The Downtown Tundra Mis-Adventure

Just got back from an oh-so-fun downtown adventure in my dad's giant 2009 Toyota Tundra. That truck should be banned from driving in cities. Its too damn big.

My little sister needed to get picked up from school and driven to Swedish Medical Center downtown (because this was the morning her car decided to make funny noises). Guess who had to drive her to school this morning at 7:40? Yeah. Me. Guess who'd had ~5 hours of sleep by then? Again, me.

Guess who was the super bitch from hell? Actually not me until provoked. 

My little sister kept bitching and switching the radio away from my favorite Seattle station. Until I'd had enough bullshit and turned the radio off. I'm a firm believer in "driver picks the music and shotgun shuts his/her cake-hole." 

Got home from that horrible drive and had a pretty good day.

Had to then drive out and pick her up from school (not fun) and then drive her downtown in the Tundra during afternoon traffic. Luckily it wasn't rush hour, but still, the freeway sucked and then the directions we had to the correct building were bullshit. Finally just dropped her off at the main entrance and told her to ask someone at the desk where she needed to be.

Five minutes later, stuck in gridlock traffic where I can't move, I get a call and she tells me I dropped her off at the wrong building. No shit we did. That's why we told her to ask the person at the counter because we didn't know which building she needed to be in.

I got to fight through downtown Seattle with half of 4th Ave closed to drivers and two busses which kept coming into my lane and then finally got home again to relax.

When I got in I found I got another accusing text from my sister:

"thanks for taking me to the wrong campus"

Fuck you, we followed the fucking directions you had for us. You should have thought of that bullshit the morning before and paid attention when we were driving around, not sit texting on your phone. We had no fucking clue where the damn building is, especially when the directions said "Cherry St. Campus" and we were on Cherry St. where the main entrance was before that whole street dead ended. Don't bitch me out because I tried and you wouldn't have faired any better on your own.

See if I drive you anywhere the rest of the week. 

You get to fucking walk.

Recent Events: and Now for Something Completely Different

Well, its been a long time since I last posted something... I guess life decided to rear up and swallow me whole.

So, a quick recap!

I graduate in under 2 months time! And then I get to jump right into another school! Is it sad that I'm ridiculously excited to start in on my Vet Tech program? Probably, but I'm a big science geek so its okay.

I had breakfast with the US ambassador to Mozambique. Which sounds absolutely awesome--which it was--but it was all set up by the Honor's college and the ambassador is a WSU Honor's alumni . I did get to ask her a question I'd spent time researching (about changes in the US's HIV/AIDS program support since the administration change) but some other classmates decided to deviate from the planned and researched questions. As interesting as Somali pirates are, I really did want to learn more about Mozambique.

I'm now 22! And I was able to celebrate my birthday with my family in Seattle for once!

Oh, and one more little thing...I'VE FINISHED MY THESIS! I put it off and put it off and finally ran out of time to procrastinate and pulled my project together and did it in a single month! The paper's done and submitted and I just have my defense to plan at the end of the month before I find out if I passed or not. I seriously hope, but really don't think it'll happen, that someone nominates me for "passing with distinction" because I spent so much time and did all the legal work and designs etc. My research partner is working on creating a poster for a competition from our project which I don't really have to do much work on other than showing up and helping on the presentation day.

Well, those are the only things I can think of that are really interesting...

A few random thoughts though:

-Have you ever noticed that after every Selsum Blue commercial there is a LectricShave commercial which immediately follows it? EVERY time. Seriously.

-Old Spice commercials are quickly becoming my favorite commercials ever! This new one: The Man Your Man Could Smell Like is great!

-And we finally have an answer to where Sauron got the idea for the One Ring from! And we can blame Beyonce!