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this evening was to end much ;ike many befire; sean popping a view lseeping meds and watching law and order until i pass out. the i renenberan assignment due tomorrow and am struggling to overcome the drugs and findspace to work. however at this point the law and order episode as consumed my monitor and lenny briscoe is walking across the page chastising my crappy observations. im telling you, you ever want to find yourself tripping balls take an ambien or two then try to do anything productive...even better try to be productive while watching law and order on one screen and some documentary on making the john deer tractor on another screen and i think i just transcended to a higher plane of existence. an existence that will probably find me very woozy and crashing into either my desk or the floor...the bed is too stable to contain such enlightened crashments, i have no idea what im thinking anymore or even how to type. it's pleasantville all over again. and im out

Snow? Really?

It was in the 60's here last night at 3 am when I packed my car. I wake up this morning and it's snowing. What the fuck Georgia?

spring break fun?

Spring break is next week, and this marks the first time since senior year of high school that I'm actually doing something for it (getting wasted with Travis and Joey and running around my neighborhood stealing shit doesn't really count - though perhaps it should), and a list was compiled of "things we must do" via email:

* Search for Rick Ross (cuz he's the boss)
Mail Rob to Abudabi ---> "that's ABU DHABI, silly Americans!" -- Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan (Yeah I dont want to get returned to sender)
* Gallon Challenge
* Mel v. Rob v. Ellington soda chug
* Get a keg + bro-rape
* Pool hopping
* Play in ball pit
* Bowling
* Soul vengence + 40s + friendly (?) chicken
* Edward 40 hands...taped together + bro-rape
* Make own Lutherburgers
* buy gil dinner <==== I don't know how I feel about this one <====after you hit the acid...you'll be down OR else i'll banana slap you until you give in. and that goes for the rest of you. sweet dreams
* 44 oz prime rib
* deep blue sea
* Kings
* Knight armor
* ATLANTA BRAVES spring training (*SLAP* to the Red Sux and to Glavine, the traitor who returned)
* drop acid <==== This is probably the best idea on the list. I'm gonna be trippin' BALLSSSSSS (gil? you sly dog you)
* peyote
* bear fights
* tiji drinking alcohol (mmmm, beer - how I love something that looks and tastes SO delicious.... ha) it's ok tiji, you can play edward 40 hands with o'douls --- I'll be so delighted, because I think O'Douls is the best beverage in the U.S. of A.
* sleeping bag wars <---beware, very dangerous
* shopping cart racing
* help lisa make some friends - wait a minute, I have disney world passes...I should have at least 5 friends....in my eyes, you only have one best friend; nice come back
* Get sun poisoning on a raft in the ocean
* wrestle with a gator and WIN
* party with dwayne wade and joe madden
* wrestle john madden and WIN
* get old people to make a human pyramid
* wheel chair or rascal race
* let gilbert sleep in a paper bag <---wow you guys are so nice; i'm glad im n break with all of you! now im not too happy; funny tho ?douglas?
* tennis ball sandwich
* drop acid again
* drop acid before playing shuffle board
* Spain Night
* Make a major motion picture with Steve Guttenberg
* Homemade pizza challenge- whoever eats the most gets dessert pizza! - wow, these guys have no idea what they're in for...; wow I will crush you all
* Catch a Snorlax for Gil (i bet i can outsleep him; where's pickachu?)( You can't outsleep Snorlax! Get outta here! I'm done wit you!)YO! That's not Pikachu! That's a freakin' WigglyTUFF!
* slap gary coleman, and then run like a biatchhhh
* convince emory in the next 10 min to pick up FSN
* bench press more than rob
* watch rob (and mel) go home

Re-reading this I realize it will make no sense to any of you, especially since I'm opting not to edit everyone's comments after each item because that would take context and time I don't feel like exerting since this is only an exercise to waste time when I'm supposed to be packing and cleaning because I hate leaving on trips with things dirty...I'm pretty sure that's my mom's fault as growing up she'd manically clean the house before every vacation and chastise my sister and I for not being terribly enthused about the pre-trip cleaning. And now I'm manically vacuuming and dusting and scrubbing counters and such because I'm going on a trip tomorrow; ah, genetics - how I loathe thee. It's also probably a bad sign that I told my doctor I was going to Florida to stay in a house with eight people and a family I don't know for a week with no way to ever escape and be on my own and I'm rather anxious over the entire prospective experience and the first thing she says: "Yea, I'm going to write you a script for Atavan...you'll probably need it. And don't drink too much. You don't need that." Yea...this is going to be a healthy trip.

