1028-Happy Birthday

Bonjour French Press

到货了，很小很精致。

Annotated Bibliography

终于写完了，期末成绩的30%，5369字，什么也不说了，彻底无语...

提前用来犒劳自己的大餐-Thai Pad，味道很好...


为了写它，我也去J-school图书馆借书了，头一回:


昨晚的红牛，没有效果：

Born to Shop

订了支票，后来发现花园的也很美，但是这套支票叫做born to shop...
我心情的最佳写照咯...至少在美国是。

最吸引我的其实是皮套的图案，可是没钱买...

Go Tigers

哈哈，去看橄榄球赛了，Mizzou vs Texas Tech,41:10，homecoming的球赛，当然不能输啦。 中场休息还宣布了homecoming king and queen，可傻了...美国人的传统啊。 照片里人比赛况多，因为...看不懂，所以一直拍照自恋来着，嘻嘻。
有几件有趣的事情：
1. 赛前要tailgating，就是很多人把车开到一个空旷的地方，车尾箱打开，一群站在后面烤热狗和汉堡，喝啤酒，吃薯片（典型美国夏季派对食品）。我们偷懒了，去拿了研究生协会的食物，就到树下荫凉的地方野餐，嘻嘻。（我穿白色衣服在草地上那些照片）。
2. 本来没买Mizzou的衣服，去了发现很不协调，于是我和freda都在球场买了，幸好还不是很贵，而且我很喜欢。
3. 赢了球要放炮，炮兵还要去做付地挺身，按照总分数量来做...老虎仔也要做。后来他们还在休息时教小朋友做...
4. 27块钱的学生票，只能坐草地，而且会被晒死...
5. 橄榄球是看不懂的而且能催眠。

Downtown Parade

无端端走到半路，看到游行，边走还边扔糖果。好像是因为万圣节快到了吧？
还有几张南瓜照。

My Story

Nixon raises more in Columbia, but Blunt outpaces challenger statewide

http://www.columbiamissourian.com/stories/2007/10/18/nixon-raises-more-columbia-blunt-outpaces-challeng/

By QIANYI HUANG
October 18, 2007 7:26 p.m. CST
COLUMBIA — Attorney General Jay Nixon, the likely Democratic candidate for governor, has raised more than twice as much from Columbians in the past year as his opponent, Republican Gov. Matt Blunt.
Since October 2006, Nixon raised $52,509 from 211 Columbia residents compared to Blunt’s $24,800 from 21 contributors.
For the entire state, it is reversed.
Blunt has raised nearly $5.8 million from 1,732 contributions statewide in the last 12 months while Nixon has received $2.9 million from 6,609 donations.
The latest campaign finance report from the Missouri Ethics Commission was released Monday.
Blunt, 36, was elected to his current office in 2004, when he became the youngest governor in the country.
Nixon, 51, has served four terms as attorney general.
Phyllis Fugit, chairwoman of Boone County Democratic Central Committee, said Nixon gets the edge in Columbia because of Blunt’s budget cuts to MU, Medicaid and children’s services.
However, John Hancock, spokesman for Blunt’s campaign, said “Nixon has a bunch of wealthy trial lawyers bundling money for him in Columbia.”
Hancock also pointed out that “Blunt hasn’t had any big fund-raising events in Columbia yet.”
The three largest Columbia contributions for Blunt are tied to Atkins Investments, each giving $5,000 in June.
The biggest contributor to the Nixon campaign was Dudley Trice of The Insurance Group Inc., who made a $2,500 donation in March.
Among the 21 donations to Blunt, 11 were less than $500 and eight were $1,000 or more. Of the 264 total donations Nixon received, 238 were less than $500 and the rest were all $1,000 or more.
But The two candidates might lose some of their funds. On July 19, the Missouri Supreme Court reinstated a $1,275 individual contribution limit that was eliminated Jan. 1. The Ethics Commission hasn’t decided whether candidates must return any over-limit contributions received between Jan. 1 and July 19. The commission’s next meeting is scheduled for Nov. 8.
If the Ethics Commission does make the limit retroactive, Blunt would have to give $12,175 back to Columbia contributors; Nixon would have to return $1,225.
“We’ll need to wait and see,” Hancock said. “We raised it legally and are grateful to have it.”
Statewide, the candidates could have to return millions.
To download a Microsoft Excel document showing all of the contributions to both candidates, click here.
Contact an editor with corrections or additional information

最后决定买个法国压

下订单了，$12.45，这样就不用放在火上煮了，据说更原汁原味。 犒劳自己写完一篇大稿子。准备写论文咯！

Monet French Press Coffee Maker

Missourian Newsroom

(早上9点)从来没有那么早到过...


(晚上9点)再也不想那么晚走

凄美的人生

freda她们喜欢把凄惨说成凄美，有一定道理。
机票订的去费城，那自然要折腾一番才能到纽约啦。说到这里，每个人都问，那你不如直接飞纽约...

如果直飞纽约只需要114(10月的价格)，我自然飞啦，可是，到那时候，直飞要600，170也只能弄个转机，一折腾就是5，6个小时...一想起坐飞机就头痛，所以还是直飞费城吧，才150，好歹多去个地方。

说是这样说，从费城这段到纽约完全要自力更生，还是颇为麻烦。研究了半天发现很麻烦，几乎想反悔，可是又不能退票了...

之后发现灰狗(greyhound)很便宜，才12，而且从机场去也很方便，很是兴奋！冲动得几乎要网上订票了。

今天一看评论，发现很不卫生不安全，还会绕路晚点...感觉像在海南坐的野鸡车，据说还有吸毒的乘客和歧视华人的司机(也许因为华人巴士抢了他们很多生意)...

害怕...无奈...

不过...可谓柳暗花明...竟然让我发现了传说中的城际火车...虽然没有广州到深圳那么好，从机场到市内转一下，然后到NJ转一下，有点像，从广州到罗湖到旺角，时间不长(顶多3小时)，几乎能把我送到hostel门口，而且安全舒适...至少没有瘾君子吧...沿途还能欣赏一下风光...班次很紧密还不需要提前订票...不错不错...

所谓天无绝人之路，穷虽穷，可是还是会有乐趣啦~

所以freda同学，我明天打算告诉你，你和你普哥哥可以坐火车去哦~

订好hostel

阿瓜已经订好了Hostel,千挑万选，我们订了 Manhattan Inn 的 4人女生间。
感觉很奇怪，虽然还有两个月，这个旅程却好像已经开始了。
现在还期待着，刚刚订的支票本，呵呵，应该会很漂亮哦~！

第一次做的蛋糕

getting cold, go shopping

流走了的

看照片，发现了一组...balance帮sakura照的相片...
不会摆post，浪费了balance的好天赋，呵呵，不过还是找到了最爱的这张：
那时的我，还不知道生活能让人有多失落吧...

如果我有女儿的话

要叫作诺谣, Noelle.