Just kidding. I think I'm too tired for a recap. But I had a lot of fun this break - I was pretty busy every day which is all I want when I come back home. Oh no! I don't know what will happen after this spring break. As in, I don't know when the next time I come home will be. I will be working when school ends - which by the way, I REALLY NEED TO FIND A PLACE TO LIVE BY MAY 23rd, 10am. AHHH
I heart my friends! :) I hope I never lose touch with them. Because I won't have the summer to spend time with them. Don't forget about me!
People always do crosswords and sudoku to offset Alzheimer's but really, I felt like I was stretching my brain beyond its capacity by just trying to remember what I did every day for spring break. SOOOO HARD. I didn't bring my day planner back, and I didn't note what I did with who every day, so I tried to think of it today, and I could only go two days back. Which is really sad. Especially because sometimes I didn't take pictures and I was like AGH THERE IS A MISSING GAP IN MY LIFE!
Sunday, March 30, 2008
Thursday, March 27, 2008
Kanye West
AH NO! I'm starting to like Kanye West. NOOO I used to think his music was super annoying. I hate the way he sometimes draws out the word and it's NOT MUSIC. But then Will's ringtone is Flashing Lights and that "flashing flashing lights lights lights" part is so annoying that it becomes catchy. AND SO FUN TO SING WITH PEOPLE. Damn
And in all of spring break I've only gone running TWICE. AGH. I don't understand why gyms can't have lower daily rates. The one here charges $15/day I think, and the RSF charges $10/day. NO ONE PAYS THAT MUCH TO GO TO THE GYM FOR AN HOUR. I would totally do it for $5 a day. And for $5/day, it would still be $150/month, which is still ridiculously more than their monthly charges. SO OBVIOUSLY IT'S STILL A WIN WIN TO CHARGE $5 -_______-
Ok, end of spring break is like, the mark for a school year. AH! I really have to solidify my housing for the summer, figure out what classes I want to take, finish up club stuff, and GET MY GRADES UP AH. I have a solid B in UGBA which is my most important class; probably a B or A- in IEOR, and I want an A DAMNIT; P for physics, P for edu196, and I'm not sure what for Film Studies. I hope it'll be an A though!
OH NO I've somehow deleted my labels for "class." This label thing is really stupid. I don't use them and I don't think people who read this do either. LAME AGH.
And in all of spring break I've only gone running TWICE. AGH. I don't understand why gyms can't have lower daily rates. The one here charges $15/day I think, and the RSF charges $10/day. NO ONE PAYS THAT MUCH TO GO TO THE GYM FOR AN HOUR. I would totally do it for $5 a day. And for $5/day, it would still be $150/month, which is still ridiculously more than their monthly charges. SO OBVIOUSLY IT'S STILL A WIN WIN TO CHARGE $5 -_______-
Ok, end of spring break is like, the mark for a school year. AH! I really have to solidify my housing for the summer, figure out what classes I want to take, finish up club stuff, and GET MY GRADES UP AH. I have a solid B in UGBA which is my most important class; probably a B or A- in IEOR, and I want an A DAMNIT; P for physics, P for edu196, and I'm not sure what for Film Studies. I hope it'll be an A though!
OH NO I've somehow deleted my labels for "class." This label thing is really stupid. I don't use them and I don't think people who read this do either. LAME AGH.
Friday, March 21, 2008
What about the next two years
So I guess most people know I got into Haas. Which, YAY!!! But a few days ago I got an e-mail that made me go "WHAT THE FUCK?!?!" It said "Telebears for Fall 2008" and I was like what? ... and I clicked the e-mail already knowing what it would be, and I realized that I have to choose my Fall 2008 classes on April 28th.
Wow. I really have no idea what classes I want to take. Trying to get into Haas, you basically have all your classes chosen for two years. You have a little variety in the breadth courses, but a lot of people take similar ones. But the older you get in college, the more specific your classes become and ... I don't really know what I want. If I had double majored in statistics, this would be so much easier but now I'm completely on my own.
(Warning: lots of math that is unnecessary to understand) So my fall schedule is actually very easy to decide - I'm forced to take 3 classes and I'm going to look for one international studies breadth course for my fourth class, and I'm at about 13 units. My spring semester, I can take the last two business requirements and I'm done with all the required classes for Haas. Then I just have to reach 120 units and I'm completely done with all my requirements to get a degree. After I do all the core classes, I will only need 8 more units that are upper div business courses, and then only 10 more for upper div non-business courses. That would give me 5 more units than the required 120 to graduate so I know for sure I don't have to worry about finding enough courses to do that. But...
