101

First day of classes. Readings piling up. Oh my God.

I did really well for myself. I stayed away from MC, even though I had ample time to go over there. I stood my ground, go me! I did some school supply shopping while waiting for Adrienne to come pick up the key to her house. After she arrived, we went out to dinner and hung out for a while. She told me about the wedding, and said that it was a good time. The only con was that the family brought shit with them, and pretty much made our side look bad. Really bad. Extremely bad. I asked her if she was really surprised. They always do that. I'm sorry, but you were there for a wedding, not to go sight seeing. Stop throwing a tantrum like a child. I told her not to take them seriously, because they don't like people dominating them. Plus I told her that if there aren't problems going on at the moment, they will create some. I don't get it, it's like something's wrong with their world if they're not bitching and scowling and criticizing people. I just told them to ignore them, and my dad said the same. He told her that this is why we rarely come around to family things, or go on vacations with them. The last time we went on a legit vacation to Florida, it was nothing but stress and scowling the whole way down. There was some back handed comments made about me in Disney World, and my mom heard them. She bit her tongue and withheld from making a scene in the middle of the park. Even when we went to Myrtle Beach, they brought crap with them that put me in a bad position. It was a "let's criticize Giselle and tell her what a fuck up she is" vacation. I've learned to ignore them and their back handed comments. I have a lot of shit on them, but I too big of a person to hold it above their heads...for now. Especially when they showed me their true colors when I asked for help with school. Thanks for hanging up on me mid sentence, and then trying to cover your ass by making it seem like I didn't tell you all the details. Nope. You know I can't lie. You know me well. Don't try to tell my dad otherwise, even after I called him the second I heard the dial tone. Anyways, I told her that they're not supporting her or doing anything for her, but supplying her life with negativity. My dad and I told her to learn to mute them out.

We went out to dinner and had a mini adventure. It was a lot of fun, and my stomach was ready to kill my by the end of the night. When I woke up this morning, my stomach was taking avengence. Not good. Parking on campus was so much more of a nightmare this morning than previous semesters. I drove around Glen garage for an hour, literally, and couldn't find a parking spot. I don't know how other people who just pulled into the garage managed to find spots. I missed my first class which sucks, and booked it to Towsontown garage. I found a spot right away after I spotted a person coming out of the stairwell. Ugh...note to self: park in Towsontown on Thursday, and move car to Glen after women's studies. I have 45 minutes before math, anyways. Mi profesor de Espanol es muy divertido. Translation: my spanish prof is very funny. I'm really going to enjoy his class. There are a few others in the class who had had previous spanish knowledge, and he gave the usual "if you've taken 3 years or more of Spanish, please consider changing to spanish 102". But back then it was "go see so and so in Macklin Tower, room blah blah blah to change sections". He immediately jumped into Spanish the minute class started. He said that we are to address him in Spanish at all times, unless it's a dire emergency where we have to speak in English or don't know how to say something. I like him a lot. All other Spanish teachers and profs never fully enforced using the language at all times, which would explain why I don't remember anything from Spanish 2 and 3. I should be speaking fluently by now. It'll click eventually, but I really need the practice again.

My women's studies prof is so blunt and in your face that I couldn't help but chuckle a few times in the class. I can't help but appreciate the fact that she blurts out "fucked up the ass" so loud when describing how men belittle women by stating "she must be on her period," and, "she needs to be fucked up the ass and she'll be happy." She outed three girls who were acting like they were in middle school, passing notes and carrying on their own conversation. She MADE them tell the whole class what the note was, and embarrassed the shit out of them. This is college, girls, not middle school. I'm really going to enjoy this class. She made it a point to say that we all give lip service to issues when it comes to race, sexuality, and gender equality, but the majority are still not comfortable with their own issues. I can't wait until Thursday!