Dining Center Trays Do Not Make Good Sleds

So its come down to the last week of the semester. Things have been absolutely crazy. Time, it seems, has just flown by. Maybe its that I've had so much more fun this semester as opposed to the last two, or maybe its because I've met so many new people, but it seems like we just started the semester a couple of weeks ago. But here I am, avoiding studying for finals, again.

The other day it finally decided to be winter down here. It was strange because usually by mid-November we have had at least a little snow and are suffering through freezing temperatures. But this year it had stayed in the pleasant 50's for most of November and December, but just this weekend it dropped to below freezing and we had 5-6 inches of snow dropped on us. Its like overnight it decided to be winter. So of course we went out the other day and had some fun in the snow. There's a great hill right behind our building that would have been perfect for sledding (if we had any sleds, that is). So, since we only had dining hall trays (which contrary to popular belief, make crappy sleds) my roommates decided it was just more fun to roll down the hill. I decided to abstain from this activity because I didn't want to look like a dork. But after a while my sense of social shame disappeared and I tried it. It was actually way too much fun. You have no control over where you are going or how fast you are getting there and you end up screaming for your life because it is terrifying and fun at the same time. After rolling around in the snow, making several snow angles, and watching my room mates rape each other we decided that it was too cold and took a journey to the mart to get some food before returning home and warming up. When we got back to the room we took some warm showers, ate some delicious top ramen and played some video games, what better way to spend a snowy Sunday afternoon? When I was a kid we always ate top ramen and crackers after playing in the snow, so it was especially fun and reminiscent of the good old days. Sadly though, the snow was quite dry and not very good for making snowballs or snowmen (which I really wanted to do) but it was fun to just fling the powder at people. It was the kind of snow that sticks to every surface of your body and freezes into a layer of ice coating all your clothes. Luckily I was wearing two pairs of pants and three shirts, so I didn't get too cold.

The worst part about the snow though, had to be walking up B-Street. B-street is this terribly steep road that I walk up a lot and is hard enough to not fall on when there is no snow. Luckily I've only fallen once this semester, but I almost went down about 20 times walking down B-street the other day.

Well next week should be interesting, I have three finals and one paper due and tomorrow there is supposed to be a high of 4 degrees, yes 4. Should make driving home in a week very interesting seeing how it is supposed to stay below freezing for the week and its also supposed to snow again on Thursday, great. Well, now I guess I have successfully put off doing anything productive and should go study for the two exams I have tomorrow. Or I should write my paper that is due Wednesday seeing as all day tomorrow I will be going from taking an exam to work to taking another exam, one right after another from 10 am to 9 pm, fun!

Shifts in the Universe Really Throw Things Off

So remember the other week when Venus and Jupiter aligned with the moon to make that frowney face, well I think some force in the cosmos shifted and things have begun to change, or maybe go back to the way they were. See I had several good friends in high school that I could say I was part of a group with and we had many good times, but when our senior year and subsequently college came around, many of these dear friends just seemed to fall out of contact with me. Its not that we weren't friends anymore or that we had gotten into fights, its just that we had drifted apart, we went to different schools, met different friends, and just stopped seeing each other.

But recently many of these old acquaintances have started up conversations with me, or dropped me a message on Facebook. Also, lately I have been remembering all the old inside jokes and good times we had in high school. So maybe that thing with the stars really did mess something up. Now, I'm not usually one for the zodiac and horoscopes and stuff, but it really does seem bizarre that all of a sudden, and I mean over the course of about a week, I have had several old high school friends contact me after a year of silence. If you ask me, I think there might be something up...

I Think I Need to Take a Trip to Funtown

Lately I have been remembering all the inside jokes we had in high school and it is very disappointing due to the fact that no one here knows about them. So when I tell my roommates on Saturday night that I am going out to study some mythology and get blank stares I can only sigh and say "nevermind". No one knows the Techi Dance or that it was the Tuesday Song that came before the Friday Song or what I really want when I say I need to get some math books. Avoiding the Cassette Disc has become more of a challenge and no one laughs when I talk about putting my hands in my pockets.

Other than taking trips down memory lane, not much else has happened in the last week. Just trying to get ready for exams. Next week is dead week and then its finals, should be interesting. Tonight though a bunch of us are going to go and see The Dark Knight which is being played by the school. I'm excited, I really liked it and only got to see it once in the theater. After that, I think I get to spend this weekend making a game for my CS class, that should be interesting, mostly because I don't really understand how Texas Hold 'em works... oh wells.