On the plus side, I get to go to DISNEY FUCKING WORLD which I'm pretty stoked about seeing as it's the happiest place on earth and I haven't been since before I was two and I want to see the fucking castle and ride the Dumbo ride a lot because as it was my favorite when I was pre-two I'm fairly positive it'll live up to expectations and be my favorite ride at 22, as well.

more econometrics hijinks

So my new nemesis is going on and on about how he hated No Country For Old Men which just solidifies my dislike for him, as that movie was fucking fantastic and to speak such ill against the Coen brothers is a good way to get a pipe upside the head. Or at least to get me to write something angry about you on a blog that no one actually reads. Take that, nemesis! You've been obscurely condemned! Hahahahahaha!

Also, my teacher is bragging about how he has a 100" hi-def projector in his house with both bluray and [the now dead] HD-DVD players hooked up to it. And he's giving us a test the Friday before spring break, so I'm less than pleased with him.

For the record, could I be typing anything of less interest to anyone in the world right now? I feel an awful lot like a precocious high school brat logging onto myspace to complain about the most mundane aspects of my life and school (like, did you see what lauren was wearing today? what. a. slut.) telling myself that there's a whole host of people out there constantly checking up on me and caring when my teacher yelled at me for trying to tell gabby what that bitch lauren said in lunch. Maybe next I'll write about the new teen beat magazine and how cute brad pitt is (is brad pitt still considered cute? do people still read teen beat? It's been so long since I was a high school girl I just feel completely out of the loop).

In other news: go see In Bruges, No Country for Old Men, Juno, and There Will Be Blood. You'll be a better person for it.

valentines day

So today has been weird. I didn't have class today which is great, but I had a doctor's appointment which is always stressful; especially since I've just had my anxiety meds upped recently which is an adjustment that makes everything edgy. All irrelevant; the important part is I had the day free so rather than getting ahead on reading or being productive I went to the mall to return some pants, and possibly buy new pants. Some things that happened:

1) I learned that even with a 50% off sale, I can not afford to shop at Diesel. They had a a hoody jacket thing I really liked until the employee help customer person (there's a term for this, but for the life of me I can't think of it) told me that it was $700. I didn't bother finding out if this was before or after the 50% reduction as it was all pretty academic at that point. I didn't even respond at that point, I just shook my head and walked out of the store.

2) Teavana is the devil. I went in just intending to consume my share of free samples, but unfortunately this is NOT what happened. Maybe it was my natural love of tea (they have really good tea there) and maybe it was the counter girl helping me being really cute, but I ended up spending a lot of money on tea and tea paraphernalia that I really don't need.

3) I bought myself a really big cookie cake. Do I need a really big cookie cake? Not in the least, but it seemed like an absolutely brilliant idea at the time and I've been eating it all day. My goal is to finish it while watching High Fidelity and then pass into an uncomfortable coma while I wait for my insulin production to kick in.


Isn't it glorious? I thought about having them add my name in frosting, but figured that might be a tad bit weird of me.

some thoughst while in class

1) The writer’s strike is FINALLY over. It’ll still probably be 4-6 weeks until we start getting new episodes again, but at least I can hope to see a new Office or 30 Rock before I graduate…assuming NBC opts to bring them back (they have a history of doing really stupid programming things, but I’m hopeful).

2) I think I’ve found someone in a class I dislike more than Green Shirt kid (who’s been my nemesis for years now). Some background: my econometrics teacher is somewhat oblivious. He’s a nice guy, but not exactly acclimated to the sarcasms of younger generations; the type of guy you can mock incessantly and won’t even get that you’re mocking him. That’s what this kid does: every class, nonstop, he’s loudly making comments and such, espousing false excitement over the content, and just generally being an ass. It might be occasionally funny if the prof got it and laughed along or something, but he doesn’t. So instead it’s like kicking a puppy. Only he’s kicking it with a shitty long island accent and air of entitlement that makes me want to turn around and slam this laptop into his face. A lot. A lot a lot a lot a lot a lot.

