Look at these fantastic buttons!

Check out these fantastic buttons my dad got for me and my fellow Obama buddies!
They are from www.democraticstuff.com

Calling all dream interpreters

So I have this reoccurring dream that happened to jostle me awake just now and I can’t go back asleep.

Here’s what happened tonight: I was driving in the minivan with two other people (they were not distinct people) and I was stopped at the red light at Blue Ridge and Western. It was late at night, and there were no cars coming. For whatever reason, I consciously ran the red light and played it off to my passengers as, “Woah, I can’t believe I just did that! I didn’t realize it!” I immediately see the dreaded blue lights behind me and proceed to try and pull over, at which point I find myself not being able to slow down or control the steering wheel. With the cop behind me the van hits the side of the road, spins — I think to myself, “I hope this is a dream,” and I was jerked awake, very relieved that it is a dream. But now I can’t sleep.

I have dreams about not being able to control the minivan at least once a month I would say. Typically it’s weird situations where my brain is TELLING my body to get control, or I am able to have control of the car, but just am not in control for some reason. I usually seem to be in some sort of daze in my dream — like I should be able to control the car but can’t. It’s a very strange, very real, often frightening feeling. There’s probably some deep meaning behind this, but I’m bored of this dream. Next please.

Why fireants suck.

THEY ARE ARE NOT SUPPOSED TO BE HERE.
“The RIFA was accidentally introduced into the United States due to a South American cargo ship coming to an Alabama port in 1918, but now infests the majority of the Southern and Southwestern United States.” Thanks Wikipedia.

THEY COST US LOTSA $$$.
“In the US, the FDA estimates that more than US$5 billion is spent annually on medical treatment, damage, and control in RIFA-infested areas. Furthermore, the ants cause approximately US$750 million in damage annually to agricultural assets, including veterinarian bills and livestock loss as well as crop loss.”

“In Australia an intensive program costing A$175 million has, at February 2007, eradicated 99% of fire ants from the sole infestation occurring in South East Queensland.” WHY DON’T WE DO THIS? Please pick this up as a new campaign issue, Obama.

THEY KILL COOL ANIMALS.
Fireants are notorious for ousting native wildlife from their natural habitats. This includes small snakes, skinks, lizards, birds, and insects.

THEY ITCH.
I got bit about 10 times after stepping in a huge mound. Then I got bit about 10 more times after stepping in another with the same foot. Awesomely itchy.

EMBRACE THE CHANGE BITCHEZ.

“Embrace the change bitchez.” – Maggie

First of all, I cannot believe this is a top news story on CNN. Second of all, GET OVER IT and embrace the change. If you were awesome like me and started using the new facebook, like, TWO MONTHS AGO, and realized that IT’S NOT THE END OF THE WORLD when fb changes, then you’d be fine right about now.

I could survive for 25 seconds chained to a bunk bed with a velociraptor.

I could survive for 25 seconds chained to a bunk bed with a velociraptor

A productive day with Fireworks.

In my ENG 421 class we are learning Fireworks by reading through the ENTIRE HELP MANUAL. At first I resisted because Fireworks is DUMB STUPID AND UGLY, but since I have and hour and fifteen minutes to kill in Fireworks, I decided to embrace Fireworks and utilize its features to the fullest. Yesterday I signed my name using the vector pen tool (more tricky that it sounds) and splashed on a sweet stock background:

The memories of terrible e-Commerce websites are flooding back…

I want this.

I am totally jealous of one of the ANTM makeovers. Last night, they revealed Elina’s amazing curly red locks. I want them.

Ultimate Motivation!

I’ve been working my way through “Cracking the GRE” for the past few weeks, stimulating reading, let me tell ya. I’ve been doing my best to cram vocabulary definitions in my head, and one suggestion the book has is to start a vocabulary notebook. When you come across words you don’t know, you write them down and look up the definitions.

Well, lucky for me I won the Cake Walk (but not for cakes) at our family picnic this weekend, and what was my prize? This fantastic Pirates of the Carribean Will Taylor/Orlando Bloom spiral notebook, which just happens to also be available on eBay.

Perfect vocabulary notebook? Ultimate motivation to study for the GRE? I THINK SO.

I don’t know what I’m doing.

The more I research graduate programs, the more I realize, I don’t know what the heck I want to do with my life I keep finding really interesting programs, and so many different things pique my interest that I wonder, am I really ready to be that focused?

Gumby’s is back!

Gumby’s is back soon! Yesssss