I was hanging out with Deanna down in the main hall, typing up one of my stories when a problem occurred. Not messy or anything, merely annoying. There's a girl named Kiya who really doesn't like me all that much. She's complained about me numerous times for being "racist" and such. My favorite complaint has been, "I said 'hi' to [selim] and he didn't respond back!" Which, in my defense, I'd like to put out that to say 'hi' usually means I have small talk, and small talk is mindless chatter with no real purpose. If I don't like mindless chatter, why would I willingly say 'hi', especially when you rarely want anything to do with me unless you're after something??
Well anyway,
the whale (as she's been dubbed by the "Group") had taken shift before Deanna. When she went outside and Deanna took security duties, we noticed she'd left her romance novel down there. Normally this wouldn't be a problem, but I just had to add, "Well look-y there, Kiya can read high than a first grade vocabulary". (I can sometimes be a little mean) but Kiya comes back in and is leaning against the poor desk talking with another guy about books. He was talking about Stephen King's books. Kiya proclaims, "I like his books too." [and this point I wanted her to name 3 titles]. The guy then goes on to ask if Kiya had read anything King had wrote while under the alias of Richard Bachman. "I like those books too," Kiya responded just as fast. (Again, name three). She goes on to ask Deanna, all while glancing over at me, for her favorite authors. The signals I'm getting is she wanted to know who I like -- for what reason, I haven't the faintest clue. All I know is, I won't tell anyone my favorite authors, artist, musicians, ect. unless you're going to buy me something. >~< Besides, it's rare for me to find folks who even
know who I'm talking about when I mention my favorite writer. Like, only one person has known and he was working at a bookstore and couldn't remember which book was the first of her recent trilogy. But meh.
This story leads into more of the
vicious whale saga who has taken a hobby this year. She finds that Deanna's vast vocabulary (which at times even I don't know the words which she utters) is an awesome thing to copy thus, when she hears a word she'll write it down and research it. That night she heard Deanna refer to me as a "blood thirsty, maniacal, macabre creature" and had to look these words up. This wouldn't have been so bad had I not woke up to these words being screeched at my door. Again, I doubt she really understands what's going on.
And I started my Cultural Anthropology course. It sucks. I told Dr. Colb that just because I'm drawing doesn't mean i'm not listening. He asked "do you take notes", which I respond "Not really." My friend Glenda, whom I went to high school with, vouched that she'd been in many classes which I was drawing and she was hastily writing notes and when she'd asked if I knew what was going on I could tell her everything down to the letter. Well he responded snarky, "Well I'll believe it when I see it." I'd like to point out:
I'M A F*CKIN' JUNIOR (3RD YEAR) WITH A 3.57 GPA, I THINK I KNOW MY OWN LEARNING STYLE BY NOW.
Well it all can't be that bad though, I'm surviving. I got a new job out of fast food, I got moved from the Nursing Dept. to Admissions at work study, I got 2 stories I'm working on, and I started my original story on the side. Life couldn't get better.