World AIDS Day

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A Friendly Reminder

Yeah, that's right, just to remind anyone that forgot over Thanksgiving.

Lethargic Mix CDing

I love how Thanksgiving totally got rid of any inspiration that I had for anything besides napping and watching movies, good Lord. Thankfully it's only once a year and now I can get back to somewhat normal eating habits which actually haven't gone back to normal yet since now I have like no appetite since the Great Day of Stuffing Oneself.

So anyway, since I'm a part of the merry Echoing the Sound message board I decided to take part in our semi-regular Mix CD Exchange. This is where you get to show off your musical prowess and send off some mix CD's to a random member of the board that signed up to do the same, revealing your identity only when they open the package. I think this is such a great idea and I plan on doing this with my other friends eventually, however they are much, much lazier and I know it would probably not work out.

So hopefully you lucky recipient (oh hell no, I'm not giving that away) will receive my mix CD's between sometime now and their death. Hopefully they won't get gobbled up by the Postal Service and will actually reach their destination.

Keep your fingers crossed!! I trust no one! Especially one's wearing blue uniforms, in fact, now that I think of it, anyone wearing a blue uniform!

Black Friday

Well, like any good ex-socialist, I refused to buy anything today. Not because of my standards or anything, I was just far to lazy to actually go outside and move around. The thought of walking seemed wrong.

So I pre-shopped for Christmas online which probably defeats the purpose of Buy Nothing Day, but I tried and I get socialist points for that, maybe those are redeemable for coffee or something later on, I'll have to check our manual.

But anyway, I fell in love with these shoes since Kill Bill and I finally found an online retailer for the Asics Onitsuka collection. It's a site directly linked by the Asics website so I'm assuming they are legitimate, they're called Classic Sport Shoes. So I'll be peddling their wears for a very very long time since they have Asics, Pumas and just all types of really cool sneakers. SCORE!!

And it was time to badger everyone about what they want for Christmas since in my family we don't beat around the bush at all. If you really want something, you have to say it and request it, we're not a family of sheep so speak up. However, we'll get little surprises so that at least part of the gift is whimsical and that's the gift that usually includes the gift receipt if we totally screwed that surprise up for them.

Let the Day of Gluttony Begin!

Well, at least the preparation for it.

Yes, that's right. It's that time of year again were the crazy Americans celebrate the good harvest that the crazy Puritans finally had when they decided to steal, I mean take advice, from the Native American's. And that means a federally sanctioned holiday of gluttony!! WOOO!! And people wonder why we're the fattest nation in the world, maybe it's because we have a friggin' holiday dedicated to gorging yourself all day and then napping off the rest of the day because you've eaten yourself into a triptafan induced coma (I have no idea how to spell that, so whatever.)

But I love Pecan Pie, I can't help it. :-) Whatever that goo is made out of is God's gift to us and it's a reminder that he does exist and that sometimes he does like us, but only sometimes.

And as good Italian's do, we've made food into an art form, and that food is stuffing. I have an old family recipe that we perform the chemistry of every year the night before Turkey Day like clockwork. It's called Italian Sausage Stuffing and it is glorious. None of this boxed stuffing crap! We make this from scratch (well not the sausage, we buy that, but you know what I mean). So I'm looking forward to that as well and also the bonding with my Mom as we cook it and get it prepared for the next days bird.

So yes, if you don't enjoy this holiday in your country, that sucks for you! So I recommend that you get the nearest foul from your store and just spend a couple hours eating the entire bird yourself, then take a nap while watching sports on TV and that's pretty much the whole day right there.

America, FUCK YEAH!!

Semi-Daily Mitch-ism

"If you're an animal, you want to have a beaver as a friend, 'cause they have some kick-ass houses. That shit is on the lake. Lakeside my ass, lake-on!"

Yeah, that's a good one.

Daily Mitch-ism

"I like the FedEx driver, because he's a drug dealer and he don't even know it. And he's always on time!"

And you kind of have to read the quote having Mitch's voice in mind, because that just makes the quote even better. It's kind of like that smart, stoner, surfer voice so yeah.

So that was your daily Mitch-ism, I hope you enjoyed!

LOLZ

I love my sister, but particularly because of this conversation today:

me: hey there

so is this your last day[at work]?

