28.2.05
For my graduation present the folks have agreed to get me a new laptop to replace this dumb thing...I'm looking into a PowerBook but they're a lot of money. Any advice? Brands to avoid? Help a brother out.
Oh. It MUST have, at least as an option, a CD/DVD-RW Combo drive. And be pretty.
It's almost that time of the year, kids... Here now are Sarah Chun's predictions for Oscars 2005:
Best Actor Who should win: Jamie Foxx Who will win: Jamie Foxx
Unlike last year, this year's race is actually a race. The sole exception is Best Actor. Foxx has had this locked up since December and with good reason. He's scary-perfect in this movie.
Best Actress Who should win: Imelda Staunton Who will win: Annette Bening
There is a big possiblity that Hilary Swank will win, but I'm betting the Academy won't be giving Swank a second one in so short a career. Even Russell Crowe couldn't manage that with his popularity and box office. Swank has neither. Also, the Academy still feels bad for shafting Bening's performance in American Beauty.
Best Supporting Actor Who should win: Clive Owen Who will win: Morgan Freeman
I can't fault Morgan Freeman because he's so routinely kickass, so I don't see why his performance in M$B is exceptional and/or Oscar-worthy. Owen should get ten Oscars for surviving King Arthur and being so hot.
Best Supporting Actress Who should win: Virginia Madsen Who will win: Cate Blanchett
Madsen's monologue was lovely in Sideways, and she does a great job overall, but the Academy loves Katharine Hepburn and anyone for the balls to imitate her. She was robbed for Elizabeth, and this will also be a consolation prize.
Best Adapted Screenplay Who should win: Sideways Who will win: Sideways
This category is a cheap and painless way to acknowledge a well-deserving "comedy" with great performances just like Lost in Translation last year.
Best Original Screenplay Who should win: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind Who will win: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Obviously the Academy thinks highly of Charlie Kaufman, and they'll remember Being John Malkovich and Adaptation. when they vote for him.
Best Director Who should win: Martin Scorsese Who will win: Clint Eastwood
Scorsese should win not because of his movie, but because of his career. Instead, he's gonna have to wait for a Lifetime Achievement Oscar. Eastwood's win will be as much for Mystic River as M$B.
Best Picture Who should win: Sideways Who will win: The Aviator
I'm thinking the Academy is going to split the Director/Picture between Scorsese and Eastwood. Each will win one, but not both. The Aviator has all the makings for a Best Picture winner: romantic epic, respected director, star leads, Harvey Weinstein. Although, by all accounts, the sum is less than its parts.
There you have it. I'll see you all at the Governor's Ball.
I got a bundle pack from Kmart that had two Aladdin boxes and one regular box. I really wanted the Lion King one but that bundle pack has one Lion King and two regular boxes.
As far as I am concerned, there are two companies that produce acceptable tissues: Kleenex and Puffs. When I buy tissues, I normally go for whatever is on sale or I have a coupon for. When I was at Kmart, the Kleenex bundle packs were on sale and really, who doesn't like buying things in bulk? (Sidenote: on the same trip I stocked up on 24 double rolls of toilet paper) Puffs seem to be a better quality than Kleenex, but I like Kleenex's convenient pop up design to the boxes. I'm fine with using standard tissues unless my nose is really going through a rough time. In that case I may spurlge on the tissues with aloe. Has anyone used the "anti-viral" ones that have come out? I'd like to see a study and some results to see if they are really worth it.
I bought the tissues last Wednesday. I am already 2/3 done with the first box. Also, I'm down to about 7 cough drops left from my pack of 30. You can probably determine I'm still sick.
Your dominant hues are cyan and green. Although you definately strive to be logical you care about people and know there's a time and place for thinking emotionally. Your head rules most things but your heart rules others, and getting them to meet in the middle takes a lot of your energy some days.
Your saturation level is medium - You're not the most decisive go-getter, but you can get a job done when it's required of you. You probably don't think the world can change for you and don't want to spend too much effort trying to force it.
Your outlook on life is brighter than most people's. You like the idea of influencing things for the better and find hope in situations where others might give up. You're not exactly a bouncy sunshine but things in your world generally look up.
