You might be a history major if….
1. You find yourself correcting your parents on their history

2. You find yourself correcting YOUR PROFESSORS on their history…and they admit they're wrong.

3. You enjoy watching the HIstory Channel

4. You tape history biopics.

5. You tape history documentaries.

6. You imagine yourself making commentaries on history like the historians do in the documentaries.

7. Your personal library has several books on history.

8. You buy old, used history text books at the Used Book Store.

9. Your parents ask you for questions related to history.

10. Family members ask you for questions related to history.

11. You are preoccupied with what you are going to write your master's thesis on while you're at the end of your sophomore year in college.

12. Ever since you got that A in world history back in high school, you've wanted to take it over again (though it wasn't allowed).

13. Your friends back in jr. high kept telling you how "useless" history is.

14. You told your friends how USEFUL history is back in jr. high.

15. You shudder at the thought of majoring in something boring like business or finance. (OR ENGINEERING :))

16. You've often pondered things like, "what would happen if Napoleon won the Battle of Waterloo?" (side note-i have a whole million page book devoted to what ifs of history :))

17. You felt the History Channel was dumbing down its audience when they came up with the show called "hands-on history."

18. You got upset when the History channel cancelled the show, "In Search of History."

19. You often imagine what it's like to be in a particular era in time.

20. You're into your junior year of college and you're still figuring out what kind of history to specialize in.(THATS TOTALLY ME)

21. Various historical pieople make your list of "most admired people"

23. Your personal hero lived over 500 years ago.

24. Your 1 destination is the Library at Alexandria (or Red Square, or Normandy, or Versailles, or Cologne......I have a few :))

25. You remember the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World and get upset when people get it wrong (which is all the time)

26. You correct mistakes in your history textbooks and you're in high school.

27. You observe your favorite historical figures' birthdays and death dates.

28. You got digital cable because that's the only way you can get the History Channel where you live.

29. You complain about inaccuracies in "historical" films. (really only if its blatantly wrong or people are taking it at face value)

30.  People ask you if that 700 page book on the French Revolution is for a class, and you have to reply "No....."

31.  You relish spending 8 hours straight in the Library of Congress, especially the Main Reading Room.

32.  You get insanely jealous of people in movies like Indiana Jones and National Treasure for getting to touch and see such awesome stuff. (HELLO president's book of secrets!!!)

33. You stay after class to discuss whether or not the south could be considered a distinct nation with your professor.....for an hour.

34.  Numbers make you want to vomit.....unless they are attached to a regiment, death date, birth date, battle date. etc.

34. You TIVO Biography whenever it is not on a contemporary person....

35.  You aspire to one day have a rare artifact on Antiques Road Show.

36.  Microfilm and you are best friends.

37.  The librarian knows you by name......and has your library card number memorized.

38.  You find people who can spar with you about history extremely sexy.

Dover Beach

by Matthew Arnold

The sea is calm to-night.
The tide is full, the moon lies fair
Upon the straits; on the French coast the light
Gleams and is gone; the cliffs of England stand;
Glimmering and vast, out in the tranquil bay.
Come to the window, sweet is the night-air!
Only, from the long line of spray
Where the sea meets the moon-blanched land,
Listen! you hear the grating roar
Of pebbles which the waves draw back, and fling,
At their return, up the high strand,
Begin, and cease, and then again begin,
With tremulous cadence slow, and bring
The eternal note of sadness in.

Sophocles long ago
Heard it on the A gaean, and it brought
Into his mind the turbid ebb and flow
Of human misery; we
Find also in the sound a thought,
Hearing it by this distant northern sea.

The Sea of Faith
Was once, too, at the full, and round earth's shore
Lay like the folds of a bright girdle furled.
But now I only hear
Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar,
Retreating, to the breath
Of the night-wind, down the vast edges drear
And naked shingles of the world.

(my favorite part!)

Ah, love, let us be true
To one another! for the world, which seems
To lie before us like a land of dreams,
So various, so beautiful, so new,
Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light,
Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain;
And we are here as on a darkling plain
Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight,
Where ignorant armies clash by night.

