Someone needs to have a talk with Visual Studio about its attitude...

"error c2236: unexpected 'class' 'Vertex'. Did you forget a ';'?"

I hate you Visual Studio and your cocky attitude when reporting errors. I know I forgot the stupid semi-colon, its not like I have to put one at the end of every line, sheesh.... I knew I was retarded but I didn't need my compiler to remind me.

Most Awesomest Homework Problem Ever

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The object of the Kevin Bacon Game is to link a movie actor to Kevin Bacon via shared movie roles. The minimum number of links is an actor's Bacon number. For instance, Tom Hanks has a Bacon number of 1; he was in Apollo 13 with Kevin Bacon. Sally Fields has a Bacon number of 2, because she was in Forrest Gump with Tom Hanks, who was in Apollo 13 with Kevin Bacon. Almost all well-known actors have a Bacon number of 1 or 2. Assume that you have a comprehensive list of actors, with roles (for instance, see the Internet Movie Database files: actor.list.gz and actress.list.gz at ftp://ftw.fu-berlin.de/pub/misc/movies/database.) and do the following:
a. Explain how to find an actor's Bacon number.
b. Explain how to find the actor with the highest Bacon Number.
c. Explain how to find the minimum number of links between two arbitrary actors.

lol, wut? Where on Earth do textbook authors come up with these questions?

For I Will Live and Die, huah, A Pirate King!

So I know I haven't been posting, but I do have this little thing called school, and it makes it tough to find time to update. Anyway, something so momentous happened this weekend that I just had to share it.

In this new age of technology where everyone rents movies online, all these little po-dunk video rentals shops are going out of business. My sister and I, being the bargain hunters and movie connoisseur we are, always look for these small examples of our declining economy and pounce on them to find the best deals for cheap movies. Usually these places only have VHS for sale, but we figure that even if we can only watch the movie once or twice, buying from these businesses is way cheaper than actually going out and renting the movie.

Now this weekend the victim was Sunburst Video, it was a pretty shady place, but we trekked on over there and found they were selling VHS for $1 each! Sadly most of the movies were scary Spanish romances. But there were a few gems we managed to find. Among mine were an unopened copy of Wayne's World on VHS and A Perfect Murder. Both amazing films. But the real score came when we were wandering down one of the aisles and my sister makes a little squeal and picks up a movie and shoves it into my hands. It was The Pirates of Penzance! (in very good condition too) We were over come with joy. It was a great find. We marveled at the fact that over the two weeks that this sale had been going on no one had managed to steal this movie from us. You have to realize that this movie was one of my favorites when I was a child. We had it on laser disc and then our laser disc player broke and we couldn't find anyone who could fix it. So the poor disc has sat in our cabinet for years, never being touched. But what made the find amazing is just how rare this movie is. I've never been a snob or a collector, but this movie is near impossible to find and hasn't even been released on DVD yet. And to think I scored a copy of it for 1 measly dollar. Obviously the owners had not done their research when marking their films for sale. When my sister when to another going out of business sale she managed to find a copy of it, but had to pay $20 for a beat up old VHS copy. It truly made my weekend.

My family then proceeded to watch the film while making food for Easter. The best part was that none of us were actually watching it but we all managed to know exactly what the characters were going to say next. So we all sung along to our favorite parts.

For those of you who don't know what I am talking about: http://tinyurl.com/cxmfb9 do it now, its pure awesomeness!

A History of the Newton's Methodists

I've gotten quite a few strange looks when I respond to the question of what's my religion. I am proudly a Newton's Methodist and have come before you today to explain exactly what we stand for as well as to provide a little background to this mysterious new following.

About 3 years ago in a little town in Eastern Washington a group of high school students, being fed up with all the pointless math assignments being forced on other students, took it upon themselves to liberate all math students from the evils of Calculus and other Math courses.

Actually it was more like a bunch of students decided to take a second year of calculus because they had nothing better to do in high school and then proceeded to slack off and have the best class ever. We all had already taken Calculus AB (for those of you not in the AP know that is first year calculus) and were now taking BC, but we had the best teacher ever who tried to teach us a little bit at the beginning of the year, but eventually gave up and let us goof off. Most of my misadventures actually originated in this class.

So one day, when we weren't watching Mr. Young play Age of Empires II or buying donuts from WinCo we decided to start our own religion. I think it was inspired by Mr. Young trying to teach us something about Newton's Method and another student making a funny comment. I'm not quite sure anymore, its been so long. So we set out who had what positions in our new Theocracy. Sadly I can't remember who got what positions anymore. I swear, its like I'm getting old or something. Anyway, we then proceeded to write these new positions up on the ever cluttered white board in the back of the class.

