The Darnedest.

Recently, I've found that events of my childhood have become so relevant.

It started with Daria.
Bike Riding.
Captain Planet.
Vegetarianism - I used to hate meat, for reasons I don't even remember. My friend Data (who grew up a vegetarian) told me that he has high cholesterol because he started eating meat. It makes so much sense.
I learned the probability of rock paper scissors in economics class today.
and legos


Now, every thing relates back to childhood and so I've reverting back to my ways when I was so much smarter. This includes jokes about poop and I will always think boys have cooties.

Gold cont'd...

I've also been thinking a lot about gold, thanks to those commercials. Don't you find it strange that we value something for the simple fact that it is pretty? I suppose it's rare, but gold isn't a particularly strong metal, so it's not at all practical in use. It's value is based strictly on the shallow tastes of we humans.

Don't even get me started on the idea of the entire US Treasury being based on the gold standard....Platinum and diamonds I can understand. At least they're hard.

Am I just missing some very important aspect of gold that makes it worth caring about?

I think gold sucks--it causes nothing but strife.

the Gold Business?

Have we humans mined all the gold in the world?
If so, how is new gold jewelry made.
Just something I've been pondering for a while now ever since those Cash 4 Gold commericals play. I've been meaning to ask the Cash 4 Gold guy but tv's can't talk... yet.

friday

tonight my roommate and I are staying in to make paintings on plywood (that we bought at lowes. how suburban of us) for our walls instead of going out and getting drunk. it's going to be great. it will be a collage of four panels consisting of the following:

1. a fat bird wearing a scarf saying "I gotta learn some new songs"
2. a fat, bored-looking walrus saying "you discussed me"
3. a cat named craig who claims to "keep it real part time"
4. 2 questionable looking hoodlums wearing hoodies saying "just trust us"

drawings by her, paint by me. plywood by dudes at lowes

pictures and more 30+ year old phrases to come. get ready.
so industrious, right?

30 year old words and phrases

What are some words and phrases you can only use past the age of 30.
lollygag

The video I stole off Erik's Wall that you posted

http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1899230
First of all, it sounds like my Copenhagen mornings, when the truck comes to pick up the bottles outside of Fakta at 7 in the morning while also unknowingly acting as my alarm. I don't know if you experienced that because you were in the middle.

Its so Danish
1. Tuborg, Carlsberg, Dansk Pilsner in absurd amounts
2. Starts off with some guy on the toilet (Danes are so pornographic)
3. Foosball table
4. "We are the Champions" song

Not so Danish
1. pi
2. Slow motion, they're supposed to use that special type of filming Moans taught us about.
3. Overhead lights?
4. Not recycling their bottles!!

i love high school

So my friend jin kyung and I are in this really fantastic Greek Civilization class together that is basically just like high school. He gives us the answers to quizzes and on Fridays we watch group presentations and get snacks. Jin and I decided that we should enhance our own knowledge of greek culture and watch the movie Troy while eating Korean food.

We drove half an hour to the nearest korean market and then made a feast for our friends and made everyone watch Troy with us. The food was delicious and the movie was AWFUL. haha

Let's go to Korea some time, you will be the navigator.

I'm pretty sure that is the moral of this anecdote.

Midnight Brownie

I had a brownie before going to sleep,
mid dream, my dreams turned off. That's when I knew, it was no ordinary brownie.

Time to market?

THE TIME IS NOW!

I thought of that during physics today and started laughing audibly.
I wonder what Neils thought of our business plan. I wonder how to properly spell Niels.

Have I told you about the website I'm planning on launching (goright.com)? If so, we should be business partners, if not, I should tell you the plan....It will sweep the nation, which is, it seems, exactly what this nation needs!

What's weirder than laughing?

I think you were saying that laughing is innate,
but what about smiling? It's almost the same, but that's something that's learned and something that's cultural.



How much do you want a polser right now?
I've been craving it for three days straight.

Christian-an appropriately danish name for a lion

Have I sent this to you?

you must watch it:

HEARTWARMING

Mine too

My weekend was equally uneventful. I sat in adam (whom you've met) and will's apartment (practically home) and subjected my brain to similar treatment two nights in a row. On Sunday I too proceeded to study with tea in hand (also compliments of my roommate).

On a lighter note,

Anthony visited Bowdoin this weekend! It was really nice to see him, he's more asian than I remembered, which is refreshing. On Thursday my friend Jin-kyung and I are making a Korean feast and watching Troy, and then maybe all 5 Saw movies. Gross. Straightdope.com may also come into play.

I've been trying to look up what you and Erik were talking about with the evolutionary significance of women and the types of make-up they wear but have thus far been completely unsuccessful.

Help...

