Jenks's Journal

04/19/2007 12:58 #38957

Oh, the things we become immune to...
Category: work

So, except that I am getting a cold and was sniffly, call was positively lovely last night. I slept from like 11 to 6, which is more than I sleep at home. Then we had a leisurely greasy omelette breakfast on the way out. And now I have all of today to do whatever I want, and it's beautiful out.

So I got home, and found this image sitting on my desktop- leftover from my presentation. Sitting there with some cute pix from st. patrick's day, a "sample activity schedule" PDF from carnival.com, was "anatomy_of_the_anus.jpg". Ahh, my glamorous life. ;)

But for the hell of it I'll also put up a few st pat's pictures and some cute face paintings.

-J

(lovely, no?)

Me and my friend.

Me and my-friend's-boyfriend's-boss - who knows why we were asked to pose together. Random!

p.s. T-10 days!

mike - 04/19/07 20:42
that fish thing is amazing!

imk2 - 04/19/07 16:57
wait a minute.....in your last post, you said T-14, how is it T-20 now?

mrmike - 04/19/07 14:51
Awesome fish pics.

You and the ex-boss boyfriend guy whatever look like two different pictures spliced together. funky lighting.

mk - 04/19/07 13:48
wow that fish thing is so cool.

04/17/2007 21:08 #38934

Woohoo!!!
Category: vacation

Ok, I did it!

I just booked myself on a cruise, all alone, for my vacation! I'm a little scared, but super-excited. I've never been on a cruise before. Found this on Southwest's "travel deals" page. 5 night mexican cruise (cozumel etc) to/from new orleans. On Carnival. What a huge range of prices... From about $300 to >$1500 depending on the room, etc. And I had to pay a "single supplement" since I'm only one person in a 2-person room, but it was still fairly reasonable (or so I'm told by my cruise-veteran friends). I was hoping to spend an extra day in new orleans, but flights were too expensive and then I'd need an extra night of hotel, blah blah. But I'll have a few hours on either end, and the cruise ships dock downtown- maybe I'll have just enough time for some beignets at Cafe du Monde. Or maybe I can see if my old house is standing.

Yay!!

Let the countdown begin! T-14 days!

Ok, back to working on my presentation for tomorrow. Blah. I have been procrastinating for 3 days on it. And of course now I seem to be getting a cold and all I want to do is go to bed. :( But instead I'll stay up til 1 doing a shitty job on this powerpoint, and then have to take call tomorrow. But who cares! I'm going on vacation!!!!!!!

metalpeter - 04/18/07 17:43
I hope you have a great time I'm sure you will. It is good that you know people who know a lot about cruises so you can get some advice. Yes you are there to have fun. That being said there is some planning invovled. Like do you want to explore each port itself or do you want to go on an excersion and what one. You know stuff like that. You also want to give your self extra time cause if you miss geting on the ship (unless you have cruise insurance) then the boat leaves and no cruise and you don't get your money back. With the ports of call you get strandend there. Every ship is different and has differant features and entertainment but being on the ship can be fun to. I have only been on one cruise but would like to go again they are a lot of fun. Unless of course you are that guy who feel off the boat was rescued and continued the cruise. Have a great time.

museumchick - 04/18/07 08:53
that's so awesome about the cruise... good for you!

imk2 - 04/18/07 06:13
the booze, yeah that's why my mom sneaks in bottles of vodka in her luggage, otherwise it's a couple of hundred extra.

jacob - 04/18/07 00:37
Congradulations! I've always wanted to go on a cruise. Divertete!

lilho - 04/18/07 00:16
so exciting! have fun, and, be crazy! cajun style.

mike - 04/18/07 00:03
enjoy! cruises sound fun but I can't imagine doing one by myself! I'm sure you will have a really good time though, good weather, good people, good drinks, what more do you need.!

mrmike - 04/17/07 22:41
Good for you ---- beignets at Cafe DuMonde, yum......sadly delicious. Chicory coffee is good food....

Enjoy and good luck on the presentation

zobar - 04/17/07 22:07
Man, cruises are totally hokey and totally awesome at the same time. They're actually pretty economical too, since they're more or less all-inclusive. [Except they don't bill you for the booze until the end of the trip. THAT'S how they GETCHA.]

- Z

04/17/2007 13:16 #38928

Virginia shooting
Category: :(

To call this all a tragedy is obviously an understatement. Looks like the kid was a senior, a Korean national, who had been treated for depression in the past. Seems like he left a note railing against "deceitful charlatans" and "rich kids".

