Packing again

I am so sick of moving around, and I look forward to moving back to Seattle knowing I won't be packing my bags to go anywhere at least until summer comes along. Packing sucks!

Apparently the washing machine here at my father's house is broken and couldn't handle my load of laundry, so I had to wash my heavy winter clothes, denim and sweaters and lots of underwear by hand. It sucked! People back in the day must have been pretty fit and homemaker women in other places probably have some tough muscles, washing and scrubbing everything by hand without the modern conveniences we are not nearly grateful enough for. Laundry by hand is a work out!

I've been quite short-tempered lately with everyone around me. I'm stressing about this and that, school and travels, social problems, and I've been out of Adderall for a few days... I am probably going to call D and ask if I can have some of his pills, playing it off like I want to hang out before moving back to school (which I do, but not if there are no pills involved).

I have already made some plans to go raving this weekend in Seattle. I owe my rave daughter Gadget a visit so we will meet up and go to the rave together.

I changed my course schedule this week, dropped the class on Japan (inapplicable to my major) for a course on ethnic politics, one of my required core courses for the Middle East track of the general international studies degree. So here are my classes for winter quarter 2009, which begins on Wednesday, January 7th:

• International Studies 150: Israel (instructor is Jewish)
  
• International Studies 463: Ethnic Politics (focus on Lebanon, a multi-ethnic nation, instructor is Arab)
• Honors Slavic 426: Ways of Feeling: Expression of Emotion Across Languages and Cultures (instructor is Polish)

Should be an interesting quarter. I am looking forward to it.