July 20, 2010
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Okay, so here are the links to the two parts of my really really long vlog entry. You better really enjoy this because it took me a million years (or what seemed like a million years) of downloading things and editing things and transferring things before I actually got the stupid video into two parts that were short enough for youtube to accept them. You better REALLY enjoy them.
(DELETED – If you want to see them again just ask me and I can e-mail them to you, but I took them down from Youtube.)
In addition to what I talked about in the videos, here are a couple of other topics of interest:
My hair is an absolutely fabulous mix of purple and blue. A couple of first year girls came over and foiled it for me, for which I am extremely grateful! It was a lot of fun and my bathroom rug now bears the battle scars of the first purple coloring as well as some new bleach spots from retouching the roots. It’ll be a history of my hair’s grad school life.
One of the first year’s boyfriends has a copy of P90X (a work out program you would see advertised at like 4 AM once all the actual programming is over on TV) and shared with his girlfriend, who subsequently shared it with most of the first year class. We plan on becoming the most ripped chemical engineering department in the country! Every work out is extremely physically taxing and I’m still sore from the one I did a couple days ago, but it’s a good kind of sore. It lets you know you actually accomplished something. I’m personally not doing the diet part because I like eating whatever I want, but I did take “before” pictures to massage my own ego at the end of the program. My husband made the comment upon gently grasping my arm that I feel more muscley already, and I’ve only been doing it for four days.
As a final comment I want to say that I feel better than I ever have in my entire life right now, so that’s always nice. Any grumpiness that came out in my video is a product of me trying really hard to think of stuff to talk about.
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Comments (1)
I of course approve of getting a rat, but if you want something cuddly, get a male. The females can be cuddly, of course, but they are usually too energetic to sit still long. Of the six I have had, only one of them was really interested in cuddling until they got older. Once they hit 2 and a half or 3 they like to cuddle more. That’s another thing to think about. Most of them only live about three years, and they’re REALLY easy to get attached to. But males are more likely to cuddle on your lap and hang out with you. Rats also have a lot of health problems–tumors (mostly benign, but need removed), pneumonia, cancer…if you can’t find a good exotic animal vet then you need to be prepared for a lot of losses.
If you want a rodent that lives a lot longer, get a chinchilla. They live for around 15-20 years. I don’t know how much they like to cuddle, but they are a little bigger than rats and don’t have as many health problems.