i swear, the weather here is just crazy. it's like mother nature has pms in la jolla. you know how i said it was so foggy last night it was like a horror movie? yeah, well, today was just INCREDIBLE weather. it was another perfect day. sunny, hot - just super. both me and sanaz woke up late though. i woke up around 1130 and she woke up around 1230. so we just like bummed around for a couple of hours. she put on a slut top, it was like this black bandana tube top type thing. so i was inspired. i dressed slutty too. ;) i wore my blue backless tank top - the one i got while we were shopping for prom dresses senior year.

so it was sooooo nice outside that me and sanaz decided to do our homework outside. we grabbed our homework and a blanket and we sat outside on the lawn under a tree. it was really great; just so relaxing and perfect outside. sometimes, i don't like living in the matthews apartments cuz they're so isolated, but today i loved it cuz it was so quiet and peaceful and we were able to concentrate. well, okay, so we didn't really do much of our homework since we kept stopping and chatting. we also kept noticing like a whole bunch of (hoochie) girls all dressed up (read: slutty) like, constantly walking by us. we figured it was for sorority rush. it was funny cuz jenn pae walks by us a while later and we asked her where she was going and she said that she was meeting a friend here. she was supposed to meet her friend in price center but she was like, "there were too many sorority girls dressed in pink there!! i had to get out."

so we sit out there and do more work for a while till sanaz's stomach gets the better of her and we decide to order pizza for dinner. so she runs into our apartment to order the pizza while i sat outside to keep reading for linguistics. that class is so cool; i'm totally loving reading the assignments and stuff. anyway, she comes back out, and like a few minutes later, the fog just comes barreling in. like, it just came out of nowhere and was moving at ludicrous speed (spaceballs, anyone? ;). so we went back in and waited for the pizza. when it finally came, we called allyn, melissa, and grace over to eat with us.

so we were just sitting there eating our pizza and me and sanaz were telling the girls about our night last night - the whole answering machine thing and stuff. we also told them how we were wondering what life would be like if it was a musical. and we just bust out singing random stuff like, "HI, HOW ARE YOOOOUUU...." and we were saying that we would just sing to natasha and neha when they got back. and all of a sudden the phone rings, and sanaz looks at me, like daring me to sing "hello" to the caller. so i pick up the phone and sing, "HEEELLLOOOOO...." the person on the other end sings back to me, "HELLOOOOO...." so i sang back, "WHOOOO IS THIIIIIIIS...." and she sings back, "WHOOOOO IS THIIIIIIIS....." this whole time, the other girls are just laughing at me. but at this point, i realize that i've been singing to sanaz's mother. and i just burst out laughing and her mother started laughing at the other end too and i said, "oh um...would you like to speak to sanaz? hang on a minute" and handed the phone to sanaz. when i told the other girls that it was sanaz's mother, they just laughed even harder. it was absolutely hysterical, dude. the whole time, i thought the other person was neha, but obviously, i was mistaken. i was really embarrassed. but then i thought, it could be worse. i don't know how, but i'm sure it could be. i don't think i'm ever gonna live this one down. every time sanaz's mother comes by now, she's just gonna look at me and laugh. *turns red* i can't believe i did that. add this to "cherry's most embarrassing moments" list.

so then the other girls left after we finished eating and me and sanaz washed and dried the dishes, did our laundry, and did our chores. we cleaned the entire kitchen and bathroom. *sigh* a somewhat productive day, i would say. although, i REALLY need to get going on my homework. but right now, i need to go get my clothes out of the dryer.

holy crap. it is so unbelievably foggy outside. although, that's not really anything new, cuz i remember it was super foggy a lot at night last year. but it still amazes me. the fog is just so thick and low. it's like a freaking horror movie outside. i told that to sanaz and she told me to shut up. :)

funny night, man. so me, sanaz, and matt ate dinner at the girls' apartment with melissa and grace. they made pasta and brownies, yum. :) afterwards, we moved to the living room and we were just sitting there talking about random stuff. sanaz started saying how she was going deaf and melissa was like, "so you're blind and deaf?" and sanaz was like "yeah, like helen keller" at the exact same time that melissa said, "yeah, like anne frank." we all just stopped and looked at her and then like burst out laughing. melissa tried to justify it by saying that helen keller's teacher's name was anne sullivan but we were just like, "whatever, melissa. you're stupid." it was just the funniest thing; we couldn't stop laughing for like five minutes. you know, reading my blog right now, i think it's another one of those "you had to be there" moments. it was just so hilarious cuz it was melissa. i don't know. melissa's just a silly girl. ;)

