Matando el tiempo...
I'm lousy at updating this thing...and it's not even for lack of things to comment on. It's just that it's all so classified I feel like I'd need some multi-layered blog security system and a mask on to be able to "confess my sins" so to speak. I wish I could go back to the time I thought no one I knew would ever read this (as opposed to the 3 people that read it now) Anyway, read on faithful ones!...
Another friend of mine is getting married, I just received a thick invitation in the mail asking me if I wanted "chicken stuffed with squash and pecorino" or "beef tenderloin medallions stacked with crab." Would it be in poor taste to ask just what the hell pecorino is?
I thought I had a couple years before my mom starts shopping my photo around the match making sites but lately, it feels like Mom the Human Pile Driver can't wait to use every conversation to get to the bottom of the pressing issues of how I'm spending my time and how I'm going to spend my time for the next 20 years of my life according to her....
1. "Nina, are you studying enough?"
"Yes Ma."
"Are you studying right now?"
"I'm talking to you right now."
"Well, what are you going to do after you talk to me?"
"Study."
"I'm going to find a nice boy for you."
"No ma."
"Why do you say no? Don't you think I deserves a grandchild?"(A grandkid is not like a Christmas bonus. You don't just put in the time, and earn yourself the right to start demanding your offspring (who are not cute and cuddly anymore despite many attempts to infantilize them) to procreate.
(Silence. There's really no answer for this.)
"Nina..you are getting married."
"LALALALLALALALALALAA...I'M NOT LISTENING TO YOU!"
This is repeated about 4 times a week unless I'm lucky enough to evade my gestapo-phone sessions with a bout of laryngitis as was the case this past week. Before that, I haven't had laryngitis happen to me since high school. That was a long fucking time ago. Unfortunately, the god-sent that is losing your voice manifested during Spring Break and not during regular school time when I could have used this neat, totally legit excuse while under the punishing lash of the Socratic Method.
Speaking of school though,.... I'm becoming a huge slacker. My work ethic puts Calvin to shame. And I better fix this if I want to pass my first year. A huge culprit is Constitutional Law, which is 2 hours long and goes at a crippling pace. Really, how can a class covering such hot button topics like race, abortion, freedom of speech, etc be so dull? Fuck if I know! I think about literally everything else before I think of Con Law: youtube, when I should clean my room, Rihanna's song "Umbrella." Really.. everything. Classes end sometime in late April, so I've got roughly18 hours left....
In other news...I finally got a cool internship at PAIR (www.pairproject.org) this summer and was thrown the presidency of NLG ( I really mean this. I hadn't even decided if I was going to run for the position before the current prez told me the job was mine. I have a strong suspicion that...there might not have been ANYONE ELSE in the applicant pool but me. Just a thought. Anyway...Gulp. More on my growing paranoia that my years throwing sparsely attended fundraisers at Club Amnesty in Pittsburgh will not adequately prepare me for this new responsiblity, later perhaps.
Last thing...
I've actually gotten out of Boston the last couple of weekends (shocking, I know):
-skiing in New Hampshire (this was a lot more fun than I remember it as a kid. Maybe because this time I actually decided to wear gloves and a hat.) I did the Black Diamond! It was...AWESOME.
-NYC...hung out with rather random group of friends and checked out the Little India (aka Jackson Heights. True to form, it turned out to be several streets filled with stores selling sugar-coma inducing sweets. Diabetes here I come!)
Random Tv/Movie Note:
Movies I'm dying to see:
Harold and Kumar 2:
Batman: Return of the Dark Knight
I've slogged through 3 seasons of 24 only to have them kill off all of my favorite characters in the lamest ways possible (Nina Myers...you deserved better) and drowning me in the right-wing pro-torture ideology the writers kept throwing in there, and now I'm an avid fan of LOST. Great show...but would it kill them to throw in a minority woman apart from Sun? Poor Michelle Rodriguez got iced after like 7 episodes and now we're stuck with all the hot guys on the island vying for the affections of melanin challenged waifs Juliet and Uno-Dimensional Kate. Damn shame, that's what it is.
Quote of the Day: (Exchange between radical Minerva Mirabal and dictator of Dominican Republic Trujillo as they were dancing)
Another friend of mine is getting married, I just received a thick invitation in the mail asking me if I wanted "chicken stuffed with squash and pecorino" or "beef tenderloin medallions stacked with crab." Would it be in poor taste to ask just what the hell pecorino is?