Needing only 18 more units can be taken care of with like ... maybe 4-6 classes. At the minimum, I would be able to finish all of this by the end of my junior year. At the maximum, I would be able to finish this by my senior year 1st semester, and that's if I take like ... two classes in the fall semester. So knowing that, and knowing that I have no double major ...
WHAT DO I DO FOR SPRING SEMESTER?
Actually, looking at the elective courses that Haas offers, there's a ton of things I can take, but it's if I don't mind having an entire semester full of business-y things. But I'm already kind of tired of school. I just want to graduate and start working. But, I don't think I would want to start working spring semester senior year, because I'm certain that I'll just look back and think "wow I should have just stayed in college longer." Talking randomly with Caroline, she showed me the surfboard she's planning on buying and it just reminded me of how one of my fun life goals is to learn how to surf. And learning how to surf is like ... on a ticking clock, I swear. At some point, you're too old to learn how to surf, because your body isn't that young or you have a constant job or you have a family (probably not my case) or you just don't have the time to keep up with a hobby. I feel like if I'm to invest in a $600 surfboard, I would want to be at the beach EVERY DAY.
So Caroline was like "I want to go to Peru and surf there" and I was like WHOA that sounds SOOO COOL. I would totally want to go to Peru (ok maybe not exactly Peru but somewhere with a nice surfing area) and just do nothing but surf. So for a day, I was like "YES THIS is what I want to do spring semester!" But then I realized ... a semester is a LONG ass time. For some reason I was thinking it's like a month. But it's like ... four months. So realizing that, I was like ummm nm.
Writing this entry was actually very helpful for me. At the beginning I was like "OMG I have so many choices I don't know what to do!" But after rationalizing, I already know what I'm going to do. I'm just going to take classes and not graduate early because there are tons of classes that I could take and probably have to take to be an auditor/accountant. There's Intermediate Financial Accounting, and Advanced Financial Accounting! Then Federal Income Tax Accounting, then Auditing, and THEN Special Topics in Accounting! I'm not even really being 100% sarcastic - a lot of these classes look very interesting. Plus I really like Berkeley and would enjoy staying for four years, I think. But when will I learn to surf? Summer of senior year? Hmm. I guess if I do get a good job, I'll feel financially stable enough to blow everything I have for the summer before the beginning of the rest of my life.
I'm very tired right now. I haven't even gone running! It's 9:30. Is that a dangerous time to run? My large stomach says "no, you can run anytime you want"
Wow. I really have no idea what classes I want to take. Trying to get into Haas, you basically have all your classes chosen for two years. You have a little variety in the breadth courses, but a lot of people take similar ones. But the older you get in college, the more specific your classes become and ... I don't really know what I want. If I had double majored in statistics, this would be so much easier but now I'm completely on my own.
(Warning: lots of math that is unnecessary to understand) So my fall schedule is actually very easy to decide - I'm forced to take 3 classes and I'm going to look for one international studies breadth course for my fourth class, and I'm at about 13 units. My spring semester, I can take the last two business requirements and I'm done with all the required classes for Haas. Then I just have to reach 120 units and I'm completely done with all my requirements to get a degree. After I do all the core classes, I will only need 8 more units that are upper div business courses, and then only 10 more for upper div non-business courses. That would give me 5 more units than the required 120 to graduate so I know for sure I don't have to worry about finding enough courses to do that. But...
Needing only 18 more units can be taken care of with like ... maybe 4-6 classes. At the minimum, I would be able to finish all of this by the end of my junior year. At the maximum, I would be able to finish this by my senior year 1st semester, and that's if I take like ... two classes in the fall semester. So knowing that, and knowing that I have no double major ...
WHAT DO I DO FOR SPRING SEMESTER?
Actually, looking at the elective courses that Haas offers, there's a ton of things I can take, but it's if I don't mind having an entire semester full of business-y things. But I'm already kind of tired of school. I just want to graduate and start working. But, I don't think I would want to start working spring semester senior year, because I'm certain that I'll just look back and think "wow I should have just stayed in college longer." Talking randomly with Caroline, she showed me the surfboard she's planning on buying and it just reminded me of how one of my fun life goals is to learn how to surf. And learning how to surf is like ... on a ticking clock, I swear. At some point, you're too old to learn how to surf, because your body isn't that young or you have a constant job or you have a family (probably not my case) or you just don't have the time to keep up with a hobby. I feel like if I'm to invest in a $600 surfboard, I would want to be at the beach EVERY DAY.
