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January 31, 2005
guess what
i liked shokufeh's idea of the pictures from the back of world magazine. maybe this one is a little easier than the texture of my purse, but see if you can guess.
January 28, 2005
an electric pencil sharpener?!?
my mother is the most awesome mother in the world. sorry to break the news to you, but she beats out your mom by a million miles.
being the most awesome mother in the world, she sends me packages on a regular basis. usually they include fruit and often some sort of clothing item, and always a very special touch, that only my mother can come up with- like maybe a can of tuna fish or a jar of jelly. to give her a little credit for her strangeness, it's usually that she is trying to fill that last tiny little space in the box and goes looking in our pantry. but today's package i just can't figure out at all...
contents
1 - 4 clementines
2 - some persian ground lemon spice
3 - a black t-shirt
4 - a large used, but now empty, jar
5 - a used electric pencil sharpener, pencil shavings still inside and spilling out all over all the other items
now you can't tell me the jar and pencil sharpener were just to fill the space. am i supposed to fill the jar with the pencil shavings? and then what am i supposed to do with it?
she's the greatest, but she's also verrrrrry strange.
January 27, 2005
texture
for those of us with mojgani blood running through our bodies, it's all about texture.
January 26, 2005
voyage of the mimi
da da da dah dah dah daaaah; da da da dah dah da daaaaah; da da da dah dah da daaaaah; dadadada daaaaaaaah
anyone recognize the tune? okay, maybe not but certainly you must remember captain granville? okay, maybe not him, but the time when he got hypothermia and the crew had to strip him down and lay naked with him? ahhh, now i see i've sparked a memory...the voyage of the mimi!!!!
i've long meant to blog about the voyage of the mimi. for those of you not lucky enough to share in this documentary series, you are missing out big time. it spanned the nation and has brought together many 20-some year olds who have nothing in common, except they remember the theme music from voyage of the mimi and, of course, the homoerotic hypothermia scene.
so many quality movies and filmstrips shown across america in science classes. even better were the movies we watched in sex ed. i never knew what the boys got to watch, but i most definately saw "julie's story" - the coming of age tale of a young girl trying out for a play when she realizes that she has "become a woman". i wonder what movies they are showing now and if "julie's story" and the "voyage of the mimi" have stood the test of time.
January 25, 2005
stage fright
i gave group meeting yesterday (for those of you who don't know, a research presentation in front of my group of 40) and i was nervous. i've done this 7 times now and i still get nervous. i was even fairly confident in what i had done/knew about my subject. i did well overall i think, but i just don't know how to get over the stage fright. somebody help me, please!!! i'm giving a really big talk in a month (well, big in nature, actually only in front of 3 professors) and i don't want to be scared out of my mind. any suggestions?
January 21, 2005
unlike yogurt, i'm not so cultured
so years back, my parents and i went to see puccini's la boheme. it was everything an opera should be...sad, beautiful, amazing music. i loved it. i remember seeing my mother get increasingly sleepy as the night went on, and just didn't understand how she could be falling asleep with the fantastic performance on stage. but she did, and now i have become my mother.
i decided in the summer that i wanted to get season tickets to the lyric opera this year. i was convinced that i loved opera, all because of this one la boheme experience. nevermind that i had seen a few others and didn't particularly care for them. i was sure that i'd love it.
along comes the first opera...don giovanni. i made it through the first act, and slept through the second. next, das rheingold...i slept intermittently throughout. i couldn't make it to aida, so i slept at home instead. the last one i went to, a cunning little vixen, i made it the whole way without falling asleep...yay!! but mostly because it was only a little over an hour long.
so when i called my mom last nite, she asked if i had any weekend plans. i mentioned that i would be going to the opera tonite, and she said "oh, you're going to take a nap". yes, mother, yes...a very expensive nap.
