Volunteer, Advocate, Trekker.

Happy Memorial Day everyone! Wow, I only managed to find time to make like 2 blogs this whole month x_x sorry loyal readers! I will continually try to update even if they aren't long drawn out in-depth novels. Today, for example, I'll keep it brief: with Sarah competing with her Engineering car-making team down in Joplin, Missouri (where that huge tornado hit) and not really being able to talk to her since she left almost a week ago- I am looking forward to her coming home tonight! :D I'm in a artistic mood, but not a drawing mood, so I'm looking for inspiration on DeviantArt . And somehow I found my way to this AWESOME WEBSITE: Website of the Day: Ubala.com/Games/Pokemon Trainer ! This is awesome, you can make your own pokemon trainer -- which I just did! Alas, it doesn't look like they have a girls option - at least I don't see it. This is cool, I wish personally I had this pokemon trainers outfit actually. Always love black with yellow outline.

This one'll be brief, loyal blog-followers I appologize for being so absent lately! Been super busy between CKI and campaign stuff. But here's a short blog on some image I recently noticed... As you all know from my last blog, we killed bin Ladin! w00t! Anyway, this image has become instantly "iconic" and historic, and I noticed that they kinda released a hugely high definition gigantic version of it. So big in fact, that blogs have taken to noting all the tiny things you can learn about the situation room/situation from it. I personally think being able to read Hillary Clinton's binder is kinda cool. *TOP SECRET CODEWORD NOFORN* For Use in White House Situation Room Only Noforn means "No Foreign citizens" can look at it, even within the White House. Another image I found abnormally large, to the point where I could see more than the public maybe normally could see was the recent final Endeavour crew including shooting-victim Arizona Congress...

( Retroactive Blogging : So I wrote this in May, and for reasons I don't remember haven't gotten around to posting it yet. So I apologize if any time sensitive topics don't make sense anymore...) Ugh, I'm a bit on the broke side as we start Summer . Add to that my time seems to be filled with non-paid work like 24 hours a day x_x That doesn't mean I can't build my online shopping list on my blog! Haha, so I was perusing Gizmodo as I often do and I found this "eco-friendly" (just because something isn't made of stryofoam plastic should not necessarily make it eco-friendly...) tie. Made of recycled/reclaimed wood. Apparently it's fashionable, haha, I could imagine wearing it to ASG for the interesting looks - but it seems difficult to imagine being taken seriously. I wouldn't wear it to a meeting with the Dean for example. But I dunno, always good to have options, and one day I may feel braver than today... On the website Gizmodo recomm...

Oh jeeze, I am radically behind on studying for my Science & Technology in World History final at noon! I meant to wake up at 6am, ended up closer to 9... so I'm gonna hop in the shower, and then study non-stop. But first - I want to say it's about time, US military forces killed Osama bin Laden this weekend. (If you somehow managed to miss that news.) I want to remind people we are not celebrating death or murder - but that death and murder of innocents does not go unpunished. Some quotes from Twitter and elsewhere: "It took killing Osama Bin Laden to get the news to stop playing highlights of the Royal Wedding... Thanks President Obama" - GloZell "I see the world's longest game of hide and seek is finally over." - Amanda Video of the Day: It's just Barack Obama weekend, isn't it! The other day was also the yearly-Correspondents Dinner, where Obama does a stand up routine making fun of himself and other political people. This ye...

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...