Most of my peers probably won't even flinch if they got on to the Dean's List. In fact, some of them may say they've gone on the list multiple times in their undergraduate careers (and it just dawned on me that I'm the dumbest person I know). Well, yours truly had yet to have experienced it, and now I have finally done it: I've received high ( Read more... )

The invention that'll drive all disgruntled parking maids to unmentionable pleasure has arrived: the side loading tow truck.


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This is absolutely brilliant: a self-repairing paint! If only they could come up with self-repairing sheet metal.


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I think I was called a "Jap" by a man today. I'm not quite exactly sure, as I had just finished working out, and I was on low blood sugar. We were walking towards each other, and I had to veer from running into him when I heard "(mumble, mumble) Jap (mumble, mumble)." I was about to turn around and ask him what the hell he just said, but I saw ( Read more... )

Today was the last in my series of hepatitis vaccinations. And the nurse who gave the last dose made absolutely sure that I remembered it, by making my arms really sore. She took her merry old time to remove the needle from my arm, and because it was a intramuscular injection, this felt like forever. The dose that I got 3 months ago did not make ( Read more... )

Reading The New York Times' article on "Who is America's Next Top Model, Really?" led me to another site, Models.com. Most of the photos of the female models crack me up, because I don't think of them as being "gorgeous," or even "attractive." Even without the H-factor (that's "H" for "homo"), I'm not even sure if these models are what is ( Read more... )

This week turned out to be lots of tossin' and rockin'.

The bad (and not so relatively bad)

• The death of Rosa Parks.
  
• 2,000 Americans dead in Iraq (and counting).
  
• Countless Iraqi people dead (and counting).
  
• Hurricane Wilma.
  
• Getting a "B" on a midterm. Not particularly pleased with this one. With Biology, I would've been perfectly content with a "B ( Read more... )

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Somebody at work asked me what I do on my free time. After laughing almost instinctively at the sheer absurdity of the idea of "free time," I fell into cricket-chirping silence. What do I do during my off hours? Not particularly social. No specific hobbies to name of. Going to the gym doesn't sound interesting. Neither does reading the news, ( Read more... )

September's sales of Ford Expedition are down by 61%, and Explorer by 58%. GM's line of full-size SUV's are down by 56%. And today, I used the bus to go to Trader Joe's instead of driving my car. I think hell is going to freeze over, only because even Hell can't afford to stay heated in these rising oil prices.