I'm airing my grievances:

1.  Girls, please do not pee on the toilet seat.....its disgusting.

2.  People, please put the friggin cue chalk back in the friggin tray.

3.  Don't ask me something if I am helping someone else....I am only one girl.

4.  Pick a cue and stick with it.

5.  Don't bitch to me that there are no ping pong or pool tables open.....luck of the draw.

6.  You should know better than to bombard me all at once while I am trying to watch Jeopardy.

7.  Going from air hockey to  ping pong to air hockey to pool to ping pong to foose ball is FREAKIN ANNOYING.

8.  I hate watery coffee, make it stronger, we are college students, we can handle it!

9.  Don't make me go more than 7 hours without food or I might go hulk on your ass.

10.  If you are going to assign a take home essay midterm in a class, do me a favor and give the topics out BEFORE two days before spring break so that those of us who are actually going somewhere for a change can enjoy their break instead of having to write essays on British history.

11.  Go home, I don't like you all. 

An event that happened to me this morning has prompted this rant of stuff that pisses me off.:

So get this, I'm driving to school this morning, and this saturn behind me is seriously tailgaiting me in the left lane of 7100.  I"m going 62, mind you, the speed limit is 50.  I'm going faster than everyone in the other lanes.  And this woman is on my ass.  But whatever, I didnt really care, but then there was this piece of cardboard in the road, and the car in front of me ran over it, i see it just then and also run over it, you cant avoid it, and the thing his the ladies car behind me and is wrapped around her front end, but not in a way that hurts her driving.  SO she keeps tailgaiting, I feel bad for her with the thing there, and then in the lane next to us the guy in a truck kinda blocks her in.  So finally she gets out, mind you i have kept my speed, no offense but I'm not getting a ticket just because she wants to speed up even more, and i look to my right to see what she is doing, thinking she might be pulling up in front of me, she is taking the 29 exit, and SHE LOOKS ME RIGHT IN THE EYE AND WHILE MOUTHING FUCK YOU SHE FLICKS ME OFF!!!!!!  I was like WTF!!!! thats very bad driving karma.  stupid bitch.  AGHDFHFH!!! Then later I thought, maybe she didn't like my bumper stickers (I have one that has a little yellow chick on it and says COnservative Chick :)  I thought it was cute).  TO that i have many response, all of which are not relevant now and would only make me look hostile, which I am not.  I pity her for having so much anger inside her :)  I love how pissed off people get when they are yelling at you and you just stand there listening and finally they get fed up and say "WELL??? dont you have anything to say?" and you just say, very calmly, "I"ll pray for you" OH DO THEY GET MAD!!!  not that i ever have done that, but i have seen it before and i love it. 

And that got me thinking on all the things I have been irritated by recently.  for instance, that they are making a movie out of Ayn Rand's book Atlas Shrugged, probably one of my most favorite books of all time, and its staring fucking angelina jolie and one of my fav characters!  god damn her.  AND im sure they will f it up and no one will ever read the book because it is long and will only watch the movie and not understand how awesome the whole thing is, just like her other book the Fountainhead, i hate that.  Next thing is redskins jerseys.  Yesterday, after the win that almost gave me a heart attack, lots of people were their jerseys to school.  FIne, thats great, i love it.  what i hate is those damn colored jerseys.  THe black and greys ones, ok, whatever, i think they are retarded but thats just your thing i guess.  but I HATE THOSE PINK AND WHITE ONES!!! wtf.  really, PINK??? face it, football is a manly, aggresive, hit them alot sport.  PINK DOES NOT BELONG! dont get me wrong, love the color, but not with football, and all those girls who are like "oh how cute!  i know nothing about football or really like watching it or really like or know anything about the redskins, but look, ITS PINK!! im gonna get it".  stupid stupid stupid.  And another thing, the stairs in the JC.  what the hell do people congrigate on the stairwell?  and then they just stand tehre when you are waiting to get by and are being polite, so you eventually ahve to push your way thru and they GLARE AT YOU!  or people who walk like they are oblivious to the world around them, get out of my way.  seriously.  or they push past you really hard and dont apologize.  Or people who call you prejudice because you are a conservative.  isnt that in itself a form of prejudice? or my favorite, when their only reason for not liking a policy or a person is a personal attack, like I dont like rush limbaugh, why dont you like rush limbaugh?  well he's so fat (by the way, he has lost alot of weight :)) yes, cause that is a good reason not to like someone.  or another one of my favorites, i dont like W because he is manipulating the gas/oil prices.  well how is he doing this?  (SILENCE).  exactly.  I mean, have you opinion, thats fine, I dont care, I have one too, but at least have SOME LOGICAL REASONING, something, not he's fat or he does something but i dont know how he does it.  then how do you know he does it? If you dont know, dont advertise this.  HELLO! I have had many great conversations with my more liberal minded friends who bring good points to the table, and we both agree to our own LOGICAL, REASONED thoughts.  and i respect that.  but please, lets leave the personal attacks at home.

