self diagnoses

So I'm in a class about diagnosing mental disorders in children and adolescents.

I end up diagnosing myself with things.

Today was bipolar.

But then I decided that I probably have something else.. something I have to come up with.

So, here is a diagnosis (that doesn't really exist) that I came up with:

Crabbiness- with school onset.

Onset is around the seventh week of school and lasts until the last final is turned in with a possible stretch into the first days of your winter break. Longer symptoms are silly because you have to enjoy the break before the next term starts! Symptoms include all of the following:

Not enough sleep

Lots of work to do

A sense that you will not get them done (although you realize that this is how you have always felt and still managed to accomplish these things eventually)

Not enough dance parties

Eating a lot of things that are microwaveable

Being rather blunt

Thinking mean (but often funny) things about people

Lack of patience

Not enough ice cream in the diet (but a constant longing for some)

sesame street

I really really love Sesame Street.

I just went to http://www.google.com/ simply to look at what they had going on with Sesame Street today. Yesterday it was the count and all the letters in google were numbers. Someone is very creative.

Here are some other blogs about it, apparently. Here. and here. and here. and here. (That's a lot of blogs about Sesame Street for a 26 year old. Although for some of them I was 25.. so lay off.)

pressing buttons

Sometimes when I don't have any emails I'll just keep pressing inbox, hoping that there is some mistake and that it will be fixed through pressing inbox.

Repeatedly.

quotes from the day

"I'm all teary. That was perfect timing." - me to a friend after the most amazing thank you note (she doesn't read this blog, so that really was just amazing timing)

"AH! MASHED POTATOES! I love you." -me (out-loud) to the mashed potatoes after I realized there are a bunch in our fridge

"Somehow we got shorted cups so I was wondering if you'd pick some up from another store." -my manager calling me at 5:30am when I wasn't scheduled to work until 6:30am after he realized he didn't order the cups we needed

"CRUNCH BARS!" -me when I saw a bag of candy a regular left for us. I haven't repeated this after each of the four I ate, though. Just the first time.

"I know, I know." -A consoling regular that was watching my facial expressions during work today.

"I can splurge on cheddar pub cheese. My classes are hard." - me (in my head) at Trader Joe's

"You owe me $6.12" -Co-worker on register to customer

"You owe me $20." -me... nowhere near a register to same customer

Also: Check out my note from Lisa and Mark on my last post. They were foster parents and now are adoptive parents to some of those kids (or in the process??). I love them and miss them and look up to them. And they raised a couple of my favorite people.

(I got really confused when I read the post was from "mom and dad" and then signed "lisa" but I figured it out!!)

common courtesy

I don't think it's fair when person "c" is debating (especially about what person "c" views as something closed minded) to use the terms "naive, stupid, and uneducated" repeatedly during the conversation to person "d".

Those are not terms that open people up for discussion. The conversation started out with me saying I was "busy and overwhelmed" and mentioning how depressing my classes are. Which also could have been taken into consideration during our one hour "debate."

Maybe he needs some social work classes. And maybe I should read a fun book today (The new Diary of a Wimpy Kid is out!).

Ice cream? A hug? Anyone?

biswis85

I know some people that know some of these people.

And I'm pretty impressed.

technology

Today I sat next to a Muslim woman on the bus that was using her hijab (head covering) to hold her cell phone to her ear. I couldn't hear what she was saying because I had my ipod in my ears. People, for the most part, at least turn their cell phones on vibrate during class. Which is still distracting, by the way.

I'm a little fed up with the technology ridden culture.

Do you find it ironic that I am blogging about it?