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Evelyn Sighting!

Another Evelyn sighting. Wonder who she is? A TV star, by the sign on her star.



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So grand! Egyptian monument in Hollywood, CA, outside the Kodak theatre.

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A Disney store! Across from the kodak theatre in Hollywood, CA.

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Ugh, back problems, I swear.

My lower back is killing me. When I get home I've gotta get a better chair, and do everything I can to fix this. Else when I get old (past 29 - cough) I'll be so screwed.

*cue Paris Hilton song*

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Butterflies and Wynn Casino/Hotel

Wynn sure does have a weird obsession with butterflies - lepidopterans as we biology majors call them.



There even paintings of them in the bathroom!



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Evelyn Sighting!

Not the best of lighting.



But it'll have to do.



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Fuzziwig's Candy Factory

Fuzziwig's! Sounds like something out of Harry Potter. Las Vegas Premium Outlets.



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Disney Outlet!

Daddy's home!!!



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Konichiwa!

LV's outlets must get a lot of Japanese customers.



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Las vegas premium outlets. Outdoor-sy, like Anaheim's The Block outdoor mall.

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Pool view from the parking structure. Its sizzling hot here ;)

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Why would you wear a bracelet with underwear? Unless that's an ad for swimwear?

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Outlet entrance.

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Outside, next door to Terrible's resort and casino. There's a roller coaster there, if you can't see it.

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Totally remember this from my first time in Vegas. Wonder why there's an ad for it almost 30 min away though.

Back then, I bought one of their 9 dollar burgers just for the bag that they put it in!

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Old school XXI store. Again, huge billboard ads over the entrances.


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Food court my butt.

More like food quarter circle.


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That doesn't even look like a Hollister store!

Where's the beach hut entrance?
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An American Eagle store, Primm outlets.

That sign is as big as a mall entrance back home.

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Leaving the casino, going back to the outlets.

Their ads are all so big!

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Zoltar the psychic is everywhere, even here in Primm resort and casino.

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Some sort of wrestling/boxing ring.

Foxy boxing on monday nights?
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Las Vegas Outlets, Primm exit

Looks like Great Mall in Mipitas, entrance shot. Smells like the men's room in Macy's. Ugh.

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8 hours of sleep. The real final frontier.

Finally.

A restful, full night's sleep.

I must relish it while I can.

Good night, interwebs.

Last final.

Upset stomach. Butterflies. Nerves. Call it what you want, it's hitting. You'd think that being in school as long as I have this would be any other Wednesday.

Why is it then that I feel like a freshman all over again?

A particularly singular incident.
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New fear.

Of course, during one's lifetime, one begins to accumulate fears. Some of these you overcome, while others stay with you until you reach the gates and see St. Peter.

I have a new fear. Time to see how long this takes for me to get over.

Girls putting on makeup. Specifically the eye stuff. Gives me the heebie-jeebies.

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It's too late for me, save yourself!

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As of this posting, I will have t-minus 9 hours and 30 minutes until test time. I need to memorize a bunch (20ish) insects by sight identification, review what seems to be the second half of our semester which will be on the final, and work on a take home problem for that final. And that's just for tomorrow's final.

The picture's description says otherwise though. Guess I'll start now.

Twitter Updates added!

Just followed a link through my friend Chris Stewart's blog over at http://blog.i-am-boss.org/ and figured out how to add Twitter to my site too.

Thanks Chris!

Break from the school thing.

Took a break from finishing up one last project, before the wave of studying, to watch Esmee Denters live broadcast from the O2 arena in London.  She was opening/supporting Enrique Iglesias, and it was in the style of a webshow with an open chat room.  I decided to leave as nothing too exciting was going on, but it was interesting in the least.  Kinda makes me wish more celebrities did this kinda stuff, although I got to see a lot of that warcraft-trade-chat going on ... someone's response to her question of "what's everyone doing today" was "i shot a puppy / in the face."  Seriously? How's that even remotely funny?  She seemed to ignore / absorb most of the left-field or typical fan comments ("you're so beautiful/when are you coming to X country")

Back to work now though.

Ducks season over.

I thought the game was 7 pm pst, turns out it was at 7 pm est. Game was over by the time I got out off work, and we had lost, 4-3.

Our season's over. Good season though, we still beat San Jose!

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Insect Collection Done!

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Finally! The collection I have is presentation ready. It was totally worth it, and I'm also done with "Playing For Pizza" by John Grisham, too.

Good times. No caffeine pills necessary - and the soda was sugar/caffeine free. All me tonight =)

I'm proud, but there's still another 6 days of this following today.

Insect Collection Still In The Works

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Time to finish the collection though.

*sigh*

Back to work.

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Bah, it's 2:03 am now. I figured a bit caffeine would help with my slowing and tiring mind. I don't realize until I get upstairs that it was caffeine free. FML.

The beginning of the end.

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The last two weeks of school starts now. And this is my bed as the clock hits 1:15 am, on Monday, May 11th, 2009.

Costco today.

