Exhausting Day.

I woke up this morning, groggy per usual after once again staying up too late watching Deep Space Nine. I had a philosophy quiz this morning which I was totally unprepared for and I flunked it - I know this for a fact. Then it was off to the mall between classes to do assorted Valentine's Day and personal shopping. I ended up leaving the mall with a new pair of jeans and a twenty-nine dollar foaming cleanser from the Lancome counter.

It was weird, I was innocently browsing through Sears and all of a sudden it happened:

"Good Morning Sears Shoppers. Don't forget ladies, with a minimum purchase of twenty-nine dollars from Lancome you receive a free gift"

I rushed to the counter and asked the lady what I could buy for twenty-nine dollars - this is how I managed to buy a cleanser I didn't even need. J.J. called me on falling for the old "free gift routine", and I realized that I had acted the exact way the store expected me to.

I've found myself under alot of stress lately, and I've found that as much as I hate it, I have found that there really is such a thing as shopping therapy. I don't take enough time for myself, or at least lately I haven't. I became this big stress ball and I guess this week I just couldn't stand it anymore and I just spent a crapload of money to make myself feel better. The sad thing is - it worked.

See you at the mall!

Signed Grrl Friday

I apologize for the tardiness of this post - I realize it's been almost two weeks since my last post. One of my new year's resolution was to keep this blog up-to-date but I've been having problems keeping up my end of the bargain. I think I've been concentrating too hard on becoming revolutionary, so as of today I will be maintaining the blog every week - and posting regardless of if I have feminist rants or not.

I'll give you a quick rundown of the events of the past few weeks:

-started school again, and have found myself in the smallest, most dynamic group of young feminists that I have ever encountered

-currently organizing a theme day at work to coincide with the video and dvd release of "My Big Fat Greek Wedding"

-will most likely become a member of the Women's Studies Student Associations Exec, hopefully as the VP Social

-decided that I may vote NDP in the next federal election

-started to overcome my fear of eating in large, noisy spaces (like cafeterias) by eating a bowl of soup in the caf at school once a week

-working on a new blog, pure fiction based on Star Trek where I get to be in the Captain's chair

-started Weight Watchers again in order to lose fifteen pounds, get in shape and feel better in general

-spent some quality Girlie time with Al and Kiyomi at Al's twenty-second birthday bash where J.J. and I stayed out way too late, and had a ton o' fun

-experiencing severe panic about getting into Teachers College next spring, Simon has figured that even if all I get is A's between now and then, it may be mathmatically impossible to hike my average high enough

-on the Teacher's College front again, I have possibly secured a year-long teaching assistant position at my sister's old elementary school, with a teacher she was incredibly fond of

-turned J.J. onto Hunter S. Thompson books and blogs (his will be added to the links as soon as his layout is complete)

-finally treated myself to a few pieces of wardrobe this afternoon, and didn't even feel guilty when I received the bill

So that's about all for now, I hope this makes up for the word-drought the site's been experiencing lately.
I WILL post tommorow.

Signed, Grrl Friday.