The Good Girl Gone Blog

My laundry process:

1) Gather laundry basket, 6 quarters and detergent.
2) Exit room.
3) Re-enter room to collect fabric softener, which I only have because I mistakenly thought it was detergent (this happened to me in Israel, but at least there I could use the excuse of making a language mistake. Back in America, it's just stupid.)
4) Schlep down the stairs.
5) Put half of laundry in the machine.
6) Insert quarters.
7) Re-insert quarters because machine doesn't accept them.
8) Race up stairs, get dressed and exit building.
9) Go to ATM, take out money.
10) Go to Camp Co. and buy coffee for the sole purpose of getting change.
11) Go to "Towers" dormitory to insert $5 bills into the change machine to get more quarters to finish laundry.
12) Return to building, go downstairs to laundry room.
13) Remove laundry, place in dryer.
14) Repeast step 5-6 with other laundry.
16) Struggle with quarters again. Shake dryer vigorously until it succumbs and accepts my quarters.
17) Take dryer sheet from box on top of dryer (I feel guilty about that, but according to Megan's philosophy, if it's left in a common area, it belongs to everyone.)
18) Go to COM to perform dean's host duties while laundry finishes.
19) Hope that no one angrily removes my laundry while I am away.

I'd write more steps, but I haven't completed my laundry yet and you're probably already bored.

Ok, just because Natural Disasters is supposed to be a fake science class for COM kids does NOT mean it's easy. 2 hours of thunderstorm calculations, inputting flood data into excel spread sheets and trigonometry problems have given me a headache...and my shoulders hurt.

I think my professor should take the class out to a bar for a congratulatory beer...or at least buy us all festive fall cupcakes like these babies for our efforts!

All I'm saying is thank goodness for friends who understand physics! T, if I could, I'd bake you a batch of cupcakes!

One of the reasons I keep Megan around is her fabulous taste in YouTube videos. She and some of her friends found this one:

Kind of reminds you of "Meet the Parents," doesn't it?

Dear Mr. (Steve) Jobs,

I just wanted to say a hearty thank you to you and the entire Mac dream-team for creating a magnetic computer cord. I trip over my cord approximately 3.7 times a day, and without your innovative invention, I would probably be on my 18th computer due to severe internal damage.

Thanks again,

G3B

PS- I just wrote you a really nice thank you note- you could show your gratitude for my gratitude by sending tons of free stuff, like the new iPod nano in red. Cool, thanks.

I was totally going to ask you all to send your favorite 80s hair photos. But I didn't even have a chance to ask and look what I got:

Megan's friends always seem to find hysterical things on the internet.  This video is courtesy of her friend Catie.  I thought it was funny. Maybe you'll like it too:

Last night I dreamt that Sarah Palin played Jennifer Beals' role in "Flashdance." I'm not sure how voters would have responded, or if this would help or hurt the McCain campaign...

Today, I saw a dog wearing  a raincoat of some sort...I think. I'm still debating whether it was cute or cruel. Any ideas?

After watching last night's episode of Ugly Betty (which was absolutely fabulous) I decided to give the doctor's at Seattle's Grace hospital one last chance. Sitting in front of the TV in my friend's cramped dorm room, I could not WAIT for the 2-hour Grey's Anatomy episode to finish. For at least the past two years, I've sat through season premiers of Grey's and disgustedly decided to end the addiction. The writers are running out of new plot lines- everyone has slept with everyone else. Meredith and Derek's on-again off-again relationship is starting to piss me off. Maybe they should just kill one of them off. They're not going to work.

Anyway, Grey's Anatomy writers, if you read my blog, which you definitely should, I'm so over your show. Yeah, we've had some good times together, but seriously, everyone died last night, and Meredith is still whining. I think it all went downhill last season when Izzy used valubable hospital resources to revive a dear (think defibrulator..."give me two shots of epi!").

But...I found this link yesterday that gives me a little more respect for the Grey's team. Hey, if this isn't a good PR plan, I don't know what is. Promoting education through a popular tv show, doing research and evaluating the results-- my professors would be proud.

The show still sucks though...

I have a cold and it's gross. It's not the snotty, stuffy, green-mucused cold of horror stories, but rather an incessant cough that plagues me throughout the day. My mother heard my cough during a recent phone conversation, and suggested tea with honey. The honey, she said, would break up the mucus.

Now, not that you should ever, EVER, doubt your mother, but I thought I should double check her honey theory, just to verify. Even if no medical professional agreed with my mom, I would probably still follow her instructions, because she's my mom and she knows everything.

The consensus: WebMd seems to agree with mommy dearest.

I will never doubt her again.