This white board was amazing, every day some of us (namely Party Pete) would draw some random pictures on it just to confuse Mr. Young's other classes.

This is just a taste of the craziness that was Calc BC. So there you have it, a little history of the Newton's Methodists. Now, you're probably not wondering what induced this blog. Well, I'm going to tell you anyway.

I was sitting in my incredibly boring linear algebra class today and at one point in the lecture the professor turns to the class and states something along the lines of: "Now I bet this is fresh in your memory from Calc I (which I took 4 semesters ago...) But how many of you remember Newton's Method?" and then proceeded to talk about how it was a good approximation for solving nasty polynomials or something, I'm not sure, I wasn't really paying attention. But I did just have to chuckle to myself. For 1) it had been a very long time since I took Calc I and b) it reminded me of the Newton's Methodists.

Well, that turned out to be less exciting than I imagined in my head. But oh well, I hope it provides a little clarity for those of you in the dark about this new and exciting religion.

(Btw it smells like fruit loops in my room right now. My roommate claims it was the result of "lovespell" scented lotion. I don't really want to know what "lovespell" smells like, but for some reason fruit loops is the last thing I would imagine. And yet, that is what I smell...)

That is all from the pulpit.

Tired Musings...

(This picture does not do justice to the massive amount of snow coming down at the time)

Well, as usual not much has been happening in the exciting life of Sam. The most exciting part was the ridiculous spring storm we got last week. I don't think the weather got the memo that its MARCH. Nonetheless I woke up Thursday to look out the window and just see white. It then proceeded to snow off and on all day going from huge flakes that coated everything in a wonderful white powder to wet almost rain to thunder and lightening hail storms. It was crazy. Luckily I was given a ride to campus that morning. While I love the snow, I was done with it. It hadn't snowed in months and all of a sudden it dropped about 6 inches in a day. The lamest part (yes I did just say lamest) was that the next day it was ridiculously sunny and warm, melting most of the snow. THEN, just when I thought I was in the clear it snows again on Saturday leaving even more snow and ice. Then on Sunday, surprise surprise, its sunny and warm again with blue skies and not a cloud in sight. It proceeded to be nice (albeit cold) until Monday when it dropped another 6 inches that morning. I didn't class until noon so I was lucky enough to avoid the blizzard. This is because right at noon, after I got up in my warmest winter clothes, the sun came out and and clouds disappeared... Seriously, the weather here is so bipolar. The roommate and I decided that this is all the work of the eye trying to keep people from being able to drive home for spring break. Sadly it missed by a week so I think we are all good. (For those of you not in the know, we have a conspiracy that the Brian Hall clock tower is actually the eye of Sauron. If you've ever seen it at night when it glows a vibrant red, you will know, also Eastern Washington is like a nasty hell that is only comparable to Mordor.)

The rest of the week it was miserably cold and sunny. Almost as if the weather were mocking us. "Hey its nice and sunny, you don't have to wear 2 pairs of pants" *goes outside* "Damn you weather, its like 5 degrees outside!" On Wednesday when I walked to work at 8 in the morning my muffin actually got a layer of frost on it...

There has also been another incredibly amazing sign put up in my hall this week. I swear I must meet the person responsible for these...


Hm, other than that, I'm just trying to get through exams and projects before I am off to see Wicked in Portland on Sunday. And then will be bored for the rest of spring break. Oh, I did find a hilarious picture online that I know the movie review guy from the MiX would appreciate (for I know his hate of Nicolas Cage) You can see it here . Well, now that that was incredible disappointing I am off to sleep. I probably shouldn't post this seeing as I am half asleep right now and rather unispired... Oh well.

Frustrations and other Musings...

Ok, so this might go over some of your heads, but I find it absolutely mind boggling! So I have never really had the best of luck with wireless connections on my laptop, and I never could managed to connect to Netgear routers. But recently its gotten to the point where I cant even connect to the WSU wireless. Every time I try and connect it doesn't accept my password or school ID. And now it has progressed to where it crashes every time I try and connect. So I thought it might have just been my user, since I have the inept ability to mess things up. So I set up a new user on my computer and low and behold it connects just fine. So then I switched back to my main user and it stayed connected. Its kinda cheating but hey it works for me. Maybe you can explain to me why network manager crashes when I connect using my main account but when I connect with my second user and switch back its fine...

