I just sent this to my Uni's paper as a Letter to the Editor. I'm posting it everywhere because I doubt that it will be published.

I am incredibly disappointed in the people living in this state. The reason for this is simple: the people of this state passed four amendments to the constitution. First of all, the constitution did not need to be amended for any of these. A law could have been passed instead. But the question that I am ask myself about this is “why?” In particular, amendment 2 saddens me. This amendment, which I have disagreed with since the moment I finished reading, is one of the most disgusting pieces of legislation that I have ever laid eyes on.

I can honestly say that if it were like California’s amendment 8, I would be less offended by it. However, instead of merely being a ban on gay marriages in this state, this proposition amends our state constitution so that not only can same-sex couples not get married in Florida, but also says that no legal union that is recognized as such will be valid in this state. In other words, if a same-sex couple gets married in another state, that marriage will not be considered legal here in Florida.

Considering that our state has just been a part of electing this nations first African American president, I would think that people would take more than a fraction of a second to look at what they’re voting for. To actually read the amendment and think about what it really means for this state.

So... I just logged into my lj account and realized that it has been over a lear since I've posted anything. A lot has happened in the last year, so I'm gonna make this a summary.

• Robert & I broke up. Don't worry, it was mutual.
• I switched majors. I'm now double majoring in Secondary English Education (High School English) & Classics (Roman & Greek studies).
• I'm slowly dragging my GPA back to what can be considered less than crappy.
• I have a foreign exchange student from South Korea for a roommate this year & my friend Mia is my suitemate...
• Umm.... plenty of possibly not so minor details that I've apparently forgotten about.

Anyways, most recently I decided that I will be putting myself into several thousand dollars worth of debt in order to complete both of my majors because I love Classics too much to give it up. Scary thing is that I didn't really consider the decision for very long before making it. I just sort of woke up & knew that I was going to go roughly $15K in debt & I was strangely okay with the idea. I seriously love when the head of the department that you're trying to major in loves you. It's pretty awesome.

Apparently, the Classics department here has put in the paperwork to combine the 4-year Classics B.A. degree with the 2-year M.A.T. of Latin into a 5-year program. Dr. Chitwood (the Goddess of Classics) said that she'll help me get into it if it goes through! I <3 her. And Dr. Manolaraki, who told me about the program while I was waiting in the hall to talk to Chitwood.

The really fun part is going to be the long talk that I end up having with my mother regarding the fact that I'm going to be taking an extra year in college for undergraduate. I'm going to do it whether I have her support (financial/emotional) or not, but I would prefer if I had at least her emotional support. Parental financial support would be helpful--even on a loan-type deal, they lend me the money & I pay them back--but I'll muddle through without it if I have to. If the 5-year M.A.T. program goes through, it would be awesome, because it would be possible for me to teach Latin here while I earned it, which would either mean credit or money or both.

Okay... well... I'm gonna go do some actual homework & try not to forget about the fact that I have an lj... it'll happen, but I'll try to remember for at least a couple days! ;)


P.S. -

Damn. I thought I was in a good mood on Friday... Hell. If Friday was a good mood, I think I'm about to start walking on air. Enough emotion online. Bad girls don't kiss & tell. At least I don't... =^.~=

You know, you would think that if the SOB's in the Chem dept. was going to give us h/w questions, they'd make sure that we could figure out the answers using what is given to us in the book. Of course, that would mean that the book would need to be USEFUL! Idiots...

I'm so happy right now. I just found out that I got into the site I wanted for ASB. ASB is Alternative Spring Break. It means that instead of partying or sitting around my parents' house for a week, I get to go volunteer somewhere. For some of you, this might sound really boring, but wait until I tell you where I'm going... I'm going to the Everglades. The actual Everglades. This is totally a dream come true. Plus, I get to spend an entire week with Sriram. *happy sigh* If only he wasn't so damned oblivious to the fact that I've been flirting with him for over a month. Oh well... I'm so happy that I'm shaking. It's awesome. Now I have to go write 2 papers & do my lab report & pre-lab. Whoop-dee-doo.

Here are the results to some various online quizzes I took.


Which Member of Malice Mizer Are You?



Which Type of Gackt's Pants Are You?



What Gackt Item Are You?



Which J-Rock Male Should Suit You?



Which Gackt Pic Are You?



Which Gackt Personality Are You?



Which Gackt Would You Get?
<---- Yum. ^.^


Gackt is 33... I'm totally serious. But he's SO FUCKING HOT!!!!!!!

I got a tattoo today (technically yesterday, but still). I'm so freaking ecstatic. You have no idea. GAH!!! I can't believe that I actually got a tatto!!!!

Becky, Tom and I were driving back from Chinsegut & Tom said one of the DUMBEST things to say to a woman he's dating: "I don't date intelligent women" (we're all in the Honors College). What he meant to say was that this was the first time he'd ever dated an intelligent woman. We both pointed this out & informed him that he hadn't walked into that one, he'd run face first into a brick wall! Sorry, just had to share b/c I just remembered & it was funny as hell.

