The After-Thanksgiving Cell.

I'm kinda glad that break is over now.

Back to the same old routine which rarely changes. Back to being accepted for my thoughts and not condoned. Back to that place where I'm free to express myself without pressure from my parents or worries concerning my sister. I'm just glad to be going back to school and to start living in my own little world again where Green Tea is my gasoline and my attitude isn't judged on my outward expressions.



Thanksgiving was somewhat depressing and overtly feminized.

We went shopping and my mother finally found some tops that she thought didn't look half bad on Kim and I. I was spared from the "you need to lose weight in order to wear clothing" speech but only because Kim fell prey to it instead of me. We did a LOT of Christmas shopping and I got most of what I wanted. According to Mama, the surprise is no longer in what I will get, but who I will get it from. One word for you dearie: grandparents.

Big Red hit and was painful, probably because it last blew through weeks before school started which was months ago so this time, it came back vengeful and eager to make up for lost visits.

Mikal was supposed to come over Friday night but apparently she confused the dates and called me last night and regretfully told me that she couldn't spend the night because of a dinner her dad had to go to. She frustrates me sometimes. Her life revolves so much around her family that sometime I thinks she forgets that there are other people in the world. But I think she's going back to school tomorrow so I hope she won't be at Piedmont again to torture me with more of her daunting brilliance.



There have been lots of college letters lately.

I got four-a-day two days in a row and then one measly belated one yesterday. They're all letters telling me about there school and urging me to get on their website to apply for some self-help "10-ways-to-make-applying-to-college-easier" book. All their websites have the same form to fill out and then encourage me to "look into" their school further. Most of them are private schools and luckily only two of them are in North Carolina. Here's the list: Western (NC), Georgia Tech (GA), Lenoir-Rhyne (NC), Ball State (IN), Converse (SC), Mercer (GA), Miami (FL), Rensselaer (NY), and Randolph (VA). So far, the only two I'm interested in are Georgia Tech and Mercer because they seem to be good schools with good engineering programs. Sure, I'll apply to all of them -- It couldn't hurt -- but I'm only serious about the ones that offer at least a Chemistry or Engineering degree.