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March 20, 2003
Uh...I feel pretty sick today.
Uh...I feel pretty sick today. Ok, so I like the deep scratchy voice thing, but feeling congested and slightly whoozy is not as much fun. Yesterday I had the dry cough going on, and today I have the "let's have enough phelgm to last a life time" going on. Gross. I should probably go home and try to get some sleep, but instead I am at school trying to make my whole floor sick. Hahah...I'm so stupid.
Anyway, I got a call from my ex-boyfriend in Kuwait this morning. It's kind of weird, but I've never actually known anyone to be in the army before, and especially not during a war. As I was talking to him in a horrendous connection (imagine Sprint commericals where the guy says "Can you hear me now?" every second...), he kind of freaked out a couple of times b/c there were missiles going over his head, and then he followed it up with "It's nothing, don't worry about it." I'm sorry, how am I supposed to not freak out? It feels kind of surreal, how only half a world away there is a war raging on. I guess when you know someone who is in the midst of it, it's a lot more personal than when you know no one. I always wonder, do you think it's the people who don't have relatives in the army that are "Hell yeah, let's kick Hussein's butt"? I mean, when you don't actually care about the people there, or at least know them, they aren't really people anymore, just instruments necessary to reach a mean. I dunno, guess I'm just worried. I still think it's pretty strange how we go on with life like nothing is the matter, when there are so many people risking their lives every second of the day. Dunno...just thoughts for the moment.
Tonight is the ECE Open House Dinner for potential incoming grad students. I think basically every girl in the ECE department was invited to this dinner. I was telling Mike (the prof) that I feel like we are false advertising to these poor incoming grad students that there are a lot more girls in the ECE department than there actually are. And the worst part was that he actually AGREED. He was like "Yeah, well, we got to get them to come somehow" and then I was just sort of dumbfounded. I didn't actually think profs were allowed to say things like that. He was telling me how the ratio of guys to girls is actually increasing as the years go by, isn't that kind of strange? Thought as we advanced further into the computer age that girls would start liking this stuff, but he said that that the trends show otherwise. Sure sucks to be a guy in the engineering field. Hehehe...I'm so mean. But hell, I get to go eat at the Carnegie Museum, guess it's ok if they exploit us a little bit. =)
Posted by szujin at March 20, 2003 12:18 PM