Well, low and behold! I am shocked and amazed that my most computer-phobic friend has a blog! I mentioned to her that Andra had requested such and she was game...so I am proud to introduce Miss Kim as Princess Long Legs Speaks!
We are starting small with a blog...once she gets used to it, I will introduce her to hello...be patient!
Friday, May 27, 2005
Wednesday, May 25, 2005
Allison went to Sonic last night a little after 10. There were 3 or 4 tables filled with people, Allison commented that it looked like a youth group. There was one special table of 4 girls, who appeared to be about 15 years old. What made them special was the fact that they had hats made out of tin foil, shaped a little like a Hershey's kiss, on their heads AND they were not the least bit giggly about it. So Allison rolls the window down and says, "Excuse me, but what is the significance of your hats?" The one with her back to us turned and said very matter of factly, "To keep the aliens out." Allison rolled up the window. They didn't crack a single smile, they just carried on as they had.
Allison and I, of course, laughed hysterically about it. I came up with the fun idea of getting out of the car and creeping up behind them, wiggling my fingers as if I were casting a spell or stealing their thoughts, and ripping a hat off and saying "You just thought you could keep me away!!!"
Weird.
Allison and I, of course, laughed hysterically about it. I came up with the fun idea of getting out of the car and creeping up behind them, wiggling my fingers as if I were casting a spell or stealing their thoughts, and ripping a hat off and saying "You just thought you could keep me away!!!"
Weird.
Friday, May 20, 2005
Ok, I'm gonna hurry and do this so that I can pass the baton to basically the same people!!
total music files residing on my computer:
0...I don't ever download music anymore after Napster became unfree...I just listen to XM online
last cd i bought:
I have no idea either...but I think it is a breathing CD that teaches you to slow your heart rate through breathing...
song playing right now:
Hollaback Girl by Gwen Stefani
five songs i listen to alot or mean a lot to me:
These Arms of Mine-Otis Redding
Badfish-Sublime
I'll Be There For You-Bon Jovi
No Ordinary Love-Sade
Across the Universe-Finoa Apple
four or five people i'm passing the baton to:
Allison, Andra, Misti, Wendy, Martha
total music files residing on my computer:
0...I don't ever download music anymore after Napster became unfree...I just listen to XM online
last cd i bought:
I have no idea either...but I think it is a breathing CD that teaches you to slow your heart rate through breathing...
song playing right now:
Hollaback Girl by Gwen Stefani
five songs i listen to alot or mean a lot to me:
These Arms of Mine-Otis Redding
Badfish-Sublime
I'll Be There For You-Bon Jovi
No Ordinary Love-Sade
Across the Universe-Finoa Apple
four or five people i'm passing the baton to:
Allison, Andra, Misti, Wendy, Martha
Thursday, May 19, 2005
My friend Hadley sent me this and here's what it says about me, myself, and I:
You entered: 6/20/1978
You were born on a Tuesday
under the astrological sign Gemini.
Your Life path number is 6.
The Julian calendar date of your birth is 2443679.5.
The golden number for 1978 is 3.
The epact number for 1978 is 21.
The year 1978 was not a leap year.
As of 5/19/2005 11:27:28 AM CDT
You are 26 years old.
You are 323 months old.
You are 1,404 weeks old.
You are 9,830 days old.
You are 235,931 hours old.
You are 14,155,887 minutes old.
You are 849,353,248 seconds old.
There are 32 days till your next birthday
on which your cake will have 27 candles on it.
Those 27 candles produce 27 BTU's,
or 6,804 calories of heat (that's only 6.8040 food calories!) .
You can boil 3.09 US ounces of water with that many candles.
Your birth tree is:
Fig Tree, the Sensibility-
Very strong, a bit self-willed, independent, does not allow contradiction or arguments, loves life, family, children and animals, a bit of a butterfly, good sense of humour, likes idleness and laziness, of practical talent and intelligence.
There are 220 days till Christmas 2005!
The moon's phase on the day you were
born was full.
You entered: 6/20/1978
You were born on a Tuesday
under the astrological sign Gemini.
Your Life path number is 6.
The Julian calendar date of your birth is 2443679.5.
The golden number for 1978 is 3.
The epact number for 1978 is 21.
The year 1978 was not a leap year.
As of 5/19/2005 11:27:28 AM CDT
You are 26 years old.
You are 323 months old.
You are 1,404 weeks old.
You are 9,830 days old.
You are 235,931 hours old.
You are 14,155,887 minutes old.
You are 849,353,248 seconds old.
There are 32 days till your next birthday
on which your cake will have 27 candles on it.
Those 27 candles produce 27 BTU's,
or 6,804 calories of heat (that's only 6.8040 food calories!) .
You can boil 3.09 US ounces of water with that many candles.
Your birth tree is:
Fig Tree, the Sensibility-
Very strong, a bit self-willed, independent, does not allow contradiction or arguments, loves life, family, children and animals, a bit of a butterfly, good sense of humour, likes idleness and laziness, of practical talent and intelligence.
There are 220 days till Christmas 2005!
The moon's phase on the day you were
born was full.
Monday, May 16, 2005
Last week was my first week not working. It was nice.
But today I started my Maymester class, but it's just online. It's already made me so angry that I seriously considered recreating a particular scene from Office Space. The class is called Special Education Programs and Practices. The first assignment was to download all this Java 1.4.2 crap and enable this and unblock that. What especially made me mad was that they required me to uninstall my google toolbar from explorer because it can "interfere" with WebCT, which is what online classes at UNT use. It took me one million hours and it has not a damn thing to do with teaching special ed., other than it made me feel like I have a severe learning disability when comprehending technology. I thought so many times today...I'm callin' MOE!! But, alas, I was a trooper and did it myself. I should be proud, but rather, I'm annoyed at the waste of my day.
