The holiday mood...

...kills the desire to finish one's final projects/papers. Blah!

I find myself doing everything else willingly, anything that has nothing to do with homework. I dunno, I guess I'm just really sick of school at the moment. This is probably the worst semester I had here at Drake. 4 classes but it seems like 5.5 and last semester, 5 classes seemed like cake to me. Maybe its the material I'm supposed to be reading about.

Totally depressing!

Who knew that there were so many dimensions to environmental science and environmental policy. It sucks because I am totally overwhelmed by what I read and to even think about trying to possibly foster change to the current system makes me so damn depressed because it seems like all the odds are stacked against me. And I for one, was so naive to think that the US had a pretty good system in place before I came here. Wrong!

If I had to live overseas for the rest of my life, I would move far far away from the US and the horrible things that happen here. I think a lot of you probably don't know what I'm talking about but that's fine. Read my class blog -Pensees sur le vert or educate yourself. Pick up a copy of "Taking Action, Saving Lives" by Kristin Shrader-Frechette. Insanely enlightening but at the same time, extremely depressing.

And here I am, still doing the same 'ol thing. Shopping at Walmart...and just plain shopping. It is hard to prevent oneself from being sucked into American consumerism. But damn, Sephora and VS had such good deals that I couldn't resist. To make matters worse, my new obesession is makeup. So I have been doing quite a lot of makeup purchases lately because it so freaking cheap here compared to buying the same thing in Malaysia.

See how I am torn between my love for the environment and my love for shopping and makeup?!!

This will not do. One has to go soon and I suspect it will be the shopping but mainly because my bank account dictates it.