Getting Ahead of Myself
I’ve spent the last 2 hours looking at apartments on craigslist. I found a 2 bedroom apartment near the Health Sciences Center (where I will, hopefully, be going to grad school) for only $550 a month! My head is filled with fantasies of taking the 15-minute ride home on the 121 bus after a hard day of classes, cooking up a little snack in the 10′ x 8′ kitchen, then crossing the hall to my 12′ x 10′ study where I can be free from distractions to cram for the next day’s exam. Then out to the living room for a little goofing off online before I retire to my bedroom. On the weekends I can relax at one of the 5 pools (wait, what? 5 pools?) or take Merlin down the street to Montbello Civic Center Park.
Never mind that I haven’t even completed my application requirements yet. That’s a minor detail.
But seriously, doesn’t it sound fabulous?
30 minutes later… Oh God, it’s getting worse. Now I’m shopping for furniture on Ikea. Help!
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Anal Emily: clean the house!
Studious Emily: study for the o chem test you have tomorrow!
Burnt-Out Emily: go to bed early and get lots of sleep!
All perfectly respectable uses of my time. So what did I do? I baked cupcakes and then ate some for dinner while watching trashy reality TV. I just wanted this to be on record for when I start wondering why I don’t know any of the answers on tomorrow’s test.
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Today in organic chemistry, within a one-hour and twenty-minute timeframe, I took TWELVE PAGES of notes. Are you kidding me? That comes out to 60 pages of notes a week. We’re actually supposed to absorb that much material? I passed the first exam with a C, which is fine with me, but I felt like I had a decent grasp on that material. This week, I’m so totally lost. And worse, everyone I talk to seems to at least generally know what’s going on. Am I the only one who doesn’t get it? This is why I hate organic chemistry so much. Thank God I already got an A in the lab and don’t have to take it again.
If everyone could please grab hold of your rabbits’ feet, four-leaf clovers, and/or horseshoes, and pray that I get to August 10th with both a C and my sanity, I would really appreciate it very much.
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Between chemistry and working, I haven’t had time to study for the GRE in at least 2 weeks now. So in lieu of panicking, I checked out my options and found out that some testing dates in August had opened up. The $50 rescheduling fee hurt, especially since I’m exceptionally poor this month (*cough, cough* certain people need to pay me back), but at least now I can focus on one thing at a time. And watch Star Trek every day (God bless you, Spike TV, for finally validating your existence).
Miscellaneous point of interest #1: I found out today that the first four entries that come up when you Google “fillechaude” all belong to me. Hooray!
Miscellaneous point of interest #2: With my nifty new site tracking software I have noticed that no one is clicking on my “interesting stuff” links. Maybe my interesting stuff just isn’t that interesting, in which case continue to ignore it. But maybe you just haven’t noticed it yet, so I’m pointing it out. Right over there, under the blogroll. HINT, HINT.
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Aw, dammit. I just realized that now I have to wait an extra month to open my GRE present! I have been SO good in honoring the “do not open until the day before the test” label, and whatever is inside smells SO delicious. Argh!
Hmmm… what a discombobulated entry. I shouldn’t write on so little sleep so late at night.
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The love of my life is getting fat and old: http://wwtdd.com/photo.phtml?post_key=2568&photo_key=3567.
I’ve had a thing for Val Kilmer since I was 11. He was in my very first sex dream (in which I got double teamed by him and my social studies teacher - apparently I’ve been kinky from the beginning). The hours I would spend pining over him!
My willingness to marry him and/or become his slave is waning. He’d better act quickly.
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Sometimes when I’m picking out my clothes in the morning and nothing really grabs me, I pick a pair of shoes and base my outfit around them. Those of you who know me are probably not surprised. Well it’s getting close to laundry day and there’s nothing too inspiring left in my closet, but in spite of being so very tired I was feeling kinda sexy, so I picked out these bad boys:
And then I proceeded to build my outfit around that. I actually managed to get dressed very quickly today, considering.
Well, now it’s ruined, because I went and took a huge chunk out of my big toenail’s pretty pink polish while I was getting ready, and there is no way I’m walking around with such a toe hanging out of my open toed shoes. Fuck. Seriously, God, you expect me to get inspired TWICE this morning? This is so uncool.
Addendum: Okay, okay, you win. I liked my second outfit better. Cheap little ballet flats and all.
Filed under Uncategorized | Comment (1)The Man of My Dreams
I had a dream the other night in which I was furious with Dan. Screaming-at-him-in-public furious. Those of you who know me know that it takes a LOT to get me angry, and I’m pretty sure I’ve never yelled at anyone in public. I don’t even remember why I was so mad, but it was unnerving to wake up from that dream and see him sleeping next to me and realize that he hadn’t actually done anything wrong. It’s not like I can hold his dream-self’s crimes against him, but still, it took me a minute. What a bizarre feeling.
But dreams aside, we had a wonderful weekend together and I’m happier than I’ve been in a while. Things have been a little rough lately, but I feel like we’re finally getting back to where we were, and it’s made me almost giddy. Whee, love!
And believe me, I need those good feelings, because I have to spend the next five weeks thinking about organic chemistry. If I don’t end up throwing myself off the top of the physics tower, I should come out of it with a boosted GPA. Cross your fingers.
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