One of the really cool things about working the uber-early shift is that I always get to watch the sun rise. Well. Not precisely the sun, my window faces south, so I get to watch as the sky gradually gets brighter, but still, for some reason, I just love that I'm able to see it. It's been completely involuntary, but I've been made into a morning person. This morning it's really strange--this is the first morning for awhile that it's been clear out, and that it's so bright so early is really noticable. Had it been clear for the past week or so, I'm sure I wouldn't have noticed it the way I am today.
Today is my final exam for my government class, and because I am the ultimate procrastinator, I am finishing off some of my reading today. I will not be glad to see the back of this one, particularly for the book on California government that I've been subjected to. The subject matter is dry in the first place, though they try to make it interesting. Most of the problems would be solved by better editing, though--the grammar is atrocious, the sentence structure is horrible, there are a ton of spelling errors, and the type face varies from chapter to chapter--sometimes even from page to page. Add to that the fact that it's very obvious that the book was written by very left-leaning Democrats, and that one of the contributing authors is Latino who is very...angry. I get that it's a locally published book, but still, there has got to be a way to write and publish a decent, non-partisan and non-racially biased textbook on the basics of California government. I wish these people had found it.
I got one of the two books I need for next quarter, it was waiting for me when I got home on Wednesday. I need to call the bookstore and raise hell, since I only got one of them. They wrote on the slip that the other book was a late order, but I have no idea whether that means they intend to ship it to me when I arrive, or whether I'm basically SOL and will have to contend with the bookstore lines when the quarter starts. That would suck.
Today, my mom gets married. She got the beaded flower pins I made for her, and she'll be able to use them both. For some reason, that makes me happy--I can't be there, but I'll be thinking of her, and she'll be wearing something I made for her when they finally make it all official. I can't explain it, it just...makes me happy.
I know I wrote something in the recent past about feeling the need to get in touch with family, but I don't remember when that was, or whether it was here or in Livejournal. In the end, that part doesn't matter all that much, I suppose. I've started trading emails with my stepdad, though--more than just the occasional 'Merry Christmas' we've tentatively started sharing over the past year and a half or so, and...it's a good thing. I don't know how far it will go, or whether anything else will come of it, but even just this much provides me some sense of...balance or stability, somehow. That may be a subject for more writing at a later date, we'll see. For now, though, it's just another good thing.
Posted by Liz at March 25, 2005 06:08 AM