Today has SUCKED! First I slept in until 1pm (why couldn't I have slept through the waste of time that is my Comp II?), then I ended up having to use some of my Flex Bucks because I was starving & didn't have time to go to Argos, & then I had to wait around for 2 hours in order to go to my Chem lecture.

During Chem, we spent the first 25 minutes of class figuring out how to use the damn clickers, then we finally got to the actual lecture, in which Prof. Ming spent almost an hour going over 3 SECTIONS of chap. 3. It was really boring because he kept going over the same thing & I felt bad because I stopped taking the notes for the most part & was doodling. It's not like he noticed (I sit in the halfway up the auditorium), but I still felt bad for not paying as much attention as I could have & for being distracted by the irritating people in the next row back who were talking.

If all of that wasn't bad enough, when I was getting on my bike to come back to my dorm, some inattentive asshole hit me in the nose with his bike chain! He didn't even apologize; he asked where he'd hit me & then went back to talking on the phone! I ended up with a slight nosebleed (which didn't last too long, thank goodness) & a splitting headache (which I still have). Small blessing: at least my nose isn't puffy or swollen...it just feels like it is.

Okay. Now that classes are in full swing, I will be on a semi-hiatus so that I don't fail my classes.

In other news, my schedule now includes Comp II instead of Precalc. This is due to the fact that while reading my book through the 2-hour long class, I knew everything the prof. was going to put on the board before he put it there, & I knew the answer to every question he asked & even got to correct him twice. Normally it takes more than 2 hours for me to start correcting teachers I don't know. Hell, I did math FOR Mrs. Jones for 3 years so that the answers would be right (j/k I love my Jonesy).

Oh!! That reminds me. While I was in the school bookstore seeing what books I would need for Comp II (which even they didn't know), I saw the 6th edition MLA Handbook & I started missing Jonesy really badly. *sniffle*

Last night I took my laundry & my homework down to the laundry room & ended up sitting down there for the nearly 2 hours it took to do my laundry (even then I didn't finish my homework). I was up until 2:30 in the morning reading various things for various classes today.

By all things normal to me, I shouldn't have gotten up at 9:30 this morning, but I had to go to the Credit Union to get a money order so that I could sign up for a CLEP test. Tomorrow I get to take the CLEP test, & soon I will find out if I need to take the class anyways.

They screwed up my book order. I'm pissed because not only did they screw up, both of the items they accidentally cancelled are now on backorder & won't be coming in until Tuesday or Wednesday, when at least one of the classes in question -- my CHEM LAB!!! -- is already done for the week; if it has to wait until Wed., my chem lecture will also have met for the first time. Also, some of the teacher here use a clicker (a little electronic device that looks like a tv remote) & you need to buy a code to activate the damn thing for the class, which the bookstore was out of, but didn't know they were out of. Also, it appears as though Anitha & Abi (possibly Sonya & Delaura as well) will need them too, even though they hadn't been told.

The other annoyance is that I'll have to take both my Chem book & my Precalc Algebra/Trig book because I only have a 15-minute window to get from Chem to Precalc. The reason that it's annoying is that they're the biggest 2 books that I have. Oh well.

15 fun things to do while in an elevator:

1. Sell Girl Scout cookies.
   
2. Shave.
   
3. Crack open your briefcae or purse & while peering inside ask: "Got enough air in there?"
   
4. Stand silent & motionless in the corner, facing the wall, without getting off.
   
5. When arriving at your floor, grunt & strain to yank the door(s) open, then act embarrassed when they open by themselves.
   
6. Give religious tracts to each passenger.
   
7. Frown & mutter "gotta go, gotta go" then sigh & say "oops!"
   
8. Show other passengers a wound & ask if it looks infected.
   
9. Walk on with a cooler that says "human head" on the side.
   
10. Stare at another passenger for a while, then announce "You're one of THEM!" & move to the far corner of the elevator.
    
11. Wear a puppet on your hand & talk to the other passengers "through" it.
    
12. Announce in a demonic voice: "I must find a more suitable host body."
    
13. Wear "x-ray specs" & leer suggestively at the passengers.
    
14. Laugh hysterically for 5 seconds, stop, & glare at the other passengers like they're crazy.
    
15. Wrinkle your nose & smell the air repeatedly. Sniff at your neighbor suspiciously, give a disgusted frown, & take a step away.

Somebody typed up & printed this out. It is posted in the hallway between my dorm room & the elevator. Whoever it was, I am now in love with them...

I'm baaaaack!!! I would have been back yesterday, but there isn't any wi-fi in the dorms. So today I had to dodge frequent (& still occuring) rainstorms so that I could spend $7 & get a 14-foot ethernet cable (the smallest available), which wasn't really that bad. Then I had to REGISTER my computer through the school's network, which means that I can't download anything illegally--as if I would. Gah! Hectic-ness.

Also, all of the restaurant areas close at like 9pm during summer break (technically, since school hasn't started, I'm still on summer break); since I didn't know this, & wasn't hungry until 9, I ended up having to call Papa Johns & ordered a small pizza. It wasn't what I wanted, but oh well. So tonight, I'm going to get what I had wanted in the first place: Chik-fil-A. The only problem is figuring out where the hell it is & getting there without getting lost (I'll be damned if I'm going to walk around campus with a map like a tourist at Disney).

