Look at me go!

As I am sure others do from time to time, I make it a point to Google my own name to see what is up. My name is not all that unique, but I have generally been somewhere on the first page of results - along with a woman who works in housing for the homeless in Cali, some girls named Kate who happen to be from a certain town in England, and random other girls with my same name that placed in their school's track meet or the like.

I decided to go ahead and search for myself, as a shameless effort to procrastinate writing my paper, doing my project, or completing my take home final. Of course, it worked...cause here I am blogging rather than elucubrating (a word I learned from my starbux cup, thanks corporate america!). My reason for this further procrastination is to express my surprise! I have been moved from the first page of Google results to page four. FOUR! Do they not understand the importance that is me? Doesn't everyone want to learn about the work I did in a neuroscience lab over five years ago? Google needs to give the public what they want!

I blame one particular Alternate Self (name sharer) for my demotion. Apparently I am a voiceover artist, currently working in Anime circles, and requiring multiple search results be devoted to me. Since it is Anime I guess that means I have one of those annoying high pitched voices then. I am even on my beloved Movie Industry Database (a site I look at on a semi-regular basis when I want to cyberstalk some new celebrity). While I am kinda flattered to be included with the stars...I do not like Anime! While looking through the various 'Me's that made the first three pages of results, I also found a site in Italian. Being curious, I clicked only to be asked if I wanted to see nude photos of myself! I am shocked at me! My Italian is not good (i.e. i don't speak Italian at all) but even I know what "nude immagini" and "calendari nuda" mean! Apparently I shoulda kept my clothes on when I was in Italy. Thankfully, clicking on the "nude immagini" (which I did of course, as I wanted to ensure my lighting was flattering) returned the Italian version of File Not Found. I have no idea how I am going to have time for my new careers in voicing Anime cartoons and nude modeling in Italy, in addition to being a burgeoning collegiate hockey star. I guess I better start clearing my schedule.

Popcorn Thoughts

As I have been attempting to concentrate on my papers and finals and whatnots...thoughts will just pop into my head, unbidden and nonsensical. Here is a list of these thoughts that is by no means exhaustive.

* I wonder how groupies that slept with Vanilla Ice back in the day think of that experience now. And who is today's Vanilla Ice that people will regret later?

* Maybe Bell Biv Devoe were on to something when they say "Never trust a big butt and a smile" in their song Poison. I bet all of J.Lo's husbands & fiancee's wish they woulda paid more attention to early 90's song lyrics.

* When did dancing change from something graceful and pretty to something dirty and primal? I think I'll blame my parent's generation for that.

* Are there really enough mentally challenged and elderly folk to keep the velcRo shoe people in business?

I'm In Hate

I'm in hate with a girl here at the library. I sit...shlubbed over my laptop with books on Social Psychology and the interactions of self-presentation & interpersonal psychotherapy piled high around me. And a probably 19 year old, tall, skinny, tanned, blond thing wearing a tube top and hot pants (in the library!?!?!) is sitting across from me. Her lap top is newer and smaller than mine - just like her to me. She keeps flipping her long blond hair and getting up to 'stretch' ...I shall keep eating my ham sandwich. I am probably smarter though - God I hope so. If I walk by and she has Advanced Principles of Astrophysics in front of her I am gonna retch.

Oh good....a more realistic shlubby girl with a bad perm just blocked her from my line of view. I am shallow and ridiculous, I am aware. Let me live in my world of social comparisons - after all part of my paper is on that very topic. ;-)

Pandas & AIDS...but not together

My friend was so kind today as to call my blog lame, not that she is wrong...but it did remind me that I had a blog and maybe I could write in it.

My first topic is going to be the conference I attending the weekend past. It focused on group relations and dynamics. In other words, the leaders divided us into groups and told us to create a gang....and the Lord of the Flies ensued. I actually liked it, maybe because I am relatively thick skinned (thanks Puddles!) and opinionated. BUT it did impinge on my weekend, as it took up every single day. The scheduling folk didn't seem to care that I do my homework on weekends, so I figured the homework wasn't all that important. If I hadn'ta had to do a presentation on Monday morning I wouldn'ta read nothin'.

The conference did let out early on Sunday and I skipped in the sunshine up to the National Zoo with my Map Maker friend. We had an ice cream cone (side bar: did not know they made a Jack Daniels flavored chocolate ice cream, but if you do happen upon it, it is quite tasty) and saw the baby panda. The panda was, on Sunday afternoon, apparently stuck up a tree...which made for riveting viewing. He basically looked like he was napping 20 ft. above ground. I honestly thought he could not get down. Map Maker relayed a story that the baby panda kept climbing up the tree, much to his trainer's dismay, and consistently gets stuck - on one occasion having to sleep up in the tree all night because he couldn't get down on his own. No wonder panda's are endangered, they are obviously stupid.

Speaking of obviously stupid, I think this is the stupidest man ever and I hope he gets AIDS. When I read this on the metro this morning I became desperately depressed that he once headed South Africa's National AIDS Council and honestly believed "he faced relatively little risk of contracting the virus from vaginal intercourse." He believed that so much that he proceeded to rape a woman he knew had AIDS. So now, not only should he be jailed for rape but he should also get the virus. And South Africa should hire smart people to handle the epidemic in their country.