so much work....uuuugh....

tuesday:
- italian paper due.
- vietnamese test.

thursday:
- stat midterm.

friday:
- italian presentation.

shit. that's all i have to say. shit.

ohmygod....i just took a four hour nap. i'm definitely pms-ing. i was craving kfc earlier today. so i dreamt about kfc. i dreamt that i had it delivered and everything. i opened the bag and sniffed the wonderful aroma of kfc. then i woke up and thought, "ooh, i have kfc!!" but alas, it was only a dream. :( i want kfc.

THEY GOT IT!! JAMIE AND DAVID GOT THE SECOND GOLD MEDAL!!!

justice has been done.

watching them on cnn in a press conference right now. they actually seem sort of reluctant about the whole thing; "shy" in jamie's words. it's understandable though. i mean, there's this whole huuuuge controversy that has pretty much taken over the olympics. i'm sure that's the last thing they wanted to do - be in the center of a controversy. but they're taking everything in stride and with wonderful grace. i'm happy for them. :) they're good people. seriously, if i was in their position, i'd be a brat and jump up and down and wave my gold medal around like a maniac while laughing hysterically. but, that's just me. ;D

awww....i'm such a horrible friend. horrible i tell you, horrible! *slaps herself* got some valentine's cards today. it TOTALLY did not occur to me to mail out valentine's day cards. oops. :( i'm sorry! but i love you all so very much.

and deb, i agree -- vibrators are better than boys. ;D ahahahahahaha...i actually started giggling out loud when i read that. just thought you oughta know. :)

aww...melissa found a dexter winamp skin for me! thanks melissa!!

this is the fifth time i've blogged today. the third time in one hour. i can't stop blogging!!

ahahahahahahahaha...funny response after my declaration of love:

lilith chick: and i love YOU. ;D
Auto response from chenni jen: but i don't like gravy!

wow...did you know that saudi arabia officially banned valentine's day? just saw the headline on cnn. that's just...strange. i wouldn't even think saudi arabia HAD valentine's day in the first place. oh well.

in other news: jen and di love me! and i love them. :) and i love all of you! *makes a sweeping gesture with her hand* you, you, you, you, and you. oh...no, definitely not you. or you either. but everyone else, i love. ;D

okay okay, so i know this is probably going to make all of you puke (if you haven't already from all those love quotes below), but i can't help but get all warm and fuzzy inside when i see all of these guys (young and old) walking around campus with bouquets of flowers in their hands. it's just so sweet. yeah yeah, i know it'd be more thoughtful if they just randomly gave their girls flowers and not just on valentine's day but still...it's just plain cute. the flower stand on campus has like doubled in size. ahh...commercialization and love. ;D

happy valentine's day! despite my sometimes-bitterness at -- well -- life, i've compiled a short list of love quotes because, well, i'm just bipolar like that. most of you have probably read these before, but whatever. read 'em again! oh, and an asterisk (*) signifies my favorites of my favorites.

* "I've learned that you cannot make someone love you.
All you can do is stalk them and hope they panic and give in." -- Unknown *

"Love makes me write what shame forbids me speak." -- Robert Herrick

"A lot of people wonder how you know if you're really in love. Just ask yourself this one question: 'Would I mind being destroyed financially by this person?'" -- Ronnie Shakes

* "But above all, above respect and esteem, there was a motive within her of goodwill which could not be overlooked. It was gratitude. Gratitude not merely for having once loved her, but for loving her still well enough to forgive all the petulance and acrimony of her manner in rejecting him, and all the unjust accusations accompanying her rejection." -- Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice *

"Whether they yield or refuse, it delights women to have been asked." -- Ovid, Ars Amatoria

"'All you need is love'? Yeah? Try payin' the fuckin' rent with it." -- Keith Richards

"Before I met my husband I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times." -- Rita Rudner

"Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house." -- Jean Kerr

* "Ah, Celeste, my pretty jewel, I love you as a pig loves the mud!" -- Creole Proverb *

"Love is the gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everyone else." -- George Bernard Shaw

"The surest way to hit a woman's heart is to take aim kneeling." -- Douglas Jerrold

"I am ze locksmith of love, no?" -- Pepe Le Peau

"Love: A temporary insanity curable either by marriage or by removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder...It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the physician than the patient." -- Ambrose Bierce

"To be in love is merely to be in a state of perpetual anesthesia -- to mistake an ordinary young man for a Greek god or an ordinary young woman for a goddess." -- H.L. Mencken

"I fell head over heels in love -- and skinned my knees." -- Unknown

"I wasn't kissing her, I was whispering in her mouth." -- Chico Marx

"A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous." -- Ingrid Bergman

"Once in awhile, right in the middle of an ordinary life, love gives us a fairy tale." -- Unknown

la la la...happy valentine's day everyone. if you are a single gal, like myself, i hope you and your girlfriends go out and tear up the town. or at least bake some mean brownies and devour them all night (like me). or, you could just, you know, do a little dance, get a little drunk, basically just get down tonight. GET DOWN TONIGHT!!!!

okay...i'm going crazy. CRAZY I TELL YOU CRAZY CRAZY CRAAAAAZY. *takes a deep breath* it's all right everyone, i'm okay. *twitches* nothing wrong with *twitches* me at all *twitches*.

ahhh...the power of cheese.

you know what i think is funny? when people who avoid me like the plague (and who i avoid as well) frequently copy whatever i do. from away messages to baking. it's just funny. funny, but pathetically so.

oh, and um...i did something naughty tonight. naughty, and DIRTY. ;) shhh....

someone buy the isu president, ottavio cinquanta, a thesaurus. this guy is an idiot.

