instead of having finals week be monday through friday (you know, a single week), our school likes to take spring semester’s finals “week” and make it tuesday through friday, with the next monday and tuesday tacked on for kicks. isn’t that cool? well, not necessarily, but it does mean for one thing that the tests i have are more spread out and i can be more leisurely in preparing for them, and also that today, monday, no one has any finals and is free to bum around like the springtime afternoon is so fiercely trying to convince us to do. so i had lunch and kicked it with a couple of my favorite non-future-roommate guys just now and it was great. a solid three hours of quality april daytime.

[note: when i say my favorite non-future-roommates, i do not mean to imply that all roommates come first, and all non-roommates come after. without getting into any sort of intricate ranking system which would be utterly stupid, i just mean to say that it so happens that a lot of my favorite guys will be living under the same roof come august, whereas there are still some rad guys who will not, e.g. my company this afternoon.]

so i’m a big fan of lazy sunny afternoons is what i’m saying i guess, and it’s too bad i have to start memorizing the cranium sizes, dental structures, etc. of prehistoric human ancestors sometime soon for a final tomorrow (yes, it’s true, nariokatome boy does have a very modern post-cranial bone structure, which allows him to walk long distances — thanks for asking!)

it’s also too bad that being aware that the only reason you’re indignant or embarrassed is your stupid male ego still doesn’t make it any easier to just shake off the indignity or embarrasment you know is just stupid and male of you to be feeling. of course, girls all think they look fat so i guess that wouldn’t be too fun either.