DON'T MAKE ME GO BACK TO SCHOOL. PLEASE?

December 17th at 5PM I am FREE. I can make it. I have Christmas decorations and reindeer antlers and warm coats and hot chocolate mugs and time to work out. I can do this.

Dec 7 - Middle Eastern History
Dec 10 - Microecon
Stat final due
Dec 15 - Gender Final Due
Dec 16 - Stat
Dec 17 - Arabic

By the way, pretty sure I'm studying in Morocco this summer...

ETA Forgot about how I'm literally going to starve. This is one of the last meals before last year's winter break:



I believe they called it "Medley" and it contained beef, pineapple, onion, and other unknown substances.

i love this holiday. it's almost the same thing every year.

wake up
eat large breakfast
watch the parade
attempt some form of exercise
watch the dog show
listen to father bemoan the lack of a mutt category in the dog show
shower and roll around
watch a disney movie, usually hercules
watch a sport with the brother while the required mom vs. dad cooking battle commences in the kitchen
(football games this year are a failboat so far so obviously i'm watching my two favorite men play tennis while the bro makes nonsensical commentary nomnom)
eat, except i'm like the only person every who doesn't gorge themselves on tgiving because i'm not partial to anything but dinner rolls
watch football
etc. etc. etc.

black friday tomorrow! except i don't need any more clothes except a new warm coat and a pair of sweatpants that doesn't droop down to my underwear.

hope everyone has a good week.

My Middle Eastern history professor is at a conference, but he gave a movie and the attendance sheet to a student and told us we had to come. We're "watching" this movie, which is like the most boring thing ever -- it's on a videocasette, meaning it's from last century. I think maybe five people are actually watching? Or they might be asleep; I can't see their eyes.

Instead of getting my money's worth out of my tuition, I am streaming tennis live. IT IS SO HARD NOT TO EMOTE.

Home in... 5 hours!

Four classes, a quiz, and a problem set are between me and going home for Thanksgiving Break...

This morning was a ride on a failboat, though; my professor sent out an email canceling class two minutes after I checked my email and got up and got ready. I didn't find out till I was almost there and I happened to check my gmail account. And of course I was tired and it was raining and I was supposed to present something.

Last class of the day is my final statistics class of the semester!

I survived the deluge! I never want to see rain again.

i'm not close to a lot of my best friends from last year, but i keep trying to cling on. post-freshman hall, our group dynamics have been completely altered. i'm still close to a couple people, like my roommate, but i feel isolated so i go hang out with our other friends. then again, even my roommate is being weird. example: usually a bunch of us watch glee as a group, but tonight people are busy and it's pouring and flooding outside, so the logical thing is for her to stay here and watch it with me while our other friend and her roommate stay in their room and watch it so no one is alone. but no, no matter how many times i hint, she insists on going over there.

i don't know when i suddenly became so undesirable to everyone but my best friend. i think i've had enough. i'm not "clinging on" anymore. i'm just moving to my other group of friends fulltime now. i'm done.

my favorite disney instrumental song ever:



i also saw the notebook (two stars) and district 9 (four stars). and now i need to do homework so i don't roll over and die from stress in the next four days.

Wow, Democrats, wow.

Today is one of those days when I just can't stand anyone. :(

ARGHHHHH.

things i am so over: tumblr.

i like tumblr in theory, and i like following tumblrs with pictures of tennis and attractive men, but it's starting to get so boring. it doesn't help that my roommate is obsessed with being a bamf on tumblr, but instead of reblogging my stuff she will simply steal it and post it on her blog so that she and not i will get 193432 reblogs and her tumblarity will skyrocket. also, girl, you take pride in your unique music takes, but your most reblogged post was a fall out boy song. really?

p.s. the ants have departed.. for now.

We have ants, except we can't trace the source of the little buggers. There's no mysterious colony; they just keep popping in to sniff my ipod and attack our power cord. Also, our radiator sounds like it has a demonic squirrel inside of it. And, I was nearly assaulted by a turkey vulture this afternoon. Don't you just love Mondays?

It finally stopped raining, but it's still too chilly for mid-October. I really cannot deal with this. I need a North Face fleece. The hideous marshmallow jacket should not be brought out this early. It ruins the aesthetic.

