YAY!! i won the bid for the someone like you dvd on ebay!!! yayayayayayaaaayy!!! it's already opened, but that's okay. yaaaaayy!!! i'm so happy!!! (yeah yeah, i know i said i should stop spending money, but...but...i HAD to buy this!)

oh god, i'm such a cliche. just about to watch chocolat and i'm making brownies. yes, again. i can't help it. chocolate craving. and i don't think eighteen almond hershey kisses will solve it this time. i was standing in the kitchen debating whether i should or not for like ten minutes because by the time the brownies are finished it's gonna be like after midnight. and everyone knows you shouldn't eat after 11 pm (did YOU know that?) because it's bad for your metabolism. but i am rationalizing this by saying that i DID wake up at noon! so there. anyway, back to my brownie mix. and chocolat. and, ooh, i think i might just win this bid for the someone like you dvd on ebay. *knocks on wood* let's hope i didn't just jinx myself.

AAAAGGGGHHH!!! just watched "someone like you" (starring ashley judd and hugh jackman). it is one of the CUTEST, FUNNIEST movies i have ever seen. hugh jackman...mmm...huuuugh jaaaaackman....oh. my. GOD. what is it about australian men? i don't know. ohgod...he's already married. dammit. (yeah, like i had a shot at him anyway). ashley judd is so funny!!! who woulda thunk it?! i love this movie!!! must buy dvd and book (movie was based on "animal husbandry"). will look on ebay soon. but had to blog and rave about what a perfect movie someone like you is. i think it is EXACTLY what i needed right now. i love this movie!!! ohmygod...hugh jackman makes me hyperventilate. i'm almost having a fit right now. mmm...god he's so sexy...i sound like such a dork right now, i don't care. i think i'm in love... totally wanna see his next movie. "kate & leopold" with meg ryan. mmmmm....i love him. i love this movie...mmmm....

okay, time for chick flick #2: chocolat. :) [ooh, after, of course, i make a small detour to ebay.]

ahhhh...i love having the entire place to myself. although last night, i was just a teensy bit creeped out sleeping by myself. the front door was locked, of course, but i closed my bedroom door and locked it as well just to, you know, be on the safe side. and, i already told jo and deb this, but earlier in the evening, i went pee and didn't even close the door!! =D oh, the freedom!! it's starting to feel a lot more like winter, although today was a very autumn day. sunny and clear, yet brisk. i've had the heater on in the apartment, so it's very toasty in here. just the way i like it. :)

so what'd i do last night? talked to jo for a while. just whining to her about how i will forever be single although there's really nothing wrong with being single, it's just the FOREVER part that bugs me. being the good daddy that she is, she listened and just gave wise words of well, wisdom. ;) worked on my webpage a lot as well. don't know if i mentioned it on blogger, but i'm working on an online photo album. got a little carried away with myself when i first got my scanner this summer, and started scanning in like, every single picture i own. so figured i may as well make an online photo album. it's going to have pictures of my parents, me as a baby, pictures from msj (my high school), and pictures from ucsd. last night, i was working on my parents' section. just finished it today. it was quite a bit of work. and the worst part is, my parents' section actually has the least pictures in it. so that means the other sections are going to take FOR-EV-ER. by the time i finish the entire thing, my grandkids will be born.

anyway, speaking of my parents, i got an email from my mom today. it's so cool! she sent me a link to an online vietnamese-english translator. i was totally looking for one. i use altavista translator a lot for italian so when i was first taking the vietnamese class, i was like, man i wish there was an online vietnamese translator. and there is! and my mom sent me the link!! and guess what else. she wrote part of the email in english and the other part in vietnamese. and i can actually understand some of it! it's a little hard, i don't understand everything, but i think she said her and daddy bought me a new chair or something? (haha, i could be totally mistranslating this) and they also bought a flower pot for me? although why would they buy me a flower pot? actually, i can pick out random words and figure out what they mean, but i'm having trouble putting them all together. you know, learning vietnamese has made me realize why my mom's english is so bad. it explains everything. i realized that when she speaks english, she uses vietnamese grammar. i can't believe i just noticed that. (well, i didn't JUST notice it, i realized it a few days ago) wow, i felt like twenty wrinkles forming in my brain just now. i also noticed (a long while ago, when she first started emailing me last year), she writes english the same way she speaks it (although, that's basically what i'm doing right now) so it comes out REALLY bad. she says things like, "do you exciting?" or "you email for me" although i have a feeling if you translated that literally into vietnamese, it would make sense. anyway, i just thought it was really sweet that my mom wrote to me in vietnamese. you know, i think a huge part of the reason i'm taking vietnamese is to make my parents proud of me. :)

