grrr...started to write a blog but my ie went all schizo on me and i had to restart the comp, thus losing the blog. :-/ oh well. didn't write too much, so it's not too bad. thanksgiving weekend is pretty much over. got an early flight tomorrow. 815 am. which means i gotta get up at like 5 if i'm going to get to the airport at 6. let's hope my luggage will get on the correct flights this time. pretty much all packed now.

so i spent like, ALL of yesterday out. but it was tons-o-fun. was very happy to see everyone again. well, everyone except for chris and san, but i flew home with chris on wednesday, so it's just san i haven't seen. :( oh well. will hopeufully see her over christmas break. so, okay...let's see...yesterday started out with me and deb picking up jo and then meeting everyone else at the bart station around 11 am. got onto bart (i miss bart) and got to san francisco a little after noon, i think. so we walk to the metreon and see that the 1 pm show for harry potter is already sold out (and we got to the metreon at like 1230 too!) so we bought tickets for the 150 show and went to go eat at jack in the box because we were all starving. we went back to the metreon afterwards and found seats early and just waited for the movie to start. i thought the movie was really cute. all the kids were so adorable!! especially ron and hermione. makes me want to read the book. must find the time though. :-/

so after the movie, we walked to cheesecake factory which is on the 7th floor of macy's. we got out of the movie around like 430 or something. san francisco was like crazy, and cheesecake factory was PACKED. of course, yesterday was one of the busiest shopping days of the year. we didn't get a table till like 7 or something. but it wasn't too bad because me, jo, jacq, and ha just did a little shopping while the other girls sat on the couches and sofas in the home furnishings department. tried on some dresses and took pictures. god...the dress ha made me try on was just plain weird. i don't know how to describe it, it was just weird and ugly. and we have pictures of it now, great. oh well. cheesecake factory was pretty good. waaaay too much food. had to take home my fettucine AND my fudge cake (which, incidentally, i had for breakfast this morning. pretty gross, i know, oh well i don't care). oh, i almost forgot. we went to fao schwartz too while we were waiting to get seated at cheesecake. that place was CRAZY PACKED. little kids running amok!! extremely expensive toys. geez. last time i was at fao schwartz was in like the 8th grade or something, i think. so, let's see...hmm...what else did we do...i don't know. it was just great being in san francisco when everything's all festive and decorated for christmas. it wasn't as cold as i thought it would be. it's actually colder in fremont! sheesh. anyway, ended up getting back to fremont around 1030 pm. then went to tina's house to hang out a bit. saw tina, shirl, tien, i-ting, vivian, fiona, and di. it's so nice to see old friends. :) ended up getting back home a little after midnight, completely pooped. but a nice pooped. :)

wow, i thought i would end up talking a lot in this blog, but i guess i didn't. oh, i just remembered, at one point, all 8 of us (me, jo, deb, ha, mar, jacq, jen, chi) ended up in the express elevator to cheesecake factory all by ourselves and jo and deb made all of us walk around inside the elevator in a circle while it was going up. they said it would make us dizzy but it just made us look extremely strange. imagine 8 girls randomly walking clockwise in a rising elevator. it was just weird.

today, i finally got to sleep in and i ended up just spending the entire day bumming around the house in my pj's and eating lots of food. it was great. i loved it. saw "heartbreakers" finally. very funny movie.

man...i know there's only two more weeks till christmas break, but i am so not looking forward to what i have to do in those two weeks. most of all, i dread having to work with my vietnamese group for our final. we're just going to end up embarrassing ourselves, or rather, mostly me, i know it. i dread having to work with them so much, even above studying and taking my physics final. studying for finals, i don't mind quite so much. it's just the vietnamese presentation i dread the most. god. i actually only have two "real" finals - physics and linguistics. my italian final is a two-parter. the first part is take home, and the other part is like a semi-test or something. and my vietnamese final...well, i THINK it's just the presentation, i'm not sure. i think there is a test also, but i don't think it'll be too big since we'll also have the presentation. at least, i hope so. CANNOT WAIT for the next two weeks to be over. got a whole month for christmas break. i think we're getting out for christmas break before everyone else also. woohoo.

