I get the ThinkGeek newsletter in my email every once in a while because that's where I buy pretty much every birthday, Father's Day, and Christmas present for my Dad (excepting this year, since I'm in Mexico and they have nifty stuff down here). In this addition, they had such interesting gadgets as a USB doorbell and an Internet lockdown key, ( Read more... )

So we've been conducting telephone polls in my political science class (American Government, woo). We each were responsible for polling ten people from a list of "frequent voter" numbers, and I kind of put it off and put if off until the very last minute, so I had to sit down after dinner and spend two hours calling fifty some-odd people. Many ( Read more... )

My parents just won ten thousand dollars.

I... Wow. Just wow.

Thanks, Big Guy in the Sky. I owe you one. Or, well, ten thousand ones, more accurately.

The sun returns!
Rejoice in sunshine and sixty degrees! Revel in walks home from school as opposed to riding the nasty ol' bus! Welcome the return of the air conditioner! Love ye this gorgeous weather ( Read more... )

I'm taking a five minute goof-off, and decided to ask Neil's Magnificent Oracular 8-Ball how I would do on my one o'clock exam.

"It will be a good night," said the wonderous sphere. I'll take that as a, "You will do splendifferously."

Back to memorizing Ottoman institutions... Yay?

I am totally expecting a pony to drop out of the sky any minute. Which could hurt a bit. It would also be mighty confusing, considering I asked for a puppy, but eh. Anyway, Penny Arcade posted tomorrow's comic early, and look! They used my link!


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I just forwarded this article to the guys at Penny Arcade. My fingers are crossed and praying for a comic. It probably won't happen (hell, the email will probably get filtered into and subsequently flushed with the spam mail), but what ifOh, and as long as I'm daydreaming, I also want world peace, free lunch, and a puppy (because ponies are too ( Read more... )

Colts won,

Payton Manning pisses excellence,

Prince is fabulous,

and I am drunk.

All is right with the world!

'Cept for that big pile o' homework, of course...

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