okay, so what'd i do today? i woke up at noon. finished my parents' section on my webpage. sat around watching tv for a while. caught the beginning of this figure skating special. it was called "hip hop on ice starring tara" (as in tara lipinski - eew). it was basically all these pro skaters - all these OLD pro skaters - figure skating to hip hop music. okay, first of all, although i am not the biggest fan of hip hop music, i still appreciate it and there are a lot of songs that i really like, but i have to say this: hip hop music DOES NOT belong on the ice. figure skating and hip hop are like oil and vinegar - they just don't mix. wait, are those the two things that don't mix? i always get confused. anyway, second of all - all these pro skaters (with the exception of slutty lipinski and nicole bobek) are OLD. THEY ARE OLD AS DIRT. okay, okay, i was exaggerating just a bit now, but pro skaters are basically retired amateur skaters; there's nothing really professional about them, they're just retired. so, it was just all these old, retired people skating/"dancing" (ohgod..) to hip hop music and it was just so humiliating. i felt totally embarrassed for them and i just could not stop cringing. i eventually changed the channel. but it was bad. it was VERY VERY bad. even tara what's-her-name looked terrible even though she's young. see, you just can't skate to hip hop music. it doesn't work. it's like hip hop dancing to mozart. or ballet dancing to limp bizkit. no no no.

okay, anyway, after watching the beginning of that debacle, i watched dexter's laboratory for a while. i love that show, it's so funny. there was this thing where they had this little kid making up his own dexter story and it was so cuuuute!! he even did the dexter voice and everything. it was so adorable listening to this little kid trying to sound like dexter by saying things like, "yew are so steeeeewpid!!!" he actually did a really good job. i couldn't stop giggling.

then i finally got off my butt around 330, changed clothes, and walked to blockbuster to rent some movies. this year, i'm a little bit closer, so the walk wasn't too bad. i just don't really like walking off campus here though. i mean, i don't mind it at all in berkeley, because everyone walks off campus. the city was like built for pedestrians. well, kinda. you know what i mean. but here, it's like everyone drives. no one walks. so every time i walk off campus, i feel incredibly self-conscious. and i hate crossing busy streets. it just feels like everyone sitting in their cars is staring at me. which, of course, they probably are. and i just feel so strange being like the only person walking around on the sidewalks. i don't really like being a pedestrian around here. but oh well. i made it there and back just fine. i rented three dvd's because blockbuster was having this thing where you can rent three dvd's and get a bag of popcorn for 9.99. so i did. i rented someone like you (mmm...hugh jackman. helloooo...), chocolat, and return to me. so i'm in a sappy mood; i'm on my period, okay? so yay, chick flick fest tonight!

hmm...was thinking about ordering out bj's, but i really need to save money, so i'll just have pancakes for dinner again. i swear, my eating schedule is reversed. i had potstickers for breakfast (although i guess you could call it lunch because i ate at 130) and now i'm going to have pancakes for dinner. okay, so i'm going to do my laundry now, then start my chick flick fest. yay!

okay. mystery of the unbelievable chocolate craving solved: i was pmsing. yes, i have been visited by aunt flo, i have fallen off the roof, and i have gone to japan. if you know what i mean.

