What is that supposed to stand for? I mean I know it means the Sacramento International Airport but where does the M and F come into play? Anyways, I'm sitting here at the SMF, whatever it stands for, while my ride travels the area in search for the proper airport. Fun and joy, I just hope I don't loose all my battery power till they show. It could get really boring without some venue of entertainment. I will update more on this story later once I know the end. Well, I'm back in Cali!
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I was rescued after a hour and a half of waiting, shame on them, I also got my In N Out burger so I'm happy
Today is Friday and I am excited for the weekend! I haven't done much today, but I am getting used to being all alone. I think I could do this, but probably have a cat or an outside dog. My reasoning is that I would feel bad about caging an animal every time I want to go and do something while still having the benefits of their company. Win-Win. It's either that or get married and have a baby that I drag about the town with me. What's your vote?
So there is good news for the weekend. UPS is having an all sort Potluck and my co-workers and myself are going to go. I don't know what I'll make...
Any suggestions?
After we are going to hit up the fair. Sounds fun? I hope! I'll try and take pictures to share.
So, Denial should remember this because I did it with her a long time ago. Remember when we did the free personality profile on e-harmony.com? And remember when there were no matches available and they wouldn't even pretend to let us join? Well, I recently updated all the info and re-did the personality profile just for kicks, and I was incredibly bored. I guess I am more matchable this time because they want me to sign up for a membership and there are actual matches that I can look over. I obviously can't communicate with them or see a picture unless I sign up for a membership so all I have are these teasers. I'm glad I'm not unmatchable now, but come on! I can't afford a dating service...puh!
Anywho, I thought it was cool and weird of me to actually be tempted by any of this. One was a doctor too :(
Sadly I will never get to know him.
I have been doing a lot of reading lately, mostly because I enjoy it but also because I do not own a TV. Furthermore, as a History and Art History double major I feel very odd if I am not reading. I have long desired to read what many consider "the classics" or "great books" and so when I came across this challenge I figured this would give me the incentive to finally do so. My list is compiled from "100 Best" Contest created by Modern Library (http://www.randomhouse.com/modernlibrary/100best.html). The first 25 are from the Board's List 100 Best, the next 15 are from the Reader's list, the next 5 are from the Board and Reader's non-fiction list and the last five are from Radcliffe's Rival Top 100 Best. Obviously as the challenge is only 50 books in 365 days, I picked novels I thought I would find most interesting. The list is as follows:
1. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
2. A Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
3. 1984 by George Orwell
4. Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
5. Henderson the Rain King by Saul Bellow
6. The Golden Bowl by Henry James
7. As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
8. All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren
9. Howard's End by E. M. Forester
10. The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
11. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
12. The Rainbow by D. H. Lawrence
13. Women in Love by D.H. Lawrence
14. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
15. On the Road by Jack Kerouac
16. The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
17. Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather
18. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
19. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
20. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
21. Finnegan's Wake by James Joyce
22. A Bend in the River by V.S. Naipul
23. A High Wind in Jamaica by Richard Hughes
24. Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
25. The Magus by John Fowles
26. Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
27. Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein
28. The World According to Garp by John Irving
29. Moonheart by Charles de Lint
30. Wise Blood by Flannery O'Connor
31. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
32. The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
33. Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
34. Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
35. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
36. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
37. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
38. Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
39. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig
40. The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
41. Aspects of the Novel by E.M. Forster
42. The Gnostic Gospels by Elaine Pagels
43. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
44. Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen
45. Not Out of Africa by Mary Lefkowitz
46. Winnie-the-Pooh by A. A. Milne
47. Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
48. Orlando by Virginia Woolf
49. Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
50. Where Angels Fear to Tread by E.M. Forster
A reading schedule will follow shortly hopefully.
What haven't you said that you wanted to today?
I haven't told my boss that I absolutely hate it when she calls me honey, sweetie, etc. and that I cannot wait until next Friday (my last day) because thanks to her I have met my quota for boss from Hell.
Perhaps this sounds unreasonably harsh, but trust me the woman is a wackjob. I could go on and on about her. She's passive aggressive, a micromanager, invasive (she once asked me if my stepmother had any part in my parents' divorce), neurotic, paranoid (my co-worker who is fluent in Spanish cannot speak to our hispanic crews because my boss does not want them to have any sort of friendship with her), disorganized, arrogant (she told my co-worker who has a degree in archival information she doesn't know how to file) and as I mentioned the list just keeps going. I try very hard to see the good in everyone and generally do not enjoy speaking poorly of anyone. But unfortuantely, there is very little good in this woman and I know I provided scant evidence, but she is one of those people who until you experience working for her the false face she shows to the world will suffice to make you believe she's not half-bad. Everyone in this office is planning their escape (and I use the word deliberately). Everyone. Three more days, baby, three more days...
