nikki

It was supposed to be my turn to take care of the arabidopsis for my plant physiology group today. When I was ascending the stairs at Engel, I heard a distinctively deep voice say "hey, how's it going". It was one of my lab partners on the way out the door x.x. Apparently, he did not know I was coming to take care of everything. This left me with 2 1/2 hours to burn after that. Heading towards the drillfield, a strange sight halted me. It looked like...oh my god..it is... A GIANT MEATWAD DOME??????




I had to ask a random guy to take this picture for me. I almost didn't do it; it makes me so nervous to ask people for things. I knew I'd regret it the rest of my life if I didn't get a picture of myself with a giant Meatwad X3

ADULT SWIM'S COUNTY FAIR CAME TO BLACKSBURG. I CANNOT BELIEVE IT. I had seen it advertised on the channel, but never bothered to look at the tour dates because nothing like that would ever come here. I was wrong! I sure am glad I was wrong too!

I took a bunch of pictures but here are some highlights.

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some levity in this hard time..

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Around the bend from me there lies an antique firetruck. He spends his days basking in the sun and receiving frequent waxing from his owner, whom I believe to be a scarecrow. The first time I saw him, he was sitting in a lawn chair by the firetruck. He was wearing a straw hat, a plaid shirt, and an old pair of blue jeans. As I was thinking about why someone would have a scarecrow guarding an antique firetruck (to keep fecal matter off the fresh wax?), he cheerfully lifted one of his oddly jointed arms to give me a friendly wave. This frightened me so badly that I almost drove into the trellised garden behind him.

Wasn't it sweet of that scarecrow to adopt that firetruck? He might have been eaten by the ambulances, given his age and all. http://youtube.com/watch?v=NoTh8-ABRLI <--- watch that video if you don't get my reference there.

a couple of weeks ago, at the apex of the cold, windy weather, I was privy to the following occurrence. It was around 5pm on a Thursday. I had just been released from my plant taxonomy lab in Derring. I pulled my ginormous woolen hood over my eyes and attempted to walk as quickly as the wind would allow me across the drillfield with the intent of going to the Breakzone. Now, as someone who is used to derisive comments and scornful looks thrown my way, I tend to keep my eyes and attention focused on the ground underfoot. However, I can often sense when someone is in my vicinity and what they are doing. In this manner, I noticed two guys frozen in place to my right. Following their horrified, confused gaze, I saw: a camel. A camel, ambling unperturbed down the path to the dining halls. THIS WAS NO ORDINARY CAMEL. For he had...FOUR HUMAN LEGS! I determined that this CAMEL was responsible for the miserable weather. FOR WHAT CAMEL COULD CROSS THE DRILLFIELD SO CASUALLY if he were not HOARDING THE WARM WEATHER within his hump? Those human legs definitely gave him away.

I'm onto you, Mr. Weatherhoarding Camelgod.

I wonder what sort of person gazes upon the macabre, painted visage of a clown; observes the hordes of children crying in his wake and then thinks "sign me up!"

Previous Week

Week of 01/14/08 (282 of 298)

Next Week

	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday	Sunday
9am	PPWS 3505-0 14733 Class 9:05 AM-9:55 AM PRICE 220		PPWS 3505-0 14733 Class 9:05 AM-9:55 AM PRICE 220		PPWS 3505-0 14733 Class 9:05 AM-9:55 AM PRICE 220
10am
					CSES 3134-0 11823 Class 10:10 AM-12:55 PM SAUND 201
11am		PPWS 2104-0 14731 Class 11:00 AM-12:15 PM FRALN 002		PPWS 2104-0 14731 Class 11:00 AM-12:15 PM FRALN 002
	BIOL 3204-0 10906 Class 11:15 AM-12:05 PM GBJ 104		BIOL 3204-0 10906 Class 11:15 AM-12:05 PM GBJ 104
12pm
		CSES 3134-0 11823 Class 12:30 PM-1:45 PM SAUND 409		CSES 3134-0 11823 Class 12:30 PM-1:45 PM SAUND 409
1pm
2pm				BIOL 3204-0 10907 Class 2:00 PM-4:50 PM DER 3004
3pm
4pm

I received two letters in the mail the other day. One granted me an additional academic probationary period, and the other granted me academic relief. I am quite thankful, to say the least.