Well right now my roommates are playing DDR and I think I might need to join them, I really love DDR, maybe because it reminds me of my childhood. I also recently got Super Smash Bros. for my Gamecube which I found at home over Thanksgiving. And I forgot how few good multiplayer games there are for it, it was sad. What is not sad however, is the "ass clap". The other night we were watching HBO late at night (which is when they show pr0n) and they were playing this one show where they were explaining how this one brothel worked, and at one point the house mother was showing all the whores how to dance and stuff and she was explaining the "ass clap". You just stand with your hands on the bed, kinda bent over and you turn both your feet like you are putting out a cigarette butt. When done properly, your butt cheeks clap together. It was truely horrifying. The best part was when a guy walked into the suite about 5 seconds after one of my roommates changed the channel. We just had to laugh.

Why'd the Boy Throw the Clock Out the Window?

So he could see time fly! Heh get it, he threw the clock, flying time... ok, I thought it was funny.

Well, its been a while hasn't it? Sadly I have been just swamped with homework and projects these last couple of weeks. All of my professors decided to put things off until the last minute and were cramming to get a bunch of projects in before Thanksgiving break. Although I am pretty proud of myself, I managed to write two 6 page papers in the course of one week. I'd have to say though, the paper on Vikings was much more exciting than my theatre paper.

So this last week was a lot of fun, but went by way too fast. (I think it has something to do with that warped reality thing) But it was great, I got to see all my old buddies, saw a couple of movies, and ate a ton of delicious food. My sister is studying to become a chef, so our Thanksgiving was pretty spectacular, and for a late birthday present, she made me a New York style cheesecake. Oh my goodness, she can make the best cheesecakes ever! It was just right, and luckily I snagged the leftovers and brought them back to school with me.

So far this semester I haven't really had the chance to see many movies, but I made up for it over the break and managed to see 4 new movies. On Saturday I think, I went to see Twilight with my best bud. She was the one who originally got me to read the books, so it was kind of exciting. We got to the theatre and there was a gaggle of highschool girls sitting in the first few rows, so we went up and sat towards the back in front of the only two guys in the theatre. Now I wanted to like this movie, really I did, the books were my guilty pleasure in high school. But sadly this movie was "epic fail" literally. It was just terrible. You could tell they were trying, but for me, they just picked the wrong guy to play the lead. You could tell that every time he spoke he was trying too hard to sound like an american. In the end it just didn't do it for me. So I gave up and just laughed through the whole thing, I couldn't help it. But somehow I don't think the girl sitting next to me appreciated it, I got a lot of "shh's". But I don't we were the only ones who didn't like it, the guys sitting behind us were laughing just a much. It actually made the movie pretty fun.

Now to make up for such a bad movie, on Monday my dad and I went and saw the new James Bond movie. Now I grew up watching the old Bond films with my dad, so this was a trip down memory lane, and was a lot of fun. I really liked the film, to me it seemed like it went back to the older Bond films. True there was a lot of action sequences, maybe too much for me, and sometimes they were hard to follow, but they were still impressive. I think I might have liked Quantum of Solace more than Casino Royale.

The other two movies we rented on DVD. The first, The Journey to the Center of the Earth was not nearly as entertaining without the 3D glasses. In fact, it wasn'at that great of a movie especially with all the characters randomly pointing things at the screen for no reason at all... The other was 88 Minutes, which seemed exciting being set in Seattle, but really ended up being 140 minutes too long. It was one of those movies where there was lots of action, but nothing ever really happened. And I didn't really care if any of the characters survived becuase they were all terrible people, and pretty much just jerks.

Other than watching movies, I got to see all my old friends who are at CBC, which was great. And when we went to Shari's at Midnight on Friday, we ran into almost all the Drammies. It was crazy. So while the last few weeks have been crazy, the break made up for them and brought a much needed rest before finals. It was strange though, being home, I ended up missing Pullman by the end of the week. While I loved seeing my family and friends, I missed all the freedom I have at school, and not being asked where I'm going at midnight on a Tuesday, or why I didn't come home until 3 am. I definitely enjoy being at school, Christmas break will be interesting.

Dads and, Coffee Tables, and Papers, Oh My!

