February 2008
22 posts
Take a Load For Free
I went to Starbucks today to get some shit done and came pretty close to walking into a musical. I think they had their satellite radio tuned to country/folk or something because they were rockin’ the old ones. Anyway after getting my “Leprechaun latte” (peppermint mocha…I refused to order the Leprechaun drink), “Take a Load Off Annie” came on and as I looked...
Sweet Chariot (Swing Low)
Nathan: do you know how bad i would feel if you ever got one [A Boob Job]
Me: hahah. You would?
Nathan: naturally, im just razzing you about those milk havens
Me: "Do you love me NOW Nathan?! Do YOU?!"
Me: with mascara running down my face
Me: and my fake eyelashes sliding off because the glue is all wet
Free Stuff!
I’m graduating in April with my master of science degree in Biostatistics AND my birfday is in April, so my mommy has to get me free stuff! I want so much stuff that I don’t know what to ask for! What should I ask for people?! Things I want, not in order but numbered anyhow: Amazon Kindle. Pro: This thing is awesome AND when I move my mom won’t have to bitch and moan about...
This is a song by a gay man.
Me: never gonna give you up
Me: never gonna let you down
Brian: never gonna run arooound
Brian: and hurt yooou
Cheech and the Hobo's Alcove
Last weekend Bryan had some old friends in for a visit. The weather on Sunday afternoon was surprisingly pleasant, so we all decided to go downtown to get some coffee and go for a walk. We strolled on State street right by what, starting now, I refer to as the Hobo’s Alcove, which, obviously, is a little space in between Urban Outfitters and the State Theatre where homeless people chill...
oh shiz!
Shamrock shakes are back people! I’m lovin’ it!
“I didn’t hear no bell.”
– Bryan, when he refuses to stop playing Super Metroid…oh, and Rocky.
Asian Dave: a fart noise erin? real mature
Me: I always do that after a terrible trailer. Unfortunately I saw a lot of movies over break so I had to do it each time they showed that goddamn "Fools Gold" trailer because that is going to be one steaming dump of a movie
Me: BUT
Me: when I saw the "Untraceable" trailer I said "UNWATCHABLE" in the same overly dramatic voice and all the people around me cracked up
Me: I'm the trailer cut-up
Asian Dave: sounds like you should take this on the road
I'm awesome at life
So, as part of my master of science program we have a course that we take during the last semester which is essentially “Real Life 101.” We’re given a data set with very minimal instructions, and we have to conduct analysis as though we were the lead statistician. For some reason we were made to fear this course from day one, but I love it. I’ve always been a terrible...
We hate the city of Compton
Me: I don't wanna live in Cali, I'll get the cancer
Patty: Yuck, i dont like the west coast
Patty: Yeah, im not down with sunshine
Me: Everyone will be like "What's that white flash?"
Patty: "i think i saw something radioactive"
Me: "who knows, lets get lipo and go surfing"
“We’ll have intelligent nanobots go into our brains… to make us...”
– Ray Kurzweil, Professional Crackpot
"Charming girl, worried about grades"
I have interviews for the bioinformatics PhD program on Friday - four interviews. I’m not as worried about them as maybe I should be because my first interviewer is the lady who runs the first lab I worked in at Michigan. We have very similar research interests and obviously a rapport, so she should be a vote in my favor. I’m actually not sure what people are going to ask me about,...
"Ouch! Goddamn it!"
I slipped and fell this morning on a patch of ice on a really highly trafficed foot-bridge on campus. At least I didn’t tear my new pants. The best part is, within 20 seconds of my tumble, I almost slipped and fell again. Twice. I’m 23 years old. What will become of me when I’m 60? Will I ever be 60?
“Someone asked me the other day what I did as a child, because I have never seen...”
– Kelly
Ich spreche Deutsch real good
Imma apply for a fellowship for the University of Michigan intensive summer program in German. If I do what I wanna do, I’ll cram 4 semesters of German into the summer. The only drawback is that it means I can’t work full-time since I’ll be in class everyday until 3, but it ain’t no thang. I need to be able to speak the tongue of the Motherland so that when I default on...
Mucho Geneo, That's Spanish for Lots'o'genes
I found this neat-o article today on MIT’s technology review. There is a new international consortium in town, and this one wants to sequence 1000 human genomes. My favorite part of the article was the part saying that “the volume of data—and the interpretation of those data—will pose a major challenge for leading experts in the fields of bioinformatics and statistical...
This is the first track of Robert Plant and Alison...
“You need to get on the ball.”
– Bryan
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Isn't Gary Cooper Supposed to be Good, or...
Maybe it means that I’ve moved beyond the philosophical level of a high school sophomore, but The Fountainhead (1949) starring Gary Cooper as Howard Roark and Patricia Neal as Dominique Francon is just god awful. I should have known better when I saw that Ayn herself wrote the screenplay, but nothing prepared me for the endless exchanges of “Oh Howard you should conform to what the...
Banjo Shoes
Me: I bought new dress shoes, so how could I look retarded?
Steve: They could have little banjos on them
Me: Actually...they do. That's a bad thing? They light up and play the intro to "Dueling Banjos" when you walk.
Steve: i'm picturing each shoe playing it starting over with every step. So, you hear like.. a round of the first few notes over and over and over
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