Xenopus: frogs that are stitched together

Something that bothers me about blogger is this: In the profile section, where you can make it ask you a random question, you only get 150 characters to answer. That is definitely not enough. I want to be able to answer in essay form. Give me 2 pages please.

September is only 2 days away, and it shocks me. I am totally not ready. I mean, if September is close, then that means my dad's birthday is close, and thinking of a present for him is always hard because whenever he wants something, he just goes out and buys it. He never saves up for a holiday like some people do. It is all so complicated. And I have to get him a present on time since I am going to the beach with my parents for his birthday. It is not like I can not see him and then get some bonus days to think about the present. You know, do some major procrastinating.

So, I am still job interviewless. I thought about going ahead and getting a job as a nanny or something, but then I would not have anywhere to live. I would not want to be a live in nanny, and I am tired of Winston and don't really want to move back in with my parents. If you have any suggestions, please let me know. I just need some short term help (as in a place to stay).

Oh, and after running spell checker, I have found something else that annoys me about blogger. It does not even recognize it's own name as a word. I think blogger has low self-esteem.

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Wow. I have recently been email a girl that I knew in middle school and elementary school. (I kind of hate to say this, but she found me from Classmates, and I have always thought it stupid ever since I signed up on it.) So, today, I got an email from her, and there are pictures of me from elementary school at a birthday party. They are swell. When I return to school, I will get my other website working again and then I will post them there for your sheer delight.

In other news, I saw Garden State last night. And I really liked it, although Jonathan just thought it was ok. I just have to say that I thought that it was nice to have a female lead character that I could relate to. I mean, if he wrote her that way, then there must be other people in the world like me. I thought that was nice.

Then, later on that night, I went to Sushi Blues and racked up on some half-price rolls. Boy, was that good. I am going to have to come again when they are having the special. I do love rolls, and half price ones are even better.

Ok. Nothing really entertaining has happened, so I will end your suffering now. Tootles.

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So, you think that you are bored? Well guess what I did today. In a vain attempt to avoid work, I decided to draw on my foot. So, I was going to make eyeglasses, but I did not think they looked right. So, I decided it would be a bubble wand. So, under the bubble wand, I wrote the word, "bubbles". Then, I decided that was not enough so I added an equals sign and then underneath that I wrote "soap + water + air." So, that is how I decided to fill my time while avoiding work. I only wish that I had a digital camera to share this insight, this masterpiece with each of you.

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I asked my friend to tell me what I should blog about today, but he did not help. So, if this entry sucks and bores you to death, well, it is not my fault. I was looking for help and just did not get any.

So, I thought I would introduce you to some of my new friends. I bought them in San Francisco. They are my Parasite Pals. Well, actually, Holly Hostess is my friend, but she introduced me to her other parasite friends. Holly's friends are Dig Dig (the head louse), Blinky (the eyelash mite), Tickles (the tapeworm) and Zzeezz (the bed bug). I am looking to get some parasite friends of my own like:

Red Round (the ringworm)
Itchy (the dermatophytoses that causes athlete's foot)
Big Mouth (the hook worm)

Feel free to tell me what friends you are looking for. It is a lonely world out there without our parasite pals to keep us company

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Today is a vacation day. No work for me. Thanks to the water being turned off in the building and me not having anyway to wash my hands if I were to work.

So, see you LATER.

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I have not been watching the Olymics that much. Mainly because I have not been at home. But this morning I decided to turn it on and the women's marathon was on and I am hooked. I mean, I can't even imagine running a mile, and here these people are running many, many (26 to be exact) miles. It is exciting. It makes me want to get up the stamina to run a mile or so, but instead, I am still in bed. Because I love my bed and I am an accomplished bed rester. So, I guess that I will stick with what I am best at. Well, maybe I will practice drinking. I mean, everyone good marathon runner needs to know how to drink.

Yesterday, I went to my favorite place to get calzones. They have the best calzones ever. They were so good. Trish was even surprised at how good they were. Yep, Village Pizza will always hold a special place in my heart.

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I think that we can all agree. Today is a hot day in North Carolina. But the problem is this. I am freezing. The AC is turned up to the max in my office and even a 45 minute long stint of outdoors in the sun did not warm me up enough to make me appreciate the AC. It is just a sad, sad thing. Being cold. It makes it hard to work. It makes me want to cuddle up. And I am tired, what with only 5 hours of sleep last night. I mean, I need more than that. How can the world expect me to be at my best when my physiological requirements are not met?

This morning for breakfast, I had cream cheese with a bagel on it. You would think that there was a large vat of reproducing cream cheese in the back of the bagel shop and if it (the reproducing cream cheese) managed to touch the floor, it would die and the bagel shop would be out of cream cheese forever. So give a lot of it away so it will never reproduce so much that it will spill out and touch the floor. (Well, I thought you would get it without that last sentence but, then again, I was not sure that the analogy made any sense in the first place and I did not want you to go away confused.)