As for the problems with network manager, I blame the boy entirely. He has had the worst luck on his Sabayon computer with network manager and I think its beginning to rub off on my Ubuntu baby :(

Other than that not much else has been going on in P-town. It snowed a while back which is crazy, its been sunny and somewhat warm for the last month and all of a sudden overnight it snowed a couple inches. Then as soon as it came, it was gone, and back to being sunny. The other day we got a bunch of rain which was very exciting ( as some of you don't know, I love the rain, nothing better than a rainy morning ). Well it was the weekend and no one was in town, I was all by myself in the suite so I went on an adventure to the little market and bought some yummies to consume later in the lonely evening. And on my way back I took some pictures on my new phone because 1) I was excited it was raining and b) my phone doesn't take that bad of pictures and lastly, I have figured out a way to get them off my phone without emailing every one to myself. So here it is in all its glory, my attempt at a picture blog:

I have a lovely pair of white keds ( only one of which is actually mine ) and I decided they would look nice with the outfit I was wearing that day. Well I promptly forgot that rain and white shoes do not mix. Now I have a lovely pair of mud-stained off-white keds.


While I was walking down the hill back to the dorm I noticed something rather random. There were piles of Splenda packets scattered on the sidewalk. They looked as if they had been strewn there in haste by someone trying to get them somewhere in a hurry. I like to think that there was a great AA meeting going on in the dorm full of diabetics who needed their sugar rush, but they were out of sugar substitute packets for their coffee. So they sent one lone errand boy out into the rain to fetch their blessed sugar substitutes before the members went crazy from their lack of caffeine. Because no one can drink coffee just by itself, even coffee with Splenda is better than black coffee. But as the errand boy was returning from the market, he was suddenly attacked by a giant garbage eating squirrel. The mutant squirrel, fond of bothering poor students near the back entrance, stood between the boy and his goal of completing the errand, being recognized as completing such an important task and subsequently saving the school from the wrath of the groggy AA members. So, in an act of courage the boy lept past the beast, dropping a few of the precious packets ( a small sacrifice ) on the rain soaked side walk and ran as fast as his little boy legs could carry him to the door. When the boy returned with the packets he was proclaimed a hero and never was sent on another errand again. ( Or thats how I imagine it happened ).


After I returned the the dorm I went down to work and, as always, there was no one there. ( Maybe the other victims of the mutant squirrel weren't as fortunate )


So then I attempted to connect my poor laptop to the wireless, and only after making a new user, was I able to connect. But I just want you to know that my laptop is impossible! See, my laptop was recognizing a 66% signal strength from my wireless connection. Now I want you to look at the computer in that picture, see above the monitor that little grey rectangle. That's the wireless access point. Why on earth do I get 66% connection when I'm 4 feet from the access point?! Its mind boggling!


Then after my shift was over I trudged back up the stairs only to come across this little reminder of how much I love living in the nerdy, honors hall. I've commented before on the comments on the hall signs, I guess I just have to keep them coming....

Once I was back in my humble abode I took a moment to sit down and bask in the glory of our 6' tall poster of Despereaux. None of us have ever seen the film, but when the theater gives away free giant posters, you take one. The real trick it getting it to stay up there.

Well thats all I can think of for interesting pictures I've taken. Someday I may take some more and share them with you, but this is enough for now ( this blog has officially reached the length: tl;dr ) I hope you all enjoyed some of the anecdotes I added as captions for the photos, I tried to go back to some of my roots and write blogs like in the good old days of Myspace ( did I do goods? )

That is all from the pulpit,
see you all next time freinds!

The wonders of open source software

So I was dinking around in the terminal today (yea, that's not a good way to start a sentence) and I came across these nifty little easter eggs, I don't know if you will enjoy them as much as I do XD


If you can't tell, I wanted to know more about the apt-get command, so I typed "apt-get --help" and I guess the "APT has Super Cow Powers", random. But now I was curious, so I googled this anomaly and discovered that if you typed "apt-get moo" you got a nifty picture of a cow asking "....Have you mooed today?..." Who knows, but apparently they had a little too much fun writing this.

Pardon my Lateness...

