i have had a really good day today. :)

spent the day shopping with helen and melissa. everything i bought is either pink or has a substantial amount of pink on it. i don't know what's wrong with me. but i'm really happy with my purchases.

came home and looked up my grade for my 168 midterm. i got an A! i was surprised since that was the midterm i was least prepared for (although, ironically, i did better on it than my 153 midterm which i also got an A on. it's crazy, i haven't seen this many A's since freshman year of college).

had an awesome chat with debra about all things girly. she made me intensely jealous of her new ring. i miss that girl.

but it's okay because i will see her soon. i've purchased a plane ticket for february 19 in order to spend the weekend at home. was originally thinking about going home the weekend before (president's day weekend) but i have midterms the week after that. so i decided to go home the weekend after since my fridays and mondays are class-free anyway. i'll just have to make sure they don't schedule me for testing at the preschools on those days.

so yeah. didn't go into too much detail because i'm tired and want to go to bed. but i just wanted to blog about my really good day. don't want to forget days like these. new (pink) clothes, an unexpected A, amazing conversations, and a trip home. i love my life. (although, i must admit, it is a little sickening how happy i am.)

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, SANAZ!

finally. the last one of us to turn 21. haha! i'm not the last one!! let me just take this time to say that sanaz is awesome. life would just be so dull without her. she's my partner in crime. and when i say crime, i mean drinking. because all the stupid, crazy things i do when i'm drunk are partly her fault. the dancing and the flashing and the lesbian behavior. clearly her fault. she just brings out the best in my drunken self.

so here's to you on your 21st, sanaz. may you act as stupid as i did when we get you smashed this weekend. hurrah!!

ohmygod. okay....NOW i'm starting to freak out. i keep reading this one quote by william james over and over again and i cannot, for the life of me, figure out what the hell he's saying. what does it meeeaaan?!? and i still haven't studied for 168 yet. crap.

i feel a howard dean scream coming on.

we videotaped ourselves running through some more experiments today. what is it about being filmed that just makes you want to burst out laughing for no reason? because that's what we did. we just couldn't stop. well, the guy running the experiment started screwing things up and we were all trying really hard not to laugh, but little giggles kept escaping and no one could look at anyone and the whole experiment just degenerated into us laughing so hard our faces turned red and we started crying. we tried to keep going because the lab managers told us that even if we screw up, we should keep going but there was no way to salvage that experiment. towards the end, he was trying to continue but you know how sometimes you're laughing so hard that the words coming out of your mouth just make no sense whatsoever? yeah, that's what happened to him. anyway, we finally decided to stop the tape and just start over again. too bad we had to tape over that whole thing.

anyway, that was my fun for the day. time to study now. stupid classes. the only thing that comforts me is knowing that everyone else around me is suffering through midterm season too.

i want to go shooooooooooopping. wah.

hey, is it insane that i had this overwhelming urge to applaud (while alone in my room, i might add) when jennifer garner's name came up when they were announcing the nominees for best actress in a drama for the golden globes? i started to clap, but stopped myself. i mean, i'm not entirely crazy. stupid frances conroy.

so here comes another cheap attempt at procrastination.

as usual, i should so be studying right now but i just don't want to. i've got two midterms on tuesday, back to back. and strangely enough, i am not freaking out. i'm just feeling horribly unmotivated. such a bad student...

and i've been feeling the shopping crave hitting me lately. of course, it could just be a byproduct of my feelings of extreme procrastination but i wouldn't mind having some new pretty things either. i still have a $50 gift certificate to macy's and (i desperately hope) a bit of money left from my birthday/christmas. must spend!

ooh, helen got some old pictures developed. she has a bunch from melissa's 21st birthday back in november. hahahahaha... there's a great picture of all the guys (ben, mike, matt, and jon) wearing their ninja turtle masks and taking a shot. and there are some more wonderful pictures of crazy drunk me. what is wrong with me? why is it my natural instinct to pose with my eyes tightly shut and my mouth in some insane smile when i'm drunk?? and there are some great group shots too where we all just look so... happy. ;)

let's see... what else to blog about.... the research project i'm working on is really picking up. we've been training for the past week. yesterday, they videotaped us running a few of the experiments. as expected, i got all nervous and flustered and screwed up. but really, it's just hard pretending that the twenty something lab manager sitting across from you is a little three-year-old kid. "okay, can you point to the picture of the ball? GOOD JOB!!"

i don't want to study. my methods of procrastination for today have included this blog, watching "french kiss" on tv ("SPASM!! SPASM!!"), girl talking with the roommies in sanaz's room, reading old blog entries (geez, why did no one ever tell me how mean and bitter i was?), and trying to take a picture of the tattoo on my lower back with my digital camera but failing miserably and getting a bunch of shots of my ass. i must have tried at least ten times before finally giving up. i've also totally spaced out while reading my book. it's impossible to count how many times my mind has just totally drifted.

man, i really wanna go shopping now. guess i'll just have to settle for studying instead. crap.