i had the pleasure of playing with k'nex today. i'm sorry, today was my first encounter with them, so i don't really know how to explain them. you basically connectx pieces together to build, in today's case, a "racecar II"... um, i'll just leave you all with that link to wikipedia (i can really see wikipedia and me having a wonderful future together). and as i look at it now, it's supposed to be K'NEX - as if the apostrophe wasn't cool enough, we gots to be in capitals!
(this was for physics, by the way. so this was totally and completely educational. i don't really play with K'NEXtheCAPITALS in my free time. really.)
i was feeling a bit drained today, so i just tried watching the first few minutes and throwing in some words of encouragement. you know, like, "push harder," or "just stick it in." and let me just point out that it's YOU thinking those thoughts, and i'm just telling the story.
that's all i'm saying.
but really, some K'NEX pieces require some real, heavy pushing.
anyway, i was eventually coerced into assembly (what, my support wasn't good enough?), and let me just tell you, i think i can walk into a mechanics office now and get me a job because i've got the experience. i made a k'nex car, yo.
connie grabbed a duck on 092607 @ 04:15 PM EST
writing to say happy friday!
it would be wonderful if i didn't smell right now, so i think i'll go for a shower. my weekend wish was just super imperative.
... twenty minutes later.
i'm clean now, excitement! it's really been about twenty minutes later, even if you don't believe me. but you should, because it's true - but more important, it's on the internet, and you should believe everything on the internet. oh, and in other equally important news, my fridays have real meaning again since school's started. i guess i can use that as an excuse as to why my bloggage frequency has been reduced to a weekly routine (booo).
i was reading up on CNN today, and i've concluded their video topics might not be quite as scholarly as their articles, but they get two points (just two) for creativity. there was one about some (seems to me) young teenager who quit school to devote her time to her myspace-resource website, and is now a "multibillionaire" (that's what the narrator girl said! she did!) who bought her parents a house.1 how nice of her... but uh, she gets money for what again?
AND, another video told me twinkies are colored with something that would be poisonous in high doses.2 thank you, CNN. you have a happy friday, too.
1 weird teenage-looking girl is under "tech" ("teen time online")
2 twinkies ("what's really in a twinkie?") are under "health"
twinkies is a really funny word. twinkies. TWINK. ies. twinktwinktwink. now it just looks like the i-look-like-you-twin with a kie. dude, whoever coined this term didn't spell very well.
connie grabbed a duck on 092107 @ 10:42 PM EST
autumnal weather approaches us! this calls for an obligatory YAY, capitals and all. come to think of it, i mention the weather a lot in my blogs, but of all the things going on in both my life and the world, i think this is as important as it gets. so, it's 62°F right now with skies that are blue (and the dreams that you dare to dream really do come true). i went to the city over the weekend, where for a brief moment the skies were not so blue, and more like, cloudy and wet. it was okay though, i was able to duck into the subway station, because, you know, damp clothes are the worst things that could possibly happen, so avoid them at all costs.
before moving to san francisco, my sister has accumulated a pile of NYC metro cards from her company, which she left to me for happy subway use. i opened a new $35 one this weekend, and after about four swipes, i decided to check the balance (math can be difficult ...), except the machine told me i had $36 left.
???
yeah, so, that was my reaction, and it appears math is a tricky subject for it as well, but i wasn't going to fight with the machine.
mainly because that would be weird.
so, i guess as long as the math-impaired card keeps increasing my balance, i'll be seeing new york from the underground for awhile. yay (not obligatory, no capitals).
connie grabbed a duck on 091607 @ 06:44 PM EST
when i was in second grade, i had a really hard time believing "bestest" wasn't a real word in the english language. i used to go around school telling people it was, and for some reason, my peers listened to me, to my teachers' dismay. i think i was put in timeout for spreading libel.
but someone just used it on a television show, like it was a real word and everything! come on, if they can do it, so can second graders. and that five-minute timeout is five minutes i will never get back.
that's my story.
connie grabbed a duck on 091307 @ 08:48 PM EST
i had an impulse buy last week at wegmans. in the realm of grocery store superheroism, wegmans is the green arrow. green arrow because superman's overrated, and batman's just a weird guy throwing bat-shaped things. and don't get me started on robin, what?
green arrow.
green arrow stocks pina colada flavored jello.
you know, that good stuff in a box. considering i'm a culinary master of all that which comes from a box (cakes, brownies, hamburger helper?), i thought jello would be a breeze. it didn't work well.
and my favorite pen is running out of ink. i just don't know how some people live in this world.
connie grabbed a duck on 090907 @ 10:55 PM EST
i've been writing about existentialism. in the french language, yet, somehow, even the language of love can't make me love the topic. so since i'm quite confident none of you are interested, here's a bit of an online conversation i had with ali. i know, i know, posting personal conversations is so... bland, but (1) i thought i would distract myself from existentialism by blogging and (2) the conversation blatantly showcases our idiocies, and i invite you to laugh at us.
seriously, what better reason do you need?
me: i think someone is selling a canteloupe 1
Ali: WITW
WHAT IN THE WORLD
I am coining that now
BUT SERIOUSLY
let's sell a pineapple
for $500
and tell people the inside is gold
me: at first i glanced at that message and thought you wrote "tell people that god is inside"
me: i'm still laughing at the cantelopes
me: i haven't decided how i want to spell that yet
Ali those people are so clever
me: how do you spell it?
Ali canteloupe?
I feel like there's a u
Ali but maybe not
Ali and firefox says no
me: are the british responsible for this?
Ali perhaps
you know
them and their melons
okay, so i just remembered it's "cantaloupe."
i still feel the british are responsible for this.
1 i was referring to etsy.com, online store for homemade goods and evidently, a prime interweb location to sell your cantaloupes. literally. why do i sound dirty?
connie grabbed a duck on 090507 @ 08:14 PM EST
to those residing in america, i hope you had a great labor day. it was really great weather here in new jersey, and that's always a plus because i didn't have to wear zero clothes and still be sweaty.
it's something i've always been excited about.
i've never really obsessed over a celebrity before, but i can say that ewan mcgregor is a pretty man. i think it helps that he's scottish because just being of that nationality gives him permission to wear a plaid skirt, right?
that's another thing i've always been excited about.
i don't really have anything monumental to report because i've been trying to have a few relaxed days before i begin that whole education thang, and so i've just been doodling lately. and this is where my writing skills really shine because remember that really well-written paragraph about a particular scottish jedi? his mentioning ties to the drawing - tada! ...if i write like this in school, i'm going to fail for sure.
uh, so i leave you with the progress of said scottish jedi clone from an island. i'm sorry for the shoddy quality, but i don't have the slightest clue how to work the scanner, and the camera is closer... proximity wins.
just to expound, i didn't quite draw in the words, but that's an idea. i think it's entirely accurate to have ewan say that.
oh! and i also have a question regarding boring junk, of which i'm attaching to an "extended" entry. yay, extending. a big thanks if you can help me, and a smaller, appreciative one if you tried.
[EDIT: 09:25PM] big thanks and love to sasha - yay! i've left up my fun extendedness for... well, lazy reasons. naturally. [more]
connie grabbed a duck on 090307 @ 07:58 PM EST
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