First of all, Look. At this blog, I serves up that common sense, fresh, out the pot and to yo momma. And If I am making too much sense for you I suggest you check this out. So without further adieu. I'm goin in <---(lil wayne voice)-------- So you know what's the worst?

Spencer Pratt.

No.

I'm not allowed within 500 feet of Megan Fox. (appellate court ruling pending, fingers crossed)

Nope.

It's living in a dorm where all you know is your draw group. I hate walking past people and giving them the "If I look away, you can't see me." Or the empty, "heyyyy, person I see everyday but don't actually know your name," as you pass in the hallway. That's why freshman year is the best, because like it or not, everybody knows everyone's business, but everyone knows everyone. It's like the Real World.

*TANGENT* Did anyone love this past season as much as I did? My favorite roomie was Emilee. I even follow her on twitter. But real talk, why is her name spelled all funky? Her momma must be stupid. creative! *END TANGENT*

I love dorms that are like families. That's why I went straight back to Uj after spending a year in Toyon. That, and like the black guy on the real world always does....I snapped:

Subject: Enough is Enough Toyon!

Tide WITH BLEACH....if you took my shit give it back. i'm not playin. I'm
living in a room with sol next year. needless to say i'm not happy, i'm
black, and most of you are afraid of me anyway...just imagine how it'll be
if i catch somebody using my tide WITH BLEACH. lets just say that yung joc
put it best when he said "If ya got a problem say it to my face, We can
knuckle up any time any place." I know what you're thinking...all this
over some Tide, some TIDE!! but this aint ya momma's Tide, this shit is
the real deal. BLEACH and everything... i don't appreciate my detergent
bein gone. now i got a load of laundry to do, and i wanna do it on the
first floor. i would love for my box to be in there.

As you can clearly see. I temporarily lost it. That wasn't even the worst. As most of my friends can attest to, I actually went through a phase where I carried a baseball bat, a megaphone, and a can of Lysol around the dorm and to the eating clubs. So what's the point of this story?? I dunno, go say hi to the person across the hall and see what they're up to. You could make a new friend...possibly prevent a potential freakout?

Now that school has started, if you're like me, you find yourself on a limited budget with limited time to prepare breakfast in the morning.

My solution - oatmeal!

Now before you say "yuck!" hear me out. As a kid, my parents believed in a hot, nutritious breakfast, and oatmeal was a staple. Unfortunately, and my parents also believed that sweetener, especially white sugar, was bad as well. This means that many a morning bowl of oatmeal was bland, sprinkled with cinnamon and the occasional raisin and augmented by a small drizzle of honey. Yuck! Because of this, I've always found oatmeal a bit bland and the flavors that go with it (cinnamon and sugar, apple cinnamon, ect.) less than exciting.

One word - cranberries. Cranberries, and occasionally some nuts (like, say almonds) add a nice zing to an otherwise dull food.

If you make oatmeal yourself, you can find yourself eating a healthy, tasty, easy and quick to prepare meal in the morning, low in sodium, high in fiber, and one that will stick with you until lunch.

What you need -
quick cooking oatmeal (you can buy this pretty cheaply by the pound at Country Sun)
dried cranberries (I got at Trader Joes and keep in the freezer so they won't spoil)
dried nuts (ditto)
sugar (or some kind of sweetener)
a microwavable bowl
a microwave
measuring cups
5 minutes

Friday, August eighth was a monumental day for the incoming freshman of the Class of 2012. Tears were shed in both glee and sorrow. Since the last mailing received on June 27th, the incoming frosh, including myself, have all been anticipating the day where yet another piece of information would be shared to bring us closer to New Student Orientation on September 16th. Rooming assignments haunted me since August began: would I be roomed near my Admit Weekend friends, in THE Branner, the dorm every incoming frosh seemed to be hoping for, near the library, or in the middle of nowhere? Nightmares seemed to occur each night, in which my roommate was incompatible with me and everyone in my dorm was rude, introverted, and unhygienic. Well, this message came rather rapidly, appearing in our stanford webmail inboxes. I immediately clicked on the link to see my future.

