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[20 Oct 2008|10:12am] |
Kevin Bacon has had at least a supporting role in 27% of all American movies made since 1982.
That made me laugh really hard for some reason. (it isn't true...but it made me crack up)
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[17 Oct 2008|11:01am] |
Being sick sucks out loud. I'd have rather been dealing with the little cherubs at school then praying to the porcelain god all day yesterday and most of last night/wee hours of this morning.
There's nothing left in my stomach, so I've been dry heaving all night and am fucking exhausted. I feel a little better today - I was able to keep some chicken broth and water down, which is nice considering how dehydrated the puking marathon made me.
Apparently, this is a nasty little virus that's just going around which, I'm told, is resistant to this years flu shot. So be careful kiddies. Make sure you're washing your hands and taking your Airborne!
UPDATE: Wee! I'm feeling better!
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[15 Oct 2008|05:18pm] |
I'm so fucking frustrated it hurts. My students don't listen to simple instructions, fuck up, get bad grades, and then bitch and moan to their parents. Said parents then call the school to bitch about how awful I am. The result? I get yelled at for something that isn't my fault. Where the hell is responsibility? I remember a time when it was on the STUDENT to listen, take notes, and fucking EARN their grades. What the fuck is the point of handing them an A they didn't earn when later in life they're going to blame me for not having the fundamental skills they need to pass?
Ugh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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| i stole this from brandon |
[06 Jul 2008|12:17pm] |
iTunes
Total Songs: 2476
Sort by song:
First Song: "Accidentally in Love" by Counting Crows
Last Song: "10,000 Miles" by Mary Chapin Carpenter
Sort by time:
Shortest Song: "Treasure Chest" Zelda Twilight Princess (0:12)
Longest Song: "Dies Irae" by Verdi (36:52)
Sort by artist:
First Artist: Abdy
Last Artist: 石元丈晴
Sort by album:
First Album: Aladdin Soundtrack
Last Album: Tango Around the World
Top Five Most Played Songs:
1. "10,000 Miles" by Mary Chapin Carpenter
2. "By My Side" by Steven Sondheim
3. "I Know Where I've Been" by Queen Latifah
4. "Waiting for My Real Life to Begin" by Colin Hay
5. "If I Saw You in Heaven" by Eric Clapton
First song that comes up on Shuffle: "A Limpiar el Sucio" by Calle 13
Search:
"sex", how many songs come up? 2
"death", how many songs come up? 4
"love", how many songs come up? 68
"hate", how many songs come up? 3
"you", how many songs come up? 159
"final", how many songs come up? 267 (lots of final fantasy music lol)
"alone", how many songs come up? 8
"want", how many songs come up? 15
"sad", how many songs come up? 3
And for fun, "the" turns up 1040 results.
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| Riddle me this.... |
[01 Jun 2008|11:18pm] |
Recently I was asked to consider the following:
If buttered toast always lands buttered-side down and a cat always lands on its feet, then what happens if you strap a piece of toast buttered-side up to the back of a cat and drop it?
My immediate response was that the cat will land on its feet and then the ceiling will cave in so that the toast has also landed buttered-side down.
Upon further research of the subject, I've found a rather profound answer to this conundrum.
Let us assume that the question is in fact asking what would happen if you tied buttered bread on top of a cat, then dropped the cat from a fair height. There are two possible effects here, and they both require no negation of any particular principles.
It could land either way, and the reason why is very simple: if it lands butter side down, then the cat hasn't landed. It's laying on bread (and in a moment or two, it would wriggle upright, thus making its first contact with the floor a perfectly standard feet-first). Likewise, if it lands feet down, the bread has not landed, so it isn't violating the butter principle.
However, there's something the question doesn't specify which is absolutely vital to the equation and also the key to anti-gravity. We have all been assuming that this bread is tied on butter side up because it would be gross to get the butter on the cat. If it was butter side down, thereby buttering the cat, then the question has a simple answer. The cat lands feet first because the bread cannot land butter side up which would be the case were the cat buttered.
What if you were to tie the cat's feet together and then tie bread to the cat's tethered feet, buttered side facing them? It can't land bread side down, because the butter is on the other side, facing the cat feet. And since the cat feet have been covered by the butter and the animal doesn't land on it's back, we can assume that the cat toast cannot land cat side down. Thus, the conclusion we must draw is that the two forces will levitate, causing the buttered cat toast to levitate.
