brrr...

humidity makes my hair go boom. it turns a normally choiffed, straightened head of hair into a giant frizzball that has a mind of its own. take for instance today. i showered, dressed, dried my hair and wonder of wonders, it rains. torrential down pour. in the next ten minutes as i go to class my hair swells into cousin it having a bad hair day.

oh, and isn't it april? late april at that? why, then, is it cold?

i'm a history major so you'll have to put with the stupid, random facts i give. so, in western history we're covering world war II (like i haven't covered it since i was in 5^th grade). we haven't really touched much on the holocaust since i think the profs are aware that that aspect of the war has been beaten into the ground every year of my educational life from the time when they believed we could handle it. we're focusing mainly on the war tactics used. it's interesting. i never really thought about it. yeah, we covered d-day and random battles in the pacific but we never really covered germany's plan (other than mentioning that hitler wanted total control and had some pretty psycho notions in his head). anyway, in 1941 the axis powers are pretty much in control. france had fallen, britain was regrouping and the u.s. ... well, we were still being our "isolationist" selves and recovering from the great depression. germany was doing pretty much what it darn well pleased.

and then there's russia. there's no fighting on the western front so hitler decides he's going to take russia (or rather, the soviet union, i'm still not sure what to call it at this point in history). the nazi's use their blitzkrieg which, up to this point was pretty effective, and invade. well, once more the forces of nature defend russia. you'd think hitler would've learned something from history. napoleon bonaparte had tired this almost 150 years earlier and the russian winter defeated him. morale among the nazis started to decline as their accomplishments on the eastern front were getting nowhere. supply lines were thin and the germans were basically unprepared for the winter.

so what's going through my head as i zone out while my hand automatically takes notes? this little diabolical voice in my head is like "muahahahaha! the russian winter wins again!"