Haha

Things that make me laugh:

- Sarah hearing a song and starting to dance, only to discover that it was a Viagra commercial.

Whatever, she likes Thomas Ian Nicholas

As Sarah is back for the family viewing of 1776, I feel it is time to come clean.

When I was younger, about six, I had crushes on these two men: this one and this one*.

I tell you this so that Sarah can never use them as ammunition against me.

* He likes American History and one of his favorite movies is a Bond film.....heehee.

I don't know what's sadder....

....that Neil Diamond is on MySpace, or that my sister is friends with him.

NERD.

Six weird things about me

I've been tagged with this meme by Sarah.

1. I can go through an entire pack of Tic Tacs in a day.
   
2. My car's name is Ciarán. I named it after Ciarán Hinds after seeing him in Persuasion. While partial to Mr. Darcy, there's also something about Captain Wentworth. I also liked him in The Phantom of the Opera.
3. I can't sleep in a room with an analog clock. The ticking will drive me crazy.
4. I'm good at making banana bread. It's pretty much the only baked good I can make from scratch.
5. I felt ill at the sight of blood until I was almost twelve years old. Given my major, it's a good thing I got over it.
6. I never skipped a class until the first semester of my senior year of college, when I skipped my 9am class because I didn't get back from seeing Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire until 4am.
   

I hereby tag anyone who wants to do this - it doesn't matter to me.

Ah, it's good to be home

Alfie: She knows four martial arts and holds black belts in at least two of them.....
Sarah: Who? I hope not you because I'm punching you in the butt.

Weirdos

Srah: Andy and I are going to the Renaissance Festival in costume. Andy's going to go as a banana and I'm going to go as the Hamburglar.

While listening to Vitamin C's "Graduation"

"And so we talked all night about the rest of our lives
Where we're gonna be when we turn 25"

Srah: (plaintively) Heeeeeeeeeeeeeeere!

What a nice surprise.

What a nice surprise.
Originally uploaded by qbqrat.

I walked into my room to go to sleep Saturday night and found two surprises in my bed.

Surprise #1 -
I found this note.

Surprise #2 -
I found the dog's squeaky plastic crayfish.

Suspects -
Cheryl and Sarah

What a weirdo!

Srah: Don't kill my dream of milking penguins!

Answers for Sarah

1. What do you like best about yourself? (Feel free to make a long, train of thought list)
I think I'm pretty smart. I'm getting more confident. I'm honest. I'm usually pretty nice. I'm nerdy. I can sometimes make other people feel better by giving them someone to talk to.

2. If you hadn't gotten involved in athletic training, what do you think your present/future would be like?
I honestly don't know. Athletic Training has been a part of my life for so long that I don't know what I would be doing now.

I guess if I hadn't discovered athletic training at age 12, I would probably be majoring in History. I might not have chosen the college that I did. I might not have ever met my friends. I wouldn't have my godparents in my life. I might have had a social life in high school and I might have dated during that time. I think my life would have been much different because athletic training takes up so much of my life.

3. What characteristics make people attractive to you? ("Characteristics" being not just physical but personal attributes, and "people" being friends, partners, blogs you read, people you meet on the street...)
Well, I'll go through systematically.

Physically
Physically? I have a tendency towards being attracted to dark haired guys. I didn't realize it until I took the Match.com Physical Attraction test, but now that I've actually started paying attention I realize that it is true. I am attracted to lots of guys that are different looking, but for the most part, about 80% of the guys I'm attracted to have dark hair. I don't care about eye color, it has never mattered to me. I like tall guys, but for me, tall starts at about 5'7" (much to the chagrin of my mother). I like nice smiles, but nice smile for me does not mean perfect teeth. I like smiles that have personality.

Personally
I'm interested in guys who are nice, funny, hard-working, loyal, smart and genuine. I don't want someone who is pretending to be someone else to be with me. I want someone who actually is all of those things.

Friends
When I make friends, I look for people that have good senses of humor, are easy to talk to, have something in common with me (even if it's something as silly as having the same hometown), are patient and are willing to stand up for what they believe in.

Partners
Do you mean like lab partners or romantically? In partners for projects, I look for nice, hard-working, intelligent people who are going to carry their part of the load. Romantically, I look for nice, smart, hard-working and funny people. It's nice if they're tall and cute too, because I am very tiny.

Blogs
When I start reading a blog, I am looking for a nice writing style and sense of humor. I like being entertained and I hate reading blogs full of typos and ridiculous errors, unless it is being done to mock people who actually do write like that. I hate reading blogs full of:

OMG. did i tell u? im about to meat my boyfreind. weve be chattin online 4ever. hes sooooooo kewl. i luv him. ttyl.

If I am looking at blogs and I find one that is full of writting like that, but serious, I will click away and look for something else as soon as possible because that gives me a headache.

People I meet on the street
I'm not usually attracted to random people on the street. I'm pretty shy and don't approach people easily. I suppose if someone on the street was attracted to me, I might be attracted by them if they let me know and I had an opportunity to see their true personality. I don't really know about this one.

4. What do you want to get out of your semester in Scotland?
I want to grow as a person and experience life away from my safety net. I want a chance to explore a new place and get to know myself before. I hope to learn a lot about language, culture and history while I'm there.

5. What's your favorite book that's not written by Jane Austen?
To re-state my original response: "What? There are books written by people other than Jane Austen? Where have I been since 1818?"

But seriously, I love a lot of books. I loved "Murder on the Orient Express" and "The ABC Murders." I loved "The DaVinci Code" and "Angels and Demons." I loved "To Kill A Mockingbird." I loved "The Westing Game." I loved "One Fine Day in the Middle of the Night." I love most of the Shakespeare that I've read (poetry and Hamlet being the exceptions), I adore "King Henry V," "A Midsummer Night's Dream," "Twelfth Night" and of course, the Scottish play. ;)

I would have to say that "The Westing Game" is my favorite non-Austen book.

My weekend

Friday:

• Played laser tag for the first time - shot Srah five times, was shot by Srah zero times :)
  
• Went to the major premiere of LeStrat :P
  
• Bought my very own copy of LeStrat :)
  

Saturday

• Went to the Detroit Tigers game against the Cleveland Indians with Megs, Roommate and Mom - Detroit won 11-1! :)
  
• Got sunburned :(
  
• Went with the family, Megs and Roommate to Mongolian Barbecue :)
  

The winner and still champion, Me.

I played Megan at Trivial Pursuit. I won, but it was a close game. Luckily, unlike a lot of people who have never played me at Trivial Pursuit (Thank you to Alex and Srah, who warned everyone not to play against me. Boogers!), she is still willing to play me. I've also found a few more people to play Trivial Pursuit with...like my roommate and Sarah.

Yay, he's learned a lot in a very short amount of time

When JH signed my sister's guestbook more than a year ago, he admitted that he was not technology savvy, he had just decided that since he was in a room with free internet access that he would check it out. He had previously said that he could turn his computer on and use the clock, that was it.
Tonight on MDs, he was being very techno-savvy. He was outwitting computer experts with his abilities. It was so cool. Yay! I love MDs. If you aren't watching it, you should be. It is on Wednesday nights at 10PM on ABC. Hope to see ya there:)

HOLA SARAH!

I was at the Academic Fair tonight. I ran into some of Sarah's old professors there. They both said "Hello, Sarah!" One of them knows who I am, the other one saw my card and said, "Do you have a sister who went here? Oh yes, Sarah! I had her in my class last year! Tell her I said hello!"
I also ran into Dr. Reimann. He gave me some information sheets about Computer Science that had FOXTROT cartoons on them. Heehee! I think I might take Computer Science 151, because I don't think I would be able to handle CS 171.
By the way, if you are reading this, Mom and Dad, feel free to comment. Dr. Reimann says hi.

I need to clean my room

As an ongoing process, I have been cleaning my room. My desk is the main problem area. I cleaned under my bed and in my closet, now its time for the desk and my dresser, etc. Also, I need to do laundry. There, aren't you fascinated to know that. Boring posts are the fault of Srah for complaining about how I never blog.