AAAAAGGGHHHH!!! HUGH JACKMAN is going to be on snl next saturday!! aaaaaagggghhhh!!! *hyperventilates* mmmm....huuuugh jaaaaackman...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

mmm...just ate an entire cinnabon all by myself. in one sitting! i usually never finish one, not because they're too big, but because they're too rich. but i think it just *seems* more rich when the cinnabon is still warm, which is when i usually eat it, but today i ate one cold, and so it didn't seem as indulgent and i was able to finish one. mmm...tastes so geeeeewd...

speaking of taste, guess what i learned in italian today? i learned to say "tastes like chicken!" ;)

oh nooooo....went to utc with mel today after class. spent so much money...but but...couldn't give anything up. had to buy it all. just HAD to. =D got three sweaters and three sleeveless turtlenecks. it's funny...i always thought turtlenecks would look funny on me, but they don't. and i don't even know why i always thought they looked funny on me. i just did, it's weird. but now i have three of them. :) urrrrr...why did i spend so much money? oh screw it! who cares, finals are coming up, i'm just indulging myself. yes. i've got new clothes, yay!!!

in other news: i came up with an idea for what melissa should get jeremiah (her boyfriend) for christmas. it's a pretty good idea too, if i do say so myself. ;) and i helped her get dressed for her date tonight. kinda. sorta. okay, not really. i just gave her a scarf and some gloves and my purse. but still. i'm so excited for her! i don't know why. i think because i really like my idea for her gift. it's perfect for them! la la la la la....

okay, going to cut all the tags off my new clothes, symbolically declaring them MINE!!! =D oh god...it so doesn't feel like finals week. and that's not exactly the best feeling. oh screw it, it's only friday. my first *real* final isn't till wednesday. okay okay, stop blogging now, cherry. stop. now.

LAST DAY OF CLASS!! AND IT'S OVER!!! wahoo. =D

by this time next week, i will be DONE with finals and merrily overpacking. *sigh* that thought makes me very happy even though finals week hasn't even started yet. must not get ahead of myself, here. i bought a huge bottle of mountain dew tonight. getting ready for finals week. mountain dew to me is like red bull to grace. sort of. ;) *yawn* i'm tired.

crap. seems to be storming all over california. geez. very windy and wet and cold here. have to admit, i *kinda* like it. of course, i would much rather have sun and heat but i like bundling up with my coat and scarf and gloves. gotta go out again tonight - linguistics final review from 530 to 630 and physics final review from 8 to 10. ergh...good thing i don't have any homework tonight or anything. and no vietnamese class tomorrow! so i get to wake up an hour later. :)

bought sum 41 tickets for me and sanaz today. while i was waiting in line at the box office, i saw a poster taped on their window for a FREE SNEAK PREVIEW of kate & leopold!! unfortunately, it's on december 12 which is the week after finals are over so i won't be here. :( i think that's really stupid though. why would you have a free sneak preview over winter break when like 95% of campus is empty?! grrr...oh well. hopefully will get to see it when it opens.

hey, guess what everyone? TODAY IS MELISSA'S BIRTHDAY!!! ;D happy birthday, mel!! will try to stop over at your place, but not sure since yeah, my day was pretty busy and it's still not over. :-/

okay, should get ready to go to linguistics final review. bye.

ohhhh...i'm so sorry!! i'm sorry!!! i didn't mean it!!! :( *hugs tv* i still love you. it's okay, it's okay...*pats tv* you're still my best friend.

oh man. i am so not studying right now. DAMN CURSED TV!!! *hurls tv remote on other side of bed*

blah blah blah. bored bored bored. should be studying for vietnamese test. but whatever. did nothing today. went to class and that was that. italian teacher made me stand up in class because i was falling asleep. actually, it was mostly because she was explaining the difference between the verb "alzare" (to rise, to stand up) and "alzarsi" (to get up [like, in the morning]) and just at that moment i was beginning to nod off, so all of a sudden she yells, "cherry! alzati!!" and i was like, "uuummm....okaaaay..." and stood up. class laughed. i sat back down. sounds embarrassing, but it wasn't really. i didn't really care. it was just kinda funny.

it is getting COLD down here. good god... ooh, just opened the window to say hi to helen and grace. it's so cold!!! geezus... thank god for the nice and toasty apartment. we don't pay for heating which means all heater, all the time. ;) i'm actually not minding the cold too much since it's also super sunny. so it's a pretty cold. like, the weather is pretty and it's cold. it's not an ugly cold where there's nothing but gray clouds. instead, there's nothing but blue skies. ;) oohhhh, lovely, lovely!!

man, i wish there was something interesting i could say in this blog, but there's not. nope. nothing. my life is getting duller and duller by the hour.

