okay, my stupid internet's not working right now so i'm just gonna write this on wordpad and post it later.

just got back from cheesecake factory about an hour ago. was very nice to see everyone. well, almost everyone. not everyone came. but it was still nice to see people that i hadn't seen in a long while, like jon and big mike and dustin. and it was really nice that we were all sorta dressed up. of course, i ended up getting some fettucine on my new turtleneck. :( pulled a christina. ;) we got to sit outside too!! helen didn't like it cuz it was cold (and it was pretty cold) but i liked it cuz they had the heating lamps and, i don't know, i just liked sitting outside. although i wish we could've sat outside at the cheesecake in sf cuz it's located on the 7th floor of macy's so if you sat outside, you would be sitting on a terrace that overlooks the streets. but it was still really nice.

so i've been to cheesecake twice in a little over a week. funny thing is, i got the EXACT same thing tonight as i did when i went in san francisco. everything except for the drink. didn't like the iced peach i ordered last friday. you know, i'm just not a very daring girl when it comes to ordering food at restaurants. i can't bring myself to order something different because i'm always paranoid that i'm going to end up paying for something that i won't like, especially since i'm somewhat of a picky eater. oh well. maybe i'll go wild and crazy one day and order something OTHER than fettucine at cheesecake factory!!

oh man, i heard the funniest story about melissa today during dinner. it was about what happened during our trip up north last year. weird thing is, i was in the same car but i hadn't heard this story till *just* tonight. don't think i should repeat it on my blog, but it is the FUNNIEST story. i was laughing so hard when helen told me the story. and i think i was like obnoxiously laughing, but oh well.

man, i feel so bad that i feel so unmotivated to study for finals. especially since my first one isn't till wednesday. but it's physics! i mean, yeah it's multiple choice and yeah we get a two pages of cheat sheets (front AND back) and yeah there's a curve (i think) but still...that's no excuse not to study. urrrrr... :( i'm going to be majorly panicking on tuesday night. and i really SHOULD start studying early since i have two finals on thursday. although it's not *too* bad since i have my italian final first thing thursday morning and my linguistics final last thing thursday night. so there's a large time gap between those two finals, but still. i really do need to study for linguistics. sorta blew off the midterm and consequently didn't do as well as i should have. i hate that. getting a lower grade not because you don't understand the material but because you *did* understand the material but were arrogant enough to believe that you didn't need to study very much. :-/

okay okay. enough blogging. maybe i'll eat some of my fudge cake. or maybe i'll clean the bathroom. or maybe i'll just sit here and stare at my tv. there's this andrea bocelli special on a&e. i'm so surprised, i can actually understand a lot of what he's singing, but it's strange...when i hear the words, i translate them literally into english so it doesn't sound very lyrical. i wanna take that language of italian opera course they offer here. sounds very interesting. am pretty excited about my psycholinguistics course next quarter too. is it geeky to be excited about school? nah...it's only geeky if one gets excited about a course like physics or math (*cough*sandeep*cough*).

all right, i said i would stop blogging like a paragraph ago. i'm really going to stop now. really. stop. right. now.