My head is hurting more than it has since Tuesday. Coughing makes it worse, yay!

So the whole story of my lovely week. Sunday and Monday my throat is feeling a little sore. I enjoy cornmeal pancakes, Jon Cusack, and Ang Lee at Karen’s Monday night. I planned to get stuff done on Tuesday: cleaning house, grocery shopping, running errands. I wake up at 8 something and my head hurts like hell. I get headaches rather often (my grandma always pities me, she’s never experienced one in her life) but this was the kind that hits you with dizziness after laying down too much (which I didn’t). The area behind my ears, under my ears, my lymph nodes, and my temple are all sore. I of course fall back asleep, anything to ignore the pain.

Super laziness, I don’t get ready for the outside world until 4, shop at Safeway for the first time (freaky), and go to the last Adobe Photoshop class of the semester to enjoy loads of cookies, carrot cake, and vegetarian pizza (I only eat cheese pizza, but this was pretty good though it was Round Table). Leave after 8 instead of 9 as I’m still ehhh. Go to work on Wednesday, not too bad. Ahh but Wednesday night?

My final is at 1pm on Thursday. The doors to Popscene open at 10pm and we were gonna leave town at 7. I go to bed Wednesday night at 11, set my alarm for 9:30. I don’t actually fall asleep until after 1am, oh joy. Ten minutes til 3am my sister wakes me up. She’s talking so loud that from the other side of the house in my mother’s room it sounds like she’s standing right next to me. It takes me 4 tries to yell “shut up”. She’s saying “it’s 7:15″ and I proceed to go to her room and say “it’s not fucking 7:15! it’s 3 in the morning!!”. She yells back drunk as hell that her car wouldn’t start and she had to walk home from Downtown Joe’s. I shouldn’t even be bitching because she has to get up earlier than me (at 7:15 apparently). Ugh.

I don’t fall back asleep until after 4 and I wake up again 3 times. Ok, so come to the final within a few minutes of being handed the test some workers on the roof started banging around and making all sorts of noise. Ah but it gets better! Being in a nice lovely stale and stifling classroom, my throat tickles. I had to step outside before I interrupted everyone else. Of course it started back up once I went back inside. So I spent a good 10 minutes just staring at my desk trying not to cough or choke. Not fun.

But the piece prize is yet to come. Thankfully, my date with Louis XIV was the same night as the christmas party for my mom’s work. Oh darn.

I apparently never finished writing this post. But what the hell, I’ll publish what’s there.

Of all the luck. This has been a very weird week.

My throat wants to choke me, my ears are ringing, my head is tight, my tummy is having hunger pains, and I now have to deal with a fucking shredded tire tomorrow. And tomorrow it will be because screw this, I need food and sleep.

But Louis XIV was still worth it even if they only played for 30 something minutes and tall people blocked our view of oooooh everything. Argh.

I feel like crap. My throat is sore but not real scratchy but my head hurts like hell. This can’t be! I have a final on Thursday plus a concert! And lots of work! Well the orange juice is pretty nice. Lemme go find some pills then.

There should be something against hating your sister so much. I went to bed a little after 5 this afternoon because I went to a party last night and got 5 hours of sleep. 10 exactly and my sister comes home, banging, looks in my room and “Oh, you’re asleep, you have an excuse.” She proceeds to start yelling about the parking and yell at mom and I’m yelling at her and she’s saying all sorts of shit. We’ve fought a lot in the past but she’s never namecalled me as much. I wanted to punch her sooo bad. That’s why I hate fighting with her because she never understands how we can be mad. We’re hypocrites. Even though she’s five times worse in her messes and she’s completely irresponsible. I know I’m irresponsible but my irresponsibility can’t ever affect them. Her old car is still sitting in the parking lot and one of these days, WE’LL get in trouble for it because we’re only supposed to have two cars in the lot. Her losing her wallet and/or her passport every few weeks doesn’t affect me except when I have to hear her bitching like crazy and she has an excuse to not open a bank account.

I told her to move out. I doubt she’ll get around to it. I’m the one who did the most when we moved, not her though she likes to think so. I really, really hate her.

3+ months of no internet on my own computer. Do you realize how much manga and music I’ve missed?! Granted I have been reading more, but I would’ve been reading most of those books anyway ‘cuz they’re related to school and/or to very good things (ie: Discworld, Adobe, Austen, Film).

Tonight is our third night of Smallville/movie watching. Is this the third or fourth season of Smallville? I have no idea, I haven’t watched much of it since the end of season 1 and my friend, Jennifer, (who was way more obsessed, she drools over Clark, I drool over Lex) hasn’t much either. But as the trailers for the season premiere brought a glimpse of flying and lots of Lois we can’t not watch. And it’s much easier to remember to watch it when you decide to get everybody together that night. I’m not too keen on tonight’s episode, girls wanting to be beautiful, another “monster-of-the-day” sort of episode, nothing too major in the plot of the series but we’ll watch Coffee and Cigarettes after (I completely forgot about that movie!! good thing my sister rented it) and it’ll be the first night my neighbor (Nadia) and I hang out together. I’ve knocked on her door a few times when I was going out but she was always gone. She just graduated from a culinary school somewhere and is working at Copia. Her schedule changes every week. Oh how I don’t miss that.

In other news, The Forgotten was pretty damn good. Julianne Moore did really well. I’m sure her experiences in motherhood helped well (she had a baby within the last couple years right? That great photo). The directing was awesome! Shakey in many scenes to jitter you up, add to the chase. The opening shot was really interesting. Many movies have used the aerial view of a city but I don’t think I’ve ever seen anyone use exactly overhead so that the point in the middle of the screen is perfectly perpendicular to the camera. Very cool. OOoooh and the car crash shot was perfect… I’m not giving away too much am I? There’s nothing in there related to plot or giving much more than the trailers have =P

I HAVE INTERNET!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

My response to a comment on my blog… My lack of compassion attests to my hatred of Bush? My lack of compassion? Because I don’t think putting our troops in Iraq for twice as long as they were supposed to be there is fair? Because I don’t think the way to take down a dictator who slaughters people in his own country is to march troops(and not enough troops) through it and slaughtering people in his country along the way?

War is horrible. So when you go to war, and yes I believe sometimes you have to fight, you better have a fucking good reason. Bush kept changing that reason reducing its validity.

When it comes down to it you could say it’s because Saddam was a dictator who slaughtered his own people. Which means America is now the cop, judge, and jury and must go to every country where the people are being slaughtered and mutilated by their government. If that’s your only valid reason, which it is, since Saddam opposed no threat to the United States. The United States is much farther away than Iraqi citizens are.

But oh, that’s right, America usually puts that government into power or gives them weapons. Ex: Saddam Hussein, the Taliban.

Real compassionate conservatives like my relatives for instance, don’t believe in war. Jesus teaches love =P