I'm sick

And I have a 20+ hour controls assignment due tomorrow, but since I made that class pass/fail, I'm updating my blag instead.

So I'm redonkulously sick. I think I have food poisoning. Yesterday I was just absolutely miserable, and that's as far as I'm going with details. I hardly got out of bed the entire day. My muscles were just so sore I could barely move. James made me soup and brought me Pepto and John got me Gatorade. I love my boys. Except when James doesn't know how to react when girls puke. Yes, I have a really week immune system. No, don't just stand there and stare at me like I'm a freak of nature. I need love and attention!!

Oh, and I ordered $36 of Chinese food tonight but only ate half a bowl of hot and sour soup. Hopefully that'll stay down. That'll be the first food I've actually absorbed in 48 hours!! Although, between the ab workout of puking and all the starvation / accidental bulimia, I've totally lost a lot of weight. I'm pretty much sexy to the max. 

Oh, and IT CAME IN.

James is a man's man

me: wanna go fabric shopping tomorrow?

James: no, i'll be busy eating red meat and having sex with women

I hate this weather

It's too damn cold. I have that stupid/incredibly sexy cold sore coming on again. And I have to wear pants and even a jacket. I miss summer. Note to self: move to California.

LOVELOVELOVE THIS

and this about Haley Smith.

All this for $25 in electronics

"No, I'm sorry but I can't roll my window up."

Sexy giant squid

I'm going to start sewing this weekend.

Halloween costume ideas?

"Halloween is the one night a year when girls can dress like a total slut and no other girls can say anything about it."

I'm a mouse, duh!

I kind of want to go as a mouse... or a sexy engineer. 

Arguments

This is not the way they should go:

"I'm very upset at what you said last week, and I can't just drop it, so I needed to tell you now."

"I was very rude, I know, and I'll try harder to keep my mouth shut. However, I'm very upset about something that happened 4 months ago and two things that happened 3 months ago."

"Okay, but why are you just telling me now?"

"Because you're the most unstable person I know."

INFINITE MACBOOKS

Credit to Mark for providing the second laptop. Credit to me for fixing his laptop. Credit to James for telling me how to fix his laptop.

Morning routine

Mail goggles

Google understands that sometimes even I don't know what's best for myself.

If only they could implement that on my phone. Even inebriated, I'm good at spelling, just not content

omggg i lovveeeeeeeeeeee you!!!!!!!!! BADGERSEX

Ashley

Sent from my mobile

Get your horns up

I can't find a better quality video. The ones available online through this site don't support YouTube. This is my favorite in a series of advertisements narrated by Walter Cronkite. 

This video gives me chills every time I see it. And it's guaranteed the crowd goes absolutely wild. I'm going to miss this school. 

Get your bachelor's degree, get your master's, or get your Ph.D. But most of all, get your horns up! What starts here changes the world. 

Stream of conscious

The economy sucks. I need a job. But I don't want to apply for backup jobs. My car got broken into. We beat Mizzou. Some people are totally lame and it's even lamer when they don't realize it. Dad should push back the turkey dinner until Friday. We all got crabs today. I need more than emissivity tables. I can be spontaneous! 

RED RIVER SHOOTOUT WAS INCREDIBLE!!!

Worst insult ever

After my recent terribly unrehearsed senior design presentation, although we totally pwned all the other teams, my TA still said "Well, it wasn't great, but your presentation and prose were better than Sarah Palin."

EDIT: Although these presentations are open to the public, I'm not going to risk violating my NDA by posting it.

This is not halfway

Landmarks

I love The University of Texas at Austin Landmarks program. It's our university's attempt at being all artsy. I guess enough fine arts people complained about the Godzillatron and now our tuition is paying for something more high brow.

This art is on loan from New York City. It's called "The West" by Donald Lipski. While it may look kind of cool up close (see my previous post), from the right angle it's just a giant phallus. I mean, honestly, you have to know someone planned that.

This piece is in front of the CPE is called "Clock Knot" by Mark di Suvero. I'm not sure how I feel about it. It's over 40 feet tall. It's so weird. And red. I liked it better all rustic and antiqued. It's a nice change from the drab scenery of the engineering buildings, but it's just so huge and red.

[okay so the photo of Clock Knot isn't uploading. Just take my word for it. Or look here.]

And from now on I'm going to take my photography more seriously. I'm almost done with that DSLR class and I need to actually show I know how to used the darn thing.

These are not rhetorical

Why haven't they contacted me yet?

Why can't I get the nerve to just apply already?

Why haven't I just sat down and written it yet?

Why do I have to be the puppet master?

Why haven't I just given it up yet and quit?

Why can't I speak up for myself and take credit?

Why did that check bounce?

Why do dumb girls have to break his heart?

But most importantly, what's going to happen in 9 months?

Music is my hot, hot sex

ACL 2008 was incredible. And Camelbaks are brilliant. 

Best shows were Conor Oberst and the Mystic Valley Band and Okkervil River. I particularly loved Conor's cover of Paul Simon's "Kodachrome." Jenny Lewis' solo act was more alt-country/folk than I expected, but at least it was less pop/funk than most of Under the Blacklight. M. Ward was really good, but I just wasn't feeling it. 

Favorite quote of the weekend: "WaMu stage? More like FDIC stage!"

And I'm glad James isn't as hairy as Kyle.

That guy

Why does he have to be so lame?! 

WHY?!?

Hello

I think I love Kevin Devine. He just soothes my soul and makes me do a double take at most redheads. Props to Andrea Yee for introducing me, even though I don't think she remembers that. 

I know I love James Durand. And oatmeal raisin cookies.

I'm super stressed. And my body's slapping me around right now. Thanks to everyone that's helped me out. That cheesecake was incredible, and it feels so great to have family right next door. I'll still probably retake the GRE.

Within the last 2 minutes, I received my first spam in my Gmail inbox. Weird.

My family still doesn't have power. And whenever I think of Ike, I just can't stop singing the Scorpions song. 

I can't wait until ACL. I can definitely wait until EXPO on Tuesday and Wednesday. I'm not sure how I feel about waiting to find out if I get to interview with Apple.