It was suppose to snow last night/this morning...and so far...not a flake. All the schools were closed...all of them in middle Tennessee. ALL OF THEM. And yet I'm still here at work. It was suppose to start with rain, then move to freezing rain, and then snow. It was going to be bad.
SWEET MOTHER OF JESUS!
I get to go home at 11:00.... I just got the email.
That's what bothers me. I have to wake up, drive here, do no work (because 1. it's friday 2. I do my best work after 11:00 anyways), and then drive home in the freezing rain. Goodness, there is no making me happy is there. And I was lying, I do my best work between 9 and 11 anyways. Honostly.
Last night I went out to eat with some friends. I was a little stressed out because I've been so tired this week and I went out on Tuesday night too. We decided to go to La Hacienda which is a delicious Mexican place on Nolensville Road, but it's also the "white" mexican place on that road. It's where all the whites go...the mexican's get their tacos from the Taco Trucks. I can't wait until I get a taco from one of them! So we get to La Hacienda and it's closed. Like closed closed where the sign is taken down and there is a small crane thing out front. This was pretty sad because I really did enjoy the one time we ate there before. It was amazingly good. We had to switch our plans on the fly and ended up going to an Ethiopian place that was literally around the corner.
It's called Gojo Ethiopian and it was amazing and sooo relaxing. The server guy, who I suspect is the owner, was nice, joked around with us, and was just pleasant. He took forever to take our order and bring us our checks and even pick them up. This was perfect because we took forever doing all of that too because we were so busy talking. The night I was stressing about turned out wonderful. I must say I was only stressing because I'm a big baby, and they were only little stresses.
I also got to bed by 9:40 and was able to get a full 8 hours of sleep...i think. I kept on waking up and it didn't seem so restful. But it was sort of like Christmas Eve...I couldn't wait to see all the snow in the morning and sleep in and have a snow day. I even dreamed that 6 inches of snow fell.
Friday, January 29, 2010
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
Evading Full Service
The other day I spent all day reading Jurassic Park during a tornado warning for some part of TN and there was a tornado touch down confirmed. I was very nervous about driving out into to the tornado and I was very scared of raptors jumping out of all the closets in my apartment and eating me. So I was spooked and I had to drive to Tamara's boyfriend's house to watch the game. It was dusk and windy and freaky-right-before-a-storm out and I could perfectly visualize a t-rex in the trees. And then I realized I forgot my phone and had to walk through it all again back to my apartment from my truck. Finally, ready to go and hopefully raptor free, I decided to stop for gas. The gas meter gets stuck and I was just under 1/2 a tank, but I thought I should be more so...which I was. So I stopped, got out of my car, and a guy leaped out of no where asking me if I wanted complete service for a little change. I froze. Maybe if I didn't move he wouldnt' see me, just like the dinosaurs. I didn't know if he worked there and I accidentally picked the full service gas pump, but I knew that couldn't be it because this is Antioch. No one here wants that. I told him I didn't have any change, which is true, I survive solely off plastic.
That's a lie, I did have some cash on me, but I wasn't going to give it to him! First of all, I'd have to open and unscrew the gas cap b/c it locks and I have the key to unlock it, and second of all, why would I pay to have someone wash my windows? That's my favorite part of getting gas! The whole thing was very awkward...I could appreciate what he was doing...trying to work for his money, I just don't like to be caught unawares. Plus he had a very nice coat on, he didn't look too homeless...not that that matter much. I was just afraid of dinosaurs and very confused.
That's a lie, I did have some cash on me, but I wasn't going to give it to him! First of all, I'd have to open and unscrew the gas cap b/c it locks and I have the key to unlock it, and second of all, why would I pay to have someone wash my windows? That's my favorite part of getting gas! The whole thing was very awkward...I could appreciate what he was doing...trying to work for his money, I just don't like to be caught unawares. Plus he had a very nice coat on, he didn't look too homeless...not that that matter much. I was just afraid of dinosaurs and very confused.
Monday, January 25, 2010
Save Ourselves Not Earth
I got into a really neat discussion on facebook the other week with some people about how no matter how much humans screw up the Earth and the environment, the Earth will survive and live on, even if people die (probably especially if humans die off) and that I find that comforting. Some people thought this wasn't very nice of me to say, that I hoped humans died of asphyxiation. Which is not what I said, I just meant that everytime I see my neighbors warming up their car in 40 degree weather for five minutes I don't go apeshit and start hyperventilating because THEY ARE DESTROYING THE ENVIRONMENT AND ADDING TO GLOBAL WARMING. Instead I take a few deep breaths and remember that compared to the Earth, humans are just a small fart.
