July 2005 Archives

If you eat lots of candy and don't brush and floss regularly, you will get cavities and have to go to the dentist. If you consistently dork out on the internet instead of writing regularly, when you have to submit an assignment you will have to stare at a blank screen for an hour, then write two sentences, and stare at them, which is a lot like having cavities.

When I was taking classes it got to where I couldn't sit still and read anything without going crazy and looking at my watch every five minutes. Now that I have other things to do I can't tear myself from the page. Not that I'm reading French literature now, but still.

I just suffered the humiliation of paying for Wifi at Royal Ground Coffee in Berkeley, where they charge five bucks to use your own damn computer to pick up their signal which you know they don't pay more than $40 a month for. The nerve! Don't ever go there! I wonder if it's just them or if it's a Bay Area thing, like people are so used to paying out the nose for everything here that they don't even question it, whereas in Portland everyone is used to getting everything for free or cheap so businesses know they can't get away with this kind of stuff. Besides making me feel insulted and scammed, it's annoying because I'm spending $5 so I can send in my story for which I'm making $25...enough with this public college crap! I don't know if I can wait another two years to graduate and get a job that actually pays. I know I'm going to be worth a lot more when I'm done, but in the meantime I'm just getting broker and broker.

Riding home from work
This fly, it flew down my throat
That was really gross.

I thought tonight was going to be lame because Kevin and I were both tired and didn't want to do anything. But then it got really cool because Kevin made pizza wiener bites and I spent a bunch of hours learning how to do Excel. Excel is SO COOL. It makes me wish I had actually studied in high school math and found a way to enjoy it the way I enjoy studying now. Add that to the long list of things I wish I'd figured out 10 years ago.

Things I wish I'd figured out 10 years ago
1. Math is really fun
2. The right haircut and product work wonders
3. You can look cute and still be a feminist
4. Five foot tall girls can find stuff that fits in the juniors' department. Not the men's department.
5. Being a bohemian and working in a coffee shop aint all that.
6. Just because someone is a square doesn't make them a bad person.
7. Most people just aren't interested in reading zines.
8. Athletics can be fun and rewarding, not necessarily pure torture.
9. Third wave ska really sucks.
10. Recipes exist for a reason.

I had this dream last night where I was in France and it was really great. I was hanging out with people from the program as well as French people in some bar, and we were all getting along and talking and bantering. We were all bonding and whatever, like you're supposed to do in a study abroad program. Unlike how I'm afraid of it being in real life: me and a bunch of annoyingly earnest 19-year-old French majors who think they're in Before Sunrise. I'm not trying to knock 19-year-olds, but rather French majors, and that's PC since I am one. French majors are so annoying and weird. Something has to seriously be wrong with you to major in French. Anyway. So in the dream I was in France and it was cool. It made me excited about going. Even though there was one part where I was in a grocery store and didn't understand how everything was organized and everything was in Arabic - that's when it started being a nightmare for French conservatives.

In other news, I got a cold and lost my voice. I really hope I will be able to go to work tomorrow and my job interview on Friday. Also, I randomly threw out my back. Woo!