ohmygod. my computer is going crazy. all the fonts are like superhuge and it's annoying the crap out of me. i want to go home.

ahhh, i love talking to chris. every time i talk to her, i end up laughing hysterically. she just told me this story about what happened to her and victor on the day of senior ball. [by the way, you should know, she was wearing a white dress.]

GrafTed 23: me and victor left to wait at the restaurant since everyone was getting ready so slowly
GrafTed 23: and on the way, i wanted a hot dog
GrafTed 23: so we stopped at costco, and some guy was like.. "congratulations!"
GrafTed 23: "you're getting married?"
GrafTed 23: and i was like "no, tomorrow"
GrafTed 23: and he totally believed me... after that it wasn't funny
lilith chick: AHAHAHAHAHAHA
GrafTed 23: i was like.. uh.. just kidding?
lilith chick: why would anyone go to costco in their wedding dress the day BEFORE their wedding?
lilith chick: geez, that guy sure was something stupid
GrafTed 23: i don't know!
GrafTed 23: thats' what i was thinking!
lilith chick: that's so funny!!!
GrafTed 23: yeah
lilith chick: waht did victor say?
GrafTed 23: he was just looking at the guy all weird...
GrafTed 23: and then when he believed me after i say "no, tomorrow", victor was like what?!

ahahahaha...i love chris. ;)

ahahahahaahaha...guess what i just found out. me and chris [chen] are on the same flight home for thanksgiving! and we bought our tickets at different times too. ooooh...unaaaaagi... ahhh, i'm so relieved. i was so afraid of getting lost at lax by myself. now i DEFINITELY won't get lost! not with my trusty guide, chris. yay!! la la la la laaaaa...

my vietnamese teacher has a boyfriend. it's so cute! i don't know how we started talking about this, but we started talking about what vietnamese men are like. the ta said, "vietnamese men are passive!!" [among other things]. there was a pause and then the teacher looked at all the guys in class and was like, "well, say something!" one of the guys was like, "hey, i'm not vietnamese." turns out he's chinese. you know what's really sad? he's chinese but he speaks vietnamese better than i do! argh. anyway, one of the other guys was like, "hey, i was born here, so i'm american!" it was kind of funny because all the girls in class (there are like 7 guys, 11 girls) just started ragging on vietnamese guys all of a sudden and the guys just kind of sat there. and then one of the girls said, "we want to hear about your boyfriend. tell us about him!" and the teacher just kind of blushed. i don't think she ever told us she had a boyfriend until today. so her silence kind of acknowledged that she had one, you know? after the teacher didn't say anything after a while, the same girl was like, "is he cute?" and she was like, "sure, for 57, he's pretty cute!" i don't know why but i thought it was just so funny to hear that from my vietnamese teacher. think it's kinda sweet too. ;) "aww...old people can be so sweet!!" [clueless] she talked about him a bit more. said he was a lawyer and very "tender." she likes to use that word a lot. no, he's not tender as in tender chicken, but you know, tender as in sweet and thoughtful.

anyway. i'm bored. what to do, what to do...hey, should i get my flu shot? well, not right now, but later. i don't know if i've ever had one before. i probably have, i just don't remember. they're offering them at the student medical center for $15. i don't get the flu very often. actually, i don't even remember the last time i had the flu. i have this urge to write up my physics lab right now. isn't that sad? it's a friday night and i feel like doing homework. my lab isn't even due till like a week and a half from now.

well, okay, this is a boring blog. i'm going to go make myself some pancakes and find something to do. bye.

oh god...i'm so sleepy. i have no idea why. i slept fine last night. seven hours. AND i had a one hour nap before that. pretty good. i'm just...so...sleepy now. i still have to do italian homework, italian reading, and physics lab. well, i just have to look over the lab, maybe do the prelab. i'm doing the actual lab tomorrow. uuuugh. i hate labs. i'm so glad i'm a non-science major. i think labs are my least favorite thing of any science class. no matter what class it is, i always manage to screw up the lab. and in the end, i always wind up copying the lab from someone else anyway. in fact, i've got a head start on it this time. my physics prof was initially going to do this lab involving skateboards but the person who came up with that idea for a lab is like suing the school for the rights over that lab (which i think is rather silly) so he had to choose a different lab and he decided to make us do one of the labs that the physics 1a class did. and luckily for me, helen and grace are in that class. ;) so i just borrowed helen's lab book. yay!

but yeah...i'm still really sleepy. i don't know what's wrong with me. and i have so much work to do tonight. bleeeaaahhh....i want to go home. five more days. although it kinda sucks that thanksgiving is only four days long. but then two weeks after, we have winter break. yay! hopefully thanksgiving break will rejuvenate me.