after dinner, me and sanaz went back to the apartment and tried to figure out something to do. sanaz told me she found my matches, and i went around the apartment lighting like, all the candles. it was pretty cool! :) and then we decided to come up with a creative answering machine message thing. at first we were just gonna sing the message in some weird tune cuz earlier we were talking about how funny it would be if life were a musical and we sang everything instead of speaking it (we were watching some clips i downloaded from moulin rouge which is why we started talking about that). but then i suggested like, using a song that already exists and just changing the words to that. so we started trying to change the words to london bridge is falling down. but then we decided to do something funnier like, nsync's it's gonna be me. we sat there for like half an hour to 45 minutes trying to come up with the words and it actually sounded really cool. but when we tried to record it, we kept cracking up. there was this one recording of us singing it halfway through and then sanaz busting up laughing and then me yelling "DAAAAMN YOOOOOUUU!!!" into the machine. eventually, we were able to sing it without laughing, but then the stupid STUPID machine kept cutting us off! so we just kept speeding up the song until we were able to get the entire thing into the machine. but then when we replayed it, it just sounded so garbled because the recording quality is pure CRAP. we had a few people call us and listen to it, and they agreed - it was just too difficult to make out what we were saying, partly because we were singing too fast, but mostly because the recording quality is just so crappy. *sigh* so we were a little depressed that all our hard work didn't really work out. but well, it was good bonding time for me and sanaz. :) (okay, so i'm only saying that cuz i know that she's the only one that ever reads my blogs. just kidding, sanaz. ;)

anyway, we're gonna keep that message for a very short while; at least until neha and natasha come back from home so they can listen to it. then, we'll change it. dunno what to though. oh well. still...what a funny, funny night. i have such funny friends.

such a weird day. started off crappy. had to get up early to go to vietnamese that was all the way across campus. plus it was all foggy. and right before i left, my stomach was in complete chaos. it was a bad tummy ache. thought i would have to skip vietnamese which i didn't want to do, but i just got up and started walking when it stopped hurting. but then it started hurting again while i was walking and i was just like, oh dear god, please shoot me now. i was okay once i sat down. then after vietnamese, i had to walk aaaaall the way back for italian. luckily, i wasn't late for either class. it was weird though. hearing vietnamese for an hour, and then switching to italian. i think another reason i'm so frustrated with vietnamese is that it's completely different from european languages. and since the first foreign language i learned (not counting english even though, technically, english is my second language) was spanish, i just got used to learning european languages, especially with italian. anyway, once i got out of physics, it was all sunny and my mood gradually lifted. my mood really correlates with the weather; it's weird.

oh!! i saw so many people today, it was so random! after physics, i came back to the apartment to change into a tank top and flip flops cuz the shoes i was wearing were bruising my feet (especially after crossing campus twice). then i left to go run some errands. on my way to price center, on library walk, i ran into bobby, victoria, and nibi all talking to each other. actually, the first person i saw was nibi; i didn't notice victoria and bobby till i got closer. squealed and hugged victoria since i hadn't seen her this whole time. stayed and chatted with them for a while. bobby told some weird story about a guy falling off his skateboard. while i was talking to them, carrie yu walks by. she went to junior high and high school with me and is a year younger. we don't really know each other, but she stopped to say hi. she's taller than me, dammit. but then again, nearly everyone is. anyway, i left soon after, and walked down the steps to price center and i see pearlyn handing out fliers for her sorority. we talk for a while; she asks to see my second tattoo; just happily chattering away when all of a sudden, i hear "CHERRY!!" and i turn around and it's chris! not msj chris, but atlantis chris. we hug and pearlyn asks me how i know him, and i told her that he used to live in my building last year. and then chris asks me how i know pearlyn and i tell him that i went to high school with her. but it still didn't register in my head that they knew each other; i'm very slow. so i started introducing them to one another, but they were like "yeah, we know each other." and i was like "what?! how?" it turns out that chris is pearlyn's pledge brother! i was like, "whoaaa....that's so weird!" i mean, i knew pearlyn was in a sorority, and i knew chris was in a fraternity, but i never knew they were brother/sister frat/sorority and i, of course, didn't know that they knew each other. what a small, small world. saw sandeep while me, chris, and pearlyn were talking too. this is a lot of people for me to see in one day! i know it's not for most people, but ucsd is a big campus and i really don't know all THAT many people. anyway, talked with pearlyn for a long while, then left to finish my errands.

