Thursday, April 7, 2011

Hi, so I'm a bit excited (and by a bit I mean I'm jumping out of my pants) that my friends and I may have found an apartment/house/dealio to live in for the summer and hopefully staying on through next school year. It's ever so lovely, so I thought I'd share some pictures of it with you!
Tiny, tiny kitchen.
 Downstairs bedroom
 Hallway 
 Lofty deal
 OTHER loft! HOW MANY LOFTS ARE THERE??
 Below aforementioned loft
 Upstairs bathroom
 Other upstairs bedroom
 Storage? Place to store bodies? Endless possibilities.
 Other bathroom! (downstairs)
 Hallway by my bedroom
Entryway
Also, the ceiling upstairs may or may not be about 2 inches shorter than me... I think it's perfect!
-Tracy

Tuesday, April 5, 2011

My Self-Perpetuating Sleep Cycle

I like to think of myself as two different people. On the one hand, there is morning Tracy, listless and cranky, and night Tracy, energetic and seemingly productive! Throughout the day, morning Tracy morphs into night Tracy, and I really do believe that it is through a human version of photosynthesis. I've outlined the process here:



Step 1: Wake up in the morning, HATING night Tracy for imposing this drowsiness upon the current me, morning Tracy.
Step 2: Try as I might, be unable to stay awake in class, die a little inside when I wake up and see that I am completely lost in the lecture and will probably have no idea what is going on in the class for the rest of the year.
Step 3: Walk outside after the duration of my classes, see sun, begin to rejuvenate and slowly gain energy, so that the nap I was so looking forward to upon my return home is physically IMPOSSIBLE.
Step 4: The energy gained during the day lasts well into the night, and for some reason night me, reckless, frigid bitch that she is, pays no regard to the suffering morning me will have to go through in the morning.
And the cycle repeats itself.

Add Dried Fruit to The List

     Here is another thing I thought of while writing the last post. Don't think that all of my creations involve religion. Let's just label it the theme of the week. So here you go: Evangelical Cranberries. My god, is there no place religious zeal hasn't gone?

The Truth Behind Wiccan Mosquitoes

     To put it simply, there is no truth, rhyme, or reason behind the name of my blog. Despite the fact that it sounds cool and rolls of the tongue, allow me to expand on it's origins (even though I think you're being selfish as a reader for not accepting my simple explanation).

     One of my favorite past times is something I christened: misplaced noun association. I take a word and an adjective that have no prior connection and fuse them into a smoldering ball of plasma beauty. To anyone else but me, it doesn't make a lot of sense. But there are slight connotations of the words or emotions I am feeling that fuel the process. Let us start with a list of my favorites:

- Titty bingo  (Created by my friend Søren. I use it when I'm excited or pissed off)
- Muslim tether ball   (Just a personal fantasy of mine)
- Glitter applesauce   (Made up by my friend Sophia to stand for all things sickeningly girly)
- Swastika pinkie  (What I picture as the holy grail for Nazis. A pinkie on a human hand capable of producing an endless stream of swastikas. Somewhat of a fetish object for world war 2 Germans)
- Tomato placenta (What I picture to be the afterbirth of genetically engineered foods such as baby corn, which scares the shit out of me by the way)
- Pizza lipstick (The lipstick of choice for the overweight preteen population)

     Although not my intention for the last one on the list, it has particular marketability as a real product. It is undoubtedly the new revolutionary cosmetic of the chronically obese. It might, no it will become the favorite seductive device of overweight nations worldwide.


     Now I only need someone to pick up the idea and market it under a reputable label. Perhaps Dominoes is ready to kick-start its own line of beauty products. More on that later (not really, I just want to move on. I will never explain more about Pizza Lipstick, merely use it as a transition between ideas from here on out).

     So back to the mosquitoes (Pizza lipstick. See I told you). I was on Salt Lake's public transit system last week when the official religion of the mosquitoes was established. I always have Wicca on my mind. To me, it is the perfect balance between holistic medicine and environmentalism with a splash of satanic super naturalism. It only follows naturally that when I heard a loud high pitched noise coming from the train did I associate both sanguivoreian insect and Wicca. The immediate situation of annoying and insufferable noise lent itself perfectly to my obsession with all things Wicca (however now there is only one thing Wicca; the mosquito).




     So now you know the name behind my blog and the convoluted path my mind takes to invent such things. You also know that society will surely benefit from the connection I have made that answers the eons old question: what religion are mosquitoes? And knowing is half the battle.


Side Note:  My most recent experience involving a Wiccan (before the mosquito incident, of course) was on Craig's List. From time to time I scan the 'friend seeking friend' section of the Salt Lake City personal adds. It seems to me that Craig's List has really opened up a niche for itself. Lonely people looking for a partner under the guise of friendship because they are either too scared to admit their need of a significant other or are too cheap to use an online dating service, now have somewhere to turn. And what a place it is. Just the right amount of desperation and overwhelmingly uncomfortable requests, Craig's List is the golden ratio of the online dating world. 
     My most recent encounter was a middle aged woman seeking a friend with whom she could share her Wicca beliefs. She made it explicitly clear that she was open about her faith and wanted a friend she could practice with. What really got me was her unwillingness to discuss her sex life. She claimed to be a 'para-sexual' and demanded anyone who wanted to know what it meant should look it up.  Come one, it only stands to reason that someone looking for a friend or potential girlfriend would be explicitly clear about their taboo witch-like religion but closed to any explanation of what they expect from you as a person. In her immortal words, "I'm really touchy-feely lol". Well put lonely Wiccan. Your eloquence for emotional introspection astounds me. I have only one question: Are you merely overusing 'lol' like most of the population or do you find your tendency to want to be intimate comical? 
     Something tells me that unless I convert to Wicca, I will never know. Who cares, I've got mosquitoes which are the next best thing.

SNEAK PREVIEW

So, I'm attempting to draw a mosquito for a later post, and I would like to share with you all how very miserably I have failed. I pity this sad excuse for a mosquito...We'll call him Donny.

Although, on a side note, I would like everyone to revel in how impressive my cursive written on the computer is.
-Tracy

Monday, April 4, 2011

This Is The Place

     This is a story for which there is no beginning. However to forgo the dramatics, let us start 18 years ago when I was born.
  
     My name is Sam Totten and I have a listless string of problems both emotional and physical. This blog is about my experiences as a tall, skinny boy growing up in Utah. For all the outsiders, the tittle of this post 'this is the place', refers to the mormons coming to Utah and declaring it as the place to be. Place to be my ass. Not really, but whatever. On that note, I may seem unclear or scattered sometimes and that is a completely true observation.

     Back to the introduction: I'm a biology major at the University of Utah and love the outdoors. Rock climbing is my new obsession (note the blatant contradiction of claiming to hate Utah).

     Two halves make a whole. My partner in blog is Tracy Lewis. Equally as cool and slightly less tall, she grew up in the same town as me, Park City, Utah. Observe the drawing below: Tracy is the designated illustrator and a mighty fine one at that. We have the same length hair so some people think we are the same person. Hair length is directly proportional to individual identity.

     Okay. Tangents aside, my name is Sam Totten, this is my friend, and this is our blog.