to celebrate my re-entry into learning, i decided to make a little mixed drink with the ice i created. it’s so yummy. i thank the dude for introducing me to such a wonderful drink.

oh, shit. i still have homeworks to do. necesito ayudar el chango mío. and i can barely keep my neck up.

anyway, it was funny when this lady introduced herself and started talking about how much she likes her job and her job is to put catheters in people. nobody could contain their laughter, but she didn’t seem to mind. it takes a special person to love sticking tubes into orifi as she clearly does.

i can’t wait for the weekend. this is the first time that school is like a trabajo. and we all know how i feel about trabajos.

barkeep, i’ll have another.

i popped my karaoke cherry. oh, yes, i did it. and i held nothing back. it was the best feeling to get up there and make a complete fool of myself.

to do it right, i had to pick the perfect song. not just any song, mind you. the one that would destroy everyone and leave me withered on the floor from exhaustion. so i picked “hero” by chad kroeger and josey scott from the spider-man soundtrack.

i wasn’t really that nervous, but i don’t generally enjoy speaking in front of crowds. singing was a whole other adventure, but i just let the music take me to a higher place. thanks to the butt rock, i just needed to bellow out the lyrics (mostly from memory) and my arms and body did the rest.

as much as i wanted to do a couple more songs, i decided it was best to take it slow. build up stamina. when you exert as much energy as i did, you have to regroup for the next phase. the war on karaoke is only beginning.

tonight was just a small nightclub. tomorrow: the world.

what we know is that there’s a man in the casket jack goes to see. jack and kate definitely make it off the island. in the future, jack is bearded and estranged. it’s pretty obvious why he wants to get back to the island.

what we don’t know is when they actually get off the island, who’s in the casket, or who kate needs to get back to. i think the man in the casket is locke, because it seems like the episode centers around jack’s guilt for leaving the island. locke was trying to stop him from getting them rescued, and so he would probably feel pretty sad for locke dying.

anything can happen, since i would think there are still 3 seasons before those “flash forwards” become present day. i doubt they get rescued by the boat jack called. but i think shutting down the jammer and calling the boat will set in motion the eventual rescue.

january is too far away. luckily, we’ll have the first three seasons to dissect and learn new things about. every time you get a scrap of new information in current episodes, it usually opens new doors in old episodes.

The county says the war on odor isn’t over yet.

Mrochek says he’s fighting a war against illegal aliens who are invading our country.

these quotes are from news articles, which have nothing to do with war. yet, it’s becoming commonplace to depict any conflict or daily struggle with sentiments of dire importance. as if fighting the stench from a sewage treatment facility is comparable to, say, stopping the nazis from annihilating the jews and taking over the world. i’m sure it smelled just as bad, though.

generally, when thinking about war, it could be assumed that a disagreement arises between two countries and they fight until one is victorious or one surrenders. lately, there aren’t many countries that want to go around throwing tantrums and fighting with other countries. too many nukes making the stakes too great. so instead we’ve had to reinvent what constitutes a war. we can actually have a war on anything we want. it’s great! drugs are bad. war on ‘em. terra got you down? war on it. extra-terrestrials taking all the jobs you don’t want to do anyway? war those aliens into the ground.

if war is in you, you’ll take it to your grave.

a new show called the sarah connor chronicles is being produced for the fox network. it will most likely debut in early 2008, with a spring cancellation presumably planned. fox has a way of cancelling shows without giving them a fair chance. although, in this case, i don’t think i would be too upset if they cancelled this one quickly. which, of course, means it will run for 15 years or until the machines do, in fact, takeover and decide to cancel it because of historical inaccuracies. watch the preview:

i will say this, summer glau is pretty badass. i just wish they wouldn’t have made it so obvious that she’s a terminator. i mean, why? as much as i hate being in the dark, i much prefer the lost method of not telling the viewer anything. keep it mysterious, because that will be what brings me back next week.

and i love cheese as much as the next person, but holy hell was that line a cornball. “come with me if you want to live” only works when it is uttered with an austrian accent.