Blogsdon

First of all, everyone keeps complaining that I'm not blogging anymore, but that is far from the truth -- it's just that hardly any of you followed me to where I told you I was spending my time! Don't yell at me for your own shortcomings. I'm very active on Facebook, and I'm also still UBER busy writing tons of articles for Associated Content (that none of you are commenting on). So don't point any fingers at me! I didn't think anyone was reading this silly little blog anyway, but maybe I am wrong.

Secondly, my child is about to graduate from high school and we've been UBER busy researching and visiting local colleges. He has actually submitted two applications this past week and since everywhere else he wants to go costs an arm and a leg and his [way in the distant] future firstborn, he's not going to apply anywhere else. So the first choice is Eastern Carolina University, which is somehow affiliated with the University of North Carolina, and the second choice is NC State. Eastern Carolina is two hours away, northeast from Raleigh. NC State is about 10 minutes from my work in downtown Raleigh. Either way he intends to live in the dorm, so I'm busy looking for renters for his room. I'm totally kidding. (Unless it's Vin Diesel, in which case he doesn't have to pay rent.) If he doesn't get accepted into either school then I have no idea what we'll do with him. We already have our two-month cruise booked, so he'll have to fend for himself. Again, totally kidding. (Unless Vin Diesel will be on the cruise.)

Thirdly, I have also applied at Eastern Carolina -- for their Graduate program in Communications. They offer the degree online, so it'd be UBER convenient. Their in-state tuition rates are fantastic, and since we've lived here a year now we finally qualify. The problem is I have to take the MAT (Miller's Analogy Test) and pass with at least a 390 and I'm not confident whatsoever that I can accomplish that. Everyone tells me I'm crazy and of course I can pass it -- but no one understands that I don't know many "basic" things that most people were taught in school, like who Voltaire is, and that a pH of 7 is neutral, and that "Eros" is the same thing as "Cupid" and so on and so forth, because my first years of college were spent in Nursing school -- and evidently the school system doesn't think things like Shakespearean plays are important for nurses. Anyway, add to that knowledge-deficit the fact that I only having 30 seconds for each analogy question and I've got myself all wound up and UBER stressed out of my mind.

I can see you all playing the violin for me. I appreciate it. You all make beautiful music.

SARAH PALIN: Before it got to the other side, I shot the chicken,cleaned and dressed it, and had chicken burgers for lunch.
BARACK OBAMA: The chicken crossed the road because it was time for a change! The chicken wanted change!
JOHN MC CAIN: My friends, that chicken crossed the road because he recognized the need to engage in cooperation and dialogue with all the chickens on the other side of the road.
HILLARY CLINTON: When I was First Lady, I personally helped that little chicken to cross the road. This experience makes me uniquely qual ified to ensure right from Day One that every chicken in this country gets the chance it deserves to cross the road. But then, this really isn't about me.
GEORGE W. BUSH: We don't really care why the chicken crossed the road. We just want to know if the chicken is on our side of the road, or not. The chicken is either against us, or for us. There is no middle ground here.
DICK CHENEY: Where's my gun?
COLIN POWELL: Now to the left of the screen,you can clearly see the satellite image of the chicken crossing the road.
BILL CLINTON: I did not cross the road with that chicken. What is your definition of chicken?
AL GORE: I invented the chicken.
JOHN KERRY: Although I voted to let the chicken cross the road, I am now against it! It was the wrong road to cross, and I was misled about the chicken's intentions. I am not for it now, and will remain against it.
AL SHARPTON: Why are all the chickens white? We need some black chickens.
DR. PHIL: The problem we have here is that this chicken won't realize that he must first deal with the problem on this side of the road before it goes after the problem on the other side of the road. What we need to do is help him realize how stupid he's acting by not taking on his current problems before adding new problems.
OPRAH: Well, I understand that the chicken is having problems, which is why he wants to cross this road so bad. So instead of having the chicken learn from his mistakes and take falls, which is a part of life, I'm going to give this chicken a car so that he can just drive across the road and not live his life like the rest of the chickens.
ANDERSON COOPER, CNN: We have reason to believe there is a chicken, but we have not yet been allowed to have access to the other side of the road.
NANCY GRACE: That chicken crossed the road because he's guilty! You can see it in his eyes and the way he walks.
PAT BUCHANAN: To steal the job of a decent, hardworking American.
MARTHA STEWART: No one called me to warn me which way that chicken was going. I had a standing order at the Farmer's Market to sell my eggs when the price dropped to a certain level. No little bird gave me any insider information.
DR SEUSS: Did the chicken cross the road? Did he cross it with a toad? Yes, the chicken crossed the road, but why it crossed I've not been told.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY: To die in the rain, alone.
GRANDPA: In my day we didn't ask why the chicken crossed the road. Somebody told us the chicken crossed the road, and that was good enough.
BARBARA WALTERS: Isn't that interesting? In a few moments, we will be listening to the chicken tell, for the first time, the heart warming story of how it experienced a serious case of molting, and went on to accomplish its lifelong dream of crossing the road.
ARISTOTLE: It is the nature of chickens to cross the road.
JOHN LENNON: Imagine all the chickens in the world crossing roads together, in peace.
BILL GATES: I have just released eChicken 2008, which will not only cross roads, but will lay eggs, file your important documents, and balance your checkbook. Internet Explorer is an integral part of eChicken 2008. This new platform is much more stable and will never crash or need to be rebooted.
ALBERT EINSTEIN: Did the chicken really cross the road, or did the road move beneath the chicken?
COLONEL SANDERS: Did I miss one?

Um, how do they know which Wachovia branch is my branch? I opened the account in Maryland. I do most of my transactions at the one near work. I suppose it could be something as simple as whichever branch is physically closest to my home address, but still -- it freaks me out.

Don't read my mind. It's private.

Every time we go to the Korean BBQ place, they try to feed us gross stuff. Luckily there's enough non-gross stuff to keep us going back, but these little fishies staring at me while I'm eating just somehow freak me out. How do people eat them???

In case you all thought I was lost, this is where I've been spending my time.

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