Muffin!

Awww... blinded by the flash. How cuuuute.

People who should be shot....

Ivan (from Slav last year) said that people who walk in the street or bike on the sidewalk should be shot. I agree. Maybe on like, El Camino or something you can ride on the sidewalk (because only crazy hardcore people bike there), but on Lausen Mall there is no reason why you can't ride with the other bikers... there aren't even any cars there! The sidewalk is for people, and the stupid bikers who weave around the walkers make me scared. I hope they fall off the curb and knock out their teeth.
If you're too scared to ride your bike in the road with the other bikers, then put your bike away and grow some balls!

EDIT:
Ha ha, someone pointed out to me that I had said "people who bike on the road should be shot." My bad. I must have gotten ... err carried away in my anger and hate.

Not Cool

So I'm in one of those multi-person study groups where you all read a portion of the papers and then send everyone else summaries, so that you end up with summaries of all the readings in the class without having had to do all of them.
It's 24 hours before the test and someone still hasn't sent out his share of the summaries. I swear, if by tonight they're not sitting in my inbox, I'm going to... be sort of pissed off.

EDIT: He finally did get them to us about 12 hours before the test, but one of the "summaries" ended up being (and I quote) "This was a long paper. I don't really have any information on it."
Pitiful. Seriously. Someone's not getting invited back to the study group come finals time.

Two good things

Two good things happened to me today:
(1) I had a craving for cookies and cream ice cream and they had it at dinner.
(2) Matt told me he's coming back from Chile winter quarter.

Both of these things made my day pretty awesome.
Now I need to study because I have a midterm on Thursday and... a lot of other stuff to do before Friday.

And in other news..

I have no less than five cable knit sweaters in my closet. Maybe it's time I start branching out a little?
Oh, and I HATE those stupid sweaters that are like, little wispy nasty things that you tie under your boobs and don't keep anything warm and are weird and gross. I thought shrugs went out two years ago when everyone realized they were retarded!



YOU LOOK RETARDED DIE DIE DIE.

Neil was here! And. Everyone likes Spratt

More proof that everyone lurrrves a good Spratt now and then (not meant to be dirty, you dirty person!).



And. Neil was here, and hung out with us for awhile. Apparently it's some alumni thing, something to do with homecoming? (which btw we won! I mean, our football team won its first home game of the season and 3rd PAC-10 game, woot)

And I'm sure we did more than sit around and hug pillows, but it looks like that's about all we did. Mmm.. pillows and.. comfy futon.







And by the way, that futon is the worst thing that's happened to my study habits. I'm always sitting & reading on it and falling asleep. Oh, and in other bad news, I think I'm getting sick. Which is awful. Grrrr, it's because this stupid dorm is so COLD all the time! They haven't turned on the heat yet because it's not yet wintery enough to do it, but it's still cold as hell and the stupid idiots down the hall like to prop open the door to the outside balcony thing and let in cold air! Aurgh I'm going to ... um, be mad at them. But now I'm going to sleep.

SUCCESS!

I didn't fail my midterms! I can function as an engineer! WOOOWOWOWOWOOWOWoooo.
In other news, I spent 3 and a half hours shopping today. But I TOTALLY deserved it.
And Marshall's needs to stop getting Victoria's Secret underwear overstock because I swear I'm buying it all.
I have no self control.

Again!

Oh man guess what I want!?!?!



That's right.. I want onion rings again. Ohhhhh onion rings. And a burger. Yes. wow.

Awesome

Just passed by two guys on bikes and heard them complaining about how their friend was going out with an ugly girl "her nose takes up all of her face and.. she doesn't have a chin, or it goes down in some weird way" and I was like ahhhhh I am your fellow bitch and compatriot. If your friend makes a bad relationship decision, by all means bash him/her behind your friend's back. As I said to Mike, the basis of all good gossip is people going out with each other...

FMOTQ

Full Moon on the Quad... very interesting, that's all I have to say. I only had ONE guy ask me "are you a freshman?" Boo, do I look that washed up? (just kidding, I was dressed like a prude and surrounded by my friends most of the time. And getting sketched on is a bad thing, right?)
Also, watching the band/dollies/fire coming out of a tuba reminded me of some weird .. I dunno, ritual. I almost expected them to grab one of the dollies and throw her into one of those Star Wars sand pits that had the big snake monsters in them (you know what I mean, it's in episode 6).

