EPIC FAIL

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GUESS WHO SLEPT THROUGH THEIR CS FINAL?

Man, I don't even know - it was way the fuck early, and I know I set my alarm for 6.45...I think I did that thing where I try to hit snooze and it somehow turns the alarm off instead? Because I use my phone as an alarm clock, and there's a button on the side that deactivates the alarm and I'm not that good at not pushing it at fuck all early in the morning.  So I woke up at 11.30.

And I, I want to feel bad about it, but really I just don't care. I was pretty much resigned to failing this class anyway. I don't need it for anything - I got my engineering GER last quarter - and I'm feeling good enough about passing the rest of my classes that I can't even be buggered about having a failing grade. I really should have dropped it months ago, but then I would only have had 11 units and you need at least 12. So yeah, I suck, and I want to be more angry at myself but mostly I'm just glad it's done. 

The rest of today is devoted to writing - have to get the Jamie re-edit done today, since that is due tomorrow WTF self why are you slacking so much! And doing my laundry, and at some point packing. Tomorrow I'll be flying home.

"Maybe I Deserve To be Alone...Forever!"

A few more thoughts on Booster Gold (yes, I'm still reading it. I took a hiatus to finish the Riddlemaster books, plus classes):

I've already ranted to several people at length about this, but it really bugs me how mean the other heroes are to Booster. Like, every time Superman and Batman and the rest of the League show up, they're all "oh, that crazy Booster, he's just a money-grubbing hack, he isn't really good for anything." When Lex Luthor's Boosterbot attacks him, Superman isn't suspicious because as a member of the Justice League Booster shouldn't really be the sort to start gunning for another hero - just that he didn't think Booster was that strong. It's all so mean and dismissive.

And, like, for some reason, even though I knew Booster's timeline already, it only really clicked in my head that Booster is only about 2 years older than me, 3 at a stretch. He is a BABY. So yes, he's self-centered and hot-headed and impulsive and kind of an idiot. BECAUSE HE IS A BABY. I - obviously - know rather a lot of college guys, and you know what? THEY ARE IDIOTS. CUT HIM SOME SLACK. HE WILL GROW OUT OF IT (well, okay, he mostly won't, but they don't know that!).

The pages where Michelle died also just about broke my heart. It was done really well. And oddly enough, it's not that she's dead that is so painful. She's not that well-developed as a character in this book, to be honest. And since I don't live under a rock, I know that she isn't really dead, just time-yoinked to the future. But Booster doesn't know that. He's just a twenty-something kid who saw his sister die right in front of him, because of him, and knowing that he will spend the next ten years alone and blaming himself for her death? OW MY HEART.

Basically, every time I read something with Booster in it, I end up wanting to hug him and never stop.