"It's been a while ..." (wait a minute, Stain'd sucks ... ignore this title)
Here are some random stream-of-consciousness thoughts in an attempt to make up for much lost time (in no particular order):
1. I love "Making the Band 3". Yes, Aubrey is hot, but there is something I like about Aundrea. She is so cute and spunky, and her big hair is rad.
2. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire comes out on Friday. I am going to watch a midnight showing Thursday night because I wish I was going to Hogwarts instead of Columbia.
3. The Green Bay Packers are terrible this year, 1-7, but I refuse to agree with my brother, who says that they should trade Favre to invest in the future. There is too much sentimentality to overcome.
4. I'm re-reading "Ender's Game" by Orson Scott Card. A fantastic sci-fi book, very accessible for people like me who are not sci-fi fans.
5. The new Franz Ferdinand album, "You Could Have It So Much Better" is fantastic. You should listen to it right now.
6. The weather is getting colder here. This week, the temperature is supposed to dip into the 30's. It's beginning to look, er feel, a lot like Christmas.
7. I still don't know how I feel about the Lakers. My anger has subsided a little, so I will cheer for them again, but that doesn't mean that I'm not still rooting for the Heat to take it to the house.
8. My parents visited me last weekend, and my mom brought me blankets, dinnerware, avocadoes, and my Korean CD's, among other things. My parents kick ass, and mid-to-late Korean music still sounds pretty great. Cool, HOT, Kim Gun Mo, RooRa, Seo Taiji, the list goes on.
9. "The Girl Next Door" is on HBO right now. I could watch that movie a zillion times, and it'll never get old. Maybe it's because of Elisha Cuthbert, but I'm not sure...
10. Hillary Duff looks like a horse. She must have had some kind of surgery to suck in her cheeks and push out her teeth. She's a thoroughbred. She sucks, and so does Lindsay Lohan.
11. Cal vs. USC is this Saturday. Though the matchup has lost some of its lustre in the wake of Cal's struggles this season, never forget which team USC last lost to. And USC has been known to coast this season, what with slow starts against Oregon, Washington, and Arizona State. You gotta believe!
12. Last Saturday, I met Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton. She was in Washington Heights, in support of mayoral candidate Fernando Ferrer. She was coming out of a flower shop a block from my apartment, and my parents and I happened to catch her before she got to the crowds waiting for her. Clinton in 2008? Something needs to be done, that's for sure.
13. Go to the VisionShock party in SF on Saturday night, and support my buddy Drew. www.visionshocksf.com
14. Watch Arrested Development, Monday nights at 8pm on Fox. If you take the time to watch Seasons 1 and 2 on DVD, you will be rewarded by a show that is smart, funny, crude, and makes fun of Orange County. 'Nuff said.
15. The Kansas Board of Education approved local schools to cast doubt on evolutionary theory, a calculated move to inject religion, and probably "intelligent design", into public school education. I respect others' religious views, but speaking as someone who went to nine years of Catholic school, got confirmed and all that jazz, I am also able to distinguish ideas of science from ideas of faith. It's unfortunate that the red states aren't.
16. For all you desk-job working stiffs, watch the UK version of "The Office". It's a little too eerily reminiscent of my old auditing job, but the British humor of it is briliant. And once you watch the whole series, Seasons 1, 2, and the Christmas Special, you'll never hear Take That's "Back For Good" the same way again. Unless you're the Tin Man, and you have no heart.
17. Last month, I went to a book signing by Giada de Laurentiis, the host of "Everyday Italian" on the Food Network. I had her sign a book for my mom's birthday. If you're like me and think she's adorable on the show, see her in person. I wish I could marry her, even in spite of the fact that she seems to have a somewhat disproportionate head size.
18. Have you played Sudoku, the international craze? Go to http://www.dailysudoku.co.uk/sudoku/index.shtml. If you've never heard of this, just look around and you might notice it more than you did in the past. It's all over book stores, and it's even in newspapers next to the crosswords. Addicting, that is if you're a complete hermit loser like me.