14.2.05
Alright dorks, it's ASU Chemistry Club T-shirt time again. Click to see the order form. As of right not, I don't know exactly what Blue Sapphire or Cedar Rust look like, but I'll find out. Let me know what shirt you want and I'll send the stuff in.
13.2.05
Quotes of the weekend: Saturday- Chun: "Just give me a picture of him (Aaron Peirsol) half naked" Jenny: "Aren't all the pictures of him while he's half naked?"
Jenny: "You need a punching bag" Kevin: "I need a red-headed stepchild to beat up on."
Sunday- Jenny: "Hey, band sucks, bye!"
Jennifer: "Sky diving is a once in a lifetime experience. And if you die it is once in a lifetime."
Holiday candy.
I'd have to say conversational hearts rank up there in the gross category along with candy corn, and peeps. Why do you eat these things? Cause they go along with the respective holidays. Do you actually like them? Not really.
Just wanted to say that if you're looking for something to do Saturday, well, have I got an offer for you! All of the cookies for our Girl Scout area are being delivered to a Cary firehouse on Saturday where the troops will come and pick them up. Like, 98,000 boxes of cookies. And someone has to load these cookies into the troop leaders's vehicles (invariably minivans). So that's where you come in.
It's from 9am to about 2pm. Here are the pros: you'll be well fed with 6ft subs and sheets of pizza, and the hot firemen will be there helping (I can say for sure that at least several of them are hot). Also, Mrs. Umstead will be there, yeah, that Mrs. Umstead, from Apex. And I'll even let you call her by her camp name...Zesty. Hehe.
So if you're interested, let me know and I'll give you more info about getting there and whatnot. It really is a good time. You get to throw cases of cookies. It's fun.
In this ongoing series about how much my shower blows, I would like to offer this anecdote about today's shower.
First of all, whoever was in there before me took for-damn-ever in there. She got in at like 9:40 and wasn't out until 10:15. NOBODY is that dirty. So of course when I got in there I could pretty much forget about stages 1-4 - we proceeded directly onto stage 5, Temperature Loss.
Actually, stage 5 was not as bad as usual, since I could only run the water for 30 seconds at a time. Because running the water continuously resulted in a cold, ankle-deep puddle of shampoo and dirty water. Yes, my shower is unable to handle girl-hair without clogging up faster than Michael Moore's arteries. It was disgusting.
4.2.05
Haven’t had much time for posting lately, seeing as how I’ve got a JOB…oh wait, let me revise that. I HAD a job. That’s right, I got totally reamed by LabCorp. I was supposed to have a three month contract to work there, so I was just a temporary employee. But then Wednesday morning I get a phone call: “Oh, sorry, one of our permanent employees came back, you’re out, don’t let the door hit your butt on the way out.” After two weeks. How totally harsh is that?
Luckily the job sucked. If you didn’t know, my job pretty much consisted of putting racks of vials full of pee on the drug testing machine, waiting for the pee to be tested, and then putting the pee on the shelves of the big Wall of Pee. Also, occasional breaks to perform the most disgusting task ever: dumping tested pee down the sink. It smelled so heinous you wouldn't believe it. Then you had to pull the empty plastic vials out of the racks, which really cramps your hand.
So, in conclusion, LabCorp sucks and I'm looking for another job.
2.2.05
There is one thing that I will not miss one bit when I graduate college, and that is my horrible horrible shower. It is actually 2 showers separated by a plastic shower curtain, which is not enough separation for me when there is another naked person over there. In addition, you can expect to go through five stages upon entering the shower.
Stage 1 (1-2 minutes) Warm up, dammit. WARM UP!
Stage 2 (<1 minute) It's finally nice and warm. Time to wash.
Stage 3 (5 minutes) The wild rollercoaster of temperature. Too cold...that's as high as it goes and it's still to coldOWOWOWOWTOO HOT!
Stage 4 (5 minutes) Normalization. The hottest it gets is just slightly too cold.
Stage 5 (2 minutes) Temperature loss. Drops from tolerable to absolute zero.
And of course, the showerhead is messed up so a steady drip of cold water falls directly onto the buttocks no matter how hot the rest of the water is.
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