Another Day on Campus

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I would rather have a nod from an American, than a snuff-box from an emperor. ~Lord Byron

If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning.

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Name: Sian
I paint, write, and dance. Also cook vegetarian food.

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Wednesday, 21 September 2005

Another Day on Campus

I woke up early this morning. With the cows early. Unfortunately, all the cows got downsized, and there's absolutely nothing to do at 5:30 in the morning, in this town or probably any other. And after I decided there was plenty of time to get in another coupleof hours, I wound up staring at the ceiling for a really long time. Then, my mother called. To tell me I didn't need to call her, when I got up. Then, my roommate (who has been babysitting a friend's teenaged cousins) got home. Then, I actually got some sleep, but by the time I woke up it was too late to make coffee. So, I got to school, to that class, absolutely caffeine free.

So, I stopped in the little convenience store on campus to pick up some caffeine and sugar before class.

No, I wound up with some very nutritious dried fruit. Dried dates, dried bananas, dried apples, and about 4 different kinds of nuts. Almost trail-mix stuff. Yay. Breakfast. And a bottle of water. Well, and a bottle of Mountain Dew first, but if I don't drink enough water, I feel it later.

Went to the computer lab to look at my blog. This is beginning to get to be a habit with me. Computers before class, a little bit of talking after class. Then more computers.

Well, anyway... evidentally the sound of wrappers crinkling bothers Dr. Symmetrical. I'm not sure whether that's just today, or every day, or what (first time he's noticed it, as far as I know.) Minimal caffeine and no breakfast... Huh. Wonder what the sound of my strangling someone who gets on my under-caffinated nerves would do for him. Then, again, it could be his undercaffinated nerves that started the whole thing. Do you think I could get a couple hundred miligrams of caffeine in an anti-tranquilizer dart? That way, you could see someone showing up looking as though he hasn't had his cup of coffee, you could actually do something about it.

Scientific fact of the day? Science has proven that humanities majors should stay the hell away from science. No... er, wait... Science has proven that swearing is good for you. Sounds a bit spurious to me.

You know that chick from Bridget Jone's Diary? The one who likes to say "fuck" alot? Well... I think she's currently posessing Dr. Symmetrical. He does. Swears like an English chick on crack. Not really like a sailor, not even really like a man. It's almost an empowerment thing with him.

In my opinion, the only use for most profanities is as intensifiers. i.e., "That was fucking awesome." Yes, I know that there are other parts of speech you can technically use them as--interjections, nouns, verbs, etc... but the truth is that as intensifiers is the only place where they're indespensible. "That was very, very awesome" would not be quite as intensified.

So, I'm beginning to get all these wonderful quizzes back. I hate vocab quizzes, because you get a word, with no context. Trying to figure out what, exactly, one does with four million half sheets of paper. The responsible thing would be to paper clip and store them, at least until grades are back in the class. What I'm probably going to do involves cramming them in various books and in the bottom of my backpack, and hoping that no one ever notices.

On the bright side, I hear that nobody ever got less than an A.