ohhhh...my head. it had a run in with melissa's trunk door. we were on our driveway and i was taking out our shopping bags from the trunk but i guess i hadn't pushed the trunk door up high enough or it was loose or something cuz when i stuck my head down a little to pull out the bags, the trunk door came slamming down. straight onto my head. made me a bit dizzy for a few seconds, but i think it just shocked me more than anything.

so me and melissa went to go see tuck everlasting and sweet home alabama today!! both for free! back to back!! yes, we spent three and a half hours sitting in a theater. got in to tuck everlasting for free since melissa's worked at edward's theater before and was able to get us in for free. then we snuck into sweet home alabama straight afterwards. ;D okay, i'll admit that sweet home alabama was better than tuck everlasting, but i still really liked tuck everlasting. both movies were very very cute. i think i just really liked tuck everlasting because of the scenery and the costumes and the really pretty shots. but i'm a period piece kind of girl, so...yeah. :) sweet home alabama was definitely a very good movie though. funny thing is, this is the first time i've seen a movie in a theater since like, march which, ironically, was also with melissa.

so after the movies, we went to go eat at islands. mmmm...my stomach was very satisfied. *happy sigh* then after islands, we went to old navy and, well, bought some clothes. i bought a new red sweater, a pink long sleeved shirt, and a gray shirt. both of us got the exact same gray shirt. though i saw it first!! *growls* just kidding. i'll obviously look better in it though. ;D just kidding again. then after old navy, we hopped on over to barnes & noble where i bought a book called "the sweet potato queens' book of love." :) and then we went home where melissa's trunk door assaulted me. all in all though, it was a very good day. very good, indeed. :)

ohmygoodness...our dishwasher exploded.

see, we had been using our dishwasher as a dish rack to dry our dishes. the problem with that was that when the dishes just sat there and dried, the water would drip down to the bottom of the dishwasher. eventually, there was like, a gross brown puddle of water at the bottom of the dishwasher that was stuck there because it wasn't being drained. so we decided to run a cycle to flush the gross water out.

now here's where we ran into the, uh, problem. helen came home early this morning and decided to go ahead and run the cycle. unfortunately, we were the only ones home and, even more unfortunately, neither of us had used a dishwasher before. so, um, we made the mistake of putting dishwasher liquid in the dishwasher. but see, the dishwasher liquid we put in wasn't intended for the dishwasher. it's the kind you use to hand wash dishes, it's not like, the detergent that's only meant for the dishwasher. so, i went to go take a shower and when i came out, there was soap and water all over the kitchen floor. oops. hehe. ;D

as of this moment, i hold complete power over helen chee.

not only am i in her email account thus having access to all her old private emails (there's some juicy stuff in here!) as well as her friends' emails (who the heck is "sexxxybigdick69@nakedpolishmen.com"??), but i also have, not one, but TWO of her credit card numbers. AND i know her mother's maiden name and the last four numbers of her social security! *evil mr. burns* eeeexcellent...

of course, i won't do anything. i'd never do something evil or malicious or greedy or psychotic or selfish or mean. no siree bob. although wouldn't it be funny if i changed her email password ("kotex"), then emailed all her friends and told them that i, helen, was considering dropping out of college to pursue my lifelong dream of fusing exotic dancing and clog dancing (exclogic dancing!), and then maxed out both her credit cards buying five hundred posters of christina aguilera on ebay, ten thousand shares of martha stewart's stock, and one of every type of sex toy there is online (to be sent to her parent's home in calexico, of course)?

yeah...that'd be funny. ;D but i wouldn't do that. =|

so when i was changing this morning, i discovered that, along with my remote control, my pajamas had turned red as well. okay, well, it didn't turn red. it just had like, random splotches of red on the tank and the pants. i was too tired to care, but when i got back just now, i ran to complain to sanaz. and detective sanaz solved the mystery of the random red splotches by figuring out that it had come from my red candle. i had been playing with it yesterday and some of the red coloring came off on my hands which then touched my remote control and my pajamas. that was really quite smart - sanaz's figuring out the problem, not my forgetting to wash my hands after touching the red candle.

