The life of a long winded college student....

People are starting to flock to the pool, I don't blame them, it's been beautiful outside.

I've been cooped up inside studying and trying to get better. I started feeling sick Friday, usually I brush it off, but since my roommate was having flu-like symptoms, I wasn't going to take any chances. If I had to have the flu, the on-coming week would have been the worst time; tests, birthdays, concerts, labs and some traveling was all coming with the week, I could not afford to get sick. So I stocked up on my vitamin C.

For some reason I had the urge to watch one of my favorite movies, Requiem for a Dream. It could have been a subconscious thing with all the pill popping I was doing. This is a movie I recommend to some, but not all. At first I was hesitant to watch this movie, it's about drug use and addiction, and I don't really like drug movies so I never had the urge to watch it. Eventually I watched it and loved it. Everything about this movie is incredible: the script (based on a book), cinematography, the acting (Ellen Burstyn and Jared eto), and the soundtrack. The soundtrack is done by the Kronos Quartet, and is brilliant. It follows these characters for a year, through the beginning of their addictions and the end result of what their addictions did to their lives. It's a pretty intense movie, and depressing, but yet I manage to watch it constantly.


Today I had a test, which is in part the reason I opted to take it easy this weekend. I was prepared, although I did have a little anxiety going into the test. I've found this to be even more common this semester than previous ones.

One thing I don't understand about this professor is how he doesn't seem to care or pay attention to the time. I know I learned how to tell time in Elementary School, and it's served me well, since this knowledge I've acquired has enabled me to make it to his class on-time, now why can't he do the same thing for us. Everyday he goes over the allotted time for this class. Going over time for lectures is one thing, but handing out a test that takes longer than the time period of the class and knowing it's going to take longer, is another. It took 90 minutes to finish this test, causing me to miss out on my lecture for my next class. I was already frustrated when I got the test and looked at it, since at that moment there was only 35 minutes left in class, and 3 designs to implement and make schematics for. Then he announces that no one can leave the class until the last test has been turned in. What are we in high school? This is the only section for this class, so cheating wasn't even an issue.

I really don't want to hate this professor, but it's turning out that way. In fact I actually enjoy his lectures, and he helped me with the test, but his like of time-management is causing me to suffer in my other class in which I need to be present for every minute of lecture.


One of the only things that is helping as each day passes is the many countdowns of the many things I've been looking forward to:
5 days until Taste of Chaos (not only the concert, but I get to see my Corpus crew and my womb buddy!)
11 days until spring break
16 days until the Toadies reunion show in Houston
1 month and 7 days until Astros home opener (finally, good television!)
3 months and 5 days until I'm the big 2-0 (Astros VS Cardinals, couldn't have been scheduled on a better day)