okay, i'm done with this blog. will not be blogging from home for another two weeks, at least. and let's pray that my luggage gets on the right flights this time.

regarding a certain embarrassing picture of me...

x c aL i bR 143 (11:23:41 PM): you wouldn't happen to have pictures would you?
x c aL i bR 143 (11:23:51 PM): i wanna see!
lilith chick (11:23:57 PM): actually
lilith chick (11:23:59 PM): yes i do
lilith chick (11:24:06 PM): and no you will NEVER EVER see them
lilith chick (11:24:09 PM): EVER
x c aL i bR 143 (11:24:11 PM): awww
x c aL i bR 143 (11:24:12 PM): noo.
lilith chick (11:24:13 PM): did i mention never?
x c aL i bR 143 (11:24:14 PM): please???
lilith chick (11:24:20 PM): i would rather chew off my foot
x c aL i bR 143 (11:24:32 PM): what if we got married and had no secrets
x c aL i bR 143 (11:24:39 PM): then you'd have to show me wouldn't you?
lilith chick (11:24:58 PM): what if i burned all the pictures?
lilith chick (11:25:03 PM): then you'd NEVER see them
x c aL i bR 143 (11:25:08 PM): i guess
x c aL i bR 143 (11:25:19 PM): but what if you jsut showed them to me
lilith chick (11:25:33 PM): i guess
lilith chick (11:25:41 PM): but what if i just ripped them up into a million tiny pieces
lilith chick (11:25:46 PM): and ate all the pieces
x c aL i bR 143 (11:25:51 PM): but what if you didn't
x c aL i bR 143 (11:25:56 PM): and you just showed them to me instead
lilith chick (11:26:02 PM): but what if i did?
lilith chick (11:26:05 PM): and never showed them to you
x c aL i bR 143 (11:26:29 PM): well
x c aL i bR 143 (11:26:33 PM): i guess that's okay too
x c aL i bR 143 (11:26:36 PM): but what if you didn't
x c aL i bR 143 (11:26:44 PM): and showed them to me instead!?
lilith chick (11:26:56 PM): hmm...
lilith chick (11:26:59 PM): okay, here's an idea
lilith chick (11:27:03 PM): how about i just not show them to you?
lilith chick (11:27:05 PM): like, ever.
x c aL i bR 143 (11:27:08 PM): haha
x c aL i bR 143 (11:27:14 PM): that's a good idea
x c aL i bR 143 (11:27:18 PM): but i thnk i have a better one
lilith chick (11:27:19 PM): dude, this could go on forever, dylan.
x c aL i bR 143 (11:27:21 PM): HAHAH
x c aL i bR 143 (11:27:23 PM): yeah
x c aL i bR 143 (11:27:27 PM): it really could

ohhhh maaaaan....just watched the first tape of the buffy/roswell episodes i set the vcr at home to tape. i realized then that i royally screwed up. i miscalculated when my mother would have to change the tapes so now i have SOME episodes on tape, but not all of them. and they're not in order. the season premiere of buffy did manage to get taped, but not the second episode and not the season premiere of roswell. man...i can't believe how stupid i am. don't worry, i'm not going to overreact like the last time when i forgot to tell my mother to change the tapes, i'm just really disappointed. i was so looking forward to being able to catch up with the episodes over christmas break, but i guess that isn't going to happen now. :( well, i'll just have to watch what i have. man. that really sucks. i guess i'll have to make sure i catch the reruns in summer. =/ oh well, no use crying over spilled milk. can't do anything about it now.

thanksgiving was okay. it's always so awkward with my family. especially my cousins. but my mother didn't (totally) embarrass me, so it's okay. for some strange reason, she decided to have thanksgiving *lunch* instead of thanksgiving dinner, but whatever. that left the rest of the afternoon free for me to see deb! yay!!! very happy to see deb again. =D and i'm VERY happy to be going to san francisco tomorrow with all my girls!!! i feel funny saying that. oh well. yayayayayaaaay!!!

so, in the grand scheme of life, the missing buffy/roswell episodes are not the end of the world. i will NOT cry over them. no. from now on, i won't even think of them. much.