Well, not much excitement has been going on down in P-town. Its midterms time and everyone has been studying like no tomorrow. Its been crazy. This whole semester has been crazy. Not my best. I actually failed a physics exam. Now I hate to say but I am usually that girl who says "Oh, I did terrible" and then gets a B+. But this time when I say I did terrible, I really mean I did terrible. I have never actually failed an exam before. This was a new experience. I still haven't decided if I like it yet, but I always have my withdraws if things continue in this manner. Oh and I felt kinda silly this weekend. I wanted to hang out with the boy on Friday after all my terrible exams and projects (I also wanted to get his advise on some homework) but when I got on facebook I saw his status was "In Pasco for the weekend" I was just like "thanks for telling me" I had no idea he was leaving. I was a bit annoyed at first. But then I remembered a few weeks ago when I took a spontaneous road trip to southern Idaho and failed to mention this to him. I'm still not sure if he didn't tell me on purpose as payback or not... heh.

Other than that, weather has been weird, its been awfully warm with random days in which it will be about 20F and frosty and then go back to 45F the next day. Oh I got a new cell phone a few weeks back. I have had the same silver razr for about 5 years now and I thought it was time to upgrade. Sadly Verizon doesn't have very many exciting phones. I was going to go for a generic phone, but I got suckered into getting the LG Dare, and I actually kinda like it. It is a bit silly being a touch screen and all, but I like it. Its no iPhone, but as a phone it works pretty well. It also has an awesome camera, so bam 2 for 1, now I dont need to get a digital camera.

Today I watched the Oscars, that was a little disappointing as always. I have a hard time with the oscars, becuase one I love them, but I am always disappointed. A lot of the time the people I think should win don't. I feel that most of the time the awards are always political. I hate when films win for reasons other than the ones they won for. Ok, let me explain. Milk won the oscar for best original screenplay somehow. I don't think it really deserved this award. I mean I'm sure it was a good film and had an interesting message and all, but I definitely don't think it deserved the best screenplay of the year. The other nominees definitely had better writting, I think Milk only won becuase it was controversial, and people wanted to make a statement (also, the acceptance speech was a bit uncalled for) but oh well, thats my 2 cents and they dont really matter. But I was excited that Kate Blanchett won, I love her and am happy to see she finally got and oscar, now I really want to see Revolutionary Road! But I do have to say this year was a bit of a let down, not very many good movies came (or at least ones that I wanted to see) I am very excited for next year though, there are a bunch of films I cant wait to see!

In other movie news, I watched Memento for the first time this weekend, and I have to say I really liked it. Its definitely worth seeing. I can't believe I went this long in my life without seeing it. Oh well. I also watched Monty Python and the Holy Grail with the subtitles for "those who don't like the film" for the first time (you know, the ones randomly taken from henry VI) and I will say it made the movie all the more enjoyable. I've owned this movie for years and have never actually watched it with the subtitles. I am very glad now that my roommate recommended it. However, I was also disappointed this weekend, we wanted to see Coraline but it wasnt showing in P-town, we would have to go to Spokane, and thats a bit too far of a drive. Maybe the roomie and I will check it out next weekend, after we sign a lease for an apartment that is...

Speaking of apartments, the boy's apartment complex made Digg, that was pretty exciting. And its true, some of the wifi names in that place are pertty interesting... Maybe I will take a screenshot next time I'm there and show you.

There sadly hasnt been much else to talk about, I did have some things I wanted to share, but sadly I forgot all of them. :\ Oh well, here is a little something from a blog I wrote about a week ago that I never posted >_<:

Just dinking around on facebook this morning and I have to say I don't think their ad software works very well. I am in the Washington State University network and I keep getting ads for the Gonzaga basketball online store... Seriously facebook?

Also, It's the eye of the tiger, it's the cream of the fight Risin' up to the challenge of our rival!!

My roommate was watching some movie the other day and I have seriously had that song stuck in my head non stop for the last three days. Its midly annoying and mildy amusing at the same time.

Oh I also went on a late night adventure to Safeway with the roomie the other night and got some wonderful little plants to replace the ones she killed last semester. The purple one is exciting because it looks exactly like one that our friend from Florida left us last year (which sadly died).
And today I heard from a friend that Kanye West was wearing a letterman's jacket from my high school and I was in disbelief, but this blog says otherwise. Its mind boggling how such a famous person like that would get a letterman's jacket from somewhere as random as kamiakin. Too much fun!

Well those are all the thoughts I have running through my head right now so I am off to bed! Night!

That Was a Joke, HAHA, Fat Chance

So I was dinking around on my computer today and I came across this picture that I took a couple weeks ago and remembered that I wanted to blog about it, but I never got around to it.