Side note: I hope humans die out from a supervolcano eruption, preferably Yellowstone. Oh man I'd be there for that, no doubt.
I finished Jurassic Park, and if you can believe it, Ian Malcom (played by Jeff Goldbloom in the movie) put into words much better than I could about how the Earth will survive. I would copy it here for you but it took him 2.5 pages to do it and I'm not retyping all of that. I think it's pages 367-369 so you can go check in your copy. Everyone in my following has a copy of Jurassic Park right?
From my memory what he said is that the Earth is 4.5 billion years old...and in the beginning oxygen was a toxic gas, but life adapted to it and survived...and it is still a corrosive gas, like fluorine, we're just used to it. Then large insects came and went, and large sea animals came and went, and then the dinosaurs came and went, and then large mammals came and went, and now the humans come and soon we'll go. He says that no matter what we do...nuclear bomb everything completely, in time life will continue onwards and re-evolve into something even different than it is now.
But if you want to save the Human Race then we must save the environment.
Here's proof that Earth will survive. About 30,000 million years give or take after earth formed a GIANT asteroid hit Earth at an angle, instantly evaporating all of the rocks. There was an atmosphere of silica which is the main component of most all our rocks. The asteroid continued onwards, but became stuck in a new orbit around Earth. We now call this asteroid the moon. Life grew from a planet that was at one point gaseous silica. There is even thoughts/arguments that life existed before the moon hit earth and then had to start over!
This is just so exciting!
Side note: I hope humans die out from a supervolcano eruption, preferably Yellowstone. Oh man I'd be there for that, no doubt.
I finished Jurassic Park, and if you can believe it, Ian Malcom (played by Jeff Goldbloom in the movie) put into words much better than I could about how the Earth will survive. I would copy it here for you but it took him 2.5 pages to do it and I'm not retyping all of that. I think it's pages 367-369 so you can go check in your copy. Everyone in my following has a copy of Jurassic Park right?
From my memory what he said is that the Earth is 4.5 billion years old...and in the beginning oxygen was a toxic gas, but life adapted to it and survived...and it is still a corrosive gas, like fluorine, we're just used to it. Then large insects came and went, and large sea animals came and went, and then the dinosaurs came and went, and then large mammals came and went, and now the humans come and soon we'll go. He says that no matter what we do...nuclear bomb everything completely, in time life will continue onwards and re-evolve into something even different than it is now.
But if you want to save the Human Race then we must save the environment.
Here's proof that Earth will survive. About 30,000 million years give or take after earth formed a GIANT asteroid hit Earth at an angle, instantly evaporating all of the rocks. There was an atmosphere of silica which is the main component of most all our rocks. The asteroid continued onwards, but became stuck in a new orbit around Earth. We now call this asteroid the moon. Life grew from a planet that was at one point gaseous silica. There is even thoughts/arguments that life existed before the moon hit earth and then had to start over!
This is just so exciting!
Saturday, January 23, 2010
RrrAWWRrrr Velociraptor Attack!!!!!
Sometimes I get annoyed at Facebook. Today is one of those times. It's just too much. Too many people, too many words, too many opinions. It's this big mass of people and thought that's uncontrolled. Oh well, I'll get over it.
Josh says that in 10 yrs there won't be enough airwaves left to support how many cell phones there will be. That's something.
We put my bedskirt on my bed today. It's pretty cheap looking, but I like it.... I don't want to give my bed airs or anything.
Oh yeah, yesterday Josh officially got his Associate's degree and got his transcript updated! So now he is Associate Josh and I am Master Lindy.
I'm reading Jurassic Park right now by Micheal Crichton. It's an AWESOME book. It deals with several of my favorite things:
1. Geologists albeit paleontologists
2. Dinosaurs
3. Ian Malcom whom I will always picture as Jeff Goldbloom
4. Fractals
5. Chaos theory - which is not my favorite but Dr. Ian Malcom is constantly relating it to using math to study turbulance and the weather...some of my more favorite subjects to ponder and study on the side....it reminds me of Dr. Furbish
6. Dinosaurs
7. Velociraptors - even though they scare me
I love it when movies and books are able to apply the science well enough that you don't see through it. That's what Mr. Crichton is able to do in this book. I think he does it in his other books as well, but I haven't read them so I don't know for sure. Avatar was not necessarily written by I scientist I think, but they definitely had consultants to help make it more believable.
