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So I sliced my thumb up tonight. It hurts like a bitch. The cut isn’t very long but it’s really deep, but because the skin is flapped over, I’m not sure you can tell that in the picture. Also, all those hairy things on my thumb are pieces of the cloth I was using to help stop the bleeding.
Basically I got home from campus and was beat. I went to cook dinner. I reached into the silverware drawer. A knife was hidden. I grabbed it and it sliced me up. The stupid cut took 30 minutes to stop bleeding. I’m pretty sure I need a few stitches, but being terrified of needles, I’m not going to get any. If it doesn’t start to seal up in a day or so I’m just going to put superglue on it.
Class was interesting tonight. I’m too tired to type up how it went. I’ll have a full report about my first two days at American University tomorrow night.
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We all know that the Emmys suck. But the intro to this year’s Emmys was AWSOME. Conan O’Brien jumped from TV show to TV show hitting up “Lost” “The Office” “24” “House” and “South Park.” Not only was it funny, but it made me super excited to think that all of these TV show are about to come back.
One of the funniest moments was when Conan O’Brien says to Hurley from Lost, “I’ve got to get to the Emmys. You want to come with me?” Hurley responds with “We weren’t invited.” Conan says back, “But you won last year. Nothing makes sense anymore!”
Hahahahhaa! Great stuff.
Of course people are pissed about the intro because the “Lost” spoof had a plane crash and they just had that one in Kentucky, where 49 people died. NBC even sent out a formal apology for in a press release:
"Our hearts and prayers go out to the many families who lost loved ones in the plane crash in Kentucky on Sunday, and to the entire community that has suffered this terrible loss. In no way would we ever want to make light of this terrible tragedy. The filmed opening during the Emmy telecast was meant to spoof some of television’s most well-known scenes. The timing was unfortunate, and we regret any unintentional pain it may have caused."
NBC didn’t cause the plane crash in Kentucky. What happened in Kentucky is very sad, but people are over reacting about the Emmy-intro.
I’m meeting with Brad Meltzer in a week. Does anyone have any good questions I should ask?
I’ll be focusing on his newest novel "Book of Fate" but will ask questions about his background, basic writing stuff, and comic books. So if anyone has anything good I should ask, let me know.
This cartoon… which I dont’ remember where I found it, reminded me of Samantha.
Screw the Emmy?s and their horrible system.
Welcome to the First Annual Butt-Groove Awards. The winners of each category are below in bold, but before we get started William Shatner, our host for the evening, has a few words to share:
?It?s an honor?to be here, tonight. I want to thank? my loyal fans. For always supporting me—?
?Mr. Shatner!?
?Of course I need to thank the woman— I?ve slept with. Without them? I just wouldn?t be— William–.?
?Shatner!?
?What??
?This isn?t an event for you. This is the First Annual Butt-Groove Awards. You?re the host.?
?Good godman? shouldn?t George Takei be? hosting??
?No. This isn?t a gay thing. This is for TV shows that keep us glued to our seats, causing Butt-Grooves in our couches and chairs.?
?Ever see— the original Enterprise?s captain chair? I made a butt-groove? so fine that none ever? has compared.?
?That?s uhhh? nice, but can you just go ahead and honor those TV shows and actors that kept us glued to our seats for the 2005-2006 TV season??
?I am being paid?for this??
?Yes. We got you two Swedish virgins and Rachel Ray to be your personal chef for a month, exactly like you requested. Then, it was harder, but we were able to get a pair of Candice Bergen’s underwear.”
?Excellent— Let’s take this award show… to warp four. Out first category is– ?Best Hour Long Show??
Verizon charges you $1.00 for calling 911. I don’t get that. EVERY cell phone, even ones without any service are still supposed to be able to call 911. So why is it that I get charged a buck for doing so? I’ve called 911 a lot of times from my cell before because of Dad. I’m annoyed I never noticed the fee until now.
OH my god. Samantha drives me absolutely crazy. There is literally no other person alive that drives me as insane as she does. The only solace I get from it is knowing that I make her feel the exact same way.
Her and I hit up the Maryland State Fair. I don’t know why. We just always do dorky things. I think I’m her only friend she can be “dorky” around so she always makes me do extra dorky things with her.
We had fun at the fair, we’ve been before, but I was surprised at how much smaller it is from the Delaware State Fair. I think it’s about 30 or 40 percent of the DE fair.
There wasn’t anything too exciting, but being the manly man that I am, I won her a prize. I played a dart game, popped three balloons and won her a stuffed pug dog. She decided to name it “Bud” since she was drinking Bud Light at the time. 
For the rest of the day and night, I kept Bud in my pocket. We didn’t get many stares when we were at the fair, but later when we went shopping and out to dinner, everyone gave us weird looks.
It was just really cool to hangout with her ‘cause when we aren’t arguing like a divorced couple I have more fun with her than I do with anyone else.
I’m also really excited cause it looks like she’s coming here to visit next weekend. I mean her place in Baltimore is only a 40 minute drive so its not like she’s far away or anything, but it looks like she’ll come next Friday and stay for the weekend.
Other Samantha stuff coming up: She really wants to go with me to the Baltimore Comic-Con since I have press passes. I think she’s hoping to be the only girl there so that she can pickout any guy she wants. I tried explaining that there probably wouldn’t be anyone that would interest her but she doesn’t listen to me. Then in two weeks she’s being my date to Uncle Tim’s wedding so that should be fun too!
I found this. Who seriously needs a garage inside of their RV? Volkner Mobile RV and pricing isn’t announced yet for it. Even more annoying is that it can only fit small sports cars. Which begs the question, if someone can afford a fancy small sports car, why would they be traveling around in an RV?
