AC 360

So, I've been racking my brain trying to think of something interesting to blog about. Somehow I didn't think you all would be very intrigued about my recently acquired slovenly habits. Mid-semester break is giving me the chace to sleep late write for a while, laze around, read, laze some more, eat, and so on. This morning I perused my bookshelves in search of something to capture my interest during the wild snowstorm which has struck my province. 45 inches of snow later I glanced up from Anderson Cooper's Dispatches From the Edge and realized it was over. The winds has stopped howling and the snow has covered the ground making it a veritable Winter Wonderland outside.

I decided to blog about this wonderful book:


For those of you who don't know, Anderson Cooper is a Reporter for CNN. He has covered major world events, from biggest tragedies to those unseemingly unknown events that plague us. His story is a heartbreaking tale of travels in South Africa, Niger and East Timor to name a few. The devastating story of a boy named Aminu, and Anderson's journey as he reveals stories about himself and the tragic loss of his brother.

Now, I know some of you are thinking "Where does she come up with this stuff?" The truth is I happened upon Anderson Cooper quite by accident one night. I was having trouble sleeping and was flicking through the channels when I stopped on AC360. I've been hooked ever since.

To be honest, part of me watches it because I'm a chick and Anderson is hot. The other part of me watches it because it's a great program that really investigates interesting things.

Anyway, that's my blog on AC and his book. Hope I didn't bore you all too much. :D

HAPPY BELATED VALENTINE'S DAY!!!!!!!

I just wanted to wish all my Blogger Buddies a Happy Valentine's Day. Sorry I missed it yesterday. I spent my Valentine's writing a BRUTAL Anthropology mid-term and then hung with some pals afterward. Since I am single this year I decided to stop at one of the Kiosks on campus and buy myself a Rose. Hey, if no one else is going to get them for me I might as well buy them for myself.

I promise over mid-term break next week to make more posts. I've been so slack :D. Hope you all had a happy Cupid Day.

Last but certainly not least.

This Saga begins at the bottom of this page with me 'Getting a Life'...

The Earth Sciences building and the University Center are right next door to each other and connected by a short sky walk. The Anthro dept rented out a room in the UC since their building is WAY up the other end of campus and no one would have showed up if it had been there. So we head over to the Anthro Mixer where we are asked to sing and perform a song. We sang the Spice Girls... nuff said.

They are out of Vodka at the Anthro Mixer so I opt for a Rum and Coke. Here we stay until the end of the Mixer Crawl when we all head downstairs to see who won the best poker hand. We didn't win but a great time was had by all. My ride showed up and I headed my drunk ass home and into bed, with a quick stop my McDonald's for a Cheeseburger and Fries. Nothing better than fast food when your drunk.

Thanks for listening guys. Tomorrow I'll answer Wolfie's tag about my collectables.... do boyfriends count? Teehee Just Kidding.

Next Up... Earth Sciences

Now we've left the Science building raced through the Chemistry building over the skywalk into the Earth Sciences building. This crowd has lots of space, shots of tequila and FOOD! Yay! By this time I'm starving. It's been several hours since I last ate and a hot dog sounds great. A and I do a shot of tequila and get a Vodka and Pineapple juice for the road. C and I order the dogs and she gets a cupcake that have gummi worms on top. We stay here for a while just enjoying the fact that there is a place to sit, something to eat and a bathroom nearby cause I had to Pee... a lot.

We decided to leave the Anthropology Mixer until last since most of the girls were Anthro majors so......

2 + 2 = Physics Mixer?

The Physics Mixer had the best drinks by far. Something Purple that they named Verbatim (sp?). Not sure what it was but it contained Sour Puss and Blue Curacao.... Yum Yum. By this time I'm feeling a little tipsy. Too many drinks consumed in a very short period of time. Had our drinks and left... the Physics majors were trying to do Math calculations on the board... life of the party and all that :D

Fourth Mixer

From the Second Languages Mixer to the Biology Mixer which was down the hall and around the corner. I can't remember which question was there since I was in the lineup for drinks. Found some friends there who challenged us to a drinking game called Tip Cups. Each team lined up on either side of a long table. Starting with the first team member you had to drink your drink as fast as possible then lay your cup upside down on the edge of the table, you then had to tap the portion of the cup that was hanging off the edge and flip the cup over, with that task accomplished it's teammate number two who's got to drink up. The first team done wins and has to forfeit their card to the winning team.

Good times were had by all at the Biology Mixer....

Next up? The Physics Mixer....

Numero Trois.....

READ THE POST ABOUT GETTING A LIFE.... if you haven't already.... *snerk*

Third Mixer took place in the Science building.... so instead of taking the tunnels we decide to race across the courtyard from the Arts building (where the Philosophy mixer was) to the Science building. It was pretty cold out.... Brrrrrr....

In the Science building we first go to the French and Spanish Mixer (yes I know the Science building is an odd place to have second language mixers). What a Crowd! They have two tables crammed into a very small room serving drinks, Vodka and Cranberry again for me, this time I made it a double. Here we have to say a sentence in either French or Spanish... everyone turns to me, apparently I'm the only one who has taken more than the required six credits in a second language since entering University. I say a short sentence in French which does the trick and we add another card to our hand. For an extra card we need to translate a sentence, done! And we have an extra card.

We drink quickly here because there are way to many people and linger in the hallway for a while talking to some friends we met up with.....

To be continued.....

Stop Two....

Again.... in order to understand what the f**k I'm talking about you must start with my post about getting a life....

Next stop was the Philosophy mixer.... BORING.... first of all the person mixing the drinks sucked! The girl taking the money had a major attitude problem and there wasn't enough room. Blah! Anyway, had a Vodka and OJ there, V answered the question of Why? with, Why not? Original right? Got our next card and off we went to the next mixer....

First stop...

If you haven't read my post about getting a life start there....

Stop one was the Math Society. We leave the University Center (which is where the bar is) race through the tunnels and sky walks through the Chemistry building, through the Science building to the Math Building. Once there we jog up three flights of stairs to the Math Society room. We get carded (good lord) and enter. We're the first one's to this room and the Vodka hasn't even arrived yet. We ask the person in charge what we have to do in order to get our card and he tells us we must tell him what an Isosceles (sp?) triangle is..... hmmmm.... it's a good thing R knew what she was talking about, I couldn't remember.

Vodka arrived and I had my first drink of the night, $3 for a Vodka and Cranberry Spritzer. Very good. We mingled and R, being very crazy approached a group of Math majors to ask them what their favorite number was, lol. What a pick-up line.

Once we finished our drinks it was off to the Philosophy Mixer.....

Getting a Life

Well, no pretty pictures to post today but I would like to tell you all about my adventure Friday night. I very rarely go out. Mainly because I have school during the week and then I work every weekend (a lot of early Saturday and Sunday mornings for me).

Anyway, last week I was invited to attend a Mixer Crawl with some pals from the Archaeology Society. This is exactly what it sounds like.

Students form groups of about ten. Everyone meets at the campus bar and each team registers with the committee and gets a map of campus with a big red dot at the site of each mixer. The mission? Go to each societies Mixer and perform/answer something in order to recieve a playing card. At the end of the night you must return to the Campus Bar and whichever team can make the best poker hand out of their playing cards wins.

So the night started with a trip to the dorms (never lived in them myself) where we hung out with my friend V. We listened to music had some beers and then proceeded to apply makeup etc. just in case one of us got lucky :D.

We all congregate at V's room and I meet some nice people that I hadn't previously known. We head to Campus bar, register, and we're on our way....