"The ISU has demonstrated in the past that it can be very very tough," he said. "When we find something wrong, we have shown that we can be very tough. If we find something wrong, you can be sure that we will be very tough."

um....okay.

hahahahahaha. cherry and i are such figure skating nerds. it's funny. (=
posted by *ding* at 11:11 PM

yeah yeah yeah... ;D

okay, i'm sorry, but i'm going to talk about figure skating some more.

was just watching the olympics just now and they took a little break to interview scott hamilton, then jamie and david about last night's controversy. afterwards, bob costas reported that the french judge (one of the five judges who scored the russian pair better than the canadian pair) told a reporter or the isu or someone that she was "forced" to make a deal where she would give the russians a better score in the pairs in exchange for a better score for the french in ice dancing. what REALLY SUCKS about this whole thing is that last night's judging, while certainly not the first time something like this has happened (unfortunately), is just dragging the entire sport down. while it's true that the judging in ice dancing is questioned the most out of all the disciplines, it just really sucks this time because anissina & peizerat (the french ice dancing pair) are really REALLY good - my favorite pair actually - and they themselves were totally jipped at the '99 world championships. i mean, my god, ice dancing hasn't even started yet and already they're being questioned. it seriously just sucks because they're such a good pair. EVERYTHING in figure skating is just being dragged through the mud which sucks so much because i really love watching this sport.

ohmygod...now there are accusations that there was fixing in speed skating with apolo anton ohno. THE ISU IS SO FUCKED UP. well, okay, these accusations aren't quite as strong and they seem more unfounded. still though. this is just...i can't help but remember that oath that this one official (representing all of the judges and officials of the games) took during the opening ceremonies to judge/officiate all events fairly and impartially. right.

you know what? this is totally cutting into my homework time. i told myself that i would try to get ahead with work tonight, but obviously, that isn't happening. and i hate relative pronouns in italian. they just make no sense. but i'm off to work on that. must stop thinking about olympics.

this is such a cute picture!!

this is such a WRONG picture. those medals are the wrong color. WRONG, I TELL YOU, WRONG!!

happy chinese/vietnamese/lots-of-other-asian-nationalities/lunar new year! chuc mung nam moi! gung hay fat choy! (i think i misspelled that.) felice anno nuovo!! yeah okay, so i don't think italians celebrate the lunar new year, but it's just another way of saying happy new year in a language other than english. :)

i miss vietnamese food. QUALITY vietnamese food. and i miss my parents. :( surprisingly, i don't miss my direct tv quite so much. am i becoming less materialistic? *pause* naaahh...i still want the red envelopes! unfortunately, i won't be able to get them till like spring break since my parents don't want to mail cash down. so it's like getting your christmas gifts like more than a month later. oh well.

it's the year of the horse. and i'm a dog. and my mom is a snake and my dad is a dragon and a lot of my cousins are monkeys and pigs and roosters.

okay, off to do some work now, bye.

i want to go hug jamie. :( and david too because he's cute. :) but mostly, i just want to go hug jamie.

oh my FREAKING god. canadians were ROBBED tonight. ROBBED i tell you!!!!! AAGHOASDF'JLAKJE';LKAJSDF;LKAJSERO;IJA!!!!!!!!!!! that's just fucked up dude. i CURSE the five judges that put them in second. I CURSE YOU!!!!!!! i hope they all get SEVERE INDIGESTION tonight.

shit, man. SHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIT!!!!!!!!!!!

aww...okay, i don't think bob costas is a bit of a jerk anymore. :) just wanted to say that. okay, back to figure skating, bye.

well...i've made a decision. i'm not going to take vietnamese next quarter. it's just causing me way too much grief. it's not even that the class is very difficult; it's just frustrating. i am seriously the worst student in the class and i am NOT exaggerating. i just cannot speak the language at all. and it's too hard to learn when EVERYONE else in the class already knows. i'm really not learning very much in the class. i mean, it's so obvious to me that the class is so unstructured since i can easily compare my vietnamese class with my italian class. although i suppose it's because italian's been around longer than vietnamese so there's already a set structure while vietnamese was just created a few years ago. but still. the class is just not very good. i definitely feel like i don't belong in that class. which is disappointing because i thought this would help me out, but it hasn't much.

