MC Chris rocks my world. He does nerdcore hip-hop. Correction: I don't think he does the voice of Meat Wad, but he was featured in an episode as the voice of MC P Pants. We got the first season of Aqua Teen Hunger Force on DVD, oh baby. For those of you who don't know what nerdcore hip-hop is, here is an example:

"Plaid pajama bottoms or plaid pleated skirts
everything girls wear makes me stare at the dirt
if I had balls I'd flirt with y'all in study hall
do the geek talk till your eyes roll back into your skull
but I'm a freak, spelled f-r-double-three-k
when you're walking my way with my pockets I play
I can't say what's yer name care to chat for a bit
it's me Brian that guy from that class, Russian lit?
care to sit, have a chip, care for some fun dip
Dostoyevsky doesn't impress me what you think of that shit?
but I don't I just twich and I itch in my pants
play my Gameboy Advance until she finally walks past
a mad dash to my crib where I get on my blog
in search of Spock-dot-com check it out if you want
that's the steam blowin' scene where I reign supreme
Webster's my Friendster, I run the message board for ween
it's a mental mall for teens it's a paradise on earth
but in a way it's like a curse faster than a Google search
I just sit here and drink beer while my roommate flirts
at some party with some hottie who's all into Fred Durst
it makes my heart burst and yet I do nothing
just get on the web and start bitchin' and frontin'
a dot com curmudgeon whose love life is sufferin'
it's the rope or the oven or the hope I find love in the end.
I am a lab rat
that is a sad fact
shining my test tubes
crying in restrooms
dorm life sucks if you've noplace to go
I call my mother every day and say I want to go home." -Ratz, MC Chris

Life is so unfair

I finally find an awesome guy that I like and that likes me, but he has to be 19 and, of course, has a goddamn girlfriend. I guess I'm too in the moment right now to see the other fish in the sea but since this was my first catch, maybe ever, I think I have a right to be pissed.

I have to have a gigantic collection of insects for systematics next fall, so if anybody sees any really cool insects (or contracts crabs and/or head lice and/or scabies) could you maybe, possibly put them in plastic baggies and stick them in the freezer for me? I would be in your debt and love you forever and stuff. Especially those of you far away or who visit foreign lands. It will take 5 minutes and be infinitely helpful to me.

I love Jeopardy and it's on reruns right now, but one of the categories tonight was "Things to do with carrots!" It's kid's week, but still :)

I'm among the Eskimos. At the moment, that's all I care to say about it. I'm tired and I'm hungry and I have a headache.

I've discovered this great new show called Bullshit. It runs on Showtime, so we obviously have to rent it from the video store. Anyway, it's these two guys, Penn and Teller, who basically go around and debunk stupid shit. They have covered topics such as alien abductions, psychics, alternative medicine, and creationism, just to name a few. It's amazing how many nut-jobs there are out there who truly believe in what they do. Then there are the ones who actively prey upon people. One of the things I really appreciate about this show is how good they are at making fun of fruity wackos. They are also good, however, at pointing out bad people who prey on the weak. For example, they interviewed a psychologist who was clearly implanting false memories of alien abductions into her patients and then signing them up for more "regression therapy" and her support groups for other poor assholes who think they have alien babies. Most of it is pretty harmless, though. I mean, if you want to have a reflexologist play with your feet, that's fine as long as you don't do that instead of going to an actual doctor. It's your money. Speaking of which, for a mere $25 I can activate your DNA which will give you more energy, boost your immune system, and help you lose weight. Trust me.

I'm a skeptic. One of the things I have noticed while observing the credulous is that there are basically two varieties. The first kind are the ones who don't have the mental or educational resources to combat the bullshit. They haven't had any science past 10th grade chemistry, so when the man selling magnetic devices comes and tells them that the polarity of magnets has the ability to restore blood to it's natural pH by drawing out strong acidic impurities, that sounds pretty good. The second type is the intellectual. They have either a college education or they will have one soon. These people like to keep open minds and to accept new ideas. In fact, their minds are so open all their brains have fallen out. These are the people who think it's swell to eat only raw food and dance to drums at environmental protests. These people could probably combat the bullshit if they really wanted to, but they have other priorities such as pissing off their parents.

