I'm just testing to see if this whole embedding thing will work.

Top albums on last.fm (p.s. if you're on last.fm, you should totally friend me. same name, and everything.):




ETA: yay! it works!

damn it! so the third episode of dr. horrible's sing-along-blog, which i totally thought was supposed to be happy fun times, made me cry! it is, in short, NOT happy fun times. it is sad times. good, but sad times.

and, as it's the last episode of the little show, i feel all let down now. i wanted a happily ever after sort of thing, and instead i feel all gloomy and blue and like i need to eat (more) icecream to recuperate.

ok, to make up for the crap fest that was hayden's single/music vid, what do y'all think of this (via ew's popwatch):



i mean, the title is "the world should revolve around me", and it just gets more awesome from there.

also, dr. horrible act 2 is up now, u guise! and it's better than act 1!

ok, those of you that don't frequent ONTD have to see this video - it is possibly the worst song i've heard, ever, and coming from someone who's listened to paris hilton's "stars are blind", that's saying a lot:



and, just for comparison, the aforementioned "stars are blind", which sounds...oddly similar. when you have to copy from paris hilton's non-success of an album, maybe it's a sign that your album isn't going to do so well, you know?
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you guys. watch this: dr. horrible's sing-a-long blog - act 1.

it's funny, it has neil patrick harris (you know, doogie howser, how i met your mother), nathon fillion (from firefly), and it's by joss whedon. act 2 comes out tomorrow, and act 3 is on saturday.

i am kind of rooting for dr. horrible.

stolen from stix and tgic and darktruth:

"The Big Read reckons that the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books they've printed."

1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicise those you intend to read.
3) Underline the books you LOVE.
4) Star the books whose movie you've seen
5) Reprint this list in your own LJ so we can try and track down these people who've read 6 and force books upon them
( bookses )

i have this odd desire to do a series of posts mocking the twilight...series. somebody, talk me out of this idea. because this would involve actually spending money on books 2, 3, and 4, and then actually reading them comprehensively. reading stephanie meyer's prose for that long might actually drive me to drink.

on the other hand, there are sparkly vampires, and that pretty much tops everything.

halp?

so. google has found a way to make me waste time and do poorly (or more poorly) in school.

google image labeler
it's like a game where you come up with labels for an image at the same time as your anonymousey partner, and you have 2 minutes. when you get a match, you get points (i think more points for how much earlier you come up with a match? i'm not entirely clear on the points system.) the goal (for you) is to get as many points as possible so you can be amongst their top 5. the goal (for them) is apparently to get more labels for their images, so they can then have better hits image search, or something. idk.

whatever, all that matters is that this game/psych expermient/putting customers to work for them is ridiculously addictive.

i want french fries. like, really really really want french fries. or ice! no, not ice, not now. french fries first, then ice.

alas, it doesn't look like either of the two are in my immediate future. so sad! :(

you know what doesn't need to exist? "i love the new millenium: 2004". because you know what? 2004 wasn't that long ago, and i don't really need vh1's help in remembering things that happened in it. like, oh, uggs. and that one song by the darkness, their only hit or whatev. and freakin' dance dance revolution. and, oh, a certain wardrobe malfunction. my memory is not that shot by all the alcohol i've been drinking. studying i've been doing.

next thing you know, they'll have "i love the new millenium: june 2008". they'll mention wall-e (eeee!), and guitar hero, and probably do a fly-by mention of the obama nom (it's vh1, it's not important if it's not pop culture), maybe something about katy perry? idk.

i know i've been extremely awol for a long time, and i mean to remedy that. i even have stuff to talk about - the crazy people i encountered in my last couple rotations, how i'm nervous about applying for residency, the fact that i'm a fourth year (wooo!), the awesomeness that was wall-e (srsly, guys, go see it. repeatedly. i want a mini wall-e of my own.), this year's so you think you can dance - but it's been so long since i've written an LJ post that i kind of feel like i've forgotten how to type. along with, apparently, forgetting how to capitalize.

oh well. this is a start, i guess?

( Thoughts on TWoP Knoll stuff )

( top 4 )


In other news, I'm no longer in Waco, but I kind of miss it. Weird, huh? I grew to like it a lot. It helped that my residents were super nice - I think I ended up having minor crushes on, like, half of them. Alas, they were all married with a gazillion kids, because there's not much else to do in Waco.

Anyway, I'm on my Medicine rotation, now, and so I'm suddenly back to waking up early and being sleep deprived - I haven't had to do that since OB/GYN back in December. I had call on my pediatrics rotation, but it wasn't bad, and I got to sleep. I need six hours of sleep a night to survive, people; this is hard!

Also, Gorgonzola cheese is tasty. But - and I did not know this when I bought a chunk from the grocery store - it is very very smelly. As in - smelly like sweaty old gym socks, smelly. It was very hard to overcome that smell to actually eat the cheese and confirm the yum. And I got some on my hands and now they smell like sweaty old gym socks, too, and it's very disturbing.

I really should be finishing up the research for my presentation before I head back to the Land of No Internets today (a.k.a. Waco), but instead, I feel like babbling about American Idol. Go figure.