OH GOD. actually...do you know what the guys in my vietnamese group want to do for our final presentation? they want to hit on me. you should know...these are not very attractive guys. in fact, yes, they are not attractive at all. yes, i know i'm a mean bitch, i don't care. they want to do a skit where all they do is hit on me, set a date up with me, then fight over me. MY idea is this: they hit on me, i set up dates with them, then i stand them up and they realize they are gay and go on a date with one another. i don't think they'll like that idea though. oh well.

I'M SO MEAN. :( you know, one of my new year's resolutions last year (this year?) was to be less mean. i mean, i wasn't actually so mean to the point where i actually voiced my meanness. i didn't exactly go around telling people they were ugly and stupid to their face. well...not much, anyway. i just had a lot of mean THOUGHTS. and i managed to stop thinking such mean thoughts for a while, but i guess they're coming back. which means it's going to be one of my new year's resolutions again.

oh MAN...i'm going to be so humiliated in the presentation. *hangs head in shame* help.

you know, i just realized something. the root of a lot of my problems this quarter has been vietnamese class. i realized that of all the things i've complained about in this blog, vietnamese class has been at the very top of the list. so why why WHY am i doing this to myself? is it simply masochism? or am i just plain stupid? who knows... vietnamese is "for my own good." bah! ;[

okay, i'm going to take a break now. i'm just going to sit here and stare.

guess what guess what?!?! sum 41 is coming to ucsd in january!!! i am so totally going. not going to the incubus concert tomorrow though. :( didn't buy tickets for them. although, it's a good thing i'm not going because i have a vietnamese test on thursday... :-/ ah well. totally going to sum 41 though!!

in other news: i had a revelation today.

time to go pee now!! (oh, that wasn't the revelation. i really do have to pee.)

i have come to a decision: i am getting a job next quarter. looking at some job listings online right now and also thinking about sanaz and allyn's job at the child care center. want money, want money, want money...

i also know exactly what i want for christmas/my birthday: $5,880. that's how much it's going to cost for me to go to siena (italy) for the summer. figures that the siena summer program would be the most expensive out of all the other countries. i would so totally go if money wasn't such a big issue. so no need to ask me what i want for christmas or my birthday this year. just get together with everyone and try to raise $5,880 for me. or find me a job that pays $5,880 an hour. no prostitution or stripping, please (although one would have to be an EXTREMELY talented prostitute or stripper to raise $5,880 in one hour).

please send cherry to italy. please please please...

ohmygod. translating this italian chapter is turning out to be really hard. of course, these italian stories are getting progressively more difficult, but still. i'm having a lot of trouble with this. the assignment is to translate a chapter of the italian story we're reading, but so far, my translation is making absolutely no sense. there's this crazy old asmathic man that is simply referred to as "the old asmathic." characters just randomly come and go throughout the story without any rhyme or reason. of course, my translation is most likely just you know, wrong. uuuugh...why can't everyone just speak english?

i am happy to report that i (and my luggage) made it back to san diego perfectly and in one piece. made my connection at lax just fine, picked up my luggage in san diego like i was supposed to, and caught the shuttle back to ucsd JUST in time. thought i was going to have to wait for the 100 pm shuttle, but the 1130 shuttle was early and waited for a little bit. :) so basically, i had a perfect flight. no delays and went off without a hitch. pretty good, considering that practically everyone was going home today after thanksgiving break. fell asleep on both planes, though i fell asleep longer on the flight to la. got back to my apartment around 1230. sanaz was already here and allyn was over visiting. you KNOW you've overpacked when you can't carry your own suitcase and you have to have other people help you. the shuttle driver had to help me get the suitcase onto the shuttle and this other guy had to help me get the suitcase off the shuttle. i was dropped off at the warren shuttle stop so i had to wheel my suitcase all the way back to the matthews apartments where allyn and sanaz carried the suitcase up the stairs into the apartment. i know, i know, i'm stupid, thanksgiving break was only three days long, but you see, i'm a just-in-case kind of girl. i bring tons of clothes home, just. in. case. anyway, got back, called my parents to tell them i was okay, unpacked, took a shower, ate a sandwich, watched some tv, and now i'm working on my italian homework. have to translate a chapter of the book we're reading. it's going very very slowly and i'm getting very very sleepy. remember, i woke up at 5 am. uuugh.. okay, time to stop blogging and go back to homework.

soooo sleeeeepy....