19. On America's Next Top Model, one of the contestants went to college at Wesleyan with my friend Beth. The contestant is the lesbian named Kim, and she's got a pretty good shot of going all the way, now that the group is down to like 6 girls. Wednesday nights on UPN at 8pm (Wednesdays are suddenly TV day, what with ANTM, Lost, Veronica Mars. And I have no idea what day it's on, but "Everybody Hates Chris" is hilarious too. Yes, I know, I'm apparently watching too much TV. I'm a complete hermit loser, remember?)
20. Biostatistics is a fun class. It's more or less statistics with biology examples, only it's moving REEEEAAAALLLY slowly. Secretly, I just want to learn the concept so I can start winning at casinos or sportsbooks. Or at the very least, my stupid fantasy football leagues.
21. I went to a lecture by a doctor from Stanford who is studying the effects of expectations and stereotypes that affect minority and/or women standardized test takers. For instance, since women are often portrayed in the media as being poorly skilled in the sciences, researchers have conducted studies examining the effects of these expectations on female test takers, because women oftentimes try too hard to erase the stereotype while taking these exams, and in doing so, stress themselves out more to the point of doing poorly. However, when told that men and women fare the same on the test or when reinforced that women do just as well as men on the test, their scores indeed increase considerably. The same goes for minority test-takers on exams like the SAT. The speaker called these "contingencies of identity", the identifying markers that we feel are under attack, thus causing us to pay more attention to them, things like race, religion, age. Different ones evoke responses in different people, but think about your own hot buttons. They're there, aren't they?
22. Sylvester Stallone is apparently making new additions to both the Rocky and Rambo franchises. Rocky 6 and Rambo 4 are in production, and I heard that in the new Rocky flick, he fights his greatest opponent yet, glaucoma. And with the new Indiana Jones film, also starring Harrison Ford, we could see some classic franchises go down in flame (like that one saga that got ruined by those 3 prequels ... what was it called again?). Although, I think Rambo 3 might have already killed that one years ago.
23. Don't tell anyone at my school, but every now and then, I go to the McDonald's across the street, stand outside in the 24-hour express window and buy chicken mcnuggets. In public health, there are many things that colleagues thumb their nose at. One of them is smoking. Another is eating fast food. I literally stand there in line and pray no one sees me. For such open-minded people, PH students can be remarkably judgmental and intolerant.
24. In my spare time, I'm trying to learn spanish. 3 years of it in high school helped little, although a decent amount has come back to me since I started my class. Tengo hambre. Tengo sed. Soy koreano. Estuve cansado ayer, pero estoy contento hoy. Soy un perdedor. I'm a loser baby, so why don't you kill me...
25. What's up with all these disasters lately? 9/11, Katrina, Rita, the tsunami, the earthquake in Pakistan, the Bush administration, and the list goes on. Feels like Armaggeddon. Thank God Ben Affleck and Bruce Willis are still around to save our asses.
26. OK, my last TV mention. Watch "Firefly", Joss Whedon's (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) last cancelled-too-early show, a western-esque show set 500 years in the future. Where outlaws fly the friendly skies along the outer rim of the solar system, both being bad and being the good guys. Then, watch "Serenity", the movie that fans lobbied for and that does a great job furthering the television show's storyline before it was prematurely axed by those idiots at Fox.
27. To honor my current age, here is my final thought for now, and it pertains to my future career. I hope to go to medical school in a couple years, so if anyone of you have the hook-up, please speak up. I need all the help I can get. I'll give you a free physical in return! Actually, scratch that.
1. I love "Making the Band 3". Yes, Aubrey is hot, but there is something I like about Aundrea. She is so cute and spunky, and her big hair is rad.
2. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire comes out on Friday. I am going to watch a midnight showing Thursday night because I wish I was going to Hogwarts instead of Columbia.
3. The Green Bay Packers are terrible this year, 1-7, but I refuse to agree with my brother, who says that they should trade Favre to invest in the future. There is too much sentimentality to overcome.
