Whoo.. finals time. Yes boys and girls. It is that time again in the year, where students curse their courses even more than they did during project due time. The time where the allnighter is not uncommon, along with the allnight party for those lucky sons of bitches who were done last week (their profs dont believe in finals), or on Mon, or Tues, or whatever. Fuckers.Eh.. oh well. Its not too bad for me. Monday - Phil, which I totally rocked. Tuesday - CS 342, which I totally flunked (not that it helped me much when my prof accused me of cheating on the final). Wednesday - Nothing. Yep, thats right. I sat on my ass all day. Well not really. I read two books (Nancy Drew.. man, its amazing how much a person regresses when its crunch time). Did a load of laundry (I needed to do two, but we are out of laundry detergent). Went out to dinner, in a dress no less, since I was still doing my laundry. Watched TV. Got up at noon. Keep in mind, that those activities previously listed may or may not have occured in that order (but its pretty obvious how it went). Tomorrow, or Thursday - CS 201 and HDFS. I doubt that CS will be all that wonderful.. but Ill get a C in the class. Im gonna rock the HDFS final and get my B+ (or A-.. but Id have to really really rock the final to get that A-). Then Im done. Then its off to home to get ready for Haywood Banks (Yea!! Toast!!!). Friday.. well thats a hell of a lot of sitting around. Probably finish my last book (Once again, yea for Nancy Drew) and return them to the library.
This last few weeks has been psycho, and yet not so psycho. Two weeks ago was major psycho, like something everyday, all day, with no time to spare. Last week was major do nothing week. Cept my bday was on Thurs. I am now officially legal. Go me. I have learned a valuable lesson in this short time.. dont drink Peppermint Schnawps. Well.. dont drink it after youve had mexican and daquaris. I did not take one for the team as many would have you believe, but by god I wanted to. Lets just say that if there had been any more gas involved in the mix, my stomach would have popped like a balloon. Ugh.
Random boy stuff has been going on lately too. Shane may or may not like me, people cant decide (and I dont mean him, cause god knows, no one wants to ask him to get the truth). But thats really okay. Joe has dropped off the face of the earth, must to Ang's dismay (she was soo hoping to get to harrass.. err.. meet him). But the boy had/has strikes against him. He smokes (which he said he didnt), and drinks a wee bit too much (I dont condone people who drink.. but when its all the time.. we have a word for that.. alcoholic), and he stood me/us up for the play. No explaination, no email, no phone call. Nothing. So yeah.. He also works toooooo much. Like.. he works 12 hours a day, cause he has nothing better to do. All I gotta say is Get a fuckin Hobby Boy. Oh well. Im kinda likin this guy whos in a class with me (well the class is over now). We have mutual friends. Thats all I will say at this moment. But I doubt anything will happen. I get the vibe that hes a non-dater. Like.. hes not opposed to the thought of one day getting married, having kids, and etc, but right now, hes happy being a bacholor, and when I say that, like I mean, not dating anyone. Not just only dating and not settling down with one girl, but I mean, like not seeing anyone, at all. But I know the boy is straight. Oh well. I can still look though. Hes cute, and a total sweetie. He works with kids.. well older kids.. and hes uber athletic and uber smart (Hes a freakin double major). If people ask, Ill tell you who he is.. but Im not pushing it, and I dont know if I want it pushed. I havent decided. But eh. Anyway. Yeah.
I had a major migraine on Monday. It was horrible. I havent had one this bad.. well.. since.. well.. since Christmas break. I was fine all morning and through my test, but I got home and was like, ugh, I think I need a nap cause my head hurts. Ang wanted to go out (and I kinda did too), so we decided to go shopping. Big mistake. We had lots of fun and etc, but by the time we got home it was 7 (we left at like 130 or 2 in the afternoon) and all I wanted to do was find a dark silent hole and pound my head against a wall (cause the pain on the outside of my head from that would distract me from the pain in my head from the headache, and would be less painful). I was supposed to study with Julian and Luke, but after and hr of rest.. kinda sorta.. I decided it was a bad idea. I would be miserable without my meds and not remember anything but pain, but if I took them, I wouldnt remember anything cause I was doped up, and I dont like driving with them.. its.. well.. like being high. I guess. Ive never been high.. but this is the closest to it that I can think of. So yeah.. I took my meds, watched Care Bears (and was really enthralled with them as my IQ went to 20 once the meds took effect) and passed out around midnight. "I'm friendly and slow moving". Thats pretty much says it all. Beth + Midrin = slow moving, quiet, sedated child. But its all good, cause there is no pain.
