Also. My teachers have form some sort of conspiracy against me to trick me into studying. Yesterday I spent an hour working on an oral report on "A Rose for Emily". I was done 2 minutes before class started and I had to present it. Class starts. I fumble my papers. "We will have our first reports starting this upcoming tuesday." AAAAArgh. Now I'm all.. done and prepared 5 days before the actual report is due. I feel so odd.

Also, I checked my syllabus for a Literature class and it said I had a test today. Hence I feverishly read "The Cherry Orchard" and "The Death of Ivan Ilyitch" on the bus going to school and... "Don't forget we have a test on monday." I'm prepared for a test _4 days_ ahead! I'm practically disgusted with myself.

And I had an odd urge to read yesterday so I did. "Kiss the Girls". A serial killer story based in.. Durham and Chapel Hill. Freak. Me. Out. (There's a movie as of last year w. Morgan Freeman in it that I recommend coz it's filmed around here.) I can't describe it. It's the first time ever that a book or anything is based on a place where I am. It was rather disturbing, actually.

I could imagine it for real when they.. they had a _shoot out_ on Franklin street outside a place I'd been just hours before in real life. A main character bought a book at Bookshop were my room mate used to work. Characters got drunk at Spanky's where I have been 3 times or so, as well as walk by twice every day, staring at the people inside. A killer suspect going to see a ROBERTO BEGNINI MOVIE I'VE SEEN at the VARSITY THEATER I pass twice a day (They showed Begnini's "Life is Beautiful" just a few months ago, you see).

I think the creepiest was that the serial killer adbucted women from the campuses around here, and once is mentioned stalking one of the women outside Duke Med Center's parking deck where my bus go by every day. All morning I spent looking very suspiciously at everyone I passed. *shrug*

There's only one thing that really pissed me off though. The one time my school is mentioned in the damn book he call it by a wrong name "North Carolina CENTER University." Center my ass 8( (said the bitter North Carolina CENTRAL University). It's a.. good book though. Just a bit too close to home for me, you know? I think I'll stick to my non fiction homicide/serial killer psychology books this weekend.