That's Not My Name! That's Not My Name!

You know how sometimes there's a song that bounces around your head and it just won't stop?

[just nod and pretend you do]

Today that song is That's Not My Name by The Ting Tings (just shut up and let me go, Ting Tings! haha...ha..ha.. ehhhh.. I crack myself up).

Anyway, I have surrendered to the song's irrepressible brain bounciness. My first child or next pet (whichever comes first.. I'm hoping for the latter) will now be named Mary Jho-Leesa (its totally Pinoy!).

[oh, and thanks jess for pointing me theTing Ting way]

Snail Mail Epiphany

This afternoon, I mailed my first real letter in years (real, in the sense that it wasn’t just a note accompanying documents or a package like “Dear [ex-boyfriend’s name], Here’s your stuff back. Shove it up your you-know-what. Haha, but seriously, let’s stay friends.”). It was just a birthday card for my sister, but it made me realize that sending letters to family and friends by post might be better than sending them by e-mail. And I mean better in a more practical than sentimental sense, I’m not really one of those people who scrapbook all my correspondences and notice little details in letters like impeccable handwriting done in swan quill or tear stains on the paper (evidence of the considerable effort exerted by the author to write without a spellchecker).

One of the reasons that practically nobody sends letters by post (to family or friends who live far away, I’m not talking about work related letters, or just-for-giggles forwards to that person in the next cubicle) is that e-mail is so much faster; you send an e-mail and your friends halfway around the world get it in a second. What I’ve noticed though, is that e-mail is too fast for the slow pace of my life. My life is so uneventful that one month’s worth of stories will barely be enough content for one letter (of course this isn’t true for everyone, I know people who average three one-night-stands a day and/or have so much drama in their lives that each of the hourly e-mails they send are as intriguing as the last). But e-mail puts so much pressure on me to write people more times than I have stories to tell, partly because I always think people will consider me unsympathetic if I wait a week or even a day to reply. As a result, my usual letters are something along the lines of:

Hi [friend or family member's name], Thank you for your letter, I’m glad your week is going well, just like last week. This morning, I forgot to clean the washing machine lint filter before washing my colored clothes. As a result all my dark clothes are covered in white fuzz of questionable origin. Hahaha,*sigh*, lesson learned. Luvya, Tetaw

With snail mail, there’s always necessary waiting time for my letter to reach the recipient, for the recipient to write the letter (without a spellchecker), and for the reply to reach me. Meanwhile, I get ample time allowance to wait for something eventful to happen in my life… and/or enough time for me to cook up stories that are both interesting and believable (it’s a lot harder than it seems). And if times are hard and my life is duller than usual, or if a creative drought is inhibiting my ability to invent stories, I can always say that the letters got lost in the mail, thus buying myself more time.

mmmmm...

mmmm... pie.... chart

saw this on swissmiss

Bored in SBM Class

The professor is talking about variances in income demographics in a survey they once had. He says there has to be variance otherwise why bother having a study at all. All intervals can't be the same.

The student in front of me is reading some kind of blog thing with her hoodie on (but why? it isn't that cold)

[ loud computer sound rings out, everyone ignores it]

The guys to my right are whispering about something, about bending your knees or something.

The people to my left are whispering about something unintelligible

[ the professor asks for any questions, nobody has any]

[break time, the person to my immediate right and the person to my immediate left are gone.

I should have eaten something for lunch... 711 is so far... 2 more hours to go!! must summon inner yogi abilities: iron stomach lining, iron stomach lining!!]

teeheehee

Should I be alarmed that I can relate to the little hamster??

View From Beyond Saturn

This is 2006 picture of Saturn is so beautiful it looks unreal. This is Saturn directly in front of the sun. From what I could understand from the photography babble from the Nasa website, it's a color exaggerated composite of 165 pictures of the eclipse.

The thing I like about this picture is I'm actually in it (well, along with the rest of humanity)! I'm not sure if it's visible from the picture upload since blogger seems to make all my pictures smaller no matter what I do, but that little speck on the left is earth. I put the speech bubble there to make it more obvious(subtlety has never been one of my strong points :D).

I like looking at pictures like these when I get all morose and sulky. Its a good reminder of how trivial whatever the drama in my life is when compared with the immensity of even just our solar system. Its like Saturn is saying "look at me. now, look at you. what? you can't? then get over yourself!!".

Ask Me About Astley...

This is probably the best literal video I've ever seen...

Of course that could just be because I'm kind of inlove with Rick Astley. His 80's hipster dance moves are totally mesmerizing! Plus his song saved me from moments of ackward silence with a guy I used to go out with. Every time there was a lull in our conversations, one of us would just start singing "Never gonna give you up...".

As a suppliment to this post, here's a link to a Rick Roll howto. Not that I get Rick Rolling at all. Why would you need to trick anyone into watching any of Rick's awsome videos?? I personally seek them out myself..