Blah.. Ive wasted 40 minutes on this post now. I really should head to bed.. but eh.
I talked to Joshy the other day. We made plans to go see X-Men 2 last Sunday. I drove down there to meet him, and who should show up, but him, and his bitch of a fiancee and their roommate Bob (who stunk like dirty unbathed boy not wearing deoderant). We saw the movie and then I came home. Pretty uneventful.. thankfully. Tina (aka The Bitch) was pissed at me cause I bought Joshy some red fuzzy dice to replace the ones that were stolen from his car. She told me a couple years ago at my xmas party at home that I could never buy him toys again. All I gotta say to that is: Fuck you bitch. He's been my friend for a hell of a lot longer than he's even known you, and if he wants toys, and I want to give him toys, then Im gonna give him toys. Joshy is like a brother, I love him and I wont deny him much of anything if he wants it. And that same is in reverse. I dont think this girl has ever had that kind of relationship with anyone, so she doesnt understand. I pity her. I told Joshy about my prof accusing me of cheating. He told me he loved me and that my prof was a fool. It made my day. Its nice to hear from people that they love you.
There is a rumor (which has been confirmed) in the CS building. The comp labs are becoming Only Grad Student Friendly (No Ugrads Allowed). The Ugrad lab is moving to the basement of another building (two buildings south). Not only is the Ugrad lab moving, but so are the 103 and 104 labs. 104 is the lab that every CS freshman must take. 103 is the lab that ever other student must take. Their labs run from 8am to 8pm M-F. Only those people enrolled in those two labs may be in the lab during that time - even if there are computers available. Now.. there are 800 Ugrads in the CS department. There are 25000 students at ISU. 200 of the Ugrads are freshmen in 104. 1000 of the other 25000 students are in 103. So what are the other 600 Ugrads in CS supposed to do if they want to use a machine during those 12 hrs? Suffer. Oh yeah.. and by the way.. the labs are only open from 8am to midnight. What if we need help.. well we are fucked, cause the TAs are back in the CS buildings, same as the profs for the CS classes. What if we need system support.. well.. yeah, fucked there too. Not only does SSG suck ass anyway, but its also, back in the CS building. Its like the Ugrads dont matter. Apparently this was a "faculty" decision. They want to be closer to their grad students to do research. I realize that the research brings in most of the money for the department (cause we sure as hell arent getting it from the school, that money is all going to build 4 buildings we dont need and pay the football coach). But there are two empty rooms upstairs that could be converted to labs for the researchers. Or hell, just move the 103 lab to Pearson (the other building). That would free up a whole half of the lab thats taken up now anyway. Oh yeah.. get rid of the damn Sun machines too. No one uses them. Put that Linux machines back. It used to be a Linux lab, and people used the lab. But no one can do anything on the Sun machines cause they rarely let you sign into them without rebooting and once you get there, the most powerful program on them is the notepad function. So everyone is fighting for the middle section of the lab (the only one available to students as the other 2/3 of the lab is being taken up by the 103 and 104 students in their labs (our lab is divided into 6 parts - 3 for 103, 1 for 104, 1 for those damn Sun machines, and 1 for the Linux/Win XP dual boot machines). Its really really really stupid. But what gets me, is from the people (Ugrads) Ive talked to, is that they dont care. It doesnt bother them that they are gonna have to go to a different building for stuff now. I think it hasnt dawned on them how much of a pain in the ass this is actually going to be. I am going to write a letter to the head of the Ugrad chunk of the department, but I doubt its going to do a hell of a lot of good, considerings its already been decided. They didnt tell us (the Ugrads) about it either.. they were just gonna wait and tell us next fall after they had already done it. We didnt have a voice in it. Nothing. The Ugrads far outnumber the grad students. Its just so those few faculty members who are actually doing research can have their precious grad assistants near them. But considering that there are only 4-8 grad students on a research project, and only like 10 or so projects going on at the moment.. they dont need a whole fucking lab for themselves. Not when the lab will allow more than 200 students (not much more.. but still). Waste of space, waste of money, waste of time.
Grr.. but anyway.. with that.. Ive wasted an hr of time on this and must get to bed so I can study in the morning before my test.
Goodnight all!
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