Only three more days.
Mountain Dew is one of those things I just hadn’t thought about for a long time. The last time I remember drinking it was at a party in art class I took in what must have been first or second grade. I remember being struck by the vaguely extraterrestrial color more than anything else. I don’t even think I’ve seen anyone actually drink a Mountain Dew since then. There are, of course, the rumors of its high caffeine quotient, which I suppose it what compelled me to purchase a bottle (of the Diet variety) from the library vending machine today. Well, let me tell you, that is some nasty stuff. It just tastes bad. Supposedly there’s concentrated orange juice somewhere in it, but it was not nearly as sweetly satisfying as orange soda, nor as refreshing as any of the plethora of lemon-lime drinks that start with “S.” It’s more akin to what your standard Citrus Burst dishwashing liquid might taste like carbonated and mixed with lots of sweetener. Maybe the full-calorie version is palatable. I don’t know. I drank it anyway.

Oh, and never try to mail anything non-priority in a reused Priority Mail box. Never assume the post office sells packing tape. Never assume that if there’s no line at 9:30 that there won’t be one at 10. And never, ever assume that once you’ve left your unusable boxes of books at the post office to go buy packing tape at the bookstore, returned, repacked all your books in a ground rate box while people look at you like some zoo exhibit, and stood in line for 20 minutes, that they won’t miraculously have acquired packing tape and ask you if you would like to buy some. Yeah, I had a great morning.

Feliz Cinco de Mayo!
Now Playing: "The 59th Street Bridge Song," S&G
I've officially started moving out! Looks like the storage space isn't about to fill up as fast as I had thought, and everyone was very nice and helpful there. Yay D'port. I AM SO EXCITED to finally live there next year!

Two of three finals are done, and both went well. The last one should be cake. Lab still might eat me but at least I'll have gone down fighting.

Summertime, summertime...

Things that annoy me!
Mood:  irritated
1. Group projects.
2. Working with other people in group projects. Especially when those people don't do what they're supposed to do.
3. Rain.
4. The library when there are people in it (seeing a pattern here?)
5. Laundry.
6. "First come first serve" storage space. wtf.
7. Losing my hairbrush (*is frantic*), then, finally, finding it. Horrifying, I know.
8. Having a fantastic dream and not being able to remember it.
9. My iPod being a spaz.
10. Everyone else finishing exams before I do.

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YAY FOR MAY!

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Edit: Feeling much less annoyed now that my lab partner actually did do her part before leaving. Phew. But I am annoyed that there hasn't been a new Fafblog in a month! I'm starting to worry about our dear friends over there.

Spoof dump!
Mood:  silly
I love Video Dog.

Here for your viewing pleasure are Colbert's monologue from the White House Correspondents' Association dinner, and his accompanying audition tape sketch. High-quality stuff.

Then, catch Colbert in his own element in a priceless interview with quite possibly the stupidest lawmaker I've ever seen.

Congressman Gingrey's not the only one who trusts in the Bible. Remember Growing Pains? Good old Kirk Cameron, formerly Mike Seaver, has turned to evangelism.

Speaking of "sinful lifestyles," this parody proves that spoofing Queer Eye never gets old.

Finally, I present the cutest fight ever. I want that puppy.

How is April over? OMG.
Mood:  a-ok
(Yes, I just put OMG in the entry title. I've swallowed my pride. This blog is naught but a narcissistic procrastination device and I can use AIM-speak if I so desire, dammit).

So what have I been up to this Reading Week? Well, how can we put this...not reading. I have been working very hard on lab, and it's getting somewhere at last. This should be the last group project I ever do at Yale, which is cause for celebration in itself.

I almost wrote a Spring Fling entry like last year's, but I didn't. I had a wonderful time. I had been grumbling about the impending rain, but when the rain actually started falling during Ben Folds' set, it was beautiful. Then Ludacris came on, making fun of Yalies. Right away he asked how many of us had gotten drunk for the first time today, and he kept acting surprised that we knew his lyrics. By the end I feel that we changed his opinion of the Ivy League for the better. We're not all collar-popping prepsters and pretentious indie-nerds. Well, we may be, but that doesn't mean we don't know the Ho song. Then Tracy and Laura and I went and got more beer and Thai food and made fun of the universe together.

