nerd time

I know I am a huge science geek. For example I got really amped today talking about Ardipithecus ramidus and Homo floresiensis with the vet tech at the humane society, and was extremely pleased that I knew that a fat cat not eating was at risk for ketoacidosis.

I am sometimes baffled by people who are not interested in science. It just seems like the universe is so facinating you must find some of the science interesting. Here is a video for nerds and those trying to love a nerd

music after 11

trout heart replica is still one of my favorites

Killing things is not so hard
It's hurting that's the hardest part
When the wizard gets to me
I'm asking for a smaller heart


this is as far as i could get
he jabbed a needle in my neck
erasing all the evidence
but there were match sticks in my pants
and if a rock should hit my head
and i remember what he did
you'll be the very first to know
maybe i'll find out why this damn thing won't stop bleeding


zoe keating reminds me of hanging my head off the edge of my mattress to watch snow fall blur with twinkle lights and wishing i was sleeping


how do i feel this good sober


everything is perfect now

The animals in my life

Baby Mika the tiger
we chuff (tis how tigers say hello check it out )

Leopards enjoying the morning sun

Camel at the ranch

Bison at the Ranch

Cappy, Lakota, and Mystic

In the tiger round house

Coatis waiting for their fruit pie

Lioness

Lazy Tigers

Brody and I napping

Amanda Palmer- Is pop art art?

A lovely vlog from amanda fucking palmer on women in the music industry and the role of pop in the art world. looooove her
Every thing is better on a ukelele

This Is Quite Possibly The Coolest Art I Have Ever Seen

This woman won the Ukraine's Got Talent contest with her sand art performance. She is able to live animate a story of the invasion of Ukraine during WWII in sand. Absolutely incredible

Thanks NPR

Compare and Contrast

The health care debate is driving me nuts. I come from a family of doctors and I know my opinions are shaped by their expeiences and views. Both of my parents believe that we MUST reform the system even though it will cost them a substantial portion of their salaries. The insurance companies are a scam. There needs to be more government regulation. My otherwise healthy 25 year old sister can only get coverage from her university because of some herniated disks in her back and a friend my age with lukemia will have no options when she graduates next year. That is wrong.

Now I enjoy watching political news shows (of the liberal tilt) but I try and listen to conservative pundits as well. I have trouble making it through half of a broadcast. The misinformation and scare tactics are disgraceful.

Here are two clips. One from Keith Olbermann and one from Glenn Beck.





While I agree with Keith and can't stand Glenn I think its really interesting to hear how similar their outrage is but how differently it is packaged. While Keith is very well spoken, it is always with a feel of intellectual down talking. He uses long words and complex sentence structures woven in an almost hypnotic way such that I sometimes find it hard to follow. I get lost in the flow.

Glenn on the other hand tries to be the "everyman" and defend America against the rich intelligista who have "high jacked" the government. His sentences are short and delivered at maximum volume. While Keith scolds, Glenn mocks.

It all seems like school yard politics. And everytime Obama tries to instigate balanced adult discussion he gets nanner nanner boo booed from both sides.

thanks to Ana Marie Cox's blog for the clips

Pirates of the Potato Kind

Went to see my friends' band The Potato Pirates kick off their summer tour on the 16th. It was pretty awesome. The show was at Moe's BBQ and Bowling Alley on south Broadway. The BBQ was amazing and I definitely want to go back and bowl some time.
I tried to video a couple of the songs. The audio isn't great because I was so close to the guitar amps but I got some ok clips.
Here is Ghost Ship


And here is Start the Show


If you are interested in the band go to their website

They have a self titled album on sale on iTunes

End of Show Madness on Stage

Fists

Zach "Skinny Vinny" Capaldo

Nick McCombie and the Reverend David LaBarbra

Mattrick Emrick

My favorite beer! Yay for being back in Colorado

3rd of July

Went up to Salida for the 3rd of July which was my grandparents' 61st wedding anniversary. We had a little party for them with fried chicken and other yummy foods then lit some fireworks.