11:45 AM Eva: yup yup

me: nice

Eva: w00t

me: so did you go on your killing spree yet

Eva: that's scheduled for 2

duh

me: lol

Eva: heh heh

me: i'm alone in the office right now, so I was able to really laugh out loud

LOL

Eva: oh man LOLZZ

11:46 AM me: so post-lunch carnage

nice

Eva: beat-downs at 3

meh hehe

Virgin Atlantic

I'm pretty much being forcing into taking Virgin Atlantic, because of this.

Yeah, I don't care if it's $50 more than American Airlines, I want disembarkaphobia too, damn it!

Bluffing?!?!

OK, the fact that someone accused me last night of bluffing while I was playing pool, thank you. Because that means that whoever that person was thought I'm good enough to actually pretend to miss an extremely easy side pocket shot.

That makes me feel so much better since the real reason I missed the shot is because I psyched myself out and was too worried about the goings-on of the people around me. So again, thank you to whomever that was that shouted "SHE'S BLUFFING!!" Yeah, I owe you a drink for that one.

Oh God, this was not my doing...

You Are 48% Pure

48% Pure. You're usually the typical girl or guy next door... But you also have a secret naughty side!

How Pure Are You?

I was put up to doing this test, I don't even know why I'm publishing this entry, but whatever.

I never thought a bar graph could excite me...

Oh my God, I think I need some alone time...look what just dropped into my inbox.

Whoa...

I did not see this one coming. Rummy quits.

Well, it does make sense I guess since through the course of 1 day the House totally changed power, we've gained 6 new Democratic governors, and the Senate is now split with potentially the Dem's controlling, yeah I think that means something.

Nerd Alert

Ooooo, guess what I found, the String Theorist's Official Web Site, since you know there's so many unofficial one's out there vying for attention.

Now what spawned this, not that fact that I did study it (very briefly) in college, but good old NPR is featuring it on their All Things Considered.

Take a look and see what the hell I was doing for a wee while.

Bowling = Bad, Pool = Good!!

So for how much I suck at bowling, I must make up for it phenomenally at pool. So yeah, :-P.

I don't know what it is but pool allows me to forget whatever's going on at the time and it just makes me focus on the game at hand, it's immensely calming. But I do however need about 2 beers or 1 hard drink to allow my true focus to come to fruition. If not, then I get too nervous and psyche myself out.

So this Thursday night I was able to snag some crazy deals over at Blue Cube since bars love when you throw the words "young" and "professionals" together, that just equals bundles of money. Oh yeah, we're young and we have money for booze, that's what that means!

2007 NIN Tour

Alright, so the grand total (as of now) is:

2/28/07 (and yeah, that's the right frickin' way to put the date you crazy people, not 28/2/07, what's wrong with you!) Glasgow, Carling Academy

3/1/07 Glasgow, Carling Academy

3/7/07 London, Brixton Academy

WOOOO!!

And possibly more, I'll have to see what the budget allows for me and how Ticketbastard (I mean Ticketmaster, Freudian slip) will be treating me with their "service charges." Bollocks!

Wow, now I get to add a bunch more curse words to my vocabulary. *rubs hand together, evily*

I love living near New Haven

First of all, I'm a cheap person everyone knows this who knows me, if I can save money on something and it doesn't give me too much of an inconvenience, I'm totally there. Hence, I love living near New Haven.

First of all living near New Haven (West Haven a.k.a Waste Haven) means that I pay about $300-$500 less for a monthly rent than I would actually living in New Haven. HA! Suck it!

Also, it means I can never get so drunk that I can't drive myself home, I'm always aware at the end of the night that I have to be able to drive my ass home so I better stop the drinking and give myself a good hour of coffee drinking and talking.

And finally, I really like frolicking in New Haven, it's kind of like my backyard of sorts. There's some awesome bars that pretty much fit whatever mood I'm in; "hmmm, I'm feeling like I should be in an Irish pub right now" or "hmmm, I want a great Scotch on the Rocks and a cigar" or "hey I want to dance with a bunch of white people who don't know how to dance."

I think the next step for me when I get that next raise is to either get a condo by the ocean or a bangin' apartment in New Haven. This is while I stay at my current job I remind you, the minute I start interviewing for a structural engineering position in New York, I'm gone and turning in my Connecticut membership card.

London Calling

Wow, I may actually be able to make it to London next year for the NIN 2007 tour, holy crap! I was able to find a flight through Expedia for around $500 by Air India, so we'll keep our fingers crossed.

And now I have The Clash stuck in my head. "LONDON CALLING!"

Now I just need a place to stay, hint hint hint...