The ongoing battle for dating rights...continues. Not so much of a battle as a chase, since I can't get them to listen to me or hold still for more than ten seconds at a stretch. I'm thinking of leaving a tape recorder someplace convenient, or learning to talk fastlier.
The civics exam today was pretty easy, since she basically read the whole test out loud to us at tutoring. Anyone who didn't go may or may not have been completelly screwed. Having gone, I wouldn't know. Anyways, it was cool, even though the sub was a complete bitch. Pretty much the only things she said the whole time were, "Be quiet," and "no."
If I'd "been teaching for 35 years" I would be pissed off too...I'd be the beubonic teacher, planting viruses in every class I taught that would only become active years later...or I might give them all candy and have them put on a talent show. I had a sub for my orchestra class who did that once. I still think she was cool as hell.
Speshully the candy part.
I've managed to wear billy's beanie all day. Since I like the anom...autono...po...I like the way it sounds.
Goodwill, though it smells funny, is now my official place for clothes. The XL jacket with the leapord print was a big big hit, and warm too. Maybe I should get one that fits next time.
CECELIAN HELPFUL HINTS FOR LIFE:
1. Goodwill has great clothes.
2. Don't be a snob for retail, digging through trash, or anything else that normal people can't get themselves to do.
3. If you can't do something well, enjoy doing it badly.
4. Big Lots is not a crappy store. It's a surplus store, which means everything there is pretty good quality, but for 99 cents.
5. Do not buy food at non-food specializing discount stores. (i.e. Biglots, Erby's, Goodwill...)
6. Do not buy your food if you can help it. THis is a bad habit. When in college, you cannot do those things, and should not become used to it.
7. When someone orders a pizza and doesn't come to pick it up within a certain time limit, (5 hours I think) the pizza places put the pizza in the dumpster behind the store. They're in boxes and hot.
8. When canned food is dented or otherwise damaged, Grocery stores remove the labels and put them in the dumpsters behind the store. Apparently denting is especially common with canned beans.
9. Do not buy art or artful things. Ever. If you live near a campus, dig through the art buildings' dumpster for art you can work on yourself.
10. Everything is art. If it follows Phi.
11. Old book stores, when they haven't managed to sell books, will cut off the front cover and stash the books behind the building.
12. An air hockey table is expensive. Build one with several peices of salvaged driftwood, rebar, cement blocks, stolen bricks, or whatever else you can think of for legs and a finely sanded peice of plywood for the table top.
13. Do not buy building materials if you can help it. Large companies build new places all over the growing cities. At night, these places are very good for hanging out.
14. There is always a job. When looking for work, take what you can get. If it's odd, that's pretty good. Choose the truck thrower job over the burger king joint. Get jobs you don't know a lot about so you can learn new skills.
15. Doughnut shops do not throw old doughnuts into the dumpsters behind the building. Krispee Kreme is mean.
16. Sewing is a valuable skill for everyone. Making and repairing clothes is great.
17. Cloth stores are cool.
18. You can never have too much cloth, and bolts of cool looking cloth will always find a purpose.
19. If your wall is grimey and bowing inward in your cheaply rented sparsely furnished trash-smelling basement apartment, use a really big bolt of cloth to cover the whole wall. It looks a lot cooler than you'd think, and helps make the room smell downy fresh when you wash it.
20. If you rent one big room, very much like a small warehouse in which to live, (cept a bathroom) Divide rooms with the bolts of cloth above or with paint on the floors (if cement) and ceilings.
21. Beds don't need to be "beds" The monks sleep on wooden planks, you can sleep on cement. | 
