Okay, I suck at titles and I’m listening to a mashup of Beastie Boys and Linkin Park. By far the best mashup ever. Even better than Jay Z/LP and that was officially mixed. Some kid made this particular mashup in his spare time… I think Linkin Park is just a very flexible band. You can put almost anything to them,

Well, I’m home now as of yesterday around 5:00. I coasted right nome because there wasn’t too much traffic on 495. 24 was pretty slow, but it was okay. I still made it home in an hour, haha. An 18-wheeler thought it would be a nice gesture to move into the middle lane while a ton of people merged onto the highway. I would have done it too if I were him, but I also would have double checked my mirrors. He almost merged into the side of my car. Fortunately there was no one in the left lane so I shifted over easily enough. But still. Every time I come home, I’m like, “Lol, ma, I almost died again.” She’s positive there’s a “Hit Me” sign on my car somewhere. I r danger magnet.

I completed my English assignment due Friday. Since I had left it at home, I figured I might as well go back and make sure it was flawless. It’s not like high school where I can just e-mail him and be like, “O sry here it is.” I actually get ten percent off for turning it in Monday, like it should be – even at the high school level.

That’s what I like about Professors. They love helping you, but you’re damned if you don’t hand the work in when it’s due. None of that, “Well, it’s okay just hand it in Monday or e-mail it to me when you get home for full credit, despite the fact my Syllabus you signed at the beginning of the semester says you agree to hand in work on time else face a ten percent penalty.” Professors are just… so real haha. I don’t know how to explain it. They’re true to their word and they stick by it. I mean, if I did this all the time Mr. Carlozzi might be like, “Look, Shay, I’m not gonna force you to do anything, but you’re a smart kid and someone like you shuoldn’t be doing stuff like this. Think about getting stuff in.” Whereas at the high school, Wex, Fitz, Kelley, and my teachers would be like, “WTH ARE YOU DOIN. YOU HAVE NO LIFE OUTSIDE OF SCHOOL, JUST DO YOUR WORK YOU CANNOT FAIL. DO NOT DO THIS.” They won’t hunt you down in college. Which is sort of motivating, because the thrill of a chase gets me so hyped up I don’t want to do any work cuz I love being chased.

Anyway, I have a summary for Steve Milgram’s article due Monday. It’s about how he used to study “obedience” in the form of making the person being studied ask a series of questions to someone in another room. If the other person got the answer wrong, the unseen person would be “electrocuted.” Ultimately, it was to see if the person being studied would continue on with the experiment, “knowing” the other person was being electrocuted for wrong answers THEY were asking for. However, no one was allowed to stop because they were always encouraged to go forth with every question. In the end they found out the person really wasn’t being electrocuted, but the whole theory wound itself around the fact people obeyed well when they knew the other person’s death wasn’t their responsibility. This experiment was compared to Nazi Germany. Yeah.

I got new glasses today. They’re basically the same as my old ones except the lenses are angled a little up towards my temples, as opposed to being straight across. I really like the style of them, because I basically need blinders on my glasses or I get nauseated. The woman helping me with glasses handed me a pair of thinly wired-rimmed glasses and I thought I was going to die. I need a solid black frame to keep my eyes focused on the lens. I need to wear them for chem labs, so I would hate to die in the middle of a lab because my glasses make me nauseated. Haha.

I’m sitting outside again and it’s really nice, though I’m wearing a white sweatshirt that keeps reflecting back onto the screen and making it ultimately impossible to view my screen. But now I’ve figured out I just really need to tilt my screen back so my shirt is out of view. It appears to be working rather nicely, though the best time to be out here is past 5PM. It’s only twenty minutes away.

We’re thinking about getting Domino’s. I could really go for a pasta bowl, Jen only eats pepperoni pizza, and mom wants a sandwich, which works out perfectly because Domino’s has the best coupons. We can get all three of those for $18. I highly recommend the Chicken Alfredo Pasta Bowl. Do it.