I really love this book, but I think anyone who has not lived in New Orleans for a few years will miss out on its beauty. My fave aspect is the picaresque (college word) narrative. The book introduces a variety of characters, following them through the streets of New Orleans, and the novel's end brings all the characters together in a hilarious climax.

The characters are hilarious and realistic representations of the city. The main character, Ignatius J. reilly, is a groteesque anti-hero and the embodiment of arrested development. His narrative drives the novel, but as a character he never grows. Although his opinions on the world outside of New Orleans changes by the novel's end, Ignatius is still living in the same self delusions as at the novel's begining. The other characters, Jones, Patrolman Mancusa, Irene Reilly, the Mrikoff Minx, have greater depth, but the use of Ignatius as the idiot anti-hero makes the novel more memorable, and even though Ignatius is the gravitational center of the novel, A Confederacy of Dunces satirizes the many different class, race, and gender/sexuality issues that make New Orleans such a hub.

Tehe, Nathan agreed to be my friend (him or some assistant). Granted I am sure he says yes to everybody (not in a whore-ish way) but still. I can proudly display that Nathan Fillion is my friend, thank you myspace!

Moving on

So I have been getting better, but I am still pretty sick from overworking my heart this past weekend. I went to my reg doctor, and she didn't seem too interested. She listened to my heart with the magic stethospcoe and said it sounded fine. I called my cardiologist and he requested i get some bloodwork done, so I had to get some needle stuck in my arm yesterday. I am sure that did nothing to add to the nausea (sarcasm level = high). Moving out is working okay so far, although it is becoming a real hassle to swtich the cable and internet over to my roomate since the cox communications is only open from 9-5 and my roomate is never home during that time (she's at work). Oh well, we will work something out.

Oh yea, I would also like to mention that Christian Finnegan agreed to be my friend as well as Nathan ( him and I are on an imaginary first name basis now), which was just as cool and equally exciting!!!!!!!

All right, off to the doctor (yet again)

Andrea "the great and all powerful"

PS: How can someone be currently reading if they are currently writing in their blog?

Oh My God, I cannot believe I just asked Nathan Fillion to be my myspace friend. I mean, yea he already has, like, 2000 friends, but Ryan Reynolds is one of them. I am just one of those crazy fans (granted, I just want to be updated when he writes in his blog, but I digress) i still feel really effing embarrassed. Maybe it is just my reaction to the heart meds. I am shaking all over.

So, where have i been intimate nobody known as the internet? Well, I graduated (yay) and am currently going to grad school (yay).New Orleans is getting back on its feet. The progress is getting better, if you ask me, although the prices for apartments are still outrageous! So I live on campus, but I will have to move out soon, due to lack of funds. See, I was diagnosed with congestive heart failure about 9 months ago, and because of the ridiculous price of meds in this crazy country (United States of Greedy Assholes!) I have burned through my financial aide really quickly, and I have been in denial about it and living off credit. Now I am even more in debt than just student loans. So i try to get a part time job, and i return to working with coffee, seeing as how it was the only job i really enjoyed on a part time basis, yet, low and behold, I can't do that kind of physical labor. It seems that if i am on my feet for more than an hour i get mucho nauseated and risk passing out. So I had to quit the job with no notice. and here i am, broke and feeling useless.

However, the weight loss is going well, which is why i have decided to start posting on my blog again. I am currently waiting for my new scale to arrive, my old one broke and i wanted to buy (on credit) a really nice one that did BMI as well as weight. So when that arrives I will inform the mysterious people who might possibly read this how my weight loss is going. I guess just the fact that I am "publishing" my weight loss journey makes me feel, i don't know, like i have imaginary support i suppose.

Anyway, i must do some homework.

the great and powerful andrea

yes, it has been a long time, what of it? i graduated from college and i will be starting grad school in the fall. my relationship with r is going wonderfully, i am toying with the idea of becoming a vegatarian again, i need to go the gym at some point today, i already went this morning, but that was for time with my personal trainer, i have to go again to do my cardio, my kitchen is a mess and i don't feel like cleaning it, and, finally, hurricane season has started and we are all praying we can survive it.

love to few

well i got fired for the first time yesterday. the problem was that it was pretty out of line. apparantly i was having a conflict with "everyone" who works there, which is not true. i was having a conflcit with one particular lead type person, who is very unprofessional. I asked him not to tease me and he continued to do it, so then i got really offended and i yelled at him. now he seems to have used his power to get me fired. I am not saying that what i did was right, i should have gotten written up for yelling at him in front of customers, but to be fired without even explaining my side of the story? and then, after the boss had called and did the did, i said "Well I am sorry that it didn't work out" and she HUNG UP ON ME!!!!!!!!! wtf! they are obviously a very unprofessional place and perhaps the person in question was jealous becuase i am about to graduate nad have a real career? oh well. he is not a good person and karma will get him. i leave him at the foot of the gods.

