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Tuesday, February 11, 2003
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Animal of the month: Parti-coloured bat [original site w/ cute cute pic]. (click here for a translated version.) Bats are actually not related to rodents at all (contrary to what I thought; "Bats aren't bugs!!!"), but probably pretty closely related to primates. (For the translated page, you may have to click on "Translating..." to get it to translate.)
Sound of the month: Buena Vista Social Club (Don't click on Guantanamera, it's cute but pretty stupid; not an adequate representation of the band if you don't have much time to waste. I recommend "El Carretero", "Chan Chan", and "Veinte Años".)
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Sunday, February 09, 2003
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I have to write a paper on Sandra Cisneros, but I've got writer's block.... Apparently she moved into a historical district in San Antonio (King Williams district), went against neighborhood regulations to paint her house purple and then called the association racist against hispanic history when they told her to repaint her house an approved color. You'd think this paper would write itself, but I think I'm hitting that mid-quarter hump.
Anyway, I went to April's wedding yesterday. It would have been oodles of fun except that I didn't know anyone so I mostly sat there looking pretty staring at a wall or a piece of plastic shrubbery. Everyone was very polite and very friendly, however, trying to include me in their conversations. But I don't know how much I have in common with a family who named their three sons Isaac, Issaiah and Malachi. Me: "Uh yeah, I'm studying to be a paleontologist."
Plastic-looking wife: "Oh..... How nice.... (*whispering to pastor-husband*)We eave-lay at the first opportunity-ay"
Me: (*sensing trouble, brain flashes "flee! flee!"*) "Wow those turkey rolls look good." (*makes sure to take coat and purse*)
Okay the conversation wasn't quite like this. Actually, they did have turkey rolls (with cranberry sauce), and they were very good. But it was more like Isaiah and Isaac stuffing their faces with canteloupe and being very gross about it while the proud mother says "yeah, they ask me how I do it, with three boys so close in age..." (*Isaiah jumps up and down on his chair while Isaac pounds on the window screaming in delight while smearing watermelon on the pane*) "...I've just gotten in the habit of it, I suppose..." (*fellow guest makes plane sounds while a screeching Malachi soars over the mother, dropping potato chips on her head*) (*mother sighs proudly, oblivious, as I wonder how a human can ever be a mother of three and not crack under the pressure*)
What wacky names, though. At least Isaac will grow up feeling more or less normal. ....The family was very nice however. I shouldn't speak badly about them. (*looks around nervously, waiting to be smote down*)
Anyway, I never told anyone I was doing paleontology. Whenever they asked what I was majoring in (once they found out I was a Husky) I would just say Zoology and leave out Geology. All of them continued with the train of thought and asked what I planned to do afterward. I should have said something exotic like "studying the spotted chinchilla of the Amazon" but I just said "oh I don't know." They were all very nice, I didn't want to cause awkwardness. (Speaking of chinchillas, I have to do a new animal of the month!)
So, in the end, I stuffed my face and socialized briefly and told April how happy I am for her. Since she's my age I had mixed feelings about it, but actually attending made me see she's doing the right thing. She was in her element with her new husband. I'm very happy for her. :)
What was really weird though was that I was taking pictures of her cutting the cake and all of a sudden my camera wouldn't take pictures! It was JUST like in the dream below; the camera refused to take pictures, but I just kept pressing the button hoping they would come out! It was very freaky. I'm glad to say though that it was my old point-and-shoot, not my new Minoltie, that cut out on me in real life, while it was my Minoltie that cut out on me in my dream. But nonetheless, very odd coincidence.
Odd website, but super-swank: a Texas Longhorn student's blog archives from the parent blogsite.
Also: crop circles.
I wonder where that guy gets his weird news stories.
Photo courtesy of MHGotU
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