Well, the Spider Incident succeeded in thoroughly distracting me from my Random Ramblings, which I wanted to get done in a timely manner. And I thought I was recovering from the Incident well, until last night. I was walking around downstairs in the dark with my dog, which I do most every night as a summer vacation tradition, when I walked into the bathroom. Since it was completley dark around, I didn't bother to turn on the light, but I still noticed there was no toilet paper left. So I start to leave the bathroom, when I think 'Hey, what if a spider was using the toilet?'
Why my mind would ask that question, I do not know. It has it's own little life up there in my head. But I ended up thinking about a giant hairy spider sitting on the toilet, wearing a black jack dealer's outfit (again, don't know why) and reading the newspaper... That is not an okay thought to be having right before going to sleep.
Back to my other Ramblings!
#2: Angel and Demons!
After I got back home, we decided to go see a movie. My dad suggests Angels and Demons, which I did want to see, but I wanted to see Star Trek more (and Star Trek's been out longer so I'd have less time to still see it). But my dad says my sister's already seen the movie, and by this point in my life I've fought enough battles over the movie theater to learn that we see the movie my sister wants to see (but I get to push her out of the seat I want in the theater, hehehe). She saw Watchmen three times, she can't go see Star Trek a second time?
The best part was that Start Trek started at 5:10 and Angels & Demons started at 5:45, and we were getting ready to go around 4:30 so plenty of time to see either movie. At 5pm, when my dad finally goes to find out what the heck is going on with my sister who's voluntarily incommunicado, he finds out she has no intention of going to see either movie. Which means if we had left at 4:30 when we were supposed to, we could have seen Star Trek. *sigh*... Yet another movie that would be sweet to see on the big screen that I do not get to see on the big screen...
BUT I did enjoy Angels and Demons. I will try to avoid any spoilers, but there was this one character I liked surprisingly much and - I can't go on without giving any spoilers. Okay don't read further if you don't want to spoil the movie:
Are you sure you want to spoil the movie?
One last chance?
Are you ABSOLUTELY, POSITIVELY SURE you want the movie to be COMPLETELY AND IRREVERSIBLY spoilt for you?
Oookay, don't say I didn't warn you.
So, coming from a catholic family/county but not being catholic myself, I'm aware of a lot of the short-comings of the catholic religion, meaning that when I see catholics in film I tend to have a 'meh' attitude. So when I saw the Carmerlengo in Angels and Demons, I was like 'meh'. But then, his character grew on me and I was thinking 'What is this? A high-powered catholic figure who seems to care about people more than upholding silly traditions?' And I was all like, 'Yeah, this is a catholic I can get behind - in a non-conversion sense'. But then the movie took its course and I was left thinking 'Aw man, not only did it turn out he's NOT a person who cares about people more than upholding silly traditions, but he's psycho too?' They just couldn't give me a catholic figure I could respect, could they? No no, that would be far too much...
I still enjoyed the movie though, looking past the huge scientific error with the whole anti-matter thing.
(The movie's totally spoilt for you now, isn't it?)
Speaking of science, I'm (or rather my dad is) watching a History Channel documentary on how penicilin was first made. Turns out it came from a moldy cantelope, not moldy bread. But it's turning my off because they keep saying 'fun-ji' and not 'fun-guy'. I don't care how you want to pronounce it, you will pronounce it as I want to hear it! If it's pronounced 'fun-gus' with a soft 'g', then it should be pronounced 'fun-guy'!
So something horrific happened to me about an hour ago. I was sitting on my bed minding my own business, reading some stuff during my new found free time, when I felt a bug of somekind fall from the sky (or rather my ceiling) and hit my face. I figured it was a moth since it came from above and was bouncing around my mouth, and although I like moths I didn't want one around my face right before I eat dinner. So I flicked it off and it fell on my bed.
Also not wanting it in my sheets, I started looking around for where it went. I pull back my covers and find A BIG, HAIRY SPIDER. WHICH WAS ONCE ON MY FACE. BY MY MOUTH.
And I'm pretty sure this was the same spider who's life I spared yesterday, thinking, 'Even though this god-awful ugly creature is chilling out in my house, it deserves to live and helps to keep the other pests at bay through digestive means.'
So that's the game we're playing spiders? I spare your lives and you dive-bomb my face? Time to get the newspaper.
So I realized I haven't posted a post recently. And then a day or so later, someone pointed this out to me (can't remember who, but I'll go out on a limb and say it was probably either Alice or Ms. Bee, since you guys are the only ones who read this... I'm going to go into a corner and pretend to cry self-loathingly now... explaining this totally doesn't work as well as being in your apartment and just doing it... *sigh* I'm going to miss my apartment adventures...) So I figured I was overdue for a post.