3) I need to write more. In this past month or so I’ve sat down to write a dozen times and ended up accomplishing nothing. Topics included a rather telling analysis of a Bonnie Tyler video (including a clever titular allusion to hellogoodbye songs – speaking of which they’re finally recording a new album which makes me happy), the wonders of xanax withdrawal and why I love LEGOS, and a fanciful recollection of the time I accidentally had a girlfriend. Fun times, right? Maybe this weekend I’ll sit down and do some serious scribing.

4) I hate econometrics. This class is worthless and my new nemesis won’t shut up and the girl next to me keeps trying to look over and read what I’m writing so I’m trying to sit with my laptop at a skewed angle to stop her but it’s uncomfortable. Maybe she’ll read this and get the idea: STOP READING OVER MY SHOULDER! IT’S MAKING ME VERY UNCOMFORTABLE!

5) I’ve decided I’m not going to continue applying to any firms that might want me to do something resembling econometrics. No finance or consulting or any of that business for sean! Hopefully if I apply to enough television or movie studios one of them will give me a job doing something and I can eventually get into production – I think that might be what I want to do. Or work for the SEC…that seems like it could be an entertaining job; and one that occasionally allows a person to exact rather draconian measures of revenge on douche bag tri-state b-school people who are WAY cockier than is ever necessary for anything – like my new nemesis. God I really can’t stand this kid or his stupid hat and shitty Abercrombie fake fur lined coat. I have some issue.

6) I think I may skip my next class, get sushi, and sit around playing zelda while drinking hot chocolate. That sounds better than walking half a mile through the unreasonably cold weather to go to a lecture. On that note, what the fuck weather? It was in the 60's yesterday and most of the past week, and then you go and pull this freezing bullshit on us. Not cool. Especially since because of your recent warm streak we had most of the windows in the apartment open and didn't think to close them last night. That made morning fun. Regardless, hot chocolate and saving hyrule is sounding better and better. Wow I'm a terrible student. I should probably start working on fixing that.

conundrum

so tonight i sat down and realized that my life is really offtrack and nowhere near where i actually want it to be and kinda wish i could just do the last 4 years over and make radically different choices on just about everything. i guess it's time to try and rebuild it all.

i do stupid things at times

So today I tried - and subsequently failed at something entirely new - reading while driving. Essentially I woke up today with a really bad sore throat and could barely even swallow [cue joeybear making a stupid joke], so rather than going to my "fitness walking" class I opted to go to the doctor who informed that "I might have strep, but it might be too soon to tell." Gee, thanks. This might not seem relevant to the whole driving/reading thing, but since I was a walk-in appointment I had to wait a while. And while waiting I sat there reading The Amber Spyglass only to be rudely interrupted by the nurse at the height of seem weighty fucking action. So of course while sitting in a bit of traffic later trying to drive home I thought "I'm a talented lad, I'm sure I can handle reading the rest of this chapter while driving." After almost rear-ending the beamer in front of my nine times, getting honked at by the car behind me like 6 times for not moving, and getting the finger no less than twice by pedestrians did I realize I'm not nearly as talented as I've always presumed. A dark realization, to be sure.

classes

So I spent all weekend telling people I didn't start classes for almost two weeks, and was quite content in this plan as it gave me plenty of time to do such necessary things as add a class I need and talk to my advisor and rewatch all of 30 Rock and Firefly before needing to do anything even remotely studious. Today that dream came shattering down as I just learned that I've been lying to a bunch of people - including myself - because classes start Wednesday. "Woefully unprepared" doesn't quite do me justice right now.

awkward ringtones

So until tonight my ring tone has been Say Anything's "Wow, I Can Get Sexual Too" and I never really thought about. Until dinner tonight, where it started ringing (sitting across the room) and I got really perplexed/worried looks from both parents as my phone sat there belting out "I called her on the phone and she touched herself. She touched herself. She touched herself. I called her on the phone and she touched herself. I laughed myself to sleep." My sister just laughed a lot, and I buried my head in my plate and promptly changed my ring tone after dinner.

politique

So tonight I watched the New Hampshire debates, and was astoundingly underwhelmed by it all. It was a bit too long to try and do any real recap, but there were a few things that stood out and so in lieu of trying to write in any real connected paragraph format I'm just going to do the cool bullet-point thing for the rest of this.

