Scott A. Roberts

You went how long without a website and you pick now to start one?!?
Silly, silly boy!

oh no. i’ve created a livejournal updating monster!

Awww, I read it. Good luck getting up and getting your fluids done.

Thank God someone in the middle states agrees with us yankees. You better make sure all those breadbasket states agree with you too, or we’ll have this ass in office for another 4 years. Oy. The bushes should stop reproducing to ensure we dont have another prick like them in office again.

It was CrAzY!! I ended up really close to the goalposts out on the field and almost got trampled on by everyone! Managed to lose my favorite pair of flip-flop’s in the craziness…so yeah, I had to walk all the way back to Lewis from the Stadium barefooted. So happy we beat K-State!!!!

And that my friends, is where I’m at in my life. Soon I should be taking my little “relaxation” trip far, far away….and perhaps when I return I will have more clarity on my life. And maybe I can fix all those parts that are out of harmony :`)

Have a nice day!

Don’t get discouraged, Scott. Like you said, your classmates in grad school will inevitably set the bar higher than undergrads at KU. I’m sure you’re doing fine. I’m glad to hear you found an advisor, too.

hey, i remember that!

I tried to post a comment earlier, but evidently it didn’t work so I’ll try again. I stayed up late watching the game too! It was so exciting, and I’m cheering for more good baseball games this week! GO RED SOX!!!

Haven’t been watching much of the games…no time :-/ That’s all my parents talk about though..

Good luck, Scott, I’ll be praying that your test goes well for you and that you remain calm and do your best. The Red Sox are making me nervous too right now…they need to learn how to hold on to a lead… :-/

I just love how professors can’t figure out the problems that they wrote…reminds me of some of my math classes.

Well there’s your problem, silly. Most people go to bed DAILY!

Good luck on your test – I’ll be praying that it goes well!

didn’t i tell you not to wear that 80s thing again?

Texas, exciting…of course I’ve been spending all my time in Dallas, not Austin, but still, fun times.

Hope so I’ll let you know!

You stopped by the ‘renal office’, huh? Didn’t realize that parking had anything to do with kidneys.

The fact that he appears on Fox ‘News’ all the time doesn’t help Rudy either.

Is this Theresa that you keep on talking about a senior ChemE from KU? If so, I think I may know her…

Yeah, Theresa is a senior ChemE from KU. Her and I have been good friends for the past few years. How do you know her?

Hmm…weird. Yeah, I agree that it’s probably a bunch of BS, and people can come up with ‘evidence’ for anything if they really try, but it’s weird to think about. It’s hard to know what to believe these days…about anything.

But sales tax doesnt apply to “normal” groceries…

Good Luck!

awesome.

Actually, I remembered having seen the site a long time ago. But I just searched for it on Google today and found it again.

Hope school is going well for you

Good Luck – I’ll be praying for you!

BTW…..any suggestions as to which webpage server (or whatever they are) I should use for my pictures?

Hehe. . .Foil Shizzle, dahg.

that’s a fun mood :’)

Y’all’s gon’ rot ‘n hell fer listenina them academic types. Whadr you gon’ tell the lawd when he aks you why you done gone an’ killed tha baby da save a buncha sinnin’ cripples? Don’ thwawt his will!

I don’t know, but that sounds like a Looooosiana accent to me. I’m not too sure about trusting those Loooosiana types, they’re pretty shady.

Yeah, basically that’s the thing. There aren’t very many lines. And the lines don’t form a representative sample of the US population. They were taken from invitro firtilization clinics, and as you can imagine it is the more affluent groups who use that. So the lines need to be more diverse. And more of them. I think there would only need to be around 200 to have a representative sample.

hehehe, i’m still awake too :’)

yeah I was pretty sleepy when we were talking after dinner tonight. but then we went out for coffee and i’ve been a little more perked up since then.

Yeah, class on Wednesday. Finals are Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday. Yes, my last final is Dec 22nd. Sucks, huh? So I’m nog going home until the 23rd.

Yes, yes that is true.

And how to you have time to stay up drinking? Oh yeah, this is stop day weekend, right?

Soon, soon I will be done with homework. . .

Hey, I know some of those guys! And I don’t like them much, either. I’m pretty sure that if I met the rest of them, I’d dislike them, as well.

Only 1 game of Bejeweled? Yeah…

Freakin’ YEAH!

Congrats!

John Daniels cut his hair!!! What happened to the surfer boy :’) Haha, wonder if he cleaned up before coming back to Kansas.

Kelly’s a cutie with the long hair though :’) I like it!

Yep Yep…I liked that movie! I went to see it at AMC 30 open captioned with some friends the other day. I got a kick out of that baby signing.

