Books

I had to spend $500 on textbooks this semester.  Do you know how much I will be able to sell them back for? $100.  That's a 1/5 of the price.  They will be able to use most if not all of the books next semester so really they're making another $300-400 on some other schmuck who has to buy them in order to attend classes.  I hate college.

Excited

Is it weird that I'm excited to clean my apartment tonight?  The only reason I am is because I get to put up Christmas decorations afterwards.  And I'm going to make a warm delicious dinner and it's going to snow like crazy which makes me super happy.  Our little tree we have is kinda sad right now.  I also need to put my letters I've written into envelopes and mail them soon... Probably tonight.

Address me as "Your Highness or Your majesty"

I am (for the third year now) the queen of my horse club.  Which is definitely my last year.  I have had a blast and it's amazing to talk to so many people about the organization.  But this queen is hanging up her sash and passing on the crown after this year.

I really really really wish my parents just had several thousand dollars laying around to send me to the Worlds Competition.  I really hate that other girls parents can just give them a chunk of money like that to go and compete.  Oh well.  My new goal this year is to get the other royalty very excited to keep being royalty and to show other members that it's a blast and that they should think about doing it as well.

And I'll definitely co-chair the royalty next year to be able to keep the girls involved and excited.  I hope that all the work I put in pays off.  It'd be a really big treat for me to see the royalty grow and continue in our club and it started with me (sort of).

This semester

This is what my semester is boiling down to at this point:
Poli Sci 401
          Anywhere from a B to an A since the paper is worth a ridiculous amount and we only had one test which I got an AB on.

Poli Sci 470
           Most likely a C.  Which blows.  Hopefully I can do really good on the final and maybe sneak out with the BC or B.

Golf
       It's Pass/Fail.  Only mass incompetence at my part on the Final exam will prevent me from getting a P.

Women's Health
      An AB or an A, it's so easy to BS my way through this class.  It's all about being uber upset about the incompetence of society (men) to treat women equally.

Not awful.  I'll live.  And law school will happen.  It just depends on where.

Brain + Motivation= Good Grades

So Thanksgiving break was supposed to restore my motivational levels and instead they seem to have depleted into nothingness.  My brain has decided it will not concentrate on anything other than reading for fun.  How am I going to get back in the swing before finals?  I wish there was a button.  Or something to drink, like Motivation by Pepsi.

Babies and Stuff

I've been thinking about kids a lot lately.  Not that I'm at all ready for them.  Just thinking about why people have kids.  Why society wants us to have them.  The pressure of society to have them.

My cousin has kids but does he deserve them? His little boy Alex is so bright and so quizzical and I just want to save him from the mess his parents life is.  I hope that help from other family members will balance out his life and give him the help he needs to succeed.

I hate to think that people have children and can't care for them.  There should be a test or something.  Or at least mandatory classes on how to raise children.  I'm not saying everyone needs to raise their children the same just with guidelines for parents.  Like: Vegetables are important, Fruit, Grain, etc.  Feed them correctly.  Play with them, read to them.  All of these things seem basic to me but so few kids get all this.  I look at how advanced Kellyn is at a year and a half to how far behind Alex is at a year older than her.

I wish I could help them.  Unfortunately there's nothing I can do about it.

Body Image

You know what scares me?

That Doves "True Women" Ad campaign is one of the only advertisement campaigns that use women of natural beauty (not the 5'8" or taller at 120 lb.s or less) models.

Barbie scares me too.

You must be above this height (about 4" taller than the average woman) with a 12" waist and 38" boobs.  If not?
Well you just aren't worth our time.

I hate the ideals which are placed on women and men to conform to images that are unhealthy and have nothing to do with why people are attractive.

Have you ever watched shows like the Dallas Cowboys or America's next top model?

A perfectly thin girl is criticized and told horrible things about her body because she has the pooch in her stomach which is natural. THAT'S WHERE BABIES GO!  Now there is a trend of overweight Americans but eating healthy and not eating at all are two very important differences in what body image should be about.

Women of African decent are curvy.  It's sexy.  Deal with it!

White women are not all blonde 5'9" blue eyed super models.  Deal with it!

Hispanic women also have curves and they are sexy as well.

Girls with a big nose or a big booty and big thighs is not unattractive.  She's gorgeous.  What is wrong with people?