the only thing that makes me not want to stop taking vietnamese is my parents. sanaz pointed out that they didn't expect me to take the class anyway, but still. i don't want to disappoint them. maybe i can teach myself from the book during the summer? that's sort of a long shot. summer tends to turn me into a vegetable. =| well...the only good thing about this is that i can take one of my core upper div psych classes now. if i was going to sign up for vietnamese again, both classes would have conflicted. but this way, i can start taking my upper div psych classes sooner. and besides, vietnamese was an empty credit class anyway. the irony in this whole thing is that vietnamese was supposed to be my "fun" class. hah. irony sucks. (mr. play-it-safe was afraid to fly. he packed his suitcase and kissed his kids goodbye. he waited his whole damn life to take that flight and, as the plane crashed down, he thought, "well isn't this nice?" and isn't it ironic? don't you think?)

well, in other news: i have the honor of being the very first person to call melissa a bitch. ;D amazingly enough, NO ONE has ever called melissa a bitch before; not even jokingly. i called her a bitch for the very first time tonight while i was hanging out at her place. i just find that unbelievable. not that melissa is the type to get called that very much because she's not. it's just...weird. anyway, i called her a bitch a few more times today. ;D

all right, figure skating's on now. bye!!

went to my last experiment today. it was weird. i was in the room with two other girls because they wanted to do the experiment with all of us at once. and we had to answer a few preliminary questions like, "what year are you? where are you from? where do you live? blah blah blah..." and this one other girl was like EXACTLY like me. she's a 2nd year from fremont who lives on campus and doesn't have a job and is majoring in psychology. oh, and she's asian too. and then we had to rate certain types of music and certain types of artists according to how much we liked them and both me and the girl gave a lot of the exact same ratings. it was all very twilight zone-ish. i don't think they did this on purpose either because all we did was write our name down when we signed up for the experiment.

anyway, that was weird.

my god. can i just rave about the weather once again? I LOVE THE WEATHER. well, i love it right now. it's a PERFECT day (weather-wise). it's warm and sunny and....warm and sunny. it was even warm and sunny in the early morning. beeeeaaaaauuuuutiful.

if you remember, i used to complain about the weather here a lot last year. apparently, last year was just like a freak-weather year and THIS year is what the weather is usually like around here. ahhhh...gorgeous weather. THIS is why i chose to go to ucsd. sad, huh? i base my entire college career on the weather. oh well.

all right, i'm off to my last experiment. bye.

i need to talk to someone about figure skating!! where's debra?!?

well anyway, since deb isn't online, i'll just go ahead and blog anyway since i know she's gonna read this at some point. if you're not debra and you could care less about figure skating, i would just stop reading right now if i were you.

okay, still here? anyway, was just watching bob costas (who, i think, is a bit of a jerk) interview the three american ladies figure skaters (michelle kwan, sarah hughes, and sasha cohen). what a little brat sasha cohen is. i never realized it before. while i'm always rooting for michelle, i think sasha's skating is really good. before, i would always think, well if michelle couldn't win, i would want sasha to win more than sarah (her skating is just...not graceful. don't really like her style too much), but now...uh-uh. bob asked sasha if she was trying to send michelle an intentional message by nearly-crashing into her during their six minute warm-ups before their performances. and they actually showed a picture of sasha and michelle like *THIS CLOSE* to each other on the ice which is just really dangerous. sasha's answer: something along the lines of "i'm just really focused on myself" as well as various other bullshit. while that's not a bad answer, it's just the way she said that line (repeatedly) that made me think "brat." oy... now...well, now, if michelle can't win gold, i would want irina slutskaya (one of the russian women) to win. you know what actually? i wish angela nikodinov had made it onto the american team. i would really be rooting for her. she used to be a very so-so skater, but now she's just awesome. by the way...i just realized...sasha never actually said, "no" in her answer; she just spewed a bunch of bullshit all over the place. bah!! figure skating is such a...catty sport (anyone remember katarina witt and debi thomas? no? well then you must remember tonya harding and nancy kerrigan). which makes me respect michelle kwan so much more. she has grace and dignity and she's GENUINE. she's the real deal, people.

*takes a deep breath* okay, well, i just had to get that out. deb, if you're reading, i wish i could be talking to you right now!! OH WAIT!! YOU'RE ONLINE! HAHHAHAHA... okay, well... hi then. ;D

went to the cliffs today. was actually WAY more trouble than it should have been. some people really need to think of the bigger picture and get their communication problems straight. but...in the end, it was okay. i'm still disappointed, but i need to take my own advice and not lose sight of the bigger picture.

the weather was absolutely beautiful, perfect. skies were clear, air was warm, could see the ocean for miles. just sat on top of the cliffs and talked for a bit. it was nice. somewhat strange (not the good strange either), but nice. it was so peaceful which is, now that i think about it...a little strange.

you know what? seriously, this year is so much more fucked up than last year was despite what happened last year. it's so sad. i suppose it's partly my fault and it's just so sad.

sorry for the cryptic blog. i hate it when people write like that. although, i guess i've been doing that lately (see above mini-ramblings), so i'm just contradicting myself. oh well. argh. i'm such a loser.

all right, i need to go do my italian homework now before this blog gets any more depressing and before i pass out.

oh, GREAT episode of alias tonight. but then again, every episode of alias is like AMAZING. like a mini-movie, but better!! so...i guess that was the good thing today. god, how pathetic is that? the highlight of my day is a tv show. oh well.

okay okay, homework, bye.