On Random Thoughts
It is.. 2AM. And here I am, uninterested in resting my body but actively working on typing this entry instead.
I don't understand it when almost everyone would say, 'sleep is one of life's greatest pleasures' and likewise statements, mainly due to the fact that I was never personally a big fan of sleep - on numerous occasions I would have my mother spot me staying up past midnight, and consequently receive a huge pang of angry decibels at my ear. Luckily though, today she called from across the border and informed me of her decision to stay over at her new boyfriend's place for the night - which means, I'm free to stay up all night if I chose to do so. Luckily, I know better than to take advantage of privileges like that. After all, this is the first time in my life (lame, I know.) that I would have the experience of being home alone overnight.
For some unknown reason, I spent the first half of my day on the FSOA Yahoo group, discovering the greatest interest in reading past messages of Foreign Service candidates reflecting on their assessment day. I was really moved by all the stories, whether it was a pass or fail at the end - their dedication and passion towards joining the FS is truly admirable.
Then again, it's somewhat ironic: through watching (and digging through archives of, due to sheer boredom) the group, I have become rather knowledgeable on the US Department of State's diplomatic hiring process.. and know minimal regarding that of my own country's. Either Canadians don't like or are not permitted to reveal too much detail, or I just am blind about where to look for them.
So, my 'second half of the day' began when a few friends invited me to the movies, and coincidentally, after the movie, the most talkative girl in our group got the craziest idea to begin a discussion with 'Long hair makes you smarter; therefore the US federal government only hires those who have long hair, because they're smart.' She was targeting another girl with long hair, endlessly tormenting her with 'The American government wants you!!!' and her replying, 'I don't want to work for government!!' I swear, their screaming must have carried on non-stop for a full twenty minutes while we waited at the bus stop. And, yeah, it was annoying.
In an attempt to add more flavor, somewhere along the way my friend pointed at me and said to the other, 'You know what? She's always dreamed of working for the federal government, but they disqualified her because her hair was too short - you should be grateful!'
I kind of played along there, shaking my other friend and saying, 'I'm like totally jealous of you!', etc.,.. but at the day's end, when we were about to part for our own homes, I thought it would be amusing to tell the joke-starter that 'yeah it was fun and games, but I was partially serious' - and she was shocked alright, but didn't end up getting the chance to ask me why I could be considering such a thing.
And, yeah, enough said. If I could just be a little less obsessive and take more practical action when it comes to my dreams, well..
=P.
There is still a large spider somewhere in my house, hopefully it's managed to crawl out of my room by now - I was haunted by it for several days, and arachnophobic me had a real hard time dealing with this.
By the way, the userpic - thought it's not a picture of me, it is in fact the 'state' of being I am in, at least 80% of the time. Which is why I defaulted it, lol.
And I am still procrastinating. And I am now starting all of my sentences with 'and's, which I believe is grammatically incorrect to begin with. And -- (another one >_>) -- I have been using poor grammar and style in this entry. Tomorrow when I get up, also, perhaps adding tags to my entries would be fun - most definitely, 'grammatically challenged' would be one of them.
So, it's like, 3AM, and I think it's meaningless to stay up any longer anyways. *yawn*
I don't understand it when almost everyone would say, 'sleep is one of life's greatest pleasures' and likewise statements, mainly due to the fact that I was never personally a big fan of sleep - on numerous occasions I would have my mother spot me staying up past midnight, and consequently receive a huge pang of angry decibels at my ear. Luckily though, today she called from across the border and informed me of her decision to stay over at her new boyfriend's place for the night - which means, I'm free to stay up all night if I chose to do so. Luckily, I know better than to take advantage of privileges like that. After all, this is the first time in my life (lame, I know.) that I would have the experience of being home alone overnight.
For some unknown reason, I spent the first half of my day on the FSOA Yahoo group, discovering the greatest interest in reading past messages of Foreign Service candidates reflecting on their assessment day. I was really moved by all the stories, whether it was a pass or fail at the end - their dedication and passion towards joining the FS is truly admirable.
Then again, it's somewhat ironic: through watching (and digging through archives of, due to sheer boredom) the group, I have become rather knowledgeable on the US Department of State's diplomatic hiring process.. and know minimal regarding that of my own country's. Either Canadians don't like or are not permitted to reveal too much detail, or I just am blind about where to look for them.
So, my 'second half of the day' began when a few friends invited me to the movies, and coincidentally, after the movie, the most talkative girl in our group got the craziest idea to begin a discussion with 'Long hair makes you smarter; therefore the US federal government only hires those who have long hair, because they're smart.' She was targeting another girl with long hair, endlessly tormenting her with 'The American government wants you!!!' and her replying, 'I don't want to work for government!!' I swear, their screaming must have carried on non-stop for a full twenty minutes while we waited at the bus stop. And, yeah, it was annoying.
In an attempt to add more flavor, somewhere along the way my friend pointed at me and said to the other, 'You know what? She's always dreamed of working for the federal government, but they disqualified her because her hair was too short - you should be grateful!'
I kind of played along there, shaking my other friend and saying, 'I'm like totally jealous of you!', etc.,.. but at the day's end, when we were about to part for our own homes, I thought it would be amusing to tell the joke-starter that 'yeah it was fun and games, but I was partially serious' - and she was shocked alright, but didn't end up getting the chance to ask me why I could be considering such a thing.
And, yeah, enough said. If I could just be a little less obsessive and take more practical action when it comes to my dreams, well..
=P.
There is still a large spider somewhere in my house, hopefully it's managed to crawl out of my room by now - I was haunted by it for several days, and arachnophobic me had a real hard time dealing with this.
By the way, the userpic - thought it's not a picture of me, it is in fact the 'state' of being I am in, at least 80% of the time. Which is why I defaulted it, lol.
And I am still procrastinating. And I am now starting all of my sentences with 'and's, which I believe is grammatically incorrect to begin with. And -- (another one >_>) -- I have been using poor grammar and style in this entry. Tomorrow when I get up, also, perhaps adding tags to my entries would be fun - most definitely, 'grammatically challenged' would be one of them.
So, it's like, 3AM, and I think it's meaningless to stay up any longer anyways. *yawn*