Barbara Walters has her "Ten Most Fasicinating People of 2005" and Camilla Parker Bowles made #1. I mean, really, Camilla Parker Bowles? Does anyone really give a shit about her? I don't and I certainly don't find her fascinating! When Bawa revealed it was a woman, I was thinking Oprah, Martha Stewart, Katie Holmes, Angelina Jolie, Jennifer Aniston, even Teri Shaivo. Nope. What a yawner! Anyway, here are the others who made the list:
-Tom Cruise (not too surprising since he's been in the media for his wackiness!craziness!insaneness!
-Condi Rice
-Lance Armstrong
-Teri Hatcher (when they said where she was from, I thought they said Sunnydale, CA and was all like OMG, there really is a Sunnydale, CA? But I just looked on imdb.com and turns out she's from SunnyVALE. Ah).
-Lance Armstrong
-The mother of the teen girl who's missing in Aruba
-Michael Jackson' lawyer
-Dakota Fanning (Is she really that fascinating? Sure, she's been in a lot of movies with a lot of big names, but I think Kesiha Castle-Hughes is more fasincating than her. She was nominated for a Lead Actress Oscar on her first movie!)
-Jamie Foxx
-Kayne West (he only made it because of the remark he made about Dubya).

In Magazine lit class, we somehow gotten into the topic of Harry Potter and Neil (our teacher and would rather read "Moby Dick" then the HP series (ugh)) complained that the movie was way too long and he wants Harry to die because he thinks he's annoying! Hmph! Out of the five of us who read the series, I was the only one who thought he was going to live. Oh, dear...

My phone rang this morning at 7:45 and I knew it wad Dad. He said he was going to call before he left to fix my tire. I thought he was calling from home, but he said he was in my parking lot(!) So I had to get up (ugh) and give him my car keys. I have to admit I felt a little guilty that he was out there in the freezing cold changing my damn car's tire while I was taking a hot shower...

In Oral Lit class we had to write down out two strengths and two weaknesses we have when we read aloud. It was easy for me to think of the latter: reading too fast and swaying too much. It was a little difficult coming up with the strengths. I thought about putting "I'm always well-dressed" except that sounded concieted and really didn't have anything to do with my readings. Then I thought about putting, "I write good stories," but that sounded even more concieted, so I put down volume and eye contact, although my eye contact still kind of sucks. When class ended, I put on my white Banana Republic coat and my new black hat and Mark said to me, "You look so cute!" Hee! And I said, "Thanks, you look cute too." I love Mark, he's so funny!

Check out what I got at the Gap with my 20% off discount coupon:
-this sweater in green
-this shirt in green (to go with the sweater)
-this wrap in pink and it was on sale, boo yah!

( Irvin saw GoF )

Thank the Lord! Jamie was voted off Survivor tonight. That was so awesome. He was getting so paranoid and kept asking Rafe if he was going to be voted off. Ugh, shut up, asshat! I'm so glad his whiny ass is gone!

Today in Oral Lit we were divided in partners and I was paired with Anne and her story had a mention of the cartoon Duck Tales, and I told her I used to watch that show all the time, then somehow we got on the subject of other afternoon TV shows we used to watch like Where in the Carmen Sandiego and how we both used to play that computer game all the time, lol. Then I brought up the Oregon Trail and she said she remembered playing that and how you could name your people. Oh, man, that game was so lame, but my fifth grade self totally loved it.

I had to wake up at 7:30 and dressed under my covers because I was so freaking cold! Here's what I wore in the 20 degree weather without my winter coat:
-gray tank and zip up from Banana Republic
-Notre Dame zip up hoodie
-leather coat
-jeans
-thick pair of socks
-Ugg botts (I love my Uggs!)
-mittens
-black headband to cover ears
-black wool hat
-scarf
So I was able to stay pretty warm with all those layers.

Today in Lit Magazine we got on the subject of movies and TV (like we always do) and it was so funny because Seth said he needed help because he had gotten totally addicted to a certain TV show and at first I was thinking maybe it was Lost, but then he said he had rented the first season of Desperate Housewives and had watched an entire disc the night before and was like, "That's four hours of my life I'll never get back." LMAO. And then Brian was like, "My mom hates that show, but yet she watches it every week." And there are a lot of Arreted Development fans in that class! Yay! (Oh, and they better not cancel that show...I hope another station picks it up!) Neil said when Party of Five was on, he could never miss an episode of that and Gabe showed us Neve Campbell's way of acting: smelling like someone just farted, lol. I never saw that show, but I guess that was her reaction to everything: to scrunch up her nose. Oh, and then somehow the conversation also got on the subject of John Mayer and how everyone hates him and Christie said that he was a douche, and Seth said he hadn't used that work for a while. Then he said, "The last time I called a guy a douche was..." and it was completely silence. OMG, that was the fucking most hilarious thing. Seth cracks me up! I also love this class, we talk about the most random things. Another thing was that one of the stories one of us was reading was using the British spelling of words and Gabe was saying that was one of his pet peeves when Americans used the British spelling of things and I totally agreed with him. That drives me CRAZY! I can't stand it when Americans write "honour" or "grey" or whatever. And I really hate it when Americans speak with a British accent (um, hi, Madonna). To me, it's only acceptable if you are playing a British person in a play or movie or making fun of the British accent. But anyway...writing "colour" or "favourite" isn't going to make your more posh!!

