HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

I miss home with all the crazy decorations, today. And Halloween with all my friends.

Just a few random tidbits from today . . .

-Apparently, I yelled out something like "lantern" in my sleep last night. I . . . have no idea where this came from. I do not remember any dreams about lanterns. I didn't think the word lanterns once yesterday. And yet, I work my roommate Elizabeth up this morning at 5 when I yelled "LANTERN!" in my sleep. My mind is obviously a strange, strange place.

-GAH Linguistics midterm. Okay, 88% is a decent score. I guess. Maybe it's the Lowell syndrome in me, but I wanted to do better. ALSO, in grade-point scale, 88% is a 3.3. WTF? 3-point-bloody-three? I miss three questions and I get a three-point-bloody three? GAHHHHH. On the other hand I feel sort of bad for being pissed off about this because Elizabeth got an unfair grade on her essay for sociology because of the curve. (Three-hundred people in her class got between 2.3 and 2.7 because of this stupid curve, which she was above.) But stilllll . . . *whine*

-Even though I was kind of pissed off about this, something made me smile hugely as I was walking to Linguistics lecture (which I came so so close to skipping because I am tired). There were a couple of people waving signs and yelling about Jesus and how God demands that I repent in Red Square this afternoon. While I seriously don't have anything against smart religious people, I do have something against stupid people that yell and tell me someone is DEMANDING I do something I don't agree with, with the implication that my soul is damned to eternal hellfire if I don't, etc. etc. Nevertheless, I wasn't really annoyed so much as "oh, it's the yelling people again; I'm just going to walk over here, not bother them, and tune them out."

Then I noticed that, standing a few feet away from them, there were an equal number of people dressed as pirates, not yelling and calmly holding signs with the Flying Spaghetti Monster on them and passing out pamphlets.

SO awesome. I just have one thing to say: Ramen, my brothers and sisters, Ramen. And also thank you for making me grin so widely.

-I am having a craving for ridiculous turn-of-the-century children's literature. I could not tell you why this is, but I finished Little Lord Fauntleroy last night and now I just want more of the same. I'm such a weirdo.

-I haven't been sleeping well lately.

-It's almost NOVEMBER!!! and I'm excited. Why? Why, nanowrimo.org, my friends . . .

-All I want to do today is write. So I think I shall do that now, instead of doing math homework like a smart person.