So Caroline was like "I want to go to Peru and surf there" and I was like WHOA that sounds SOOO COOL. I would totally want to go to Peru (ok maybe not exactly Peru but somewhere with a nice surfing area) and just do nothing but surf. So for a day, I was like "YES THIS is what I want to do spring semester!" But then I realized ... a semester is a LONG ass time. For some reason I was thinking it's like a month. But it's like ... four months. So realizing that, I was like ummm nm.
Writing this entry was actually very helpful for me. At the beginning I was like "OMG I have so many choices I don't know what to do!" But after rationalizing, I already know what I'm going to do. I'm just going to take classes and not graduate early because there are tons of classes that I could take and probably have to take to be an auditor/accountant. There's Intermediate Financial Accounting, and Advanced Financial Accounting! Then Federal Income Tax Accounting, then Auditing, and THEN Special Topics in Accounting! I'm not even really being 100% sarcastic - a lot of these classes look very interesting. Plus I really like Berkeley and would enjoy staying for four years, I think. But when will I learn to surf? Summer of senior year? Hmm. I guess if I do get a good job, I'll feel financially stable enough to blow everything I have for the summer before the beginning of the rest of my life.
I'm very tired right now. I haven't even gone running! It's 9:30. Is that a dangerous time to run? My large stomach says "no, you can run anytime you want"
Tuesday, March 18, 2008
REGRET
After those last two happy entries, I'm back to my typical entries!
OMFGGGG I JUST ATE A COOKIE AND I FEEL SO SICK. Seriously, just because it says "vegan peanut butter cookie" it does NOT MEAN IT'S HEALTHY. I feel so bad too. I was about to get Pocky but at the very last second I grabbed a cookie. Right when he rang it up, I knew I really did not want it. I should have thrown it in the trash. AGH why didn't I throw it in the trash! I have to not be afraid of wasting food, if I can't keep myself from getting it in the first place. AGH BOO RAWR
So now I feel really sick. My stomach is really huge. IT'S SPRING BREAK. HOW CAN I EAT OUT if I'm not thin first! AGH. How can I wear slutty clothes in the hot, hot heat if I am all fat! WHY DIDN'T I SWIM TODAY. WHY DO I ALWAYS SUGGEST TO GET FOOD WITH MY FRIENDS.
I hate life.
OMFGGGG I JUST ATE A COOKIE AND I FEEL SO SICK. Seriously, just because it says "vegan peanut butter cookie" it does NOT MEAN IT'S HEALTHY. I feel so bad too. I was about to get Pocky but at the very last second I grabbed a cookie. Right when he rang it up, I knew I really did not want it. I should have thrown it in the trash. AGH why didn't I throw it in the trash! I have to not be afraid of wasting food, if I can't keep myself from getting it in the first place. AGH BOO RAWR
So now I feel really sick. My stomach is really huge. IT'S SPRING BREAK. HOW CAN I EAT OUT if I'm not thin first! AGH. How can I wear slutty clothes in the hot, hot heat if I am all fat! WHY DIDN'T I SWIM TODAY. WHY DO I ALWAYS SUGGEST TO GET FOOD WITH MY FRIENDS.
I hate life.
Sunday, March 16, 2008
Socal Trip
Omg this weekend was unbelievably awesome. I had an all-expenses paid trip down to socal, where I stayed in the Wiltern, ate free food, ate free but EXPENSIVE food, talked to a ton of people, and just generally had fun. So... get prepared for a very xanga-like entry
Friday: I ended up talking to my floormates for way too long on Thursday, so I totally forgot to do my laundry. I had to dig out a pair of underwear that I don't like, because I had nothing left. So Friday, I had planned to at least go to one of my three classes, but I ended up ditching them all, and just doing my laundry. Caroline came over and gave me A SHIRT THAT SHE BOUGHT! AWWW so cute. :) It is grey and says Cal with Haas School of Business underneath. She is awesome. (I KNOW YOU'RE READING THIS. Actually, I don't.)