as for today, i need to go about my day like i am not majorly feeling rejected and embarrassed. so, i shall finish up my thesis, go to the gym, go to my grandma's house, maybe catch a flick, who knows. 

it is soooooooooo hard finding an apartment in post katrina metairie. i don't know what i was thinking! this bloody sucks ass! sorry about the cursng, but i really am frustrated and i don't know what to do. i hate living in my house, but i really cannot afford to move out until summer, but i am afraid that i will not be able to find a place if i don't grab one asap! but, then again, more places might be renovated by this summer. ohhhh, i just don't know what to do. stupid hurricanes and their desire to destroy my life! well, mine and others lives. i mean, at least i have a place to live, (even if it is with my crazy parents) and they have decided not to sell their house and move just yet. maybe i should move onto campus. ugh, that idea just makes me want to barf, but then, this whole frustration makes me want to cry and eat too much taco bell. or maybe just take a nap. its 11am and i don't have to leave the house until 2 30. that is three hours i could nap.

although, i shouldn't go to sleep everytime i get frustrated. what to do, what to do.

i think i am just annoyed because i want to procrastinate and the boy i am kind of not seeing is too busy to hang out. well i have no idea what he is doing, he said he would call me today and he hasn't. boys are so confusing. but at least i did get some work done. i have finished half about half of chapter 3 of my thesis. so i got that going for me. i want this semester to be over! it is the first on campus semester since hurricane katrina and it had to be shortened since the campus wasn't ready until feb 1st. and i cannot drop any of my classes because then i cannot graduate, well i could drop philosophy, but then i would never see robert (my psuedo boyfriend). he said that he wanted to be friends, but even friends hang out with each other sometimes. he never seems to have the time to hang out at all. oh well, whatever. the good things about him far outweight the bad things about him.

so far.........

man it is really effing hard to view someone's blog. i had to add my friend sarah, like, three times and i still cannot read any of her blogs!!!!!!!!!!!! anyway, today my father and i got into an argument. this is not unusual since he beleives that he is right about everything. plus he, like all other peeps in my family (myself included) is hyper sensitive, so when i told him that he was wrong and had no idea what was going on in my life he got rather defensive. I took it well. i just sat there and listenened to him and did not get upset. I understand that he is not perfect and actually has a lot of bad qualitites. it is not me, it is him.

he insists that i am an unhappy person and i have not gotten any better with my problems. he has no idea what changes i have made during the last four years, or what goals i have accompolished. he assumes that i am miserable and unhappy because i have not lost any weight. he doesn't care that i am about to graduate from college or that i have begun to be more assertive adn have more self esttem. no, all he cares about is how much i weigh and according to him that is the only thing that will proove that i have changed and become more enlightened.

what is a girl to do?

i just got off of work. today was very boring and i spent about five hours priceing porno. It was, fun, to say the least. The store bought about 35 anime porn flicks. I have never seen an anime porn, but i hear that the women usually end up having sex with demons that have tentacles sticking into various...anyway. I have a german test tomorrow that i am partially prepared for, yet instead of studing i am bloging away. ohh, ten minutes until the daily show.

Speaking of which, the colbert report last night was ont he funniest things i have seen in ages!!!!!!!!! stephen interviewd the congressman from the san fernando valley, which happens to be the porn capital of the world. Stephen was asking the congressman about the industry and the congressman continued and continued to deny it. Finally stephan asked for the name of the congresman's first pet and the street he grew up on (so he create his porn name). Finally, a pizza man arrived and the pron music began to play....it was LOL funny. For more information please check out www.colbertnation.com. all right gotta go!

got home from work at 11 50, ten minutes before the replay of the daily show and the colbert report. i walk into my room to see that my mother has removed the television. thus no daily show for me. crap! she took the tv back to the "tv room" (actually my mom's office), but for no reason. i mean, yea its her tv and all, but no one needs a tv in teh tv room, my parents have their own tv, and my little sister has her own tv, and i like playing on the internet whilst i am watching the tube. i don't usually watch tv shows, but i do watch dvds, just kind of put random shows on that i barely pay attention to.

today someone tried to steal some porno from the video store i work at. it was sad, he was an older guy and apparantly he is having sexual problems with his wife. (he actually told this to my boss as he tried to apologize and not be permanently kicked out of the store), but their is no reason for him to steal.

damn, this has no spell check. crap. now i am going to look like a stupid fool, well eff you. spelling is all about memorization and has nothing to do with one's intelligence.

peace out.