oh, forgot to say one more thing. la jolla weather is so lovely!! fall shmall... :)

okay. just dumped my lit class. registered for an upper div psych class instead. i just found it last night. i need to pay attention to the schedule of classes more. anyway, the psych class is called the psychology of language. psycholinguistics. sounds really interesting actually. and there aren't any prereqs for the class. there were prereqs for the core upper div psych classes which is why i couldn't take any of those. so i'll just have to wait till i finish my stat class, then i can start taking the core classes. i'm so happy i found the psycholinguistics class. i really felt like i was wasting my time taking so many empty credit classes, but i felt like i didn't have a choice. i couldn't take any of my prereq classes because they conflicted, were at really bad times, or weren't offered next quarter. now i'll be able to at least get one of my upper div classes out of the way. one out of twelve. but i'm kind of excited to take the class. what can i say, i'm a geek. maybe i do belong in revelle after all.

okay, gotta get to linguistics class now. bye.

physics prof and his wife finally named their baby boy. a girl in lecture asked him if they had decided on a name yet. he said, "yeah, we definitely decided on Leo." he paused and then said, "and i hope he won't kill us for this later, but for his middle name, we decided on Elvis." ahahahahaha...the entire class burst out laughing. but nope, prof was not joking. Leo Elvis Intriligator. ahahahaha...i find that so hilarious. poor kid. at least that's his MIDDLE name.

anyway, i've been napping and watching tv and reading cosmopolitan for like the past five hours or so. i learned a lot of really interesting things in cosmopolitan. very educational. i really need to start reading for linguistics now though. man, i've gotta wake up early tomorrow to walk back to blockbuster and return the movies. you already know how i hate walking off-campus around here. it wasn't too bad on saturday cuz most people went home so there were hardly any people around. but it's gonna be sucky tomorrow cuz it's a school day. argh.

la la la...oh look, i'm still not reading. so me and melissa went to kickboxing today and the instructor never showed up. we waited for like fifteen minutes but when she didn't show, we just headed to the gym. i actually went to the gym! ran on the treadmill for like half an hour. it's kind of addicting. there MUST be something wrong with me. afterwards, me and melissa spoiled ourselves and got jamba and wendy's. hey, at least we split the jamba. man...i can't believe i actually ate all my food. it was a lot of food too!! i didn't think i would finish it, but i did. and immediately was hit by the food coma train. aaaahhhhhhh...curled up in bed and just lay there like...like...well, i pretty much lay there. and slept. it was nice.

OKAY, IT IS ELEVEN O'CLOCK. SHIT. I NEED TO READ LINGUISTICS NOW. SHIT.

ohmygod. i did NOT notice tasha was in the room.

okay, so i came home around 1230 and went to my room to dump all my stuff. i see helen's message about the cookie tray so i run out to return it to them. then i came back, tore off my sweater and bra and put on my sports bra and tank (it was getting really warm). i turned on the tv and like blasted the volume while i was making lunch for myself. i JUST noticed tasha when her cell phone went off. i was like, "that's funny, she's not here but her cell phone is." then i was COMPLETELY surprised when i see tasha wake up in bed, answer the phone, then fall back asleep. daaaamn, she IS a heavy sleeper. at least i hope she is. i mean, if she isn't, i just gave her a rather disturbing strip show. i feel really bad though. i totally didn't notice her there!! i was like clearing my throat trying to get the frog out like several times. i'm really surprised she didn't wake up. errrgh, i feel really bad. but hey, i also think it's partly her fault. she's so damn skinny, i didn't even notice that there was anything underneath her covers!!

all of a sudden, i have this urge to start running again. running as in track running.

i think i'm going crazy.

i have finally finished reading my italian book. i'm surprised. first of all, it ended up being a pretty interesting book. second of all, towards the end, i was just reading non stop. i only had to look up like one word per paragraph. i was a on a roll there. but now it's 1100 pm and i still haven't written a word of my paper. (well, i wrote my name and the title) oh great powers of bullshit, i call on thee for help. haha...that sentence just does not sound right. oh well. must work on paper now.

i am breaking out. I AM BREAKING OUT. and my computer is not working. something's wrong with my ie. i can't open my browser normally; i have to actually click on one of my bookmarked links and then it'll open ie for me. but can't worry about fixing it right now (hah, who am i kidding, i can't fix it. what i meant to say is i can't bother to have someone else fix it for me at the moment) because i still have not completed my italian book which i need to in order to write my italian paper which is DUE TOMORROW. and i have to wake up at 7 am to register for classes. can my life get any suckier at the moment? (oh god, it can, can't it? i just jinxed myself, didn't i? oh god oh god...*knocks on wood* *throws salt over her shoulder* *spins around three times*)

at least i had some good vietnamese food today. my vietnamese teacher is a funny lady. she reminds me a lot of my mother. she's actually a historian which is what my mother wanted to be when she was growing up in vietnam. and like my mother, she has funny ideas like having a potluck. i mean, not that it's a funny idea, it just seems strange when you're in college to be having a potluck in your class, you know? but whatever. there was lots of good food today. people surprisingly liked my cookies (okay, rather, i should say one person did. but no one else tried it! they just took them at the end when everyone was leaving which is totally fine with me). okay, you know what? i realize that i exaggerate a lot. oh well. i baked those cookies really quickly last night. i was surprised i didn't burn them like i did that one time with shirley. it was so funny. we weren't even making them from scratch. we had that thing where it's already pre-cut into those little squares for you and you just break it apart, stick it on a pan, and throw the pan into the oven. yeah, me and shirley managed to ruin a whole batch. so i was kind of wary about baking the cookies last night, but they turned out totally fine. a little too hard for my liking, but at least they weren't burnt. anyway, i don't know what all the food we had was called but it was good. very very good.

