Thursday, December 6

 
p.s. my two best girl friends and i totally kicked ass against those wretched boys tonight in pictionary. we have unseated the champions - for now, at least. hooray girls.
posted by from shannon at 12:06 AM

 
i apologize for the fit of incoherent italian that happened late last night. i was working on a paper in said language until 2am last night and got very tired and frustrated, and i wanted to share that frustration with my friends (by writing in a language none of you can read.) i am ridiculous.

speaking of italian and ridiculousness, i was telling my friend today how i only seem to ask how to say the silliest words, like freckle (lentiggine) and dizzy (vertiginoso), words i'll probably never use. i don't even know how to say a lot of words i'm actually going to need, like "down" and "up" and "meatball".

okay, must stop procrastinating and go to bed. have work at 6:30 a.m. yay midyear orientation.



posted by from shannon at 12:04 AM

Wednesday, December 5

 
sto scrivendo un paper per la mia classe d'italiana. devo presentarlo domani in classe. ma sono troppo troppo stanca. so che la maggioranza delle persone che leggono questo webpage non possono comprender italiano, ma a questo punto non me ne importa. sono sadistica, e vorrei dividere la mia frustrazione con tutti. okay, devo ritornare al lavoro. dio mio.
posted by from shannon at 12:41 AM

Monday, December 3

 
i forgot to mention that on saturday i went to the birthday party of my niece and nephew, emily and michael, who are twins. they both turned one whole year old. apiece. it's kind of funny to have a party for kids who would rather eat wrapping paper than cake and who are probably wondering the whole time, "what's everybody doing here?" but it was good fun nonetheless.

one really weird thing happened though. i think it was only strange to me. matt (my brother) and torri (my sister-in-law) bought each of the kids a small individual cake. not so weird - yet. then they set these poor babies up in their high chairs in the living room with these cakes in front of them. and then the 30 or so grown people at the party sit around and just watch for ten minutes as e & m, whose most exciting meal to this point has consisted of squash from a jar and little bits of mcdonald's hamburger, try to figure out what these pink and blue monstrosities are before them. and we all just stare, like we're watching feeding time at the zoo, or one of those lion-eats-zebra shows on animal planet. except the babies don't really eat anything, just smear icing on each other's faces. i felt bad, not so much for the twins, who really had no idea what was going on, but for us and this weird voyeurism that was happening.

one other funny thing about the twins and their oblivious natures: torri bought most of their christmas presents already, and she just keeps them out in the living room. unwrapped. obviously that's fine, because they're babies and have no idea. but it's like she's mocking them. i thought that was so funny, until my mom told me she used to take me shopping for my own presents. she'd just put them in the cart with me.

i feel like such a fool.
posted by from shannon at 2:27 AM

Sunday, December 2

 
go here for a tale of my amazing victory. brian tells it best. it is a post he made earlier today.

i rule.
posted by from shannon at 5:15 PM

 
on friday night the helenes, the woman's service group on campus of which i am a member, had our fall formal. it was on a beautiful yacht that circled marina del rey, and it was an amazing amount of fun. to me it does not get much better than spending a night with some of your best girlfriends, all in pretty dresses, having boys treat you nice, eating a good steak dinner, having a few drinks, and then dancing for hours.

i was later talking to a friend of mine, a boy, about the dance, and explaining this interesting phenomenon that i noticed: it seems that for a decent amount of my helenes friends, myself included, we are more interested in dancing with each other than with our dates. it could be that we are just such a close group of girls that this is "our night", and we don't want to pay as much attention to our dates as we do to each other. or that the boys just aren't as interested in dancing, period, so we have more fun together.

then this boy and i started discussing why boys dislike dancing so much when most girls seem to love it, and he told me that he heard somewhere that girls, with all of our curves and whatnot, really enjoy the feeling of moving about, or showing off, or controlling our bodies in such a manner. boys, he said, with their awkward and not-as-good rectangular bodies, don't enjoy that feeling so much.

that explanation made me really happy, and gave me one more reason to like being a girl. and since i am procrastinating on reading this italian story, i will list some more that have recently affected me:

*cute pajamas
*getting flowers (like before the dance, when my date brought me flowers to match my dress!)
*the ability to hug friends of either sex whenever you feel like it (or wrestle with them, as the case may be)
*dresses with big skirts or no straps or shiny things on them
*knowledge of, and great appreciation for, adam pascal

hooray for having a uterus. you know, i'm in a much better mood today than i was last night. i'm in such a good mood, in fact, that i'm going to get back to my research on ride accidents at disneyland!
posted by from shannon at 10:07 AM

 
sometimes you just feel lonely for no reason. or a million reasons. both. like right now. there's really no reason to feel lonely - i mean, i don't feel justified because i've had this awesome week (which i will speak of more tomorrow) and things in general are good. but i still feel lonely for what seem like countless reasons. can't explain. maybe i am just tired. better watch the new parent trap and call it a night - that's the cure for anything.
posted by from shannon at 12:55 AM