3/15/2010 - Video
Monkey Cats!
(aka Rhesus Monkeys and Japanese Macaques. I just like to call them monkey cats)
Too cute. The mommy is like, “Get that out of your mouth, young man!”
2/19/2010 - Video
Palin Slams ‘Family Guy’ Producers (via AssociatedPress)
I realize that this joke wasn’t exactly tasteful, but since when is Family Guy ever tasteful?
They can make awful jokes about anything, right? As long as it doesn’t affect you personally. But you’ll laugh right along if it’s stinging someone else. Just not you.
COOL.
I have a 3-5 page fiction piece due for my creative writing class tomorrow and I really need to do it today, preferably now, but I have writer’s block. I am meant to use certain techniques in my piece but the professor did not give us a prompt so… it is open for anything. I would just pick something random, but first of all, my workshop group will read the first draft, and second of all, it is one of only six pieces we are writing for the semester and it will forever be a work in progress. So I want it to be about something I enjoy or care about at the very least. For our last piece, they gave us a prompt. ”A place.” So simple! And yet so helpful… I had a fully fleshed story almost immediately. And now that it is up to me, I am completely lost, barren of concepts. I am at a loss. I can only hope to be divinely inspired.
Some days start out so great and I feel so energetic, and they don’t necessarily get worse, but I get tired and slowly, slowly, my eyes begin to sink into my face. It is the strangest sensation. Caffeine only goes so far. And honors classes negate every bit. And too bad I am busy all day and have lots of work to do tonight…
2nd Semester
Second semester has begun… but it’s definitely different than the first one. I’m still socially (rather than academically) preoccupied, but I’m trying very hard to focus more on schoolwork this term. I need to find a healthy balance in all aspects of my life:
- school and friends
- working out and eating junk food
- sleeping and working
- taking time for myself and worrying about others
I need to care about what is going on, without letting it consume me and swallow me whole. I don’t think that’s too tall of an order… I hope.
I am facing the same challenges this semester. I feel like I am climbing a steep mountain.
1/20/2010 - Link
Happy National Penguin Awareness Day!
Support penguins against drastic climate changes!
I am too tired to read Shakespeare. But I really need to, want to, and have nothing else to do besides.
I keep falling asleep sitting up and having weird half-mini-dreams where I am talking to someone and when I realize I’m asleep, I wake up and can’t remember who I was speaking to or what was said.