ohmygod, i HAVE to blog about this, it's so cute. remember how i told you that my physics professor's wife was having a baby and that they induced her on sunday and that's why monday's lecture was cancelled and wednesday's lecture was given by the ta. yeah, well, the prof was back today and he was writing all these announcments on the board (stuff about the midterm, the lab, the homework, etc). the last announcement he wrote was, "Baby I. born 2 days ago!" (the I stands for Intriligator, his last name. yeah it took me a little while to figure out what that meant). then some guy in class yelled out, "is it a boy or girl?" and the prof wrote "(his name is probably Leo)" on the board. and the guy asked, "why probably?" and the prof responded, "oh, well, me and my wife had several favorite names but we wanted to get to know the baby first." and the entire class was just like, "AWWWW!!!!" me too, of course. :) that's so cute!!! some girls asked him how big the baby was and he was like, "he's huge!!!" ouch. his poor wife. but that's so cute!!! oh, i think my ovaries just skipped a beat... ;)

okay, so...plans for this weekend (in no particular order):

1. work on webpage
2. decorate apartment (or actually, just the big wall in the living room)
3. read (my fun book)
4. read italian book
5. work on italian paper
6. maybe rent some movies
7. laundry
8. order out bj's again
9. play with surprise guest for the weekend. ;)

yeah, i doubt i'll do all those things. i'll at least do 7, 8, and 9 though. :) i really want to work on my webpage though. i was brainstorming last night (instead of reading italian) and all these good ideas popped into my head! well, i don't know if you'd say "good," but at least now i have a pretty good idea of what i want the pages to look like. actually, now that i think about it, it might look kind of ugly. oh well, we'll see how it turns out.

okay, this was just supposed to be a quick blog. i've gotta get to physics now.

mmm...soooo gooood...just had four. working on my fifth. almond hershey kiss, that is.

I'M SORRY I CAN'T HELP IT I'M WEAK.

all right. i've decided. i'm going to skip vietnamese and italian tomorrow. but i'm going to email both instructors to tell them i'm "sick" so the absences don't count against me. i mean, we just had a midterm in vietnamese. what are we gonna do tomorrow? most likely, all we're gonna do is practice conversing and i hate that because i suck at it. as for italian, she said that we had to have finished the book we're reading by tomorrow so we can have a discussion about it and well, i haven't finished the book. i'm not even halfway done. i told you, it takes me forever to read the stupid thing. i initially wasn't going to skip italian because she also said that she would hand out a review sheet for our quiz on tuesday, but i figure i can manage just fine without it. so yeah. only class i'm going to tomorrow is physics. :)

WHAT IN THE WORLD POSSESSED ME TO TAKE TWO LANGUAGES AT ONCE?

i ate a lot of almond hershey kisses again tonight. it's scary. i eat those like they're a bag of chips. i don't know which one's worse, but it feels like the chocolate is worse. i don't know why. but it did make me less depressed afterwards. oh my god; i'm becoming an addict. soon i'll be downing an entire bag in like, an hour. and i'll need to keep eating more and more to get that high/undepressed feeling. whoa. good thing i noticed this before it became a problem. mm-hmm. i don't even remember opening the wrappers anymore; all i remember is chewing and swallowing a lot of almond hershey kisses. but i'm pretty sure they were unwrapped when they were in my mouth. i just like, unconsciously reach for another hershey kiss and start to unwrap it while i'm still chewing one in my mouth. okay, all this talk of almond hershey kisses makes me want one now. better get back to reading italian. got a paper due on the book on wednesday. and like i said, i'm not even halfway through the damn thing.

oh god. i can't wait for christmas. i just want to go home and lay in bed for hours at end and not worry about a thing. i want to stay in my warm house and wander around in my pajamas and robe and watch tv for like, forever. and the tree. ohhh, the tree. it's artificial, but it's twelve feet high. me and debra decorate the top of the tree by throwing ornaments up at it and hoping they'll stay. uuuuggghh...i'm getting all homesick and christmas-y now. i suppose it's not helping that i'm listening to bing crosby and dean martin singing about the winter wonderland. it's so weird. i never really got homesick last year. i was totally fine when i first moved to san diego. i was actually a little surprised that the transition from fremont to san diego was so smooth for me. the only times i ever got homesick was towards the breaks, like christmas and spring, which is totally understandable since i was mostly just really antsy for the breaks to begin. now, i'm a little ashamed to admit it, i am getting homesick. and i never felt *this* homesick last year. this is a new feeling for me. maybe i'm a little late; delayed homesickness. speaking of late, i still haven't gotten my period yet. anyway. i hate physics. i don't understand it. someone help me.

