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Name: Marissa
Birthday: 9/9/1986
Gender: Female
Interests: sleeping, compulsive random online shopping, neuroscience, yogis, classic rock, dancing and singing to oldies, asian & indian food, poetry/writing, men in bellbottoms, chocolate fondue fountains, traveling... and sleeping.
Expertise: finding loopholes
Occupation: Student
Industry: Research
Message: message me
Member Since:
1/31/2004
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| the exceptionally mundanei can't say i'm particularly amused that i've spent the last few days staring at a paper on the neurological underdevelopment of children with iron deficiency.
perhaps if i wasn't born anemic i would be finished with this already?
bah.
my neuro class seems to think that anemia in pregnant mothers and offspring is not a common problem in the U.S.... bullshit.
things are for the most part good otherwise.
i told my roommate i was moving out - she was fine with it (altho not thrilled) and already found someone to replace me for next semester.
i'm actually very very broke now and i can't even afford december's rent anyway, so good thing i've been planning on leaving for some time now.
i took my bad check to the scooter store to discover that he is going bankrupt and he isn't quite sure what to do. well i'm not quite sure either.. but i hope there will be a solution... that would help improve my broke-ness.
my computer sucks and occasionally text will disappear while i'm typing.
i'm never quite sure where my heart is in america because i'm so distracted by mundane affairs like the internet, money, living, crazy roommate, academics, etc. I wonder if i'll ever be able to live in this country and know definitely what's going on inside my mind, what i really want, and how that fits into the grand scheme of the cosmos at all.
no wonder everyone always romanticizes gypsies thinking they have wonderful romance because they don't have to deal with society as we know it.
it's high time to get away from these mundane problems.
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| nooo!!that piece of something just fell into my keyboard and now there's no turning back.
i bought a new scooter. YAY. i love it's little retro look and everything. he makes me really insanely happy. it has great acceleration and can in fact carry two people without much of a fight at all. (altho it really depends on the size of their asses, and how much of a fight they're having between them)
and now he needs a name.
mm... who needs men when they have scooters?
i'm officially, completely addicted. today i have a lovely trip planned to the scooter store (to settle things with him and to invest in some oil - not to run into the same mistake i made with enki) and then to the bookstore to work... happy days indeed... i hope the gross overcast weather goes away soon.
why does it always rain on fridays? the world just wants me to stay in bed the entire day.
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| my luck is sometimes sickeningi have 2 core classes left. 1 is terribly boring (about how the study of rel transformed since 9/11). and one is actually interesting (anthropology/behavioral neuro). and they just so happen at the exact same time next semester.
the head of the neuro dept told me i would have to give up a major... the head of the religion dept is letting me take a course in lieu of the boring religion course...(assuming i have the prof's permission and run it through the dept one more time)
i have to take a grad course anyway to complete honors - so this course will mostlikely count for both. wonderful.
i'm still getting a B.S. in religion :) and being the first person at emory to double major in Neuroscience and Religion. not that much to be proud of except ditching the lame course.
but luck with apt searching is... not so great.
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| increasing laziness... ?the willpower it takes me to get out of bed is unfathomable. the degree of the last minute i wait to finish my assignments is incredible. and the things i miss for sleep is unbelievable.
i'm not sure if i'm being lazy or just in a really narcoleptic period of my life. maybe a combination.
the other night i couldn't even stay awake past 11:30 to watch our new prez's speech. I got so excited and then drank wine and this caused me to pass out immediately.
my need for sleep is uncontrollable... i have to schedule a nap per day otherwise i stop functioning....
i'm more than happy that this is my last year at emory... not that i don't like the place - but the freedom ahead of me...
i'm going home in a couple weeks for thanksgiving and then returning almost a week later for winter vacation. i stared at my class schedule for the longest time trying to figure out if it's possible for me to simply miss those extra 10 days inbetween. bah. instead i might try to do part of a retreat and study for GREs
and finally i'm building up the strength to tell my roommate next week that i'm moving out at the end of the month. anytime i consider staying something really annoying happens. today it was our gas was shut off because she didn't pay the bill. last time i came home to find scum everywhere (tubs, sinks) and the internet shut off... to be honest, my apartment in nepal was way more luxurious than this.
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| this morning the group i do my research for was filming a mock meditation - so of course i have to show.
after thinking "yay! legs not falling asleep... wonderful"
i get an itch in my throat....
i try to meditate on something else for a few minutes and i end up practically hyperventilating into coughs to get rid of it. then i try to suppress it and my eyes and nose tear up. great... i'm sure i have snot and tears coming out now and the camera is aimed at me. just great.
finally i rub my nose and afterwards a hair gets into my eye. argh. i can't win.
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