My procrastination skills have doubled since Finals and I last did battle. I've been hanging out on AIM. I've been running in the beautiful weather. I've been waiting for the new Bleach episode even though it's just lame filler for the forseeable future. I've been talking to my suitemates for hours about the least consequential of topics. I've been theater-hopping, library-hopping, bar-hopping, web-surfing, forum-lurking, all-around work-shirking. It's fantastic. Take that, Finals, I'm having FUN! I am HAPPY. I pwn you!

Speaking of happy, I had a divine asiago cheese bagel this morning at ABP. It was sooo good. I had not been eating that much for few days and decided I needed some soul nourishment, and it was like eating a cloud of baked joy. The cheese had somehow permeated the pores of the bagel and it was so soft and flavorful and tasty like woah. Then I found out it was only 360 calories and cost 94 cents. God exists, and, She is not vegan.

Finals schedule:
May 2: Spanish
May 4: Inca Culture and Society
May 8: Great Discoveries
May 9: Lab is due.
May 10-15: May Training in the pretty woods.
May 16: Homeward bound!

Obligatory real world content: I bet this would have been something to see.

For those to whom I have not yet bragged, I got full funding to go to Peru. So loaded right now. I love my life.

Buzzed and Cheered
Mood:  celebratory
Now Playing: AND singing! -- Old Crow Medicine Show, "Wagon Wheel"
There are few things in life that can fill the heart with pure unadulterated delight. A beautiful TUIB concert is one of those things. Especially one that involves lots of dancing and rocking out to the best encore I think I've ever seen...and Dan wearing a ridiculous Alabama jacket...and Anny acting like she's five...and Austin/Evan/Paul drinking waaaaaay too much whisky...and banjo-man PHIL being the greatest person ever. He's some kind of god. I heart them with all my love.

Spring Fling is tomorrow. Unlike last year, there won't be bulldogs running all over Old Campus. In fact, if the forecast is correct, nothing will be happening on Old Campus. Ben Folds and Ludacris (strange bedfellows if ever there were) will be playing in the hockey rink instead. Bummer.

I've been drinking on Monday night for the second time this month. I'm not quite sure what this means.

I rocked my oral exam today. My Spanish teacher loves me. I deserved that beer and cheese.

Happy Earth Day!
Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life.
- Rachel Carson

The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small.
- Lao-tzu

De Nuevo, La Primavera
?Es demasiado buscar el amor?
En la estacion pintada, todo parece posible.
La esperanza, el sentimiento, el fuego viviendo...
ellos regresan.

El hielo se va, y se va,
hasta que el corazon esta desnudo,
rojo y humano.
El arbol tiene una flor;
la alma tiene una luz.

Si no viene nada, no importa.
Lo magico es la abertura.

To quote the irrefutable Dr. Spalding:
Lab is awful. Just awful. It's like being bitten to death by ducks.

There's a huge inflatable dog on the lawn and other stories
Mood:  chillin'
1. Nothing is certain except death, taxes, and that it will be sunny on Bulldog Days. The prefrosh are everywhere. You can tell who they are because they call all the acronymed buildings by their full names. I had no idea where Sheffield-Sterling-Strathcona Hall was until I realized it was SSS. They also tend not to look where they're walking because they are gawking at the architecture, and they are impressed by our magnetic proxy key cards. One of them asked if the 25-foot tall bulldog balloon on Old Campus was always there. Um, remind me again how you got in here??

2. I overheard some strange things today. Someone asked their companion what a pterodactyl was. This made me very sad. I also thought I heard someone say, "This pasta tastes like strings of skin." Ew.

3. Easter has made me realize that black jelly beans are kind of a cult candy. Most people don't really like them, but then there are those (like myself) who count them among their absolute favorite things. If anyone who is reading this has a lot of leftover black jellybeans they don't want, let me know.

4. I have a cold again. I just don't understand life. Maybe it's too much sugar.

5. My blog is totally ashamed of the fact that it's really a LiveJournal with an ego problem. Note to "blog": Just because you include a link about the real world every once in a while does not make you a blog. Blogs are for news analysis and commentary, not showing off your fingernails. Referencing other blogs does not make you a blog, either. Nice try.

6. Further proof that Japanese television is superior to American television can be found here.