February 2008
Date Update
He is awesome.
January 2008
Back from a dating sabbatical
I’m going on a date tonight and I’m incredibly nervous. First dates are scary. Update: T-20 minutes… I am officially flipping out. Why am I so nervous?
“Ease up on the internal life commentary. If you want to be happy, stop telling...”
– 10 simple ways to save yourself from messing up your life - (via Linda, from BU) I LOVED THIS!
“Oh and hold the mayo because it’s SUPER GROSS!”
– Matt at Boston Beanery… hahaha
MIT offers 1,800 classes online for FREE. →
mynylife: katieschenk: MIT offers the course materials (lecture notes, audio lectures, problem sets, exams, assignments, study materials, etc. - you basically download the course) for roughly 1,800 classes FREE online! This is an awesome way to teach yourself a subject you never got to take or already love and want to learn more about. They offer EVERYTHING from Anthropology to Physics to Music...
More Health centered news
As I’ve said before, 9% of the school is infected with influenza, but did you know that if 10% of the school has the flu, it will be considered an epidemic and they are required to cancel classes for a couple of days? We’re 1% away, I think that a school closing is entirely possible and that kind of blows my mind. 10% of an undergraduate population of 27,000 and a graduate population...
xkcd endorses Obama!!! →
“9% of campus is sick. Schiffert Health Center had 200 students come in on ONE...”
– Take care of yourselves! Eat your vegetables, stay hydrated, and wash your hands! And, if you’re sick, please contain it/wipe down your desk or at least put some hand sanitizer on it if you’re going to drape your used tissues all over it.
Really, life?!
I just have to vent for a sec… My Social Research group decided it would be a great idea to meet on Friday to work/complete our project starting at 2:30 going through the night. I’m not a senior who can use all the Fridays she can get or anything.
“Can you please promise to give this guy a chance and not push him away?”
– Lisa (I have no faith in Mary) Cowley
A quick note on American Apparel
I just ordered one of their unisex tri-blend shirts and received it last night. Fact: I’m in love with it because it’s so comfortable… I don’t think I will go back to 100% cotton again A word of advice: If you are a girl buying unisex shirts off their website, they suggest you go a size smaller than what you normally wear in girl sizes. I went ahead and took their advice....
Facebook, you are amazing
Normally I hate mini-feed because I really could care less if Delta Tau Delta ordered 11 pizzas to their fraternity house from campusfood.com BUT today at the top of my mini-feed were a million little gifts to Speaker Pelosi. That caught my eye so I checked it out and saw the funniest wall post ever… Here’s what it said: ”Thanx fo my FAT TAX REFUND Girrrrrrl! You da bomb an i...
Girl Talk
Me: All was good in the world until he WINKED... creepily.
Lisa: HE WINKED AT YOU?
Me: Yeah... all downhill from there
Lisa: It's 2008, who winks anymore?
Me: Um need I remind you the last guy I dated left me to become a priest? I feel like anyone, even a WINKER is a step up...
Lisa: Oh yeah... priest boy.
Later today
Lisa: Oh, cute FB picture although it looks like you're just trying to get someone to WINK at you.
Me: You kissed a guy who goes by "Biscuit" this weekend... I don't think you can make fun of me.
“The lecture today is called Biology’s greatest hits (Disc 1), you dig it?!”
– Dr. Germana… Laugh riot!
What would Obama say? - New York Times →
A behind the scenes look on Obama’s speeches written by his 26 year old (!!!!!!!) speech writer.
“Go make a life, not a living.”
– J. Mraz
“Ted Kennedy is going to endorse Obama. Ask not!”
– Adam (Overheard on the campaign trail) - Update: He will.
A President Like My Father - New York Times →
Amazing, well-written endorsement. However, I think it’d be more moving if the title were “Stuntin’ Like My Daddy.” — themarkpike
Dear Drunk girl outside my window, GO AWAY!
There is a drunk girl currently crying and screaming outside my window right now. I should also probably tell you it’s 3:38 a.m. Busses from here to campus stop running at 2 so she’s kind of SOL right now if that’s where she needs to go. No matter where she ends up, I hope is FAR ENOUGH AWAY FROM MY WINDOW that I don’t have to hear her. Update: I just heard sirens, and she...
Can we converse?
I just came back from seeing No Country for Old Men, and I thought it was a good movie, BUT… I didn’t think it was going to end when it did so I didn’t really pay attention to the guy talking. Can somebody please explain what that was all about?! Was he foreshadowing or what?
Eric sucks sometimes
Me (frustrated that the cherry sank to the bottom of my cocktail): Can you help me with my cherry?!
Eric: Yeah, Matt is all over that
Matt: dude, come on!
Eric: Yeah just get Matt to suck on the straw really hard and he'll get it
Watch2 guys, 1 bed by my friend Colin! Don’t worry, this is not gross.
“Sometimes, it’s best not to talk about the events of April 16th with...”
– One of my professors
“Go on facebook and accept some friend requests or something!”
– Me to Patrick when he ran into me at the library and was bothering me while I was reading. Since getting drafted by the Chicago Fire, he has had an overwhelming amount of friend requests. Haha.. this is what the big time consists of… clicking the “accept” button. Who knew?
