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Yay! The school semester is almost over. I'll have about a month and a half off for break because the community college I go to only has a half assed winter semester with weird times and limited classes so I'm not going to bother going and just take a summer semester instead. I can't wait to be free from schoolwork. But at the moment, the pressure of finals and all the backwork I have let pile itself up is really starting to get to me. I flaked from my sociology presentation, so that's a big ol' 0 for 15% of my grade, plus I feel like such a spineless worm (I guess spineless worm is redundent but owell) from being scared of something and run away from it and let it win. But no sense killing myself over it, just have to have a little more faith in myself that I'll do better next time. I have a few resolutions for the new year (even though it's still a ways off theres nothing wrong with getting an early start): no more watching mindless t.v., wake up earlier, exercise more, eat less meat and reduce sugar intake. It's likely that I will break some of these resolutions, but it's the attempt that is important (or atleast that's what I'll say to myself when that does happen). So I digress to something completely unrelated: isn't talking ebonics fun? I do it all the time, especially when I'm happy, usually to get a reaction out of someone--to get them to laugh. I do wonder though if there is some underlying negative symbolic meaning in this behavior. Belonging to one culture and imitating a foriegn culture to get a laugh--which is to say mocking that culture--subtly implying that they're inferior, is easily characterize as ethnocentric behavior. People do things sometimes without thinking, sometimes trends get started that way. It's our jobs as conscious beings to look at our behavior and things that influence it objectively. Whatever, there's a point in there somewhere you can find it if you try hard enough, it's so hard to take abstract things that you understand in your mind and articulately translate them into words. Poop. I'll leave it at that.