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Morning Misadventures

I have to admit that I live in a pretty nice dorm on campus. Its probably one of the best, it seems more like a hotel and less like a dorm. Although once you get into the rooms they are not as nice, being that they are incredibly small (thanks to my roommate though for being a good student and a scoring us the biggest room in the suite) . However, sometimes I think we have to pay for these luxuries. Examples:

• Yes, the cost of living in this dorm is substantially higher than other dorms on campus, but it is so worth it
• The first week of classes there was a problem with the fans in our suite and there was this annoying high pitched buzzing sound. We assumed the whole hall was this way until a hall meeting when we found out it was just out suite...
• Last week our bathroom drain had something happen to it and our whole shower room + half of the hallway flooded (my room included)
• Also last week, one of my suite mates put a piece of pizza into the microwave to reheat it and lo-and-behold, the microwave caught on fire! Smoke filled our suite and most of the floor (surprisingly the fire alarms did not go off...)
  
• And the other day a pipe burst in the basement setting off the fire alarms at 9 am (now usually I am up by then, but no it has to be when I think I am catching a cold and am sleeping in due to the fact that I feel like crap)
• Also, the washing machines suck.

So I think I can successfully say that my dorm is cursed, or maybe its just my suite... Either way, I still love living there. My suite mates are pretty awesome, except when they "bear bottom fart" on my pillows. But that's another story.

Other than that, not much has gone on. I recently spent three weeks trying to get HP to fix my computer, and just this Tuesday did I get it back. It took them about two weeks to ship the stupid box to us, and then once we got that it was just another two days for them to fix it and ship it back. My favorite part is that we had been calling HP to see the status of this magic box for about a week and so one day last week a lady calls me (while I'm in class of course) and leaves a message saying that she is doing everything she can to get the box sent and she is talking to people below her, and just reassured me that the box was going to get there. Then a few hours later I get a call from my dad saying they just got the box at my house and he was shipping it to HP that day... It was quite confusing and instilled a lot of confidence in HP and their upper management.

Well, that was about the extent of my excitement from the last few weeks. Almost flooding my building, and then almost burning it down, and getting my laptop back was about it. Oh yea, and I've been kinda emo, but no one ever wants to hear about that, right?
I thought so.

I highly recommend WinCo made Pizzas, delicious

Well, here I am again, sitting at work, bored out of my mind. Seeing as it is Sunday, there are less people in the lab then there normally are (meaning there's three people here and two are employees). Now I do have things I could be working on, I could be reading Death and the King's Horsemen for my theater class or writing a lab report for physics. But the play, well its just crazy and makes too little sense for me to try and understand it now, while I am incredibly tired. And the physics lab, well who wants to ruin a perfectly good Sunday with physics?

So I decided to sit down and write a blog. But as soon as I opened the browser I drew a blank. I realized that absolutely nothing exciting has gone on this last week. I mean nothing. Well, ok, I guess last night was pretty exciting, but its one of those "you had to be there" things. See I went to WinCo last night to get some ingredients for some magical soup/slow cooker recipe. Now WinCo trips can be pretty fun, as anyone will tell you, especially if they take place after 11pm. So we ran around WinCo for a while, and walked up and down the soup isle about 20 times looking for different things. And after wards we went to Hastings and bought Soul Caliber IV (which I then got my butt kicked at later that night).

Other than that, I spent most of yesterday alone in my suite. It was crazy, for most of the day none of my roommates were home. Very spooky. And, you would think with all that free time that I would get a lot of work done. But no, I was too easily distracted. So today is homework day, except that I don't want to work on anything. Quite a predicament I must say.

But yes, other than my exciting excursion to WinCo, very little has been going on. And now I will apologize for how boring and un-exciting the last few of my blogs have been. I have been trying to update more often, but there just has been nothing exciting to post about. Thus you get the crap like this blog.

So I will leave you at that, and wish you a more exciting Sunday than me. In an hour I'm off to go eat some yummy onion stew!

I think my calc grade is inversly proportional to my physics grade

Yes, as I get better scores in Calc3, I continually get worse scores in Physics... For example, I ace the Calc midterm, I completely forget to do a physics lab. Fail.

Anyway, I guess I lied when I said my computer was all happy with Linux on it. Ok, well it was happy with the Linux part, but it was still angry about something else. Well what prompted the swtich was that I was managing to get a blue screen of death about 10 seconds after booting. Yes, I am so good as messing up computers that I have gotten a blue screen of death using vista... Anyway, a few days after that, it didn't want to start at all. The power light would come on and the fans would be running, but the screen was blank. So, being the internet sleuth I am, I dug around and found out that this was quite a common error with the model of HP laptop that I bought. And apprently (even though my warranty was expired) HP still was paying to replace the motherboards of all the laptops with this problem. Sweet! So I didn't have to pay a penny to get it fixed.