Oh, and also. My life sucks because I went to go gawk at people kissing and now it's 1 AM and I have class at 9. Which I'm too much of a sucker to miss.

Sunday Night Message

A reminder for everyone to please, stop yourself from being an idiot. This includes me. Some examples of idiots include:
(1) People who are cheerful before 10:00 am
(2) That guy who sits behind me in physics and makes this burping/gurgling noise as he yawns (about 5-10 times in a 50 minute period)
(3) Girls who wear Uggs/rainboots and miniskirts
(4) People on bikes who ignore road signs and are in general idiots
(4a) Bikers who bike on the wrong side of the road
(4b) Bikers (and walkers) who can't stay in straight lines
(4c) Bikers who cut off cars and are "shocked" when the drivers express anger
(5) Anyone who doesn't get out of my way

Midterms

Um, lack of things to say/think of/write about thanks to something called "midterms" that will be making my life hell until another thing called "finals" takes over. And somewhere in there will be another thing called "GRE subject test" which will do the job for awhile.

Pictures!

Random picture post...

For all that want to know, here's my roommate Thanhthanh. Doing Math homework, as you can see. Fun stuff.


Hey, yes so I have decided that the timer on my camera is much too fun. I've been taking vain pictures of myself!



These two are the best. Don't worry, I didn't take that many.

And.. here's a cute doggie that I saw on the way to Physics office hours. It was sitting in a balcony of someone's office & when it saw two other dogs walk by it got excited and stuck its head through the bars of the balcony. Then it was like, "hey, this ain't so bad" and left its head there... either that or it was like, "oh crap, I'm stuck!!!"


Finally, I think this is the best road sign ever:

They might as well have written on it "DIE BITCHES."

Oh man

If there were a physical entity that embodied ridiculous, never-ending work, that entity has just smacked me over the head with a large, blunt object.

I'm so embarrassed

Just now I saw a girl walking towards me and my first thought was "God, she has an ugly shirt on."
My second thought was "oh shit, I own that shirt in a different color."
I guess the only graceful thing to say now is that I must be like, so much more attractive than this girl who fugged up my clothes. Yeah.
Also, I HATE HATE HATE "boho chic," so somebody please slap me upside the head if I ever wear: a long tiered skirt, aviator sunglasses, weird wooden earrings, gauchos, or large colorful and out of place beads. Or huge furry boots.

Stealing more pictures

Really funny pictures of my mom, taken from my sister's website.

Victoria's Secret

Why does everyone buy underwear at Victoria's Secret? Are they really that good? They're so expensive and yet EVERYONE buys it! I buy it! I get excited when they're on sale for 3 dollars for a stupid flimsy pair of underwear!
I'm retarded.

random

This is like, one of the best pictures ever. Me and Brian, last year.



Oh, and I have to prevent myself from falling into the trap of only posting flattering pictures of myself. Because I hate it when ugly or maybe only barely decent looking people only post pictures of themselves where they look very good. So soon I'm going to post a picture of myself when I look totally awful. I think it would be sort of amusing. I'm looking through my pictures to find one.

Yuck

So I'm taking a lot of engineering classes now, and at least 3 times this week I've had weird guys approach me and introduce themselves to me, citing some lame excuse to meet me. Like "my friend lives in your dorm. What's your name?" (WEIRD--because how the HELL do you know what dorm I live in, STALKER?), or "you're in my section" (Like, along with about 30 other people... I certainly didn't notice YOU in my section). Today in BMI section this group of 4 really awkward guys asked me & my homework partner (we do problem sets in pairs, and I'm partners with a very nice (female) CS/BMI coterm) if we'd formed groups for our projects yet... which luckily we have. Then they moved away and like, 10 minutes later approached us again and asked us what nationality we were (we're both asian, as were these guys). WEIRD! I HATE asian guys who approach asian girls because they feel like shared race/culture/looks makes them more "approachable" -- because we're not. We're actually not at all interested in someone who tries to pick us up on the basis of our race. And furthermore it's totally creepy. So get a life you sad losers!
It's like they've never seen or talked to a girl before. And while I'm being mean because they probably don't know any better, well... they should. Blah, and stop hitting on me like a creepy loser. That's it. All engineering guys are creepy losers.
I mean, except my guy friends that are engineers. And um, the nice ones. Like the one in physics office hours that helped me with my problem set.

