less like death

I have been sick since last Tuesday. That is almost a WEEK spent in bed, with the exception of dragging myself to work/class on Thursday and feeling a bit better (enough to shop :3) on Friday. Started with a cold, then hello UTI, and then the stupid antibiotics they gave me gave the worst stomach cramps EVER and I had to stay in bed for like 2 1/2 days. I FINALLY feel less like death now, but I'm still really glad I don't have to do anything but go to class at five. As much as I motherf-ing hate being sick, it was nice to just stay in bed for almost a week, lol. And spending the entire weekend in Jeremy's bed or asleep in his lap definitely could have been worse. It's nice having someone who makes even the shittiness of being sick a little bit better.

In other news, my library caught fire!! Like 10 minutes after I left on Thursday night. There was an electrical fire or something in the part they're renovating, and they had to evacuate the building and now it's closed all week because they have extensive clean up to do. Good side? I don't have to work all week! Bad side? That's like $180-ish I'm not getting. :(
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Um um...I re-watched Veronica Mars season 2! I have rediscovered my deep love for Logan Echolls, although I am not as enamored of the violent little scamp as I once was. Season 2 really is a quality season, though, upon repeat watchings. Still not as solid as season 1, but when you re-watch you can see a lot of hints they dropped about the end earlier in the season that expected, given how WAITWHAT the ending was.

subculture

So I'm in my popular culture class, right, and we're talking about subcultures. This group is doing a presentation and they tried to claim that subcultures were a 20th century phenomenon. Like, there aren't any anymore. The class disagreed, and managed to come up with "scene kids", "emo", and "hipster" as subcultures. (Hipster isn't even a subculture here in SC, it's just culture, lol). One girl, bless her, was like, "I don't know if you guys would know about this, but I live with some guys and they're part of like...a gamer culture? They talk to people online through games, and stuff!" and someone responded "...like geeks you mean?"

I had to raise my hand and contribute. Because, omg, there are so many living subcultures! There are subcultures within subcultures! I mean..."geek culture" can be broken down into sooooo many different cultures, that's such a huge umbrella term. It's like these people have never been online. Like they've never heard of anime kids, or comic books fans, or, hell, Trekkers! There are 3 distinct subcultures right there. They have their own ideas, bases of knowledge, things you "have to know", ways of dressing, ways of talking, etc etc. Just like Punk, just like Mods, just like Hippies from back in the day. I mean, even Lolita is a subculture, really. I just can't believe these kids think that there aren't subcultures anymore. @_@