I get knocked down
You can make Fraggles sing anything you want apparently.
I'm a 20 something college student living outside of DC. I'm obsessed with knitting, bad TV, and reading. I work for the USDA playing in the dirt. I'm currently looking for love, enjoying my friends, and expanding my mind.
You get what you give
BESIDES, dudes... I'm almost done my second to last semester of college (with damn good grades). How can I NOT be an optimistic person right now?!
You Get What You Give by The New Radicals
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We can doooo it!
Finals are soon upon me. I may watch this every night before studying, right after I drink my raw eggs and do 300 crunches.
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Lesson learned
Never mock your shittly constructed Big Mac. 8 seconds later you will choke on a sesame seed of doom... or so I did. I don't think I've ever choked on food like that. I know people walking around the parking lot on campus that saw me must've thought "I hope she's not dying".
But really. I've never seen a Big Mac made like this. How does it even happen???
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One more week
That's all I have to make it through and then finals (which I'm not incredibly worried about). This week will be a little busy but definitely not miserable. Maybe I'm just confident because I've scheduled myself pretty well and have a little to-do list, which always helps. Ask me two days from now I guess.
I'm probably in a good mood because I got to spend most of today with the cutest person on the planet. We spent most of it cuddling on the couch and watching Spongebob. What a life.
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Botched presentations, baby alligators, and crazy christians
Today was such a long day. I guess overall it was neither good or bad. It just kind of was.
I got to campus and went to a meeting which ended early. That was nice. I had a lot of work I wanted to kind of look over and do before my next classes. I texted Steve to plan and meet for lunch. While waiting for him I waited next to the union. Right out front, across from HJ Patterson, there was a demonstration in progress. I've heard of these people before but hadn't ever actually seen them. I've seen the crazy abortion people who put little pink and blue flags all over the mall and put up giant, graphic posters, but even those people I try to avoid. But these people today topped those people. Easily. One guy was holding this gigantic ass sign in a sort of... crotch holster. His sign said "Jesus Christ will cast all sinners into the lake of fire on the day of ___". I can't remember what day. Reckoning? Whatever. Then there was a guy wearing a sandwich style board with similar sayings on it and he was SCREAMING. "DO YOU KNOW WHAT GAY STANDS FOR?! GOD ABHORS YOU!". This was clearly not a sane individual. I just stood and watched. Others had signs of their own and were heckling the two men. I'm not sure what they expect from the college who literally take's the cake for subversive culture. I don't remember who ranked us but that's the only thing that Maryland really placed in. We're good at accepting all sorts of unique and interesting people. Steve met me, didn't care to watch. And per usual he said a couple profound things then I commented on the incredibly gay crotch holster (being the politically incorrect bitch I am). But it was definitely an interesting site.
I had a delicious lunch with Steve Leard which I always enjoy. He's now engaged, so that was fun to talk about. I'm very happy for both him and Sarah. He's been one of my best friends for a while now and I wish him the best though I'm sure he doesn't need it. He's already doing quite well. After lunch he invited me back to the lab where he works to take a look at the new little creatures that are next on the roster for some sort of experimental bran surgery stuff. I have no clue what it is they actually do in that lab, I just know it's a neuroscience lab and that they've operated on fish and other things before. Up next: baby alligators. There was a giant tub of 30 of them. All of them were boys and they came from the same clutch (I think that's what he called it), which means they're all siblings. Steve picked one up and handed it to me. I was kinda nervous. I haven't ever had the opportunity to really hold a reptile or anything similar. I don't even remember being little and picking up frogs or anything like most little kids do. So it was a cool experiences and they were so SO adorable. After he made his "unhappy sound" (which sounded like a closed-mouth burp but in its throat) I set him back down. Definitely a cool experience and the high point of my day.
Later on in the day I had my oral presentation in sustainable agriculture. I had been dreading it. My group was generally awful, with only one of the members really pulling his own weight. After all of that, I just kind of KNEW we'd run over in time. We had a lot of slides. I guess it was hard to avoid with four group members... but still. When we were going to do our run through on Monday, do you think we had any slides done? We had like a quasi-skeleton from one guy and nothing from the other while both mine and the other group member's were done and compiled. It all came together today around 3pm. Just in time for us to go give it basically. It was a good presentation, we started off well... but I kept staring at the clock... knowing what was going to happen. I kept looking at the professors face, he made eye contact with me once and kinda smiled. He could tell what was going on. After our second of four people finished, he informed us our 35... YES... 35 minutes were up. But we still had two more people. I basically ended up rushing mine a little out of guilt and absolute discomfort. Anyway, we ended up going over by about 15 minutes I think. Completely unacceptble and it was completely unavoidable. I'm so very, very pissed off and disappointed. Thank GOD this is one of the last group projects I'll ever have to deal with in college.
Overall, it was an interesting day. I'm glad it is over. I'm relieved and happy but disappointed at the same time. I'm hoping I can at least pull out a B in that sustainable ag class. Getting a C would probably make me cry at this point.
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New tunes
I had heard of this band the other day on my satellite radio (I just realized I have no idea what I'd do without it... I'd have no way to listen to new music). The song I heard made me eager to listen to more of their stuff and so far I like it a lot. The band is Gang Gang Dance and the song I'll share is called House Jam. The track is off their album Saint Dymphna. Which is really, really weird. When I was in the 8th grade (being raised Catholic), I was confirmed. When you're confirmed you have to pick the name of a saint to take. I picked Saint Dymphna. Her story was interesting and her feast day fell on my birthday, May 15th. But no one had heard of her. No one knew who she was. Everyone else picked saints they had heard of or even saints they shared names with. I liked the idea of choosing someone no one else would have.
She is supposedly the patron saint of outsiders and runaways.
Give the song a listen and then check out the rest of the album.
House Jam by Gang Gang Dance
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Different kind of love
I've already posted a "love" song I really like by Bloc Party a while ago. While that one is of a more positive note, we need some darker, more realistic songs every once in a while. This one is especially fitting recently. It's about letting go, making changes, and letting things heal. I need all three of those things in my life now so I may as well do it to an awesome sound track.
This song is older and from one of my most favorite albums of all time. The Postal Service's album Give Up is a great listen from beginning to end but I'd have to say my absolutely favorite track on the entire thing is "Nothing Better". The song features the incredibly talented Jenny Lewis' vocals and it appeals to my love for electronic. Most people have heard of The Postal Service, but if you haven't you should seriously consider doing so.
Your heart won't heal right if you keep tearing out the sutures.
Nothing Better by The Postal Service
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