Anyway, the story behind the picture goes a little like dees:

So there had been this sign up in the stairway of my dorm for the longest time advertising for a hall meeting to select the government. Anyway, the only way the hall can manage to get residents to attend is by providing free food. So for this meeting they were going to have ice cream cake (as you can see). But one day I was walking home from class and something caught my eye. There had been an addition to the sign. In small print below the cake sign someone had scribbled in "The cake is a lie!" Now I would like to say I burst into laughter at this point, but I am not that outspoken so I chuckled to myself quietly and took a picture right away. Only in the Honors dorm would such a comment be made. I then proceeded to run upstairs and tell my roommates about my discovery. For some reason they were not as excited as I was about it. I don't think any of them understood, which was a real shame. Thus I figured I should share this story on the internet, since it might get better reception there. I only failed at the sharing part. I tend to do that a lot.

So there you have it, the story of exactly how nerdy my dorm is. And I just need to make a note here: HUGE SUCCESS!

Random Misadventures of an Eventful Wednesday

Wow two posts in a single week, it must be a record! Actually today was full of some exciting events I just felt compelled to tell the internet about them.

Well today actually started out pretty lame. I had to go in to work at 8 am this morning. Now most people would say 8 isn't that early, but for a college student who doesn't have class until noon, this was ridiculously early. Anyway, I stumbled out of bed early this morning and wandered over to the building I was working in and on the way I ran into a guy who was totally the evil twin of none other than my dear friend Party Pete. He looked exactly the same down to the khakis and black pea coat. The only way I knew it wasn't actually him was the cigarette he had in is his hand. Thus the only rational conclusion would be that I found his evil twin. After that I sat around the helpdesk for a couple hours listening to the techs banter on about the funniest things. From one's hatred about stats to another's complains of a hang over, the conversations were quite entertaining.

Next was my first computer science class of the day which went by rather slowly and wasn't too exciting. That was followed by my other comp sci class which was mildly interesting. The best part was before the class started. You know how people tend to sit in the same seats every day in classes, well I always sit two seats from the wall in my cs class and there are always these two guys that come in right before class starts and sit in the two chairs next to me. Now this week a third guy decided to come and sit in the seat next to me, disrupting the seating bliss we had. So then I got put in the awkward position of splitting up these three friends. With only two seats and three friends, one had to sit on the other side of me. I don't know if its just me, but I love watching people be awkward. Part of me wants to sit one seat over on Friday so that all three of them can sit together, but the other part of me wants to witness the awkwardness, mwahahaa.

Ahem, after that I trekked over to the physics building for none other than my physics class. Which is always entertaining since I sit with Party Pete and Cassette Disc. Today we had a quiz with these stupid clickers that act like remotes that you input your answers on. Anyway, they look stupid and in fact are rather pointless (its just because the professor is too lazy to grade quizzes, or rather pass them off to the TA to grade). But they are a new fangled technology, so I guess they have to learn that its stupid somehow. Well Party Pete decided to trace his "cleeeker" (as the professor says) and turned it into a fun little guy with a sophisticated curly mustache, a comb-over, a tux shirt and a cape. He then proceeded to write out the rest of his notes with his left hand (he's right handed) it was more entertaining watching him than keeping track of how many times the professor drops his microphone.

On my way back home from class I got the prime opportunity to be a creepy stalker, it was too much fun. See when I walk home I take several short cuts through buildings. And today there was this poor guy who happened to be taking the same short cuts I was. Now it started when I walked through the Conner museum which is a really random building and really people only enter it to pass through it. So I followed him into that building and he didn't think twice when he held the door open after him. But then I continued to follow him out of the same exit and across a courtyard into another building. This time he gave me an awkward look while holding the door open behind him. As we were walking down the hall he continually looked behind himself to see if I was following him (I assumed) the best part was when he turned a corner and took a quick look behind and started walking faster when he saw I turned at the same corner! So then I followed him out of the building and he hurried off in the opposite direction I was headed. I never realized how much fun it is stalking people (even if its unintentional)!

So that's been about the extent of my day. Oh I have recently found my new favorite band (well maybe not my absolute favorite, but they are high up there). Anyway, its White Rabbits, they have a really fun, unique sound and don't sound like every other alternative/indie/punk band out there right now.

And with that I will leave you to go to homework or get ready to watch Lost! And I wish you a Happy Hump Day!

Hooray for 6 More Weeks of Winter, Oh Wait...

Ok, so its been a while and I was going to update last week but just didn't get around to it. But I have a couple of funny stories from last week, so this one might be kinda long. They also might not be as funny as I thought they were at the time. But this is because I wrote all my notes down on the crossword I was doing in my philosophy class and accidentally threw the paper away. Anyway, I do remember some of it.