Also, I feel bad because one of the sophomores who was Roble frosh last year (Terry, if you know who I'm talking about) said hi to me the other day in E40, and I assumed it was another creepy person so I sort of looked away.. and then I had to apologize to him later when I realized I played Halo with him a lot last year.

Whoa

I just had a synchronymous nerd moment with Rishi. I was talking to Rishi and our RCC asked us what the past tense of "lead" was, and how you spelled it. When he asked "are you sure "led" is spelled 'l-e-d' and not 'l-e-a-d'", I said, "no that's lead like..." and then both me and Rishi said "Pb".
If you don't get it, then I guess you're not a cool nerd. Ha ha.

I got a Package!

My package came in the mail yesterday! It was exciiiiiting!
Here are some highlights:

Kath made me another Tomstone (darker green this time, with a light green backing) and a mini pal! Wooo now I can have a Tomstone and Pal in my car AND my room at the same time. Yesss.


OOOooo it's a knitted pea pod! This is about 6 inches tall and the peas come out!


It's hanging on my light! Along with proline, which makes beta turns in your proteins! Errr.


I also got yummy candies. Thanks for the peckage, Kath!

AND THEN my mom got me a flowering stone the same day. Wow, I'm getting spoiled. It has funny "babies" growing out of the middles. And they're covered with little green spots. Heehe how funny. I hope I don't kill it, I heard they're hard to take care of.

It's sitting next to the wonderful peach I got from the dining hall. Lakeside doesn't have such good peaches, ha you Roble people.

And finally, today I decided that Spratt and Winston needed a friend. And people need something to lean on when they sit on my futon. So I got a HUGE UGLY GREEN PILLOW!!! Wooooo!


The color is actually better in person, it's less neon and more ... um, muddy. And the front is all "smocked", but you can't really see the texture in the picture because the flash messed everything up. I think the person who rang me up at the store thought I had horrible taste because she was like "wow, that's a ... really big green pillow." I think she was just suffering remorse at her relative lack of awesomeness compared to me.

I'm going crazy

Um, if this is what the rest of the quarter is going to be like, this sucks. I'm taking 16 units but I have the most insane amount of work, plus I need to start studying for the MCAT and GRE.
I need to go shopping. I'm going to go shopping this weekend. And buy some ... shoes. Or something.

And I want this plate! It has diatoms on it!



wheeeeeee diatoms




Oh. And also.. hm, I didn't do anything at all interesting today. Yesterday & today have been incredibly hectic.
Yesterday woke up 15 minutes before class started and had to haul ass to get to physics on time. Physics & EE went by & when I got back from lunch I realized that my shoes were here! Yay for ordering things online. So I went back home to get them (had them shipped over there) and ended up with a bag of snacks my mom gave me.. Then I had physics lab, which was pretty cool. Well, not exactly but the TA was basically like, "Ok, so if you just COME HERE and do the labs I have to pass you. So let's all just try to get out of lab early." THEN after lab I went to an EE section. Then I worked on problem sets until 12.
Much like today, when I had class/lab all day, then spent the afternoon doing more problem sets! And reading! And... getting the hugest headache ever!
BUT, Matt called me today! And that made me happy.

This is why I don't have my own credit card

Ouch. That's right, they're all the same brand and style. Just different colors.

Hmm

Who could this be?



Oh!



It's Spratt! Hi Spratt.

When did this happen?

Google maps now can zoom out to the whole world... And some parts are still pretty low res, but London, for example, is as high res as a lot of the places in the US. Still not as snazzy as Google Earth, but getting there.

horrible

I'm horrible at making myself go to bed early. Damn damn damn. Wanted to go to bed like an hour ago, and then wasted time on neimanmarcus.com looking at designer handbags. My life is so sad.

I'm being good!

Today I went on a nice walk... I'm proud of myself that I'm keeping up with my summer program of talking a 25 minute walk every day. It might be more like an hour every few days, but at least I'm still doing it. Trying to ban the slide into lump-dom that happened last year when I was skinny but in horrible shape.
So if you see me wheezing around campus because I've been walking the dish, then you know I'm still being good.
AND
Katherine mailed me a package (peckage). Soon to be here... I'll post pictures of what I get, as well as pictures of my new shoes!
So the peckage better be top-notch, Kath, because pictures of it are going online. Ha.