i feel like i haven't blogged in ages. i don't know why. i have a theory, but it doesn't really make sense. i don't think everyone wants to hear this (especially guys), but i really don't care. cuz it's my blog. anyway, i didn't get my period last month; it skipped. no, i'm not late (or pregnant), i'm just irregular. maybe that's why my sense of time is all off and i've been feeling really edgy lately. i sniped at dylan over aim (sorry) and to stop myself from saying anything else mean, i just said i was going to sleep. this was like friday afternoon. i went to bed around 1230 and didn't wake up till it was dark, like 530 or 600 or something. i don't know what's wrong with me. (actually, yes i do. i'm lying to you. i know exactly what is wrong with me, i just don't feel like blogging about it.)

anyway, what is there to blog about? did nothing last night. oh wait, yes i did. well, okay, technically, i really did nothing. sat around, ate food, stared at a box with pretty moving pictures (some people call it the television), read a book - basically nothing. but i figured out the 4th class i'm going to take next quarter. see, let me explain something first. i've been having so much trouble trying to find a fourth class for next quarter. i automatically knew i was going to take italian and vietnamese. italian because i have to for my minor and vietnamese because it's a language and languages are generally in series and since i'm taking vietnamese 3a/3ax, i may as well continue with 3b/3bx and 3c/3cx (i have absolutely no idea why it starts with a 3 instead of a 1). but then, all of a sudden, EVERY class i wanted to take conflicted with those two classes, especially since vietnamese is 5 days a week. i wanted to take a stat class and a cse/mae class, but could not fit both into my schedule. and i NEED to finish those two prereqs before i can begin taking upper div psych classes. so i settled on taking a stat class. i'll just have to take my cse/mae class spring quarter. so then i tried adding a bio class cuz, after physics, it'll be my last science ge. but yeah, conflict there as well. AND THEN i found this totally awesome class that i really really REALLY wanted to take. it's a critical genders studies class; specifically - feminist theory. but it conflicted with my vietnamese 3bx class. i was seriously considering dropping vietnamese because, to tell you the truth, i'm not really enjoying this. vietnamese class makes me feel extremely retarded. moreso than physics. or calculus. but then i thought...i mean, i'm putting the work into this quarter, i may as well chug through the series. and i do believe that vietnamese will be of greater use to me in the future, so....no feminist theory class for me. :( i'm really hoping that they'll offer it again while i'm still here.

so last night, i thought, i do NOT want to take three classes. it just makes me feel like i'm wasting my time here or something, i don't know. so i opened my schedule book to the very first page, and just started going through every single class that was offered and looking up the interesting ones in the general catalog for their course descriptions. i stumbled on a few interesting classes, but yeah - total conflict. finally, i found the perfect class - one that i wanted to take, and one that fit my schedule. unfortunately, it's not a prereq or ge or anything, it's just a class for my own fun, although after i tell you what the class is, i don't think many of you will find it very "fun." it's a lit class, specifically - intro to lit of the british isles (1660-1832). the course description didn't sound too fun, but when i went onto studentlink, i pulled up the reading list and it consisted of two books: pride and prejudice, and moll flanders. my eyes instantly lit up when i saw pride and prejudice so i decided to take the course. as for moll flanders...well, i've seen the movie before. ;) both the robin wright one and the alex kingston mini-series one. the alex kingston mini-series one is rather, um, racy. graphic sex scenes just left and right. so, the book should be pretty interesting, no? anyway, i'm betting we'll have to write essays which i do not like, but i'm just gonna go check out the course for the first couple of weeks and see if it takes. i can always drop it or change to pass/no pass. i'm just glad i've got a fourth class.

so what did i do today? went out grocery shopping with sanaz. god, it seems like we go grocery shopping so often, but it's actually only every other week. it just seems like really often because the weeks are like flying by. it's crazy. i can't believe it's week 7 already. bought some sand for the punching bag, but not enough. it was funny actually. when me and sanaz were at home depot looking at sand, i decided to buy the all purpose industrial sand because, well, it looked prettier. i know, i know, you wouldn't be seeing it in the punching bag anyway, but please, i'm a girl. a silly girl, yes i know. so sanaz lugs the 50 lb. sack to the checkout counter (sanaz - the superwoman) and the guy scans it in, then looks at us.