hmm...i just typed out this big long complaint about studying for my vietnamese test, but i realized it was just a bit too personal for me to post to a public blog so i just erased all of it. :) let me just summarize: studying vietnamese is literally making me go crazy. absolutely nuts. i'm losing my sanity and my sleep over this - a class i'm taking "just for fun." oh god. :(

wow...chocolate really does make you less depressed. i just ate 18 almond hershey kisses in a row and now i'm drinking a capri sun and i don't feel quite as stressed. i think i should put away the hershey kisses though before i make myself sick.

all right, back to studying i go. just wanted to make note of how many hershey kisses i ate. doesn't seem like that much, does it? i don't know...jo thought i went crazy that week i made two batches of brownies. i love chocolate. i've been craving it more and more these days. i learned in ap psych that the reason depressed women crave chocolate so much is because their serotonin (or something, i don't remember, it was two years ago!) levels are low when they're depressed and chocolate apparently has lots of serotonin which is why we naturally reach for it when we're pmsing or just plain depressed. although i'm actually not pmsing right now. still haven't gotten my period yet. maybe i am pregnant. it could be like an immaculate conception, like the virgin mary.

anyway, i said i was going back to studying like a paragraph ago. but i'm really going this time. bye again.

guess what guess what! got another letter from aborn today!! and some pictures of bugs he sent with the letter. they're kinda gross. well, gross isn't the right word; freaky is. i'll scan them in when i have more time later. right now i should be studying for my vietnamese test. remember how i said the last one was big? well, this one is BIGGER. it's on all the lessons. if she was teaching strictly from the book, it wouldn't be so bad, but she's including all this random crap she's taught us like the past and future tenses, ordinals, as well as time markers, including days of the week, months, etc etc etc. so THIS test is pretty much like a midterm. :-/

you know, i've been thinking about my minor more and more. i mean, i'm still unsure what i can do with a psych major. like, what kind of job i'd like. and if that, for some unexplainable reason, falls through, i might have to rely on my minor. and what in the world would you do with an italian minor? well, i'm gonna email my italian instructors and talk to them about it. can't believe i have to be so grown up. gotta think about "my future" now. great. wonderful. terrific.

can't wait for the three day weekend. get the entire apartment to myself! all of my roommates are going home this weekend. i can run around my apartment naked! not that i would. i'm just saying, i could if i wanted to. not that i do.

anyway. back to vietnamese. bye.

ooh! i forgot to mention something. they have krispy kreme on campus now!! well, there isn't actually a krispy kreme store, but they sell krispy kreme doughnuts (donuts?) at espresso roma, this coffee shop at price center. i saw a sign hanging above espresso roma on monday morning that said "krispy kreme doughnuts now available!" and i was like, "oooooohhh....." but i was waiting for the shuttle to take me to vietnamese so i didn't get any. :-/ i'm going to try to get some tomorrow.

krispy kreme, krispy kreme, la la la la la laaaaaa!!!!

italian literature is SO WEIRD. i don't know if it's just the stuff that the instructors have been giving us to read, but since everything they've given us has been just plain weird, i'm going to go ahead and make this generalization. of course, i do believe a lot gets lost in our own personal translation of the stories. which is why these stories should already be translated into ENGLISH for us. then i would totally breeze through these readings. yeah, yeah, totally defeats the purpose of my learning italian if i just read the stories in english, but it's like these stories are so short...really small books and it's taking me FOR-EV-ER for every page. at least with italian, i know that everyone else is struggling as well. but yeah...when i finally do finish reading a passage, i realize just how WEIRD the story is. i mean, take the book i'm reading right now - volevo i pantaloni. in english, it means, "i wanted pants." how weird is that?

