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| god, i'm trying to review my french because i'm going to start college french classes at the third level. i downloaded all of these podcasts. the guy has a funny accent. i love the way he says discussion. "di-scus-on." super cute. this week is about expressions and idioms. fantastique. fair un cheque a boi? my spelling is disgusting.
i got two new fishies, albino cories. they're crazy. i'm not sure if that's a good thing or not. my other cory (named cory) was the same way though when i first got her, but she's calmed down some. i think maybe the new guys will too. and sometimes cory will swim around with them, which i think is a good sign. when i first put the news guys in, one of the tetras swam up and just head butted one. it was pretty funny. and sometimes the tetras will be swimming around and the cories will school with them, which is weird, but i guess weirder things have happened.
yeah, i'm a nerd. i love fishes. we saw this fish at petland that was called a bleekeri, but i think they had it labeled incorrectly because i can't find it on the internet. oh well. it was fucking cool though. like a short, fat catfish that was upside down, but not like any catfish i've ever seen before. so he looked like a catfish, but not like a catfish i guess. he was cool anyway.
okay, i need to write my english essay. i'm going to try and be positive about it. i've gotten the boring essays out of the way, so now i have my fun and exciting essay left. yay. i really hope that we are only supposed to use three essays that we read in class for our paper, because that's all i can fit.
"i ate civilization... it poisoned me. i was defiled. and then i ate my own wickedness." -aldous huxley.
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| the poor little xanga. i didn't forget you my love. i'm just incredibly lazy.
today i had anthropology and i'm going to start studying for that because we have a test on monday. boo. i also have to get up at 5 am on monday for registration. that'll be fun. fun in a terribly painful way.
i also have been reading a lot and trying to exercise. i'm trying to be healthy, really.
so. that's what's going on in marlee's fantastically fun life. today i'm also going to meet my little sister for big brothers big sisters. that'll be fun, i think. i still need to find some things that we can do together. i think that if she likes art we could go to the high museum. i might ask her if she wants to come to the aids walk with us too, because we need someone to fill in for katie. so yeah. fun times.
but now i'm going to study. at some point.
let us not be resentful when others differ from us. for all men have hearts, and each heart has its own leanings. -japanese constitution, 604 BC
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| I made an A minus on my first english paper. I feel like this is just evidence that i'm in the right place. i know what i'm doing. the only problem now is keeping that up. Now i'm trying to revise this paper that i'm turning in tomorrow. tomorrow i think, that is. and i have to read something for english, i don't know what it is yet. it may be interesting, i don't know.
my goals for this week have been to read the newspaper every day, which i've done well with, and to cut down on the complaining. that's going well too. i mean, i haven't cut it out completely, but it's a work in progress. if anything, i've learned to recognize when i'm complaining. and to occasionally stop myself.
i'm going home on friday! yay. i'm going to see my parents and my boyfriend. maybe my sister and brother-in-law. probably my grandparents, too. i plan on leaving friday right after breakfast. i'm kind of excited. i like the drive, as long as i don't get stuck in traffic in marietta. i think that's the worst place to get stuck in traffic because you're so close to home, but you can't get anywhere! *sigh*
Don't say the old lady screamed -- bring her on and let her scream. Mark Twain
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| true that.
my classes are over for the week. what shall i do now?
hm.
i plan on reading. a lot. that's good. that will make me smart. smarter than you.
and... yeah. life is wonderfully uneventful right now.
we did a scavenger hunt yesterday and ended up going to flannery o'conner's grave in the dark. it was fun. we didn't see any spirits, nor did flannery use her powers against us. as far as we know.
our team didn't win, but it was still fun. we did a crab race in walmart and i dresses like a gangsta'. i'm not a very good gangsta'. i'm way too white and i can't never stopped smiling and/or laughing.
i'm going to read the new york times.
end.
everything must belong somewhere
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| so. today. my english class is canceled for the fourth class day in a row. it'll start again on tuesday, but i miss it still. it's just a good chance to talk and to listen and to read interesting essays. and to write interesting essays, but the thought of getting a grade adds a certain amount of stress to that part.
i feel like reading. a lot. i think that's what i'm going to spend all of my time doing this weekend. just reading and reading and reading while my friends go up to athens to see that musical movie with the beatles songs. ...what's it called? i should know this one.
oh well. it's not that special. i'm kind of interested in seeing it because eddie izzard has a small part (he plays mister kite) and i love eddie izzard. and i love mr kite. who doesn't? but i hate musicals. and i've heard the soundtrack and i hate the soundtrack. so why waste my money on seeing it? i have so little money...
i'm listening to bright eyes. so shoot me.
I have come to the frightening
conclusion that I am the decisive element. It is my personal approach
that creates the climate. It is my daily mood that makes the weather.
I possess tremendous power to make life miserable or joyous. I can be
a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration; I can humiliate or
humor, hurt or heal. In all situations, it is my response that decides
whether a crisis is escalated or de-escalated, and a person humanized
or de-humanized. If we treat people as they are, we make them worse.
If we treat people as they ought to be, we help them become what they
are capable of becoming. -johann wolfgang von goethe
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