Number 2

Ah, so what did I do today? As usual, I've been setting my alarm later and later and managed today to wake up around 11 for my class at 12. It was Consumer Behavior today, a lot of stuff about perception and information processing, pretty much about how to manipulate people to want to buy things, like at bars if you use a taller glass, people will think they're drinking more when in actuality they're usually not, and then to feel satisfied they'll buy more, 'tis just one example. My room is still a mess after last Friday. It was actually somewhat neat before we left for the Integration Trip and then my absentmindedness led to its demise by Friday. I don't know how I do things like this. First day in Europe, I leave my freakin' brand-new Ipod on the airplane, then I leave my brand-new camera at the hostel (didn't even realize/remember packing it!), and then on the way across my room after turning off the stove light in the kitchen, I turned on the torch light option on my phone, tripped and dropped it and the battery came out so I turned it back on and suddenly it asks for PIN code and I get it wrong 3 times  and then it asks for PUK code so I'm like what the hell is that? I try a bunch of combinations until it says 5 times left so I look it up on Google and it says that my SimCard will lock forever if I dont do the write PUK code, so I don't want to get a brand new number. And naturally the only thing NOT in the phone box in the drawer in the moving night table is the info card of the SimCard with the phone number and PUK code. So once again I am phone-less, so I ride down to T-Mobile in the rain the next morning, wait in their service queue upstairs, and find out a number they called no one was going up for so I made believe it was mine, screw that I'm not sitting around obeying rules, and I have EVERYTHING from my account I can think of. My current credit amounts, my name, my phone number, my PIN code, my email and PW login online. And the guy is like sorry I cann't give you it, but if you sign up for T-Mobile Special it asks you for your address and that's how I'll be able to verify it. Fuckin Prepaid bullshit. And now my latest squander is my OLD ipod, which I think was broken in the Detroit trip in the car when you listen it only comes out one ear in a headphones. But I was looking to get a new Ipod anyway. 30 GB doesn't cut it, it gets annoying to decide which 7000 songs you want to carry around when you have between 20000-30000 on the computer. Not to mention Itunes 9 being a pain in the ass. The 2 most common programms these days, Itunes and Skype, refuse to open on my computer and subsequently freeze the system. Bullshit Dell.  Now I'm just running around in circles here, I'll talk about my almost-first-experience with manual transmission another time and my crazy trip to retrieve the camera I somehow unknowingly left at the hostel on the Integration Trip because my subconscious memory came to the surface Thank G-d. Sheesh, this weekend I'll have a cleaning. It's like I know what I want to do, and how to do it, but the actually doing is a challenge. I bought a fairly new IKEA couch for 50 Euro. no way I'm sitting on that thing before I put a sheet over it, classic college life. And every day I'm like oh let's do laundry and it just sits there. The thing with the couch sheet is that I don't want a fitted sheet for it I want one of those regular bed sheets and I use one for my bed right now but I decided first it needs to be washed before I put it on the couch, so the couch continues to sit dormant until then. They replaced my Venetian Blinds with these horrible earth-green curtains. Thankfully I'm not in a place where anyone can see in my windows so it hasn't bothered me that much. I'm telling myself I need to go to sleep, but there's just so much to write and recount about. Oh yeah, one last thing... at the Integration Trip, the schedule had said, Thursday night: International Cabaret! The only briefing we had got about it was that 'if there is room in your bag' to pack anything prepartory. I was hoping it would be like a talent show because I haven't performed any of my rhymes live in a while, I mean after writing verse 1 and the chorus to the Daniel Burros song while in Israel in 2005, I hadn't written a thing since right after a certain transition in my life in July 2009 sitting in Black River Park in Morris County, hell I wrote it into the Drafts of my phone text messages, and a bit more has come out since then, including a really long rant of nothing I can explain while on the plane with the Brandeis basketball teams back from Atlanta to Boston in February. But indeed it was not a talent show but just a 'show everyone what makes your country unique' show so me and the 7 Wharton kids, joined by the 2 Brits, demonstrated a pathetic few rounds of Beer Pong followed by an inexplicably random rendition of the Fresh Prince Of Bel-Air theme song (short version)...go figure, U! S! A!.. U! S! A! ... Good night!