why start now???
today was a lot of fun, don't get me wrong, but in terms of productivity it was a COMPLETE waste! oh well, it was 70+ degrees and sunny, and the true waste would have been to spend it all inside (at least that is how i justified it this time around). that, and it was parul's bday, so a bunch of us got together for the much-anticipated madras masala lunch buffet (i've been to it before, but julia had been really looking forward to it since she had not). after that kara and mike had to take off, but parul/gwen/julia/me forged on and went to a 'chocolate lounge' (yes, these seriously exist...guess i've just been out of the loop) on main street. it was pretty new, and VERY nice...what more do you need than a huge diversity of exotic chocolate and extremely comfortable couches??? AJ, you seriously missed out on this one, but i'm sure we'll plan a return trip soon.
well apparently we did need more, since after an extended stay at the chocolate place we decided it would be a good idea to hang out outside and play a game. luckily i brought up taboo from home this past weekend, so we were set to hang out on the deck of the tank in the very sunny afternoon. let me tell you, two-person team taboo is quite challenging, and gwen and parul definitely schooled julia and i for the most part. oh well, i am going to write it off to the sun and the wasps (which are back, in case you didn't know) that were constantly bothering me...and pretty much only me. as usual. anyway, before we knew it, it was 8pm and the group dispersed. in the end, i got nothing done that i had written down on my list of things to accomplish today (yeah, i actually had to make a list this time) but that will all be put off to tomorrow...at least i hope, because after that the friday events are set into motion and there is no stopping until sunday! either way, it was a good continuation of what has been an ongoing birthday celebration for more than one person (it's also gwen's bday this saturday).
some other quick notes, before i get into the real time-waster cop-out of a blog entry that this was originally supposed to be:
- CONGRATS to DAMON on passing his oral prelims! we'll discuss his somewhat unorthodox preparation methods for these major exams at another time, but needless to say, it all worked out. nice job. can't wait until this fall for mine...scratch that, i definitely can wait.
- james/damon/myself do a good job of playing wandering fools. we were trying to make it to the SNRE picnic before going out and meeting other people yesterday evening, but were unable to remember which entrance to the arb we were supposed to take... the result? the three of us, in somewhat casual/dress attire ended up wandering around in the arb on a lord of the rings-esque adventure looking for the rest of the SNRE folks and the picnic. yeah, it was a good 3 miles or so of roaming through the woods and out to the river before we ended up having to climb some sort of miniature mountain to make it to the last 20 min of the picnic...at least we got the food, and that's what's most important.
- ok i will admit it, i am beginning to think that Team Bowfin may have peaked in it's competitive abilities sometime last year. so far our only major area of true skill is flip-cup.
after somewhat randomly joining up with an SPH gathering at ABC, a group of us decided to move on to The Arena...one of the cheapest places in A2, but also one of the smokiest, and some of the staff there is obnoxious beyond belief. anyway, we ended up participating in the trivia competition for the better part of the night. yeah, we sucked. we got a lot of the answers, but it was never quite good enough. i won't even start to get into the arguments we all had about STDs...mix up too many graduate students (or more specifically, public health folks, epidemiology people, a parasitology person, a pharmacist, and a drunk fish person who had just taken prelims,) and you get a bunch of people who are too smart for their own good. although we were collectively quite good at guessing the song/singer/music questions, along with the movies.
anyway, hopefully the team holds up when flip-cup arrives on saturday. if you are part of the U community and read this blog then you should have received notice of what is going on. if not, let me know. provided you do know what's going on, you sure as heck better have responded to the evite...that's practically more important than the party!!! well, obviously not, but whatever. parul and i have started using administrative powers to enter replies for people (jeremy, brenda, rachel, and andrea, you're next!)
ok that's it for now, i'm sure there's some more relatively entertaining/meaningless stuff i could write about, but i'm tired. sarah had originally made this entry quite easy for me with another survey to fill out, but i just had to get into a long exposition about the day that was. anyway, here is the latest...it's unique compared to what i have seen before, so i definitely had to participate.
intro from sarah's blog:
"i know these surveys can be considered cop outs in regards to making entries...but this one was a little more unique, AND i feel extra lazy. i'm sure that solo will also like this, since he likes to minimize work in his blog too."
A - Age: 27 (for 3 more days, but will still look around 21)
B - Band listening to right now: Yellowcard - Ocean Avenue album
C - Crush: crush what? aluminum cans? i don't get it.
D - Dad's name: Ignatius
E - Easiest person to talk to: my close friends and my sisters
F - Favorite ice cream: Ben & Jerry's half-baked brownies & cookie dough
G - Gummy worms or gummy bears: worms, they are definitely stranger looking and more appealing...although i'd rather eat chocolate.