In fiction class we were paired with a partner to read our scenes and then they had to fill out a sheet. I was paired with Angelique and had fun coming up with dialogue she could add for her story about a crack addict. It was so funny because every sentence this one drug dealer said ended in, "bitch" and I helped her change one line slightly. Instead of "Get your ass over here," I suggested to use "bitchass," lol. Angelique said I was very helpful!

Haha, I'm watching ANTM now and Bre just said (about Kim), "That bitch ain't right. That ain't right" and waved her finger at the camera, LMAO.

After class I did some shopping to use up my ten percent off cards. I swear, I've bought more clothes in the last month than in my entire life. I used my ten dollars off coupon at Bath and Body Works and bought a Hendri Bendel candle in Firewood for Mom and Tutti Dolci lip gloss in apple torta I'll put in Lendie's present since I have her name for Christmas. At the Gap I used my 10% off discount card and bought three pairs of striped socks and at the Banana Republic I used my 10% off discount card and bought stretch double v neck tee in raspberry ice and a metallic long-sleeved shirt.

OMG, I fucking HATE that T-mobile commercial with the little girl who's talking on the phone in a speeded up valleygirl voice. You know, the one where she's like, "Our cheer leading group shouldn't eat tuna" or whatever. AURGHGHGHGHHGHG!!!

Guess what? It appears there's some good news with UJ. I typed in their url and instead of getting a "this page does not exist," it said UJ was closing down because the people running it didn't have any time left and they were gonna switch all the entries over to About My Life (http://www.aboutmylife.net) and that should be done within the next couple of weeks, so...*crosses fingers*.

My birthday was last weekend and yeah, it sucked. I barely even acknowledge when it's my birthday anymore because I really don't give a shit. It just depresses me! I get older and still have accomplished nothing. Birthdays are horrible! Except for the presents. I mostly got money this year....actually that's the only thing I got, which is what I prefer. I got 100 bucks from Mom and Dad and Grandma, Aunt Sue, and Jane and Lendie sent me some money. After you reach a certain age, the other relatives stop giving you money which really sucks! Bill sent me a $50 gift certificate to Amazon.com. I still haven't gotten the code I need so I can buy something. I'm leaning towards either getting the Sims 2 or Kill Bill Vols 1 and 2 and Mystic River.

Mom and Dad came back from Vancouver on the day of my birthday and they came and took me out to dinner at a Mexican restaurant. I had my first margarita! It was so good! And for dessert I had fried ice cream. Mmmm...I love fried ice cream! Besides the money, they also gave me a cute red tank top with the Canadian flag on it and the word "Canada" beneath it. LOL Mom said she saw a shirt that said "fukeneh" on it and didn't get it at first. I didn't get it either when she spelled it, but when she pronounced it, I was LOLing. They also said they saw a black bear when they were in Whistler and that it was really cute.

The other day I went to Von Maur at the mall and went to the Philosophy counter. (LOL I am so obsessed with that line now). It turns out they have the 3-in-1 line of bodywash/shampoo/conditioner that I so love! The selection wasn't as (understandably) big as the one at the Sephora in NYC, but it was still a pretty good selection. The salesgirl came and I told her I wanted the chocolate ice cream (that smells soooo good) and pina colada (I want to try to make one now!) She said those were excellent choices and she especially love the pina colada. She asked me if I tried the melon daiquiri, that it was new and her favorite and I told her that I already had it. Then she asked me if I tried the margarita and again, I told her I already had it. She said how amazing it was that it smelled like the real thing! LOL, I found it amusing she espeically like the alcoholic scents. And if that wasn't enough, when I came home, I ordered chocolate chip cookies, Grasshopper (a mint scent), and banana nut bread. I really need help, but I can't help it! They smell so good. I'm never going back to the Bath and Body Works! (I really don't need to anyway since I'll have enough body wash to hold me over for a good long time now).

I've become addicted to the show Alias! I love it! It's so awesome! I love her wigs and costumes! It kinda reminds me of 24. The plots are a little bit unbelievable, but that's what makes it so great! I started watching the third season first because they had that at Blockbuster. But then I had to see the other two seasons and effing Blockbuster doesn't have them! So the only thing to do besides buying them was to sign up for Netflix which I did! It's great! You make a queue of DVDs you want to see and they send you three at a time. Then when you're done watching a movie, you send it back in the mail and they'll send you the next disc on your list! I got the first two discs of season one of Alias and the Sex and the City DVD from season 2 they were missing at Blockbuster *rolls eyes* And of course I have season 2 of Alias in my list and other TV shows such as Buffy the Vampire Slayer and season 2 of 24 (I missed the first four or so episodes) and Quantum Leap. Quantum Leap, y'all! OMG, I'm so excited. I also have independent and foreign movies you can't get at Blockbuster (only those of which were nominated for Oscars) and old movies they only have the video of at Blockbuster. For instance, Cocoon (OMG..Cocoon!) and Executive Decision. I loved that movie and I've always wanted to see it again. I also have movies I'd be too embarrassed to get at Blockbuster like From Justin to Kelly and Weekend at Bernie's. LOL.

