geez this is a long probey meme

thanks greth. too personal for f-book i think ;)

A
- Available: not until grad school :p
- Age: 22.
- Annoyance: alarm clocks
- Animal: kitty mew-cat
- Actor: will smith is rad! I just saw seven pounds... highly recommended
- Actress: I just found out the female lead of hackers was Angelina Jolie?

B
- Beer: Dortmunder Gold
- Birthday/Birthplace: 09-16/1986 Middletown OH
- Best Friends: is this supposed to be a list or something?
- Body Part on opposite sex: o come on who came up with this question
- Best feeling in the world: staying up all night working on something most people can't do
- Blind or Deaf: srsly?
- Been in Love: geez this is probey
- Been bitched out: what does that mean?
- Been on stage?: over and over
- Been beaten up?: sort of?
- Believe in yourself?: too much :P
- Believe in life on other planets: probably
- Believe in miracles: nope
- Believe in magic: nope
- Believe in God: nope
- Believe in Satan: nope
- Believe in Santa: nope
- Believe in ghosts/spirits: nope


C
- Car: like, my car? my favorite car? i generally endorse hybrids. This thing needs more instructions
- Color: purple
- Cried in school: nope
- Chocolate/Vanilla: is there something else with it?
- Chinese/Mexican: Mexican.
- Cake or pie: lemon meringue pie
- Country to visit: norway was rad. i really want to get to australia soon
- Comedian: Robin Williams

D
- Day or Night: Night.
- Dream vehicle: oh here's where the favorite car would go. Teleporter.
- Danced: right after submitting important papers and applications
- Dance in the rain?: if i happen to be outside soon after submitting important papers

E
- Eggs: yum
- Eyes: yes please? or umm i wear glasses? moar instrukshins plz
- Everyone has: gas
- Ever failed a class?: nope

F
- First thoughts waking up: mrrgghhh
- Food: delicious

G
- Greatest Fear: irrelevance
- Goals: making a lasting contribution
- Gum: what?
- Get along with your parents?: yah
- Good luck charm: preparation

H
- Hair Color: brown
- Height: 5 and half
- Happy: yah?
- Holiday: labor day
- How do you want to die: I don't particularly want to
- Health Freak: nope. but i've gotten better over the past year or so
- Hate: i try not to hate

I
- Ice Cream: mint chocolate chip ^_^
- Instrument: guitar yah

J
- Jewelry: nope


K
- Kids: are data points!
- Keep a journal?: you're lookin' at it.

L
- Love: is a fake idea that only matters because we work at it.
- Laughed so hard you cried: rarely
- Love at first sight: see above

LAST PERSON WHO...
1. Slept in a bed beside you? m'cat
2. Saw you cry? can't remember
3. Went to the movies with you? just tonight, fuzzy, her beau, and another friend
4. You went to the mall with? my mom
5. You went to dinner with? family
6. You talked to on the phone? i talked at ray ray ("at" b/c voicemail)
7. Made you laugh? the people i went to the movie with
8. Made you cry? people don't make you cry
10 You vented to about a girl? myself

M
- Milk flavor: strawberry milk with napkins ;)
- Movie: there aren't enough instructions but srsly seven pounds is a good movie
- Mooned anyone?: unfortunately not :p
- Marriage?: dunno.
- Motion sickness?: nope

N
- Number of Siblings: everyone who reads this already knows?
- Number of Piercings: none. maybe it wouldn't be a bad idea?
- Number: 25 (ten points to anyone who can figure out why)

O
- Overused Phrases: srsly
- Odd phobia: dogeys

P
- Place you'd like to live: edinburgh (*fingers crossed*)
- Pizza: yup
- Pepsi/Coke: aw geez
- Person you miss: i have to pick one?

