A meme from Etienne, which feeds into my need for another name. Feel free to call me any of the following you like, although I'm partial to 11 and 12:
1. ROCK STAR NAME:(first pet, current car):
Ginger CRV (or Ginger Honda)
2. GANGSTA NAME: (fav ice cream flavor, favorite type of shoe):
Mexican Vanilla Boots
3. NATIVE AMERICAN NAME: (favorite color, favorite animal):
Blue Lion
4. SOAP OPERA NAME: (middle name, city where you were born in):
Dawn Orange
5. STAR WARS NAME: (the first 3 letters of your last name, first 2 of your first name)
Edglu
6. SUPERHERO NAME: (The 2nd favorite color, favorite drink):
Green Tea (umm, would I kill villains with antioxidants...?)
7. NASCAR NAME: (the first names of your grandfathers)
Jesse Frank
8. STRIPPER NAME: ( the name of your favorite perfume/cologne/scent, favorite candy):
Blue Godiva
10. TV WEATHER ANCHOR NAME: (Your 5th grade teacher’s last name, a major city that starts with the same letter):
Adair Austin
11. SPY NAME: (your favorite season/holiday, flower):
Winter Rose
12. CARTOON NAME: (favorite fruit, article of clothing you’re wearing right now):
Blueberry Wristwatch
Saturday, January 26, 2008
Thursday, January 24, 2008
WE GON' PARTY LIKE IT'S MY BIRFDAY
So I'm coming off a birthday/going-away bacchanal that culminated in my birthday celebration and a lunch which served as a denouement.
I didn't attend Katherine's lunch, regrettably. I tossed and turned and couldn't get to sleep until 6 a.m., with the lunch commencing all the way across Austin at 1 p.m. Needless to say, I was up by 12:45 with no hope of making it on time.
Her party Saturday was a blast. I am not exaggerating when I say that's the most leftover liquor I've ever seen at a party (including half a keg), which should give you some indication of what there was to start with. Everyone was sufficiently red-faced but remained composed, we all gulped down alcohol to kill the pain of saying goodbye to KDD, and there was damn fine cake.
Sunday was recuperation day for everyone but Blythe's helpful roommate Joey, who agreed to invite some mates over and work on the keg. Sunday night, I went to pick it up, and there was still I'd guess a quarter left. The sumbitch was really heavy, and after pulling the CRV into Blythe's back yard (as she suggested I do when I delivered it), I got the keg and tub all the way to the car and up against the back. And I began to fully realize how completely, totally, utterly out of shape I am compared to a few years ago.
At some point, I was going to have to lift the keg and tub up high enough to slide into the back of the CRV, about the top of my thigh. I also realized that was going to require rotation of my arms that I didn't think I had the strength for.
I really, really wanted to have beer for my birthday, and I was really, really frustrated that my wishes were being thwarted because my body wasn't cooperating. I was tired, mad, and after getting it to the car, had just enough adrenaline in me to get steamed. Before I knew it, I had rattled off a few f-bombs, snatched the tub handles, lifted from my ample ass and got it in there in one motion, actually amazing myself. And kinda straining a butt muscle. Then I heard Katherine in my head: "CRITIA SMAAASH!" And indeed I did.
Monday was muuuuuuuch better. As I told a friend on the phone, a birthday that starts out with a half keg of beer in your living room isn't a bad day. At 8 we were reclining in a booth at the downtown P.F. Chang's, sampling glorious grub and eating free chocolate cake, thank you Amy. And Tim, the only guy, was chivalrous and paid for us all. So I had a man buy me dinner on my birthday. Again, so far so good.
We walked a block (!) to the Cedar Door, and immediately got tucked in for a night of revelry. Chronicle "Easy Street" ads were read aloud, Mexican Martinis were downed in one, the rest of the crew got there and in all, we had a blast. This sounds silly, but I got cool things from Raeanne and Blythe, who, as Raeanne put it, "went shopping on our desks." I actually preferred those things, since they have a story and belonged to a friend beforehand.
It was really cool to look down the table and see all the people that came out to help me celebrate my birthday. That's really all I wanted, a simple get-together with the gang where we could talk about everything and nothing. It was a great 34th.
Her party Saturday was a blast. I am not exaggerating when I say that's the most leftover liquor I've ever seen at a party (including half a keg), which should give you some indication of what there was to start with. Everyone was sufficiently red-faced but remained composed, we all gulped down alcohol to kill the pain of saying goodbye to KDD, and there was damn fine cake.
Sunday was recuperation day for everyone but Blythe's helpful roommate Joey, who agreed to invite some mates over and work on the keg. Sunday night, I went to pick it up, and there was still I'd guess a quarter left. The sumbitch was really heavy, and after pulling the CRV into Blythe's back yard (as she suggested I do when I delivered it), I got the keg and tub all the way to the car and up against the back. And I began to fully realize how completely, totally, utterly out of shape I am compared to a few years ago.
At some point, I was going to have to lift the keg and tub up high enough to slide into the back of the CRV, about the top of my thigh. I also realized that was going to require rotation of my arms that I didn't think I had the strength for.