Speaking of movies, I saw The Worst Movie Ever the other day. OMG, this movie was just too painful to watch. It was Dogville with Nicole Kidman (God, she really needs to fire her agent for this shit!) and the movie is three hours long. Now, I knew this was an independent artsy movie, so I didn't think I was gonna love it or anything, but I didn't know anything about it and decided to rent it. Well, that had to be the biggest mistake of my cinematic life. The movie? Wasn't really a "movie." It was a fucking PLAY. Yeah, that's right. A PLAY on film. What. The. Fuck? God, it was so B-O-R-I-N-G. If you've ever seen "Our Town" with Paul Newman, it was kinda like that. It was a fucking ripoff off of "Our Town." The "movie/play" is set on this black stage and there are houses and roads drawn in with chalk and just a few props. It's so fucking stupid!!!! Why the hell would I want to watch a play (and a three hour boring one, no less) as a movie? God. It was like the director thought he was so clever that he thought of this. Gimme a break! I barely watched it. I kept it on, but during the fist hour I flipped through my new In Style and the last two hours I came online and just listened to it. The only people I can see who would actually like this piece of drivel shit would be those obnoxious movie snobs who think they're so sauve and sophisticated because they "get" these movies and think the director is brilliant for making what has got to be the world's most boring movie. Their the only people I can see who could actually SIT through this awful movie. Them and dead people. I can't believe people are actually saying that NK will get nominated for an Oscar for this. Yeah, right! She doesn't come into the movie until the first 20 minutes has passed and I can't see anyone giving a shit anymore after that! One reviewer at Netflix said they should show this movie in prisoner to torture the prisoners, LMAO.

We're reading The Divine Comedy (Inferno) in Western Civ lit class and the great thing is that after each canto the translator actually tells you what's going on, so it's like your own cliff notes for each canto! That's very helpful or I would have no idea what the fuck was going on. But it's a very interesting read. Hell doesn't seem like a very nice place!

Today was our last day of the melting class and I think I'm gonna miss that class. I'm gonna miss all the stupid things Sharon says and all the arguments Sharon and Samantha get into. I think it was my favorite class this semester because it was (hardly) never dull. Today we had class at the Club House because Dr. Smith had cooked some Nigerian food, so we could eat some of that. (Orginially, she had wanted everyone to come to her house, but we decided this worked out much better for everyone). Some people bought food like carrot cake and pasta and Rice Krispies treat. (LOL Brandon had made those and he had used the reguluar Rice Krispies and Cocoa Krispies and he was like, "Look how they're interrgrated together in harmony" LMAO). So we just ate our food and sat around the room and Dr. Smith read something for her final words. Sharon wasn't there....so there were no catfights or stupid words. Ah, damn!

The Nigerian food was....interesting. Alas, it was't very hot (or even that warm), so I'm sure I would have enjoyed it more if it was. I did like the plantains, which are fried bananas. There was rice with a certain spice (probably curry), beans with a certain spice (probably curry), greenbeans with a certain spice (probably curry), and shredded meat and spiniach something. So now I can add Nigerian food to my list of unusual ethnic food along with:
-Iranian food
-Thai food
-Mongolian food (although it's probably faux Mongolian food since I've only had it in Omaha).

After class I saw 13 Going on 30. It was really cute and was a little different than BIG, although obviously the same concept. In BIG, when Josh turns into Tom Hanks, it's still the same day/time period and everyone else in his life remain the same age as they were. In this movie, she starts out in 1987 (this movie had some great music!) and then it's present day, so it's like she just skips ahead to 30. The Thriller scene was hilarious, but that was so their attempt at the FAO Schwaz floor keyboard scene of Heart and Soul in BIG.

Oh. My. Lord. Could anyone BE any more stupid? I don't understand why Sharon just doesn't keep her mouth shut sometimes, er all the time. She just ends up saying the stupidest shit.

Take today for example. We were talking about how other people can be racist, not just white people and she did agree with that and said, "Germans can be racist towards Hispanic people and Hispanic people can be racist towards black people...which I doubt." Everyone was like huh? So it's okay for black people to be homophobic, but it's doubtful that Hispanic people aren't racist towards black people because they share the common bond of being minorities?

But that wasn't the stupidest thing she said today. She was talking about how she was gonna make a chart for her paper where she explains some shit about how everyone in the world is spirtually connected. She said, "I am not an American" and I was like, Huh? Where are you from then? Then she went on to say, "A person from Germany is not a German, a person from Australia is not an Australian, a person from Greece is not a Greek, and so on. LOL everyone at the class was looking at her and at each other with our WTF? faces. Dr. Smith asked her if this was something that she had made up and she was like "No, it already exists." More WTF? faces from us. She went on to say it's part of the International something where we all live on the same soil or some shit like that and we're all brothers. Uh...whatever. I have never heard of this group and apparently nobody else has either. It's probably some cult. LOL but Elizabeth and Matt really brought the snark. Elizabeth was like, "So who is part of this group?" And Matt said, "Can homosexuals be part of this group?" LMAO! That was great. Dr. Smith quickly said, "No, let's not go into that territoty" before Sharon could reply. But OMG, it was great the way he said it so sarcastically.

