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March 7th, 2005
03:50 pm - Gramsci and the Twisting of My Ankle
So today I went to coffee society to try and figure out Gramsci, and when I decided to leave I was still in deep thought about organic intellectuals and how they fit into everything.
Well, I didn't exactly notice as I was going from the sidewalk to the street that there was a step there and I twisted my ankle.
Lets focus: I was going from the sidewalk to the street and I did notnotice that there was a step there . How could I not notice a step there? There is ALWAYS a step going from the sidewalk to the street unless there is a crosswalk and the sidewalk dips down!?!?! I wasn't going at a point where there was a sidewalk??!?!? What was I doing?!!?!
Stupid Gramsci. I blame you.
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12:08 pm
I am exhausted.
Plain, tried and true, exhaustion.
Today, it isn't that it will take me a long time... but I have to get done my 4-6 page paper. At least its the last one for Cultural Theory. I am nervous because no one wants to do Gramsci. But in any case, whatever. I am nervous because what if I think I do a good job, and then it turns out I actually did a bad job, like on the midterm?
After that, I have to finish the Neanderthal readings.
Then, I have to at some point go to work from 6-10pm.
Then, after that, I have to finish the coloring book. I don't have that much left, but still.
Then, I have to type up all of my notes (so Prof. Zihlman can understand them) for Thursday.
Then, I have to type up a BS 2 page paper for peer advising.
I Just Can't Do It.
But I just have to take one thing at a time, and that means writing about Gramsci. How am I going to do this?
Time to go get coffee and try to get 2-3 pages done in 3-4 hours.
AAARRGHH STUPID THEORY SUCKS ASS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
In any case.
Tata.
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March 2nd, 2005
02:09 pm
Now that all my weekly papers are done for Human Evolution, I feel like I can really just chill out and enjoy the material. This weeks readings on Neanderthals are great, just becuase I can relax and think about them, rather than thinking what she thinks I should think about them.
I can't help it, but I am freaking out about grad school yet again. Who am I going to get for letters of req? Where am I going to apply? When should I ask Professor Zihlman about this? Should I ask about it next quarter? Would that be silly? Why do I have all these silly worries that don't really matter? Why am I overanalyzing this?
Geesh. I need a chill pill.
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February 26th, 2005
09:05 pm
Ok, I forgot to add this, but here it is:
I find it pretty hilarious that Vogue is a magazine that is paid to have advertisements put into it, but I mainly BUY the magazine for the advertisements. Teehee. Not totally, but its one of the fun parts about looking at it.
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09:01 pm
While I know no one else reads Vogue , I am just going to say this/ ask this on the slim chance someone else has seen this.
Ok, just after the article on the Desperate Housewives cast, there is an ad for AKRIS, in which its a model wearing a black knit dress, of which the knit resembles a circle-flower complex.
Is it just me, or does this model look distressingly thin? Like I do not want to buy this dress because she looks so disturbing? If she had more staturesque shoulders, maybe it might not be so obvious, but something there just doesn't fit.
**Note** I did not write this entry so everyone I know can go off on how all models are bulimic/anorexic/ too thin. That is simply untrue. But sometimes, it is true, and I think this might be one of the cases where it is disturbing.
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February 23rd, 2005
11:09 am
Driving home yesterday, I was behind a car. Usually I am behind cars while driving, however, this car was special. It confused me. The lisence plate frame on the back was not the ordinary "Smith Brothers Dealership" or what have you, it was a specialized plate frame. You know, the ones you get from a stall in the mall.
Sometimes they are funny, most of the time, a la bumper stickers, they are stupid. Let me digress on the bumper sticker point for a moment:
Why is that on the back of your car? No really, why? You want to save Lake Tahoe? Stop driving a SUV. You want world peace? STOP DRIVING AN AUTOMOBILE. You want people to know you are a bitch? Ok fine. You want to tell people all the little 'things' you have, all about your personality, all about who you are? Let us focus: THIS IS ON THE BACK OF YOUR CAR. YOU ARE DRIVING. NO ONE CARES ABOUT WHO YOU ARE. The point is that you are driving, telling all the people who are driving behind you what kind of a person you are and what you like. However... you are driving. These people do not know who you are. The only interaction you will have with them separate you from them by pounds of metal between you and them. Not to mention these silly things significantly devalues your car.
