Kablammo!

The word, Toni, is «word».

Good ol’ daylight savings time, or non daylight savings time, or whatever. Thanks to that beautiful extra hour that got thrown in at 3 in the morning last night, I managed to eke out a solid 3 hours of alcohol-fueled sleep. Excellent.

Other highlights, in no particular order:

• Taking a lot of pictures of people taking pictures
• Pistachios
• Seeing people eat God, only to puke him out later
• Sid Meier’s [drunken] Colonization
• 9:00 PM: Reception scheduled to end
  9:00 — 9:15 PM: Hotel management says ‘the bar is closed’ roughly 300 times
  9:15 PM: Open bar finally stops serving
  9:30 PM: Hotel management starts flicking lights on and off

• 25 people (and one accordion) crammed into a hotel room
• AJ’s wonderful, hollow salty-cake deathtrap
• People unwittingly attempting to eat said salty-cake deathtrap
• Training the young in the art of opening beers with whatever’s handy
• Certainly not the chicken cordon bleu; the cheese in that was pretty foul
• Foster’s always-delicious oil cans
• Yankees losing world series
• Unnecessary emergency surgery on a TV
• «TERETULEMAST LEERILAPSED» on the Best Western sign
• This

Now to finish up my Kutt project and lapse into a coma. I’m afraid I’ll be missing out on the adventures of Boxy Brown and his motley crew of vaguely edible friends tonight.

Song of the Moment: «Please Please Me» — The Beatles

Hooray, blogger ate the entry I just tried to post. ‘An error has occured‘ my ass. Maybe I’ll repost it in the morning, and maybe not. It wasn’t that long, but it was heartfelt, topical, and relevant; and it quoted Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Song of the Moment: «Myrskyn Ratsut» — CMX

Hey all. I wish I weren’t such a lazy lazy lazy lazy fuck. MEs, you know what I mean. Not that you’re surprised, most likely. I did move appreciably today, inasmuch as it was necessary to take my EID370 midterm, and I guess it’s now time for me to rearrange my squalor a little bit, so I can fit in my bed and proceed to sleep for a frankly implausible length of time. See you in Wei’s class tomorrow, I hope.

In other news, my useless review of Muse’s Absolution is finally complete.

Song of the Moment: «The Stranger» — Billy Joel

I was right, waking up on time was the hardest part. The second hardest part was copying the “I promise not to cheat yadda yadda” paragraph by hand. Standardized tests can suck it, big time.

Looks like it’s time for that time of year again: Aasta Koosolek time. What manner of hilarity or hi-jink will ensue this time? Only time will tell.

Song of the Moment: «Bumbibjörnana» — Peter Jöback

Congratulations, Yankees, you’re a bunch of bitches. Now go and make New York proud. Again. Like I know Steinbrenner is paying you good money to do.

In what will surely have been the hardest part of the GREs, I’m awake and ready to go on time! Wheo! Go me!

Song of the Moment: «I Don’t Want to Know» — Muki

So there I was, seriously considering going up to my professor and officially apologizing for submitting quite possibly the worst essay I’ve ever written, when I get the essay back only to discover that his comments on it read, in part: “A fine essay… delightful and informative — quite readable.” I don’t know if I’m more disappointed in my professor for liking this essay, my school for having so many people incapable of articulating an argument that anything looks good in comparison, or my self for writing such a shitty paper in the first place.

Maybe I should be happy that I did well, but I can’t shake the suspicion that I’m eventually going to collect on a huge installment of atrociously bad luck that precisely cancels out all the good things like this that have happened or will happen in my life.

In other news, I now go to bed with a really fucking annoying headache, and with $115 worth of standardized tests awaiting me in the morning. May the Yankees win or lose tonight; either way, I’ll be sure to find something to complain about.

Song of the Moment: «Kätketty Kukka» — CMX

Grab-bag of hilarity!

“Photo for illustration purposes only. Dog pictured is named Rumsfeld, not Adolf.“

Gooooo Miranda!

Gooooo sox!

Gooooo Calvin Trillin!

Gooooo moment of silence.

Gooooo wolves!

Gooooo titties!

1924 – “My Flag” was changed to “the Flag of the United States of America” out of fear that immigrants would salute their native flags. ROFL.

Ugh, I should have gooooone to more classes this week. Good thing I’m an asshole.

Song of the Moment: «(I Don’t Wanna) Rock DJ» — Robbie Williams

Hey, anybody remember the ALCS game last saturday? I found a quote from this story quite poignant:

That replay of the Pedro Martinez-Don Zimmer affair is on TV more than “Law and Order” reruns.

Cuz, like, you know, there’s a hell of a lot of Law & Order reruns on the teevee. Anyway, is major league baseball jealous of the California recall? Is there some kind of competition for ‘Most Absolutely Ludicrous News Story of October’ that I wasn’t aware of?

In other news, I’d have left a comment on Lukas’ blog about how much I enjoyed seeing the beautiful piece of bastardliness that he linked to, but as it turns out I’m far too lazy to jump through the hoops required to post comments there. So I’ll just post comments here, instead, I guess.

Song of the Moment: «Erase/Rewind» — The Cardigans

Yay! Throat’s fine, now the illness has transmogrified itself into a head cold. Fucking awesome, what a blast. I mean, I like the fact that my throat stopped hurting, especially since I ran out of lozenges today, but there’s really few things in life I enjoy less than an incessantly drippy nose.

Also yay: despite being an incompetent clod, I made somebody’s day a little bit brighter. If only the advice I gave myself were as helpful and well-intentioned… Ah well, such is life.

Bittorrent’s at it again — Kashmir is a fucking awesome band. Too bad they’re only available to be shipped to the European Union. Dammit! If only I had plans to go to the European Union in the near future, then maybe I’d be able to pick up a copy of Zitilites.

Song of the Moment: «Surfing the Warm Industry» — Kashmir