Yeah, that was pretty funny. I really enjoyed all of the sex therapy stuff

BTW, that was me, Ian … I forgot to sign it too

HAHA! I’m reading your post in the library, and it’s all I can do not to laugh out loud…

Well see, we’re playing them tonight, so that was on my mind. . .

By the way, for some reason, I find your user picture really fitting

that nailgun article is crazy! they’re even reporting it on the news here.

I don’t know what you’re talking about. . .something in my post?

Yeah, maybe that was it. My friend Dan laughed when I told him I got dressed and was putting on my shoes, then decided not to go out.

What’s the Matter with Kansas was fantastic! Did you read One Market Under God before? That’s sitting on my shelf waiting to be opened at the moment.

is it bad if a computer shocks me when i touch it?

I like 2018 and 2022!

Yes, Texas. Common exclamation in the frozen tundra, particularly in the confines of Amundson Hall. Extremely Versatile.

Usages: After a touchdown in a football game. After asking a question about Statistical Mechanics. After claiming that it is lunch time. Etc.

your seminars sound fun :’)

From the Houston Chronicle, by George F. Will
“The Republican Study Committee, chaired by Rep. Mike Pence of Indiana, is an organization of 100 particularly adamant conservatives among House Republicans. Pence, for example, was one of just 12 Republicans who voted against both the prescription drug entitlement, and against No Child Left Behind because of its imposition of federal standards on elementary education, a quintessentially state and local responsibility.

When, a couple of weeks ago, the RSC met in Baltimore to enumerate its priorities, its list included “maintaining local control of secondary education.” That may seem an anodyne sentiment; actually it is a shot across the Bush administration’s bow. It is code for: Enough centralization — we oppose the president’s plan for extending federal standards to high schools. Thirty-four House Republicans voted against NCLB in 2001. More might oppose the administration’s planned extension of its sweep.”

Will is a Pulitzer Prize-winning syndicated columnist, based in Washington, D.C.

Don’t eat too much when you live alone and freeze a lot of stuff when you buy it Also helps that I’m never home

Yay Olver. It’s okay. I got a B on my first exam last semester and still ended up with an A. He said he takes improvement on the exams into account.

Ahhh, just mourning KU’s loss. . .and now their crappy ranking.

yay carbon leaf! i actually heard them in a store the other day, too. it was probably life less ordinary or what about everything that you heard. do they get any radio airtime there? the planet in kc plays them occasionally.

Yeah, go Illini! LOSE ROY LOSE!

Yeah, it doesn’t sound like she’s very pleasant, but I can’t say much for the hecklers, either. Way to be immature idiots…

Go Illini!

Agreed on feeling sad about the Pope. Dad was telling me about different Popes from his lifetime on our drive down to Dallas today. I didn’t realize how much of the opinions of Protestants he swayed in addition to Catholics, etc. He was a great moral leader.

Sad about Terri Schiavo as well. Don’t know if the courts were right or wrong either…but it sounds like Judge Greer was consistent in his rulings. (That could have been much worse if he had been fickle.) I don’t think the original ruling was correct for several reasons…but that would take a much longer response. Basically, I don’t think her husband’s motives were judged very well.

I think it’s sad that the courts had to get involved at all with Terri. The media skews things for sure, but after following the case for quite awhile preceeding all the recent coverage, I definitely believe that her husband’s motives weren’t right and that he should’ve divorced her a long time ago and stepped back from all this, as he’s definitely moved on with his life.

As far as the pope, his death is very bittersweet. It’s sad that he’s not with us anymore, but at the same time, how can we really be ’sad’ when we know without a doubt that he is with God now? The church is in 9 days of mourning right now, but to me, it’s almost more of a celebration of his life than a mourning of his death. He was a very good leader who I really believe understood how to lead by example of faith. I think the reason he was so influential outside the Catholic world is that he knew how to spread Christ’s love without ever trying directly to convert people, and he was such a good advocate for human rights and peace…issues which definitely transcend religion. He also lead a very interesting life even before being Pope – I’d definitely recommend reading about him if you get the chance.

Yeah, there’s no way I would have wanted to be around that long. I guess we should all get it in writing, huh?

Yes, he was a playwright, actor, outdoorsy person, etc. Also has been through a lot – I think his whole immediate family was dead by the time he was 20-ish. And he did a lot for Poland around WWII/Nazi times… I’ve been meaning for a while to read more about him, myself.

Yeah, definitely wasn’t trying to sound mean or be offensive or anything. I do have some qualms with some Catholic beliefs, but I was in no way trying to generalize the doctrine to all people. My apologies.

New picture?

