My so Charmed Life

Current mood: Crazed, homicidal, neurotic, pissed off

Oh well, my Grandfather always said “It’s better to be pissed off, than pissed on”

I went to talk to my adviser today, he was actually in a really good mood. That doesn’t happen often, it wasn’t at all like the last visit. He actually seemed like he wanted to help me.

I got a letter from the lovely people at the student loan company informing me that my graduation date had been updated…to May 2009. WTF? It is supposed to be December 2008! So I then panic and pace back and forth through the house scaring the bejezus out of the dogs. I calm down just long enough to send an email to RF politely asking to meet with him at his convenience then return to pacing and freaking the fuck out.

I went in today and RF looked at my credits and said that I will be one hour short. OK, again, one hour, not one course, one fucking hour! He actually pushed his chair back from his desk like he is used to having undergrads come over it and attack him. He said exactly what my friend Tim predicted he would. “Come back in April after you pick your Summer and Fall courses and we will see where we are then.”

I was on the fence about graduating in December because I really want to take a capstone course from my French Rev professor, all of the others until now looked terrible. Today RF told me that Stuart England is being taught as a capstone in the fall. If I can graduate in December, I want to take that one instead of waiting for Dr. S. I need to get the hell out of there before they find another reason to keep me there.

The upside of today is that I might have inadvertently shamed some of my classmates into going to vote in the democratic primary!

Our trip to New Orleans was a lot of fun. It is great to see how the city is rebuilding and it was nice to drop a bunch of money into the economy there. The problem is, it’s the tourist areas that have been repaired/rebuilt everything else is still fucked.

On I-10 right outside of the downtown area you can still see houses with their roofs torn off, houses with all of the windows broken out. The homeowners are all being screwed over (be it by the government or the insurance companies.) They lost everything and many can’t afford to go back.

RPhGuy is from NOLA and his family moved back there. We were talking about it and he has a very good point. It was important for New Orleans to get the tourist areas fixed. That is their economy right now. They had to get that looking relatively normal to bring people back in. It’s still surreal to drive around outside of the French Quarter and the Garden District to see the destruction this long, almost 2 & 1/2 years after Katrina.

You can still see water lines on some of the buildings. Houses still have the FEMA codes spray painted on the front of them. I read somewhere a while back that some of the residents are keeping it up even when they repair their houses to remind people of what happened. It’s uncomfortable to look at it. It really brings home the realization of what these people went through (and are still going through) but I think it is important that no one forgets it.

We drove through the east side and people are slowly rebuilding in subdivisions. You can drive down a street and see the FEMA codes on all the houses, roofs with holes in them, walls completely missing, then one house out of the 20 or so on the street looks almost normal. Many people have FEMA trailers parked in their front yards, with the house behind them destroyed.

We didn’t know what the FEMA codes meant, but at one house it said 2 dogs. Stupid me thought “Oh good, they found someone’s dogs.” Then I realized that the dogs were dead and the date on the house was 09/30/05. It took them that long to get to this neighborhood. What if there were people trapped inside some of these houses?

I want to pay closer attention to the debates, I want to vote for Obama, but I want to hear what the democrats are going to do in places like NOLA. Louisiana overwhelmingly voted for Obama in the primary. Hopefully that’s a step in the right direction.

I’ll put up pictures once hushbear gets them off of the camera, or I may borrow some from one of my friends. He took more than we did, hushbear was driving and it didn’t occur to me to take the camera from him.

Sherri Shepherd has no business being on a television show where she is actually allowed to speak. If all she had to do was read lines she would bug me, but whatever, to actually allow that woman to express her opinion to the public is just freaking stupid.

In the past, she has expressed confusion over simple things. She isn’t sure if the world is flat. She said that no one predates Jesus and today… she announced that she has never voted before. The woman is 41, not voting isn’t what worries me, it’s the fact that she plans on voting now.

I try my hardest to get people to register to vote, but I never push people who don’t know anything about the candidates to blindly vote. I think that really defeats the purpose of the system.

This moron went on to say that she is going to vote in this election, because if she doesn’t vote, she won’t have a right to complain on The View about whomever is elected for an entire year. Um, an entire year? Lady, you Make Elizabitch Hasselbeck look smart.

Barbara, please get this idiot off of the TV. You canned Debbie Whatsherfaceopoulus, throw this moron out on her ass.