For me the funniest thing that happened last week was during the aforementioned philosophy class. For some reason the professor decided to call role during the second week and he did so by calling out last names. Now this professor is a tiny old man and he has just about the most monotone voice I've ever heard, think Ben Stein. Now Ferris Bueller's Day Off is one of my favorite movies of all time (if you haven't seen it I recommend doing so now, its the epitome of classic teen movies from the 80's) and during one scene Ben Stein is calling roll just like my phil prof did. Now in the movie one of the characters named Cameron Frye is absent so he keeps calling his last name "Frye....Frye....Frye....". And in my class there happened to be a student enrolled with the same last name who also happened to be absent. Now I kid you not, while he was calling roll, my prof sounded exactly like Ben Stein. It was too funny. I actually laughed out loud in class and then felt like a dork for doing so.

Also my phsyics class is too much fun. See I have a professor who's first language is probably not english, and sometimes the way he says things is just too hilarious. Take for instance all of last week. We have been discussing the basics of electronics, boring right. Not when your professor continuously has to vigorously rub the robs to induce a charge. Maybe its just the people I am sitting next to, but there is an absurdly high ratio of "that's what she said" jokes to lecture.

Sadly, I can't remember much more than that. Oh last week one of my teeth that were broken in the accident broke again so I had to go to a local dentist here in town to get another temporary fix before I get my crowns done in May. Anyway, the most frustrating part was that I had an appointment at 8 am on a Wednesday. So I get up at the butt crack of dawn and head out to go to the dentist, which everyone loves doing right when they wake up. Anyway, I got the address and figured that I could find it easily. Wrong, I spent about 20 minutes driving up and down the one stupid road looking for this place that I passed about 10 times. Not the best way to start the day. But the oddest part was that when I finally found the stupid place there was already about 15 people waiting around in the lobby. I just thought to myself 'No way do this many people willingly sign up for dentist appointments at this ungodly hour'. It was amazing since there are about 20 dentists in the whole town, it seems like patients would be a bit more spread out, but I guess a lot of people needed to see a dentists that day or something, who knows.

Other than that not much has been going on. Still trudging through my classes. Well today is the Super Bowl, that's somewhat exciting, except that I'm not watching it. As always I'm stuck at work. It was rather fun, about an hour before the game started my roommates freaked out and wanted to go get pizzas and the 3D glasses that Safeway was giving out. Of course they were out of them though. There was also about 3 billion people at Safeway today. It was like a zoo. The funniest part was before we left all my roommates were running through the suite yelling about what we needed to do. When we left the suite there was a guy sitting out in the lobby outside our door and he just gave us this look when we walked out. One of my roommates went on to explain that we had to get ready for the superbowl and his response was 'Yea, I heard'. Heh, sometimes they forget how sound travels further through dorm walls than normal walls.

As for work, things might be looking up for me. Since they are shutting down the labs in the residence halls I will have to move to another department. I got an email the other day saying they wanted me to job shadow the helpdesk coordinator. Hopefully that would mean a promotion! But who knows.

Well I wrote this yesterday and as of now it is officially Groundhog Day. This morning was hilarious, I was woken up to the song "I Got You Babe" playing on my radio! Now this is funny to any one who has seen the movie Groundhog Day (which I recommend you should!) The real question is will they play it again tomorrow morning? heh. Anyway, that is all for now, sorry this has kinda been the mega post. >_<

Too Lazy to Think of a Witty Title

Right now I am sitting in the lab, working a very boring shift as usual. Not only am I in the least used (yet nicest) lab on campus, but it is Sunday night of a three-day weekend, after the first week of classes. Its like a triple whammy for people not using the lab. Over the last four hours there has been a total of 1 person in the lab using the computers, and she was here before I got here, so I didn't even have to do anything. I really like this lab, and I have the chance to get things done, since no one is ever down here, but sadly I don't have anything to do right now, and its incredibly cold. But, on the the more interesting part.

So there is this guy who also works for the same organization as I do, and he always seemed to find and bother me when I worked in the other lab on the other side of campus. He's kind of a creeper I hate to say, but he always tries to talk to me and I feel bad because its very awkward (me being anti-social and all) ANYWAY, he came into my lab today and was like "we're gonna borrow the study room to play D & D tonight" (great) "Oh and hey, don't I know you from some place? you look very familiar" (heh right, its not like you talked to me everytime I was on shift in the other lab) so I responded saying something witty about returning the room when they were done with it and that I used to work in the other lab. And so he got all excited "oh yea, thats where I remeber you, so what are you doing here?" I respond saying I work here and he proceeds to come over to my desk and start looking at what I was doing on the computer. Luckily I was just watching this cute little video on youtube from an independant film festival. But he just kept trying to talk to me, something about Ian being in the other lab now and I being over here, like we switched or something, I don't know I wasn't really paying attention. Anyway, after that a whole gaggle of creepers walk in and proceeded to set up camp in the dtudy room (great, I have to close around these guys and hope they turn the lights off) Oh and then he started talking about the tape despenser and how it was all art-deco and he'd never seen on like it and had to show his friends, and they were amazed (um, its tape... big wow heh) Anyway, that was incredibly awkward.

