I tried to blog earlier during my college trip because I thought I hadn’t it quite a while and blogging was really needed, especially before Jesse ripped me a new one for not blogging in 20 eons. Ok, so I didn’t need to say “ripped me a new one” there but I wanted to try it out, since I hadn’t heard anyone ever use that before. So it goes.

I found this great place on Times Square in NYC, if you are ever in Times Sq. you should check it out. Its called “easyInternetCafe” and it has dirt cheap internet access. It was something like .05 a minute or something ridiculous. We couldn’t pass it up so we tried it out. I ended up checking my email and finding out some information about colleges and then went to blog. I got about 3 mins into my blog and a warning popped up about my time being almost up but I closed the window and kept on typing. About 30 seconds later, another warning popped up saying that my time was up. My windows were still open so I tried to save the blog before it logged out on me and it didn’t do anything, until I tried to save the blog. Then it promptly restarted and sent me into a silent swearing fit. I should have learned by now, always save before you finish… I should probably save this now. so it goes.

I finished my latest personal reading Slaughterhouse-Five at the start of this trip and now I am reading The Things They Carried. I have heard its an absolutely fabulous book but haven’t had a chance to get past page 41. I tried to read during our agonizingly long drives but I kept falling asleep or getting carsick, so I gave up on that proposition. so it goes.

There are only 3 more days in our college trip and only two more schools. I have to visit, er, get to visit GWU tomorrow and UMD-College Park on Tuesday. I am so very much looking forward to the visits but more I am looking forward to finally being able to go home. I can only take so much of some parts of the East Coast in small doses I guess. I don’t want to knock these people out here, I mean, they are all very nice I am sure, but sometimes, it makes you want to go: I want to be in a place where people aren’t such asses to each other all the time. I counted the number of people I watched go through red lights in Boston and after being there two days, counted 6 people. We tried to get places in downtown Boston using the map that AAA gave us. Talk about a joke. Getting around cannot be in the same sentence as “Boston”. Streets intersect in weird ways, streets change from one way to two way every block, streets end at buildings and reappear on the other side going a different direction, one way, as usual. Streets on the map just end but continue in reality, or end in reality but continue through on the map. We couldn’t get anywhere we wanted to go without making at least 3 attempts to get the turns right. so it goes.

I am sitting here working away at Kinkos and charging up my dad’s debit card since I don’t have any balance left on my card but something pathetic like 3 bucks. so it goes.

When I was in CT, we stopped at a mall so I could look for a CT keychain (I am a hardcore keychain collector…and don’t ask about the hardcore part). While I waited for my dad in JCPenney, I watched 3 girls standing around the beauty salon. One girl excitedly exclaimed, “I can get my hair permanently straightened for only $350!” Her friend said, “But you could buy a million outfits with that, and besides, you have curly hair because its you.” Her response was, “But if I get it straightened, my hair won’t be ugly anymore.” Consumerism makes me irritable. In the mall, across the “center plaza” from one another were little kids seeing the “easter bunny” and a hip hop um…whatever you call it…like the things in 8 Mile. I always have to remind myself, only in America, the land of the designer brand and the home of the voracious consumer.

djno ersatz…I’ve always wanted to use that word. Its a cool word, ersatz. so it goes.

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