I think I'm gonna miss that class when it's over.

Well, today's MP class was rather interesting. Again, I don't remember how exactly we got to the topic, but Sharon (I'm sure y'all remember her from my previous entry) had the audacity to say how it offends her that black people are lumped together with gay people because they're both minority groups. Well, first of all, dumbass, they are both minority groups but that doesn't mean they're lumped together. I don't automatically see a black person and think, "OMG, they must be gay!" So then Samantha gets this LOOK on her face and she raises her hand and puts the bitch in her place. She says, "I have been waiting so long to say this..." Then she asked Sharon how long people have been discriminating against her because of the color of her skin because Sharon has whined in previous classes that she's been a victim of prejudice. And Samantha asks her how can she discrimate against another group when she doensn't like people discrimintating against her. LOL, I felt like clapping then. But everyone else in the room was nodding in agreement with her. And Rolisha spoke up and mentioned that there are black gay people, like her brother. Then Dr. Smith had to change the subject. She's no fun. Oh, but it was great. God, Sharon is a moron.

After my fiction class, I saw Elizabeth in the hall because she has a class in the same room right after mine. She's also in my MP class (and hates Sharon), but she wasn't there today. So I told her how she had missed a great class today and she was like, "Oh, I knew it! Everytime I miss that class, there's always some fight." So I explained what happened and she was like, "Oh, damn! I wish I had been there!" LOL.

So there's this girl at the HJO message boards, Elbe, who's nice enough, but look at this topic she started at the boards. This just baffles my mind:

Here's an expert of something she wrote:
Author: Elbe
Date: 04-19-04 23:08

My Mum never understands what I see in my celeb crushes. She thinks I have the oddest taste in men. lol, I don't think it's odd, just varied. (From 16-year-old Haley to 48-year-old Mel Gibson, with Michael Jackson, Clay Aiken and Orlando Bloom in between)

Then I replied with:
Author: Sara
Date: 04-20-04 11:10

Okay, I can understand Orlando Bloom and Clay Aiken. I have little crushes on them myself. I don't have a crush on Mel Gibson, but I do like other "older" actors such as Keifer Sutherland and Johnny Depp and Hugh Jackman and even Robert Redford. I see Haley more as a younger brother type to have a crush on him. (Plus, it just seems too icky considering I'm eight years older than him).

But Michael Jackson??? What???? LOL. Unless it's some other Michael Jackson that I don't know about...

Then she wrote:
Author: Elbe
Date: 04-20-04 22:48

Nope, it's THE Michael Jackson. I'm crazy about him. He was an adorable child, a handsome adolescent, and he's a GORGEOUS man! Not to mention SO talented!

Plus, he's innocent... but I won't get into that because it might cause a war here.

And I don't have a problem crushing on Haley because I'm only three years older than him, and that's not much. =)

Then I wrote:
Author: Sara
Date: 04-21-04 09:03

Okay, yes, Michael was cute when he was a kid. But if you think he's "gorgeous" now....uh.....sorry, I'm not seeing that. Calling Michael Jackson "gorgeous" is like calling Bill O'Reilly a liberal!

Then she wrote:
Author: Elbe
Date: 04-21-04 21:55

Well, I guess there are a lot of people that would agree with you. He was always gorgeous and didn't need to change his face... but I see past that. He still has a gorgeous smile... and his eyes... he has the most amazing eyes. Ah heck, he's just gorgeous to me! To each his own! =)

Michael Jackson? Ewwww. How the hell can anyone think that freak is gorgeous? Now, I'm not huge fans of Justin Timberlake or Freddie Prinze Jr. and they do nothing for me in the looks department, but I'm never really shocked that they have their female fans. At least they look NORMAL! Michael Jackson? ::::shudders::: Michael FUCKING Jackson?

I haven't been keeping up with American Idol here lately, but tonight's bottom three was interesting: LaToya, Jennifer, and Fantasia all in the bottom three? Here, I'll just copy and paste what I wrote about this at KA:

I think America voted out of spite yesterday. Did LaToya, Jennifer, and Fantasia all deserve to be in the bottom three? Of course not. One of them, I could see, but all three? It was so spite, my friend. Yesterday all the judges were giving tongue baths to our three Divas and Simon even said to Jennifer how she "paved the way for the battle of the divas" or something stupid like that. And he told Fantasia "Thank God you're still in this competition" and he told LaToya that she's the best singer in the compeitition, which I do agree with. But it's SOOOO obvious they want (or at least wanted now - haha) this to be a showdown of the Divas. I think America saw right through the pimping and didn't want anyone telling them who to vote for. So they gave all their votes to all the other contestants, thus putting the three Divas in the bottom three. I was very relieved LaToya was safe because she doesn't deserve to be a spite vote. As for Jennifer and Fantasia, blah, I could take them or leave them. I'm glad it was Jennifer who left. Ugh, I couldn't stand her anymore. When she was in that group with Fantasia and LaToya, she had this smug look on her face like she knew she was in the safe group. Then when she learned she was in the bottom three and had this look on her face like she couldn't believe that SHE was in the bottom three. Ugh. Good riddance, Jennifer.