Today is the day for not going to work tomorrow. And I am excited about that. And I am going to get to see my friend from high school. It is going to be much fun. So be excited for me because I will have to start working again on Sunday. One day weekends really are a bitch.

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Have you ever been afraid? So afraid that it paralyzes you? Well, I feel like that sometimes and it is rather scary. Being so afraid that you don't live your life.

In other news, I looked for glasses today. In a store that might as well have been a cave. There was practically no light in there and the mirrors were barely wide enough for my face and had this dinge to them. Now, correct me if I am wrong, but the reason you try on glasses is because you actually need glasses. And when you try on glasses, you are not wearing your own. So it is hard enough to see in the first place. And with the added lack of light and tiny, dingy mirror, how the hell are you supposed to see yourself and decide of you like the glasses or not? Needless to say, I did not like any of their glasses. I wonder why? But, just in case any of you decide to open a glasses store, make sure that you address these concerns. Thanks.

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I've got a plan. A plan to finish my graduate research. I think it will take 2-3 weeks. I am pumped. Then I can concentrate on the fact that I have no job and no job interviews. Isn't life swell? In other news, I have plenty of boxes to pack with. Now I just need somewhere to take my stuff.

I thought I would share an antidote from my childhood and show you what a swell sister I have. I was in the 9th grade, graduating from Junior high and there was an award ceremony that the whole school had to go see. I received the math award and as I was walking up on stage to receive it, I slipped walking up the stairs and fell down. In the process, my shoes fell off my feet and my glasses fell off my face. As you can imagine, the auditorium erupted in laughter and my sister, my defender, started yelling, "That's my sister! Stop laughing!" So, I hope that you all have a sibling that cares about you so much and will help you to avoid injustice in your life.

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The concert last night was good. The Rogue Waves were good. A.C. Newman was good. Watching the Rogue Waves get down (aka dance) to A.C. Newman's last songs was good. The water was good. Even the second hand smoke was good (except the stuff produced by the chain smoking, puffing for his life, picture taking guy). Why they are going to close GO! I don't know. It is pretty sad. And I don't even live there to appreciate it's full goodness.

Last night, I went to my sister's and got all the boxes that I need to pack with. I guess it will soon be packing time. I am aiming for 2-3 more weeks of school and then that will be it. Everyone, keep their fingers crossed for me. Oh, and if you happen to know any of the people that I applied for jobs under, tell them that I am waiting to hear back from them and that I wish they would call me soon. Please.

Tonight, I learn how to make tortillas. I am quite the excited one. I guess I will have to make some for some of you when I finally learn that skill. And when I actually live in a place where I will want to have people over to eat. I will let you know how they turn out (and if I forget, well, I am sure they are great).

So, I just want to wish everyone a happy day/night/afternoon. (I am so full of cheer today and I don't know why. Maybe it was the oatmeal I ate this morning.)

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Thanks to Charley, the BugFest was canceled. So, no eating bugs for me. It was quite a sad thing, but I guess that I am going to get over it. I will have to say tuned for a rescheduling, but I would guess that would be hard with all the special speakers that were supposed to be there and all.

Instead, I took a nap. A much needed nap. A 4 hour nap. Yep, boy do I ever know how to nap. Just call me the expert.

Afterwards, I went glasses shopping so that I could have someone else's opinion. It is hard to shop for glasses by yourself because once my glasses get off my face, I have to get rather close to the mirror in order to see myself, and, well, that is not the way most people will view me in real life. So, guess why I need to get new glasses. It is not because my prescription changed and it is not like I don't like my current glasses, it is that my current glasses don't like me. The paint has started flaking off them around where they attach to my ears and low and behold, I am allergic to my glasses. It is just one of my many strange talents. I even had to paint them to keep my ear from falling off (well, I guess it was not really that bad, but it surely felt that way). And so, I am going to spend more money that I don't need to spend just so I can keep my ear attached to my head.

Thanks for your rapt attention. Talk to you later.

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This weekend, there will be excitement galore. First, I am going to get my hair cut by someone who knows what they are doing and I will not end up leaving the salon in tears. Second, I will be going to BugFest and while there I will watch cockroaches race, learn all about cicadas and eat bugs. Does life get any better than this? Well, hold on because it is getting ready to. I will be eating brunch on Sunday (my favorite meal of the week) at the Hibernian and then partaking of the AC Newman concert on Sunday night.

So I guess this weekend will make up for all the crap that I have gone through at work this week.

LONG LIVE THE WEEKEND!!!

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You should all check my profile. My thought is to update it every week (more or less) so you can all see the many faces of ME!! Thanks and goodbye.

