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I am so happy. I’ve actually managed to find some of the information I need to write my paper that’s due on Thursday. Back to work, I guess. I don’t really have time to write on here at the moment. I just wanted to share my joy. Yay for library databases and Hoover’s!
On a CSUN journalism student’s blog (on the school newspaper’s website), I found this post criticizing a letter PETA sent to Ben & Jerry’s. I don’t like PETA. However, I am baffled as to why this future “journalist” couldn’t be bothered to check his facts before posting his opinion on the matter. I posted the following comment, which is awaiting moderation and probably won’t be approved because, unlike the other 1 comment, I criticized his post. I should have posted my URL with my comment, I don’t know why I was too chicken to do it.
I hate PETA with a passion for reasons I won’t get into, and I’m a vegetarian, not a vegan. What they were trying to do, though, in their own patently extremist way, is to make a point. Breast milk is for human babies, cow’s milk is for calves. It’s not a difficult concept to grasp.
If you’d like to find out why vegans are so vehemently against dairy products, do a little research. Google it, for crying out loud. In fact, if you knew how to check your facts, you could EASILY have found out what PETA’s point was at their own website, posted a WEEK before you posted this. Check it out: http://blog.peta.org/archives/2008/09/breast_is_best.php
OK, so, the EGD…was not as bad as I thought it would be. I was under anaesthesia, I don’t remember it, and I didn’t even end up with a sore throat! I don’t have an official diagnosis, and the doctor didn’t really say much to me or Zack (who would remember it far better than I would, because I was still coming out of the anaesthesia.) Anyway, what I do know is, they dilated my esophagus and took a biopsy to see if it is Barrett’s Esophagus. The doctor prescribed 2 months worth of Nexium and I need to set up an appointment because I am supposed to have a follow-up with him 2 weeks after the procedure.
Oh, and the test score I was worried about ended up being way better than I thought. I got 89.92%, a B+. Now, why the hell anyone grades to 89.92 and doesn’t just round it up to 90 and give me an A-, I don’t know. But that is far better than what I expected, so I guess I can’t complain. I mean, I made stuff up. I think I may have invented words. Yet, B+. So, yay!
I am so thirsty. I’m not supposed to have anything to eat or drink after midnight, I drank a whole lot of water right at midnight, but now it’s 12:25 and I feel parched. 
I have to go to bed soon too, because I have to get up and be at the hospital at 8:00 to have some really unpleasant sounding test called an EGD done because I have problems swallowing my food.
I got some good news too though - I got an 86% on the test I took for my advertising class last week. Rather unexpected, but I wasn’t expecting to do too badly…I was thinking more along the lines of a C. My Thursday class though? That’s another story. I dread getting that test back. I dread getting that test back very much. I blanked on a lot of it.
I really appreciate all the comments and I need to get to replying to them and reading & commenting on other blogs - I’m way behind on my blog reading. Been kinda busy, which is why I haven’t updated much either.
Anyway, I’ve got to get to bed so I can get up early. Sound like I’ve got a fun day ahead of me. 
I am very much in the mood for some Babycham. Damn you Bevmo, for introducing me to it. I just couldn’t resist “The Happiest Drink in the World” when we went there.
I have class tonight. I don’t wanna go. I don’t feel well either, which makes the 1 1/2 hour drive seem all the more unappealing. I guess it’s a good thing I don’t have any Babycham, ‘cause it’s probably not a great idea to have a glass when a.) I don’t feel all that great and b.) I have places I’m supposed to be going in a few hours. Because then I wouldn’t go. I might not go anyway. I haven’t fully decided yet. I guess it depends on how I feel after I take some Motrin.
I have an assignment due tonight, which I haven’t done yet. I just can’t get motivated to do it, since it’s not really worth anything. He grades to a tenth of a point, so if we do all 5 of these mini-papers and we get, say, an 89.9% he’ll round it up from a B+ to A-. Whoop-de-frigging-do. I’ve already got term papers and tests to worry about.
I’m going to have to take 4-5 classes next semester, since my concurrent enrollment for 2 classes at CSU Bakersfield fell through. All my paperwork was in at CSUN, and they sent it to CSUB, who never gave me a registration date, the people who know about it don’t answer the phone, and they don’t return their voicemails. This kinda sucks because I was intending to spend more time looking for work during my last semester, rather than scrambling to finish up my remaining classes.
So, for one of my assignments, I have to make my predictions on what shows will succeed and which will be prematurely cancelled, focusing on the ABC network. (Yes, this is an actual college assignment!) Looking up the schedule, I found a new game show called Opportunity Knocks, hosted by J.D. Roth. I was like, damn that name sounds familiar. So I looked up good ol’ J.D. on the IMDB. OMG, he was the host of GamePro! I know a lot of my readers are far too young to remember this show…hell, I think a lot of you weren’t even born yet! Way to make me feel old, guys! 