In any case, this specialized plate actually had a point that had to do with how people are driving. It said something to the effect of " Move ur ass and get out of my way" (yes, I remembered the "ur" part). Well, it just shows what kind of a driver this person is, they like to go fast, so if you are in front of them they probably want to go faster then you. Thus, you should switch into your right lane, as is courteous.
But let us back up. I was driving behind this person. And was told to get out of their way.
And I was confused.
Then I realized, even if this plate was on the front of this person's car, the person in front would not be able to see it because looking in the rearview mirror would make everything backwards.
And I was confused.
Then I realized, oh, this person just wants attention. And needs to take a hooked on phonics class.
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February 21st, 2005
09:43 pm
Freakin' baby back ribs.
Perhaps my foray back into red meat for many, many moons should have been baby steps.
My stomach is unnnnnnnnhappy.
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February 16th, 2005
11:48 pm
When tomorrow is over, I will laugh.
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February 15th, 2005
05:34 am
Is it sad that I am getting used to getting up at 5am to write my papers?
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February 11th, 2005
06:22 pm
Courtesy of my "Shopaholic's Daily Calendar" :
"Largest Shopping Center
West Edmonton Mall in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, covers an area of 483,000 square miles. It cost 1.2 billion pounds ($788,954,620) to build and features over 800 stores and services, as well as eleven major department stores."
Am I the only one disturbed that the largest shopping mall ANYWHERE is in, of all places, CANADA?
Where the people go eh?
I am shocked. Truly truly shocked.
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February 9th, 2005
03:42 pm
I am so depressed. My classes were too easy to pick this quarter. :(.
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February 8th, 2005
10:33 pm
Why is it the one time I want to grow out the hair on my legs to get them waxed, it takes for goddamn EVER for it to grow out? Because we have a Hosiery rally at San Francisco Center tomorrow (the Nordstroms there) I shaved. Thus, I have to start over. Sigh... as long as it happens before my birthday, I suppose its ok.
I hate shaving. I am middle-eastern. I have very very sensitive skin, but I also have thick thick hair. The combination doesn't work. God bless Mach 5 razors. I know they're for guys, but damn if they don't get a damn good shave on my legs. Why do they have to make womens razors weak? I mean, really? Just because we're the "weaker" sex?
Blah.
I'm rambling.
What I'm really thinking about is how I did on my Human Evolution midterm.
We will see... We will see...
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February 6th, 2005
11:08 pm
What is it about Sunday nights that just make the music on the radio crappy? No really, what is it? Is Sunday night a magical night that everyone stops listening to the radio, so the stations play crappy music to try and find the "new big thing" and I am one of the people who didn't get the memo, so I have to suffer through this stuff?
I must have been driving for a good 15 minutes tonight, from leaving my cousins house to back to my apartment, and not ONE SONG that I like played. And no, I was not listening to one radio station. I was driving with one hand on the wheel the whole time with my right hand furiously punching buttons to try and find a good song.
And THEN when the radio station almost played a good song... the transmission went dead. Or something. It was just dead air. Then it started agian, then it was dead. THEN it was a damned commercial. I'd rather have listened to the commercials than some of the shitty songs that were playing, and actually did for a while.
Of course, then I Was worried there was actually a good song playing, so then I went back to furiously punching buttons.
Alas, Sunday night is the night of shitty music.
At least Loveline is playing. Dammit.
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February 3rd, 2005
07:45 am
BOOO YAW!! MY MIDTERM IS DONE! SUCK IT YOU CRAZY BITCHES!!! MWUAAHAHAHAHAH!
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February 2nd, 2005
12:02 pm
Theory is so incredibly hard. I cannot believe this. I simply cannot focus. Or something. I don't know. Its so up and out there its hard to get a grasp on it, and a grasp well enough to articulate it in a paper!
I am working so hard on this Douglas essay that I have not even paid attention to the second one!! This is ridiculous. In some ways, its harder than my Human Evolution class. HE has more reading, more pressure, more stuff to do but at least it is logical and I can grasp it !
This is just... ARGRAHAELJSEIHT!
Darnation.
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January 26th, 2005
04:19 pm
I feel tired. Are midterms coming up already? How can that be? The quarter just started? I never really had a break, I went from full-time student, part-time retail worker to full-time retail worker and back to the first. I am looking forward to vacation time. I really, really am.
