holy shit!

its the magic bullet!

its eight in the morning and i dont feel like leaving for class yet so this is what i am doing: watching the magic bullet commercial. Im sorry but why do we as americans feel the need to buy a device that is supposed to cook any and everything? something about an appliance that can make chicken salad, cake batter and a strawberry daiquiri in the same container is a little troubling to me personally.

fourteen more days of classes. i know its really going to speed up after this weekend, and after that ill wish i had never wished all that work on myself, but im just ready to get this thing rolling. i cant believe all the christmas stuff is already going on. i turned on the radio the other day and since i dont know any of the stations here it was already on this station playing christmas music. im sure if i step foot in the mall there will be red and green everywhere. i love the christmas season, especially the decorations and all the get togethers and getting people gifts and such, but its all become so commercial. i watch every thanksgiving as my aunts corner me in my grandmother's living room and accost me about what id like for christmas. im toast until i give what color size and edition i want and even then they still bother me for more answers. they make organized lists of what everyone wants and where you can get it for the cheapest price and then they divvy up whos going to get what for whom. i just feel like thats not how christmas should be. i suppose by obligation and heredity your relatives have to get you something, but my relatives see me maybe twice a year if that. they have no concept of who i am. i feel like the whole holiday gift giving thing has lost most of its purpose; the gift giving has become an obligation, not a gift in and of itself.

besides, half the time they dont even get me what i ask for. geez at least give a gift card then.

ugh im kinda tired of writing, between three peer reviews a revision of a short story a graphic design article about a giraffe getting lost at new york fashion week and beginning my longer story.

with two stories set in nyc ive probably looked at a map of new york city more than an eager tourist hoping to see times square.

well i have all weekend to get it done. at this point im cutting my losses on my social life. ill spend this weekend by myself in my apartment doing homework. all of my real friends will be gone to a wedding this weekend and its too late to start trying for friends now.

home sounds good.