In my photography class there is a Sarah-wannabee [the real Sarah is in the photo to the right]. Physically the girl and Sarah don’t look too much a like. Both are pale and have freckles. Both have longer hair and are thin, but that’s it. Yet style and personality they totally match up. The girl had a pair of brown cargo pants that look exactly like a pair Sarah has. She was also wearing brown skater-shoes that are very Sarah-like. The girl also had a bright green t-shirt that was about protecting the environment, which she said she bought a thrift store, totally a Sarah-thing!
It gets better. The girl is a vegan and for undgrad she received her degree in biology and animal behavior, just like Sarah.
Weird, huh?
I thought this was kinda cool. I’m thinking about getting it for Sarah as a birthday gift.
It’s ok, I can say that here and she’ll never know. She only looks at my blog when I tell her to look at a photo I have posted. I think her exact wording is “Scott, all you post are the things you tell me all day long. Why would I want to re-read stuff you already told me?”
Anyway, this is the WetPot. It can water your plants for a month without having to be refilled. I think it’s awesome. I’ve never had plants before because I never wanted to have to deal with watering or taking care of them, but this could make it super easy.
Through the process of capillary attraction, the plants absorb their necessary quota of water through a clay pot covered by a specially formulated glaze. Supposedly, this prevents both under and over-watering, providing a constant source of sustenance. With the clear container, you can also easily monitor the level of available water. It comes in small ($26), medium ($34), and large ($48) sizes, fitting most average sized house plants.
Sarah’s gone home for the weekend. I miss her. Bean, her cat, does too, but I think we are using our missing her as a way to bond either further and become better buddies.
Sarah was VERY appreciative for me fixing her computer (see previous post). As a result she made me dinner and took me out to a movie! For dinner we had steamed cabbage, roasted red peppers stuffed with black and mahogany rice, and this really good tofu-loaf(meatless meatloaf). We then went to go see “Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby.” 
Sarah’s laptop got infected with Winfixer. She has the most recent version of Norton but it was doing jack to fix the problem. No programs were doing anything to help. At Norton’s website there were instructions on how to remove Winfixer from the registry but they were 10 months outdated. I knew what the problem was. I knew Winfixer was in the registry but I had no idea about how to find all the pieces on my own. I decided to call Norton’s help line and ask them if they had an updated registry map with where all the Winfixer pieces were.
After waiting for 39 minutes I get a guy on the phone and he tells me his name is Bahrita. I’m not joking. He said the name, I couldn’t understand him, so I asked him to spell it. Then since I just watched “30 Days” episode about outsourcing I flat out asked Bahrita if was working an outsourced job.
He told me he was and that he’s in India. I complement him on his fake English accent and having him warmed up we begin talking about Winfixer.
When we left things two days ago, the local library wouldn’t give me a regular account until I proved to them that I lived in Prince Georges County. They said I needed to bring in a copy of my lease or a utility bill. I never signed a lease cause Sarah did and the utility bill is her name.
So I’ve thought of something else…
I just finished altering the most recent bill from Pepco, our electric company. I scanned it, pulled it into Photoshop, and then changed the four places where Sarah’s name showed up to my name. I printed it on card stock and then used special scissors so the edges would look perforated.
In about an hour I’m heading to the library to see if it works!
I feel like Charlie when he got the golden ticket to Wonka's factory!I’ve asked Sarah to be my date, not because we are close friends and it’s convenient that she lives with me. I’ve done it because Sarah is one of the smartest people I know and she knows things about science and biology (stuff I know nothing about) so if I get sucked into a real-life thrilling conspiracy I want to have her there to watch my back.
Sarah and I get to rent “V is for Vendetta” for free! We stopped by blockbuster last night and were looking for something else entirely. We passed an empty rack and Sarah pointed to a sign. It said “if this movie is not in stock we will give you a free coupon.” Since Sarah is Sarah and never passes up anything for free she made sure we got a coupon. 
For those of you who don’t know, I’m moving in less that two weeks to D.C. so I can go to American University and get my Masters of Fine Arts in Film. I’ll be living with my best friend Sarah and I’m really excited about it.
What I’m not excited about is our third roommate who is a witch.
I’m not kidding. I mean she is an actual witch. According to Sarah the girl has altars all over her room and makes food offering to her gods [The photo above is of a simple pagan altar].
Sarah said one day she got mad because the girl cooked a huge dinner and then didn’t eat any of it. She put it all on altars in her room and then one outside the back door. Sarah was worried about animals coming up to the house so she threw out the food by the back door. She wasn’t struck by lighting or anything so I guess the pagan gods didn’t mind.
I think Sarah is half excited to see how the Wicca chick and I will interact. I mean I’m me. I can get away with breaking the normal rules of social interaction. So there is no telling what will happen with me living with a witch.
The good thing about all of this is that the witch has a very serious boyfriend. Ironically he’s a neo-Christian and refuses to stay over and sleep in her room because he says the alters are blasphemous to Jesus. This means that the chick is hardly there. She’s always at his place. Personally, I think the guy is just dating her so he can get some.
So anyway it should be interesting to see how all of this plays out.