It's like reading the last page of a book before you start it

Here's the thing:

I LOVE project runway. especially as more people get kicked off and the gays get increasingly catty. I can't help it, i just love it.
[note: this season's favorite: Christian - he's just a little guy but he's good at what he does]

So, watching the new episode last evening with S. and J. while they painted and I wrote a[nother] paper about animal cognition, Heidi Klum announced the winning designer gets to sell their line on Bluefly.com. As it were, I put the "pro" in "procrastination" so I ventured out to bluefly.com to find on the opening page not only ads for projects runway, but also that in the list of designers on the left sidebar is "SweetPea"

WTF? [for those that don't know, Sweet P is a contestant on project runway]

Are the producers really that clueless to have the designer's name on the site before the season is even halfway over??
Giving them the benefit of the doubt, I like to think that there's a difference between designer "SweetPea" and "Sweet P" from the show, or that the name is on Bluefly.com as a distractor.

More than Rocky

They. Will. Not. Stop.

For those keeping score, this is The Land Before Time XIII

WE ARE GAWDS AND GAWDESSES

This week's challenge: Playing frisbee with no inhaler juice (steroids).

Michael Renner's Revenge

Fall Brawl '07 @ Radford: not so much a success. I pretty much played no where near the level i like to think i usually do. However, i had much more success sittin gin front of computers in the library: i pounded out 2 powerpoints for presentations this week.
The first is to take place this evening and will be about evolutionary psychology and animal cognition. as a sneak preview my google searches on the topic included "llama AND use" and "parrot AND eulogy". i swear what i do is real academic stuff.

in honor if dr. hall, i have several planned "side stories" including youtube videos, and i plan to bring in a "relevant" book that will be on the test: "why do men have nipples?"
since the presentation, as i found, is actually not graded, i'm sure it'll be a great time. i haven't decided yet if i'm going to attempt to use keynote (purely for the advantage of using the macbook remote) or if i'll just run it off the pc there.

It's Winter

I know it's been a shameful long time since a post, but basically I got lazy. And i got intimidated by my commitment to post every day with a picture. So i'm trying to pick it back up, if slightly less frequently than every day.

Last weekend was a day tournament at JMU and the first time i saw frost on the ground in the morning. By the way, we lost both games, but i was dressed as a ninja turtle (the blue one) so, it was kind of OK.
This weekend: home tournament (2 days). The goal is to get some "sweet pics" of frisbee action without any digital cameras freezing.

It's Fall

Today's High: 58 degrees. farhenheit.

Admittably, the picture was kind of worth the compounded risk of pnemonia as i walked back from the fitness center in my umbro shorts.

my life

Sooooo worth it.

I noticed my posts are usually about food. Not even classy food, but pizza and french fries and chicken rings. Delicious food, just not terribly classy food. I'm ok with it.


At the farmer's market this weekend in Roanoke, an adventure that seems like it would lend itself to talking/a picture about food. No. This surpassed all food anomalies. my favorite part might be the license plate. Even though we think they used bottle caps.

Overcast, Underpaid

Some pretty kickass late-afternoon cloud cover. you can see some of the surrounding small "mountains".

Happy Birthday to S. :-D

also, the one day i told Dr. Steele to not have her kid (oct 2), she had the kid. baby. girl. ellie. 8lbs.

There can only be one highlander

Birfday Feast of Splendor, Courtesy Highlander Pizza. complimented by KillBill vol 1.

i didn't sleep through it either

Happy Birthday to me. i was a pretty friggin cute kid. no toga party or pink tiny dancer outfits this year. I'm gettin' too grown up for that stuff now. or something like that :-P

Risin' up to the challenge of our rivals

Sometimes I wonder if there's any truth to the rumor that Oswego has the number two sunset in the world, especially when I see other cities with pretty sunsets. But then i start to think about why oswego has such remarkable sunsets (some extra, radioactive particles floating around) and wonder whats floating in the air of these other cities that I might be breathing in.

BN GROSS - Soulja Boy

Fantastic weekend! We won two games (out of 4) and forfitted 1 - the very last game on sunday. It might be the case the both on my big toe nails will fall off this week, but at least the blood-blisters are busted and on their way to healing. classy, i know. All in all, it was a pretty sweet weekend of ultimate. I think there's another tournament in October. I'll be missing Danse Macabre, but I guess that's unavoidable.

Oh yea, and I was MVP :-D

Hucks & High Fives [and Chest Bumps for Betsy]

date night post poned until after this weekend's Ultimate Frisbee Tournament in Richmond, VA sponsored by Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU). I'll be back on Sunday.

ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhDATENIGHT

psychopharm test = DONE

backposting already?

Tuesday:

Poor, Poor Roommate, S. has been "contour" drawing this cloth for at least a week. As far as I can tell, "contour drawing" is essentially synonymous with "cruel and unusual punishment". Then again, I probably haven't been helping the process by mimicking her prof and prodding her to make her lines more "confident". Last night, S. finally discovered how to make confident lines: she used a pen instead of a pencil. Kudos for the creativity.



Wednesday:

it was sunny and nice all day long. i spent the day indoors working on my psychopharm test. As a welcome break, I went to frisbee with hopes of scrimmaging. Instead, we tossed for awhile, then played hot box. I HATE HOT BOX. then, as we started to scrimmage finally, it started to rain. "nono! look! it's just going to blow over!" i kept saying. Well, we had to get off the field because it started raining pretty hard. i was pretty disappointed. especially since i had to then bike home in the rain. Lo and behold, within 10 minutes of me arriving home, the rain stopped and the sun came back out.



