She's Just Not That Into Me

Last night at Senior 75's, I discovered yet another of my pet peeves: guys who try to convince me that a certain female friend of theirs is into me when it's blatantly obvious she isn't.  Basically, a friend of some friends of mine is all like, "Dude, you should dance with this girl [pointing at her behind her back]; she really likes you!" but when I try to dance with her, she so coyly maneuvers away from me, so I'm thinking, okay, maybe she's just a little shy, and then this guy's like, "Seriously, man, she likes you!" while said girl is meanwhile dancing with him along with another girl whom this guy's implying is his girlfriend, and by this point I'm realizing that something just isn't jiving here, so I surreptitiously walk away from them.  Now, I can't really tell whether (a) this girl really does like me, but she's trying to mess with my mind, (b) this guy seriously believes, albeit mistakenly, that this girl is into me, or (c) he's lying to me outright.  Seriously, guys, cut the bull crap!  I've been burned too many times before because of people like you who think it's funny to play mind games with an introverted geek like myself who at 22 still can't even get a girl to have lunch with him.  Even a girl's female friends aren't entirely trustworthy, either, as I've learned from experience.  I'll believe that a girl is interested in me only when she tells me in person.  And even then, there's no way to tell if she really means it or not.  But that's for another post...

B-)

March Madness 2010 Bracket

Just filled out an NCAA March Madness bracket for the first time in several years, so I thought I'd share my picks.  I might note, however, that I know precisely squat about college basketball, so I'm just kinda going with my gut feelings.  Yes, I'm picking Clemson to win the championship; that's who I'm rooting for, since that's most likely where I'm going for grad school next year (are you reading this, WSU?  Where's my teaching assistantship already?), and it doesn't really make sense to bet on one team and root for another. 

So without further ado, here goes:

First Round: 

Kansas over Lehigh  
UNLV over Northern Iowa
Michigan State over New Mexico State  
Maryland over Houston
Tennessee over San Diego State
Georgetown over Ohio
Georgia Tech over Oklahoma State
Ohio State over UC Santa Barbara

Syracuse over Vermont
Gonzaga over Florida State
Butler over UTEP
Vanderbilt over Murray State
Minnesota over Xavier
Pittsburgh over Oakland
Florida over BYU
Kansas State over North Texas

Kentucky over East Tennessee State
Wake Forest over Texas
Temple over Cornell
Wisconsin over Wofford
Marquette over Washington
New Mexico over Montana
Clemson over Missouri
West Virginia over Morgan State

Duke over Arkansas-Pine Bluff
Louisville over California
Texas A & M over Utah State
Purdue over Siena
Notre Dame over Old Dominion
Baylor over Sam Houston
St. Mary's (CA) over Richmond
Villanova over Robert Morris

Second Round

Kansas over UNLV
Maryland over Michigan State
Tennessee over Georgetown
Ohio State over Georgia Tech

Syracuse over Gonzaga
Vanderbilt over Butler
Pittsburgh over Minnesota
Florida over Kansas State

Kentucky over Wake Forest
Temple over Wisconsin
New Mexico over Marquette
Clemson over West Virginia

Duke over Louisville
Purdue over Texas A & M
Baylor over Notre Dame
Villanova over St. Mary's

Regional Semifinals 

Maryland over Kansas
Tennessee over Ohio State
Vanderbilt over Syracuse
Pittsburgh over Florida
Kentucky over Temple
Clemson over New Mexico
Duke over Purdue
Villanova over Baylor

Regional Finals

Tennessee over Maryland
Pittsburgh over Vanderbilt
Clemson over Kentucky
Villanova over Duke

Semifinals
Pittsburgh over Tennessee
Clemson over Villanova

National Championship
Clemson over Pittsburgh

Good luck to all of you who are making your own brackets.  Hope you enjoy the games, and...


GO TIGERS!!!

With Apologies to xkcd

(The capital 'R' is too complicated to make using one's arms, so I had to settle for the lowercase 'r'.)

Procrastination

SPRING BREAAAAAAK!!!!! 

For me, it couldn't have come any sooner.  I've been so out of it these last couple weeks, and I didn't get as much accomplished as I should have.  Add to that the fact that I caught a cold last Thursday, and my motivation to do anything was reduced to absolute zero.  As much as I envy my classmates who are going somewhere warm / exciting over the break (where exactly is Punta Cana, anyway?), I'm glad to just be home and able to rest.  And I think that's what I mainly intend to do over the break - rest.

Sure, there's work to be done.  Anything math or physics, I can usually motivate myself to work on when I'm on vacation, since those are the subjects that I enjoy the most.  But when it comes to reading or writing, that's where I lapse into slug mode.  A couple weeks ago, Loyola canceled classes for an entire week because of the Snowpocalypse that descended upon Baltimore.  I thought I could use the time off to catch up on my schoolwork and get a head start on a paper for History that would have been due that week.  I spent pretty much every day trying to motivate myself to get off the internet and read the book that the paper was about.  But each day, I accomplished relatively nothing.  Not only that, I ended up wasting valuable time that I could have spent sleeping and / or doing something fun (I had planned to bake Valentine's cookies that weekend, but never got around to it until a few days ago), so my week off was neither productive nor enjoyable - a wasted week that I would kill to have back.  I ended up having to turn in the paper late because I couldn't get it done in time. 

This isn't the first time that I've agonized over an assignment many days before it was due, only to wind up having to do 90 % of it the night before it was due.  Last spring, I spent every day of finals week trying to take notes for my term paper for my English class, but each day, I accomplished very little.  I spent almost all day and all evening the day before it was due trying to take notes and finish organizing my thoughts, and I didn't start typing the actual paper until about 1 a.m.  The whole week was spent in a state of misery about not being able to go outside and enjoy the beautiful weather. 

The point I'm trying to make here is, if you're like me and tend to procrastinate on things, don't worry about trying to get things done ahead of time, because you know you're just going to end up doing it all at the last minute anyway.  If you actually have the motivation to work, by all means, go ahead, but if you don't get everything accomplished that you wanted to over the break, don't stress about it.  It's called Spring Break for a reason.  Enjoy your time off.  If you spend your entire break agonizing over your schoolwork, not only will you feel depressed when you don't get anything done, but you'll also regret not having done anything fun when you had the chance.  In the words of Ellen DeGeneres, "Procrastinate now, while there's still time.  Don't put it off til the last minute."

Hope you all have a fun, relaxing, and rewarding Spring Break!

B-)