"That French fuck, Nostradamus." -Bullshit

This morning I realized that I have Charlotte goals for my life, Miranda sensibilities and a Samantha outlook on men

oh, and I am having a dilema not unlike Carrie in season three

Boys suck

And I feel like a total loser

So here is my latest drama, which is pretty tame in regards to most of my drama

So I met a boy about a month ago and told him my AIM name, he IMed me that night and we talked. Nothing much happened until last week when I asked him to sushi, he accepted and we had a great time. I told him that I have sushi once a week last week and he said something like "I think I could make that a part of my schedule."
We talked on IM all weekend but I didn't want to seem too interested so I decided to not IM him on monday. Monday night he put up the away message** "out doing something." This was still up tuesday but I had a question regarding something he might know about so I asked, no response yet, same away message up. I think he works a regulat 9-5 job in the summer (though the hours are somewhat fluid, he can come in later and stay later if he wants to or has to)

Cut to today, I was going to IM him about if he wanted to do sushi but he still has the same away message up. I talked to my friend Allison and she suggested calling him or at least emailing him. I was nervous. Then I talked to my friend Rachel and she said that I should email him. I did. While I was talking with my friend Mike, he said that I should play this like we had an actual date set up and he is standing me up. I resolved to call him once I got home. I go home, call him and not only does the phone ring for a while and not pick up, but the voice mail message is very, VERY generic, it just said the phone number and didn't even say his name. So I'm thinking "What the H, yo?" so I call Mike, Mike says that I should be pissed and I say that I don't know what the deal is right now so I don't know if I should be pissed. Basically, I just want to know if he is ok and not in jail* or if I should just move on cuz I don't know him that well. Right now, I have no idea.


* He smokes a lot of pot and just obtained a lot recently
**He has an AIM client that allows him to be away all the time but usually changes his away messages throughout the day

I switched analysis of variance to biochemistry since my PI thought that would be a good basis for the molucular biology laboratory next semester and I can take ANOVA any semester. I have to say the prospect of biochemistry is more than a little scary.

MSNBC had a link to Newsweek's Kaplan College Guide article, 'America's 25 Hot Schools' and Urs' college was rated 'Hottest For Greeks with Brains.' Instead of posting the paragraph, I figured if you're interested you can read it here!

Have you guys started doing things for school yet? Classes haven't started yet, but my research proposal for my Master's thesis is due at the end of the semester, so I have started reading pertinent articles. I've also been in the field helping with other projects. I have exactly one semester to go from knowing only the very basics of molecular genetics to knowing a great deal. Yesterday my advisor gave me three textbooks ( The Fundamentals of Molecular Evolution, Molecular Evolution: A Phylogenetic Approach, and one entitled Molecular Systematics) and was like "Read these, and I'll have some more articles for you next week". The classes I'll be taking are Insect Ecology and Analysis of Variance. I guess in grad school you only take a couple classes because you also have to sign up for a seminar and research credits. Things are ok now, but I predict that when I come home for Christmas you'll find me a broken, bloody mess.

Sex and the City Quiz!!!

I'm 40% Miranda, 20% Carrie, 20% Charlotte, and 20% Samantha. There aren't any cute little graphics or anything for me to post on the blog, and the explanations are kind of lame, but...it's intersting nonetheless. (Lise, did you do your homework? Are you addicted yet?) So, who's surprised that I'm mostly Miranda? Not I. If you want to take the quiz, here's a link:

http://quiz.women.com/games/tests/sexandthecity.htm

How did I get to be such a mean person? I've pretty awful lately, especially to someone in particular...and I'm not terribly proud of it. In fact, I feel awful about the way I've been behaving. The trouble is that I didn't initially realize that I was being such an ass. The other trouble is that it's not possible to erase the things that I've said and done in the past few days. This person will never forget all the mean, mean things I said. (The worst part is that I didn't even MEAN the mean things - I was just being mean.) It's a bad situation...and I'm a bad person. How does one make up for being an awful, awful person?

