This past Saturday, Phuong and I went to Town Lake for a nice stroll around the lake because it was such a beautiful day. In the process, we managed to get lost for TWO AND A HALF HOURS.

See, this is the trail we were supposed to follow (starting at G):


What we actually ended up taking was (starting at G):


Oops. Slight miscalculation. My favorite part about this whole ordeal was walking through the semi-ghetto side of town (E. Riverside and Montopolis), and getting honked and hollered at by passing cars. What was our count up to, Phuong, like, 24 or something? Ridiculous. You'd think these guys have never seen a girl in their lives before or something.

Anyway, according to the Google Maps scale, we covered about 10km. I'm not sure how many miles that is, but all I know is that my legs still fuckin' hurt. I'm done with exercising for the rest of 2007.

But it was kinda fun though.

Today, I watched this episode of Scrubs before I went into work.

Here's a clip from the beginning of the show:

Now, that goddamn song has been stuck in my head all day and night. "It's like a virus!!!" So it's only appropriate that I spread it to you guys as well.

"Nurse? ...Erasure!"



Happy suffering!

Parking (or lack thereof) on campus alone is enough to make me want to drop out of UT.

'Nuff said.

Thank God for $1.50 pint night at Crown and Anchor.

This semester marks my 7th consecutive semester as an active of Alpha Sigma Rho after I crossed in the fall of 2003.

God, that makes me feel old.

Throughout high school, I always made fun of sororities (or "sorostitutes", as I liked to call them) and fraternities, thinking that they were organizations where you had to pay for your friends. I thought greek life revolved around partying, drugs, superficial friendships, and empty relationships. So if you were to tell me four years ago, that I would be president of a sorority one day, I would have snorted milk out my nose and onto your face. And I don't even drink milk.

All I can say about my experience in being in ASR, is that my college life would not have been as fulfilling and rewarding had I not joined. And never had the number #32 meant more to me than it does now.

Anyway, there was a reason why I went into this whole schpeal. Rush starts this week, you should come.

Oh, and don't forget our party this coming Thursday at Karma Lounge on 8th and Colorado. I'm not really sure what "Goldelicious" means, but I promise you one hell of a party. Find me and I'll buy you a shot or... five - I'll be the drunk girl by the bar all night. And maybe if you're lucky, you may even get to see me wasted, sitting on a curb on the side of the street, puking up the 12 cheap wells-drinks I had earlier that night. Oh man, good times.

I can't believe how much my niece has grown over the past year. It seems like only yesterday when I helped my sister-in-law push this growth out of her vagina give birth to this beautiful, tiny, 6 pound baby. She is seriously one of the cutest things I've ever seen.

Still doesn't make me want to have one, though. Sorry, Mike!

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Now here's a long video of Madeline eating a chicken bone. Enjoy!

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Austin is cold. Well, more specifically, my room is cold.


I've had to sleep with sweatpants, a t-shirt, sweatshirt, socks, and two down comforters for the past week. Oh, and I had to put my fatty cat on top of me just to keep me warm.


Why don't I just turn on the heat, you ask? Well, it's already on, and I'm afraid if I turn it on even higher, my roommates room might catch on fire. I don't get how in a small 1000 square-foot apartment, the temperatures could be so drastically different from one room to the next.


I think I just need my cuddle buddy to keep me warm in my tiny twin bed.

Remember when I said that Blogger is the shit, and it is, and forever will be, much better, more sophisticated, and much prettier than Xanga ever will be? And remember when all of you said, "no way"?

Case in point:

A "xangsta"? Really, Vivian?

Now all you bitches are turning to Blogger finally. FINALLY. I've been doing this for almost 6 years, and it's about goddamn time you guys SAW THE TRUTH... or something.

No more shitty music playing in the background, no more images so distracting you can't read the text, no more ugly emoticons. Hurray!

Today, I applaude you, Vivian, Stephanie, and Lee-Ting, for coming to the other side, the other prettier, more sophisticated, BETTER side.

Now, we've just got to convert everyone else.

To my Georgia sisters,

Thank you for driving 15 hours all the way to Austin for convention, despite only spending a mere 32 hours here. Oh, and sorry about that whole, "really bad weather" thing. Can't wait to see y'all again over summer!

Jeez. That's a lot of sweatshirts.
All of us girls in front of the tower. Yeah, don't mind the blistering cold and rain.

You know you're an emotional trainwreck when you cry to an episode of Futurama.


FUTURAMA, for cryin' out loud.


But in my defense, it was a good one.

