Failure. HAHAHAHAHAHA.

by V.E. on October 2nd, 2005

filed under entertainment, ladyamedeus, politics

HAHAHAHAHA. So great! So TRUE!

1) Go to www.Google.com
2) Type in “failure” without the quotes
3) Press the ‘I’m feeling lucky’ button (instead of the ‘google search’ one)
4) Laugh
5) Repost

Hurry, before the good folks at Google “fix” this….

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Interesting weekend

by V.E. on October 2nd, 2005

filed under ladyamedeus, personal, school

On Thursday morning (or sometime late this week in the early morning) a water main broke in downtown Lancaster, leaving most of the city–including F&M–without water or water pressure. I didn’t even realise this until I was at work Thursday afternoon around 4 PM when I checked my email. People went around asking, “Did it affect you much?” and I’m like, “What are you talking about?”

So, first the college sends out an email saying, “A water main broke blah blah blah. We’ll let you know when it’s fixed.”

Then they say, “The water’s back on! Thanks for your patience in the matter blah blah blah.”

THEN they say (nearly FIVE HOURS later): “Don’t drink the water! It could be contaminated with sewage/whatever! The city’s issued a ‘boil water order’ until further notice. We’ll let you know when the order expires.” (A ‘boil water order’ means that no one is allowed to drink/shower/do anything with water without boiling it first to kill the germs.)

Now, this boil water thing would be annoying but liveable EXCEPT for a few things.

(1) Dining services can’t make coffee or wash their dishes or let us drink soda from the tap or ANYTHING ELSE. So, we as students, begin eating off of paper plates and drinking out of Styrofoam cups.

(2) No one can take a shower and there is no water pressure in the sinks or toilets. This means that we can’t brush our teeth or even FLUSH.

(3) It’s Homecoming/Alumni weekend… meaning everyone who USED to attend F&M but no longer does and who is returning for the weekend for nostalgia’s sake is ALSO affected.

So, after a while, I’m like, “Well fuck that. I’m taking a shower. If I die or something, at least I’ll be clean.” (I’m fine, of course.) Yesterday morning the ‘boil water order’ was lifted, so I snagged one of the many “DO NOT DRINK WATER” signs as a keepsake before they all got torn down.

ANYway, as I mentioned, it’s Homecoming/Alumni weekend. That means there’s a lot of old guys making you feel dirty just by walking by them (note to freshmen: NEVER go to frat parties on Alumni weekend. I don’t care WHAT college you’re attending; alumni frat brothers are SUPER-SKETCHY) and when you’re sitting ANYWHERE someone will come up to you and say something like, “Are the professors having any classes for the alumni this weekend?” or “Do you know where Stahr Hall is?” (We don’t HAVE a Stahr Hall–it’s Stager Hall–but after a few questions like that I learned that it USED to be called Stahr Hall but is now Stager Hall… whatever.)

On a more personal note, I got most of my homework done yesterday (and yes, Katie, I WAS doing homework at 8:30 yesterday morning). I keep forgetting that the library doesn’t even open on Saturdays until 11 AM, but I KNOW I can’t work in my room, so I had to find another spot to sit where it was relatively comfortable, alumni wouldn’t interrupt me every five minutes, and was relatively quiet. I found such a place, but I’m not telling where cause I don’t want people stealing it away or coming to bug me when I’m trying to do work.

Now I’m off to finish said homework and hopefully go to DDR Club tonight to get a little excerise in and some face-time with friends to boot.

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Why are the flags at half-mast?

by V.E. on October 2nd, 2005

filed under ladyamedeus, politics

So my dad emails me (and some other people) last evening with, “Does anyone know why the flags are at half-staff?”

So, being the wonderful daughter I am, I try to look it up. Does the whitehouse.gov have anything about it? NOOO. Does the Cali (where he is right now) official page have anything about it? NOOO. Does CNN or ANYONE ELSE have something about it? NOOO.

What I came up with (after MUCH searching) was: in remembrance of Katrina victims OR Sept. 11 OR Rehnquist OR some combination of the three. And that’s certainly not definite any which way.

Why are the flags at half-mast today (or anytime, for that matter)? Am I just the most ignorant American, or is it normal to have no idea why the flags are at half-mast randomly like every other week or so for a couple of days?

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If music be the food of love, play on.

by V.E. on October 2nd, 2005

filed under beauty, favorite, ladyamedeus

Unknown Author: If you are going to walk on thin ice, you might as well dance.
Japanese proverb: We’re fools whether we dance or not, so we might as well dance.

Aldous Huxley: After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
William Shakespeare: If music be the food of love, play on.
Victor Hugo: Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent.

Ambrose Redmoon: Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.
Wayne Dyer: When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.
Unknown Author: Do not fear the winds of adversity. Remember: A kite rises against the wind rather than with it.
Benjamin Franklin: God helps them that help themselves.

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