So we had shuttles pick us up and take us to the airport. I wish I had eaten before I left, because then I wouldn't have had to spend my $64 on airport food. But I did get a delicious sandwich from the CPK there, and I was really tempted to get Fenton's ice cream but we had to get on the plane. I think the joy of going on airplanes is dying down because now I just sleep on them. Or maybe I'm getting older and more tired.
Very little plans for Friday - we just checked in and ate at Kyoto, the hotel restaurant. I only bought $30 of sushi and afterwards we went to a restaurant across the street, Engine Co 28. The hostess was a bitch - we came in pretty close to closing and we just wanted desserts, but I think because we were young, she didn't really want to seat us. Our server was nice though. I got a tres leches cake and it was pretty good. After that I was insanely full...
So I went back to the hotel and Naomi and I turned on the tv but we both instantly fell into food coma and just fell asleep with the TV on. I woke up close to midnight, got up to shower, and just went to bed. She was completely knocked out HAHA. But around 3am I woke up and I felt really awake. It also started getting really warm under the blankets and I ended up sleeping horizontally. Naomi said she saw my feet sticking out of the bed at night and was really confused HAHA. I never really fell back asleep, around 4 I just listened to my iPod and at 5 I couldn't take it anymore and I got up to gym. SO YES, 24-hr gyms you are awesome. They had pretty good equipment too. I ran 2 miles and then went on the elliptical for about 20 minutes and went back to the room. I guess now this qualifies as Saturday
Saturday:
It was about 6:30 when I got back to the room. I just lied on the bed sheets in my gym clothes and napped. At 7, I woke up, took a shower, then went back to bed in regular clothes. 8:00, I went down to start interviews which were AWESOME. I really like talking to strangers when you know that they are listening to what you're saying. HAHA I like talking to parents more because they have more interesting questions and students don't have very good eye contact. Parents are also so much more appreciative of the info you give. Questions I was asked EVERY TIME: what about class sizes? how safe is Berkeley? what is there to do? should I bring a car? what is housing like?
Interviews ended at FIVE. I actually missed my lunch because I was just so into talking to people. Drank cups of water and my throat hurt a lot. I went to the hotel restaurant and they said they were closed but the lady was really nice and said I could still eat at the cold buffet which was AWESOME. I was the only one in the restaurant and I got everything I wanted. There was a bowl of mixed fruit and I just stole all the watermelon because no one is going to eat more anyway. It was perfect because I got to eat salad and fruit for my lunch which is wonderfully healthy and just made me really happy.
After interviews, there was a wine and cheese session between us and the faculty who came to interview. No wine for me though, and I didn't eat too much cheese because we were going to ROY'S.
OMFG. ROY'S is SO. delicious. It's definitely one of those restaurants they picture in brochures about LA. One of those places the girls of The Hills would go to and MTV would film in. We were told to wait in the bar and we were asked to order drinks (I PASS FOR 21!) but we didn't. I would totally want to bring friends there if 1) people enjoyed spending $60 for a meal and 2) we were older. The hostesses at nice restaurants are seriously bitches. Like the other one, she was kind of rude, I assume because we were young. She made us wait and when we went back, she led us to a back room where most of the tables were empty. UH, THANKS. But once again, our server was really nice so it's redeemed, slightly.
I got: omg.
1) Miso Salmon and Tofu Salad: the salmon was the best salmon I've ever had. The tofu was PERFECT. Insanely soft inside but incredibly well seasoned outside with a nice harder shell. Omg ...
2) Hawaiian Ono and Crab Dynamite with a Chive Butter sauce: I have to say I usually don't like seafood and I really don't like "butter sauce" but even though I was getting full ... OMG SO GOOD. I ate it all and I enjoyed every bite. It's good to try once, but there are so many better things that I would choose something else next time. IF THERE IS a next time
3) Hot chocolate souffle: I don't know why but I always order some chocolate dessert when I don't actually like chocolate. But this ... was insane. Chocolate POURS out when you pierce it with the spoon. Vanilla bean ice cream, and this raspberry sauce that was the PERFECT amount of sugar and I just wanted to lick the plate clean.
4) Appetizer of ... and this is where my computer crashed. I tried to draw up a pdf of the dinner menu but my firefox died. It had the words Hawaiian and Ahi. It was ... the best fish I've ever had. Ok, it was kind of on par with Ichima rolls but it's a different thing. SOOO good. I am definitely ordering it again (next time). Everyone I ate with said mine was good and I LOVE when people like the food I order! Also, people complimented my heels which YAY! No one ever compliments me on things like that.
