Argh Matey!

I'm actually not really sure where the entire month of October went...it started with a birthday, and ends with Halloween...but as for in between those dates...well, they went along at warp speed! Fall Break in Colorado made the first half of the month forgettable because I was just waiting to get out there, and then school work and midterms exploded for the latter half making that just disappear into horribleness. Wow. Crazy.

This week is slightly blowtastic. Astro exam tomorrow, abstract for women's studies due tomorrow, two STUPID thematic reactions for spanish due Friday, I need to watch an hour and a half long terrible video on Panama or some other country in Central America and finish that video guide by Friday, spanish exam on Monday meaning the workbook is due Monday, Hayride on Thursday with APO (that one should be fun!), a bunch of meetings, kind of a large amount of class (including an extra hour of Women's Studies to watch some movie about something...ugh), but at least I finally figured out the Halloween costume...this might be my lamest Halloween yet.

I'm going to be a pirate. I feel like I can't wear the majority of the Maj's greatest creations because:

A) Most of them have a tail of some sort or a very large part to them (making it rather difficult to move in a room full of people)...

B) I don't want some IDIOT to spill on them.

C) I feel like people always have some horrible irresistible urge to touch them...because they're fuzzy or puffy or something equally exciting...I'm not sure...I just get irritated being bopped in the nose and such. Ayyyy.

I do hope I get more excited for Halloween as the date looms even closer because I'm not sure what the deal is. Perhaps I simply just have too much to do this week. Oh well! Time for Comm with KWAK. Yaaaay...

Micromini Meetings...the way they all should be

There is currently an "Asian Girls For Dating" ad on SpanishDict.com. "6000+ Chinese Girls Seek For Love." That's right folks! Get em' while they're hot...hahaha WHAT. Why in the world is THAT ad on the Spanish dictionary website...slash why does that ad even exist in the first place?!

Hokay. Moving on. On the way home from school today...at the corner of Jefferson and Division...I heard a very noisy man hawk up some sort of something, and then soon after realized that it was the man who was hanging out of a third story window just dropping huge spit bombs on the ground. Gross.

Just got back from the micromini meeting of the Night Ride Committee. Micromini meaning that there are only four people in it...and it lasts approximately six minutes each time. Beautiful. Clearly I can pick a winner...

A Tale of a Friendly Pedestrian

What I should be doing right now is writing one of my stupid 350 word thematic reactions for spanish...because my goal is to finish another one before Comm...but I mean, I can't neglect the bloggage. :)

Anyways. I just had a rather lovely encounter with a fellow pedestrian while crossing Division. Since we have that construction site thing going on (I don't know if you've heard about it...), there are plenty of large dump trucks and other various construction-y equipment vehicles. Today there happened to be one of those huge-mongous double trucks (ugh, what are those called...the ones they fill with dirt, or large chunks of concrete, or really anything someone might want in an extremely large quantity) complete with the WIDE LOAD sign strapped to its front bumper, attempting to start moving down the street (and as you all know, it takes a bit for these things to start moving...they lurch forward a few times and finally churn to life)...so this sir across the street and I are kind of paused watching it deciding whether or not we have an adequate amount of time to cross the street safely...and we're kind of going and stopping because we're really not sure...and then he just starts jogging across the street so I decide it's fine and start laughing and moving my rear across the street. The amazing thing was, that as we crossed the street I wasn't the only one laughing. Someone else, at the University of Michigan, thought something was funny and thought that it was actually okay to laugh about it, with *GASP* a complete stranger! Hahaha made my day. Or at least the a.m. portion of it!

Another funny thing I saw the other day was some rando girl on her bicycle. Okay, yes, plenty of people ride their bikes around campus, but they typically stick to the concrete areas. Now keep in mind this was an awkward time of day and there weren't throngs of people everywhere, but this girl decides that she just needs to ride all over the grass in front of Angell Hall...? I'm not sure. Maybe it's because I grew up being yelled at if a tire went near the grass...but typically I don't think that's the most normal of transit routes. Besides, it's way harder to ride a bike on the grass than on a solid surface, like say...mmm...the SIDEWALK?! Ay yi yi...

Okay. Thematic reaction me captain. Adios.

U of M > MSU

Just so you are all aware, the most feminine-looking janitor works in CC Little. He's petite, and proportioned...well, like a woman (minus the whole having a chest thing), he has really long blonde hair that he wears in a giant poofy ponytail every day, and well, I always do a double take when I encounter him roaming the halls or waiting for the elevator. Hmmm that might make me a horrible person.

I became a stalker the other day and successfully followed some random girl all the way from the Division and Jefferson intersection to the Alumni Center...which is quite a ways. This was not on purpose...I'm not creepy. But Welcome Wednesdays require me to stop by there for my free Barry Bagel and Sweetwaters coffee and it's kind of a popular place...the only problem was that we literally had the same walking speed and I was having some serious issues adjusting my pace. When I slow down, I get all antsy and feel like I'm making zero progress, but if I were to speed up I probably would have had to jog to pass her which is just super awkward. So, yes. I may have successfully induced neck soreness by causing mass amounts of anxiety and causing her to look back at me every three steps. I am legitimately sorry, heck, I know how that feels! I might be one of the most paranoid people around! Hahaha

I started this post in the middle of last week...and haven't been thinking in my blog state of mind...so I have very little to contribute even though a rather significant chunk of time has passed.

