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2004 26 October :: 1.40am
:: Mood: amused
:: Music: TV on the Radio - Bomb Yourself
Two conversations. One in which I defend my heterosexuality; one in which I flirt like the lil' Cassanova I strive to be...
I LOVE the duality of life.
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TaoMan1121
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2004 26 October :: 12.15am
:: Mood: bouncy
:: Music: TV on the Radio - Don't Love You
So this is how it's going to be. We're in store for another round. That's OK, I'll wait it out some more and then it'll die and it'll be over and who will care anymore?
I will. I won't.
I've discovered this great band. Courtesy of Yahoo! LaunchCast. TV on the Radio. I don't want/know how to describe them. It's nothing like I've ever heard before. I love it.
I want this sickness bliss to sneak into my soul, right here, right now, and kill me completely.
I want to stay there forever.
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TaoMan1121
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2004 23 October :: 11.02pm
:: Mood: tired
:: Music: Pink Floyd - Comfortably Numb
Hello?
Is there anybody in there?
Just nod if you can hear me.
Is there anyone home?
Come on, now.
I hear you're feeling down.
Well I can ease your pain,
Get you on your feet again.
Relax.
I need some information first.
Just the basic facts,
Can you show me where it hurts?
There is no pain, you are receding.
A distant ship's smoke on the horizon.
You are only coming through in waves.
Your lips move but I can't hear what you're sayin'.
When I was a child I had a fever.
My hands felt just like two balloons.
Now I got that feeling once again.
I can't explain, you would not understand.
This is not how I am.
I have become comfortably numb.
Ok.
Just a little pinprick.
There'll be no more ...Aaaaaahhhhh!
But you may feel a little sick.
Can you stand up?
I do believe it's working. Good.
That'll keep you going for the show.
Come on it's time to go.
There is no pain, you are receding.
A distant ship's smoke on the horizon.
You are only coming through in waves.
Your lips move but I can't hear what you're sayin'.
When I was a child I caught a fleeting glimpse,
Out of the corner of my eye.
I turned to look but it was gone.
I cannot put my finger on it now.
The child is grown, the dream is gone.
I have become comfortably numb.
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TaoMan1121
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2004 23 October :: 2.42am
Nostalgia has got to be the most addictive emotion I've ever encountered.
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TaoMan1121
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2004 22 October :: 10.11pm
:: Music: David Byrne f/ Rufus Wainwright - Au Fond du Temple Saint
Music
I almost bought music legally online just now. Thankfully, I came to my senses. 99 cents per song... yeah, right.
I found Lauren Christy's debut album on Amazon for $1.39(!) plus S&H. I think I'll pay the extra 4 dimes and get the whole damn CD, as well as something tangible, thank you very much.
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TaoMan1121
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2004 22 October :: 3.52pm
:: Mood: content
:: Music: Rod Stewart - Embraceable You
On campus today, I saw a flyer for a research study on decision making, but I couldn't decide if I wanted to be a part of it...
The following is an actual conversation between me and a middle-aged male guest at work last night. I swear to god, I'm not making this up. This is verbatim:
Guest: I love Menards, don't you?
Me: I wouldn't go that far. I don't love it, but I don't hate it either.
Guest: I know what you mean. You know what Menards is? It's like a giant syphilitic sore on the face of a beautiful woman.
(edit 4:17pm) - Grr, I keep forgetting... due to some peaked interested in Arrested Development (and Treehouse of Horror), I'm going to invite people over on the 7th to watch them. That, and it's my birthday two days later on the ninth, so that's another reason to get together. So... yeah.
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TaoMan1121
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2004 21 October :: 11.06pm
:: Mood: pleased
:: Music: Foo Fighters - A320
GRE Scores
So, I got my scores back, and I don't mind sharing 'em with you, because I'm pretty damn proud of them.
Verbal - 580 (75th percentile, as in 75 percent scored below me... hehe, blow me)
Quanitative (as in Math) - 650 (57th percentile)
Analytical Writing - 6.0 (96 percentile)
Discussion: Verbal and Quantative are out of 800 points. I was amazed, because due to my skill repetroire and based on my performance on the practice tests I took, I expected to hit the verbal part out of the park and struggle on the math section. So when I saw a 90 point difference between the two, in the opposite way of what I was anticipating, I freaked out. But talking to a couple people and looking at the distribution, just about everyone gets a higher score on the math than the verbal, including moi, despite my perceived self-efficacy with the verbal section. Although, as you can see, my verbal percentile is still noticably higher than the quantative, so that makes me happy...
:-D <--- me happy
As for writing section ::becomes giddy:: the two essays I wrote were scored by two independent raters, and those scored were averaged together. These scores range from 1.0 to 6.0... as in I received the highest score possible. ::does a happy GRE dance:: So I knew, unofficially, my score for the first two sections immediately after taking the test, but I just got back the writing scores this evening, so that was a very nice suprise. All in all, I'm very happy w/ my performance, and it appears as though my preparation for the test payed off. (Thank you GRE for Dummies!) Next up, the Subject specific test (on Psychology) in mid-November.
Woot woot.
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2004 21 October :: 4.04pm
I dont know about the rest of you, but I get a huge kick outta these.
http://www.justinleague.com/Pages/comics.php?strip_id=53
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TaoMan1121
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2004 21 October :: 12.26am
:: Mood: contemplative
:: Music: Poe - Lemon Meringue
Jason's Behavioral Insight of the Day
Reading my assigned chapters for my Organizational Psychology class, I came across this very succinct and well-worded explanation of a conundrum that's always plagued me: the difference between the study habits of successful students and those who struggle to get by.
