Masha and i decided that today was a good day to sate both my salty foods craving and her fried chicken craving all in one go: So KFC worked out well.
we bought a twenty dollar party pack, probably intended for like five people, and ate the whole thing in one sitting between us.
because masha is taking a human food and nutrition class she is required to, once during the semester, document her caloric intake and expenditure over the course of four days. that assignment is due tomorrow and today we get to document our daliance into dining disorders.
i, alone, ate almost 2400 calories in a single sitting, not taking into conisderation the delicious coctail of ranch and barbecue sauce i dipped everything in...so lets make it an even 2600 calories in a single sitting. to feel okay about this i'd pretty much need to scale mt. everest with a clone of my tubby ass strapped to my back to properly burn off these calories.
i challenge everyone here(here being the assumed forumn of people who bother to read this, which i know doesn't exist) to document their caloric intake and output and see what you can do to improve their activity vs. consumption level.
peace, love and fried chicken!
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Monday, February 16, 2009
Rapid Fire Blog Week
i'm blogging again today because i seem to have an over active word source this week and i need, more than usual, to say something to someone about anything at all.
Masha is a darling but i find it immoral of me to subject her to every little nuance of my hyperactive imagination...so i'll just imagine that someone reads this thing and placate my need for pedantry here!
HUZZAH!
as i mentioned yesterday, brotherhood 2.0 makes me happy. what is even more entertaining for me is that it all started in january of 2007, which means that posts were happening alongside posts of another video blogger whome i love(d) referred to as ZeFrank (think i mentioned him yesterday too). i bring this up only because in march of 2007, where i've managed to find myself in the chronology, they're referencing Ze. makes me happy.
excellent. now that i'm done with yesterday lets talk about tomorrow which is actually today. i started this blog the 17th and its now the 18th, so theres that.
i'm reading richard wright's Native Son and i'm in a wierd limbo about it...no, thats wrong. it exists for me in the limbo: do i damn the book to the hell of pretentious books i've read in school because i've been assigned them and for no other reason or shall i eleveate it to the lofty paradise of actually Enjoyable books that i was originally assigned and have since found qualities in that i deem (mandate?) enjoyable enough to stay on my "may someday re-read or recommend" shelves.
the main character started off like all the other protagonists of the reading list of my "study of the novel" class: whiney and not possessed of any noticable amount of healthy conflict resolution skills. about a hundred pages in, however, Bigger (our protagonist) has taken on a rather amusing self actualizated attitude towards his life, decisions and the reprecussions of either in this post depression pre world war 2 communist fearing black oppressing america. woo: historically based novels.
i've taken up a podcast called Savage Love; a call and response permutation of Dan Savages syndicated sex advice column. in listening to it my attitudes(reflected in the attitudes of the callers) towards what may be considered sexual deviance have been examined, dissected, and normalized to the point where i'm wondering if exploration in that previously unattractive area of interpersonal relations isnt maybe a goood idea. suggestions? do i solicit my curiosities to my girlfriend or simply wait until i burst onto the new york scene and find someone a bit more professional to solicit myself to and explore it that way? or should i be drawn and quartered for even suggesting such things? oh, by the by, i mention new york as an option because by then masha and i will have graduated from both college and from the pre-planned cessation of our relationship.
about that. am i making a fool of myself by giving up on a relationship thats working and that could, possibly, work longer, just because we've got our differences and cause we have plans that dont coincide? should i drop theatre entirely and find my place alongside her in the peace corps and live a happy, world serving, vagrant's life? of course the question needs be asked that even if i persued this life in earnest, would i be a welcome facet of masha's life in a permanent sense.
well, class needs be attended by someone, so it might as well be this guy. by friends.
Masha is a darling but i find it immoral of me to subject her to every little nuance of my hyperactive imagination...so i'll just imagine that someone reads this thing and placate my need for pedantry here!
