Well, it turns out I don't have to bustle around getting independent studies approved and credit substitution forms filled out. Due to a lack of interest the London Semester was canceled.

Lovely.

They might do it next year. When I am likely to be busy with a senior thesis or my student teaching.

Lovely.

Everything is fine. I'm just super pissed and can't rightly or wrongly take it out on anything. Shit happens.

So today I donated blood for the first time (previously before this I thought I was ineligible - long story). It was a good experience overall except it took so long! It didn't help that I had a very slow nurse. I think it was the one who got Katie last year. The woman could not find a vein to save her life.
But eventually 500ccs of blood was taken plus some vials. Man was I fascinated. I mean, it's a bag of blood and she was handling it like an icepack.
The only part that was uncomfortable was when she ripped the needles out of me without a warning. That really REALLY hurt.
But I got a sticker, some cheese and a cookie. Oh, and juice. Lots of juice.

Tonight was also the big 'Take Back the Night' march. It had a lot of people attend this year in light of the recent highly publicized sexual assaults. From what I've heard quite a few have happened but the administration made a big deal of these two because the newspapers caught wind of it. It's ridiculous, they're doing nothing to help people be or feel safer. We can't have cameras because of 'what visitors would think.' Let me tell you, and Katie will agree the whole small college, big heart, touchy-feely close community that the brochures rage on about doesn't exist. It's all a big myth to attract students.

I am currently finishing the application for the London Semester (it's a sure thing, the only problem is if not enough people apply) which is due this Friday with a hefty deposit. I have a meeting with my adviser on Monday to draw up the final plan for my degree program.

This semester's classes are mostly OK, a lot of necessary stuff I have to slog through but two are becoming really interesting: History, Memory and War and Women Writers.

The first is not military history but what our culture's perception of war is, and how we remember it. We read a book on the Vietnam Veteran's Memorial last week. And Women Writers while burdened by some feminist essays (some of the theory is actually interesting and common sense - very little 'man-hating') it is great. We're reading Jane Eyre now.

I don't know, stuff and things.

Sorry about the long time between updates and my not commenting or reading the blogs in months. I got internet at home but it was so slow I limited myself to facebook.
My computer got a horrible virus, IT at school told me to toss my computer but my sister knew a professional guy who fixed it for a bargain....it had "the worst he's ever seen." It basically encrypted every single file on my computer. Plus other things.

But that's in the past now, and luckily, he was able to save all of my files.

School is good so far, I'll elaborate some other time. I'm just happy to get this computer back.