1L in Chicago

Tuesday, October 04, 2005

Too tired to be creative.

Today was a day of endurance. The 7am wake up call. Read on the bus to class, read for the half hour before class, read during lunch, read on the bus on the way home, ate something, read on the bus to Dan's, outlined until 1030 with Dan and Sara and read on the bus home. Fucking eyes are killing me. I'm not gonna get enough sleep tonight, I didn't get enough last night and I really don't see myself catching up any night these week. Not to mention the bus ride to Dan's was a nightmare. I sat on the back row near the engine sweating my ass off because the seat was like 300 degrees, the bus was 80 degrees and packed. On top of that I have this crazy homeless black woman sitting next to me yelling at me about how the white man is keeping her down and then, inexplicably, making a counter argument to a response I never even said. An example:
"George Bush just nominatin' that woman because he want to keep the black man down. Ya'll been keeping the black man down since slavery. All ya'll wanna do is keep the black man down."
-Silence, no response from me. She turns to me.
"No, no, no, that ain't no argument. You just don't get it son, you just don't get it."
-Umm okay, yeah I don't get it. Wait I'm probably the most liberal person this woman has ever had an imaginary conversation with. Just turn up the volume on the Ipod. Keep going, okay fine, max volume. Seriously this imaginary shouting match went on for the entire bus ride-like 30 minutes in rush hour traffic. By the end I was so frustrated. I was so close to turning to her and being like "tell someone who gives a shit and shut the fuck up so I can enjoy the ride through the park and not have to avoid eye contact with you you crazy crazy witch woman." Obviously I didn't say that, and later even felt bad for thinking it, letting myself get that hostle. Don't usually get like that much anymore but I'm really really tired. And finally-fuck the President and his anticlimactic Supreme Court nomination. He appoints his lawyer?-shady but almost so shady that it's not controversial. This post is incoherent babble and not even very funny. One of those days (does that count as a one liner?).

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