Brains Melt Like Candle Wax

Aha, so it seems there is much less time in my life than I first imagined.

I only have FOUR classes... but my silly amount of free time is now being snatched away as each little assignment is contorted into something tedious and awful.

I've been reading about the Cold War in my Keylor textbook for three hours today. It's INTERMINABLE. I mean, I would be fine with having to read ONE PARAGRAPH of this UNENDING MESS for homework, but 25 pages is apt to KILL me.

Naturally, I overbooked myself for this evening, since I'm planning to read 45 pages of Heart of Darkness and.. er.. not. Senior teachers like extensive, long, dense things. I'd rather read one section of the Tao Teh Ching and take a moment to ponder it than try to cram a book into my head to the point of implosion.

Olfactory ambrosia?

My mum just found a wildflower patch in our yard, and gave me one.



It smells like homemade berry ice cream on the Fourth of July.

Listening to: A Minor Incident - Badly Drawn Boy (harmonica dance!)

Bad Jazz

Sup. Today I went to the dentist. At dentist's offices there is always annoying jazz that you can't control or turn off. I've spent too much time today sitting in irritating places... case in point the hospital. In the hiring department, where I volunteer, people are always laughing obnoxiously. God, I wish they would just shut up. Especially when they are SO LOUD.. this one woman is constantly saying dumb, rhetorical things and laughing fakely and loudly.

I assembled packets for too long, while office banter banged in through the open workroom door. I was thinking today about them, since I have so much time by myself. I suppose it would be bad to tell people the truth when you're working with them, because it would "sour the office environment." But if this is true, I NEVER want to work in an office. Why do workers constantly ask each other how they are doing, when it only invokes "oh, just fine! just great! look at that beautiful sunshine! are you going out in it? oh, aren't you lucky!"

bleh.

The Right Side of My Brain this Afternoon