after all that, i got a funnel cake since today was the last day for the fair. it was apple with cinnamon powder. it was gooooood. i actually finished like 95% of it all by myself! the bad thing about funnel cakes is that they're always so big and i usually split them or end up throwing half of it away. so food coma quickly took over after i finished eating. but mmmm...nice end to a nice day that started off crappy. :)

oh joy. more good news for me. i just got my retainer today. :-/ well, actually, i should say that i just received them in the mail from my parents today (i actually asked them to send it to me). i've actually had my retainer since the 8th grade since that's when i got my braces off, but i haven't worn them in like YEARS. and at my last dentist appointment, my dentist told me that it would probably be a good idea to start wearing them again since it looks like my teeth are starting to move back and actually, i agree with him, i've been noticing that too. so i asked my parents to send me my retainer because i do NOT want braces again. *shudder* i'm already ugly enough to begin with; i don't need crooked teeth or braces to help me out in the ugly factor. but since i haven't worn my retainer in a long time, it is going to hurt like a bitch. oh what joy. yeah yeah yeah, it's my own fault for not wearing it in a long time.

*bashes head into wall*

why am i doing this? why? i've never been very good at learning languages. even with italian. yes, i'm minoring in it, but that's because i like it, not because i'm particularly good at it. and now i'm taking two languages at the same time. back to back. what's wrong with me? why am i doing this?? i am now officially freaking out.

man, what a day. just came back from the vietnamese class. the instructor let me in. it was incredibly intimidating. the course description says the class is for students with no vietnamese background (in language, that is). i expected that everyone in the class would be vietnamese but i didn't expect that everyone in the class would know how to speak it. this is exactly like when i was ten or eleven and my parents sent me to learn vietnamese but the course was taught entirely in vietnamese and i didn't understand anything and i would rather have gutted myself than attended. eventually, they caught on that i wasn't happy and let me stop going. it was really embarrassing today when we were supposed to do some simple drills like take a sentence and make a question out of it and then respond in the negative. it was humiliating, i couldn't pronounce anything correctly. and it's so much worse than learning any other language since i AM vietnamese. like, it doesn't matter if i pronounce italian words incorrectly since i'm not italian, but pronouncing vietnamese words incorrectly in a class where everyone else has perfect pronunciation and they expect me to is just completely embarrassing. what's even worse is that i came into the class late. not late as in i came in fifteen minutes late, but late as in i came in a week late so i missed learning the basic stuff that i really really needed like the alphabet. this vietnamese class makes me feel like i'm ten years old and it makes me want to bash a hole in the wall with my head.

so why don't i just drop it? i don't know. i was thinking that too. but i figure, i have until week 4 to drop or change to pass/no pass so i'll just stick it out for now. once i get the punching bag, there won't be quite so many holes in the wall.

so now i'm taking two language classes - italian and vietnamese. and they're back to back. my head is going to be so mixed up soon.

dude, i really need to stop blogging and do some reading.

hmm...just took a look at my schedule. if i do end up taking vietnamese, not only will i have to start at 9 am on mondays, wednesdays, and fridays, but i will end every day at 4 pm (except fridays). :-/ well, i was going to end mondays and wednesdays at 4 pm anyway since kickboxing is from 3 to 4, but now i end tuesdays and thursdays at 4 pm as well if i get into the vietnamese class. oh well. i shouldn't complain. i've always felt bad for forgetting the entire vietnamese language during my childhood. now's the time to make up for it and learn something that will actually be USEFUL in my life. besides, i know people with worse schedules. :)

forgot to mention something else. helen came over to scan in some pictures of her friend who's joining the navy (it's a girl friend too!) and we were looking through her entire photo album. we came across the cheesecake factory pictures from last year and we were looking at them and helen told me that i look a lot older these days. don't know if it's a bad thing or not. i had bangs back then (well, semi-bangs) and she says that they made me look a lot younger. but it wasn't just that. she also said that my face has changed as well. i hope it's not for the worst. it's weird to think that my face is changing. i mean, obviously it happens since a lot of people do not look the same way they did when they were children (my worst years were 6th through 9th grade), but it's just weird to think that it's happening at this very moment.

hmm...really gotta do some work tonight.

