This is a non-squeeish/screamy/capslocky post...okay, there will be some capslocking. Ahh hell, there will be squeeing too. But not screamy! I'll try to hold off on the screamy!

( It's about Doctor Who. Yeah. Its over now so maybe I can get a life )

I had an epiphany in the shower regarding Donna's fate...I seem to have come out of that fugue state I was in when it came to me...but here is the gist of it...

( I really hope I'm wrong though )

Oh i so badly want to be a bum today but I can't because I have thesis work to do...ahh well. All the sooner to get home...

Doctor Who...

What. What? WHAT?!?!?!

( Oh fuck no!! )

Ahem. Anyway.

Random Fact of the Day: There is an expiration date on Astronaut Ice Cream? Seriously?

OH MY GOD "TURN LEFT" WAS SO FUCKING AWESOME I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO WITH MYSELF!!!!

( Read more... )

...holy crap its 2 am? Seriously? And I'm not even that tired...geez...

I just finished watching 27 Dresses which was pretty good and the first disc from Wonderfalls which was so very awesome and so very cancelled. Because, you know, I'm a masochist and whatnot. I have this need to pick up TV series that were given the ax way too early.

Now that I'm awake, for once my dog is sleeping. The past few nights she has been on some form of doggy crack and has not wanted to sleep. I think she might have another UTI because she's drinking constantly and wanting to go outside to pee. I set up an appointment with the vet tomorrow just to check. Because I held off on going to get her ears checked and she ended up having a bad enough ear infection to warrant a shot of dexamethasone to get the swelling in her ear canal down.

I don't have to work this weekend...yaaaay. I think this is the first time this year that I've had 2 weekends off in a row from feeding ponies. Ohhh glorious.

Auuuggghhh...just watched a David Cook interview and he was originally going to sing "All Along the Watchtower" during Rock 'n' Roll week...that would have been kick ass...argghh...

Okay, a slight fog of sleepiness is hitting me...i'm going to attempt to sleep...we'll see what happens. My crackhead dog will probably decide now is a good time to wake up or something.

Sometimes the edge serves as more than a friend than you thought it would be. And the pages you write in your journal each night are your only release. And the mask you put on it’s like words in a song but there’s more to be seen. And the failures you see don’t seem failures to me here at all.

Its halfway through the episode...but I'm a bit panicked so i'm going to start some commentary

( Here we go!! )

Uhhh...I think the trailer for the 2nd half of Doctor Who just made me wet my pants a little. Spoilers, obviously.



Also, I read Twilight...there goes several hours of my life that I'll never get back again. Sparkly vampires. What? What? What?!? That was the lamest shite I believe I've ever read...not to mention it takes 3/4 of the book to get to any kind of damn PLOT. And everything up to that is "I love you" "No, I love you more" "No no, I love you more" "No, I love you and want to eat you" "I lov--wait, what?" I really want to punch Bella in the head. Multiple times. Not to mention her clumsiness seems to be exaggerated to anime-like levels and that just in general annoys me.

Could write more...but I'm not going to. Nap instead, then take Molly for a walk...later y'all

You not compare the last 4 contestants in American Idol to the mother effing BEATLES. Blasphemers!! I think I threw up in my mouth a little. Adam Levine cracked me up though...and I swear to god if Jason Castro does not go home tonight, I will call shenanigans. I'll do it!! Just watch me!!

Okay, so I had an extreme Whovian moment this afternoon. I was driving to the barn and I passed a car that had ATMOS energy printed on the car. Of course I thought "Sontaran!!" and then realized I was a huge dork.

Lookie!! New Icon!! I finally got Photoshop back on this new PC...and PS CS3 no less *drool*

I get to go home on Friday...I am so very very excited. I've been talking a lot to Kim (well, I usually talk a lot with Kim) but today was especially hilarious. I was at the store looking for stuff for my hair which is currently rebelling against me and on the phone with Kim...

[Me]: I'm looking for some kind of pomade for my hair to keep down the frizziness
[Kim]: What? Pomade? Isn't that...oh, not the pomegranate drink
[Me]: No...but I do have that in my basket right now (Pom Peach Passion White Tea is the shiznit y'all)

a little later...