I think velociraptors are probably some of the scariest things out there. The book describes them as even faster and smarter than the movie does. This is probably because the mind can imagine it so, while robotic velociraptors probably just can't move fast enough. I remember when that movie came out. My dad took my siblings and I to see it in the theatre and it was soooo awesome! I was also too scared to go outside alone for a week after that. And then at night I would remember all the times I was outside alone or near the woods and would imagine how easy it was be for a T-Rex to leap out and eat me. Or the spitting one with the neck flaps that killed Newman. That's the worst dinosaur there is! I still don't watch that scene. Then Good Morning America did a peice on the movie exploring how they made the dinosaurs and how they made them so realistic. And it's still realistic, even though they didn't use computer animation! That's what's so amazing. Sometimes I think computer animation takes away from the creativity of movies...but I also think that's changing. It's a new medium and people are still exploring what they can do with it. Soon someone will do it right and it'll be awesome.
Josh says that in 10 yrs there won't be enough airwaves left to support how many cell phones there will be. That's something.
We put my bedskirt on my bed today. It's pretty cheap looking, but I like it.... I don't want to give my bed airs or anything.
Oh yeah, yesterday Josh officially got his Associate's degree and got his transcript updated! So now he is Associate Josh and I am Master Lindy.
I'm reading Jurassic Park right now by Micheal Crichton. It's an AWESOME book. It deals with several of my favorite things:
1. Geologists albeit paleontologists
2. Dinosaurs
3. Ian Malcom whom I will always picture as Jeff Goldbloom
4. Fractals
5. Chaos theory - which is not my favorite but Dr. Ian Malcom is constantly relating it to using math to study turbulance and the weather...some of my more favorite subjects to ponder and study on the side....it reminds me of Dr. Furbish
6. Dinosaurs
7. Velociraptors - even though they scare me
I love it when movies and books are able to apply the science well enough that you don't see through it. That's what Mr. Crichton is able to do in this book. I think he does it in his other books as well, but I haven't read them so I don't know for sure. Avatar was not necessarily written by I scientist I think, but they definitely had consultants to help make it more believable.
I think velociraptors are probably some of the scariest things out there. The book describes them as even faster and smarter than the movie does. This is probably because the mind can imagine it so, while robotic velociraptors probably just can't move fast enough. I remember when that movie came out. My dad took my siblings and I to see it in the theatre and it was soooo awesome! I was also too scared to go outside alone for a week after that. And then at night I would remember all the times I was outside alone or near the woods and would imagine how easy it was be for a T-Rex to leap out and eat me. Or the spitting one with the neck flaps that killed Newman. That's the worst dinosaur there is! I still don't watch that scene. Then Good Morning America did a peice on the movie exploring how they made the dinosaurs and how they made them so realistic. And it's still realistic, even though they didn't use computer animation! That's what's so amazing. Sometimes I think computer animation takes away from the creativity of movies...but I also think that's changing. It's a new medium and people are still exploring what they can do with it. Soon someone will do it right and it'll be awesome.
Thursday, January 21, 2010
Excited For The Mail
Last year Josh and I went as Damn Liberals for Halloween. I'm not sure that the hardcore Texan closet republicans knew what to make of it, but I suspect they were offended. Just for good measure of course.
It rained and thunderstormed all day yesterday, and I think may again today. That's okay with me.
I exercised for one hour yesterday and the day before! Today I am going to go on a 1/2 hr walk on the elliptical I think, and then play racket ball when I get home. And maybe sit in the sauna my apartment complex provides but I always forget about.
Today I think I look cute, but I also feel a little witchy. It's because I am wearing ankle boots with a short skirt. I'm not particularly a fan of ankle boots without jeans. Anyways, it's a new dress I got at TJ Max. It's brown,green,cream plaid, and cowgirl ish. It stops at my knees and is a v-neck. I found a cream belt I had to wear with it and it looks a lot better. It's a large and I think that's why I don't like it...it fits me well, but it doesn't accentuate my features. Oh well, it was on clearance and it works for at work. I can also wear my brown tights underneath for warmth.
