I'm pretty much amazing.

I found out today I can actually cook good food if I'm not too lazy. Slice up some vegetables, sate them, fry some chicken goblets, and dump it on a bunch of rice. There you go. Dinner. (Note: Too much cayenne pepper will fry the tastebuds long afterwards.)

"That looks like a restaurant!"

I noticed that many of my teammates are really excited, nervous, anxious about the big meet next week. (In 6 days if you can believe that!) So instead of being all nice and personal (I don't like talking to people), I decided to draw a pirate's map with a cheesy message. My favorite part? Jack Sparrow. You read correctly. I was amazed I successfully drew a cartoon that could be interpreted as Jack Sparrow. If you took a picture of Jack Sparrow, stomped on it, threw it in water to marinate for 20 years, that's what my Jack Sparrow looks like.



Because I'm so darn proud, I'm treating you to a close-up. (He's glittery because I didn't notice the watercolors I had purchased were the "glitter" version. Dang.)



Oh, and to top it all off, Stephan Pastis accepted my friend request on facebook. I am Stephan's friend.

Are you a nerd or a hipster?

(I didn't really crop the picture because I found it amusing that my Han Solo doll is in the bookshelf, upper left corner.)

I was sitting in one of the hallways in one of the math buildings here at the U. I was enjoying the newspaper, specifically Pearls Before Swine and Robert Kirby, as I was drinking some Pero I had in my thermos. I looked up to see a boy staring at me, and noticing he'd been caught (he was standing 5 feet from me, yeah, I wouldn't notice), he asked me "Are you a nerd or a hipster?" My face must've looked puzzled, because he clarified that my shirt confused him. Here's a bigger image of it: http://blogs.sun.com/kevin/resource/star%20wars%20rocks.jpg (My shirt does not include the caption.)

I know what a nerd is. But I'm not sure what exactly is meant by a "hipster." I looked it up. The first definition states the obvious,

"A person who is hip."

But the next definition made me laugh. Maybe hipsters and nerds have more in common than I thought:

"a person, esp. during the 1950s, characterized by a particularly strong sense of alienation from most established social activities and relationships."

Feeling an identity crisis, I posted it as my facebook status: "'Are you a nerd or a hipster?'-a boy from one of my math classes." Within minutes of writing it, my coach assured me that I was a NERD!

Whew.




Got some free time? "White and Nerdy", a parody of another song. Donny Osmond occasionally shows up dancing in the background.