anyway, enough griping. back to reading. oh wait, must paste this funny message san imed me.

my away message:
reading italian. at....a....very....veeerrry....sloooow.....paaaaaaaaaaaace......
san's response:
Burgundy24: haha i think i'm going crazy i was so bored that when i read your away message i really read it like really really slow for some reason
Burgundy24: maybe i'm just tired

ahhh, i miss san. :( and mar and di and jen and well, jacq and chi and ha, and yes, jo and deb. oh, and chris. right. :) [not like she reads this anyway]

AAAAAAGGGGHHHHHH!!!!!! UCSD HAS UPN!!! UCSD HAS UPN!!!!! OHMYGOD!!!! AAAAAAGGGGHHHH!!!!!! we just discovered this tonight. channel 26. ohmyfuckinggod. how long has it been here?!?! just added it to my tv thing. me and neha caught the end of buffy and now i'm watching roswell. would rather not actually because i'm taping it at home in fremont and i don't want to know anything out of sequence. but...but...can't help it. tv's already on. errrgh...maybe a feeeeew more minutes. AAAAAGGGHHHH!! I CAN'T BELIEVE WE HAVE UPN!!!! WE HAVE UPN WE HAVE UPN WE HAVE UPN!!!!!!!!
*jumps up and down*
*runs up the walls*
*tears off her clothes and does the dance of joy*
*blushes*
*puts her clothes back on*
*continues doing the dance of joy*

did you know that i always thought that martha's vineyard was named after martha stewart? reading about it now in my linguistics reader. kinda figured out that it wasn't named after martha stewart since they referred to it as martha's vineyard in like the 19th century. and i don't think martha stewart is THAT old.

oh, forgot to mention something in my last blog. i woke up with a bloody nose this morning. :( it was gross. luckily, none of the blood got onto my sheets. i just woke up feeling like my nose was really runny. woke me up at 722 am though. :-/ wish it had woken me up at like 759, since i set my alarm clock for 800.

oh, and i gave this woman driving in her car wrong directions. oops. i was walking back to the apartment to grab my sweatshirt and she was driving by and stopped and asked me for directions to the pepper canyon apartments. i gave her pretty accurate directions except i left out one very important detail - the last turn. instead, i accidentally directed her off campus. oops. oh well. see, THIS is why i don't like giving people directions. when i've been with melissa, people would stop us and ask us for directions several times. i would ALWAYS let her give the directions. i wouldn't even bother.

it was so cold today! :( i was wearing a thin, long sleeve white shirt (the guess one that jo gave me for my birthday last year), jeans, and flip flops, but i had to come back after physics discussion to throw on my ucsd sweatshirt. felt much better after that.

so i was right. kind of. physics lecture was cancelled yesterday because the professor's wife is in labor. they induced her on sunday. heard that from the ta today in discussion. prof's still going to be gone tomorrow, but unfortunately there's still lecture. :-/ ta's going to teach lecture.

oh, linguistics lecture was pretty funny today. prof was teaching us about role shift. in english, the verb we use for that is "say," as in "he said," "she said," "i said," etc. he writes these down on the board. then, he writes "californian" on the board and tells the class, "there are three verbs for role shift in californian. can anyone tell me what they are?" and all these hands shoot up. first person responds, "go," as in "so he goes blah blah blah, and then i go blah blah blah..." you know, i didn't even think of that one. anyway, next person responds, "all," as in "he was all...and then i was all..." third person responds, "like," as in, "she was like...and he was like..." so the professor decides to give us an example of this by doing a REALLY good valley girl impersonation and saying, "and then i was like, oh my god!" now remember, my linguistics professor is this old man, late 50's to early 60's, with the top part of his head bald and the sides covered with white hair, wearing a sweater vest over a pinstriped collar shirt with gray suit pants. the class just burst out laughing. it was one of the funniest things i've ever heard. and it's just funny in general to think that there's such thing as "californian."

