Magical Towel Folding Properties

Okay. I must have missed out on the memo that went out to approximately 99% of the female population and probably a fair percentage of the male population.

So. It's Halloween night, and it's 11'05 pm. I just got out of a shower, and, granted, my roommate isn't here tonight (what a shock) but it's a bit chilly here (since they only turn the heat on when the temperature falls below -10 or, strangely enough, rises above 90...) so I don't want to be prancing around my room in the nude. Here arises the problem that most people don't have. HOW in the WORLD do people wrap towels around them, and fold them in such a way so that they can walk around without their towel falling from their bodies? I see people emerge from taking a shower, with a bath towel wrapped about them and they can just walk around in it. I, on the other hand, must hold my towel about me if I have any plans of moving.

About 10 minutes ago I tried folding the towel and tucking one piece under the other piece. I was convinced that I had found the solution to this age old mystery for me, but alas, after 2 feet, the towel displaced itself from my body.

In short, I don't know how you people do it, but there are a few guys out there who I wouldn't mind helping me figure it out... bahaha....

~musicalsparks

A Brilliant Solution

So I went to Morefield Mine on Saturday for a required field trip. Needless to say it was pretty awesome. Also needless to say, my feet got soaked. Forgetting about my socks, I threw them in my backpack. Well I found them last night, fermenting in there after only a day and a half. It smelled like something had died. So. Here I am in my dorm, and I have nowhere to put them, since anywhere they go, small puppies die. (Out of interest, this does not include our new puppy Mora because she is far from small even though she is only about 3 months old since she weighs close to 40 pounds by now).

Then I got a brilliant idea. I put them in my window sill, between the screen outside and the lip where it shuts on the inside. That way, they 1) Don't smell up my room, 2) Possibly get aired out and 3) Are visible from the ground floor of my dorm, since they are bright green with spiderwebs on them.

I rule so much!

~musicalsparks

A Halloween Tribute to Meghan

The She-Witch [Anagea]
House rooftops sparkle, viewed from the night sky,
Where, cackling madly, set against the moon,
The She-Witch finds where their occupants lie,
Drawing them out with her ponderous tune.
Her song is colder than the winter air,
And each note jingles and clashes like glass;
Her instrument mimics thoughts of despair;
Her tune clings to children, like frost to grass.
The mountainous rooftops, like hermit shells,
Lay empty, devoid of life from within,
And her voice echoes through these shallow wells,
As houses are drained by her icy din.
She sees her mistake and her tune dies down;
She flies off, sighing, “God dammit! Wrong town!”

A Tribute to the Andrews

Three Men (The Andrews)
Three men meet at a crossroads as dawn ends.
They greet each other warmly as old friends.
One man says as he turns to another,
"I've always considered you my brother,
And here we stand at the start of the day;
Alas that I must go on my own way."
"Yes," says the other, "I knew you so well;
When we shall meet again, no one can tell."
Let's try," says the third man, "lest we forget,"
To think of our parting without regret,
And think fondly upon how we first met."
The two nod gravely and say he is right.
The third man stands back against the sunlight,
His gleeful expression shadowed from sight.

I knew it!

I knew there'd be a write up about that protest last week.

Okay I wrote that first sentence about five minutes ago -- I got distracted by the article in our paper about a really cute bagpiper here. I want to learn how to play the bagpipes!!

Anyway, here's a link to the protest. Brilliant! http://media.www.umwbullet.com/media/storage/paper1210/news/2007/10/25/News/Rally.Riles.Campus-3056691.shtml

~musical... bagpipes?
nah, just ~musicalsparks

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

MEGHAN DE ANAGEA AND KATHERINE SMITH

To all the women out there who have nice, cute guys...

Fuck you. Hahaha no okay that's mean. But... well, wherever you found yours, be sure to give me directions so one of my friends and I can go shopping for our own nice guys! I'm pretty sure nice guys used to be mass produced in some factory in Thailand. Said factory is now defunct because the factory makers happened to be masochists and as such they made too much money, made too many women too happy (well, gay guys too) got to go on too many vacations, and drink too many pina coladas. Fuck them too.

