Posted by Rebecca Thu, 03 Jan 2008 01:19:00 GMT
Check it out.
I’m bored.
Bored.
Me. Bored.
Not busy, not stressed, not frustrated and ready to pull the plug on school while simultaneously pulling my hair out.
Just bored.
Posted by Rebecca Tue, 18 Dec 2007 19:09:00 GMT
My lunch plans today consisted of a walk to the bank to deposit a check into my account and then a nice quiet lunch at the empty Texas Union with no one but Jane Austen to keep me company.
Of course, when I went to get ready to leave my office, I couldn’t locate my debit card. I had used it on breakfast this morning because I was running late and didn’t have time to make something before dashing out the door. So I thought I might have accidentally left the card on the passenger seat in the car. I was concerned about not having money for lunch. I get really grumpy and icky feeling when I’m hungry for too long.
As I was walking to my car to check for it, Marci called to say that she’d love to walk with me to the bank, just to get out into the lovely weather. When I couldn’t locate my card in the car I told her my whole story and she said, “Don’t worry about it, I can loan you some cash.”
Yay. I was going to get to eat lunch after all. :)
As I was walking back to the ATM to meet her, not only did I find the card in my purse, where it is supposed to be, but I was struck by how dumb I had just been.
There I was, worried about not being able to get money for lunch, and where was my first stop going to be? The bank? To deposit a check?
It’s called less cash, Goober.
Can I go on vacation now?
Posted by Rebecca Tue, 11 Dec 2007 15:47:00 GMT
I looked on weather.com just now to see what the temperature did here over the last few days. Here’s what I learned:
December 9, 11:00 AM: 76 degrees F
December 9, 11:00 PM: 37 degrees F
December 10, 11:00 AM: 40 degree F
December 10, 11:00 PM: 49 degrees F
December 11, 11:00 AM: Forecasted 82 degrees F
December 11, 11:00 PM: Forecasted 67 degrees F
If you think this is crazy, check out this text I copied from the Special Weather Statement for Austin, TX:
WARMER CONDITIONS WILL COME TODAY IN WAKE OF YESTERDAYS COLD WEATHER THAT FOLLOWED UNSEASONABLY WARM DAYS OVER THE WEEKEND.
COLDER TEMPERATURES ARE EXPECTED WEDNESDAY…IN WAKE OF A COLD FRONT… FORECAST TO MOVE ACROSS THE AREA WEDNESDAY MORNING. THE WARMEST PART OF THE DAY WILL LIKELY BE IN THE MORNING…AS TEMPERATURES ARE FORECAST TO FALL DURING THE DAY. A CHANCE OF RAIN AND SHOWERS WILL ONLY ADD TO THE COOLER CONDITIONS WEDNESDAY.
At least there’s one thing on this planet more fickle than my emotions.
Posted by Rebecca Tue, 04 Dec 2007 19:53:00 GMT
Have you ever met one of those people who always expresses themselves via quotes?
I don’t mean the occasional “To Be or Not To Be,” or the rare “It ain’t over ‘til it’s over.”
I mean a daily, sometimes multiple times a day expression of one’s self via quotes from books, movies, poems, etc.
Do these people have ANY original thoughts? Do thought processes even occur in their heads? Or do they pass themselves off as being intelligent because they have read a lot?
Quite frankly, I don’t want to know what Shakespeare has to say about love, what Morrison has to say about racism, or what Mel Gibson has to say about freedom.
What do you think about all these things?
Do you think about all these things? Do you think about any of them?
I think I just found my new pet peeve.
Posted by Rebecca Tue, 04 Dec 2007 16:23:00 GMT
Did you know that I know how to integrate? Did you know that I can solve differential equations? Did you know that I can calculate the velocity dispersion of elliptical galaxies, analyze their surface brightness profiles, and plot their rotation curves? Did you know that I understand the gravothermal instability of globular clusters in the Galaxy?
Did you know that I don’t know how to calculate what percentage of amount A is amount B?
Yep.I had to ask my boyfriend how to do that today.
