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QotD: Your Choice of Beverage

nobody@vox.com(KLETTERMAN) — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 09:09:05 -0800

If you could only drink one beverage for the rest of your life (not including water), which one would you choose?

Is it me or have all of the “questions of the day” started sounding more like market research questions from some mega tween advertising agency and not from actual VOX users? Did VOX make a deal with the devil in order to pay the bills? HMMmmmm.

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Chomp, slurp, drip, burp repeat.

nobody@vox.com(KLETTERMAN) — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 08:55:48 -0800

OK, here goes another liberry rant.

There are signs ALL over the library stating no food or drinks allowed yet every day I see stupid people with drinks and snacks chomping away right next to one of these 50 or so signs. I guess they are all in the library to brush up on their “how to read a sign and follow directions” skills. Anyway, none of them are as bad as the girl that either sits at the table across the isle from me or behind me every day. She eats SO much food while she’s doing her home work that I’ll call her “Chester the Horse” because she sounds like a horse chewing grass behind me; a horse that is eating grass that is wrapped in cellophane packages. I swear it looks like she has a whole friggin 7-Eleven crammed in her bag. I am surprised she isn’t carrying one of those slushy machines on her back so she can get a frosty beverage when the need arises. Every day she eats the same thing too. The list is as follows:

1- Apple

1 – Package of cheese crackers

1 – Cookie

1 – Small bag of carrots

1 – Bottle of water - which you would think had a nipple on the end of it because she doesn’t just drink from her bottle, she sucks the water out and makes loud slurping noises while she does it. Every time I get distracted by the slurping and look, I get a dirty look in return like “what I’m just trying to make a vacuum, what’s the problem”.

I know it looks like I pay way too much attention to this breaker of the rules but how can I not? She makes so many chomping, crackling, slurping, gurgling, smacking, burping, dripping and sucking noises I can’t believe the rest of the people around me aren’t watching the spectacle as well. She reminds me of a granola version of the orange chicken massacre I saw back at De Anza. They both had the same eating habits accept this one makes a lot more noise and is currently chewing her cud right under a no food or drink sign. Am I the only one who makes these observations? Why am I so fascinated with the quirks of others? Yes, some people irritate me right off the bat but the rest I have to just stop and watch for a bit. Some times I feel like the world is just a big aquarium and I am following the big school of fish in the middle called the general public…..and occasionally tapping on the glass.

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Chomp, slurp, drip, burp repeat.

nobody@vox.com(KLETTERMAN) — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 08:55:42 -0800

OK, here goes another liberry rant.

There are signs ALL over the library stating no food or drinks allowed yet every day I see stupid people with drinks and snacks chomping away right next to one of these 50 or so signs. I guess they are all in the library to brush up on their “how to read a sign and follow directions” skills. Anyway, none of them are as bad as the girl that sits either sits at the table across the isle from me or behind me every day. She eats SO much food while she’s doing her home work that I’ll call her “Chester the Horse” because she sounds like a horse chewing grass behind me; a horse that is eating grass that is wrapped in cellophane packages. I swear it looks like she has a whole friggin 7-Eleven crammed in her bag. I am surprised she isn’t carrying one of those slushy machines on her back so she can get a frosty beverage when the need arises. Every day she eats the same thing too. The list is as follows:

1- Apple

1 – Package of cheese crackers

1 – Cookie

1 – Small bag of carrots

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Stupid mean phone

nobody@vox.com(KLETTERMAN) — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 11:50:09 -0800

My phone has the temperament of an eight year old. When ever I have to kill time I like to play Bejeweled but it seems to get irritated with me when I can’t see any moves. I swear I haven’t completed any more than one and a half levels in about 100 games. The screen is only 1 inch by 1 inch so I think it should cut me some slack but no, if it has to show me more than two moves per game I instantly get shut down. I guess my phone thinks I am too stupid to play Bejeweled and tries to save me the headache and embarrassment by ending the game early. I don’t like mean phones.

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MMMMMmmmm cakey

nobody@vox.com(KLETTERMAN) — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 11:37:41 -0800

Happy-Birthday

So I guess I am another year older today. At least that’s what they say any way. I wouldn’t have believed it either until I pulled out my driver’s license and it started laughing at me. Stupid I.D. card. Oh well. Today I will be celebrating my birthday by sitting on my ass in the school liberry for about four hours catching up on the work I missed from yesterday when I decided to keep my germs to myself and stay home. I wish the rest of the campus would be so greedy and try to keep their disease ridden ass at home when they have a cold. That is something that will probably piss me off for the rest of my life; those inconsiderate bastards that spread their funk because they can’t stay home and get better. Yeah I stayed home yesterday and came back today but I feel 100 times better and my nose is almost completely clear. Everyone keeps asking me what I want to do for my birthday. I keep telling them I don’t know…..Because I really don’t know. The only thing I can really use is cash but that would be an awkward gift from anyone. Maybe all I really need to some alone time with a cup of good coffee and a nice view of a sunset. That’s pretty simple I guess and it doesn’t take up any space in the garage when I am done with it. It’s pretty amazing how your priorities change as you get older. I used to always ask for a 6’blond that was really cute and was strong enough that she could carry me around on her shoulders. I don’t know why but that always seemed like it would be fun. She never seemed to show up though so I gave up on that. I think the coffee and sunset idea is a little more attainable so I’ll go with that. Last Sunday my buddy Hans was in town so he stopped by on the way home up north and we had lunch. We went to the local German restaurant and had some pretty good food and since we ate at the bar, we had a lot of yummy beer and a few stronger drinks. I forgot how fun it was to just hang out at a drinking establishment and “shoot the shite”. I haven’t seen or heard from to many people other than facebook since I moved up here and I was starting to wonder.