4. I'm re-reading "Ender's Game" by Orson Scott Card. A fantastic sci-fi book, very accessible for people like me who are not sci-fi fans.
5. The new Franz Ferdinand album, "You Could Have It So Much Better" is fantastic. You should listen to it right now.
6. The weather is getting colder here. This week, the temperature is supposed to dip into the 30's. It's beginning to look, er feel, a lot like Christmas.
7. I still don't know how I feel about the Lakers. My anger has subsided a little, so I will cheer for them again, but that doesn't mean that I'm not still rooting for the Heat to take it to the house.
8. My parents visited me last weekend, and my mom brought me blankets, dinnerware, avocadoes, and my Korean CD's, among other things. My parents kick ass, and mid-to-late Korean music still sounds pretty great. Cool, HOT, Kim Gun Mo, RooRa, Seo Taiji, the list goes on.
9. "The Girl Next Door" is on HBO right now. I could watch that movie a zillion times, and it'll never get old. Maybe it's because of Elisha Cuthbert, but I'm not sure...
10. Hillary Duff looks like a horse. She must have had some kind of surgery to suck in her cheeks and push out her teeth. She's a thoroughbred. She sucks, and so does Lindsay Lohan.
11. Cal vs. USC is this Saturday. Though the matchup has lost some of its lustre in the wake of Cal's struggles this season, never forget which team USC last lost to. And USC has been known to coast this season, what with slow starts against Oregon, Washington, and Arizona State. You gotta believe!
12. Last Saturday, I met Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton. She was in Washington Heights, in support of mayoral candidate Fernando Ferrer. She was coming out of a flower shop a block from my apartment, and my parents and I happened to catch her before she got to the crowds waiting for her. Clinton in 2008? Something needs to be done, that's for sure.
13. Go to the VisionShock party in SF on Saturday night, and support my buddy Drew. www.visionshocksf.com
14. Watch Arrested Development, Monday nights at 8pm on Fox. If you take the time to watch Seasons 1 and 2 on DVD, you will be rewarded by a show that is smart, funny, crude, and makes fun of Orange County. 'Nuff said.
15. The Kansas Board of Education approved local schools to cast doubt on evolutionary theory, a calculated move to inject religion, and probably "intelligent design", into public school education. I respect others' religious views, but speaking as someone who went to nine years of Catholic school, got confirmed and all that jazz, I am also able to distinguish ideas of science from ideas of faith. It's unfortunate that the red states aren't.
16. For all you desk-job working stiffs, watch the UK version of "The Office". It's a little too eerily reminiscent of my old auditing job, but the British humor of it is briliant. And once you watch the whole series, Seasons 1, 2, and the Christmas Special, you'll never hear Take That's "Back For Good" the same way again. Unless you're the Tin Man, and you have no heart.
17. Last month, I went to a book signing by Giada de Laurentiis, the host of "Everyday Italian" on the Food Network. I had her sign a book for my mom's birthday. If you're like me and think she's adorable on the show, see her in person. I wish I could marry her, even in spite of the fact that she seems to have a somewhat disproportionate head size.
18. Have you played Sudoku, the international craze? Go to http://www.dailysudoku.co.uk/sudoku/index.shtml. If you've never heard of this, just look around and you might notice it more than you did in the past. It's all over book stores, and it's even in newspapers next to the crosswords. Addicting, that is if you're a complete hermit loser like me.
19. On America's Next Top Model, one of the contestants went to college at Wesleyan with my friend Beth. The contestant is the lesbian named Kim, and she's got a pretty good shot of going all the way, now that the group is down to like 6 girls. Wednesday nights on UPN at 8pm (Wednesdays are suddenly TV day, what with ANTM, Lost, Veronica Mars. And I have no idea what day it's on, but "Everybody Hates Chris" is hilarious too. Yes, I know, I'm apparently watching too much TV. I'm a complete hermit loser, remember?)
20. Biostatistics is a fun class. It's more or less statistics with biology examples, only it's moving REEEEAAAALLLY slowly. Secretly, I just want to learn the concept so I can start winning at casinos or sportsbooks. Or at the very least, my stupid fantasy football leagues.
