I can't believe I'm paying money for this!!

I was watching television just earlier and had watched a couple episodes of Seinfeld. Then I decided that I didn't feel like watching that anymore, so I changed the channel and started watching CNN. It was just a minute or so before 7 pm, so Wolf Blitzer's show was finishing up, although as it turned out, Wolf was off today and none other than Jim Sciutto was filling in for him. So I was sort of disappointed that I had missed Jim Sciutto filling in for Wolf. I think maybe that's a sign that he might get his own show sooner or later, possibly. Chris Cuomo has a new prime time show, it seems, replacing Don Lemon, I believe. Anyways, the 7 pm show started and they had Anderson as well as a few other people out in Texas reporting on the hurricane. Anderson has traded in his trademark black t shirts for polo shirts, it seems. I wonder why he did that. Maybe Wolf will be away tomorrow also and they'll have Jim Sciutto fill in for him again. I wonder if anyone has ever mistakenly called him Jim Prosciutto, since I recently discovered the joy that is prosciutto (a lunch meat). One time in the past, Anderson (I think) mixed up Jim Sciutto and Jim Acosta. Anyways, I do like the semi change in pace that is hurricane coverage compared to coverage of the hot mess that is the government these days.

Secondly, this part of the post can aptly be titled "I can't believe I'm paying money for this!" It's been nearly a full week and I can safely say that I think my classes are on the boring side this semester. Unfortunately. It's a necessarily evil though; the classes are required classes so I don't really have much of a choice about taking them. One of them I dislike more than the other, although both aren't particularly interesting to me. So let me record today's atrocity for posterity. Firstly, I think I should mention that, earlier in the week, I developed an awful blister on my left foot because I wore some new shoes. As a requirement for the laboratory portion of the class, students must wear closed shoes. I'm a big fan of slip on sandals since I'm very lazy and like my feet to have ventilation during the warmer months. So usually I'm wearing whichever pair of flip flops are my preferred ones out of the different pairs I have. Anyways, on that day, I couldn't wear the sandals so I decided to wear the new shoes, since it was raining and my older (more comfortable) shoes have holes in them and my feet would get wet. In short order, the shoes were uncomfortable, and by the time I got to class, I already had a blister. The 30 minutes of walking it took to get there is a separate issue. Immediately after the class was over, I went to Walmart to find some cheap sandals that I could change into. Since it's nearly September, they didn't have a very good selection of sandals, so I had to make do with this pair of pink jelly sandals that didn't exactly fit. But at least they weren't rubbing my heels. They fell off my feet a couple of times when I was walking home, and after I got home, I threw them away. What's even more infuriating is that the only thing we did in the lab portion of the class that day was to do graphing, which does not involve chemicals and is completely safe to do when wearing sandals, or, hell, even barefoot (although it's sort of tacky to go barefoot in public, unless you're at the pool or beach). So I'm resentful over the blister, for one thing. 

That was just the prelude to today. Today I wore sandals initially to get to campus and brought other shoes in a bag to change into later. Which was more tolerable but my heel blister still hurts, so even the comfortable shoes were sort of painful because they were touching it. Today's laboratory lesson was the inane task of designing an experiment to test the absorbency of various paper towel brands. Let me tell you, that was one of the most ridiculous things I've ever spent wasted an hour and a half of my life doing. I'm nearly 20 years old for god's sake!! And I'm being reduced to snipping paper towels into equal sizes and designing a stupid experiment that will most effectively test which brand is the most absorbent. That whole lesson is for the birds. I can't believe I'm paying money for this!!! It was most certainly a 9th grade level assignment. I'm too old for this shit! And to think that I'm paying tuition to do something like that in class!! Ridiculous! I'm not sure it's completely the professor's fault, as the curriculum is probably designed by other people, but I was absolutely infuriated by the end of class. What an inane waste of my time!! After which I decided to treat myself to some emotional eating and I had Chick fil A for lunch. For the record, from personal experience, I can tell you that Bounty brand paper towels are the best. I've noticed that other brands of paper towels take more sheets to clean up spills, and I'd have to go back multiple times to get a new sheet. I don't need to design a stupid fucking experiment to know that. For fuck's sake. Anyways, I really needed to get that out of my system. What's worse is now, for next week, I have to write up a report about the experiment, which I'm already loath to do. I wish I could drop the class because it's boring and inane, but it's required. 

This is why I'm going to become a (future starving) linguist and/or copy editor/journalist. Some may debate about whether linguistics matters, although the question of whether journalism matters I think is more clear cut - it does. So I would like to do something with my life that matters, and wasting my time and brain power designing scientific experiments to test paper towels for some class is not under that category. What a ripoff! Once again, I can't believe I'm paying money for this!!   

I think I will eschew doing my homework at this time and watch the news and/or a Peter Sarsgaard movie, or something. Bleh.