did you know?

did you know that australia requires a visa? i didn't.

Liu Bolin

http://v1kram.posterous.com/liu-bolinthe-invisible-man

busy and proud

Quick update: Life has been rather busy lately, especially work. I have gained additional responsibilities without losing any others, don't you love it when that happens? Unfortunately it's because they had to lay a few people off. Thankfully I am very excited about my new responsibilities. I will now be running a weekend long camp for kids who have MS this summer. This is right up my alley and it kind of makes me want to get up and dance.

Well ok a new lover could probably only make you that excited but you get the point. and if you haven't seen 500 days of summer you should it's great. i've seen it twice.

I'm also in charge of family programming and scholarships. I wrote all of the bios for last years recipients (except the first 5) and created this website: http://www.nationalmssociety.org/chapters/CAL/programs-services/support-for-the-family/scholarships/index.aspx

I am good at my job. It feels good to say that because for most of the time I've worked here I haven't felt like I was. I think being so bogged down with family things was the largest culprit of that. I'm still sad about all of that but I guess with time...

Next weekend I am going to New Zealand and Australia with my friend Alysha and I will be spending Christmas in Germany. Lot's of travel ahead! 

p.s. Everything I do just came on Pandora. Still makes my 7th grade heart swoon.

iranian funk. who knew?

UPDATED: ok. well. hurumph. i was trying to make this post really cool so you could actually just listen to the music...turns out that's beyond my capabilities. here's the lame old link. BLERG!
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=112829658
pretty fantastic right?!

i've been having a love affair with npr for about three months now. it's going splendidly. 

it's like this and like that and like this and uh

When drunk undie clad Yeltsin went to White House searching for pizza!

Russia News.Net
Tuesday 22nd September, 2009 (ANI)

Washington, Sep.22 : Former Russian President Boris Yeltsin got so drunk during a 1995 visit to Washington that Secret Service agents found him a few hundred feet from the White House clad only in his underwear and trying to hail a cab. He later explained that he wanted a pizza.

http://www.russianews.net/story/545793

The D

I went to Detroit to visit CC. I had fun.

I almost died.

But it was worth it.



I saw a magic bus.

I saw the Heidelberg Project

I saw CC climb things.

I saw CC get wet.

And all the while Billy D. watched over us.

I went to Lake Michigan. 

And accepted that sometimes I'm wrong and next time wont settle for this as my sunset picture.

I learned about the birds and the bees.

We posed as nervous freshman, participated in a scavenger hunt and learned everything there is to know about the Michigan library instead of seeing Ann Arbor.

The duck was worth it.

We had fun.

With this post I learned to edit in HTML because blogger and pictures is annoying as all get out. 

la fin.

hubble and beatles

if i was an inanimate object i would want to be the hubble telescope.

today the remastered versions of the beatle's albums were released, both in mono and stereo. i heard a bit of a remastered "dear prudence" yesterday...absolutely smashing.