I'M GOING TO SAN FRANCISCO TOMORROW AND I'M GOING TO SEE ALL MY FRIENDS AGAIN!!!!!! :)

ooohhhhh....soooo fuuuulll...i just completely stuffed myself with food. mmm....goooood fooooood. must remember to eat slower next time though. geez. i'm on my old computer right now. don't really like it, but it'll do for now. oh man, i am so full. starting to go comatose. not good. actually have homework due tomorrow, believe it or not. i have to take two online linguistics quizzes. they're only going to be up till noon tomorrow. so yeah, should do them tonight. but don't want to. bleh.

so i woke up today at like 6 am. i had the WEIRDEST dream. it was so real. well, they usually are. i dreamt that i won $10,000 and that my plane ticket for today was free and that i also had a free plane ticket to costa rica. i was so excited. in my dream, sanaz came into the apartment after i just found out, and i ran to her and hugged her and screamed, "I'M GOING TO COSTA RICA!!!!!" you know, when i was on the plane from san diego to la, i thought about the hidden meaning behind my dream. see, when i was buying my plane ticket online to go to san jose, they would always ask me if i wanted to go to san jose, california or san jose, costa rica and i always thought that it would be really sad if i ended up in costa rica for thanksgiving, knowing me and my non-existent sense of direction. plus, i was feeling kind of anxious about getting home, so it made it a bit difficult to sleep. so...that's why i dreamed about winning a trip to costa rica. i think. i don't know. it's all very weird.

anyway, i get up at 6 and my entire body is like sore. i have no idea why. i haven't even been working out. who knows, maybe that's it. in any case, i drag myself to go brush my teeth and put on my contacts and all that other crap. i was so tired and out of it. then i just finished packing my toiletries and made my bed for like the first time since i've been here (there...since technically "here" is actually fremont). then i left around 7 to walk to peterson hall. oh, it was terrible. the walk to peterson hall from the matthews apartments involves this steep steep STEEP hill. i already have trouble walking up that hill on my way to vietnamese class every day and that's just with my shoulder bag. now i had my shoulder bag and this horribly heavy suitcase (i told you i overpack). i was already huffing and puffing and, believe it or not, sweating by the time i reached the hill. i was like, "uuuugh...ready...to...stop..." but i eventually made it up there to peterson. waited around for like 10 minutes for the shuttle to arrive. there were only like 5 of us on the shuttle so that was nice.

okay, so we finally get to the airport where i made a sort of big mistake. my flight has one connection in la. but when the guy at the check-in asked me where i was going, i said san jose. I SHOULD HAVE SAID LA, DAMMIT. as a result, the guy gives me a ticket directly to san jose and loads my suitcase onto that flight. i didn't realize my mistake until i was standing in line for the security check thing. i was looking at my boarding pass and thinking, "hey...my name's not han." the guy gave me a ticket for a "han vu." so i go back to the check-in and i tell the lady my stupid mistake and she gives me the correct ticket and tells me that my luggage is fine. it'll just end up arriving in san jose 2 hours before me. she said they'd take it and keep it at the baggage claim office for me and i said okay and took the shuttle to my gate. when i got to the gate, i called my mom and asked her when she was going to get to the san jose airport. she said she'd be there by noon, which is just really weird since my flight doesn't arrive till 200. but hey, i didn't argue with her. i just asked her if she could find my luggage and get it for me because i was just totallyi paranoid. i felt kind of bad that they (my mom went with my aunt, her boyfriend, and my grandfather) would be waiting for me for like 2 hours, but hey, it was my mom's choice. i didn't tell her to get there 2 hours early, she just wanted to for some strange reason.

