I woke up at 8:15 this morning, which was bad since I had lab at 8:00. After making a ruckus that I'm surprised Megan slept through, I ran to class and got there just in time to sign my lab checkout form. I felt bad for my lab partner, who had been there 20 minutes neatly arranging all the glassware.

It's freakin' snowing.

Thanksgiving with der Relatives

Just got back from Thanksgiving with the relatives. We had a huge dinner, watched so many movies I can't even count them, and harvested a tree from the snowy woods.

On another note, the sun should definately not set at 4 in the afternoon.

I put on my socks this morning and noticed they had holes in the big toes but not in the pinky toes, so I switched feet and now there are holes where the pinky toes were too.

This morning, I woke up around 10 and decided to go back to sleep for an hour, having nothing to do. Unfortunately, Mr. Leaf Blower decided 10 was a lovely time to leafblow outside my window for 45 minutes.

I had to transcribe one of my conferences for my writing center job, and now I realize that I am incapable of speaking any more than halting English when I am thinking at the same time. All the people I "help" must see the rabbit in the headlights look I get in my eyes when I have to think of questions to ask them.

Remind me never to work with car batteries. My chem teacher taught us about car batteries today, and I don't particularly relish spilling sulfuric acid and lead all over myself.

Oh no! Poor Squanto! For some reason I was looking up info about Squanto, and the reason he knew English was that he was kidnapped as a slave and spent time in Europe before returning to America to find his village abandoned due to some nasty epidemic.

Wow, I accomplished practically nothing today. I slept 12 hours, then woke up to my alarm just as Megan was getting back from a night of heavy partying. Since she was hung over, she wanted to sleep, and so, when I got back from lunch, I didn't want to turn on any lights or music, and promptly fell asleep for another 2 hours. I had weird dreams, including one where I started working at WalMart (God forbid!!!) and some crazy dude broke in through the food department and strafed the store with bullets, but I got out because I crawled out through the door before they got there to guard it.

Last night, I went to the Jazz Band concert, which inspired me to practice. The girl I went with wanted to try improvisation, so I got out the ol' Jamey Abersold play-along book and cds, and we had a lot of fun. Talk about the blind leading the blind. (Speaking of, I found my glasses :D)

I registered for classes for next quarter and they suck!!!! But unfortunately, the system's down for maintenance until 7:30 tomorrow morning, so I can't fix it. Then again, I don't know HOW to fix it.

Tomorrow's Edward Gorey drawing: "Stuffed Toy being Trifled with by Fire Tongs"

Yummmmmm I have leftover gorp and I keep chowing it down. Who knew peanuts, raisins, and chocolate chips could be SO GOOD?

hermione MALFOY (3:40:48 PM): I mean, seriously
hermione MALFOY (3:40:53 PM): without the computer, what the hell am I supposed to do to waste my time?

This weekend I went backpacking in Canada with Tristan.

Today I went for a hike with Coty from Montana. We just caught the sunset and then finished our hike in darkness.

This weekend I'll be backpacking in Garibaldi Park, near Whistler. Conditions: expect to camp on snow. Weather forecast: sunny until Sunday.

This morning, I woke with a start, and leapt out of bed to get ready. I got dressed and was just pulling out the cereal when I realized it was awfully dark out. It was 3:45 in the morning. No wonder I felt like I had only had an hour or two of sleep--I had!

OK, I did much better on my chem test than anticipated. But still, I think it was unfair. Any score over 75 percent was an A. That's a big curve.

So I worked on chemistry for three hours last night...then I couldn't sleep because I'm sick...then when I got to chem lab this morning at 8 I found out I did the calculations wrong, and had to redo them.

I have absolutely no idea where I put my glasses. They're somewhere...

This is pretty cool:
http://www.princeton.edu/~rvdb/JAVA/election2004/purple_america_2004b.gif

It's a map of the U.S. divided county by county into shades of purple based on how many people voted Republican and how many voted Democrat.

I found two dollars on the ground this morning as I was walking to class, but I left it there in the hopes that someone who only has 5 dollars for food this week will find it and be happy.

Hehe, my roommate thought that Nelson Mandela was Yasser Arafat.

Her boyfriend's been up here all weekend and they've been keeping me up. I told them it took me a long time to fall asleep after I went to bed, but they didn't listen...Yuck.

Cake Wars lives.

All I've done today is go in to biology to finish my lab, where I worked for 2 hours drawing fungi and molds, eat brunch, and watch Braveheart.

I think I'm going to talk to the head of the chemistry department because my chem teacher is horrible. I studied for a week leading up to the test, everything we studied in class, reading, and lab, but none of that did me any good for the test. Neither did the calculations I practiced for hours. Something is wrong, and it's not just me since I talked to three other people in the same chem class who felt the same way.

Everything I read seems to rub salt in the wound of failure. What is wrong with 51 percent of America? It's making me sick to my stomach.

Yesterday I played pool for a while to distract myself, except I suck at pool. I slipped with the cue when I was trying to hit the ball and skinned my knuckle on the table. Damnit!

America's dark hour continues.

I attempted to watch Fahrenheit 9/11 with my roommate but the dvd was a copy and didn't work on my computer but her computer was too quiet to watch it on. Rrrrrr.

Halloween! This year I was Britney Spears from her music video "Baby One More Time". Classy, huh?