I get 25$ gift cards to amazon.com from my credit card and sometimes I have a hard time using them. I think that I need to get the best thing possible for my money or something I actually need to save money since it's basically free. And it stresses me out and then I don't use them. So last night, I had 2, and I just picked out things I want! I got some stuff I need (cableing needles), and some stuff I want. I got some more princess books, books on many different ways to cable knit, a book on FaireIsle Knitting which I've been wanting, a mini-flower press b/c it was the cheapest thing I could find and would knock me into free shipping, a book that describes different people you see in large comedic stereotypes, and maybe another princess book. I'm pretty pumped and can't wait for it to come in! 5-7 days. Shipping sure has gotten a lot faster. I think it's the processing the order time that has been greatly reduced I think.
Last night in WoW, Josh and I attacked an elite volcano elemental who just wouldn't take any damage. It was an epic 5 min. battle where both of us ran out of mana and he threw me off the side of the volcano mountain. It was intense. We kicked his ass in the end, and all he gave us was some tar pitch. I think we may have to kill him again for a quest because there is a trunk in his cave that we can't open...and we are on a quest chain in that area too. When he came back to life (nothing in WoW stays dead for long), a human palidan came along and killed him sooo fast! But he was 8 levels above Josh and I, and did drop down to 100 hitpoints. I contemplated taking him out while he was weak...but decided to be nice.
It rained and thunderstormed all day yesterday, and I think may again today. That's okay with me.
I exercised for one hour yesterday and the day before! Today I am going to go on a 1/2 hr walk on the elliptical I think, and then play racket ball when I get home. And maybe sit in the sauna my apartment complex provides but I always forget about.
Today I think I look cute, but I also feel a little witchy. It's because I am wearing ankle boots with a short skirt. I'm not particularly a fan of ankle boots without jeans. Anyways, it's a new dress I got at TJ Max. It's brown,green,cream plaid, and cowgirl ish. It stops at my knees and is a v-neck. I found a cream belt I had to wear with it and it looks a lot better. It's a large and I think that's why I don't like it...it fits me well, but it doesn't accentuate my features. Oh well, it was on clearance and it works for at work. I can also wear my brown tights underneath for warmth.
I get 25$ gift cards to amazon.com from my credit card and sometimes I have a hard time using them. I think that I need to get the best thing possible for my money or something I actually need to save money since it's basically free. And it stresses me out and then I don't use them. So last night, I had 2, and I just picked out things I want! I got some stuff I need (cableing needles), and some stuff I want. I got some more princess books, books on many different ways to cable knit, a book on FaireIsle Knitting which I've been wanting, a mini-flower press b/c it was the cheapest thing I could find and would knock me into free shipping, a book that describes different people you see in large comedic stereotypes, and maybe another princess book. I'm pretty pumped and can't wait for it to come in! 5-7 days. Shipping sure has gotten a lot faster. I think it's the processing the order time that has been greatly reduced I think.
Last night in WoW, Josh and I attacked an elite volcano elemental who just wouldn't take any damage. It was an epic 5 min. battle where both of us ran out of mana and he threw me off the side of the volcano mountain. It was intense. We kicked his ass in the end, and all he gave us was some tar pitch. I think we may have to kill him again for a quest because there is a trunk in his cave that we can't open...and we are on a quest chain in that area too. When he came back to life (nothing in WoW stays dead for long), a human palidan came along and killed him sooo fast! But he was 8 levels above Josh and I, and did drop down to 100 hitpoints. I contemplated taking him out while he was weak...but decided to be nice.
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
Prank Calling A Town
The town of Goodlettesville has a commercial on tv and it ends with a phone number. Josh and I always want to prank call Goodlettesville. Side note: I'm spelling Goodlettesville wrong and the number one suggestion I get, when I right click on it, of what it should be spelled is Bloodletting. I like that.
Monday, January 18, 2010
Soul Sucking
I am so sad. I found the flyer for the Zoo 5k I was going to run, and found out it is next Saturday. So that's an Epic Fail. I was really going to prepare and run it too. I love the zoo. I suppose Josh and I could sign up and walk it.
I'm really going to get into shape this time though. I want to not feel this old and tired and worn out.
If I had a redo, I wouldn't have done research in undergrad and then I wouldn't have gone to such a high end school like vanderbilt. I would have gone out west to ISU or something. I would have spent a semester abroad. I would have gotten an internship for the summer. Though internships would have been hard because some don't pay, and I don't know how students can do that. I have a suspicion that they get help from parents but I could be wrong.
