Happy birthday

12.28.03

Happy birthday to my little sister. She's 16 today. No, she can't drive yet, since her play practice interfered with driver's ed classes. I do think she's happier being Puck in A Midsummer Night's Dream than she would be being able to drive though.

08:48 PM [link]

Holiday fun

12.26.03

With all this free time over winter break, I've had to find ways to amuse myself.

One opportunity popped up when I was looking through a stack of random pictures that have been in the desk in the kitchen for at least a year. To my annoyance, there were several pictures of the ex-from-hell in that stack.

So I got out the matches and had some fun. My little sister helped.

Seeing the flames dancing around his head made me even more convinced that he's the devil. Lord knows he was cranky enough to be.

09:42 PM [link]

Merry Christmas!

12.25.03

Merry Christmas!

My best Christmas present was the fact that grades were posted online today. 5 A's and a B, which boosted my cumulative gpa to a solid 3.7. I'm VERY happy now that it's a 3.7. I'm also pissed, because I know if I had stayed in Will's juvenile justice class instead of switching to the one I ended up taking (I liked the time/days of the class better), I would have had a 4.0 this semester.

Ah well. Shouldn't look a gift horse in the mouth I suppose.

I also think I've gained 5 pounds lately. Maybe I shouldn't try to talk Will out of making me run with him next semester.

09:57 PM [link]

Done

12.21.03

So here begineth my vacation.

I have one semester of classes left. Unreal. And then the law school gig starts. Provided anyone wants me, that is.

I really need to get my sleeping schedule back on track, last night I was up until 8 in the morning and slept until 4. I don't think my body realizes that exams are over and I don't have to have a nutty schedule anymore.

My 15 page paper ended up being 18 pages. That's a good thing, I hope. We'll see what the vamp prof thinks of it, I'm the only non-English major in the class. That will either count for me or against me.

THIS is creepy. Make sure you click on the picture to enlarge it.

12:33 AM [link]

Crunch time

12.11.03

I just found out that I need -1 points to get an A in my Sex Class (Psych 307), so I don't have to take the final. I'm hugely relieved, since that takes a huge load off of my shoulders.

However, I'm still insanely busy. What do I need to accomplish by next week?

* 15 page paper on serial killers, Gilles de Rais, and Huysmans' novel The Damned
* 5 page paper on an article we read in philosophy
* Find the answers to the 25 questions our philosophy prof emailed us, 10 of which he's going to pick for the final
* Reading chapters 5-12 in my juvenile justice textbook
* Reading two textbook chapters and seven articles for Police Class
* Reading lord-knows how many articles for Criminal Courts Class
* Finishing law school applications

Speaking of law school apps, UCLA's is completely finished and shipped off, but they haven't cashed my $75 check yet. That's worrisome. I'm hoping it's just because they have so many to get though.

10:05 PM [link]

The good old days

12.09.03

I am currently reading a book that was written in 1891 that I have to write a paper on. The main character in the book, I'll have you know, sucks at seduction. He knows he's going to have a married woman over for some nookie, and he starts obsessing about how it's going to happen. According to him, getting naked with someone is very embarassing, so he's going to get her drunk enough that she passes out. His plan is that when she wakes up, he'll already be going at her. Then he starts wondering where they're going to do this and decides on the sitting room, but since there isn't a couch there, they'll have to do it on the floor. And then he wonders if, upon seeing the kettle in the fireplace he had out for tea, she'll think he meant for her to bathe before they started.

When she does get there, he realizes that she doesn't intend to sleep with him at all, and he starts musing about whether he should just throw her on the floor and rape her or not. Then when she leaves him, he chides himself for not being more determined and being swayed by her womanly tears.

Yeah, people's morals today are really terrible compared to what they were 100 years ago.

And someone needs to give this guy a lesson on how to get in a girl's pants.

02:59 AM [link]

Stupid papers

12.02.03

I am sitting here trying to write a five-page paper that is due on Wednesday. So far I've written an intro paragraph that I've deleted and restored about five times. Yay for progress. Something tells me that it's not going to happen tonight. The professor, who isn't even a real professor, has left us in the dark about what we're supposed to write, and asking him questions doesn't help much, since he answers everything except the question. He's someone from the county prosecutor's office, and I think it was a big mistake to ask him to teach us. He doesn't even teach, he comes in and asks us questions for three hours about what we think should happen in certain situations. I think he's trying to get us to do his job for him.

After this, I get to tackle a fifteen-page paper about lord-knows-what for the vampire English class. I think I should be excused from this since I'm not an English major. I don't need practice spouting bullshit about Freud and violent sex, which is basically what the class has turned out to be.

I doubt Freud ever had violent sex.

12:43 AM [link]