[Me]: Maybe I should try this anti-frizz balm
[Kim]: Bomb?
[Me]: No, Balm. B-A-L-M. Yes, bomb, I'm going to blow my hair up.
[Kim]: That's what I thought!
[Me]: Well, I think this is what I'm going to get, but you won't be able to see it because I'll have to put it in a little bottle incase they think i want to blow up the plane.
[Kim]: Make sure its well labelled
[Me]: Yes, in big letters I'll have BALM spelled out on it
[Kim]: Or BOMB
[Me]: Ha! Yeah and then I'll never get home because I'll get detained at security. "But its just a baaaalm!"

Alright, i'm going to icon some 30 Rock for a while...if anyone wants an icon let me know, if I could I would hug and squeeze this program and call it George...maybe I will anyway.

Whenever I hear "Falling Slowly" I just tear up...but smile at the same time. Its such a beautiful song...and if any song from freaking Enchanted beats it for the Best Song Oscar...i might have a broken TV.

I love that Glen Hansard showed up on the red carpet with his guitar. Love.

[Edit]: And now I'm really in tears. FUCK YEAH!!!!
[Edit 2]: The fact they let Marketa come back on after the break to do her part of the acceptance speech was really awesome. Very classy guys!

This is just for my personal reference because there are a whole lot of books that I want to read (and probably won't have time to) coming out in the next month or 2...and since I can never actually remember when they come out...i'm making a list.

( teh list )

In other news...
I'm really glad I didn't buy that HD-DVD player last week. I would have been soooooo screwed!

Dear Prudence won't you come out to play? Dear Prudence, greet the brand new day. The sun is up, the sky is blue, its beautiful and so are you, dear Prudence, won't you come out to play?

Uhhh, so I just finished watching last week's 2 episodes of Torchwood...and all I have to say is:

( SHIT!! )

Its been nice to be able to ride for once...we've got a bit of list of recuperating horses this semester...too bad most of them will probably be back to regular work in the next week or 2. Lucky is a pretty cool horse...for an uptight thoroughbred jumper. We were trotting around today and I had just started to think that I had gone almost 20 minutes without him spooking at something...and then i stopped myself because I knew if I completed that thought he'd spook.

5 seconds later he did. Dammit, I am the queen of the jinx, i swear. At least he didn't start bucking, just a regular ol' jump-side-ways-plus-snorting.

Other than that...not much else went on today. Prison Ponies were good, no pulled cannulas today. Steve of greeted me with his usual dragging of teeth across the metal fence...as one person pointed out, he must have learned it from the inmates. His own version of dragging a cup across the bars of a cell. Johnny was colicky over the weekend, but seems fine now. We think its just this schizophrenic weather we're having. 75 one day, 45 the next, then upper 60s...oh wait, back to 30s and 40s. STOP IT! Just pick a damn season and stick with it!

ok, that mini-rant wiped me out..i'm now going to go be an old woman and go to bed at 9:30. Stinkin' 8:00 class....

There's a chance, one of us will give in soon. I could ask but whats an answer gonna prove? I tried to get mad but the fever drops. My heart can't break 'cause the beating stops. You suck that lucky feeling right out of me

Maybe I should just try for at least a weekly update? I think i could handle that.

I'm watching Knight Rider, mainly because I thought Will Arnett was still the voice of KITT for the pilot at least. But dammit, they've already switched it to Ice and that makes me sad...especially since the rest of the acting is so. freaking. bad.

I spent most of the weekend doing reading and note writing for my Lit Review, I just feel like I'm not getting anywhere. Kinda frustrating but i'm just gonna keep pushing.

We've had some excellent storms the past couple of days. I was out at the HC cleaning up cannulas and all of a sudden the temp dropped about 15 degrees. I finished up there (had to weigh all the Prison Ponies) and thought I was done, so I grabbed dinner and was leaving the parking lot when I remembered I was supposed to go feed the coaches horses out at Freeman. Craaaap. It was pouring down rain at this point, and I almost managed to get my car stuck in the mud out there (yay for 4 wheel drive). I got all the horses buted and fed and got home before the first tornado watch was put out.

