Saturday, February 5, 2005

Idioteque
Well, the horrors of midterms are finally over. I think I did well enough for myself today. The test was sort of hard, I actually had to think through some of it, but whatever. I'm just glad to finally be done with them all. It's kind of funny how crazy I was going over this earlier in the week lol. I think I let it get to me a bit too much, that was a bad move on my part. Anxiety is never a good thing. But now I'm done with the tests, so they can go fuck themselves as far as I'm concerned. I wash my hands of them.

I have some assignments I need to start up on, but I don't plan on devoting that much time this weekend to school and schoolwork. Gotta revise my English essay a bit - clean it up and rework the ending, because it was pure crap. I did it all yesterday, so that's to be expected. Most of it is pretty good, though - all about how Wal-Mart = teh sux (they do, admit it). That shouldn't take too long.

I also have to start on this project for Info Gathering and Writing, but I can't get too far into it. Mostly, I'm just scouting resources that I can pick up at the library. After actually looking at the syllabus, I can see that the actual project will be a bit easier than I originally thought it would be. But it will still be time consuming, boring and annoying, because that is the very essence of Info Gathering and Writing. I bet the class will find some way of making the interview we have to do boring, as well. I'll probably get stuck with someone who's really stupid and uninteresting. And they in turn will find me to be boring and uninteresting.

I wonder what it would be like to interview myself? It would probably be a terrible interview or a great interview, depending on what questions were asked. Of course that's true for all interviews, but hey, I'm trying to sound like I know what I'm talking about here. Anyway, I guess that I would make for a semi-entertaining interview. Maybe throw out a decent quote at one point, and the interviewer would respond with fake enthusiasm.

And then they ask the bomb!!!!! In this case, the bomb would have to do with my secret extramarital affair with alien hookers from the planet Neptune and how I was impregnated by one. And then my stomach would explode, and the interviewer would be eaten by my offspring. Good times, good times.

Also, I still need to keep checking up on the classes I want, and hope like crazy that they aren't all taken up by the time I'm able to register on Wednesday. The worst part is that my registration period starts about an hour and a half before I'm even able to get home. Stupid school, that's precious time being wasted!!

But whatever. I'm not planning on doing much school-related stuff this weekend. Mostly I just want to relax a bit and recover from all of the testing. Got to finish As I Lay Dying.

I haven't talked about that much here, have I? Well, outside of mentioning that I'm reading it, anyway. It's about this rural family, and the matriarch of the family, Annie Bundren, is dying. The story kind of takes off from there. It's really, really hard to get a grasp on in the beginning. Each chapter is told from the viewpoint of a different narrator, and the narrators have distinct characteristics, and it's very difficult to piece together the story in the beginning. It doesn't help that there are a ton of different characters in the novel. Half of the battle is figuring out who is who in the beginning.

Once you have all of that figured out, though, the story becomes a bit easier to follow. As mentioned earlier, each character has their own distinct flair, and it's very interesting to get each of their points of view on matters. Darl's chapters, in particular, are very interesting. He's the most well-spoken of the characters, and his chapters are also the most bizarre to read. Also, you get the most clear vision of what's going on in the story during Darl's chapters, since he's the least biased of the characters.

At any rate, it's a really good read. I still have 150 pages to go, but I hope to finish it before the end of the weekend lol. I have to return the book on Tuesday, after all. And then I have 1984 to read (which everyone informs me is fantastic, and I have no reason to doubt that), and then I think I'll go for the Kafka book. Reading!!

I need to start playing Resident Evil 4 again, too. I'm so far behind my brother it's not even funny lol. Ah, how I long for the days back in middle school when I didn't have that much homework. Actually, you know, I don't long for middle school at all. Middle school sucked. Erase that train of thought completely. I just long for the days when I didn't have much homework. There you go, that's much better.

Anyway, Resident Evil 4 beckons. I need to kill some monks and monsters. What makes it worse is that I can only play during certain hours of the day. The best playing experience is in my brother and sister's room, and there is far too much light in the afternoon to enjoy the game, so I can only play in the morning and at night. The price I pay to have the best playing experience. A class game like Resident Evil 4 really demands it, though. You can't just play that game any old time, you have to play it with the best of everything available to you. Anything less, and you're just desecrating the awesomeness of the game.

So, that's pretty much everything that's going on over here. The only other thing worth mentioning is that girl I talked about on her the other day from my Philosophy class, Judy...she's pretty much friend-only at the moment, haha. She doesn't seem to be interested in me at all beyond that. Oh well, she's nice to talk to in class, so hey. Can't win 'em all, right?

Yeah, I've been telling myself that for years XD
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