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Today is October 8. In Dave Barry Slept Here: A Sort of History of
the United States, all the important historical dates happened on
October 8. If you've never read Barry I suggest you start with this
volume
Seriously, though, why didn't anyone tell me it was a new month.
Today is October 9.
It's
homecoming
week so those of us slick enough to
purchase a Homecoming button get to eat lunch 3 days this week just by
wearing it. Today we ate pizza and defended ourselves from angry wasps.
Not White Anglo-Saxon Protestants, even though I *do* ashamedly fit
two-thirds of those categories. I'd be a WISP White Irish Scandinavian
Protestant. Or something.
Today is October 10. I just finished my
CprE 305 Lab. I
even got it done on time. Way to go me. If you could listen inside my
head, you would hear "We goin' Sizzler, we goin' Sizzler." If you
know the signifcance of this you win a prize! The prize is that you can
eat any food that begins with Q that you like.
Yeah I had a can of Diet Pepsi today with my lunch. That, coupled with
the fact that I got my lab done, has made me a bit HYPER!!!
Soon I'm going to watch a "better" movie than the aforequoted White Men
Can't Jump, which is The Silence of the Lambs. I've never seen it, but I
want to see Red Dragon so I gotta watch Lambs first.
Today is October 14. Earlier today, I went home and picked
up a few things, including one of my old clarinets. I actually have two
clarinets; the cheapie plastic starter one (Betsy), and a nice wooden one my
mom bought for me when I started in high school band. I brought the wood
one, a.k.a. Imposter Betsy, here to the apartment. The plastic one is
much easier to play, but the wood one sounds better. I played through my
clarinet choir concert pieces just now. It felt SO small in my hands
after playing the big E flat contra for over a year. I'm in a pretty
good mood now. I had fun playing.
Lately I have been working on some wire sculptures, and I was trying to
tell Chris about Alexander Calder's wire circus. In elementary school,
our art teacher showed us those sculptures (I believe the film) and then
dumped a big pile of telephone wire on the table and let us go. I
recently discovered a stash of similar wire in the EE333 lab, and have
been making a little project with it. Today I decided to look in the
Parks Lib. for some Calder books. The library also has the circus film
so I'm going to wander down to the media center some day and watch it at
one of their little stations there. I found a bunch of big books and
one nice little book. I took the book up to 4th floor and showed Chris
the circus. Also I found the sculpture that is pictured on the cover of
my Algorithms book. The first day I got it, I said, "That looks like a
Calder scuplpture" but they give him NO CREDIT in the book for his
artwork! The piece is called .125 after the gauge of metal he
used (or something) and it hangs in the New York Port Authority. On the
cover of our book, it's just like a shadow or sillhoutte of the work, but
still, they should have his name somewhere in there.
So that's your art moment for the day.
Today is October 17. Do you like to watch Late Night With Conan
O'Brien? I know I do. Therefore, it is with great pride that I
present the Michael Bolton article. On last night's (Wed) episode,
Conan had this article where Michael Bolton threatened to get him for
making fun of him all the time. I wasn't sure if it was real or
not....you know how those shows are with the fake news articles, the
bells, whistles, and crazy noises. So I did a bit of sleuthing, found
out that the "Courier Times" is a real newspaper. (And I mean, how dumb
is that? Hi, I'd like to subscribe to the Helvetica Garamond) It's this
little podunk paper from the suburbs of Philadelphia. Just to let you
Conan fans out there know this is real and give you a chance to read the
article.
Today is October
23. Yesterday went to a reception dinner/thing
for being a Micron scholar. I got a
lovely award plaque and a pen with a blue light! (Hey, no KMart comments
please)
This morning I convinced the bus driver to stop the bus for Chris, and I
felt like a superheroine. That feeling has since faded as I have come to
realize I have a lot of work to do today before I can sleep. I must
write an English report, prepare an English presentation (on the Binary
system...woo hoo!), finish my CprE and EE labs, and look at my ComSci
stuff before recitation. *Sigh*
Shoutouts to the good people at the Courier Times in Bucks County. Hey,
it's not like the Ames Tribune ever
broke as big a story as the Bolton/O'Brien Feud =)
Today is October 29. Happy Birthday to my brother Jonathan. Hopefully
he got his balloons, or else there's gonna be a whuppin' visited upon the
delivery guy at Hy-Vee.
Let's see...recap of weekend. Friday was SUB film, Dial M For Murder.
Good flick, recommended. Saturday I had the day off so I just acted like
a bum all morning, hung out with Chris and watched TV and ate cinnamon
rolls. Then we ventured to Des Moines. We malled it up at Merle Hay
Mall, got some clothes at Old Navy. Chris and I are both anti-logo, so
between the two of us we got some plain shirts and jeans. Also we went
to Hot Topic, yes, even though there's one in Ames. There was an
employee that had these cap guns, firing them near the entrance of the
store. So I said "Bowling, get your bowling here!" a la Homer from when
he worked at the bowling alley and fired a rifle outside trying to drum
up business. He laughed and later I heard him saying it too =)
Sunday I had to work again, and the rest of the day was spent in
homework.
Here's Miss Tina looking fine, with her pals by her side.
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