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Sunday Seven: What Gets You Slapped?

Melly — Sun, 02 May 2010 18:49:23 +0000

Seven Examples of Behavior That Ought to Earn Someone the Proverbial Punch in the face

1. Being a Mets fan. (I’m feeling annoyed towards them, this shouldn’t be much of a surprise.)
2. Wearing Uggs with either a short skirt or shorts. Either you’re hot or you’re cold. Pick a sensation and go with it.
3. Parking your busted down van in front of someone’s house that you don’t even know and then NOT moving it for three weeks.
4. Making me come all the way to school on a day that I don’t have to so that I can drop my final off in your mailbox. You’re just lucky I only live ten minutes from campus, you torture-seeker. It’s reading week, not finals week.
5. Cutting my hair two inches shorter than I asked so that I can’t even put it up in a ponytail and will therefore be very cranky while studying due to the aforementioned hair in my face. Always wear contacts to your hair appointments, ladies. Then you’re not blind as a bat.
6. Being an idiot kid on their bike in the middle of the street and laughing at a car behind you when they beep at you because YOU’RE IN THE STREET. Should have run them over.
7. Not turning in your paper on time and getting the professor to give you until Monday when I busted my ass to finish the book and the paper by Thursday. Boo.

I Hate Finals.

Melly — Sun, 02 May 2010 17:58:34 +0000

I’m so sick of studying I want to cry. I don’t care about the post-Revolution era in Latin America, I’m not remotely interested in Germany after World War II, I certainly don’t care about Thomas Hobbes and understanding Galileo and don’t get me started on the French subjunctive.

Boo.

On the plus side, yesterday, the Phillies remembered the best way to win is a combination of the pitcher NOT giving up home runs AND scoring more runs than the other team. Always fabulous. I always say — if you’re breaking out of slump, why not kick a little New York ass at the same time? Yankees or Mets, I’m not particular. I hates them both.

Things I Wanted To Do For This Spring Break

Melly — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 14:47:25 +0000

Sadly, I’ve posted so rarely over the last year, that posts regarding Spring Break 2009 are still on the front page. I tre suck.

When I list these things like this, I think I was over planning it. Hmm.

OFFLINE
1. Clean closet
2. Clean under bed
3. Vaccuum room
4. Shred old bank statements and pays stubs
5. Organize financial and personal documents

SCHOOL
1. Rewrite French composition
2. ~~Revise Modern Germany paper~~
3. Rewrite Absolutism paper
4. Read Galileo for Absolutism
5. Reread Coming of the Third Reich up to Chapter 8 to get intellectual developments.
6. Finish GRE Math Workbook up to page 100
7. ~~Get caught up on GRE Vocabuluary book.~~

ONLINE
1. Move ~~Claire Coffee~~ and Nadine Crowell fanlistings to Claire domain.
2. Move ~~Rebecca Herbst~~, Elizabeth Webber, Liason and Liason fanfic to Rebecca domain.
3. ~~Roundup at RomanceFan~~.
4. ~~Convert Scott Clifton domain back to fanlisting~~
5. Convert Lindze Letherman back to fanlisting

GENEALOGY
1. Nothing scheduled

WRITING
1. Nothing scheduled

NLDS Game 1 Phillies v. Rockies. I went.

Melly — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 16:14:43 +0000

And forgot to blog. I am all sorts of stupid. I had an absolutely fabulous time, even though it was standing room only. I got to see Cliff Lee being fucking fantastic — from pitching to STEALING a base. If ever a pitcher was born to play in the NL, it’s this man.

I uploaded all my photos to Facebook and will post my scorecard eventually.

NLDS Game 1 Photos

A Few Fun Things

Melly — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 18:18:21 +0000

I finally got around to cleaning out my closet and getting rid of the stuff I wore to work at GGB five years ago. A lot of it was out of date and not exactly age appropriate. Sad that I dress better now that I’m a bit older than I did when I was younger. Now I just want to wash everything just so it’s fresh.

I made the painful move of posting closed notices on the Megan, Claire and Kim sites. I may keep the Megan and Kim domains only because I also have their fanlistings, but the fan sites are gone. I’m convering Scott and Linze back to regular fan sites.

I just deleted all the videos on my external hard drive for Becky, Claire, Kim and Megan (37 GBs!) I’m trying to make the process complete even though closing all of them was a really hard decision. I even deleted the Becky domain from my account, now that it’s been moved. First time since it’s been open I haven’t had it on my account. *sighs* Oh well.

I Should Have Turned It Off

Melly — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 02:03:31 +0000

The next time I have the urge to switch the channel when Brad Lidge loads the bases in the 9th with one out, I’m gonna do it. He hurts the heart sometimes.

Haha….my brother owes me $5

Melly — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 01:31:24 +0000

When Brett Myers left the Phillies in May for what seemed like season ending hip surgery, and with his contract up at the end of the year, my brother said he was done. I told him Myers would be back and I bet him $5 we’d see him in uniform again. (Of course I thought he’d be back next year) but technically, I win!

Myers returns to Phillies on Friday

With Hamels pitching back to form and Pedro Martinez kicking ass tonight, I feel so much better about our chances this post season.

Crap That Has To Get Done Before Sept 1

Melly — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 22:14:45 +0000

OFFLINE
1. ~~Clean out TV stand. Again. And figure out how to keep from having to reorganize the damn thing every six months.~~
2. ~~Find a spot to put all my shoes that doesn’t include all over the floor in front of my book cases.~~
3. Reorganize my closet — or at least make it look presentable.

SCHOOL — CCC
1. ~~Figure out how Camden County screwed up my brother’s summer loans and fix it so he can get his refund.~~
2. ~~Figure out how they screwed up MY summer loans so I can get my refund.~~
3. ~~Find out when bookstore vouchers activate at the bookstore so I can ship Jimmy to get his textbooks.~~

SCHOOL — Rutgers
1. ~~Confirm my transfer evaluation has been updated.~~
2. ~~Get student ID~~
3. ~~Figure out how to get student loan refund to pay for textbooks in time for school.~~
4. ~~Get parking permit~~
5. ~~Get aforementioned textbooks.~~

ONLINE
1. Figure out what I’m supposed to do with all the idiotic fan sites I started. Either close them permanently or do some sort of archive.
2. ~~Finish fanlistings adopted from Brianne.~~
3. ~~Finish two Phillies FLs August 21 deadline.~~
4. ~~Maybe a new layout for main collective.~~
5. Roundup at RomanceFan.

Three weeks. Doesn’t feel like enough time.

sniffles Chris Coste

Melly — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 23:06:16 +0000

I was only teasing my brother’s fiancee when I made fun of Chris Coste. I would have rather the Phillies give up Bako or Eric Bruntlett than Coste.

Damn them!

Last Two Weeks of the Semester Suck

Melly — Sun, 03 May 2009 23:50:13 +0000

I tried to lessen my work load by splitting all my final presentations/papers/studying into equal parts over the next two weeks so that I wouldn’t cry.

It’s not entirely working.

I did finish about 2/3 of my math portfolio and the rest of my final speech for Public speaking today. Yesterday, I did section one of my Modern China paper and about 1/3 of my French paper.

I just can’t find the energy to finish section two for China and the the next third of the French paper. *sniffles* My French paper is planning a vacation to a French speaking country in French, so I chose Tahiti. It is not cheering me up to plan the dream vacation I won’t be able to afford for another decade. Evil. I should have chosen Luxembourg or someplace else I’d never want to go.