'tis the season...

so hannukah has officially become completely secularized in my house. we lit candles and had latkes on the first night when family was here and that's it. we opened all of our presents that day too. my parents are definitely working to beat out the last bits of religion mel and i have left but what can ya do.

we had a very merry christmas. we went to go see the tale of desperaux in the theaters mid-afternoon which means that there were many many kids there. i have no problem w/ kids. they babble a little during the movie but they are generally quietly enough. however some dumbasses don't understand that there is a difference between children and infants. there was this kid sitting behind us that wasn't even old enough to talk in complete sentences and so he was babbling and being generally loud and dad turned around to give her a REALLY dirty look and so she starts yammering at him and he yammers back and the rest of us are shrinking in our seats until he runs out to get security and she starts screaming that he just thinks he's gonna get his way b/c he's white and she's black and calling him an ignorant, idiotic, racist until she did get escorted out. so much for peace and goodwill, huh?

so i have been slowly working on cleaning my room and getting ready to go back to dc. even though i've done this twice before at this point, i still find new stuff that i need to get. gah... oh well.

so i have discovered that if you bitch about your home life enough, people are not going to particularly jump at the prospect of coming to visit you. how unfortunate. i really kind of want a few certain people to come visit me but i'm pretty sure at least 1 won't for that exact reason. oh well.

oh, and my dad decided i was the poster child for keeping the drinking age in this country 21 b/c i can't be bothered to track down the alcohol to drink that often here but in oz i would go out and have a good time and not think twice about it. gah...

days till i go back to dc: 12
days till i turn 21: 146

here we go again

so i have decided that the best way to keep people up to date about my life while some of my favorites are on the other side of the equator and the other side of the date line.

i swear, the longer i am back in this country, the more things i see wrong with it. i was listening to the news this evening, hearing about all the new issues with new scandals being exposed in politics and how surprised everyone is about it. honestly? it's politics. it is going to be messy. and my parents keep getting in political arguments. i thought the wonderful thing about the american system is that everyone has the right to their own opinions. oh well.

since i got back from my travels i have been spending a lot of time messing around on the internet, cleaning my room, and reading. i also managed to pick a little less than 100 pictures to print out that summarize my adventures. i've also been working on switching my spelling back to the american way, thus the sudden prevalence of 'z's.

i'm particularly pleased at the moment since i managed to fix my schedule for next semester so i don't have to take another 100 level gen ed, i don't have class before 11:20 am, and i have fridays and saturdays completely off... no work, no class :-) although i might pick up the friday shift for kicks and giggles if my schedule isn't too hard. i also came to the very odd realization that if i keep my schedule for this coming semester as is, i could graduate this coming december with my major and minor. i suppose that i really do have to start thinking about my post-grad plans. i don't wanna! ~insert 3 year old's temper tantrum here~

i do believe that is enough rambling for one post. peace out cub scouts.