oh, i forgot to mention something. you know what's kinda sad? i stayed home from a FREE preview screening of serendipity in order to enter the last bid on the punching bag and gloves. :-/ well, i would've been the only one to go see it if i had gone. but still. oh well. i got a punching bag and gloves! yay!!! :)

guess what guess what?? i bought a punching bag today!! won a bid on ebay for an unfilled punching bag with two pairs of punching gloves. :) was actually outbid at first, but then i entered a bid at the last minute. stupid me, i accidentally outbid myself (not the first time, but when i was bidding at the last minute). oh well. i've been asking people what to fill it with though. like, i asked the seller and he said i could fill it with like sawdust, old clothes, or whatever. asked tasha and she said sand. asked chris and he said rice. asked helen and she said beans. hmm...i like the rice idea, but i don't want to waste that much rice. anyway, yay!! i've got something else to beat up now besides my scrawny little roommate. ;)

oh! also decided to take vietnamese. :) thing is, i looked into the directed study (like self-paced instruction) vietnamese course but all it is is like listening to a bunch of tapes and repeating the words. i was like, that's stupid, i might as well just buy the tapes and do it myself rather than "take" a course. but then, melissa found an actual vietnamese language course in our revelle handbook. for some reason, it was under "international relations and pacific studies" instead of linguistics. which explains why i couldn't find it. only problem now is that, while vietnamese fits into my schedule, it also jacks it up sorta. now i start every monday, wednesday, and friday at 9 am and i have to walk CLEAR across campus and then walk AAAAALL the way back to go to my italian class. luckily, that would be my only farthest class. but uuurrrrgh...i don't know if i can cross campus by foot in fifteen minutes. especially with the shoes i wear. and i don't like getting to italian late cuz there aren't enough seats and i know i'll end up sitting on the floor and i don't like that. :( but distance is a stupid reason to not take vietnamese, i reasoned to myself. actually, almost had a mini-freak out in mel's room cuz i was like, i REALLY REALLY want to take vietnamese (especially since it's for people who have no background in vietnamese) but i was afraid that i wouldn't have time to finish my other GE's and stuff. but i sat down and like wrote down everything i had to take this year (so i've basically got the rest of the year planned out) and found out that yes, there is time for me to take a class i want. now, hopefully, the instructor will actually *let* me in the class. *crosses fingers* *knocks on wood*

anyway...another good weather day. starting to get slightly colder and windier. fog started rolling in around noon but i willed it to burn off with my super weather control powers. wore my reversible tube top from american eagle. i actually wore the other side today. i usually wear the orange/pink side but today i wore the pink/red side just cuz, i dunno...i don't really like that color, but i felt like wearing it for some weird reason. it matched with the pink handkerchief on my head. :)

well...okay, i just realized i haven't eaten dinner and i haven't done ANY homework today. :-/ and it's 1130 pm. hahahaha...watched helen and chris go at it again tonight (that sounds naughty, but it isn't). they had a huge water fight in the kitchen. started with chris, who was washing the dishes, sticking his wet hand smack dab on helen's face. continued with chris going to the bathroom and helen waiting outside with a water sprayer (for like plants and ironing and stuff) and spraying him like mad after he got out. then moved to the kitchen where chris filled a HUUUUGE cup with water (and accidentally broke melissa's rice bowl in the process) and attempted to dump it on helen who valiantly fought back. so it ended up with both of them wet and the kitchen floor and counters soaked. they're so funny together. :) they make me laugh. if i didn't have a tv, that's what i would watch all day - those two fighting. ;)

anyway, i'm starting to feel bad cuz my entire apartment (minus tasha, plus ben) is studying and i'm not. i'm blogging.

ooooohhhh...jo's new page is so cool!!! well, it's not really a new page, just a new layout, but ooooooohhhhhhhh....and that's a dede ooooooooooohhhhh, too! she's so cool. i'm jealous. but then again, she puts in the effort. i don't. :D

YAAAAAY!! I GOT A PUNCHING BAG TODAY!!! AND PUNCHING GLOVES!!!!

