Welcome to the Bip Report.
"Bip Didn't Screw Bip. Housing and Dining Screwed Bip"
Damn Housing & Dining! Damn greedy bastards! What did they do? Well, why don't I just tell you. Last semester I was living in the armpit of Berkeley, Telegraph Commons. And during this time, I had a seven meal a week plan (which led to my many smuggling expeditions). Well this semester, I moved out of TC, and into Foothill, a real dorm. But there was a little quid pro quo about the dorms that I didn't know. When you move into a dorm, you HAVE to have one of three dorm plans for 10, 14, or 19 meals. Of course no one bothered to tell me this when I filled out my dining contract. "Oh, but Bip. It's written on the contract!" Yeah? F--- that! How many of you have read every word of every contract you have signed? That's right. Anyway, the main contract has three boxes which correspond to the three meal plans. Well I checked none of these boxes, because I figured I already had a 7 meal plan. So I turn in the contract, and the Housing and Dining people look over the contract. They undoubtedly asked me, "Why didn't you check one of these boxes?" To which I replied, "I already have a 7 meal plan." To which they say, "Oh, okay. Don't worry about it then." This is probably the exact conversation. But now I find that I have been billed for extra meals, and for the past two months, I have had 14 meals, 7 of which I have wasted. Needless to say, I am pissed about this thievery of my money, and the fact that I had all this food that was not eaten, AND the fact that they stole my money from the original 7 meal plan that was purchased for the whole year. Damn their eternal souls, H & D punks.
"Biplical Cycles"
Okay, I notice I have two cycles I go through. Either A) I do good, and I brag like hell about how good I am doing. Or B) I do crappy, and focus all my time on creating good reasons for my failures and then bitching about them...time that could have been spent avoiding such failures in the future. This is the forever Bip cycle. I am sure this is equal to pretty much any other cycle. But that is just my observation.
"State of Bip"
So basically, I have been having choke fun the past few weeks. But now, it has somewhat caught up to me. The problem could be fixed if I spent as little as 5 hours just studying, but as it stands, it is unlikely that I have studied that much for any one thing this entire year. I will have to get it in gear. But then I am going up to Davis/Stockton again this weekend, so we can scratch that. I think I am simply frustrated that I am not doing as good as I should be doing. The work I have is, in three of four subjects, really easy, but I am not doing "really easy" good.
"Sorry"
Okay, I have undoubtedly bored you all with this gibberish. This seems to me a strange Bip Report, unlike the style of others in the past. But whatever. I should study. Okay then. I will study.
Until next time, diamonds are forever, and so is studying.
BIP