:: quick facts for thursday, october 23

well, this one might go through after the final bell rings on this thursday. it's been the usual packed thursday here in starkvegas. i woke up at 9:30 and my day rapidly progressed until i found myself sitting here, in front of my keyboard, typing this. i honestly don't remember all that happened. i'll try to recap, quickly, so as not to bore. you can probably just skip over this...

• 12:00 :: quickly eat left-overs. pasta jambalaya. yum.
• 12:15 :: run out the door, trying to get to social psych. on time.
• 12:30 :: sitting in traffic, not in class on time.
• 12:40 :: arriving to hilbun, slip quietly into class.
• 1:30 :: emerging from class, hanging out with devin and sarah in the union. coveting devin's macbook.
• 2:00 :: heading to becca's apartment to hang out and print notes off for my behavior mod class.
• 2:50 :: realizing i'm probably going to be late for my behavior mod class.
• 3:01 :: late for my behavior mod class.
• 3:10 :: arrive at allen, slip into my conspicuous front row seat...
• 5:35 :: leave class, return to the apartment.
• 6:00 :: leave the apartment, head to the hump for a rick's rowdies meeting.
• 7:00 :: arrive back home. play some no more heroes.
• 8:00 :: flip over to cbs to watch csi.
• 9:00 :: play more no more heroes.
• 10:00 :: tune in to comedy central to watch the daily show and the colbert report.
• 11:15 :: head to the gym, run for a while.
• now :: blog. after a long day.

sorry about that.

i think that actually helped me remember that today did actually occur. hope your day was both more interesting and less hectic than mine was. 

let's get to the quick facts ::

the current price of a gallon of gas in starkville :: $3.55 outside my window.

currently listening to :: r.e.m.'s debut album murmur. you might remember that i went on a journey through the library of u2 recently. i've decided to do this with r.e.m. as well. i've also decided to blog about the u2 journey tomorrow and create a new weekly blog feature. every week, i'm going to declare an artist of the week (although, some weeks, i might have two. it depends) and that week i'm going to listen to that artist's entire sonic library and do some reporting to you. this will help me get to better know and appreciate the artists in my music compilation library and give you something better to read than the above, a boring summary of my day. if you've got an artist you think i'd like or would like to get my analysis on, let me know in the comments section.

current location :: a very quite, but warmly lit apartment.

currently reverberating off of the expanses of my brain :: "tgif" 

also currently wondering :: "when is my absentee ballot gonna get here? who will i vote for when it gets here?"

today in history ::

• abraham lincoln suspends habeas corpus in washington, d.c., for all military related cases in 1861. 147 years later, our current president asks "what's that? i guess we don't need it."
• 25-33,000 women march down fifth avenue in new york city to advocate their right to vote in 1915. thankfully, they are allowed to vote now, and some women can now march down fifth avenue to advocate their right to buy the most expensive clothes they can find.
• after a steady decline in stock market prices, the new york stock exchange begins to show signs of panic in 1929. now, things are great...
• the first miniature golf tournament was completed in chattanooga, tennessee in 1930. aparently, people were so panicked from the previous year's stock market crash that they had to resort to "not quite golf" in "not quite nashville". one can only imagine what fun games will emerge from our current economic situation. "i spy" with depressed or inebriated stock brokers?
• apple releases the ipod in 2001. millions of people either buy either the ipod or white headphones to try to fit in. others, like me, wait until 2006 to win one from their university.

born today in history ::

• john heisman
• gummo marx (poor gummo, never as popular as his brothers...)
• ang lee
• nancy grace (or, the devil woman)
• weird al yankovic
• doug flutie

fact :: today is mole day. no, not the furry little animals. no, we're talking avagadro's constant, 6.022×10^23.. in an incredibly nerdy turn of events, it's held between 6:02 am and 6:02 pm on the 23rd day of the 10th month, making the official holiday : 6:02 10/23.

no video of the day today, didn't watch many videos. i can say though, that the first segment of the daily show from tonight is can't miss. he gets onto everyone, and it's hilarious.

more to come, including your artist of the week look at u2.