Why Must I Spend My Time

Fillin' up my mind / With facts and figures that never add up anyway / They never add up anyway (Fountains of Wayne)

Now, I'm not really complaining about all the studying that college really is, because if I really found this all a waste of my time, I wouldn't be here in college, right? It's been fun. Studying is a pain at times, but hey, even if the numbers don't add up, I'll do what I need to do with them anyway.

Saturday night I opened the door and these "Flunk Napping" Red Bull energy shot things were hanging on everyone's door round the hall. Soooooo strange. I'm not going to drink it. (: Claire can have it. I will avoid energy drinks as best as I can. I mean, I already have coffee, and that makes me jittery enough already. No use drinking something that allegedly doesn't taste so good. I don't need that stuff in my body, nonono.

As you can see, both of my purple turkeys have taken some damage. It's Annie's fault the princess is nearly completely decapitated. Look at her princess hat flying above a missing head. My chem turkey is getting crumbled, and it's missing finger feather is held up by the star magnet from the Waikiki Aquarium bought back on our 9/11 adventure earlier in the semester on the side of our fridge with my "DON'T PANIC" sign. I think it might be a good idea to take them off the door before they face any more damages.

Last night we had a little study get together (after spending money at The Market - need to use up those points before the end of the semester!) which, of course, included at least one round of Blokus to loosen up our brains (well, it's such a battle of the mind still, anyway). I ran through my notecards for Hawaiian studies quite a few times, flipping through powerpoint slides and skimming docs. Worked those dates and facts into my brain! And then, this morning, after a brief terrible bathroom incident that displayed being "out of it", and a breakfast with Annie and Megan involving strange but tasty lemon bar things, I regurgitated those facts into specific blanks on two sheets of paper. I got my tentative grade for the class so far and turned in my extra credit on the movie Hotel Rwanda, gave Kat and Andrew some kettle corn, and was satisfied, coming back here to the dorm room.

I've got my final anthropology paper to edit for Wednesday to do. I should probably do that by the end of tonight, though, seeing as how the books from the state library are due tomorrow. I guess that means library adventure tomorrow! Yay!... Well, not completely yay. But okay. Maybe I can get some studying done there, too. I'd like to practice for the Christmas orchestra I have somehow become a part of... but I'm not too keen on looking at the runs of notes from M. Foumai. Luckily I got myself into the second violins, where I can be proud and confident and not have to worry about practicing as much as I would have to if I were in the firsts. Punahou kids eat a lot of Skittles.

Anyway, back to reading and writing. Numbers and elements, I'm coming for you soon!