But this coverage is what brought tears to my eyes- a professor, a holocaust survivor no less, used his body to block the door in an attempt to save his students. He was, of course, killed, but I guess did manage to save some people.

At least there are still SOME truly selfless people in the world...

Among the dead was a professor, Liviu Librescu. Students who were in Librescu's engineering class at Norris Hall told the Tribune late Monday that the professor tried to protect the students in his class when they realized a gunmen was loose in the building.

Alec Calhoun was in Librescu's solid mechanics engineering class when gunfire erupted in the room next door. He said Librescu, went to the door and pushed himself against it in case the shooter tried to come in.

Librescu, an Israeli, was born in Romania and was known internationally for his research in aeronautical engineering.

Heartbreaking. :(

metalpeter - 04/17/07 18:29
Firstly it is a sad. Secondly what really makes it worse is that it was preventable. I Don't mean in terms of what the school could have done. Even if they would have made kids not go to class, I'm sure then this guy would have then just shot kids somewhere else at the school. The reason I say it was preventable was that when someone in College feels isolated and alone (like he seemed to from what I have read) They should try and get out of that school. The thing that is odd is that this sounds like a case of something that would happen in a high school. Once couseler where talking to him they should have thought lets make sure this kid isn't violent. For those reasons is why I find it sad. What I wonder is if anyone at the school helped to make him feel isolated, if so I doubt we will ever find out.

Now to get a little bit Political here. Firstly I'm not a fan of guns. I don't think Kids in college should have them, that is a deadly combo. But that being said If some else had a gun then maybe they could have shot him during the rampage and not as many people would have been hurt and killed. I often don't agree with Bush but this is one time that I do that laws shouldn't be changed. I do think that Gun Safety and training should be required to buy a gun. I have read to conflicting bits of info. A guy who sold him the gun where he bought it said there was no reason not to since he had no record of mental instabilty. But yet another article said that the serial number where rubbed off. So if this is the case then I guess one gun was illegal but why do that if you bought one, so I'm a little confused.

But this brings up another point. Is it just me or have there been a lot of shootings lately that had nothing to do with robbery. I think it may have something to do with our society being so pollarised. But that is just a theory that so many people don't know how to deal with things and that there is the big gap between people and if you don't think this way then you have to think that way and there is no in between. Ah I don't know in any event it is to bad what Happened.

04/16/2007 20:02 #38920

car humor?
Category: pix

Ok, I'm probably the only person in the world dorky enough to like this, but I just had to take my car in and saw this at the dealer and thought it was cute:

(and in case it's too small to read, it says 'does this sweater make me look fast?' And on the back it says 'unleash a MINI')

mrmike - 04/17/07 09:41
Got to love the Mini Cooper humor. I still have the cardboard folding minis that dropped out of my rolling stone a few months ago.

I still want one

04/14/2007 21:09 #38889

Craigslist rocks.

Ok, so last weekend, I had dinner at Trattoria Aroma with some people from work. And then my friend was going to meet me there for a drink. But he was totally late, and I was sitting at the bar, alone, for quite a while. (and then he went on to be a jerk anyway).

But so while I was waiting for him, I was checking out this guy at the end of the bar... he was pretty cute, clean cut, preppy- my kind of guy, sitting there with a friend having dinner and wine. They were conveniently sitting right under the TV, so I could check him out while pretending to watch hockey.

Later on I figured 'what the hell' and put a 'missed connection' message on Craigslist. I never expect these things to work, but figured what the hell. I wrote something about how he was there with a friend in a green sweater.

And then today, a week later, I get this message- Granted, it could be totally fake- I have no way to know he's not some random guy answering a random ad (I guess I should make him give me some identifying info, shouldn't I?)-

But in any case, the fact that I got a reply at all just blows my mind. And it's a pretty funny one at that-

We were, in fact, at Trattoria Aroma having dinner at the end of the bar that night. Here is the problem: My friend and I cannot figure out what we were wearing that night and are at each other's throats claiming the other was wearing the green sweater. I think he's full of shit. Either way, we have to meet, and considering you went through the trouble of initiating a misconnect, please suggest a situation that is most comfortable to you.

Sweet! I mean I don't know that I actually want to meet him or anything- I'm just amused that I got an answer.

and (e:mike), I'm with you. drama=fun. Some of the time, at least.

metalpeter - 04/15/07 11:35
I could be wrong about this, but I bet somehow this is going to lead to you being asked into another threesome somehow. What ever happens have fun.

mrmike - 04/14/07 22:14
Careful what you list for....just sayin