idiots

okay... so i'm headed to class this morning, and walking along the side of egg, i see this giant shower of ice in front of me. you know, since it snowed last night, and then it turned to ice and freezing rain (aka "wintry mix"), it became like... slightly melted then refrozen snowcones. kinda crunchy and chunky. anyway... these two girls that were approaching when the sheet fell (there was a guy that was pretty much under it, but it didn't actually land on anybody), stood there staring at it, and then one goes "run!"

...

okay... if the shit on top of the roof around there has already fallen down... shouldn't you be more worried about the rest of the stretch?

one of them figured it out while they were running. and said something. but... they... kept... running... <growls>

why?


the second incident of the day came when i got home from dinner. matt had sent me a link... he'd, unfortunately, only read the description, not the actual content.

now, all the crap about stuff not existing is one thing... okay, so maybe this guy's a horrible googler. and the mpaa's release was a word document. fine, whatever...

As one top Texas lawyer kindly put it "Dallas courts have no presidence in this case because Lokitorrent.com was never hosted on Texas ISP servers. The owner of Lokitorrent is not a resident of Texas, and the MPAA's main offices are not in Texas. The MPAA has no reason in the world to sue in Dallas, but even if they did have presidence and sued in Dallas, you can be sure that the due dilligence on a case like this would take years. No way in the world could the MPAA have won a court case of this magnitude in just one month"

okay... one thing, deathmage... is *name* your source. but i doubt the guy could, because... a lawyer would know the difference between "presidence" (does he mean precedence?) and jurisdiction. and i'm not even sure of what he was trying to say with the rest of it. what's "due dilligence"?

idiots.

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i am *chewed up*
seriously. teeth into skin.

josh smith soaring over k-mart... is my vision of beauty...
and no, not for the arms.
(wow... sounds like some guy flapping his ass over a store)

... i have no fantasy. bring on the weekend!
i can't wait until friday night...

...that's been the bulk of my away message for the past couple of days.

ah! fence!

strange weekend...

saturday, i woke jim up around 1, and we watched eva (jim had only been asleep for like an hour or something like that...), and then we went to joe's and played naruto with joe and kevin, grabbed food from express, got distracted by a halo2 tournament in the 3rd floor lounge of aj (joe, of course, went there for the free-play smash), and got stuck there for a while... jim went to move his half-illegally parked car and i came home to watch all-star saturday (matt'd better blog about that one... it's his team that swept everything but the most important title)... and joe & co. left the tournament early to go bowling at 10. which i was supposed to go to. but the rising stars slam dunk contest was still on (speaking of which... this is fucking awesome. skill, style, grace... everything you could ever ask for in a dunk). i called jim to let him know the guys were headed over, and i'd be headed over as soon as the contest was over, so jim came over to wait on me... while i was watching the slam dunk contest on the phone with matt. nevermind that. the contest was damn entertaining.

anyway... jim and i joined the guys after that was over, and i broke 70 =D it's so sad that i'm proud of that... but cosmic bowling has some sort of psychotic effect on me. i kept falling off the seat... i managed to slam my nose into my knee...

after bowling, we headed to burger king, where jim way overpaid his share of bowling in food to joe, and he even paid for mike to convince him to go. that's alright, though, 'cause i'm sure we'll pay jim back with something later on. when he's not in michigan.

got in late, talked 'til later... got up at 8:30 this morning to be at the special olympics by 9, only to find that our game didn't start 'til 10 (wtf, steve?). and this is after being locked out of cassell because only one side was open. and jim didn't go because i'd killed him by keeping him awake all day the day before (nocturnal jim...)

we made signs after we got there, and i made joe make a giant d, and i made a giant fence... and then i told joe to put an o on the other side, so we'd be able to turn it around and have offense... but joe said that was oh-fense, and was stupid, so the other side became "ah." so we had d-fence and ah-fence. ah! fence! (what?)

had lunch after that 'cause i was fucking starving... nearly fell asleep in west end... and then came home, tried to take a nap... and steve called me. to go to the garage with him. oh yeah... i said i'd do that...

so we went there, and there was one guy working, and couldn't get to him, so i went into the mall and got bubble tea instead (yay for boba that are cooked all the way through).

all-star game now. go wade. go big ben wallace. kobe's beard thing looks like crap. go carter. shaq's shoe phone looks stupid. nelly looks stupid talking on it. bron-bron is so unselfish. so amazing. go ray allen. nash and nowitzki play together again =] i hope amare stoudemire gets to make up for his crap second round from last night...

and whose fucking idea was it to make the halftime show *COUNTRY*? you've got to be kidding me...

though kenney seemed to like "save a horse, ride a cowboy." or maybe it was just stuck in his head, eating his brain.

charles tells it like it is. he said that he has to suffer through stupid halftime shows because of janet jackson.

blame janet jackson.

eew... i smell like *girl*!

uugh...

yeah, so bank of america no longer has an atm on campus... it's going to be replaced with a suntrust atm (wtf, mate?). so i ended up having to go down to the main street bank to get the money for my housing deposit. so i had to beg joe to take me. because i have no car. i'm such a bum.

anyway, so we go there, joe brings me back and i pay the housing deposit (no line... busiest time by ass), and then we go to mcd's where i buy joe food to pay him back for all the chauffeuring he's done for me. then we go to the mall, because joe needed his hair cut. we wandered around the mall for a bit first (i bought a stereo-mono audio adapter... the computer tv will still be in mono, but now the sound will come out *both* speakers! yesss!), and then joe went to get his hair cut, at which point i wander the girly shops. why? no idea...

so... i'm in bath and body works, and i want to sniff something, but the tester hadn't been sprayed in so long that there wasn't a noticeable smell on the cap anymore. so i spray it onto my finger... which deflects the stream into my eyes. the worst part? not so much that it went into my eyes, but that it was all over my face. i smelled like girl. i walked, the wind blew, and the smell would waft from my face to my nose. uuugh...