Interestingly enough, as a side note on Waco, I think yesterday was the anniversary of the whole David Koresh Krazyness cult thing that went down in the 90s. There didn't seem to be any sort of festivities planned. I'm so used to things like this being memorialized by Moments of Silence or parades or what have you, that I was kind of thinking there might have been some sort of thing organized "to remember the victims". Of course, I think it's something the town wants to forget, so...you know. I'm also semi-amused by the fact that there's another apparent cult - I mean, extremely conservative sect of a church - in Texas - or at least, I would be if the stories I were hearing weren't so horrifying.

Anyway, getting back to American Idol, I was...not that surprised by the Shock Boot of MJ last week - saddened, because guys? He was hot. But honestly, it wasn't really shocking, and it was kind of funny to see how many people had called it happening, after the results show (I skimmed TWoP's performance night thread). I was however, surprised that a)KLC was booted out over Syesha (seriously?) and b)that I was kind of sad. I have to admit, her personality won me over. Also, how awesome was Elliott? Totally awesome. He made me cry, and I don't even like that song all that much!

Anyway, ( more idol blabber )
And a final Waco story, just to give y'all an idea of this place. So, whenever they give us lunch at the hospital (when they have lunchtime lecture), they always have some salad. One of the salads has your usual cheddar cheese on the top, and the other usually has something else - once it was bleu cheese, and the other times I've seen it, it's been feta. Now, I love cheese in general, and I like random cheeses like feta and bleu specifically (random side note: I tried Doux de Montagne cheese yesterday and it was yummy - I ate the whole chunk between dinner and breakfast). However, in Waco, I've now heard multiple people say something along the lines of, "Oooh! There's real cheese on this salad," as they dive for the one that has cheddar. GUYS! I know those weird cheeses can sometimes taste funny, and they're not for everyone, but THAT DOESN'T MAKE THEM ANY LESS REAL! It's still cheese, it still came from milk, and most of the time, that milk was from a cow!

The next thing they're going to tell me is that Hershey's is definitively the best chocolate available on the market. *shakes head*

So. I'm in Waco (well, not at this very moment, at this very moment, I'm in Dallas, but that's because I cannot live without Internet in my apartment, but in reality, for the month of April, I'm in Waco, without Internet). Waco, where I actually (stupidly) volunteered to go (I didn't know about the no Internet thing), because I thought I'd get to stay with a friend of mine, and it would all fun all the time. Instead, my friend was scheduled to do her rotation way earlier, and so I had to get to know a brand new person.

Now, while apparently I have no shame in putting out all my shit on the Internet, I'm actually really really shy and reserved in real life. I am pretty sure that I have some social anxiety. Anyway, I managed to work myself up almost to the point of tears by the time I drove down to Waco Monday morning for orientation; I mean, all I could think about was "new town, new rotation, AND new roommate", and that just kept cycling over and over, and there were points where I seriously wanted to pull my car over and just throw up.

It hasn't been that bad. It rarely ever is that bad. The roommate is nice - turned out that we went to the same high school, she was just in the year above me, and we get along pretty well. The people at the rotation site are also nice enough, and the workload hasn't been that heavy (yet). The apartment is pretty awful (do NOT even get me started on all the bugs, it's so disgusting, and y'all know how I am about bugs. Also, it clearly was never cleaned after the previous students moved out, which is kind of gross. I'm messy, but that's my own dirt. This is someone else's.) The town is...small. I definitely feel like I stick out a bit more, because I'm not in the appropriate demographic group, or whatever. And I miss the ease of having the internet at my fingertips, the way I do at home. But for a month, I suppose I can survive.

One thing's for sure, though, I'm not a small town sort of person. I couldn't live there for an extended period of time; I'd lose my mind.

Anyway, this is a very long convoluted way to say that if I don't comment on your posts, I'm sorry - I tried catching up on the week last night, but I got so tired, I ended up just reading, and not really feeling like commenting. And I think that will be the pattern for the rest of the month.

Why has no one told me about this before??



I am so very disappointed in you all.

My random icon picking thingy keeps picking the one with the Peeps. I'm not sure what my laptop is trying to say - that it wants to be fed sugary goodness, or that it's appalled that I would upload an icon of Peeps posing as The Beatles. I would say it wants to be fed, but I've yet to discover a mouth...

Anyways, on to long, rambling American Idol stuff, ( now with more conspiracy theories! )

( scientific Idol predictions )

For those of you who haven't heard about it yet, the BBC has some video footage of some flying penguins:



(footage is not a RickRoll, in case anyone was wondering)

ILU GOOGLE!!

Seriously, have y'all seen Gmail's newest feature? Check it out! It's like, going back in time! And stuff.

Also, How I Met Your Mother might be the greatest show I've ever seen on television. Doogie! And the 20-minute-long song on TedMosbyisajerk.com!

I think I need more caffeine.

You know you've seen it all when you've seen Girl Scout Cookie slash. Complete with pictures.

There are no words, really.

In Houston, tired, and I have a Miley Cyrus song stuck in my head. A good song, but still...Miley Cyrus. Not one of my prouder moments.

On the plus side, I think I finally have the words to the chorus memorized, since it's been on repeat in my head for so long.