Amused.

Hey blogworld. Sorry I am lame and haven't posted in a long time. School/work/life gets in the way sometimes. Here are a few tidbits of amusement from my life for the past little while...

1. Remember the great popcorn evacuation of 2009? I was telling that story to my office here in Mechanical Engineering since there is a terrible burnt rubber smell in the hallway (from a motor belt that broke). Then I was talking with Kim about it and she said that she found out yesterday.... get this.... the smoke from the popcorn did NOT trigger the fire alarm! Some silly safety-conscious employee in the building smelled the burned popcorn and... yep! PULLED the fire alarm. Remember all the flack I got for that? Psh!

2. The Mechanical Engineering Capstone directors decided that since I am being paid as a T.A., I should be doing T.A. work. This means they have asked me to grade 200 engineering assignments three times this semester. You want to know my knowledge of engineering? I know how to spell it. That's all. I am correcting interpreted needs - metrics matrices and functional specifications. Yeah, I know how to spell those too.

3. I have put my foot in my mouth at least twice in the past couple months. At the stake BBQ, I ran into an old friend who had become engaged since I saw him last. In front of lots of people, I screamed, "BEN! You're ENGAGED!!!" Jessica gave me the "slit-throat-that's-a-no-go" sign and Ben said, "Uh, no, I'm not. Not anymore." Even worse, while practicing musical numbers at a friend's house, her sister (married years ago, cute son) was in the house and made a comment that she was too old for singles' wards now. I said, "Well that, and you're married... duh," to which she responded, "Um, not anymore." Cool, Linz. See how many more of these you can conjure up in the next couple months!

4. My british friend told me the other day that the reason my school load is so busy is because I am not enrolled in Institute. What he doesn't know is that my school load is not actually that busy. I just use school as an excuse any time he wants to do something. Also, I've been attending Institute for years, but spaced it for this semester - so I guess it was a humbling moment too.

5. Occupy Wall Street.

6. I have been talking in my sleep lately while around my family. The first time, our dog Ari came and sniffed my face, which started the waking-from-dream moment that prompted me to say "Hi, ice cream." Yep. Then, a few weeks later, we were watching Alfred Hitchcock's "The Birds" and I fell asleep, as usual with older flicks. I started to giggle, thus starting the waking-from-dream moment and the following sentence: "I was just thinking.... how funny it would be if, while we were watching this movie, a bird flew in here and started pecking at my head." I was not awake until the ends of these instances.

7. Occupy Wall Street.