I'm pretty sure that I am prematurely 65. Lately, I have been feeling like I have chest pain ad mini heart attacks and also ulcers. It is a little disconcerting.

In other news, this must be the season for Posters Falling Off, because like 4 things have fallen off my wall in the last one day.

Also, last night, I skipped class (I also feel horrible about that) to go to Senate and then the Lip Sync, but there was this hilarious part of senate where little kids (ok, freshman) put on a skit about the cabinet members and the girl that was penny rolled up in sweats and a green jacket and a hat and flip flops and she was generally hilarious. I didn't get most of the other things because I don't know any of those people, but it was still funny. Until it was like 2 hours long, and then it stopped being funny. Although, there was an interesting presentation by Carlos Vega about an initiative to look at first year advising, which I think is a great idea. One of the things that he talked about is that until you finally choose a major (and maybe without any guidance) you have no real advisor. Your first year advisor basically exists to sign a paper and give you your alternate pin, or whatever. I have thought this to be a huge issue. I feel like sopho0more year is the hardest year because you are trying to narrow down your interests, and without any guidance, it's hard to do that for some. I also think that the advisor-advisee thing needs to be revamped in general.

i'm like, so mad

well, i'm mad today. and mostly over the last hour. there are a couple dead serious catalyts for this anger, which i won't go into much detail about, but mostly i have anger because:
I T I S S N O W I N G O U T S I D E.

i'm just saying that that is sort of balls.

also, this toolish girl in my antisemitism class makes me laugh! she is so funny that it almost alleviates the pain of the snow. today, we were talking about vampire iconography as a political tool and most specifically as an antisemitic political tool, and this chick asks the presenter, a women currently working on her dissertation on this topic at brandeis, whether or not she has found any similar trends with LEPRECHAUNS. serious town. i know this girl is canadian, but that still does not excuse it. i was almost unable to control my laughter. i started "coughing" to try to conceal it. also, my professor------i have no idea where i was going with that. never mind. anyway, she lights up my life.

sustainable development and ecotourism

I've decided that my room is kind of like an experiment in natural development. I allow the nature to fall as it may, to develop as it may and i try to ensure that visitors to the area leave it with minimum impact on naturally occurring environments. it is sustainable because i can usually find things and it is feasible because it does cost much energy to maintain this real estate. i believe that it is also important for cultural development to have various kinds of ecosystems available for living and simply for studying. promotion of cultural and bio-diversity is key in this project. don't think, though, that this development is exclusive. it is an attainable goal for many. you, too, can possibly participate in this innovative global project.

ow. i just got a popcorn shell stuck in my gums. i hate that.

grey's anatomy

so, you know when you like a tv show so much that you think about it a lot, you plan your sundays around it, you look forward all week to when it will be on tv, or sometimes day dream about it? well last night i dremt that i was actually part of grey's anatomy. i actually was walking down a corridor with izzie and meredith and we had an emergency because ellis grey was back in the hospital (probably being a pain in the ass) and she was like going to die or something. but then izzie and meredith didn't hold the elevator for me because i was lagging behind and so i went to a different elevator, but the security didn't believe that i was supposed to be there. i showed them my id and then they asked who i knew (and i, of course, said Andrew Hall, my real life dad) and then told them my supervisor was DEREK SHEPARD. so they called him and he gave me the ok. also, incidentally, i knew that the address to the cape may hallmark was 1565 ocean view blvd. it's actually not. it resides at 401 washington street. oh well, i thought that i was a genius for possessing this knowledge.

ok, so i am actually supposed to be writing a paper now...and i'm going to get back to that. but not without one last bit of knowledge: 10 hours until we are on a plane to vegas!!

i can boil down happiness to one thing

and it can be found on a thai take-out menu: mango fried rice.

nothing reminds me of happy times more than mango fried rice. and i know what you're thinking: FAT! but seriously...it reminds me of late nights and early afternoons in various rooms in severance. it reminds me of being lazy and generally deplorable with penny. i guess i'm not positive that "deplorable" means what i want it to, but that's ok.

so, my computer is almost fully functional. it has intraweb and firstclass and aim and itunes. it wins. except that the resolution is HUGE and you can basically read anything on it from like a mile away. it is gigundo.

vegas is but hours away. like 40 to be a little preciser. so excited!