Today at work, I met the first woman to have her wedding in space.



I shit you not. I can't even make something like that up even if I tried.



She will be married in 2008... IN OUTER SPACE. This whole concept absolutely blows my mind. I have so many questions for this woman-on-crack! Like:

What are you going to wear? [Edit: Apparently, she's trying to have this whole ordeal nationally televised as a reality-TV show, from planning, all the way to the actually ceremony. She's going to have a nation-wide contest to see who gets to design her dress, as well as who gets to marry them.]

Who's going to marry you?

How much does it cost to get married in outer space, anyway? [Edit: According to her website, it'll cost $500,000. Which... is surprisingly not that much considering there are people out there who would drop a few million on their weddings... and it's here on planet Earth.]

Who's taking you up there?

Are you going to have bridesmaids and groomsmen? [Edit: No, she's not.]

ARE YOU OUT OF YOUR DAMN MIND?!



God, I love Austin.

This is the shit we do at work when we're bored and it's slow:

"How are you going to find your way to St. Tropez if you read the map backwards?"


How close this looks to that image in the back is uncanny.



See? Don't you want to work with us?

Tammy's Top Seven List for 2006
Lists from 2003, 2004, and 2005

Albums

Red Hot Chili Peppers - Stadium Arcadium

Outkast - Idlewild

Justin Timberlake - FutureSex/LoveSounds

Panic! At the Disco - A Fever You Can't Sweat Out [Even though I like the whole album, just one song is what did it for me: "Lying is the Most Fun a Girl Can Have Without Taking Her Clothes Off.]

Janet Jackson - 20 Y. O.

Danity Kane - Danity Kane [God, I should be fired for admitting I even like this CD. But seriously? It's actually pretty damn good considering it's by a pop group that was picked on national TV. Way to go, Diddy.]

Tool - 10,000 Days

Overplayed Radio Songs

Kelis - Bossy

Yung Joc - It's Goin' Down

Cherish - Do It, To It

Justin Timberlake - Sexy Back

The Pussycat Dolls - Buttons

Kanye West - Gold Digger

Jamie Foxx - Unpredictable

Movies

The Departed

Little Miss Sunshine [Just saw this movie yesterday with Jenny - loved it.]

Clerks II

The Devil Wears Prada [How cliche is it for me to list this movie?]

Mission Impossible III [Tom Cruise may be a little crazy, but it's still a great movie.]

Inside Man [God, it felt like forever since I've seen this movie. I should watch it again fo sho.]

V for Vendetta

Books

Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs - Chuck Klosterman

Naked Pictures of Famous People - Jon Stewart

Pledged: The Secret Life of Sororities - Alexandra Robbins

Grand Master SuDoku 2 - Wayne Gould [Don't laugh. I LOVE Sudoku.]

Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini

Unfortunately, I did not read as much as I should have in 2006. I feel dum.

Events

Making out with Mike at midnight last New Years. Turns out, I'm currently in the longest winter fling, EVER.

Summer in NorCal. Words can't even begin to describe...

Turning 21... and STILL getting turned down at Maggie Mae's.

ASR Convention in HOTlanta, Georgia.

Seeing all 10 of my beautiful Lambdas cross.

Playing Catchphrase every Thursday night at 3-0-fuckin'-5.

Falling in love again. Awww. Gay.

Gifts

My sexy Canon PowerShot SD700 IS camera [From my Mikeys!]

An 30G white IPod [Thanks, Andrew!]

A GORGEOUS diamond necklace [Thanks, Momzilla!]

My new running shoes, cause Lord knows I need 'em [Thanks, Grandma.]

An awesome HAND-MADE memory board [From my favorite Foo-Dong.]

My uh... "Rabbit" [Thanks, Mike.]

Getting promoted to Visual Merchandiser at J. Crew [Thanks, Heidi.]

Pictures



Quotes

"Jimmies!" - Me and Mike

"Sometimes we put up walls. Not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to knock them down." - PostSecret

"I stand by this man because he stands for things. Not only for things, he stands on things. Things like aircraft carriers, and rubble, and recently flooded city squares. And that sends a strong message that no matter what happens to America, she will always rebound with the most powerfully staged photo-ops in the world." -Comedian Stephen Colbert on President Bush

sotozenmike: you only like me for my fancy pants!

"Pee-paw, you look like velvet." - Monica

"Hey... does this rag smell like chlorform to you?" - Best pick-up line in the world.

“He a very wise man and very strong - although perhaps not so strong as his father Barbara." - Borat, on President Bush