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Boring insomniac blogging |
| Today was my day off, and I've been so exhausted that I didn't wake up until 1 p.m.I needed the chance to catch up on my sleep, but I'm wide awake right now and Shaun fell asleep on the couch while we were watching "Why Do We Fight," which is a really good documentary about the US military industrial complex.I recommend it.Anyway, I'm bored and sort of at a loss about what to do with myself.Part of me really misses when my boyfriend would go home at night to sleep, and I could stay up 'til three in the morning playing solitaire or watching some DVD for the fiftieth time.I guess I could do that now, but it's different when there's someone in the next room who would normally be sitting up with you.I'm bored, hence the the internet.But besides that, things are going pretty well.I managed to pass all my classes, and actually brought my GPA up a little.I'm still not too sure how I pulled that one off, but thank god, because if I failed any of those classes, I wouldn't be able to graduate next year.I have two semesters and ten classes to take to graduate with a double major in political science and English.I am completely done with political science, which makes me a little sad, because I wanted an excuse to retake a couple of my favorite professors.I was cut off from financial aid a year ago, and I paid for last semester out of pocket.I have been preparing to do the same for the next two semesters, and I have managed to cut my spending down to a minimum, living almost exclusively on rice, lentils and beans, which serves a double purpose of helping me lose weight, hopefully.It's been a challenge, but I'll be able to make it work.And I found out a few weeks ago that I might still be able to get some financial aid.I won't find out until after school starts, so I'm just going to plan on paying myself, but I'm hoping.I haven't gotten a chance to get too far in my summer reading list since school ended.I read A Portrait in Sepia by Isabelle Allende and was pretty disappointed.I read House of the Spirits, also by her, for a Latin American politics class and was really impressed.The structure and epic family history mixed with fanciful, mystical themes is really similar to One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, but this novel?degenerated into a sentimental love story.I?read?Kurt Vonnegut's The Sirens of Titan and was?also disappointed.I've never read anything by him before this, and I don't know?how representative?it is of?his other work.?It was?really?just a mediocre science fiction story without much deeper meaning.At least it was a quick read so I didn't have to waste?too much time on it.Right now I'm reading The Elegant Universe by Brian Greene, which is wonderful.I'm halfway through it, and so far he explained all the major theories and developments leading up to String Theory, from Newton to Einstein to quantum mechanics.I just started on string theory, which is amazing.It's taking me a long time to read, because I have to keep on stopping to let it all sink in.Anyone that wants to borrow it from me after I'm done, let me know.I recommend it.I haven't had a chance to take too many pictures so far.I feel really bad for my poor D80 sitting in the closet.Jesica and I took a tour of Tijuana and I brought my old Minolta.It was really educational, and I'm hoping I'll get?a chance to go back soon to take some more pictures and write about conditions there.Cody and I spent the day at Mission Trails a few weeks ago, which was wonderful except for the fact that my purse was stolen out of his car, along with my credit card, ATM card, driver's license and iPod.It was still a great day, it was nice to see Cody again and it's always nice to get out in the open and reconnect with nature.I'm planning to spend time this summer working on some writing and photography projects.I really want to get back to Tijuana and out to east county, and start some essays to go along with the photos. |
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