I saw a cardinal today. It looked so vivid against the snowy bushes it was perched on. Even though I’ve been living below the 49th parallel for almost seven years, spotting wildlife with such brilliant colour is still stunning and makes my pupils widen. The same thing happens with blue jays. The animals back home are all pretty drab. Little variation from black, brown and white… Still a full grown moose is pretty impressive and thrilling too. Bleah. This post is going nowhere. I’m dazed and fazed. More than half of my total lecture time for the week is crammed into a Prof-a-rific Thursday. During my two hour break I tune in and funk off to my favorite radio show, Super Groover Thursday. It is funky disco Motown stuff and I love it.
It makes me want to get into a 1976 green Monte Carlo with bad shocks, go pick up my Jamaican buddy Ricky and drive slowly down the main street in a run down, pawn shop inundated neighborhood. And when we go over the train tracks the car shakes and jiggles for five blocks while I drive slowly and lean way back with Barry White or the Bee Gees on the radio. Then we go pick up a big old bright blue couch at a discount used furniture store, strap it to the roof of the old menthol monster and head back the other way with Captain and Tennille or Parliament Funkadelic playing. And this time the car bounces even higher and longer as we cruise back over the tracks. Then we go back to his place and watch the Muppet Show on his new funky old couch. Actually, I want to watch the Muppet show right now. Specifically Pigs in Space. I could go for some Beaker and Swedish Chef action too.
Let’s see, what other random crud can I cram into this masterpiece? I had a caramel cappuccino donut at Tim Horton’s for the first time today (actually two of them with some timbits thrown in) Scrumdiddliumptious. Their best donut of the month since the now legendary chocolate snowflake, retired into the donut hall of fame with other memorable greats such as, glazed walnut and that orange and black Halloween one. What the hell were those called?… I forget but they were delicious.
I’ve been making good on my pledge to drink one glass of wine or a beer every night. There was a verified study that confirmed the health benefits of having a single drink a day. It has to do with oxidation. The practice has been causing me to wake up at 3am and have some pretty spectacular nightmares. Or it could be the stress and turmoil I suppose… February is marmoset month on my monkey calendar. Judging by his expression, I would say he’s worrying about his thesis and getting his degree.
Or maybe where he’s going to live in a few months. Still adorable though.
Last month it was a squirrel monkey who looked like he was just trying to reach an itch.
The Ancient Undergrad 
Ooooooo we have blue jays here that look like blue and black cardinals. Or maybe that’s what they really look like and the blue, white, and gray blue birds that I call blue jays are actually not blue jays… hmmm.Thursdays are also major suckage, 3 lectures and a section. Used to be 4 lectures and a section, but I got to drop a lecture ryc: indeed my stupid layout isn’t working with Firefox. I usually use IE but I’ve been wanting to try out Firefox so I downloaded it tonight. Ummm, not sure what to do about this. I’m too lazy to change my layout now. A lot of shit doesn’t work on Firefox does it? Maybe you can try a different browser? Waah! I’m so sorry.
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I’m guessing you didn’t get my e-mail again. It’s snoopmtu@hotmail.com.
What kinds of nightmares? Scary!
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Ta-da! All better for Firefox users heheh. Had to modify the html code a bit, I initially took the easy way and did a cut and paste but I had to go look at the code. Don’t know what to do about this damn Garfield comic though…
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and how, pray tell, could you possibly make fun of it??? no, go right ahead! lets see what you’ve got; but be wary- comparing one’s self to “monkey calendars” leaves a lot to be worked with… i’m all over the drink-a-day diet however. tonite’s drink of choice: green apple smirnoff. sure, maybe lacking the health benefits of wine or beer, but its yummy. 🙂 i’ll have a sam adams tomorrow to make up for it.
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When you have to cram random crud into it, the masterpiece suffers.
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Oooo.. don’t talk Timbits!! *whines* It’s so sad when a Canadian misses Tim Hortons donuts when away in a foreign country! They have no more donut stores in this county… and only that Krispy Kreme krap at stores. My computer desk is right near the balcony doors in the apartment. I watch the birds outside all the time. Strangely, I haven’t seen any cardinals this year when last year they were so abundant. The most fun times are watching the young birds wrestle. Oh yes, birds wrestle!!! *L*
RYC: It would have been hilarious if the Neutron Dance were playing as running montage music!! Or maybe the song, Montage, from ‘Team America’! *LOL* It was just some random fast beat dance music… Maybe a la ‘Run, Lola, Run.’ You do realize you put Piiiiiigs iiiiiiiiin Spaaaaaaaaaace in my head now!!
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Masterpiece was sarcasm. The neutron dance is my answer to everything.
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I am the same way with nature… I have lived in Colorado all my life, and i love it here… the displays of life are so amazing… Cardinals are my favorite birds though and I am hoping to see one someday. Anyways… just wanted to say that I love your posts… smiles usually cover my face after reading.
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did you subscribe to yourself???
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Yeah, February just doesn’t seem to be the best month. Sure, it has valentine’s day, but anymore it’s just not as fun because of all the anti valentine’s people. I’ve made up much better holidays. Sorry for the delay in reading your xanga…but I’ve just been super busy. Much love, cookies, and caramel cappuccino donuts!
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i loved the muppet show. i wish it was still on tv. i don’t want to buy it on dvd though because i’d be too lazy to play it.
i would kill to have an opportunity to use scrumpdiddliumptious and marmoset in one entry!
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