Beware non-freshmen: the time has come to face the inevitable. A new crop of freshmen -- fodder for the less-drunk-than-you-think-he-is SAE fratter, the annoying overachievers in Polisci 2, the ones who think they're cool enough to go to Kairos Wine & Cheese -- are about to arrive on campus.

But how do the freshmen become the way they are? I blame it all on over-programmed and highly-scripted NSO. A sampling of the events, with commentary and interpretation.

Tuesday, 1-3PM. Green Library Tours. Um, yeah. I'm guessing this is for the parents. What are they going to show them? The warm-and-fuzzy Bender Room, with every couch and chair occupied with upperclass students fleeing the chaos of move-in day?

Tuesday 7:30-9:30PM. House Meeting and Social Activity. I know cheesy icebreakers when I see them. I used to hate that game when everyone went around and said their name and some sort of sign or something, and then each person had to remember all the people before them. I was always at the end and would forget everyone's names.

But everyone will know each other's names through Facebook stalking anyway, so that's not a concern.

Tuesday 12PM. Website Open for PWR. Sucks to be you, suckas! Enjoy the Rhetoric of Whatever.

Wednesday, 8:30AM. Chemistry Placement Test. Sucks to be you, suckas! But you could stop pretending to be a premed and not wake up this effin' early.

Wednesday, 2:40-3:30PM. For Students Considering Humanities and Social Sciences: Choosing Math and Science Courses. For the wusses who won't take fitty-one, I suggest Math 19, which seems like the easiest course at Stanford (see "Gut Courses" entry below).

Wednesday, 4:30-5:15PM First Course: Feed your Body, Mind and Spirit. I like it how at Stanford, all the various religions pretend to get along. InterVarsity reigns supreme, though.

Thursday, 9:30 and 10:30AM. Associated Students of Stanford University (student activity information panel). The froshie's first chance to realize that the ASSU does nothing.

Thursday, 11:30AM-12:30PM. Public Service and the Arts: Stanford Students Dance in Prisons. "What are the arts, especially dance, doing to address this invisibility and what is the relationship of the arts to prisons, punishment and rehabilitation?"

I couldn't help but think of this video, and wonder if it's anything like this. If so, it might be kinda fun:

If it's not, this sounds like it has the substantive level of your average PWR course.

Friday, 1-3PM. Hume Writing Center Open House. Has anyone actually ever been there? I don't even know where it is.

Saturday, 5:30PM. Stanford football versus Oregon. If we score a touchdown, I'll be pleased. Oregon just crushed Michigan (admittedly not much of an accomplishment these days) and might challenge Cal for number two in the Pac-10. Predicted score: Oregon 52, Stanford 7.

Monday, 9PM-11PM. O-Show. Around the fourth a capella group, it becomes insufferable. And then you have to squirm through another five or so.

Enjoy NSO!

Kevin Drum points to an article in the LA Times on housing forclosures. Wow!

I'm not sure who else cares about the housing market, but as someone who's generally interested in fiscal policy this is a bit alarming. Wow.

For part I click here

Inspired by my friend D who intends to stop using shampoo as soon as she runs out, no Impact Man, and a variety of other sites I am attempting to go shampoo-less and to wash my hair with a baking soda solution and vinegar rinse. Today was day 1, I’ll let you know what happens after week II. If I make it that far

However, I do have reviews of using vinegar and baking soda to clean the oven, help with the dishes, and clean the toilet.

The results for the housing draw have been posted. Statistics for this year are available online. Previous years' statistics are available here, although the link to the 2006 statistics is currently broken and sends you to the 2007 statistics; a copy of the Google cache of the 2006 results is here.

Nothing quite as shocking as last year's Toyon drawing unpreferred seems to have happened. Toyon drew around 1600 or so, still shockingly low for juniors or seniors who remember when Toyon was very hard to get into but at least juniors aren't being assigned there. Also, it looks like co-ops like Columbae are getting filled with people who want to live there, as opposed to last year when people who hadn't ranked it were put there.