Tuesday, February 08, 2005
Catching Up and the Gooseys
Hey everyone! What's new? Well, I am mid-way through an ugly week at school, so posts aren't exactly flying off the presses... but I thought I would catch up a little bit. Not much is new. My classes are off to a rough start, and I honestly have no idea what I am doing wrong. I pulled in a 71% on my physiology test, and that is with a ton of studying. I felt pretty confident about the material, and still do, yet it didn't translate to a decent test score. The killer thing is that other people did well, so it wasn't a case of an unfair or overly hard test. Maybe I am not as smart as I thought...
Anyway, I am still in awe that I am celebrating my one-year anniversary of blogging... so much has happened in the last year! So I am going to hand out some awards. Maybe I will do this annually, we can call them the Gooseys or something.
1) My man Rich. He had the Best Year Ever award. He went from confirmed bachelor and hockey fan for life to married, expecting, and without professional hockey to watch over the last 12 months.
2) I myself get the Rollercoaster award. I was denied entry to pharmacy school, then on the waiting list, then admitted all in the same summer. Talk about emotionally exhausting! I would have never recovered if it wasn't for the hard, patient work of five very close friends (three of which were relatively new friends too).
3) Best Day Ever award was a hotly contested award, but it is given to the day I spent having lunch at Delice last summer. It will go down as one of my top memories ever.
4) The Homemaking award goes to Mark, the king of weird living arrangements. Currently he resides in an abandoned day care that the city is threatening to use imminent domain to bulldoze it. More on that later (pictures to come).
5) The Biochemical award also goes to my brother for his experiments in the field of microbrewery, alcohol metabolism, and other such scholarly pursuits.
6) It may seem odd, but the Comedy award goes to Anna Niccole Smith for her "Like my body?" flame out at the Billboard awards. That will never not be funny to me.
7) The Natural Selection award goes to the Creighton sorority girl and her dirt-ball boyfriend who loaded up on meth and died of hypothermia this winter, dragging the local media with them. Way to go!
8) Best Movie Ever award goes to Napoleon Dynamite. This will go down as a classic in the vein of Ferris Bueller's Day Off. I like it more everytime I see it.
9) The Killer Tunes award went to The New Pornographers for their wicked awesome music. Remember, the Gooseys' only temporal requirement is when Carl comes into contact with it, not when it was originally introduced.
10) Epic DVD awards were given to Old Boy, Chappelle Show Season One, House of Flying Daggers, and Dr. Stranglelove SE this year. Aqua Teen Hunger Force swept all of the TV to DVD awards, and Bootleg of the Year went to the Korean copy of Eraserhead we procured.
11) Best Overheard Quote was a shoe-in; "Whoever invented cigarettes is, like, related to God!" Classic!
12) The Song that Makes Me Smile award was much anticipated, with so many great candidates. Attendees at the award ceremony wondered if it would be Float On by Modest Mouse (which Carl literally rushed out to buy the album of within 10 minutes of hearing), or maybe something retro (like the Talking Heads or QOTSA that Carl obsessively plays over and over and over...), but were shocked to find out that the winner was indeed What You Waiting For by Gwen Steffani. (That song put its hooks deep in my brain!)
13) The Constant Source of Amusing Stories award seemed like it should come Mark and his crew, or maybe even Creighton University, but it instead went to my niece Kaylee who is always coming up with something funny to do or say (she'll be 4 in March).
14) Best Animated Show Ever award was a no decision. Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Family Guy reruns, Super Milk Chan, Simpsons, and Samurai Champloo and others all fought a battle that saw no victor. Since when are animated shows the only ones worth my free time? TV has really started to suck.
15) Religious Experience of the Year was another hotly contested award. "Carl's participation in the Mass of the Holy Spirit won," but "seeing Shaolin Soccer" was a close second. "The Passion" demanded a recount, but still, no votes.
16) Man I Tried to Emulate award is a weird award, because I almost always seem to fail living up to even my own standards, let alone someone elses'. I think the award was given to a half-breed of Gandhi and Carl Sagan. There may be some John Stewart in there, but it is hard to tell with all of that contamination from every other source of inspiration in my life.
Other awards (given at a separate ceremony at an earlier date) include Best Manga Ever (Rurouni Kenshin), Origami Model of the Year (the Rooster), Electrical Device I Can;t Live Without (digital camera just barely edged out my Nomad MP3 Player), Portable Japanese Food of the Year (onigiri), Best Soda Ever (Diet Cherry Vanilla Dr. Pepper), Inside Joke of the Year (ani me is teh suck.), Food so Good that it Should be Illegal (Gyros), Best Time Waster (PS2), Kanji of the Year (楽), disappointment of the Year (that I am so fat), and Re-donk-ulous Notion award (the idea that The Passion was a good evangelistic tool).
Oh, and in the top secret ceremony, awards were given for Favorite Person Ever, Best Way to Spend Free Time, Biggest Regret of the Year, and Song I Sang Too Much Outloud in My Car. But those awards are not for public knowledge.
