OKAY. So this won't be exciting to everyone. But. I had not seen Arthur for a long while, having missed it last Friday (the only day I'm home at three PM), and I think the Friday before that, too. So, today I watched it for the first time in a long while. The opening comes on, and it's Buster returning from outer space... DOES ANYONE ELSE KNOW THIS OPENING??? It's the opening to Buster's Back. Most of you probably know that Arthur episodes come in twos. Two fifteen minute episodes. So every episode has a partner. Buster's Back's partner is... THE BALLAD OF BUSTER BAXTER!!! IN TEN MINUTES, THE BALLAD OF BUSTER BAXTER IS GOING TO BE ON!!! Talk about luck!
It's my favourite episode ever!!! Although, this episode is pretty great, too. "Pip pip, cheerio, crumpets!" Also, I love it when he shows up on the elephant. Also, Arthur's parents are watching a speed knitting competition. Also, I love Arthur. This show is amazing. I love Arthur's trash can. It's blue and there's a space ship on it. Okay, before I dig myself into any more holes here, I'm going to end this post. This episode is over, so Art Garfunkel the singing moose is on his way. Bye for now!
Friday, July 31, 2009
Saturday, July 25, 2009
Reentry
Can I do that? Can I name two posts the same thing? I'm going to try it! I'm going for it! Pushing the limits! LIVIN' ON THE EDGE!!!
Okay, sorry. No, I just wanted to add, really briefly, and this is going to be an overshare, I cannot for the life of me figure out how to fold American toilet paper. In New Zealand, the sheets are skinnier and longer, so three sheets can be nicely folded into four, which confused me at first because that involves not folding on the lines. But HERE, the sheets are really fat (haha, America...), and they're square. So yes fold on the lines, but then you end up with this toilet paper that seems ginormous to me. I do not remember this being a dilemma before...
So. Hi.
Okay, sorry. No, I just wanted to add, really briefly, and this is going to be an overshare, I cannot for the life of me figure out how to fold American toilet paper. In New Zealand, the sheets are skinnier and longer, so three sheets can be nicely folded into four, which confused me at first because that involves not folding on the lines. But HERE, the sheets are really fat (haha, America...), and they're square. So yes fold on the lines, but then you end up with this toilet paper that seems ginormous to me. I do not remember this being a dilemma before...
So. Hi.
Thursday, July 23, 2009
Reentry
So before we left New Zealand, Eunice gave us this whole talk on reentry and how it might suck. Well, it doesn't suck quite as much as all that, although I do get madly "homesick" for New Zealand (New Zealandsick?) at times.
However, I do spend a fair bit of time wondering why we don't have outlets that switch on and off. I still look right first before crossing the street or pulling out at an intersection, so I just have to look every which way several times before going anywhere! I've finally started moving to the righthand side of the stairs at work when I'm going up and someone else is coming down (or vice versa), but my gut instinct is still to move to the left when I encounter someone on the sidewalk. I've stopped saying "tea" for "dinner," but I still type with the British S and U. I sometimes say "zed." I have nearly remastered Fahrenheit temperatures and am in fact losing my Celsius conversions rather rapidly. There was a little overlap period in there during which I had no concept of temperature at all.
I think that as long as I am in Juneau, which is beautiful like New Zealand, I will be okay. As for reentry to Rochester... that is entirely a different kettle of fish.
You know, I never went to that little bookstore that had a pottery section. Well, I guess I'll just have to go back!
For those of you still following, 1) I'm impressed, and 2) the All Blacks beat the Wallabies last week, 22-16 in Auckland! They next play (possibly tomorrow?) in South Africa against the Springboks. Right now is tri-nations, which means they'll just be playing Australia and South Africa for a while.
That's all for now!
However, I do spend a fair bit of time wondering why we don't have outlets that switch on and off. I still look right first before crossing the street or pulling out at an intersection, so I just have to look every which way several times before going anywhere! I've finally started moving to the righthand side of the stairs at work when I'm going up and someone else is coming down (or vice versa), but my gut instinct is still to move to the left when I encounter someone on the sidewalk. I've stopped saying "tea" for "dinner," but I still type with the British S and U. I sometimes say "zed." I have nearly remastered Fahrenheit temperatures and am in fact losing my Celsius conversions rather rapidly. There was a little overlap period in there during which I had no concept of temperature at all.
I think that as long as I am in Juneau, which is beautiful like New Zealand, I will be okay. As for reentry to Rochester... that is entirely a different kettle of fish.
You know, I never went to that little bookstore that had a pottery section. Well, I guess I'll just have to go back!
