Brain-mouth coordination

One thing I learned this week is that you should never try to explain an optical illusion to someone when you've been drinking. While coming down Buffalo Street hill from the Chapterhouse, I was trying to explain to dark_zephyr (who was driving and sober) that if you are on Buffalo Street at night and you look at it right, you can't really tell whether you are on the flat part looking up the hill or on the hill coming down and looking at the flat part. Needless to say, it didn't come out very clearly, but dark_zephyr is smart enough to fill in the blanks and figure it out.So, I have orientation on the 26th... hmm, I'm kind of wondering what I'm getting myself into here...Comparative Literature- that means I'll be doing lots of reading in other languages, which means it usually takes at least twice as long. There are some classes that sound really interesting to me, though. Funny thing is, no faculty have been around this summer to talk about what classes I should take, so I'll be figuring that out during or after orientation.

Brain-mouth coordination

One thing I learned this week is that you should never try to explain an optical illusion to someone when you've been drinking. While coming down Buffalo Street hill from the Chapterhouse, I was trying to explain to dark_zephyr (who was driving and sober) that if you are on Buffalo Street at night and you look at it right, you can't really tell whether you are on the flat part looking up the hill or on the hill coming down and looking at the flat part. Needless to say, it didn't come out very clearly, but dark_zephyr is smart enough to fill in the blanks and figure it out.So, I have orientation on the 26th... hmm, I'm kind of wondering what I'm getting myself into here...Comparative Literature- that means I'll be doing lots of reading in other languages, which means it usually takes at least twice as long. There are some classes that sound really interesting to me, though. Funny thing is, no faculty have been around this summer to talk about what classes I should take, so I'll be figuring that out during or after orientation.

Village Idiot Speaketh

"Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we."--President George W. Bush

Which one do you choose?

Wow, thanks to the two-party system, these are our choices. Be ready to laugh your but off. I love America!

We Won! We Won!

I hope you are sitting down- I am happy to report that my softball team actually won a game! Yeah! I had no errors and hit a double and scored a run. Yeah for me! Of course, I'll be feeling it tomorrow as I was catching and threw the ball at least fifty times. Oh yeah, sore back muscles- here I come, baby! The best part, though, was when I pushed the umpire out of the way to catch a pop-fly foul. Hey man, don't get in my way- I'm trying to play a game here.And about this, all I can say is, WOW! I mean, WOW! What will they think of next? Wired.com sure does have some, um, interesting articles lately.

You too can outsource yourself!

So there are two interesting articles on Wired.com- one about a guy outsourcing his own job and another on a wise way to spend time money and energy. Fascinating, just fascinating.Today looks like it's going to be a beautiful day- sunny and warm, but not too hot or humid. I am glad to have these enjoyable days (and nights) of summer before all craziness breaks loose at the end of August.

SPD, Spiderman and young children (or lack thereof)

So, diese Artikel macht mir doch ein bisschen Sorge. Wenn es so in Amerika lauft, denke ich mir ab und zu, naja, wenigstens gibt's noch Deutschland....I saw Spiderman over the weekend and found it to be even better than the first. Of course, I also saw that Kirsten Dunst is another young actress that has succumbed to the self-destructive Hollywood eating disorder syndrome. In the first one I was happy to see an actress, especially a young one, have a semi-normal looking body, but alas, I see another bites the dust and attempts to achieve a rail-thin figure.So, this is my last week of freedom before my sister's kids (a 6-year old boy and a 9-year old girl) come to stay with me for 6 whole days. Of course I have a lot of wonderful, fun things planned for us to do, but it is exhausting being responsible for two young people 24/7. I sure am glad my older sister had kids before me. Then I can just borrow them once a year to remind myself why I don't have any myself. I must also remember to thank her yet again for the very effective birth control.