Feb/091
Don’t Go Away
I have Buckcherry’s song Don’t Go Away on repeat on my iPod.
It’s my song of the week. It’s unfortunate that I can’t stop listening to it, because soon I will be sick of it.
Apparently I can’t think when I have music playing. I feel very uninspired listening to it!
I saw the movie “Changeling” today. If it wasn’t a true story I wouldn’t believe it. It was such a horrible movie; so, so sad. I highly recommend it, but I doubt I will sit through it again. Angelina Jolie should have definitely won best actress for her role! She did such an amazing job.
Okay, I can’t think.
Will write sometime again over the weekend.
xoxo, Jessy
Feb/091
Squeal
One of my most beloved bands is coming out with a new album this May.
I love Green Day. I love their old stuff. I love their new stuff. I just love them. They put on an awesome show, too. Billy Joe crowd surfed over my cousin and I in 2004 at the Warfield in San Francisco. It was an awesome experience, to say the least. I wouldn’t say they are my favorite band because I am not loyal to anything, but to say I’m excited about their new album is an understatement. I’m insanely curious to see what they are going to do next.
And a new album means a new tour. Which means I’m going to be throwing a lot of money at general admission tickets soon!
Ack!
Also, what the heck is up with Billy Joe and Mike’s hair?!
Feb/091
Hello
I write this to you from school. I really don’t have anything to say, honestly, but I’m bored. I could be working on my bio lab that is due tomorrow but I don’t feel like it… or actually, I don’t think I have enough time to finish it before my 6pm class starts, and I don’t want to only get halfway through and have to stop.
My stomach hurts =(
I had high-fiber oatmeal for breakfast and a high-fiber power bar for a snack, and I wonder if all of the fiber is a shock to my system or something. All during Persuasion it was rumbling and making embarrassing noises; thankfully for most of the class we got in groups and discussed the paper, so it was LOUD.
Speaking of embarrassing.
At the beginning of Persuasion today my professor was talking about the papers and about how we can improve our writing. He started off with how you can write a good paper, and then went on to an excellent paper. And then, he decided to humiliate me and use my paper for an example of what an excellent paper should be. He made me explain about the UFO’s and how I tied something in, which would have otherwise been completely irrelevant, to the text. He said it was the most provocative paper.
My face was so hot it must have been filled to the brim with blood. I died when he pointed at me and said, you wrote about the UFO’s, right? He knows who I am because I went to his office hours to get his advice on my paper, but he forgot my name.
It was just. Humiliating. I hate being known as the smart girl. And people become shocked when they learn of my procrastination habits.
You’re probably thinking, Jessica must be joshing me because I read her blog, and her writing isn’t very good. at. all. And I admit, I don’t really try very hard to be a good writer on the blog. I write whatever is on my mind, post it, and never look at it again. But when I write and I’m actually attempting to be a good writer (like for school), I write to my hearts content and then do major editing. Basically I write free thought, like I do on the blog. But then I move whole sentences around, delete paragraphs, edit the structure, use bolder words… whatever. I also have to check for grammatical errors because I make them often writing free thought; I do edit for grammar on the blog, FYI.
But anyway, I have no idea why I am writing about my writing process. I just feel the need to explain myself so you don’t think I’m completely full of crap when I say the professor singled me out to embarrass me like that.
He wrote excellent on my paper.
Seriously, if this happens again I will die right on the spot. My obituary will say, “Jessica died during her Persuasion class when the professor decided to compliment her in front of the whole class and use her as an example.”
And I hate being the example. Most of my life I have been the example. To my brother, cousins, I always heard them being told to be more like me. Because I’m so mature. UGH.
It’s not fun being the goody two shoes. Especially when people are told to be more like you, because then they start to despise you.
So that’s my two cents for the day. I would write about my horrible morning, but I’ll just reference you to my tweets.
Off to Communication Theory I go!
xoxo, Jessy
Feb/091
Outrage
Don’t you think the $900 million would be better invested in our OWN country? I’m sorry, but we need to stop worrying about others and start focusing on ourselves! The current state of the economy proves that. And where are we even getting this money from? Is China loaning it to us?
Someone please explain to me why this might be a good idea. Because I’m outraged.
Feb/090
I knew it!
I had my one-week checkup for my stupid contact lenses this morning. I knew there was something wrong with them! Apparently they are not ballasting (sp?) in my eyes correctly. So the eye doc checked the level (or something?) on my eye and had to order different contacts – like more expensive ones, because apparently my eyes are retarded and finicky. Lovely. And, because my eyes suck, they now have to put me in monthly contacts instead of biweekly because they do not make my prescription plus the level (or whatever, it was all jargon to me when he was trying to explain it) in biweeklys.
And to Melinda, who asked me (a while ago now!) what my prescription was, my prescription isn’t really strong at all. My right eye is (sphere) +3.00 and (cyl) -2.50 and my left eye is (sphere) +1.75 and (cyl) -1.50. It’s at least not as strong as your prescription ;).
I have what is called a lazy eye (strabismus) in my left eye, and my eye naturally turns in. But when I was 15 I had surgery to tighten the muscle in my left eye which almost completely corrected the eye. Ever since then my prescription in both eyes has increasingly gotten better (like eight steps my first appointment after the surgery!), although the last two years or so my prescription hasn’t changed at all. I’m just getting worried because over the last year I have noticed my left eye turning in again, not as badly as before and probably not noticeable to anyone but me, but I can still see it. I mostly see it when I am tired, and I also learned I can see it when I am wearing contacts. My glasses almost one hundred percent fix the eye turning in, but I guess the contacts do not.
So maybe, hopefully, when I have contacts in my eyes that ballast correctly, my eye will stay straight on. It better.
Anyway, they also do not have these new contacts in stock, so I have to wait a couple days for the free trials. This waiting around for free trials thing is getting slightly old.
Today I have a lot to do. I have two papers due tomorrow, one is on the novel “All Quiet on the Western Front” and is only two pages long. I really enjoyed the book and highlighted quotes and wrote down a lot of page numbers so I’m thinking that I will not have any problems spitting out two pages. I might actually have a problem restraining myself from writing more than the max, which is three pages. Once I get started writing about something I find interesting, you basically cannot shut me up. The other is a reading response for Persuasive Messages.
Yesterday I also had a reading response due for Persuasive Messages, and I wasn’t sure if I had completed the assignment correctly so I went to go see Dr. T. He only found two weak points in my response paper, which took me less than ten minutes to fix. Now that I know what he wants I’m not stressed at all about these reading response things. But you know what, he said that my paper was very provacative, and he also thought that my using the UFO story was unique but very effective to show my understanding of the text. Woot!
I also really have to start doing stuff for my online class. I never thought that I would have discipline issues with an online class, but apparently I do. Today is the deadline to post a discussion response for ‘What is science?’ Ew.
I have to do my stupid journal thing for my Communication Theory class. We have to write what we talked about in the last class period and I have to write some questions about what I didn’t understand. And he said we have to have questions, and that we will receive a zero unless we write questions. Easy points, but it is definitely busy work. This class is so mind boggling that I can’t really comprehend anything enough to come up with questions. Maybe I’ll write that! LOL.
Alright, I better get off of here. It’s such a nice day it’s a shame that I have to spend it indoors typing away.