I'm in the second week of the I-don't-care-about-school-work period that I go through every semester, so I am having a hard time getting stuff done as it is, without thinking about the fact that spring break is next week. I think my professors would probably be better off telling everyone to do their work as they feel like it at this point, because no one seems to care too much about anything that happens this week - including me.

I have managed to get one of the two essays I need for Thursday completed, but I have a 5-7 page paper due on Friday that I have yet to start, so I figure I'll start working on that later tonight, if I feel so inclined (which is highly doubtful).

I read the following earlier this morning and thought it was, at the very least, somewhat representative of how I've viewed things for a while now. It's from a top-ten list on ESPN.com:

7. Biggest lie -- that Sept. 11 changed our lives forever
Unfortunately, it changed our lives for about a week. We were inspired to reassess our priorities and reminded that sports don't matter. Less than four months later, we've got fans outraged by the BCS, fans throwing things on the field, a father suing a high school because his kid got cut from the basketball team, and players turning down three-year, $25 million contracts. And finding Osama Bin Laden has become a national game of "Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego." Security's tighter, but for most Americans not directly affected by the attacks of 9/11, not much else has changed. I'm not saying that's necessarily a bad thing, but I think maybe it is.

I'm just waiting for the situation to escalate so that we can all be entertained by a new wave of propoganda, such as the already-present commercials "for a drug-free America" that are linking drug money to terrorism. Gotta love the way we have to make it appear as if we have alterior motives for everything, including a newfound interest in the war on drugs. I'm guessing the next logical step is the recoining of steel pennies or mass-marketing of war bonds.

Speaking of the war on drugs, isn't it amusing how we now have the war on terrorism? As a biology student who takes somewhat of an interest in social interactions, I can pretty much guarantee this is not an enemy that can be defeated, since it will adapt to any measures we enact to counter it. Where's McGruff when you need him? With all those miracles he worked on the war on crime (with our prison system running out of space and resources as I'm writing this), I can only imagine the wonders he could do on drugs and terrorism. We'd have people shooting up and blowing up, just to spite that stupid dog.

I need sleep.

Off to do homework and get to class.

Spring break is next week, so of course I am trying to get all the stuff completed for school that is due friday which I have been putting off for weeks. Sometimes I swear my subconscious enjoys this sort of torture and causes me to act like this. On top of everything else, I have to work 31 hours this week.

Just for some random complaining about things I know aren't going to change, why do people feel the need to talk on a cell phone when they are cramped ona bus with 60 other people who really don't care what it is that they're talking about? Are we really at the point in our society that we cannot simply resist the urge to answer the phone when it might be inconvenient to others and call the person back 5 minutes later when we are in less populated areas? We survived, as humans, for approximately 2 million years without having the need to be reached at any time, and I think we did so fairly well. Unfortunately, times have somehoe changed and we feel the need to call someone and say "the sky's pretty tonight," or "hey, I'm on my way home." Why not just avoid all this frivolous conversation and have a recorded message on all cell phones that when the person picks up it says, "I'm bored, entertain me"? That's pretty much the point we have gotten to anyhow.

I have to get to work now, unfortunately.

These damn old people with their drugs and loud music!

I'm currently working on figuring out how to get around some of the seemingly unalterable elements of Greymatter, so I'm not making any promises on when stuff will be completed, but you can assume that if the search box is still at the end of these postings aligned on the left in a clashing color scheme that I am in a current state of pulling my hair out.

I guess that's about it for now.