mmm...good night, good night! actually cooked dinner and ate with all my roommates for the first time tonight. well, all of them except natasha. she went out earlier. but yeah, we cooked chicken and rice (i made the rice! okay okay, so it was with a rice cooker) and we made salad and fuzzy navel (it was like a concentrate thing - nonalcoholic, of course) and i made brownies and everything was gooooood. when some of the guys came over while we were eating (sandeep, matt, mike, and ben), they asked us what happened to natasha and we said we ate her. :) i actually helped with dinner tonight!! that makes me happy. i cooked the rice (so what if it was with the rice cooker), peeled some vegetables, and baked brownies. i had a little mishap with the first cucumber i was peeling though. i was peeling it over the trash with the vegetable peeler and all of a sudden it just slipped out of my hand and landed in the trash. i stood there staring at it for a little while then i burst out laughing. i can't believe i did that. slippery little bugger. no, i did not pick it up out of the trash. i got another cucumber. it was a little embarrasing though. oh well. whatever. dinner was good. :) ahhhh...i'm satisfied. :)

i'm really starting to like my linguistics class. i fell asleep for a little while, but that's nothing new. [sanaz is watching me blog right now. hi, sanaz!] the whole subject matter (the deaf culture) is really interesting and my professor is a pretty funny guy. he's a cute, old man. reminds me a little of the chem professor i had last fall quarter. he was a cute, old man too. so at the beginning of class, my ling prof was like, "so how many of you have seen actual signed conversations before?" and almost everyone in the class raised their hand. he was like, "wow...when i was your age, no one had even heard of sign language...i would walk for miles to get to school...dodging dinosaurs and everything."

mmm...i'm fuuuullll...happy full. *BUUUURP* ahhhhh..... if i was wearing jeans, i'd be unbuttoning the top button right now.

ohmygoodness, absolutely GORGEOUS weather today. it's PERFECT!! beautiful, sunny, not a cloud in the sky. very warm, but not hot, and slightly breezy. mmmm....this is weather i want on my wedding day. :) need a husband first though. shaved my legs and wore a skirt today. it's such a pretty day, i had to dress up. *sigh* lovely, lovely day...

oh maaan, it's HOT today!! weather is so weird in la jolla. it was so foggy this morning; it looked all cold and nasty. but then, like, fifteen minutes before i was about to leave, the fog started burning off and there were like no clouds, so i changed, but stillll, the sun was like burning my skin when i was walking on library walk.

oh!! the fair's here!! well, it's not really a fair but that's what we call it, cuz it doesn't really have a name. like, once or twice a quarter, a whole bunch of vendors come to ucsd and set up their booths on library walk. they sell, like a whole bunch of cool, random stuff like posters, framed art, clothes (incl some really cool thai wraps!), shoes (awesome boots), candles, incense, jewelry, cds, etc. oh, aaaaand KETTLE CORN!!! mmmmm....of course, i bought a big bag. :) these fairs just like suck my wallet dry though. everyone makes fun of me when they see me come back from classes with like a shopping bag. whatever. i got some cool stuff, dude! i bought a new pair of sunglasses since i lost a pair and broke another pair. i also got a metal sign of rosie the riveter. it's a painting of a lady from the 40's or 50's, i think. she's wearing a blue collar shirt and a red and white polka dot bandana in her hair and she's rolling up her sleeve and flexing her arm and she's saying "we can do it!" yeah, i think i'm gonna put this one out in the apartment. :) also got some random hair clips. gonna get another pair of boots later. found a last of the mohicans poster but the guy was selling it for like $22!!! geezus...i could get it on ebay for like half that!

anyway, hope my parents send more money with my retainer. oh oops, should probably email my address to my parents.

oh, i switched out of my italian class this morning too. i'm still taking italian, but it's with a different instructor. in fact, it's with the instructor i had for my folk and fairy tales class last year. thing is, my original italian class was way too crowded. so a second instructor (the lady who taught my folk and fairy tales class last year) finally came today and called out a list of names of people who were gonna be in her class. the whole time, i was sitting there like, please call my name please call my name please call my name. she never called my name. but then at the end, she was like, anyone else who wants to come with me can come. and like three or four people got up and followed her out....myself included. :) cuz the thing with the first instructor is that she's a native italian speaker. actually, that's not a bad thing cuz like, all my previous italian instructors were native speakers as well. it's just that this instructor was like on speed when she was talking to us. my new instructor is like american; italian is like her 2nd or 3rd language. so yeah...it was already a LOT easier to understand her. i don't think she remembers me from her folk and fairy tales class though. but then again, there were like 60-70 students in that class.

anyway, also signed up for kickboxing at rimac with melissa! yay! funfunfun!!! :)

eew, britney spears new song is not very good. is anyone else noticing her new southern accent? is it just me, or did she like start speaking like that recently? i don't think she had a southern accent before.... anyway, whatever, time for lunch.

I AM SUCH A BUM.