Misnomer: The X-Girl Picayune: 09.05

Misnomer: The X-Girl Picayune

The life (or is it the lack thereof?) stories of a twenty-6-year-old grad student

Thursday, September 29, 2005

(Chief Justice) Roberts confirmation vote

Sept. 29, 2005

Final Senate Vote
Accepted by a vote of 78-22:
Republicans 55-0
Democrats 22-22
Independent 1

http://c-span.org

"Roberts's first term will include cases touching on some of the most divisive issues of the times, including assisted suicide, restrictions on abortion, campaign finance and the powers of the U.S. government in virtually every field of regulation on the books." --Washington Post

10:37 AM 0 misnomeree(s)

Tuesday, September 27, 2005

Just another night creature

Hmm..I don't remember who exposed me to that Jack Ryan character first. Was that John the former colleague, or was it you, Din, with you first edition hardcover of something?

Anyway, I've been reading The Executive Order for a couple of weeks now (it's thick, I'm slow). It had been silently collecting dust all these years. I never had any intention to start reading until I was running out of options. Oh, and last Saturday, AMC ran The Clear and Present Danger, what a coincident!

Hookay, I never knew I would enjoy political drama this much. Kinda reminding me of those mandatory Poli-sci and History classes, in a good way, of course.

3:02 AM 0 misnomeree(s)

Thursday, September 22, 2005

Blog this!

Aha!

The 2005 hurricane season...the most interesting thing ever happens to CS (at least during my residence time).

Recaps:

Rita's a Cat. 5, merely hours after the upgrade to Cat. 4. Saturday landfall is predicted.
Galveston has been mandatorily evacuated, the rest of Houston's probably next. (Wati, get up here as soon as you can)
Brazos county are probably not gonna be affected much, oh wait, except for heavy wind, flooding rain, and power blackout.
School will be officially closed on Friday, football game is conveniently moved to tomorrow.
Publics have been "raiding" local area groceries for essentials survival kits. Most of these places ran out of stuff as soon as they were restocking at these wee hours of the morning. D-type batteries, nada, zip, nil!
Regular unleaded is gone, leaving the next two expensive grades and diesel.

Just wondering, how the electricity thing will work out. It should be helpful that Texas is on a separate island grid from the rest of the continent.

More update, later.

3:36 AM 9 misnomeree(s)

Monday, September 19, 2005

Most of these are not true

The Keys to Your Heart

You are attracted to obedience and warmth.

In love, you feel the most alive when everything is uncertain, one moment heaven... the next moment hell.

You'd like to your lover to think you are loyal and faithful... that you'll never change.

You would be forced to break up with someone who was insecure and in constant need of reassurance.

Your ideal relationship is lasting. You want a relationship that looks to the future... one you can grow with.

Your risk of cheating is zero. You care about society and morality. You would never break a commitment.

You think of marriage as something that will confine you. You are afraid of marriage.

In this moment, you think of love as commitment. Love only works when both people are totally devoted.

What Are The Keys To Your Heart?

1:02 AM 0 misnomeree(s)

Friday, September 16, 2005

Discuss

In light of the food-related posts this blog has assumed, what are the differences between kripik and krupuk? Discuss.

Providing some examples of each (5 bonus points), sending assorted samples to moa (you-deserve a-very-special-spot-in-my-heart points).

5:59 PM 2 misnomeree(s)

Wednesday, September 14, 2005

"Excerpt"

Girl: "So, you DO think he's interested."
Guy: "Yes."
Girl: "Based on the 'handshaking' thing?"
Guy: "Based on it-bothers-you-so-much thing. Go ahead, give it a try, treat it as a learning experience."
Girl: "Hmph...okay, we'll see how I handle it."

5:35 PM 0 misnomeree(s)

Monday, September 12, 2005

Hmm...

This morning for breakfast, I had one Lemon-filled Bismarck, 1/2 of a chocolate glazed donut and a glass of chocolate milk. All the sugary, fatty goodness, one would say, except now my stomach is growling and I am all in all hungry just sitting right here in front of the computer. Which is abnormal, I always skip lunch, do something more physical, and will be okay until dinner time. Talking about weird metabolism.

There's always the options to forage food from the department's kitchen or to go across the street for some quick fill-in, but I'm just lazy. No worries, in an hour, I'll be saved.

The schedule for tonight:

5:40 PM departmental pizza party
7-9 PM Latin dance class
10PM-?? back to work

Ain' life, ehm, grant?

4:42 PM 0 misnomeree(s)

Sunday, September 11, 2005

Viva la comida, part deux

Death by chocolate aka Birthday Blackforest Cake
Basic recipe modified from here. Icing: chocolate sour cream

Bala-bala aka bakwan
Basic recipe modified from here.

2:53 PM 29 misnomeree(s)

Saturday, September 10, 2005

Misplaced item

Dinner tonight:
Shell pasta in mushroom red sauce with mixed olives and leftover roasted chicken
Garlic & herb breaded fish

Yummy for the tummy

8:17 PM 2 misnomeree(s)

Wednesday, September 07, 2005

I suspect I've received a perfect serve. What to do, what to do? Return the ball and play along with it or just stand right there on my comfort corner. Looks like, it's going to be the latter.

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Dang, this left foot still hurts.

3:55 AM 0 misnomeree(s)

Monday, September 05, 2005

Soundtrack

--d--,

I've only read Murakami's Sputnik Sweetheart and the first few chapters of The Wind-up Bird Chronicle. Yes, reading him definitely "is like going to a battlefield of mind".

If he ever needed soundtracks for his stories, this (save for the vocal) would be one of the perfect choices. To me, they are kinda at the same dimension, streaming and unique.

8:03 PM 7 misnomeree(s)

Saturday, September 03, 2005

Yeah, yeah, it's that time of year again...

1:49 PM 9 misnomeree(s)

Friday, September 02, 2005

In defense of natural disaster?

This is the kind of mentality some people should get his/her mind on:

...What a class act. The lowest level of hell is reserved for those who exploit tragedy to serve their own antagonistic and/or hateful agendas.

...People who sit around talking about divine punishment during natural disasters are like the ones who saw the blind man sitting in the street and asked Christ whether he was blind because of his own sins, or because of the sins of his parents.

So, stop all of the non-sense, why don't we just get down and help.

8:25 AM 0 misnomeree(s)