So Tuesday before last I drove down to senic Colfax and gave my father my laptop and he gave me my old one. Now when I say old, I mean really old, like 2002 old. It brought back some good memories, seeing that all my old files were on this from when I was in high school. It still had windows XP and was surprising up to date. I guess my mother had been using it for email and such. It was actually easier to hook up to the ethernet here on campus than my newer laptop. Yes, sadly, it does not even have a wireless card. But its ok, it manages to surf the web and play music decently. Even though I am going through a bit of withdrawl from my iTunes. This computer seems to be lacking in the music department.

The other frustrating part is MSDN. They are the organization that the school gets free software from. But unfortunately, you're only allowed to download this software once. So, that leaves me unable to download the program I need for my comp. science class. I love spending 6 hours in the campus computer labs trying to write code. Its my favorite... What's even worse though, is that the box that HP is sending to get my laptop in, is coming from Texas, where there is a hurricane. So I think I will have to survive for a few more weeks without my prescious laptop.

Other than that, not much has been going on in my life. So I will spare you the boring details. There has been an extreme lack of misadventures sadly, unless you count leaving your favorite scarf at the Pita Pit... Oh and when I bought a sandwich today, a guy from my theatre class made it, the whole time having a silly Italian accent, that was midly entertaining.

Well, seeing as I am incredibly tired, and sitting here at work in the incredibly quiet and empty computer lab, I will leave you at that.

Cheers,
Samantha

"Linux makes everything sexy"

So recently my computer bit the dust. At first I wasn't really sure what the problem was. Maybe the battery was going because it never seemed to start on battery power, but then why did it sometimes not start on AC power? Maybe when windows tried to update the BIOS it flashed it wrong, and now I need a new BIOS? After several weeks of confusion and too many blue screens of death from vista I came to the conclusion that windows sucks and it ate my BIOS. So, I got an image of Ubuntu and booted from a CD. Now able to access all my files (instead of windows crashing after 30 seconds of running) I moved them all to an external hard drive and made the move.

During a late night earlier this week I managed to get Ubuntu installed on my laptop. Many of my close friends had been telling me the wonders of it, and I had always been a bit curious about linux. So, in the heat of being furious with windows, it was the only option

Now my computer is looking very sexy and is quite happy running Ubuntu. In fact, I think it runs better on linux than it ever did on windows. Vista managed to always eat up all my ram and slowed down my laptop incredibly. Now, even when I run windows XP inside of linux, it runs 100 times faster than with just vista.

And other agree, that Linux does do many things better than Windows, in fact, one person even went and wrote down 10 things linux does better than windows, see for your self:

If you tallied up the strengths and weaknesses of Linux and Windows, which OS would come out ahead? According to Jack Wallen, superiority in security, flexibility, interoperability, community, and command-line power (among other things) put Linux well ahead. (from techrepublic.com)

While there are still some bugs, and it freezes every now and then, overall, I think the move was a good idea. Even though the BIOS is still mad at me. While I still don't know all the ins and outs of linux, luckily I know someone who does, so things are working out pretty good. The only downside is that I miss my iTunes...

BUT! What prompted this rant, other than my frustration at windows and excitement over linux, was that I was catching up on reading Penny Arcade and came across one that I think describes my problem.... (as seen here)

I think maybe I "project some kind of goddamn feild" that messes up any computer I touch. Anyway, that was about the excitement of my week (that is blog-worthy), staying up 'till 3 am installing linux, yea thats just how cool I am.

What if the voting age were a bit lower?

Hm, as most of you know, I could care less about politics. Most of the time I find it boring and pointless because I am a rebel and know that my vote doesn't really count. However, I did find this amusing article on Cracked.com showing several ads for if the voting age were say lowered to 6. Although I don't usually agree with the Democratic national party, if they used this ad campaign I would so vote for whoever was bold enough to use it!
No, if I really thought about it, although this candidate is obviously amazing, I doubt I would vote for them anyway. (For reasons of my own which I am sure you don't want to hear)

Other than that, I learned today that the Earth is supposedly in a photon belt and thus what we know as time is being warped around us and thus moving much faster than we would normally perceive it. Which is especially inconvenient seeing as I have midterms right now and if anything, more time in the day would be beneficial. But that's the Earth for you, always thinking about itself, doesn't it know that it revolves around me?

