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Enigmatic_Soul_Passion
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Name: E
Gender: Female
Interests: reading
video games,
sleeping
partaking in sensual pleasures (such as eating, aromatherapy, receiving massages, etc.)
Expertise: Procrastinating.
Speed reading.
Defying odds.
Surviving temporary insanity.
Banana Nut Bread and Blueberry muffins.
Occupation: Student
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Member Since:
12/2/2004
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| Another paper, 25 - 30 pages. Yes, I know school is not in yet. No, I
am not doing this by choice. Yes, a professor has "encouraged" me to do
it before August...Oh well. At least I have something to do.
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| Passed Spring classes with a 3.0 (Hooray!) and now I'm currently waiting for classes to begin in August (so I can finish this acursed degree!!) Also, I think I'll have to downgrade my boyfriend to "fuckbuddy" status. Too many things set me on edge with him and while he's not entirely worthless...um...yeah , I don't think this is going to work out. I'd rather focus on other things. Oh well, I have two hours to decide.
LATER DAYS
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| So today is Thursday.
I have one 20-page paper and one 12-paper due by Friday.
I need to grade 30 exams by Saturday.
And I need to get the hell up out of my apartment by noon on Saturday as well (so says my lease.)
Good news:
Finished two 20 page papers, two exams, and graded 90 papers by
Wednesday. Was able to play Kingdom Hearts 2 for the first time, for a
little while (didn't have enought time to reach the save point ).
I'M READY FOR THIS TO END!
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| So I just found out that my body has limits.
Even though I am a night-owl, apparently it is not OK to pull three
consecutive all-nighters. Sooner or later, no amount of coffee, Red
Bull, pencil jabs, or candy binges will make my mind productive at 7:00
in the morning. Combine this with the fact that my laptop was
previously indisposed, (had to send it to TN in order for it to be
fixed via IBM warranty), and school computers somehow block my
creative processes, I ended up with only 8 pages of work for a 20 page
report due tomorrow.
By Sunday, I crashed *big time*. Slept for 9 hours, grabbed something
to eat, tried to work a little more, crashed by midnight to sleep for
11 hours. I woke up today drained, deluded and dehydrated.
Strangely though, I'm not worried. I just made a miscalculation in time
but I'll get through this...by pulling a partial-nighter. (I'm going to
bed by 4. I promise.)
Lessons learned:
1) Me and My Laptop are One (since I can't "write" on anything else.)
2) Must get to bed by 4AM. No exceptions.
3) Folgers coffee sucks,
4) Need to dump one guy I'm dating since he doesn't understand what "I'm busy" means.
5) As much as I try to delude myself, I am not a vampire; I cannot stay up all night
EVERY single night.
6) Water is important.
7) So is food.
8) Coffee beans do not equal food.
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| Not to say that Wikipedia
is the most accurate source of information on the web, but it's pretty
interesting what one can find there. In the middle of writing a research paper
for my "U.S. Contemporary Security Issues" course, I stumbled across
a wiki article for Christopher
Columbus.
I've never liked this guy, not even when my Elementary chorale instructor bribed the class to sing songs about him for the Columbus
holiday by giving us jumbo Blowpops. Something just rubbed me the wrong way about a guy who received so
much credit for a nautical miscalculation, subsequently basked in his
"discovery" only to succumb to greed in the end. My reasons for
disliking Columbus are, in part, due to this portion of the article:
Criticism focuses on the continuing propaganda cultivated in Columbus myths and
celebrations (such as Columbus Day) and their effects on American thought
towards present-day Native Americans (New
World Mongoloids)....The genocide and atrocious acts committed by the Spanish
against the natives (the Tainos in particular) are well documented in
terrifying detail by Bartolomé de Las Casas in his
letters and book A Short Account of the
Destruction of the Indies. After Columbus'
death in 1506, the genocide of many Indians made Bartolemé de Las Casas
persuade the Spaniards to use African slaves instead. In the 1530's, the Spanish
conquistadors brought many slaves to the New World from Africa.
Bartolomé de Las Casas would later regret this as he saw the rough treatment of
the African slaves by the Spaniards. This venture would eventually lead to the
selling of the surplus of African slaves to the British settlers in the United States.
So if Columbus did not "find America"
and subsequently exploit the Native Americans for gold, spices, and other
valuables, then the Native Americans would not have died due to Western
diseases. If the Native Americans did not die (and subsequently made poor
slaves), the Spaniards would not have thought about using African slaves (thus propagating
the slave trade.)
However, since I am of mixed heritage (African, Caucasian, Native American), I
would not exist without Columbus' introduction
to the New World. Thus I indirectly owe my
life to this idiot wannabe conquistador.
That doesn't mean I have to like him though.
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