After tonight I will be finished with my Basic History of the U.S. class. But first, I have to write a paper about the causes/effects of the Civil War.

I'm tempted to write my paper with a southern slant. The term "dirty yankees" isn't offensive, is it? At least not to California people. They pretty much stayed out of the whole war thing. However, growing up in the South, I always identified yankees as people that said "You guys" or spoke with a nasal sort of accent. Yankees always reject the word "y'all" and take the word Coke to mean Coke, not Sprite, not Dr. Pepper. So it's hard to say if I would have considered Californians yankees.

Next semester will be punishment for all of my easy classes. I'll be taking nothing but math and science. "But Wendy," you say, "you've already taken biophysical science at BCF and Astronomy a few semesters ago. Do you really need more science?" Why, yes, I do. And why? Because evolution wasn't taught in my biophysical science class at BCF. As if I need a class to understand evolution. Primordial ooze turned into a fish, and then turned into a dinosaur, and then it turned into a bird, and then turned back into a fish, and then into a monkey, and finally, the ooze transformed into a human. And that is why we have snot - it's the primordial ooze. It's also why we taunt monkeys at the zoo. Our ooze was smart enough to keep going, and not stop as a banana-eating creature that can only speak sign language.