Scrambled Pancake

This morning when I woke up it was all cold and rainy outside so I decided I was going to make a pancake with the spoonful of mix that we have left and then watch Face the Nation and stare at the Christmas tree and this is what happened...

A+ for effort

In my plant class everyone has to do a project that is 20% of our grade. Mine is on the species Paulownia tomentosa, also known as The Princess Tree. We are graded on content and creativity and I have been very obsessed with wanting my introductory slide to have the tree with a tiara. This is what I came up with:

Life is just one big adventure, so have fun with it!

That’s what my horoscope says today. I don’t know how I feel about horoscopes, like if I believe them or not, but it’s still fun to read when I get bored at work. And I found this one particularly ironic, as I applied for a great big adventure today. It’s an internship in Uganda that I probably won’t get. (I have to say things like that so that I don’t have my heart broken when things don’t work out). But I have an interview for it Friday morning at 9:00am and I am so, so nervous because I want to do this so, so bad!

Last night was a really big night for Democrats in NC. When I woke up this morning, NC still hadn’t reported whether or not Obama or McCain took the state, but I guess it doesn’t really matter now. But we did elect our first female governor, Bev Perdue. And I saw this donkey on 15-501 yesterday...

Halloween

I went to Greenville for Halloween with plans of being a teacher. I didn't really feel like putting forth much effort, and it was kind of last minute, so being a teacher sounded good to me. But I ended up looking like Sarah Palin so I just went with that instead. I was a very classy, nice Sarah Palin but if I would have thought about it more beforehand I would have made her not so decent.



I worked hard to dress Jamie as a Guitar Hero character and we did a really good job! She was hot!



We just hung out for a little while before TRYING to go downtown to look at costumes but it was way too crowded and we turned around. I feel like I'm too old to be dealing with all of the naked drunkenness. There were some elaborate legos that I appreciated and a troll. My camera crapped out so this is all I have.



And I found a fellow Palin. She had a baby which I thought was a great idea. I should have done that!

Mmmmmball

Yesterday I went with my family to a Pumpkin Patch in Youngsville.

Kelsey was so cute because she thinks that everything that is round is an "mmmmball" and everything that has fur is a puppy. But I wanted her to be like a precious little pumpkin princess (or whatever the equivalent is of very adorable little girls who cooperate and sit still amidst pumpkins) so I could take some cute pictures but she was this hat-hair, pumpkin-tossin’ mess…



My mom quickly reminded me that when I was a kid I threw up on people I didn’t like so I needed to lay off. But I didn’t stop trying…





Tomorrow we are going to the fair and I think I will wear my Barack n’ Roll t-shirt. I wish I were going to the James Taylor for Change (& Obama) concert on campus tonight but I’m not. So sad.

ten/three

Last night I went to see Nights in Rodanthe and I really loved it. But I felt so soo bad for every man or manly girl there because I know they probably wanted to stab their eyeballs.

So before the movie started I had about 15 minutes to do nothing so I decided to go to Urban Outfitters. I bought this Barack Obama tshirt.



The tshirt says “Barack and Roll.” And I cut those bangs myself this morning. I think I did a good job but they are a little long. I’m scared to cut them any shorter because I don’t want to make any regretful snips. Maybe I’ll work on them more later.

But I did see this cute Hello Kitty toaster that I think Julie and Shafaq would appreciate.

First day of Fall :-)

Saturday morning I woke up early and found pictures of plants online for THREE HOURS. I make flash cards of the plants that are on my recognition lists each week.

Then I went to a little family gathering for my grandmother’s 80th birthday.







Kelsey is starting to talk more. Last week I taught her how to say Obama. She likes to say “ducky, doggie, puppy…” and then if you throw a new word in at the end she’ll say it.

Hmmmm

Today’s flora lab was better and more interesting. There were a lot of pretty flowers to look at but the plants are never as interesting as my classmates. Last week someone collected a batch of pokeberries and went home and painted a picture of pokeberries with the ink from the berries.

See... pretty.

A leaf is a leaf is a leaf

I have a lab in which we hike for three hours through the woods looking at leaves. Then we spend the next week memorizing the plants for a quiz. Then we do it all over again.



I took some pictures of some of the plants with my iPhone. It’s really hard memorizing the leave structures and the venation. We have approximately 35 plants on each quiz. The TAs go through the woods and pick the plants for our quiz, then we walk around and write the Latin name of the plant, family, and the common name. It’s difficult because you start to memorize the picture, and then when you see the plant on the quiz you’re like “okay, what the hell is this……” But photos like this will help..

Kal Penn

How did I miss this? I love that little Indian dude and I would have been so excited to hear about his love for Obama. I wasn't doing anything better on Sunday, either.

Yummy goodness

Look at this plate of sushi. It was so beautiful and delicious and the most amazing edible birthday present ever! I love pretty things that you can eat. I didn’t mess with that Wasabi roll because wasabi makes my eyeballs burn, but the other stuff was so good.

Note to self:

Never travel with small children ever again.

They scream too much. They're cute when they are quiet but they're only quiet about 20% of the time.

But the beach was fun. I would have liked to stay a couple more days by myself. I spent the evenings sitting on the beach alone messing around on my phone. I really liked that alone time. During the days I didn't do anything of real substance besides one small fishing trip in the ocean on a boat.


This is Kelsey being super cute


And this is the tangled mess I created when fishing. I don't know how but my line got tangled with two other people's and they had to work to get it undone while the poor fish just chilled there.


My brother caught these two fish at the same time. The top one is a black sea bass that was too small to keep and the bottom thing is a sea toad.


That sea toad creature was ridiculous looking.


I caught this black sea bass that was deemed a "keeper". The mate on the boat talked shit to me for not knowing how to hold a fish and I almost threw him overboard because this was a new experience for me and I have never caught or held a slimy fish before (except for the one I dissected in biology lab) so he just needed to shut up and leave me alone.


Dolphins..


I took this picture of a pretty sunset with my iPhone.