Highlgiths of Seder (Whatever that is)

Yes, I miss-spelled highlights, get over it

Now, on to the post: (these are going to be quotes by the way, I am relying on Matt to post the gist of the story...I know, Lord help us all)

1: Mike heard someone mention a name, this was his response: "There will be no mention of Jesus!"

2: Nick held up the stuffed lamb that the leg came from and announced: "This is what happens when you steal!"

3: Andy said this, I'm not sure in relation to what: "God poisons everything!" we all continued to drink our wine.

4: Hannah pointed out that there were more Catholics than Jews at the Seder, my response: There are more Catholics than Jews in most places.

5: Leave comments. I am still toast and trying to type. I can't remember any more. The only other thing I can think about is George Sedering too hard. And Sam yelling about wine...and Pat pouring a natty into his wine glass...and me winning at wine=pong against Matt...and Ben and Mike picking out the 'good' parts to read from the Maxwell House Seder book.

Time for bed. Hope Easter is as wonderful as this Seder dinner has been. Much love to all in attendance and to those who were missed.

Negative Nancy!

I would like to begin this post by thanking my loyal readers for their appreciation of Iron Man. It is beyond fantastic.

However, of late I have become painfully aware of the vast quantities of negative energy that fill the people around me. I say I am going to win the lottery, I hear "Eric, you are stupid, no one wins the lottery" I say I am going to see how many consecutive days I can eat Little Caesars, I hear "Eric, your body is going to hate you." I don't care! Let me consume a gallon of grease if I want to! I'm sick of your gosh darn negativity!

With that having been said, I am going to win a Mazda 3 tomorrow and five grand on Wednesday.

But seriously. Lets run this down. Granted, the Little Caesars thing was just me wanting to eat delicious food for as long as I could (I made it 4 days). But the other things? They cost me no money, and I have a shot at wonderful things! For perhaps two minutes of my day I have as good a shot as anyone in the world at winning $500, or $10,000 or even $1.25Million! And I don't do anything! I also have a shot at a car tomorrow like I said, and 100 grand tax free* at the end of April, or even 3.7 Million in the next few months!

So you all can continue to doubt if you'd like, but I personally am going to keep my hopes up.

Plus Iron Man comes out in a month and everything else pretty much pales in comparison.

*They also pay out the amount needed to cover taxes.

I'm Going to Be A Food Lion Shopper?!

In recent news, I've decided to go to UNC for grad school! There are several imminent consequences of this decision, and I've sorted them into good and bad:

+Warm weather more often than I'm used to.

+It's a new place I'm not very familiar with.

+Badass research.

+I'm going to make money.

+Bountiful busing.

-I'll have to shop at Food Lion.

That last one's a doozy, so I'll just leave it at that. I once went into a Food Lion (grocery store) and swore I'd never return. I don't remember why, but it's ingrained in my psyche that Food Lion=Danger/Bad. That being said, it'll be one of many adjustments. This post was short. Maybe Eric will read the whole thing. Doubtful.

Iron Man 2

Have you seen the trailers for this thing? AWWEEESSOOMMEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Looks even better than the original. Lets run through some of the pros (cause there are no cons to run through)

1: What's his name, former guy who played friend is out, Don Cheadle (!!!) is in. This can only be good. I feel like Don fills the bill of Rhody's character better anyway, the other dude was kind of a whiner.

2. On a related note, Rhody gets a suit! The suit is called WarMachine, and just the name gives me chills. I can only imagine the ridiculousness. Actually that's a lie, some of the ridiculousness is in the trailer and teaser.

3. More of Ms Pots. And to think I actually didn't like her the first time I saw the film. I retract those feelings with conviction.

4. Scarlett is in this movie! As if they tapped into my subconscious trying to figure out how to make this one better than the last! She is so choice. Absolutely fantastic. I can't wait.

5. I am Tony Stark

6. He has an IronMan suit in a briefcase! Its flipping sweet! I am running out of enthusiastic adjectives! AAHHHHHHH!!!!!!

7. I will be graduated when it comes out so I can just sit in the theater all day!

I just watched the trailer in HD. I don't think I'm going to sleep tonight.

All of my posts are about my dreams

So I had a dream last night. This happens relatively often. This dream was much like many others I have had. I wonder if there is some reason why my sub-conscious enjoys having me be involved in car chases and get shot at. It happens all the time. Not that I mind, my dreams are much more exciting than my life. I have yet to drive a Ferrari in real life, but do so about once a week in my sleep. Dodging bullets is not all that fun, but its my dream, like my mind would kill me off, I like my character too much.

One thing that was a little different from some other dreams of its kind were little details that seemed completely real. During my dream, I got a call from Court crying telling me how scared she was because she just had to kill a spider at my house. This seemed completely normal after some of the things she told me she does when she is home alone. I had to check my phone this morning to confirm that the call did not happen. But if that call did really happen then I would have some explaining to do as to where I was when she was at my house calling me in the middle of the night.

Maybe I really do lead a double life and my dreams are all real and I just don't remember exactly where I put my car when I wake up in the morning. I bet that's it. I'm actually Iron Man.

In Search of the Bridge

So I'm in San Francisco for the American Chemical Society national meeting. I'm presenting a poster there about the research I've been doing. I won't go any further into it. Bottom line, the conference doesn't really get going until later tonight, but we got into town two nights ago. Read: We had all day yesterday and most of the day today to explore the city. Assumption: I took my camera.

A few of us left the hotel and headed for the cable car (trolley) around the block from where we're staying (which is a hotel with a great view of "hobo row," and that's about it). It was only $2 to ride it all the way to Fisherman's Wharf, so we did. It was cutesy and pretty neat, but the best part of the ride was when the driver/toll-taker/whatever responded to someone's question (which I forget) with "Fake it 'til you make it!" I immediately thought of this blog.

Let it be known that until we arrived at the wharf, I had been on a diehard mission to see the Golden Gate Bridge and take a jillion pictures of it. Luckily, this time of year there isn't a lot of fog to contend with. It was still a little hazy, but I got nearly as many pictures as I wanted.

The rest of the day was fun, we essentially walked around entire north side of the city, much to the dismay of my companion's legs. I would like to take this opportunity to thank my dad for dragging us on sightsee-til-you-die vacations every other year of my childhood. I was a tourist machine.

To highlight my zeal for capturing the most epic picture of the Golden Gate Bridge possible, I'll tell you how I got this one:

There were 5 of us that wanted to go out and see the bridge at night. Taxis seat 4. There were no vans (we tried). So the woman behind the desk at the hotel started calling around trying to find us a cab (the buses and subway are apparently not advisable at night). No one had vans that could come and get us, but she did find us a ride...we rode out to the bridge in a limo. While it wasn't a stretch limo or anything super cool like that, we did have a driver in a pretty sweet suit and hat. Right, so we get off the highway and he takes us up this road to a pull-off with a really dark path with a very steep hill on the left side. We scurry across the ridge (the driver comes too, he trips) and arrive with the coolest view ever. The photo doesn't really do justice to just how big the towers are, but it was incredible. Best part: limo cost less than cab fare would've.

So today we're heading to Alcatraz (the ROCK). Every time someone says Alcatraz, I say "The Rock" in my best Sean Connery accent. Needless to say, it should be a good time today. I guess we'll do the nerdy stuff later, but whatever.

If you thought this post was too long, you can suck it.

Stuff on the Street

I see stuff laying around town all the time. Most of it is useless junk, beer bottles and cans and such, that is not worth mentioning. Today was different. Walking back from class, I came across a crutch leaning up against a tree. It really makes you wonder how it got there. And where is the cripple? The universe is full of paradoxes.