nothing good can come from this!

i just finished up watching "contact", which i realize is one of my favorite movies. i started it some time yesterday afternoon after conquering 2 back-to-back midterms and doing intensive work on a conte crayon drawing for 3 hours... which is when i collapsed onto the futon and decided to eat as much pizza as possible and limit my movement from the futon to only the fridge and amanda's room for our weekly old-fashioned-esque melodrama. we made dustin yell at the tv, too. so yeah, it was tough, but i'm fairly confident that i was successful in the art of lazy. i think i'm extending my post-cram recovery period until tomorrow because my mind still feels like a lump of dough.

hm, i wanted to say something on multicultural campus groups making overly-big deals about certain "issues" of racial discrimination, but then realized that it all sounded most heartless. i'm just questioning, because one journalist described african-americans in new orleans as "looting for" food, as opposed to caucasians "looking for" food, should it automatically translate into racial discrimination? i'm not saying that "oh slavery is over so racism is extinct", but really, is discrimination still as heavily present as people claim or are certain words stretched and skewed and pushed into a racially discriminatory light in order to "promote" the issue? er, it's definitely not the right time for this. i wish i could discuss this well, but for now, i'm pretty useless... and it's already late morning!

my pulse feels like it is pounding everywhere with large cement slabs pushing on the sides of my forehead. i want to plod (this word was in today's crossword, so i will now use it all day) around the dorm with my down blanket draped over my head and raid everyone's better-than-mine DVD collections.