earlier (i don't think i blogged about this), like several weeks ago, he was teaching us about the difference between pronouns in english and pronouns in asl; things like the subjective, objective, possessive, gender, number, and case. and then he says, "when i first came to california, i was surprised to learn that they had their own second person plural pronouns. does anyone know that it is?" no one responded so he told us: "you guys." and we all started laughing. i mean, i've noticed how much we use that phrase, but i never really thought of it as a "second person plural pronoun." so then he says, "and there's even a possessive of 'you guys'! does anyone know what it is?" again, no one responds, so he says, "your guys's!!" the class just laughs even harder. it's so funny...californian just seems so silly but it's like we can't help it. okay, well, i think i know why i never blogged about this. it doesn't sound very funny at all. guess it's just another one of those you-had-to-be-there things. man, my ling professor is great. such a funny guy.

okay, i really need to continue with my reading now. i've got tons of linguistics reading and italian reading to do. and then i've got a vietnamese midterm (there's actually a midterm!) on thursday. you know what really sucks? a lot of people in that class actually only study for about an hour or two hours for the vietnamese tests while i study for like the entire night and they still end up getting a better grade than me. of course, they can actually SPEAK the language while i just sound like i'm butchering it. but still...it just sucks that my hard work doesn't really pay off. doesn't really encourage me to study for this next test. :-/

i cannot WAIT for the weekend to come. three-day weekend, man!! hopefully, i'll receive the dvd i won off ebay by then. i like saying "i won" things off of ebay rather than "i purchased" things off ebay. makes me feel like i'm getting these cool packages in the mail for free. =D

mmm...just woke up from a nice nap. mmm...haven't had a nice nap in like, forever. realized i needed one when i was nodding off while i was doing my vietnamese homework. so i finished that up and just curled up on my bed for like an hour, an hour and a half. mmm...felt so good. i definitely feel better now. kickboxing was tough today. i felt like my legs were just going to give way beneath me and i was just going to crumple to the floor. and then we did abs. OH HOLY MOTHER-OF-GOD. (i suppose one could say holy mary). legs was bad. abs were worse. i stopped so many times and just lay there like a piece of rotten broccoli. and before kickboxing, i was really really sleepy. i was lying in bed for like half an hour and i started to doze off and i was like, maybe melissa doesn't want to go today. but i eventually got my butt out of bed, changed, and went to that torture session. afterwards, me and melissa stopped at jamba (like we usually do) and instead of just getting a jamba, we both got a jamba and a pretzel (when we initially said that i'd get the pretzel and we'd split it). felt like such a pig. but that was what certainly induced the food coma nap.

ooh, physics lecture was cancelled this morning!! i was so happy. prof emailed us at like 715. good thing i checked my email this morning. maybe his baby was born! :)

okay, i'm gonna go eat homework and work on my food.

oh god...this HAS to be my bummiest weekend so far. i haven't done ANY homework. crap. all i did was watch this italian film that i had to for, well, italian. but even then i was like nodding off during certain parts, so i had to rewind and play the scene again. there was this one scene where, i swear, i must have rewound the tape at least five times. but i just kept nodding off after every time (it probably didn't help that i was watching this in bed). so finally, i just got up, walked around, came back, and finished watching the stupid movie. eh, it was okay. but yeah, that's basically all the "homework" i did. ergh...i think i'll go wash my face now. and take out my contacts. yeah, i'll do that.

ahh!! lightning, there's lightning! and thunder, there's thunder!!

[i hate barbara streisand. can't believe wayne brady lost an emmy to barbara streisand.]

can't. stop. eating. [voices in my head won't let me.]

you know what i think is really funny? they had to get a voice double for the kid who plays harry potter because his voice started changing while he was making the movie. i wonder what they would do for the next movies though. because, let's face it, there WILL be sequels. there's no way that they're going to make just one harry potter movie. you think getting a voice double for harry potter will screw up the acting? why am i talking about harry potter? i didn't even finish reading the first book. oh well. back to watching the emmys. ellen degeneres is really funny. :)

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