Today weather in heaven: Partly cloudy

Greetings from sunny Chicago!

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Are those bulldozers moving the snow? Jeezy creezy.

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And Leon's getting laaarger

I'm on a plane, wee! Okay not at the time of posting, just at the time of writing. iPhones have an airplane setting that turns off all the wireless crap so you can still play games and look at your texts and stuff. Sweet!

I always get an issue of Allure when I fly, which actually sucks because it makes me want to shop and put on expensive clothes. I've begun countering this by wearing nice stuff every time I fly, but then I feel weird waiting next to all the other girls my age in their Victoria's Secret Pink matching sweats (no really, ALL) and slippers. I like to think I look less ridiculous, but I'm not entirely sure about that.

I've also decided that I am going to start wearing nicer shoes. Every time I see any discussion about outfits and people ask what you notice first, everyone always says shoes. Shoes are usually the LAST thing I consider. In fact they're usually an afterthought. So, instead of buying an assload of polishest, I'm going to buy an assload of shoes. Or just a few. Anyway I started today by wearing a pair of patent pumps with straps and four inch heels. To the airport. I AM THE GRAND MASTER HIGH HEELS. I ROLL LUGGAGE IN LUBUS.

Just kidding, they're not Lubus. I would have toe-shortening surgery before I dropped that kind of money on ostentatious footwear... Which means never by the way, just in case you think I should get toe-shortening surgery. In which case, screw you, I like my monkey toes.

LATER...

Hello from cold-ass Chicago! Check out the airport:

It's really coming down. I hope my flight to Austin isn't delayed or called off completely. The good news is that there's a mcdonalds right next to my gate and it's breakfast tiiime!!

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Was it an African octopus or a European octopus?

Look at this. This shit is bananas.

Octopi have been found to carry around coconuts to hide inside them. Apparently that's part of how they used to catch them around here-- coconut shell on a string.

Moldy book smell

So far I'm done with history of anth and archaeology, so I managed to sell my books back for a good price. Now I'll still be spending the rest of the week in Sinclair library, which has a mold problem so it smells like broken dreams and dead unicorns. It's also creepy as shit.

Hey guys let's go investigate that strange noise.

My computer decided not to connect to the wireless so now I'm here just chilling waiting for Layne to get done with his stuff. I don't have any more finals until Thursday but there are two big bitch finals back to back on Friday. They involve a lot of reading and remembering endless amounts of inane details sooo yeah. But I finished my arch final in 20 mins after walking in late so for the rest of the day I went around going MY DICK VIP. YO SHIT NEEDS ID. But I won't be doing that come Thursday so I better get my giggles in now.

Seriously though this place smells like doom and hopelessness.



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I should be studying

I SHOULD, but it's so nice today. I think I will go get Chinese foods. Mmmmm.

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Konad

I just Konad'd my nails:

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The moth that time forgot

This five inch wide moth (yes u measured it) has been starring in the window at me for the better part if two hours, so naturally I tried to feed it a sugar cube.

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My edjumacashin

Long post is long.

The yoo-hoos in the College of Arts and Sciences advising office better thank their lucky stars that I got all the classes I wanted today, because there would have been many flaming bags of dog doo on their metaphorical front steps tonight if I hadn't. They thought it would be a totally rad idea to spread registration out over a full week with one group's registration period opening every half hour from 9am-4pm. The groups are divided by just a couple of credits each, meaning that they spread everyone out so completely that, for example, L and his roommate Don started here the same semester but their registration times were three days apart. FAIL.

Oh and for extra fun they leave a whole weekend in the middle in which no registration periods start but people whose times began the week before can still add classes, so anyone stuck registering in the two days after that weekend are BONED with a capitol F-U-C-K-E-D. Guess where I was? Yeah. I had to redo my schedule four times in the last two days.

Here's how my schedule worked out:
-Physical Anthropology + Lab (MWF)
-Anthropology of Consumer Cultures (TR)
-Intermediate Japanese (MTWF)
-Women and Madness (R)
-Biomedicine and Culture (MW)

So now I'm at 17 credits with a dilemma. I had originally planned out a 19 credit semester with a two credit public health class instead of Anth of Consumer Cultures-- I had wanted to take it but it filled. Miraculously, someone dropped it right before my registration time, so I jumped on it.

An aside: The Arts & Sciences advisors will insist to you that even if a section fills up you can still e-mail the prof and get in 100% of the time. Those e-mails, much like the goggles, do nothing. Most of the time you don't even get a reply. Usually you get rejected. This prof had rejected me for this class already (as an extra student, that is) so I was psyched.

