Malwart

                I am currently nomming on Yan-Yan and generic brand Ritz crackers. College has taught me many things.

                I realize that I haven’t blogged in a really long time, and that could be troublesome if people actually followed my blog. Shout-out to my only followers – Aunt Molly and Meg (my older sister). You guys are awesome! I am so lame.

                If you were brought here by my vlog account on YouTube, great! That’s awesome! Thanks for watching and reading; it makes me happy inside. Like small forest creatures are skittering around in my tummy. Yeah.

                If you want to follow a slightly more exciting – and definitely more updated – blog of mine, go check out my Tumblr! I’m toasterness, man. Go find me. Please?

                You know what’s really fun to do? Midnight trips to Walmart.

                I first found out about these exciting adventures when I went to go see a showing of Juno at the theater nearby. There also happened to be a Walmart next to it. So, one thing led to another, and we ended up spending over four hours in Walmart and didn’t buy a thing. Wonderful! Although, I don’t recommend riding around the bikes; they don’t take lightly to that.

                Once in college, Walmart became one of the only places where I could buy food and not spend my entire month’s budget. The food was nasty but cheap, so it went in my belly when the dining hall food wouldn’t do it for me. Which was a lot. Blegh. Anyway, we would take the bus to Walmart at night and spend a couple hours dinking around, though we usually came out with a bit o’ booty. Actually, sometimes we actually bought Pirate’s Booty, that nummy popcorn stuff. I once scored a Darth Vader can of Pringles. So worth it. It’s a good thing Montana doesn’t have a sales tax, or a lot more of my money would have been spent. I tended to arrive at Walmart hungry, and you should never be in grocery store hungry. Bad juju.

                Once, we bought two whole pounds of bacon. Obviously, we ate all of it. With a side of Sunny D. Breakfast of champions.

                My personal favorite way of getting to Wally World was to take the “Drunk Bus”. Now, this is not a bus that we rode when we were drunk. Oh no. This is the bus that we ride while other people are drunk. It’s really the funniest thing ever; wasted people screaming the lyrics to “Wagon Wheel” at the top of their lungs, women dressed in skimpy outfits despite the below zero winter temperatures, and the general awesomeness of watching plastered individuals swinging from the roof rails. Oh Bozeman, how I love you. We would get on the bus right about the time that everyone was switching bars – around 10:30 pm to 11:00 pm – and we would get back on the bus right as people were starting to go home for the night – around 2:00 in the morning. It was always worth it, and we always seemed to make friends. Once, we met a bunch of people from England, Brazil, and Peru. It was awesome! And let me tell you; those Streamline buses can fit a lot of people. Oh yes.

                Alright, that’s it for this post. Check out my vlogs on YouTube! I’m echoiconicify and I try to make a few videos a week. Thanks for reading and have a glorious rest of the week.

xoxo

Nerdgasm

    So. The Transit of Venus, huh? Yeah. That was epic.
    Did you get to see it?? Ohmygosh. I about cried. This is a once-in-a-lifetime experience! This won't happen for another 105 years! No one alive today will be alive then!! I've been bugging out all day and have had NASA's live feed from Hawai'i up on my laptop basically for the whole day. I am so happy I got to see it! I even took some photos of it, though not many turned out quite well. Here's the best one I got:

 
   If you look at the upper right portion of the Sun, you'll see a little black speck. That's Venus!! This isn't a very great photo, so I used MS Paint to zoom-in and take a closer - albeit, slightly more pixelized - look at the transit:

    This view offers a much better glimpse of Venus (it's that little freckle!). So cool! I know the photos aren't great but I was just glad I was able to capture it so other people could see it. It's been cloudy here for a while and where my friends live, so hopefully they like the photos!
    How I took them: I used my dad's Nikon D5000 with its super zoom lens for the original photo, along with a welder's mask for a filter. I wish I could have had access to a telescope but you make do with what you have, right? I like it, so yay.
    I was so excited about today's event that I even wrote a song. It's about space, and science fiction, and space, and how much I love space because space is awesome. Yes. Here are the lyrics. I may post a recording of it on my YouTube channel if you'd like to see that. Enjoy!

"Space: the Final Frontier

Too bad I’m stuck right here

Maybe someday I’ll be on the surface Mars

Or maybe Voyager I or II will reach a distant star

Till then we’ll boldly go where no man has gone before

And we’ll just keep on learning more and more and more

But if you’re bored, now don’t you mope

Just go out and grab a big old telescope

Mr. Kepler, teach me your ways

I want to understand those gamma rays

Let’s make a giant leap for mankind

And go out and see some planets align

A long, long time ago in a galaxy far, far away

A man forgot his towel and he was swept away

Oh, the wonders that he did behold

Nebulas, pulsars, and black holes, they never get old

Though it’s true that Andromeda is speeding towards us on a collision course

I’m still glad we’ve got gravity and all its powerful Force

Everyday space is expanding and ignoring our silly clocks

And yet, somewhere out there is a madman with a box

Mr. Sagan, help me understand

I need to know how to make a spaceship land

Let’s make a giant leap for mankind

And go out and see what we can find

Sitting down here I feel so small

And now I know I’m not much at all

Except, of course, star dust, and the ashes of this place

Did I yet mention that I love space?"

    If you still have time, go look at it! Or check out NASA's feed at http://venustransit.nasa.gov/transitofvenus/. It's totally worth it! That being said, Google "nebula" and begin to feel small. Have a nice day!

xoxo