And so I present my schedule, which wasn't official until yesterday. For squires stalking, the most like times I'll be there are MW at 10 am, and then maybe in the afternoons on other days.

I really like my classes so far, especially domesticating the gene. While the information is simplistic in terms of the knowledge I already have, the teachers are super enthusiastic about the subject, and EVERY SINGLE LECTURE!! is about CROP GENETICS!! How fantastic is that???

So now, I must prove that I am worth these boons, and I hope I can do so. Please forgive me if I neglect my duties as a friend, but I really need to get a high GPA this semester. I can probably still do things on the weekends; and if you know how to reach me I am always here for anyone who needs me <3

hold on

first round of testing results:

macroeconomics: 85.7 (about the same as the average)
organic chemistry: 77.8 (the average was a 79 x.o)
plant pathology: 84.5 (the average was a 73)
religion and science: it was a paper, so I won't know this one for a while. I probably did alright on it though.

I am so happy ;_; I never imagined I could do well in college again x.o

oh, and by the way, I don't know why the religion and science class is listed under AAEC. It is supposed to be STS (suddenly religion and science are simplified! the answer is AG ECON)

also that last entry probably messed up everyone's LJ, and if it did let me know and I will try to fix it x.x

3.65!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! My GPA for the semester!!!! aoseifaposeifjpasoegjaiougaiopweufpaiesugiauegeaesgjadiohfgjadfg


*takes a breath*

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guys, is my penis too small? :< I keep getting e-mails telling me it is. And I know that I should listen because they always include snippets of classic literature with half the words cut off, like this one:

Everyone watched her as she wa
She took a deep breath. Pray f
She came to an abrupt stop, th
Little Ulric was home. The bab

;_;

;_;


pray

i hope that someone has known the feeling of a long, silent cry after thinking about their lost loved ones while falling asleep, and how much they enjoyed their time with them when they were alive; or maybe when they were around if it is merely someone who has slipped out of their life

i hope that someone has known the satisfaction of figuring out a process or a method for doing something with precision and accuracy

i hope that someone has simultaneously felt lonely and happy, and known that the happiness is actually born of the reasons for the loneliness

i hope that someone has taken someone special to the top of a mountain to see their favorite view, and felt the melancholy happiness of introducing that person to the feeling that there is no mortal syllable that can describe the way you feel when you suddenly realize that life is impossibly beautiful

i hope that someone has helped someone else with absolutely no ulterior motive

i hope that someone has told at least one other person that they were special when they were feeling low

i hope that someone has held their lover in their arms at night and been innudated with euphoria, warmth, trust, and awe

i hope that someone has felt the fierce need to protect someone else, whether it was a child, a pet, a lover, or a friend

i hope that someone has felt like an anachronism

i hope that someone has been washed away in a sea of thought and fantasy

i hope that someone has been literally struck to their knees by a sudden spiritual revelation, whether from near death, a microscope, another person, or a mile deep canyon

i hope that someone has derived intense, sreading, warm happiness from something odd, like driving a car on a country road, or taking a warm shower, or feeling a good cup of tea slide down their throat

i hope that someone has felt triumph at finishing a goal

i hope that someone has been so overcome with desire for someone else that it is almost unbearable, and then had the delicious pleasure of ripping their clothes off and ravaging them

i hope that someone has had a mentor that changed their outlook on life

i hope that someone else has felt like the most useless person on earth; undeserving of the life they lead, and disgusted that they've ever expressed disatisfaction with their life when they look at just how bad it could be

i hope that someone has laughed so hard that they feel sick

i hope that someone wakes up, realizes that the world needsa catalyst for change, and does something about it

i hope that someone has found something to be so cute that they just think they are going to explode

i hope that someone else has realized that they were gifted in one way or another, and found a way to use that gift to help others

i hope that someone takes pleasure in honing and improving their mind and body, and those of others

i hope that someone has wanted to share everything with another person

i hope that someone sees every person as a sibling, a lover, a friend an offspring, a parent, a relative; and treats them like they'd treat anyone who held any of those titles in relationship to themselves

i hope that someone is everyone

we all stayed a little late at work today; the office has been flooded lately with new clients. each one is having some sort of EMERGENCY that has required us to do some impossible task in an infinitesmially small amount of time. at any rate, mr. weaver told us around 5:40 that he had to leave. i listened to him stomping down the stairs; then i heard him skidding to a halt. his footsteps resounded in such a way that i knew he had turned back and climbed the first couple of stairs. he then bellowed out "JOANN, GET ME SOME--" Now, this next bit was muffled, presumably because he was already turning to run out the door again -- "PORNOGRAPHY"

my aunt snaps her head up from her computer screen. "What did he say??"

