Vice Presidential Debate Drinking Game

For those who can't make it to my oh-so-entertaining vice presidential debate party on October 2nd, here is my oh-so-entertaining drinking game. Feel free to suggest others!

Vice Presidential Debate Drinking Game

Take one drink if:
A candidate goes over their time limit
A candidate says the name of a U.S. state or foreign country
A candidate says “terrorism”, “Islamic extremists”, or “September 11th”
Sarah Palin says:
that she is a hockey mom
that she lives right next to Russia
that John McCain was a POW
that she is the only candidate that has executive experience
that she said “thanks, but no thanks” to Congress about the “bridge to nowhere”
that she or McCain is a maverick and/or a reformer
that she took on the “good ol’ boys network”
“Gwen” (the moderator's name)
“Hilary Clinton”
“nukular”
her husband is referred to as "the first dude"
Joe Biden says:
that he rides the train to work
the word “change”
something about his mother
the term “Washington insider”
the term “Four more years”
he has been the chairman of the Foreign Relations committee
that McCain has voted with Bush 90% of the time

Take two drinks if:
A candidate mentions a foreign leader or U.S. governor by name
The network cuts to ad break in the middle of a Biden tirade
Joe Biden calls Sarah Palin out for claiming that she said “thanks, but no thanks” to that “bridge to nowhere”

Take three drinks if:
The moderator stops a candidate for a rule violation.

Finish your drink if:
The candidate back talks to the moderator for calling the violation.
Joe Biden calls Sarah Palin “pretty” or “attractive”
Joe Biden says the word "lipstick"

If you find this slanted somewhat against Palin, that is (1) my personal bias coming through, and (2) because she's just so much more quotable than Biden!
:)
Enjoy!

A little funny

If I weren't already sold... ;)
Just something to make you giggle!

Warning...

Ok...So, I've sucked with keeping this blog up to date, but I'm just gonna warn you all now...I will most likely be turning this blog into a political forum for the next couple of months. I welcome good spirited debate (Josh, that is absolutely directed at you...I expect some good comments!), I actually plead for it, however personal attacks are not welcome. If you post well-thought-out comments, I will respond. If you post "that's stupid" comments, or some variation thereof, I will not post, and just simply delete.
Thanks!
Summer

Life Changes: School and Work Insanity

So, wow, interesting week and a half, lemme tell ya…

First:

I GRADUATED!!!!

Wahoo! I am officially a college grad…and only .04 GPA below graduating cum laude :( C’est la vie, oui?

Yeah, that graduation thing was an experience…between the sheer insanity of trying to get my family and friends organized to get to the various events on time and then my poor mother falling during the ceremony and splitting her knee open…well, let’s just say that I definitely enjoyed the whole relaxing on the beach while drinking margaritas on Sunday for my grad party.

Second:

Remember my blog a little while ago lamenting the fact that I don’t have a job after the 17^th? Yeah, well that didn’t really happen.

After I finished my audit on the 17^th, my replacement comes up to me and says that he really needs to tell me something and that it’s just between us (well, and now the whole world, but whateva…). As he closes the door to my office I think he’s going to tell me that Tom talked to him and told him that after the audit today he was going to let me go.

Turns out..not so much…

He was pulling me aside to let me know that he had given his notice the night before.

Huh?

Yeah, well, apparently he hit that brick wall that I’ve been bashing my head against repeatedly this last year and a half and decided he just wasn’t the masochist that I apparently am and decided to leave now.

Good for him, I say.

So, fortunately, or unfortunately (depending on how you look at it), I am still employed at my job.

So, I still have a steady income for now (the fortunate part) along with the time off for my two trips: the Alaskan cruise my mom got me for graduation (we leave tomorrow!) and the trip in July to Texas to meet part of my dad’s family.

Of course, this also means that the time off that I was beginning to look forward to isn’t going to happen now (the unfortunate part).

I’m sure Matt’s happier about the steady income part though!

Getting old

I think I have just discovered what it feels like to get old.

I think it's something like:

Staying up until midnight to work on a paper

Getting up at 6:30 to go to work

Feeling like I have a hangover

Even though I didn't have a sip of alcohol yesterday


All the pain...none of the pleasure!

So close...

One final down...only one more to go! Woohoo!!!

So.
Very.
Close.
Almost.
Done.

Then....

















!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Reading Nirvana

And, no, I'm not talking about an unauthorized biography of Kurt Cobain.

I don't often recommend books because half the time I am reading academic books for classes (only for one more week though!) and the other half of the time I am devouring brainless novels for the sheer escapism of focusing intently on something that doesn't challenge my poor beleaguered brain.

However, this time I seem to have found a happy medium.

After my travels to Italy, a good friend of mine recommended "Eat Pray Love" to me. It is a story about "one woman's search for everything across Italy, India, and Indonesia".

I'm generally not a huge fan of non-fiction books because I find that they either aren't remotely applicable to my life and/or are not remotely entertaining. Amazingly, this book is both (for *me* at least).

There are parts of Elizabeth Gilbert and her experiences that I identify with so strongly that my eyes are widened with shock as I nod my head up and down so vigorously while reading. Of course, there are also parts where I thank the good lord that I'm NOT like her. And in between giggles and tears, there are the parts that make me look within myself and ask if I could ever let myself be as vulnerable as she is making herself by writing this book; if I could ever let myself really look at the root of my thoughts and insecurities and grow with them and past them.

And I'm only halfway through the darn book!

So, I guess I'm just throwing it out there that I am engrossed in this book, and maybe, hopefully, you can be too. It's one of the very few non-fiction books that I have found that manages to keep me entertained while at the same time challenging me without making my brain hurt. :)