So that was Roy's. I found out they have locations in SF and LA JOLLA! Awesome. When I'm rich ... I will treat my friends. And myself. HEHEHE. I think by the time I'm "rich," I can order from the bar too. So I can PUKE OUT ALL MY FOOD.
This is getting boring to write because I went to shower and everything. Oh well...
Sunday:
More interviews, woke up at 7:30 for interviews at 8. :( No gym today at all. Interviews were a lot more fun today, I think but I wish I had talked to more people. I actually ate lunch at the right time, and talked to a professor and he was AAAWWWWWsome. He's mathematics, and he went to Oxford for undergrad and the school is sooo different from anything in America. He said he did really poorly because he was more interested in "living life." But he had met three American Rhode Scholars and one of them invited him to come to America and go to graduate school and "start over." He advised him to go to a second-tier school, so he went to Standford. HAHAHA It's pretty cool when people talk about the little things that made a big impact on their life.
Left for the airport at 3:30 and got to our gate an hour before departure. It sucks because we couldn't spend $64 after we arrive in Berkeley, which they used to do. I was all planning to buy $64 worth of Sushi House too! But after Roy's, Sushi House has dropped a level. HAHA I just bought airport food - baked ziti with meatballs, a $6 bottle of naked juice, pistachio ice cream (I remembered after I was half done that I have a no-ice cream rule, oh well) and like 5 candy bars for my floormates. HEHEHE "souveneirs." I wish I could have bought something more personalized, but it was mainly bought for Caroline in mind. HAHA
Slept in plane. Shuttle back to Berkeley was ... very interesting ... Kind of thought we wouldn't get back to Berkeley. But we did! AND AWWW I HEART MY FLOORMATES. Caroline said she MISSED MEEEE. HEHEHEHE
I didn't do very much work. Tomorrow ... I shall. AND GYM. OMG ONE WEEK TO GET BIKINI SEASON READY. I don't even OWN a bikini. TEARS. Also my skin sucks because it totally breaks out and dries out when I go on planes or drive home. BOO BOO
I hope I get to do more of these fly to places, eat for free things when I'm an auditor! I spoke to a parent who is GOOD FRIENDS WITH ALICE WALKER. I was like "ARE YOU KIDDING I wrote my Haas essay about her!" Wow. She was like "oh do you know her?" and I was thinking "ARE YOU KIDDING. Am I friends with JK ROWLING?" And then I spoke to another woman who worked at Ernst and Young and after her daughter left for her interview she was like "do you have any questions for me" and I said "I ... don't know ... I didn't really think I'd be asking parents anything." She said most people don't stay at Big4 firms for long because there are better things to do. She also said the people who leave are usually either really good or fairly bad, so the people who stay and become partners or whatever are usually middle-level capable. I think I qualify as middle level. HAHA So hmm ... now I don't know what my long-term goals are. I guess you really wouldn't know. I mean ... I still have to actually GET A JOB at a Big4 before I plan out what to do after. Anyway ... a lot of parents are so cool. Even the crazy Asian ones that remind me of my mom.
SPRING BREAK AHHHHH
Friday: I ended up talking to my floormates for way too long on Thursday, so I totally forgot to do my laundry. I had to dig out a pair of underwear that I don't like, because I had nothing left. So Friday, I had planned to at least go to one of my three classes, but I ended up ditching them all, and just doing my laundry. Caroline came over and gave me A SHIRT THAT SHE BOUGHT! AWWW so cute. :) It is grey and says Cal with Haas School of Business underneath. She is awesome. (I KNOW YOU'RE READING THIS. Actually, I don't.)
So we had shuttles pick us up and take us to the airport. I wish I had eaten before I left, because then I wouldn't have had to spend my $64 on airport food. But I did get a delicious sandwich from the CPK there, and I was really tempted to get Fenton's ice cream but we had to get on the plane. I think the joy of going on airplanes is dying down because now I just sleep on them. Or maybe I'm getting older and more tired.
Very little plans for Friday - we just checked in and ate at Kyoto, the hotel restaurant. I only bought $30 of sushi and afterwards we went to a restaurant across the street, Engine Co 28. The hostess was a bitch - we came in pretty close to closing and we just wanted desserts, but I think because we were young, she didn't really want to seat us. Our server was nice though. I got a tres leches cake and it was pretty good. After that I was insanely full...
