I am feeling somewhat like a miserable pile of failure and worthlessness right now. Usually such depression stems from being too tired, but man, it never feels like that when it's actually happened.
Since arriving back at Utah I have: accomplished pretty much nothing but stare in terror at university as I realize that actually I might get kicked out, and seen I'm pretty sure more spiders in the two days since I arrived than I have in like 4 years now in Rexburg. Both of these facts alone are depressing, and I think they have combined with not enough sleep to make me feel like a waste of breathable air. This happens occasionally. It is never fun. I am also sick, probably because I've been on stress overload. That's another thing that's never fun.
Anyway, so I went to Walmart to buy some orange juice because I'm feeling sick. Stopped to browse the pony dolls, which I'm probably going to give up and admit that I'm officially collecting any day now. They had the big Rarity and Pinkie Pie, which I debated for a moment before realizing that buying them when I'd already spent this much on ponies this month would only make me feel like more of a tool, and therefore was probably not advisable. Anyway, as I was walking up to the register after that, I noticed that they'd been stocking school supplies up in the seasonal section. Idly, I stopped and skimmed some notebooks - and my heart lept when right there, at the very front of a box that was closest to me, was a DC comics notebook. Why, I thought, perhaps my purchase of two folders and two notebooks last year made a difference in the grand scheme after all! Perhaps DC has even started making more designs than they had last year! Perhaps there will be Batman!
You can imagine my crushing disappointment (isn't that a great phrase, crushing disappointment?) when they appeared to have lessened the number of designs, not increased, and lessened the products that said designs were associated with. From several boxes of notebooks away, the faces of Marvel's Avengers stared at me, mockingly.
DC's two contributions to notebook and journal designs - at least at Walmart - this year appear to be as follows: One plain blue notebook emblazoned with the iconic Superman S shield, and one notebook featuring a headshot of Robin and the words 'Designated Wing Man'. Admittedly this second made me laugh, but really, DC? That's all?
For those of you not in the know, the two major companies for comics are Marvel and DC. Marvel created guys like the Hulk, Spider-man, Iron Man, Captain America - those guys. DC, which is a much older company, has some of the big names, like Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman. Marvel, for some reason, is much much more prolific in the merchandise it creates. DC hardly seems to make any - which is... weird, because as they hold the rights to some of the most iconic figures like ever, you'd think they'd capitalize on that. But no, for some reason not. I'm not sure why; whenever I find something that I feel I'll use and can afford I totally buy it. For example, I am currently the proud owner of a Batman purse, and it's a pretty nice purse too! It can fit everything I need and then some, and has straps large enough to encircle my shoulder.
But I digress.
Anyway, I guess that's all I have to say about that - although I was mildly amused or offended, or possibly both, that DC and Mario and suchlike of the 'vintage' notebooks (DC why do you do this to me really, that's all?) were designated as 'boys' notebooks, while the vintage 'girls' notebooks were largely Sesame Street and Peanuts - as well as a Miss Piggy one that I wouldn't mind owning, but really guys.
What about those of us who are girls who like Transformers, or the boys out there who enjoy Peanuts? Why are you typecasting us so?
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