This semester, I\u2019m getting a 4.0. I don\u2019t care what you say or think. I want a freaking 4.0. I have side projects, twelve semester hours, five jobs and the motivation of a trucker in the desert, keeping his wits about him as air pressure and heat pound down upon his forty-ton, steel road machine. I\u2019ve got the eye of the tiger, and this is the final countdown, and I don\u2019t care who tells me no or don\u2019t bother or why because I\u2019m taking home a freaking 4.0.<\/p>\n
Yeah.<\/p>\n
On a different note, fifteen minutes ago, I stepped in something gross in the stairwell, and I don\u2019t know what it is, nor do I want to look, so I\u2019m pretending like it never happened.<\/p>\n
I still need to return my rhetoric teacher\u2019s book. I think I\u2019ll stop by tomorrow. It\u2019s called Deep Survival<\/em>, and it\u2019s about human evolution\u2019s role in modern day society. The writing\u2019s good\u2014a little dry in some parts\u2014but generally solid, and I\u2019d recommend it to anyone who likes science because it\u2019s factual and somewhat entertaining.<\/p>\n I\u2019m stuck in a creative drought. Writing feels like starting an old engine because sometimes it runs, but most of the time it stutters and drops dead, but you can always replace an engine, and you can\u2019t replace a brain. Maybe a muse needs to inspire me. I just read about them for Classical Mythology, and they always pop round to give a heads up or hello, so maybe they\u2019ll visit soon. I don\u2019t know, things are odd right now, and I think it\u2019s because of the new semester, and everyone\u2019s falling into place and getting used to the old environment.<\/p>\n This post will be random because I can\u2019t think of any stories right now except for the brownie-thing I ate at breakfast today. Every time I eat this fudge-brownie-blondie thing, my stomach grows a little queasy, but I eat it anyway because it tastes good. Maybe it symbolizes my life, or maybe I just get nauseous easily, like the way I get with Papa John\u2019s pizza. I mean, it\u2019s not that I don\u2019t like Papa John\u2019s\u2014I love them\u2014it\u2019s just that my friend, Eliana, and I ate Papa John\u2019s as we watched Paprika<\/em>, which nauseated me, so now every time I eat Papa John\u2019s, I feel nauseous.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m a horrible person,\u201d she said (she isn\u2019t. How could anyone who wants to host a Jewish girls segment on the radio with me be a horrible person?). \u201cI scarred you for life.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cNo you didn\u2019t.\u201d She laughed. \u201cI just feel queasy when I eat Papa John\u2019s pizza now. It\u2019s not your fault.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s all because of Paprika<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s just the colors and the motion.\u201d I ate, but then set the pizza down because the thought of this freakish robot in the film made me sick.<\/p>\n \u201cWhat\u2019s Paprika<\/em> about?\u201d asked Molly (a journalist who wins every writing contest).<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s about this detective who enters other people\u2019s dreams with this technological device, and then the device gets stolen, and the line between reality and dreams blurs.\u201d Eliana glanced at the pizza \u201cDo you want the last slice?\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cNo, you can\u2019t have it,\u201d I said.<\/p>\n \u201cI feel bad taking all your pizza.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cDon\u2019t. I feel queasy.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cDo you want it, Molly?\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cNo,\u201d she said. Libby (who works at Hillcrest and got an awesome hair cut over break\u2014short in back, long in front, brown) also denied the slice, so we gave it to Kelsey (who has fake candles that smell like pumpkin pie).<\/p>\n I\u2019m also hungry because I didn\u2019t have time to eat much today. I went downtown with Alyse (funny and wears large, rainbow-framed glasses) because I lost my textbook and had to buy a new one (I believe the old one was klepto\u2019d), and I purchased tickets for Tattoo Girl<\/em> (a play).<\/p>\n Yeah, that was pretty much my day. I also scored full marks on my quiz and wrote an essay and a play. Tomorrow, I have class, which will keep me fairly preoccupied, and then I have work on Thursday, Friday and Saturday.<\/p>\n Hoorah!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This semester, I\u2019m getting a 4.0. I don\u2019t care what you say or think. I want a freaking 4.0. 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