Allergens are attacking me. I don't know what exactly I have done to deserve the sneezies like this. My eyes are sore and puffy. I am used to allergies. I've had them my entire life, throughout every season... but this is just insane. Not even benedryl is working for me right now ( Read more... )

So Joanna Newsom played with Smog last night. I wasn't meaning to go see Joanna Newsom play or even Smog. I regretfully hadn't been aware of the beauty that is the man that goes by Smog-- and it was a surprise that Joanna Newsom was there. The girl with the silly hair at the door said that Joanna Newsom would be playing when we were purchasing our ( Read more... )

Well, this week has been overwhelming ( Read more... )

I am sick of utterly eurocentric curricula. Can we get a little more cultural/ideological variance? I am sick of the authoritative "this is how it is" sort of bullshit from everyone here. Why bother learning how to think for yourself if no one wants you to actually use your faculties? Why bother speaking to anyone when they don't even acknowledge ( Read more... )

So, John Updike and Edward Said are all that I have been reading of my own volition.

So, I am taking: Calc, Plagues and Pestilence (microbiology intro-class), European Politics, World Politics in the 21st Century, silly anthropo orientation class, and Microeconomics. That's a total of 16 hours, which isn't too bad ( Read more... )

Hurrah for new indonesian pals!!!
Hurrah for school!
Hurrah for kicking dumb classes!!!
Hurrah for rain!!!

The only boys that go after me are pitiful specimens. They rarely have unique thoughts. They have not a backbone to support them. They have not a dream in their stymied heads. Why do they think they are a match for a girl like me? I have dreams, expectations, thoughts, aspirations, and I take them seriously. I cannot teach them to be strong like me ( Read more... )

I think this works for a haiku about me. How random!

I switched from the Business college to the college of Arts and Sciences! It'll be great! I am already happier because of the switch. I don't know what I was thinking before. It had to have been the intense pressure my mother was putting on me.

Plagues and Pestilence will be one of many of my great classes. World Politics is going to be another ( Read more... )