For those of you still following, 1) I'm impressed, and 2) the All Blacks beat the Wallabies last week, 22-16 in Auckland! They next play (possibly tomorrow?) in South Africa against the Springboks. Right now is tri-nations, which means they'll just be playing Australia and South Africa for a while.
That's all for now!
Wednesday, July 1, 2009
Final Countdown
Hi everyone,
This post is going to be bit jumbled and probably not so interesting, sorry. It's just a wrap-up of New Zealand, and post Simon and Garfunkel, it was relatively low-key. Whenever my planetary geology professor would talk about the main sequence, I always imagined a band of helium and hydrogen atoms (as in Radium Man style). They would be called The Main Sequence, and they would always play the Final Countdown. They would have a drummer. Don't ask.
Anyway, so when I got back from Auckland, I had finals. So I dealt with those. Yay, interesting story! No, really, I studied and I took finals. Whoo! Well, okay, there was also a games night in there and a significant number of movies and TV shows. Okay, so, I really was sort of a slacker relative to what I am at home, but I did study, and I don't feel too badly about any of my finals, so... here's hoping!
Ellen left on the 15th, which is ridiculously early, and that was so sad!!! A bunch of people went to the airport with her to lighten the cost of the shuttle and to see her off at the airport. Earlier that day, we went downtown and did some last minute shopping with her and just puttered around Christchurch.
Tamar, Alyssa, Shalom, and I went on the Grand Tour somewhere in there... on a Sunday, as I recall. This is a photo of Mona Vale, a garden in Christchurch.
When we all had just one final left (and some of us none, but I was not one of those lucky few), we celebrated by going to get souvlakis. Unfortunately, the really awesome souvlaki place was CLOSED and we had to settle for a different one. I do have some really fantastic photos from souvlakis, but Shalom would probably kill me if I posted them. She was disapproving enough of me taking photos while she was eating in the first place. Later that day, Nick and I went to Campbell's window display! It was awesome!
Then, on my last full day, I wandered around Christchurch and took some photos.
The fountain outside of the Canterbury Museum and the house in the Arts Centre. Oh, and I went to the Art Gallery with Kate (Maude) and it was AWESOME. Rita Angus is completely talented, but the gift shop had NO Rita Angus postcards. It was tragic. I have no postcards from my visit to the Art Gallery... unheard of. The Canterbury Museum was nice, but was a little bit too much New Zealand for me on my last day.
So, now I am back in Juneau! I might continue to post, but I'll be less frequent (and interesting, let's face it). I'll see you all when I see you, Americans and Kiwis alike!
This post is going to be bit jumbled and probably not so interesting, sorry. It's just a wrap-up of New Zealand, and post Simon and Garfunkel, it was relatively low-key. Whenever my planetary geology professor would talk about the main sequence, I always imagined a band of helium and hydrogen atoms (as in Radium Man style). They would be called The Main Sequence, and they would always play the Final Countdown. They would have a drummer. Don't ask.
Anyway, so when I got back from Auckland, I had finals. So I dealt with those. Yay, interesting story! No, really, I studied and I took finals. Whoo! Well, okay, there was also a games night in there and a significant number of movies and TV shows. Okay, so, I really was sort of a slacker relative to what I am at home, but I did study, and I don't feel too badly about any of my finals, so... here's hoping!
Ellen left on the 15th, which is ridiculously early, and that was so sad!!! A bunch of people went to the airport with her to lighten the cost of the shuttle and to see her off at the airport. Earlier that day, we went downtown and did some last minute shopping with her and just puttered around Christchurch.
Tamar, Alyssa, Shalom, and I went on the Grand Tour somewhere in there... on a Sunday, as I recall. This is a photo of Mona Vale, a garden in Christchurch.
When we all had just one final left (and some of us none, but I was not one of those lucky few), we celebrated by going to get souvlakis. Unfortunately, the really awesome souvlaki place was CLOSED and we had to settle for a different one. I do have some really fantastic photos from souvlakis, but Shalom would probably kill me if I posted them. She was disapproving enough of me taking photos while she was eating in the first place. Later that day, Nick and I went to Campbell's window display! It was awesome!
Then, on my last full day, I wandered around Christchurch and took some photos.
The fountain outside of the Canterbury Museum and the house in the Arts Centre. Oh, and I went to the Art Gallery with Kate (Maude) and it was AWESOME. Rita Angus is completely talented, but the gift shop had NO Rita Angus postcards. It was tragic. I have no postcards from my visit to the Art Gallery... unheard of. The Canterbury Museum was nice, but was a little bit too much New Zealand for me on my last day.
So, now I am back in Juneau! I might continue to post, but I'll be less frequent (and interesting, let's face it). I'll see you all when I see you, Americans and Kiwis alike!
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