My weekend

It was quite uneventful.
I'm too depressed to go out and have fun. I could have subjected myself to one of two tortures: go to a frat party, and that just seems dumb because no one there has any substance or sat at home and watch my guy roommates and their friends complain that there is nothing to do. I chose the later and treated my brain to that thing we do at Christiania. and then I fell asleep before I could even talk to Eric. That's the truth, I think he called at 12 and I was probably already passed out. Sad.
Then I proceeded to study all day with tea in hand. Only there were just two varieties. My old roommate bought a decaffenated tea, so really there was one. Where was Alyssa's variety pack? I spent the rest of my money on groceries, nothing new. Enjoyed a lean pocket. Procrastinated my studying by filling out one of those chain notes on facebook where you're supposed to write 25 interesting facts about yourself, except I pressed the back button and they erased when I was halfway through. I was fuming, so I had a treat.
All in all, a loser's weekend. I did discover why I'm afraid of the dark. I had a traumatic experience playing man hunt.

The era of Kim, Erik, and Jane (in no particular order)

I talked to Erik last night and got so nostalgic.

How much do you hate the fact that things can never be as they were?

my friend had a really interesting insight about people with a dent in their chin (more commonly known as a "butt" chin.

he decided that humans will evolve past the butt chin, since no one wants to procreate with anyone that has one. soon the butt chined ones will become functionally extinct

a friend of mine just had the best revelation
on the subject of cock eyed humans

"they have permanent 180 vision; they can see all around them"

Haha I am the absolute picture of sobriety in some of those pictures. I'm so glad you were able to see them. I am also glad you noticed the OUTRAGEOUS amounts of plaid my friends were sporting for my birthday celebration. I need more plaid. a lot more plaid.

Anyway, I think I am going to Big Bend for spring break this year. It will be the ultimate in Texan activities. If you really go to Chicago this summer I will absolutely fly out to see you.

What's sad is I have nothing of substance to report. Today is Wednesday, so hopefully I make some important insights later on this evening. I'm sure a planet earth DVD or two will be involved...

Last Wednesday I considered the concept of smiling. Why do humans (and mini humans) smile as a sign of happiness? Blind babies smile. This must be of some importance..

P.S.

I did indeed liquor up those poor lobsters. Ever since I was an actual mini-human I demanded that my grandfather sacrifice some of his gin to anesthetize them. Now that I am of age I can do it myself.

P.P.S.

I wish I could retain information like I could in 5th grade. Ex: the mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell. Spanish conquistadors were looking for the three G's; gold, glory, and god..etc.

I haven't learned anything that thoroughly in years...thoughts? comments? suggestions?

Pictures comments I'm not allowed to make

I have a lot of comments for you from the picture Scarlett took. Yes I took a peekie. But since I'm not allowed to comment on photos of non-friends, here they are.

1. did you liquor up your lobster? (8/60)
2. Maine seems to have a lot of places to sight see
3. someone like knees (50/60)
4. i'm glad someone else besides me loves plaid (53/60)
5. death row (2/60)
6. Kim turns 1 and i'm pretty sure that's just water in your wine glass.
7. that cat looks pissed
8. i like your hair

I would be impressed if you could peel a real orange in one piece.
I tried to peel one of those super California sunkist oranges, but ended up in a four piece failure. Not like those 10 kr clementines. Those were the good days.

Cutco cuts through pennies, and easily through fingernails. ouch.
Tell your friend I'm sorry and that I won't be able to meet her until her fingernail has fully regrown because thats gross and I might not want to be a friend to such a defect.

I went "Cosmic bowling" last night. Townies are a special breed of human. One mini human was shaking her booty and singing along to Biggie,"I used to read word up magazines" when I'm sure she was too young to know how to read. They are the kind of people you read about but don't really think exist. Americans in unfortunate circumstances such as obesity and illiteracy. The type that don't own a computer. I've been hearing alot of these people lately and can't figure out how they live life without the internet.

Speaking of the internet, latest I've been wikipedia-ing is String theory.
I'm growing a strange attraction to physicists - the ones no one understands.

excess

This was one of those mornings where your astringent has too much alcohol content to bear. My roommate is at the hospital having her fingertip reattached because she tried to cut limes with a cutco knife last night. Bad call, good night.

The video isn't working, but thanks to the thumbnail I'm really jonesing for some haggis right now...FIX ITTT

I had a moment yesterday. I was buying my first legal alcohol at the grocery store and the cashier was a 200 year old woman. She checked my ID and since it's an out-of-stater she had to get managerial approval. She calls over her manager and he honestly looks 14. He took a look at my ID, smiled, said congratulations, and walked away.

Too bad it wasn't captured.

PS

this was honestly the best present I got. so well-tailored.

birthday gift for Kim

So here's the original gift. Since it was too big to send through email and Youtube rejected it. Blogger made it way faster that it was, so you may have to pause in between to figure out the secret message.

I think it was fate that this was the only place I could upload to because it led to part 2 of the gift - the best part. I couldn't leave it at just the video. I thought of a brilliant plan of how to extend the gift for a lifetime. Because people like gifts that are long lasting. So naturally, I made this blog for you and me because I couldn't get enough of those facebook messages and because the internet is forever (my grandkids might regret me saying that once this blog gets published as the greatest thing ever written. They'll be saying "oh, grandma" while rolling their tiny eyes). I picked the background with the least appealing name "dark dots" (they could be anything) and I've given you the chore of writing in the blog whenever you feel like it. I know you're probably not the first person to be a blogger, but I think I'm forcing you. It'll be quite good.

Jane