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Most Recent Awesome Sightings...

So I got to the High School I taught at the other day only to discover it was a "late start day", translation: I was an hour and a half early for school. After getting gas at Costco and a coffee at Starbeezies I drove back to the school parking lot preparing to just sit in my car and listen to "The Best of Peter, Paul, and Mary" - yes, that's right I listen to PPM, they rock, don't judge! - Anyhoo, on the way back I saw the Oscar Meyer Weiner car-thing. There it was, with it's brown-weiner-on-yellow-bread-awesomeness. It was amazing. I suddenly wished I were an Oscar Meyer weiner! I exclaimed, "Oh my GAWD!!" And then, just as fast as I ran the stop sign rubbernecking at it, it was gone. A deep sadness settled in as I realized I wouldn't see anything that good for a long time. Then I started reminiscing about all the awesome sightings I have had in the past couple of months. I fondly remembered the day I saw not one, but two, people riding unicycles at the UO. That wonderful day I saw the lady with the mullet (actual picture at left), the time in Portland that Aaron and I saw a man who looked like a dirty pirate with a wooden arm playing a guitar, who explained to a passerby, "How else am I going to play??", and the 40 year old virgin (I am guessing) who was playing with a yo-yo out in front of a liquor store. "Yes, I totally just rocked the cradle!!" Ah, I love seeing weird things, things that make you go, "Hmmm", and definitely things that make you appreciate people that just don't give a shit about what other people think. I like these people. Cheers to you, peeps and keep up the good work!

my head pretty much exploded

oh man, dinosaurs + anachronistic dialogue = hella funny. I swear I've been mostly productive today, stop judging me. Except for about an hour where I ate buffalo wings with A---- and this guy. Now Ive got to be productive again until about 7 when Ill head over to Villard for beers with L------.

Exams

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So I swear that I had way more energy for preparing for exams last year. Today is the last day of class before exams next monday. And I can't seem to get as motivated/scared as last year. Instead, im sitting here in the library with my coffee checking peoples' blogs, the internets, staring blankly out the window, and not staring at my books. Im falling back into my "study" routine from college (or lack thereof). Im just waiting for the motivation to kick in. Any time now. Hey, i wonder what's new on boingboing?

How the toaster ruined my day

So last night, about 20 minutes before I had to be at school, I decided to toast some of the baguette that I bought. Well, the toaster and I have vastly different ideas of what is considered a "medium" toasting - I usually have to I toast twice to get the desired effect. So last night, I stuck the bread in, set the timer for "dark" so that it would be medium, and ran upstairs to change for class. Much to my surprise, the toaster actually came through this time. Only, instead of a solid medium toasting, I got crouton-esque little pieces of bread. Since I waited until the last minute to eat before class, I decided to throw some peanut butter on those bad boys and scarf them down before running out of the house. The problem here being that the bread ripped the ever-living-crap out of the roof of my mouth.

I woke up today realizing that the roof of my mouth is like one big raspberry burn. As I was eating my lunch my mouth hurt so bad, I could hardly chew. Damn toaster! I swear if you ruin Thanksgiving dinner for me, I will Michael Bolton from Office Space your ass!! Seriously, I am not kidding. I will have to make up a good story to tell Adam what happened to his toaster, but I am ingenious and will come up with some thing clever. Like, "Adam , your toaster spontaneously exploded??" Or maybe, "Adam, someone broke into the house and stole your toaster!! Yeah, I don't know. No, they didn't take your 42" Plasma T.V. Well, no, they didn't take the $20,000 Tom has in cash in his sock drawer. No... Look now, they just took your toaster, damnit! quit asking so many questions!"

Yeah he'll totally believe it.

Sometimes I don't hate cats

Usually I don't like cats. I don't really hate cats... i just like dogs better. What I do like about cats is that they have really unique personalities. One cat is really different from another. Dogs...often not so much. I think if you own a cat you must begin to start to understand what the hell is going on in their minds a little bit. Just a little. But sometimes I dont think you ever know. Like, what the hell is this one thinking? Not sure. There's a columnist for the SF Chronicle, Jon Carroll, that makes me like cats when i read his articles. This is a pretty funny one: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2007/11/09/DD46T82MR.DTL

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