flapdoodle

Flap-doo-dle: slang (n) -- Foolish talk; nonsense.

While walking around today enjoying the weather and listening to They Might Be Giants' "Birdhouse In Your Soul," I decided i'd pick up an OU Daily and sit on a bench and people watch... For those of you who know me... people-watching = totally normal... picking up an OU Daily = not so normal.

anyways. the newspaper put a huge smile on my face. why? because the world is a terribly silly place. the front page headline story went something like "Suspected Lunch Box Bomb A Dud : The only thing found inside was an empty sandwich wrapper." THIS, under a picture of a specialist in full "outbreak" gear x-raying a stupid little red lunchbox that someone forgot about on a trashcan. oh no... we aren't paranoid at all.

okay. good time to call in the special team: when a guy tries to enter a stadium a few times and runs the other direction when they ask to check his bag, then is seen later placing something under a bus. bad time to call in the special team: when you see a lunchbox on a trashcan.

that's just silly.

so... next reason i smiled: I started reading a Saddam Houssein story. The story was discussing how Saddam will be held responsible for many crimes and it started talking about some of them. The article talked about how most americans really couldn't ever fathom a dictator. I mean... a strong government going into another territory and taking control. that's impossible, we wouldn't even know how to handle that. still don't get why i smiled? sorry. that is just funny. not only did the article (obviously) not discuss that america was best friends with good ole Saddam in the early 80 (while he was committing these discussed crimes), and even put him in power, knowing his nature and means of getting what he wants perfectly well. No... that isn't all that i was smiling about. No. i couldn't imagine a super-controlling government either guys... Gawsh-Durn... i'm sure glad big brother is watching me and will kick anyones ass that looks at him funny. :)

i think i'm gonna start an OU Daily/mp3/coffee habit. it definitely boosted my mood.

a few facts

1. I go to the university of Oklahoma
2. I love rainy days
3. I love the smell of gas
4. My eyes are brown
5. I was born with a light complexion, even though everyone else in my family is dark complexioned
6. I want to start a hospital in the middle east
7. My natural hair color looks unnatural on me
8. My signiture scent is Burberry Touch
9. I like to just stare and the stars and feel insignificant
10. I live on my own
11. I hate easy classes and I love the hard ones
12. I love learning
13. I hate attendence policies
14. I played cello for 8 years
15. I love fire
16. When I was little I used to mutilate crickets
17. I speak Arabic
18. I learned to read and write Arabic in college
19. I’m obsessed with eyeshadow
20. I wanted to be in advertising
21. I’m good at being uncomfortable
22. I’m the most insecure person you’ve ever met
23. I love mung bean sprouts and alfalfa sprouts
24. When I was little, I was afraid of a “B-U-L-L” that would come around as soon as the air condition shut off (must be spelled out, not said, or it would come get me.)
25. I like writing papers
26. I love cooking, and I’m actually pretty good at it
27. I’m a music junkie
28. I have 5 piercing; 3 in one ear, and 2 in the other
29. I hate the sounds of chewing or swallowing; mouth sounds in general
30. I am in school to be a doctor
31. I like going to visit my sister in Baltimore and sitting on her fire escape
32. I love the pain that comes with working out too hard
33. I’m a recluse
34. I love the smell of coconut
35. I like living in norman and going to OU
36. I’ve adopted an outdoor cat and named him gremlin
37. I love the sound of wooden heels on tile
38. I wanted to be a stand up comedian
39. More realistically, I wanted to be an electrical engineer, or a pharmacist when I was younger
40. Adbusters is my favorite magazine
41. Black is my favorite color
42. I like crying, and its really hard for me to do
43. Sometimes I’ll cut an onion just so that I can cry
44. I hate groupwork in school
45. I love working
46. I like arguing about politics
47. In 7th and 8th grade, I was told by teachers that I would never succeed in school
48. I entered college with 21 credits
49. I made a 21 on the ACT in seventh grade
50. I love the smell of cleaners and of a house once its been cleaned
51. My favorite feeling in the world is laughing too hard
52. I know every word of the original Phantom of the Opera play
53. I have a green newsboy hat that I wear, and I love it
54. I’m an official election official (I am trained to work for the election board)
55. I was terrified of aliens when I was little
56. I have accepted the existence of aliens
57. I like to walk slowly so I can take in my environment
58. I love people-watching and making up my own stories about their day or lives
59. I get the same piece of junk-mail in my mailbox everyday
60. I love growing my hair out really long then chopping it off really short
61. I’ll hang up the phone on you if I think there is no other way to get off
62. My room at my parents house is rainy-day green
63. My room at my old house was bright blue with white geometric figures and lines all over it
64. I love camping
65. I cry when I read books more often than when I watch movies
66. I love Jane Austen
67. I’ve been a GE mechanic for the last two years for Halloween
68. I learned how to spell Halloween through a song in elementary school
69. My preschool teacher was Jamaican with really long red nails
70. I always remember stupid details, but never really important ones
71. I have a dog named Mishka that likes to sleep next to me
72. I love to cuddle
73. I repeat things in my head a lot
74. I like using elipses…
75. I very rarely revise my papers… I usually just sit and write it.
76. I cannot work ahead on papers or on studying for tests… I’m a pressure cooker
77. I love the sound of thunder. The bigger the better.
78. I like to express my mood through my music
79. Heavy, screaming, fast, loud music calms me
80. My car has a bumper sticker on it that says believe, and it does not have a religious connotation
81. My car’s name is the believe-mobile
82. My first car’s name was tuggy, and it was a red Honda civic hatchback
83. I love driving around late at night, going nowhere
84. I like penguins
85. I can read palms, to a degree
86. I can’t study if my room and/or apartment is messy
87. When I was five, I went to disney world.
88.At disney world, I heard the 7 dwarfs coming around a corner and got depressed because only 2 showed up
89. I used to be afraid of roller coasters, but I love them now.
90. I love wearing hoodies with sweatshorts
91. I like J-famous people… johnny depp, john cusack, julian casablancas, oh the list goes on…
92. I love artsy flicks
93. My favourite movie is Amelie
94. I wish I could speak French or Italian
95. I took latin in high school, and was latin club president for 3 years.
96. I don’t tolerate ignorance well
97. I have no bridge on my nose, so glasses always fall off
98. I only wear one contact
99. I sleep on the floor if I can’t fall asleep in my bed
100.I hate swimming in lakes or the ocean, but I like swimming in springs.

twilight zone

you can be taken out of your element completely, and maybe it's all surreal. maybe you forget everything, maybe it's all a blur, maybe you forgot yourself, maybe you forgot everyone else. Maybe you were completely yourself, maybe you were nothing like what you know. in the end... you have to come back.

and nothing is changed.
nothing is better.
nothing is worse.

leaving your element is good. it gives you a new and better perspective on life, but it doesn't really change anything.

mottos

1. if your heart isn't there, you shouldn't be either.

3. if its not in your control, there is no need to fret.

5. first time is an accident, second is a coincidence, third time is a thing (from "crush")