But I don't have anything specific to say. Instead, I'm going to make a quick lists of topics I'd like to touch on and then hopefully follow through and actually touch on them via a brief explination following the list. Eh-hem:
- Graduation
- Angels and Demons/ My sister's back in my life (thanks a lot graduation)
- The irony of buying a new laptop on my old laptop
- There was something else but I forgot. Maybe I'll remember when I get to this one.
Graduation!
So I know a lot of people were like 'Meh, screw the main graduation' and in some cases even 'Meh, screw all graduations'. But I was like 'Bee-yotch/Dude-Bee-yotch, please. I just spent four years of my life taking classes that would lead me up to this moment. I'm gonna enjoy it as much as I can'. Plus by partaking in all of them, I can totally compare and contrast them using those critical analysis skills I supposedly developed in college.
The main graduation was alright, but I would advise all future graduates who plain on going to it to 1. Bring a water bottle 2. Bring something to entertain you. It's two hours of people talking at you, and not all of it is interesting. For the most part it was interesting, but around the 1:30min mark, I started to wish I had brough my DS. Which probably would have been weird... Especially since the only game I still have for it is Pokemon... *sigh*
The Director of the CIA was our commencment speaker, and he actually gave a really nice speech. I want a copy of it now. And one of the graduates, who went to jail for 8 years when he was sixteen for carjacking, spoke and he had a nice speech. It's ashame my parents couldn't hear any of it since they were in the nose bleed seats and there was this annoying baby crying in the section through all of the good speakers. It was seriously annoying, and I'm saying that even though I like kids. And as soon as that kid shut up, another one on the other side of the Comcast Center (which is where graduation was) started crying. (On a slightly related topic, why do parents bring their babies to R movies with loud explosions and other things babies shouldn't be around? That's just innovient and damaging to the experiences of everyone involved.)
As for the psychology and German graduations, I expected this going in but the German one was SOOO MUCH NICER than the psych one. First of all, our German advisors totally bought us graduation bears. ADORABLE! (I shall upload a photo later). Okay, so I didn't want to admit it, but I'm still a sucker for stuff animals. And they actually had nice personalized statements about our accomplishments and honestly seemed to be proud of us and a little sad we were moving on. The psych graduation pretty much boiled down to 'Do you have cum laude or above status' (No) 'Are you in psych honors?' (No, fools in the office totally advised me wrong so I never got a chance to do it - yes, feel the bitterness ooze out of my pores) "Are you in Psi Chi?' (No, see comment for the psyc honors). But they did acknowledge the fact that I have a DOUBLE DEGREE instead of a double major. That's right, let the props befall unto me. I had to chuckle at the people who were only psych grads, since psychology is probably the easiest major to double major with. I know I probably overuse this words sometimes, but seriously. To not double major comes off as lazy. Seriously.
The only nice thing about the psychology graduation was that it was right across the street from the Dairy so we all got free ice cream (for me, Midnight Madness, with hot fudge, whipped cream and cherries, in case you were wondering) and free water, which after sitting through 2 hrs at the Foreign Language Graduation at the Grand Ballroom and then running to Richie Colloseum for 2 hrs to participate in the Psychology Graduation, I needed quite a bit of quenching.
So after the German graduation, a roommate of mine commented that I was taking this graduation and moving on stuff with very little sentimentality. And in my mind I was thinking 'Well, that's cuz I AIN'T gonna miss you guys'. But I thought that would be mean to say at our graduation. Especially with her grandparents there. So I did not. (Although, her grandma totally said in front of everyone that it looked like she had gained weight... she was wearing her graduation robe, of course she looked fatter, what a thing to say at someone's college graduation.)
Oh before I forget, I was wearing two medallions for all three graduations. Those things are freaking heavy. Also, undergraduates shouldn't be given graduation hoods, since they're not supposed to be confered until you get your doctorate, as I learned.
Back to sentimentality. But I was thinking about it later on and I realized that never again while I run, completely out of breath, up those godforsaken stairs to a certain Japanese apartment. Never again will we all gather in that triple, where my crazy words can baffle and befuddle the ears of those around me only to be later tagged on the wall of my awesomeness. Never again will I need to seek refuge to complain about my seven inconsiderate roommates (that sounds like a modern folk tale), but also never again will I have this safe, familiar haven to go to in the event that I get suck with even worse roommates later.
MOVING ON!
I'll do the rest later. I'm totally in the middle of watching Quantum Leap and this post is turning out to be pretty long.
Okay, so apparently I'm super late on this, since it's been out for over a year, but I thought I'd spread the word. Spreading the word on Stuff.
Yeah, the video's a little one-sided, but since it's geared partial towards children it kind of has to be. I actually found out about the video while reading an article (which I could not find again later...) about how teachers are using it as a resource to supplement out-of-date textbooks and encourage discussion on the environment. Apparently a dad sued one of the schools that showed this video because it was one-sided and didn't show the benefits of capitalism. Okay, I get that. But kids see the benefits of capitalism every day. Videos like this are important because it helps to show kids (and adults who maybe don't think about this kind of stuff as much as they should) that there's a downside to our lifestyle that we have to take into consideration.
