Trek Yourself Before You Wreck Yourself

From now until March 31, Hulu is allowing anyone and everyone to enjoy all the episodes of all the seasons of all the series of Star Trek.  Please excuse me while I have a moment to bask in the greatness of this moment.  I have so much homework to do this weekend and I can't afford to have a super Star Trek marathon, but I'm not sure if I will be able to resist.  I'm sure my resistance will just be futile.

Best Wishes!
    K

Easily Internetained

I just spent the last 15 minutes looking under the "usb" tag on Pinterest.

And legitimately enjoyed myself. Like, I felt mentally stimulated and everything.

I have a serious problem.

Best Wishes!
     K

Live Long and Prosper

So last night, my roommate, Natalie and I were all hanging out.  I commented that it might be cool to have a robot as a roommate.  My roommate preceded to tell me a robot may be a good roommate, but would be a terrible friend.  It'd be like Spock from Star Trek. (She was of course referring to the newest movie with Zachary Quinto, but i digress)  Then someone--I don't remember who--asked "Does Spock even have feelings?"  All I could do at this point was laugh at myself as I tired to explain all I knew of Spock.  And finally I got the words out.
"Spock is a Vulcan.  The Vulcan race has a very violent history on their planet--also named Vulcan--of horrible battles and much bloodshed.  They all feel very intense, raging emotions.  Those grander than the emotions of humans.  So the way the Vulcans remedied their violent behavior was to keep themselves from feeling any sort of emotion.  Now--Spock is half human, so not only does he have this culture to live up to and carry out, but also has a human side that wants to defy the Vulcan way and allow his emotions to be expressed.  He is encouraged by his Human mother to be more human, and expected by his Vulcan father and the Vulcan society he lives in to live a purely Vulcan lifestyle and disregard his Human side completely.  This causes inner turmoil for Spock, making his emotions even harder to control."
I then stopped myself before going on into more detail, like how Vulcans are directly related to Romulans, live much longer than humans, have green blood, their hearts are where our stomachs are, and so on.

And it was in this moment I once again proved I am a huge nerd.

Best Wishes,
     K

Well Hey There!

Alright.  So a friend of mine, Natalie, recently made a blog here on blogspot.  Naturally, I wanted to go look at it, so I was very surprised to go to the website and see I was logged in!  Basically, I had made a joint blog with a friend in high school and totally forgot about it.  Now, by the encouragement of Natalie, I am making my own blog.  Yippie..? Sure.

So what I hope this blog is--or at least turns out to be--is a sort of an outlet for myself and my thoughts. I know!  How original!  But stay with me.  My catch: I am a huge nerd.  From the outside, I appear to be an average college girl (at least I think I do), so when I talk to people who don't know me well, I am forced to realize just HOW nerdy and awkward I am.  And this blog is basically here to describe all of these awkward, nerdy moments--And More!!  And so with that, I cheerfully welcome you into the craziness that is my life.

Best Wishes!
     K