"you girls know what you're buying right?"
"um, yes. yes, i do."
"well, just to let you know, silica sand can cause [prattles off a list of very dangerous and unpleasant sounding illnesses] and DEATH. [circles the word "death" on the bag with a black pen] you would probably want to purchase the [some name i don't know] sand. it's actually cheaper, and..."
"oh, but would it be good for a punching bag?"
[scrunches up face and sharply inhales] "....yyyyeeeaaaaahhhh....punching bag...? yeeeaahhh...would you still want to buy this one? just letting you know what you're buying. it causes DEATH."
"um...okay!" [yes, i actually said that. i'm such a dork.]
"you don't want to buy the other sand?"
"okay!" [sanaz scurries off to lug the other bag to the check-out counter]
[bit of an awkward pause]
"i just wanted to make you aware of what you were buying. because, you know, this does cause DEATH. if you breathe in silica it can get caught in your lungs and your lungs will get all mushy [okay, at this point, i don't really remember what he was saying. he was just explaining to me, very GRAPHICALLY, how silica sand causes DEATH if inhaled, but i do think he used the phrase "lungs will get mushy."] and silica sand is actually used for sandblasting."
"oh."
[sanaz returns. i pay. we thank him and leave.]

well, i think it was actually nice of him to inform us that we were buying the wrong sand and that the right sand was actually cheaper and that he was trying to save my life. i just felt really stupid, is all. oh well. happens all the time!

so...what'd i do tonight? hmm...made pancakes. called deb but she was at a party and it was hard to converse so she said she'd call me back but she never did [bitch*]. i made chocolate chip pancakes for neha, and plain ones for myself. i've had britney spears' new song stuck in my head and it's driving me up the wall. it's the second worst song i've ever heard (the first one would be o-town's new song - that slow one...i don't remember what it's called, but it's TERRIBLE). "i'm a slave 4 u" sounds like it belongs on a porn soundtrack. anyway, it was stuck in my head so i started singing it while i was making neha's pancakes. sanaz dared me to go sing it to neha when i delivered her pancakes to her because this actually wasn't the first time i made chocolate chip pancakes for neha, delivered them to her room with utensils, and then poured the syrup onto her pancakes for her (what can i say, i'm just a nice girl). anyway, i ended up singing it to neha when i gave her her pancakes.

this whole time, tasha was getting ready to go to some indian party and she had difficulty finding a nice outfit to wear. originally she was going to wear this kind of psychedelic teal skirt with a tye-dyed (tie-dyed?) tank top that was the exact same shade of teal as the skirt. it sounded like a good idea in theory, but when she put on the entire outfit, it just looked like WAY too much. she looked like she belonged in the 70's. it was like extreme psychedelic. sanaz was like, "dude, if someone was high at the party, he'd be ON you!!" i just burst out laughing. i thought it was so funny, i don't know why. so tasha ended up changing and wore one of my white tank tops.

so i went to go finish making my pancakes. i made a couple and then sanaz said that i should try making mickey mouse pancakes. i HAD been thinking about that, but i decided not to just cuz i was too lazy. so then she asked if she could try and i said go ahead and she actually made a really decent mickey mouse pancakes. actually, it was better than decent - it was just pretty good. i thought it was the funniest thing though so i was like guffawing (i love that word - guffaw). i made her take a picture with it. ;) so then we showed the pancake to tasha and she was like, "niiice. now try making a goofy one." and we were like, "right." but then sanaz did try but it ended up looking like einstein on crack. i don't know why that was the first description that popped into my head. it just did.

okay, well, i'm tired now, so i'm going to bed. i told sanaz that i was going to bed like 20 minutes ago, but i was blogging the entire time. i didn't think i'd blog this much! it's not as if anything big has happened. oh well. good night.

*just kidding!! =D