I thought I had a couple years before my mom starts shopping my photo around the match making sites but lately, it feels like Mom the Human Pile Driver can't wait to use every conversation to get to the bottom of the pressing issues of how I'm spending my time and how I'm going to spend my time for the next 20 years of my life according to her....
1. "Nina, are you studying enough?"
"Yes Ma."
"Are you studying right now?"
"I'm talking to you right now."
"Well, what are you going to do after you talk to me?"
"Study."
"I'm going to find a nice boy for you."
"No ma."
"Why do you say no? Don't you think I deserves a grandchild?"(A grandkid is not like a Christmas bonus. You don't just put in the time, and earn yourself the right to start demanding your offspring (who are not cute and cuddly anymore despite many attempts to infantilize them) to procreate.
(Silence. There's really no answer for this.)
"Nina..you are getting married."
"LALALALLALALALALALAA...I'M NOT LISTENING TO YOU!"
This is repeated about 4 times a week unless I'm lucky enough to evade my gestapo-phone sessions with a bout of laryngitis as was the case this past week. Before that, I haven't had laryngitis happen to me since high school. That was a long fucking time ago. Unfortunately, the god-sent that is losing your voice manifested during Spring Break and not during regular school time when I could have used this neat, totally legit excuse while under the punishing lash of the Socratic Method.
Speaking of school though,.... I'm becoming a huge slacker. My work ethic puts Calvin to shame. And I better fix this if I want to pass my first year. A huge culprit is Constitutional Law, which is 2 hours long and goes at a crippling pace. Really, how can a class covering such hot button topics like race, abortion, freedom of speech, etc be so dull? Fuck if I know! I think about literally everything else before I think of Con Law: youtube, when I should clean my room, Rihanna's song "Umbrella." Really.. everything. Classes end sometime in late April, so I've got roughly18 hours left....
In other news...I finally got a cool internship at PAIR (www.pairproject.org) this summer and was thrown the presidency of NLG ( I really mean this. I hadn't even decided if I was going to run for the position before the current prez told me the job was mine. I have a strong suspicion that...there might not have been ANYONE ELSE in the applicant pool but me. Just a thought. Anyway...Gulp. More on my growing paranoia that my years throwing sparsely attended fundraisers at Club Amnesty in Pittsburgh will not adequately prepare me for this new responsiblity, later perhaps.
Last thing...
I've actually gotten out of Boston the last couple of weekends (shocking, I know):
-skiing in New Hampshire (this was a lot more fun than I remember it as a kid. Maybe because this time I actually decided to wear gloves and a hat.) I did the Black Diamond! It was...AWESOME.
-NYC...hung out with rather random group of friends and checked out the Little India (aka Jackson Heights. True to form, it turned out to be several streets filled with stores selling sugar-coma inducing sweets. Diabetes here I come!)
Random Tv/Movie Note:
Movies I'm dying to see:
Harold and Kumar 2:
Batman: Return of the Dark Knight
I've slogged through 3 seasons of 24 only to have them kill off all of my favorite characters in the lamest ways possible (Nina Myers...you deserved better) and drowning me in the right-wing pro-torture ideology the writers kept throwing in there, and now I'm an avid fan of LOST. Great show...but would it kill them to throw in a minority woman apart from Sun? Poor Michelle Rodriguez got iced after like 7 episodes and now we're stuck with all the hot guys on the island vying for the affections of melanin challenged waifs Juliet and Uno-Dimensional Kate. Damn shame, that's what it is.
Quote of the Day: (Exchange between radical Minerva Mirabal and dictator of Dominican Republic Trujillo as they were dancing)
TRUJILLO: Do you agree with my political ideology?
MINERVA: Politics don't interest me.
TRUJILLO: And what if I send my subjects to conquer you?
MINERVA: And what if I conquer your subjects?
1 Comments:
At 7:07 AM,
djdrrrtypoonjabi said…
Oooh. I think you should follow your mom's advice and pop out your very own uterine dumpling. It'll be yours to keep, you'll appease your mother, and you'll be the only desi parent on the block with a kid named "Subcomandante."
Or you can just give it to her straight and tell her you don't want to have children. It's the 21st century girlfriend, assert yo self!
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