HotShot Blog

So I think I finally got things up and running. I've been meaning to set up a blog for quite a while now, but I've mostly been lazy about it. I also struggled between using a commercial blog site vs my school webspace vs my own computer. But I was cheap and wanted flexibility, so this blog is hosted on my computer for now. I may move it in the future if traffic overwhelms it (haw haw - I know it won't).

What's this blog going to be about? Commentary on various things and observations. Somewhat like Seinfeld (my favorite tv show) but with more substance. There will of course be a heavy dose of politics, but I have plenty to say about music, education, restaurants & bars, traffic, rain, and snow.

Feel free to spread the URL and the good word if you like what you see. If you want to contact me, send an email to webmaster@hotshotblog.com.

In response to my repeated complaints that he never updates his blog, Abhishek has finally given up and said, 'Well then you write something.' So I will. And then all you loyal readers can complain that neither one of us ever updates this blog. Sadly I am not as passionate about politics or finance or golf or anything that Abhishek writes about. I do like giraffes, however, so you can look forward to many exciting posts about how wonderful and cute giraffes are. See you in cyberspace!

Great news. This site is no longer being hosted off my home computer. The new webspace is considerably faster and more reliable. The site should be much more accessible without the annoying lags. Best of all: I can turn off my old linux machine when the hard drive starts making noise. I can finally sleep at night!

Also, I had to redo some stuff in order to get the site full of the same content as before. Let me know if there are any bugs.

Abhishek never updates this blog. He claims this is because he is very busy. Yeah right. I'm the one who's busy in the hospital...SAVING LIVES. Ok, that's an enormous exageration. The only life I ever saved was the giant bug I let outside instead of squishing it when I caught it in my apt. I'm actually busy in the hospital....ANNOYING PATIENTS and WRITING NOTES IN THEIR CHARTS. Yes, this is what the mysterious medical school tuition goes towards - a mountain of paperwork that nobody reads. Anyway, this isn't about why I don't update the blog. It's about why Abhishek doesn't update the blog. I mean it's his blog, no? Let's take a look at the very busy schedule of a FINANCE PHD STUDENT!!

• Sleeping in...I can call Abhishek at 11 AM and he'll still get mad at me because he was asleep. Of course, I can't blame him too much, because whenever I go visit him, I sleep until 1 PM. His apartment needs some sunlight! Maybe they can rig up some mirrors in the alley to reflect sunlight into his window like they are doing in that Austrian village
  

• Working on his paper...this consists of sitting at his computer and surfing the web. sometimes a result comes up, and then he types something else in, restarts the program, and resumes surfing the web
  

• Playing LORD...no explanations needed
  

• DFNYC...this consists of lots of meetups, pre-meetup meetups, post-meetup meetups, and pre-pre-meetup meetups. I'm not even kidding. I have no idea what goes on at these things, but it seems to involve lots of beer.
  

• Seminars...these have free food, and sometimes souvenirs
  

• Working out...Abhishek takes Cardio Blast and Intermediate Golf, yet he still finds time to swim and lift weights. What a stud.
  

• Posting on the LORD message boards...because you can only play so much LORD in one day
  

• Talking to me...I make sure that when I am not in the hospital annoying patients, I am pestering Abhishek with a nonstop barrage of phone calls with the purpose of informing him that I am bored.
  

• Watching the 'Colbert Report'...this often occurs at the same time that he is supposed to be talking to me. Abhishek is very resourceful at watching the Colbert Report when I'm trying to talk to him on the phone - if it's not on TV at the moment, he'll just watch it off Comedy Central's website.
  

• Not posting on Hotshotblog.com...but you already knew that :p
  

Wow, it's been like over a week since this thing was updated. I would update more often, but I can't write about what interesting happens to me during the day because it would violate patient confidentiality. I suppose I could write about the boring lectures we had to sit through today at the VA. The guy went like an hour over. I think he was Indian. Half the class was asleep. One guy was still asleep in his chair when the rest of us had already left to go home (Norman said he'd go back to wake him up in 5 minutes). The VA smells like urine and is full of veterans rolling around on Rascals. Sometimes they outfit their rascals with American flags and stereo systems so everybody can hear 'margaritaville' or whatever else it is that veterans like to listen to.

I had an interesting dream last night. Abhishek was dancing around in a frilly pink tutu and then my grandfather walked in and saw him and gave him a lecture. I don't remember the topic of the lecture though.

I want a porsche. If anybody has extra money lying around, you should send it to me to start a 'get the spoiled little suburban girl a porsche fund'. It was warm today. Like 70 degrees. It was in the 20s last week. What gives? Wow I have absolutely nothing to write about.

I have to get my parents Hanukkah presents and I don't know what to get them. Any suggestions? Maybe I should sew them something with the exciting sewing machine they gave me last year. Blah. Any readers want to guest write for this blog? I'm sure you could write something more intersesting than this. In fact, I bet Abhishek will go in and delete this blog just because it is so lame. He edited out the best part of my last blog. Stupid censorship.

Hello, if you're reading this, it means somebody is reading this blog! Which is a contradiction, because nobody reads this blog. Oh no! It's like matter and antimatter colliding! Watch out, the world is going to end because you are now reading the blog that nobody reads!!!!! The universe is just going to evaporate in a burst of energy - maybe it will create another big bang and from that, another universe. Hmm...since your reading this blog is what caused the world to end, forming a new big bang, that would make you responsible for the formation of the new universe. You'd be like God! Just because you read the blog that nobody reads.

It's been a rough couple of months. I've been busy getting a dissertation going while at the same time landing a summer internship and preparing to teach in the fall. But I plan to make a concerted effort to revive this blog.

So for my first entry in a long while I point out how cool and hip I am. That's right. I'm ahead of the curve in fashion. Case in point: orange is the latest hot color.

"I hate orange. I look terrible in orange. They're only making orange clothes and it's all your fault." That's my mother lamenting to me on a recent trip to the mall....

Orange has also blended with copper to create a truly unique metallic that is on the rise, especially in the automotive industry. Orange, or any other color for that matter, never really goes away—instead it morphs and transforms.

Orange has always been one of my favorite colors. I launched this blog in August of 2005 with orange in mind. It seems professional designers are copying my style.

Update: So as it turns out, that article was from 2004. But I came across it this year, well after I picked orange. Either way, I listed orange and light blue as my favorite colors when I was in second grade. My attitudes have not changed.

Nobody reads this blog anymore. Not even Abhishek. So this entry is like the proverbial tree falling in an empty forest. Its entire existance will be unknown. In fact, since I'm the only one who knows of its existance, if I die, does this blog cease to exist? Does it even exist at all?

Since this is a secret blog, I will type something secret and vaguely embarassing in it. I prefer tighty whities to boxers. I think men look better in them. Boxer shorts always make men look like they are drowning in too much fabric. Tighty whities are the way underwear is supposed to be. So men out there (who will never be reading this because nobody ever does) you will never know that tighty whities are better than boxers.

I had some server problems recently where I couldn't access any of my files. So even though the blog was still up and running, I couldn't edit it. Hopefully it's fixed now.

Posts will be coming soon.

If somebody posts a blog entry, and nobody is around to read it, does it really exist?

The blog is back up and running after spam comments crippled it in the fall. I upgraded to the newest version of Movable Type, which supposedly blocks spam. Let's hope it works.

You may have noticed the look and feel is different. I tried to keep the stylesheet as similar to the original as possible, but it will not be the same.