"The best that negative reinforcement will produce is just enough work to escape or avoid punishment. People never do what they are capable of when their motivation is to escape or avoid some unpleasant event or interaction. Many parents often find themselves saying to their children about their schoolwork, 'You only do enough to get by. You're not doing nearly what you are capable of doing.' If you have ever been part of a similiar conversation, you should now know that most schoolwork is under negative reinforcement control. Most children study because they are afraid of what will happen if they don't. It is only children who have been positively reinforced for learning who ever come close to maximizing their potential."
(excerpt courtesty of Aubrey Daniels' Performance Management, Third Edition)
My life, by the numbers:
- I just passed 90,000 on the Super-Sports-Mode Saab (although I personally have only logged several thousand of those)
- I just not too recently passed the 500 mark of journal enteries, and am well on my way to 600. 536 to be exact.
- Only 13 more enteries until I hit 1200 on the giant Movie list.
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2004 20 October :: 9.22pm
:: Music: Foo Fighters - Headwires
No cuts for you!!!
I had actually compiled these a couple days ago, but Meruan's post prompted to get 'em up here. Some pieces of prose/poetry from Brit Lit II that have struck me in the past couple of weeks:
Matthew Arnold, "Dover Beach"
"Ah, love, let us be true
To one another! for the world, which seems
To lie before us like a land of dreams,
So various, so beautiful, so new,
Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light,
Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain;
And we are here as on a darkling plain
Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight,
Where ignorant armies clash by night."
Thomas Henry Huxley, “Evolution and Ethics”
“But, so long as he (man) remains liable to error, intellectual or moral; so long as he is compelled to be perpetually on guard against the cosmic forces; whose ends are not his ends, without and within himself; so long as he is haunted by inexpugnable memories and hopeless aspirations; so long as the recognition of his intellectual limitations forces him to acknowledge his incapacity to penetrate the mystery of existence; the prospect of attaining untroubled happiness, or of a state which can, even remotely, deserve the title of perfection, appears to me to be as misleading an illusion as ever was dangled before the eyes of poor humanity. And there have been many of them.”
Christina Rossetti, “In An Artist’s Studio”
“Fair as the moon and joyful as the light:
Not want with waiting, not with sorrow dim;
Not as she is, but was when hope shone bright;
Not as she is, but as she fills his dream.”
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2004 20 October :: 9.05pm
:: Music: Foo Fighters - Aurora
hell yeah, I remember...
Neo and Morpheus pull another “Vanna White” for my newest purchase:
Kick ass show, I might add. If you haven't had a chance to catch it yet (and I know that's a number of you), the season premiere is Nov. 7, after the new Treehouse of Horror. Lost is also rocking my world. Terry O'Quinn is the epitome of "IT." (I just checked IMDB... I guess he was born in Newberry, MI; anybody know where the hell that is??)
As I was driving down Sprinkle after hitting Best Buy, I saw this on a convenience store/gas station sign: “Yes! We have milk… and we speak English!” (exclamation points added by author) When did this become a selling point? And last time I checked, Kalamazoo is not the hot spot for non-English speaking immigrants. Times like that I wished I kept my digital camera in the car, but that’s just dumb.
So after switching my schedule around and rushing out of work, I checked a voice mail from Chris telling me that “mom” cancelled our session w/ our first participant. Taking advantage of said change of plans and getting quite a bit done this evening. I like quiet evenings to myself.
Eh, that’ll do for now. I don’t want to bore you too much.
(edit 9:31pm) - The cast of The West Wing looks a helluva lot older than they used to. Another mirror image of how I feel old(er).
"Ray" looks really too.
(edit 11:35pm) - "Your agenda of hope just made me want to crap my pants." Jon Stewart from The Daily Show
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2004 19 October :: 5.29pm
:: Mood: evil
OK, this is just plain mean...
Following Michelle and Stefanie's example, I present to you my class schedule for next semester:
That is all.
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jedibumblebee
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2004 19 October :: 1.35pm
Following Michelle's example:
BUS 370- Integrated Comm in Business
BUS 375- Business Process Productivity
FIN 320- Business Finance
MGMT 352- Human Resources
SOC 283- Methods of Data Analysis
SOC 422- Adolescent Socialization
It's gonna be a bitch.
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2004 14 October :: 9.19pm
:: Music: Incubus - Agoraphobia
Don't want to stay inside for good...
"All revved up and no place to go..".
All I want to do is sit and watch TV on DVD and the Muppets. The Muppets rock in so many ways. Whereas David Byrne makes me happy 98% of the time, the Muppets make me happy all 100% of time. You can't beat that customer satisfaction rating.
Bah humbug! I wanted to go out tonight (and had plans to) but everybody has schoolwork or doesn't want to. Last local showing of Collateral, bowling, Monaco Bay, anything. Oh well.
So I spent A LOT of time thinking about it today, and I've made my list for school choices. I plan to apply to like 5 schools, and these is my current ratings (which I'm sure will change as soon as I post them). I also list whether a Master's program, doctoral, or both is available:
1) Western Michigan University (MA or PhD)
2) Florida State University (MA only)
3) Queens College in NYC (PhD only)
4) UCLA (PhD only)
5) Cal State in LA or University of Nevada-Reno (MA and PhD available for both, I believe)
And that's it for my "solid post" of the day.
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