“All of us believe
we were born of a virgin
(for who can imagine
his parents...”
– The Question, W.H. Auden
WatchHappy Friday everyone!
Multiply Mary & Andrew and you get 2x the sarcasm
Andrew: i feel ignored
Me: sorry, did I hurt your feelings?
Me: sorry I didn't respond in two seconds flat
Andrew: i need that kind of constant attention obviously
He's SO lucky he's in Seattle right now or else...
Me: i will have to coerce a friend to go with me so i'm not standing there like a sketch ball
Andrew: yea i would go with you but of course i can't
Andrew: sooo
Andrew: that makes me look good, without actually making any commitment
Me: so in other words, you admit that you suck?
Andrew: yes
Me: haha great. you're the best.
Andrew: i try
Background info... I am doing research which I love, but for a class project I have to do other research where I have to sit in a corner and observe people and that makes me feel so sketchy so I was explaining how I would much rather bring someone along...
“good evening to you maryonite”
– Sam(sonite) Maryonite?! It hardly sounds as high in street cred as “Samsonite.” I think you should stick to calling me Mary
Nina Cohen is the only person who will find this...
Matt: Have you guys seen that basketball player that's like 7 foot 7 and wears like a size 25 shoe?
Kendall: He'll die by the time he's 30
Drew: Why?
Matt: He has a pituary problem... like pituary gland.
Me: You mean... PITUITARY gland?!
Drew: I mean maybe baseball PITCHERS have PITUARY gland problems, but the rest of us have PITUITARY glands.
“All I know is February and March are BIG facial hair growing months… so...”
– Frank
YESSSSSSSS! :) x 1 million
Andrew Arnold, you will totally appreciate this/be as excited as I am about this… There’s going to be a NEW episode of Chuck tonight on NBC!!!!
Excited...
for a reunion 1 year in the making. It’s going down tonight at 6pm (you know, after my 3rd research meeting of the week). I’m pumped. Pictures to come.
SCIENCE MAJORS ARE THE COOLEST!
Nina: OMG you'll appreciate this
Nina: last night at trivia, the final round question was a periodic table with like five boxes missing
Nina: i was like, omg, hand it over. hahaha
Nina: yeah the ones missing were He, Na, C, Fe, and Au
Me: OMG seriously?!
Me: EASY!
Nina: i was like ohhh yeah i've suffered and i know this
Radio Radio
I have a radio show on WCWM (90.9 FM Williamsburg, VA) this afternoon from 4-6PM. If you’re reading this, reblog a request and I’ll play it on the air. I’ll update with the live link at 4PM. Headphones Are Stethoscopes. — themarkpike Fun! Okay here goes, “(I Want Those) Flashing Lights” by Colin Munroe if you have it, if not, Crosstide’s cover of Elliott...
Call from my roommate this morning 9AM
Linds: Ummm... I'm on the bus going to class right now
Me: You have the carpool pass today... why didn't you just drive?
Linds: I think my car got towed last night!
Me: W...T...F? The one you parked IN OUR SPACE IN FRONT OF OUR HOUSE?!
Linds: Yep... that one
Me: I hate Valley Towing, they're idiots.
Linds: Oh.. they said it was going to cost $150 to pick up...
Off to a good start. Yay Wednesday morning.
WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT?!
Me: Sweet, you got a Mac?
Pat: Yep
Me: This means we can iChat when you're living in Chicago playing for the FIRE!
Me: Let me show you how it works
Me: OMG, WTF! You configured your mac to run windows and look like a PC?!
Pat: SHUT UP
Me: WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT?!
Me: That defeats the purpose of owning a Mac!!!
Me: What's the point of having that sweet camera up there if you can't use iChat or play with photo-booth?! UGH. Try to suck less!
Pat: Get out of my house. I only use my computer to watch soccer on you tube anyway.
Time has some great unpublished photos of MLK →
I look at some of these pictures and think, “what a backwards time.” Another thing that comes to mind? The book Coming of Age in Mississippi - read it if you ever get the chance. It may look a bit long, but I honestly could not put it down, I read it in an afternoon.
27 dresses? LAME!
Yesterday was a pretty relaxing awesome girls day for me. My friends and I woke up really early (9 am) for no reason and decided we should make breakfast. We made banana chocolate chip pancakes and had coffee and OJ. Then, we decided to go see 27 dresses… and I have to say, I have NEVER been so disappointed in a chick flick before in my life. The beginning hour was really freaking depressing...
Why you SHOULD be friends with your exes. →
by my brilliant friend Moe over at Jezebel (thank you to Lydia for pointing this out to me!!) As Moe writes, and I agree 435%, paraphrasing Julie Delpy in 2 Nights in Paris: It’s just so TERRIBLY SOUL CRUSHING to get into a relationship with someone thinking you wouldn’t be there if there wasn’t any sex, that you wouldn’t value the person even as a friend, that the...
Consistency
I love that ever since coming to college (3.5 years ago), I can always count on my dad calling me around the same time on the weekends to catch-up with me on my week. I just got off the phone with him - I feel warm and happy inside. Dads are the best.