The ingredients in Altoids are basically just sugar, gelatin, and more sugar, with a little artificial flavoring thrown in. Popping these newfangled sugar cubes throughout the course of the day, though it would make one's breath minty (or wintergreeny) fresh, is probably really bad for your teeth. But that's just my opinion.

Dental concerns aside, today has been surprisingly annoying, and I'm just now enjoying the fruits of solititude as I try to unwind.

First. I realized early today that I may or may not despise The Vain Man. He greets me with a hearty "Hey, how are you?" then walks on, without even bothering to so much as care about my answer. He hits on girls in a really insidious and disgusting matter (constantly feigning insecurity and mentioning his "ex-girlfriend"). He is so abhorrently self-assured that I can't listen to his overconfident voice without wanting to puke.

To put it simply, if Meghan Rahn and The Ghanan bring out the best in me, he brings out the absolute worst, though I restrain myself, because he can't help the horrendous ugliness of his personality, which it seems I alone can see.

I saw Steve Martin in "The Jerk" last night. It was good, though not great by any means.

In Freshman Studies, the professor spent the entire hour talking about writing style and such. It was excrutiatingly boring, and listening to him describe how he's micromanaged our writing for the term, I felt like an infinite number of very angry monkeys were beating me over the head with an infinite number of typewriters. His speech was necessary, but only to a point, and I refuse to let his protocal (4 pages of it) suck the life out of my essays.

I've been calming down now, and admittedly only about two hours of my day was actually bad. I think I'll go read now; I've been sitting here for far too long.