Expostulations · of · Unreason

Tis the beginning of a new year, and a new semester. Therefore, my roommate and I have compiled this list of college survival tips to help those of you unfortunate enough to find yourselves with nothing better to do than read our blog. Lucky you.

1. Avoid Pembroke (do this, and the universe shall shine upon you).
2. Ramen is NOT your friend. Ramen is NOT edible. Ramen is NOT of this Earth.
3. Never room with your friends. There are some people that you are not meant to room with. Odds are its them.
4. If your roommate goes insane, that's okay. You're probably crazy, too.
5. Room with someone you don't know. You won't feel as guilty when you're hiding the body.
6. Don't mock the native population. They fight back. With guns.
7. Microsoft is the agent of evil. Buy Mac.
8. Unleash your inner creativity: change university policy.
9. Refuse to support price jacking. Boycott the university bookstore.
10. Know the ends and outs of the administration. Then exploit them.


Remember, graduation is just around the corner. That is, if you can make it through four years of cafeteria food and stay one step ahead of the campus police.

Good luck. You'll need it.

Me as ... Quail Man! The uber-cool superhero who defeats his nemeses through intelligence, speed, patience and the dreaded Quail Eye! None can resist its power to make them feel helpless and stupified. Now I must be off - my public needs me! BobWHITE!!! *ZOOM*





Matt and Rachel as a really old couple. Like from the 1870s. So they're older than Coke AND Pepsi (pause in wonderment). If this were a Quail Man episode, I'm sure it would involve either them trying to take over a small village in Iowa by making everyone wear old timey clothes ... or me saving them because Rachel tripped over her hem, taking Matt - gravity's nemesis - down with her in the mother of all nose-dives.

Of course, that would have to unleash an avalanche of destruction *somehow* - these actions films never get going without a mistake of mass stupidity (which is where Q-Man comes in).




And Grant - er, Beetleguese. Hmm. He'd be the supremely-intelligent, slightly crazed (and decaying) genius. Probably pushes Rachel to start the destruction. Or ties her shoelaces. You know, something really evil and despicable.

Eh, rambling again.

Happy belated Halloween, people!

Avoiding the phrase “I don’t have time...”, will soon help you to realize that you do have the time needed for just about anything you choose to accomplish in life.
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-Bo Bennett, "Year to Success"

Whoever said that anyone has the right to give up? - Bathroom stall

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to the light that I have. - Abraham Lincoln

Embrace the moment. In the end, that's all we have. Trouble will come in its own time, it always does. But that's tomorrow. Give me today, and I will be happy. - Babylon 5

You will tell them yes. - Nike ad

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.

Do noble things.

Confidence come from not always being right but from not fearing to be wrong.

True friends are always there.

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

To hope is to believe there is a way. - Frances Renelle-Short

What we do for others remains immortal.

Don't quote: tell me what you think. - Emerson

1. Ivanova is God. vs. Janeway is lost.
2. A Bab5 episode isn’t neatly ended in the last 5 minutes
3. Kes is only a P1
4. Tell me we won’t have poverty in the future !
5. Reversable transporter accidents vs. Actual bodily harm (Just ask G’Kar)
6. PPGs don’t have a ‘STUN’ setting.
7. You don’t get paid in Star Trek.
8. Relationships on B5 last more than one convenient episode.
9. The characters and Voyager change so little, they might as well be in stasis.
10. Ivanova is always right. vs. Janeway is usually wrong.
11. Babylon 5 has romance. vs. Voyager is Puritans Lost in Space.
12. People stay dead on B5.
13. B5 has computer generated graphics vs. Voyager has a computer generated Plot
14. You will never see the head of a voyager character on a pike….Wave.
15. B5 characters evolve over time. vs. ST characters devolve, then recover, in a single episode.
16. Three letters: J-M-S.
17. Babylon 5’s name comes from an important historical reference. vs. Voyager is named after a mini-van.
18. Garibaldi… and Duck Dodgers and the 24th and 1/2 Century!
19. ST nicknames: “Bones” vs. B5 nicknames: “Star Killer.”
20. B5 has Bester vs. ST has Chekov.
21. One word: Revolution.
22. Holodeck vs. Down-below.
23. The characters on B5 are anatomicaly superior (just ask Londo)
24. the good guys and girls wear black.
25. Janeway will have a shoulder for Garibaldi to cry on vs. Ivanova will have him shot on sight.
26. On B5 Marcus is a virgin and it’s a big deal. vs. On -any- ST show, they never admit to having sex.
27. I couldn’t sleep the night “Zha’ha’dum” aired. vs. I sleep DURING ST:V
28. Straczynski freed Narn, and it was a WARM UP episode!
29. ST: Dragging it’s butt on putting in GLBT characters. vs. B5: Ivanova and Talia.
30. In B5 the dock workers actually go on strike.
31. Star furies do excellent 3D manouvers with realistic inertia. vs. Voager kinda sits there and fires.
32. Babylonian Productions actually likes the idea of fans vs. Paramount likes only the idea of more money. (see the Online Freedom Federation on Paramounts attempts to shut down Star Trek Websites run by fans)
33. B5:influenced by Tolkein vs. V’ger:influenced by money.
34. On B5 the Maquis wouldn’t be ‘re-educated’ but told you’re the type we want - go kick Shadow butt’
35. On Babylon 5 you have Heros. vs. In ST:Voy you have Zeros.
36. If Clark were running the Federation, Janeway probably wouldn’t break away to oppose him.
37. B5 characters are spurred to action by their principles vs. V’ger characters just hide behind them.
38. Ships that have (gasp) momentum!
39. B5 has a direction, Voyager dosn’t (Probably because they don’t know space has 3 dimentions.
40. ISN broadcasted Voyager episodes on Earth during Clark’s regime.
41. The Battle of the Line vs. Wolf 359.
42. Sheridan: Sees a less-developed planet under attack, starts a war with a vastly superior race. vs. Janeway: Sees a less-developed planet under attack, and uses the Prime Directive to cover her ass.
43. On voyager, everybody listens to Neelix. vs. On B5, nobody ever listens to Zathras !
44. Plot complexity : On b5: you miss one line and you are confused for the rest of the season. vs. On voyager: you catch last 5 minutes of the episode and you already understand the entire episode.
45. ST: Last minute solution saves the race. vs. B5: last minute solution too late, race dies.
46. Number of times B5 has been taken by hostile forces: 0 vs.
Number of times V’ger has been taken by hostile forces: 3 (4 if you count holographic Nazis)

the above from a Bab5 website.

366 days ago, I returned from the land Down Under! I was never so happy in my life to see the American Flag flying above the LA airport. After 6 months of life in Aussie, I was back in the USA.

Oh yeah, there were tears when I reunited with my family. 6 months is a long time to not see one another.

So it's been one year, and since then I have traveled to Canada and England. I am beginning to notice a trend in my travels - English-speaking and formerly owned by the British.

And I still keep in contact with Cindy, my roomie from Aussie. She is from France, and recently got a job in London.

So yay! Been back one year!







I totally took these pics! Further proof that I was in Sydney (New South Wales is a state in Australia. Sydney is a city in that state).