I’m sad that Roy won, but I’m not that mad at him anymore. It really looks like he just left b/c he knew that there was better talent at UNC than at KU and that he had the better shot to win it all there. I really wanted the Illini to win; I liked their team better, and I just really felt for them. But, hey, they blew it in the last 2:30. Gosh, they had about 5 chances to tie it up when they were down 72-70, yet they couldn’t do it!!!

Well, I’m sticking with my man Roy. And I’m happy he won. I feel sorry for the Illini b/c it’s always sad to lose your last game as a senior. And just sad to lose in general. I’ve heard recently that a lot of the reason Roy went to UNC was family. Don’t know if it’s true or not, but maybe a factor.

I did start to wonder last night if maybe he was meant to be at UNC. Sucks for KU, but maybe that’s really where he should be. And since he didn’t take the job the first time he was given another chance. Of course, I can’t even figure out where I’m supposed to be :’)

Woohoo! Props to me :’)

I don’t get that McDonalds commercial either.

Haha, okay Kim, I wasn’t trying to get “deep” with the Mickey-Dees commercial. But I just don’t get it. She likes him…that’s obvious, right? And he’s a typical dense guy and doesn’t get it, right? But was “get another McGriddle” the answer she was looking for? Or did she want him to respond “Well, I’d just have to ask you out tonight” or something like that?!? Girls! So confusing!!!

I don’t think it was the answer she was looking for…I think she would have stopped if it had been instead of going on about the coffee. However, I don’t know how she would get a date out of comparing girls to McGriddles.

And, um, boys are sooo confusing

she’s not the brightest girl?

wow. good answer.

My interpretation: The girl is telling the guy he’s supposed to get the girl while she’s still available (i.e. the McGriddle disappears pretty fast if you’re not careful). Instead of getting that, though, he just wants to go get another girl (i.e. another McGriddle). So she tries again with the coffee…an analogy which will probably suck more than the McGriddle one!

Well if it takes an English major to figure out a McDonalds commercial, I’m not sure they’re gonna get their intended audience

i bet you’ve been going there all week

who knew the McGriddle commercial was such a hot topic

that’s awesome

So I didn’t actually read this whole article (I’ve got stuff to do now), but this is something that irritates me. If a pharmacist doesn’t believe in birth control that’s fine. But he shouldn’t try to impose his beliefs on others. He should at least be required to make somebody else fill the prescription.

Thanks for the comment. And I probably shouldn’t ahve brought up the whole abortion issue anyway, because (1) that wasn’t what I was trying to get at and (2) I’m not myself completely sure of what I believe when it comes to this. I have thoughts, but not firm ones yet. I think that what I truly believe about abortion is completely unrealistic to legislate, which is funny, because I see myself as being a realist when it comes to forming the beliefs.
- There should be no late-term abortions, period. How you define this (3rd trimester, whatever), I don’t know. But definitely none of this “hurry and kill it before it comes out” stuff. Gross.
- I think women should have the right to have an abortion if they got pregnent via rape or something like that. Period.
- If a woman is pregnant and doesn’t want to have the baby, she should be required to try to find somebody who would be happy to take care of it. Family, friends, whatever.
- If the woman can not and will not be able to take care of the kid and love it and raise it, she should be able to have ONE abortion. It was an accident that she got pregnant. She can learn from it. I guess I’ve had really, really bad experiences with a lot of foster care and adoption situations in my home town and surrounding area and don’t have much faith in those systems. Plus, a lot more kids in them then loving parents. I guess I think that the kid is better off not being born than being ignored and abused in this world. This is what I’m not too firm on yet.
- If a woman wants a second abortion, TOO BAD! If you didn’t learn from it the first time, then you better grow up and learn to deal with it.

So yeah, impossible, but close to what I believe.

I completely respect your views on the abortion pill thing. As long as the person wanting it is able to easily get it, it’s fine if you keep with your beliefs by not filling it yourself.

Gay marraige, or gay sex, specifically. I would feel wrong if I did it myself, but if that’s what does it for sombody else, who am I to tell them they can’t?

wow, so i could write lots on this if i had time but as is i’ve got work and gardening and stuff to do, it may be awhile. i’ll reply a little to these comments, but i’m not checking out the article, so don’t be upset if i get something completely wrong.

abortion: i’m opposed to it. i agree with Kim about the pharmacist stuff. i think the main problem in legislation and stuff is that not everyone agrees that it’s murder…and if it’s not murder than maybe you’re not hurting anyone (except all the crap it does to the mother…). i don’t think most people understand that many forms of birth control do more than stop fertilization. i can think of some people that would probably be really upset if they thought that they had actually relied on the abortafacient part. so obviously i think more people need educated and such, rather than just handing out birth control to teenagers and young 20s left and right. sure it helps with cramps and regulating the monthly stuff and preventing unwanted pregnancies. i’ve been told about it and offered it but no doctor has mentioned “oh yeah, you could actually kill a fertilized egg using this stuff”.