I may or may not have too much time on my hands.
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[23 May 2008|05:49pm] |
Hey all!
Go here to see pictures from Cassie's wedding. If it doesn't let you in, IM me and I'll give you the password, but it should be set to public.
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[19 May 2008|09:54am] |
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I hate you, Umass. I hate you with everything that I am.
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| stolen from caitlin |
[02 May 2008|04:00pm] |
1. Bold and italicize the ones you've read and own.
2. Bold the ones you've read but don't own.
3. Italicize the ones you own but haven't read.
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Anna Karenina
Crime and Punishment
Catch-22
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Wuthering Heights
The Silmarillion
Life of Pi : a novel
The Name of the Rose
Don Quixote
Moby Dick
Ulysses
Madame Bovary
The Odyssey
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Eyre
A Tale of Two Cities
The Brothers Karamazov
Guns, Germs, and Steel: the fates of human societies
War and Peace
Vanity Fair
The Time Traveler’s Wife
The Iliad
Emma
The Blind Assassin
The Kite Runner
Mrs. Dalloway
Great Expectations
American Gods
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius Atlas Shrugged
Reading Lolita in Tehran : a memoir in books
Memoirs of a Geisha
Middlesex
Quicksilver
Wicked : the life and times of the wicked witch of the West
The Canterbury Tales
The Historian : a novel
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Love in the Time of Cholera
Brave New World
The Fountainhead
Foucault’s Pendulum
Middlemarch
Frankenstein
The Count of Monte Cristo
Dracula
A Clockwork Orange
Anansi Boys
The Once and Future King
The Grapes of Wrath
The Poisonwood Bible : a novel
1984
Angels & Demons
The Inferno
The Satanic Verses
Sense and Sensibility
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Mansfield Park
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
To the Lighthouse
Tess of the D’Urbervilles
Oliver Twist
Gulliver’s Travels
Les Misérables
The Corrections
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Dune
The Prince
The Sound and the Fury
Angela’s Ashes : a memoir
The God of Small Things
A People’s History of the United States : 1492-present
Cryptonomicon
Neverwhere
A Confederacy of Dunces
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Dubliners
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Beloved
Slaughterhouse-five
The Scarlet Letter
Eats, Shoots & Leaves
The Mists of Avalon
Oryx and Crake : a novel
Collapse : how societies choose to fail or succeed
Cloud Atlas
The Confusion
Lolita
Persuasion
Northanger Abbey
The Catcher in the Rye
On the Road
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Freakonomics : a rogue economist explores the hidden side of everything
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance : an inquiry into values
The Aeneid
Watership Down
Gravity’s Rainbow
The Hobbit
In Cold Blood : a true account of a multiple murder and its consequences
White Teeth
Treasure Island
David Copperfield
The Three Musketeers
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[26 Apr 2008|07:13pm] |
I have 3 weeks left as an undergrad.
*freaks out*
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| Brandon, just for you. |
[21 Feb 2008|02:51pm] |
Brandon Milardo, I stumbled upon this and could only think of you.
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[30 Jan 2008|06:35am] |
[ mood |  nervous ]
Holy first day, Batman! It's my first day teaching at Hopkins Academy. I'm both nervous and excited. I really hope the kids like me!
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[03 Jan 2008|06:54pm] |
[ mood |  like I'm King of the Lab ]
Grades are up and guess who got a 4.0!
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[01 Jan 2008|12:52am] |
[ mood |  pessimistic ]
well, it's 2008.
too bad i re-injured my back, can't breathe, hear, or speak because of a cold, don't have a job for winter break, and have no money.
happy new year.
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[21 Dec 2007|10:02pm] |
[ mood |  giggly ]
I PASSED THE MTEL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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| *stolen from gina* |
[11 Dec 2007|06:32am] |
The Year: 2OO7
♥JANUARY ♥
1. Who kissed you on new years?
No one
2. Did you have a New Year’s Resolution this year?
Why bother making a promise to yourself that you aren't going to keep?
