Sour Fingers


I had spent most of the morning in the kitchen making these cheesecakes. I needed a lot of fresh lemon juice and its rind. I think I spent over an hour just trying to get the rind off and all there was to show for it was a little bit. My hands are so killing me right now. I totally felt like I was back in the day when there were no washing machines and you had to take the clothes and scrub them against that washboard. Of course I was complaining saying that I couldn't believe that it was almost 2005 and there wasn't a better way to get the lemon rind off. My mom's response was, "I'm sure there are but you're just too cheap to get one!" Yeah, real nice. Regardless, my fingers right now taste like lemon. Not that I'm purposely sticking my fingers into my mouth or anything. Dude, even when I went to rub my eye, it burned.

On a side note, it really sucks shopping a week before xmas arrives. I would have thought I could just relax when the semester was over but nooooo, had to do all the shopping and dealing with the impossibility of finding a parking spot and with extremely rude people. It's so funny because it's supposed to be such a cheery & giving holiday but people tend to be such assbags during this time. I think I'm most excited about when Cinnamon opens his gifts, I got him these 2 toys from Sharper Image, I think he'll go nuts for them. We'll see how long the toys will last before he smacks the crap outta them.

Oh yah, very good news, I thought that I would have to freak out for a few weeks before grades came in. I'm shocked how fast they posted them up, so much faster than Rutgers. I remember back then the teachers had to turn them in by a certain time but then it would take forever for each grade to show up. It used to suck cause you would have to check constantly to see if another grade had been posted. Well I knew that my professors had to turn in grades by the 22nd, I checked last night and they said that grades would be posted by the 23rd. Well magically, I was able to see them last night already. Well the results.....YEAH, I can stay in the program!! I'm just so relieved that stupid douche bag of a professor didn't fail me. I deserved a better grade than what she gave me but I'm just going to leave it as is. I have learned the hard way through many circumstances that you don't fight those in power, well actually those with the gradebook. But I think this has been one of my proudest accomplishments, I was actually beaming....my smile could have reached my ears! All I can say is that I roooared it, even while needing to commute & all the crazy crap I was put through. It's good to see all that insane amount of work & studying paid off. Now I can relax until the start of Spring semester.