Contradicting myself and dorks

I'm going to contradict my previous thoughts today. Before I complained that time is too fast and needs to slow down. Well I have a different complaint today. I've found that I really don't enjoy time off all that much unless I have something to constantly occupy myself with. Sure, I'll take 3 days off in the middle of the semester anytime, but when I have a month long break in between semesters, I go stir crazy.

I only work 2 days a week. I would pick up more shifts, but this is not possible as I would be taking other peoples shifts away from them. I've had no school work to do, and very little internship to do yet. I find that when I have this much time off, I just get depressed and eat Wendy's late at night. I think I really need to be working or attending school. Give me a couple of weeks, and I'm sure I'll be back to my previous way of thought, but for now....come on..give me something to do! I have orientation tomorrow morning at 8 A.M. where I shall learn to restrain people going through psychotic breaks. That should be fun.

Thought of the day:
According to the dictionary, the word dork is "vulgar slang for penis". You may ask what led me to look this up. In elementary school, someone once told me that dork meant a whale's penis. I found that extremely funny, but have never verified that. So today, about 15 years later, I decided to do just that. While it does not mean "a whale's penis" (which would be even more comical), it is apparently vulgar slang for a regular penis. Take this knowledge and insult those you don't like. While they may think you're making a little harmless joke calling them a nerd, in all reality, you're calling them a dick.

Ah, one more thing. I bought my first king cake of the season today at PJ's....Mardi Gras seems really early this year, but I guess that's the catholic church's decision, not New Orleans'.

Time, Cranberries, and Grad Students

Time is a funny thing. The funny thing about it is that it has apparantley gone into fast forward. Does it seem like 2006 just flew by to anyone else? I mean I feel like I just started grad school and now I'm graduating in May. And I feel like my years are coming by faster, but I don't see a very clear future ahead of me. Professionally, yes. Personally, no. I just don't want to get old. I think the fact that I am about to be in the real world is freaking me out. You mean I can't be a student anymore? oh well, one more reason to go for the PhD. I just wish time would slow down. Especially between now and Tuesday, because these are my last days off before the semester starts again.

Second rant...The Cranberries. Maybe I'm a decade late on this one, but why the hell did they have to turn so shitty (the band, not the fruit. I actually enjoy the fruit dried). I put on "everybody else is doing it so why can't we" today and I just felt like melting as soon as I heard "i still do". What a damn good album! That whole album just brings me back to the nineties. The days of being a "goth", writing bad poetry, and listening to the cranberries (yeah..one of these things just doesn't belong here..one of these things just isn't the same...i.e. cranberries + goth = how?). Then I listened to "no need to argue" which is an equally as good album. Absolutely amazing. Same retro feeling. Even "to the faithful departed" was o.k. But come on...what the hell was up with "wake up and smell the coffee"? that album was crap as was anything else that they've put out. It's just sad to know that they'll never be the same again. (see above complaint about time).

And finally, once again thanks to Nicole, please enjoy this very short but hilarious video on grad students: