The Life and Times of Berta Paradise

So, as most of you know, I attend Virginia Tech. So today, the NY Yankees are in town to have a little batting practice with our baseball team. This is part of the memorial stuff for April 16th. As April 16th approaches, I am getting more and more frustrated with the forced reminders. Yes, I remember what happened. Yes, I remember it every time I walk into my lab. I remember it every time I go to class. I remember it when I am sitting at my desk next to my labmate that was shot.

I remember. I am kind of tired of remembering tbh.

So as I was saying, the yankees are in town and it has apparently brought some of the freaks back out. As I walked into Norris today there were people milling around the doors taking pictures of the building, the doors, the students walking in and out. When I opened the outside door I felt like a tourist attraction or a freakshow. So I decided to come back to my desk (in a different building) to try and hide and surf the internet for something that does not have to do with guns or April 16th. But apparently today is the day of reminders. I run into the traffic jam outside because the Yankees decided to park their bus in the middle of the road so they could see the memorial. When I finally make it to my desk – I have an email about the memorial activities and an email that they will be installing a ceiling in the lab below me tomorrow and they wanted to warn me it will sound like gun fire. Now great email – I was really glad to be warned, but why today?

I think on the actual April 16th I will just go into hibernation.

/end rant – I feel better now.

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Not so sure this will be good, but I loved the first one. Cry little sister!!!

So, this last week was technically my spring break. I spent all week in B’Burg writing my paper and working on a class project. Kind of sad I know, but I have two weddings to go to this summer – so I am set on my travel for the year.

Anyways, my exciting week started off with a trip to my new tax advisor/CPA. Due to inheritance, I have mega-taxes to pay for 2007/2008, so I thought it was smart to get a cpa to make sure I am covering all my bases. Anyways, boring stuff – except that my CPA’s name is McMillion. Honestly, I only had 3 to choose from in the area, but his name seemed to pop out at me.

I ordered myself a little spring break treat. I know out of my 4-5 readers, at least two will get a kick out of this…

So I thought I was just ordering the HD-DVD box set of the 5 HP movies. Little did I know what I was in for. See, for Christmas I bought Clark an HD-DVD player, thinking that blueray would never win. Now that HD-DVDs are the new BetaMax, there is a fire sale going on for most HD-DVDs. SO I got this bad boy for 52% off. Not only does it have the DVDs…

But I got a game (meh) and bookmarks! Now the bookmarks are pretty cute:

I had some fun opening the package. It was a lot more than I expected. The only thing the box lacks (imo) is a handle. The sticker handle just doesn’t work for me.