08.28.08
Posted in Life, the Universe and All that Jazz at 7:48 pm by Meg
BLAH.
I was fighting it over the weekend as we dropped Boy off and it never got bad, but since we’ve been home it’s just rolled right over me.
I can barely talk and spent last night doing more coughing than sleeping.
On the flip side, since I have NO energy to actually get any of the zillion things done that I need to, I have finally (just now) gotten caught up on reading blog posts. Not that I’ve been giving them much attention.
The word on Boy is that the first day of classes (today) went well. Of course, all he had was Calculus - so it shouldn’t be too tough.
He is happy because he got all the classes he wanted - Calculus, Physics I, Intro to Philosophy, Macroeconomics, and the freshman seminar called Views of Time. He is also doing an apprenticeship with the student newspaper looking ahead to getting hired there as a photographer.
He also tried out for the fall drama performances yesterday and it waiting to see if he gets called back. He did a comedic monologue for the initial try-out and one of the directors was laughing during it. (they provided the material, so the directors must have already been familiar with it) Getting a part will be a long shot, but at least his foot’s in the door.
No, he is not hanging back and not getting involved in things. It’s fun talking to him (nearly everyday it seems) about what he’s getting into and what he thinks about it.
We have had a few snafus, but nothing directly connected with college life.
The primarly one has been dealing with setting up his bank account with Bank of America - a bank that I have never had a lot of positive feelings for. He went with BoA because they have an ATM on campus and because since they do not have any banking centers in Indiana, they weren’t going to charge any fees. He had two choices for accounts - a student account that required him to go into a banking center with his student ID to verify his status and a regular account. Now which one would you choose?
He choose a regular account. When he set it up last week, they indicated that it would take a week to get going and sent him an ATM card - okay, that’s doable. Now, a week later, they are saying that they need to confirm his identity and so he needs to bring two forms of ID into a banking center before they can finish opening up the account - and of course, while there are banking center in Texas - he doesn’t have transportation to get off campus to them…
After he spoke to them, he had me call…there’s no way around it. BUT they can now sign him up for a student account and contact Trinity to verify his status. Why they couldn’t have said that from the beginning is beyond me. Of course that means another week before he’ll have full access to cash - of course he’s in a dorm, on a meal plan, and does have some in his pocket.
The secondary snafu has taken what little energy I’ve had the last two days. He just registered yesterday morning and so rather than buying his books in the university bookstore, we ordered him used copies. We had to do it because of his continued banking hassles…
And on other fronts, Girls seems to be enjoying taking one class at the high school. She’s made a couple of friends, and seems to be enjoying the class - though she’s not working very hard for it - surprise, surprise.
I also got all the supplies ordered for biology this year. Happily, enough of the families went ahead and paid for the entire year, so I was able to purchase all the supplies and save on shipping costs. Next week will be our first lab and it’s an outside population study, so I hope the weather holds.
And lost in the shuffle, Hubby and I celebrated our 19th anniversary last Tuesday. (I was feeling better that day.) We just went out to dinner, but it was nice making time for just ourselves.
And my hot tea is ready and Girl just brought home the next Harris vampire novel, so I’m out of here.
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08.27.08
Posted in Life, the Universe and All that Jazz at 8:17 am by Meg
This is kind of neat - Blog Nosh Magazine picked up one of my old posts.
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08.25.08
Posted in Life, the Universe and All that Jazz at 2:44 pm by Meg
It’s peaceful.
Hubby has the day off and he’s in his den flipping channels and catching up on email.
Girl is parked on the futon reviewing algebra and listening to her Ipod. The black cat is curled up next to her.
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Posted in Life, the Universe and All that Jazz at 9:08 am by Meg
and the phone rings…
What do you think?
No, nothing special. He just got in from a party and figured we’d be home and wanted him to let us know that his internet was finally up.
Now it’s worse because of the time change, but really…
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08.24.08
Posted in Life, the Universe and All that Jazz at 7:35 pm by Meg
I’m exhausted
We were able to fit everything with the help of the car top carrier that we got for traveling to New Mexico and back, but we still had waaay too much to buy when we got there.
Forgot to take an extension cord - why, when we have tons sitting around unused?
Boy seemed as happy as a clam
Now to catch up on everything else….
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08.20.08
Posted in Life, the Universe and All that Jazz at 7:57 am by Meg
That’s it, about 4 PM we’ll be taking off to Texas (driving) to go drop Boy off (dodging all that rain down there).
