The Misspent Life

That Good News?

A while back I mentioned that there might be some good news.  Well, it is about time I reveal what that is.  I got some money for the summer to study German.  Unfortunately, I had reconciled myself to not doing anything like that for the summer, so now I have to figure out what I'm going to do.  I have the opportunity to go to one of the best programs in the country for most of the summer and pay a considerable amount above what my funding level, or I can go to Germany to study for a shorter period and have enough funding to cover food and travel.  This will also let me see Blimpish, our long lost friend.  But I don't know if I can say no to the domestic program, but then again it will cost a bit and I'm not sure it will put me in that much better a position since I'm taking language courses all next year.  So, either way I'll be traveling this summer, learning German.

Soo-pa-pa Troo-pa-pa

Last night was a blast from the past.  It was the first time that I went out out in The District.  You know, to a fancy bar/lounge.  What used to be a somewhat common occurance years ago when I was about 23, 24 years old.  I did my best to preload for the event and donned some sharp duds and left all metro'ed up for a night on the town--hair in a fauxhawk, black pants, black shoes, slick European-fit black jacket with a hoodie to protect me from the rain.  I stopped at an ATM and filled the old wallet.  Got to the place and ordered the usual, only to be reminded that a top-shelf night would be out of the question.  But I splurged on at least one top shelf drink to start off the night.  About a minute later, the drink having been shot down the gullet before the others had a chance to get theirs, I switched to my drink for the rest of the night--Red Stripe.  We all found a quiet corner of the lound in which to sit.  By my fourth Red Stripe I realized that I would have to notch it down a little, as everyone else was just then contemplating whether they wanted to go for a second.  About every twenty minutes the lights would get dimmer and dimmer until they went out.  At that point all that was left was candlelight.  And sure enough, after twenty minutes people went around a blew out a candle.  There was some complaints about this in my group so I went up and pinched some candles from other areas.  By about midnight we were all on the floor dancing up a storm.  I stumbled back into my apartment shortly before 2am muttering how this was like the old times (except that Chicago is so much better). 

Not Going to Do It

I was going to comment on last nights Doctor Who, but then I realized that my blog has just been nothing but reviews of American Idol and Doctor Who.  So I'm not going to do it.

American Idol was FANTASTIC

Finally!  American Idol was absolutely fantastic last night.  Just about everyone was at the top of their game.  Unfortunately, the Pickler was the worst.  But Katharine McPhee was absolutely wonderful.  Man, is this going to be a tough week to see someone go.  My bottom three are Kelly, Ace, and Elliott.  Ace will probably go.  But, man, was it a good night.

Pathetic

That is about the only thing I can think of, that is family-friendly, about this article.  I shudder to think that it is people like this that are at the apex of our elite cultural and educational systems.  It never ceases to amaze me how people can be so self-righteous and so self-loathing at the same time.  From the French-loving to the simplistic moral reasoning about war to a frantic call to the ACLU reporting a flier about the Bible (one gathers from later anecdotes that a flier depicting graphic sexual acts and drugs would not provoke the same level of terror and horror, but would, in fact, merit cheers) this one article captures so much that I find distasteful about the liberal elites.  On the one hand we see the people who have made, and will continue to make this country great.  On the other, those who spend their entire lives undermining our nation and its core values while reaping the benefits of the hard working people they distain from their comfortable perches atop our national legacy.  Gross, disrepectful, warped, and ungrateful.

Happy Easter

Happy Easter.

The minute I got home from church I just about bathed in Coke.  I had a case all ready in the fridge, cooled and prepped for our triumphant reunion.

You Can't Humanize the Daleks! They're Pure Evil!!

Can we not hate anything anymore?  That's all I have to say.

Things May Be Looking Up! Rat tails!

Folks, the next weeks will be very tough.  I have a major, major paper to do and don't have anywhere near the number of readings I need done, plus I'm struggling to come up with a really sound argument.

Regardless of that--since it is the only thing I have to work on for the next three weeks and that should be enough time to get up to speed--there may be some majorly awesome good news coming in the next few days.  Of course with every bit of good news come a new set of challenges and worries.

But, another sign things are going to go well the next few days--I saw a young boy with the awesomest rattail I have seen since the late 80s.  It was lush, more like a squirrel tail than a rat tail.  Then, to add to that fortuitous sighting was another rat tail--except this one was very long.  It was on a grown woman and it was a very thin one that reached all the way down her back--almost like the rat tail in the Star Wars movie.  Things have to go well after that much luck.  Imagine.  Two rat tails in one day!

Testosterone Boost

Not that I need any more, but I figured that I would boost by mancreds so I watched another man movie.  This time it was DOOM, with The Rock based on the video game.  It wasn't very good, but I didn't expect it to be.  I actually wasted by time tonight.

Also, I am mad that Michael is back on LOST. Walt, Walt, Walt, blah, blah, blah.

Thank You America

Finally.

Has anyone gone over the American Idol blogs?  These are little blogs for the fans.  It looks like they were created by retarded children in 1997.  The HTML is ridiculous and EVERYONE WRITES REALLY BIG WITH LOTS OF !!!!! and ??????????