So I went back to the hotel and Naomi and I turned on the tv but we both instantly fell into food coma and just fell asleep with the TV on. I woke up close to midnight, got up to shower, and just went to bed. She was completely knocked out HAHA. But around 3am I woke up and I felt really awake. It also started getting really warm under the blankets and I ended up sleeping horizontally. Naomi said she saw my feet sticking out of the bed at night and was really confused HAHA. I never really fell back asleep, around 4 I just listened to my iPod and at 5 I couldn't take it anymore and I got up to gym. SO YES, 24-hr gyms you are awesome. They had pretty good equipment too. I ran 2 miles and then went on the elliptical for about 20 minutes and went back to the room. I guess now this qualifies as Saturday
Saturday:
It was about 6:30 when I got back to the room. I just lied on the bed sheets in my gym clothes and napped. At 7, I woke up, took a shower, then went back to bed in regular clothes. 8:00, I went down to start interviews which were AWESOME. I really like talking to strangers when you know that they are listening to what you're saying. HAHA I like talking to parents more because they have more interesting questions and students don't have very good eye contact. Parents are also so much more appreciative of the info you give. Questions I was asked EVERY TIME: what about class sizes? how safe is Berkeley? what is there to do? should I bring a car? what is housing like?
Interviews ended at FIVE. I actually missed my lunch because I was just so into talking to people. Drank cups of water and my throat hurt a lot. I went to the hotel restaurant and they said they were closed but the lady was really nice and said I could still eat at the cold buffet which was AWESOME. I was the only one in the restaurant and I got everything I wanted. There was a bowl of mixed fruit and I just stole all the watermelon because no one is going to eat more anyway. It was perfect because I got to eat salad and fruit for my lunch which is wonderfully healthy and just made me really happy.
After interviews, there was a wine and cheese session between us and the faculty who came to interview. No wine for me though, and I didn't eat too much cheese because we were going to ROY'S.
OMFG. ROY'S is SO. delicious. It's definitely one of those restaurants they picture in brochures about LA. One of those places the girls of The Hills would go to and MTV would film in. We were told to wait in the bar and we were asked to order drinks (I PASS FOR 21!) but we didn't. I would totally want to bring friends there if 1) people enjoyed spending $60 for a meal and 2) we were older. The hostesses at nice restaurants are seriously bitches. Like the other one, she was kind of rude, I assume because we were young. She made us wait and when we went back, she led us to a back room where most of the tables were empty. UH, THANKS. But once again, our server was really nice so it's redeemed, slightly.
I got: omg.
1) Miso Salmon and Tofu Salad: the salmon was the best salmon I've ever had. The tofu was PERFECT. Insanely soft inside but incredibly well seasoned outside with a nice harder shell. Omg ...
2) Hawaiian Ono and Crab Dynamite with a Chive Butter sauce: I have to say I usually don't like seafood and I really don't like "butter sauce" but even though I was getting full ... OMG SO GOOD. I ate it all and I enjoyed every bite. It's good to try once, but there are so many better things that I would choose something else next time. IF THERE IS a next time
3) Hot chocolate souffle: I don't know why but I always order some chocolate dessert when I don't actually like chocolate. But this ... was insane. Chocolate POURS out when you pierce it with the spoon. Vanilla bean ice cream, and this raspberry sauce that was the PERFECT amount of sugar and I just wanted to lick the plate clean.
4) Appetizer of ... and this is where my computer crashed. I tried to draw up a pdf of the dinner menu but my firefox died. It had the words Hawaiian and Ahi. It was ... the best fish I've ever had. Ok, it was kind of on par with Ichima rolls but it's a different thing. SOOO good. I am definitely ordering it again (next time). Everyone I ate with said mine was good and I LOVE when people like the food I order! Also, people complimented my heels which YAY! No one ever compliments me on things like that.
So that was Roy's. I found out they have locations in SF and LA JOLLA! Awesome. When I'm rich ... I will treat my friends. And myself. HEHEHE. I think by the time I'm "rich," I can order from the bar too. So I can PUKE OUT ALL MY FOOD.
This is getting boring to write because I went to shower and everything. Oh well...