As well, my horoscope says that Venus, the planet of love, is in my sign, so for the next few weeks I will be "super-cuddly". So come and get it! :p

What Drugs are Casting Directors on?

Ah, so here I am again, sitting in the Honors Lab on shift, bored out of my mind. Not only am I in the least used lab on campus, but its also 10:30 in the morning. So, out of boredom (and not wanting to do and reading for classes) I wandered over to rotten tomatoes, one of my all time favorite sites. And one article they had this morning really caught my eye, and so I thought I'd share it with you. And yes, this is about actors and the film industry, but this is not really from an entertainment reporter. It is actually a pretty interesting article (so don't judge me)

From TheMovieBlog.com

"We’ve all said this phrase several times about one actor or another: “How on earth does this person keep getting parts in movies!?!?”. Maybe sometimes we see and understand why someone keeps getting parts… hell maybe we even love seeing them, but when it comes down to it we admit to ourselves and others that the person in question is actually talentless and probably doesn’t belong on the big screen."

The article goes on to list 10 actors who truly are not talented at all. I like however, that this article merely ranks these actors on their talent level, not how much people hate them.

"NOW REMEMBER, I’m not talking about the WORST actors. You can have an actor with talent, but they find a way to screw up everything they do. At the same time, you can have someone with no talent at all… but they find a way to not screw something up (I have no talent as a painter, but if you tell me to paint one straight red line on a wall… I can pull that off without too much trouble)."

I like that, its true that while some people have no talent, they are quite good at playing roles that require no talent.

Well, I just found this article entertaining, and since I had not graced this page with my presence in the last few days, I thought I would share it with you. Other than that, not much has happened in my corner of the world that is worth sharing with all 3 of you reading this.

And with that I am off, so I wish you a good Tuesday and a Happy Bi-Sexual Day!

The Misadventures in the Dining Center

Well, before I get to the misadventures, I thought I would share my thoughts on last week's mix. For those of you who don't know, The Daily Evergreen prints a special section of the school newspaper every Thursday called the MiX where they discuss events happening around campus, have movie reviews and other non-news related articles. Anyway, I have been (for some time) in love with the guy who writes the movie reviews. Its a sad obsession, but nonetheless, he is amazing. He has a witty writing style that I appreciate and he has extraordinarily good taste in movies (except maybe for his love of B-horror films). Last week in the MiX he wrote his article about how he wished that production companies would stop doing two things:

1) Remaking classic asian films, and
2) Letting Nicolas Cage keep his job.

I like that he had not seen Nicolas Cage's most recent film "Bangcock Dangerous" but he already said he didn't like it. So as I have said, this obession has been 1 year in the making, and it looks like it will continue on this year.

As for the misadventures, this year me and my amazing roommate have taken residency in a hall that happens to be near to the Hillside dining center. Last year we lived near Stephenson and the newly renovated Soutside dining center. As we have had to eat more often at Hillside, we have come to the conclusion that Southside > Stephenson > Hillside. For one, Southside has an amazing pasta bar that prepares delicious pasta dishes right in front of you, and Stephenson had a station that rotated dishes everyday. These "scary meat products" were usually pretty tasty, and often times we would plan to go to Stephenson in order to get our favorites. Well Hillside lacks both of these, and really the only good thing at Hillside is their sandwiches, which really I could make at home.

But where the real adventure came was on last Friday when we both trekked to the dining center to get dinner at some odd hour, thus there were very few people there. Well my roommate wanted to make the jukebox there play the song "Tainted Love" (seeing that we were sitting next to it, and its free) however, she didn't really know how to use the jukebox, so in trying to flip the pages of the songs, she managed to select a terrifying hord rock veering towards metal song. Now there is a delay after you select a song before it starts to play, so she continued to press buttons several times before the song came on. Once the first song came on, she snuck back to our table, disappointed and discouraged.
After her song had ended, one of the employees there went up to the jukebox to pick the next song. He was one of our favorite employees at Stephenson last year, he would always sing to us while waiting in line at the grill. But he was at Hillside today cleaning tables, and as he was standing in front of the JukeBox trying to pick a song, my roommate's second song choice came on, it was none other than "Opps I did it again" by the ever popular Britney Spears. As soon as her heard the song he immediately stepped away from the machine claiming "I didn't pick this!"
We felt just a little bit sorry for the guy, but it was too funny, so before people could realize that it was my roommate who picked the song, we snuk out the backdoor, just lauhging to ourselves. My reaction was "Out of all the songs on that juke box, you have to randomly pick the one Britney Spears song?!".
We are now determined to at some wee hour of the night and try to figure out the jukebox, preferably when there are not very many people to be witnesses.

