Filed under: College | Tags: 8 AM, Lent, desserts, fire alarm, Durant, meat, food, LDS, Bowditch, Channing, Tara Reid, sad, reader, job
They could’ve waited till spring break, but no. It’s happened at least three times this week. Usually lasts from 9:30 AM to 2 PM, if not longer. And it goes off every minute. I’m actually grateful for going to my 8 AM class for once. I hope today marks the end of this irritating ordeal.
More than two weeks into Lent and I haven’t messed up! I gave up desserts (no chocolate, apple pies, cupcakes, etc.), just like last year. And on Fridays, no meat. It isn’t really that difficult if the food isn’t too bad. I think the quality of the taste is more of an issue cause dorm food is typically bland.
Around 5 PM today, I was approached by two sisters from the Latter Day Saints community on Bowditch and Durant. I walked down Bowditch and up Channing, listening to them talk about their work and outreach since they kept tagging along. It was weird because they were dressed in business suits and looked like the type of people who would go partying every weekend. I mean, imagine Tara Reid talking about God’s plan for you. In all seriousness, one of them did look like her. Apparently, they’re trying to reach people who look lost, confused, or sad. Not sure if I was classified under one of those, but do I look sad when I’m walking on campus? I remember being confronted with a gang of street kids on campus once and they were all like, “Why you so sad? It’s a BEAUTIFUL day!” It was a lot more intimidating though.
To end this on a good note, I was asked by one of my professors to be a reader next year! Hopefully this will pull through. It’d be nice to get a job again. Besides, it’s about time I start giving out the Cs I didn’t deserve. (; I kid, I kid.
“You see things; and you say ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were; and I say ‘Why not?’” -George Bernard Shaw
Filed under: Home | Tags: Bancroft, break, bus, bus stop, College, cop, Durant, Easter, forgetfulness, keyboard, laptop, lecture, Lent, Mardi Gras, meat, memory, Piedmont, police, schedule, sleep, TeleBEARS, traffic
You’d think that there couldn’t be anything worse to a bus stop other than the occasional rapid halt causing passenger inertia.
I was on Piedmont and College, heading home. It was only a bus stop away, but I decided to hop on the 52L cause the construction going on at Boalt is kind of icky. I was about to get off on Bancroft and College when this police motorcycle rolls up out of nowhere. He blocks the entry so passengers can’t come in/out and tells the driver that “there is someone on the bus that [he] has to speak to”. There are five people on the bus, including me. I don’t know what the other four could have possibly done to warrant an intervention by the authorities, and I was pretty sure I didn’t do anything.
It didn’t occur to me for the longest time that this was my stop. So one polite inquiry, and I’m off. The weird part was when my mind sort of “panicked” while I was walking home. I mean, what if the guy they’re looking for suddenly shoots up the bus or takes a hostage? Sometimes, when a million thoughts are running through my mind, I lose track of what I should be doing, like paying attention to traffic. I didn’t bother to observe the pedestrian signals and was starting to cross Durant when I saw a dozen oncoming vehicles at full speed. And the closest one just had to be a cop car. It was too obvious. Good thing she only shook her head at me cause she had to deal with the bus issue. I swear, it’s the lack of sleep. I’ve been sleeping around 1 these past couple of days.
I have a portable keyboard I use occasionally since my laptop is small. Last week, I decided to type up essay quotes on the bed (comfort is important!) and left my laptop on the desk. I was about 30 minutes into my essay when I got up to check the laptop screen. Complete rubbish! All nine lines had some variation of “sdflk,gfgkcv…..mcv dfjgdfncvjdfgiodf ;…lkhjdfl sudxkdjfhaesi”. So much for being portable.
I didn’t even realize that today was Mardi Gras. Or the night that Obama gave his speech to the State of the Union. Or that Lent is tomorrow. I wanted to give up meat for Lent, but I don’t think that’s going to work very well. I tried to give up meat this year with my No Meat Mondays project, but it isn’t really working. More like I keep forgetting. It is a bit odd for someone to have a pretty good long term memory and forget so much. I guess possibilities work in many different ways. (:
I think I’ll stick to no sweets/desserts 24/7 and no meat on Fridays until Easter. I did that last year and failed 4-5 times (due to forgetfulness, surprise surprise), so it won’t be that difficult for me.
In other good news, I saw the tentative Fall 2009 schedule of classes! Only LS lectures though. I have half of my schedule planned out already and TeleBEARS isn’t until the middle of April. (:
Back to midterm review. I honestly cannot wait until Spring Break is here. One more month!
“Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.” -Judy Garland
