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09.28.07
Thr Pick Up Artist Have you ever seen The Pick Up Artist on VH1? I tried to watch it, and I just, I don't know, couldn't. And I LOVE douchey reality TV. I have been wanting to write about it for some time now, but haven't been able to put into words what I truly feel by this celebration of douchery. Whilst on a procrastination-from-studying break this afternoon, I came across this brilliant post by Mindy Does Minneapolis. She says everything I never could.
09.27.07
We Want The Funk I kind of want to be friends with these kids. I am at least going to work on stealing their moves.
Labels: Video 09.27.07
Ugly Betty "You're starting to look like 2 fat girls hugging"
Labels: T.V. 09.27.07
Oops I was so in the zone studying today I forgot to go to a meeting at 2. My bad. Are you guys psyched for Grey's tonight? I am.
Labels: Miscellaneous 09.26.07
The Way I Am I want to fall in love like this. Maybe one day. I'll wait.
Labels: Miscellaneous, Video 09.26.07
Procrastination I am taking the LSAT on Saturday so I should be spending all my time squeezing in some last minute studying, right? Well, in true procrastinator form, I am studying... during the breaks I take from spending an inordinate amount of time on MySpace. Looking up friends, friends of friends, people from high school, my little cousins (who are in college now actually).
It's like when I have a big paper due and all of a sudden I get an overwhelming urge to clean my apartment and organize all of my closets. This new MySpace thing is just less productive. Man, people are weird. Not me, of course, just the rest of you. Some people got fat, some people got hot a lot of people got kids. That's cool. Another thing I notice is that some people are really good at keeping up with their friends from high school and college while I'm just good at keeping up with people I see all the time anyway. Tonight while I'm supposed to be studying I'll probably look up all of my ex-boyfriends and see who got married and who got ugly. Labels: Miscellaneous 09.25.07
Transport Phenomena So, once a month I have to teach a transport lecture while Dr. martins has a Faculty Senate meeting. I always think it's weird teaching, plus I'm no good at it.but it was a long day and a lot of diff-eq.
Labels: Miscellaneous 09.24.07
Good Stuff So I had a pretty great weekend. Went up to Basalt Friday, spent the night playing Settlers of Cattan with Jared and Kate. Totally fun nerdy game about marshaling resources and building settlements. You don't care, but it's fun. Saturday I studied in the morning, then went to lunch and got a pedicure. In the afternoon when Jared got off work we took Murph for a hike, then got some Chinese food and watched a really bad movie. The Cave, Comcast gave it one star, and I must conclude that they don't hand out zero-stars, or this movie would have surely had zero. We were planning a hike in the morning but woke to rain, and spent the day drinking mimosas and watching football. Good Sunday.
This is totally cheesy, but I had the best time this weekend not really doing anything. Jared is great company. Pretty easy on the eyes too. Unfortunately I forgot my camera on our hike, or I could have gotten some great shots of Murphy actually in the water! Murph has a big old crush on Jared, and would go just about anywhere he asked. Labels: Dudes, Mak and Kate 09.24.07
COD FISH '07 Pictures form COD FISH '07 are here. Due tot he fact that they are terribly inappropriate, I have selected a few choice photos that are nudity-free and really capture the scope of the day. Enjoy.
 Labels: Heather, Holiday, Jill, Mak and Kate 09.20.07
Overcompensate Last weekend, due to my excessive intake of alcohol, I lost yet another pair of sunglasses. I would venture to guess that I go through four pair a year. So, on my way home last night I stopped at Kohl's to pick up a new pair. I went to Kohl's because last summer I found a pair of Junior's sized glasses there, I have a tiny head and they fit better than grown-up glasses. I found a pair I liked, paid for them, and on my way out I ran into a guy who recognized me and said hello.
"Hey, Drea, how's it going?"
"Great! (Can't place him) How are you?"
"Good, good, you still working over there?"
"No, (I have no idea where over there is), I am in grad school at Mines now."
"Awesome, well Drea it was really great to see you."
"Yeah, you too."
And then it happened. I leaned over and hugged him good-bye. Hugged him. No idea who he is. He was with (I assume) his wife who gave me the dagger eyes. For hugging her husband. Who I don't remember. Hugged him, talk about overcompensating. Labels: Miscellaneous 09.19.07
Spicy Thai Kettle Chips Fucking Disgusting.
 Labels: Product Endorsement 09.19.07
Oh, and I have some wicked mentionitis.
Labels: Miscellaneous 09.19.07
Wednesday- Hump Day I hate Iron Ore. We are in the middle of a project that we don't really have enough time to complete, and one of my bosses apparently thinks I'm an idiot.
