A few days ago, Facebook released the top trends of 2009. These are categories of words found in status updates. For example, “Family” includes words like Mom, Dad, Brother, Sister, etc. Meanwhile, “Lady Gaga” includes phrases like “Poker Face.” The number two category includes words like “law school” is just the phrase “FML.” Enjoy the list! For a complete description of each category, check out Facebook’s explanation.

Today when I was walking into the Cathedral of Learning, I overheard this short conversation:

Girl: I can’t believe you don’t watch movies, that’s ridiculous.

Boy: I do watch movies, I’ve just never seen Batman.

At this point I turned around and yelled asked “What?”

The girl burst into laughter and the guy was NOT happy. To avoid having to show him how much I’ve learned from watching Batman, I got out of there quickly.

This summer I have done a ton of driving. Now, I love my Nissan. I enjoy driving it and it handles great. But I was thinking last night that I would love to mix things up a bit. The following text message conversation between me and my good friend Emily ensued:

Me: I was just thinking that the only thing I would rather drive back to Pittsburgh than the Nissan is a zord.

You don’t know what a zord is? Obviously they are the vehicles driven by the power rangers, as indicated by the video at the end of this post.

Emily: Bahahaha! Which one? Or the mega zord?

Me: Dragonzord would be fun, but conspicuous. I would need one that flies. The megazord is too much to pilot solo.

Emily: Hahahaha! So true so true. I always liked Kimberly’s zord*

*The pterodactyl

Me: You’re such a girl

Emily: You just said you needed something that flies!

Me: True, true. But pink? Then I’d have to wear pink shirts all the time*.

*In case you didn’t know, the Power Rangers always wore shirts that matched the color of their zords. Kimberly was the pink ranger, because she is a girl.

Emily: You only said you wanted a zord to drive to pitt…not actually enlist! And anyways you love pink!

Me: Haha. “Enlist.” The nice thing about pitt is the rivers so there are plenty of places to hide zords.

As indicated by the video below, zords must come from a hidden location. Lacking volcanoes, any of the three rivers would be great hiding places.

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