Thursday - Cooper Updates His Blog

Good evening, Internet.

It's been a while since I last posted an update. There are several reasons for this - lack of memorable events, social anxiety, general lethargy - but the main one is that I've been really surprisingly busy with midterms this week. I think I ended up writing about 19 pages of papers this for today, plus I had three tests today and another yesterday. We had a game every night this week, too. All in all I can't complain though. One week like this is a small price to pay for having done little to no work the entire semester thus far.

Although you're all undoubtably salivating at the thought of a thrilling recount of my late night study sessions, I thought I'd talk about some other stuff instead (don't worry, it's equally boring). First things first - there's this group of highschool girls who are frequently on the same bus as me, and they've been giving me lots of looks and giggles lately. It's getting a little weird. Only because I'm now caught in a weird love triangle with the 14 year old girls and the gay guy from last week's post, all of whom apparently ride the same bus as me. So yeah, I got that going on big time.

One more thing - I have this one crazy teacher who is literally out of her mind. I have her for two classes, and I swear she just gets worse and worse every week. Describing her via a blog just wouldn't do her insanity justice, so I'll leave you with this: Remember that scene in the Dark Knight where the Joker is blowing up the hospital, and it's making him so excited that he's just kind of jumping around waving his arms and shrieking? That's like her. Except for also a raging feminist (keep in mind in one of my classes with her, I'm the only boy in a class of 20 girls).

I realize that there's been a distinct lack of picture updates lately, and for this I apologize. I know all of my peers are going to stop reading soon (if they haven't already), and I wouldn't blame them. My attention span quit about three sentences back; I can't even imagine what the rest of you are going through. You old timers didn't have pictures growing up though, so I imagine this blog has been rather soothing for you as of late. I apologize for the shock that's about to come.

These are just a few pictures I've taken from around my neighborhood while I've been here, and I thought people might like to see something other than just plain text for once. Next week is spring break, so hopefully when I get back there'll be something more exciting for you.

Walking around near the stadium

Behind our apartment

The view from the front of our building, from the balcony outside my room.