Fighting like a soldier of ideas

I honestly never thought I'd live to see this happen.

Even though Fidel Castro is 81 years old, I honestly thought he'd outlive me. I should start smoking cigars.

I broke it to my mom that I want to take next semester off to go on a traineeship. I looked into it, and I can do so, and still graduate on time. She doesn't know it yet, but resistance is futile. Her excuses are contradictory. She says she wants me to stay in the states so I can get a legit job when I graduate, but that I can go on a traineeship after I do graduate. Please explain how that makes sense... Also, she thinks the reason my grades were so bad last semester was because of AIESEC, which is not the case - I was struggling with new roommates who have a different lifestyle than my own, and a club sports team that put me under a lot of pressure and then proceded to screw me over. Of course, she also sees the imperfections of AIESEC, since I'm so involved, and because I talk about it 24/7. I'll make her see the light eventually.

Last night I spilled water on my laptop's keyboard, and when I press "a", it writes "asdf". Some of the letters don't work at all. Must figure out a cheap way to fix this...