so the day actually got a lot better after that horrible early morning insomnia.

went out to test at teddy bear treehouse preschool. wound up only testing one kid because the others were either absent or too old. so got to go home early.

later in the afternoon, i went to go pick up sanaz from campus and drove her to the airport. helen came with me so that i wouldn't get lost. when we got to the airport, helen started getting all misty-eyed watching all the people hugging their friends/relatives/significant others hello/goodbye. she said it reminded her of love actually. haha... silly girl. (yeah, okay, so i thought it was cute too).

on the way home, helen and i had the coolest conversation. i didn't even mind that we were stuck in traffic. just gave us an opportunity to talk even more. and if that wasn't enough, when we got home, we plopped down on the futon and kept talking. then we fell asleep lying next to one other. hey, no kinky thoughts now, the futon was opened up. but we did share the same pillow. ;D the funny thing is, we fell asleep on my bed together yesterday too.

yes, okay, fine, i admit it - helen and i are now sleeping together. but we're just trying to take it kind of slow, you know?

so yeah, that was my potential bad day turned good. the end.

i can't sleep. argh.

i don't know what it is. i don't know whether it's because i'm sick or what, but i just. can't. sleep. i went to bed around 1130 pm but tossed and turned for a bit and then fell asleep. when i woke up again, i thought it had been a full night and i was just waking up a few minutes before my alarm was about to go off (like i sometimes do) so i just lay there and waited for the alarm to go off. many minutes later, i finally looked at my clock and realized that it was only 339 am. what the hell's going on. so i just lay in bed hoping to fall back asleep, but as you can see with this blog, i have had no such luck. it is now 441 am.

i don't know if this is good news or bad news, but i have to get up early today anyway since i'm going testing at teddy bear treehouse preschool in rancho penasquitos. i just didn't want to get up THIS early. ugh. i'm totally going to crash and burn later today.

so now what the hell am i supposed to do for like, the rest of this time? i have no idea. obviously, there is no one online for me to talk to. c'mon, people. why are you all sleeping at 4 in the morning? lame. wake up and amuse me!!

uuuuugh. why am i sick? :(

dammit. i am sick. it's a cold.

well, i've been sick since tuesday. i've just been in denial about it up until yesterday afternoon. i've got a sore throat, a runny nose, and i'm going deaf. my ears just aren't working properly. they feel stuffed up and everything sounds muted. this non-drowsy sudafed is totally making me drowsy. the cough drops taste like CRAP. and i don't really want to take the theraflu. uuuuuugh.

i don't know how i got sick either. i usually don't get sick. and it hasn't been that cold. so i'm guessing i must have caught it from someone. but i have no idea who since none of my roommates are sick. it's probably from someone in class. stupid class.

ohmygoodness. i am in love. with a three year old boy named julian.

so i woke up early today to go testing at westminster preschool. thought i was lost for a little bit and had a mini-freak out even though i was following the directions perfectly. i do that a lot, second guess myself. oh well.

we tested two boys today. i was the second experimenter for the first boy so i only assisted. but i was the first experimenter for julian. so adorable!! his eyes just crinkled up every time he smiled and he had the cutest smile. he's gonna be a heartbreaker when he grows up, i just know it.

he was so into the experiments too even though they were pretty damn boring. when i asked him to point to the picture of the cactus, he pointed to it and then said "ow!!" as if he had pricked his fingers on one of the thorns. and then when i asked him to point to the picture of the castle, he asked me if castles were real and then told me that he'd like to live in one. awwwwww!! and he's so smart!! on this experiment, the one where i ask him to point to pictures of various things (and the list of words gets progressively more difficult), he went on for like, forever. poor kid got bored, but in the "i'm-too-smart-for-this-game-let's-play-something-else" way. total smarty. and on another experiment, i was showing him made up objects and he asked me how this one part had been attached to the object and i said, "it's magic!" and he said in a knowing voice, "ohhh, i see." and then when i showed him another object with a part attached, he said, "look, they put it on with magic!!" ahhhhhh!! i love him.

too bad we're randomizing experimenters this quarter. i won't be able to test him again. :( so sad.

i can hear it raining outside and i'm listening to norah jones. this is nice.

so i totally forgot to blog about saturday night.

started the night with helen, melissa, and grace by going downtown to red circle cafe for happy hour. six margaritas for four girls. pleeenty of happiness. red circle was a really cute spot too. great atmosphere, really nice servers. wouldn't mind going there again for drinks. and i'm 21!! it still amazes me. it's like the driver's license thing. i'd be driving along on the street when, randomly, i'd think, "i can't believe i have my license!!" amazing.

anyway. we all left red circle pretty damn buzzed. kind of wandered around downtown looking for something to eat because we were all starving. wound up at sammy's woodfired pizza. split a bunch of food. all of it was good. of course, i was so buzzed, i didn't care.

then we left and walked back towards red circle since the club, e street alley, was right next to it. i liked it. it was full, but not packed. pretty comfortable. had a few more drinks there. wheeee.... danced for a bit until sanaz, ben, mike, and jeremy met up with us. then danced some more. i had a lot of fun dancing. when was the last time i danced? i don't remember. so it's definitely been a while. (no, my birthday does not count. that wasn't dancing. that was like... rhythmic spazzing). helen and grace complained about the severe lack of cute guys at the club though. i must agree. it's too bad.

anyway, it was an awesome night. but it's sad that the first cute guy we saw all night was the security guard at the parking garage. i mean, really. but it was definitely fun drinking and dancing with my girls downtown. must do it again some time. of course, i say that now, and we never do. but still. it really would be nice to do it again.