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So. I assume a lot of you have probably already heard about this.

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Have you read The Handmaid's Tale? Are you very, very afraid? Because I kinda am.

I tried to catch what was going on with it on C-SPAN today, but without much luck.


And yes, I am fully aware that it is almost 5am. I'm just not really tired yet. Please do not remind me of this tomorrow when I am exhausted and have to go be cheerful for a bunch of high school seniors.

ETA: And then, hi? Anyone else glad they're graduating soon? Good thing most Americans are wealthy enough to pay for college on their own.

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weekend love and hate

Things I love:
1. Brock taking me out to dinner so he feels less guilty about making me drive him to the airport tomorrow.
2. Feeling like I actually kinda look slightly cute today. :)
3. Megan calling me while I'm bored out of my mind at the library and avoiding my homework to tell me she's applying to the Peace Corps and she'd appreciate a recommendation from me! And that she'll be home on Tuesday evening and we should hang out!!
4. The new Food Lion opening and having my toothpaste for ten cents cheaper than Safeway.
5. Seeing The Incredibles on Friday night, because it was the most adorable movie ever. Seriously, you guys.
6. Watching episodes of old school Buffy, in which Oz throws things on the floor because Wesley doesn't want to save his future wife from being tortured to death.
7. Watching the scene in Big Fish where Alison Lohman opens her window to find Ewan McGregor standing in a field of daffodils. (Because after seeing that movie in the theater, I totally get it! Ewan is the cutest thing EVER! And! And! Daffodils!)
8. Dr. Reed telling both my classes on Thursday to make sure we "eat until we puke" this weekend. And that he'll be spending his Thanksgiving in Las Vegas.

Things I hate:
1. Having to spend my afternoon being falsely cheerful to a bunch of kids and their parents who don't really care about what I'm saying to them.
2. Being asked questions and then having the asker not wait to listen to the answer.
3. Working in the library on Sunday nights. OMG SO BORING.
4. Having a stack of books sitting next to me reminding me that I have a ten page paper due way too soon.
5. http://www.ladiesagainstfeminism.com <-- SEETHING hate for this one
6. Having to spend five nights on my stepfather's couch this coming weekend. Woooo.
7. Spending most of this weekend working all four of my jobs so that all the stuff I had planned to do didn't get done. At all.
8. Thinking about and formulating an answer to my journal entry for history, because it just makes me all kinds of depressed. (Chapter 12 ends with Foner stating that, “because of the sixties, the United States, became a more open, more tolerant – in a word freer country.” Has this lasted or have we as a nation overturned the legacy of the 1960s? What is the legacy of the 1960s for college aged students today?)