Anyway, my brother and I used to watch this show when we were kids. I immediately put Opportunity Knocks on my cancelled list, because, um..J.D. Roth! Just look at this!
And no, I don’t expect any of you to actually watch the whole thing. 
I start losing track of time when school is in session. I’m thinking, “eh, I posted the day before yesterday” when it’s been more like a week.
I’ve been home for 2 hours now, and when I started my 1 1/2 hour journey back here, all I could think of was sleeping as soon as I got home. And then look, here I am, reading blogs, watching Monk, checking e-mail….I am still sooo tired though, I have no idea what I’m still doing up.
It’s my dad’s birthday today, and I still haven’t gotten a present for him. I will be making him a giant cupcake though…even though it’s not really something he’s supposed to be eating. You only have a birthday once a year though, right?
I think it is time for me to go to bed now though, because I’m kind of nodding off as I’m trying to type and my brain isn’t really fully functional right now.
Zzzzzzzz…….
So, Thursday marked my first time driving to L.A….err, Northridge all by myself and driving back. I have mentioned before that I do not drive on the freeway because of some inexplicable phobia about it. So, I took the highway there (I have been told numerous times that the highway is worse than the freeway because it’s 2 lanes and blah blah blah..but people are not going as fast and whipping around each other to get there 2 minutes earlier and I don’t have to go through the whole getting on the freeway and getting off and that freaks me the hell out.)
Anyway, I had my class Thursday night (I didn’t make it to the Tuesday one largely because I was terrified of driving myself there…but I am definitely going this week.) When I was driving home on the highway there was some sort of accident or something because it was one truck in front of me and in front of him there were just emergency vehicles as far as the eye could see driving extremely slowly. It was taking like 15 minutes to go half a mile. I tried that for quite some time, but there was no sign of it ever getting better and more and more cop cars & etc. kept joining the caravan (I have no idea what happened, I never heard anything about it on the news or anything.) So at this point I am so frustrated and pissed because it took over an hour to get there and then 3 hours of class and then not being able to leave until 10 pm, and OMFG the traffic never ends. I am in fact so irritated that I nearly get on the freeway to escape this mess, which is a big deal in and of itself because of my aforementioned freeway phobia.
I ultimately decided not to do that, but I got off the highway and took a different route home, which consisted of driving mostly downhill, through the mountains, with 180 degree turns one way, and then back the other way, and then back the other way again which was only like 30 or 40 miles or so but felt like for fucking ever. And I got home safe and sound, about a quarter to midnight, even though I was almost as scared of the mountain road as the freeway (and realistically, should have been far more so because I was basically hanging off the side of the mountain, with a very far drop, which I knew was there but at least couldn’t see because it was nighttime.
Oh, and also, there is one freaky ass narrow road that is nearly impossible to make a left turn to get onto, which takes one from highway into town on the way there which I thankfully have found a way to avoid in the future. So basically, I have now driven on 2 of the scariest, most messed up roads around here, to avoid driving on the freeway. So, I think I’m going to start trying to drive the freeway sometime pretty damn soon, because I am so much braver than I though I was, being such a wussy driver and all.
I got a nice little letter and certificate in the mail for making the Dean’s List last semester. The letter said of 4,550 students in the college of Arts, Media, & Communication, I was one of 678 to make the Dean’s List for Spring semester. Yay me!
Went to Petsmart with my mom and spent like 45 minutes looking at cat food…and ended up buying the exact same kind I normally do. Last month I got her some dry Friskies because I was short on cash, but I’m back to her usual Nutro for lazy fat cats.
There’s not really much else going on right now. The next semester starts the 25th, which I’m kind of really dreading due to the commute, and this is the first time I’ll be driving instead of taking the bus. I need to talk to my advisor to see about taking a couple of classes at Cal State Bakersfield’s satellite campus which is actually pretty close to my house (The reason I’m not getting my degree from there is that their selection of majors is very limited, and they don’t have mine. But they have some classes that I think I can get my advisor to allow me to take toward the major.)
I’m so close to my degree now, but feeling so burned out. I’ve got to finish it though, so I can get a decent job. Which will probably make whining about school seem like a joke.
My parents got me a GPS today! Yay!! I am the most directionally challenged person I know of, and this will be a huge help when I have to start driving to school next semester, because I am not very familiar with Northridge. Also it will be great when we go visit my brother/sis-in-law, and I’m sure for a variety of other occasions.
Now, thanks to my dad, I have a GPS and satellite radio in my car. Now all I need is to make some money so I can put them in a car that isn’t so beat up with 90,000+ miles on it.