H - Hometown: Arlington, Washington; although Ashland, Ohio was home for the longest time...i still can't claim ohio though, and washington blows away just about every other state.
I - Instruments: piano, alto saxophone
J -Junior high: ashland junior high school (aka the penitentiary)
K - Kids: none right now...but definitely some day; i must pass on the ways of the fish, and procrastination, and the panchero's addiction...ok, so they'd best take after their mom.
L - Longest car ride ever:when i was in third grade my parents decided it would be a great idea to take a vacation from ashland, OH to seattle, WA (yah, go ahead and mapquest it...it was WAY too long) -i'm going to keep sarah's answer on this one...yeah, it was especially great when the AC broke somewhere near the columbia gorge.
M - Mom's name: esther
N - Nickname: Sol, solo, saruman, captain solo
O - One wish: tough one...for michigan to win the national title this season? a panchero's franchise of my very own? become a gar and move to Florida? ...perhaps just to be as wise as the original solomon...yeah, that would be cool. although the ability to read minds would be quite useful too.
P - Personality: very social,outgoing,laid back, and sarcastic <--- sarah's answer...i would keep the same characteristics, except laid back...which i am only in a few cases, otherwise i can be somewhat high-strung (there, i admitted it). i tend to be pretty loud, talk quite a bit, and pretty OCD and somewhat AR as well. i like to organize social activities...
Q - Quote(s): "You must be the change you wish to see in the world" ~ Mahatma Gandhi "Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind" ~ Dr. Seuss
R - Reason(s) to smile: my friends, family, sleep, seinfeld, ralphie swimming in the tank, teaching, parties, listening to bollywood music and not knowing what the heck they are saying.
S - Size shoe: 10
T - Time you woke up today: 10:30am
U - Unknown facts about me: hmmm...i'm a pretty open book (keeping sarah's general statement there). i'll have to come back to this one at a later date...either way, they wouldn't be 'unknown facts' if i actually wrote about them here...
V - Vegetable[s]: carrots, cucumbers,
W - Worst habit: procrastinating on everything...although sometimes its a gift and a curse at the same time. <-- kept sarah's answer once again.
X - X-rays you've had: knee, chest, mouth
Y - Your longest relationship: 3 years
Z - Zodiac Sign: Taurus, or the year of the horse
ok that's it...good night <:><
music:
"Rang Rang Mein" - Bollywood/Hollywood soundtrack
"Blow Me Away" - Breaking Benjamin
random pic:
view of the Huron river from our quest (aka aimless wandering) for the SNRE picnic in the arb
apparently this beverage tasted better straight out of the pitcher...and no, i wasn't the person who started this (parul was), and believe it or not, the beverage was WATER!!!
well apparently we did need more, since after an extended stay at the chocolate place we decided it would be a good idea to hang out outside and play a game. luckily i brought up taboo from home this past weekend, so we were set to hang out on the deck of the tank in the very sunny afternoon. let me tell you, two-person team taboo is quite challenging, and gwen and parul definitely schooled julia and i for the most part. oh well, i am going to write it off to the sun and the wasps (which are back, in case you didn't know) that were constantly bothering me...and pretty much only me. as usual. anyway, before we knew it, it was 8pm and the group dispersed. in the end, i got nothing done that i had written down on my list of things to accomplish today (yeah, i actually had to make a list this time) but that will all be put off to tomorrow...at least i hope, because after that the friday events are set into motion and there is no stopping until sunday! either way, it was a good continuation of what has been an ongoing birthday celebration for more than one person (it's also gwen's bday this saturday).
some other quick notes, before i get into the real time-waster cop-out of a blog entry that this was originally supposed to be:
- CONGRATS to DAMON on passing his oral prelims! we'll discuss his somewhat unorthodox preparation methods for these major exams at another time, but needless to say, it all worked out. nice job. can't wait until this fall for mine...scratch that, i definitely can wait.
- james/damon/myself do a good job of playing wandering fools. we were trying to make it to the SNRE picnic before going out and meeting other people yesterday evening, but were unable to remember which entrance to the arb we were supposed to take... the result? the three of us, in somewhat casual/dress attire ended up wandering around in the arb on a lord of the rings-esque adventure looking for the rest of the SNRE folks and the picnic. yeah, it was a good 3 miles or so of roaming through the woods and out to the river before we ended up having to climb some sort of miniature mountain to make it to the last 20 min of the picnic...at least we got the food, and that's what's most important.