I went to Wal-Mart today for the first time in probably over a year. It was overwhelming and I didn't like it. Luckily I had a list and I stuck to it for the most part. I got a bed skirt, a wooden foldable clothes dryer hanger thing (so things can air dry), a clearance sweater, 3 house plants for my house and office, buttons for a jacket I got from the good will, and a new set of sheets. I don't need a new set but these were 14$ and were a cute small flower print. I've been looking for a print like this since I saw some in Jon's aunt's cabin 4 yrs ago or so. This cabin has 7 or 8 beds and a closet full of sheets from the 70's. It also has a drawer with a lavender jumpsuit in it.
Oh and Josh found a Doritos stand in the middle of all the women's clothes and he picked out a bag.
Then we ate lunch at Pyramid's Cafe, a greek place in the Hickory Hollow Mall food court. Yes, we went to the mall to eat at the food court. We didn't even stop to look in any stores. But Pyramid's is sooo good! The ladies and the guys who work there always recognize me and Josh and are so happy to see us!
The Chic-fil-A was closed. Chic-fil-A is a chicken fast food joint...EVERYONE southern seems to LOVE it, but I think it's sorta bland and boring. They tell me it's real chicken therefore it's good and worth it, but what's fake chicken? It's a processed chicken breast on a bun that's been fried in butter with one pickle and one slice of lettuce on it. That's it. And I think that's about all they sell. There are also the waffle fries which I guess are the next best thing to heaven...but they are just good waffle fries. I don't know...I don't like any of the chicken fast food places. I can list them for you: Mrs. Winners, Chic-fil-A, bojangles, KFC, Church's, and Popeye's. I've only been to Chic-fil-A, and I don't think I'll go again. Josh says the one in the mall scored a 78 on it's sanitation before it closed. I've never heard of a restaurant scoring that low. I also wonder if that's why it closed. I most certainly wouldn't knowingly eat at a place that scored under 90!
Oh and I was told by a friend that people couldn't leave comments. I went into my settings and I am pretty sure I fixed that so now people can.
I'm really going to get into shape this time though. I want to not feel this old and tired and worn out.
If I had a redo, I wouldn't have done research in undergrad and then I wouldn't have gone to such a high end school like vanderbilt. I would have gone out west to ISU or something. I would have spent a semester abroad. I would have gotten an internship for the summer. Though internships would have been hard because some don't pay, and I don't know how students can do that. I have a suspicion that they get help from parents but I could be wrong.
I went to Wal-Mart today for the first time in probably over a year. It was overwhelming and I didn't like it. Luckily I had a list and I stuck to it for the most part. I got a bed skirt, a wooden foldable clothes dryer hanger thing (so things can air dry), a clearance sweater, 3 house plants for my house and office, buttons for a jacket I got from the good will, and a new set of sheets. I don't need a new set but these were 14$ and were a cute small flower print. I've been looking for a print like this since I saw some in Jon's aunt's cabin 4 yrs ago or so. This cabin has 7 or 8 beds and a closet full of sheets from the 70's. It also has a drawer with a lavender jumpsuit in it.
Oh and Josh found a Doritos stand in the middle of all the women's clothes and he picked out a bag.
Then we ate lunch at Pyramid's Cafe, a greek place in the Hickory Hollow Mall food court. Yes, we went to the mall to eat at the food court. We didn't even stop to look in any stores. But Pyramid's is sooo good! The ladies and the guys who work there always recognize me and Josh and are so happy to see us!
The Chic-fil-A was closed. Chic-fil-A is a chicken fast food joint...EVERYONE southern seems to LOVE it, but I think it's sorta bland and boring. They tell me it's real chicken therefore it's good and worth it, but what's fake chicken? It's a processed chicken breast on a bun that's been fried in butter with one pickle and one slice of lettuce on it. That's it. And I think that's about all they sell. There are also the waffle fries which I guess are the next best thing to heaven...but they are just good waffle fries. I don't know...I don't like any of the chicken fast food places. I can list them for you: Mrs. Winners, Chic-fil-A, bojangles, KFC, Church's, and Popeye's. I've only been to Chic-fil-A, and I don't think I'll go again. Josh says the one in the mall scored a 78 on it's sanitation before it closed. I've never heard of a restaurant scoring that low. I also wonder if that's why it closed. I most certainly wouldn't knowingly eat at a place that scored under 90!
Oh and I was told by a friend that people couldn't leave comments. I went into my settings and I am pretty sure I fixed that so now people can.
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