mmmm, fry bread

I love spring break in Sheboygan. It is cold, boring and I am held up in my parents' apartment sick. I had this weird crampy muscle feeling in my upper abdomen that I had just recently gotten over after a three day stint. Now it is turning into a sore throat thing (I am sure the two are unrelated but of course it must happen to me back to back). Feeling sick doesn't make a person totally motivated to do school work (which I desperately need to do) or prepare for an interview (which I need to do as well). I wish I could have spent my last spring break going somewhere besides Sheboygan, but alas, I have always been too poor to do anything including a road trip to anywhere.

The upside to spending spring break in Sheboygan is going to a bar on St. Patrick's Day night and getting white roses from a random person (which I am still convinced was Ri or an old friend who was drunk and kept on telling me how beautiful I was) and eating fry bread and chili. MMMMM

Creepy

I hate to say it but people walking down the street, by themselves and not on a cellphone, who are smiling really creep me out. They seem to have no reason for smiling. Maybe it bothers me because I am a coldhearted bitch, but come on. I must admit seeing someone smile makes me smile as well, but not for the reason one might think. It makes me smile because I am thinking, "Wow, that person must be crazy. And to me that is funny."

Today I was walking down the street and I saw this skinny indie guy walk past me with that Derek Zoolander, sucked-in cheeks/pursed lips look. It made me smile (on the inside though because I don't want to look crazy).
I also saw this guy who was seriously rocking out to whatever he was listening to on his headphones. I am talking rock face with an air drum solo (like air-guitar but with drumsticks).

See if you get this. It is from comedian Demetri Martini:
"I like to use 'I Can't Believe it's Not Butter' on my toast in the morning, because sometimes when I eat breakfast, I like to be incredulous. 'How was breakfast?' 'Unbelievable.'"
I like it because it is smarter than me.

I am just saving my energy for spring

Hibernation response: overeating (especially carbs), weight gain, fatigue, and hypersomnia (oversleeping)

I saw this video on welfare reform in my social work class which also made me want to cry. First they should this 17 year old girl pregnant with her second child who wants to leave high school to move to another city with her boyfriend and his family. When asked what she and her boyfriend are going to do once they finish high school, because she was almost done, she responded that she didn't know what she was going to do and her boyfriend still had more high school to finish. He is 14 years old!!! Yikes... So she couldn't get welfare because 1. she was a minor and 2. it was her second child (child exclusion act). The second thing that made me want to cry was seeing this woman going to the food pantry and returning home to her 4 children who were tearing open the boxes, bags of food and the mom was yelling at them because they needed to ration the food. I am so glad that I was always a well fed kid.

If I could be anything in the world, and had the ability to do anything, there is no doubt in my mind that I would be a rock star.

A way to make me almost cry in the middle of lecture:

I saw the saddest video clips today in my psychology class. The video was on Munchusaun(sp?) by Proxy. For those of you who do not know what this is, it basically is when parents will inflict pain/harm/illness on their children so they can gain attention/pity/praise for themselves through their actions of "being a good parent" by bring them to the hospital and trying to cure their children. This is an oversimplified definition, but you should get the idea. Anyway, the video we saw, was of parents in the act of harming their children (in hospital surveillance videos). One video showed a father smothering this one year old daughter. He was putting his hand over her mouth and pressing down hard. You could see the little girl struggling by throwing her arms and legs around. This went of for about a minute, until finally he stopped. The girl's gasping for air was so loud, it was drowning out the noise from TV (I should also note that the girl did not get any real permanent damage). The father then went to the nurse and told her that his daughter had stopped breathing. When questioned, he said he had tried to help her by shaking her. Once the man was told that he was caught on camera, he just said he wanted an attorney. Seriously, watching those clips was not cool, I had to close my eyes through most of it.