Joe's A Clean, Mean, Rolling-Like-Crazy Machine

I laugh my ass off every time I watch these videos. Before coming back to Urbana-Champaign for school, I gave Joe (my dog) a bath and recorded him after I dried him off a bit. He always had a ritual of running around the house like a maniac after every bath. My family had Joe for 11 years now, and it took us that long to finally get a video of it. It's sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo cuuuuutteeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!

Joe needs a name for this move. It's reminds me of something 

the racers would do in Tokyo Drift....except Joe is cooler.

The main attraction!

Homecooking

CAULIFLOWER (boiled and curried) and RICE.This is my first self-cooked meal since being back from Winter Break. (This meal was made last week by the way) I've cooked noodles before, but that doesn't count. I've been eating out at restaurants, eating at events around campus, and, actually, eating in dining halls a lot since being back.

It's like a stoplight!

Lil' Smokies and Steamed Cauliflower w/ Garlic

Rice w/ Rice on Rice.

Curry Cauliflower

I ate a whole ¿head? of cauliflower that day. YUMMY! I brought it back from home (I think) and I was afraid it'll go bad, so I just cooked it all. I didn't know how fast cauliflower spoils... I also didn't know how to cut it when I was cooking it. Nothing eHow couldn't fix though.

 In the end, it was a really good meal though I was very disappointed with the lil' smokies. I remember always getting really excited when my mom would buy lil' smokies. From the context of that memory, it's safe to assume lil' smokies must be pretty awesome. NOPE!! They're just hot dog-flavored. How disappointing. "Tsk tsk, Lil' Smokie."

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On a side note, I made 11 slices of French Toast today. Just like last semester (as blogged about in a previous post), I had a lot of bread that was going to go bad, so I made French Toast of all of it. It was delicious! There are no pictures to show. Sorry. I could have just reposted pictures from the last French Toast-ing, but that would just be dishonest.

I Love Getting Hit By Cars...

I love getting hit by cars.... in a virtual reality.

This treadmill was a huge bean-shaped thing though. It matched the curve of a person's walking pattern. This is probably an outdated photo.

Two weeks ago, I participated in a research experiment for.... Actually, I don't know what they were studying. Something with cognition. In the beginning, I had to spend about 30 minutes completing really annoying computer tests (ex. either "> > < > >" or "< < < < <" or "> > > > >" or "< < > < <" would appear on the screen for a series of really quick trials...press "z" if the center arrow is pointing left and press "/" if it's pointing right). This was one of the many different computer tasks. It's sooooo boring!

After all that crap, I got to cross streets in a virtual reality!

I'm not sure for how many trials I had to cross the street, but it took about an hour of crossing. Maybe an hour and a half. Since the researcher already told me how many trials I needed to complete, I wanted to get it over with as fast as I could, so every trial I would just try to run across without stopping. Imagine if we did that in real life. Regardless of cars coming, you would try to cross the street faster than the car could drive into you. Well.....don't try it. That tactic got me hit by a virtual car many a-times....and also, by the end, I was dripping with sweat from all the running.

Okay. I'm done with my post. I'm really sleepy, and I've got a lot of work to do.

Bonjour!