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Name: The Q-y one
Birthday: 2/1/1987
Gender: Female


Interests: Actively diverting attention away from my interests. Or...um...stamp-collecting. Or something.
Expertise: Well, unless you count my morbid fascination with death, nothing really.
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Friday, February 29, 2008

Dear everyone who has ever owned the used textbook that I now possess:

So...lemme go over the definition of "highlight" with you: to highlight something is to mark a particular passage which is of some importance so that when you go back through the book, you can easily find it later without having to read through the entire book/chapter/page. And I see that you have made liberal use of this faculty. That's good. I've got no problem with that. In fact, sometimes it even helps ME, because then I know that this particular concept is important and that if you needed to know it then, I probably need to know it now. But I gotta ask...is it really necessary to highlight THE ENTIRE FREAKING BOOK?? Every page has some manner of markups, and it's not just one or two sentences, it's WHOLE PAGES. Why would you need to highlight that much? It just makes it so that you'll just have to read through all of that yellow stuff before you can find the ONE concept that you actually need. Doesn't that sort of defeat the purpose of highlighting? You're not supposed to have to read through the entire thing; that's what highlighting is FOR. Not to mention it frustrates me because then I have to try to ignore all of YOUR highlights so I can make or interpret my own. And it's not even as if there's a time difference between these highlights (which I would maybe forgive because different classes emphasize different concepts); all of them look like they were done by the same person. So you, highlighting individual with an itchy trigger finger: Before you mark up the page with that colorful little marker of yours, stop for a second, and think about it. The thought process that should enter your head is this: "Do I REALLY need to know this? Will I be able to easily find it later? Will it really matter if I can't recite this entire paragraph word-for-word?" If the answer to ANY of these questions is "no," then for the love of god, stop highlighting. Put down the marker. It's not that hard.

Wishing that the ink she read was that of the PUBLISHER and not some freshman dumbass,
Q


Monday, January 14, 2008

I have a sore throat and slight headache.

I have just taken a shower, so I have wet hair.

It is seven degrees outside, and I'm going to Sorin for lunch.

This is a good idea.

Q


Monday, January 07, 2008

So yes, more Facebook changes have been made, and yes, they are true. I have, in fact, broken up with Russ.

Actually, it's probably more accurate to say that HE broke up with ME. He was the one who initiated it, and he did so by lying to get me out of the house (he told me he needed to go shopping). And that's actually what bothered me the most about the whole thing. Yes, we had our issues, and yes, it was eventually gonna come anyway, but I hate that he was the one who started it, and that he didn't just come out and say "we need to go somewhere so we can talk." It doesn't matter how mutual the reasoning was, I still felt humiliated and worthless. 

I was always led to believe that after girls break up with their boyfriends, they sit around watching chick flicks and eating junk food, and maybe crying and hugging a stuffed animal.

I watched American Psycho and deleted his music off my computer.

It was actually quite soothing.

I don't really want to go into why we broke up (we were just too different on some pretty fundamental levels), because I don't really care anymore, but thems are the facts...or, at least, the facts according to me.

And you know what occurs to me? I no longer have a boyfriend who's shorter than me. I can wear whatever the fuck kind of shoes I want, which I haven't been able to do for awhile because he was so self-conscious about the height difference. In fact, he even told me one time that he wished I were shorter. Speak for yourself, dick. 

So...yeah. The next time I see him, I wanna punch him in the face. I don't even feel THAT murderous towards him or anything. I just think it would make me feel better.

And as for my criteria for future men? 

-No short guys, unless they're comfortable with their own height and are okay with the height difference between us.
-No guys that are more emotional than I am. I don't want some stony, indifferent type, either, but I want someone who can deal with the fact that I don't need to show ALL my emotions ALL the time.
-No guys that want me to spill all my secrets, right now. I'm not overtly secretive or anything, there just aren't things that I feel are necessary to talk about until it BECOMES necessary, and your badgering me about it only makes me feel like you're being a nosy busybody. I should not have to tell someone I'm dating to mind their own business.

All right, I think that just about covers it. I broke up and quit my job. I'm starting over again. Go me. 

Q


Wednesday, December 19, 2007

Dear sociology professor: what happened? You used to be so good about making up tests. You created a comprehensive study guide that was extremely helpful, the questions on the tests were mostly based on the reading, and there were no tricks. So what the hell? Why now? Why did you put questions on the test that clearly WEREN'T from the reading, but rather from a couple videos we watched in class? How in the hell was I supposed to grab exact statistics from these films and be able to regurgitate them? You listed the films on the study guide, true. But you mentioned that the thing we had to know about them was "the film's focus," and maybe one or two other general items. So how in the hell was I supposed to know how many gays and lesbians were fired from their jobs during the McCarthy era if it wasn't in the textbook and wasn't in the study guide, and was mentioned in the film for about five seconds?

Furthermore, you put in opinion questions. OPINION. QUESTIONS. In a multiple choice test. An ONLINE multiple choice test. And don't give me that "but the one woman decided to have the baby blah blah blah"...no. NONE of those vignettes in that video turned out "the best," because there were other factors involved. The one woman hemorrhaged to death. The other one decided to have her baby, even though she clearly couldn't afford it and knew she didn't actually want it. The third one saw her doctor being shot to death by an idiot pro-lifer. There is no "best," here. Why was it on the test? Granted, I got that one right, but that was only because I chose the option that I knew echoed your opinion, instead of, you know, thinking for myself.

Ugh.

I also hate the fact that it was THIS class that was keeping me from leaving. I could've been gone by noon yesterday. But noooooo.

Don't hate that I'm done, though. I'm just finishing up packing, which of course is always sort of a trial for me because I never know what to bring, and now that we're going to Florida, I have to think about what it's gonna be like down there.

Also, Tyler's taking me home. I'll probably have to give him gas money (read: money that I got from selling back textbooks) because he has literally NONE and he never has enough gas in the car. Blech.

NO. YOU ARE DONE. YOU DON'T HAVE TO WORK. YOU HAVE NO CLASS. HAPPY THOUGHTS. DAMMIT.

Q


Friday, November 30, 2007

*Dusts off the old Xanga*

Wow, haven't been here in awhile. How's about I post an entry?

So I was trolling around on teh intarwebs when I found this:

http://biblenews1.com/history7/20070802bridge.htm#bridge

Old news, I know, but...WHAT??? Who on God's green earth (pun semi-intended) believes this kind of crap? I just...I don't even have the words to properly describe what it is I'm reading here. I can feel the brain cells withering. It's not a pleasant sensation.

Honestly, I'm not even gonna bother dissecting this. I cannot even imagine someone writing this with a straight face.

Oh, and like, I want my weekends back and stuff. Stupid work.

Q



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