Family Weekend

This past weekend was Family Weekend at the University here and Mom, Amy, and Ted came up to visit. Friday just Mom and Amy came up and we immediately went to get dinner at Chili's. After that we all went to bed. Amy slept in my dorm in my butterfly chair... I do not know how she managed to get comfy. Saturday we got up around 10-ish and went to breakfast and Mom and Amy got to discover the joy that is Washakie Dining Hall. Mom got syrup which was stringy. Stringy like melted cheese... Syrup should not be stringy... Hence why I keep away from it. Afterwards we just started walking around campus, Ted arrived around 11 and I showed them where all my classes are, or at least the buildings as they were all closed. Poor mom wanted a drink but all the vending machines are inside the buildings and I completely forgot about the one outside of the A&S building until now. Sorry mom! After exploring campus we went to Hastings, because in Laramie there's not a whole lot to do... Which is kind of nice but kind of not. We went back to our dorm/ hotel room and chilled until dinner. We went to the Cavalryman Dinner Club, don't go there. The Food was good, really tender steaks but the service sucked and we were there a good 2 hours. Which would have been OK had it not been waiting for a server to come over and then waiting some more for our food. We went back to our dorm/ hotel room and me and Amy went to Wal-Mart, because she needed a watch and we were bored, then back to Hastings, where much fun ensued if only due to our sleep-deprived minds and lack of balance. Stupid Spider Monkey thing!
Sunday we got up around 9 to the sound of my phone vibrating, it's LOUD... I thought the whole point of vibrate was so that you could feel your phone instead of hear it, oh well. Anyways, We got up and went to breakfast at Village Inn, then said out good-byes and they left. I went back upstairs to my dorm and crashed until 1. I got up and did a little homework.
This morning sucked because I had a test at 8 a.m. And I'm pretty sure I flunked it. Joy. I hate Mondays!

Yellowstone

Went to Yellowstone for Labor Day weekend. It was nice to get away and see mom again. All the stupid people were present, walking up to Bison and Elk, walking on the geyser basin's crust, etc. All the rent-a-RV's were also there, we counted about 41 or so depending on who you ask, that was a debate almost every time we saw one. Anyway, mom picked me up at the dorms... residence halls, whatever you want to call them Friday evening and we headed to Landers and spent the night there. We went the rest of the way on Saturday. We immediately went to Old Faithful, or the 'Big water spouty thingy' as one of the passengers called it. Watched it go off after the moose psyched us out for 10 minutes. Went to a couple of the other geyser basins including the one that contained Grand Prismatic, which is gorgeous, before heading to the cabins in the Canyon area. The next morning we got up pretty early and headed through Lamar Valley and saw some Bison. Headed up to the Northern 'official' entrance of the park and had biscuits and gravy for breakfast in Gardiner, Montana. Headed back down to Yellowstone and walked around there a bit. Found a rib and vertebrae as well as lots of ladybugs. Still puzzled by why there were so many ladybugs on the shore. It's always pretty down by the lake. After we stopped for a picnic in near by Seagull point, which consisted of homemade bruschetta with homegrown tomatoes and basil. Very good! We headed to the Grand Canyon in Yellowstone after arguments of where the falls on the front of one of the guidebooks was. After waiting for someone to take the perfect picture we headed to Norris Geyser basin. Those geysers are so colorful. It's so dry on the West side of the park. The geyser basins looked really low, but once we crossed over to teh East side on the first day we were met with POURING rain. We had some fun watching the automatic wind shield wipers my moms new car had. We ended the trip by being woken up by our neighbors, who kept us up the night before but before we could get our revenge by waking them up they woke us up. We started out through the East entrance and came back through way of Cody then heading South, hoping to avoid the major construction they had going on on a huge part of 287. I came back and immediately did laundry and homework I thought was due the next day, but the professor had moved the due date by a week. That was fun to find out after I spent over an hour doing it. The week went by fast enough, didn't have history on Friday because the professor just gave us the day off. Lounged about for a majority of the weekend. We had a football game on Saturday, I didn't go. Apparently Wyo lost. Just finished up homework today. And now I'm typing this blog while in the union, listening to music and texting friends. The computer doesn't recognize 'texting' as a word and keeps telling me it's spelled wrong.

News Articles

I was looking at news articles because I was bored and I could and found some pretty interesting ones such as Wisconsin naming the Plastic Pink Flamingo their state bird. http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/us_flamingo I also found one where a frog was inside a can of Pepsi. It's like the finger in the Wendy's chili only real. Imagine opening up a nice cold can of Pepsi and inside floats parts of a frog. http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/healthscienceoffbeat Delicious! And think, it adds a bit of protein to that soda, so it's good for you. Obviously the Pepsi company has some pretty pissed off workers with sick minds. Makes me wonder what happened to the rest of the frog... Did it go into Diet Pepsi or Cherry Pepsi? Got to love the food industry... On another subject... Bank of America wanted a thumbprint from a man in order for him to cash a check for his wife. The problem? The man had no arms and the teller would not let him do anything without a thumb print. Ok, I'm sorry but can't you have alternative methods to prove identification?! The man showed the teller two forms of I.D. she took neither, they said he could open his own account or bring his wife in to cash the check. Isn't a bank supposed to be about convenience and it's kind of obvious this man can't give a thumb print! Give me a break. Makes me wonder what would happen if you burnt your hands to the point of not having a print on them... what would you do then? http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090904/od_afp/usbankingoffbeat Love the world and all the wacky Stoopid people in it.

District 9...Movie rant

So I went out with a guy I met to see District 9. Started out good enough, good use of different camera angles and points of view...Then it turned into a gore/ slasher movie. Fingernails falling out, people getting shocked/ electrocuted to shoot other people. We left just as someone was about to get dissected alive or something to that effect. What is it with movies and being slasher or gore? I don't get it, a lot of movies now a days have that really violent streak to them and the violence isn't implied anymore. It's shown...Graphically! No longer can we just use our imagination the directors now have to show every gorey detail as realistically as possible. Now I understand it's just a set and it's all special effects, but how sick and twisted do you have to be to come up with these things? How can someone just come up with the idea to dissect someone alive or torture someone endlessly like in the Saw series (which is turning into another Friday the 13th, Rambo epic)? How do people come up with this stuff? I don't care if it's nothing but special effects, you're coming up with ways to torture, scar, and/or kill someone! It just seems sick and twisted to me. So thats my rant about movies.
Oh and what's the deal with Disney buying Marvel? I just can't see the X-men and Mickey mouse or the Incredible Hulk and Goofy in the same 'family', that pairing seems really weird.