21. I went to a lecture by a doctor from Stanford who is studying the effects of expectations and stereotypes that affect minority and/or women standardized test takers. For instance, since women are often portrayed in the media as being poorly skilled in the sciences, researchers have conducted studies examining the effects of these expectations on female test takers, because women oftentimes try too hard to erase the stereotype while taking these exams, and in doing so, stress themselves out more to the point of doing poorly. However, when told that men and women fare the same on the test or when reinforced that women do just as well as men on the test, their scores indeed increase considerably. The same goes for minority test-takers on exams like the SAT. The speaker called these "contingencies of identity", the identifying markers that we feel are under attack, thus causing us to pay more attention to them, things like race, religion, age. Different ones evoke responses in different people, but think about your own hot buttons. They're there, aren't they?
22. Sylvester Stallone is apparently making new additions to both the Rocky and Rambo franchises. Rocky 6 and Rambo 4 are in production, and I heard that in the new Rocky flick, he fights his greatest opponent yet, glaucoma. And with the new Indiana Jones film, also starring Harrison Ford, we could see some classic franchises go down in flame (like that one saga that got ruined by those 3 prequels ... what was it called again?). Although, I think Rambo 3 might have already killed that one years ago.
23. Don't tell anyone at my school, but every now and then, I go to the McDonald's across the street, stand outside in the 24-hour express window and buy chicken mcnuggets. In public health, there are many things that colleagues thumb their nose at. One of them is smoking. Another is eating fast food. I literally stand there in line and pray no one sees me. For such open-minded people, PH students can be remarkably judgmental and intolerant.
24. In my spare time, I'm trying to learn spanish. 3 years of it in high school helped little, although a decent amount has come back to me since I started my class. Tengo hambre. Tengo sed. Soy koreano. Estuve cansado ayer, pero estoy contento hoy. Soy un perdedor. I'm a loser baby, so why don't you kill me...
25. What's up with all these disasters lately? 9/11, Katrina, Rita, the tsunami, the earthquake in Pakistan, the Bush administration, and the list goes on. Feels like Armaggeddon. Thank God Ben Affleck and Bruce Willis are still around to save our asses.
26. OK, my last TV mention. Watch "Firefly", Joss Whedon's (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) last cancelled-too-early show, a western-esque show set 500 years in the future. Where outlaws fly the friendly skies along the outer rim of the solar system, both being bad and being the good guys. Then, watch "Serenity", the movie that fans lobbied for and that does a great job furthering the television show's storyline before it was prematurely axed by those idiots at Fox.
27. To honor my current age, here is my final thought for now, and it pertains to my future career. I hope to go to medical school in a couple years, so if anyone of you have the hook-up, please speak up. I need all the help I can get. I'll give you a free physical in return! Actually, scratch that.
posted by F at 1:56 PM
1 Comments:
Your blog sight is by far one of the funniest things I've read in a while. I've got some responses for you:
- Don't give up on the Lake Show. I love Shaquille too, but you've got to be loyal. 9-30 is not all that bad of a shooting night.
- I must have been living in a freaking hole...because I don't remember a MTB 2.
- I feel bad for Favre. You and your brother should get tix soon. Or you'll be watching Aaron Rodgers hand off to Samkon Gado.
- I bought Seasons 1 and 2 of Arrested Development based on your feedback. I haven't watched them yet, but since it's winter break for me, I'm gonna give it shot.
- I too love Elisha Cuthbert. I don't have Girl Next Door, but I do have Seasons 1-3 of 24. Another set of DVDs I plan to watch now that I have a butt-load of time on my hands.
- I'm still waiting for you to buy Season 5 of Sopranos.
- Also bought Chapelle Show season 2 and it is fucking hilarious. I saw the Charlie Murphy True Hollywood Stories episodes and almost fucking died in my sleep because I laughed so hard.
- Don't worry about what PH students think. Chicken McNuggets are like air, you need them to live. McNuggets are fucking great.
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