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i didn't seem to mention... that when we got joe's car jumped the second time, to take it to the shop... the parking services guy winked at me. while joe was signing the release. because of i don't know why. yeah.

i got noir! matt says he's going to take it... not if he can't find it!

no, seriously... i'm not sure where i put it =/

alright, time to shower the stupid girly smell off me...

edit: maybe not... it looks like they're actually going to start playing the celeb game now... give it up for NELLY! (yeah, they said that when i got there, so i typed it)

i'm so impressed

we beat duke. at basketball. i'm not just impressed at winning... our guards are awesome.

yeah, that's all.

i'm such an nba dork...

jaleel white is awesome. i love his nba blog. i want an nba blog...

(richard) rip "if i'm tired he must be exausted" hamilton's isn't bad, either... something very grounded about it.

oh, and jay williams's... for the spirit...

idle thoughts, part 5

i ate a clementine that tastes like a mango. okay, maybe not... it just tastes like someone injected mango juice into it. no joke.

the pubmasters are awesome. i don't think i've ever played cs in my life, and i still love them.

i did something idiotic a few minutes ago... but i have no idea what it was.
yeah, that's right. i was going to blog about my stupidity, and managed to forget it. go me.

does anybody know when the hell i cut my hair?

i want to meet dwyane wade. not that i'd have anything to say to him, or be able to talk about anything... i just want to bask in the glory that is wade.

does that make anybody else think of the duck from garfield? besides me and z?

so much to make, so little time...

apparently, i never blogged about visiting matt...
yeah, so matt's brother and dad snagged these chairs for matt... free, but the upholstery was soooo bad. so... i re-upholstered them =D

chair one
chair two

in other news, i made a test swatch in preparation to make a powerbook sock (because matt's giving me his pb... =D), and it turned out to be the width of my phone... so i made a cell phone cover... even though i'm never going to use the damn thing... the back has more stitches...

aaand... i finished my second doily =D i followed a pattern this time, so it's a MUCH better design (ahem... meaning... not mine ;p). by priscilla hewitt.
i should add that i didn't have the right size needle (hook?) for this, so it doesn't quite lie flat... so it's smushed in a book right now...

valentine's day? we are not amused...

okay, to set the record straight... i'm not bitter. or maybe i am, but i still have valid reasons not to like valentine's day...

if your relationship is one that you need a special holiday to do/get something special... then you're in trouble. even if you're not in that situation... what if you forget? you could be the most loving significant other for the rest of the year... bring random presents, do random happy things... and if you forget valentine's day? you're screwed. "my friend's boyfriend brought her 18 long stem roses and a teddy bear... and you brought me a sandwich?" never mind that the friend's boyfriend never does anything for the friend, and that the sandwich is her favorite lunch and had nothing to do with valentine's day... the guy's in trouble.

and for that matter... a girl can get mad at a guy for not doing/getting anything, but the girl isn't really expected to do anything. i mean, lots do... but if a chick doesn't, the guy has no right to get mad. that may be more of a societal issue than a valentine's issue, but it still makes me mad.

and here's the other thing. hopeless romantics that happen to be single on valentine's day... hope for things. the amount of hope that comes from valentine's day can't possibly be met by the amount of relationships that actually form on/from valentine's day. these poor people sit around all day hoping to receive something--anything. you've seen it before. in high school, they were the girls that left that day sad, with no flowers, wistfully watching the girls with armfulls of flowers walk by. they were the guys that came to school with flowers, and left with no flowers, and no girlfriend. there's no magic to valentine's day. there's no magic fairy dust. (yeah, yeah... to me, faeries are little winged mischievous (maybe more than mischievous) things, while fairies are happy little winged things... you know, the little princesses type of thing.)

what i will give the day, though, is that it helps some shy, quiet people grow the balls to do something about a crush... and i mean girls and guys...


but... look what i got for valentine's day...

even better, look at it with the panda =]

they're alive!

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oh... so i got this spam today... nevermind that i don't have a penis to enlarge or anything like that... but why is the cucumber that's supposed to represent a penis... sicking out of a girl's pants?

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i'm on facebook now, and it's weird... i haven't gone and added any friends, so my friends list is somewhat... strange. as much as i love jenn... i really doubt i would have thought to search for her to add. and i definitely wouldn't've thought to add cruise. maybe it'll make more sense if i ever get around to adding people...

but then there's the problem of... where do you draw the line? i mean... what's the difference between a friend... someone you used to know... and someone you recognize? because of that, i may never get around to adding friends... people will just have to add me. blech.

bubbling with pride...

i don't really feel like blogging... i just wanted to share that i finished my first doily at about 11:10 =D

it's not a great doily, but it's my first doily, and i'm happy.