Where are the Bunsen Burner's and Schematics?

I've come to the great realization that I should look at my syllabi more often. Not that I'm terribly behind (that I know of) but it just helps. For example, I'm sitting here in language lab with an oral project overdue and another German blog to write, and yet I'm writing this one instead. This stems from my over-ability to let most things like class work and women's subtile hints to pass me by without notice, much in the same brilliant way that Sherlock Holmes doesn't not (suck it grammar!) notice.

However, despite my general lack of my surroundings that I either don't care for or that come from other humans there is one thing I have noticed. This is a language LAB, yet there are no real things in here to suggest Lab-like qualities. In one way, this place is not an overly happy place always looking to please you, constantly interrupting your serious moments, and needing to be walked every day at 5 in the damn morning. On there other hand, there are no Bunsen Burner's or Schematics. I think it we made this place look a little more lab-ish it might enhance its appeal to a staggering tolerable.

We might want to consider having the workers dress up in lab coats and carry clipboards for starters. Then, after we've found some insanely, highly illogical, but awesome reason to justify that, we can upgrade our lab. We can get a whole array of glass containers and fill them with liquids of different colors that will explode or create poison gas when you mix them. That'll make this place a hazardous work environment and all the more fun because danger = fun.

We're going to make an awesome lab, not a lame one, so logically we won't include anything that normally comes in a lab that doesn't have the ability to explode, create poison gas, cut, boil over, bludgeon, or do any other kind of harmful thing. Plastic eye glasses? Not in the budget. Trinitrotoluene? You bet. Safety gloves? Who needs 'em? Arsenic. Yes please.

Anyway, those are just some ideas for an awesome lab. Right now I'm stuck with computers and people who don't understand the concept of "gain" on a microphone. None of this is helping the fact that today is in fact Mardi Gras and I'm somehow NOT on the road to New Orleans for the night. Lame. As. Shit. There's no party like Mardi Gras in New Orleans, and now that the Saints have won the Super Bowl, I can't even imagine. Yet as fate would have it, here I am, in deep East Texas, in a computer lab, attempting to put off my German until sometime later.

Allow me to give you some insight as to how Texans celebrate Mardi Gras, and how they've bastardized an otherwise great holiday. I've been to Mardi Gras in New Orleans. It was the single greatest parade and party I've ever been to, and I didn't even hit up the French Quarter which is where everyone gets the stereotypical girls gone wild Mardi Gras images. However, if I wanted to, I could have just walked on over to it and joined in. I later, much later, went to Mardi Gras in Galveston, Texas. Much like the Mardi Gras in New Orleans people tended to separate themselves based on if they wanted to have the "Family Friendly" Mardi Gras or the "Party Hearty" Mardi Gras. The only, immensely detestable, horridly shocking, completely insulting difference was that in order for my crew and I to get into the "party" we had to pay $20 to go through a gate. What is that? Oh how I longed for home. Texas likes to brag about how it does everything bigger and better, well not this time Texas. You royally screwed up on this one. If you ever plan on going to Mardi Gras, leave whatever state you're in and fly, drive, hitchhike, or walk your ass to Louisiana and get a real taste of Mardi Gras.

This all didn't stop me from celebrating the great tradition of Mardi Gras though. Had an awesome party this weekend to commemorate Mardi Gras this year. My folks came up and helped boil crawfish and my friends and I had a great big feast followed by a party at my place filled with beads, king cake, and music. It was a far cry from the real thing, but we all enjoyed it immensely.

In sports, Eintracht Frankfurt won this weekend in a 2-1 victory over SC Freiburg. That puts us at 7th with 34 points on the table and a goal differential of zero. Let's keep it up Eagles!



Bon Mardi Gras.