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September 2010

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Five reasons to still be excited about the Hokies → #8217;s <a href="http

Virginia Tech fans are still mourning Monday night’s 33-30 loss to No. 3 Boise State. The No. 10 Hokies (though they will certainly drop in the polls) committed far too many mistakes on special teams and too many stupid penalties to win that game. But all is not lost. In fact, here are five reasons Virginia Tech football fans should still be excited about the 2010 season…

“This defense is going to get better and after the Boise State game, they’re playing mad, and being coached by someone even madder, Bud Foster.”

Sep 7, 20107 notes
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I've said it before, and I'll say it again.

The Beatles I Want You (She’s So Heavy) is the sexiest song of all time. Since you can’t purchase The Beatles on iTunes and all of my CDs are at my mom’s house I bought two different versions. One is from the Across the Universe soundtrack and the other is by Umphrey’s McGee because I love them. Just sayin’.

Sep 7, 2010
Sep 3, 201026 notes
1 down; 2 to go.

So on Saturday I will be cheering (from Figure 8) for a TAR HEEL win over LSU. Hey, it could happen?

Then on Monday night I’ll be at the bar watching MY HOKIES tear down some boise state. And, I didn’t realize how many people st8 h8 boise state. Weird. Let’s get the HOKIE NATION together!!! Loves it.

Also…turns out Gamecock tailgating is quite fun. Even more fun? If you bike there. I live like 3 miles away from the stadium/tailgating area. So yesterday I went and recycled stuff, took care of my puppay and then biked to tailgates. Since I had multiple to attend, I got to bike in between them. GENIOUS. Then I walked halfway back with two guys (umm…that I had just met? not awk.) and the End Zone Grill has $3 jager bombs on game days. Clearly that was necessary. So we walk in, set our drinks on a table in the lobby area, put my bike against the bar, order 3 jager bombs, take them, pick up the bike and drinks and continue on our way. This is the stuff dreams are made of.

Now I’m off to the beach for 4 days. With my babiez!!!

Sep 3, 2010
I LOVE my Hokies, but sometimes, you can't take it too seriously. Funny. But don't read the comments. "VT Massacre" jokes are never. ever. funny. I hope that commenter burns in hell. → deadspin.com
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Sep 2, 2010
Did I really...

…just take 2 hours of leave to tailgate for a football game that

  1. I don’t have a ticket to attend,
  2. did not go to the school,
  3. or any school in this conference, and
  4. I’m not really a fan of?

Why, yes. Yes, I did. GO COCKS!!!

Sep 2, 2010
Ready for this weekend.

Good things that have happened lately:

  • Yesterday I got a huge work responsibility. Yay!
  • And I got new tires.
  • And then ran 4 miles outside. Hot.
  • Went to Mexican with some friends.
  • Going to Figure 8 for four days starting tomorrow.
  • Gamecock football tonight! Read: I didn’t get a free ticket, and won’t be paying for one, but I think I’ll probably still tailgate.

Annoying things that have happened lately:

  • The tires were like $400. But I think I got a deal from my mechanic (and I’m excited that I have a mechanic!)
  • Those 4 miles? They kicked my ass in the heat.
  • Which, by the way, made the gym today bru.tal.
  • One of my co-workers/team mates was crazy douchey to me today via text message, in person, on the phone AND via email. Like, really mean. Turns out he thinks I got him sick and is now being a giant vagina. But when I told our team leader, he said “just email him back and ask if it’s his time of the month.” So at least that was funny.

I feel like I’ve been in a glass case of emotion. Like, something blech will happen, but then good stuff. Or vice versa.

Sorry for the rambly post. I think I’m just ready for the LONG weekend.

Sep 2, 2010
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August 2010

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Aug 31, 2010
90's alternative/grunge on Pandora?

I’d like to welcome the Misters Vetter and Cobain to my Tuesday.

Clearly the “new kid’ is making me want to eat my own eyeballs. I guess this is my mis-timed angst. Don’t. Like. You. New. Kid.

Aug 31, 2010
Columbia is getting to me.

No, really.

I’m becoming a Columbian. And not the good cocain money south american kind. The south carolinian kind.

Yesterday i went to local eatery, DiPrato’s, for lunch.

Today it’s M Vista.

And on Thursday, I’ll be attending my first ever Gamecock football game.

WTF??

Aug 31, 2010
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fuckyeahvirginiatech:

Tech Triumph! Go Hokies! For the love of God, is it football season yet?

 Duh. Tech Triumph and Enter Sandman are both instant re-blogs. (And yes, my co-workers are getting annoyed at the constant Metallica streaming from my cube.)

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In case you wonder what I do. These are two of my projects. → goupstate.com
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Aug 30, 2010
Finally, the last thing that makes Beamer irreplaceable is the staff that he has made for himself. Coaches such as defensive coordinator Bud Foster have a large part to do with the success that the Hokies have had, and Beamer is responsible for bringing them together. → bleacherreport.com

Sorry for the VT Football overload. One week! And the coaches make the program. (Yes, even Stinespring. Evidently we’ll have a good offense this year. So, in the words of Tim Gunn [and yes, I do realize it’s awkward to mix college football with “Project Runway.” Deal.] “make it work.”)