Sunday:
More interviews, woke up at 7:30 for interviews at 8. :( No gym today at all. Interviews were a lot more fun today, I think but I wish I had talked to more people. I actually ate lunch at the right time, and talked to a professor and he was AAAWWWWWsome. He's mathematics, and he went to Oxford for undergrad and the school is sooo different from anything in America. He said he did really poorly because he was more interested in "living life." But he had met three American Rhode Scholars and one of them invited him to come to America and go to graduate school and "start over." He advised him to go to a second-tier school, so he went to Standford. HAHAHA It's pretty cool when people talk about the little things that made a big impact on their life.
Left for the airport at 3:30 and got to our gate an hour before departure. It sucks because we couldn't spend $64 after we arrive in Berkeley, which they used to do. I was all planning to buy $64 worth of Sushi House too! But after Roy's, Sushi House has dropped a level. HAHA I just bought airport food - baked ziti with meatballs, a $6 bottle of naked juice, pistachio ice cream (I remembered after I was half done that I have a no-ice cream rule, oh well) and like 5 candy bars for my floormates. HEHEHE "souveneirs." I wish I could have bought something more personalized, but it was mainly bought for Caroline in mind. HAHA
Slept in plane. Shuttle back to Berkeley was ... very interesting ... Kind of thought we wouldn't get back to Berkeley. But we did! AND AWWW I HEART MY FLOORMATES. Caroline said she MISSED MEEEE. HEHEHEHE
I didn't do very much work. Tomorrow ... I shall. AND GYM. OMG ONE WEEK TO GET BIKINI SEASON READY. I don't even OWN a bikini. TEARS. Also my skin sucks because it totally breaks out and dries out when I go on planes or drive home. BOO BOO
I hope I get to do more of these fly to places, eat for free things when I'm an auditor! I spoke to a parent who is GOOD FRIENDS WITH ALICE WALKER. I was like "ARE YOU KIDDING I wrote my Haas essay about her!" Wow. She was like "oh do you know her?" and I was thinking "ARE YOU KIDDING. Am I friends with JK ROWLING?" And then I spoke to another woman who worked at Ernst and Young and after her daughter left for her interview she was like "do you have any questions for me" and I said "I ... don't know ... I didn't really think I'd be asking parents anything." She said most people don't stay at Big4 firms for long because there are better things to do. She also said the people who leave are usually either really good or fairly bad, so the people who stay and become partners or whatever are usually middle-level capable. I think I qualify as middle level. HAHA So hmm ... now I don't know what my long-term goals are. I guess you really wouldn't know. I mean ... I still have to actually GET A JOB at a Big4 before I plan out what to do after. Anyway ... a lot of parents are so cool. Even the crazy Asian ones that remind me of my mom.
SPRING BREAK AHHHHH
Wednesday, March 12, 2008
Wednesday, March 12th
I got into Haas! Yay! I woke up at freaking 7 today to do club stuff and the site never posted admissions. Then I came home in between classes and I checked and I got in! I didn't really think anything - it was one of those things where I would have been really sad if I didn't get it but when I did get it, I was like "oh ok." Anyway, my floormates are SOOO CUTE.
I told Caroline on my way to film studies and she was so much more excited than I was. She was like "I'm going to buy you a Haas shirt! I've seen them!" And then when I came back from film studies I was walking back to my dorm and I saw people playing football and it took me a few seconds to realize they were my floormates and before I know it, Paulo comes running at me and hugs me and lifts me off my feet. I reacted by screaming "OH MY FUCKING GOD AHHHHHHHHHHHHH" and then it was cute. And then Christine was sitting on the balcony and I waved and she was like "CONGRATULATIONS." HEHEHE and then when I got back to my room, I had three missed calls, one from jonathan, christine, and alvin. Alvin's message was cute! Aw I just remembered he left a really cute message two years ago when he was waiting to see if we could eat souplantation together but it got deleted. Boo. Anyway...
