I recently bought the "Step into my OFfice, Baby" single from Belle and Sebastian.
This is what it looked like when I opened the case:



I don't know if you guys know this song, but the picture/quote fits it perfectly. SO CUTE! I LOVE BELLE AND SEBASTIAN!

Having three midterms three days in a row is better than having them all on one day...but it sucks to take a hard test, and go home and start studying immediately for the next one! Gah.

It kind of blows my mind that scientists were able to do this.

Rather awkward and amusing events seem to be occuring quite often in my life as of late.

Situation #1: Awkward
Kate and a boy are heading toward the same table in the Quad.
KATE: Are you going to sit there?
HIM: Um, yeah, but we can share.
KATE: (jokingly) Well, it's kind of an unwritten rule that people don't share tables. Ha ha.
HIM: (uncomfortable, not understanding it was a joke) Well...uh...you can sit there if you want.
KATE: (gives up on trying to be witty) Ok.

Situation #2: Awkward, yet Amusing
Kate is biking on campus. Her water bottle falls out of backpack, the lid comes off and sprays all over the ground. She stops her bike, walks over to get the bottle, and in doing so knocks over her bike. Innocent bystander (small Asian girl) compassionately comes over and lifts up bike for Kate.
KATE: Thank you!
(Kate accidentally splashes water on innocent bystander in the process of taking hold of the bike. )

This is why I love the internet. Turn your sound up, it's so much more satisfying!

It seems like every time I listen to the Smiths, I fall in love with them again. Sure, all their songs sound the same, but who can resist Morrissey's voice and the poetic/bizarre lyrics? I especially love the songs "That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore," and "Bigmouth Strikes Again."

Oh Morrissey. You speak to me. Even though I don't understand half of what you say.

Did you miss me?

So...pretending like I have a life isn't really working. It's nice to have free time, but sometimes I feel a little like a LOSER. So I need to find a job or something, or at least something I can volunteer for.
Until then there's always homework and Facebook. And BLOGGER of course!

And Corie turning my dog blue on Photoshop. She's so talented! Yes, this is what we do for fun in Davis sometimes.

I am totally convinced from my experience of working with poor people that they can get themselves out of poverty if we give them the same or similar opportunities we give to others. The poor themselves can create a poverty-free world — all we have to do is to free them from the chains that we have put around them. ~ Muhammad Yunus

Eh.
I'm getting a little tired of updating this blog. So I think I might take a sabbatical from posting for a bit, just for a short time, while I pretend to have a life. And yes, I've decided it's called a sabbatical. :)

You know you're avoiding work when you're looking at a website with pictures of bunnies yawning. These pictures actually creep me out quite a bit. What is it that can be so sinister about these little fluffy creatures? Is it just me?
PS-Number 30 is especially frightening.

Download Festival!

Yesterday I (and Chris and Dan and Dylan and his roommates) went to the Download Festival in San Jose. It was a pretty good concert, considering how big the venue was. I mean, we were on the grass way up behind the regular seating,

so it was hard to see the performers, but taking that into account, it was definitely worth the thirty bucks. And I got to see BECK!!

As I told Dylan afterwards, I think Beck may quite possibly be one of the coolest people I've seen, possibly even cooler than JACK WHITE! And that's saying a lot, as I'm sure all my dedicated readers know.

Note, however, that the sentence contains the word "possibly."
Anyway, I digress.
We also saw the Yeah Yeah Yeahs (Karen O. is a great performer; I thought she did a great job even though I don't really dig the music so much).

Muse did a really good set as well. The Shins were alright. They definitely lacked energy, which was the problem at the last two concerts I saw them at. But yeah, some good performances for sure. TV on the Radio was a nice surprise, since I didn't really know their stuff, but I'm definitely thinking about buying their CD now.
And I got to see my seester! I don't think Leah reads this, but it was really nice to meet up with her for a bit and chat during the breaks. AND she gave me a sweatshirt to wear when it got cold.
Ok, I am rambling quite a bit. I should go to bed, since I actually have to get up a decent hour tomorrow. Good night!

Rejection. Not fun.

Argghhh...I finally put the effort into finding an internship related to my major, heard about one that was interesting, applied, interviewed, moved around my schedule for it, and then they say I don't have enough availability in my schedule! So no job.
I really need to get some linguistic experience here!! This is quite frustrating.

The White Stripes were on The Simpsons! (Their real voices and everything, so cool.)

"The National Intelligence Estimate's conclusion that the war in Iraq is 'a cause celebre for jihadists' and "breeds a deep resentment of US involvement in the Muslim world...' is the intelligence equivalent of the little boy who pointed out that the emperor had no clothes."--BBC article today

Can the situation be any MORE obvious?!

Yes, there has been a dearth of posts lately, although I haven't really been busy until the last few days. I went to Vegas! Cammy was here! And most importantly, I suppose, classes start tomorrow!

I've taken quite a few photos since being in Davis, so if ya wanna check 'em out, I've posted them in a Facebook album (so much easier than here). Here is a pic to give you an idea of the wonders that await you, should you go to my photo album:

I need to remind myself during times of boredom like right now that Facebook is not, in fact, an integral part of life.

ps-I finally have internet. (yay!)

I AM IN DAVIS. And I have no internet. Until Tuesday, that is, if everything goes as planned. Unless I go to the MU and sit out in the cold at night, like I am right now. I guess I could go during the day as well, but it's way more fun to just put it off until late, in my opinion.

Et finalement, I will be in Davis on the morrow. And apparently I will no longer be speaking the good English. There goes my future learning kids as an ESL teacher.
Any chance Davis'll be cooler than here? Pishaw!

PS-I have fallen in love with The Office. The American one. It has stolen my heart. I didn't think it could beat the British original, but it has. Hooray for three-episode-in-a-row reruns on NBC!

Yeah...root canal was yesterday. And it's not nearly as bad as I expected. SO FAR (cue evil laughter from somewhere above me). I All they did so far was take out the tooth. But I have to have a tooth implant before the year is over...it will look something like THIS:

Eeeeew. That picture just chills me to the bone. Literally, I guess, since it's a SCREW they screw into your JAW BONE. But I'll try to put that thought out of my head for at least a few more months.

In other news, I felt okay enough to go see the newest Lassie movie today with my mama at the Rialto. It was a good movie, but I cried a LOT. As was to be expected. Collies are so cute!