Post Superbowl EXTRAVAGANZA

I'm not really planning on talking about the superbowl here. What I am planning on talking about is how I wrote this huge long post the other day, but due to my iBook's sad problems with its battery, I never got to post it. Also, I'm going to talk about how awesome today has been so far.

First thing: I wrote this really long post earlier that didn't get saved. It was sad, I'm sad about it, but I'm not so sad that it's going to end my life. Most of this is because I still have the info on hard copy (Do you guys remember that show? I loved the opening titles, but that was about it: "HARD COPY. CLANG," or something). I will just have to retype it later. It was just mostly annoying that my computer is on the fritz. It makes me think that it's time to start saving to get a new one!

Second thing: Today has been pretty nice so far, excluding the whole waking up at 6 AM to get to class on time to find out that the teacher doesn't show up and it's a complete waste of me getting up that early. That's actually why I'm sitting here writing right now. I've got some spare time, you know? Why not use it? But before class, I have to say, I took this amazing poop in the 3rd floor Language building restroom. Very satisfying. I think the whole reason why I felt so terribly was that I needed that poop out of my belly. Thanks a lot, party food at the superbowl party!

And I thought I wasn't going to talk about the superbowl!  Guess I was wrong.

Journal Post

I'm going to use this thing like a journal now, so suck it up, dear reader(s). Feel free not to read this thing, but I have to write. It's good practice.

This is the second week of school and I kind of feel a little overwhelmed. I'm taking 16 hours this semester, and on top of that, my managers at work are wanting to increase my hours up to almost 40 a week. You know, just enough to where I'm not full-time, just enough so they don't have to give me benefits or vacation time. Yeah.  So anyway, my classes are really piling on the homework. Especially my intro to fiction class. I'm supposed to write something down in a journal daily, for at least an hour, but I honestly don't have that kind of time. Between the other five classes I'm taking, it's hard enough to even finish the homework I have to get done.

Also, I want to tell you about my least favorite class and my favorite class. Because being in the middle is boring unless you're part of a sandwich. My least favorite class this semester is my Popular Music in American Culture class. It's one of those giant lecture hall classes where you never meet the teacher except through his ranting, and he certainly never meets you unless there's a problem. This is great in the sense that I don't like the class and that will go unnoticed because the teacher will not notice me.

This is not so great because the teacher thinks he's got the big balls or something, I don't know. This guy is really into his power trip. On the first day, he kept us late after class to ramble on about whatever inane thing he was rambling about, and some student decided to leave because it was after class time. The "teacher" called him out, yelling at him to sit back down, and the guy said "no thanks," walking out the door.

I have to admire that guy's balls.

Anyway, so the professor yells to his TAs (he has 3 of them for some reason. 3!) to count the guy absent. Better yet, drop him from the class because of his "bad manners." How does the teacher even know the guy's name? He doesn't. How does he expect to drop the kid from the class? Who knows? Why even have schedules if you're not going to abide by them?

I was late to my next class. Thanks, Prof. Dick.

Anyway, my favorite class is Technical Editing (so far). I really enjoy copy editing and proofreading, so this class is going to go very well for me, I think. I also think it's going to be a lot of hard work. On our first quiz, I totally found a typo and called the teacher out on it. Felt good.

Okay, bye!

A Scent Ascends an Ascent.

Okay, so I feel badly about the fact that I haven't blogged here in over a month. I don't feel bad because I've let someone else down or something, more that I've let myself be complacent. However, I have some free time between classes, so I guess I'll write something here.

So I'm listening to Justin Bieber's "U Smile" slowed down 800% (and trying to find the "%" on my keyboard). I somehow doubt that this is actually Bieber's song, but it is pretty and beautifully ambient. Maybe I'll start listening to more ambient music more often. I forgot how much I enjoy the form of the lack of form.

Having 3 hours between classes is not cool. I think I'm going to have to bring movies to watch on my laptop or something. Okay, I'm done.

Crybaby

Guys, guys....this is crazy, guys...

Guys...

Can you believe this stuff? First off, this coach has the balls and the follow-through to get a baby trophy engraved and name it "the crybaby award," then he actually gives it to the kid in front of all of his teammates.  I bet the kid whined about it on stage. I think that it's probably a good thing to try to learn a kid to stop being such a crybaby, but that probably isn't the best way to do it.

But it's still really funny.

I doubt that the crybaby award caused him to delve into a life of crime. It probably stems from him being a crybaby to begin with.

Another Semester Older and Deeper in Debt

I don't know if anyone knows about this (or anyone reads this blog and knows about this), but The Angelika theatre here in Dallas plays the TV show Lost every week.  Unfortunately, since it's the last season of the show, people come earlier and earlier, so you have to get there almost an hour before if you want to get some good seats.  Even more unfortunate: they show Dancing with the Stars before the feature presentation.

What a lame show.

Also, why did they kick Buzz Aldrin off?!  He is definitely the coolest guy. He's the only person that I recognized, plus he's the only one that has BEEN IN SPACE.  Come on, people. He moonwalked for REAL! 

So I took this impromptu, unexpected Law and Order nap today and woke up COMPLETELY disoriented. I thought I had to jump up and go to school or something, even though I have no classes today.  Which, by the way, I signed up for classes for the coming semesters.  In the Summer, I'll take 2nd level Spanish, and then in Fall I'm taking Advanced Poetry Writing, Analysis and Interpretation, Linguistics, and 3rd level Spanish. I'm excited that I have my courses lined up!  Now I just have to pay for them.  Student loans, here I come!