i looked up from my filing. "i think he said...get me some pornography?"

she replies, "oh, he must mean an order..."

by this point mr. weaver realizes that his hastily bellowed order has left us in a state of confusion. he returns to my aunt's office and specifies that he does indeed want a pornography order. "Look in the legacy files," he says. "that dominatrix case should have one."

oh yes. dominatrix case. i'm sorry that that was long before my time...but i digress.

you all tend to express a lot of disbelief when i say that we can use excessive pornography possession in cases to accrue rather large amounts of spousal support. well here it is, we're going for it now with this client. we have a service that we send hard drives to to get mapped out for evidence. for a 90 gig hard drive, this costs around $1300.

today i discovered that they have a new method of discovering evidence: taking your cell phone and recovering your text messages. Now that's hardcore.

anyway, we found a template for the order. i forget exactly what it's called, it has something to do with cruelty.

by the way, the guy is 66. disgusting.

first, i'd like to thank jono for always posting things about classes. i'd honestly never know when drop/add begins if it weren't for him -_-.

so i have been thinking introspectively for a bit today, as i suppose we all do at the end of a relationship (regardless of its nature)
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i went to see casino royale yesterday. i was rather ambivalent about it. for months i've been ranting on how the movie would be terrible; another commerical/product placement driven testosterone fest like all the pierce brosnan bond movies, only with a completely unsuitable looking man. at the same time, it's a bond movie; how could i not see it?

well here you go: my formal retraction and apology. i was dead wrong. i apologize in particular to daniel craig, who i have bashed quite a bit for the past several months.

i can't write about the movie without spoiling it really...i'll try my best to be general but be forewarned that any description of this movie will inherently contain spoilers due to the nature of the plot twists.

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will this movie go down in the annuls of history as particularly groundbreaking? no. will you come away with some important new knowledge or a bit of brain food to mull over for years to come? no. will you enjoy the movie as a bond film, something to get lost in and get an adrenaline rush from? undoubtedly!

i had this long, pedantic, discoursive reply to jono's entry all planned out to type here. one that made many allusions to the lost generation and the silent generation; a lot of commentary on how i think the internet has affected the youth of today etc. etc. instead i think i'll quote a passage from the book i obtained the other day:

"Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed. The entire universe need not arm itself to crush him. A vapor, a drop of water suffices to kill him. But, if the universe were to crush him, man would still be nobler than that which killed him, because he knows that he dies and the advantage which the universe has over him; the universe knows nothing of this. All our dignity then, consists in thought. By it we must elevate ourselves, and not by space and time which we cannot fill. Let us endeavor then, to think well; this is the principle of morality." ~pascal

My LiveJournal Trick-or-Treat Haul
charyviolet goes trick-or-treating, dressed up as maya fey.
boochypa gives you 10 orange cherry-flavoured wafers.
deusexanima tricks you! You get a scratched CD.
ichizu_na_koi tricks you! You get a piece of paper.
iidx_girl gives you 6 light orange cola-flavoured pieces of taffy.
m0dz0rrhye tricks you! You lose 1 pieces of candy!
myconsaredotted tricks you! You lose 13 pieces of candy!
oatsaika gives you 1 light orange cinnamon-flavoured jawbreakers.
setsugekka gives you 3 pink lime-flavoured nuggets.
watchreader tricks you! You get a piece of paper.
charyviolet ends up with 6 pieces of candy, a scratched CD, a piece of paper, and a piece of paper.
Go trick-or-treating! Username:
Another fun meme brought to you by rfreebern.

two sheets of paper! i finally have something to wear!