Whoa, that actress ways "Uh" way to much. "Uh, yeah" "Uh, sure" Ohh this movie is becoming the snarkfest I thought Blood & Chocolate was going to be. I love those new mustangs though, which would make my camaro loving sisters cringe.

It looks like the Random Search monkeys have been loving on my journal again. Hi new people who friended me!

Oooo Tina Fey is going to host SNL next week...theres a weekend update brewing i believe! Oh thank god the writers strike is over because this reality tv programming is looking really. really bad.

For some reason, despite the bad acting, I kinda like the Knight Rider "movie". Although if they had kept Will Arnett it would have been so much better. Damn you GM for making him drop out!!

Well, I best finish reading these articles for my Probiotics class *cringtwitchspasmdie*

Hi, my name is Kristen. It's been...uhhhh...4 months since my last entry. Shit has gone down over the last couple of months that I just did not have desire to re-write about on here. So I'm not going to go into it now. Maybe some other time if things start going wrong again.

But its 2008! Finally the disastrous year that was 2007 has ended.

I'm now an aunt! My older sister had her baby on Dec. 17...one month and a day EARLY. Unfortunately, my dad and little sister were both here in Texas with me when she went into labor, so none of us were able to be there for the birth. Because it was still 2007, of course. His name is Logan and he is freaking adorable. At least when I did go home, I was able to spend more time with him than I would have if he had been born later.

Molly is doing good. She enjoyed the time at home, to the point where she did NOT want to go get in the car. I had to chase her around the house and finally carry her out to the car. I have to say though, the feeling was mutual when it came to not wanting to leave.

I got hooked on 30 Rock when I was at home. Tina Fey is my hero.

Ugh, okay. One small step forward. I have posted, and will try to write more often, I think it helps me sort through things and have an outlet for creativity...plus I miss you guys!

Someone needs a note plastered on their door: "Hammering nails into the wall at 10 o'clock at night is NOT COOL"

Having all new people move in on my floor is teh suck. I can't wait to go looking for a duplex/house next year...this hammering is really freaking out my dog.

Noooooooooo! My whole Rhapsody playlist has been deleted! Curse them for forcing me to upgrade! Ugh, that was at least 3 years of song choices right there...now gone. Now i have to start over...and considering theres not much to listen to right now, that's going to make things difficult. What a way to start a morning.

Aww, and to make it even worse, the song I wanted to listen is on there for purchase only. Well shit. I guess i'll just have to watch the Office video that made me want to hear it. "Now exactly how much pot did you smoke?!". JKras love, y'all.

I learned an important lesson on Wednesday. If you ever get assigned the job of emptying out a bunch of little cups filled with dried, ground horse feces that range from anywhere from 3 to 8 years old...wear a mask. I did not for the first half a drawer, and now i've got a cold from the inhalation of poop dust. Booo.

One of the weanlings decided to start colicking on me Thursday night (he ate almost all his grain and then started laying down), i gave him some banamine and he was alright. I got out to the barn the next morning and was in denial when i saw him laying down in the pasture...but then i brought him in and he hardly touched his food and kept going down. I called Josie, who called the barn manager, who called the vet who was going to come out later that morning anyway. By the time the vets got out there, he was up and doing fine. I feed that afternoon...he bolts down his feed, i let him out and 10 minutes later he's down again. The vets came out (he was up again by this time) and the vet students made some comment about him "faking it". Shit, he's 4 months old, he doesn't know how to fake it! They took blood samples, tubed him with some mineral oils and gave him some more banamine (maybe? not really sure) and then i had to wait for him to poop so they could test that as well.

He's been fine since then, they're thinking it might be ulcers since he's a "stressed out weanling". I just love that once it was someone else's turn to feed, he quit doing. I swear i don't have Munchausen's by proxy!

After much searching, i finally found the PostSecret books at the bookstore. If you're ever looking for them, they're under the "Cultural Studies" section at B&N. I have seen links to the website before but had never watched them...I finally did and it had me bawling...which i don't normally do. The others i might just try to read in-store because they're so much smaller than the first book. But that really is a great idea, and i'm glad i was able to find those books.