My roommate Anitha (pronounced uh-nee-the) is awesome & she's so adorable; funny because she's older than me... And my other 2 suitemates are nice also. Abi reminds me a bit of Christine & Sonya seems nice (I've only seen her once since I've been here--her sis is in town so Sonya's staying with her). All 3 of them are sophomores in the 7 year biomedical studies course & are in the Honors College, so they're obviously intelligent & won't make me want to bang my head open on the walls. Plus, they know just about everyone on our floor (Cypress A 'Penthouse' - top floor) & have been introducing me around.

The weirdest thing happened to me & Anitha last night. This creepy guy who lives down the hall was wandering around at about midnight "trying to meet everybody." First he knocked on the door to meet us but only Abi & I were here, & SHE was half-asleep & had just gone into the bathroom. When I answered the door, we quickly & politely got him to leave. Apparently he then ran into Anitha, who didn't know that he had already met us. She brought him in to meet me at about 12:30/12:45(not knowing he already had) since I was the only one awake. So he starts out alright, talking about setting up a movie night & asking what kind of movies we had. He asked to sit down (we said yes, unfortunately), & he took a seat on Anitha's bed (thank whatever higher being that I was in mine already.
I'm not really sure how the topic changed, but then he started talking about how he was in band camp & that because of that, he hadn't peed since 11:30 in the morning! WTF!! He also kept repeating himself, which was annoying. Then he starts asking us if we'd ever "done that" (gone for 14 hours without peeing). Anitha was sitting there trying not to laugh & I was trying not to bolt from the room in terror & lock myself in the shower (shower is across the suite from the bathroom & sink & is about 4 steps from my door). It took us nearly an hour to get rid of him, despite our not-so-subtle clues. The clues were that I was already in bed, in my pj's & Anitha went & changed into hers & sat down & said she was tired. It took us nearly 15 minutes after she had done this for him to leave. THEN, he said that he was going to try to wait until tomorrow to pee, to see if he could hold it for 24 hours. He also said that he'd come by in the morning to tell us how it went. I'm not trying to be mean, but it would totally serve him right if he got a urinary tract infection.
As soon as he left & we'd locked the outer door & the door to our bedroom, Anitha & I practically collapsed into fits of laughter. Then we heard a knock & were prepared to freak out, but it was only Elicia, going back into her own room across the hall. We talked with some of the guys down the hall & Elicia & Delaura, when they came out of their room across the hall. By now, I think that everyone on this floor (other than the creepy guy, whose name I won't reveal) knows about what happened.

All in all, though, it was pretty fun. I ended up in the lounge reading because Anitha was tired & I wasn't (I don't mind at all, but next time, I'm taking a pillow...) & I didn't come back to the room until dawn--when I'd finished my book). I fell asleep around 7 & woke up to my alarm screaming at 10 (at which point I turned it off, bad me) At 11:30 this morning, (when the wonderful Anitha woke me up), a group of us went to Argos for 'lunch' & my absent-minded, half-awake self realized that I'd forgotten my wallet. Thank the heavens for Steve (Elicia's bf), who graciously bought me lunch. I totally owe him 2 or 3 favors for that. I was hungry, it was pouring, & I really didn't want to walk across campus to get back to my dorm.

Anyways, I am back & I love you all. *Huggles*

I've just finished packing all of my stuff for college. It's rather scary. All of the stuff that I'm taking fits into 2 18-gal. bins & 1 14-gal. bin... And I'm trying to convince myself not to start packing books... I will be strong...
Okay. Now I'm going to cheat & copy Christine's to-do list idea.

To-Do before I go:

• pack DVDs I want to take
  
• pick A FEW books to take (for comfort purposes)
  
• call my old roommate & apologize

To-Do Once I get to USF:

• check in
  
• go to Marshall Center, Room 105 & get my ID card
  
• go to the campus Credit Union & set up a bank account
  
• see about getting a check card while I'm at the Credit Union
  
• go to the bookstore & pick up my textbooks
  
• meet my new roommate (room change)

Hopefully I haven't forgotten anything; if I have, my mom is dropping off my new contacts this weekend.

Yip-dee-freaking-doo for sucky eyesight; my eyesight used to be -6.0, now it's -6.5 & getting worse. At this rate, I'm going to end up the first veterinarian who practices in braille! Oh well. I'll probably get surgery next summer because this shit is getting ridiculous. Most optometrist offices don't even carry trial pairs of the contacts I wear!!!

It's official. I am a weak conformist. I made a MySpace account. Self-loathing is abundant right now.

Upside to the MySpace account, I did find a download for "Inner Universe", the opening song for Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, 1st set. Happiness is helping push away the self-loathing...

For those of you wondering about the guy I met, I finally got the pic! And without further stalling for time:



It's times like these that I remember why I like my taste in men...

Goodbye. Rocky Horror beckons with Tim Curry transvestite-ness.