Bulletproof weave? Yes... it exists. I discovered this thanks to my always entertaining Logic discussion class =]

Today was a really disgusting day outside, and I was very happy to have my cute, yet functional, rainboots. It was just as much fun to drive in as it was to walk in! Gotta love the weather.

I am currently very full of fried chicken and Italian cream cake. I have no desire to move off of the couch, but Lord of the Rings on TNT is almost over, after which I think I'll make myself go to bed. Only... bed is so very far away, and the couch is so very comfy. Maybe I'll just sit here a little while longer....

One week til Spring Break!

It took every ounce of willpower I possess not to buy one of these. They're the biggest ones I've ever seen... but they were 6 bucks a piece, and even I'm not that crazy. But still... these squishy spike balls (technical term) are some of the best stress relievers ever invented. Until you bust it open anyway.

I took my Latin American history midterm today. Thank God! I am sick to death of neocolonialism and hegemony. I think I did well... I might've messed up one of the essays, but overall I felt like I knew the material.

In German, we started talking about professions and various jobs. So my professor went around the room, asking what we each wanted to do with our lives. People said teachers, authors, politicians... and then she got to me, and I said I wanted to be a lawyer. She seemed really surprised, and asked me if that's what I really wanted to do - have to work every single day, have no family, live alone, and have no fun. But she didn't say anything like that to the two guys in my class who want to be lawyers! I was really offended. I thought she realized that I have a good work ethic and am a dedicated student. I do well in her class, one of the few people who does so. Maybe just because German isn't my life, she thinks I'm unwilling to work. And who says I can't have a career and a family? Women everywhere do just that... my mother, for example, works every day practically babysitting dozens of professors and hundreds of students, but she still manages to come home, cook dinner (often more than one meal, since we all like different foods), do laundry, and take care of my father and me. Why can't I do that? Sure, being a lawyer is hard work... but how dare she think that just because I'm female, I can't handle it! I'm so sorry that I don't want to go into teaching, like her, which I think is a waste of a good university degree.

Also, my trusty old Nikon Coolpix camera died recently... or at least I think it did. It's started randomly not turn on when I wanted to use it. Sometimes it does, just not every time, like it's supposed to. Maybe it's the batteries - I'm not really sure. Regardless, I think I want a new camera. This one is a little too big for my purposes, and I don't like that it blurs the pictures on all but two settings. Plus, I'll be able to use it in Oxford. I really like the Canon Powershot . It has great customer reviews, comes in pink, and has a pomeranian as a spokesperson. I'm sold!

We're getting new phones! Well... my dad is, for his birthday, but it's something the whole family can use. Let me enlighten you as to why I'm so excited over something so, well,... lame. We have 6 rooms with phones in our house. Or we did at one point, anyway.

1. Garage: The phone in the garage is an ancient rotary phone that was bought for my grandmother sometime in probably the 70s or 80s


2. Kitchen: There are two phones in the kitchen. One of them is a Panasonic cordless piece of crap that you can't hear out of. But, it has Caller ID... so it lives in the kitchen. We don't actually use this phone though, no, we have another. We have two phones in our kitchen, because we don't have one that will do the job correctly. The second is to actually talk into, after you check the Caller ID phone to see who's calling.


3. Master bedroom: Yet another ancient phone. It's corded, not rotary, thankfully, but you have to play fast fingers when you hit the buttons because if you press them for too long (especially the zero button), they'll dial the number twice. This is particularly annoying when your area code is 770.


4. My bedroom: I have the best phone in the house. It's a fake rotary phone that looks a lot like that down there, except it's white... and prettier. No problems with my phone whatsoever!
5. Computer room: Robin's egg blue rotary phone. Enough said.


6. Upstairs bonus room: No longer has a phone, because when the piece of crap Panasonic went out in the kitchen, the one from the master bedroom became phone number two in the kitchen and the phone from upstairs went to the master bedroom.

See why I'm excited? The set my mom and I bought has three recievers - we can replace the ones in the kitchen, master bedroom, and computer room, and put the best of the old ones upstairs! Now to replace the 25 year old TV set in the living room that has a wooden console around it... I'll have a modern house yet!

Today was Free Pancake Day! It ended up costing me about ten bucks, after drinks, sides, and a donation to Children's Miracle Network, but it was well worth it. Then I got to read and write about the Communist Manifesto... yay.

It's only 10 days til Spring Break!! I'm uber excited to get out of Georgia.

I played with and threw Play-Doh at the roommate this evening, because I was a very hyper girl...

Which is probably why I'm so random at the moment =]

Tonight I had a flashback to my childhood. The roommate and I watched Spice World, which, I am convinced, is one of the best movies ever made. Cheesy, slightly unbelievable plot line paired with platform shoes and girl power? Yes, please!



My friends and I dressed up as the Spice Girls for our Halloween band practice our senior year - I think we did a pretty good job, if I say so myself!

Today, I watched Office Space in my Western Civ class... I'm not sure why, but I'm not complaining. I really should study a bit more tonight, since I have midterms and papers coming up in the next couple days, but my brain has mostly been turned to mush, so doing so wouldn't be terribly productive. Other than that... well, I was also finally able to satisfy my bagel and cream cheese craving today - overall things are good! =]

These are the stuffed animals that live on the shelf on my desk. The pig's name is Gus, the dog is Uga (because I just can't change his name... that would be pretty close to blasphemy around here), and the poor beluga whale doesn't have a name. I just can't think of one that captures his personality... but I'll work on it. It's a very nice alternative to more German.

Speaking of German! It's that time of the month again... German workbooks are due tomorrow! I cannot express the levels of hate I have for this class. Words just will not suffice. Tonight I got frustrated to the point of having an incredibly strong urge to throw something. Hopefully break it. I didn't do that, of course, but I did manage to jam the stapler by slamming it down on the papers I was stapling (which were for German), and that helped a little, but I think shattering some dinnerware would've been much more satisfying.

I got to sleep almost until noon today, which was most definitely the best part of my weekend, other than getting some new pajama pants. I haven't been able to sleep that late in forever, and I probably won't be able to again any time in the near future. I packed some more too. I had to tackle our massive computer desk, and I found some interesting things... like a rotary phone and a notebook from 6th grade. I'm from a family of pack rats, apparently. But the packing's done! Well, with the exception of one closet, but I'm not counting that.

Only 12 days til Spring Break!