up time!
[ETA: I can’t believe how many times I’ve had to open up this editing window to fix that thing or the other. It seems it never ends! Sigh. Adult ADD anyone?]
you lose some, you…lose some
StandardI can’t believe the Cards were shut out of the World Series. It’s like they weren’t even the same team as just a week before when they played so hard to become champions of the National League. Dad said he thought it was the first time that a team had lost four straight right off the bat. Poor Cards. While I’m happy that the Red Sox aren’t cursed anymore, I really wish there could have been a better scene for the fans the last two nights at Busch Stadium. Ah well. At least Busch might make it into a Jimmy Fallon-Drew Barrymore movie. It’s sad that the last season played at Busch couldn’t have ended better. But congrats anyway, Cards, you won 105 games this season and played well until that major bump in the road called Boston. Oy. Alrighty then… I’ll send out a big ol’ GO RAMS and shush about sports.
I also can’t believe that it’s the last week of October. Where did the year go? I’ve been 24 for two months already….but on the other hand it feels like much much longer than two months, what with organic chemistry and attempting to work on writing…of course, with orgo I could stand to have many more weeks between me and the next test, which as it stands now is only two weeks. Sigh. Didn’t we have a test last week? Yes. Wasn’t it horrible? Relatively speaking, not horrible, but not anywhere near low-stress. I guess we’ll see if I can handle writing and working problem sets at the same time. I want an iPod. (That seems random, doesn’t it? But it would allow me to get away from the computer which contains a wonderful selection of music, yet is quite stationary sitting on my desk. My other desk, that is, the one at work, which doesn’t help me when I’m studying at home.)
Kate’s halloween party is this weekend. I’m excited. I hope she will dress up also…I missed dressing up all this year since I didn’t do it at the StL renfaire and didn’t go to the KC one. Ah well. Too bad I didn’t have time to work on a HP robe. One day, grasshopper.
If all goes rightly, there should be a new layout up tomorrow. Cross your fingers that I actually got all the coding to work right. I hope I did.
artorius rex novare 🙂
Remind me
Standardhttp://erikbenson.com/nanowrimo-report-card.xls is supposedly a way to motivate yourself! And lord knows I’ll need all the motivation I can get.
National recognition. And Redbirds, of course.
StandardHow cool is this? The Missouri Botanical Garden’s MBGnet made Scientific American’s 2004 list of Sci and Tech awards…Science & Technology at Scientific American.com: Science & Technology Web Awards 2004: BIOLOGY
And oh yeah, the Cards play at home today! Silly American league winning the all-star game and getting homefield advantage. They should have played here last weekend (and won, I bet) when the weather was nice, not this week when it’s supposed to be rainy, whereas it was crappy and cold weather up there in Boston last weekend and this week is supposed to be nice. Ah well. I’ve got my NLCS long-sleeve tee on today so hopefully that will project the winning spirit over to Busch and they will WIN! Go Cards!
Must remember MorgueFile for stock photos.
It’s that time of the year again
StandardYes, indeedy it is Legolas Day again. Unfortunately I was immersed in making a new layout for my site(s) and therefore did not get to make a cool little plaque commemorating the event. I did put up another Legolas poster in my room yesterday though…the elf-love is not waning!
It’s sort of sad that the last entry that I wrote was all happy about the Cards moving onto the World Series and here they go losing two in a row. Sigh. Come on Cards! You can do eet! I have faith. I even spent money on a tshirt or two and a hat…no jersey though, as most reproduction jerseys cost upwards of $100. Ugh. Still want one. #27 definitely. Let’s go Redbirds! Let’s rock the place tomorrow!
Eek. Better get over to class shortly…we’ll get our tests back. I almost don’t want to see how I did, I just know it was horrible. One can only hope that the curve wasn’t blown by someone who read Chapter 7 like it looks like we should have, even though the test was ch’s 4-6. See, she doesn’t look in the new editions of the text, so when things have gotten moved around (like they most assuredly did here) she doesn’t know. Sigh. Should have read ahead. Anyhoo…hopefully will get a new layout up this week. I still like Peter Pan. 🙂 But the coding is giving me trouble and I’m not quite sure why, so I guess that’s what I’ll do tomorrow…
bye!