In Coffee Spoons

The Muppets now have an official YouTube channel, which should allow them to screw around as they have not done since the TV show.

Glee.

GIMME THAT CHRISTIAN SIDE HUG

THAT CHRISTIAN SIDE HUG

Probably the only place to hear the line "I'm a rough rider/filled up with Christ's love" and definitely the only place to hear a rapper admonish you about being inappropriate.

You guys do realize that at this point you are parodying yourselves, right?

(via shoesonwrong)

Erin and I showed this to Mom the other night and said "This makes us think of you."



Since the conversation about the Sarah Palin bumper sticker on Dad's truck, Mom's been singing it and whacking her forehead.

This video? Kairi's fault. Entirely. Kairi's. Fault.

For whatever reason, I can't find a video of this on YouTube with embedding enabled. WTF?

Anyway.

Susan Boyle on Britain's Got Talent

Besides the jaw-drop of the performance itself, the before-and-after reactions are so damn delightful.

Me: Question one. The percutaneous transluminal--

Christian Bale: WALKING AROUND LIKE AH DAT DA DA DA DA

Me: Shhh, Mr. Bale, I'm taking a test. The percutaneous translu--

Christian Bale: OOOOOH GOOOOOOOD

Me: Not now, Mr. Bale! I am taking a test!

Christian Bale: DO YOU WANT ME TO GO TRASH YOUR FUCKING LIGHTS?

Me: Shut up!

Christian Bale: SHUT UP FOR A FUCKING SECOND ALREADY!

Me: CHRISTIAN BALE YOU STOP THIS RIGHT NOW I AM TAKING A FUCKING TEST.

Christian Bale: ...

Me: ...

Christian Bale: ...

Me: The percutaneous trans--

Christian Bale: SANTA FEEEEEEEEEEE

Me: *headdesk*



P.S. Passed the test.

There are a lot of people coming to Christian Bale's defense regarding his on-set rant, and I agree with them completely. There's a lot of talk regarding the pressures of acting and method acting in particular, the power of an emotional scene, the amount that he actually said versus the amount that his character said, etc. Pretty much every theatre person I've talked to has agreed that the DP was at fault.

But no one seems to be touching on the most important reason why this rant is defensible:

It was hot as all hell. Holy fuck. Hot as hell.


[01:46] Seiran79: I don't think I would mind being assaulted by Christian Bale. I mean, assuming he didn't go for my throat.
[01:47] Shinaichica: Assuming he didn't go for the throat I would imagine it would be somewhat pleasurable.
[01:48] Seiran79: It's so nice when my friends agree with me instead of suggesting I seek professional help.

English Comp I w/Writing Lab

What the hell why am I in this course. I wasn't able to test out of it, but was at least able to talk the advisor people out of putting me in College Reading I.

Me: I've taken advanced literature courses here.

Advisor: I see that in your records, but without the prerequisites I don't know h--

Me: I was an editorial assistant at the literary journal here.

Advisor: I see that in your records, but you aren't sup-

Other Advisor: Are you having trouble finding the code to override prerequisites? Cause it's this one. Right here. *click*

Intro to Computers

What why the hell am I in this course. Not only am I in it, but the online course filled up really quickly and so I'm stuck taking the in-person classroom version where the professor spends three hours talking about how to use Windows Vista and I spend three hours improving my chess game on Facebook. Things we covered in the first class:

• Starting your computer
  
• Logging on with your student ID
  
• Opening and navigating Blackboard
  
• Buying and using a USB drive
  
• Better control of the center by bringing bishops into play earlier
  

Intro to Health Software Systems

Exercept from syllabus course objectives:


Perform data quality analysis of the HI database
Understand statistical analysis of patient information and compute them
List and implement the elements of the UHD Data Set
Organize data elements in an MP Data Index


I am enrolled in this and in Intro to Computers simultaneously. Seriously.

Medical Terminology

This one is actually interesting in that "I am a tremendous nerd" kind of way; it's about memorizing roots, prefixes, and suffixes to translate individual terms. Yeah, I really am a nerd.

And as I mentioned on Facebook, I already know a ridiculous amount of this stuff thanks to television. (Actually, for all its raging inaccuracy, House is a good show if you just need hunks of medical jargon to translate for practice.


Since the majority of these are online and two of them are like the college equivalent of macaroni art, I want to try and add another course. There might be room in Accounting With Quickbooks, aka Spreadsheets Motherfucker.

For those of you who haven't been watching the Sarah Palin interviews, here's a summary: