So I found out something interesting

I don't leave for CERN till the 28th! Ha, well that's good to know. It's a good thing Yi was asking me about when I was going over prompting me to actually go online and check my ticket date. Yeah, the 28th is just slightly different than the 22nd. Hoary, props to me for randomly picking that date last July because that gives me like another week in the US to go around and visiting and such. Unfortunately, also poking around United's website I discovered that I am no long a premier member of their frequent flyer club... boooo because I think this drastically cuts down the number of bump ups to business class. Errrrr, well ok that only happened twice but those were the only two times I flew back to the US from Europe on United (there were a few other times last year but not actually on United) so I was hitting 2 for 2 on that one.

Started to get accustomed to the idea of flying back in something other than steerage. You know it's not the extra room or better food that I like about business class to make me miss it so much, it's the booz champagne e. Without even asking on an trans-atlantic flight I was offered like 12 drinks, and no the cheap shit either because it's on take off and cognac after dinner. So very nice, that and they serve your food on actual plates, and I got to sit on the 2nd deck of the 747... ok so there was more than one perk. I need to start flying more to get my status back, on the bright side though I have enough frequent flyer miles for a free round trip to Europe or two round trips in the US, but I go there [europe] anyways so it's another 30,000 or so till I get a free trip to someplace a bit more remote.

On a side note where the fuck did my rolling papers go? Seriously, I can't find them and this is already after I lost my other box a few months ago. Damn there's like some kinda rolling paper eating monster I'm dealing with here. That's no good, also it's not good either to try and substitute cashier receipts for proper thin leaf rolling papers. It worked in a pinch, but ehhh in the end I'd say not worth it. Today tough I pick up a new box of zigs, so back to killing myself slowly the right way.

In light of actually evaluating my financial situation, I've discovered three easily identifiable areas where my money gets wasted
1) Cell Phone: shit I barely ever use this thing. Even with the minimum plan I could have saved out huge by not selling my soul to a two year contract for $40 a month and instead gotten a pay as you go plan.
2) Food: the biggest one by far, eating out twice a day is pretty much how I've lived this year and while doable and tasty, like seriously I could easily feed myself well for under $10 instead of something more like $20 a day if I just cooked my own shit 3 meals a day
3) TV: I never really watch it but fuck roommate lives off it and well I do watch it from time to time but still not really ever so in fairness the utilities are split 50/50 witch probably in the end evens out a-ok but I'd rather not feel like I'm throwing money into something I just don't use at all.
4) This summer: As the chances of finding a subletter look bleak I'll be paying $450/month for a storage room oh goody.

So today we had that E&M test, and yeah that went just as horribly as I figured. Again, studying/not studying, I studied for 2 days straight and did it really make a difference? No, not when 50% of the test was stuff I didn't bother looking over because it was only mentioned in class and we never had any HW remotely related to it. Yeah I just took a look at that sheet and went fuck, looks like I'm shooting for a 50. See I made the mistake and drilled hard into my mind all this funness on relativity (field transforms, every thing that can be made into a 4-vector and your mother, kinematics, you name it) shit that's what we spent the last couple weeks doing and had plenty of HW on.... and yeah any of that on the test? Ha no, how silly of me to think that. In reality it came down to fucking charges flying over thing metals and diffraction (I don't even think we spent half a lecture on that shit). So yeah, dick in the butt, that's basically what it came down to. There's no winning in the class, thank god I've stopped caring.

In any case, yeah that pretty much consumed my last two days of life and led to a shitty evening so in attempts to pick up the remaining pieces of my soul I did in fact look up what was happening at the music school and they actually had a Latin Music Ensemble concert, which was by far what I needed to go and do. Uplifting, upbeat music definitely beats back the E&M blues. It was a cool setup, they spent the evening touring around South America music styles and ended up in Cuba and the guest performer was a Cuban piano player so the last pieces were his own arrangements. I liked it to how they had a lot of classical instruments in on it, they worked in a string quartet for most of the concert.

So yay for that, and yay for also the violinists being pretty damned hot but nay when I looked them up on facebook and found out one is married and the other didn't seem to have any line of her profile not lacking the word or making reference to Jesus. Crickets, foiled again, and in hindsight well shit it's the midwest and I've noticed that some of the the most even keeled seeming people are really really Jesus freaks... I mean it's not like I'd really be bothered by someone being very religious if they were cool otherwise but I mean there's a point between like ok well your religious to every other word you make reference to is Jesus. I draw a line there.... that line gets crossed a lot out in these parts and jebus I'm always told Bloomington is supposed to be the liberal free thinking bastion of Indiana. I shudder on the inside as to the immediate world I'm surrounded by.