Feeling :  mellowmellow  Listening :  The Waitresses - Christmas Wrapping  Reading :  Atonement (finally, haha!)

“Christmas Wrapping” is my Christmas song this year. :) It never really applied to me until this year, strangely enough.

I can’t believe how emotionally draining 2007 has been. I feel like I’ve been put through the wringer. So much drama! I’m so glad it’s over. I hope 2008 will be much easier to bear.

Tomorrow is the last day of the fall semester for me. I told my co-worker that my brain was “applesauce” from all the over thinking I had to compensate. Quick recap: I’m taking upper division courses in anticipation of getting a Bachelor’s in English next spring.

But the thing is I’m not an auditory learner. I prefer to see something, write it out, and let my brain extrapolate what it needs to understand it. But my teachers this semester pretty much required us to discuss in class. I can’t get over that. That is my only complaint with my teachers this semester (most of whom I will probably take again in the future, and cannot avoid because my school is so small). I LOVED the material we studied. I really felt like everything came together in the end.

But the majority of the time, when they ask questions to try and get us to talk, I’m like, “where the fuck are they leading with this?” The majority of the time, I wouldn’t fully understand the discussion until well after I left the class. I sound like a fool in public situations, I really do. Especially if what I say isn’t what they want to hear, or is completely not relevant.

That’s why I’m a writer. Any good writer worth their weight in the paper they write on are antisocial.

*le sigh*

Whatever. I’ll survive. If I can make it through this semester, I can make it through the next year and a half no problem!

I turned in 2 papers just now: “Love in the Time of Mango Street” for Writing About Literature, and “A History of Western Violence in The Day of the Locust” for Literature of the American West. You can guess what books I chose to write my papers on, haha.

Plus I banged out the last one due for History of Pop Culture just now. It was about Jillian’s - a local venue here in Vegas - of course. I hope my professor doesn’t mind that the visit was 3 months ago and not as recent as within 3 weeks. Like I really have time to pop over to Neonopolis with my schedule! But I took pictures, and they helped refresh my memory enough to generate a paper from it.

I really should be getting to sleep. I’ve been working midshifts at work this weekend, and my sleeping hours are all wonky. I prefer nights because I’m such a lazy ass, haha. But I shall forage for food and take a shower because I need both.

?: “Are you a morning person or a night person?”