I love watching movies, not as much as most people, but I really enjoy it. Yesterday, I went to see Transformers 2. The nice thing about waiting a few weeks is that there was no crowd. I think there were maybe 15 people in the entire theater with me. The bad thing about waiting is that the movie moves to a smaller theater and a smaller screen. Hrm... I guess this means I'll be going to see Harry Potter sooner than I thought.

Oh and... yeah, Dan, sweetheart, we're getting a big TV when we move back to the states. I rather enjoy watching a TV show on a large screen. Even if I have to buy the TV out of my personal spending funds, we're getting one.

one of my dad's best friends and his wife stopped by today to visit us and took us out for Chinese food. When they called, my mom mentioned that I was home for the summer. The response from Mrs. G was "oh no, did Teresa ditch number 2 and come home?"

When I was a little girl I loved Care Bears and My Little Pony and Strawberry Shortcake and She-Ra and GI Joe. Even at 6 years old, I had crushes on the GI Joe guys. I can't remember a time that I didn't notice boys or not have a crush on them.

I had heard about the GI Joe movie, but in Korea I didn't really pay attention. Also, it was one of the things that I had heard of, but didn't really believe that it was going to be made. When I found out that it was really coming out, I had to look it up on YouTube. Okay..so the trailers are not so hot, and the Wayans brother jokes are going to be corny since this is really going to be a movie for 15 year old boys. However, I am still excited. I'm very very excited. I am more excited for this than the Harry Potter movie. Plus, Channing Tatum is hot and that doesn't hurt that he's Duke.

I'm sure that this movie will be big since the bad ninja guy is a South Korean actor.

There are boxes and boxes of our junk on my mom's basement. I've been trying to consolidate and throw away stuff and give stuff away. After two weeks of sitting on my ass, with a five day break to go to CONvergence, I finally got down there. I have to wear one of those workmen's masks since it's so dusty that I keep sneezing.

I have boxes and boxes of kitchen equipment that I am looking forward to getting back to using when I return. All the corning wear makes me so happy and wistful. Same thing with my kitchenaid mixer. However, I'm amazed that I survived without a 7 cup food processor before Korea. Of course, I wasn't making my own falafel back then.

I found books, oh my lovely lovely books. Some of the books I've never read before, like the Bruce Campbell books that I got signed. I have a small stack of signed books sitting on my self, which I will get around to eventually.

I found all these "love letters" I wrote to Dan when we were dating. Oh man, I went a lot of work to make the cards. I read them all. Wow, I was really sentimental back then. Found a little binder of some of my poetry. Wow... yeah... talk about overly emotional teenager.

the shift key on my ASUS is fucking driving me nuts

I found pictures of Dan's, including some of his ex-girlfriend. It's weird, I don't really have pictures of ex-boyfriends other well ... the EX. Regardless, it's just weird to see things that I haven't looked at in two years or even longer. I found old penpal letters, which I'd saved.

by the way does anyone in Minneapolis area want 5 books worth of Harry Potter cassettes? Yes, I said cassettes. I bought them on cassettes, books 1-5 and I want to give them away. I'll be in the MPLS area in a few weeks and I'd be willing to bring them up if anyone wants them. These are the ones read by Jim Dale. I use to listen to them while working out.

I've been reading a lot, like one or two book a day now

I got my bike down and pumped the tires, greased the chain and took it for a spin. It feels weird to be riding it because it doesn't feel like my bike. Well not the bike I have in Korea anyways. I'll go for a ride later when it's not so hot outside (which isn't so hot, just in direct sunlight).

so I want to get a haircut, and I want it to be short, perhaps as short at the icon...we'll see if and when I manage this

I'm heading up to CONvergence tomorrow morning with my brother Dan. Yes, I have a brother and a husband named Dan, but that's not as bad as my brother whose wife has the same name as my mom. My brother Dan married a girl named Terri. If you weren't aware, Terri is a nickname for Teresa (yes we both spell our name without the 'H'). So my there are two Sara(h) Kidds and Teresa Kidds in my family right now. This has nothing to do with anything, but for reason I was thinking about it.

I drove for the first time in a year. My mom has a nice car and I always drive rather slowly the first time I get into it. Also, she has a BMW and it can go fast very easily, so I have to watch my lead foot. The last thing I need is to get a speeding ticket.

I am making lentil soup for dinner for mom and I. I had Rocky Rococo's pizza last night. Man, I miss me some good pan pizza in Korea.

My ASUS has been running on its battery since 9:45 am, that's 7 hours ago. It still has 1 hour left, it says. I've been running itunes the entire time and using the web occasionally (I never spell this word right).

I need to find my phone battery so my phone doesn't just die on me. I still have my old cell phone, so if you had my number in the past, it's still the same MPLS number.

I'll see some of you tomorrow.

I am in Madison, WI as I type. My flights were uneventful, but the flight from SFO was full of screaming and crying babies. I tried to sleep the entire time and managed to do a decent job of it. I am typing on my brand new ASUS EEEPC1000 in dark blue. The keyboard is throwing me off a little, but only the shift key on the right hand side. I keep pushing the enter or arrow key instead. Hopefully, I'll adjust soon.
I called Dan on Skype when I got home and we talked for a bit. Stupid me didn't think of that last year, though my old laptop doesn't have a camera, it has a microphone and we could have at least spoken to each other last year.

I have found a ride to CONvergence. Oddly enough, one of my brothers will be driving me up. He has a meeting near MPLS on Thursday at 3pm and will drop me off.

I have no idea what I will be doing in the next two days other than playing with my new little netbook. My mom is impressed and is thinking of getting one too for traveling purposes. I will have to download all my programs and install stuff from my portable harddrive as well.

I miss Dan. This will be a long month.

I've moved on from my romance binge, and I'm reading the Temperence Brennan books by Kathy Reichs. The books are so different from the TV series Bones that it's not even fair to compare them, that I won't. I am enjoying the books though. I'm only on the second one.

This morning I went out for a jog/walk around campus. They've been good enough to mark the routes on a map and measure the distance. There are two routes that include the sidewalk outside of our apartment. The first one is shorter and completely flat, 2.44 km. The second one includes a few uphill and downhill parts, but very very mild uphill and downhill graduation (am I using this word correction?). This one is 4.44 km. I went on the long course twice today and managed to jog about 1/4-1/3 of it. My stop watch is at work, so I couldn't really keep track of the time. When I get back from the States, I may try and work my way up to running the entire 2.44 course without stopping. In the meantime I am cold and sweaty and my face is red. The air conditioning isn't very nice when you walk in all sweaty.

Time for a shower and lunch and work.

oh yeah, thanks to everyone who responds whenever I ask a question.

okay, the FAQ isn't helping me at all. how do I set comments to be all anonymous so that I can't see who comments, if I wanted to do such a thing?

i sent out a letter to:

Melissa
Maju
Regan
Leslie
Julie

This week. I figure it's been a long time since I've written to anyone so I've just written the letters, whether I owed you one or not. In less than two weeks I'll be in WI, so no point in writing to me this summer, other than it'll be nice to get mail when I return to Korea.

Krissi: is it Furstenstrasse? Because I can't make that German looking B letter and I don't want to write to you, only to have it get lost.

Sarah - you are the only other person I can think of that I should be writing to and I'll have time to sit down next week to do so.

If your name is not on the list, then you and I are probably not writing letters to each other, or you've flaked on me and I've stopped writing to you.
If you would like to write letters to me, let me know. I'm sporadic though. When I'm busy with school, I won't respond for months.

I've decided to get on twitter to post to the other account piratesrok since I never really update there. I figure, if I just end up jotting down the random thoughts I'm having throughout the day and ship it over to that account, it'd be enough for my mom and relatives to know what's going on in my life without inviting them to Facebook. The moment my mom gets on Facebook is the time I'll delete my account there.

So... umm... i'm unfamiliar with Twitter, how the hell do I sign up to sent the updates to my lj?

the account is taekidd

the following are kinds of meat:

pizza
stake
polk
folk
fork
pokeholse
fox
camel
meal
meat
porker
bow
kitchen
hem
perk
ribeye
rice
spaghetty
hamburger
pohc
dock ross
ram
cat meat
buck
live sirloin
live fathack
hom
ship
ice cream
coffee
hambeger
midium
welldon
cutlet
kimchi
egg

And these are vegetables

photato
burucallry
watermelon

The last time I saw the riot police was in Seoul during the American beef protests. We have no idea what was really going on in Seoul today, but it involved several hundred police and riot police in full gear sitting on their helmets and shields and smoking cigarettes. We went to the American Embassy to renew Dan's passport and walked past city hall on the way back to Namdaemun. City Hall had some event, we think it was politically motivated and we ended up walking next to about 20 policemen for about 5 blocks. There were more police than there were protesters or people attending the event.

Skin Trade is book 17? in the Anita Blake universe. So far I'm 100 pages in and there has been no SEX. Seriously, I'm amazed, and so far the book is great, like older pre-sex Anita Blake books. However, I do have 300 pages to go for Hamilton to fuck it up for me.

Yes, I'm still reading the series. Yes, I also read the Merry series. Yes, I still read Robert Jordan. I may go back to Terry Goodkind since he actually finished the series but I kinda stopped at the second to last or third to last book.

Why do I torture myself with series?

David Eddings was my first love in fantasy writing. Sure I loved Lloyd Alexander's Pyrdian Chronicles, but I didn't re-read them almost every month. My user name comes from Eddings' Elenium series. I have all of his books. My first real boyfriend got me an autographed sticker in a hardcover copy of the first two/three? books of the Belgariad. I refuse to read it because I don't want to wrinkle the pages.

Sure I've been upset with the Dreamers series, but I can forgive him since I loved the Belgariad so much. Another favorite author is gone and this makes me sad.

Lately, I just don't really have as much to say, or I'm being lazy. I'm not sure which.
I'm still cooking a lot. I learned how to make Indian/Pakistani food from a Pakistani guy on Sunday. It was fabulous, but oh man does it require a lot of oil.

Last night I dropped my Sony reader and I could still read it, but today when I tried to turn it on it wouldn't work. I freaked out. There's no question that I'd shell out the $300 for a new one. Dropping it does not fall under the warranty and it would cost about 150-200 to fix it I think. But the problem is that I wouldn't be able to replace it quickly, I'd have to wait until I got home in a month, but what the hell would I do for those four weeks until I got back to the US? I've become so dependent on this machine for all my reading needs.

Then I started thinking about what other things would do I believe "I need" that I'd replace it in a heartbeat if it died or I lost it or it was stolen. What would I buy without thinking about the price.

This is my list

1. My SONY reader, or any ebook reader
2. my blender/food processor (this is magic in my kitchen)
3. laptop (it's not higher because I'd think about the price and would probably hold off a bit to replace it until I found something I liked)
4. my oven/toaster oven

so my needs are pretty small it seems....

I figure it's my wifely duty to tell everyone he's 31

http://www.maa.org/devlin/devlin_05_09.html (it's an academic math paper, but very easy to understand)

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