Boy has been hard at work collecting all the stuff he thinks he’ll need and making a list of what we are going to buy before we return home. The pile has been growing for the last 3 days and I’m starting to wonder if the 5 of us will also fit in the car.
It’s kind of funny. I’m happy to see him go, it’s what he wants and all, but watching him clean up his room and empty it out, feels really strange.
(Yes, I did pull half the back seat out of the van and that is it sitting under the blanket, sleeping bag, book, and axe)
What’s not in the picture is the “other” suitcase and his martial arts bag is hidden by the garment bag. And then there’s still the stuff that the rest of us need to be traveling for 6 days. - fun!
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08.19.08
Posted in Meme at 8:06 pm by Meg
This looked different, so I thought I’d try it.
Bold those you have tried.
Strikethrough those you wouldn’t eat on a bet.
Italicize any item you’ll never eat again.
Asterisk any items you’d be interested in trying but have not yet.
Underline anything you eat regularly (more than once a month-ish).
Questionisk any items you’ve never heard of (okay, this will be way too many things and I haven’t googled anything to help me)
1. Venison
2. Nettle tea
3. Huevos rancheros
4. Steak tartare
5. Crocodile
6. ?Black pudding
7. Cheese fondue
8. Carp
9. Borscht - My Dad’s mother would feed us beet borscht every time we came to visit. I hated it
10. ?Baba ghanouj
11. Calamari
12. ?Pho
13. PB&J sandwich
14. ?Aloo gobi
15. Hot dog from a street cart
16. ?Epoisses -
17. Black truffle
18. Fruit wine made from something other than grapes
19. Steamed pork buns
20. Pistachio ice cream
21. Heirloom tomatoes
22. Fresh wild berries
23. Foie gras
24. Rice and beans
25. Brawn, or head cheese
26. Raw Scotch Bonnet pepper
27. Dulce de leche
28. Oysters
29. Baklava
30. ?Bagna cauda
31. Wasabi peas
32. Clam chowder in a sourdough bowl
33. ?Salted lassi
34. Sauerkraut
35. Root beer float
36. Cognac with a fat cigar
37. Clotted cream tea
38. Vodka jelly
39. Gumbo
40. Oxtail
41. Curried goat
42. Whole insects
43. ?Phaal
44. Goat’s milk
45. Malt whisky from a bottle worth £60/$120 or more
46. Fugu
47. ?Chicken tikka masala
48. Eel
49. Krispy Kreme original glazed doughnut
50. Sea urchin
51. Prickly pear
52. ?Umeboshi
53. Abalone
54. ? Paneer
55. McDonald’s Big Mac Meal - I don’t think I’ve actually ever had a Big Mac, let alone it in a meal. I usually get a quarter pounder.
56. Spaetzle
57. Dirty gin martini
58. Beer above 8 ABV
59. ?Poutine
60. Carob chips
61. S’mores - okay, I’m weird (what’s new) I like everything that goes into S’mores - I don’t like S’mores (but I also don’t like roasted marshmellows)
62. Sweetbreads
63. Kaolin
64. ?Currywurst
65. ?Durian
66. Frogs’ legs
67. Beignets, churros, elephant ears or funnel cake
68. Haggis
69. Fried plantain
70. Chitterlings, or ?andouillette
71. Gazpacho
72. Caviar and blini
73. ?Louche absinthe
74. ?Gjetost, or brunost
75. Roadkill
76. ?Baijiu
77. Hostess Fruit Pie
78. Snail
79. ?Lapsang souchong
80. ?Bellini
81. ?Tom yum
82. Eggs Benedict
83. Pocky
84. *Tasting menu at a three-Michelin-star restaurant.
85. Kobe beef
86. Hare
87. Goulash
88. Flowers
89. Horse
90. *Criollo chocolate
91. Spam
92. Soft shell crab
93. ?Rose harissa
94. Catfish
95. Mole poblano
96. Bagel and lox
97. Lobster Thermidor
98. ?Polenta
99. Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee - yuck, NO
100. Snake
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08.18.08
Posted in Life, the Universe and All that Jazz at 10:47 pm by Meg
With all the flack about Tropic Thunder floating around, we decided to go see what was really the concern.
In a nutshell
Two characters (who are actors) are jerks. They care about nothing but themselves and getting important roles and awards (and the money and toys that go along with fame). They use “the word” multiple times in a conversation.
IMO - IT SHOWS WHAT JERKS THEY ARE!!
Using the word is not shown in a positive light, but to highlight their flaws.
Isn’t that a good thing?
BTW, the movie was funny.
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