3. Does it snow where you live?
Sometimes
4. Do you like hot chocolate?
It's alright. I prefer hot apple cider
5. Have you ever been to Times Square to watch the ball drop?
Only ever been to NYC in October for Earth Mass
♥FEBRUARY♥
1. Who was your Valentine?
Didn't have one
2. Do you like getting candy or flowers more?
Candy, flowers make me sneeze
3. Do you care if the groundhog sees its shadow or not?
No. It's irrational to judge how much winter is left by whether or not the day is sunny. Did anyone stop to wonder that maybe the damn groundhog is afraid of all the people standing around its hole?
4. What did you receive for Valentines Day?
I think my mum sent me some conversation hearts
5. What did you give for Valentine’s Day?
Nothing
♥MARCH♥
1. Are you Irish?
And proud, too
2. Do you like corned beef and cabbage?
Not THAT proud to be Irish
3. What did you do for St. Patty’s Day in 2007?
I think I had some drinks with my mother and cousin
4. Are you happy when winter is pretty much over?
Not a fan of snow, so yeah
5. Favorite part about this month?
Proud enough to say St. Paddy's Day
♥APRIL♥
1. Do you like the rain?
Love it
2. Did you play an April fool’s joke on anyone this year?
probably not
3. Do you get tons of candy for Easter?
I bought myself some Reese's Eggs
4. Do you celebrate 4/20?
Nope
5. What do you think of spring?
It makes me not able to breathe
♥MAY♥
1. What is your favorite flower?
Lilacs, even if they make my eyes water and I sneeze
2. Best part about May?
End of spring semester? Except this year because then I actually have to be an adult
3. Finish the phrase “April showers.....?
rock because they make pollen unable to kill my sinuses
4. Do you celebrate May 16th: National Piercing Day?
There's a National Piercing Day?
5. Is May anything special to you?
not really
♥JUNE♥
1. What year did/will you graduate from high school?
2004
2. Did you do anything fun during this Month?
I went to NC to visit Wendy and then went to England.
3. Have a favorite baseball team?
Red Sox baby
4. Is summer your favorite season?
I prefer fall
5. What do you do once school is out?
normally go to work
♥JULY♥
1. What did you do on the 4th of July?
God...I explored Salamanca, went to class, and then went out to celebrate despite the fact that none of the Spaniards care about the US's Independence Day
2. Did you go to the fireworks?
They didn't have any in Spain
3. Did you blast the A/C all day?
They don't really have A/C in Spain
4. Most exciting summer night?
Pretty much all of July
5. Anything bad happen this summer?
Oliver gave me a cold for the first week of my trip to Spain
♥AUGUST♥
1. Did you do anything special at the end of your summer?
I worked a shit ton
2. What was your favorite summer memory of ‘07?
EUROPE!!!!!!
3. Did you have a sunburn?
Ironically enough not until I got back to Britain
4. Did you go to the pool a lot?
Nope, I was in Spain
5. Anything special about this month to you?
not really
♥SEPTEMBER♥
1. Did you attend school/college?
Yes
2. Do you like fall better than summer?
Abso-freaking-lutely
3. Plan on anything to happen this month?
School starting?
4. One good thing that happened this month?
I learned that it's better that I didn't do choir this semester
5. Something bad that happened?
My schedule got fucked up
♥OCTOBER♥
1. What was your Halloween costume?
Playboy bunny
2. What is your favorite candy?
I have to say Reeses
3. What was your favorite thing(s) about this month?
Halloween at Diva's
4. Visit any haunted houses?
No.
5. No school on Columbus Day; what did you do?
I don't recall
♥NOVEMBER♥
1. Who's house did you go to for Thanksgiving?
Dad's and then Mum's
2. What are you thankful for?
lots of stuff
3. Do you love stuffing?
as long as there's no celery in it. blech
4. Anything good happen?
it turns out that I am the queen of useless knowledge about Disney
5. Did you shop on Black Friday?
no, but I did work a double shift
♥DECEMBER♥
1. Do you celebrate Christmas?
yeah
2. Have you ever been kissed under the mistletoe?
yeah
3. Get anything special last year?
don't really remember what i got last year
4. What do you want this year?
a Wii :)
5. What do you love most about December?
Christmas music.
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