Assorted Ramblings

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 00:49:00 GMT

No Trick or Treaters. :-( I didn't really expect any since we're in a gated complex, but there are some kids that live here. Seeing the little ones all dressed up always makes me smile on Halloween.

Geoff and I are watching the Batman movies on ABC Family. Batman Returns is on now, and Batman Forever is next. If we're still awake after that, I netflixed An American Werewolf in London, which is one of my favorite Halloween movies. Otherwise we'll watch it tomorrow.

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 18:41:28 GMT

Another nice weekend over. Friday night was pretty lazy... Geoff came home a little early, and we had shepherd's pie for dinner. We watched The Count of Monte Cristo, and various Friday night TV. There was much snuggling because it was so cold in the apartment. Geoff is very handy to have around in the Fall and Winter, he's so warm! :-) On Saturday we slept in, and Geoff watched a kung fu movie that was on TV. Then we went bowling! I'm bad at it... but it was a fun date. We stopped at Michael's where I got yarn to make an afghan for Rachel for Christmas. it's going to be like the one I made for Ariel, but with pink, purple, and white instead of blue, green, and purple. I found this really cool white yarn that has a sparkly thread running through it, but Mrs. B says Rachel doesn't like sparkly things. What kind of teenage girl doesn't like sparkly things?! Oh well. We went to the mall for dinner, tried out the Black Bear Saloon. Geoff was happy, they had the Michigan football game on. They had delicious sweet potato fries, and didn't look at me weird when I asked for ranch dressing to dip them in. Also, the best beer battered onion rings ever. We took a peek in Game Stop since Geoff refuses to leave the mall without going there. We came home and I made more Icozies. My poor wrist... but I can't stop now! Must have lots to sell at the church bazaar in two weeks. I have to get them in the mail to my mom next weekend.

Sunday we went grocery shopping. I drove home from the store, on the highway and everything! It went really well, the only somewhat scary thing was when I got passed on both sides at the same time and both cars tried to get in front of me at the same time. They saw each other though, so disaster was averted. It really is ridiculous here. The speed limit on that road is 50 mph. I was going 55, in the second from the left lane (there are 4 all together). The cars who passed me were going at least 65, possibly faster. Geoff usually goes about 65 on that road, and he gets passed routinely. I have only seen one person get pulled over, and they were doing around 90 and zipping in and out of traffic so they could keep up that speed. We have come to the conclusion that most traffic laws are just suggestions up here, and loose suggestions at that. When we got home we commenced to cleaning the apartment. It looks very nice now. :-) Then we made apple pie! It was much more successful this time, no 5 hour monstrous debacle. I mixed elements from a few different recipes and came up with a good one. It's a crumb top, so I don't have to eat massive piles of yucky crust. We combed Fork too since his seasonal shed has started. We got a furball about as big as him, and he's still shedding! We're going to have to comb him every night for a while I think. Poor bunbun, he hates being combed so much. You'd think he would want to have all that loose fur out. I got out the Halloween decorations too. Sadly, what was adequate for my dorm room looks rather sparse in the apartment. I think I'll hit up a few after-holiday sales though, since we don't have any festivities to go to this year. :-( This will be my first year not dressing up ever. It makes me kind of sad. Geoff has some stuff at work to do; they're having a cube decorating contest (he's taking my bat garland, orange rope lights that blink, and a few of my small stuffed animals) and cubicle trick-or-treating for employee's kids (he got a big bag of assorted candy at the grocery store). I don't think we're going to get trick-or-treaters here, but we have some candy just in case. I'm carving my pumpkins on Wednesday, I have three this year to make up for my lack of other Halloween fun. I'm doing Darth Vader, a ghost with bats, and a surprise one. :-D Anyway, I should go work on the icozies some more now. So long!

:-D :-D :-D

Sun, 06 Sep 2009 05:27:03 GMT

Raised on a steady diet of comic books, you grew up to be an unstable lunatic, whose wacky ambitions are only matched by your delusions of grandeur. You're too crafty to get caught, otherwise you'd certainly be locked away in the loony bin!

Take the quiz!

Sat, 01 Aug 2009 22:38:54 GMT

Geoff and I are driving to my Mom's as soon as we finish packing and setting up Fork. Midnight, the oldest of our three kitties, is very sick. His biopsy came back cancerous, and the vet says he's in a lot of pain. He also can't eat because of a sore he has on his tongue, and they don't think he'll make it to next weekend... so Geoff is being awesome and driving me home tonight. We've had him for 12 years. When we got him he could sit in my hand he was so little. I'm going to miss him so much.

