I think its impossibly unfair that another hurricane is about to hit
New Orleans and by the time Lovely Rita gets there, she’s expected to
be a category 4. Mother Nature sucks. I just can’t imagine being in the
citizens of New Orleans place, especially the few of those who got to
either stay or go back into the city. I would gladly take a storm up
here (however unfeasible that may be) if it meant that poor New Orleans
could sit the rest of fun hurricane season out. I believe Galveston,
TX has already been evacuated.

Last night, I did some homework and decided that I was actually going
to watch tv last night. I watched part of that new show called “My Name
is Earl”. It seemed decent, sort of in a redneck way. It was cute…
and it had Jason Lee in it and I like Jason Lee, he’s frickin awesome.

So the bbq is today. I want it to go well. I think it will. I’ve had to
go through so many hoops to get this dumb thing set up. I just want it
to go as planned. I have no idea how many people are going to show up.
After my bbq, I have a College Liberatarians meeting.

I want 12:15 tomorrow to be here quickly. I just want my school week to
be over.

Casey and I are going to the zoo because she’s never been to the
National Zoo and D.C. is pretty much my favorite place ever. I’m
missing my nice orange and brown seated Metro. Oh yes, I will be on
that Metro on Friday. It’s unfortunate that the baby panda is still not
on display but there are baby cheetahs. It should be a fun day.

Sunday looks like it’ll be spent with my other boyfriend. You know, the one named Johnny Damon. Let’s go sox! They will win because I deem it so.

Edit:

I got tagged by stormgiantxxxl so here’s some questions…

10 years ago: I was about to be 10. I still lived in PG county; PG was fun.

5 years ago: My shoulders were about to start having the problems I still contend with today.

1 year ago: I was a sophomore and starting my first full year as a Poli Sci/Int’l Studies double major and a Spanish minor.

5 snacks I enjoy: cookies, chocolate, coffee (its sort of a snack), tortilla chips, cupcakes

5 songs I know all the words to: Only 5? eh… I have a penchant for knowing song lyrics. This is too hard to just pick 5.

5 things I would do with a 100 million dollars: pay for undergrad, save
money for grad school, buy a new car, buy a house, invest some money

5 places I would run away to: Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, Mexico

5 things I would never wear: spandex (i agree), my collar up, high water jeans, mu-mus, gaucho pants (man, those look stupid)

5 favorite tv shows: the only one I consistently watch is Desperate
Housewives. I have favorite channels… History, Animal Planet, Cable
news channels.

5 bad habits: worrying, overanalyzing, not being able to just accept compliments, coffee drinking, sweets

5 biggest joys: friends, family, swimming, reading, travel

5 favorite toys: I-pod, computer, cds, tv, dvd player

5 Fictional Characters I would date: Henry from “The Time Traveler’s
Wife”, Jimmy Fallon in Fever Pitch, Neo in the Matrix, Tom Hanks’
character in Sleepless in Seattle, Roger from Rent, haha and the
Phantom, I do love the Phantom.

I tag whoever is cool and will fill this out so I can read it and be entertained.

1st Place for Stupidest Place in Maryland: Wherever I was yesterday

Last night I was trying to go out to get stuff for my bbq at Costco.
The only Costco is out close to Aberdeen (well, sort of close to
Aberdeen). I do believe I found the stupidest looking part of Maryland.
If a place could look stupid, it was this place. Man, I’m going to
advocate that we give that whole little North-east corner of MD to
Delaware. Yeah, to Delaware, it’d be better off there. I like every
part of MD for some reason or another except for wherever I was last
night. I think I was in Harford County or I could’ve still been in BaCo
but either way, it sucked. I think we should give BaCo and B-more to
Delaware too. Those Delaware-ians would love it!

But back to whence we diverged, I called Costco before I even left
to school to make sure that I had everything in line to get a
membership. Supposedly all I needed was a letter from my dad that said
I could be set up under his membership. So I drive all the way to the
stupid place and I can’t get a membership because my dad has the wrong
type of account where you can add cards or something. I was mad. I had
to go to the stupidest place in Maryland only to be turned around.
Luckily, I got a shopping pass to just shop for that day and was able
to get all of my bbq stuff.

I left for school at 7:45. I had a lot of errands to run. I was at
school late for my fiction writing class that is turning out to be a
lot of work and a total waste of my time.

I’d really like to just get this week over with. I have big plans
for the weekend. I have big plans for the next couple of weekends for
that matter, not that i’m complaining. I’m definitely not complaining.