got a little off topic.  anyways, lets see.....people who talk on their cell phones in the computer lab.  I CANT THINK WITH YOUR JIBBER JABBER.  people who ask to borrow your notes because you always come to class, and you gladly share your knowledge, and then LOSE YOUR NOTES.  that really pissed me off.  people who come in obscenely late to class and dont turn off their cells so they ring in class, THEN TRY TO PRETEND THEY DONT HEAR IT OR THAT ITS NOT THEM!.  People who think everything should be free:  how do you think things stay running? and who do you think pays for everything? somebody has to if you arent.  and why should they pay for something you use or do?  people who have no sense of personal responsibility.  its always someone else's fault.  Woman orders a cup of coffee from mcdonalds, she is a stupidhead and puts it between her legs while driving, spills it, scalds herself, then SUES MCDONALDS FOR NOT LABELING IT OR TELLING HER IT WAS HOT! ITS FUCKING COFFEE YOU STUPID C WORD THAT I DONT LIKE TO SAY BUT SEEMS APPROPRIATE! Well thats ok because they are a big evil corporation thats out to screw you.  Excuse me, but what are they supposed to do, not make money? you keep going back dont you? i guess they are just supposed to lose money, then they wont be "taking advantage" of the little guy? THATS WHAT BUSINESSES DO! THEY MAKE MONEY! dont like it, dont go there.  or you could say the big evil company thats making you, your kids, and the nation fat.  again, personal responsibility.  Just because the gun is sitting there, loaded, on the table, doesnt mean you have to pick it up and either shoot someone or kill yourself.  ITS A CHOICE.  you could just as easily choose to get up and walk away, or go home and make a sandwich, there are so many possibilities in today's world for CONVINIENT healthy eating.  Same thing with smoking.  If smoking is so horrible for you, and everyone is passing all those laws about smoking, why dont they just outlaw it?  do you have any idea how much revenue states get from taxes on cigarettes?  its enormous, thats why they will never outlaw smoking.  I dont smoke, but i dont think anyone shoudl tell you what you can or cannot do.  dont give me the "well what about murder" thing, thats retarded, smoking is in no way akin to murder.  smoking sections, fine, dont smoke around your kids, also fine.  but outlawing smoking OUTSIDE.....seriously.  or even all together?  all comes down to too much government involvement in people's lives. 

and i cant believe i went from a woman flicking me off today to the need for less federal government involvement.  I am such a nerd. sorry if i offended anyone, but my blog, my rules, and if you really know me you wouldnt be offended. and on that note, GALkdsfiojsiodjfoawijergoaiwrjagiw!

http://www.thatsfit.com/2007/04/22/get-your-morning-cup-of-joe-in-the-shower/

UH no DUH, why doesnt everyone just do what I do and drink it in the shower? its EASY for addicts like me.........and then in the evening, you can do the same thing with wine :)

Just some random thoughts/happenings/events I felt like writing down....

After finishing my project on the Port of Dumfries in colonial Virginia and having been in DESPERATE need of paperclips, i have now in my possesion 500 large paperclips.......sweet.

Currently reading :

What Kind of Nation (class book)

How to Win Friends and Influence People  by Dale Carnegie - Sounds like something you never want to hand the cashier, but actually its super awesome.....no lie, i already have people skills and i thought this book was great.

The Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie (duh on who's it by) - looked interesting, i saw something on the history channel about him that made me want to read this book.

