Utter Disdain

Blind hatred isn’t something I run into everyday.

Except at the most unexpected times, like holidays and birthdays and really, any event including my family.

Where does this hatred derive from?

NIECES.

I have two darling nieces, whom I love extremely. However, the oldest has gotten to the age where it is hilarious to show undying disdain for her youngest aunt. For no apparent reason.

Upon arrival, I was told during the car ride over Annabelle had announced to her parents:

“No hug aunt Rissa”

To which her mother (on my behalf) responded “but that’ll make aunt Rissa sad!” which was answered with what I’m sure was diabolical-little-girl-giggles.

Once arrived, Annabelle had no desire to see me, and in fact, only spoke to me in order to ask me: “Where Garrett?” (WHY DOES HE HAVE A HIGHER RANKING THAN ME?!)

BUT.

Luckily, I have another niece to give me all the love and attention I desire. And once I got my hands on her she made her love known. By passing her bodily functions on me. Four times.

I tell you all this to say: Happy Thanksgiving! I hope you all find someone that loves you enough to openly disdain your very existence and will pass gas on you when you least expect it.

Because, let’s be real, that’s one of the best things in life—The God-given blessing of a family.  

Aka: The ability to fart on someone and turn around and have them love you anyway. 

Sometimes, Cheaters DO Prosper

Growing up I continually heard the phrase cheaters never prosper, as I’m sure many of you have also. Usually I was told this by teachers in order to guilt trip me into doing my own work, or studying without writing anything on my desk.

Now I’ll be honest I still did the occasional ‘write everything I possibly could in minuscule writing on my desk or hand’. But for the most part, I agreed, cheating doesn’t actually help—it may have instant gratification, but in the long run it’ll do more harm than good.

Be that as it may, I’m more than happy to use my cheating skills when it comes to several things:

            -board games

            -ping pong

            -and when it comes to free stuff

Wayne has been having a bi-weekly event called Willy Wednesdays, these include a variety of free stuff for no apparent reason other than the desire to use our student dues in very strange ways. I have gotten a fake tattoo, ice cream, and photobooth photos. Along with these, every two weeks since mid-October there has been a new question posted at the information desk in the student center. Students can put in an answer with their name and number—with the potential of getting FREE STUFF.

Yesterday I read the question:

What Christmas song was actually written for Thanksgiving?

I guessed several times, until I was told Jingle Bells was the correct answer. So. I went over to the box. Wrote my answer, name, and number and popped that puppy into the guessing box.

Then I repeated this action six more times.

Today, after returning from class I had a voicemail, telling me that I had WON A FREE TSHIRT AND COULD PICK IT UP IN THE STUDENT CENTER.

So basically this entire post was meant for me to brag about my new We Are Wayne State t-shirt, and so I can proudly say:

Sometimes, Cheaters DO Prosper.

Long time no blog!

Holy Cow, so! Long time no blog eh?

And the sad little doo dad is I’ve been meaning to start writing again for weeks; I just keep finding excuses not to. These excuses fall into one of three categories generally:

1)   Sleeping

2)   Tumblr

3)   Netflix

Pretty sour reasoning really.

So my pretties, I Marissa K Watson will now indubitably begin posting on the regular, my time of laziness will cease! I promise!

But since I currently don’t have anything to say and am sitting in the middle of the library reading Cinderella variations for an essay I will just say; happy Friday, and November! IT’S BASICALLY CHRISTMAS SEASON IF WE DIDN’T HAVE THANKSGIVING. So smile! And have a wonderful day.