So today sucked. It was muggy and hot and entirely too productive.


Since we're moving at the end of the month, I've been apartment hunting and made a new friend in the process: Brian Bartelt and I have been talking about the L.A. area and he's been giving me the down-low on the living situation. Ya know... so it doesn't become a repeat of last year when in a single semester we had Scary Violent Neighbor Guy threaten our lives, someone break into our rental car and attempt (and fail) to steal the radio while our car was in the bodyshop, not being able to sleep on account of all the noisy parties and doobie parties thrown by the new Annoying Pothead Neighbors. I do so love their horribly off-key renditions of such James Taylor classics like "Fire and Rain" even if they only know one line, and repeat it over and over and over with Energizer Bunny-like frequency.


This semester has been accompanied by unnecessary construction. For some reason the complex deemed it necessary to remove wood from every apartment's balcony and replace it with a newer piece of wood. And all the balconies needed painting... I don't know why, they look exactly the same... and if you ask me, a tad bit worse because the paint job is really poor quality. So most mornings for the last two months I've been woken up at 6 AM by ear-piercing electric saws screeching in the air. And if the construction doesn't wake me up, Annoying Potheads wake me up with their really bad singing at 6:30, or if it's Sunday, loud copulation rituals at 8:30 AM on the dot.


I'm not a voyuer... the walls are just that thin. Plus, the design is really stupid: our bedroom wall shares their living room wall.


Anyway...


I'm freakin' out because I don't know how to use Past Subjunctives in Spanish. I've got the whole future conditional thing down and I can differentiate between habitual actions and pending actions. And I can use both the future conjugation and then with a conjunction of time conjugate the verb into its proper subjunctive or present indicative form. But then we get the whole new conjugation with Past Subjunctive that combines Preterite with Subjunctive... and I'm completely confused.


And my final is tomorrow at 6 PM.


I have two finals tomorrow... Blah.

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