Oh yeah, and I wanted to add that I wanted to smack Ryan so bad tonight. God, he was making such a big deal how a huge talent was leaving the show. He didn't say that last week about JPL and if John or Jasmine had been going tonight, he wouldn't say that. And God, the way he said it all somber and crap, you would have though Jennifer had died or something. Shut up, Ryan!!!!

Oh, and one more thing I have to add, lol. When Fantasia and Jennifer were in the final two, and Ryan was talking into the camera right before the break, I kept rolling my eyes because he kept saying, "America, I'm sure you were thinking that these two who are in the bottom two right now would be the two finalists." ARGHHHH!!!! God, could they BE any more dramatic about the stupid results?

I still miss JPL :-(

I don't know how we got to discussing it in class this morning, because I honestly wasn't paying attention, but my Short Fiction prof. brought up that in a small room of people like we had today, you're bound to find two people with the same birthday. So he wanted to see if that held true and everyone told their birthdays. I was the third person to tell mine, and when I said "September 19th" this girl a few rows over said, "That's my birthday!" LOL and another student said, "Wow, that was quick." But it was so weird that we actually did find a match and that it was my birthday, er, our birthday. We still continued around the room, but didn't find any more matches although one student's anniversary was the same as the prof.'s birthday. (March 4th - LOL he said that's the only date that's a command).

Oh my God, Sharon was so annoying in class today. But when is she not annoying? Sharon is this older, black woman who basically doesn't have a clue about anything and she's also in my Melting Pot class where nobody likes her at all. Today she was asking the prof. about psuedo-names and how she wants to write children's books with her own name, but she wants to write books with more controversial topics with a fake name. Then she asked him, "What do I do about book signings?" It's like WTF? Then she went on to say how people thought her real name was like a movie star's name. Um...okay, whatever. Then the other day in MP she said, "I don't like to associate black people and gay people together." Again, WTF? There are gay black people. What a dumbass! It's so funny because even the other black people in that class can't stand her. Oh yeah, she she said that she sets her clock an hour later so she "can have more time to relax." Okay, what kind of nuthouse sets their clock an hour later? Then there was that whole thing in MP where she didn't agree with Samantha, so of course what Samantha said offended her, so she had to bring it to the director of foreign affairs. Ugh. I can't stand that woman.

Speaking of annoying people, new people have moved into the apartment next to mine and already I can't stand them. I don't know how many there are, but I think there are at least two of them which is kinda weird considering these are single apartments. But they're always waking me up in the damn morning! Four times in the past week, I woke up to this crappy music. Thank God it wasn't rap or heavy metal, but I don't know what it was. It was just shitty. And one morning they were playing at eight fucking o'clock. Ugh. And it's so loud that I thought it was coming from my own radio. And once I'm up and I hear the shitty music, I can't get back to sleep. Then another time, I could hear two people talking. It sounded like one of them was a kid and I kept hearing this banging noise. UGH! I couldn't tell if their voices were just muffled, but I think they were speaking in Spanish. Ugh, I hate foreign people. No, I don't. I just hate people who keep waking me up with their shitty music and loud talking and banging. It was so nice when that place was empty!!

....without drinking pop or eating fast food. So what am I gonna do tonight? Go to Subway and get me a sandwich with a big old cup of Coke! I am very proud of myself. I have never given anything up for Lent, let alone two things.

Today in short fiction, Christine and I were on the panel to discuss Alice Munro's stories, Royal Beatings and Half a Grapefruit. She called the other day to discuss what we were going to talk about. We just basically winged it for the fifty minutes. Thankfully, the teacher put in his own input and this one girl talked a lot...so that was good, lol.

Yesterday I called the maintenance people to see if they could fix my problem. The area of my rug right outside my bathroom next to the vent was completely soaked through. I admit I ignored it at first because this happened last year, but it only got damp and it never got completely soaked through and it went away eventually. But after a week, I decided I better get this thing fixed. So this guy came and opened the closet that holds my furnace and I guess the leak was coming upstairs...but I guess they had it fixed now. Right now there's a huge fan making loud noise in my living area, trying to dry the wet patches off my carpet. Most of it's gone now, it's just damp. Hopefully they'll be back today to pick it up.

Ooh...the mail's here...I just looked out my window and saw the mail truck.

I am so pissed off at Dubya! Why the fuck did he have to choose tonight to do some stupid White House conference? Now I have to wait another fucking 24 hours before I see American Idol and I think they're moving 24 to fucking Sunday! NOOOO! GOD DAMN IT!!

Mom came by this afternoon with all my Best Buy rebate stuff (and Girl Scout cookies!) and we filled out all the forms and sorted the right recepits and code bars with the right orders. So, hopefully, they'll send me $300. Dad hates rebates because if you make one mistake you won't see your money. He says they make it as difficult as possible and he's right! Then we tried to fix my computer because I couldn't find the Product Key to get into Word. It said it was on my computer and I looked at the back, but there was only a big jumble of characters. I thought that was it, but it wasn't. It was actually on the side, but I had missed it. So I typed in the code and the damn thing still didn't work! Mom got on the telephone and called Best Buy, but of course they didn't answer. Finally, I went to the Microsoft Word site where I ordered a month's free trial of it. They gave me another Product Key code. I tried that one and this time it worked. Ugh! They have to make it as difficult as possible!