Also, Michigan will always be better than State. Just throwin' that little factoid out there...

The Greatest Country in the World

Whoopsie daisy! It has been quite awhile hasn't it? Either I've had a packed week and a half, or I have encountered zero things that are blogworthy. Clearly I've been busy.

Well actually, it's a little bit of both. Slash school and that whole continuing my education thing have gotten in the way of allowing my brain to wander off and phrase things in a semi-comical way as I sit around and do nothing. The sitting around doing nothing thing doesn't often happen...therefore, the phrasing is lacking.

Anyways...the construction is still clanging, pounding, and banging loud and proud over there. I have even taken the time to record it and post it on people's Facebook walls, just so they can appreciate the musical jingle of hammers on metal beams, saws through who knows what kind of material, the wonderful vocals put on by men in hard hats yelling (a million David Hodos running about the area), and that joyous deafening clickety-clack of the crane. Golly I can't wait until Fall of 2010...the projected end date for this wonderful project, but considering we're dealing with the University, well, let's be honest, that probably will not happen. This better be one heck of a parking garage by the time they're done with it. Sigh...

Naturally I've been wearing my USA garb about campus for various reasons:

1. We live here.
2. I look pretty decent in the red and navy...the white tends to have Casper the Friendly Ghost effects upon my skin tone...
3. Uhhh did you hear my sister went to the Olympics? Yeah...
4. It's generally a good conversation topic or interesting tidbit if asked
5. I have plenty of it!
6. It's mainly in the t-shirt and comfy clothing realm...so I can wear it every freaking day if I really want to.
7. I occasionally receive comments by random passers-by via bicycle...[okay, so this only happened once while I was on my way to class and some man rode by on his bike. But I gave a little greeting nod plus half smile and first received a very robust "USA!" followed up by what I think was a comment on how it's the greatest country in the world--then again I cannot be sure because we were traveling in opposite directions and were relatively far apart by this point...oh and I also had my iPod going...more than likely with Miley Cyrus' "Party in the USA..." ohhh the irony...]

In other news...the Class of 1959 (such cute little old people) adorned the steps of Angell Hall today for a beautiful group photo op and were spotted all over campus today...I'm not sure what the dealio was, but hey, it's kind of fun to see that. Hard to imagine that I'll be that old someday, but hey, hopefully it'll happen! Hahaha.

Skyline volleyball home tournament tomorrow, bright and really early...here we go Eagles!

Long Live The Squirrels

Today I witnessed a newsworthy event in a state of complete and utter amusement as I crossed the four way stop at E. Jefferson and Thompson: A woman driving a Honda Civic Hybrid made it through the intersection and then after making a complete stop for a SQUIRREL, she honked at it, waited until it was clear of the danger of her tires, and then continued on her merry way. I started laughing out loud, but was quickly silenced by quite a few not-so-nice glares...it might not have helped that I had my iPod in...who knows. Judger McJudgersons.

In other news..."Your Cosmic Context: An Introduction to Modern Cosmology" by Sirs Todd Duncan and Craig Tyler is one of the most entertaining textbooks I have encountered in quite some time. This might be due to the fact that it was really late last night, the construction was blaring at its usual noise level, and I was kind of delirious, but there are so many little tidbits stuck in parentheses throughout that are straight up hilarious. They are things I think in my head and laugh to myself about, but are never actually written. It was great! Naturally, I was laughing out loud. RM was questioning my sanity, buuut it's alright. When is someone not questioning my sanity these days?

A couple prime examples for your enjoyment:

"If you had all-encompassing power over the world, and you wanted to quadruple the gravity force felt by the rest of us lowly earthlings, just to amuse yourself, how would you do it?"

"The idea of being bound is simple. It means that, without acquiring some additional energy, you can't escape. Without additional energy provided by a large rocket engine, your body is bound to Earth. (Of course, your mind can go higher by studying cosmology.)"

Invisible en Espanol

Today my spanish professor stopped me in the middle of some sort of human bingo game (AKA get out of your chair and talk to other people in the class in spanish) and asked if I was new. I clearly had a very confused expression on my face and accidentally threw out a "What?!" (as opposed to a "¡¿Que?!") and she repeated the question, and I replied with a "No." She goes "Oh this is the first time I've seen you in my class! What's your name?" I managed to blurt out "Andrea" accompanied by half a chortle, and then moved back to my seat.

Let's review. I have been in class every single day (allll five of them), I have made eye contact with this woman every single day when she takes attendance, I have raised my hand and answered multiple questions on various days, annnd NO, I am NOT new.

I guess I'm just a little more ordinary looking than I thought. Who knew it was so easy to fade into the white cinderblock wall?