~musicalsparks

In which much fun was had by all

So. I'm walking out of my World Geography 101 class, after failing some shitty mapquiz on Asia (if I ever have to know the capital of Sri Lanka or where the Brahmaputra River is, I'll fucking well look it up! Screw memorizing that shit...) and right there, by the fountain outside of the Geography building, is this guy holding up this sign with the bloody aborted fetus on it, screaming something about Hitler. Now, there were also other people standing about, attempting to hand out flyers on how abortion is evil or something. I declined one, since, #1 - I don't care and #2 - I already have too much shit in my hands to begin with, as I was heading from Geography to arrange a meeting with my advisor. I run into another group of these people right outside my science building. One guy is strumming a guitar on one side of the walk and on the other side was this old woman standig next to yet another picture. I'm not sure what they want to accomplish by showing us these pictures, since most college students either don't look at them or remain relatively unfazed by them, since they've flashed them so much. Coppers were also standing around. One was yelling at this one guy who had apparently been harassing the demonstraters. I paused outside the science building (Jepson) and presently one of my geomates came by. We watched and laughed at what was going on together, and then another geomate came by.

That was part one.

So then, about 2'00 or so, I'm heading back to my dorm, and I hear another group, considerably larger than the one outside of Jepson, screaming. Of course, I had to investigate this. One guy yelled "Kill the children!" which I thought was hilarious. As I approach, I see this middle aged dude, a religious zealot type, holding up some sign that had some quote from the Bible on it. I was there for an hour, and I observed the following:
Various signs of the people who are in favour of abortion
"I saw this action figure at Toys R Us"
"This is not a doll, it's an action figure!" (both of these were guys standing next to bloody fetus pictures)
"Photo-Shop: $70
Cardboard to make signs: $1
Making a fool of yourself in front of college students: priceless" (clever)
"These guys are making the rational Christians look bad!"
"Get your rosaries off my ovaries!"
"My body, my choice"

Didn't really notice too many of the other side's signs, since there weren't many, and the ones they had were all Bible quotes, which all said that gays, fornicators and the like were all going to hell. The religious nuts were also strumming guitars again, something about how a woman's body isn't her own, how when we die all the gays will go away and such --- to Lynyrd Skynyrd's Freebird! I'm not making this up - it was a travesty. The people in favour of abortion -- mainly, the 50-75 students who had gathered round -- then started chanting something ... I think it was "Conservatives hate the gays/Right wing bigots, go away!!" Pretty spectacular if you ask me.

It died down about 2 hours ago, but it was great fun for me to observe, since the students were screaming at the religious people (how/why they were here today is beyond me...) and getting really pissed off. At one point, when the religious dude (who I believe someone said he had said he was a converted gay guy...) was talking about sex, one guy from the student crowd said "Let's talk about oral sex!!" which was brilliant. Tempers were flaring and sparks flew. Fucking brilliant show. I'll post anything that anyone writes about this, cos I think the local papers were there and everything.

~musicalsparks

MSN is satan

I was logging into MSN messenger the other night and I accidentally check the "Forget Me" box and it promptly forgot my password. Now, there's a reason that I rotate 3 passwords for 99% of everything I use. That 1% is a pain though and MSN falls into that category.

~musicalsparks

Africa

... is unacceptable. Too many countries that are the size of, hm, my house, and too many counties with two capitals. And there's way to much going on down in the southern bit of Africa: there are at least five major rivers, two majors deserts and a mountain range.

Denied.

~musicalsparks

Okay, seriously

This isn't funny anymore. That's right, no laughing matter. In fact, it's not really anything to joke about or make fun of me about. I'm well aware I ended that sentence with a preposition, thanks, I don't care, I'm a Geology major. The point I'm trying to make is that this is NOT funny. ("What's not funny?" you may ask cautiously...)

And I would respond, "IT.... is NOT funny!"
(You look at me and start backing slowly away, not making any sudden movements. After all who wants to piss off a Scorpio? A Scorpio who's already not quite right? Who, in fact, still truly believes that astrology stuff and takes it seriously?)
And I would again respond, maybe starting to cry, "It's REALLY not funny..."

(You're getting nervous probably ... sorry ... )

And then I blurt it out. "Why can't there be a good link for Stardust online? I seriously need to watch it again! This isn't funny anymore, someone post a link to watch it and make TVLinks fix their site!" and I hang my head, not in shame (after all I'm a Scorpio, did I already mention that? and we're all ego, for better or worse, if you believe that kind of thing)

"Is it still in theaters?" you ask with much trepidation.
"NO! Of COURSE it's not!" I cry. Though, I think our campus, bless its soul, is showing it in November sometime. However, November sometime is not now. I want it now. No, better yet, I need it now. And the DVD is not due out until December 18th so I've heard (why they'd release it on Keith Richards' birthday is beyond me -- yes I remember most every birthday I hear, and I don't know why...)

Just so you know, it went out of theaters last Thursday and I was too busy being a Geology major to go and see it.

Ergo, I need someone to post a link for the movie. Seriously, I mean this isn't funny anymore. No laughing matter, as it were...

~musicalsparks