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So it's the second last week of classes & the last week for professors to have assignments due in classes with finals. It's sort of interesting. I know I should be working but at the same time I just can't fathom how I will get everything done so I'm sort of sitting here deer-in-the-headlights style and panicking in a totally unproductive manner. Whee!

Aw, man. There's nothing like adorable couples (composed of wonderful, nice people who absolutely deserve to have such a cute, sweet relationship) flirting in the hallway to get me good and depressed. Unless it's schoolwork.

Lobby 7 is my new favorite place to tool.

And oh, do I have tooling to do.

... non-beavers among you may be slightly less confused/scandalized if you know that "tool" is MIT slang for doing work.

After finally getting through the last of this week's work, liz_factorial and Gina and I went mauling malling. Among other places, we wandered into KB Toys and discovered they were having a sale on board games -- all marked way down, and then half off the second one you bought, which really appealed to our miserlike college souls. The inventory was a little spare, but we *did* make an important discovery: Marry, Date, or Dump. (Also known in non-card-game forms as Fuck/Marry/Kill or marryshagcliff.) The game itself was okay, could maybe have been designed better I think, but fun nonetheless. The reactions of the people walking through the lounge as the three of us and Amy played were fantastic. Guys shuddered and ran. Muahahahaha!

(So -- David Boreanaz, James Marsters, Marc Blucas? Homestar, Strong Bad, the Cheat? Or (one I got stuck with) Alex Trebek, Pat Sajak, Regis Philbin?)

Then we played several hours of Apples to Apples, along with a random assortment of other people from the hall and a number of onlookers. Definitely still one of my favorite games ever. It's always sort of interesting to see what people look for in red cards (actual "correct" answers, personal favorites, things that made them laugh?) and really, really hilarious to see the choices that come up. Yay laughter!

Back at school, which is almost a relief? I love my family dearly but everyone was even more stressed out than usual with the fire and everything else and I was ready to come back here.

Did you know that canned spaghetti has a best-if-consumed-by date? And that it's seriously there for a reason? I guess in my mind anything that comes in a can will last till the apocalypse if you don't open it, but ... well, not. Yuck.

Signs that I've been completely infused and inundated and all sorts of other in-words with college-ness: I love my family to bits but I've been home for under 24 hours and I'm already feeling bored and guilty. So maybe I'll bike somewhere tomorrow, or take a walk. Or read all those books on my shelves I've been intending to read or re-read for ages and ages. Or clean my room or get ahead on homework. Or, you know, just stay in bed sleeping all day. Hm.

What happened to my weekend? Okay, I slept through a fair part of it, but still. I want my time back! :P

The Frosh Contingent watched the Little Mermaid on Friday night in our usual Nintendo lecture hall, which was thoroughly entertaining. I love Disney songs, and Under The Sea is one of my very favorites. And we were all surprised anew at the things that show up in kiddie movies that you don't notice when you're a kid. "Never underestimate the importance of body language?" Then liz_factorial and Gina and I went and bought Chicago tickets for the Saturday after finals week in May, which should be awesome and also an excuse to get dressed up and girly, which is fun every once in a while. Yay! We also investigated the hours of the Krispy Kreme in the Prudential -- open 5:30 am to midnight on weekdays, till 2 am on weeknights, which makes it a potential alternative target for up-so-late-it's-actually-early donut runs -- usually when we realize the sun is coming up and for some reason we're still awake we hit the Dunkin Donuts nearby, but this could be worth walking across the bridge at godawful hours of the morning. And I made the banana-chocolate chip cookies again, this time with more chips as well as the ground cloves that I didn't have last time, and they were yummy. And a few hours after that I finally got the payment (in cookies) for waking up at five am to hold a video camera for a few hours, so I'm now thoroughly cookied out for a while and also satisfied. And I got some work done, though not so much as I should have.

Utterly unrelated, but just begs to be shared -- a true work of genius: one-dimensional tetris.

March has always been my least favorite month. You know spring is near and summer just beyond but winter just keeps happening, the dull slushy kind of winter that's wet and sullen and tired instead of being awesome and full of bright blizzards and snow days and childhood regression, and it's still dark all the time, and like the name the days have to just keep marching on, days following days and days and days and days and days and days till it doesn't even look like a word anymore.

Everyone's stressed and sad. Sometimes it makes me feel better to be able to help at least a little, but it'd be better if it weren't necessary.

I think I need lists of things to look forwards to: music Wednesday night, dinner tonight, Easter and March break coming up (and I should find something entertaining to do then, though just relaxing like I'll probably end up doing will be nice too)...

Soooo remember how I was mostly offline for a few days recently because my laptop's power adapter was broken again? And then I bought a new one which I recieved less than a week ago and was way happy?

Guess. Just guess. Goddamn it.

I woke up, I showered, I got dressed, I woke up my computer and glanced at my friends list...

... oh yeah, it's that day again, isn't it. Whatever.

In far more important news, as you may have cleverly deduced, my laptop is once again paired with a working power adapter. Hurrah!