How the hell did I get two weeks behind?

January 30th, 2008 • chatter

Since last Monday was MLK day, we didn’t have class naturally. And according to our syllabus, we didn’t have any mandatory reading to do either so how did I end up not reading the material for last night that, according to my syllabus, I wasn’t supposed to read until last night? I still remain confused about the whole ordeal. Now I’ve got probably 200 pages to read over the weekend not including the Clifford Geertz-based essay due in two weeks which I need to start as well. I’m starting to remember why I only wanted one degree and not pursue another one, which obviously didn’t work out.

In other news, I’m plowing through The Ancestor’s Tale faster than normal which makes me worry that I’m not going to retain as much information as I normally do when I’m only reading one book at a time. Since I won’t be selling the book back, I can of course read it again at a later date but geez, I want to remember this stuff NOW! I also heard that McCain took Florida, by what means of absurdity I have no idea. He’s pandering to a (non-existent) fear of radial Islamic attacks on Florida and all the older population worrying about their Social Security checks every month. I was floored by his offerings in the debate from last week because he’s clearly stuck in the past and without his advisors, would have no idea it’s 2008 and not 1988.

Everyone was pegging Romney to take Florida and I’m glad he didn’t but I didn’t want McCain to take the primary at all, he’s seriously out of step with many Americans — but not Floridians I take it. Since I’m not registered to vote in FL — yet — I have no room to complain about the results. I’ve got my absentee ballot for my home state rushed off to the Circuit Clerk and should have my primary form early next week only to have to do it all over again in March when my state votes again. After that I’ll be registering to vote here and bidding farewell to my forlorn old precinct of voting.

Tonight’s dinner was a delicious little farfalle pasta salad with sun-dried tomatoes, fresh mozzarella, delicious Kalamatas all topped off with a nice Greek Feta dressing. It was our first of two vegetarian dishes we’ll be having this week, I just need to plan out the other one. Yesterday, I found out I’ve now lost almost 21lbs in just a few short months, I’m now down to 195.5lbs. I weighed about 190 when I moved here nearly five years ago so it’s very exciting for me to lose this weight as I spent my entire teen years another 30lbs lighter than I am now, hopped up on who-know’s-what supplements and mandatory weight training for sports. I won’t be dropping back down to that weight again, although in doing so I’d be able to wear about 10 pairs of awesome boot cut jeans once more, because I can’t imagine being rail-thin again especially without any muscle mass to back it up.

I need to get to sleep and break in our new memory foam mattress topper, hopefully we’ll sleep better on it tonight than last night, where I felt like I was going to roll off the bed all night because of the bulge in the topper due to packaging.

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