…to register to vote in Missouri, anyway. Ganked from stlouis LJ.
Reminder: Today is the last day for Missourians to register to vote in the November elections! Register by 5 pm so you can cast your vote for president.
Saint Louis city voting info
Saint Louis county voting info
Make your vote count!
And since I forgot to mention it earlier…GOOOO CARDS! Yahoo! They won the first game in the playoffs. Only 11 more games (hopefully fewer) and we’ll be in the World Series again…Yay for hometown baseball! I hope they win. That would make me happy.
Author: etoiline
Neruda. I remember him
StandardPablo Neruda’s poetry was used alot in conjunction with the Roswell fandom. Punz just reminded me why.
(speaking of Roswell, so I left last night to get the Season 2 box set, and Target didn’t have any more in stock. I love my life’s little ironies. That was the main reason I went to Target last night. That and the fact that I wanted to get Peter Pan as well, and I didn’t realize til I got home that it was the Full-screen version and they don’t carry the widescreen. So it’s back to Target I go, with a copy of Ros. S2 at the electronics desk for me. Hopefully.
Read on for some pretty poetry.
silly stuff
StandardFrom Time Magazine by way of ElfLady:
Squee!
And I am off to Target to pick up Roswell season 2 and Peter Pan, because I’m silly. Thank you Leo for taping channel 4 for me tonight. One of these days I’m going to have to get those shows watched. I’m already behind. Then again, it is October. And COLD! Sigh. Weird weather.
Keep praying about that roommate sitch, eh? Olga from Columbia came by on Saturday and she seemed nice, but I’m kinda weirded out that only one person has come by. I just think the apartment is too nice to just hoist it off on the first person that showed up. I guess I’m making it too complicated though; if she’s the only one than it makes my decision easy. And then Leo will feel better since she knows what she’ll be doing with herself. It will all work out somehow.
–How will it?
–I don’t know. It’s a Mystery.
Little Shakespeare in Love there for you. Goodnight!
Incubus Dreams
StandardOn a random note, I finally have my name on the roomnumber panel outside my ‘office.’ How lovely. I feel all official.
So yeah…the 12th Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter book came out on Tuesday, and I broke my rule of ‘buy no hardback books ‘ for it. Laurell K Hamilton’s books are good enough that I’ll do that with no qualms. Also, it’s 15% off b/c it’s a new bestseller, AND I get 10% off for being a member of Waldenbooks. So it’s not a terribly bad price. People grew up in this book, in more ways than one. And there was lots of sex. Yeah. Threesomes. Wow. Feels weird to even think that I read it. But it’s so much fun! Vampires and werewolves and funky power mishmash. Some people are criticizing her later works because they feel rushed and unedited. This one did seem that way (come on, it’s ‘retched’ as in tossing your cookies not ‘wretched’ like that poor little homeless kid over there) but I think the story made up for it. I wouldn’t want to rush anyone writing, I know how hard it is…but I want my authors to take the time to make things right. All I know is I’m glad I’m easy-going enough to take things in stride so I can enjoy the overall picture. Or focus on the hot guys taking over Anita’s life. Bottom line: the book was HUGE (200 pages longer than her last) and fun and worth it. Even if she believes in commas a little too much.
Too bad I missed the signing for the book the day it came out…not only was it the day after my first orgo exam, so all I wanted to do was sleep when I got home from work, it was also the day of a meeting for the Writer’s group that I hope I can be a part of, especially if I’m going to try to do NaNoWriMoin a month…but it was also a rehearsal for the Affton School District 150th anniversary Drama Alumni revue. So I get to (sort of) be in a musical again. It’s not like we’re going to be acting or anything, just singing some popular (and not so popular) selections from musicals that the High School has done over the years. I’ve only been in oneof the performances at the school and another in show choir in college, and I know of a couple more, but it’s a really eclectic mix. Of course they can’t please everyone, I just think some of the other songs from some of the musicals would be better choices…ah well. And I realized that as much as I like modern musicals, I haven’t heard/seen quite a few of the more popular ones, like Fiddler on the Roof or Hello, Dolly! Or Anything Goes…etc etc. At least we get to sing America from West Side Story.
We’re only going to have one rehearsal a month until December or January (the show is in January) so we’ll see how it goes. One of the songs they chose from ‘my’ years in high school worked wonderfully as the duet that it’s meant to be in the show, and they were hoping to get the leads who sang in that show to do this one, but they haven’t showed up at practice. Apparently this month’s rehearsal was the second one, and they only realized that I was still in town after I showed up at the track/football field rededication. I guess that’s a good thing…it was so weird to be back in the choir room, learning music. Been a long time, and things have definitely changed. All of my schools seem quite different than what they had been when I was there. I guess it’s that one constant: Change.