HUZZAH!
as i mentioned yesterday, brotherhood 2.0 makes me happy. what is even more entertaining for me is that it all started in january of 2007, which means that posts were happening alongside posts of another video blogger whome i love(d) referred to as ZeFrank (think i mentioned him yesterday too). i bring this up only because in march of 2007, where i've managed to find myself in the chronology, they're referencing Ze. makes me happy.
excellent. now that i'm done with yesterday lets talk about tomorrow which is actually today. i started this blog the 17th and its now the 18th, so theres that.
i'm reading richard wright's Native Son and i'm in a wierd limbo about it...no, thats wrong. it exists for me in the limbo: do i damn the book to the hell of pretentious books i've read in school because i've been assigned them and for no other reason or shall i eleveate it to the lofty paradise of actually Enjoyable books that i was originally assigned and have since found qualities in that i deem (mandate?) enjoyable enough to stay on my "may someday re-read or recommend" shelves.
the main character started off like all the other protagonists of the reading list of my "study of the novel" class: whiney and not possessed of any noticable amount of healthy conflict resolution skills. about a hundred pages in, however, Bigger (our protagonist) has taken on a rather amusing self actualizated attitude towards his life, decisions and the reprecussions of either in this post depression pre world war 2 communist fearing black oppressing america. woo: historically based novels.
i've taken up a podcast called Savage Love; a call and response permutation of Dan Savages syndicated sex advice column. in listening to it my attitudes(reflected in the attitudes of the callers) towards what may be considered sexual deviance have been examined, dissected, and normalized to the point where i'm wondering if exploration in that previously unattractive area of interpersonal relations isnt maybe a goood idea. suggestions? do i solicit my curiosities to my girlfriend or simply wait until i burst onto the new york scene and find someone a bit more professional to solicit myself to and explore it that way? or should i be drawn and quartered for even suggesting such things? oh, by the by, i mention new york as an option because by then masha and i will have graduated from both college and from the pre-planned cessation of our relationship.
about that. am i making a fool of myself by giving up on a relationship thats working and that could, possibly, work longer, just because we've got our differences and cause we have plans that dont coincide? should i drop theatre entirely and find my place alongside her in the peace corps and live a happy, world serving, vagrant's life? of course the question needs be asked that even if i persued this life in earnest, would i be a welcome facet of masha's life in a permanent sense.
well, class needs be attended by someone, so it might as well be this guy. by friends.
Sunday, February 15, 2009
Long Time Gone
So i've ignored this thing with about as much fervor as one might expect a techno savvy white middle class male with a hypographia problem to NOT ignore his Web-Log...i suppose i've just been loathe to let myself ramble on and on as is my self serving way. oh well.
i've discovered a few things in these past months (weeks, however long its been since i've written here)
1. Red Stripe Jamaican Lager
2. Stella Artois Belgian Lager
3. Brotherhood 2.0
4. The occasional joys of recreational marijuana use (perhaps this would be better phrased of the joys of occasional marijuana use...yesh)
5. Guy Gavriel Kay's novel "The Last Light of the Sun"
6. Girl Talk's CD "Feed the Animals"
First, and i suppose second; its been a trial and tribulation for me to find any kind of beer that i like. mixed drinks have been a friend to me since i started drinking because with the liberal application of liqueur and monin flavored sugar one could mask the taste or unrefined oil as easily as one could Vodka. since i've been sampling the various ales, lagers, beers, whatevers of the various countries i've found that i prefer it if americans had little to do with its creation. Guiness, Red Stripe (num), and Stella Artois are a few, though i do like Sam Adams: White Ale but i dont consider boston an american city so much as a very far removed english province.
Next, which is in fact third, is the Brotherhood 2.0. i've found that i'm taken with video blogs. a couple years ago i cranked through ZeFranks video blog and loved every minute of it. i've now found Brotherhood 2.0; a video blog between two brothers intended to take the place of any textual communication over the course of a year. one is an award winning young adults author and the other is a blogger and web master, so they're both very well read and verbose, so i enjoy watching them entertain each other.
Fourth. Weed. i've fallen a good deal further from my raised family and religious ideals than i ever expected, but honestly i've found that taking life a little more at face value and allowing that the afterlife will be what it is and i am, at least at this stage of my life, satisfied to let this world and then next do as they please so long as they let me do the same. i've given up on a religion that has turned to proselytizing and continues to hold of on acknowledging gay marriage. i have taken allot from religion but i think that as far as my personal ethics are concerned i'll mix and match from now on. i cannot abide a dogma that, in the same breath, advocates the acceptance of all men, women, and children then deny's women place in the highest echelons of administration and gay's valid participation in the community of the faith.
okay, lets amend four as my discovery of my agnosticism. FIVE is weed. its fun, i enjoy it, and once i can get my mitts on a vaporizer it will be a truly harmless vacation for about 20$. i'm far from a pothead, but i'm not afraid of accepting this stuff into my life.