• Giuliani pisses me off. One thing he kept saying that bothers me to know end is that pulling troops out of Iraq would show al-Qaida that they can beat us. This is just stupid, and makes it pretty clear Giuliani has no real concept of how terrorism or guerilla warfare actually work. Simply put, al-Qaida has won, and will continue to win as long as the US continues to toil away in Iraq while ignoring more pressing domestic and international issues. Let’s make a list of all the Iraq war has accomplished:
  

1. It’s polarized and disillusioned the population
   
2. it’s eroded our personal freedoms
   
3. it’s cost billions of dollars in taxpayer’s money
4. it’s tanked the economy and weakened the value of the dollar
5. it’s caused widespread mistrust of the federal government – both domestically and abroad
   
6. it’s destroyed world opinion of us and weakened our ability to negotiate internationally
7. and because that all isn’t quite enough it’s also cost thousands of Americans their lives

You know, if I were a terrorist looking to destroy the US I’d probably be chalking that up in the “win” category.

• Why is it so bad to ever change your mind in politics? It just seems asinine to have to choose one particular view and stick with it until Jesus fucking comes again or risk being nailed to a sign emblazoned “FLIP FLOPPER!” It’s the kind of perseverance you see with retarded 5-year olds who can’t quite figure out the shaped peg-in-hole game but for some reason when applied to politics it becomes conviction and it’s the end all be all of candidacy. You know what? Fuck conviction. I’d much rather support someone who is able to acknowledge changing times and let his beliefs evolve and grow with the nation’s needs than some asshole who refuses to stray from some mundane outlook just because he once adopted it for his own. The same thing happens when you argue politics with your friends, too. You’ll make some point they’ll concede to, or say something like “gee wiz, I never thought about it like that!” and you’ll think you’ve made a difference in the world and shown one more person the light and then the next damn day you see them pledging their support to mike fucking huckabee or hilary clinton on facebook and you realize “no, I just wasted a bunch of my life” and everything just sucks. Seriously people, whatever happened to valuing argument for arguments sake? Debating not to convince someone of something but to rather develop and evolve one’s own ideas? Fuck your convictions and your small-minded two party bullshit.

• I want to see an Edwards/Richardson ticket. I’m not a huge John Edwards fan, but I think he has the charisma and the southern accent to get elected, while being moderate enough to not actively damage America. Conversely, I’m a big Bill Richardson fan, and think he’d do a swell job as President but suffers from a large case of no-one-knowing-who-the-fuck-I-am-itis. I think Hilary and Obama are both still cruising primarily on name recognition and early fund-raising (especially Clinton…I really don’t see how people can listen to her debate and then still want to vote for her), but an Edwards/Richardson ticket is where it’s at. On a related note I think Democrats are underestimating the conservative undertones of America; the big names (read: Obama and Clinton) are both trying to seem very left-wing, and while that might win primaries it’s a sure-fire way to lose the national election. Moderates win elections, and I think a lot of America would rather vote for a McCain or Romney or Huckabee than Hilary Clinton; and goddamn do we really want 4-8 years of a Mike Huckabee? Chuck Norris aside I happen to like my government without a side of bible-thumping, and unfortunately all the Republican candidates seem to be going the theocrat route. Except for Ron Paul who’s going the “I don’t have a shot in hell of winning the bid” route. Democrats need to remember 2000 and especially 2004 and start supporting candidates who can actually win rather than the ones who make the best liberal demagogues, because despite what they keep telling themselves 2008 is going to be far from a gimme.

• Fred Thompson amuses the hell out of me, even though I’d never vote for him. Everything the man says cracks me up and makes me want to go re-watch seasons 13-17 of law and order just to see him laying down the law as district attorney. I almost knocked over my lego death star laughing when he was making fun of Giuliani.

This isn't at all political, but the His Dark Materials trilogy is awesome. I'm on the third book now (this is my first time reading them since middle school, and I forgot how great they were) and everyone should go read them because they're really good books. On a similar note, if you haven't seen The Golden Compass yet do yourself a favor and go see it. It's great. Also I love how blog-tastic this last paragraph is as I really haven't said anything even approaching substance but I used a lot of unqualified adjectives like awesome and great but I'm OK with it because it's 4 am and I'm allowed to be lazy with my diction.