Now, I was raised right, in terms of environmental awareness. My grandmothers are both gardeners. My parents have composted all my life. My one grandma has what we call a 'depression era mentality' in that she never throws anything out (it's kind of a problem actually... but my point is, my family is frugle). My dad uses worm poop to fertilize our vegetable garden and luckily we live near farms so in the summer we buy our veggies locally. And both my parents bike to work whenever possible. Oh yeah, did I mention my mom lives in a tent - very minimal environmental impact there.
So I kind of thought things like recycling and composting and not throwing stuff out when it's still perfectly good was pretty much a give-in. Of course you should do that: saves money, saves the environment. But since coming to college, I've realized that's not the case. Some people in particular are EXTREMELY wasteful to the point where it's just kind of ridiculous and it's almost as if they're wasting on purpose. (I mean seriously, is it necessary to leave the kitchen light on, both living rooms lights on, the pantry light on and the TV on when you leave to go to your 50+ minute class? Seriously.)
That said, I think it's really important kids learn about all aspects of capitalism and consumerism. Yes, there are a lot of benefits (YAY! STUFF!). But we need to be responsible with our capitalism and I've come to realize that responsiblity doesn't come naturally to a lot of people (and not just environmental responsibility). Cleaning up after ourselves is a mindset that we have to learn and also understand before it becomes as natural to us as consuming.
Okay, I'm done preaching. So have you guys heard about the kid who got suspended for going to his girlfriend's prom? Crazy, right?
PS Buy worm poop. And compost. I know you guys are lazy about that.
Well it's raining again guys and you know what that means: postification!
Tuesdays are the days when I spend all day at the lab. And today at the lab, we had our last lab class, which I don't actually attend since I learned a lot of the stuff when I worked there last the summer. But what I do attend to is the food that they sometimes bring in (Yummyz!). And today, since it was the last class, they brought in danishes (Über-yummyz!)
I ate not one, not two, but five (Three, sir!) three tasty danishes. The last one I ate in the rain while walking back from the lab. Mmmm. Rain danish. I feel like eating danishes in the rain with your sleeve-guarded hand blocking the pastry from getting wet should be one of those little things in life that we don't really appreciate until we can't do it anymore. Like if one day we woke up and there were no more danishes, or no more rain, or no more ability to eat and walk at the same time. I would miss that last one most of all...
Actually that's why I appreciate the rain, since Maryland (at least the part that I live in) has been in a drought since I moved their (Sorry guys, it was my fault) and I think we've only just gotten out of it. Or we got out of it for a year and then were hit with another drought. So when it rains every weekend for several weeks, while others may get all bent out of shape about it, I choose to see it as a good day for the trees and for future us since our fields will yield delicious comestible harvests. And in the meantime we can use the dreary weather as an excuse to catch up on indoor things we've been putting off. Like cleaning.
Nice try, subconscious. I'm not cleaning anytime soon.
As my last point for this blog, you know how everyone's always saying (or at least everyone I talk to), if only life had a control-alt-delete function, or some other function computers can do. I have found the ultimate function our live's need; our ultimate thneed if you will. Ctrl + f. I needed to find sooooooo many forms at the lab today, and because people don't know how to sign their names legibly it was taking me forever. And how many other times have I spent hours looking for my German book (which SOMEBODY held on to but didn't tell me) or my cellphone that's fallen down the crack behind my bed, or some other object that has been misplaced. If only I could press a little mental Ctrl button followed by a little mental F key, and have the thing I'm looking for pop up right in front of me, I would save so much time, which I could then pass on to doing more productive and less frustrating things.
If only we did live in the Matrix.... *sigh*
I seem to be posting when it rains. What does that mean, psychologically-speaking?
0 comments Posted by RedGypsophila at 2:38 PMIt's a shame more people don't read my blog thus making that monetization thing more profitable for me (Wee money! Yay capitalism!) since I mention a product in practically every post. And the product for today's post (I think this might become a thing):
Annie's Howngrown Cheddar Bunnies!
I was skeptical when my mom first introduced me to Annie's macaroni, but now I'm hooked! Or pretty close to being hooked! I've never eaten their cheddar bunnies before. Just wait a moment while I crack open my crisp new box and try a bunny-sized bite.
Noticement 1: (Actual Cheddar) Tastiness
Noticement 2: Not as crackilicious as Pepperidge Farm crackers
Noticement 3: Holy crap the bag inside is actual full!!
Conclusion: 2 out of 3 ain't bad
Dude. Annie's has so many products. Fruity bunnies, chocolate and vanilla bunnies, bunnies you can cook, bunnies that are already cooked. I've gotta eat 'em all (guess what game I'm currently playing?!)
Final Off-Topic Note: Is anyone else getting kind of excited for the Star Trek movie? And thinking that The Simpson's episode this week is pretty darn good?
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