September 30, 2007 • 11:36 pm
So it looks as if I might end up being alone here in Cali for Christmas break this year. I just talked to my mother about her thoughts on me coming home and she said, “Honestly, I don’t think you should come home this holiday. You’re never home to spend time with family anyway so why waste your money coming back? All you do is hang out with your friends.” Since when am I not allowed to have friends? Gah. I’m also short on money, considering my out-of-state tuition, so I’m not sure if I can (it’s not a matter of want; oh boy do I really want to go home and see snow this winter) buy tickets with the lack of money and it costing nearly $600 roundtrip. So I’ve left it up to her to to decide my Christmas fate: either staying here and not seeing family or friends until next September (and this is still tentative; I’m not sure if I can/will be able to go home then) OR going home and having to be home more often to spend time with family doing nothing. Absolutely ridiculous.
Despite having moved out, I still feel very much tethered to my mother. This is not fun. Oh, not fun at all.
Also, my brother’s curfew was 1am this weekend. What. The. Fuck. This past summer mine was midnight. And I’m 4 years older than this kid! I’m going to argue that if I do go home this holiday break I get NO curfew because I’m way beyond the age having my parents control my every move, AND it should make up for all the additional time I’m supposed to be at home. Goddamn.
[matt pond PA]
Filed under: Family, Rant
From now on I will be blogging here, on wordpress. No longer shall I be spewing thoughts on blogger, but I will keep that site running just for reference to older posts.
Also, I have put the New Zealand and Fiji albums up on Picasa. These collections are of all the pictures I have from my trip so many may be unedited, slightly strange or even distasteful to others. Enjoy!
Whew, major moving and uploading done for the weekend. Good work.
Filed under: Blogroll, Travel
September 29, 2007 • 1:14 pm
This past Thursday was the first day of classes. All I had was a physics lab at 10:30am which was only in session for 10 minutes (instead of the usual 2.5 hours). Dammit! I could have slept in! Then yesterday was Bio 102 (Structure and Function of Biomolecules) at 10am and Bio 101 Discussion (Genes and Gene expression) at 11am which everyone left at ten past because the prof/TA didn’t show up. All in all, it was a good first “week” since I only had one lecture.
But I have homework. From Biomolecules class. Memorize all 20 amino acids (structure of and corresponding letter). Flashcards, here I come! (Actually, I’m pretty excited about doing this, should be cake.)
A bit of good news:
So my UWP 104F (Writing in the Health Sciences) prof emailed us on Wednesday about those on the waitlist. He told us that if we were 3rd/4th then we might have a chance to be in his class (since this is a computer lab class there are a limited number of seats), but there is a definite chance we won’t get in if higher than 4th on the list. I was 4th at the time. Where am I today? Fucking 2nd!!! Yes, I am pretty damn excited. First class meets Monday and I’m hoping I’ll get in; I’m very adamant about this.
Fun stuff:
Wednesday night at midnight my roommate, her boyfriend, and I biked to campus with a mission: with chalk in our hands we drew arrows in the major bike circles… pointing the wrong way. We were trying to help the little freshmen out on their first day of classes, I swear! I don’t think the campus police even cared because they drove by us numerous times that night. It all only took us an hour to do. Great fun. “Free Beer!”, “Free Condoms!”, “Free Pizza”. All lies. :D
Read the rest of this entry »
Filed under: Fitness & Health, School
September 17, 2007 • 4:41 pm
