One of my professor's messed up on one of my grades, and guess who has to fill out forms and pay money and stuff? Me. Clearly, the budget crisis must be more severe than I thought, if the public universities are stooping this low to get money.

In other news, I'm home. My room's a mess. Mark's reaction to seeing me:

MARK: Gah! You're all skinny! Who are you and what have you done with my sister?
ME: I'm still me. I love Harry Potter. Rubber Chickens are awesome.
MARK: Huh. Gets up close and examines my face Oh, you still have all those tiny red zits on your face. You're still you.

Lovely.

In other comments about my personal appearance, I got my passport picture taken for my English passport, where I can't smile or show teeth or anything. My Dad saw my first one and claimed I looked like a heroin addict. I got it retaken and now I merely look drunk. My family is all so supportive when it comes to my personal appearance.

Am successfully evading jury duty thus far. I doubt they'll pick me to be on a jury, but you never know. I'm trying to turn one of my brothers into a cop so I can get out of it. George is surprisingly amiable to this plan.

I am bored. What is up with you, people? Update! It gives me mere minutes of entertainment.

Units: 15

Papers: 6

Mid-Terms: 1 (The joy of being an English major)

Finals: 4 (Laaaame)

Books read: If you count all Proust as one novel, then 14. But one of those novels was 4200 pages, I'll have you know.

Poems read: Approx. 135

Pounds Lost: 44 exactly

Overall? Ain't too shabby.

So how are you supposed to study for an essay-based exam, anyway? Especially when you read one 4200 page novel? I've made flashcards of important scenes, so I've got around thirty I can bring up during the exam to prove my points (whatever they will be, because we haven't been given the prompts) and I looked over my notes, but seriously. I can't even re-read books, like I do for my other classes. I just sort of cross my fingers and hope for the best.

It's given me a headache, anyway.

45C final went surprisingly well, although I didn't get my paper back. I bet it was a B or similar, because my GSI seems morally opposed to giving A's. They should tell you who your GSI is before you sign up for a class, so you can get a cool one.

I will be in Palo Alto in 48 hours. Actually, I might be visiting SJ that night, so maybe not. But I'll be in the area, anyway. That's marginally exciting.

I may have a burrito-and-Harry Potter night tomorrow, instead of packing. I follow

Man, i hate finals. i hate studying. the next 3 days, 11 hours and 12 minutes cant pass soon enough.

im also not enjoying this whole CraigsListing thing. it is very hard to sell someone to sublet a room that you have never lived in. im never going to work in real estate. anyway, its just another stress that is getting me very aggrivated, and its not like i can do anything about it. (Unless anyone wants to live in Berkeley this summer? email me!).

In other news, I just realized that this journal is over 5 years old. i was hoping i could see how many entries ive written, but i cant, so well just have to quantify it with: alot. heres to 5 more, i guess?

(ETA: Actually, I just checked, and the anniversery is actually the day of my last final, the 19th. Oopsies).

oooh, 9 minutes remaining!

so ive been checking online, and there are approx. 0 jobs available in major publishing houses. im beginning to get very worried about next year, very worried. nowhere is hiring and i want a JOB, chicken it, and preferably a decent one that i will love as much as i loved working at C12: that is, something thats fun, with good benefits and great people. wages actually come second to all of these things. but i guess i become a college senior in 3 days, 11 hours and 7 minutes, so its my new worry in life. i hate it.

ugh. this craigslist thing + finals = very stressed out me. i wish it was next year, save for the job thing. lets make it two years from now.

Oh, OOTS. At least we're getting semi-regular updates again, which is good, because we were about to get everyone back together...I had hoped, anyway.

First final in an hour. Ugh.

I suppose I could have edited my entry, but oh well.

I'm working on a summer reading listen. My goal is fifteen books, and so far five of them are Jane Austen. I'm also wanting to read A Long Way Gone and possibly A Million Little Pieces; I already own The God of Small Things so I might as well tackle that too. Am contemplating Catch-22 and The Invisible Man too.

Anyway. Suggestions? Comments? All input is welcome.

Yeah, I've been busy this semester; the sheer amount of updates should speak to this effect. I personally blame Proust and his 4200 pages of pain, although my new-found gym-going fervour has not helped matters, either. I don't blame the gym, though, because I think that time has replaced sleep time, because I now have more energy. Does that makes sense? I have no idea.

It's finals time! My first one was yesterday and didn't go as well as I had hoped, which I'm sensing will be the norm for my Berkeley era. Anyway, I still have a take-home section for that (which should be fine), plus three finals coming up on Thursday, Monday and Tuesday, which are all my English classes. Why do I have finals for ALL THREE ENGLISH CLASSES?? I miss term papers. Anyway, they don't sound too bad; my Thursday one should only take an hour and a half, and for the two finals that have IDs I only need to identify the name and author, making it quite possibly the easiest English exam I have ever taken. Although how I'm going to be able to name Emily Dickinson's poetry is going to be interesting, as none of it is actually titled...

In other news, I got Children's Ministry for SLI, which I'm slightly bitter about (read as: very bitter about), but I'm slowly warming to it. Among other things, if I couldn't get a job in publishing, I'm at least earning experience with children, and children is a key part of Children's Publishing, so we'll see how it goes. I think I'm the only person in the program who's on the semester system, because they wanted us to work after classes have started for me. Also, it looks like I'm going to arrive back from Camp PBC and move back to Berkeley the next day, which isn't good, either. How I'm going to remain cheerful during Camp PBC is beyond me, namely because, I don't know, it's held at MY LEAST FAVOURITE PLACE IN THE WORLD. But never mind.

I've got jury duty the week after finals. I'm pessimistic that they'll pick me, but at least I can hang out in San Jose for a while. On that note, I've been trying to hint towards my former-C12 coworkers that they should invite me to the HP screening; I think they might just all assume I'm coming regardless, but I'll feel guilty just showing up. Anyway, I will also be able to return to Iguana's during this period, which fills me with burrito-licious excitement.

On that note, meet me at Century 16 on July 14. It's my brother's birthday, and chances are that Mark is now old enough to come with us, and George (and possibly Arthur) will be inviting friends for me to drive home, so please show up and save my sanity.

I should study now, even though I forgot to buy notecards. Bye-bye.

I got into SLI. Given that it's not being paid, I'm not sure how anyone couldn't have gotten in. At least you don't need to put your salary on your CV. Ministry assignments haven't been announced yet, nor have mentors, although my SpideySense is tingling on the Mentor. I wonder if my deepseeded bitterness will ever come out.

I'm not all that happy. I've pretty much given up on anywhere else, and at least I'll have something to do this summer. But...UGH, WHY CANT THINGS GO MY WAY???? I should have done this LAST SUMMER and gotten PAID and worked with friends. I have no idea whats happening now, and I'm still bitter about things, and blah blah blah.

So yeah, I'm annoyed. I'll probably do it. But...I'm just going to have to trust God. Which, given that I might be teaching people TO trust God all summer, is probably a good exercise for me.

At least the D-Wing has AC. I may hide there all summer if things are like this.

http://www.examiner.com/x-4908-Twilight-Examiner~y2009m4d2-Twilight-series-spawns-religion-Edward-Cullen-is-real-members-should-read-the-books-like-a-Bible

And it came out TODAY, so it isn't a twisted April Fools Day joke.

its just....

well.

I know, I haven't updated in a while. I've been busy! But anyway, something just happened, and while my reaction to it brings new meaning to the word "overreaction", I think it's important to write it down, especially as it pertains to what this journal was supposed to be about.

( its a little lame, but most people can't get it )