Posting just for the sake of posting, because I haven't since Wednesday.

Today, as Julie would say, was definitely dayful. I have that slight backache and excess energy, slowly waning now, that tells me I've had a productive day. It's a good kind of tired.

Green Powerade is ok.

So, I didn't get the RA job - I think I already wrote about that. Or maybe I didn't. But yeah, I'm an alternate for next year, so I may get in, I may not. Whatever. So, today was housing day. I went at 5:30, right when they called random number 9,067, and lo and behold, South A still had empties. The rest of South was full - this is what went down when I approached the South table.

nerdy looking Reslife guy: "South is full, unless you're an honors student."

me (childish excitement) : "I'm an honors student!!!"

And that is how Steph and I got into South. The only really sucky thing about it is that there were full suites still empty, but Jess and Julie had already gotten squatter's rights in their room. So, even though Julie and I went back, there was no way to get all 4 of us together. So, Steph and I have randoms, who I want to meet as soon as possible. I know at least one of them already lives there.

Before the housing stuff was a lot of UCTV meeting stuff, which is actually pretty important, and after the housing stuff was an "Accounting Career Social", which was also kinda important, but I really just feel like chilling now, so chilling is what I'll do.

bac9906 (1:44:55 PM): what you think....'passion of the christ 2'.....gods slogan, 'Im back motha fuckas.' this time hes in the ghetto and fucks shit up. instead of bullets he uses lightning bolts and goes 'i smite thee...BITCH' and zaps them. and naturally there would be some pimping and sex with the local hos

bac9906 (1:45:23 PM): i think its the greatest idea since i was concieved....you?

Why, why why is it so cold today? I haven't felt completely warm since I got up this morning. And, my computer is having seizures as we speak. I thought we had resolved this problem, me and my computer, but it's right back to its little "problem" as of this morning.

Big long Psych presentation today on Huntington's Disease went well.

Good thing happening - my brother just might be getting a new (old) car this week, meaning my parents' third car goes to me, possibly as early as next week. And, it's already got a paid-up commuter permit. So, I wouldn't be able to keep it at the Buck (unless I wanna pay like $96), but W-lot isn't so bad. It's much, much better than the alternative.

Time to kill my computer, and get some crap for work done. I just remembered that about half the records I need for this are at the station. This should be interesting.

Yes, I haven't blogged in a long time. It's become less frequent lately.

Y'know, it's been about a year since I started this here blog. I'm glad I did - I have it saved on my hard drive, "just like a real journal!" I'm going to back it up on floppies and save it in a shoebox under my bed, althought it's really not the same without the tiny little lock. I could still hide it under my mattress though. Yes, my "secret diary" that's published on a well-known online journal server and linked to my AIM profile. Secret. Although, it IS private - you're not going to randomly come across mine if you're looking through the blogger website...only if you link to it from my profile or bookmark it, like I did with my friends'.

I just went into the bathroom, and there's a guy in there who at first glance kinda looks like Santa Claus, refilling the soap dispenser.

I just got back from Psych. I always come out of there determined to look up something that the professor talked about in lecture, but I can never remember what it was. I was really interested in lecture today, for a change. It might've had something to do with the fact that I was drinking coffee. That happens sometimes with coffee.

So, things have been going lately. There aren't any words missing in the previous sentence. I find myself more irritable as of late, especially a few weeks ago. Last week was spring break. It sucked - I was home most of the time, and consequently let myself feel like crap because of it. I got my hair cut pretty short (for me), which I'm happy about. My mom turned 50, Shawn and I went out a couple times, and my little sister cracked a tooth - had to be extracted in 3 pieces. That's about as exciting as it got. I'm glad to be back, and to be busy. Shawn and I are doing pretty good - this week is Shawn week, in my mind. Thursday is his birthday, so I got him tickets to the Lewis Black/Dave Attel show Wednesday night. Friday is our 6-month anniversary, and it looks like we're actually going to (gasp) dress up and go out! Haha, I can't wait. And, it's supposed to start snowing right around rush hour today. I kept saying how I wanted one more decent nor'easter before spring, and now that I brought home most of my winter stuff (coat, boots), here it comes. This'll be nice though - might even get to sleep in tomorrow morning, if we're lucky.

My English class is really turning into a blacksploitation lecture. Every other story we read now is "whites oppress/humuliate/patronize blacks", and the responses that my classmates write all include things like "the rich white people looked down on the African-American workers" and "inconsiderate, selfish whites treated blacks like animals." Yes, racism happened, is happening, and still will happen, but it's more than the civil rights struggle here. There's so, so much more, and the message is worse than lost on our little diverse group of "enlightened" New England college kids. I'm really getting sick of it. Our professor handed out his response to one of our midterm essay questions as an example of what he was looking for, and it quite frankly looked like something Mrs. Mac would have laughed at and called juevenile (Mrs. Mac being the upper-level English teacher at Terryville High). Let me see if I can dig it out...ok, this is about Eudora Welty's "A Worn Path", which we actually studied my junior year in great detail.

"We are moved by the old woman, and annoyed by the way she is treated; in particular, we are appalled by the shallowness of the whites who patronize her. They don't see her clearly at all."

later,

"It is this intense identification that allows us, when Phoenix arrives at the store, to be outraged by her treatment at the hands of the patronizing whites...As human beings we are in constant danger of getting things wrong, and we cause much harm in our blindness."

Yup. Maybe I'm getting things wrong here, and I don't want to cause harm in my blindness, but I'm starting to be offended at my "race" being continually identified with rabid racism. No Professor, it is not outrageous that many leading anthropologists, biologists, and the like contend that races do not exist among humans; in a strictly biological sense, they do not.


I have to go take a shower now, Accounting Tuesday awaits me. It's just like Payroll Wednesday and Business Office Thursday, just earlier in the week. Til later.

One more week til spring break.


Y'know, I had been in a really good mood today. Then Julie told me about how Sensai had taken her aside on Thursday to ask about me again - apparently he asked about me, where I was, if I was coming back, and told her to tell me that he was very disappointed in me. That's not cool. I wish he hadn't done that - it put Julie in a very awkward spot. Not to say it's not my fault, but I didn't think that she would have to take any heat about my actions. Anyway, I didn't find out about this til today, so I had already e-mailed him and gotten a reply, so I guess everything's cool.....or not. I still feel bad.

The weather is quite nice today. It's muddy and wet, but that's to be expected when it goes from 20 to 50 in the space of a couple days. I have a nice little workload for the week, and a budget hearing Thursday for work. And it's a pay week. So, nothing too crazy, but I'll be busy right up til Friday. Mom's birthday is Sunday. She's gonna be 20-30. I wonder if we shouldn't throw her some kind of party.....I know I'm low on funds, and everyone else is low on time, so I don't know. I would like to make a big deal out of it - you only turn 50 once.

What am I going to do this summer?