okay, should probably get back to my italian paper, or actually, italian reading, right now. I AM BREAKING OUT.

okay, so out of my "plans for the weekend" list, what did i actually do? let's see...i did numbers 1, 6, 7, 8, and 9. i worked on my webpage, rented some movies (some goooood movies), did my laundry, ordered out to bj's, and played with the surprise guest (chi!). i did NOT decorate the apartment (i didn't have enough stuff anyway), read my fun book, read italian (although i'm doing that tonight), or work on my italian paper. i am screwed with italian. i have a quiz tomorrow which i'm actually studying for at the moment. i've been reading italian for a couple hours now, and it just feels like i'm not making any headway. arrrrrgh, i don't know how i'm going to write a paper on a book i've only read half of. yeah yeah, i should bs it, but it's just hard since the book is, you know, not in english. neither is the paper for that matter. aaaaaargh...i completely goofed off this weekend. it was actually a pretty relaxing weekend for me. up until today when i started panicking over italian. actually i'm still panicking over italian. i'm just taking a break from the panic to let you all know about the panic.

i can't wait for thanksgiving break. a week and a half! eight days! (i leave on wednesday morning, remember?) yeah, it's only four days, but still. i need it. everyone does. okay, back to italian.

oooyyy...i feel kinda out of it. i don't know why, i woke up at like 1230 today. geez. well, okay, what'd i do today? um...oh, i watched return to me, finished my little chick flick fest. then watched some figure skating. then took a really super fast shower. and was just getting dressed when ann-chi and nibi came over for dinner. yes, my surprise guest was none other than chi. we ordered in from bj's and just watched some random tv. it was very nice seeing chi again. :)

oh, while they were over, my parents called. my mom asked me if i received her email and i said i did. she asked me if i understood any of it and well, here's how the conversation (sort of) went [making corrections for broken english, of course]:

me: um...i understood a little bit of it, not all of it.
mom: [kind of laughs] you didn't understand any of it?
me: no, no, i understood *some* of it, not all of it. [pause] you bought me a chair, right? did you buy me a chair?
mom: what? a chair?! no, we didn't buy you a chair.
me: you didn't buy me a chair?
mom: no.
me: oh. then...did you buy me anything?
mom: no, we didn't buy you anything.
me: then...what...what the heck did you say?? [well, okay, i don't think i said that exactly, but something to that effect]

and well, she told me what she had written. and actually, i COMPLETELY mistranslated it. she did not buy me a chair nor did she buy me a flower pot, although the message did involve a flower pot. so what did she write? well, it's actually a bit personal, so i'm not going to blog about it, but let's just say i don't think i should attempt to speak vietnamese with my parents until like, the end of the year. because that was just a HUGE miscommunication there.

anyway, chi and nibi left around 9, i think. so i called deb while i was doing the dishes and just talked with her for a while. it was nice catching up on some stuff. yay, i feel more in touch with jo and deb now. although, it was pretty funny talking to deb on the phone, because one of us would mention something and most of the time, the other would be like, "oh yeah, i read that on your blog" and so after a while, i was like, "are we going to have anything to talk about with each other on the phone anymore?" that was just kind of a joke though cuz yeah, there was a lot to talk about that we didn't blog about. i just think it's really cool how useful blogs are for keeping in touch with friends. because even if you don't have time to talk with them on aim or on the phone, you can always stop by their blogs and catch up on their life, see what they've been up to lately, you know? yeah. i love blogs.

anyway, after i hung up with deb, i scanned in aborn's letter and pictures. tell me if you want the link, k? i sent it to whoever was online right now, but yeah, i'll need to send it to others when they get online. actually, if you still have the link from last time, it's the same page, but updated. i don't think many people bookmarked it, so i'll just resend the link.

oh god...oh godly god...the weekend's almost over. and i still haven't done any homework yet. oh shit. errrr....welll..okay, i guess that's what tomorrow is for. oh god. help. crap. gah. GAH!!!

ahh...chick flick fest over. stayed up till 330 am watching chocolat but it was good. very enjoyable. finished watching return to me just now. i'm so happy. watched three really really good movies this weekend. i hate watching a movie you want to see but it turns out to be not very good. feels like a waste of time, you know? but i can honestly say all three movies were REALLY good. i loved them all! if i had to rate them though, i'd say:

1. someone like you
2. return to me
3. chocolat

although all three were really very good. i would highly recommend all three of them. *sigh*....mmmm....good good good. okay, time for a shower now. then dishes. blah. shit, haven't done any homework yet. shit shit shit.