All-Nighters

Here are a few things I learned over the past 4 days:

1) When pulling an all-nighter it is okay to take 10-20 minute power naps every couple of hours. It is NOT okay to take an hour nap because you miss the alarm and end up sleeping 6 or 7. Mission: FAIL.

2) When needing to transfer something to another computer and you are super busy, use a USB. DO NOT attach it to an email. Logging into an inbox causes the following things: being on Gchat, going to Facebook, checking funny links, staying on Facebook, getting distracted....3 hours later....you realize that you're mission has FAILED.

3) So you want to study and your friends want you to hang out. DO tell one group you're hanging out with the other and then end up not hanging out with either one. But make sure they do not end up merging groups at the end of the night....or else you have lied and you have FAILED.

4) Studying can only come in chunks. When you feel burned out, do NOT go on the Internet. It results in blogging everyday, checking Facebook several times an hour and in the end you could have taken an actual break....FAIL

The only difference

Best quote ever:

"The only differentiator between you and my ex is that you danced. But since you weren't doing that this semester I didn't know where to go from there."

And I thought there was nothing worse than:

"You haven't made out with me for a month."

"Uhhh....I know. You know what, we need to talk."

Guys, constantly proving me wrong.

Getting close to mastery...

If anything was to be learned this semester, it was that perception is everything. And my abilities at the art of conversation and flirtatious combat have greatly benefitted from my newly developed skills of perception.

Today I made the most beautiful conversation of passive aggression and nonchalantness with an air of "j'en sais quoi" ever. Sometimes I feel that I make a great conversation and then when I reread the transcript (yes these conversations are transcripted) I see that I was so flawed in my logic or that I did not present my logic well enough for the other party to understand and thus ruined all hopes of perception. This conversation, upon reread after reread made so much sense to me and did such a remarkable job of saying exactly what I wanted to say that I could just read it again.

I am getting close to mastering this art, or perhaps not close, but am one step higher in the process.

Trends and Cowards

I notice that when I become more emotionally involved in a guy I blog more. Not about the guy, but just in general. Wait false, things pertaining to guys are mainly my topic of conversation. On this note let me re-iterate a conversation I had today with guy who decided to tell me he was no longer interested.

Him: "So what do you want me to say?"
Me: "Well I'm not exactly sure what you're trying to say, can you just clear it up? Do you want to postpone the dinner for one time or do you mean you just don't want to go ...ever?"
Him: "Oh well..umm..you know it's kind of awkward between us."
Me: "I don't think we've talked enough for it to become awkward."
Him: "Oh..umm..uhh...well wait, what do you mean?"
Me: "Listen I was under the impression we were going to give this a shot after I was done doing my shit and stopped being so busy. So are we?"
Him: "Oh, um, you know, like, you know it's been a while. And you know"
Me: "Are you interested or not?"
Him: "Well you know it's been a long time and I think it would be .um, best to you know, umm.."
Me: "Do you want to call it off?"
Him: "Well um..."
Me: "You want to call if off?"
Him: "Yeah, let's call it off."
Me: "Okay then, bye."

Seriously? I had to make him say it? I mean if you notice he didn't even say it in the end. Guys...can they get even more cowardly. Let's put this more in context that we haven't dated or had any real romantic interaction other than flirting via IM and brief encounters. So it wasn't even like he had to break up with me. It was like, he had to tell me he didn't want to go on what would have been our first date. He couldn't even call off that? I'd hate to see what he's like when he actually has to go through a breakup.

Oh and that boy strike that I was going to go on, ended but it's definitely high time that I get back with that and stick with it until someone truly amazing and can have enough backbone to cancel a date comes along.

Alpha and Omega Bar

When one names one's bar the Alpha and Omega Bar (First thing you go to, Last thing you remember), don't take too many drinks from it. You know what is being served, you know what proportions they are in, you know why you named it the Alpha and Omega Bar.

Don't let the bartender leave the bar and let guests handle the mixing. He knows what's going on, they might kill you with half glasses of Everclear.

Don't order jello shot potency by the colors of the rainbow and then only serve the purple ones.

Don't chase tequila with absinthe.

Don't chase guys after chasing tequila with absinthe, you look even more like a fool when drunk(not to mention desperate).

Marginal Benefits

Typical Thursday Morning:

8:15am: If I go to class today I will fall asleep, I might as well sleep in my bed.

9am: if I get up to eat breakfast, it will feel the same as if I wake up at noon and eat lunch.

11am: if I sleep a lot today, then tomorrow I can sleep a lot too and be really ready for my exam.

11:03am: Oh shit, I have an exam tomorrow.

11:05am: There's still a whole chapter I haven't looked at

11:10am: Oh shit, class started at 10:30, might as well sleep.

11:30am: False, I should study.

And for once in my life, I did NOT fall back asleep at 11:30...and wake up at 2 and then REALLY had to study.

Motivators Not Worth Setting

Never use the following as motivators:

1) Eating an immense amount of food if certain goal is achieved.

Problem: Stress put into achieving goal already induces increased food intake, the reward furthers the problem.

2) Not speaking to a person you like until goal is achieved

Problem: You are probably sad not achieving this goal, not speaking to someone you like just makes another area of your life sad. Should this person be a friend, they might understand; should it be a love interest, well then your life might suck some more.

3) Getting to do nothing for a whole day when mid-goal achieved.

Problem: Point of setting a deadline for the mid-goal is to have enough time to achieve the final goal. Taking an immense break results in unneeded stress and time wasted. You become more fucked over and then you regret relaxing.