I hate money! Because I don't have much of it. This is the third Christmas in a row where my gift purchasing power has been severely limited from that of the year before. All I can say is that it is a really good thing that I don't have a girlfriend this year. But I still have plenty of people I care about. Looks like this year I really need to get creative. Oh, hoooray! I can't even really imagine that it is Christmas on Saturday. I hope I'm not the only one.
I've been on break for about a week now and I've pretty much adapted to life back in Portland. I have been working at my old job, living at my mom's, going out, doing everything that I did before when I lived here. I'm not sure what people will be receiving from me for Christmas but I'm sure the gifts will be thoughtful. Oh wait, thoughtful requires thought. Right. So there's one plan for the day, get on the gift choosing/making ball. I don't wanna!
This is the time that I don't like. I have my last final tomorrow morning. So right now I'm just kind of idle. I'm studying but there is only so much one can study when one knows the material. Unfortunately, since I'm not sure how my teacher's test will be, we've never had a test before, I have a difficult time in gauging its difficulty. Likewise, the teacher provided us with four potential essay questions for which we should prepare. She will choose two of them and we will be required to write on only one. So she is forcing us to prepare for at least three of the questions in order to be prepared for the test. That is effective for us to learn the material but I also think it is kind of rude. It isn't a big deal. Whatever. I'm pretty sure there is one question she will definitely ask but I can't risk being up poo poo creek based on a hunch. However, if I study all the questions, I'll inevitably waste hours of time preparing an answer that I'll never ever ever ever ever ever need. That is the rude part. I just wish I could take the damn thing now.
My finals week is pretty low key this term. I had my math final this morning. I think I did ok on it. I couldn't raise my grade to an A so I don't have too much to worry about; I'd have to get lower than 72% on the test to get lower than a B. That isn't entirely out of the realm of possibility but I don't think it is much of a worry.
Now I just have to get prepared for my WGS final. It shouldn't be too bad except I am expected to know specific points that specific authors made in our readings. I wouldn't be surprised if we had more than 50 readings throughout the term. Some were really short and nearly inconsequential. This is why I bought and used a hi-liter throughout the term. Let's hope it pays off.
I just finished my Friday night self flagellation by watching Tucker Carlson's show on PBS. The difference between his right leaning show and the left leaning "Now" is in intent. Just watch Tucker's face, if you can stomach it. It is as if he knows his questions and statements are farcical and can't believe that he's getting away with the joke. I say, get rid of him. Jon Stewart had it right, he really is a dick.
Thanksgiving break leads into "dead week." A greater misnomer I have rarely encountered. Every class has something due this week and most of them have big stuff due. How can this possibly be called dead week? And another thing, why can't we just start our term two weeks earlier so that when we get off for Thanksgiving, that's the end of the term? The semester system made little sense to me in high school, winter break (actually called Christmas break at my Catholic high school) followed by a mere three weeks of class to finish the term. But this quarter system blows my mind with stupidity. The term is only twelve weeks long. It makes no sense to have a long holiday weekend right before the end of the term, especially if the term is followed by a three week break until the next term. The geniuses at University of Oregon really outdid themselves on this scheduling thing.