Went into costco, realized I left my cards at home, got some samples, then left. Booo.
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(SPOILERS) Marley and me

Marley dies. Just got spoiled for me too, by Luke Smith of Out of The Game podcast, episode 4.

Boooo!

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MTV Movie Awards Coming Soon to a tube near you!

MTV Movie Awards air on May 31st at 9pm on MTV!

Here are my predictions:

BEST MOVIE: Slumdog Millionaire

BEST MALE PERFORMANCE: Shia LaBeouf for Eagle Eye

BEST FEMALE PERFORMANCE: Angelina Jolie for Wanted

BEST VILLAIN: Heath Ledger for The Dark Knight

BEST COMEDIC PERFORMANCE: James Franco for Pineapple Express

BEST FIGHT: Christian Bale vs. Heath Ledger, The Dark Knight

BEST KISS: Freida Pinto and Dev Patel, Slumdog Millionaire

BREAKTHROUGH PERFORMANCE, FEMALE: Freida Pinto for Slumdog Millionaire

BREAKTHROUGH PERFORMANCE, MALE: Ben Barnes for The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian

BEST WTF MOMENT: Peeing In The Sink, Amy Poehler in Baby Mama

BEST SONG FROM A MOVIE: Paramore "Decode", Twilight

Below are the MTV Movie Award Nominations. To vote go to http://www.mtv.com/ontv/movieawards/2009/

BEST MOVIE

The Dark Knight

High School Musical 3: Senior Year

Iron Man

Slumdog Millionaire

Twilght

BEST MALE PERFORMANCE

Christian Bale for The Dark Knight

Robert Downey Jr. for Iron Man

Shia LaBeouf for Eagle Eye

Vin Diesel for Fast & Furious

Zac Efron for High School Musical 3: Senior Year

BEST FEMALE PERFORMANCE

Angelina Jolie for Wanted

Anne Hathaway for Bride Wars

Kate Winslet for The Reader

Kristen Stewart for Twilight

Taraji P. Henson for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

BEST VILLAIN

Derek Mears for Friday the 13th

Dwayne Johnson for Get Smart

Heath Ledger for The Dark Knight

Johnathon Schaech for Prom Night

Luke Goss for Hellboy II: The Golden Army

BEST COMEDIC PERFORMANCE

Amy Poehler for Baby Mama

Anna Faris for The House Bunny

James Franco for Pineapple Express

Jim Carrey for Yes Man

Steve Carell for Get Smart

BEST FIGHT

Anne Hathaway vs. Kate Hudson, Bride Wars

Christian Bale vs. Heath Ledger, The Dark Knight

Robert Pattinson vs. Cam Gigandet, Twilight

Ron Perlman vs. Luke Goss, Hellboy II: The Golden Army

Seth Rogen and James Franco vs. Danny McBride, Pineapple Express

BEST KISS

Angelina Jolie and James McAvoy, Wanted

Freida Pinto and Dev Patel, Slumdog Millionaire

James Franco and Sean Penn, Milk

Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson, Twilight

Paul Rudd and Thomas Lennon, I Love You, Man

Vanessa Hudgens and Zac Efron, High School Musical 3: Senior Year

BREAKTHROUGH PERFORMANCE, FEMALE

Amanda Seyfried for Mamma Mia!

Ashley Tisdale for High School Musical 3: Senior Year

Freida Pinto for Slumdog Millionaire

Kat Dennings for Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist

Miley Cyrus for Hannah Montana: The Movie

Vanessa Hudgens for High School Musical 3: Senior Year

BREAKTHROUGH PERFORMANCE, MALE

Ben Barnes for The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian

Bobb'e J. Thompson for Role Models

Dev Patel for Slumdog Millionaire

Robert Pattinson for Twilight

Taylor Lautner forTwilight

BEST WTF MOMENT

Peeing In The Sink, Amy Poehler in Baby Mama

Curved Bullet Kill, Angelina Jolie in Wanted

Jumping In The Poop Shed, Ayush Mahesh Khedekar in Slumdog Millionaire

Tasting Decapitated Head, Ben Stiller in Tropic Thunder

Naked Break Up, Jason Segel and Kristen Bell in Forgetting Sarah Marshall

BEST SONG FROM A MOVIE

A.R. Raham "Jai Ho", Slumdog Millionaire

Bruce Springsteen "The Wrestler", The Wrestler

Miley Cyrus "The Climb", Hannah Montana: The Movie

Paramore "Decode", Twilight

Gah. I always forget something.

Yours truly has never quite learned the lesson of always second checking everything one needs. Once again, I have left my power adapter to my laptop at home in the process of switching backpacks. Luckily, I only need it for one class, as in entomology we're going on a field trip.

Sigh. Not quite a FML. But getting there.

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Rain rain go away

Please come back some other day.

It's raining. And I wore sandals. I only have one pair, and they're worn out and have no grip against this slick pavement. I'm so screwed.

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3-2 Red Wings

I walked into D&Bs just in time to see Hiller get scored on by a rebound.

(Update) 2.1 second left, I think we lost.

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