laceblade

Last night sucked. After blogging, I couldn't fall asleep again until like, 5:00. Today is over now, though, and I feel much better. I don't know how well my paper went, since I just handed it in, but I know that my political science exam went well.

Tonight was my last copy editing shift of the year at The Daily Cardinal. It's always a strange mood for me. My role at the paper is almost insignificant. I'm not an editor, nor even a writer. The people who know my name are actually a pretty small fraction of the paper as a whole. I feel sad when the tenures of editors end, just because things won't be the same any more. But as time has gone on, we've grown our own little family at the copy desk. Usually, every shift gets juggled with new people every semester, but somehow Jack, Mary, Louise, and I have managed to copy edit on the same night for four semesters straight, about to embark on our fifth. I think that one of the things I hate most about life is being forced to be separated from the friends you've made just because you reach a new stage in life. It isn't fair.

Finals this year are going to be different, at least for me. There have been a few very scary cases of sexual assault on campus lately. A woman on the east side of town had her house broken into, and was raped in her own home. A couple of weeks ago, a girl was walking on campus street that's by the lakeshore dorms (where things are calm!) at 8:00pm on a Wednesday night, and was forced into a car inside of which she was raped. The man dropped her back off on campus lately. And now, it happened again on Saturday night - a girl was picked up around 11pm, forced into a car, raped, and dropped back off on campus. In all 3 cases, the physical description of the assailant was the same.
Needless to say, this is scary! Usually, things like this happen at times like 3am, to girls who are walking home drunk by themselves, but honestly, 8pm on a Wednesday?! That's absurd. I'm not walking by myself anywhere on campus. It just really sucks, because not everybody has that option. I have friends who work at the library outside of which the 8pm Wednesday Girl got abducted. They have to work until 1am, and then lock the library and get home - what are they supposed to do, not work? It's ridiculous. I usually try to make myself feel better if I have to walk alone by telling myself that I'm carrying pepper spray (I always do), but seriously, as much as I'd like to hope that I could kick a rapist's ass, there are so many situations that I would be unprepared for, and useless in. Why do people have to be such assholes, and make the world a frightening place for the rest of us? Crock of shit.
"All" that I have left now are 4 finals, all of which will be next week. When I got home after copy editing tonight, I did nothing but watch a lot of episodes of the anime NANA. I'm almost caught up to the amount that have been released so far, which is sad, but also good because I've almost watched so many in a row that I'm starting to feel sick of it!

Anyway, I should probably catch up on the sleep that I lost last night. It's already late for a Monday night! ;_;

I'm sick of not frigging using this journal (except to leave comments in those of others!), so I'm x-posting from my blog.

As I no longer share a room with Steph, I have to use myself to vent my own OMG-school-is-pwning-me stress on. This involves me craning my neck until I can see myself in the mirror across the room and glaring, pointing in an accusatory manner, and making absurd faces. Come to think of it, that's what I did for the first 18 years of my life before living with Steph. I guess I've come full circle.

Studying has become much more difficult as I've suddenly fallen ill. I'm not sure if I should even describe it that way or not, but my stomach feels like it's tied up in knots. Antoine, Chad, and Paul all suggested some form of cola, so I've been drinking Diet Pepsi with lime, but it isn't doing anything for me. I desperately want to fall asleep, but I can't. And the worst part is that tomorrow, after this test, I still won't be able to sleep. Ahhhhh! Maybe I'll just sleep tonight at 12:30 at the latest and get up early tomorrow. If I don't sleep, I'll die! ;_;

Nothing amusing or happy happened today, except that Chad helped me cook my own dinner because I was whiny, stressed, and sickly. I also purchased some delicious things at the grocery store, like EGGNOG. OMG, I love eggnog. Paul was disgusted because I was ruining this "holiday treat" by having it so far in advance before Christmas. GUESS WHAT, Thanksgiving is a week away, kthx. Also, it will be used in a celebratory manner come this Friday when my Poli Sci paper (or lack thereof) is handed in. I CAN'T WAIT.

CAPS LOCK IS GOOD AT EXPRESSING MY FEELINGS.

I wrote most of this post last night, and now it's the morning and I'm feeling good! I just have to study for Henry IV, part 1, but seeing as I just finished reading it, it's still fresh in my mind, so I think I'll be okay. I feel really prepared for this exam, so I hope it goes well.

And that 10-page Elections & Voting Behavior paper that I need to write about the 2006 midterms by Friday, and don't even know what I'm writing about yet? It will have to wait until I get home from after class!

Oh yeah, I also register for classes at 10:50. I'm afraid that some of my classes will be full before I get to sign up, but I'm not letting myself waste my life scouring the online timetable until I'm done with this play! How glad will I be when Friday evening gets here? SO GLAD.