I only spent a year and a half doing about eight thousand float tests at Hazen, but my other boss (the one in charge because my regular boss is out of town) has decided that I don't have a clue what I am doing and wants all of my work supervised by a colleague. A colleague who has never done any flotation, and has told me that she has no idea how to do it. So now, we have even less time to get everything done, because I can only work on the project when she is free to work with me. I can't wait to get out of here. (9 more months!) Oh, and I go home every day covered in dark red dust from the ore. It's really a mess. In other, and more frivolous, news... I e-mailed that date guy from last week and told him I wouldn't be going out with him again (he asked). However, I will definitely go out on some more dates, if I ever meet anyone to go out with. It definitely wasn't as bad as I expected. I am heading up to Basalt this weekend to hang out with Kate on Friday and go hiking with Jared (from the CU game last week) on Saturday. I am also going to be studying for the LSAT (next Saturday, the 29th). That's right I am taking it again, but I still don't know if I have studied enough. Maybe I'll just never feel like it's enough, an I should get over it. Labels: Miscellaneous 09.17.07
Whew! Another long Monday bites the dust!
My weekend started out great! My mom and I went golfing, and although it wasn't my best game ever, I had a great day. We were paired with a fun twosome, and even though they were much, much better than me they were very pleasant and fun to play 18 with.
Labels: Dudes, Football, Mak and Kate 09.14.07
Date Update I would say that the date was fine. Nothing to write home about. We met at six thirty and by ten to eight I was on my way to Jill's house. But, it was good to go on a date and be reminded that I can talk to people. But we probably won't be going out again.
Tonight I don't have plans, maybe a beer with Party Sarah, but I am definitely cleaning my apartment sometime today or tomorrow morning. Labels: Miscellaneous 09.13.07
Tonight So tonight I have a date. My first one in almost 6 months. I am a little nervous, but I think it will be fine.
Labels: Miscellaneous 09.12.07
For Tanya I was sitting in class today thinking about how fun it was to hang out with Tanya last weekend (2 weekends ago?) and I spontaneously wrote this Haiku:
My friend Tanya
Labels: Miscellaneous, Tanya 09.12.07
I Can't Quite Believe This  I find this not only unconscionable, but unfathomable.
If any of you watched Top Chef Season 2, you remember Contestant Josie Smith-Malave as warm, funny, friendly, etc., etc. etc.. Last weekend, while celebrating a birthday with her sister in Long Island, she and some friends were gay-bashed. Attorney Yetta Kurland said, "...as many as 10 "young adults" followed the women out, circled them, screamed anti-gay slurs, spit on them and then punched and kicked them. A camera belonging to one of them was stolen...." I don't understand how this kind of violence exists. I am perfectly nonplussed. That members of our society can attack, verbally and physically, other people for something as personal as whom you choose to love offends me deeply. That we have gone so far as to legislate this same thing, making equal rights a non-sequitur. Passing laws against discrimination whilst banning gay marriage. Is tantamount to the good old nudge, nudge, wink, wink, and then turn the other way so we can't see whats going on. Sorry I got off track a bit. What I'm really trying to say is, aside from it being reprehensible, wrong, and immoral to beat someone up because she likes girls and you like boys, I guess I am wondering who cares that much. How does it affect this persons life in any way? Such a bigot would surely not have gay friends and hopefully not gay family members to subject to such unnecessary prejudice. Were this beating racially motivated society at large would be up in arms, this would be a priority. Instead, this news was buried, found only on the Bravo website, and other similarly entertaining sites, while Britney Spears is still headline news on mainstream sites. And what about the gay-bashing that happens to people of no notable celebrity? We never hear about it, and in turn, seem not to care. Labels: Miscellaneous, T.V. 09.11.07
Today is maybe the longest day ever. I have no classes today, but plenty of articles to read, and I am trying to write my thesis. I feel like I have the shortest attention span possible today. I spent like three hours on some physics homework. I am not getting it. I know i did this same problem in modern physics a few years ago, but I can't remember. I'll sleep on it for a night or two and then I'll be able to figure it out.
Labels: Miscellaneous 09.10.07
Tuesday Night- Killers Concert and Ace Hi I am a posting fool today! Most of these (from Labor Day weekend) I had written last week, and just never got around to posting them, but I may as well post them now. As soon as I have pictures from tubing I'll put them up, but who knows how long that might take.
I met Kate and DB for a beer at Golden city and ended up going to the Killers concert with them.
I was wearing a little sun dress, so I borrowed a shirt from Kate and jeans from DB and we took off. I looked like a little kid playing dress up in her mom's closet.
The weather was great.
Kate's friends were really nice.
The show was good. A bit theatrical. A bit cheesy.
We were definitely the only people there who didn't have to go to homeroom in the morning.
After the show we hung out in the parking lot drinking beer until our driver was ready to go.
They dropped us off at the Table Mountain Inn.
I was starving so we lit out in search of provisions.
The only place still serving food was the Ace Hi Tavern.
Many good memories of drinking at the Ace in college.
The Totino's pizza was as disgusting as I remembered. We gobbled it up.
