More Fleas

Somehow the fleas were able to break through the seal we put on the door to Tracy's hallway. They're back in full force! We're going to flea bomb the apartment tomorrow night. It's been decided that Tracy's room gets it's own flea bomb this time. While they're all over the apartment, they haven't reinfected the ferrets yet. I'm grateful for that!

Wanna Go Clubbing?

School has definitely come down to a rhythm. In fact, it's gotten a little boring. Everyone seems to be having a busy semester, so it's been hard to link up with friends. And now that I'm pretty much over my sickness, I'm feeling fat, lazy, and inactive. I was planning for this semester to be so much more... something.

To rectify this problem, I've decided to join a school club! Now I don't know if I even can, but I'd like to get into some sort of athletic thing. Something where I could meet new people, burn off energy, and level off some of my near limitless ADD-interest. The downside to joining anything athletic is obvious: I'm not very athletic. In fact I tend to range somewhere between mediocre and flat out BAD at most sports (nix that, most things). I went on the A&M interwebs to try to find a sport club that I might be able to get into. Running is something I really enjoy, but really I'd like something a little bit more full body. Judo was something I tried a little bit of before, but I tried getting into it in two different semesters and both times I fell out of it; I'm just not a fighter. The only things that have caught my eye is the Triathlon Club and the Water Polo Club.

The more I think about it, the more I like the idea of getting back into water polo. I kind of miss that, even if I was terrible, and A&M's team probably out classes me. I could probably be happy trying Triathlon Club too though. The thing I'm worried about, water polo has already done tryouts and started practices; I haven't even swam in over a month... and before that one time it was well over 4 or 5 months! I know I'm crazy out of shape, I don't even think I could keep up at one practice as it stands and people sitting out of practices are always bad for the team as a whole. I can think of tons of advantages for me if I got on the team, I just can't think of too many they would have for having me on. <8|:o)

Sleeping Ferrets

Ferrets are cute together because they sleep all the time and, to each other, friends are pillows and blankets!
Apply that rule to people and it gets creepy though...

Freakonomics

Freakonomics! A book that my friend Travis bought me for my birthday ( or was it xmas?) several years ago (maybe even back in the Galveston age). I picked it up again recently and started reading it. I assure you it had nothing to do with the declicious looking fruit on the cover. An apple (yum) with the innards of an orange (yum!). I can only imagine what a citrus apple would taste like (heaven!), but as for the book itself, I'm impressed. It reads like a casual lecture, relating cause, effect, and correlation.

I can understand why some introductory economic classes have it for required reading! Unlike the required reading for my Physical Anthropology class, Freakonomics is not a excruciatingly detailed decade long study on the various habits of the spectral tarsier and its environment. It doesn't have graphs, charts, or even a full-fledged explanation of what exactly doing a 'regression' entails. Instead it focused conveying more applicable generalized principles through magnetic good humor; what it does have is a light hearted, if slightly cynical, theories that try to reveal the flaws in conventional-moral thinking. Towards the end, it seemed like every time I opened the book, I was disappointed to find my bookmark so close to the back cover. That doesn't happen often!

More of an exercise of thought than a serious book on how economics works, I'd recommend it to friends as a very entertaining read. The theme of the book: if morality is how we want the world to work, then economics is how the world really works.

(in the above blog I meant no disrespect the the fine required book, The Spectral Tarsier, written by my esteemed Physical Anthropology professor, Dr. Gursky. I find myself riveted by the various graphs, charts, and the full-fledged explanation of all your extensive and thorough tarsier observation and experiment methodologies, data, and clearly entailed conclusions! Truly an impressive collection of information about the often misunderstood tarsier. It's impressive girth and tiny print prevents me experiencing that disappointment outlined above, where I find myself gazing regretfully when I find my wondering 'is the book really going to end already?)

Dream Boats

I had I crazy dream last night. I was part of a crew on a boat and we traveled down this long winding jungle river. Every so often we'd come to various abandoned water parks and dock in huge lagoons around water slides. Then we all had to split up because one of the people in the crew was a douche bag, so then we all had our own little groups. I had my own boat and was on my own for a long while. There was a nice guy I kept running into at the water slide lagoons who was traveling by hot air balloon. He was helpful, but every time I saw him I got scared that he was with the douche bags and ended up shooting him with something (oops). He was always okay though and never held it against me. At the end of the river was a huge Sea World water park and there were more douche bags catching everyone (we were too late!). They had an Apple system for their main computer, so I easily found the control panel icon, found my own user preferences, and set my colors to clear. That apparently worked somehow. If that doesn't make sense, all you need to know is that it made me invisible. I ended up being the only one of the good guys not caught, so I was running around invisible trying to find everyone else and get them freed. Unfortunately I was sick in my dream, and they tuned their dolphin tracking system to the sound of my sniffles. Just like most things in life, a really cool premise ended up getting ridiculous. I got annoyed when it wasn't fair and work up. I wish there was a way to stop it halfway.

The Ever Dominant Bean

I went to my Anthro lab today. We're still doing heredity and alleles. I thought it was funny that we using little colored kidney beans as props, like we were all back in elementary school, grouping random pairs of red and white beans as alleles for 'people' and then eliminating the ones from the gene pool when natural selections or a random catastrophe deemed them fatal. It just goes to show you that you're never too old to play with counting beans.

Rain Waters the Flowers to Grow in Sunshine.

Ever have a mantra? I'm not scoping this towards religious chanting, but some little insightful saying that becomes something to live by. People compile books of those little warm and fuzzy blurbs. I don't think reading said books really does anything for anyone. It might provide a little pick-me-up, but it's too short lived or impacting to be a transformation. That's because mantras are journeys of personal exploration, where you learn about you in particular and how your actions impact the world around you. By analyzing yourself, where you are, and where you'd like to be in the perspective of self awareness, THAT is how you transform your life.

