2002-04-24 - 11:06 p.m.
"...I got Jemima J.... One drawback though. I couldn't start reading it til about three weeks from now. I have finals coming up soon and I really should be focusing my attention on my textbooks."
I specifically wrote these lines on my entry last night. I think maybe it was meant to remind me that I need to study and hence I can't read any fiction whatsoever for the meanwhile. However, I am hopeless. Last night, I started reading the first page of it. And then the second... then the third. You know what happened next, don't you? Yeps! I read and read until I finished it in one sitting, not sleeping AT ALL.
In the beginning of the book, overweight Jemima's philosophy was that if she consumed all of the food in her house all at one time, then nothing's left to tempt her. It's all eaten, gone, kaput! Then she could start her diet. Funny that my whole outlook last night when I was reading was quite similar to hers. If I finished it right then and there, then It's done and over with. There won't be any evil voices calling out to me to pick it up, tempting me to read the book in the next few days. My curiosity's been dealt with. Now I can totally devote my time to studying.
But still.
I shouldn't have done it. I should have spent the time reading my Psych books or my Computer Networks books. Or more importantly, I should have slept.
I feel very little.
But that's enough on the self guilt-trip.
As you know, I live with three other girls (they're in the cast). Our agreed upon set-up when it comes to the dishes is do our own. Figure we're old enough to tidy up after ourselves, right?
Around 10p tonight, Pat and I were about to have dinner. For some reason, all of MY silverware are dirty and there's nothing for ME and PAT to use. I just washed my own dirty dishes on Monday, mind you. There's no room in our sink to put another plate because Willow in particular, has been leaving her dishes unwashed since we got back from bleedin' spring break. They just get left in the sink for soo long that it's been forgotten who used what. And guess what? More often than not, it's MY plates or MY silverware that's forgotten even though I usually wash the ones I use right after I use them. So who ends up washing the forgetten ones? 'Tis I, since I OWN them!
In the beginning of the year, washing someone else's dishes was ok. But if I don't even hear a single thanks AND she leaves dishes AGAIN, then the point comes when enough is enough.
Geez!
So what do I do about this? Of course I don't just rant here while the issue is festering, right? Wash the dishes myself? Hell no!! Well I wrote a note on our whiteboard addressing everyone and gave them a piece of my mind. I didn't want to address it to one person coz I don't want any more conflict for the remaining 2 weeks here. Now that I've left the note, I'm pleased.
Still chafed, but pleased.
