Nov

30

Didn’t See That One Coming

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I awoke early today with grand aspirations of going out and fixing fence before making an early departure back to the land of school and homework and meetings and papers and yuck. I’m going to stop right there.

I rolled over in bed, looked out my window and saw THIS:


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Oh well. Good intentions, best laid plans, blah blah blah.

I love the first snow of the season! I always get excited when it snows.

But I REALLY need to fix fence.

Nov

28

T-Giving

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I was going to write up a nice little post about our Thanksgiving Day festivities, but I think these pictures pretty much speak for themselves.



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I just wish I’d snapped a photo of whatever angel descended straight from heaven to deliver upon us manna in the form of the mashed potatoes.

OH WAIT, that was me.

Nov

24

From the Field

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I’m blogging right now from the floor right outside my classroom where I have animal nutrition class.

I had a test today, which was going well. There was one problem in particular that I was feeling pretty good about. We had to figure out the Crude Protein Equivalence when given a chemical formula. This type of thing really only has a couple steps, and the problem was worth 40 points.

I completed everything and left the classroom. And then I remembered that I forgot to do the last step of the problem, the part that converts the percentage of nitrogen to the crude protein equivalent.

40 points.

Down the drain.

I crumpled to the ground and there was gnashing of teeth and rending of clothes.

So here I lay. On the floor right outside my classroom where I have animal nutrition class. I’ve lost the will to go on.

I’m going to stay here forever. Or at least until tomorrow, when I get to go home for Thanksgiving break.

Nov

22

Underachieving

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Are you kidding me?! Let me assure that that kind of stuff does NOT happen around here. I can’t even get Maizy to poop in the litterbox.

Which reminds me, I want to apologize to anyone who read the comments on that last entry and was scandalized by my sister Lil’s use of the term “poop shake.” I can’t take her anywhere. Not even the internet.

Anyhoo, I had to make a special trip out to go buy MORE ferret food today. They’re going through it like crazy these days. Where is it all going, I ask?

OH WAIT, MAYBE IT’S GOING HERE:

We’re getting ready for winter!

Nov

20

I Don’t Get It

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Dear World,

Alright, it is time for me to get confrontational.

I don’t like Starbucks. I really don’t understand your obsession with it.

I mean sure, I understand that there’s no accounting for [bad] taste, but the way you go on and on about Starbucks, you’d think there was crack in their drinks.

Is that it? Is there crack in it? Is that the disgusting chemical taste?

I’ve ordered many drinks there, thinking that SURELY I was just missing something. But I’ve been severely disappointed in the quality of my purchase each and every time. I usually end up thinking “I can’t believe I paid $[too much] for this crap!” before tossing it.

Maybe you can explain it to me. I will listen to your reasoning, but I must ask you to first tell me whether or not you think Louis Vuitton purses are attractive so that I can properly gauge whether or not to believe you when it comes to matters of good taste.

With Guarded Affection,
Kalin

Nov

19

Because Napping Without Ruining Someone Else’s Clean Laundry is So Lame

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Wordless Wednesday

Nov

17

To-Do

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I am all about To-Do lists. I always seem to run into a stumbling block, though. I normally write down my to-do lists in my handy dandy planner. Lately I’ve been kind of overwhelmed with stuff that needs to get done. It doesn’t really matter WHEN it gets done, as long as it DOES. As soon as possible is ideal, but y’know… there’s wiggle room.

So I write stuff down, and usually there is something at the top of the list that I don’t REALLY want to do. And in utilizing my impressive Advanced Procrastination Techniques, I don’t do ANYTHING on the list because for some reason I get it stuck in my head that that thing I don’t want to do HAS to go first. It is dumb.

And there is nothing I hate more than having to scribble things out in my planner and move them to the next day to try to get them done. There have been weeks where things just get transfered day to day to day. I was lying earlier when I said there’s nothing I hate more than that. There’s a lot more I hate more than that. I’m going to put “Use less hyperbole on blog” on my to-do list, but I can’t promise it’ll get done.

I digress.

So I’ve started just writing down deadlines in my planner and keeping a separate, massive to-do list, filled with every imaginable task I need to accomplish. I write it on a notepad I keep near my desk and the list covers several pages. I like to write it with colorful markers because that keeps things interesting! Also, the ink doesn’t run when my tears soak the page.

I like to use these to-do lists to impress people, too. I walk up to strangers and thrust the sheaf of papers in their face and aggressively spit out, “You think YOUR life is bad?! LOOK AT MY TO-DO LIST.” And if I’m luck they get scared and don’t look at it. Sometimes they do look at it and see that I’ve written down stuff like emailing Santana’s breeder to see if there are any pictures of his sire I could see. That kind of stuff doesn’t elicit a whole lot of sympathy.

I will make a mental note to stop oversharing about my to-do list.

Better yet, I will write that ON my to-do list.

And I will cross it off…

Riiiight.

NOW.

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