Feeling Lucky

After a couple months of gloominess, I'm really excited to go see the Jimmy Eat World concert in Pocatello this weekend! I'm going with my good friend Josie, and staying at her home for a few days. As I only have my pathetic camera phone, I doubt I'm going to be able to get any decent photos. I'll write something about it, though. Photo-wise, however, I thought that some of you might get a kick out of seeing the earrings I picked out for the occasion.









Now, have a look at the cover of their latest album Chase This Light. Yep, these peacock feathers are just right!!






The interesting thing to note is that peacocks symbolize bad luck in literature. And one of the tracks on the album is called "Feeling Lucky" with the lyrics, "You suck that lucky feeling right out of me." I just thought it was cool that I understood why the cover had a peacock feather. And it looks pretty :)

I Would Die Before Earning a Food Pellet

Once again, work is cancelled, and I showed up anyway. This time I was about 95% certain it was cancelled. That's the worst. I really wanted to sleep in, but that 5% was really nagging at me. Then as I was coming to work, I realized, to my dismay, that I would make an unintelligent lab rat. Well, that's if I were a lab rat. You see, there's this door code that I have to use for one of the doors, within which there is a set of two keys, with which to open two more doors, and two locks. Thus, you can see the importance of getting through the first door.

Anway, on the first day of class I couldn't open this door with my door code, so I called my manager to see if there was a new number for it. He said that I had the right number, but that I had to press the numbers very slowly and firmly. Well, he was right, and after that I was able to get it open...usually. I noticed that it only seemed to work when the duration between which I pressed the buttons was not exactly consistent between numbers, but I never could really pick up on the exact pattern. I just ended up coming early, to an already annoyingly early class, so that I could mess with the door code until it opened.

At some point, a few weeks, or maybe even a month later, I gradually became aware of the pattern. After pressing the first number, I had to pause for roughly a second, then enter the following four numbers in the usual fashion (with only slight pauses), and then finally pause roughly another whole second before entering the last number.

Anyway, that was a long story about a rather small and pathetic problem. Haha. But I realized that if I were a lab rat in some sort of experiment, I would probably die before earning a food pellet.

Call Me Boo Bus

Wow, I sure do get terribly bored at work. I'm actually looking forward to getting a job more demanding of my attention, come summertime. In the meantime, today I decided to look at my friends' blogs. One of them had one of those fill-in-the-blank deals that reminded me of Mad Libs. Man, oh man, I loved those in middle school. Anyway, I too filled out the same "tagger thingy." Hey, you'll get to know a tad more about me, how fun will that be? That's rhetorical...


1. YOUR ROCK STAR NAME (first pet, current car) Boo Bus
2. YOUR GANGSTA NAME (fave ice-cream flavor, favorite type of shoe) Cherry Chocolate Vans
3. YOUR NATIVE AMERICAN NAME (favorite color, favorite animal) Emerald Crow
4. YOUR SOAP OPERA NAME (middle name, city where you were born) Lynn Provo
5. YOUR STAR WARS NAME (the first 3 letters of your last name, first 2 of your first name) Dukhe
6. YOUR SUPERHERO NAME (2nd favorite color, favorite drink) Aqua Coke
7. YOUR NASCAR NAME (the first names of your grandfathers) Earl Sterling
8. YOUR STRIPPER NAME (the name of your favorite perfume/ cologne/ scent, favorite candy) Love Spell Pay Day
9. YOUR TV WEATHER ANCHOR NAME (your 5th grade teacher's last name, a major city that starts with the same letter) Hansen Honolulu
10. YOUR SPY NAME (your favorite season/ holiday, your favorite flower) Fall Fire Lily
11. YOUR CARTOON NAME (your favorite fruit, article of clothing you're wearing right now) Pineapple Pants
12. YOUR HIPPIE NAME (What you ate for breakfast, your favorite tree) Cinnamon Toast Crunch Willow

Boo Bus?! Haha, that's horrible. And hilarious. I actually really like nicknames, so, feel free to use one of those. There's this guy at Taco Time who calls me Blue Hat because I used to go there all the time in the winter wearing my bizarre blue hat (for a picture, see my first blog entry). Now that I've stopped wearing it, he keeps asking me for my name so that he doesn't have to call me Blue Hat, and I keep insisting that he actually continue to call me that. It's kinda cute.

Air Pollution

Irritated by Cache Valley's air pollution problem, my classmates and I made a short instructional video about it. This is the first iMovie I have made. I've got to make one for my final in Multiculturalism soon, so, it was good practice. I've actually always wanted to buy a video camera and make a mockumentary, or even a real documentary. That seems like a fun hobby.

Murphy's Law Got Me to Work on Time

Well, I showed up to work this morning, and no one is here. Haha, I guess I didn't pay attention as to whether it was a free study day for the students or not. That sort of thing always happens on days that I really want to sleep in. Is that part of the whole Murphy's Law thing? Hang on, I don't even remember the specifics on that. I'll find it. Ah, one definition from Wikipedia: "If anything can go wrong, it will, and usually at the most inopportune moment." Uh...I'm sure there are far better situations to apply to that than this one.

Actually, I was considering Murphy's Law when I was headed to the bus stop this morning. I'm spoiled enough to have 4 bus stops within the vicinity of my apartment complex. And when I'm running a little later than usual because of my "sleeping in fantasies," it's important to gauge which bus will get me to work on time. Albeit, the time the campus shuttle arrives is certainly not down to a science. Anyway, I made my decision today by watching for which bus left most recently, and going to that stop. That seems counter-intuitive, unless the phrase "Murhpy's Law" oddly pops into your head...and then it becomes clear that the best bus stop to go to is the one that you might least decide on by deductive reasoning. And this instinct was correct! And yet, it turns out that I didn't need to be on time today after all, so, it matters only to amuse me. Come on, it's early...I have no proper sense of good entertainment or amusement.

It's my dad's birthday, so that's likely to be slightly entertaining, for him. He's 62 today. He's actually started eating really healthy, heart-friendly foods, and I'm pretty impressed. It's a little depressing that things that are good for you are always a tad expensive, though. Well, except cocaine. I'm sure there are other exceptions, but I like to choose the most blatant. So, I hope he has a happy birthday, and starts it off with a big bowl of those Cheery O's.