pro-choice? sure. make it a woman’s choice to have sex or use a condom. raise young girls to know they are valuable without satisfying some guys sexual urges. stop 1 in 3 girls (i heard that statistic somewhere…) from being molested or otherwise sexually abused. raise a girl with accurate beliefs about sex and reproduction. raise a girl to make her own choices. but once you’re pregnant, you’ve made your choice. and you have to deal with that.

gay marriage: honestly i’d prefer it be called something else. what’s in a name? is it discriminatory? i can’t answer how i’d feel on the other side. i think the political part is more about benefits and tax breaks than a real “moral issue”. as i understand it, marriage is defined as the union of a man and a woman. i’m happy to keep that definition but give “alternative” couples a chance to enjoy the legal benefits of being married. it’s not my business to say who they can and can’t be with. why do they have to have something official to get the benefits? because all the straight couples living and sleeping together who don’t want to commit to marriage would want all the benefits of marriage as well. make sense? but, hey, as long as we’re legislating morality i think Christianity has quite a bit to say about divorce that we don’t currently enforce in any sort of legal manner. as well as any number of other topics…

well, that’s my randomness

I agree about the fact that a lot of people don’t know the truth about what’s in the pill and would be upset by it. Again, education is key. And I agree about the terminology of marriage – I don’t believe it’s even possible to have gay ‘marriage’, because to me, that’s not marriage. But if they want to allow people (gay or straight unmarried couples) to have legal benefits, fine, whatever. To me a civil ‘marriage’ isn’t a full ‘marriage’ anyway, ya know? I think that’s kinda what you were getting at. Oh yeah, and I agree with the frustration about inconsistent life ethics in politics….really, how can you be prolife and pro death penalty, etc? makes no sense to me. I guess for me abortion is the issue that trumps death penalty, but only b/c it affects more people…definitely NOT because I think the death penalty is ok.

OK, gotta go back to class…

I completely agree with your pro-choice statement. That would be the ideal situation. The problem is, how do we do this?

Okay, so when I just said completely, I must have read too fast. While I’m sure 70% (I made that up) of the females who have premarital sex (notice I only said premarital) do so to “satisfy some guys sexual urges,” there are plenty of women who want to have sex and enjoy sex on their own where it’s not a submissive activity. Maybe this isn’t something that you’ve personally dealt with, but I’m sure it is a factor. And then there’s the married women who just aren’t ready to have a baby (or another baby), but want to enjoy sex.

But I still agree with your abortion stance. . .I guess I was drifting back to birth control. . .so confusing!!!

I also agree with you on gay marriage. Yeah, so it’s really not marriage, is it. I just think that if we as a society have decided to give a monetary benefity to men and women who are “joined” or married, we shouldn’t keep two men or two women fromg getting the same benefits. That’s all I care about. But do realize that not all politicians share this view. Many think that there should not be any benefits at all, and this, to me, is imposing your morals on somebody else, which I don’t see as right.

You must realize that not all people approach legislations and laws from a moral standpoint as we’ve been discussing. Some people just see that it’s expensive to keep a murderer in jail for the rest of his life, and we’re out of room anyway. So just kill him. . .he’s not getting out anyway. . .

Yes, I understand that this is what they’re thinking. I’m just saying it seems inconsistent to me when you really think about it.

I’m not saying this is what I believe. I’m just being devil’s advocate.

Great column.

I wish we did not mourn Roy as we do, b/c he was so much more about the man (himself) than about the team and the program (as Self is)…although we didn’t see those flaws exposed until he left.

My favorite column written in the days after Roy left was by Jason Whitlock from the KC Star. (Yes, I normally hate Whitlock’s columns, but not this one!) He said that we had glorified Roy, put him on a pedastal, believed his statements about “the Kansas basketball family,” and known that he was the classiest coach in the game. When he left, and how he left, though, just proved to us all that Roy wasn’t this super-human person, better than the rest of the coaching fraternity – he was “just another basketball coach.”

I do not think we can fairly judge Self’s coaching and handling of the KU b-ball program until it is completely filled with his recruits and his players. Until then, he just trying to operate in Roy’s footsteps, shaping remnants of a team and program that were deserted.

show them what a real Kansas BBQ is up there.

Mom said it’s been snowing in Denver, too. That’s not unusual for April, though… but the end of April? That’s pushing it.

I got hooked to a few TV shows this semester. Too bad my parents stopped our cable service last Friday.

I was wondering when I’d start seeing stuff about us outside of Kansas.

Looking forward to seeing you tomorrow!! Am happy you will be able to make it!

