Holdin It Down

"I wear socks cause my feet sweat and if I didn't wear them, I'd slide around in my shoes cause my shoes are too big cause I like to keep things in them."

good ol' Jim Thomas. i came across that quote from his lectures and had to share. for those of you that don't know, JT is a philosophy teacher here at UMBC. he's quite the character.

graduation is now 7 weeks and 6 days away! just wanted to keep you all updated. i've ordered my "announcements" and they should arrive shortly. the excitement within me is great i tell you.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MYRA!!! we're like halfway to old now. but... still, HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!

:) i love birthdays. they're great. the best way to make them last longer is to celebrate the night before. if you do this, then you'll most likely be surrounded by those you love/like/slightly care for when the clock strikes midnight and its officially your birthday. you'll continue to celebrate/party the night away and then you'll go home in an innebriated stupor (or high off life - it's up to you). you'll go to sleep all happy because you just had a great time with your friends. then... you wake up the "next day" and guess what? it's STILL your birthday!!! yes. it's absolutely the only way to do it. whatever plans you have must include a celebration the night prior to the actual day.

i can't believe johnny cochran died. this is making me feel like i'm an adult. i know there seems to be no correlation here, but hear me out. it seems lately, "significant" people have been droppin like flies. (excuse the euphemism) now, these people aren't all dying from shootings or "preventable" deaths per se, and that's what makes me feel old. johnny cochran, barry white, ray charles, john ritter, odb, johnny carson, lamont bentley (hakeem from moesha)... the list goes on. see, these are all basically common names. and when i was younger, and people died, it didn't hit me because i didn't really know much about those people anyway. but now, when people die, its like "damn, for real?" cause you feel like you know them, and... i don't know. maybe i'm not explaining this well. but i'm sure you get my drift.

ll cool j is funny to me.

i get to see my baby this weekend! i'm excited.

this damn swimming class is getting on my nerves. i'm starting to get bored with it all, and the fact that i actually have to swim twice a week every week til the end of the damn semester... ahhhhh!!! (that's an angry yell) well, i don't actually swim, so we'll use that term loosely. i still have to get in the water though. and thats a pain. it's the whole getting dressed afterwards that kills me. cause you're still like half wet, and no matter how hard you try to dry, your skin still don't feel right. it must be the chlorine. i wish i had known that you can take the same PE twice and it counts toward your requirements. i woulda just took bowling twice. that shit is already over for the semester. yay for early ending classes.

what do you think about Jesus? seriously.

last night i went to this diversity program for staff development. reslife introduced new requirements this semester for the paraprofessional staff where we have to attend one program a month hosted by the CD's. (my opinion of this change will remain neutral.) however, last night was great. the program was well-thought-out and i enjoyed myself. we got into some pretty deep discussions about the difference between "black americans" and "african americans" (meaning the difference between the american black people and the black people whose families came here from africa) we also discussed the way the gay population is treated, the way asians are perceived, etc. we touched on a bit of everything. it was a really good program. almost everybody had something to add to the discussion, and people really got into their roles when we did the role-playing part. kudos to the organizers. i have to admit, i was skeptical going in, but pleased coming out.

i got to chill wit kb last night too when we went to myra's thing. i haven't seen her in like forever. it was great tho. back to old times. our schedules just don't match up at all right now cause she's busy workin and i'm busy tryin to finish school. plus i feel far away cause i'm in bmore and she's down here in pg. its only like a 25 min drive tho. so we're just gonna have to get up wit each other more often.

i feel like i have so many items on my to do list and very little time. this weekend is about to be real hectic.