Lent

Lent has just begun. Despite not being catholic, I decided it might be a good excuse to give me that extra reason to have willpower to make a change in my habits. Never buy a pound of candy- because when you finish it you have to look at the bag and go "holy shit I just ate a pound of candy in a week (with some help)". So I decided maybe I should cut back on my sugar intake. Or at least not buy any more candy for a while- so I decided to give it up for lent. Originally I had said all sugar. ( I quickly realized this was impossible when making my coffee in the morning, and revised it to be just sweet things like candy and dessert.) Then I got to class and was hungry and started rummaging through my backpack and found jolly ranchers. And I ate them. And then I gave up. It's a lot harder to avoid dessert when you have 7 options and 2 frozen yogurt flavors available for no extra charge twice a day. If I can't even make it through the first day of lent, I basically have to give up right then and there, because if I can't go one day how am I suppose to go another 39? Instead, I'm just looking forward to easter, an excuse to buy more candy with rabbit/egg/ spring themes. To everyone else attempting to give something up to make a positive change for a while, best of luck. Hopefully you do better than me.

Valentine's Day

Valentine's Day is coming up, and everyone is aware- for their own reasons.

People either are planning a day with their sweetheart or they're dreading the day, being forced to recognize their alone-ness.

But in my opinion, everyone is focusing on the entirely wrong aspect of Valentine's Day.

If you're in a relationship, you don't need a special day to recognize it.

If you're alone, no one wants a day to make them aware of it, I'm sure they're already aware and don't appreciate the candy.

We should all go back to the days of elementary school when Valentine's Day only meant one thing: CANDY.

Any excuse to eat candy is a good thing. And if there is an extra-large assortment in the stores that happen to be heart shaped and wrapped in pink, all the better. So lets all unite in the renaming of this event for what it really is- national sweet tooth happiness day. Sugar is any form can't be bad, so happy Valentine's Day to all!

weekends ending

This lovely monday morning I woke up and tried to go to the bathroom.

The central hall has 2 handicapped bathrooms with 1 shower and one bathroom stall in each. One was out of toilet paper and the other was clogged.

So I went to try much luck in the South bathroom, that for some reason has 4 stalls even though I'm pretty sure that it has less people living on it. Of the 4, 3 were out of toilet paper and one was clogged. The only one left was the designated "urinal stall", which would explain why it still has toilet paper and isn't clogged.

Also, all 3 bathrooms were out of paper towels so after trying to wash my face I realized I was screwed and got to walk back to my room for a towel with a drippy face.

I know it's the weekend and I guess the maintenance staff deserve a day off too- but apparently 2 days is too many.

I had walked past the big windows and saw that outside looked overcast and chilly, and knowing that the weather predicts rain for tomorrow, I decided to bundle up in my DGAF clothes and at least be warm if the day was going to insist on sucking.

While pulling out a pair of comphy jeans I accidentally dragged over my box of nailpoish, spilling them all over the floor. The real bonus was having one break, leaving glass and sticky polish on the carpet to try and be cleaned up and ruining one pair of extra tall socks that I'd left on the floor in the process.

At least it was a clearish polish and not bright red. And maybe I'll be just a little bit more motivated to pick up my clothes now.

Welcome to college problems.

Luckily the rest of the day has proceeded to improve a bit, but that was my morning.