I'm running out of things to talk about so I guess I'll just discuss what I did today. This morning I went to History and Sociology class. I had a test in Sociology which I was a little bit nervous about, but it actually ended up being really easy. After class I went and ate lunch in the commons. That, of course, was a big let down because the food is always nasty. I guess I've just come to the realization that they're never going to have anything good to eat. After I ate, I went back to my room and worked on some homework for a couple of hours. Then, my friends who are Catholic and I all went to mass at 8:00 and received ashes on our foreheads since the day after Mardi Gras is a holy day of obligation for Catholics. When I came back to the dorm me and my friend Hailey decided to go work out a the Payne Center because we were bored. I got a good laugh out of this because while we were there, three people came up and either tried to tell us we had dirt on our foreheads or asked us what was on our heads. Then we had to explain the whole ashes deal. Overall, I had a pretty good day, but I can't wait for this week to be over so I can just relax over the weekend.

i hate OWL homework!

I never really had a problem with chemistry until I had to take it this semester. I did absolutely fine with high school chemistry and passed with an A. However, when I went to class this semester, my teacher told us we would be doing online homework known as OWL. Well, at first I didn't think it would be too bad...i just figured I'd be working normal chemistry problems on paper and just typing in answers on the computer. But after a couple of weeks I soon realized how much of a pain OWL actually is. I always find myself sitting at the computer working the same problem for what feels like hours and then finally being so frustrated that I have the urge to throw my laptop out of the window...thank goodness i haven't actually done that yet. It's not that I don't understand how to work the problems. The issue is typing in the answers. The answers have to be perfectly entered with the right subscripts and postscripts, and sometimes that in itself just becomes confusing. Another thing I hate about it is that we only have a couple of days to work on each section rather than all of the time up until the test. It's very difficult to find time to finish OWL homework before the deadlines while still trying to do homework for other subjects. Oh and from my past experiences I have figured out that it's literally impossible to finish all of the OWL sections of work the night before it's due. That's deffinatley not a good idea. So basically I think OWL is the dumbest and most annpying thing ever created and no college student should be tortured with it.

MARDI GRAS!!!!

I had so much fun over the break celebrating Mardi Gras with my family and friends. On Saturday I went uptown with my friends to watch Endymion, my favorite parade of all. Although it was really cold, I had a great time catching beads and watching Taylor Hicks (the Grand Marshall), Styx, and Journey ride by. Since my friend Alison's parents rented an apartment on St. Charles Ave., we went back uptown on Sunday to watch Thoth and Bacchus. I was excited to actually get to watch Thoth this year because usually, well all throughout highschool, I marched in that parade for cheerleading. Monday was deffinately more relaxing than Saturday and Sunday because we didn't go uptown until around 5:00 rather than 10:00 in the morning to watch Orpheus. I was so excited to see Sean Payton, the Saint's coach, ride on one of the floats. By the time Mardi Gras day rolled around, I was exhausted from the three long days of nonstop fun. This didn't phase me at all though because I absolutely hate going out into the big crowds of people on Mardi Gras day. Overall, I had a great time visiting my family and seeing all of my friends from high school, but I feel like the break was too short. I deffinatley was not ready to come back to school on Wednesday, but I'm pretty much never in the mood for school so that's nothing new.

Blog #2

One problem I'm having with my paper is my thesis..."Both Cathedral and Ugly Betty demonstrate how humans, depending on their personalities, are either accepting or prejudiced of others with disabilities or imperfections." I don't know whether this thesis is too broad of a topic or if it even makes sense. Any suggestions would be helpful.