anyway, so everything turned out fine. got onto the correct planes and everything. didn't get to sit next to chris though. but that was okay, because i ended up dozing off on both flights. i totally konked out on the flight from la to san jose. i fell asleep when we were still on the ground and when i woke up, we were already in the air. it was so weird. usually, i'm awake for take-offs. actually, i'm usually awake on the entire flight period. i was just really tired, i guess. so i got to san jose around like 230 because there had been a slight delay at lax. saw my mom (and chris's mom), said goodbye to chris, and left with my mom and everyone else. they already had my suitcase in their car so yeah, that was nice. apologized to them for making them wait 2 hours, but they said it was okay. so we drive back to my aunt's house where my mom's car is, me and my mom switch cars, and my mom drives me to the optometrist and lion's supermarket. guess who we saw at lion's supermarket? deb's mom!! it was so random. i hadn't seen her in so long. of course, i haven't seen deb in about the same amount of time either, but whatever.

man, it is COLD in norcal!! geez...it's so nice and sunny down in san diego, i guess i just took it for granted. the only thing i don't like about coming home is that my parents are rather stingy when it comes to using the heater. so they only turn it on when i have turned completely blue and am starting to suffer the beginning stages of frostbite and hypothermia. at the moment, i am swaddled in a blanket and have stuffed my toe-socks covered feet into a pair of scooby-doo slippers.

dammit. i don't want to do homework. it's thanksgiving! geez. oh well. uuugh...eyelids...are...drooooping... okay, time to go watch tv and THEN do homework. right.

i am HOOOOOME!!!! lalalalalala!!! more about the flight later, although it really wasn't all that exciting. right now, i'm going to reunite with my direct tv and have me some good vietnamese food. my mom bought a 23 pound turkey!!! good lord...that's like half the size of natasha. haha, just kidding. ;) okay, will blog more later, bye!!

ARGH!!! just got my group assignments for my vietnamese final. why why WHY am i always stuck with the bad group?! i don't understand. i just don't get it. i swear, i have incredibly bad luck. i am NEVER going to vegas. my luck just stinks. this is so not fair. i know i'm being mean, but i don't care, my group SUCKS. we're in groups of three and i'm stuck with these two guys. EVERY gorup has one guy and two girls, but no, i'm the one stuck with two guys. and worse than that, one of the guys is a FOB who speaks english with a vietnamese accent and is only in the class for an easy a, hence he will most likely make absolutely no effort on this project. the other guy just plain creeps me out. i don't know what it is about him. he's just creepy.

man. this just sucks. you know what else? this final project is supposed to be like some "creative presentation" and these two guys are like the LEAST creative people in the stupid class. this was totally not random. stupid STUPID ta. she did this on purpose. i know, i know, i'm being really mean, but i don't give a shit. this just bites. i would rather do something by myself than have to work with a fob and a creep. i especially do not want to work with the fob. the guy is just a big loser. man, i'm so mean. oh well. i'm entitled. it's my "pre-birthday."

ugh. great. this is just great. *bashes head on wall*

okay. finished packing. sort of. the only things left are like toiletries and my pajamas which i'll pack tomorrow.

ohmyGOD. i am living with weird people. but very nice, thoughtful ones. =D just got serenaded for my birthday. which, i should remind you, is a little over a month from now. so melissa calls me a little after 8 pm and asks me to come out onto the balcony. first of all, melissa is the world's worst liar. she said that she wanted me to go out to the balcony because there was a strange green light outside and she wanted me to check it out. right. the entire time she said that, she could not stop giggling. so i walked to the balcony door but stopped. the blinds were drawn, so my first thought was that someone was standing on the balcony ready to scare the bejeesus out of me once i drew the blinds. so i reluctantly pulled the blinds aside and the first thing i see is ben down beneath the balcony holding a video camera. i immediately noticed the red light. i screamed and jumped behind the blinds. okay, perhaps the scream was a bit...well, weird, but i was only wearing my pajamas! and i am having a bad hair day!! anyway, i was like, "no, i'm not going out" and tasha was like, "c'mon cherry, go out. C'MON." so i feebly replied, "okay" and walked out where i see not just ben, but sanaz, melissa, allyn, grace, helen, lil mike, and matt standing there. all of a sudden, i hear ewan mcgregor bust out, "MY GIFT IS MY SOOOONG...." oh, he wasn't actually there of course (ooh, that would've been nice), someone just pushed the play button on the cd player. but i hear sanaz and helen join in the singing. and so began my weird, random, very EARLY birthday serenade. it was pretty funny because at one point, this group of like 5 or 6 people passed by them while they were still singing. i saw them coming and i was like, "wait, i can't hear you guys!!" ;) the people walking by just gave sanaz and the rest of them funny looks.

