She has forbidden me from shedding any clothes while in San Francisco, and when I assured her my two friends are both female and lesbian she then forbid me from coming back married.

No fun, no fun, no fun!

"Don't forget," she said, "people have camera-phones now... with VIDEO."

Yes, mother.

She then pointed out several other previous cases of Pischina-getting-into-trouble-in-SF, the least of which was getting a ticket for "almost mowing down 20 pedestrians back there." I had kindly informed the policeman that there were NOT 20 pedestrians back there, but merely around six... but he didn't really seem impressed. It was an expensive ticket.

Then when I informed Charleen that I was the driver for our Bay Area Road Trip Extravaganza (as my fellow student calls it) Charleen told me I needed to have my friends sign a waiver. For what? "Emotional trauma caused by being in a vehicle driven by you."

Now I ask you, what kind of friend would say stuff like this???
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A friend who knows me very very very well. And who has cleared her schedule on Sunday so she can come bail us out of jail if needed.

I actually went to State Farm yesterday just to make sure my car insurance was completely paid up. I'm sure we'll be fine! Just good, clean fun for us! I swear, we'll really be studying at the LIBRARY.

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No more finals until Monday, but I take my GRE Exam in 9 hours.
8:00am Saturday I'll be working my way through a 3+ hour test, WOOOO. It's a computerized test so I'll have my scores right away, except for my 2 essay scores - which are the only scores I really need anyway, hah. I'll have those scores in about 2 weeks.
I'll be stopping at Starbucks to energize up on my way there.

Then in the afternoon I'll be giving my car a good scrubbing, inside and out. The inside is full of books, papers, crap, empty coffee cups and water bottles, etc. And it's dusty. The outside is just Dirty. I don't think I actually got to the inside-car-washing at the end of last semester, so the poor car really needs it.

Then Sunday... FUN TIme! It's off to San Francisco with two of my friends for drinking and Shakespeare. What's more fun than that?

It's going to be a big weekend, and I'm glad a lot of it is going to be spent in air conditioned buildings. This heat really sucks.

It is FUCKING HOT in San Jose and especially in this house.

Monday I picked up my signed Major forms from the English Department and went over to turn in my graduation forms. Three more classes and I'm done! With my BA anyway.

I got my Spenser essay back and received another A with another comment that I need to turn it into a conference paper - that professor is determined to get me to a conference!

Today I confirmed my GRE Exam for Saturday morning. I'm so excited! I can't wait!!!

Sunday I'm going to see Midsummer Night's Dream with two adult females. That may seem a wierd statement, but I realized yesterday that it has been OVER FIVE YEARS since I went out with a FEMALE FRIEND and WITHOUT KIDS. Ever since Eliza moved to San Diego and I started school, I have not gone anywhere without my kids except for a few things with Scott. I've gone to lots of great places and done some great things, and actually I LOVE doing things with my kids, but it feels really great to go out with some adult friends who are not males. I'm going to have to do it more often.

Anyway, the Midsummer Night's Dream show looks incredible, and if you didn't already you really should click the link and watch the preview. I'm super excited even though I have to drive to San Francisco (and my friends will quickly figure out what a mistake it was to assign driving to me, heh), but it's a matinee, and we're going to get drinks before the show. So... there will be good and loud times. Sunday is going to be Fun Fun Fun.

The funny thing is I'm just as excited about taking the GRE on Saturday. I guess because that almost makes me an official graduate student. I can't believe I'm almost there!

Oh Lordy, someone please give Colin Farrell a sandwich, extra cheese, please, because whatever movie role it is that made him lose this much weight has just sucked the hawtness right out of him. Egads!!!

What English Majors do when school is done:

1. Play endless stupid word games on Facebook
2. Sit and read their Literary Criticism book... just for the heck of it