You can text me at 913-375-8082 or e-mail me at KJayhawks2005@tmail.com

Hehe. Turns out they might be building an Olive Garden in Pittsburg in the next few years, though. There are a bunch of Italians in the areas. . .the mafia is supposed to be in Frontenac, remember?

Yes! I converted you.

let me know what you think of Indian Summer. It’s good, but a lot different…it’s grown on me a lot, but Echo is still my favorite by far.

she should! b/c she can’t read friends only entries w/o being a friend…

Oooo…that will make for an interesting day today!

Hey, it’s my journal, and I can be dorky if I want to

I was just venting, anyway…

Can’t say that I really thought of it that way. There was a little fluff, but surprisingly little. The subject line was “Update ”. She did ask how I was at the end.

But yes, you know me too well. I did the whole “Congratulations” and “Do you have a date set yet.” I just can’t make myself be that big of an asshole (others might disagree with that comment).

For some reason, I can’t see that as being that believable. . .

I think I saw someone in a post office once who had to mess around with ‘fixing’ an alcohol box, too. Pretty strange.

They were comments to the Family Research Council. Date unknown (to me).

Okay..you’re making me feel really lazy. I haven’t worked out in forever…and Hawaii is coming up! ack!

Hope your knee isn’t hurting too much.

I was thinking of you during the post. . .

C’mon POSTTTTTT already!!!!!

Sorry, but my brain is on a 2 and 1/2 week vacation from tackling difficult issues…

Yay for your post!!!

Thanks, Ian. Of all of the people here at school that I’ve asked, none of them specifically thought of caustic. I’ll have to check the ingredients of “The Works” when I get home. We guessed that it was that, since Windex should be pretty harmless. I think I’ll still do my experiment, though

That is so true. ~Amanda~

Is that a Frank Sinatra quote?

Not really sure. I know it was somebody famous who was dead, but I don’t remember exactly.

Cool pix….now go and post a pix of your new haircut

Well, I managed to pull out the scisors myself and trim some of the bad parts. Scary! But it’s not quite as bad now.

Ohhh, you have no idea how wonderful it is!!! Pure heaven

I’m so sorry to hear that. Deaths are so much harder when they’re that random and unexpected. They will definitely be in my prayers. It’s really ironic though – during lecture today, one of the professors was talking about how that happened to a friend of his – a DVT after surgery on a ruptured achilles tendon. Luckily they discovered it in time though, and he recovered.

I saw the score of the game and I thought of you.

Since I just brought my bike up here, mostly due to the gas prices, I was curious and looked up all the Kansas rules. Basiacally, if you’re on a bike, you have to think of it like a very under-powered car. Bicyclists have to obey all of the normal car traffic rules. However, they are allowed to use the sidewalk in certain conditions – more than 100 feet from any public building, never on Mass St., and always yield to peds.
But, I have a feeling that it’s sort of like trying to teach Italians to drive – the rules are pretty much just a suggestion and nothing can change that.

Okay, okay, I menat 9AM

I think we could work out some sort of deal there. I crash at your place in NYC and cook for you! But frozen pasta and mac & cheese, that’s better than just breakfast cereal! That was 2/3 of your meals in Hawaii!!!

Wow I’m impressed…. at 6:20 am my time…I was pushing the snooze button….

It’s been in the 50’s and 60’s here…..

This must be Amanda. Hope you’re having a good trip.

they should have put it away when burke worked his butt off to get to 3rd. and last inning.

Dangit! What a letdown. And now I’m super-exhausted for class, too…

Mario….for some reason that doesn’t surprise me…

Come to Colorado…all the Fat Tire you could ever want!

I’ve never tried it. What’s it like? It must be good. But obviously I’m not a beer lover. Though the beer I had on Halloween was actually decent…don’t know what it was, though. And the wine I drank before that might have helped – haha.

My friend Chongai claims that drinking Fat Tire “is like eating a biscut”. It’s a pretty hardy taste and not very bitter at all.

um, Dinkytown?

i like the shout out louds.

sorry about your airport delays. i guess heading south was the better way to go :’)

Well that murder story sure beats my story. I just got back from running an errand, about 3 or 4 blocks away from my apt…I saw 2 police cars, 2 fire vans, and 4 fire trucks at a house…

yep..indeed…living in the city

Oh..and if u run into that guy…run away!

Looks like we’re all “enjoying” no longer living in small towns. Wait, both of you grew up in cities, what am I talking about?

yeah, guess there is a bit of a difference there.

Yay! I’m a little jealous…but yet not. I like classes. I think when I’m done with classes I’m going to be a little sad, actually…. or then again, maybe I’ll be sick of them. Who knows….I’ll let you know in March 2007.

Yay!