- ok i will admit it, i am beginning to think that Team Bowfin may have peaked in it's competitive abilities sometime last year. so far our only major area of true skill is flip-cup.
after somewhat randomly joining up with an SPH gathering at ABC, a group of us decided to move on to The Arena...one of the cheapest places in A2, but also one of the smokiest, and some of the staff there is obnoxious beyond belief. anyway, we ended up participating in the trivia competition for the better part of the night. yeah, we sucked. we got a lot of the answers, but it was never quite good enough. i won't even start to get into the arguments we all had about STDs...mix up too many graduate students (or more specifically, public health folks, epidemiology people, a parasitology person, a pharmacist, and a drunk fish person who had just taken prelims,) and you get a bunch of people who are too smart for their own good. although we were collectively quite good at guessing the song/singer/music questions, along with the movies.
anyway, hopefully the team holds up when flip-cup arrives on saturday. if you are part of the U community and read this blog then you should have received notice of what is going on. if not, let me know. provided you do know what's going on, you sure as heck better have responded to the evite...that's practically more important than the party!!! well, obviously not, but whatever. parul and i have started using administrative powers to enter replies for people (jeremy, brenda, rachel, and andrea, you're next!)
ok that's it for now, i'm sure there's some more relatively entertaining/meaningless stuff i could write about, but i'm tired. sarah had originally made this entry quite easy for me with another survey to fill out, but i just had to get into a long exposition about the day that was. anyway, here is the latest...it's unique compared to what i have seen before, so i definitely had to participate.
intro from sarah's blog:
"i know these surveys can be considered cop outs in regards to making entries...but this one was a little more unique, AND i feel extra lazy. i'm sure that solo will also like this, since he likes to minimize work in his blog too."
A - Age: 27 (for 3 more days, but will still look around 21)
B - Band listening to right now: Yellowcard - Ocean Avenue album
C - Crush: crush what? aluminum cans? i don't get it.
D - Dad's name: Ignatius
E - Easiest person to talk to: my close friends and my sisters
F - Favorite ice cream: Ben & Jerry's half-baked brownies & cookie dough
G - Gummy worms or gummy bears: worms, they are definitely stranger looking and more appealing...although i'd rather eat chocolate.
H - Hometown: Arlington, Washington; although Ashland, Ohio was home for the longest time...i still can't claim ohio though, and washington blows away just about every other state.
I - Instruments: piano, alto saxophone
J -Junior high: ashland junior high school (aka the penitentiary)
K - Kids: none right now...but definitely some day; i must pass on the ways of the fish, and procrastination, and the panchero's addiction...ok, so they'd best take after their mom.
L - Longest car ride ever:when i was in third grade my parents decided it would be a great idea to take a vacation from ashland, OH to seattle, WA (yah, go ahead and mapquest it...it was WAY too long) -i'm going to keep sarah's answer on this one...yeah, it was especially great when the AC broke somewhere near the columbia gorge.
M - Mom's name: esther
N - Nickname: Sol, solo, saruman, captain solo
O - One wish: tough one...for michigan to win the national title this season? a panchero's franchise of my very own? become a gar and move to Florida? ...perhaps just to be as wise as the original solomon...yeah, that would be cool. although the ability to read minds would be quite useful too.
P - Personality: very social,outgoing,laid back, and sarcastic <--- sarah's answer...i would keep the same characteristics, except laid back...which i am only in a few cases, otherwise i can be somewhat high-strung (there, i admitted it). i tend to be pretty loud, talk quite a bit, and pretty OCD and somewhat AR as well. i like to organize social activities...
Q - Quote(s): "You must be the change you wish to see in the world" ~ Mahatma Gandhi "Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind" ~ Dr. Seuss
R - Reason(s) to smile: my friends, family, sleep, seinfeld, ralphie swimming in the tank, teaching, parties, listening to bollywood music and not knowing what the heck they are saying.
S - Size shoe: 10
T - Time you woke up today: 10:30am
U - Unknown facts about me: hmmm...i'm a pretty open book (keeping sarah's general statement there). i'll have to come back to this one at a later date...either way, they wouldn't be 'unknown facts' if i actually wrote about them here...
V - Vegetable[s]: carrots, cucumbers,
W - Worst habit: procrastinating on everything...although sometimes its a gift and a curse at the same time. <-- kept sarah's answer once again.
X - X-rays you've had: knee, chest, mouth
Y - Your longest relationship: 3 years
Z - Zodiac Sign: Taurus, or the year of the horse
ok that's it...good night <:><
music:
"Rang Rang Mein" - Bollywood/Hollywood soundtrack
"Blow Me Away" - Breaking Benjamin
random pic:
view of the Huron river from our quest (aka aimless wandering) for the SNRE picnic in the arb
apparently this beverage tasted better straight out of the pitcher...and no, i wasn't the person who started this (parul was), and believe it or not, the beverage was WATER!!!
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