It’s amazing, I know.
At least I know how to turn on the photocopier.
Posted by Rebecca Mon, 03 Dec 2007 04:26:00 GMT
Holy cow, folks! I just finished stretching after tonight’s workout and I finally was able to lean forward and touch my toes!
This is a major triumph! If only you knew.
Posted by Rebecca Sat, 24 Nov 2007 03:33:00 GMT
I was a very good girl today. I did quite a bit of hiking while we were geocaching, and then I went to the gym with Caroline and worked off some of yesterday’s calories.
But that’s not going to stop me from having a second slice of pumpkin pie, in addition to the piece of coffee cake and the two brownies I’ve had today.
Don’t look at me like that (over your 4th slice of pecan pie)! It’s Thanksgiving weekend. You’re pigging out with the rest of us!
Posted by Rebecca Thu, 15 Nov 2007 03:57:00 GMT
Oh.My.Goodness.
I am my mother’s child.
Becky and I were leaving Julianna’s house tonight after prayer, and as we were walking down the driveway, I was digging through my over-stuffed purse looking for my keys. Never knowing where the hell my keys are when I leave someplace is a genetic disorder I inherited from my precious mom.
I found the keys just as I got to the end of the driveway and said out loud to Becky, who had stopped several feet back, “Now, where did I park?” As I posed this question, I lifted up my head and looked around on the side of the street and finally into the driveway, where my eyes stopped when they rested on my CR-V, which was right next to me. Inches away, even.
When I realized what I had done, I looked at Becky and asked “Did I really just do that?”
“Yes.”
And then we both busted out laughing.
Posted by Rebecca Mon, 05 Nov 2007 14:02:00 GMT
I know most people have forgotten about Halloween by now, but I’m going to post about it anyway, now that I have pictures to post.
My friend Marci and her husband threw a fantastic costume party the Friday evening before Halloween. The hosts had excellent costumes. Do you recognize them?
A few flappers came to the party
as did a samurai.
There was a game of cat-and-mouse,
and Cruella sported her dead dogs.
Jareth, the Goblin King (a.k.a. David Bowie in scary makeup and spandex) even showed up. He had a crotch that squeaked when squeezed, and ended up winning best costume.
Others where there, but I have no pictures to prove it. They included Chuck Norris,Professor Plum and the Candlestick, The Sun, a Christmas Tree, Bellatrix Lestrange, Jay Gatsby, Jack the Ripper, a zombie and a gargoyle.
It was definitely the best Halloween party I’ve been to, with lots of great food, great music, great people, good alcohol, and fantastic costumes. I can’t wait for next year!
Posted by Rebecca Wed, 31 Oct 2007 13:50:00 GMT
See that nifty little lolcat button over there on the left? The new one? That is really silly?
That’s actually a nifty button that will take you to the NaBloPoMo Web Site. Notice how I didn’t make a link out of the word ‘NaBloPoMo’ just now? That’s because I really want you to click the button.
Really. I want you to click the button. Really. Badly.
NaBloPoMo - National Blog Posting Month - begins tomorrow. The rules, basically, are that participants must post something every single day for the month of November. At the end of the month, successful blogs will be eligible for prizes.
I managed to pull it off last year, although I didn’t win anything. This year, I’m gonna try again. We’ll see how I do. Hopefully I won’t have to resort to describing all the items that are sitting on my desk. I really hope I don’t. It would be tragic to have to resort to that a second time.
While you’re at it, check out my official NaBloPoMo page. I’ve already got friends up there, and it hasn’t even started yet. Cool, huh?
Blogger Becks luvs teh intarweb!
Oh man oh man! Since I wrote the above, I just added three of my new NaBloPoMo friends’ blogs to my Google Reader account, AND I found out that there’s a new Randomizer for this year’s contest, which means, once it’s fully operational, I’ll be coming across tons of new blogs that I love, and they’ll all go in to Google Reader as well.
I foresee a month of getting very little done in my life, apart from reading about other peoples’ lives and writing about my own. What great fun it shall be!