Wednesday, June 22, 2011

Educate me

Once again, I hate my history class. I really just want to pass. Im fine with being mediocre. Whats wrong with traveling in the middle of the pack? The middle is where most of the population is right, I mean someone has to be there. I was at Auto Lube or Pumping Pistons, its some sort of mildly uncomfortable name you pause for a second after saying it with a mental "wha?" I know that your supposed to just pull the car up to the front of the shop but for some reason whenever I drive into this place I have a minor anxiety attack. I am not a regular, I dont know what Im doing, I dont want to make a spectacle, I do not have the confidence to pull up to the front of an oil change shop... you have to admit thats a little pathetic. So I always pull my car waaay to the side into the very corner and pop out the door feigning a wide eyed ignorance. "What? You mean I dont have to park?" So after the key exchange with a less than enthusiastic technician I scurried into the small waiting room and slumped down into a scratchy old chair. The View is blaring loudly from an old mounted TV. Woopie is talking about the difference between an white person and a black person when they hear a noise in the house at night...how do these people make so much money talking about nothing and bickering over how to reprimand your children? Like, who gives a shit?
The girl behind the counter is cute. Shes not really behind the counter. She runs around going from inside to outside. She has a braid, shes tall, skinny. I look down at myself. Im wearing a pair of old jean shorts that are getting a little tight, depressing, and my boyfriends light  green Led-Zepplin shirt complete with blood stains dribbled down the front. I wonder what those are from? I contemplate the possible accidents that would have caused the stains and am interrupted by the girl behind the counter.
"What are you studying?"
I look around to make sure shes talking to me, there is nobody else inside so I answer "History 17A." she asks me if its a certain teacher, but its not and I launch into a speech about how ridiculous the class is and how all the information on the quizes from one chapter is actually in the next. She told me about how you can go to google books and find the text book with previews of the chapters, and if you look up key words it will bring you right to the information! How awesome is that?!
I have been very productive today. go me. I went to the bank, got my oil changed, picked up my dog, and now Im working on homework. I should be working on homework, instead Im blogging. Oh! I found this blog called Pretty Birdie Brown. I think thats what its called. Its like a fashion blog. I seriously am too poor to be fashionable, but its pretty to look at.

2 comments:

  1. I also hated history.... if you have to take another history course see if Carr still teaches he always gave the answers to his test. the class before the test he'd always go 1)a 2) d and so on ... unless you really want to learn about history or something

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