Five Sisters : The Langhornes of Virginia by James Fox - lets see,, a book about awesome virginia ladies.....one married Waldorf Astor (SUPER RICH GUY), who also became Britain's first female MP, one married Charles Gibson and was the infamous "Gibson Girl".  I'm sure the others are just as cool, but these two are the only ones on the back of the book.....:)

It Happened in Virginia by Emilee Hines - interesting way to spell Emily....almost as sweet as the girl on Beauty and the Geek that spells "Jennifer" as "Jennipher".......on a side note, that show kills me, its so funny, my favorite always being the end where the stupid ass girls have to answer these questions to stay in the game......one girl said the capital of Iraq was Afghanistan......laughed for days.....

His Excellency by Joseph Ellis - Biography of GW.....in transit to me from my father's private study aka the bathroom.

My parents have decided to glam up the christmas decorations outside this year, we bought a bunch of stuff, my favorite being the light-up polar bears, though they rejected my idea of also getting a huge coke bottle to put between them.......downside is our dog Henry now thinks when he looks out the window every morning that the polar bears are real animals invading his yard and proceeds to bark incessantly for at least half an hour at 7am.....stellar.

I still have three papers to do.......blech

Dress shopping for Scott's cousin's wedding on the 23rd is starting to depress me.....nothing is looking very nice.

Am I too much of a sap if I just LOVE the old Miracle on 34th Street?

merry christmas shopping

Im actually gonna write something in my blog for once.  I don't really know if anyone even reads anything i write, i don't really care, thats not why I'm writing this anyway. 

I'm very lonely.

Not the lonely where you are REALLY alone, I do have my family since I freakin live with them.  I mean other people lonely. 

All I do is school and work.  And the sad part is, I dont have much time for other things. 

I miss Scott terribly.

I have this wonderful guy I am completely and utterly head over heals for,.

But i never get to see him.  and because i have a boyfriend, its like the guy friend repelent, at least for me, i dont know if thats true, it just feels that way.

Now he is getting out of flight school because of poor test grades and could be going anywhere in the country and doing anything.

And it scares the shit out of me.

Why? Because we had a plan.  An ok plan that would have worked ok.  He was gonna finish flight school and we would get married, and I would finish as much school as possible if not finish everything.  Now its all erased and nothing has been written again, and i cant stand it.  I know nothing has changed and we still are planning to get married eventually, but it still scares me so much, i cant help it.  and he is going through so much and i cant even be there.  i hate myself for that sometimes.

and now i cant write anymore because i have to get to work.....i feel a little better now. thank you blog :)

SO yeah, Oklahoma/Kansas rocked, hot as hell though, good lord, who knew?  i highly recommend the Wichita zoo as well as Over the Hedge :)  very cute and funny.  a week and a half and scott is here for a few days so that will be super awesome.  I think i should drive to Charlestown WV and play some slots cause apparently my luck is hot right now.....i won tickets to the Race on June 24 at RIchmond international raceway from work, and today one of our regular customers gave me two passes to the old dominion beerfest June 23-25 :)  now i KNOW that will be awesome, $1 per 8oz beer along with any beer i could possibly imagine.   and in conclusion, i have become a fan of worldcup man......they are awesome.  cant wait for the saturday game italy vs us.......

1. In one sentence, explain what ended your last relationship:
Finally realized we had become different people wanting different things.

2. What made you smile today?
The baby birds in the nest in our bush got out and flew around our yard for the first time today :)  that and i got new shoes :)

3. What were you doing this morning at 8 AM?
sittin in church


4. What were you doing 15 minutes ago?
helping my dad finish cleaning up after our mothers day dinner

Today was.....different.  started out with spider in the shower, shower head falling off the wall, frizzy hair and someone parking in my space at work.......moved on to getting in contact with a guy at the jeep dealership to test drive one tomorrow......to wanting to shoot myself for living with my parents.......to the best Lost EVER!!........to me crying once again over the end of Instinct.......to finally me finishing baking TWO pecan pies and making a double recipe of pasta salad for my Italian picnic tomorrow........and might i just say, i make a DAMN GOOD pecan pie :)

Got Must Love Dogs from blockbuster......will report back

also got Supersize Me....again......what can i say, i like being grossed out

ps of course i want free pie and chips, its free pie and chips......honestly, does anyone else think, what the hell? when they watch that commercial?