For Halloween, we're being the noble gases. I am neon. ♥ Fabulous.

Lawl, this entry is like word vomit. Life vomit?

ME TRYING TO EXPLAIN BASEBALL TO OUR AUSTRIAN EXCHANGE STUDENT = FAIL

Football I can explain. Baseball... not so much. I asked him if he wanted to change the channel but he said no so I will now continue trying to explain bases loaded, balls, strikes, walks, etc. GOD THIS COUNTRY AND ITS POINTLESS SPORTS OBSESSIONS.

Well, I mean I love football but it's a cult. Go tennis. And soccer.

Back to college tomorrow.

I really can't deal with how partisan this country has become politically. I'm so tired of it.

In other news... I made it through the week! Fall break, baby.

I'm writing my gender paper but all of a sudden I remembered this. Also, William's Doll is an excellent book that I thank for preventing me from being a n00b.

I LOVE THIS MOVIE. Though, the best part was during the most dramatic scene, at like 12:30AM, the African Culture Society was rehearsing in the other room and all of a sudden this FIERCE BLACK WOMAN starts singing, and we thought it was a weird artistic choice that was part of the movie music, but it wasn't and she kept singing and singing while people ran around trying to explain to her that her wireless mic was somehow playing on our stereo system. LAWL.

I am trying to write my anthro response paper due Monday. It's about transgender Brazilian prostitutes (travestis) and a good portion of the article is about gender schemas based on anal penetration, which is more than I can think about right now so I'm gonna go to sleep.

This week has been all about the fail.



Okay, not completely; I ditched a class for the first time this semester (Arabic drill with my n00bish classmates) to chill, crashed the International Relations barbeque for some good food, sat outside in the lovely weather, put up with my not-so-benevolent dictators at a club meeting, lost my ID and wallet, received an email saying my lost crap was found, missed The Office, was really tired... Whatever, it's Friday and I am unfortunately not going to students day at Busch Gardens. L and I are gonna study for our midterms next week and then go watch Rang de Basanti in the UC.

ONE WEEK UNTIL FALL BREAK; PLZ LET ME OUT ALIVE.

Um, also, Glee IS FUCKING AMAZING and capslock-worthy. I aspire to be as fierce as Mercedes. But the guy who plays Finn... His voice needs some serious work; the first note in Somebody to Love is atrocious.

OK, lunch time.

fuck being sick in general, but why, oh why, do i only get sick during midterms? last semester it was bronchitis, now it's an incredibly nasty cold.

in-between now and fall break: stat test (sep30), econ problem set (oct1), gender paper (oct5), middle east test (oct6), arabic quiz (oct 6), gender take-home (oct9)

NO, REALLY, WHYYYYY?

I need something happy.

Today was good even though my cold just took a turn for the worse and I should really have not eaten those cookies, dammit.

Daddy came to visit (♥) and we went to Yorktown and got ice-cream and I got steak at Bonefish Grill and we saw Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, which was so me when I was a little girl. Now H and I are watching Sweet Home Alabama.

Two weeks and three more exams until fall break. I can't wait till FB; I am going to cut the rest of my hair off!

best ever, y/y?

I think the humidity from the constantly running broken shower like, awoke Spores of Death because L and I are both having allergy explosions.

Normally this is the part of the week when I roll around on the floor and start talking nonsense out of stress, but even though I have tests (econ and Arabic) tomorrow and Friday, I don't even care! I'm feeling determined. I think the dining hall put something in those scrumptious chocolate chip pancakes I had for breakfast this morning. Mmmmm.

Other things:
I met my idol at a party this weekend, and he ~sat next to me~. Drunk people tend to invade my bubble a lot, but I'm not complaining in this case. LOL IDGAF, I've been wanting to meet this person for almost a year, drunk or not. And this sentence is so creepy.
We're doing language and gender in my anthro/women's studies class, and we spent most of today talking about the most fabulously random stuff.
I forced myself to run stairs last night.

My dad is coming this weekend, and I want steak, dammit.

Annoying: the humidity, and the pain/stiffness in my right knee has returned. I should really get that checked out. Also, one of our showers is broken --> one shower for sixteen girls, DNW.

YEAAH THIS WAS MADRANDZ... whatev.