The weather this morning is perfect. It’s partly cloudy and in the upper 50’s. It nice and cool but not cool enough that you need to bundle up. The only thing ruining my perfect morning if the FA-18’s that are training today so it sounds like thunder every ten minutes when one of them launches in to the sky from the Portland Airport. I used to think that was pretty cool but lately it’s become a little annoying just because it’s so loud and so often. I guess it’s not so bad since they are keeping any meanies from paying us a visit.

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bad headache.......bad coffee

nobody@vox.com(KLETTERMAN) — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 11:34:14 -0700

Dumpingcoffee

Crap! My head hurts now! I spent a few hours in the math lab today to help out a guy in my class which is usually fine but today it was just really loud and distracting. I tried really hard to do my work but I kept making stupid mistakes over and over and over and all that did was irritate me so I ended up getting nothing done. The professor was sick as a dog on Tuesday then was out sick yesterday. I haven’t seen any notes saying she is going to be out today as well so I am assuming she is bringing he plague ridden self in to class. We have a test/mid-term tomorrow so I guess she wants to get us to study as much as possible before the test. I appreciate what she is doing but I think today would have been better spend studying at home. I have a raging headache so I am wasting time on the web to try and clear my mind. I should do fine of the test tomorrow so I am not too worried. Today is pretty cold and raining so I’ll happy when I finally get home so I can brew a pot of coffee and relax. That should make me a little more productive when I finish my homework. Speaking of coffee, I got a cup from the little snack bar here in the math building and I would have to say it was the worst coffee I’ve had in a LONG time. The only reason it perked me up was because it gave me a major case of heart burn. I guess you get what you pay for so the $1.00 price for a large should have given me a clue. “burp”

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Surviving the Mc Belly Buster

nobody@vox.com(KLETTERMAN) — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 10:35:50 -0700

For some strange reason I stopped at McDonalds for breakfast. Don’t ask me why, maybe it’s because I have been eating a lot of bagels from To Seize the Bagel and I didn’t want to seem like a stalker to the girl behind the counter. Instead I stopped by McDonalds and picked up a #4 with a coffee. Since I am a pro at eating up to a 4 course meal while driving I started to eat the hash brown which seemed to be the temperature of the sun and burned the crap out of my tongue. The hash brown ended up leaving a nice film on my tongue that didn’t wear off until I got to school 15 minutes later. When I got to school I ate the Mc Sausage Biscuit which instantly turned to glue. It seemed like it was going to get stuck in my throat I took a gulp of my Mc Coffee to wash it down and in doing so I found out that Mc Coffee is a multi-tasker; It not only washed the Mc Glue down my throat, it left a nice “you just drank yesterday’s burn coffee” taste in my mouth for about 30 minutes. I didn’t feel like throwing $4.50 in the trash so I finished the rest of it as quick as I could. The only reason I was in a hurry was because the guy who sits next to me in math is having issues so I told him I could help him out if he showed up to the Math lab at the crack of 8am. It was 7:15am and I was starving so Mickey D’s it is and will never be again. I guess the $4.50 was well spent after all because it’s sitting in my stomach like I ate a pound of grout so I don’t see myself getting hungry for a few more days. I think from now on I’ll just be a bagel stalker and leave the Mc Belly Busters to the pros.

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Come on VOX, it's not that hard....

nobody@vox.com(KLETTERMAN) — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 09:11:34 -0700

Hmmm, VOX seems to be throwing a tantrum and can't find any of the books I recently finished reading.

Umm here is the link to the book on Amazon anyway. It was pretty easy for me to find and I'm not a computer....

http://www.amazon.com/Outliers-Story-Success-Malcolm-Gladwell/dp/0316017922/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1256227395&sr=8-1#noop

I even found a picture....

Outliers

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Come on VOX, it's not that hard....

nobody@vox.com(KLETTERMAN) — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 09:11:28 -0700

Hmmm, VOX seems to be throwing a tantrum and can't find any of the books I recently finished reading.

Umm here is the link to the book on Amazon anyway. It was pretty easy for me to find and I'm not a computer....

http://www.amazon.com/Outliers-Story-Success-Malcolm-Gladwell/dp/0316017922/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1256227395&sr=8-1#noop

I even found a picture....

Outliers

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You said what!

nobody@vox.com(KLETTERMAN) — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 08:58:29 -0700

I mentioned keeping a blog in a writing assignment for school and the professor asked if I minded if she were to read it. HEH, I don’t know if that’s a good thing or a bad thing. Sure some of what I write is funny but on the other hand some of what I write is dark, gloomy and really bitchy. I don’t even let my mother read it. Any way, I told her I didn’t care but she would be reading at her own risk. If she does take a look at what I puke out on to the web, I hope she doesn’t start thinking I’m a loon. A lot of what I write IS whiney, bitchy and gloomy but its better to be like that electronically than in real life like I used to be.

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