anyway, after they finished the song, they told me to come down to get my cake. just at that moment, an at&t telemarketer calls. so i picked up the phone and walked downstairs just listening to the telemarketer. "blah blah blah blah gift certificate blah blah blah blah blah..." so when i get outside, i see that they attached 19 candles to a box of brownie mix. they started singing happy birthday to me and the telemarketer was STILL going on and on. why didn't i just hang up? i don't like doing that, it's rude! but i completely ignored her; when they finished singing happy birthday to me, i was like, "okay, thank you, bye bye!!" and hung up. i blew out the candles (oh shit, i forgot to make a wish) and then they presented me with an actual cake. this cute little chocolate cake. then we went back up to the apartment where they made me take a bite out of the cake..without any utensils. got chocolate all over my face. then everyone just hung out and talked for a while.

so this was all sanaz's idea. suddenly everything makes sense. they also gave me a card, and the funny thing is, i saw part of it on sanaz's desk the other night. i saw a printout of the words "happy birthday" but i thought that was just for her mae class or something. and last night, ben borrowed my video camera for his "acting project." and earlier tonight, sanaz left to go borrow a boombox from her friend for ben's "acting project." i really had no idea though. but i'm very flattered. :) still a bit strange. i mean, my birthday is like over a month from now!! this was so random. but cool nonetheless. thank you sanaz. and ben. and melissa. and helen. and grace. and allyn. and matt. and mike. ;D

mmm...i'm tired all of a sudden. time to blah around.

i am having a BAD hair day. ugh. well, at least class is over. get to pack now. i am going to pack my ass off! (phoebe, friends) still kind of worried about the fog and delays though. i swear, this weather is like a bipolar crackhead pms-img. it was so warm today. warm enough for me to wear a sleeveless shirt and flip flops (and jeans of course) and not be cold. it's actually been warming up during the days lately. very bright and clear. not a cloud in the sky. well, there were clouds today, but not the past few days. but then when night comes, the fog comes barreling in and covers everything. bye bye, visibility.

i want to go home so badly. this is crazy. my homesickness has been slowly building up in me and now i'm ready to explode. well, i already kind of did. poor dylan ims me to JUST say goodnight and i end up screaming at him that i'm going to be stuck in san diego for the rest of my life. (what did i tell you about me and exaggeration?) ohhhh, this is bad. maybe, I'M the bipolar crackhead pms-ing.

I AM HAVING A BAD HAIR DAY.

i'm never getting home. i'm going to be stuck here until i go stark raving mad. i can feel the onset of uncontrollable twitching and babbling.

*bangs head on wall*

oh noooooo...this is JUST my luck. i get all excited to go back home and massive fog rolls in. lindbergh field (the san diego airport) is shut down for tonight due to incredibly dense fog. and the fog is going to come back again tomorrow night. meaning horrible delays. no no no no nooo.... maybe i'm just overreacting. i hope i am. i don't think i am. this is just the sort of thing that would happen to me. i mean, it's not JUST happening to me, i know, i'm not trying to be selfish, but i've always had bad luck with everything. and i'm not exaggerating. i hate this. this isn't fair. goddamn it.

oh man. blah blah blah. i'm bored. supposed to be studying for italian quiz tomorrow. way too distracted by the fact that i'm going home in a little over 39 hours. so what'd i do today? besides the multiple insane blogs. i don't know what was wrong with me then. oh well. oh, i just discovered that reblogger's not working. i mean, i knew there were some glitches, but now it's like temporarily down till like christmas or something. and blogback's not accepting any new users. so no comments for now. :( i'm so stupid. it's been down for a long while now but i always thought that maybe my blogs were getting so mind-numbingly boring that not only did people stop commenting (all two or three of them) but people stopped reading them in general. well who knows, maybe that is the case. but i like to think it's just because reblogger's down so i don't feel like such a loser.