six (what would have been five) is the novel. i'm taking two reading intensive courses in this, my last semester of undergrad, and one of them is a sci-fi/fantasy course. our first book was a contemporary novel of an alternate world almost a perfect mirror of ours in the time of king alfred and his fighting off of the viking hordes. this one has faeries and magic in but i think that kay's approach to pro's is at the same time epic, while tongue and cheek enough with the seriousness of the situations that he can make you laugh just after you were cheering for your favorite hero. oh, thats another thing: he's got like four heroes and all of them are sympathetic, and at one point or another they'll be pitted against one or another of each other...heh, fuck you grammar. anyway. he composes his story in a world entirely without some outside malevolent force directing the actions of its characters. there is neither Goodness, nor Evil: simply human choice and motive. recommended indeed.
Girl talk is one of my favorite DJ's. of course i think he's one of the only DJ's i actively listen to, but he's wonderful. he takes mainstream pop music and mixes it masterfully with rap and R&B beats and lyrics so even the whitest of white boys (me) will bounce his ghe-to booty like he's being paid by the jiggle.
love to all, and i hope you're having as much fun as i am.
i've discovered a few things in these past months (weeks, however long its been since i've written here)
1. Red Stripe Jamaican Lager
2. Stella Artois Belgian Lager
3. Brotherhood 2.0
4. The occasional joys of recreational marijuana use (perhaps this would be better phrased of the joys of occasional marijuana use...yesh)
5. Guy Gavriel Kay's novel "The Last Light of the Sun"
6. Girl Talk's CD "Feed the Animals"
First, and i suppose second; its been a trial and tribulation for me to find any kind of beer that i like. mixed drinks have been a friend to me since i started drinking because with the liberal application of liqueur and monin flavored sugar one could mask the taste or unrefined oil as easily as one could Vodka. since i've been sampling the various ales, lagers, beers, whatevers of the various countries i've found that i prefer it if americans had little to do with its creation. Guiness, Red Stripe (num), and Stella Artois are a few, though i do like Sam Adams: White Ale but i dont consider boston an american city so much as a very far removed english province.
Next, which is in fact third, is the Brotherhood 2.0. i've found that i'm taken with video blogs. a couple years ago i cranked through ZeFranks video blog and loved every minute of it. i've now found Brotherhood 2.0; a video blog between two brothers intended to take the place of any textual communication over the course of a year. one is an award winning young adults author and the other is a blogger and web master, so they're both very well read and verbose, so i enjoy watching them entertain each other.
Fourth. Weed. i've fallen a good deal further from my raised family and religious ideals than i ever expected, but honestly i've found that taking life a little more at face value and allowing that the afterlife will be what it is and i am, at least at this stage of my life, satisfied to let this world and then next do as they please so long as they let me do the same. i've given up on a religion that has turned to proselytizing and continues to hold of on acknowledging gay marriage. i have taken allot from religion but i think that as far as my personal ethics are concerned i'll mix and match from now on. i cannot abide a dogma that, in the same breath, advocates the acceptance of all men, women, and children then deny's women place in the highest echelons of administration and gay's valid participation in the community of the faith.
okay, lets amend four as my discovery of my agnosticism. FIVE is weed. its fun, i enjoy it, and once i can get my mitts on a vaporizer it will be a truly harmless vacation for about 20$. i'm far from a pothead, but i'm not afraid of accepting this stuff into my life.
six (what would have been five) is the novel. i'm taking two reading intensive courses in this, my last semester of undergrad, and one of them is a sci-fi/fantasy course. our first book was a contemporary novel of an alternate world almost a perfect mirror of ours in the time of king alfred and his fighting off of the viking hordes. this one has faeries and magic in but i think that kay's approach to pro's is at the same time epic, while tongue and cheek enough with the seriousness of the situations that he can make you laugh just after you were cheering for your favorite hero. oh, thats another thing: he's got like four heroes and all of them are sympathetic, and at one point or another they'll be pitted against one or another of each other...heh, fuck you grammar. anyway. he composes his story in a world entirely without some outside malevolent force directing the actions of its characters. there is neither Goodness, nor Evil: simply human choice and motive. recommended indeed.
Girl talk is one of my favorite DJ's. of course i think he's one of the only DJ's i actively listen to, but he's wonderful. he takes mainstream pop music and mixes it masterfully with rap and R&B beats and lyrics so even the whitest of white boys (me) will bounce his ghe-to booty like he's being paid by the jiggle.
love to all, and i hope you're having as much fun as i am.
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