Eh, I guess I got a lot accomplished today. For some odd and slightly
masochistic reason, I decided to take a lot of very writing intensive
courses that have not been fun thus far. I have a lot of writing to do
this weekend. I have a lot of other stuff to do this weekend.

I had Ryan and Steve over for dinner last night. I made chicken
parmesan. I think it turned out alright. I had emailed my mom earlier
in the day to see what was up with her and I mentioned the dinner I was
making and she was like, “Gosh, I didn’t know you knew how to make
that. I’m impressed.” Thou art of little faith, Mom… I think dinner
was good. I like Italian food. It was a good ending to a bad day.

Funny story, I was sitting in the union yesterday with my faculty
advisor collecting money for the Red Cross for the hurricane victims
for CRs. This woman, a faculty member, came up the table and said “I’m
going to give as much money as George Bush cared for those hurricane
victims” and dropped in a penny and walked away. I’m not absolving the
federal government for any wrong doing. Obviously, something went wrong
somewhere. That’s not the issue. The issue is that there are thousands
of people without homes that need help. Shouldn’t that be a uniting
issue where people come together to try to help those who were affected
by the storm rather than an opportunity to point fingers???

We were trying to do something good for the victims and to have a
PROFESSOR come up and say something like that to a 19 year old student
and another faculty member just astounds me. I’m very much in favor of
being able to say what you want when you want to say it, however, one
should say such things with couth.

I go out of my way to be considerate of other people and while I know
that yesterday was not a personal attack, it really sucks when people
have to stoop to that level. It just makes me really sad. Needless to
say, I think I might be writing a letter to the campus “newspaper” (if
you can even call it that). Other people suck!

Tonight, I need to run a couple errands and go to a College
Liberatarians meeting to make an appearance since the president made an
appearance at my last meeting.

Do you agree that we are lost here? Well, among the lost, we shall survive…

I can see that this is going to become a ritual… I’m in the coffee place on campus, biding my time until writing class; the class in which I have 3 stories to turn in today. The I-pod is on shuffle and I have a big, big cup of coffee by my side.

Totoro is settling just fine. I really didn’t think we were going to see him for a couple days as we figured he’d probably have to get acclimated to the new digs but he’s the most dog-like cat I’ve ever met in my entire life. He already knows his name and comes when he’s called. He growls at people outside and is totally fine around strangers (to him at least). He loves to cuddle .P>

I had to get him registered with the county yesterday. These are the things I don’t understand about bureaucracy sometimes…. I had to go to the library to get him registered, which I thought was weird but awfully convenient since the library is literally like 2 blocks away from me. Maybe that was just supposed to be convenient? I can’t imagine that would be so since the government is so rarely convenient. There always seems to be some long, complicated process to do anything. But, I digress, my cat is now a Baltimore County Individual according to his registration. I hope the ‘individual’ part was not merely to be P.C. because if so, that’s sad. When did it become politically incorrect to call an animal an animal? Frankly, it would not really surprise me all that much if that were the reason that Totoro is now an individual instead of a pet.

 Ryan came over yesterday and spent the night because his school got off for some reason (lucky). Totoro sat on top of him and watched sports while I cooked dinner.We had really good chicken tomato basil pasta. Ryan had brought up a whole bunch of different kinds of peppers from his dad’s garden so I sauteed some bell peppers and threw those in there too. We had key lime bars for dessert.

Classes have been okay so far today. I’m trying to stay awake. I didn’t have my usual supply of caffeine this morning. I bought two polo shirts because Aeropostale came to school and somehow I managed to bleach parts of my favorite polo shirt last week and those things are the best for layering. I hate when laundry doesn’t work out the way that it is supposed to .

I’m quite ready for the week to be over already. I have kind of a busy weekend. My parents are coming to bring the frickin sweet chair that we got for the living room and a lamp so that room isn’t quite so dark. I have to work the concession stand for the football game on Saturday. Sunday, I have to go to this Leadership Training (more importantly and more likely, a networking opportunity) down at Hopkins.

I’m getting incredibly cold. I hate air conditioning. I’m wearing my soccer jacket and long pants and I’m still pretty cold. We don’t use the air conditioning at home so I always just have my window open and my fan on. Frankly, that’s how I prefer it. As long as I’m not trying to talk to people in the car, I’d rather have my window open there too; window down and music up. There’s nothing like driving on the highway without traffic with the windows down . Me gusta.

Currently listening to: What might have been by Diamond Rio (fuck you, this is a sweeeet song) 

I do hate when Red Sox games are on. They keep me from doing homework… ack.

I had my first real meeting last night. I think it went well. We had a couple of new people which was very exciting as we haven’t had our involvement fair yet. Actually, that’s today.