Yeah, I don’t get the complaining about Christmas being on Sunday. I mean, I think it’s easier! Wouldn’t people normally go to church on a normal Sunday morning and on Christmas morning? So aren’t you killing 2 birds with one stone? I don’t get it. Apparently a lot of the ‘megachurches’ around here cancelled Christmas service. Even if you normally would go on Christmas eve instead of morning, do Protestants not have a Christmas eve service when Christmas falls on a Sunday? We still do. I don’t see why they wouldn’t….

If anyone can clear this up for me I’d really appreciate it.

Oh….so protestants don’t normally have christmas morning service, huh? I guess that makes sense then….well, not saying that’s a good enough excuse for these people to complain, but at least I understand the situation now.

This New Year’s Day service may be a problem. I think even we may skip it. Maybe…

Yeah, well mom just asked me to read, so we’ll be there…

Yeah, when I was still in high school, some other girls from Frontenac died right outside of Arma when driving home from a baseball game. We all actually heard the ambulences and everything from the game. I didn’t know any of them, othen than knowing the names from school.

For this accident, I’m not sure where exactly it happened, but somewhere around the Arma / Frontenac area, I think. Sad that it happened, but also weird that both of them were from Arma.

hehe, yes! I just realized you could put up 6!

You always seem to have flying troubles, don’t you?

Yeah, WTF! Seriously, the last three times I’ve been in Arma, my flight back to Minneapolis was not only delayed, but canceled! Last Christmas, we had bad weather and it was cancelled. This Thanksgiving, Milwaukee has fog, and it was canceled. And now this time! At least I have a hotel now.

You have seriously bad airplane luck.

In Good Company? That movie was not the cute little love story the previews promised!

YES! Thank you. For some reason I can never remember the name of that movie. I like it though.

I don’t know what’s up with me and airplanes. I used to have perfect luck, but lately it has been just the opposite.

Yeah, it was the Vince show. They played awesome, as did USC. I was rooting for USC b/c of Mark, of course. Although TX did deserve it, I guess I was unhappy to see the “individuals” prevail over the “TEAM” of USC.

Plus Lendale White, Dwayne Jarrett, etc.

I like Leinart and his attitude; I thought his postgame interview and Pete Carroll’s were very respectful and gave credit where credit was due. Both teams and coaches were very classy.

i’m kinda sad that that was my first thought too.

Agreed. Except for that awesome TD leap

haha

What size are they?

oooo you’ll have to let me know how snowboarding goes…my roommate and I are going to try to go next weekend

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i was just asking because your post also mentioned Chuck Norris :’) it was supposed to be funny…

Aw…very very sad……maybe Peter will run into my fish (Killer) up in fishy heaven…

i’m sorry.

I’ve been having trouble staying logged into livejournal. I think it’s because I use it both at work and home, it won’t let me stay logged in. Grrr.

thanks for the recap and struggling through that – he would have gotten the off switch from me.

Haha. You’re so right.

Ahhh, irony. But I write my blog for myself. If people choose to read it, that’s their problem. However when you’re on TV, you’re there for people to listen. I wouldn’t disagree with your inference that I’m a moron though…

I did not imply that he could speak english better than I. Just that it was poor. And you know he does look like a monkey.

That aside, I do agree that blindly and stupidly attacking a person is not a persuasive argument. I wasn’t trying to make a persuasive argument. I could. But I wasn’t. I was, as you said, “nudging my liberal friends in the side”. And it was fun.

I am truly dissapointed in the way the Democrats have handled themselves the past 3-4 years. The Democratic party does still stand for ideals, I’m just not sure that the people in power quite remember what it is. I voted for Kerry, but I was one of those “better than Bush” voters. And I still believe that my vote was correct. However, the Dems could so so much better with a candidiate. They need to do so much better. Step 1, get Dean out of his leadership role. And I think that the Dems need to realize that their “base” is not quite as far left as they imagine. Everytime they’re appealing to their “base”, they make me sick. And I wouldn’t exactly call myself moderate.

Speaking of teaching, you do realize what a complete failure NCLB has been. It was a well intentioned bill that was not well thought out, barely planned, and not funded. I truly believe that it has crippled the districts that most need the help. While the bill was somewhat bipartisan, it is the Bush administration that has failed in properly implementing it.

Don’t apologize for commenting on the blog. If I didn’t want people to read it, I could make it private. Keep on commenting. But for now, I’m too tired to type (as I’ve already exhibited).

That was me. Apparently I wasn’t logged in.

oh…yeah, I didn’t know that a fifth was a alcohol term. Now it makes sense.

Are you insinuating that I treat my bike like a girlfriend? Fine…

wild.

See today’s post.

You took the words right out of my mouth.

sweet, have fun with that!