Thank goodness it’s the weekend. BTW, I passed my first orgo exam. Now we’ll have to see how much the curve is blown during the rest of the semester, and whether I can pull my ass out of B-/C+ territory. Pray for me.
Oh, and tomorrow, I’m welcoming prospective roommates at the apartment, with Kate along for moral support. Thanks Kate. Pray that I meet someone nice, and that it’s not a tough decision between mediocre applicants. Wish me luck!
nutty
StandardHERSHEY’S Happiness > Free Personality Tests (click on Share it, then personality quiz, near the bottom)
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You like to try new things, play with new combinations, experience different tastes. For you, there’s HERSHEY’S chocolate bar with almonds and MR. GOODBAR. HERSHEY?S classic milk chocolate, complemented wonderfully with the freshest nuts. Timeless combinations that satisfy your need for variety ? which, as they say, is the spice of life.
mmmmr. Nutty chocolate? I’m more of a dark chocolate kind of gal. *wants dark chocolate, especially after remembering last week’s shoebox…
a birthday, a new fall, and a lesson about life
StandardFor all you Tolkien geeks out there (yes, I include myself in that list), today is the birthday of both Bilbo and Frodo Baggins, the hobbits that started it all. They both took that first step into something larger than themselves, and prevailed. Let’s hear it for the hobbits! 🙂
And today, in just a few minutes really, the autumnal equinox begins. aka the first day of Fall! Which seems amazing to me, since it absolutely can’t be the end of summer already, but the weather is changing (evening temps go down in the 50s) so I guess I can accept it. Weird though, to think it’s another season. Well, happy Fall everyone 🙂
My friend Meg sent this out to me, and you’ll see it at my LJ too. It’s a nice little forward about priorities in life. It’s kinda long though, so…
stupid spam, stupid class
StandardMT-Blacklist -> Adding Spammers Based On Email Address
So this Bob dude likes spamming. Every day it’s a different email address and IP number. Blacklist keeps some of them out once you’ve banned a certain url, but NOW I HAVE THE POWER! Mwahaha. I can block regex email! Ha. Thank you Jay Allen.
Silly Cardinals, losing last night. Hope they win the next two games. Because while they’re already in the playoffs it would be a shame to let themselves lose going into it!
Another long day ahead, must search for a serum sample then jump right into an ELISA. Then class. I actually brought my orgo text to work today. During those lovely long-ass incubation periods theoretically I could get the reading done for tonight and possibly even do some homework! Yeah.
Smallville and Lost (with Dominic Monaghan from LotR) as well as the latest entry from CSI (CSI:NY) premiere tonight. How exciting! I need a TiVo.
I’m not really that mad at spam or class…just annoying to have to do so much to make them bearable. Yeah. Later, peeps.
Cardinals clinch it, and some soap
StandardThink you’re registered to vote? Be sure. Please make sure you get out there and make your voice heard. And please let’s get Bush out of office. Some stats from moveonpac.org:
We know this election will be incredibly close. The numbers from the 2000 election tell the story:
Official Bush margin in Florida 537 votes
Gore margin in New Mexico 365 votes
Margin of victory in IA, NH, OR and WI Fewer than 8,000 votes in each
Eligible 18-24 year olds who didn’t vote 15.2 million
Total eligible voters who didn’t vote 56.8 million
Sheesh. Exercise your rights. Vote.
And off the soapbox, the St. Louis Cardinals are now the Central Division champs, so it’ll be a little crazy here as we prepare for the playoffs. Yay Cards! I have to make sure I watch none of the games so they WILL win. I’m sure you’ve heard how if I watch a game or pay any sort of attention to a radio broadcast, the team I’m rooting for loses. So I’ll just root from the (far-away) sidelines and cross my fingers that the Cards do great things. Yahoo! Go Redbirds!
I can’t believe I have an orgo exam on monday. I’m going to die. I still have all the actual homework problems from chapter 2 and I haven’t even started on the ones from ch 3, which I’m not done reading yet. Argh! I hate this class.
But I might learn how to knit on saturday morning. After I go into work, of course. *grumble*
Alright, alright. I’m going home to do homework. And watch Father of the Bride.
have a little faith in me
StandardThanks to this post, I can give you the transcript of the speech Grace gave on Jack and Bobby last night. It started off a little odd, but someone out there became a pretty good writer, because it’s rather inspiring as you get on. For those of you who don’t know, Jack and Bobby is a new show on the wB about two brothers, one of whom will be president (running independently of a party, go fig) in 2041. It’s an interesting premise, and the guys in it are cute, so I watched it…and then I watched the second ep even though there were some weird things I’m not so keen on…I’ll reserve final judgement until it gets farther on in the season. Until then…be inspired.
