today i had the pleasure of being bludgeoned into submission by another finance midterm. god i hate that class. not because it’s unbearably hard, but because no matter what i can’t make myself work for that guy (the professor). i studied some, but never enough obviously, and even though i feel ashamed of myself for the two hours i’m sitting there staring at the exam, not knowing how to do the problems, 20 minutes afterward i already can’t make myself care anymore. it’s just a peculiar situation.

i’d like to think it’s just further evidence that i’m more of an idea man than a number man. that’s the excuse i always fall back on to save myself from having to admit that maybe i’m just not as good a student as i used to be.

but really, does being a good student have anything to do with being a good (or interesting) person? not at all, really. so as long as i have a decent “overall gpa” to put on my resume after college that says i at least didn’t spend four years stumbling drunk from one night stand to one night stand, i think it’s more than fine to just plain not care about one class in my whole educational career so far. i have that right, don’t i? the panel of experts says yes, i do. sorry professor finance (real name changed to protect anonymity — a lesson i learned the hard way in my dark past…)

suge knight, the ceo of death row records (you know, dr. dre? snoop dogg? tupac?) is speaking at our school tonight. i thought about going just to say i saw the guy, but then i’d have to wait in a long line, probably, just to spend a long time listening to some “gangster” dude trying to sound smart in front of a packed auditorium. maybe he’s a really sharp guy though and i’m just being judgmental. it’s been known to happen on occasion.

[confidential note to cate at distraction: did you know burning airlines was even thinking about changing their name for a month or so after the big incident? they decided against it though and i support them. it’s so cool sounding, national tragedy or not.]

in other news, i’ve taken a liking to the highly recommended page awkward pirouettes, so voila, there it is. before long, it’s going to take me several hours to click through my list of regularly read blogs. luckily i have little enough to do with myself that i check twice a day and never fall too far behind. otherwise i’d have to just give up on the whole thing.

and i don’t want to do that to all you nice people.