History Channel @ MindSay

I saw something on the History Channel about the ancient Greeks and paleontology. They found evidence that the Greeks did in fact find ancient fossils and they were the basis of the various mythological monsters they created such as Grifins. It was pretty cool. If there was a paleontology minor at my school I would take it. I've always loved dinosaurs and I can't imagine how exciting it is when you first see those bones in the ground after a long and hard dig. The thing is that in the Aegean there's a lot of sand dunes and such so usually the bones would show themselves due to erosion or something of the like. The great scolars dismissed these sightings as just hearsay, but when scientists matched up fossil sightings from ancient Greece with dig sites in the Aegean, they correlation was almost 1 to 1. Tonight at 8:00 there's supposed to be something about stuff that's been banned from the Bible. There's proof right there that its been edited by man. If I remember its on and I'm done or close to being done packing then I might catch it, but if I miss it its not a big deal. It just sounds kinda fun.

 

So in other things...laundry's going and I cleaned the litter boxes. Now I just need to pack and shower later tonight. I don't expect Nam to call me again. I'm not expecting anything out of the phone call he gave me last night. If he wants to call me again then that's fine and we'll just talk some more. I felt kinda hurt at how naive some of you seem to think that I am. I don't want to get back together with him and I'm not expecting him to try to win my heart over agian. He's the one that abandoned me when I needed him most, so I don't think he's going to be interested in hooking up again any time soon. I do have to say, though, if we do get this friends thing off the ground then I am going to ask him about what Katie told me even though she asked me not to say anything. I just need to know the truth. The more I think about it the more I think that maybe he did tell me and I told him that I didn't think it was possible. I don't know. But in many ways it was cathartic. I woke up this morning and didn't feel bad about it and I feel like I can move on now. Not to say it doesn't hurt anymore, but I guess now I'm ok. Anyway, I think I need to get going because Leela is not only attacking my arm again, but my hair as well. She bit me on the soft, fleshy underside of my arm, and all I was doing was sitting here typing! :( also, just to clear this up again, Nam's not the one who did all the fucked up shit to me. the reason why I call my ex just my ex is because i'm still too traumatized to say his name much of the time, but if you pay close attention you'll catch it on here every now and then. ok, this kitten is really hurting my arm, I gotta go. later y'all.

 

oh yeah, and here's something strange for you all to enjoy: http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/318854

 

(lol, i put one of Brian's T-shirts over her head and that kept her busy for a while. :P Now she's attacking me...)

Watched a lot of Animal Planet and the History Channel today. The former had a mini wolves marathon tonight, but because i'm a lazy fuck up I've missed it. stupid self. Watched more TV. Played more Sims 2. ate. Played with Leela. I'm thinking that I smell funny. Tomorrow we may go to the Greek Festival. Yay, more food. Because I really need that. Also, apparently my grandpas have decided to pass down the salmon buying/preping/cooking tradition of our annual family picnic reunion thingy to my dad. My mom's dad's brother made a DVD for my dad showing this and sent it to him. Like and idiot, i figured I'd watch it because ever the tom boy, if for some dumb fucking reason I still have contact with my family when I'm older I want to take on that responsibility. (Unfortunately it doesn't require gutting, although I would also like to learn how to gut a fish one day.) The DVD had footage from picnics over the past two years, which meant this: there was a two and three chance I'd see my ex and a one in three chance I'd see Nam. Luckily it was the latter of the two. I would have much rather seen neither of them, but I prepped myself with the possibility that there'd be some footage with one of them on there and if it had been my ex I probably would have lost it. With Nam, though, I just kind of giggled and let that be that. I'm very happy that I was watching it from the kitchen and not in the actual room with my parents because I probably would have become subject to scrutiny, but everything ended up as ok as they could have been. I have to be honest, though. If I hadn't found Nam's myspace months ago I probably would have reacted differently. I haven't seen him since last August, and I guess it was good for me to see those pictures of him and snap then instead of it happening earlier today. I'm pretty sure that that's everything that's going on in my life, so with all the negative emotions aside, that's it. I guess its time for more Sims 2 for me now. Its odd, I feel like my life was so much more interesting before, but I know it actually wasn't at all.

I had a very strange experience whilst watching tv the other day, one of those rare occurances which makes on doubt one's own senses: was watching a documentary on the History Channel about Roman Engineering (so far, so good).  You know how they interperse talking heads throughout the whole show (John Doe, Harvard University, for instance). Well, halfway through the show Peter Weller pops us, & it said Peter Weller, Syracuse University. Yes.  Robocop himself.  Or as I prefer to remember him, Buckeroo Banzai.  At the next commercial break, I googled him.  Apparently, he really is a professor at Syracuse & an expert on Roman society.  And his classes are extremely popular there.  Talked with a friend of mine--a PhD candidate in history,  expert in the Civil War--that it would be nice if someone like Jennifer Aniston took an interest in his field, & kind of sexed it up, too.