oh it's just text, you can live without the lj cut
hello friends. i returned from the great white north last friday, which wouldn't be of note except that it was but a few days before christmas (as some have observed, the only religion my school acknowledges is politics). also, many of my friends are going back to school next week. damn you, texas schools. why can't we all synch up our break schedules??
christmas was, as usual, a lovely affair. spent it with the whole family (including that prodigal brother from san diego). got some nice useful things... except these boots that i need, yes, need, to complete my small wardobe (why won't they ever go on sale??). in all fairness i only wear about 10% of the clothes i own, because i never have an occasion to wear my dressy clothes (never go out... not surprising) and i refuse to wear anything that isn't sweats/tshirt/flipflops. why would you, if you didn't have to? i roll out of bed five minutes before or when class starts, and i show up in whatever's easiest to pull on. i think that this is the norm at many places, but at my school, most people are dressed well if not exceptionally for class. what the hell, people, what the hell. it's school, stacy and clinton aren't watching you. and i thought not caring was cool?? (though even my mom also notices my slovenly habits and poor hygiene... about the third or fourth day home, she was like "uhh haven't you been wearing that for the past couple of days? shouldn't you wash that? brush your teeth!")
also another reason why i haven't been wearing most of the clothes i own is that i grew out of them. since college, i've added double digit extra poundage to my weight and gone up a size or two. how could this happen, i asked myself? easy, check out this list i found from some article online:
Nine Sure-Fire Ways to Gain Fat
[ X ] 1. Eating then sleeping will make you gain fat.
so i enjoy a stale slice of chicken and broccoli from pinnacle an hour or two before bed. this is a consequence of numbers 2 and 4.
[ X ] 2. Skipping meals or not eating for long periods of time will make you gain fat.
haven't eaten breakfast since elementary school and don't plan on starting anytime soon. and lunch is for between-class napping. if i go to morning class, that is.
[ ] 3. Drinking soft drinks (even diet drinks) with fatty foods will make you gain fat.
got you beat there, weight gain! i drink juices now, bitch. mostly because it's hard to find dr. pepper.
[ X ] 4. Constant snacking on energy foods will make you gain fat.
when it's 4 am, what else are you going to do to stay awake?
[ X ] 5. Stress without physical exertion will make you gain fat.
yeah, my stress has pretty much increased exponentially, while my physical exertion has decreased exponentially since college. aside from the occasional game of intramural soccer, my only exercise is walking to class.
[ ? ] 6. Toxic substances in your food will make you gain fat.
does msg count?
[ X ] 7. Losing muscle mass will make you gain fat.
everything i've built up from 10 years of soccer is now jello.
[ X ] 8. Overconsumption of fructose will make you gain fat.
juices, you betrayed me!
[ ] 9. Drinking alcohol frequently will make you gain fat.
wow, one good thing i have going here.
so... yeah. bought my first pair of "fat jeans" the other day, to wear while i weather the storm. this transitional period could last indefinitely though, if you could even call it that... maybe i'll have to give all those clothes away :(
with regard to school. well, i've done okay, i guess. some a's, some b's, still waiting on some grades though. the more and more i think about grad school, though, the more freaked out i get about my gpa. apparently, with grade inflation and everything, the gpa in the college is somewhere around 3.5. which blows my mind, because pretty much all my classes are curved around a b-, b at best. that translates to 2.67 or 3.0. so if that's the "average" in a typical class, how is the school average a 3.5?? sometimes my grades make me feel like a) one of the stupider people here and b) i'm not going to grad school, even though i'm pretty sure a) is not true and b) cannot, cannot happen. AHH
and grad school. my god, i have no idea what i'm doing after i graduate. there are literally like 23984989567 different scenarios i'm thinking out in my head. med school, grad school, law school, hell, they all sound good to me. someone just needs to pick me. i don't know whether i'd be happier as a cardiologist or a foreign service officer or a human rights advocate or an economic advisor or a biotech researcher or anything else, i would be happy with any of those things so long as i could learn to do them well. consequently, i don't really know what i'm going to study, though i'm pretty sure it will involve economics, and now maybe biology. sounds like a certain older brother i have. look how he turned out. i thought that i could delay this decision by going to school some more, but that entails picking a specific major, a specific type of school, and making not crappy grades. so that doesn't help either.
i wish i could go to school for longer than i actually have, so i could study everything i wanted to (linguistics, english, french, political science, just to name a few). i realize i could do this if i didn't go to columbia (that is, i didn't have a year's worth of core classes and i weren't going to be kicked out after 4 years) but i've grown to love it here, so that's not the solution. i think this is just how i am, that i like to study a lot of different things, and i can study a lot of different things with acceptable but not remarkable accomplishment (which isn't enough for a good grad school). maybe if i ever focused on one thing, i could do it well, but i can't bring myself to. i don't want to. and this is why... i can't get a job. except at mcdonald's. not even in-n-out.
anyway, c'est tout. if i can figure out how to get into michael's journal i'll tell you about his semester for those who read it.