Alex (my uncle's step son) is a fireworks fiend. Here he is lighting the biggest one we had, kind of a let down, but my whole family is cute.


Family banter about my uncle Kurt's redneck wedding.

Salida is a really beautiful area

oh ya

I forgot to mention in the last post that this happened
Most ridiculous outfit ever. Whoever decided a square cardboard hat was fitting garb for the pinnacle of academic achievement should be shunned.

still alive

So i am back blogosphere. I have been very negligent of updating this thing recently. But nobody really reads this anyways so its not a huge deal.
I am back home and doing nothing. I decided to not do the internship at the wildlife rehabilitation center because it was too far away, too much time, and no money. But I did just apply for a job with the Division of Wildlife as a wildlife technician tracking the spread of chronic wasting disease in wild elk, moose and deer populations. So basically I would be driving around, talking to hunters and collecting animal heads. Pleasant right? But I would get into the DOW and get to work in wildlife management which would be cool. fingers crossed I get it.

I have been just hanging out now that I have nothing to do. I am on my 3rd book and I ride my scooter every day.

I am playing field hockey with the adult league in Denver. Its suprisingly high level play, last night the opposing teams forward line had an ex-USA men's national team player, an ex-Dutch men's national team player, and a currant USA women's national team player. I got schooled but at least it was pretty to watch.

My goal for the summer is to learn how to cook so if anyone has any interesting recipes send them my way. I will actually have to feed myself next year so its an issue of survival.

I find it suprising how content I am with my life right now. I've got my friends, I've got my puppy, things look up in my love life for a change. I'm in Colorado and I have a plan for the foreseeable future. I don't really know what to do with this contentedness. I am used to being upset or brooding or at least dissatisfied. Any advice for contentedness would be appreciated =)

Free fancy dinner courtesy of Tabard dues

Tabard Exec Retreat dinner at the Juniper Hill Inn was AMAZING!!

Fancy mansion

Our Private Dining Room

Amanda and Me outside the Inn
Steph and I enjoying our wine
and looking damn fine

Kush and execs et al

My macadamia encrusted lamb

Me =)Pretty Flowers on the table

Almost there

Sara Sisun's Art installation, she is awesome


I got a haircut today, check it out. I'm only in a sports bra because its too hot in my room.
i don't think its as short as I normally get it but that just means I have to get it cut in 3 weeks instead of 4


Took brody to the dog park this morning. She wasn't so sure about some of the bigger dogs but she did ok. Whenever she got scared she jumped up on the picnic table. I brushed her too. Rediculous amounts of hair.
The Annual Dartmouth PowWow is this weekend but I don't think I am going to go watch.

11 Days to my birthday
24 Days of classes left
36 Days to Graduation

Psychosomatic swine flu?

So there are 5 cases of swine flu here at Dartmouth and I am getting sick. I don't think its swine flu because I don't have a cough, but sucks none the less. Luckily our beautiful tyke (read: dirty, shhhh don't tell) pledge Mia brought me mint tea which is helping my stomach.
Today I did something I haven't done in a long time: unicycle joyriding. Complete with music, dancing, and drum solos. The nice weather and empty parking lots made me miss home and miss my bronco. I felt like I was 16 again. Somehow my ipod shuffle knows my mood and picks the perfect song. Brilliant!

I feel like I should be more upset over the weekends events, but it hasn't effected me really. I am very zen about it. Just going on with my life. I want to start meditating more. Anybody know anything about aromatherapy?

In other news, I am definitely going to CSU in the fall =)
Now I have to find a place to live. I am so excited to live in my own place and have my own kitchen. Mostly I am excited to have more than 100 square feet of personal space for me and brody.

I went on a Primitive Wilderness Survival trip this weekend and learned all sorts of cool stuff but I will post all of that and some pictures later when I have the motivation to find my camera and upload the pictures.

Until then, lets hope I am not actually getting sick, positive vibes

god is in the rain

watching V for Vendetta while studying made me sad. Tragic gay love story, government developed virus, no one to watch it with. Good god it is hot in hanover. Its after midnight and its 62 degrees.

