Wrong. Wrong. Wrong.

Who on earth buys stuff like this?

Hoorah! Hoorah!

I just got a new monitor! A 17 inch monitor! I can see things now! And the color… Oooh! Ahhh!

So now I have a 15″ monitor that is free to a good home. Interested? E-mail me at michelleklishis at gmail dot com.

I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody
–Bill Cosby

Well that was depressing.

Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
–Aldous Huxley

There are times in politics when you must be in the right side, and lose.
–John Kenneth Galbraith

In case you missed it, Friday was the 17th annual Pumpkin Drop off the Engineering building. Apparently it was an exciting event as “one was even disqualified for being too far from the target when it hit an audience member in the head.”

Also:

Mountaineer Week is November 11-21st. Apparently the craft fair starts Friday the 19th, but it’s difficult to tell as the “schedule” on the website is far more confusing that helpful. The football game is 13th.

Just talked to my parents. Cousin Pat’s cancer has spread. It’s now in her adrenal system and other nodes near her heart.

They’re talking about other experimental studies and treatment, since the study she wanted to enter required enterants to be cancer free.

Damn.

I had a strange dream last night. It’d been awhile since I’d had one, so despite the weirdness, I rather enjoyed it.

When I left work today, that jackass Warner was politicking in front of Health Sciences. Despite tremendous urges to the contrary, I did not walk over and spit on him.

Although I really wanted to.

That the biggest slumlord in Morgantown can claim that he will be a good steward of the state astounds me. Does he think we don’t see the properties McCoy 6 owns? Doesn’t he realize that every student McCoy 6 has screwed over is going to venomously remember how they were treated?

The only good news is that the Bush/Warner signs that were plastered all over town were put up without the premission of the Bush campaign, and they are not pleased. I particularly like the headlines in the Diminishing Pest: Warner campaign denies connection to signs. Candidate says Bush posters are ‘perfectly legal’ That’s great. We didn’t do it! But even if we did it’s okay!

My favorite sign was a Bush/Warner sign plastered on a beater truck full of trash.

Ha.

I can’t decide if it’s me, or if everyone I know is crazy.
(To this I am sure Michael would reply, “yes.”)

1.
We were watching the 1st game of the World Series (my dad loves baseball) at my grandmother’s house. She doesn’t have cable, so the signal was coming in from her antenna. The picture would occasionally fade to black and white, but only for a second or so.
Dad: This picture isn’t that great.
Michael: Of course the picture is terrible! It’s radio!
Everyone: ?

2.
I discovered this weekend that my father had wanted to name my brother Orestes because it means “of the mountains“.

I realized when we got home last night that I had not realized that I am buried under a huge pile of work, both for work and school.

I’m sure this is because over the weekend I came up with about 6 different things I wanted to write about.

Just got back from Baltimore and visiting my grandmother. It was a good visit (they all are, really) although we were pretty busy the whole time we were there, and didn’t get home to 7, so I’m pretty tired.

We visited with cousin Pat, and I got to hear from here how things are, and how the treatment of her cancer is progressing. Although her cancer was at stage 4, she is still optimistic, which is a good thing.

We also did a lot of stuff for my grandmother, including sneakily getting her some more plants. I picked out four of the winter hardy pansies to go in an empty pot on her porch, dad picked out a red mum we planted under her mailbox, and we picked up to crocuses, daffodils, and dutch irises to plant about her yard. She should be surprised come spring, although I am a bit worried about the bulbs–there were several bulbs that were obviously dead, and a couple that didn’t look in too good shape. I definitely do NOT recommend Home Depot as a place for bulbs, although the workers there were wonderful–extremely helpful as we were attempting to gather the oddements that we needed for the various repair jobs.

So Home Depot was good for the helpful and nice employees, but I’m less than impressed with the bulbs we bought.

But it was wonderful just to spend time visiting–we spent a lot of time just joking and laughing, so although I’m tired, I still feel great.

I love visits with my grandmother.

I have to say that the sunrise was absolutely beautiful this morning.

Ali and I were walking at the Rec center, and every time we’d come around to the window, the sky would be more beautiful than it had been before–peach and purple and orange just starting to light up the dark sky.

Maybe it was because it has been so foggy the past few mornings that you haven’t been able to be the sun come up at all, maybe it was something else, but it was lovely this morning.

Made getting out of bed at 6am and walking in circles for 50 minutes almost worth it.