clips from jeremy's boredom, research

Unilever subsidiary Lipton approves an ad in which a man standing in line for communion holds a bowl of onion dip, presumably to improve the taste of the body of Christ. Under protest, Lipton withdraws the ad.


Eleven years after McDonald's announces that it has started cooking its fries in "100 percent vegetable oil" -- and one month after a Seattle lawyer files suit on behalf of Hindus and vegetarians who interpreted that to mean that the fries are meat-free -- the fast-food chain concedes that the "natural flavoring" in its fries is, in fact, beef fat.

w3 is the death of life

my weekend was pretty much everything but productive. i meant to do a lot of work on saturday but as it happens i end up eating, watching the sopranos (third season- we're almost done), and then eating again. we went over to a friend's house that evening for some tacos and a lot of war3 watching and playing. i just don't know how to get away from that game. thank god i learned how to play it finally or else i would have had to thrown myself over the balcony. my brother has played well over 1000 games already. that's crazy.

i've played maybe 5. i don't have the cd or anything so i basically play whenever anyone is willing to let me use their computer or cd. i think i can get one now for only 23 dollars online. damn. now my whole post has been about the damn game. w3 head. i dreamt about it last night to the point that i woke up totally wired after only 3 hours of sleep. i can't escape the damn thing. i must be free of it!..before it consumes me!

what ever happened to nice intellectual convos?

influenza

went to school a bit early today and got my flu shot. i got this really young looking guy for my shot administration and i was thinking the whole time to myself "i hope he knows what he's doing." they seem to have trained him well though because he knew how to initiate conversation and keep the patient distracted while the shot was being given. he started talking to me about how he wears sweaters because he lives off campus. i didn't really understand it. anyhow, after the shot, i got free apple juice in a nifty orange cup and drank it on the way to class.

during class something weird happened. about 15 minutes till the end of class, some black stuff starting shooting out of the air vents. we were viewing slides so it was dark and hardly anyone could tell but then this weird odor starting fuming out. the whole thing stopped about 5 minutes later but it was weird and scary. i kept staring up at the vent expecting some huge ball of fire to come gushing out.

i think i might need to lie down or think about taking some more dayquil. i'm starting to feel wobbly and woozy again. perhaps i need to pick something up to eat. food is always good medicine.

kaucshewweeze

woke up around 5am this morning unable to breath out of one nostril. it wasn't pleasant. i was very grumpy and wired from the nyquil having worn off. i remember pushing jeremy around on the bed because i couldn't get comfortable. luckily he was too sleepy to notice.

i went back to bed and woke up a couple hours later feeling a lot better. my sore throat has gone down and my sinuses are clearing up. i took some dayquil to help myself out some more. i then took some vitamin C, turned on my computer, and fed the cats.

i'm not writing a paper for my theory class today. i contemplated on skipping school again because i fear going out in the cold will make me worse. however, i need to go to school to get the flu shot anyhow. plus, i hate missing class where i think i'll actually miss some actualy learning.

i want something to drink but cold water makes me feel bad right now. orange juice might chew up my throat. hot chocolate is probably my best bet. time to go boil some water.

here comes the prepetually sick chick

haha. i read this off of a friend's friend's journal. i should add him/her to my list.

"The only thing standing between me and my novel (NaNoWriMo) is Minesweeper.
That, and insecurity about, well, everything. But mostly minesweeper. "


in other news, i'm officially sick. i'm staying home from school today in hopes to get better. i should have skipped school monday when it was cold and wet. that's what probably did it for me. i keep looking in the mirror to check and see how swollen my tonsils are. i woke up and the first thing i noticed was that swallowing hurt like hell. i also couldn't remember much about the night before. i remember jeremy getting into bed and then leaving to ask john to turn down his music. the nyquil put me out.

i don't really have medicine for a soar throat except chloraseptic. i dropped my real soar throat medicine in the toilet on accident. sigh. such is my luck.

i think i'm secretly jealous of everyone participating in NaNoWriMo. Sure, they're all facing self doubt, anxiety, and sleep deprevation but in the end, they're going to havea novel by the end of the month. i'm also curious if i could do it. i know i couldn't even attempt it this year because of school...but i also don't know if i'm capable of it. i never can finish anything i start. my mind just jumps around from priority to priority and story to story. i just can't commit. ;]

for all your nightime cold symptoms

i'm drowsy. i took some nyquil an hour ago to help me with my night time coughing, sneezing, sniffling, soar throat, fever...hehehe. i was productive this evening but i still didn't get enough done. hopefully i can wake up early tomorrow and finsih up my work for class. i'm contemplating on wether or not to go. i shouldn't have gone to class last monday when it was wet and raining. that's what did me in.

my brother got me the new tori amos cd. i've been listening to it nonstop for the past few days. there are some songs that remind me of Sarah Mclachlan's Touch album. It's not an extraordinary album but it's definitely going to get some playlist action for the next few weeks.

i want to do some chatting tonight but i probably shouldn't because i need to make myself crash out. i'm already drifting. it's taking me too long to write a sentence ..urrr.. thought.

voting, shopping, and aspartame

i wish i had been registered to vote today. john was going to vote but then we realized he was registered to vote in bmt not austin. jeremy could have voted too. he got a voter registration when he got a new driver's license. i even went online and had them send me a registration form but i never filled it out. oh well. i'll vote next time. it's all this moving around. bleh.

today i woke up with a sore throat. i think i'm coming down with something. i've been feeling light headed and woozy all day. i went to school, suffered, and then came home and did some chores. i cleared out the junk that was piling up in the pantry. i also started doing some work for my studio. i've decided that i need to be more productive during the week...or more productive period.

jeremy and i went grocery shopping after he got home from work. he's cooking lad-nah tonight, a thai noodle dish. i've decided not to buy anymore of that hillcountry flavored water stuff because they put aspartame in it. i've done some research over the internet and have found sites stating pros and cons of the substance. mainly the people who say that aspartame is safe are the manufacturers or companies that are profitting from the sell of it. however, the sites that go on about the harmful effects of aspartame are pretty spotchy. i decided it wasn't worth risking my health. i'll just go back to drinking water and orange juice. i guess my friend akash was right. when a drink sounds too good to be true, it usually is.

pros of aspartame

cons of aspartame