Super Amy

I left my pop-tarts on the kitchen table today. I’m so lonesome I could cry.

Have you seen what they’re coming up with these days? Seriously. Ice cream sundae pop tarts. It’s like… a chocolate cookie with traditional pop-tart icing on top, and sprinkles, and actual icing inside. I mean icing like you might put on a cupcake.

Kids are buying these, and eating them for breakfast in the morning. It’s like having a cupcake for breakfast, except Kellogg’s claims that there are enough vitamins in a pop-tart to make it worthwhile.

Let’s be honest. That isn’t likely. But for now, I’m content to believe them. Vitamins are good, right? Breakfast is good. Pop-tarts then, by default, must be good.

I had this idea that over Christmas break, I would cut back on the caffeine. Not completely decaf, of course, but just stop the 3 cups a day thing. It worked out well for… hmm.. a week, perhaps. Or, rather, seven days out of the first couple weeks of break. And then it completely backfired. Christmas brought unusually high amounts of chocolate, and what goes better with chocolate than coffee? It hasn’t been healthy, living off of sugar and coffee, and it’s probably what has made me sick.

But hey. At least I’ve been getting vitamins. Thank you, Pop-tarts.

song of the moment: The Fiery Furnaces – Here Comes the Summer (thank you, Troy)

In retrospect, I suppose today could have gone much worse. My car could have exploded, instead of the battery dying. I could have gone to three slow and impossible classes, instead of three that just sort of drag along. (On the plus side, electronics seems like it might get pretty cool, and in “Data Management,” whatever that is, we’re starting off with UNIX! hurrah!) I could have the flu, instead of just a sinus infection of some sort, and from what I hear, fever blisters are nothing compared to leprosy!

Seriously. Classes and sickness aside, this isn’t destined to be a failure of a semester. In addition to my Spanish groups at Hopewood, I’m also teaching a 7th grade Bible class, and working on the yearbook, both of which are pretty exciting. My house is some semblance of being… well, cleaner, I guess. I’ve got a new Saturday job with the GearUp program thing Lander does for 7th graders, and I’ll be getting paid $10 an hour to “troubleshoot” the Lego RoboLabs sessions they’re doing with some of the 7th graders. Admittedly, I haven’t quite figured out what the software does yet (the manual does nothing for me…), but once I do,I’m going to troubleshoot that stuff like nobody has ever troubleshot before. fact.

Sarah and Mandy and I have all decided together to have a joint NetFlix account. 50% of our experiences thus far have been satisfactory. The other 50% were, well, depressing. But next is Bottle Rocket, so all is well.

Also, I like this Denison Whitmer album a lot.

Happy New Year, everyone!

Every day, do something that doesn’t compute.

song(s) of the moment:
Modest Mouse – Convenient Parking
Sun Kil Moon – Convenient Parking

whoa.