So I mentioned its a three-day weekend (exciting!) and me and two of my roommates decided to go to Idaho and visit one of thier homes there. So we drove for like 7 hours to get down there (she claims it only takes 5 1/2 hours, but we did change time zones, threw me all off) and we get there at like 11pm on Friday. We didn't really have the energy to do anything so we all went to sleep. The drive was a lot of fun, I got to chat with my roommate, while my suitemate slept in the back. On Saturday we crammed a ton in, I didn't think there was that much time in the day.

So first me and my roommate got up early (heh like 10) and went to breakfast at this fun little restaurant. Sadly it was really busy so we had to sit at this little counter in the back that was facing a mirror. It was fun, we got to be total creepers. But the awkward part was we sat in the middle and on my right was the little old lady who was there before us and just sat there the whole time drinking coffee, she never got anything to eat. And then on my roommate's left there was this creppy old man who kept trying to talk to her, I felt so bad, but it was too funny. About halfway through my massive pancake two new old men took the seats next to both of us and proceeded to be older and creepier. It was hilarious. After that though we went back and got our suitemate up and went to work out with her family's personal trainer. He was a little too excited to be exercising that day. But I felt bad becuase (first off I hate exercising, so I didn't want to work out) but I didn't bring any workout clothes, so I sat on the side and watched them all workout, it was pretty funny. The trainer kept trying to get me to work out too, it was weird. I liked how he would be talking to one of them, and then would turn around and be like "good job there, keep up the speed" heh when he hadn't even been looking at them.

After that we went to this fun little market and bought some yummy bread and such. Then after going back and showering and such we went to this great little shop in the downtown that was like a vinateg store, but it had new clothes too. I didn't really like the style of most of the stuff there, but I did find this adorable little black dress and got it for only 15$ (there was a mega sale on) Sadly, I don't really have any shoes to wear with it since I fail at being female. But I will have to change that.

Next on our adventure we went to this shady little tattoo and peircing place. It wasn't that scary since it was very well lit, very white, and smelt very clean. But my suitemate wanted to get a second set of peircings on her ears, and I have never had my ears pierced, so I wanted to get that done. It was an adventure to say the least. It took a while and every now and then the tattoo guy kept coming up to us and asking if we needed anything and tried to have a convorsation with us. He was incredibly nice for how he looked. And the lady that did my ears was really nice and did a really good job. The only downside was that they only had scary earrings, so I have these hoops in my ears that look like they would go through a bull's nose or soemthing, but they are growing on me, and I will get to change them soon, so I'm excited.

Then we drove all over the place and got burgers at this crazy place that didn't make sense and walked all over downtown Boise and went to a Coldstone right before they closed. The girl working there closed the door but let us stay and then this whole bunch of silly emo teenagers came up and kept standing by the door even though you could tell they were closed. After a while the lady let them in, but I just had to laugh. Then we walked all over again and got to see all the little girls going clubbing wobbling along in thier mini-skirts and high-heels. Too funny.

Then we stayed up until about 4 am talking with my roommate's mom and got up at about 9 am and drove back home. The drive was much more exciting in the day light. Well now I am going to have to ignore the creepers talking to me about not being about the get scholarships and close up shop!

This is the Beginning of a Beautiful Freindship

Today was the first day of spring semester '09 and it wasn't terribly exciting, sadly. I didn't have class until noon so I got to sleep in, that’s always fun, but I did ride the bus to campus today and of course it was standing room only (being the first day of classes and all) Luckily I only almost fell over twice. I felt bad because I got stuck standing in one of the places that didn't have a vertical bar, so I was standing there with my arm above this chick's head and I kept shifting around (and thus bumping into her) because buses are scary and jerk around a lot. And then she got up at the first stop and we thought she was getting off, so we sat down in her seat, but in actuality she was letting someone else get off, so then I felt doubly bad. Fortunately other seats opened up.