Here's looking to next year, with a new Willy Wonka, a Hitchhiker's Guide... movie, Rich's fatherhood, my brother being a full time student, Logan starting 3rd grade, my Japanese getting better, and a TON more experiences in medicine coming up.
Horn's Up!
Anyway, I am still in awe that I am celebrating my one-year anniversary of blogging... so much has happened in the last year! So I am going to hand out some awards. Maybe I will do this annually, we can call them the Gooseys or something.
1) My man Rich. He had the Best Year Ever award. He went from confirmed bachelor and hockey fan for life to married, expecting, and without professional hockey to watch over the last 12 months.
2) I myself get the Rollercoaster award. I was denied entry to pharmacy school, then on the waiting list, then admitted all in the same summer. Talk about emotionally exhausting! I would have never recovered if it wasn't for the hard, patient work of five very close friends (three of which were relatively new friends too).
3) Best Day Ever award was a hotly contested award, but it is given to the day I spent having lunch at Delice last summer. It will go down as one of my top memories ever.
4) The Homemaking award goes to Mark, the king of weird living arrangements. Currently he resides in an abandoned day care that the city is threatening to use imminent domain to bulldoze it. More on that later (pictures to come).
5) The Biochemical award also goes to my brother for his experiments in the field of microbrewery, alcohol metabolism, and other such scholarly pursuits.
6) It may seem odd, but the Comedy award goes to Anna Niccole Smith for her "Like my body?" flame out at the Billboard awards. That will never not be funny to me.
7) The Natural Selection award goes to the Creighton sorority girl and her dirt-ball boyfriend who loaded up on meth and died of hypothermia this winter, dragging the local media with them. Way to go!
8) Best Movie Ever award goes to Napoleon Dynamite. This will go down as a classic in the vein of Ferris Bueller's Day Off. I like it more everytime I see it.
9) The Killer Tunes award went to The New Pornographers for their wicked awesome music. Remember, the Gooseys' only temporal requirement is when Carl comes into contact with it, not when it was originally introduced.
10) Epic DVD awards were given to Old Boy, Chappelle Show Season One, House of Flying Daggers, and Dr. Stranglelove SE this year. Aqua Teen Hunger Force swept all of the TV to DVD awards, and Bootleg of the Year went to the Korean copy of Eraserhead we procured.
11) Best Overheard Quote was a shoe-in; "Whoever invented cigarettes is, like, related to God!" Classic!
12) The Song that Makes Me Smile award was much anticipated, with so many great candidates. Attendees at the award ceremony wondered if it would be Float On by Modest Mouse (which Carl literally rushed out to buy the album of within 10 minutes of hearing), or maybe something retro (like the Talking Heads or QOTSA that Carl obsessively plays over and over and over...), but were shocked to find out that the winner was indeed What You Waiting For by Gwen Steffani. (That song put its hooks deep in my brain!)
13) The Constant Source of Amusing Stories award seemed like it should come Mark and his crew, or maybe even Creighton University, but it instead went to my niece Kaylee who is always coming up with something funny to do or say (she'll be 4 in March).
14) Best Animated Show Ever award was a no decision. Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Family Guy reruns, Super Milk Chan, Simpsons, and Samurai Champloo and others all fought a battle that saw no victor. Since when are animated shows the only ones worth my free time? TV has really started to suck.
15) Religious Experience of the Year was another hotly contested award. "Carl's participation in the Mass of the Holy Spirit won," but "seeing Shaolin Soccer" was a close second. "The Passion" demanded a recount, but still, no votes.
16) Man I Tried to Emulate award is a weird award, because I almost always seem to fail living up to even my own standards, let alone someone elses'. I think the award was given to a half-breed of Gandhi and Carl Sagan. There may be some John Stewart in there, but it is hard to tell with all of that contamination from every other source of inspiration in my life.
Other awards (given at a separate ceremony at an earlier date) include Best Manga Ever (Rurouni Kenshin), Origami Model of the Year (the Rooster), Electrical Device I Can;t Live Without (digital camera just barely edged out my Nomad MP3 Player), Portable Japanese Food of the Year (onigiri), Best Soda Ever (Diet Cherry Vanilla Dr. Pepper), Inside Joke of the Year (ani me is teh suck.), Food so Good that it Should be Illegal (Gyros), Best Time Waster (PS2), Kanji of the Year (楽), disappointment of the Year (that I am so fat), and Re-donk-ulous Notion award (the idea that The Passion was a good evangelistic tool).
Oh, and in the top secret ceremony, awards were given for Favorite Person Ever, Best Way to Spend Free Time, Biggest Regret of the Year, and Song I Sang Too Much Outloud in My Car. But those awards are not for public knowledge.
Here's looking to next year, with a new Willy Wonka, a Hitchhiker's Guide... movie, Rich's fatherhood, my brother being a full time student, Logan starting 3rd grade, my Japanese getting better, and a TON more experiences in medicine coming up.
Horn's Up!
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