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ugh so I was supposed to meet with Li to work on our stats project research proposal that's due Friday at 1 PM yesterday, but at noon she calls me and is like "Can we postpone? I just woke up and my friend called me and he's visiting and I have to show him around campus but he'll leave in the afternoon. Could we meet at like 8?" And I didn't really want to meet at 8 because that kind of ruins my night, but whatever, I wanted to get as much done for this as possible since I also have a project in Differential Equations due Thursday and a German test on Friday, so I said sure. Anyway, fastforward to 8 PM, and she doesn't show up. At 9 I finally call her and her phone is off. I really don't like group projects. =/ I just don't understand why people can't be responsible. I don't feel like it's too much to ask to show up when you say you're going to. Or if you can't show up, call me and let me know so I don't just sit around waiting for an hour when I have other things I'd rather be doing.

On a slightly happier note, the Academy Awards are next Sunday! I'm very excited. I know everyone complains about them and hates how long they are and all the montages and don't think they have any value and all that, but... I don't care. I love them anyway. I just have a thing for award shows, but movie award shows most of all (even though I tend to like TV more than movies, I don't like TV award shows because the same things get awards every year and the shows that I love the most that I feel deserve nominations the most never get them. And at least with movies, if there's a movie you hate that's getting a lot of awards, it's only for one year; TV shows you hate can get nominated and win year after year, and it just gets really old). And the Academy Awards are like the pinacle of movie award shows. And yeah, most of the time their picks aren't the absolute best of the year. But most of the time I still really like most of the nominations. And whatever, it's fun. And I never understand other people's complaints because I like how long it is. Actually, each time it ends, I'm like "Oh man, now it's another whole year before the next one!" I'd almost like if they were longer. And I absolutely love the movie montages. It's fun how every year I recognize more and more of the movies in them.

Anyway, even though this week is going to be rather hellish and I'd really love it if it were Friday already, I'm probably not going to do anything to make it less hellish today. I already watched Touch of Evil earlier, and I think I'm going to watch The Apartment tonight after dinner. I have a meeting with my group in Differential Equations to work on the project (I better not be stuck with the entire write-up this time like last semester in Multivariable Calc. My group is exactly the same as last semester, though, except there's one extra guy), but that's not until 8, so I should have time to watch it before then. I guess so I feel a little less guilty about that I'll try to get some work done now before dinner. sigh. Why is it that now that I'm getting back into watching as many movies as possible, I have no time to do it? I had so much time in January, but I wasn't nearly as interested even though I was getting really bored there at the end of the month. Oh well.

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ajksdf ok addendum to previous post: So Li also happens to be in the group for the differential equations project, and we were all supposed to meet at 8 tonight. Well one of the guys was in Wisconsin over the weekend and didn't get e-mailed about the meeting until today because I didn't have his e-mail, a different guy did, so we were expecting him not to show up. But Li said 8 would work, and then she e-mailed me at 7:30 to ask me when we were meeting and I told her 8, and guess who didn't show up again? ugh I don't understand what's going on! I feel like I'm not asking that much! I wouldn't even care if she was 15 or 20 minutes late, as long as she shows up. But by 9 she still hadn't shown up, and her phone was off. gah. This is why I hate group projects! It's better if I'm the only one responsible for the work so if I screw up, I have no one to blame but myself. At least the other guy showed up. But 50% of a group doesn't quite work. And I have a better understanding of what's going on in the class than he does, so we basically wasted an hour doing nothing but waiting.

And the thing is, when stuff like this happens, I just want to try to relax and forget about it and bring my mood up, and right now that means watching movies. I did end up watching The Apartment earlier (which I really liked, even though it wasn't quite what I expected), and now I want to watch another movie, but I really can't or I'll be wanting to shoot myself on Wednesday and Thursday. Except I think I might still do it anyway because I really can't focus on work right now. I know I'll end up getting everything done, anyways, because I always do. Apparently my study habits aren't going to be better this semester like I had intended. Whatever, I'll get up early tomorrow and be productive. And I was kind of productive earlier, anyway. I finished my German homework and I memorized all my German vocab for the next test which is the majority of the studying I have to do for the test and I usually do it the night before, so at least I'll have a little more time on Thursday if I need it (which I'm sure I will) to finish up the research proposal for stats. So I think I'll go take a shower, watch His Girl Friday, and then wake up early tomorrow and work on my stats lab and whatever else I need to do. (I mean, I'm done with all the work that's due tomorrow, it's more just whether or not I should start getting stuff done that's due later in the week so I won't go crazy when the work starts piling up.)