Unfortunately it conflicts with the two credit course that was going to bump me to 19 credits, which is the limit. You have to get special permission to go above that and can't do that until the start of the next semester. Then you have to prove to them that you can take a heavy semester like that, which I'm not sure they'll buy coming from me. So my dilemma is this: Do I wait for next semester to start and try to petition to take another three-credit course, or do I drop my Consumer Cultures course for the two credit class? Two credits are hard to come by or I would just find another one to pop into this schedule.

It's important to note that, even with 19 credits in the spring, I will have 41 credits left before I can graduate and only two semesters left in my four years. Because I transferred I essentially lost a whole semester of credits that didn't transfer over. This means I will have to go to at least one summer session, probably to take something like two or three classes, and then I'll still need to take 17 credits per semester my senior year. I only have a couple of classes I need to take the graduate, it's mostly getting the total necessary 124 credits. I need a minimum of 19 credits in the spring-- I can't just sit on 17.

And no, I don't want to just take another semester. I don't wanna and you can't make me, neener neener neener.

Things Hawai'i Needs, Part 726

Okay guys, fun fact. I love nail polish. LOVES IT. But apparently nail polish is very hard to ship since it gives off fumes and is flammable and whatnots. For this reason most e-tailers only ship within the continental US. This makes me the sadness. Zoya had a holiday promo where if you bought two polishes they would send you five for free. I was soooo excited and I had picked them all out and everything before I realized they don't ship here. BLAST. Same for Urban Decay's holiday polish set.

So then I should just go to a store, right? WRONG. There are no Ulta, CVS, Duane Reade, or Sally Beauty Supply in HI. The only store I've found here that sells any pro brands is Trade Secret, and they only have a teeny tiny display of OPI and Essie with only reds and pinks. I want China Glaze and CND, damn it! And I want blues and purples, too!

I mean Sephora has their OPI collection but it's pretty boring, honestly. I only like a few colors and I already own most of them. Meh.

I did manage to snag Midnight in Moscow and Smitten with Mittens at Trade Secret, though. So I have cool black/maroon fingers right now. Still though, frowny face :(


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Public health: Keeping you alive since forever

I am very gradually making peace with the knowledge that, even when presented with every fact about a situation, the majority of people still will not give a rat's ass about what is happening to other people and will actually go to every extreme to prove why it is a non-issue and how I shouldn't care either. This attitude it starting to be okay with me-- that should not be okay. That kind of BS should be met with public ridicule, not acceptance. What the hell, people? I'm increasingly beginning to worry that my career is largely going to be a long, uphill battle with the apathy of the average person.

Oh sorry. Today, I guess I am Dromiceiomimus. I'm still mad about thatjob I missed out on, too. I lost out on the position at the doctor's office I'm sure because I want to work for a nonprofit doing global epidemiology. I sent my resume/cover letter and got an enthusiastic response asking about my career goals and when I sent that back suddenly they stopped contacting me. I don't know why wanting to prevent people from dying of cholera offends people so much. Shit.

In less crappy news I found out the public health school has one class offered to undergraduates that's like a survey of public health issues for people interested in going on to get an MPH. Since the two anthropology electives I wanted filled up (because the d-bag registrar put me in the VERY LAST registration period for Sophomores instead of the first one for Juniors like they should have, then refused to change it because they were just SURE that any profs would add me to a class I wanted even if the class filled, and then the class filled and the two profs refused to add me as an extra student. For the record someone with my class standing should have registered on Thursday, they put me on Monday afternoon, meaning all the classes I wanted filled up four days before I could even try to get in) I replaced them with that class and Japanese. Weee. Hopefully when I apply to MPH programs they'll notice that and it will add points in my favor.

You know what cheers me up, though? This T-Rex Squishable that they just started making. If no one gets it for me for Christmas I WILL BUY MYSELF TEN and pretend that everyone got me one. Then I will pile them all on my bed and they will be my new friends.

Twert twert

Okay so I got a Twitter, you can all shut the hell up now. ESPECIALLY YOU, MOM. Jay kay mom. You're cool mom. No seriously you spend too much time starring at glowing rectangles with blue cartoon birds on them, mom.

Anyway you can find my chirping right hurrr right hurrr but it will mostly consist of non sequiturs. That first one's for you, Momoko.

And now I can't decide whether "Twitard" is better for Twilight fans or overenthusiastic Twitter users. Hm.