Say Anything.

Haha that's really awesome Darsa! I am sure she will be so excited.

Got the tickets on my lunch break; yay for the station being not even a mile down the street! :cheer

Here's where our seats are:



:woot Heheheheeee!! :woot

Congrats!! And those are some good seats it looks like. Your kiddo should be thrilled =D

I discovered my brother played with the Wii for a few minutes yesterday.

I was hoping he'd played Smash Bros because damn I'm tired of single player and online-multi isn't working as well as I'd hoped (right now) but instead he fiddled with the Mii channel.

It's a start, right?

These two classes I'm taking right now are killing me with all the writing. Two.

HOW THE FUCK DID I HANDLE 23 CREDITS IN ONE SEMESTER WHEN I WAS A FRESHMAN?!

Buh.

Teething is hell on Earth. Of this I am certain. Shoot me please.

*pulls hair out*

I know the feeling. I either get easy semesters where it's just note-taking and multiple choice exams or I get what I call "Read'em & Write'em" semesters. Which this one is. 3 of my 4 classes are doing term papers. The only up side is that I can use the same subject for 2 of them (just from different angles!!)

... I feel so old. My ears are still ringing from the concert last night, everything sounds so muffled! Granted I've **never** sat that close to the stage (and speakers) before, it was unreal! And Jennifer had a wonderful time, tho she didn't want to get up this morning. I sympathize.

My 4 year old just drew a picture of a princess. It had bewbies....

I want babies. Is it really so much to ask for? Men! *grumps*

I just read the last two posts in quick succession. I... didn't quite read Jetamio's right.

Babies, bewbies.... they're all connected :teehee

lol

I was eating fish (because I'm not very good at being Catholic, so this is one of the few things I try to get right) from one of those generic fried fish places they have on Army bases. It came with a plastic fork, so I used it. Chomping along, *nom nom nom* and all that, when I hear a *snap* in my mouth. Fucking bit through the fork and got paranoid about eating plastic since it was mixed in with the mush.

I really hate plastic utensils.

Just got an e-mail from a girl at the hospital where I used to work. She said the IS department sent out a message saying that they're focusing on the critical problems before taking care of other things because they're short staffed. No shit. What do they expect when they fire two people and piss off everyone else with unreasonable demands? A total of five people left this year before Valentine's Day even hit.

Somehow the management maintains that the other guy who was fired and I were the cause of department morale dropping... Hello dumbasses, morale is going to continue dropping if you keep treating your employees like shit. Talk about a dumb move, getting rid of someone who spent more on the employees than the entire management hierarchy did. My boss gave $5 discount coupons/cards every Christmas. He, his boss, and his boss occasionally bought a lunch for the department.

People thought I was nuts for spending as much as I did on things for my coworkers, but at least I was making them feel appreciated.

I hate Saturdays. I have to be here at work all friggin and there's jack shit to do. The only consolation is I gots me an iPhone so I can bitch about it here now :p

As much as I hate discussing history, politics, war, religion, and economics, I really fucking despise being forced to learn about any of it with a history textbook so horribly written I can't follow half the things being said. Sometimes it's the author trying to use uncommon vocabulary. Who's he trying to impress? Sometimes the word choice derails my train of thought because a statement starts with a lead-in that implies a certain outcome, then doesn't deliver. When I realize he wasn't saying what I expected, I end up having to go back and re-read entire paragraphs. There's a shitload of opinionated editorializing throughout the whole text, too. For fuck's sake, just give me the information. Don't tell me how awesome it was.

I'm fucking shitty with history, and I know that's not right.

Significant? Yeah, I'll give you that. Exciting? Fuck no. This is the shit that had several of us drooling on our desks in high school. It was so boring that we'd all fallen asleep. It was uninteresting in History class, and it was painful in English class.

Seriously. Quit with the fucking opinion. It's a portrait. Just label it as such. Yeah, he did a good job, but is that really relevant? NO.

Know why I had a hard time reading this paragraph? "Yet." As soon as I hit that word, I figured something contrary to the previous statement was about to be said. Nope! Just another example of child labor laws lacking any power.

I had to read and re-read that. Despite? No, taking away a group of people's rights makes it much easier to persecute them.

Who the fuck talks like that? Just use normal vocabulary and say, "unleashed." There's no need to use different words all over the place.

Can you guess what annoyed me about that? Yeah, that's right. Not a single question was offered as an example. I thought the next few paragraphs might make that statement relevant, but the author just dripped that comment out his ass and walked off without wiping.

Seeing as the text says that two of the three Republican factions were somewhat in favor of the League of Nations, there was only one group of opposing Republicans. Which was the leader? I don't fucking know. Lodge was a committee chairman, but both men were said to have led those opposing the League. It doesn't help that the author feels the need to add multiple unnecessary adjectives to describe people. Paid by the word? Probably. When I read that description of Senator Lodge, I couldn't help but visualize Will Ferrell proclaiming that he was a "master of Greco-Roman wrestling."

Another aspect of this history book that's making it aggravating to read is the amount of backtracking. Spend two chapters talking about events between 1890 and 1898. Spend the next two chapters going over shit that happened in the 1880s. Hell, Theodore Roosevelt's presidency in the early 1900s was actually covered in its entirety before much of his pre-presidency work in the 1890s was covered in detail. The crap I quoted here probably doesn't seem like much, but there's so much more in the book itself. I just can't bring myself to go back and read even more of it over again because it's crossing my eyes.

I have one word for the people who put this book together.

SUGGADIK

You have way too much time on your hands.

Nah, it's just that I can't spend my time on anything but college work now, and it's aggravating because the material I'm given to work with is counterproductive. Because of how much work I've got to do, I've only left the house a couple of times in the past month, one of which was mainly to get some flowers sent for a friend's birthday.

Just about 7am, and guess who hasn't slept yet! I really hate word minimum essays.