In other news, another spammer succeeded in surprising me today. When I checked my email address reserved solely for spam, 0ne of the messages managed to catch my attention. It read something along the lines of "You're AAPR membership needs to be verified". I just laughed for a second before deleting it. I mean, really? Did you even take a second to collect any data on me? Oh well, I guess it will go nicely with all the viagra emails I get...

Another misunderstanding...

So the other day I got a but excited about some news posted on the mtv blog Splashpage. They "reported" that Micheal Caine said Jonny Depp and Philip Seymour Hoffman had been slated as the villians in the next Batman film. Well, I stumbled today upon this little article on the same blog:

From MTV Splashpage

Published by Casey Seijas on Tuesday, September 9, 2008 at 4:00 pm.

Yesterday, we reported that “Dark Knight” castmember Michael Caine claimed that as far as he knew, the villains for the next “Batman” film had been cast with Johnny Depp landing the role of The Riddler, and Philip Seymour Hoffman playing The Penguin. Today at the Toronto Film Festival, we went right to the source and asked Hoffman directly if he indeed had been cast as The Penguin.

“No one has talked to me about it ever — never,” replied Hoffman. “It happened, like, five years ago, too. It was a rumor back then and it’s still a rumor. [laughs] It’s just in the press. It’s funny.”

I think its funny that mtv news has this big article on the rumors about the next batman movie, and then the next day they turn around and go "oops, just kidding". Ugh and I feel worse for getting caught up in what was obviously a rumor... -___-" But oh well, these things happen, that's how people are.

Johnny Depp is Riddler, Philip Seymour Hoffman is Penguin

“They’ve already got them in mind,” said Caine, when asked who he’d like to see take up arms against the Caped Crusader. “It’s Johnny Depp as The Riddler. And The Penguin is Philip Seymour Hoffman. I read it in the paper.”

read more | digg story

Ok, so Digg.com is amazing. However, you have to wonder about the validity of this article, I mean, it did come from MTV News. But still, I am a bit torn on this one. True I do love Johnny Depp, and he always manages to amaze, but doing the Riddler right after the Joker, really they are very similar characters. I don't know if they could pull it off. And I am not a huge fan of Philip Sermour Hoffman, so seeing him as one of my favorite batman villians, is a bit disappointing. And if its anything like "The Dark Knight" they will end up spending the entire movie on one story arch and then just throwing in the story of the other villian at the end. Really, I think that The Dark Knight might have turned out better if they had left the story of Two Face for the next movie. It was just too much. And the same might happen to the riddler or the penguin. And I really hope that it doesn't happen to either of them.
And you have to take into consideration who they are talking about. I doubt Hoffman will have any scheduling conflicts. But Johnny Depp is finally being recognized as an amazing actor (much to my relief) and he is slated to be in several movies in the upcoming few years. Between The Run Diaries, Shantaram, Dark Shadows and who knows what else, will he really agree to be in the next Batman? Its a tough question, part of me hopes he does and the other doesn't just for the sake of the quality of the film...

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The Misadventures Begin Again!

Today on Digg I saw that there was this BS list of books that apparently Sarah Palin wanted to ban from a library somewhere. While the list was silly and obviously fake, it was humorous. However, if it were a list of books that Christians would find offensive, then there were some glaring omissions, and really they were all books that could be considered "classics". So what really got to me was the fact that while I like to say I am well read, and have in fact read a great deal of books, most of the books I have read were obscure "classics" that most people have never even heard of, let alone read. So I was reading this list and was quite disappointed at how many books I have never read. So I think I will make it an effort this year to try and read more of the "classic" classics. But then again, I can hardly keep up with the reading for my GenEd class, let alone books I'm not required to read.

