here you have it

oh yeah?

there was a time in my life, not so long ago, when i believed that the universe was encouraging me on. random songs on the radio spoke to me, the sun and the moon seemed like guiding lights of something great to come, and all of the lights turned green when i drove down johnson street. but lately, things seem almost overwhelmingly...

annoying.

i've been frustrated and irritable for no apparent reason. i drop things a lot, the sun makes jennie crabby in the morning instead of cuddly, i spill my coffee on my shirt, and i get stuck twice at the same red light because there's so much effing traffic.

it seems like i've been fixating on the ways that people are rude to eachother. are these acts intentional or unintentional? does it make a difference? why are human beings so... irritating?

in traffic
* cutting people off
* not using turn signals
* doing that thing where you pass a bunch of traffic approaching a red light in the left lane when there is parked traffic in that lane on the other side of the intersection, and then zoom ahead and cut off the first vehicle in line in the right lane, just before the parked cars
* driving with a broken or nonexistant muffler
* driving with a muffler that makes loud noises on purpose

at work
* totally ignoring me when i say, "hi" or "how's it going?" or "what can i get for you?" and then making me stand there in awkward silence while you try to figure out what a "thor" is when you could just greet me back and ask
* using the word "skinny" instead of "skim"
* leaving your 6 year old to run circles around and through the coffee shop (literally) while eating handfuls of sugar packets and climbing the shelves while you do whatever you're doing on your laptop, totally ignoring the child and any responsibility to it. i swear to you, if that child enters my space, it will be captured and made to perform boring and repetitive tasks, and maybe clean the bathrooms.
* you don't have to tell me the truth when i ask you, "how's it going?" just fucking greet me
* treating me like a moron when your're the one who doesn't know which coffee is the french roast, even though the tag clearly says "guatemalan french roast"
* treating me like a moron when you're the one who is trying to order a frappaccino or a 20 oz macchiato outside of the starbucks bubble
* SAYING EXPRESSO! THERE IS NO X IN ESPRESSO! say it with me, "es" "press" "o"
* leaving water in the mop bucket

in general
* ugly pants and stupid boots
* cat calls
* people who walk into the street without looking
* cell phones that stay in your ear
* drunken hollaring
* people who act like apes
* canker sores

now that i'm thinking about it, didn't george carlin base his early standup stuff on bitching about stupid people? hmm, maybe i could get this to work for me...

in the mean time, i should have internet access in my house within a month! woot!

i am NOT abandoning this blog

seriously. i need to get blogging back into my life. soon.

so here's the quick update. unfortunately, with no pictures, because i somehow managed to lose the USB cable for my camera when i moved. sonofa....

softball
ohmigawd, could this season be any more awesome?! the L team is undefeated so far, with rain as our only setback. we've already had 2 rainouts, and it looks like today is going to be number 3. we were supposed to have a double-header tonight to make up for our rained out games. denied. we were supposed to play the only other undefeated team in our league. denied. we've been excited about this game for 2 weeks, and we've been denied. what the hell, rain? why do you have to suck the joy out of my summer? jennie even got off of work this week. hmph.

in the mean time, check out my new internet time thief, the lesbian softball website. new pictures and profiles will start to go up as soon as i get a new cable for my camera.

my apartment
i *heart* my little apartment. the big news is that i bought a couch yesterday. it was a huge deal because i've never had new furniture before. the space that i have for a couch is slightly smaller in length than a standard couch, futons can burn in hell, and i have seriously limited dollars. so when the sales guy said, "what can i help you with today?" i said, "cheap couch. i want to see the cheapest couch you have." for a salesman, the guy was pretty awesome. he introduced me to the modern marvel that is microfiber upholstery. apparently, not only does pet hair not stick to it, but you can also get things like maple syrup out of it with soap and water. he also introduced me to the "click clack couch." a very important evolutionary step up from the futon, this couch is comfy, fits in the space i have, is good looking, relatively light weight and can be slept on by 2 people. maybe 3 if they really really like eachother. i'm totally excited about it. soon, my apartment will be my apartment.

school
could registration be any more frustrating? i found out that the accelerated bachelors to medical school program is something that has be be granted to you while you're in high school, so that's out. i also found out that all 52 of my transferable credits came across as elementary credits. even my radiation physics class. and that in order to graduate with 120 credits, at least 60 of them have to be intermediate or advanved level. which means that i will probably spend at least a year more in school than i had anticipated. damn. on the other hand, though, i was awarded a $2,500 scholarship for the 2006-7 school year from the GLBT alumni association. i was one of 5 total recipients, and the only woman. extra special thanks to carmen for introducing me to the possibility of this scholarship, and extra special thanks to molly for editing my letters, thus helping me snag some major tuition cash.

in other school news, rae told me about a sort of game that she plays, where every semester, she allocates something on campus that will recieve her tuition money. for example, one semester, she paid for the daily bascom hill flag raising and lowering. i have decided that my tuition this semester is going to place cigarette butt bins outside of doors, just beneath the "no smoking" signs.

in coming blogs, there will be much to say about attending classes as an undergrad. whenever i am on campus, my mind is simultaneously appalled and amazed. it's true about "the college experience" being largely social. i am waiting for the moment that i meet a brilliant biochemist or genetic physicist who wears teeny tiny shorts that say something like "juicy" across the almost nonexistant ass, and drinks fishbowls at wando's during football games.

i also have some words to say about people who wear bluetooth cellphones IN their ears. i almost can't handle it...

hey, campus: here i come.