soliliquy of the chipmunk

i know i should be reading "a tale of two cities". i also know that i have had three entire days to complete the 52-page reading assignment that i have yet to begin. i am further aware of the fact that i will not start the assignment for at least another fifteen minutes. at the very least. additionally, i know that it is 10:48pm and i am going to need some serious caffeine to survive this little mis-allotment of time i have achieved.

man. my hair looked so bad in this ponytail i had it in that it was actually throwing off my mental processes. that's a little scary. i think that might make me a vain person. just a tiny bit of one.

ponytail gone. problem solved. constancy of mental processes regained. brain functioning at original capacity. notice use of "original" in place of "full", since brain has never, is not currently, and will never function at "full" capacity. that would require the presence of an actual brain, which would be tough, since taylor took mine in the transplant she underwent. there's your answer, tay: you were the recipient AND the donor. you took mine and we gave yours to this chipmunk. now there's this genius chipmunk wandering around the boonies plotting how best to achieve world domination through a career in sociology. after he finds the acorns, that is.

oh, wait. that's squirrels. what do chipmunks eat?

my father is no help at all in the college applications process. since my mother no longer lives here, this is kind of an irritation. at good times, i find his lack of support comical. at others, i find it incredibly frustrating. i asked him today, in a moment of temporary retardation, "dad, why am i even bothering with this? why don't i just apply to UT and go there?" his answer? "i dunno. i think you're crazy." he then launched into the token dad rant (think token luke danes rant, Anita) about how the perversion of american capitalism had irreparably destroyed the educational system, publically and privately. he's just so irritated by the fact that he paid $1,000 a year for a UT education and i will have to pay about $41,000 for "the same thing". oh well.

7 more months. freedom approaches...at a slow, painful crawl.

:P