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Lost my weekend

due to being ill. DISLIKE.

Aug 29, 2010
"Party Chief" would be an AWESOME job title...

…until you realize that it’s for a surveying “party.”

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To prepare for my half-marathon training, I just spent eleventy billion dollars on iTunes.
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Aug 25, 2010
"The Social Network" including, but not limited to: female nudity and blow. → thresq.hollywoodreporter.com

I’m a little embarrassed that (well, for one, i can’t spell embarrasewoirueoiu…sorry) I really want to see this movie. I mean, a movie that combines facebook, Justin Timberlake and cocaine?!? Sign me up!

Aug 25, 20101 note
25 funniest celebrity tweets → manofest.com

Please see #21 via Weird Al Yankovic:

I can’t believe we went all the way through the last 10 years without collectively agreeing what to call that decade

—Because we all thought that. Or at least I did. Nomenclature is important to me.

Aug 24, 2010
Dear Management in my office, I fucking hate you.

Too much to explain. But, needless to say, if I find a job at my level anywhere else in the country before October, I’m moving.

edit: this was written when i was reeeealllyyy angry. i chatted with my boss (love him) and figured stuff out. now i’m just annoyed and not pissed. in case you wanted to know. and looks like i’ll be staying in South Carolina.

Aug 24, 2010
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Aug 23, 2010
“Harry Potter is about confronting fears, finding inner strength and doing what is right in the face of adversity. Twilight is about how important it is to have a boyfriend.” —

— Stephen King 

(via lukehiatus, cigarettesandgreentea) (via ericmortensen)(via joyengel) (via 6twenty1)

(via heymissy)

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New AOL music? New band "I" "found." → myspace.com

I will often (ok, once a week) go to the aol music because they have free music. Duh. So today I was listening to this band Never Say Never. I like them mainly due to their use of both harmonica and ukelele. Check it out if you’d like!

Aug 23, 2010
SC State Fair concert schedule. → 2010.scstatefair.org

Please take note:

Boyz II Men

The Avett Brothers (eek!!!)

Darius Rucker (has my bday)

Umm…awesome? YES.

Aug 23, 2010
“Boom. Bazooka Joe.” —Real World San Diego. Episode summary found here. Nobody ever knows what I’m referring to when I say this. Somehow it just stuck with me? Hahaha
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Virginia Tech in the top 30 public universities in the country. Civil Engineering is ranked 11th. Boom. Bazooka Joe. → vtnews.vt.edu
Aug 23, 2010
Awk.

Somebody knocked on our door this afternoon.

It was the high schooler down the street (on the ghetto side. like, really) who cuts our grass.

he was bored and is now watching “Harry Potter” with us.

Do you have a 17 year old black high schooler watching HP with you on a Sunday afternoon? Didn’t think so.

Aug 22, 2010
Ahhh...looking forward to a beach weekend in Charleston and Sullivan's Island

It is nearing the end of the summer and my bff, Bridget and I decided we needed another beach weekend. (Okay, honestly? I’ll be spending 4 days at Figure 8 at my dad’s beach house for Labor Day weekend, but Bridget has weddings and stuff.)

And my sister is back in Charleston for her senior (gasp!) year. So the three of us are going to spend the weekend getting wicked tan and being able to all go to bars together!!

Maggie, the pup, is also excited because my sister has a fenced in backyard (yes, in historic downtown Charleston!) and my sister’s roommate also loves her.

Yay for the weekend!!!

disclaimer: in preparation for the weekend, I will be meeting my half-marathon training buddy at the gym at 6:30am on my Friday off.

Aug 19, 20101 note
Remember that time I got straight robbed?

It was this morning.

I went to the gym and right after my first set some homeless dude walks in and goes “uhh…somebody in your parking lot got broken into.” My immediate thought? That was definitely my car. And as I walked outside I saw my little guy with a busted driver’s window and uttered a delightful “shit.”

And, as I always do, I had left my purse in the passenger seat. Duh. Don’t leave your purse in the open. I know. But still, homeboy smashed my window in with a brick and janked that shit. The funny thing is that I have power nothing on my car and he could have just taken it by jimmying the lock. Easily. Sheesh!

Anyways, he got all my junk. Which is all it was. I mean, what is the 6’ black skinny homeless man on a stolen bike (yes, he’s got an M.O.) going to do with an ipod shuffle full of Britney, MIA and Luke Bryan (dont’ judge my musical tastings)?? Oh, he also got my umbrella, a brand new sharpie (those are not cheap), my work ID, and $10 cash.

Thankfully my camera wasn’t in my purse. And it usually is. Inshallah. So then the rest of my morning was spent cancelling credit cards, talking to the po po and waiting for the glass guys to repair my window. Which they did…for free! I knew in SC that if you had comprehensive insurance they waive the deductible for windshields, but evidently it’s for all glass. Yay!

