Break

Things I have accomplished this Thanksgiving break:
-I have had 4 new teeth installed
-I have watched 9 episodes of Curb Your Enthusiasm
-I have not seen any of my siblings for more than five minutes at a time
-I have crashed my parents’ 27th anniversary weekend getaway and accompanied them to a Trailblazers game
- I have seen The [...]

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partying with babies

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Howler Bats

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Reader Submission: Katie Manolopoulos

How delighted was I to wake up and discover this in my inbox?  Because this is the first reader submission, I’ll let it slide, but for future reference these must be accompanied by a mortifying picture from your youth.  Other than that, there are no guidelines. You can literally write anything. Anonymous identities are not discouraged.  In case this [...]

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Insect Action

Sometimes I am reading my Behavioural Ecology textbook and I feel as though it has turned into a Sci-Fi novel.  For instance, on pg.184 (don’t read if you think you might be squeamish about insect junk):
Males often compete in ways which are less conspicuous than fights, but are no less effective.  The invertebrates are a particularly [...]

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needs/wants/desires

I have conveniently made a shopping list for everyone to purchase my christmas/hannukuh/birthday presents from.  Due to the struggling economy I have selected items below the $300 mark out of consideration for your budget constraints.  You’re welcome.
messenger bag:

Celestron Powerseeker, for looking into the sun:

‘nocs, for birdwatching and neighborwatching:

 
MET Jewelry (I don’t have a boyfriend and the immediate outlook [...]

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SOCIALISM!!!!!!AAAAHHHHH

I am amused by all of the people who are reacting to the new health care bill with, “that’s it, I’m moving” because, are you moving to Qatar?  Every place in the world where you would actually want to live has a health care system that you hate.
Read em and weep:
Key details of health overhaul bill
The House health care bill passed Saturday [...]

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Seymour the Symphony Seagull

Just another day at work.

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The Archives- 9/07

Here are some pictures of the apartment (shall I say, “garbage dump”) that Natalie, Rachael, and I shared before we broke up.  We documented it with pictures…because we were so proud? Only a serious meth addiction could justify this decor, but our meth usage was strictly recreational. 

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what up with that?

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The Archives: 6/22/07

I’ve decided to post old stuff from ye ole myspace blog so I can delete it.  This material is not really worth preserving, but I’m going to go ahead and publish it for my posterity.

I live in a hotel.
online customer reviews of The Plaza:
“This hotel brings new meaning to the word scummy.  Located next to the greyhound bus [...]

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so your cat wants a massage?

 Headed up to washington tomorrow…. booyah! This was shown to me today at work. enjoy: 

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tribune public forum

In our face

Updated: 09/28/2009 01:11:37 PM MDT
 Never in my life have I seen such a phenomenon as we Americans are seeing take place right now. It seems that President Barack Obama is constantly in our face, whether it be television news and entertainment shows, e-mail and the Internet, radio, newsprint and on and on. This man [...]

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bacon is good for me

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hello.

Do you ever find yourself annoyed at the inconvenience of having to pull over and wait for an ambulance or fire truck to pass you? And then you’re like, oh yeah, somewhere someone’s dying.

Jil and Valori have abandoned me for NY and yet this house is full of people right now.  You’d be surprised at how many [...]

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Greetings From Denver

Found these in my inbox:

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martyr of the month

This baby can be found at Peterskirche in Munich.  Munditia here is posed in a casual recline and has been fully bedazzled.  

Full Resolution
So I don’t know if writing something on your blog makes it legally binding, but my family can take note that this is a fine example of how I would like my remains to be treated and displayed.  Instead of placing [...]

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“who so binds to himself a joy, doth it’s winged life destroy”

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Babies against debt….or are they?

It really doesn’t sit well with me when people utilize their children to further their cause.  I don’t know, though, because this seems okay:

But the rest of these really don’t:
Maybe it’s because the kid in the first picture made his own sign and appears to understand what it’s for? I don’t know, call me old fashioned… [...]

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Fuzzy Memories

Being molested on the streets of Prague as my friends did exactly nothing (and continued to roll tape).

