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hi

I feel I’ve been really lagging in my language learning lately. I think it might be the case where I am still learning more than I realize, but still I don’t feel I’m putting enough time into it as I should. So in reality I’m really not. It’s hard to keep up with learning new CC’s everyday when you don’t have time to review the ones you learned the day before. Studying for half-an-hour in the morning before the class just doesn’t work, it’s going to end up hurting me in the long run because I won’t learn it and I’ll just keep getting farther and farther behind. Going to workout for an hour everyday like I’ve been doing lately isn’t helping me study either, but at the same time I think of this as sort of a requirement because I don’t want to be fat. Learning these languages would mean nothing if I were to become fat.

I think one of the biggest problems I’ve been having is that when I return to the room to decide to study for the night I come home to find all the lights off and my roommate in bed trying to go to sleep. It’s getting old really quick, I come back at around 12 at night and he is already in bed, what the fuck. This so wasn’t a problem last year with Adam as my roommate, he and I would stay up until many times 2a.m. just reading and studying for an upcoming test we had later that week. But it’s alot harder to study when you come back to your room and you have to keep the lights off and stumble around in the dark and read in the dark so you can give courtesy to your roommate. Because of this, I’m going to bed earlier than I should be.

I’m really upset that I was stuck with a really bad roommate. This guy tries to be all hard and macho but in reality he’s just a pussy. He told me at the beginning of the year how he used to grow up having to fall asleep listening to gunshots just outside his window but he can’t even sleep with a little night-light on like the diode from a laptop battery status light or the screens on the door. His classes are so much easier than mine, I never see him study and his classes are a bit later too.

We finally have stopped talking to each other, and I like it. No more of the “wassup?” and “cya later” bullcrap that’s been going on all year. I had actually tried to stop that from the beginning, not saying goodbye or hello to him as I would go time to time earlier in the year but I guess it took him this long to realize it. A couple major turning points have come to cause this I believe. 1: because I found he switched his ipod headphones with mine and 2: I didn’t turn off my desk light one night after he asked so he couldn’t put his sleepy little head to sleep. Dude, it’s my room too. Dude, I got homework to do I don’t fucking care if you can’t sleep with my dim desk light on I have to do homework while you choose to sleep it’s not my problem. Don’t be a little baby and get mad about it.

We’ll probably have some kind of verbal stand-off before the end of the year but for right now I really don’t mind not talking to the guy. I wouldn’t gain any informational value by talking to him anyways, he’s probably one of the dumbest people in the building.