Saturday, September 16, 2006

SATURDAY MORNING MEGA-POST!!!!!!!!


yeah, okay, so when i came up with that title just now i definitely had a vision in my head of the good old days...getting out of bed really early (by today's standards) on a saturday morning, running to the living room already wide awake and ready to go, and turning on the television. sometimes it would be early and infomercials would still be on, usually about some kind of stop smoking machine ("it tells me when to light up!") or the soloflex home gym which was so trendy at the time. soon enough, though, the sweet kiddie-crack would begin to pour out of the box and right into my second-grade brain. teenage mutant ninja turtles, garfield and friends, super mario brothers (or super mario world in later years), captain N the game master (of course with the hot princess lana), heathcliff, various other colorful goodies...if you don't understand this feeling, you had a deprived childhood and i feel sorry for you.

back to 2006...



this is what i saw upon looking outside this morning. the picture really doesn't do it justice, but the weather and smell and feeling in the air was what got me started thinking about those mornings when i was a kid. i think i could stay in boone for quite a while.

keeping a blog updated is proving to be a challenge amid upper-level courses, a job, and some attempt at having a life outside all that. fortunately, a lot of the things going on in classes relate to other things i'm interested in. starting this blog, for example, was something i had been wanting to do for a while but never did until i had to as an assignment for internet studies (and the majority of the posts will probably reflect that for a little while). sight and sound, for which i did this project, is giving me a reason to learn more about the software i am now using (including the GIMP, which i think i'm really going to like). internet studies is showing itself to be the right choice for a minor.



i saw this yesterday on the watauga county democratic party site. i thought it was pretty funny and although i'm not very familiar with blust himself, i find it to be a powerful statement about politicians in general (republicans especially). i've been planning to write a blog post about my thoughts on 9/11 five years later, but i never got around to it on monday or since. maybe i'll do it soon, though it might be more lazily written because of the delay.



this is what i came home from work with last night. salmon, blackened something, curried chicken, green beans almondine, corn on the cob, mixed greens with shrimp and balsamic vinaigrette, pickles, pickled okra, pineapple, and a strawberry. the blackened something was some kind of fish, and it had a really dank flavor and had no fishy taste at all. i definitely got lucky when i started working at brcc.

damnit, now i'm hungry and it's time to go to work. i've put too much time into this collection of ramblings. or maybe just enough.

life is crazy.

but it works.

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