"If you wait for the whole apartment to smell like poop before you empty the litter box, the smell tends to linger something awful." Yeah, that's what I try to live my life by. Just sounds like something that needs to be engraved on a memorial somewhere.

Hanoko 002 ~ Kritins and the Forest

I fixed up the second one!

Forever...

We finished our discussion Judy Blume's book, Forever..., in my adolescent literature class. For those of you who haven't read it, it's basically porn for tween girls. Perfect families, practical sex talk, she names her boyfriend's penis Ralph (the name comes up surprisingly often). I don't consider myself a prude, but I can't decide if I'd let my teenage daughter read books like this. On one hand, I guess it's informative and empowering. On the other hand, it is pretty sexual.

Scammers Need to Speak Better English (for sexual purposes)

One of my roommate's friends had his facebook account hacked. A scammer came on and tried to get him to wire money. I was nearby and grabbed the computer. Hilarity ensued. Be warned, we get a little GRAPHIC. Reader discretion is advised.


Michael
11:27
hey
11:27Michael went idle

SupremeThor
11:27
hey!
what are you up to?
11:28Michael became active

Michael
11:28
i'm in some kind of deep shit right now

SupremeThor
11:28
oh?

Michael
11:29
I'm stranded in london

SupremeThor
11:29
whaaaa?
how did *that* happen?

Michael
11:29
got mugged at gun point last night
all cash,credit card and phone was stolen

SupremeThor
11:30
what were you doing in london...?

Michael
11:30
I had a trip for summer
It was a Brutal Experience,but thank God i still have my life and passport saved

SupremeThor
11:32
well, there's that

Michael
11:33
my return flight leaves in few hours but having troubles sorting out the hotel bills

SupremeThor
11:34
well that sucks, you might be late for class
*I take over for Justin*
well are you going to be okay?

Michael
11:36
wondering if you could loan me some few $$ to sort out the hotel bills and also take a cab to the airport

SupremeThor
11:37
hmmm, about how much?

Michael
11:37
I will pay you back the cash immediately i get back home
it just 600$

SupremeThor
11:38
that's cool, but you have to pay it right back

Michael
11:39
since i still have my international passport with me
i can use that as identification as soon as you send the money to me
through western union

SupremeThor
11:39
don't you have paypal?

Michael
11:39
dont hav much init
that why i contact you for the help
because I know i can count on you

SupremeThor
11:41
what are friends for?
anyway, we go way back
western union?

Michael
11:42
yea
All you have to do is to have it send through western union
to my information

SupremeThor
11:44
okay, I'm pulling it upnow
I'venever used this before
this is weird huh?

Michael
11:44
ok
it very simple

SupremeThor
11:44
I'm kind of glad you called I was thinking about you the other day

Michael
11:44
You can visit there website for instant transfer within a second transfer on www.westernunion.com

SupremeThor
11:45
yeah I'm on the site right now

Michael
11:45
ok
just click on send money
you will find it in the website

SupremeThor
11:45
did you ever break up with that girl?
oh i have to make a new account

Michael
11:47
ok

SupremeThor
11:47
but anyways, are you single again?

Michael
11:48
am not sure that is necessary
am not sure that is necessary
all you have to do is to use your credit cards

SupremeThor
11:48
i miss the way you smelled

Michael
11:48
you dont need any acc again

SupremeThor
11:50
it keeps tellingme to make one
do you ever think about that night?

Michael
11:50
hmmm
yea
but please i really need the cash
we will talks about this as soon as am back
ok
so are you still on the website
?

SupremeThor
11:53
noone has ever made love to me like that

Michael
11:54
hmm
ye
yea*

SupremeThor
11:54
the way you were just on your back

Michael
11:54
try and creat an acc and do the transfer

SupremeThor
11:54
with me thrusting into you

Michael
11:54
ok?

SupremeThor
11:55
don't you care about us?!

Michael
11:55
I do
and you know that
but i need your help nw
you are not showing me any concern
why?

SupremeThor
11:56
oh I'm gonna help you so hard
we need to get your hot ass back home!
okay I'mon it
okay, did it go through?

Michael
11:58
hey, this is really me now

SupremeThor
11:58
ooooh

Michael
11:58
no money needed

SupremeThor
11:58
things were just getting interesting!
lol

Michael
11:59
lol ya i can see

SupremeThor
11:59
we were cybering with your nigerian friend o.0
anyway...

Michael
11:59
i have a nigerian friend

SupremeThor
11:59
don't click on bad links

Michael
11:59
?

SupremeThor
11:59
well, whoever hyjacked your account
my roommate was having too much fun with it all!
although i'm glad you didn't really get mugged in london

Michael
12:00
me too

SupremeThor
12:01
anyway
i'm going to go find lunch!

Michael
12:01
thanks for the heads up justin

Ice Skating

I took some time off from the massive amount of studying I'm trying to pull off and went ice skating again tonight. That makes 3 times in 3 weeks so far. After the initial improvement bloom on my first time I'm still pretty slow and a weak skater. You'd think that running all the time would give me a boon in skating... and you'd be wrong. Last week I noticed that my ankles sink inwards and that causes my blades to meet the ice weird. This week I busted out my foot arch support and shoved it in my boot. It definitely help, but didn't fix the problem my far. I think it has to do a lot with how I rest myself on my ankles, I naturally just relax them inwardly instead of standing on top. I've decide to spend this next 7 days trying to walk on top of my foot instead on the inside. I'm hoping it'll build up more support.