I don’t want to be reminded of what I have to do in a year… Bates told me that I should write my dossier this year and go thru the process a year early. I told him, “Right….” Is it really an HOUR of questions on chemical engineering? I don’t think I’m going to survive. That sounds like the worst test ever.

zeroth draft, I like that… and, that’s about the condition of my thesis

Man, people, you’re not the first person to say that to me!!! Do you seriously not think that you could not identify them (1) from TV commercials and (2) from seeing this?

(1) Kim, that’s because you’re a nerdy medical student, mehehehe.

(2) Dan also knew of them

(3) Something else I don’t remember.

Correct.

But you might as well be specific. A chemical engineering Ph.D. student. That’s even more nerdy.

ohhh, that was a good one.

Yeah, I heard where Bradley was. Bah. Honestly, I can’t say that they just royally screwed up the game or anything. They had too many turnovers and not enough offensive rebounds, but Bradley’s defense was stifling!

Scott… nervous?! You’re the one that doesn’t get nervous. Way to tear a hole in the universe.

No kidding! Grrr.

Hmmm, interesting!

So I just checked, and it’s not fuzzy anymore. Yay!

Who else would refer to “infidels”, too?

good luck :’)

yay!

Sounds like you’ve been busy as usual!

Glad you’re liking bicycle racing.

How was your trip?

I’m thinking about paying the ‘rents a visit sometime before classes start (or they will freak out if I don’t see them until Thanksgiving or Christmas!)…maybe August 3rd-13th?? ARe you still wanting to come up to NY?

Arvada

Yeah… One of these days I’ll actually take time to update things like livejournal photos, facebook, etc.

Sure is!

i haven’t seen the movie, but i’ve heard good things.

It was ridiculous in Lawrence. Still 90-something at 11 pm one night I was out.
Now in Denver for the first time in a LONG time it’s only supposed to be in the 80s all week. Yay!

Hope you’ve been able to get all the slivers out from the bike accident and that you’re feeling ok!

Try…a heat index of 112….in the city…below ground…waiting for a subway….in a subway station that is not air conditioned…..then finally getting on an air conditioned subway…only to sit next to smelly people whoses sweaty arms are up against yours…major grossness!!!

Then…try…sleeping at night when it’s 95 with no air conditioning or fan!
And tomorrow it’s supposed to be 103 (heat index about 115)…blah!

Of course…this is nothing compared to the humidity in Kansas!

That bike accident…owie!!!!! Are you in pain when you walk?

It doesn’t hurt too much to walk anymore, but the bandages to make it hard to walk at times You better make sure it cools off before I come and visit!

Yeah, I seriously do have a lot of mechanical problems. And even in the air sometimes (two summers ago). Boo. I wasn’t planning on checking my bags, either, but I just checked my rollerbag when I found out during the check-in. Luckily, I was taking my bike anyway.

Is that a bichon frise or does it just look like one? that’s what my parents have.

Maybe it’s part bichon…b/c there’s definitely some resemblance, though it doesn’t look exactly like one.

do you work? :-p

Aw…sorry to hear that!

YAY for NYC!!!

See later post

I’ve read a fairly big excerpt from that book. I sorta felt the same way…yes, this is clearly a problem in our society, but what’s the solution? I could ramble more about this but I don’t have the mental energy to do that right now since it doesn’t have much to do with neuropathology. Maybe later.

yeah, what’s your count?

what the heck are you going to do with 9 QUARTS of soup? whoa.

my game’s been over for quite awhile

but then again, medical school likes to increase the rate of those falling blocks to about 10x as fast as would possibly allow you to keep up!

I’ve only had a chance to listen to it once so far. It was good.

There are coffee drinkers who would be amused with that cup insulator. They would read the ad and maybe point it out to their coffee drinking friend.

Then there are the photographer coffee drinkers who might mention it in their blog.

But you, you are the next level: the engineer photographer coffee drinker who saves the wrapper and scans it as soon as you get home. You, sir, are a rare breed– where coffee drinking, photography loving, and high-tech gadget collecting coincide. If that ad was written for anyone, it was written for you. Congratulations. You win a lifetime of amusement at random things. It’s not such a bad deal.

(It’s ten minutes to midnight, btw and $12 doesn’t seem so expensive anymore. Must…hold… on… If only I had a cookie to tide me over until 2am.)

ouch! you hated him that much? while i agree that he is pretty squirmy, seemed to talk 90% about sex-related stuff, and i’m not a fan of the nose piercing, i still like his music, and no, i was not joking when i said he was hot! maybe he just didn’t look good there. or maybe you’re not a girl and your opinion on his hotness doesn’t count. :-p

i’m also interested that you think CL sounds like they do in the studio. i tend to think they sound SO much better live (not that they don’t sound good recorded.) though echo echo remains my favorite album of theirs by far, i like the new one now that i’ve heard most of it live – just gives it more energy than it has recorded, in my opinion.

yeah, according to SCOTT. what does he know about whether guys are hot?

