That's how you do it Holmes.

Finishing off the last semester of college with straight As. Boom bitch, that's just how I roll.

Everyone cross your fingers for me for the GRE tomorrow.

That

Pfffft.

I do not like snatchy ex-girlfriends who try to vaginablock. Get bent beeatch.

What the shirt says

Just finished my last final. The ceremony is on Saturday. Woo motherfuckin' hoo.

The girl who makes me laugh more than anyone else

My sister is adorable

The Failboat has sailed

96th percentile on the verbal...and 21st on the math.

I don't know why I bother breathing other SMART people's air. Surely they need it.

Preparing to get onboard the Failboat

GRE tomorrow. BOOOOOOOOO. My verbal scores are out of this world but the quantitative (the math) are still putting me in the 50-65 percentile. Which isn't horrible but c'mon folks.

This made me laugh, because that's pretty much what it's like.

Also my throat still hurts. BOOOOOOURNS.

Can't wait for this to be over.

Things to think about

Up late. Feel like I'm possibly becoming ill. Pondering my life, the people in it, my choices, the good and the bad. Wondering if I'm ever going to be happy with ANYTHING. Why do I think I even have a SHOT of getting into this Berkeley program? Am I fucking nuts? What the fuck is wrong with me? Am I just PMSing like crazy?

Am I ever going to figure this shit out?

Been vegan for 10 months now. Go me.

Worker dronez

Moral: ear bugs get into your brain through your ear and make you kill people, which makes you sad



Two and a half more weeks of classes. Then finals. Then Germany. Two huge projects due two weeks from today. Bit stressed. Feel like bursting into tears and/or hurling myself out of a window.

Thoughts on Buffy season 6

John is watching Season 6 of Buffy the Vampire Slayer for the first time, and I am rewatching it for the 3rd or 4th time. It's my favorite season because I want Spike to be my manbitch for forever an' ever, and it because it's definitely the darkest.

But I was struck this time by the contrast between this season and Season 5. The Big Bad in Season 6 is...three nerds who make Battlestar Galactica jokes, drive around in a van with a Star Wars theme horn and have vague plans of world domination? Joss Whedon is making fun of his own viewers (which is hilarious).

The real enemies are the characters themselves. Xander's waffling, Anya's return to being a demon, Willow's addiction, Spike's 'bad boy who is oh so lovely in bed but makes you an emotional wreck"-ness, Dawn's kleptomania, and Buffy's depression, not to mention Giles leaving. The only one who remains relatively stable through the whole thing is Tara. She's the adult, but as with the other nuturing, mother figure in the Buffyverse, she is not a permanent figure. In the end, the nerds are a secondary issue; the Big Bad is Willow, consumed with grief and dark magic, who confronts each of them with their respective weaknesses during the last two episodes.

It's sad, and painful, and dark, but because of that, it makes the characters so much more human. It takes them down a notch or two from their superhero-ness, and really enables the viewer to relate to them, especially for those of us in our early 20s who are starting to deal with everything that the 'real world' throws at us for the first time.