Hullabaloo

I've had a few things on my mind lately. Things like class. How high school truly does not prepare you academically for the reality of college courses. Things like my place in college and that I'm not sure I've found it.

Things like my friends back home. Things like how many cigarettes I smoke and whether or not I could quit right now if I wanted to. Things like the turns cannabis legalization has taken. For some reason I think about that a lot. OK, by some reason I mean that I would be really happy if the US took the step forward that is Proposal 19. I would be even happier if that extended to the state of Michigan someday.

As the wise Dale Denton said in Pineapple Express, "Have you ever dealt with a drug dealer? It's terrible, it's weird, it's awkward."

For a while this wasn't the case because the person selling was sort of a friend of mine. He was actually really cool and pretty funny. But this particular friend has given up both selling and smoking pot. Good for him, bad for me. Now I have to go through various aquaintances and friends of friends. Which can be a tense situation.

However if this law was passed I could go to a normal, well lit establishment, pay a tax to the state, and but some legal weed. As opposed to meeting in a parking lot or a creepy alley somewhere.

To me that's the shame in weed being illegal; it takes normal people and makes them into criminals. I don't enjoy sketchy situations any more than the next guy..girl. Whatever! The point being that I hope all goes well with prop 19 because I think it will be a healthy step forward.

In other news, my Linguistics midterm is on Thursday, or tomorrow if you wanna say it that way. Which I don't. Because tomorrow seems much closer than Thursday. As you can tell, I'm stressed about it. But on the other hand I was stressed about the last one and I did pretty well on it, I got an 80%.

Also, as far as academia goes, I got my first D on an English paper and had to withhold the urge to punch my professor in the jaw. If I had she would have probably turned to a pile of dust because shes older than the freaking hills. She is the worst.

Also, I will be staying here for the weekend and I will be forced to actually do laundry here and find things to do on campus to occupy my time. I have it so easy when I go home. I can relax in a spacious house on a comfy sofa, I can eat whenever I want, I can call up my friends and be like 'Yo, let's do something awesome, RIGHT NOW'. I can also watch OnDemand shows and just take a nap if I feel like it.

But I figure it's high time I spend a weekend up here, considering I've been in school for just about 3 months and I've only stayed the weekend here twice. So that will happen...hope I don't die of boredom. Wish me luck.