After all that hoopla, we hopped in the car to go shopping. We weren't quite hungry yet because she had bought a turkey sandwich from Panera for us to share since we would be awhile with the rebates and my computer. I had burned the songs from A Mighty Wind onto a CD for Dad, so I brought that and the other CD I burned for Mom with the Hawiian version of Somewhere Over the Rainbow (turns out she already bought the CD), and We Are the World with other songs. We listened to A Mighty Wind. LOL, I love those songs. We first went to the post office to mail the rebates, then to the bank to cash my check from the government and get new checks. We shopped out at Pacific Point. At Bath & Body Works, I got Hydrating Bio shampoo and conditioner, Peony shower gel, and Gardenia Lily shower gel.

We next stopped next door at the Banana Republic where I got some new outfits for the nicer weather (I'm gonna miss wearing my winter coat!) and trip to NY. I got a skirt with a black top, white capris with a striped button down shirt, a red ruffly shirt with denim capris. And I also got a azure colored shirt.

Then we had lunch at Ruby Tuesday's and I had buffalo tenders with fries, onion rings, and cole slaw.

Ugh, yesterday at work I got so fucking pissed off at David. I hate that fucking asshole. I hate him more then Hitler hated the Jews. I hate him more than Bin Laden hates Americans. I hate him more than Fred Phelps hates gays...I'm sure you get the message. That fucking little asshole asked me if I were "mentally handicapped." Just because I never talk. Okay, first of all a couple things. So who the fuck cares if I'm not a chatterbox. Plus, I don't want to join in on the stupid immature conversations with the people I work with. Also, that little fucker should know I never talk to him because I hate him. He knows I hate him. That really pissed me off what he said to me. Now I've been called mean things in my life. I've been called ugly. Okay, that's fine...I don't like the way I look anyway. It may be a little harsh of a word, but okay, I can see it. I've been called stupid (by David, wow, no surprise). Okay, even I admit I'm pretty stupid at times. There are so many stupid things I do every day. I am stupid! But basically calling me retarded? Ugh. But it was my fault. I shouldn't have joined in the conversation he and Vernice was having. Well, I certainly learned my lesson. Nothing would make me more happy than to jam a knife multiple times into Asshead's head or bash his skull in with a bat. Yes, that would make me very happy.

We got our papers back in Melting Pot. I got a B. There's been some tense moments between Samantha and Sharon. I guess Sharon got offended by some of the things that Samantha said and went to the head of the foreign affairs to talk to him about it. God, how stupid. I personally find Sharon really annoying. I don't think there's anything wrong with what Samantha says. Sure, she's very opionated, but nothing wrong with that. And I'm so mad because last week I missed a screaming match between them. LOL. Damn! I would have loved to see that

Went to creative nonfiction and I was there early, as was Jennifer, a girl who's also in my class and also had Homer's contem. writers class with me. We basically chatted about how we hate how long the class is and the boringness (is that even a word?) of it and how we only know a couple of people. I told her I hated writing non-fiction because I could never think of anything to write about because my life was so boring and she suggested I should make up stories like the guy in Big Fish, lol. So I said, "Yeah, I'll write that I befriended a giant and we walked through the forest and went to a town where my shoes were stolen, then we joined the circuis headed by Danny Devito..." LOL.

So then class started and I thought I was gonna fall alseep. Ugh. We got out half an hour, so we were only in class for two hours. *rolls eyes* Ugh, I cannot stand Homer. That man can not go two seconds without saying "you know." I hate it when people sprinkle "you know" or "you know what I mean" throughout their sentences. (Or "like" for that matter, but "you know" drives me crazier). He's always: "blah, blah, you know, blah, blah, blah, you know, blah, you know, blah." AUGHHHH! I can't stand it!!!!

Stopped at Wal-Greens to get a few items, including some juice and Snapple since I have given up soda for Lent. Back at the apartment, the UPS guy came and gave me a box from Amazon.com. It was from Nick. He told me he was going to send me a package of 25 blank CDs because he wanted me to burn his favorite '80s songs on them. He e-mailed me a list of 200 of them, so I had to download them. I'm still listening to them all because I have to make sure they're all the right song and there are no glitches in them. But I have started to download the ones that I have already checked off as being okay.

My back still hurts. Those damn Tylenol pills didn't work!

I'm in the school's library, killing time before my American Drama class. Since my computer at home has seemed to stop working all together, I figured I might as well catch up on some journal entries (when I should really be catching up on some reading). I have no fricking clue why all of a sudden my computer stopped working. (Well, I am guessing that it may have something to do with that it's six years old, perhaps). But I can't get online, my mouse won't work, and the spacebar on my keyboard won't work. (Probably because I pounded on my keyboard when my internet was running so slowly) and now my computer just does weird things. So Dad is coming on Friday and we're gonna go to Best Buy and we're gonna get me a new computer!The only thing I'm concerned about is if I'll be able to save songs from Napster and KaZaA. I have over 600 songs downloaded...I would like to save them, you know. And I also want to save my Word files as well. So hopefully we can transfer those things to my new computer, easy peasy Japanesy.