After that adventure I went to my first class of the day at noon! Did I mention I don't have class until noon?! heh. But that class was fun, it was in the same room as its prerequisite was last semester and had pretty much the same people in it, so it felt like the same class, except that it was missing Andy, whose just about the most awesome prof. ever! Also my RA was in that class, which was kinda weird, but kinda cool. He's also in the same physics class as me. I'm beginning to think that maybe he's stalking me. Or wait! Maybe I'm the one stalking him! Gah!
Well after that I ran down the hill to Sloan and had another Comp Sci class, which was interesting to say the least. It was one of those classes that everyone in the major takes and everyone knows each other, and when you take it out of the normal order that people take their classes in, you end up being the only one in the class who knows no one else. That's kinda really lame. Well ok, I knew a few of the people because I had met them at my boyfriend’s place, but I don't actually know them, know them, ya know?
I also had physics today which was packed. I had to run all the way across campus in the 10 minute break we got and by the time I got to Webster there were only a few seats left, so I sat way up in the back, it wasn't until about half way through the lecture that I found the people I had signed up for the class with and saw they had an open seat next to them :( But the lecture was definitely interesting, to say the least. There was far too many demonstrations that involved the rubbing of rods...

Other than that, these last few days before classes started have been a blast. I got to do wild and crazy things with my roommates. We played some DDR and had a sleep over in the lounge while watching Waterworld (during which I was a loser and fell asleep) I was also forced to play some Halo 1 with my boyfriend. He's convinced that I will someday be able to play through it on Legendary... He just doesn't seem to understand that games with guns and I don't really get along. Yes, I am terrible at first person shooters. But I had to play, and I came in last place every round. Although it was a bit unfair, it was me and him versus three other people who were all pretty good at it. But it was still pretty fun. One map we played had a tank. I actually got pretty good at defending our base with it, heh. But I still was epic fail at actually killing anyone... Then my boyfriend’s roommate got pretty drunk and started harassing me until I played some crystal quest on their old Macintosh computer and/or gave him a high five or a hug.... awkward.

So now I am just sitting at work. I always seem to find myself blogging while I'm at work, maybe its because I have so much free time that should be spent studying, who knows. Sadly I have to close the lab tonight, mega lame... But I've had fun these last couple of days, I've tried to become a social butterfly, or caterpillar, or whatever, and am gonna try and survive the next couple of weeks!

Google the answer to life, the universe, and everything!

Well its that time again, the New Year. (Gee that was lame, why did I start my first blog of the year with that?) To get the cheesy stuff out of the way, it seems like this year just flew by (probably because of aforementioned reasons) But over all I think it went pretty good. Lots of great things happened, met a lot of people, and learned a few things. Hopefully next year will be even better. As for my new year resolutions, I made one a few years back to never make another new years resolution and I just can't break that one.

Posts have been a bit lacking due to the fact that it is the holidays and I have been constantly bombarded with requests to do things with my family (crazy I know!). I just haven't had much time. Its sad, I've only been home for a few days and I'm already wanting to go back to school. Oh well, just one more week and then I am free from my family. Not that I don't love my family, but sometimes they can be a little annoying.

Other than the terrors of driving over the pass on Christmas day to pick up my sister at the airport and forgetting that it was 10pm Christmas night and almost every restaurant was closed, my holidays have been pretty uneventful. We managed to walk up and down the airport about 10 times looking for somewhere to eat after our 4 hour long drive to the west side. Well, I guess that wasn't all the exciting stories I have. Two days ago I was forced to drive my family around to all the local wineries while they got drunk out of their minds wine tasting. That was funny for about the first hour, then it just got obnoxious. Although, watching my sister get wasted before noon was pretty funny. We went to two wineries before lunch and no one told my sister that you don't have to drink the entire glass they give you. So when we got out of the car to go to McDonald's she could barely walk!

Also, last night we went out and played some guitar hero III, which I found out I don't like as much as rock band, the singing part isn't as forgiving. :\ And since I never owned guitar hero I such at the guitar part and always get put on singing, which I am not very good at... but before we left we stopped at the clearwater starbucks, which is by far the best in the TC. And when we went there (at 10 o'clock at night) there was this hilarious barista there that I had never seen before (I boviously dont go there enough) But he was just so hyper and excited to be making coffee for us. I think he was way to excited to be working New Year's Eve. But I promised I would talk about him in my blog, so I am. It was truely hilarious. And if I was out until 3am last night I probably would have remembered more of his witty observations.

Well that is all for now. I think I will head off and try and do something productive today, but I can't make any promises!