I really, really wanted to have beer for my birthday, and I was really, really frustrated that my wishes were being thwarted because my body wasn't cooperating. I was tired, mad, and after getting it to the car, had just enough adrenaline in me to get steamed. Before I knew it, I had rattled off a few f-bombs, snatched the tub handles, lifted from my ample ass and got it in there in one motion, actually amazing myself. And kinda straining a butt muscle. Then I heard Katherine in my head: "CRITIA SMAAASH!" And indeed I did.
Monday was muuuuuuuch better. As I told a friend on the phone, a birthday that starts out with a half keg of beer in your living room isn't a bad day. At 8 we were reclining in a booth at the downtown P.F. Chang's, sampling glorious grub and eating free chocolate cake, thank you Amy. And Tim, the only guy, was chivalrous and paid for us all. So I had a man buy me dinner on my birthday. Again, so far so good.
We walked a block (!) to the Cedar Door, and immediately got tucked in for a night of revelry. Chronicle "Easy Street" ads were read aloud, Mexican Martinis were downed in one, the rest of the crew got there and in all, we had a blast. This sounds silly, but I got cool things from Raeanne and Blythe, who, as Raeanne put it, "went shopping on our desks." I actually preferred those things, since they have a story and belonged to a friend beforehand.
It was really cool to look down the table and see all the people that came out to help me celebrate my birthday. That's really all I wanted, a simple get-together with the gang where we could talk about everything and nothing. It was a great 34th.
AND I WAS A LIBERAL ARTS MAJOR (edited)
We got an email (from someplace I can't name) involving Texas curriculum standards. Witness:
"OK, I offer a free cold, refreshing beverage of your choice (snip) to the (snip) who can -- without using the Internet -- answer ANY of the following questions from the state's new college readiness curriculum standards for Texas:
• Use slopes to describe the steepness and direction of lines in the coordinate plane and to determine if lines are parallel, perpendicular or neither.
• Recognize and describe univariate and bivariate data.
• Describe and explain the significance of historical development of quantum theory, modern atomic theory, biological evolution and plate tectonics.
• Qualitatively and quantitatively describe Newton’s Law of Gravitation and the factors that affect the gravitational force between two objects.
(And for the record, they are all too hard for me.)"
And here were my answers, without the benefit of the InterWebs:
1) Parallel lines share at least one X coordinate, and never intersect. They also each bear the same Y coordinate for the entire line (ex. Line 1's Y is 5, Line 2's Y is 10), otherwise they would be a parabola. The degree difference is 0. Perpendicular lines share an X and Y coordinate, but only one, and one line measures 90º from the other. Parabolas would fall into neither.
2) Univariate has only one variable in play in an experiment, bivariate has two?
3) The significance of all these subjects is huge, as I don't have to tell you. Quantum theory has told us everything we know about black holes, as well as actually giving birth to atomic theory, since quantum mechanics have to do with matter in an indivisible state. Once we split the atom, bang, (so to speak), atomic theory. Plate tectonics have enabled us to predict natural disasters, as well as understand how the earth is held together, basically sheets of rock floating on magma that occasionally rub each other the wrong way.
4) I forget what qual- and quant- mean without looking it up, but I know the gravitational force between two objects is in direct proportion to the mass of both objects.
And now I can't remember my name.
"OK, I offer a free cold, refreshing beverage of your choice (snip) to the (snip) who can -- without using the Internet -- answer ANY of the following questions from the state's new college readiness curriculum standards for Texas:
• Use slopes to describe the steepness and direction of lines in the coordinate plane and to determine if lines are parallel, perpendicular or neither.
• Recognize and describe univariate and bivariate data.
• Describe and explain the significance of historical development of quantum theory, modern atomic theory, biological evolution and plate tectonics.
• Qualitatively and quantitatively describe Newton’s Law of Gravitation and the factors that affect the gravitational force between two objects.
(And for the record, they are all too hard for me.)"
And here were my answers, without the benefit of the InterWebs:
1) Parallel lines share at least one X coordinate, and never intersect. They also each bear the same Y coordinate for the entire line (ex. Line 1's Y is 5, Line 2's Y is 10), otherwise they would be a parabola. The degree difference is 0. Perpendicular lines share an X and Y coordinate, but only one, and one line measures 90º from the other. Parabolas would fall into neither.
2) Univariate has only one variable in play in an experiment, bivariate has two?
3) The significance of all these subjects is huge, as I don't have to tell you. Quantum theory has told us everything we know about black holes, as well as actually giving birth to atomic theory, since quantum mechanics have to do with matter in an indivisible state. Once we split the atom, bang, (so to speak), atomic theory. Plate tectonics have enabled us to predict natural disasters, as well as understand how the earth is held together, basically sheets of rock floating on magma that occasionally rub each other the wrong way.
4) I forget what qual- and quant- mean without looking it up, but I know the gravitational force between two objects is in direct proportion to the mass of both objects.
And now I can't remember my name.
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