And this weekend is the Big Move In Weekend at just about...everywhere in college station. I seem to have a bunch of giggly sorority girls moving in across the hall from me (everyone on my hall moved out...so all new neighbors). I woke up early yesterday (thanks to my crackhead dog) and then heard them making all kinds of racket about 30 minutes later. This morning i managed to sleep longer and heard them. They were disturbing my rather interesting werewolf dream, dammit. Hopefully this won't be a regular occurence, I will not be amused. I'm kinda afraid to go out and do anything right now...because i know everything will be packed. But i'm kinda compelled to go to the mall and look for something...

Oy, school doesn't start for another week...i need to go ride at some point in the next couple of days. Just to give Buddy a reminder on how to behave before the 312 classes start. I'll be working for the equestrian team full time next semester...since I have classes only on Tuesday and Thursday, i've got plenty of time to go out there. And since I don't know exactly when my project is starting...we're still waiting for either the anesthesia machine in the research barn at the vet school to get fixed, or to convince the main vet helping us that doing the surgery standing would be a good idea (which we think it will be). As long as we test it on a horse that is not one of our prison ponies. Because if it turned out it didn't work and we tried it on our next boy...who is my faaaavorite...i will probably just start crying my eyes out. He's the youngin'!

Well, i think i'll bum on the couch with the dog for a bit and read my book. Try and will this cold to go away. Bah, stupid poop cloud.

Today is the awesome Psych-at-the-track...and I am so very ready.

( How could you expect me NOT to quote and commentate )

In completely un-related news, I have decided that liquid ivermectin ROCKS. It is so much easier to give to the horses than the paste. Theres not as much and it doesn't clump up with their food as much. It's great. And all the prison ponies took it like champs. Even The Fool, who I was expecting more of an issue with.

And one of these days, i'm going to ride the Old Boy. I've kinda made it a goal of mine.

Time to read some now since I don't have to wake up at the butt-crack of dawn tomorrow. Score.

Just to let you know: I am not dead. I just kinda feel like i am at the end of the day. Since i'm up at 5:30 most mornings, and then slogging around the barn in 100+ weather feeding weanlings and prison ponies. uhh...yay texas (although I hear Georgia isn't much better right now)

I've got pictures of the new prison ponies...because they rock. We've got one who has to be at least 16.2. He's almost 1500 lbs, and he's a freaking puppy dog. I luvre him. And then the horse who I just call "The Fool"...because thats how they described whats wrong with him "He's just a fool". So, that's his moniker for now. The other (who looks more like a draft horse) doesn't have a name..because i tend to just mess with the other two :3

I've read some good books though during those 3 hour feeding sessions. I've finished Pride & Prejudice and Thin Air this week...both were really good. Tonight I start on The Lies of Locke Lamora...and maybe after that i'll go back to the book about the whale with "Bite Me" written on its tail. If i haven't read more than 15 books this summer, i'll eat my hat. Or a pair of boots...because i've got plenty of them hanging around.

But for now...i go to sleep. And hang up some laundry. Whichever happens first...unless I fall asleep WHILE hanging up clothes. Which is entirely possible.

Ever just want to flick someone right between the eyes and say "Listen and focus!!"?

Its one of the those days.

[Edit]: Kevin Smith has become one of my favorite people after watching this video. "Now I'm gonna pimp away..."

I just finished reading the book. If you don't know what i'm talking about, get your head out of the damn hole its living in.

( Immediate thoughts. Spoilers, obviously )

I get to go hooome in 4 daaaays.

In 3 days i'll be done with statisticssssssss.

This post is getting obnoxioussss.

Anyways, this weekend has been all about the ponies and stats. I'm either at the barn, or at home/cube working on statistics. Oh, and i spent 1 1/2-2 hours at the dog park yesterday. Watched some people go ballistic and start cussing. Lots of fun.

Now i'm back to doing statistics...and I don't think i'm as far behind as I previously thought. Sweet. I should probably get back to it...but before I go, a Meme!

( Dunder Mifflin Personality Quiz )