Mary Jamis, a lesbian woman, was ARRESTED yesterday after she and her partner sought a marriage license in North Carolina. 

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barackobama:

Meanwhile: Nearly every Senate Republican voted today to double interest rates on federal college loans for more than 7 million students.

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This morning I had a banana/Nutella/whipped cream crepe and real orange juice for breakfast. Then I had about a pound and a half of lemon/mango gelato. Later I ate some risotto croquettes which is about as much as I could manage. Just now I tried to eat some macarons but I am F U L L . But today is a great food day.

I got one A- god damn it. Ughhhhh.

Final grades come out this evening. These will be my last grades for a while! Exciting! I’m really hoping for a 4.0 but there’s the possibility it might not happen:

• Internship class: I got an A on everything required for the class, but 40% of my grade depends on the performance review my supervisor submits to the school. I’m nervous that he might not have submitted it, since I never heard about it. But maybe I didn’t hear about it because he turned the review in on time and there were no problems. If he didn’t, then I’m fucked- I don’t pass the class and can’t graduate.
• Microeconomic Theory: I’m pretty likely to get an A unless I absolutely bombed the final exam- which I know I didn’t do great on, but no one else did either. Usually the smart kids finish early and this time everyone was still working on the exam after two hours. The professor did say none of our grades were “in jeopardy” and that he didn’t think the exam would be this difficult. He’s a very lenient grader, and he’s leaving the school this semester. 
• Organizational Change: I have an A on everything except the group project (which is unfair because we were docked points on something we had no control over). A 94% is required for an A, which ticks me off for some reason. If I had 100% on everything I could get a 94%, but I’m starting to think I’ll get an A-. Which is embarrassing since that class was so easy (and I really liked the professor).
• Operations Management: Definitely the hardest class this semester since it required so much math/formulas/concept memorization. I didn’t do terrible on the exams, and the professor is somewhat lenient on the grading since it’s his first time teaching. I don’t know what grade my partner and I got on our last project, and I think it’s like 20% of our grade. I don’t know, we did our best, and before the project I had an A in the class. I hope it doesn’t knock me down too far.

TL;DNR: I over-think my grades but by tonight I won’t have to! I’m mostly worried about having all A’s and not A-’s because of the honors I want to graduate with. If my GPA is less than a 3.7 this semester it might knock down my cumulative GPA.

bedazzledburka:

Hello would you be interested in learning about the Mormon faith?

(Source: blamblamfever, via pleasant-tomorrow)

My family’s going on a vacation on Friday, except I think it’s the actual definition of a stay-cation. We’re staying at a hotel here in Salt Lake for four nights, and eating at the hotel or around the downtown area. Both my brother and I are graduating in four weeks, and it would have been nicer to take the vacation then, but it has to happen now. 

There were some issues with our reservations though. Because the hotel stay is part of an award my mom got at work, we made the reservations through a special corporate website that said to give three choices on when we wished to stay. I picked Friday the 27th, Friday the 4th and the 11th. No one contacted us about the reservations to confirm, so we assumed we didn’t get the 27th. Then on Saturday the 28th we got a call saying we had been a no-show at our reservation. I called the hotel and they said they couldn’t move our reservation dates and that we had to come in or we’d lose our award (which is bullshit, by the way). I spoke to the manager of the reservations department and he said if I called corporate on Monday, they could move the dates without us losing any of our free nights.

And that’s what I did today, and it worked! But everything was such a mess, and so frustrating. I hate making those phone calls, but at least everyone was fairly nice, and I got it out of the way early in the day. I even woke up before seven this morning, because I was so nervous about the phone call. But now it’s over with and I’m going on vacation!

wilwheaton:

As Digby says, it’s not a perfect match, but the lines are still there, and very clear.

The people who voted to pass these laws should be ashamed of themselves. It’s the Twenty-First Fucking Century, you racist shitbags.

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I’m so tired of writing. I had to write four more pages for my econ paper today, and I got about three and a half. Which, whatever. The paper is due tomorrow at noon and I plan to go to school and work on it starting at 8am. It’s essentially done but I feel like it needs some major re-organizing, plus there’s almost zero economics concepts in there. So I don’t know how I’m gonna add that but I’ll see. 

I also spent three hours writing yesterday, which resulted in three pages. It’s so hard for me to focus on this paper. It literally took me four hours to get four pages today, and it shouldn’t be so difficult. On top of that, I had an exam today. So I allotted two hours for studying, but it didn’t happen. I ended up showering, eating lunch in front of the tv and then watching 20 minutes of Fat Camp on MTV. I think I spent a total of half an hour actually studying. Then when I took the exam, most of it was writing. I am absolutely tired of writing, but hey, this time I got to write in pencil! My hand hurts. 

I’m just really, really tired of school work. For all the work I’m doing I better get straight As.

Ha! Great, I just looked over my econ homework set that’s also due tomorrow, that I thought would take me 10 minutes, and I don’t even understand any of the questions. What even is trying.

I just thought this picture of Mitt Romney at Hire’s was funny.

animalstalkinginallcaps:

IF THEY DON’T PUT IN A STARBUCKS SOON I’M LITERALLY GOING TO KILL MYSELF.

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We were so close. Today my dad and I drove to Ogden to trade our car for this pick-up truck he needs for a new job. They had to do some minor adjustments to it, so we couldn’t pick it up until today; the job application had to be delayed for a week because he needs to have the truck first.

We got to the shop, traded car titles, and drove away. My dad stopped at the gas station and 1. He couldn’t get the gas lid open, and 2. I noticed there was smoke coming from the front while I waited in the car. 

So we drove back (barely, the engine was “struggling”), called the mechanic from where we picked up the truck, and his phone was turned off. We called the man with whom we traded our car, and he was with the mechanic taking the car for a drive, and they met with us immediately. 

They were all looking at the engine (which by the way is a hilarious sight while listening to the 30 Rock soundtrack on your headphones) and they could tell something was wrong but didn’t know exactly what. But the engine was not working right. The truck guy decided he couldn’t give us something that wasn’t working, and gave us our keys back. 

I feel bad for everyone in this situation: the mechanic feels bad for not knowing what he did wrong; the truck guy because he put money into repairing the truck and he didn’t get our car; and my dad- because he really needed that truck to apply for this job and so he’s without a job for probably another week, maybe more.

Even though I’m left with a weird and sad feeling about what happened tonight, I’m happy that all three people involved were honest. I think it would have been easy for the truck guy to just keep our car and say, What’s done is done. Things could be a lot worse right now after what happened, so I’m grateful at least we still have our little car. 

#and the theater full of twenty somethings started bawling

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