Author Archives: Laine

THIS BLOG HAS MOVED!!!!!!

Posted on October 9, 2010 by Laine

My new blog domain is http://www.lainebaity.blogspot.com!!!

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I’m 21 (and a half) years old. I guess that makes me an adult? I can drive, I can vote, I have a credit card, I pay bills. Somehow I always thought I would feel like a grownup by now, … Continue reading →

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An Exposing Paper Trail

Posted on September 9, 2010 by Laine

CU Boulder has long been heralded as “the greenest campus in America”. How did we accomplish this? Shame and social outcasting mainly. For example, the trash cans here aren’t labeled “trash”, they’re labeled “landfill”. And when you open them, a … Continue reading →

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Beating the meeting bore… Yes. It’s possible.

Posted on April 15, 2010 by Laine

Few things provoke my unbridled irritation like marathon-meetings. You know, the ones where they could have sent all the information in an email, that you could have promptly filed into the “Trash” folder- total time spent on this: 8 seconds … Continue reading →

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Dogs Vs. Cats

Posted on January 12, 2010 by Laine

Politics. Religion. Both things you don’t want to mention at the dinner table. But a debate exists, one so intense it has been known separate friends and families alike, and unite even the most bitter enemies. Yes blogosphere, I’m talking … Continue reading →

Posted in Rambling/attempts to be funny | Tagged cats, dogs, furby's | 2 Comments

Sweat the Small Stuff

Posted on November 19, 2009 by Laine

“Often we allow ourselves to get all worked up about things that, upon closer examination, aren’t really that big of a deal. We focus on little problems and concerns and blow them way out of proportion.” -Author Richard Carlson, Don’t … Continue reading →

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Keep Boulder Weird

Posted on October 27, 2009 by Laine

Yesterday I ordered a matte latte. In my fridge currently? Soy milk and green-algae enzymes. Pantry? Organic trail mix. A week ago I openly judged someone who mixed plastic bags in with their recycling. I find myself starting to hate … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Boulder, CSU, CU, hippies, razor scooter, top hats, weird people | 2 Comments

What’s in a name….?

Posted on September 27, 2009 by Laine

The name game. It sounds simple. It brings up images of laughing children, playgrounds, the innocent age of youth in general. The mental image it should, in reality, bring up is of ferocious wolves. Or maybe bloodsucking vampires. I don’t … Continue reading →

Posted in attempts to be funny | Tagged Anime, Chewbacca, Chris Martin, Coldplay, comics, game, name, racists, stuffwhitepeoplelike.com | 5 Comments

“Haters start ya’ engines”: A Thought About Kanye West

Posted on September 18, 2009 by Laine

Recently at the 2009 VMA’s, Kanye West again made a fool of himself. He interrupted Taylor Swift’s acceptance speech in order to shamelessly plug Beyonce’s video as being “one of the greatest videos of all times”. Taylor Swift stood there, … Continue reading →

Posted in attempts to be funny, Uncategorized | Tagged Kanye West, Taylor Swift, Urban Dictionary, VMA's | 3 Comments

Satan’s Taxi: A Harrowing Tale of Misfortune.

Posted on September 8, 2009 by Laine

I should have taken the Greenpeace membership. I should have paid the fifteen dollars to protect the whales instead of defiantly proclaiming that I didn’t care about the environment. Fifteen dollars would have spared me the hefty portion of bad … Continue reading →