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HI.

I was actually being very productive just now and doing my gov homework.  But I suddenly hit a wall and stopped understanding what I was doing, so I was forced to quit being productive and instead wandered onto here.  So it goes, I guess.

I had a goodish weekend.  I did a lot of things, most but not all of them pretty mundane.  I interviewed for the honors college at West Chester yesterday.  It seems like a pretty sweet set up and I am sort of dying to get in, but they only take 40 kids so like.  Not getting my hopes up.  I also went to Trader Joe’s for the first time, which obviously was momentous and must be noted.

So lately I have been on a READING FRENZY, which is similar to a feeding frenzy except that instead of happening with animals it happens with nerdy people, and instead of food it’s BOOKS.  I just have been dying to read all the time, and I have seriously read like twelve books this week.  Some of them were rereads because I couldn’t get my hands on fresh ones, but on Friday I got a bunch of books from the library, and I’ve been reading them all weekend and they are GOOD.  I’ve been trying to branch out a little bit with my reading, meaning that I’ve been making an effort to steer away from girly, glossy books with titles like “Confessions of a: _____” or “The Summer When…”.  It’s not been easy to wean myself away from those books, because contrary to popular belief they are AWESOME and so fun to read.  But I figure that I’d have to put them behind me at some point anyway, and what better time than now, right?  Right.

I’m listening to some Amy Winehouse right now.  I enjoy her music more than I thought I would.  It’s got a soothing, motown-y kind of feel to it.

Um OKAY, so I just paid my weekly visit to Parent Portal.  And I like…suck.  If my freshman self could have a look at those grades she would undoubtedly cry/commit suicide.  But it’s sad because like, my senior self doesn’t give two shits.

SIGHHHHHHHH.

My hands are so DRY right now, I don’t know what the deal is.  It’s probably from Panera, I was going NUTS tonight with cleaning stuff.  I did such a good job.  I even cleaned out that crusty little microwave we have under the coffee urns.  I also replaced a LIGHTBULB, and while I was perched atop our gigantic ladder working my magic on the lighting fixture,  my retarded work associate like banged into the ladder and I almost fell off and DIED.  But thankfully I was able to regain stability and am still alive. Phew.

AHH so there is an ongoing CRISIS in my life, which is this:  I love shortening words.  For example, saying trub instead of trouble, totes instead of totally, proj instead of project, etc. etc.  HOWEVER, there are certain words that are really giving me ISSUES when I try writing them down.  These are words such as casual, usual, and decision.  I verbally shorten these words all the time, but when I try writing them down I find that it’s pretty much impossible.  How do you capture that soft s-sh-j sound that’s in the middle of those words?????  If I’m shortening the word CASUAL, what do I write down?  Do I say cas? No.  It looks totally wrong.  Cash?  Obviously not.  Caaj? What the fuck. Casjh?  I just can’t work it out.  It’s becoming a major burden in my daily life, and is really cramping my style of speaking when I’m communicating through the written word.  If anyone would like to leave input on the spelling for these shortened words, please do so. 

Oh my god, the lack of progress I have made on all of my homework is staggering.  I really need to get my act together.  Plus I need to locate some hand lotion STAT for my poor dried out hands.  In other words, I really should go, despite the fact that I have said nothing even remotely important or substantial or interesting in this dumb entry.  OH. WELL.

later skaterz.