Any suggestions on how to be the most sorry ever? Any ideas on how to make up for being a big mean bitch? I don't know what to do. :(

Well, we live in Missouri now. Things are a bit different here in the South. Most people claim this isn't the South and is actually the Midwest, but they are wrong. For one thing, it's fucking hotter than...than...something that's really fucking hot. People here usually don't have too much of an accent, but some speak Southern so bad I want to run away screaming. The night we got here we went to eat at a bar-b-que restaurant. For the first time ever I had deep fried corn on the cob and hot boiled peanuts. If you like your peanuts mushy good for you, but just say no to fried corn. The University of Missouri has a huge rivalry with some state university in Kansas because of something that happened in the Civil War. I shit you not.

The good part of all this is that I'm in school again. The people in the entomology department I've met so far are all really cool and have been extremely nice about helping me settle in. I'm really glad to finally be here.

I think that would be called a volcano "watch" since it seems like "conditions are favorable" to produce...... volcanos........? no, eruptions, yeah. So Ankorage is under a Volcano Eruption Watch. But, I guess they have their own warning system, those darn geologists.

Color Code Key

• Green-volcano is dormant; normal seismicity and fumarolic activity
• Yellow-volcano is restless; eruption may occur
• Orange-volcano is in eruption or eruption may occur at any time
• Red-significant eruption is occurring or explosive eruption expected at any time

For some reason, I find the existence of a red category to be funny, I mean I know its important and all, but its kind of like the "oh FUCK!" warning. Anyway, the reason I decided to post:

I'm gonna be home probably the 27th through the 3rd, who will be in town then?? I know Sig won't, and I want to see her, but there are other considerations to take into account and stuff. Let me know

For those of you who don't read my blog, I just felt the need to inform you that Anchorage is currently under a volcano warning, meaning that their local volcano could errupt at any time. Interesting.

http://www.avo.alaska.edu/avo4/atlas/volc/spurr/spurr2004/index.html

It's the girls from the 'Virgin Suicides,' Urs. Sofia Coppolla made a movie in 1999 based on their true story.

Somehow I'm Lux, too, I figured we didn't need the same one twice :)

I had NO idea what this was, but I took the quiz anyway

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The weirdest thing happened to me last night. We went to Wautoma to watch Jacob's grandpa's Community play and on our way home we stopped at the Wal-Mart in Berlin. It's the old school regular Wal-Mart. My brother is spending a few days with us, so the guys went in and I waited in the car. I was parked with the car off and just sitting there - I didn't have my lights on or anything. This redneck jerk pulls into the parking space straight across from me at like 30mph and almost hits me. I seriously grabbed the wheel like bracing myself for it. Somehow he managed to stop without hitting me. Then he flashes his brights at me a three or four times and honks his horn?! I don't get it - I was parked not moving, hadn't moved for a good 5 minutes - and he's the one that almost hit me and is freaking out?! I didn't want to get out of the car who knows what the guy was on. That was so weird, I just sat there like ok?! I think it had something to do with the full moon and the Fox River Days party in Berlin. Maybe the guy was drunk or something, I don't know.

Yesterday we bought a real kitchen table :) It'll be nice to eat together on a table rather than wherever we can find room! Yesterday, was Ripon's city wide garage sale. Jacob got up at like 7 to go out early and get some deals, I waited at home in bed :) The couple that sold us the table weren't sure they wanted to get rid of it, but luckily for $100 we got it and 5 chairs and then 2 bar stools that match. It's 4 years old but looks almost new, just 1 scratch and a water mark on one of the chairs! Not bad! Now I feel like I have a real house, kind of! Having more than a few rooms will be much better!

Jamie, Lauren, & Sig are you girls going to be free anytime between the 6th and 12th? I'll be husbandless and lonely and it'd be fun to get together! Let me know!

So, I'm looking out the patio window, and I notice that the fuckmook frat boys that live in our building littered the whole yard with beer cans in their crusade to nail underaged highschool girls. As I'm bitching under my breath about what Goldicocks they are, I notice a cop car sloooowly cruising through his usual crib, the parking lot across the street. After driving up and down all the lanes, no doubt searching for a parking felon, he parked at the end and sat there. I was thinking that it might be more productive, as well as more cost-effective, if the cops that we pay taxes to would get off their fat fucking candyasses and do some kind of neighborhood cleanup or something. That way we could kill two birds with one stone....

or two pigs, as it were.