RPI has a Department of Language, Literature, and Communications?

Sat, 25 Jul 2009 21:21:45 GMT

Why yes they do. But with a distinct RPI flavor.

From Geoff's email today:

"Name removed is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Language, Literature, & Communication at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and will be defending her dissertation on gender and video games this fall."

:-)

Eee!

Tue, 23 Jun 2009 23:15:08 GMT

Geoff's phone interview with Factset went really well, he's going up to the Connecticut location on Monday. :-D

Fri, 19 Jun 2009 18:55:37 GMT

Geoff's HR interview went really well today, and he has moved on the next round of the process. They're going to email him later today to schedule his technical interview. :-D

*crosses fingers and toes*

squee!

Wed, 17 Jun 2009 20:22:43 GMT

Apple emailed Geoff today, and they want to phone interview him this week!

*small happy dance*

Eeew...

Thu, 11 Jun 2009 21:13:27 GMT

Geoff and I just got back from walking the dog... I think Little Silver is where animals go to die. We went about a mile and saw 6 dead birds and what I think used to be a bunny. It didn't have it's head anymore, so I guess it could have been a woodchuck. I didn't look too close. Of course, the dog is a retriever, so she really wanted to eat all of that. It was hard to keep her away from them. Yuck...

Fri, 29 May 2009 01:37:10 GMT

NCSoft just called, no job for Geoff. :-(

Time to start cranking out resumes and cover letters. *sigh*

Sat, 16 May 2009 15:51:28 GMT

Things I have to get done before 4pm:
-dishes
-finish sorting clothes
-take out trash
-sweep Fork's cage
-make living room presentable

I can totally do that. :-)

Tue, 12 May 2009 22:24:04 GMT

Empire Magazine has revealed its list of the 50 Greatest TV Shows ever .
1. Bold the shows you watch/used to watch.
2. Italicize the shows you've seen at least one episode of.
3. Underline the shows you own on DVD (at least one season).
4. Post your answers.

50. Quantum Leap
49. Prison Break
48. Veronica Mars
47. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
46. Sex & The City
45. Farscape
44. Cracker
43. Star Trek
42. Only Fools and Horses
41. Band of Brothers
40. Life on Mars
39. Monty Python
38. Curb Your Enthusiasm
37. Star Trek: The Next Generation
36. Father Ted
35. Alias
34. Frasier
33. CSI Las Vegas
32. Babylon 5
31. Deadwood
30. Dexter
29. ER
28. Fawlty Towers
27. Six Feet Under
26. Red Dwarf
25. Futurama
24. Twin Peaks
23. The Office
22. The Shield
21. Angel
20. Blackadder
19. Scrubs
18. Arrested Development
16. Dr Who
15. Heroes
14. Firefly
13. Battlestar Galactica
12. Family Guy
11. Seinfeld
10. Spaced
09. The X-Files
08. The Wire
07. Friends
06. 24
05. Lost
04. The West Wing
03. The Sopranos
02. Buffy the Vampire Slayer
01. The Simpsons

Fri, 08 May 2009 05:41:37 GMT

Star Trek = awesome.

Zachary Quinto = nearly as good a Spock as Leonard Nimoy. Which is saying something.

More coherent and detailed post tomorrow if I have time. :-)

Mon, 04 May 2009 16:09:39 GMT

Well, my throat is no longer sore so that's good. I'm still coughing though, and I have sinus stuff too. Hooray vertigo! *spins* I think I need to go to the doctor, but Geoff doesn't get back from CA till Wednesday and most of my friends are busy with senior week stuff this week. I'm skipping the picnic today, hopefully I'll be feeling well enough to at least go to book club tomorrow. I'm definitely skipping the pool party, swimming sounds like a bad idea to me. Geoff's interview is today, so I have my fingers crossed for him. He's a little nervous, but I think he'll do better this time since he sort of knows what to expect. Anyway, I have stuff to do today so I'd better get to it. So long!

Things I have to do today:
Pay rent
Dishes
Clean bedroom
Put laundry away
Clean living room

Not what I was expecting, but not bad. :-)

Mon, 20 Apr 2009 00:10:11 GMT

Your Inner European is Swedish!

Relaxed and peaceful.
You like to kick back and enjoy life.

Who's Your Inner European?

I love my husband so much...