Grace addresses the students and faculty of her university at the Moonlight Address, which she has petitioned the new uni president to reinstate, to which he agrees only if she does the speech instead of him, as it had been done traditionally.
“Good Evening,
I would like to welcome all of you to a renaissance.
For some of you it marks the return to your college life, for some a new beginning.
So on the eve of the tremendous journey upon which you all are embarking, I would like to offer you a thought to take with you.
Okay listen carefully, you..will…fail here, all of you.
College is not the culmination of your high school career, It is a beginning of your adult life.
Only it’s a slow sweet beginning.
It feels nothing like what life and all its attending obligations will eventually bring.
So Fail here.
Be bad at things.
Be Embarrassed.
Be Afraid.
Be Vulnerable.
Go out on a limb or 2 or 12, and you will fall and it will hurt.
But the harder you fall the farther you will rise.
The louder you fail the clearer your future becomes.
Failure is a Gift.
Welcome it.
There are people who spend their whole lives wondering how they became the people they became.
How certain chances passed them by, why they didn’t take the road less traveled.
Those people are not you.
You have a front row seats to your own transformation, and in transforming yourself, you might even transform the world.
And it will be electric, and I promise you it will be terrifying.
Embrace that, embrace the new person you’re becoming.
This is your moment.
I promise you it is now, now not 2 minutes from now, not tomorrow, but really now.
Own that, know that deep in your bones. And go to sleep every night knowing that, wake up every morning remembering that.
And then…
Keep going…
Keep going.”
And the title of this entry comes from the song by John Hiatt which played at the end of the ep when they chronicled Bobby’s unsuccessful run for the Republican (!) nomination and his subsequent turn to the Independent ticket. It’s a good song. Thank goodness iTunes has it. I need an iPod.
marathon
StandardWow. Yesterday was loooong. I was at work for 12 hours. Yuck. It’s not entirely my fault, but on the other hand it is. See, I knew I was in for a long assay, but I didn’t think it would be quite that long. And the person who was supposed to find the samples for me ended up not being able to do it, so once we established that, I had to go find the samples myself, which took longer than expected (of course). Then I had to wait for them to thaw, dilute them, acidify and neutralize them, and then, right about 1 pm, I was able to get started on the assay, which was 6.5 hours minus time to put in reagents and wash the plate and such. Ugh. All that plus having to go over to the CRC twice because I thought I would try going early just in case they were ready and I could get those bloods spun before I had to start the ELISA but noooo, they hadn’t drawn them yet. Just about every other day they would have been ready but I’m just lucky that way. Eventually got them later, but I really hate making that trip. It’s not that far away but it’s up three flights of steep stairs with orange railings. Not sure that the orange railings really have anything to do with it, it just always makes me feel like I’m in some back alley.
Now, here’s the part where it’s my fault. Theoretically I could have just stuck the plate in the cold room and come back to do the rest of the assay today…or incubate it for three hours and finish the thing last night. I chose finishing it, since we’ve never actually tried out the cold room tactic. And Luigi pointed out that if I stayed late yesterday I could leave early today, which I will do, as soon as I make my trip to the CRC for more bloods. I’ll be sure to wait an appropriate interval today.
So yeah. A bit boring while I waited and waited and muzzily came back to life when my stopwatch alarmed, telling me it was time for the next step. I played a lot of MSN games and chatted with Alex and should have brought my Orgo homework but didn’t (and probably wouldn’t have done it anyway). Didn’t do any hogwartsch lessons either. I’m terrible. Read some of Fortress Draconis in my free time and made some bookmarks which I need to resize and maybe then I’ll put them up on the gallery for your taking. Dunno. Working on it.
There’s some sort of athletic field rededication at my high school tonight and they’re honoring past athletes, so I guess I’ll go. Wonder who will show up. The St. Louis Balloon Glow is tonight, and it follows that the Balloon Race is tomorrow, which is always fun to see. And also tomorrow my next-door neighbor Laura is getting married, which means that I’ve been to three weddings this year, and Alex points out that this is a lot. I guess so…there’s another wedding that I know of next year, but really, we’re reaching the sum total of my friends who could possibly get married. Whatever.
ugh. just realized I have to go into work next saturday. ah well. Guess it’s time to head over to the CRC. Lovely. Then time to go…must remember to drop off the library book!