I’ve been living here two and a half weeks and apparently that’s all the time it took for Sarah to give me crabs. …Hahaha I’m such a dork. DUH not gross crabs, but hardshell crabs!
Sarah went home this weekend for her step dad’s birthday. They had a big cookout and Sarah brought me back crabs plus a ton of other stuff. She is literally the greatest roommate of all time.
The thing about Sarah and myself is that at times I feel like we are almost “team mates.” We are always watch each other’s back and ready to jump in and help out. Like on Friday, Sarah was upset because she missed a sale on cantaloupe before going home. So when she surprised me with crabs I surprised her with a cantaloupe that I bought for her!
The other cool thing about Sarah is that she’s the clean. I LOVE THAT. I mean don’t get me wrong. I’m not a super clean-freak, she’s actually worse than I am. But together we constantly put away each other dishes and stuff like that.
One of the things I HATE doing is sweeping. I’ve always hated doing it and refuse to do it, but it’s cool cause Sarah does the sweeping and then I’ll the vacuuming. It’s little silly things like that, which allow us to balance each other out.
Another place where we balance is personalities. I’ve been called a “drama queen” at time, but I don’t believe that I am. Other than Samantha-drama, most of the stuff that I deal with happens to me through no fault of my own… all of this leads me to be a more emotional and sensitive person.
Sarah is more stoic. She’s very emotional but keeps it in. She rarely EVER has any problems or any kind of drama so having me around makes her life more exciting. I also force her to be more open and ok about her emotions and that kinda stuff.
—so SEE, her and I are totally a perfect match! This year is going to rock. I love living with one of my best friends.
I feel so cultured being a student at American University. I got an email today, telling about the biggest events this week and there were three things on it: a Nationals game, Career Center open house, and a “Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, and Ally Resource Center Fall Mixer.”
The world’s oldest person died today. Her name was Maria Esther de Capovilla and she died at the age of 116. The newest oldest person in the word is 11 months younger than Capovilla was.
I think it would be really cool to be the oldest living person in the world. Or even if I’m not, I hope by the time I’m old that the human lifespan will average like 150 or something.
It’s not a fear or death or ego that makes me want to live till I’m super old. It’s just that I have sooooooooooo much I want to do with my life and I’m worried I won’t have enough time to do them all.
Article from the AP Wire:
The internet is buzzing. The photo above is supposedly what Megatron will look like in next summer’s “Transformers” movie. It looks like some insect bug thing. It’s hideous. It looks nothing like the “real” Megatron, which you can see below.
I’m bummed out. I was really excited to read Age of Bronze Vol 1 & 2, but I couldn’t get into it. I’m well versed in Greek mythology and Eric Shanower’s take on the Trojan War is so different that I spend more time thinking “That’s not right” than simply accepting this is HIS version of the war.
I first read “The Iliad” and “The Odyssey” in third grade. It was the same year that I first read “The Hobbit” and the “Lord of the Rings” trilogy. So it was a BIG year for me and only further validated my love for the fantasy genre.
Since then I’ve read tons of Greek plays and myths for fun as well as in literature classes. I also took mythology classes in high school and college. …because I’ve read translations of the classic stories I have my own interpretations of how Greek mythology works.
For example, one of the first things I noticed in “Age of Bronze” is that the Greek Gods are missing! The gods are major characters in the “Iliad.” You see them as flesh in blood manipulating each other and humans on the battle field and behind the scenes. So it’s very hard for me to accept a re-visioning of the Trojan War without the gods. I mean come one… didn’t we see that in Brad Pitt’s “Troy” and didn’t it SUCK?
In the afterward of Vol. 1 of “Age of Bronze,” Shanower comments on this by saying, “I’ve chosen to downplay the supernatural element in order to emphasize the human element. The only fantastic details I’ve retained are dreams and visions. And when you think about it, these aren’t necessarily as supernatural as they might first appear… but no gods in the flesh.”
Let me try to put this in more present-day terms. A lot of geeks and non-geeks revere the “Star Wars” movies. Its how a lot of people in literature look back at things like the Greek plays or the “Iliad” and “Odyssey.” So… if “Star Wars” was old enough that it was in the public domain and anyone could do anything they wanted with the characters, how do you think people would react to having it revisioned with everything “force” related (supernatural stuff) taken out of it? ——-see! That’s why I can’t read these books.
And don’t get me wrong, it’s not JUST the “god stuff” that Shanower has changed. He has people that should be kings being shown as cow herders. With some characters he has them acting completely different than they do in any piece of literature.
There is nothing wrong with Shanower writing about his version of the Trojan War, but it’s so far from how I see it that I just cannot read his books.
That’s Josh at the pediatric intensive care unit at Johns Hopkins. Yep, he’s reading a comic book I brought him.
He’s doing better now. He’s off the ventilator and when I was there yesterday he was turning into his usual smart-ass self. He was talking about fishing and sticking hooks through fish eyes as well as complaining non-stop about a sore throat. The sore throat was his fault. When it came time to take the ventilator out he just ripped it out instead of letting the nurses do it for him.
One of the funnier thing he was doing is that he’d peel sticky things off his chest and watch a nearby monitor showing that he’d flat line. It was classic.
Last I heard yesterday, Josh had been moved from ICU to the regular children’s ward. They were doing some test and trying to figure out if the meningitis was viral or bacterial. If it was one it was more severe but could be treated with antibiotics while the other was less severe, but couldn’t be treated. It was going to take a few days to figure out which it was and they weren’t sure how long he’d be in the hospital, but he does seem to be doing better.
