OHMYGOD. i totally thought my mae project was due tomorrow. i was all stressed cuz i hadn't worked on it at all cuz i've been studying all week for my social psych midterm today (which totally was just...wrong) and i CANNOT write a computer program if my life depended on it. so i'm like working on my program and it's just bad. we have to have more than fifteen commands; i have FOUR. and i'm completely stumped. i cannot think of another single command to use. so i start going through some of the handouts that my ta gave us to help us out and i noticed that on two of the handouts, he wrote "due may 10 by 5 pm" and i was like, "wait a second..." and checked the course outline cuz it said that the project was due tomorrow which makes total sense cuz the prof didn't give any quizzes this week (usually he gives a quiz after every lecture) and i thought it was cuz he wanted us to focus on our projects. so anyway, i was going to email my ta again cuz i thought maybe the dates on his handouts were just typos. i had asked earlier what time exactly the project was due by and he emailed me back but i didn't notice the date. when i checked his email again just now it said, MAY 10. MY FRIGGIN' PROJECT IS DUE NEXT FRIDAY. HALLE-FREAKIN-LUJAH!! you do not know how happy this makes me. i hate mae with a passion. seriously, if anyone wants to write my program for me, i will PAY you. and i will pay you good. (that's such a grammatically yucky sentence but...i don't care.) i would rather eat seaweed than write this program. yeah, that's how much i hate mae. i was so stressed about this project. if it was due tomorrow, it would've just been terrible. i was starting to think about dropping this class and taking a "W." seriously, this class sucks cuz of the prof and the ta. i mean, when sanaz took mae, it was cake! of course, sanaz is like ten times smarter than me, but still. she agrees that my prof is insane with the quiz-every-lecture deal. what a manipulative ploy to get students to come to his boring ass lectures. bastard. i mean, his lectures are so boring, i want to gnaw my leg off, hop down the lecture hall steps, and beat him over the head with it. i mean, that would be interesting, right?

anyway. i'm done with my celebratory rant. time to blog about other stuff.

my social psych midterm. ugh. too much info to digest, man. i mean, i love this class like crazy not only cuz the prof is the cutest and funniest thing since...something else really cute and funny, but also cuz the material is actually INTERESTING. but the midterm just sucked ass. and to kick me while i'm down, i got my paper back after the midterm and got a pretty bad grade. AND to add insult to injury, i got a PAPER CUT from the damn thing. i mean, talk about being kicked and beaten when i'm already unconscious on the floor. hmm..i don't think that metaphor made much sense (hahaha, i almost typed metawhore). anyway, to make myself feel better, i went to the fair and bought myself a new keypad for my cell phone. it's so pretty. it's one of those crystal ones, like ha's. actually, i probably should've gotten the white crystal keypad since it would match with any faceplate (the guy even told me this while he was selling this to me) but...i dunno, i just liked the blue one better. anyway, i did feel better after making my purchase. materialistic? me? nah....

so i went off to work on my italian project at one of my group member's dorm. but she was really sick and had like a migraine or something so we're just gonna rehearse tomorrow morning right before class. we've already written the script and everything, so it's cool. i think our presentation's gonna be cute. the assignment was to act out several scenes from a movie but like, "italianize" it. like, obviously, we'd be presenting the scenes in italian, but we also had to like, present it the way italians would. so guess what movie me and my group are doing? LEGALLY BLONDE! except it's called "LEGALLY ITALIAN." basically, same sort of plot - kelly and her boyfriend antonio are out to dinner where kelly thinks antonio's going to propose to her, but antonio actually ends up breaking up with her. he tells her that he's going back to italy tomorrow and he needs a wife who is more "italian." see, kelly is a lawyer and is too independent and too american for him. [italian men (and this is ACTUALLY true) want women who are more like their mothers - women who will do their laundry, cook their food (whoa, almost said cook their clothes), etc. there was actually this thing on sixty minutes a while ago that i didn't see but i read about. apparently, there's like this whole village in italy that's not even reproducing. like, the number of kids in their school is like six. the reason for this is because men, GROWN men, are not marrying but are just continuing to live with their mothers. i mean, what's not to love? she'll do your laundry, clean for you, cook for you, do everything for you. at the same time, women in italy are becoming more independent so who's a guy to turn to? mamma, of course! (this is sad news for me. what was the point of taking italian then if my chances of meeting a nice italian guy are like...none.) anyway, back to the plot...] so kelly comes up with an idea to win antonio back: she'll go to italy and stay with his mother and learn how to be exactly like her - the "perfect italian woman." but there's a twist...a while later, antonio returns to his mother's home (dirty clothes in tow) and is surprised to see kelly there. when he asks his mother what's going on, she says, "there's been a few 'changes' since you've been gone. first of all, i'm not gonna wash your clothes anymore - the washing machine is over there - learn to use it. second, me and kelly have started a new company that has been VERY successful. i don't have time to treat you like a baby. you should learn to be more independent - like kelly!" heehee, cute no? well, i thought it was. it's just like legally blonde, but not! and i love our title, legally italian.

anyway, i was so frazzled this afternoon while studying for my midterm. tasha left a message on my board saying that some guy had called for me about an experiment i signed up for and wanted me to call him back. so his number's on the board and i go to call it but the thing is, not only is ben's work number written right above the message, but the two phone numbers are EXACTLY the same except for the last two digits. so...yeah, i ended up accidentally dialing ben's work number.

ben: hello?
me: hi, may i please speak to chris?
ben: uh....cherry...?
me: what? ben?? wait...
ben: who are you trying to call...?...what chris...?
me: wait...[runs over to board]. oh shit.

and then i rambled something in my sleep-deprived state that i really can't remember because it made no sense [something along the lines of, "iwastryingtocallthisguyandyournumberwasrightnexttohisand
it'sexactlythesameexceptforthelasttwodigitsandi'msooooooorry. *feebly* g'bye."] and i was all confused and poor ben was all confused too. and...well, it was just sad really. sorta funny, but in a sad sad way. later he said he thought it was some weird joke or something. really, i don't know where people get the idea that i'm the type of person to call people up and play jokes on them...heh... ;D

wow, this is such a long blog. but i haven't been blogging very frequently so...sorry. i'm gonna end this right now and go celebrate the fact that my mae project is due NEXT friday. i feel so liberated!! ;D