• Unlike the first time I did grad school, I actually feel excited about doing my thesis this time around. I’m glad it will lead to more grad school, too. I kind of had a feeling it wouldn’t last time.
• There’s going to be a Carl’s Jr. opening up here. Or maybe it already has opened. Isn’t that weird? I thought that was a southern US thing.
• I have a very strong urge to work more on Prime, but my deal with myself is that I don’t get to work on it again until my thesis is done and defended.
• (I should just shut up, ‘cause I totally failed at NaNoWriMo this year anyway. Unless I can write 50,000 words in four days. Which I probably can’t.)
• I’m excited about my 10 year anniversary for blogging. That’s a long damn time to be clogging up the internet tubes with my nonsense.
• DONE!

• The City of Calgary doesn’t need street sweepers. All they need is to have me walk around in the road and I’ll collect all the dust. Seriously, my feet/ankles/legs get ridiculously dusty on my walks.
• In related news: My second toe on my left foot has morphed into a permanent callus. There’s no toe there anymore. Just callus.
• I AM A KAZOO!
• I am also really nervous about getting my grade back for the test I took on Thursday. Kazoos don’t do well on tests.
• OH MY GOD
• I haven’t had a migraine in a while. I hope my saying that doesn’t trigger one!
• Have a picture I took a while ago of clouds over Calgary.

THE END!

• Nate has turned me into a Mets fan. I’ve always had a soft spot for baseball (it’s practically the only sport I enjoy watching) because the sounds of a game really remind me of my childhood because my mom ALWAYS used to have the Braves games on when we lived in Troy. It’s nice to be able to watch baseball again. Go Mets!
• I still like these Blackberry Passport phones. They’re funky-shaped. It may even win out over an iPhone if I ever get a smart phone.

• (I’ll probably never get a smart phone.)
• If Alaska is “home of the midnight sun,” I think Antarctica should be called the “home of the noon moon.”
• If I ever become a supervillain (hey, you never know if grad school will work out or not), I want my name to be Phantom Sun. Though I guess Sean already decided back in 2008 that my supervillain name was Spectrum, so never mind.
• Cornbread with whole kernels of corn in them are a goddamn culinary abomination. I came here to eat the BREAD part of “cornbread”, not the CORN part.
• (I haven’t had cornbread in forever.)
• Read about the concept of “almost surely” in math/stats. It’s pretty wild.

I HAVE NOTHING ELSE TO SAY!

Because I already have more bullet-point-worthy nonsense to say.

• For some reason, I form an instant kinship with anyone who wears the same brand of shoes as me, even if I don’t know the person at all. I want to run up to them and say, “hey, did you know you could feasibly walk 1,400 miles in those shoes?”
• I downloaded this song last month, but it’s freaking beautiful and worth a mention. Thanks to Nate for showing it to me!
• I have a sudden urge to play Zeppelins: Giants of the Sky, but it doesn’t run on anything later than Windows XP. That game was awesome.
• One of these days, I’m going to continue editing Prime. One of these days.
• I really need a new desktop computer. My laptop is great, don’t get me wrong; it’s just that once I start doing mega simulations in R for my thesis, I’ll want to use a desktop for that.
• Confession: I haven’t watched a single one of Achievement Hunter’s new videos since Ray left. I still love all the guys (and I’m sure new guys are hilarious, too), but it’s just not the same without Ray. I’m definitely going to keep watching the older videos, though. Over and over and over and over, haha.
• You may have noticed I have ceased my Canadian Mall posts. That’s because I ran out of malls.

I HAD FEWER BULLET POINT ITEMS THAN I THOUGHT ALKSAJGLAKDJFA I FAIL

• I’m going to deliberately rickroll y’all here, but this is Never Gonna Give You Up at 8 kps and it’s super relaxing/concentration-promoting, at least for me.
• Hahaha, it’s making me remember Lethargic Bieber, which is good for concentration, too. It really does sound Enya-esque.
• UGH I have to get on a plane early Sunday morning and fly down to attend my grandma’s funeral. I’m done with flying and I’ve never been to a funeral, so I’m pretty nervous.
• Random memory that just popped into my head: back in high school I was a total hooligan and I’d do all sorts of stupid stuff at lunch time to entertain my friends. One of my least inappropriate shenanigans was accidentally breaking a vending machine with a candy bar wrapper. One day I’d had enough change to get a bag of M&Ms out of the vending machine, and it didn’t take me long to eat all the M&Ms and want more (‘cause that’s what I do). I didn’t have any change left, so I wanted to see if I could get the vending machine to accept the M&Ms wrapper instead. I ended up jamming the whole money-accepting mechanics; the thing wouldn’t even take coins and it was kind of hissing and buzzing and sucking the wrapper in and out like it was possessed. I fled the scene before I could get caught. I’m still wanted in 5 states for similar crimes.
• Tumblr is all aglow with Steven Universe-related stuff, and it all makes me want to give the show a try because the pictures/episodes sound interesting. Might have to do it.
• I have to start packing my stuff for the upcoming moving day at the end of this month, but I have zero motivation to do so. It’s not that I don’t want to be moved into the new place—it’s that I don’t want to actually go through the moving process itself. I have done that more than my fair share for sure. At least I kept all my boxes that I used when moving to Calgary, and at least I’m not moving to a different country this time.
• Good thing about June: the days are super long. Bad thing about June: for the rest of the year, the days will be getting shorter.
• I’m already nervous about my thesis defense and that’s like 11 months away. DAMN YOU, VANCOUVER, DAMN YOU.

Okay, I’m done.

Edit: Woah, Steven Universe is legit.