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Rendezvousing

Partied hard in Wyoming this weekend: 

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Infanticidal Dance Recital

It’s weird how the invention of the internet hasn’t made everyone a total genius.  In fact, it’s made most people with access exponentially lazier.  Back in the old days (1992) if you had a spontaneous question you just had know the answer to, like, “how old is Denis Leary*?” you would have had to drag yourself [...]

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Yo

check this out: western soundscape
I’m going to the Fort Bridger Mountain Man Rendezvous this weekend.
that’s bout it

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Fetaljuice pt.2

ATMOS 3110 Atmospheric Sci:
All,
Unfortunately we have experienced an emergency evacuation during our class today. Supposedly we should resume the class after the alarm was over. However, only one of you return to the class so I have to cancel the class.
Anyhow, just remind you that for any event like this in the future, please do [...]

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Fetaljuice

I went to my Meteorology class today. My professor is a nice Chinese woman named Dr. Pu (poo.)  She is difficult to understand. Molecules = muh-lick-you-lulls, kelvin= karen, area = errrr, etc.  Today she began lecturing and the fire alarm went off.  She immediately began hyperventilating.  We all (there are 6 other people in my [...]

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Keep Smiling Always

The homeless of Salt Lake City are seeking refuge behind my place of business, as evidenced by the fresh batch of human fecal matter we happened upon the other day.  So we created a sign; something to the effect of ‘do not defecate on these premises.’  The next day we were left a plea of innocence scrawled on a [...]

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annnnnd we’re back

Here’s what’s happening:
1) I went to Washington for Rachael’s wedding. Pics (short for pictures) here
2) Moving into the Boss House (hence my current lack of internet access.  I write to you now from the desk of the Salt Lake Art Center.)
3) Trying to come up with $2000 before monday so that I might school
4) Loving [...]

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best song ever

 
I  gotta feeling
 that tonight’s gonna be a good night
that tonight’s gonna be a good night
 that tonight’s gonna be a good, good night
 let’s do it
 let’s do it
 let’s do it
 let’s do it
 let’s do it
 let’s do it
 let’s do it
 let’s do it
 let’s do it
 I  gotta feeling
 that tonight’s gonna be a good night
 that tonight’s gonna be a good night
that tonight’s [...]

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Strategic Challenges

Excuse me, wtf?
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/09/science/earth/09climate.html?_r=1&ref=us
“But a growing number of policy makers say that the world’s rising temperatures, surging seas and melting glaciers are a direct threat to the national interest.”
California falling into the pacific is against national interest? Well then, why are we talking about it instead of fighting somebody? I vote Ghana, because those suckers burn rainforests [...]

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Flycatcher Behavoir

Yesterday at work I had a conversation so ridiculous that I was convinced one of my friends was on the other line:
Utah symphony and opera, this is kaeleigh
What shows are tonight?
There’s a chamber symphony performance at Temple Har Shalom in Park City.
Teskaparkapone?
Temple Har Shalom?
Petertartatone?
……..
spell it, I’m gonna google it.
T-E-M-
G???
-T-
P?!??
T as in Tom. E as in [...]

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MTV Cribs l Saranderson

We were feelin extra giggly.

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scholarly pursuits

I have to give a presentation on culturally different communication styles.  Thought I’d kick things off with a racist cartoon:

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wanderlust

Should I be embarassed that I found this site on Courtney Love’s twitter? Cuz I’m not.

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Green Porno

The other night Jil, Valori and I were having a panel discussion about bees, and  I was trying to express the extent of their sluttiness. Jallorian’s disbelief turned us to youtube, where we cautiously searched for “bee sex.” We found this video, and then proceeded to watch the rest of the green pornos together. Family bonding.  There [...]

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“People who wear Ed Hardy merchandise are ______ . “

Sometimes I will stop myself mid-sentence and attempt to come up with an equally impactful yet more PC euphemism for “retarded,” but unfortunately end up only emphasising my distasteful word choice with a dramatic pause.  Does the english language have a suitable alternative? Maybe that’s the answer though, maybe I just say the word “retarded” in a different [...]