Q
- Quail: ... what?
- Quiet music or loud: LAME QUESTION

R
- Reason to cry: instructions are underspecified! most common? favorite? most important?
- Reality T.V: blrgh
- Radio Station: "Pandora" ditto greth
- Roll your tongue in a circle?: i can do that yes

S
- Song: i have to pick one?
- Shoe size: not too big
- Salad Dressing: BLEU CHEEZ FTW
- Sushi: yaz plz
- Skipped class: couple times
- Slept outside: in a tent, in just a sleeping bag for order of the arrow
- Seen a dead body?: only at funerals i hope
- Smoked?: hookah and a few times at get-togethers
- Skinny dipped?: have not
- Shower daily?: yar
- Sing well?: decently
- In the shower?: not so much since i started columbus
- Swear?: rarely. i still have a visceral hang-up about it
- Stuffed Animals?: w00t.
- Single/Group dates: done with that until grad school and probably later.
- Strawberries/Blueberries: what.
- Scientists need to invent: more knowledge and wonder at the natural word among the general public.
- Sport: soccer to play, football to watch.

T
- Time for bed: when i'm too tired to dwell on things
- Thunderstorms: sweet
- TV: will lose to the internet
- Touch your tongue to your nose?: i cannot.

U
- Unpredictable: chicken! now we have the question "was that predictable".
- Used to play: Soccer, BZ Flag, &c.

V
- Vegetable you hate: um
- Vegetable you love: what. why are the instructions more specific for these two
- Vacation spot: i'm not really one for vacations at this point in my life.
- Virgin?: intellectually promiscuous :D

W
- Weakness: am i judgmental?
- When you grow up: smarter
- Which one of your friends knows the most about you: hmm, dunno. probably krissy.
- Who makes you laugh the most: geez o petes meme i do not have ranked lists for these things handy
- Want to be a model?: haha what?
- Where do we go when we die: we don't go anywhere. we just change. and part of us remains encoded on our friends, family, and whoever or whatever community has read or heard our ideas/art
- Weather: just so long as it changes every few months.

X
-X-Rays: never! to my knowledge. oh wait maybe that one time they were making sure my wisdom teeth didn't need pulled

Y
-Year it is now: 2008... barely
-Yellow: bellied sapsucker

Z
- Zoo animal: bats! and penguins are cute
- Zodiac sign: Virgo


-=-raptur-=-

chillin' at BD

harro

this has been a good day. Woke up around 11am, made m'self some oatmeal, then got to work. Kafe Kerouac to Ling Department ate up the afternoon and evening, i headed back to the house for spaghetti, and then came here to BD to keep working. they fixed the internet here! I'd been having trouble connecting (before I left I got myself a tarball of all the stuff I thought i'd need to keep writing).

Now I'm just waiting for a couple experiments to finish running. Back in july C.B. told me to guide my experiments by constantly writing everything up. I didn't exactly do that and now I wish I had. Today, while I've been putting my argument together in this paper, I've been really focused in what experiments exactly need to be run and have been really good about everything. I think I might head back soon and just check up on these experiments in the morning... the figures for the paper won't be ready for 2 hrs or so.

I also got GNU screen optimized how I like it on my computer and it looks wicked cool. Um I mean really productive.... ;)

I hope research never gets to feeling like a chore. Hmm. I was going to wait to say this until Spring, but it's been on my mind. I know that at the end of periods of your life you're supposed to look back and say "Oh I wish I hadn't spent so much time doing work" because work isn't what matters or something. I dunno. I look back over my time at OSU and I really don't think I'd be willing to give up one of my 3:30AMs, no matter how stressed, since they're all how I might be in the position I want to be in. Is it egomaniacal to say that I don't care so much for living in the moment if it's at the expense of living in the history books? Probably it is. Plus it's just really fulfilling to walk home at 4am and know the only reason you'd be out in the cold and rain then is because you really are completely committed to what you've taken up.

time to head back I think. The first results of the experiment are in and it doesn't look like I'll be in trouble. Although actually either way things turn out would be cool.

-=-raptur-=-