2 posts tagged “homework”

I hate being away from close friends for long periods of time.  Vox, however, is not a close friend.  It's a website and I'm okay with not visiting a website for a long time.

I sit here in my apartment at about 3 in the morning chipping away at a paper that I honestly doubt is enough to resurrect my grade in this stupid, dry, Sociology class.  Ok so, grades.  Let's talk about those.  My grades are definitely not where I'd like them to be and if they are any indication of the lifestyle I'll have when I'm out of school, I'll be very disappointed with my life.  I don't think grades will play that big of a role in MOST cases, except obviously they have a lot to do with grad school so if that's what your future holds well I guess grades should probably be pretty important to you.  I don't think grad school is for me.  I have a fatty student loan to pay off, though, so I need to figure out some way to achieve my ideal lifestyle without relying on my stellar student success.  Pierre Bordieu, who I am reading in one of my classes right now, identifies some different kinds of capital that can lead to success like cultural capital, social capital, economic capital, blah blah blah.  So I'll have to find some way to utilize other forms of capital available to me to reach my goal... my goal which right now is just paying off my student loan.  This blog is getting boring quickly.  Moving on.

SO.  When I was a little kid, there were foods that I decided I didn't like for whatever reason that made sense to me at the time.  They included but were not limited to: breakfast burritos, bell peppers, Italian dressing, the crusts of bread, bananas, and any form of sushi.  I still don't like bell peppers, mainly I don't like the smell, but I also don't like the taste.  I still find Italian dressing unappetizing, but I could probably eat it, but everything else I've learned that I actually like.  For example, breakfast burritos.  I think this stemmed from my "I hate scrambled eggs" phase which I went through because once I threw up after eating scrambled eggs (thanks for the salmonella, Mom).  In any case, I'm over it now.  I'm eating crusts of bread now just for the sake of convenience.  I now know they will not give me the curly hair I've always wanted and that my parents told me that only to mock me later, but now it's just a hassle to take the crust off.   Bananas I can't remember why I didn't like them, but one day I ate one and realized it was delicious.  End of story.  My family probably remembers one infamous visit to a Japanese restaurant when my grandma kept ordering more and more food for me because I didn't like a single thing they gave me except for miso soup, at last.  I think my taste buds just changed or something because I suddenly don't find it disgusting anymore.

My downward spiral into introspection continues.  I still really love ketchup, that will never change.

There are more interesting things I could write about.  I have a real live boyfriend now, for one.  It's been official since Valentine's Day (because we're cute like that), so it's new and I don't know how many people have heard by now.  Probably all of my Vox friends by now, but whatever, I'm telling you now.  His name is Shaun, and we both work at the gym so that's where we met.  He's half Arab, half white, about 6 feet tall, 150lbs and has fantastic cheekbones.  I have to interrupt the pointlessness of this blog to say that I think he's incredible.

Spring break is coming up in about three weeks and I don't have any idea what I'll be doing.  Last spring break I went to Sevilla and I really wish I could do that again, but I'd be by myself and broke.  So, that's a no.  I think I might actually stay at UCLA at least a few days and work my crappy job at the gym because I'll get paid time and a half for it.

It's been half a hour and I think it's time for me to get back to my paper.  Maybe I'll write a better post later.  Maybe I won't.

So I took pictures of the clouds instead.  They're looking quite surreal today, don't you think?