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Annoying: (Read the following excerpt from my life to get a picture of what annoying is)

This scene takes place in my bedroom, shortly after waking up and not having seen my grandmother (who I live with) for about 3 weeks:

Me: Good Morning
Her: Hi, I am Granny. Pleased to meet you.
Me: Good Morning?
Her: It's been a while since we've seen each other you know?
Me: Oh.
Her: So, how was California
Me: Good
Her: How is your research?
Me: Ok. I have had some problems, but I have gotten some things to work as well
Her: So, are you feeling discouraged about your research?

All I have to say is thanks for the reminder. I totally forgot that I was discouraged, pissed and all around depressed. That is exactly what I need first thing in the morning every morning. Thanks for putting me in my place.

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I am ready to move. You know how it is, you are in a place in your life where you are just on the verge of something great, but you can't quite make it because you have to finish up the not so great part of your life. It is not any fun. While in San Francisco, my cousin gave me an Ikea catalog and I am already dreaming of how I am going to decorate my place. Now all I have to do is decide where I am going to live (and by where, I mean city and apartment). It is so hard living with the not knowing. Today, I was asked if I wanted tickets to see Wilco and I was like yes, when is it, and the answer was September 25th so I had to decline. I mean, I don't even know where I will be then. It could be the Triangle, it could be Michigan or if this application pans out, it could be San Francisco. I have no way of knowing.

Speaking of the future, I went to the Musee Mecanique while in CA and got my fortune read by THE MAGIC RAY (it reads you like a book). So here is what it had to say about me:

You delight in high minded pursuits, your love for domestic pleasure is pronounced in all your actions, you make a devoted companion. Those who deal with you must do so gently and persuasively...

(The "..." was so I would pay for another fortune, but it did not work on me. I had some domestic pleasure to get to.)

So, now, you have an insight into my life. Oh, and most importantly, be gentle.

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To celebrate my return to blogging, I updated my blog a bit. I hope that you like the changes and that these changes show my commitment to blogging (yeah, you don't have to shy away from me anymore and only visit once a month). Also, I was a bit hesitant about adding comments, namely because of one J.Cook. So, I would like to politely remind him that he can make comments, but that he does have a blog of his own for any extended revelries in text.

Also, I got a cool new purse in San Francisco that I intend to flaunt everywhere I go. I even decorated it with a Deery Lou pin. Oh yeah, I am so cool. At a vintage store, I got a skirt that is neat-o (yeah I did just say neat-o and I am not embarrassed by that at all). It is a khaki wrap around skirt with red trim and a jockey riding his horse on the lower left hand corner. You will have to see it. It is that great. I got other things, but nothing you would be interested (assuming you were interested in what I said thus far, but probably, you are not). I am just killing time now, so I will stop boring you.

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I have decided where I want to live. San Francisco. I was just there, visiting my cousin (who is totally awesome so Alison, if you stumble on this- which will be very unlikely- I just want you to know that) and well, I had the time of my life. It was great. The city is great. The food was great. The rent prices, well, they are not that great, but I have started looking at jobs there and they seem to pay pretty well, so it may not be terrible to live there. But who knows. I think that I am going to apply for a job there. It seems like a kick ass place to live. Oh foggy San Francisco. Oh, and jackets are all the rage there, since it is cold every night. And in case you don't know, I kind of have a jacket fetish.

In other news, I found some pants that fit me. I don't know if you have noticed, but I have a large ass and a small waist. Most girls though, are not like this (or not as extreme as I am) so I have a hard time finding pants to fit me in both the ass and waist. But I found them. Yesterday. And the best part is that with the purchase of pants, you got a free shirt. So I got two nice button-up shirts (valued at 39.95 and 44.50) for free. You can't beat that for anything. So, today, I am dreaming about wearing my new clothes but resisting since the pants are dry clean only and I don't think that getting lab crap on them would be fun (or cheap). I hope that you all are well, and I promise to write again soon. (I guess that I have been neglecting you, but well, vacation time is over. All I have left to do is finish my research, get a job and move. If anyone wants to help with any of that, specifically the packing part, just let me know.)

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Last night, I got to see Lambchop and it was GREAT. I love the fact that there were so many instruments there and the songs are so creative and unique. I really need to buy an album of theirs. I guess that is next on my list of things to buy.

In other news, I am finally close to being done with my research. All I need to do now is to get my butt into school and actually do it. For some reason, that is hard for me. Doing it. Maybe I need Ben Stiller coming up to me saying "Do it! Do it!", but since I don't, I guess I will slack off for a bit more. But just a bit you know.

Ok, I have a joke for you. It is my favorite knock knock joke. It will be hard to type, but I will try my hardest. Call me if you want to experience it real time.

Knock, knock
who's there
interrupting cow
inter...
moo

Cheers to you!
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