Today in my Melting Pot class we spent most of the time talking about Mel Gibson's film, The Passion and Christ and Catholisms and anti-semitism and all the she-bang. My fiction writing class ended and my story was one of the three we talked about - that was nervewracking. But everyone gave me compliements and helpful tips on what I could approve on, so it wasn't that bad.

Wednesday I was sitting outside my class waiting for it to begin, just reading my book. I see a girl coming down the hall out of the corner of my eye, but don't pay any attention. Suddenly I hear a sound that sounded like she spilled something - I thought it was soda or a bag of M&Ms or Skittles or something. The girl says, "Shit! That isn't good." I look up and the girl is racing towards the bathroom...she had just puked! Eww! Thank God I didn't realize what had happened until a few seconds later because I would have probably puked if I had seen her doing it. And thankfully the accident happened plenty far away from me...but poor girl, I did feel bad for her. That's always been one of my worst nightmares, but luckily it's never happened to me.

And later that day I went to my American Drama class. I have to cross Dodge becauase I park across the street. I had hit the button and the light turned red, so I'm about to take a step to cross the street, right? Well, there's a car coming right in the lane I'm about to step into and it's not stopping. So I don't take a step and the car goes through the light. And keep in mind that it is red...it had been red for like three seconds. Fucking asshole. I should have stepped in front of him and have him hit me just to teach him a lesson! Jesus, some people are fucking idiots. And totally inconsiderate. When the light is red, you STOP. And pedestrians always get the right away. Seriously, some people are just too stupid and/or inconsiderate to live.

I really wish my American Drama class wasn't two hours and 40 minutes long. That. Is. Just. Too. Damn. L-O-N-G. And it is so boring. Although, I did kinda like the play we had to read for this week, Our Town. But it's sooo boring having to talk about it for that long. Ugh. And I hate that class is in the evening..just hate that.

The guy (or gal) who bidded the highest for my DVD on e-bay never sent the money, and it's been like at least two weeks, so I don't know what happened there. I send him/her an e-mail, but they never replied back to it, so I don't even know if they got it. Hmm...well, I guess I'll just try to sell it again some other time.

We went over the two short stories we read for short fiction class. Pretty straight forward. Next class was creative nonfiction which I have with Homer (ugh). But it was only half an hour today. Usually, that class will run from 1-3:30. (Somebody kill me now!) I've noticed that I have a lot of people in the same classes, lol. And they've been in a couple of my classes from the past two semesters.

Mom came over this afternoon to bring me my new contact. We had an early dinner at the Macaroni grill. I had lobster ravioli. I now have leftover chicken parmesean (Mom's meal) and tarimasu in the fridge. We talked about movies and I told her I want to see the new Charlize Theron movie, Monster (if it ever comes out here) and she said she wants to see it too. So hopefully it will come out in the next couple of weeks and we can see it together. Then I told her that Bill must be happy because Tom Cruise didn't get nominated for a SAG, LMAO. Damn, he really hated that movie! Mom was pleased that Renee Zellweger was nomianted and hopes she wins. LOL she just loves Renee. I think it's because she's of Norweigan descent.

As I mentioned, the SAG nods are in! I love that Johnny Depp, Naomi Watts, Keisha Castle-Hughes, Renee Zellweger, Charlize Theron, Bill Murray, and Evan Rachel Wood wre all nomianted. I love that Nicole Kidman, Tom Cruise, and Russell Crowe were all snubbed. (HA! HA!) But I hate that Scarlett Johannson and especially Sean Astin were snubbed. BOO!

Mom also brought my check from Dad, so we went to the bank before dinner to put it in my saving's account. I was wearing my new coat and the bank teller complicated it! Hehe. Then she asked me how I kept it so clean and I told her it was a Christmas present so it was still fairly new.

E.R. was so sad tonight. :-( I cried. :'(

Watched a video in Myth of Melting Pot today. My next class was Basic Fiction Studio which goes from 1-3, so I basically have to hussel when my first class is over. I only have this class on Wednesdays. I recognized some people from last semester's fundamentals of fiction writing class. My professor is Monardo, who I had in creative writing. She's nice, but I prefer Duggin. I wish I had him! We just went over the syllabus and did an "interview the person sitting next to you" type of thing.

My next class was American Drama, which is only on Wednesdays (this is gonna be a long day for me - ugh!) and it lasts from 5:30-8:10, double ugh!! I don't know why it needs those extra ten minutes. My teacher seems nice enough, she seems very scholarly. We're gonna have to read an assload of plays, ugh. I think I'll just stick with it though.

This morning the phone rang at 9:00 and when I went to answer it, I couldn't speak at all I still have a bit of a cold, so my voice wasn't working, plus I hadn't used my voice all night, so when I finally answered the phone, it sounded like I was croaking. (I mean sounding like a frog, not dying, although I'm sure it did sound like I was near death to her). I sounded like some old woman, LMAO. It was Theresa and she probably thought I was my grandma or something. Anyway, she wanted to know if she could work this weekend for me, and I said yes.

