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Haha, interesting experience-filled day to add to the memoir of my life. Today I got to learn how to handle a "rock star." As you may know, the ASG was charged (literally) with providing the bands for Springfest 2011: and while I made recommendations such as Bruno Mars , Travie McCoy , and the Far East Movement -- in the end we ended up with Shwayze, Cisco & Urban Crush . I wasn't too pleased, my main intention was to get someone with name recognition like Kent always manages to get (Bruno Mars, Drake, 3Oh!3...) but alas, we ended up having to go with someone approved by the University's student entertainment division or something? I dunno. He's disappointed he didn't get to meet Zippy. The story gets interesting when newly-appointed (for the last week) ASG Vice President Kenny was looking for someone to pick them up from the airport. Always eager to help, I volunteered. I had to find 5 pals (which ended up being 3 people from ASG, a housemate, ...

Well, spent the weekend at Key Club DCON and the Hotel did not have free internet (and I wasn't gonna pay 9.45 a day) so delayed reaction a little. So Friday(-ish) Lady Gaga's next single "Judas" leaked. Patsy can't get over the fact that the biblical story of Judas is: Jesus predicted one of his 12 apostles would betray him - and it was Judas Iscariot that told the Romans how to arrest Jesus, in exchange for 30 pieces of silver. (Jesus was then of course crucified: hung on the cross. Only to rise 40 days later on Easter!) I love this cover art. There's a video called Gagavision 42 . that shows her debating if she wants the image she loves "of her taking it with her cell phone and doing it in word" because it may look like she "did it at the last minute and didn't put any thought into it." I think it's interesting! In the song, Judas is someone who routinely betrays/harms Gaga but she loves him anyway. At least that...

So you may or may not know about my mom's bankruptcy back in 2008. Grandpa hired a good lawyer, and for the most part all ended well. Except for this random eviction notice we got in the mail last week? While I was at an important function in another state, mom insisted on telling me in a very very brief phone call. Talk about a mood wrecker... but when I returned, I marched to the condo, got the letter, did some googling and made some phone calls. The letter is not a court order, and in fact the Sheriff says we are still the owners of the house - so no one can evict us. Mom, ever willing to give in to any passing conqueror, did not think to make any phone calls, and started moving David's entire life to the condo. I now have plans slowly setting into motion to get the house rightfully purchased and ours -- if mom would just LISTEN ALREADY ><;;; Quote of the Day: Q. At what point will I have absolutely no options left? A. Never. You have not lost until you deci...

Well my day has gone pretty well! :D With the exception of being massivly sleep deprived on the eve of an important lunch meeting, and the eve-eve of a crazy long drive for Circle K, all and all it's balanced by the great things that've happened - including finally finding some interested people for District Positions and getting my PRAXIS II results back! n.n AHHhhhH! I was worried I'd have to take this thing 3 times like the horror stories I've heard. A 200 is a perfect score, and a 157 is required to pass. I got a 182! That's the equivalent of a 91%! And look at that average - I got an above average, and when broken down into sections, I got like top of average score or higher in most categories! Ahhhh! What a good day! Song of the Day: "The Lazy Song" by Bruno Mars. While this may not outline what I'm doing, it's sure what I'd like to do. This is a great, lazy, transition between Spring and Summer song. I can see playing this as su...

So I'm in White House class right now, and we're in a lecture on the First Lady - and the powerpoint included a pic of First Lady Michelle Obama reading to children. One kid noted the book in the image was Green Eggs and Ham , so I randomly googled it (love having my laptop in class.) Which led me to an interesting story... This is not the picture. My story concerns the case of Wolff v. New Hampshire Department of Corrections . Apparently, an inmate in New Hampshire sued the facility on the basis of the food they were serving him. One of his 'documents' he filed was a hard boiled egg. The judge was not happy about this , and had the egg stricken from the record. In so doing, he took a creative approach in issuing his ruling: Quote of the Day: "No fan I am of the egg at hand. Just like no ham on the kosher plan. This egg will rot I kid you not. And stink it can this egg at hand. There will be no eggs in court to prove a clog in your aort. There w...

Ladies and folks, welcome to my analysis of Katy Perry's hot off the presses music video "E.T." ft. Kanye West. Are you ready for what " looks like a Motorola Xoom commercial combined with Close Encounters of the Third Kind , Wall-E and animals humping?" It was only a few weeks ago when I first heard Katy Perry's new single on the radio - "E.T." Well that's not really true, I've heard the whole album months ago - but on the album E.T. is by Katy alone. On the radio, I first heard the featuring Kanye West version. And I gotta say, Kanye does not add a whole lot to it :/ But after a few days/week of hype, today the music video was released: on E.T.: Entertainment Tonight no less! Here, WATCH it first. We start in some alien hubcap junkyard, where 1940s-y music is playing as we find a 1940s-style robot that looks like something out of a cyberpunk magazine. Who's teardrop shaped heart longs for another! ( Behind the scenes : appar...