I have a feeling that these next 3 weeks of online class are going to be dirty. Today was the first day I've not taken a shower in some time. And if I hadn't been out of all fruit and veggies and desperately needed to go to the store...I wouldn't have gotten out of my jammies. Maybe I should go shopping tomorrow for some new, cute, matching jammies at least...
But today I started my Maymester class, but it's just online. It's already made me so angry that I seriously considered recreating a particular scene from Office Space. The class is called Special Education Programs and Practices. The first assignment was to download all this Java 1.4.2 crap and enable this and unblock that. What especially made me mad was that they required me to uninstall my google toolbar from explorer because it can "interfere" with WebCT, which is what online classes at UNT use. It took me one million hours and it has not a damn thing to do with teaching special ed., other than it made me feel like I have a severe learning disability when comprehending technology. I thought so many times today...I'm callin' MOE!! But, alas, I was a trooper and did it myself. I should be proud, but rather, I'm annoyed at the waste of my day.
I have a feeling that these next 3 weeks of online class are going to be dirty. Today was the first day I've not taken a shower in some time. And if I hadn't been out of all fruit and veggies and desperately needed to go to the store...I wouldn't have gotten out of my jammies. Maybe I should go shopping tomorrow for some new, cute, matching jammies at least...
Wednesday, May 11, 2005
I found this sticker on the MamaMeow.com site, just in case yall are wondering where to get such a fine item.
Friday, May 06, 2005
Thursday, May 05, 2005
Your Taste in Music: |
| 80's Pop: Highest Influence |
| 90's Hip Hop: Highest Influence |
| 80's Alternative: High Influence |
| 90's Pop: High Influence |
| Classic Rock: High Influence |
| Gangsta Rap: High Influence |
| Hair Bands: High Influence |
| Old School Hip Hop: High Influence |
| 80's R&B: Medium Influence |
| 80's Rock: Medium Influence |
| 90's Alternative: Medium Influence |
| 90's Rock: Medium Influence |
| Hip Hop: Medium Influence |
| Progressive Rock: Medium Influence |
| R&B: Medium Influence |
| 90's R&B: Low Influence |
| Adult Alternative: Low Influence |
Wednesday, May 04, 2005
Tuesday, May 03, 2005
I haven't really talked about this (The CDC is So Busted: Fat Stats Overblown 14x) because, well...I haven't really known what to say other than NO SHIT?!
I knew the "300,000 deaths due to being fat each year" stat was crap. I knew that the people in this country are terrified of being fat and many would rather be dead than fat. I knew that the weightloss industry is one of the most profitable industries in this country and someone has to keep scaring people to buy the diets. And that the diet industry almost always has a hand in the research that the media reports to encourage us to eat low-carb/low-fat/pills/surgeries/etc because that's big bucks. I also knew that something was going to have to break because one can only keep reporting a lie for so long...I mean, we all now know the world is round.
So today when Alexa Conomos reported the outdated statistic like 2 weeks after she reported the new statistic...I was miffed. So I wrote her this email:
Alexa,
Today you introduced the Accomplia story on the News at Midday and stated that it treats the "two" biggest killers in the US: obesity and smoking. That statement is wrong. Obesity is officially considered the #7 killer, behind car accidents and gun deaths. The CDC has recently recanted their exaggerated statistics due to them being completely false.
Here is a reference of this finding:
Excess Deaths Associated With Underweight, Overweight, and Obesity
Flegal et al. JAMA.2005; 293: 1861-1867.
There is also a lot of information gathered on the subject on the Big Fat Blog website:
http://www.bigfatblog.com/
Just thought that you would like to know so that you can report information more accurately!
____________
I know she probably won't write me back. But I just had to say something about her totally reporting something they know is wrong.
I knew the "300,000 deaths due to being fat each year" stat was crap. I knew that the people in this country are terrified of being fat and many would rather be dead than fat. I knew that the weightloss industry is one of the most profitable industries in this country and someone has to keep scaring people to buy the diets. And that the diet industry almost always has a hand in the research that the media reports to encourage us to eat low-carb/low-fat/pills/surgeries/etc because that's big bucks. I also knew that something was going to have to break because one can only keep reporting a lie for so long...I mean, we all now know the world is round.
So today when Alexa Conomos reported the outdated statistic like 2 weeks after she reported the new statistic...I was miffed. So I wrote her this email:
Alexa,
Today you introduced the Accomplia story on the News at Midday and stated that it treats the "two" biggest killers in the US: obesity and smoking. That statement is wrong. Obesity is officially considered the #7 killer, behind car accidents and gun deaths. The CDC has recently recanted their exaggerated statistics due to them being completely false.
Here is a reference of this finding:
Excess Deaths Associated With Underweight, Overweight, and Obesity
Flegal et al. JAMA.2005; 293: 1861-1867.
There is also a lot of information gathered on the subject on the Big Fat Blog website:
http://www.bigfatblog.com/
Just thought that you would like to know so that you can report information more accurately!
____________
I know she probably won't write me back. But I just had to say something about her totally reporting something they know is wrong.
Sunday, May 01, 2005
So while everyone is talking about if Jennifer Wilbanks should be charged or not...or why she did it....or if he will still marry her....I just wanta talk about the fact that I think she REALLY looks like Jennifer Beals, you know, from Flashdance and more recently The L Word. Striking.
