Day Two

Well, despite my new found college student status, I find myself still in bed at 10:28 AM. Yikes. I'm on my second cup of coffee and first cigarette. I got sucked into a pretty epic gmail chat session, but it was at least slightly informative. I was instant messaging with two of my friends who are also going back to school, and one of them will be on my campus. She thinks we should plan to start some food fights in the lunch room. I think that's a wicked fresh idea. Well, maybe not wicked fresh. Perhaps it's just fresh? At any rate, it's nice to be reminded that I'm not alone in this.

I am anxious about the assessment test on Monday. I want to get my schedule all sorted out, but I'm basically on hold until I find out which English class I am to take. I'm working on my instant gratification expectations. I realize they will only frustrate me in the coming days (months, years, decades). So I will stop trying to predict the future, as I've proven again and again that my ability to see the unforeseeable is, well, just not there. Despite my gypsy blood, my psychic eye is blind.

*snack note: Mmmmmnn. Whole foods "duplex" "creme" filled cookies are not only vegan, they also make a delicious breakfast treat. I am the picture of health.

I didn't mention this in my first post, but I think this blog may also end up tracking my effort to read "A peoples history" by Howard Zinn. I mean read it cover to cover, in order. Every word. Because, look.... I've read parts of the book. Lots of parts. And even then I had a tendency to sort of... oh, skim over parts that I thought I already knew enough about. This time I'm taking a different approach. I'm going slow, forcing my eye to stay on task and not slip down to the next paragraph. And yes, I'm doing this for recreation, because I love to party!!! Obviously I'm not nerdy at all.

That having been said, I'm just today starting chapter two. It took me a week to read the first chapter. A week! I am the sorta gal who normally reads a novel in a day. 8 hours, done! Give me the next! So this is a considerable change in reading habit.

Crap. I'm out of coffee. Must leave house now in search of more caffeine.