Twilight Madness

I saw the midnight release of Twilight and thought the movie was far more melodramatic than the book, but I still hope they make New Moon because I think there's room for improvement. I was also pleased to notice that the vampire women tended to have more of a body than I've been used to seeing on most Hollywood women. They weren't the usual Hollywood waifs. Dare I hope that the fashion for women to look like they have consumption is finally dying down?

Cynthia is Made of Awesome!

Thanks to Canadian Nerdfighter Cynthia (she was so cool she came all the way down from Canada for this) I finally have footage of the Ann Arbor event! It's perfect too because she was sitting right next to me and filmed almost everything I would have filmed had I had my camera (And possibly even some things I would have been too slow for because my reflexes stink). Incidentally, the librarian in the red shirt who introduced John and Hank is the Awesome Sharon who gave me my Paper Towns book. And as extra icing on the cake the back of my head and even my profile feature prominently in this video since Cynthia was right there. No one will probably enjoy it as much as I do but there's still some pretty fun stuff on it:

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And a few more pictures of the event I've gathered from other people's Facebook. Probably the best use of Facebook I've ever had.

This picture pretty much sums up how awesome I thought this all was.



Spoonfingers! What's that? You don't get it? They're spoons and fingers!
That's really all there is to get. And look I'm in the upper far right background probably talking to Nerdfighter Allison who took the picture of me with the Green brothers.



The musicians.
You know you're in a roomful of awesome when it has both a ukulele player AND a guitar player.

Nerdfighters!

I met the vlogbrothers last night and COMPLETELY FORGOT MY CAMERA! Yes, only I could have such complete and utter idiocy. Luckily one is never short of cameras at a vlogbrother event. So here's me with Hank and John Green. Thanks to the awesome that is Allison
(the fellow nerdfighter I met at the event). There's so many much cooller things that I wish I'd said to them but at least it was a very supportive environment for a shy and awkward person.



Me with some scrabble playing nerdfighters.

Funnies

While poking around WorldCat I found this book.

Also, while on the bus today I coveted the shirt of a student I saw. The back read "If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research."

Election 2008

My election story is very simple. I barely waited in line at all because I voted in a small polling place in a good window of time where most people were at work or in class. I fretted that I might have done something wrong or the machine may have read it wrong. I'm sure many did. But I got my sticker all the same.

I've never been particularly political, but it has mattered to me more and more over time. I also have had what feels like an almost lifelong cynicism for government. But that just means that tonight I am more proud of my country than I have ever been in the whole of my life.

That said, it's probably obvious who I voted for. But all the same I had high respect for both candidates tonight. McCain's eloquent concession speech was on par with Obama's acceptance as best speech of the night.