Happy birthdays to Pennington (yesterday) and Ashleigh (today)!

Ha!

Daily drink helps sharpen memory in women.

Apparently, light to moderate drinking helps not only to prevent heart disease and stroke, but also improves memory as women age.

Now if they'd only do a study to prove that drinking excessive amounts of alcohol does something good besides giving UGA students something to do on a Thursday night, we'd be in business.

A Suggestion

You want my advice? Never, ever count on anybody or anything, because without fail, once you do, it will fall through. People will ditch you at the last minute, and you'll be screwed, and there will be nothing you can do about it without being accused of not caring about someone else's happiness. No matter what you think, nobody is dependable. You may as well not make plans at all.

Half The Answers

I've just been roped into being auctioned off in the Date Auction portion of the Rutherford (my dorm) Winter Semi-Formal.

Oh, I'm sure this will go swimmingly.

My biggest fear: What if nobody bids on me?? Aagghh. What to wear?

See The Cat? See The Cradle?

Oh my God I just found out that Kurt Vonnegut will be speaking at Hodgson Hall for free on March 7th. Here, at UGA. This totally makes up for The David Sedaris Incident (in which: David Sedaris spoke at the Classic Center coincidentally soon after I finished reading Me Talk Pretty One Day, but it cost $30 and I was too broke at the time to attend).

Kurt Vonnegut!

That is all.

Everybody's Changing And I Don't Feel The Same

Tomorrow morning I make a return to Real Life, after three weeks (give or take) in Limbo. And I'm not ready. I can't say I've really been enjoying myself all that much (worst winter break ever), just working and sleeping all the time, with little time left to hang out with friends and such, but the prospect of going back to Athens looms darkly, and is not the least bit enticing.
I don't know what it is I don't want to get back to, because last semester was great. Sure, there were problems but nothing major, nothing that caused much stress or turmoil. On the whole, things were good. So I should be anticipating an even better Spring semester, right?
There is the issue of my emotional numbness of late. I can't really remember the last time I got truly excited about something, or very upset about something either. It's kind of depressing, because I'm so used to being so up and down all the time, like I always was in high school and like I was last year as well. This flat state of things is not appealing to me. Sure, I haven't felt particularly sad or angry about anything in forever, but I would accept a little of that for a little excitement or real happiness. I'm getting bored with stasis.
But it's easier to accept here at home. There's nothing to get overly happy or sad about here anyway. I've written before about how times like summer and winter break are in-between times, where the things that happen don't really count. And it's like that. Maybe I have an easier time with my emotional non-rollercoaster here in Limbo where nothing that happens actually counts towards Real Life anyway. And I'm not ready to get back to said Life, where I'm expected to actually feel things and I'm afraid I won't.
But back to Real Life I'll go, armed with bags one iPod, a few seasons of television shows on DVD, and hopefully several used books heavier, and as a late New Year's resolution of sorts, I'm going to resolve to try and stop feeling so damn nothing all the time.