I agree that the new stuff has more energy live. And the boxer was definitely the crowd favorite. I just wanted to hear more old stuff

ok, it’s not the best picture, but yes.

so, i think kim makes a good point – does scott really know if a guy is hot?

but then, i think scott makes a better point with the picture.

ha :’)

So I guess what I really mean by “sounding like the studio” is that they have talent. Meaning that the singer can actually sing on-key and the guitarists and actually play their riffs. I’ve seen too many concerts where the band is not quite as good.

do you really think it’s that bad of a picture?

Seeing how you spelled humor, I can see why you liked him.

Or Canadian. I regularly get into debates with my Canadian friends up here. They’re silly.

only 30%?? :-p

I only have 12.

Yeah, I’m sure the algorithm is crap. But I think the number is supposed to be how many “other” people. But who knows.

There are no Emilie Rexeisens or Emilie Grzywas. They told me that no one has the last name of Grzywa or Rexeisen… but I happen to know that to be false.

Internet quizzes tend that way

yeah, me too. he’s still alive.

Ding ding ding, Cara’s the big winner in the “What the f**k is Scott saying” contest. Just wait until next week’s edition for a big stumper

I concur.

Does this mean that you’ve finally admitted that Kansans have accents?

I know what you mean about the non-nerdiness. When we go to med student conferences, we’re (as in the Colorado people) always the “cool” ones – everyone else, especially the east coasters, are always so stuffy/nerdy/uptight.

MMMMMM, Casino Royale. I saw it too. Fabulous.

Oh wow…I didn’t even notice the “I haven’t posted on this thing since Christmas break” blooper….until I saw that comment.

So…Scott…you know what I just realized after looking at those pictures (loved the tent one :-p)….we both went to KU together, you have came up to NYC for a visit…yet…the two of us cousins haven’t even had a drink together (and that sip of your beer in Hawaii doesn’t count)….hmm…..

You know, I was actually thinking of that when I was visiting you in New York … we should have taken the opportunity.

nice pics! looks like you had a little too much fun with your water droplets :’)

“this page” cannot be found, fyi. i think your links are corrupted.

no fair, i want a new fancy camera!

No, but he blushed when I told him
Merry Christmas, you!

I think there are more pictures of the dogs than of humans!

Haha.

lol, Kim, you’re too funny

Orchestra Hall?! I so want to go. Take me with you next time. Honestly.
-16 is balmy compared to the -21 I saw going into work today.
I also cheered for the Colts. Poor Rexy, at least he is still sexy. Prince rocks my world, but where does he always manage to find the twins?
And Careerbuilder.com was my favorite series, but the Dorito’s check out line one was my favorite, hands down.

Rexy is sexy … aren’t you funny I enjoyed the Dorito’s commercial with the guy getting in the car wreck and the girl there being clumsy. I guess that was the one that one the user entry contest, so that was made by regular Joes, and I think they said they spent $12 on it.

Ah, finally we don’t have the same taste… I was rooting for DA BEARS! Where did this interest in the Colts come from? Comeon, sweet home Chicago…? And Prince was cool. He could have performed more of his own songs, but you have to respect a man who can walk in heels better than most women!
As for commericals, I couldn’t stop laughing at the paper, rock, scissors one. Another fav was the cute one with the machine that dropped the bolt one day and things escalate until he’s about to jump off the bridge and then BAM… just a dream! awwww

No way that was an accident. Everybody was talking about it Monday.

woah! changin’ up the LJ, eh?

Oh, you know, gotta spice up your life sometime

No kidding on the IV, and the BFF. You’re sad, LOL

I would like to note that when you were expecting these cheesecakes, I had a working electric mixer. I will blame that on the lack of cheesecakes.

And I’ve still managed to put on pounds … awesome!

OMG ROFL LOL

As the resident Catholic, I’d just like to point out that the “Sunday exemption method” of giving stuff up for Lent is NOT a Catholic thing…

That’s impressive, though – if I gave up fb and lj, I think I’d feel incredibly disconnected from the outside world!

I hope you’ll post every Sunday.

Justification:
1) I look people in the eye when holding a conversation.
2) I don’t carry my palm pilot clipped to my belt.
3) I shower.

That sounds distrubing on so many levels.

Harsh words, boy, harsh words.

Spring break pictures?! Fie. How about some pictures of eggs. That’s what we really want to see.

Ooh, great idea! Any others?

Hooray! He looks so… pretty?

He’s hungry, I think. He got so excited when I put that algae in the bowl.