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School is… school. I’m interested, but I’m beginning to feel burnt out on it. Straight 17 years of school, plus 4 more of grad for a grand total of 21 years of formal education. I’ve decided that I’m going to take a year off between undergrad and grad school, so I can rid myself of that burnt out feeling.

Also, Fallout 3 comes out VERY SOON. I pre-ordered it, and I am so going to the midnight release.

Things future me should remember:
-Steamed milk hurts when it comes in contact with skin
-I live with boys, not neat-freaks
-Calendars are good things
-Procrastination is not my friend
-Orange couches are comfortable
-Some bus drivers drive INSANELY
-Randomly generated cliche country songs are hilarious
-Never reach into a time locker and squish myself

I should probably head off to bed. No classes tomorrow, but I am doing some research-ie type stuff, which is actually kind of fun. Way better than listening to Palin sound like a moron, trying to relate to all of the hockey moms across the nation, while twinkling her eyes at the camera.

I am so voting for Obama.

In this case, I’m supposed to be sleeping since I have to leave here at 9:40 tomorrow (today?) for work. I therefore have to get up at like 8:00, maybe 8:30. However, it’s not entirely my fault. After all, it is Friday and I lament having to go to be early any day of the week. I’m totally a night-owl. Moreover, I live with boys and one of them has a friend over, and they’re playing Halo 3. I don’t blame them. But noisy boys + Halo 3 + Corona = a lot of noise. College dorm + walls = sound proof yeah-I-think-NOT. I wonder why it is that colleges consistently forget that college students are noisy, and that the logical solution would be to add just a little bit of sound proof for those who must actually go to bed? Seriously, it’s a travesty.

I should probably stop writing and go to bed. I shouldn’t even be writing this farewell sentence, but I’m gonna do it anyway. Farewell.

Except I totally know that I’m going to surf the Internet once I’m done writing this sentence.

Summer vacation has ended, but we’ve been having some nice end-of-the-summer weather. Sunny, and in the 70’s — just how I like ‘em.

It’s easier than I thought it would be to get back into a groove, and establish a workable routine for balancing classes and work and research. And senior capstone. I have to submit my thesis to the WPA in November, and the research project I’m working on with a professor and other students will also be submitted in November. So if both get accepted there, I’ll have two poster-boards with my name on them. That would be neat.

I’ve been debating back and forth with myself whether or not I want to apply to be an honor’s intern at the FBI for the summer of 2009. On the one hand, it would be way freaking cool, and I am looking seriously at a job in forensic psychology. Applying as an honor’s intern would give me a really great look into what such a career would entail. On the other hand, it’s on the East Coast and I am pretty damned fond of the West Coast. But it is only 10 weeks. And it would be awesome. The litany “East coast. Freaking cool. 10 weeks. DC” has been running through my head fairly constantly. I’m pretty sure that I’m going to apply. But I want to make sure that it’s something I really do want to do before I commit myself.

Thoughts on all things political: I think Palin is not the best choice for VP, or for any government position. That’s where I stand. There’s already tons of information circulating about that, but my opinion does not reside in her capabilities as a mother and successful woman. I rather admire that, and think it’s totally possible for a woman to be successful and a mother and have a good life. People who are slamming her and saying that her daughter would not have gotten pregnant if Palin had been a stay-at-home mom as she “should have been,” are wrong. Rather, I do not like Palin because I disagree with her policies.

My psygeek blog has been more active than this blog, so I suggest people head on over to the psgyeek blog for my random thoughts what are associated with psychology.

OMG the Bones Season 4 premiere was tonight, and it was freaking AWESOME. I loved it when Sweets was poking at a human brain just for fun.

Summer is coming to a close. It doesn’t feel like I have to start classes in 2 weeks — but I do. I’m definitely looking forward to it. My schedule worked out such that I only have class Tuesday - Thursday, which is really nice.

I got a new job as well, working at a Starbucks. I’m quitting my banquets job simply because the hours and work are unreliable, and I need something a bit more stable than a “maybe.” My boss is named Jesse, which is hilarious to me. Now I have three Jesse’s in my life: my brother, my boyfriend, and my boss. On the upside, now I get free coffee — squee!

Anyways, I have to go to work, so I should probably be getting ready for that.

Peace

So I love that once I discovered Battlestar Galactica and then had two episodes a week to look forward to, Battlestar Galactica decides to have mid-series finale or whatever and goes off the air until next January. To top it off, Doctor Who is only a half-season long, so it, too, is over. Now I have no episodes to look forward to watching. At the very least, I’m not living for Saturday anymore so I guess that is good.

I very just recently got a twitter account. My link to there is twitter.com/quantumparadigm. I thought I would give it a shot, see how it goes, and decide whether or not I like it. It seems like it could be genuinely fun, but we’ll see.

On Sunday, I watched The Dark Knight in IMAX. It was glorious — 70 feet of glory. The switch between IMAX ratio and normal widescreen was hardly noticeable, except for the fact that the IMAX portions were slightly more crisp, and probably about 10 - 15 feet bigger. One of the disadvantages of the IMAX experience is that, since the screens are so big, the seating is more sloped. Therefore, I was occasionally distracted by some idiot who kept flashing his phone during the entire movie. Perhaps he was disenchanted with the entire thing because he was in the third freaking row and the screen was three times the distance between him and it. You could get whiplash watching a movie on a screen that big from a distance so small.

Nevertheless, I am firm in my belief that The Dark Knight is a brilliant movie, and I love it. Of course, I could be biased because Batman was my favorite superhero when I was a wee lass (except for that short time in the second grade where I liked superman, but that was probably because it had a show on at 8:00 Sundays so I was allowed to stay up an extra hour on a school night to watch it — amazing, I know). I liked Batman because he didn’t have a supernatural explanation for his badass-ness other than he just was . Superman had that alien-thing going on and Spiderman was bitten by a Spider… etc. (I have, however, disowned Batman Forever despite the fact that Nicole Kidman, Tommy Lee Jones, and Jim Carrey are it. The movie is still terrible. Batman and Robin is not much better, either.)

Anyway, the time is late — or rather, early, but I’ve been up for a long time — so I should be getting to bed.

Peace.

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