umm oh yeah, i don't think saddam hussein should have been executed... i see trouble on the horizon... just my two cents
christmas was, as usual, a lovely affair. spent it with the whole family (including that prodigal brother from san diego). got some nice useful things... except these boots that i need, yes, need, to complete my small wardobe (why won't they ever go on sale??). in all fairness i only wear about 10% of the clothes i own, because i never have an occasion to wear my dressy clothes (never go out... not surprising) and i refuse to wear anything that isn't sweats/tshirt/flipflops. why would you, if you didn't have to? i roll out of bed five minutes before or when class starts, and i show up in whatever's easiest to pull on. i think that this is the norm at many places, but at my school, most people are dressed well if not exceptionally for class. what the hell, people, what the hell. it's school, stacy and clinton aren't watching you. and i thought not caring was cool?? (though even my mom also notices my slovenly habits and poor hygiene... about the third or fourth day home, she was like "uhh haven't you been wearing that for the past couple of days? shouldn't you wash that? brush your teeth!")
also another reason why i haven't been wearing most of the clothes i own is that i grew out of them. since college, i've added double digit extra poundage to my weight and gone up a size or two. how could this happen, i asked myself? easy, check out this list i found from some article online:
Nine Sure-Fire Ways to Gain Fat
[ X ] 1. Eating then sleeping will make you gain fat.
so i enjoy a stale slice of chicken and broccoli from pinnacle an hour or two before bed. this is a consequence of numbers 2 and 4.
[ X ] 2. Skipping meals or not eating for long periods of time will make you gain fat.
haven't eaten breakfast since elementary school and don't plan on starting anytime soon. and lunch is for between-class napping. if i go to morning class, that is.
[ ] 3. Drinking soft drinks (even diet drinks) with fatty foods will make you gain fat.
got you beat there, weight gain! i drink juices now, bitch. mostly because it's hard to find dr. pepper.
[ X ] 4. Constant snacking on energy foods will make you gain fat.
when it's 4 am, what else are you going to do to stay awake?
[ X ] 5. Stress without physical exertion will make you gain fat.
yeah, my stress has pretty much increased exponentially, while my physical exertion has decreased exponentially since college. aside from the occasional game of intramural soccer, my only exercise is walking to class.
[ ? ] 6. Toxic substances in your food will make you gain fat.
does msg count?
[ X ] 7. Losing muscle mass will make you gain fat.
everything i've built up from 10 years of soccer is now jello.
[ X ] 8. Overconsumption of fructose will make you gain fat.
juices, you betrayed me!
[ ] 9. Drinking alcohol frequently will make you gain fat.
wow, one good thing i have going here.
so... yeah. bought my first pair of "fat jeans" the other day, to wear while i weather the storm. this transitional period could last indefinitely though, if you could even call it that... maybe i'll have to give all those clothes away :(
with regard to school. well, i've done okay, i guess. some a's, some b's, still waiting on some grades though. the more and more i think about grad school, though, the more freaked out i get about my gpa. apparently, with grade inflation and everything, the gpa in the college is somewhere around 3.5. which blows my mind, because pretty much all my classes are curved around a b-, b at best. that translates to 2.67 or 3.0. so if that's the "average" in a typical class, how is the school average a 3.5?? sometimes my grades make me feel like a) one of the stupider people here and b) i'm not going to grad school, even though i'm pretty sure a) is not true and b) cannot, cannot happen. AHH
and grad school. my god, i have no idea what i'm doing after i graduate. there are literally like 23984989567 different scenarios i'm thinking out in my head. med school, grad school, law school, hell, they all sound good to me. someone just needs to pick me. i don't know whether i'd be happier as a cardiologist or a foreign service officer or a human rights advocate or an economic advisor or a biotech researcher or anything else, i would be happy with any of those things so long as i could learn to do them well. consequently, i don't really know what i'm going to study, though i'm pretty sure it will involve economics, and now maybe biology. sounds like a certain older brother i have. look how he turned out. i thought that i could delay this decision by going to school some more, but that entails picking a specific major, a specific type of school, and making not crappy grades. so that doesn't help either.
i wish i could go to school for longer than i actually have, so i could study everything i wanted to (linguistics, english, french, political science, just to name a few). i realize i could do this if i didn't go to columbia (that is, i didn't have a year's worth of core classes and i weren't going to be kicked out after 4 years) but i've grown to love it here, so that's not the solution. i think this is just how i am, that i like to study a lot of different things, and i can study a lot of different things with acceptable but not remarkable accomplishment (which isn't enough for a good grad school). maybe if i ever focused on one thing, i could do it well, but i can't bring myself to. i don't want to. and this is why... i can't get a job. except at mcdonald's. not even in-n-out.
anyway, c'est tout. if i can figure out how to get into michael's journal i'll tell you about his semester for those who read it.
umm oh yeah, i don't think saddam hussein should have been executed... i see trouble on the horizon... just my two cents