Deus Ex Machina (god from the machine)

Somehow I've managed to get sick again. Don' t ask me how this keeps happening, but it does, and it sucks, big time. I totally missed class this morning because I couldn't get up, and I don't just mean wake up, I really couldn't sit up in bed and move. I will be better by tomorrow though, I fully plan on going to Bootleggers as long as other people are going too. I think my body just needs more sleep and a lot of fluids before I go to work tonight.

I'm back in school from spring break, which sucked because everybody I hang out with has break a week after I do. That will all change next year though, just you watch. I'm doing all right in all my classes, but Modern Social Problems is sucking ass big time. Yesterday we got our midterms back and we were told that a third of the class if failing. A whole third of the class! That's really, really bad (I'm not among that third btw). As we're going over the test, students are picking out questions that we have doubts about because of the answers, and the teacher is all "I can see how that's confusing", or "You're right, the text does say that's the answer" but she's not changing the scores. I could've ended up with a different and better grade if she had been changing them. As a compromise, as she called it, she offered us an extra credit project. The project? Go see "Hotel Rowanda" and write a 5 page paper on it in relation to what we've learned and what we think the problems presented in the movie are. Since the movie isn't out on video we have to go see it in theaters and pay for it. And even if we do see the movie, we only get 15 percentage points (not that we know whet that means anyway, none of know how she's grading these things) for doing the project, we don't get any points for going out of our way and paying to see the movie. The only theater it's playing at is all the way out on airport highway, which is like 30 min. away from my house. The paper also has to be "well written". If she has any problems with the composition, grammar, or content, she said she will start slashing points like she cutting weeds. I can't wait until the quarter is over and I can fill out her evaluation.

More fun news, my mom thinks I have a drinking problem. I can totally see why she would think that, seeing as how I come home every time I go out with friends, I keep up with my schoolwork, I get to all of my jobs on time and pick up extra hours, do my work around the house, don't keep any alcohol in the house, have only been drunk twice ever, and have never had a DUI or any other alcohol related problem ( except for a couple of hangovers). What else can I do? I've proven that I'm a level headed, responsible, mature young adult. I guess the only thing I can do is to continue what I'm doing and hope that she sees how wrong she is. It hurts that she heard one story about how I was drinking at a party and thinks that It's all I do when I go out.

Oh, and Mike, if you've gotten to this point, give me a call about Toms birthday. I'll know Thursday if I have work Saturday night, and if I know where you guys are gonna be before hand, I'll join you there.

I promise that my next post will be lighter of subject and have more of the humor. Promise.