Anyway, that was my thought for the day.
Not much else has gone through my head that will seem exciting to you as a reader, or that I am allowed to share on this blog. XD
Yes, we had a meeting (we being me and my suitemates) decided that when it comes to posting information about each other online we should just not be a dumbass. Thus, I don't think I can mention what we talk about last night whilst eating chinese food, but it was hilarious. I just wish I had had more exciting stories to tell...
But there was one exciting adventure. So it was down to me and my roommate over who was to drive us all to pick up the chinese, and so I offered to drive since my car was closer and I hadn't started it in a while. So anyway, we drove over to New Garden, and one of the girls asked if she could roll down the window and I said yes except for the back right window. That window likes to roll down, but it doesn't roll back up... So apparently another one of my suitemates didnt hear that, and the next comment I hear is "um, sam, your window isn't going back up" She had managed to roll the window all the way down.
See, normally how I get that window back up is I pull on the acutal window while holding the switch to roll it up. But there was no window to pull on. Luckily my father was in Walla Walla today and dropped down to come and fix it. And! He made it so that the window doesnt roll down at all now.

So in the end everything worked out fine, and my car only sat in the parking lot for 1 day with the window completely rolled down, and sadly, no one stole it either.
And this has been another installment of The Crazy Misadventures of Sam and Co. Please tune in next time for another exciting story...

Oh! and one more thing! Apparently "Casette" and "Party Pete" have both made an appearance in my Physics lab (which sucks by the way). Now for all of you not in the know, the communications between yours truely and Party Pete have been down since the beginning of the last school year, so maybe some of the lines can be repaired with this class. I will have to keep you updated!

- Cheers, Sam

"Disaster Movie" Scores A 0% On Rotten Tomatoes

Congratulations, Disaster Movie! You’ve finally brought the “Movie” movies into the elite company of Roberto Benigni’s Pinocchio and Superbabies: Baby Geniuses 2.
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Wow, I'm glad that people are finally starting to grow brains.... Really, I hope this prevents them from ever making another one of these horrible movies ever again, now if we could just talk Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg....

Hello World!

Well, obviously you have seen my other blog by now and have wandered over here to see whats so great about this one. Well, seeing as I am writing this one first, I will tell you.

So lately I have been talking with friends, and going to conventions, and I have had a growing feeling that myspace is dying. And while it was nice at first, most of my friends who actually read and followed that blog have now moved on to bigger and better networking sites. And well, as much as I love Facebook, there is an obvious lack of the blog option. It just doesn't work out over there. So that is why I am here.

I have recently returned to WSU for my second year and am ready to move on from the silly bulliten surveys and whinny blogs of my myspace days. I would hope that you (my friends) have come here to check up on me and see how my life has been going. Anyway, I recently went to PAX this labor day weekend. (That's the Penny Arcade Expo, for those you not in the know) It was amazing, it was my first year attending, and I really wish I had gone last year. BUT! This blog is not about PAX, its about some of the things I learned at PAX. I saw that there are many people out there who use blogs for very important things, not just to whine about thier roommates. (not that I'm whining!) So I would like to make this blog a place where people may acutally learn things, like the fact that I just spilled my vitamin water all over my pants. And not just come to hear my emo poems.

So on that note! Here's a snippet of an article I saw on Digg.com today. Its about one of the pannels that was at PAX. But MSNBC made me a bit sad when they edited their quote. True, the author probably would have gotten in trouble for saying "dick" on the MSNBC website, but still, it does lose some of its meaning...

From MSNBC.com

By Kristin Kalning

Games editor

MSNBC

updated 6:08 a.m. PT, Thurs., Sept. 4, 2008

If you want to turn your lady friend into a gaming fan, here’s some advice from Xbox Live community manager Christa Phillips: Don’t be a jerk.

Sounds obvious enough, but the statement earned knowing laughs and enthusiastic applause from the standing-room-only crowd gathered for the “How to Get Your Girlfriend Into Gaming” panel at the Penny Arcade gaming convention in Seattle recently.

Really, I wish I had seen this pannel. As a girl who games occasionally, its interesting to see what other girls have to say about what would get me into gaming more. True, I don't play games that as much as many of my male friends, but actually, what the rest of the article suggests sounds fairly right on. If I had a boyfriend, and he wanted to get me more into gaming and followed these suggestions, I probably would game more with him.

And on that note, I am off. I am at the Gannon Lab and am quite bored, but my Physics homework is calling. And I will be updating my myspace blog less and less as the days go on, but will hopefully be updating this one more and more with interesting stories and snippets I find in life and the internet. I will let you know when I have a new blog by updating my facebook status. So to all I wish you good night.

&c.