okay, back to what i did today. nothing much. just went to class. didn't go to kickboxing. melissa wanted to stay home to work on her hum paper, and well...it's funny, when one of us doesn't go, the other doesn't either. i dunno, i just wasn't motivated to go. i had to go to a linguistics tutorial later anyway and i didn't want to be all tired and fall asleep. vietnamese class totally confused me today. she taught us all the ways we're supposed to refer to our parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins. and i just realized that i've been totally calling my aunts and uncles the wrong names. like, i've been calling my mother's sisters by the name my *father's* sisters are supposed to be called. dude, why didn't my mother ever correct me?! actually, wait a minute, she's the one that taught me that. so...hmm...weird. i don't know, i just got all confused. will have to talk to her about that. i don't know what to call my aunts and uncles now. maybe i'll just call them, "hey you."

italian was kind of funny. you know how i've been complaining about how difficult it is to read these italian stories? yeah, well, i'm definitely not alone. we were supposed to discuss this new book that we're reading, but well, no one's read it. it's just too difficult. the teacher asked all of us if we had read it, and all she received were these blank, semi-dazed, where-are-we looks. so then she left to get an extra copy of the book because these two girls didn't have a copy. when she left the room, there was a brief silence, and then one of the girls in my class was like, "um...did anyone read the book?" and everyone was like, "no." and my italian partner, who never shows up for class, was like, "the last time i was here, we were reading the blue book." the book we are reading now is orange. i think the teacher is exasperated with us. but we tried to defend ourselves. another girl was like, "this book is too difficult. it's too hard to understand." and another girl was like, "yeah, it takes me like half an hour to read five pages" and the teacher was like, "that's good!!" and we all just gave each other these really weird looks like, *is she crazy?* but she said that that's actually a good reading pace. um...let me mention that these pages are SMALL. like, slightly smaller than the size of a paperback novel. and way shorter. so i don't know what she's smoking cuz if we go at half an hour per five pages, we'll finish this book by christmas. crazy lady.

oh, me and sanaz made a really horrific discovery today. i'm not exaggerating this time. i know, i know, i have a tendency to exaggerate, but i am so not exaggerating right now. it was nasty. completely disgusted me (and sanaz, as well, i'm sure). don't really wanna talk about it though. we did clear out the storage closet a bit. we had to otherwise i would never have been able to pull my suitcase out. i got so excited when i pulled out my suitcase. i'm such a dork. i was like running around the apartment and wheeling it behind me. okay, so i didn't really do that, but could you imagine how crazed i'd look?

man, i have such weird cravings. my dinner tonight consisted of a cinnamon bun and fries. i know i know, totally utterly completely unhealthy and just plain weird, but i figure, i'm going home real soon where i'll get loaded up on real food, so i may as well eat junk now. don't you love logic?

ugh. so don't want to study for italian. blah. so i do have homework over thanksgiving, but not too much. uuugh, the one thing i'm not looking forward to is waking up early to get to the airport. i'm gonna have to wake up at like 6 am or something. my shuttle leaves at 730 and it's going to take me forever to get to the pick up spot dragging this heavy suitcase behind me.

okay, i don't think there's anything else to blog about. i think i'll go play a game or something.

man, this bloggerbot thing is making it way too easy to blog. i'm starting to say some really stupid things.

hey. is it dorky to choose the color of my pen/pencil depending on the clothes i'm wearing? because i do that.

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

I'M SO EXCITED I JUST PULLED MY SUITCASE OUT OF THE CLOSET

hmm...i hope my mom can find me at the san jose airport. my dad said he can't go with her cuz he's working but that my aunt will go with my mom. but still. i would feel a lot better if my dad was with my mom.

it is now 400 pm. i will be on a plane in 43 hours. i will be home in 46 hours, provided there are no delays.

yay!!