After the meeting, I went to go visit my sister and I meant to be in and out of there quickly but I ended up not leaving until almost 7! I found out that my grandfather ripped his hamstring; I had no idea about that. My mom never told me! It happened when they were all out in CO for my grandma’s birthday last weekend.

So last night when I got home, I decided to get started right away on my homework. Unfortunately, Steve told me that the sox game was on so I had to watch that because the games just are not on all that often. So I watched that and then set about trying to read for Spanish Lit, which did not go well because it was Spanish from the middle ages, I guess middle Spanish. Middle English is hard to read, middle Spanish is harder. I’m not even sure how much of that I digested.

I want tonight to come very quickly… I just want my weekend to start.

Edit: 2:20pm

Here, once again, I find myself in the coffee place at school because I’m trying to conserve gasolina by not going home on this long break between my last class and this involvement fair. I’m not complaining about the commute; this commute is a fucking cake walk compared to what I was doing this summer but even that commute I didn’t mind that much.

By the way, I want to be back closer to DC, B-more is not my cup of tea. I want to go take pictures of monuments and do some nice black and white pictures for my room. I want to go to the National Zoo. I haven’t been there for a year. I want to see that crazy bird that liked me and the baby cheetahs and the fishing cat, I like the fishing cat. I guess I wouldn’t mind seeing the baby panda either but I don’t think the baby is that cute. He’s cute in the way that monsters are cute (according to me, monsters are cute thank you very much). I want to go to Gravelly Point and I want to go to Roosevelt Island because I’ve never been there and TR was frickin sweet. God, I’ve lived here for 4/5 of my life (almost exactly) and there’s still a lot of places I haven’t been. I really should’ve gone to school in DC; eh, but then, that’s what grad school is for . An IR degree from American or GDub is looking very tasty right now.

I was occupied for about the first hour with CR stuff. I finished all the fun stuff I needed to do. Weird story, I was walking out of the union and I saw this girl that went here as a freshman and moved back home but now she’s back. It’s funny how things work like that. Ack, I want to go home. I want 7 pm to be here like 5 minutes ago.

Yesterday was a miserably long day. Tuesdays are going to be long all
the time. I had my Spanish Lit class in the morning and my Mexican
History class right after that. I found out that Mr. Klein dropped the
class, leaving me to do my paper alone! Luckily, I have a topic in mind
and I have to turn in a proposal tomorrow. I’m writing about the 2000
election which is something that I’m supremely interested in. Mexico is
usually one of the more stable countries in L.A., and before 2000, it
was an almost-democracy but not quite. A true democracy must have
parties that rotate in and out of the government, otherwise the
government is one sided and not representative. The PRI (political
party) had been in charge of the government for forever (really).
Vicente Fox of the PAN (political party) won the 2000 election which
marked Mexico’s movement to a more true democracy. It’s completely
fascinating, eh, maybe just to me…

Fiction writing was useless. A lot of people had to read their stories.
I hated the story I wrote and luckily, I was reprieved of reading duty.
It’s amazing with how different the stories people came up with were.
We had a story that was a rip off of Kill Bill (read: monologue at the
beginning from a girl wielding a kitana and getting revenge by cutting
up people)… eh, the movie was better. I have a lot of work for that
class; I was kind of hoping for just having to turn in one story a week.

Casey and I went for dinner to TGIFridays. It was pretty good. We were
going to get cat stuff last night but both of us were too tired so we
just went home.

I have my first official meeting today. I’m thinking that there isn’t
going to be that many people that show up because we haven’t really
advertised well at all. We have our involvement fair tomorrow and
that’s usually when we get a lot of people (eager freshmen and what
not).

Once again, I’m watching cable news; this is my life. I heard that GDubs wants to tap John  Roberts for the Chief Justice position after poor Rehnquist passed away. I was really pulling for Antonin “Italian Stallion” Scalia. It will be interesting to see what happens. I like John Roberts but I’m not sure how I like the rule that the president can tap whoever, even if they haven’t been on the Supreme Court before, to be the Chief Justice. Scalia is a lot more fun than Roberts; come on, he’s the Italian Stallion! If I had any say in it, Scalia would definitely be Chief Justice.

So last night, Casey and I planned to have tacos last night for dinner. “Sleepless in Seattle” was on  On Demand and we got too excited and just watched it and ate taco dip and we were too full to cook dinner. I do love that movie. That’s definitely one of the chick flicks that I can stomach all the time. Admittedly, sometimes I do like my chick flicks but I’m happier watching something a little more interesting but “Sleepless in Seattle” is so cute and it makes me cry and Tom Hanks is still my favorite actor and Meg Ryan is so cute, although I want to know where in B-more she lives because it looks very nice and I don’t think I’ve ever seen that side of Baltimore before.