I watched Confessions of a Shopaholic for the first time last night, and while the movie was only a decent chick flick plot-wise it did set me thinking. I have nowhere near the debt that the main character did...but I do have some. And some is more than a college kid should have. I have been creating a plan to get myself out of it with the bottom line being I just need to stop spending. Easier said than done. I realized I just do not say no to myself. Wondering what this is really about I have been trying to answer the question: why do I spend money? Obviously I have some practical needs like groceries, toiletries, etc. But that cute bag or cute top? Sadly, I do not need those. Pondering this has led me to the realization that I shop to buy items that are pretty so I feel pretty. And when the newness fades or I take a blow to my self-confidence I find something else. Therefore I need to find a healthier and cheaper way to validate myself. I am trying to get back into photography and create a hobby for myself. One that will get me out and about...and not at a mall.
Debt seems to be such a problem for so many people. It does not help that we live in a consumerist culture. A culture that created "Supermarket Sweep," a gameshow where the person that spends the most wins. It makes me wonder about where our nation is headed. This is not a political rant, not really. It is more cultural. Why are we allowing ourselves to be so focused on image and status? Driven to spending what we don't have and tearing ourselves down because we don't weigh 100 lbs. or have washboard abs because that is what is deemed important. I do not have the answers and probably never will, but I have hope that our expectations for image and status will become more realistic eventually. There are steps in the right direction, such as Dove's Real Beauty Campaign, but we are still at a slow and steady crawl. And I am as bogged down in the mire as everybody else. Here's to trying to break free. Cheers.
So I have decided to go ahead with Peace Corps. I am terrified and excited while my family is less than thrilled. But I want this and while it is hard not having the support of my family (at least in its entirety) I am not going to give up on this. I feel like I would regret not doing it and I do not want that. Because if I do not do it right after I graduate, when would I? After grad school? Not likely as I'll probably have a place and hopefully a spouse or significant other and therefore unable to just pick up and go away for 27 months. So the time is now.
So I realized I have not posted in months. I do not know why I post so sporadically. I just feel like I have not had much to say or much that I wanted to say. Junior year is over and I can't believe it. I am a senior in college...a SENIOR. Where has the time gone? I essentially have two big decisions before me: whether or not to join Peace Corps or go straight on to grad school and do I really want to pursue a double major or will I hate being buried under twice as many textbooks? There was a lot of drama this year involving a friend in an open relationship whose boyfriend did not (and still does not) seem to understand that we can only be friends and barely that as I do not trust him. There's family trouble with money and frankly at this point I am thinking of running away to Cuba, changing my name to Anita and weaving mats for a living or maybe making those little coconut people. Okay, not seriously as I amsure you canguess. But some days it's tempting. I'm really stressed...but I am also really excited. Corny as it sounds I am at the cusp of the rest of my life and it's invigorating. I am almost ready for the real world. WOO-HOO!
Now that my little bit of self-reflection is over (which seems to happen when I have not posted in forever) I will talk about the present. I am writing this at work because I have absolutely nothing to do. I am working two jobs: a ticket seller at the campus box office (what is allowing me to write this) and a clerical worker at a billing office for a landscaping company. If I talked about how crazy the landscaping place is I would be typing for hours so I'll save it for another day. I also will be doing undergraduate research this summer with my favorite professor (an art history professor) and am super stoked about it. And finally I will be taking some classes this summer. So, a full load. But I am making it happen and I am so proud of myself. It's a nice feeling. I like working and I know I would be going crazy if I had nothing to do this week between when last semester ended and summer school starts.
Right now, Pepperdine is hosting its annual Bible Lectureships. It's quite a different feel for the university. There are tons of families around and retired people, which are two demographics that are quite scarce normally. And the parking lot right outside my dorm is bascially a trailer park which is really weird. I am hoping someone has a BBQ I can crash but it's not looking good. Oh well, more to come in my summer saga. Stay tuned.
Okay so the title isn't that funny but it makes me giggle.
So I was going through all of my CD's lately and ripping them to my laptop, but the mixed CD's that I have don't show any information as to what the song is or by who. So, I started going through them song by song figuring out said information. Sarah those CD's you gave me proved to be much more entertaining than was expected.
Anyway I came across this awesome song at which it started a very dorky investigation
*Starts next song
Elizabeth: Hey that's on Star Wars
Me: ?
Elizabeth: You know the new one. ... Now I have to go get them.
Me: ? * Continues listening to the song
Erik (in the next room, Elizabeth's brother): Hey that's Star Wars
Me: Am I missing something?!
A finally Darth Maul.
