Oooh Look! A Pretty Girl

Boy, she sure is pretty isn't she? I certainly got off the Asian push years ago and therefore, I doubt that I would accept a download from one of my friends who decides to send an image like this to me.

Would you have the ability to resist?

I think most would but there are a select few individuals who would continue to download the image of what they think may be a beautiful girl.

So, lets run through a scenario before I go explain this post.

You are a young guy who is about to leave for college. Got your new HP Netbook or laptop to go with all the essentials of moving into your dorm.

You get to school and unpack your room. You get everything set up on your desk and around the room and before you head out to the Freshman picnic, you log onto your email account and see that your buddy back home has sent you the file containing the picture above.

"Hot Asian girl... I love Asians," you think to yourself and you click on the link. You get the picture and hurriedly send it off to your friends.

A few weeks later at noon on a Tuesday (your only class is at 4pm (you totally scored that sweet time slot for the class)) your dorm phone rings and you roll over and answer it.

It's your mom... and boy is she pissed.

Somewhere over the course of the first three weeks of school used your credit card that your parents have linked to their account (it was for gas and emergencies only) to download $200 worth of music from itunes and you also subscribed to a handful of small porn sites.

What happened?

You were attacked by a Trojan Horse virus.

And according to an post by my friends over at The Dark Visitor, this was common back in the day in the form of the "Maritime Girl."

Read the post. It's good knowledge to pass on to your less web savvy friends who don't really know that the hot Asian is anything but.

A Quick and Simple Way to Make Noodles Without Water

My roommates have all but moved out, save Karl, and I am down to a teapot, and two frying pans.

So as I was deciding what I was going to do with the pork that my roommate had left me, I got a novel idea.

I took my two pounds of boneless pork loins and cut them like you would for stir-fry and put them into some Ziplock bags that had teriyaki marinade in it. Normally I would have let the meat marinade for a few hours but since it was almost 7:30, I decided to let it sit for roughly twenty minutes.

After twenty minutes, I pulled the pork out and put it into a screaming hot frying pan that I had let gradually come to temperature. Using my wood spatula, I started to fry the meat, moving it around quickly in the pan.

I had also been thawing some stir fry veggies while the meat was being prepared so they would cook faster. I dumped them into the pan with the pork and as I started to rummage through the cabinets, I came across a half a pack of Asian style egg noodles.

But without a pot to boil them in, what was I to do? I took the hunk of noodles and tossed them into the pan.

As the juice from the pork seeped into the noodles, they essentially cooked in the liquid of the meat and veggies. In all, it took roughly ten to fifteen minutes for all of the noodles to come loose and cook.

I plated it up and tossed a bit more of the marinade on top for good measure. T'was delicious.

Graduate-itis

This was most of us in college.

Sprawled out on a blanket in the quad on a nice sunny day when you knew Spring was coming and so was graduation.

Wait, why is it so cold out? Oh that's right! You were skipping your team meeting and your only class of the day because you just did not feel like going.

I have long since moved past those days but it seems that some people have not.

So when did graduate students become so lazy?

I think it is the simple fact that while yeah, we have tons of work to do on top of looking for a job and trying to get to our current job on time, lets not forget that their is a thesis in there too somewhere, we carry our undergrad habits with us. Most of us break them in the first week or so when there is suddenly a stack of reading that comes to your knee.

Unlike undergrad, the professors will know when you are not doing the work. Well, if the professor is any good they will. The Socratic method becomes your worst enemy, especially if you are in law school. You never really seem to get your head above water.

Two classes a term my ass. You might as well be taking a seventeen hour schedule with Farsi or Chinese as your foreign language.

I am mostly doing this article because I have become burned out. Graduate school is just not kicking it anymore for me but with one term left, I'm not gonna bug out now. That's dumb. I would not have left with two terms left just to work at the Men's Warehouse and contemplate going back to school.

I don't sleep in past meetings just because it seems like the fun thing to do. I go to class and if I still had a job, I would go to work. I would come home and do my reading, fire off a handful of emails, make some dinner, do more reading, workout, shower, watch the new, and go to bed. I would get up and do it all over again the next day. I might invite my girlfriend over. You never know.

Graduate-itis is no better than senior-itis but to sit around and blow off stuff when you are this close is just lost on me. I do not understand that laziness that pervades the student culture these days.