January 17, 2005
broke the boycott
alright, so the chip boycott does not include chips from rollin' to go. they are just toooo good. especially when i dip them in the white chili. plus they make them there. okay, we'll revise the boycott...i am now boycotting chips that come from a bag.
January 14, 2005
something to daydream about
that's right - i'm wearing the sexy long johns today. you know the ones...tight around the calves, droopy at the knees, with the low hanging crotch and saggy butt, made ever so sexy by the bit of lace embroidered around the ankle.
i know, i know. they're hot. and i am ever so hot in them. but please, for the love of god, try to control yourselves.
January 12, 2005
the evolution of my legs
well, who knows what is happening now.
the laser process as i understand it:
1) shave the morning of, leaving behind short stubble
2) laser, thereby killing the roots of all the short stubble
3) over the next two weeks, short stubble falls out, leaving clean legs
4) over the next 4-6 weeks, hair starts to grow back, but less and thinner than before
the laser process as applied to my legs:
1) shave the morning of, leaving behind short stubble
2) laser, leaving behind little red bumps
3) hair continues to grow like normal, but maybe (i could be imagining this) a little slower than before
4) shave 2 weeks later because i STILL have hair
5) nothing grows in after 1 week+ after shaving
this laser business wasn't supposed to stunt the growth rate, was it? i'm completely confused. happy that i have little to no leg hair, but still very confused.
January 11, 2005
at long last
my first paper has finally been published.
check it out here.
yay!!!!
January 07, 2005
commission #2
my second commission from the lady anna steinhelper. yay!!! the tag is my favourite part.
i'm sure not ALL mormons are weird
but the family living a few houses down from my parents is.
our two families have not been on the best of terms. well, we've said the friendly hello to one another, but their children and i don't even get that far. some could say that it traces back to me announcing out loud to our science class in high school that he was stupid. but i maintain that this isn't the reason we don't speak.
so while we exchange baked goods/cards/small gifts with some of our neighbors, neither of our families have participated in this with one another. that is, until a few nites ago. my father told me that he was upstairs at 9 at nite, while my mother was watching tv and they hear a knock at the door. he goes downstairs and sees a large group of people at our door. turns out it was the entire family of estranged neighbors - the parents, all three kids, and yes, even the grandmother. they smiled, handed over a bag of rice and spices and said happy new year.
nice. but weird.
January 06, 2005
snow!!!!!!!!!
i LOVE snow. i have to admit that my love has lessened slightly since those days of yesteryear when i would wake up at 10 and wonder why my mother hadn't gotten me out of bed to get to school until i looked outside and saw SNOW! i lucked out in gradeschool - fairfax county, virginia would cancel school at even a half inch. twas wonderful.
but now i'm here. sucks that tons of snow does not mean that i get to stay home. but it does mean that i get to play around in fresh beautiful snow, glowing white under the pink sky. i get to live in my own personal snow globe. shokufeh - most of the year, i'm jealous of your gorgeous weather. but i think i have you beat in that category now.
January 05, 2005
boycotts
just so that i can go back and reference this later on...
i am boycotting french fries (6 months) and chips (2 months). yesterday i just became disgusted by them for no particular reason.
January 04, 2005
back from break
so i took the my blogging website with me to blog whilst i was at home, but underestimated the slow-pokishness of hewpy (my hewlett packard computer at home). he can barely handle being turned on, let alone giving him access to the internet. so here's a brief summary of my mental blog entries while i was at home.
i attempted to break a world record of pajama wearing. i previously held the record from my last winter break, but i think i topped my personal best at 3 full days this time. it was a thing of beauty. well, maybe not smell-wise.
a little update on the laser business. it didn't do anything!!!! most of the hair kept growing as though nothing had been done. my conclusion is that she didn't have the laser power on high enough. but i am severely disappointed. especially considering the cash money i put out. i will have words with them and hopefully get a free(?) session out of it.
gosh, there were a ton of things i had in mind to write about but i can't think of anything now. oh, one more thing...i love my parents. they are the BEST.