Labels: Mak and Kate, Video 09.10.07
I guess sometimes it is about metallurgy I had an extremely cool class today. My 11 o'clock on Monday and Wednesday is called Intro to Disordered Solids. Today we were talking about chaos and disorder, and how seemingly chaotic occurrences might actually have long range order. To illustrate my professor brought in a double pendulum similar to the one in the short video below. What is interesting about this type of double pendulum experiment is that the motion of the pendulum is largely dependent on the initial conditions, and however many times you repeat the experiment, the pendulum will behave differently each time. These seemingly chaotic behaviors can actually be described numerically given the initial conditions.
This led to a discussion of quasi crystals, what the lesson was really about. Quasi crystals have seemingly no periodicity but in fact have long range order. Penrose tiling is an example of this behavior. The Fibonacci Sequence (Long story short) There is no repetition distance (no periodicity no matter how much you expand the sequence). This leads to the Golden Mean, the ratio of R/r (in the pentagon) which is equal to 2 over tao, where tao is the ratio a/b!
Seriously too cool. Labels: Metallurgy, Video 09.10.07
WTF Britney? First a disclaimer, I didn't actually watch the VMA's, but I knew I'd be able to get this on YouTube this morning. I was anxious to see what Britney would do, given that she's out and about all the time, and no where near her former glory. I wasn't however prepared for it to be this bad. If you watch the video from last night's 2007 VMA performance and compare it to (my favorite) Britney's 2001 VMA performance it brings to mind several questions. WTF is she doing? If you're not ready to comeback, don't comeback. Does she have a stylist? I get that she's had 2 kids, but don't prance around in sequined panties if you can't pull it off. Was she stoned? I have never seen such a lackluster performance, boo Brit.
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Labels: Video 09.10.07
Sunday Morning- BIA (Last Weekend) One thing I always look forward to when we visit Basalt is Breakfast in America. Best Breakfast ever.
Labels: Heather, Jill, Mak and Kate 09. 9.07
Beaver Labels: Video 09. 9.07
Big Buckin' Chicken 09. 7.07
Match.com-Update Yeah, I changed my mind. No match.
Labels: Miscellaneous 09. 6.07
Match.com So here's the thing. I have completely lost my mojo. I think I've been on one date since Paul and I broke up (March!). Jill has admonished me more than once for not getting in the mix like I used to. The last straw was when last weekend I 100% would rather drink cheap beer and play asshole with some friends that hang out with some new dudes and flirt.
I have decided to try match again, just to get my feet wet. I am going to give everyone a chance, unless they are really terrible, and I am getting that mojo back if it's the last thing I do. I swear I used to be really charming, I'm just a little out of practice. If you are bored, check out my profile and point out any glaring spelling or grammatical errors, and tell me if it's just too cheesy for words. Wish me luck, and feel free to introduce me to any cute single dudes you might know (no 50 year olds please, Jill). Labels: Miscellaneous 09. 6.07
CH2M Hill? Who works for CH2M Hill? I think my research group is in negotiations to begin a project with them and I thought something about the name of the company sounded familiar.
Labels: Miscellaneous 09. 5.07
Saturday- Who's the Asshole? We were a lot late to the show on Saturday night, but managed to see John Legend who has, by the way, a lovely voice. After the show Kate, Jill, Heather and I went to a house party with some guys Jill and Heads picked up at the show. After a while Kate and I headed back to her place. There was business to take care of.
Labels: Jill, Mak and Kate 09. 5.07
Friday Night- Heather in D-Town! On Friday, Heather arrived in town for her visit.
We met up at the Rio for dinner and margaritas with Jill, Tanya, Sarah, the other Sarah, Sameera, and Pheobe, one of Heads' friends from college.
After dinner there was some dancing and running around town.
Heather went home early to rest up and recuperate after her long day of traveling, while the rest of us danced the night away before getting a cab home at bar time.
09. 5.07
The Jill Show This is my first attempt at editing a video. This is a compilation of three short videos I shot of Jill doing her thing on Friday night. Sorry about the low lighting, but, whatever, it's just a first effort.
09. 5.07
To tide you over... 
Heather sent out some pictures from Jill's and my visit to NYC, and of Heads' visit to CO. Here they are in no particular order.09. 5.07
Pictures? I have some photos from this weekend (though not many, my camera kind of broke), and I'll get to them soon, I know you are all a bit anxious. Or maybe just a little bored at work?
I didn't get to them last night after work, because I went to see the Killers with Sara and Kate. It was pretty fun, I am really not familiar with the music, but I had a great time with the gals. Unrelated, I decided to maybe start dating again, I guess I have to sometime, so I put a profile on match to see who's out there, and I have gotten a lot of responses, but none that make me want to subscribe. And that's putting it mildly. Wow. Not good. I remember Jill and I doing Match a few years ago and going on so many dates that it got really tiring, but if things keep going like this, I am going to have to take my profile right back down and go back to watching movies alone in my apartment. That actually doesn't sound bad to me. Labels: Miscellaneous 09. 3.07
Long Weekend I had a blast, but I'll have to write about it later because I actually have class today!
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