Wed, 08 Apr 2009 22:40:17 GMT

He is currently in the process of making me an electromagnet so that I can show my environmental issues class how they work during my presentation on electric cars tomorrow. Guess what he's making it out of? A spoon. :-D I have a MacGyver-ed electromagnet! And a nerdtastic husband. :-D

Tue, 07 Apr 2009 12:51:46 GMT

I'm going to explode...

Tue, 24 Mar 2009 20:03:14 GMT

I feel like I'm going to explode...

Wed, 25 Feb 2009 01:30:46 GMT

Spiderman is going to be a musical... and Bono is writing the score...

I'm scared and intrigued, all at the same time...

Calling all of my history major friends!

Thu, 12 Feb 2009 01:00:04 GMT

Geoff found this online, and I thought you might appreciate it. We're calling it: History According to l33t Speakers. :-)

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y131/AlmightyZeus/1181867108306.gif

The madness has begun again

Fri, 06 Feb 2009 03:58:11 GMT

Well, it's that time of year again. The time when all of Russell Sage goes completely insane for two weeks, that no one else can understand. Yup, I'm talking about Rally. Tonight was kickoff, and it was amazing! I think there were over 100 freshmen there!* There were 8 Devils, and I'm proud of all of them for showing up. (Little love!) There was a pretty good group of Cows too. It was so hard to sing "We're All Together Again" without Aggie, I almost burst out crying again. (For any alumnae who read this who may want to come: we still sing the verse, but put your hand over your heart and say 'She's here, She's here' for the response.) The theme is "The Time of Our Lives" and our overalls are Kelly (Tick) and Ashley (Tock). We've got a lot of great secondary overalls too, including myself! I have been chosen as Can Overall (with Ariel as counterpart) and I'm excited. Washing cans was the one area that I did help out with every year, so I'm happy to be assisting the underclassmen with it. I have a nifty baseball cap with a blue ribbon on it. I think I'm going to decorate it with pop tops once I convince Geoff to buy some soda. :-) Anyway, I've got some homework to finish up tonight, I just wanted to update. I leave you with our class song:

You take a B, you add an L, attach a U, what do you do? You add an E and what do you see?
BLUE, BLUE, BLUE!!!!

*I have decided that Hell looks like a never ending line of enthusiastic freshmen climbing over your lap. Erf...

Mon, 02 Feb 2009 17:04:12 GMT

Fork doesn't seem to like his new hidey box very much. He doesn't go in it very much, and he hasn't figured out the ramp yet. Hopefully he'll get used to it soon. Our new neighbor's puppy has developed separation anxiety. He howls all day long, and scratches at the door every time I come back from classes. I feel bad because he thinks I'm his person, but the constant howling is very annoying. I don't really know what to do about it though. I could talk to my landlady I guess, but I don't know what she would do about it. I don't know our neighbors, so I don't feel comfortable just talking to them about it. Mrow.

I have my first sociology quiz today. I'm a little nervous since people who've had classes with this professor before say he's rather specific... but I did the reading, so hopefully I'll do well. Anyway, I'm going to go get some lunch and head to class. So long!

This is what I get for marrying an engineer.

Sat, 31 Jan 2009 23:49:18 GMT

Geoff is building Fork a multilevel hidey palace with a ramp out of our old cardboard boxes. I just wanted to make Fork a new hidey box since the old one is getting too small for him... instead, he now has the big air conditioning box over his litter box, a ramp up to the top of that, and a smaller new egg box propping up the ramp so it's not as steep. Approximately 1 roll of masking tape is holding it all together. Amusingly, the piece that makes up the ramp says "DO NOT STEP ON". Hehe. Unfortunately, my camera cord is missing so I don't have a picture to put up... :-( But it's pretty awesome. Geoff says when we have a more permanent residence he'll build Fork a whole jungle gym out of wood. That should be fun. :-)

Fri, 09 Jan 2009 02:00:28 GMT

Question of the day: Can Alton Brown make a Philly cheesesteak?

No, he cannot! Blargh, and I had such faith in him...

*goes to cry in a corner*

Return from the doctor

Thu, 08 Jan 2009 16:42:12 GMT

Well, we're back from the neurologist. Geoff has to have a sleep study because the doctor says it sounds like he has a bunch of different issues. He does agree that REM Sleep Behavior Disorder could be one of the issues though. In order for them to see that though, Geoff will have to do something during his sleep study. When I had mine for my insomnia, I slept fine... I hope he at least does a small something. He doesn't have to actually get up and walk around, but maybe he'll have a good dream and act it out for them. I guess we'll see.

Well, I'm going to go make some lunch, then do the dishes and clean the kitchen. So long!