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Fashion Place Mall

Dolphin and Star of David wind ornament. (It was difficult for me to capture both aspects of the wind ornament in a photograph due to it’s spinning nature).
Well that’ s just convenient

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Barron’s Test Prep: “We Can Only Do So Much”

Presumably, if you are taking the GRE you have weathered at least four years of college coursework and think yourself capable of getting into grad school.  This is why it was distressing to me when I cracked open my GRE prep book and saw this on the first page:

 
If a computer mouse eludes you, you have bigger problems than [...]

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Roborama

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Conciertos!

Here I will supply you with alternative entertainment options for this summer, because I cannot be everywhere all the time. For most of these, Momma K can get you in for the price of free (so the Gallivan plaza ones are already free, but you still have to go with me).
July 8- Bon Iver & [...]

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Tips on Using the Toilet

Is this guy for real? It gets extra informative around 3:55:

In separate but related news, I need to get a new layout because I’ve been getting feedback that  this website in its entirety has been making computers spontaneously combust due to an overload of highly concentrated awesomeness.  But as a public note to Sarah Anderson: considering [...]

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Seemingly Excessive

I am a simple woman who does not necessitate a lot of space, thus my apartment is no larger than 5′x5′.  When my landlord told me he would be taking out the swamp cooler and putting in an AC unit, I was all “whatev,  I can take it or leave it.”  Well, I think he ended up asking the gentleman who [...]

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“You people need to brush up on your patriotism”

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Pardon the Absence

I haven’t written because I’ve been in New York.  I don’t know what to say about it because it would be too overwhelming for me to sum up the entire trip in a post.  Here’s the cliffsnoted version:
- Museums
-Guggenheim

-MoMA

-MET

-Frick
-American Museum of Natural History

-Fine Dining
-Pastis
-Nobu

-High tea at the MET and Central Park

-Grimaldi’s
-Entertainment
-In The Heights on broadway
-Birdland

-Upright Citizens Brigade: [...]

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A.V.B.C.

Almost every night I bike a dozen or so miles across town, show up at Jallorian’s doorstep and demand to be entertained.  They’ll play a movie I haven’t seen to keep me distracted, since one of them is usually entangled in some kind of a date situation.  I decided to refer to this phenomenon collectively as the “Audio [...]

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To Save You All From Future Embarassment…

Corn is actually a fruit.
You heard it here.

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On This Day in 1984…

Valori Boss joined us here on this crazy spaceship we call Earth.  The itsastrangemagic.wordpress.com technical team would like to extend the warmest of birthday wishes.  May you live to see 25 more, Valori.
Last night concluded the GSLBF with a proverbial “bang.”  We (Natalie Mitchell DDS and I) went prowlin for owls and heard some flammulated, saw-whets, and a one: great-horned.  [...]

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Great Salt Lake Bird Festival: Day Two

Day two: Wildlife Biologist Prof.Natalie Mitchell and I conquer the Jordanelle wetlands. Wetlands, in Utah? Yes; or at least five acres of man-made wetland habitat complete with convenient wooden boardwalk:

Close nuf to Florida, I say. We found out we were playing in the big leagues when we were told we would be birding by ear. Boy [...]

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Great Salt Lake Bird Festival: Day One

Fellow orinthologist Dr.Valori Boss and I went on a field trip to Glover Ponds at sunrise today.

We were of course helpless, but our elderly colleagues took us under their wings (pun?) and one of them even lent us their dad’s binoculars from WWII. Here is a comprehensive list of the birds we identified for [...]

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VeeBee’s got skillz to pay the billz

The only people who look at this blog have already seen these, but they’re so KA I’m posting them here anyway if only to honor Valroi.  I’ve never called her VeeBee before; thought I’d test the waters with that one.

And there are millions more. 
Pardon the cheese, but life sure is great when you have great friends, [...]

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Not Studying For Finals, On Principle

I saw this video on this site the other day:

And was of course immediately reminded of ghost from Christmas past Ben Wellsfry.  He responded with this:

Now if only he can be convinced to recreate edarem’s other 108 videos.

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