Then I got my passport from home and gathered a new debit card from the bank (BofA FTW?), ordered my new phone (randomly I got insurance when I switched from Verizon to T-Mobile and this only cost $40), and picked up a duplicate license from the DMV. AND was at work by noon:thirty.

So that was my drama for the day. I also was forced to borrow $20 from one of the trainers which I didn’t have to use and that was nice. And now I’ve had the experience. Just annoying. And I am going to miss my cinda b bag.

Oh, and I have no phone numbers. Which is fine because now I’ll be able to start my friends over hahaha

Aug 17, 20101 note
12 of Michael Pollan's food rules

twohippiechic:

brooklynskillshare:

tinyparticles:

  1. Eat food.
  2. Don’t eat anything your great-grandmother wouldn’t recognize as food.
  3. Avoid food products containing ingredients that no ordinary human would keep in the pantry.
  4. Avoid food products that contain high-fructose corn syrup.
  5. Avoid foods that have some form of sugar (or sweetener) listed among the top three ingredients.
  6. Avoid food products that contain more than five ingredients.
  7. Avoid food products containing ingredients that a third-grader cannot pronounce.
  8. Avoid food products that make health claims.
  9. Avoid food products with the wordoid “lite” or the terms “low-fat” or “nonfat” in their names.
  10. Avoid foods that are pretending to be something they are not.
  11. Avoid foods that you see advertised on television.
  12. Shop the peripheries of the supermarket and stay out of the middle.

Taken from Michael Pollan’s Food Rules. via The Future Well

 A list to live by.  I realized this weekend that I almost never go into the middle portion of the grocery store.  I have a system: start at the fruits and veggies, move on to yogurt and soy milk, then round out with eggs.

Edit: This is not to say that I don’t “indulge” on occasion.  I love cereal, though I try to avoid buying it.  And Pirate’s Booty?  Don’t even get me started.  I think they put crack in it.

 I also shop the perimeter of the grocery store. Except for sometimes the spaghetti-os. They’re disgusting, I know. But they’re so effing good.

Aug 13, 201033 notes
Hmmmm....

So, right now is that awkward time between sports season. Baseball is pretty much ended (or at least the summer league we have in town) and football doesn’t start for another three weeks or so.

This begs the question: what are we going to do on the weekend?

I’ve got a free weekend in town with very little plans. I need to mend my fence and (obvi) go to the gym. Other than that, I got nothing.

I have a pretty big group of friends, but there’s just not much to do as a group. Keep in mind it’s devilishly hot where I live, so while the pool might seem like a fab idea, in reality it’s just too hot. Any weekend suggestions?

Aug 12, 2010
I took AppleBloggingJean's quiz... → applebloggingjeans.tumblr.com

ilikeyourwigjanice:

Umm, this is 100% me to a T.  Want to know me?  Here ya go!

Yeah…I took it as well. And it’s also super true for me!

Friendly You would rather hang out with others than spend time alone, and you’d far rather be doing something with your friends than just sitting around. You’re happy in a crowded room, club, stadium, or auditorium.

You’re not a private person who is ill at ease in a group; you don’t view excessive socializing as a waste of time.


Accessible

You’re comfortable expressing yourself in words and actions, with no self-censorship. You believe that if someone doesn’t like what they see it’s not your problem, but theirs. A high score on the “accessible” trait suggests that you have a lot of friends, socialize often, and enjoy rap/hip-hop music.

You don’t see the need to keep your thoughts to yourself, or to have a zone of privacy that encompasses only yourself and a small circle of friends and relatives.

Assertive

You behave in a confident and forceful manner, take charge of the situation, raise your hand in class, stand up for what you think is right, and lead others. Among those who have a high score on the “assertive” trait, many have jobs in which they are valued for their organizational skills as well as their talent for supervising others.

You are not interested in fading into the woodwork, leaving everything to fate, taking more time than necessary to accomplish a task, or avoiding confrontation.

Poised

You tend to feel at home wherever you find yourself, even in unfamiliar settings, with new people. It takes a lot to rattle you, and when rattled you recover quickly and gracefully.

You are usually not self-conscious or nervous when you’re in an unfamiliar environment or with people you don’t know.

Outgoing

You are more interested in interacting with others than in being by yourself. For you, it is a boring waste of time to sit around, alone, and analyze why you are the way you are.

You don’t prefer your own company to being with friends; you’re not so interested in what’s going on in your mind that you don’t need to interact with others. And you get no pleasure out of sitting around, alone, trying to figure out what makes you tick.

Outspoken

You like to talk. Luckily, you always have something to say, you tell a good story, and people generally enjoy listening to you. It’s no wonder that you’re often the center of attention.

You don’t tend to keep your thoughts to yourself, and you don’t feel you’re imposing on others when you share your thoughts and opinions with them.

Warm

You have a genuine interest in other people. You’re a natural host, and are always thinking about how you can increase the happiness of those around you. When friends have problems or are in trouble, you’re usually the first person they turn to for aid and comfort.

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