Also I am freaking the fuck out about swine flu. Reminds me of Frank Herbert's book the White Plague. On a positive note if it reaches new hampshire I think the college will send us home. THat would be ideal but selfish to wish for.

I am so fucking sick of hanover, i just want to be done with dartmouth already so that i can go back to colorado. i miss the life i had there. and i know going back won't bring that back but i like who i am and what i do when i am in colorado. dartmouth just seems like a fake place and the life i lead here seems very artificial. 48 days left....

heres to hoping i don't die of swine flu


"Our integrity sells for so little, but it is all we really have. It is the very last inch of us, but within that inch we are free.
I'd always known what I wanted to do with my life, and in 2015 I starred in my first film, The Salt Flats. It was the most important role of my life, not because of my career, but because that was how I met Ruth. The first time we kissed, I knew I never wanted to kiss any other lips but hers again...It seems strange that my life should end in such a terrible place, but for three years I had roses and apologised to no-one. I shall die here. Every inch of me shall perish. Every inch but one. An inch - it is small and it is fragile, and it is the only thing in the world worth having. We must never lose it or give it away. We must never let them take it from us."

FOX 3!

Top gun is on tv! love love love. I am so into the movie I almost can't watch it...almost. I get so excited and i want to talk about it and quote all the lines. Its annoying. I want to go all Mulan and be a man to fly the pretty pretty F-22s. I must learn to be mysterious as the dark side of the moon first.

When I was little my sister and I would watch this movie with my Dad and fly around the living room like air planes during the opening sequence. I know every line in the movie and 70% of the time I need to say "No" when confirming something I say "Negative ghost rider the pattern is full." The soundtrack was my favorite cassette and CD for a long time.

In more depressing news, the skin of an Amur leopard was found in a car in Russia. There are only a few DOZEN left in the wild and some asshole wants to poach? If you must kill an endangered animal why the fucking Amur leopard. sad face for felines =(
full story

I am all into this movie right now. As some may know I used to go to Aviation challenge camps (space camp for plane junkies) and I have a legit flight suit that I wear sometimes when watching this movie. I am that nerdy.

insert electric guitar power chord here.

I feel the need, the need for speed!
and by that I mean I am going to read about enzymes in my gigantic biochem text book

gay hair

For some reason my dog always puts her butt on me when she sleeps and then farts on my leg inconspicuously.

I only had 25 minutes between the end of my yoga class and the start of the Daniel Webster dinner for seniors that I had to go to tonight and I did a damn good job of showering and getting there on time. I do have very gay hair though.



speaking of very gay i love Kat Von D. Maybe its because she is like a more tattooed Carmen.



She has a new make up line. I'm not one for a lot of make up but i do like fun eye shadow. Check it out

ok now i am officially pissed

Alkaline trio is playing red rocks on may 28th
Rise against is playing red rocks on June 11th
I don't get home until June 15th
Less than jake, horrorpops, anti-flag, and tiger army are NOT playing colorado this summer
Tat is coming but with Warped Tour and there is no way i am paying for that bullshit

god dammit

also fun

can't go wrong with go-go dancers

they are in denver soon and i won't be able to see them!

gah i can't wait to get out of the new england woods so i can go to shows again
=(

62 days left...

good music

Time To Waste- Alkaline Trio
"you've got guts to spill but no one trustworthy"

Audience of One- Rise Against
they won't let you embed but here is the link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gt5UPKD6yWs
i love the lead singer in this band. this has been my "belt it out" song recently


The Science of Selling Yourself Short- Less than Jake
I missed their show in Denver over spring break because of the apocalyptic march snow and the broken mother. =(

easter

today was a very cold easter. i thought it is supposed to be a very springy day with baby animals and everything. instead it was 39 and windy, ew. We had a nice brunch at Tabard and I got some work done so the day was not a total loss. My increased twittering has decreased my blogging.

Since i last updated this I decided it would be a good idea to punch the wall next to my bed when i was frustrated with the loud drunk people after meetings last wednesday. At first I thought I broke my hand. I had to go in to the training room the next day to get x ray orders and saw a doc up at dick's house. Not broken but sprained so i get to wear a gross colored brace. my hand if feeling a lot better but i still can put much weight on it. stupid jordie.