hey, guess what. i may actually get to be a part of a real demonstration with picket signs and everything! went to the general info meeting for the fmla today. learned about title IX. i knew about it vaguely before, but got clarified on it today. it deals with a bunch of stuff, but the main part of it - the part that most people fix on - is the part about equal funding for women's sports. it just basically says that women's sports must have equal funding, equal to men's, that is (obviously). title IX has been in effect for the past thirty years and with great success (women's participation in college sports has increased by 300 something percent; in high school, it's increased by 800%), but now our brilliant president and his equally intelligent administration (the sarcasm has to be oozing off your computer screen) would like to amend, maybe even repeal, title IX. so they're holding all of these hearings everywhere, the reports of which will go to congress where both the house and senate will go over it, make their decisions, come together jointly, make a joint decision, and this decision will be their official recommendation to the president who will then make his decision. anyway, one of the hearings is scheduled to be in san diego in late november. fortunately, we know the date even though these sneaky conservatives have actually been hiding the date and location of these hearings until like two days before which totally hampers any attempts to mobilize an opposition at the hearing.

in any case, i think it'll be quite exciting. some honest-to-goodness grassroots activism. what i've been reading about in manifesta but haven't actually been a part of. maybe i'll stop shaving and burn my bra too! just kidding. i need my bra. and, okay, so i'm not really an athlete myself (don't even mention that disastrous year in track), but at least i have the chance to be one if i want to. and, more importantly, i want my daughter to have that same chance as well.

okay, well, enough serious talk. i was reading US magazine in the bookstore during my break and did you know that britney spears and nick carter are going out?! and justin timberlake and alyssa milano are going out! i thought alyssa milano was going out with one of the actors on charmed though. and, ARGH, i found out the other day on entertainment tonight or one of those shows that heath ledger is going out with naomi watts who, like heather graham, is way older than him! like, eleven years older!! i do not lie. oh well. i kind of like her more than heather graham anyway. but, dude, heath has a total thing for older women. when he was doing the tv show "roar" (where i first discovered him, btw. yes, i discovered him!!), he went out with one of the actresses on the show who was also way older than him. but then again, both main actresses on the show were older than him, but the one he was going with was like, much older. anyway. i'm never going to have a chance with him. and, okay, i really shouldn't complain about this. because, actually, it's a very feminist thing. if it's okay for women to date older men then why shouldn't it be okay for men to date older women? so, you see, my real problem isn't with the fact that heath has a thing for older women. my real problem is that heath doesn't have a thing for ME. psh. whatever. i'm totally over heath anyway. it's all about jimmy now. i think he's more my type anyway. you know, the goofy white boy type.

okay, i'm really hungry and i have to go pee now. yeah, i know it's a contradiction, but i don't know, my body's weird.

my remote control turned red!! it was originally white. i have absolutely no idea how it happened.

okay. i just dropped my shirt down the toilet.

and, of course, sanaz witnessed it. she seems to witness every idiotic act of mine. like the time we were at ralph's and i reached into the freezer to pull out a box of sausages and ten fell on me. anyway. this shirt dropping was all her fault since i was reaching up to get something for her. oh, i should clarify - i wasn't wearing the shirt when it dropped down the toilet. anyway, going to the store with her now to pick up some medicine. let's hope i don't do something else stupid like flip over a shopping cart and get trapped underneath it.

ARGH!! ANTS!! and in the worst place possible - MY BED. okay, so admittedly, it wasn't like an army of ants, it was more like a random splattering of ants everywhere. but still. EEW. on. my. BED. now i'm freaked out to sleep there, like melissa was last week. well, she wasn't freaked out to sleep on MY bed, but her own. i bet the ants came from HER room!! my room's right next to hers! but i want to sleep on my bed!! as comfortable as the futon is outside, i want to sleep ON MY BED. okay okay, so i'm sort of overreacting. it's only 440 pm and i won't be sleeping for like, another eight hours, but still!! and do you know what an inconvenience it was to like, peel off all the sheets and the comforter and the pillow cases and dump them into the washer and then move the entire bed to like spray and powder on and around it?!? AND IT'S HOT.

ugh. i need another popsicle.

my new addiction: popsicles. mmm...yum.

i should be reading right now. but cognitive psychology is just so boring. i can't stand it. the textbook is making me sleepy. it's weird. i think this is the first quarter where all of my classes just involve reading. i don't have any classes where i have to do any homework. so...it's a bit weird. the only thing i have to do is read. read, read, read. but cognitive psychology is just so BORING.

anyway. hmm. maybe i'll have another popsicle. god, my teeth must hate me.

me: helen and i are going to be cowgirls!
melissa: for christmas?

[later, on the subject of virginity...]

melissa: i'm not [a virgin]. [pause] no, wait wait, i am i am!!