Today I had one class: 20th Century Short Fiction. It's Tuesday and Thursdays from 10 -11:15. It sucks because I have to wake up at 8:30. Oh, I hate the dreaded ten am class! My teacher seems aite so far. He's a fat bald guy with glasses. The good thing is we only have one paper. It looks like we're going to have to read A LOT and I mean a lot of shit, but at least it's all contemporary stuff, so none of the crap we had to read in American lit. :::coughcoughEthan Frome and Daisy Millercoughcoughcough::: Ugh, those were awful! After class I bought my books for my two English classes. There were 12books I bought and I got them for freaking $180 and they were even used! I just know I'll probably get under $50 when I buy them back. Ugh, damn school ripping us off!

Went to the bank after class and got some cash. I have decided that everytime I get my paycheck, I'm gonna take out $20 and add it to my "NYC Fund" which I stared out with Grandma's $50 from Christmas. That way, I'll have plenty of money to spend when I go to New York!

I got my new In Style in the mail! Yay! Liv Tyler is on the cover. She's so purrrty! I didn't even read my last month's issue! Oh, well. All that is old news anyway!

I was blow drying my hair after my shower and it started on fire! Yeah..that was fun. Uh....but it was just a small flame and I managed to blow it out. I threw the dryer away. I'll just get a new one. I don't want to start fire to my hair!

So school started. Blah. I only had one class today: Myth of the Melthing Pot: a Literary Perspective. The good news is that it's from 12-12:50, but the thing that sucks is that it's Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. (UGH!) But it's my only class on Mondays and Fridays. My teacher is Nigerian-American, so she has a bit of an accent, but it's not to hard to understand her. It looks like we have to debate in this class, which I don't like very much..... We only have two papers to write, but one of them has to be 8-10 pages, oh God help me. (LOL, can you tell I'm not very enthused about this class and I've only been to one class?) After class I went to Blockbuster and rented Dumb and Dumberer and Empire Records, then went to Wal-Greens and boughts two folders and a five subject notebook. (I decided to get one notebook this semester, instead of one for each class).

I sold my first item on E-bay for $10.50! Not bad for a starting price of one cent. I think I may now have to sell some of my old CDs I never listen to anymore. I've been really stupid in the past and bought a CD for just one song. But now I think I can make a mix CD of the songs I want to keep on the CDs I want to sell. I may sell some of my old VHSes, but I don't know if anyone would buy them since DVDs have taken over the technology world. I did something really stupid on ebay. There was a CD single I was interested in bidding on, and instead of bidding $1.25, it went $125. I swear I didn't notice it until it was already posted. You can imagaine I was like OH FUCK! $125 was down for my MAX bid, and I actually won the CD single for $12.25, which is still too damn much for one song. I did e-mail the person and explained my mistake a while back, but he never e-mailed me back. So I'm just not gonna pay. I'll probably get a negative mark, but fuck no I'm not going to pay 12 dollars for one song. You think EBAY would give you a ARE YOU SURE YOU WANT TO BID $125 FOR THIS PRODUCT? memo. You know? God damnit, I need to be more careful!

Awww, check out this cute picture. What is it with little girls and Heath Ledger? LMAO. (The girl is Emma Bolger from In America, she's so preciously cute).

LOL today in form and theory, it was acutally fun. We were giving our presentations (I've opted for written) and Chris gave his today and it was so funny because he brough his guitar and was playing Christmas songs. And everyone in class was singing along like a little sing-along. And it was so funny because he would talk during the songs...it kinda reminded me of that SNL skit with Will Ferrell and Ana Gayster where they would play the keyboard and talk and sing. LOL! So he played Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer, Silent Night (after he sang that he said, "That was Silent Night I just played for you." LOL!), Angels We Have Heard On High, and for the encore he played The 12 Days of Christmas. It turned out there were 12 people in the class, so everyone had a day they would sing. I was "six geese a-laying." LMAO. That was fun.

Ugh. I'm in agony. AGONY! Not only am I studying poetry right now in one class, oh no, I'm studying it in two classes: Form and Theory and Lit. UGH. Here's what I think of poetry:

Poetry is such shit
I just really hate it.

So how cool is my fic writing teacher? He cancels class for next week (So I get an extra day added on to my Thanksgiving break), he cancels the last writing assignment, and he's a fan of 24.

Went to the library this afternoon. Got some stuff for my stupid linguistics project that I'll probably fail. God, I hate that class. I hate all my classes except fiction writing and Lit.

Watched The O.C. yesterday. I. Love. Adam Brody. He has defenintely gone on my list of Future Husbands. Okay, maybe I'm in love with Seth Cohen. Who knows. Hehe, Seth has this horse named Captian Oats. Aww! That's so cute. Okay, Adam Brody is 23 and Benjamin McKenzie is 25 and they're playing 16 years olds...that is so weird.

Okay, how come my background picture never shows up anymore? Fucking UJ.

So get this. It's 72 degrees out side. And it's November 20th. And we're in Nebraska. That is just plain odd. But wait! It gets even crazier! It's suppose to snow on Sunday or Monday. (And of course Monday is the day I head home for Thanksgiving break! Thanks Mother Nature! (Yes, that was sarcasm, in case you couldn't tell)).

Time to work on my ling. project. Got my bowl of chocolate chip ice cream. Got my can of Dr. Pepper. No more distractions, no more!