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bucket o' anger
Posted Apr 22, 2003
i'm told my e-mail is down indefinitely and that makes me mad
french makes me mad
lovesickness makes me...happy
but mostly i'm mad and grumpy and really tired of being at college
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Latest reply: Apr 22, 2003
phone booth
Posted Apr 21, 2003
why did i have to see colin farrell
bloody, sweaty, and whimpering
before i could concede how hot he is?
...ah said god dayum!
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campus
Posted Apr 20, 2003
some nights there's a guy that sits outside the university center with his dog, loudly reciting poetry.
i hate being followed by girls with noisy shoes.
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madagascar my ass
Posted Apr 17, 2003
a strange effect i have noticed:
i am incapable of TOTALLY not caring about an assignment, even one i have as much contempt for as this one: an oral report for first year french class on madagascar. i have nothing against madagascar, it is a country perfectly worth learning about. i do however object to the continued assigning of tedious tasks, particularly by a professor who has bored me all semester by doing nothing but go through the book. mind you, i have hated virtually every language class i have ever taken, which i guess makes me something of a masochist.
but, to return to the point: my disdain for this assignment does not end my compulsion to be thorough! i am annoyed and distressed that i cannot just say to myself 'nobody is going to know the difference if my section on the history of madagascar is incomplete or a little inaccurate, nor will it matter because it is a piddling assignment for a first year french class' and be satisfied. no.. i have to find some way to give proper mention of each political phase, each regime change, i have to conscientiously examine different sources(albeit internet sources)... basically, i spend a lot of time and effort trying to figure out the *quickest and easiest* way to satisfy my own sense of academic integrity because i am also lazy and find this work agonizingly dull. i cannot be half-assed, at best i can be 3/4ths-assed. i promised myself i wouldn't let this assignment become more trouble than it was worth... also, i have 2 hours before french tomorrow which i have just decided to use for the completion of this dumb outline.
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PROCRASTINATION NEWS: 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 363 days a year
Posted Apr 9, 2003
yes, so i am working on my 5-page paper on dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo and U.S. policy towards the caribbean. or rather, i am doing everything possible to avoid working on it.
it's not even 7, and i'm *almost* 1/5 of the way done..! despite this extremely encouraging statistic, this isn't going to be one of my great achievements of writing and organization. it's going to be slow and painful, like the deaths of trujillo's assassins.
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Latest reply: Apr 9, 2003
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