DAYS TILL I GO HOME: TWO.

I WANT TO SEE KATE & LEOPOLD! just saw a short trailer for it. it opens december 21. hmm...i think i know what i want to do for my birthday now. dinner and a movie, maybe? ;) and, of course, the obligatory sleep over. =D aaahh!! i can't wait! I WANT TO SEE KATE & LEOPOLD!!!!

okay, so here's a short premise of the film. hugh jackman (mmmm....) plays this duke from 1876 who gets transported to 2001 because of meg ryan's ex. she has to guide him around new york until they can figure out how to return him. i know, i know, sounds silly, but i'm not good at explaining plots. and please. it's hugh jackman, the love of my life (at this moment. sorry heath, sorry jimmy). when i read this quote from him in entertainment weekly, i just couldn't help but go, "awww...." and get all weak in the knees.

"it just felt like being in this movie, or hopefully seeing this movie, you might actually think about the way you live your life," says jackman. "you might just buy a bunch of flowers for your partner, and not just the cheapest bunch. manners aren't just about formalities, they're about honoring the people you are with."

crap. i just woke up. okay, i actually "just" woke up several times, but i actually "just" got up at like 130. oh well. i was out late last night! meteor shower, of course. :) so me, melissa, ben, and sanaz left a little after 1130 to go to la jolla shores (the beach) to watch. but we like totally forgot towels and blankets and stuff like that. so when we got there, we tried to walk as far away as we could from the lights and just kind of stood there looking up. it got kind of annoying after a while because we didn't really see anything since it was pretty cloudy. there was like a small patch of sky that was clear, but i mean, we were just standing there. so after about half an hour, we decided to go get some blankets and firewood and lighter fluid and matches and set ben's car on fire. haha, just kidding. we decided to start a bonfire. so we left and went to sav-on where we got some fire wood and me and melissa got loaded up on candy. then we went back to the apartments to pick up some blankets and towels and more clothes cuz it was pretty chilly. oh, and did i mention how UNBELIEVABLE the fog has been lately? the fog usually rolls in after 9 pm and it is incredibly dense. there was literally no visibility. we could see like two feet in front of us. driving was a bit scary. it was strange though because the fog was just unbelievably dense in some parts of campus and off-campus but really clear in other parts. there was no fog at the beach thank goodness. just clouds. but when we drove back to the beach after picking up all our supplies, most of the clouds had left. so it was a lot clearer. yay! so we lay out our towels and blankets, started up the bonfire although it took a little while. i lit like six matches but every time i got near to throw the match into the pit, the match would blow out. so finally ben had to light it. and he got it on the first match. i'm just stupid, i guess. but this time it was a lot funner because we got to the beach around 130, just before peak time. so we lay down next to the bonfire and got under the blankets and enjoyed the shower.

i have to admit, it wasn't as great as the one in summer, but i think that's because there were too many clouds and lights. however, i still had a great time because of where we were at. i mean, we had a nice warm bonfire going, we could hear the waves crashing in, and we could even hear seals barking! it was kind of random, but i thought that was pretty cool. melissa was like, "hey, what are they doing up this late?" and i was like, "they're watching the meteor shower!" yeah yeah, we're dorks, whatever. it got really cold after a while. even though we were huddled underneath the blankets, our faces were like frozen. so after the peak was over, and after it started getting cloudy again, me and melissa got up and stood next to the bonfire to warm ourselves. i love bonfires!! it was so nice and toasty. one problem though: standing next to a bonfire makes you very VERY stinky. we left soon after, and when we got home, i took my hair out of the ponytail and got a huge whiff (wiff?) of my hair scent and it smelled GROSS. i was too tired and it was too late to take a shower though, so i just pulled my hair back and went to sleep. well, i talked to sanaz for about an hour, and then i went to bed.

i still haven't showered. or done my laundry. or done my chores. or done my homework. i'm just sitting here like a bum. well, i'm blogging too. mmm...i'm hungry. ooh!! dexter's laboratory all day today!!