RNC, learnin's ---| readin's
I'm all for a woman as VP, but goddammit, every single bit about Palin's speech pissed me off. Rampant jingoism, fearmongering, and rahrahrah-ism. I know that McCain is a veteran. I know that he was a badass mofo who withstood torture, but tell me why he's gonna be an awesome president instead of a feisty POW. I know that this is to be expected of the Vice Presidential speech, but mrrrgh. Granted, these speeches are meant to rile up the base, and if there is anything I'm not, it's part of the Republican base. I now need to go find Biden's speech so that I can go get pissed off at his speech, too.

Also, she's just a thoroughly unmotivating speaker. I disagree with the political analysts. As a listener, she just sounded way to sound stiff.

P.S. I have seen all of one black man during this entire thing. Amazing.

Yesterday, I had my first exam. It was on biochem-but-actually-molecular-biology. Despite having essentially crammed (yet again), I think I did pretty well. Damn well, in fact. If I don't get at least a B+ on this test, I'll be thoroughly miffed. I rocked it hard, yo.

After the exam was another small-group session with our faculty mentor, and today's topic was "Ethics and Personal Wellness". Fun fact: Everyone in the room--first year students, second year students, fourth years, and our faculty mentor--we all can no longer really read for enjoyment anymore. Endless studying and having all our reading faculties devoted to textbooks and journals all the time have killed all our ability to sit down with a good book. And yes, it's a great irony because our love of reading as kids propeled us to where we are now. I mean, stuff like Harry Potter is fine because it's pretty shallow. But nuanced, reflective, good pieces of literature? Fuck that, our brains are too pooped to read. Gimme some trashy TV, instead! Well, I'm just glad that I wasn't the only one. It's no coincidence that I've pretty much only been able to read a book for fun while I was in transit somewhere, and when I'm not in transit, I can only for short periods of time. Basically, one-shot-length. There's so many books that I have on my "to read" list, but I know I'll never get around to them because I'll always feel like doing something other than reading. Le sigh. tl;dr: HIGHER SCIENCE EDUCATION KILLS THE ABILITY TO READ FOR FUN.

DSL should finally be connected at my apartment later tonight. FINALLY. SCREW YOU, AT&T, MY CREDIT IS FINE.

In other news, my mom called me to tell me that I've been summoned for jury duty. Lolz.

In further other news, my Suzaku figma is floating around a Dallas post office right now. And Lelouch should be arriving soon-ish. Possibly today. Yessss.