I am building dying frames for the costume shop and I was supposed to have them finished by friday but I couldn't because of my hand. I have to go in tomorrow and get them done hopefully. They are paying me 15$/hr though, that's twice what the scene shop pays me. Speaking of getting paid I need to figure out what I am doing this summer and if there is any money involved. EEEK!

Adorable puppy face

Reunited

I have my puppy back!!! My parents drove in around this afternoon and we took her on a walk. She was really excited to be back in a place she knew after the long road trip so she had to stop and smell EVERYTHING. Mom was very drugged because of her back but she still tried drinking part of a margarita at Molly's. She pretty much passed out when they got to their hotel.
I am in super school mode. I am a week and a half ahead in two of my classes. Maybe if I work faster school will go by faster. Only 70 days left which means that tomorrow is 69 DAYS TO GRADUATION TAILS! wooo. The theme is anything but clothes, we'll see if that actually happens (probably not unless I get drunk which is unlikely)

I need a hair cut, i am a shaggy shaggy dog right now. tuesday i will be freshly shorn again

09salicious

senior spring. THANK GOD! so close to being done. I had a major panic attack coming back to campus. I just really don't care to be here anymore. But at least it is warmer and I still have the theater to play in and my puppy will be here soon. I am ready to get out of here and do something new.
On a positive note, my two anthro classes, Humans and Animals and Human Evolution, sound pretty fun. Biochem should be difficult but at least its not orgo. I am going to take it NRO which means if I get a B- or above it goes on my transcript if I get below a B- it just says NR for not recorded. So that shouldn't destroy my GPA hopefully.

I heart amanda palmer. She is trying to get fired from her corporate record label. Here is her most recent effort:

Tat tat tat

I got my tattoo finished! It wasn't nearly as bad as last time. I didn't pass out/vomit so thats always a plus. When he said we had 15 minutes left I was expecting another hour so it went by quickly. We only needed another 2 hrs to finish so I also have more money saved than I needed. Hurray!!
I think he did an awesome job. I love the color but it keeps surprising me. I have never had green skin before. I will probably go back at some point and get the blue sky halo around it but I was too worn out to do it. During the course of three hours I had a vicodin and 2 xanex so i was so high after the tattoo. I came home and just giggled and watched tv. Better than being doubled over sick like last time.

Today was like march blizzard apocalypse. My mom threw out her back and collapsed in the kitchen. It took me an hour and twenty minutes to get her from the floor of the kitchen to her bed. Then I had to drive to the pharmacy to get her muscle relaxants. The roads were insane. People were crashing all over and running across the roads. We got about a foot today, the city was supposed to get 10-16. Crazy! Ah well, my mom is doing a bit better, walking around a bit. I go back to Dartmouth tomorrow for the last time ever!!
So close, so far

shopping?!

So first day home was shopping day. Me, my mom, my grandmother, my sister and Brooke (family friend staying at the house) all went to Park Meadows to look for graduation outfits for Brooke and I. I hate shopping for nice clothes so I pretty much just let other people find items that I then try on. But it was really successful. I found two dresses that I liked that were both really reasonalbly priced and I can wear to lots of different things. I also got shoes. One pair of flats for the actual ceremony because we have to walk almost half way across campus and I don't want to walk that far in heels, and a pair of fun heels to wear with the purple dress.
Green and blue snakeskin pattern dress
Purple checkered dress
Black patten leather heels
Silver gladiator-esque flats

Denverado!

I made it home finally =)
My anthro paper took longer than expected but at least I had plenty of time to finish it and move before I had to fly home. My room seems so ridiculously large after living in Tabard.
Brody was in the car at the airport. She seemed a bit confused when I first showed up but she got excited and ended up sleeping in my lap the whole way home. She is now curled up on my bed. It is bed time for me too. Night =)

Its the final countdown

In less than 12 hours I will be done with organic chemistry
so close, so far