Man, I’ve been all over Maryland this weekend. I’ve been in 7 counties in the past couple days.

Yesterday, I got up and got dressed and went home for a couple hours. I
needed to try and get my external hard drive hooked up but alas,
somehow I’m missing the install disk. I think my sister has it in her
dorm room though.

Like I said before, we have a neighbor that lives behind us that is
part of a no kill shelter. She only had 2 supposedly adoptable cats so
I went down to look at them. There was a huge gray stripey cat named
Spanky (wtf were the former owners thinking???). He was so sweet. He
kept rubbing on me and just wanting to be petted. There was a big fat
brown tabby who was also very nice and friendly but a little shy. Both
were wonderful cats.

We were outside getting ready to leave and we were standing with
Sylvia, the cat shelter woman, looking at her dogs in the backyard (she
has 3 akitas that are absolutely adorable), when we heard a loud meow
from the window of the room where Sylvia keeps all of the “unadoptable”
cats. Here was this Russian Blue looking cat with Scottish Fold ears
looking at us, meowing and purring out the window. Her name was Abby
(like my dog) and she seemed very friendly. I asked Sylvia what was
wrong with her and she told me nothing except that she had hematomas on
her ears and when the vet fixed them and put bandages on her ears, she
wouldn’t keep them on and so now her ears were folded like they were
and people just thought she looked funny.

Sylvia asked if I wanted to bring her in the other room so I could hold
her and see if I liked her. As soon as Sylvia put her in my arms she
started purring really, really loud. My dad tried to take her to hold
her and she bit him. I guess she’s a bit possessive or just really
liked me holding her.

I think its funny that on one hand, people will pay a lot of money for
Scottish Fold cats but when one looks like one and it isn’t supposed to
be one, they think it looks funny and the cat suddenly becomes
unadoptable. It’s kind of like bull testicles don’t sound appealing but
rocky mountain oysters suddenly become a delicacy for a lot of people.
It’s all so silly.

All 3 of the cats I looked at would be great cats for Casey and I. I
want to bring Casey back to Fredneck so she can look at the cats and
help me decide but I think we’ll have our kitty by next weekend!

Last night, Casey and I went up to Harford County to have Steve cook us
dinner. Both Casey and I noted afterwards that Steve can really cook.
We had steak that was soooo good. I missed my red meat living at home.
We could only have chicken because that’s all that B will eat.

And unlike most guys, Steve actually had side dishes (macaroni salad,
veggies, spicy potatoes).  Strangely enough, I had been on the
phone with Ry earlier in the day telling him that we were going for
dinner and that I hoped he actually had side dishes. He even had
dessert! We had strawberry shortcake and it was very good.

We watched PCU and Bulworth, two movies that I had never seen. PCU was
funny, Bulworth was strange. It was a very good night though.

I’m supposed to be writing my story right now but I haven’t quite gotten around to it yet… eh, later on.

I’m watching news coverage of the hurricane aftermath. It just seems
like total devastation; its incredibly sad! Luckily, some other
countries are trying to help us out, even Venezuela, which is
absolutely amazing seeing as we don’t really see eye to eye on many,
many things. One of my VPs had the idea to collect money and send it to
the Red Cross. I think we’re definitely going to do it. I feel so bad
for all of those people…

I have two classes today. The Spanish Literature class is going to be
interesting. It’s all in Spanish, of course, and I’m fairly good at
understanding the language but trying to analyze lit and poetry perhaps
might prove to be a little bit more of a challenge. I also have my
Mexican History class. I was kind of forced into taking it because of
scheduling but I’m actually very excited about taking it. I think it
might be good to take this class since I’m still planning on studying
abroad for a couple weeks in January. The professor seems very, very
knowledgeable.

I just really want classes to be finished for the week though. I
want
my weekend to start. I already have a bunch to do this weekend but
luckily, that will be punctuated by a visit from Ry. Oh yeah and its
Labor Day, which means that we already get a short week, an even
shorter week for me because I don’t have classes on Friday.

Steve and I are going to read “The World is Flat” by Thomas Friedman at
the same time so we can have somewhat of a book club. It should be
interesting. He’s liberal, I’m conservative; those viewpoints are
always fun when they’re thrown together. Supposedly, Steve is a slow
reader so I’m continuing to read my Narnia books at the same time.


Interesting fact of the day:
the developing countries in Latin America with the least amount of
poverty are Costa Rica and Cuba; you learn something new everyday.