It all worked out in the end, though, because in the evening, S. expressed an affinity for hair-dying that may actually go beyond mine. Someday I'll get some of the archived pictures she has and display them, but for now, the hair dying extravaganza was relatively tame: maroon/red to blue/black. it actually came out really well and looks really cool.

and a giant bowl of chocolate

SPSS lab: DONE
Cog Exam 1: DONE
no-bake chocolate pudding pie: BAKED
two week old pizza from the back of the fridge: OWN3D
reheated mocha with greasy fat sitting on top of the layer of sugarcaffeine: SLURPED


To Go:

-Psychopharm exam (due friday)
-Reminiscence Reading
-blog (due everyday)

Official Christmas wishlist item

S., and newfriend, B. and I went on an adventure to Christiansburg to the mall and surrounding areas. I had previous knowledge of the porn section in FYE (still not ok that mall movie stores sell porn), but my eyes were opened to the world of anime soft core porn, as well as anime-related romance novels/comic books. I feel enlightened.

The real gem of the afternoon came not at IHOP, not at coldstone (where I had coffee icecream mixed with peanut butter, almonds, and an oreo), but in the shoe store. Amongst the union bay section, I found these dream-shoes. I'm very sure these are the epitome of lesbianhood: flannel knock-off birkenstocks! Only to be worn with corduroy pants or shirts, of course.

Decals forever burned into my mind

For some reason, I feel that more than others, Nestle holds a special place in my heart.

You stay classy, Fulton, ny.

Varsity fat kid

I almost went running tonight. I got dressed, took my steroids, went to campus, and everything. Instead I was a fatty and ate food. twice. ohwell.

Virginia is for Lovers. or gunmen.

This afternoon during frisbee practice, I happened to look behind me and catch of this friendly fellow. He had a mock automatic weapon, too. Or at least I think it was a mock weapon. Apparently ROTC (army) was practicing in the woods/field next to ours. Still, I was a little freaked out by the random lone kid in camo with an automatic weapon half-hidden behind a trailer.

And She saw that it was good.

Last week in my night class (cognitive psych) towards the beginning we talked vaguely about hindsight bias and confidence. The example we used was to predict who will win the upcoming Presidential election. No one really knew. No condidate had too clear of a bias. To demonstrate the point, K. called out Hillary for the sake of moving the class forward. "How confident are you?" Dr. D.H. asked. I think she said something like 30%.

Last Wednesday, the morning after class, CNN announced that Oprah is now officially endorsing. Let's consider Oprah's track record of endorsement:

On the first day, Oprah declined eating a hamburger and cripple the meat industry. and they apologized to her.

On the second Day, Dr. Phil appeared as a guest on Oprah's show. He moved on to get a segment of Oprah's show regularly, and now has his own show and mini empire.

On the third day, Oprah acted in The Color Purple. I didn't even have to see the movie to know she was in it. I did, however, have to see it to know that Whoopie Goldberg is in it and WHOOPIE IS THE ACTUAL ACTOR BY TRADE. The Color Purple has a broadway show, shows regularly on tv (lifetime/oxygen), and has its own mini empire and cause.

on the 4th day, Oprah watched The Food Network, saw Rachel Ray, and commanded that Rachel Ray would have her own daytime television talk show. and it was so.

on the 5th day Oprah opened a school in Africa. she refers to the schoolchildren there as "her kids"

on the 6th day, Oprah publicly endorsed Obama

If on Wednesday I had been asked who will be the next president, I would have declared with 95% confidence that Obama will be. because of his political agenda? because he's a democrat? because he's been on the Daily Show a whole bunch?

No. Because Oprah will make it so.

Do they ever stop migrating?

Happy Constitution Day! In Norway, they celebrate constitution day, too, but apparently with Mickey and Minnie Mouse. Logically, or at least by Elian Gonzalez standards, that makes them more American than any of us could hope to be.

And, yes, there's a website: www.constitutionday.com

Day 2 of Hitchock Movie Extravaganza: The Birds ft. Tippi Hedren (mother of melanie griffith), and Rope ft. the second of JImmy Sterwart's appearances of the week.

Voyeuristic aspirations

I think of the 12+ hours I was awake today, I only spent 1 outside. The rest was in front of the computer/TV/a plate of food. Today's tasks included:

1. Working on a take home exam for Cog. Psych. The final product is purported to be somewhere around 20 pages and include just about everything I know about anything. It might be closer to 10-15 pages. double spaced.

2. Watching the first of 7 days of Hitchcock movies on AMC. Tonight's features included Rear Window and Dial 'M' for Murder. <3 Hitch.

Unlike Jimmy Sterwart, I prefer to close the blinds so I can't look outside. And the axe murderers can't look back at me. And I drink coffee instead of tea and whiskey. Other than that, we're basically the same.

p.s. did anyone else notice that Ellen DeGeneres was sitting next to Portia deRossi as the Emmy's? I thought that was over and done with?

The Inauguration Post

In commemoration of the inaugural post of The Rock Just Sits, I present [symbolically] circle food. I like to think of it like the olympic rings, or something equally evoking of feelings of patriotism mixed with competition and controversy. and steroids.

Following in the footsteps of those further along in their pursuit of higher educatiom, I present The Challenge: One day, One photo, One rant by yours truly.