I think its actually good for me to work so much, even thoguh I'm tired. I am being productive, very productive. I've never looked forward to vacations as much as I am looking forward to my spring vacation and heading to LA with Dehja, and hopefully going up to the Lake this year to visit with my family. We will be driving there. It will be an adventure :). Thats what I need, adventures!
I have to say.
I am so not into cultural anthropology right now. Bones are cool. I think I am going to order a "Slug With Bones" shirt.
I am struggling in my Survey of Cultural Theory class. I don't know waht I can do better. I suppose edit more but... We'll see.
I want the new schedual of classes to come out already. Its my favorite time of the school year; picking out new classes.
I have to do homework right now.
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January 4th, 2005
01:01 pm - Happy New Year!
Well, it is time for the new year. And it is starting to shape out to be a great one. I've got great family, a great job, great classes (so far, I hope).
I am actually really liking Professor Zhilman so far. Zhilman, if you do not go to UCSC, is a v. v. scary anthro professor that most people hate. I adore her so far. I just love the fact that she puts the SMACK DOWN on manners in the classroom. Being late is unnacceptable. No food or drink (haha! no stupid eating of lettuce in class in the seat next to you when you are trying to listen to the professor but the person is chewing so loudly that you can hear the disgusting saliva of their mouth and their teeth going up-and-down-up-and-down. And here's a sidenote within a sidenote: I hate it when people chew gum in class. WHAT THE HELL. I CAN HEAR YOU. I DONT NEED TO HEAR YOUR SALIVA THANK YOU.) There are to be no cellphones going off in class, and the aisles must be clear. Ok maybe that one is a little weird but it does suck when you have to go to the bathroom and you have to watch your footsteps for fear of stepping on, and dirtying someone else's back. The particular point is that it is not YOUR bag, and anyplace YOU have stepped must be unclean. However, if the person steps on their own bag, it is ok becasue they know where their feet have been. In any case, she's going to be badass enoguh to call people on their bullshit, and I like that.
My one problem is living in San Jose... I have no friends. No. Friends. At. All. I have work friends, who are all married and about 7 yrs older than me. I have family, but they aren't my age either. How do you meet people? In this overly populated world where it is always kind of assumed that you know people simply because there are so many of us, how do you meet them? I'm not talking about clubs or bars, beucase who really knows who they are? That you will have the same interests? That you will get along?
I've decided that I'm going to head out to bookstore events to see if I can find like-minded people. I picked up the Barnes & Noble newsletter so I'm going to see if that will work. But still; generally people have their group and don't have time or whatever to really make new friends.
I don't know, today I feel like I am writing because I feel like I must, so I suppose it is not coming out well.
Anyways, I'm bored, and I'm going to at least walk to my next class so I can get some cell reception somewhere.
Happy New Year!!
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October 17th, 2004
10:23 am
And this, my friends, is a little bit about why I do not watch the news anymore: http://www.ifilm.com/filmdetail?ifilmid=2652831&htv=12
Jon Stewart is absolutely right, the news does not tell me anything new at all.
Why should I watch a show with Bush or Kerry on, when I already get the jist of what they are going to say because I know what their parties platform is?
Republican- rich tax cuts, + military spending, - domestic programs
Democrat- tax increase, + domestic programs, + environment, + diplomacy
What the hell else matters, aside from the character of the person running? The person running for President is NOT going to stray from the parties' platform. What depends on the character of the person is whether he/she will follow through on the parties platform and will make decisions accordingly.
What do their speeches matter? The speeches are always in front of Kerry/Bush supporters yelling and cheering after every sentence. I wouldn't be surprised if they had an audience panel that, when lit up, would say "Applause" and the audience would applaud.
The only really important thing was the debates, to get a sense of the character of the person, which I was unable to watch becuse I had no TV, and at that point my radio was f-ed up.
I like to see NEW information on the news. Not regurgitated PC shit.
Thanks.
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October 16th, 2004
12:07 pm
At most schools, you will see the guys wearing baseball jerseys. A's, Yankee's, Giants, Cubs, whatever.
At my school, you see the Nicaraguan jersey. Worn by a white guy. Perhaps I should give him the benefit of the doubt and believe he is a grad student who went down there for field work?
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September 26th, 2004
02:24 pm
Why is it every time you ever see anything stamped, the stamp is always upside down?
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