School I've been doing some research on the respective faculty here at CU and at UCLA, and let me tell you that there is pretty much no nanotech here, but that UCLA is overflowing with it. I will have to make do. It would be so easy to just move out there if I didn't have a kiddo to worry about. I want to go out there. But you know, I have to be mature about the whole thing. I am touring CU Friday and Saturday, and we'll see how I like the faculty. I found some profs whose research looks promising. I have this pad pot my mom got for me. It's ceramic. It's made to soak cloth menstrual pads, then you use the spout to water your plants with it. The plants love that nitrogen rich bloody water. Yum. So anyway, it was very thoughtful of my mom (she knows I use cloth pads), and it's also fragile. I didn't want to let my daughter touch it, but she was curious and I didn't want her to feel like a pariah. So, I let her lift the lid on it. Sure enough, down goes the lid, and it broke. I was so upset. I haven't lost it with her in months, and I was bawling and just totally out of it, and I slapped her across the face. She is 4, I was an idiot for letting her touch it. But hitting her for it? Give me a break. My daughter is worth more than $45, but even though the pot cost that much, I was still very hurt. It just seems that anything nice I have gets ruined by the hands of my child. She's getting older; this should stop in a few years or so. I wrote the potter who makes these pots, and she will only charge me $8.50 to replace the lid. She said she will make it stronger this time, to resist the wee one. I'm pretty happy about this. Check out www.primalpotter.com. This is the website where you can buy all sorts of female hippie stuff. Am I a hippie? No. Cloth pads are softer, more comfortable, and cheaper. They are also better for the environment. Why not tampons, you didn't ask? Well, they block the blood flow, the energy flow, and I'm a goddammed hippie who doesn't want to block the flow of chi out of my pussy. Anyway... I really wish my friend Acorn would update more often. I have a minor in French. I have taken more classes since I got that minor. Can I speak French? No. This pisses me off. The French classes at my alma mater sucked the big one. We weren't required to speak French in our upper division classes. For those of you not in languages, it should be necessary only to speak French in upper level classes! So today, during my French conversation class, I had to get up in front of the class with a classmate and have a conversation. I was an eccentric artist, she was a journalist. I did terribly. I couldn't think of any good vocabulary, and my grammar sucked because I was hurrying and not thinking. Well, I'm taking this class to improve my conversational French, and it's not the end of the semester yet. Why hasn't it improved yet? Well, I've missed more than half the classes so far due to sickness of myself, M, and A. When will I ever have a normal life? What is a normal life anyway? I look around and I see sooo many different types of people. What qualifies any of them? There are people out there who are snobs and think that they are too cool, but really there is too much diversity even to go there. What makes someone cool? I see people who think that they are cool, and really they are just mean shallow people. I think cool would be intelligent, driven, thoughtful, and goodlooking to boot. How many people do I know like that? Hmm. Not many. I do know people I think are cool, at least aspects of them are. Think my boss is behind me. bye |