Pulled down the last post after "The Roommate" ripped me a new one (for good reason). Other than that, not much has happened today.

Spent yesterday with Chrissy's family for Thanksgiving. That was pretty nice. Chad and Karen (Chrissy's Mom) got along very well, which made it that much better. The only downer of the whole day is that Chrissy and Vtalik got in a fight as to whether he would in fact be showing up for her family's thang, which he ended up not doing.

I'm supposed to go bowling with Chad, Amanda, Michael, and Chrissy at some point today, but I have a feeling in my gut that it's not going to go down. Chrissy told me yesterday that in order to smooth things out appropriately with Vtalik, she should be spending more time with him, so I have a feeling I'm getting stiffed tonight. Maybe it's just a feeling, though.

Got a big lecture from my dad this week (one of those ambush things wherein the father takes his offspring out to dinner, so there is no escape from the onslaught of criticism). Apparently, "things need to change" when I'm home from now on, as in, I can't treat the place "like a hotel". I can understand my dad's frustration; he's married to a slob, and as soon as that slob goes away for a week, another one moves in to maintain the mess. In my defense, I only use four rooms in that entire house. He was a little less tactful than he could have been, though, so of course I ended up in tears, screaming at him in the restaurant about how he never has anything nice to say to me anymore and just thinks I'm a big lazy fuck-up, et cetera, et cetera. Sigh.

Of course, I don't think he thinks that's true, even though it pretty much is true for this semester, at least.

I need to quit smoking... anything. I need a job and some money this winter, and I need to get my grades up next semester. This fucking sucks.

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