A Legal Alien

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20 January 2005

I'm addicted to Law and Order. No, let me rephrase that. I love Vincent D'Onofrio so I'm addicted to watching him on a regular basis. My friend Angela and I often watch tv together via IM. He's a frequent topic of conversation. MMmmmmmm... he's like butter.

I spent 4 hours in the library today, writing my paper that I should've been writing and wasn't. I got almost half of it done so I've only got another 2500 words to go. I have to do a bit every day or I'll never finish in time to turn it in on the 31st.

It took every fibre of my being tonight not to tell Princess Big Hoop Earrings to SHUT THE FUCK UP during class. She's a coursemate and knows one of my dear friends (they work together back in the Caribbean). It never fails that during class, she adds some running commentary to whatever our professor is talking about. Only the really annoying part is she talks only to our table and always during some key point we should be hearing. I actually bit my lip tonight so I wouldn't scream at her. I was tired and hungry and listening to her laugh (that could peel paint off the wall) and whatever stupid bullshit story she just HAD to share was more than I could handle.

I have no idea why she's even in school because she already knows everything anyway. We were asked to design a reading test for 11 year olds that would be used at the end of the school year. She said there was only one test that would be necessary and it involved predictive text. I said I thought a writing portion would be important because it would help gauge more than just how well a student could guess the expected answer. Of course, in the world according to PBHE, there was one pat answer and no further discussion was necessary.

Next week, I'm sitting at another table. I won't be able to choke back the rage if I don't.

For Paul Barrett

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