So we were like OK Let's go eat! and I had spent the entire film studies class thinking about where I wanted to eat, and I came up with: Cafe Intermezzo, Chipotle, Raleighs, Brazil Cafe. We were debating and finally we were like "let's just walk" and in the end we got CHIPOTLE. HAHA Before we left, Caroline's mom called her and Caroline told her I got in and her mom was like "tell her congratulations" and I was like "THANK YOU MRS. JABLONICKY" Caroline's mom found out before my mom. Christine told her mom before too. HAHA I guess my mom is the third mom to know. Caroline was like "we're going to Chipotle" and her mom was like "really? chipotle? maybe you should take her somewhere nicer." And on the way to Chipotle, we were still debating and Christine was like IB Hoagies? and Paulo was like "why are we going lower? I thought we were looking for more upscale." HAHA
Jonathan paid for my meal AWWW. I tried to be crafty too. He was like "do you know what you're getting" and I was like "NO. I KNOW WHAT YOU'RE TRYING TO DO" but he just told the guy that he was paying for my tacos. And I held out a $20 and the guy was like ... he paid for you. HEHE
THENN after eating (and breaking Paulo's Chipotle virginity) we went back to Bear Market for the ice cream night we've been planning for days. We got three pints - one with chocolate and malt balls, one with chocolate peanut butter cup, and one with drumsticks, which I TOLD THEM "NO DON'T GET THAT" because we got it at Danny's the night before I left for Berkeley and I remembered we were all like THIS ONE IS GROSS and we all liked the ice cream sandwiches one. So we sat on the benches outside and shared three pints between five people. IT WAS CUTEEE. I was like "AWW I wish we all lived together" and they were like "... we do" and I was like "NO I MEAN NEXT YEAR."
Ok. HEHEHE I'm happy now. I think I'm happier that I have such cute friends at school who care about me! More than the actual getting into Haas. AWWW
I told Caroline on my way to film studies and she was so much more excited than I was. She was like "I'm going to buy you a Haas shirt! I've seen them!" And then when I came back from film studies I was walking back to my dorm and I saw people playing football and it took me a few seconds to realize they were my floormates and before I know it, Paulo comes running at me and hugs me and lifts me off my feet. I reacted by screaming "OH MY FUCKING GOD AHHHHHHHHHHHHH" and then it was cute. And then Christine was sitting on the balcony and I waved and she was like "CONGRATULATIONS." HEHEHE and then when I got back to my room, I had three missed calls, one from jonathan, christine, and alvin. Alvin's message was cute! Aw I just remembered he left a really cute message two years ago when he was waiting to see if we could eat souplantation together but it got deleted. Boo. Anyway...
So we were like OK Let's go eat! and I had spent the entire film studies class thinking about where I wanted to eat, and I came up with: Cafe Intermezzo, Chipotle, Raleighs, Brazil Cafe. We were debating and finally we were like "let's just walk" and in the end we got CHIPOTLE. HAHA Before we left, Caroline's mom called her and Caroline told her I got in and her mom was like "tell her congratulations" and I was like "THANK YOU MRS. JABLONICKY" Caroline's mom found out before my mom. Christine told her mom before too. HAHA I guess my mom is the third mom to know. Caroline was like "we're going to Chipotle" and her mom was like "really? chipotle? maybe you should take her somewhere nicer." And on the way to Chipotle, we were still debating and Christine was like IB Hoagies? and Paulo was like "why are we going lower? I thought we were looking for more upscale." HAHA
Jonathan paid for my meal AWWW. I tried to be crafty too. He was like "do you know what you're getting" and I was like "NO. I KNOW WHAT YOU'RE TRYING TO DO" but he just told the guy that he was paying for my tacos. And I held out a $20 and the guy was like ... he paid for you. HEHE
THENN after eating (and breaking Paulo's Chipotle virginity) we went back to Bear Market for the ice cream night we've been planning for days. We got three pints - one with chocolate and malt balls, one with chocolate peanut butter cup, and one with drumsticks, which I TOLD THEM "NO DON'T GET THAT" because we got it at Danny's the night before I left for Berkeley and I remembered we were all like THIS ONE IS GROSS and we all liked the ice cream sandwiches one. So we sat on the benches outside and shared three pints between five people. IT WAS CUTEEE. I was like "AWW I wish we all lived together" and they were like "... we do" and I was like "NO I MEAN NEXT YEAR."
Ok. HEHEHE I'm happy now. I think I'm happier that I have such cute friends at school who care about me! More than the actual getting into Haas. AWWW
Random Thoughts late at night
- Haas decisions come out today. I don't know when and I don't know where to find out. Everyone always asks "are you nervous" and I say "I don't really think about it," which I don't. You can't really dwell on something that's out of your hands. I hope I wake up thin tomorrow - that would make tomorrow wonderful. I think I'll eat out tomorrow if I do get in. I say ... Raleighs. No. Cafe Intermezzo. No. Brazil Cafe? Too far. Sushi House? I'll be eating sushi this weekend. Too many good places to eat at. I'm more concerned about where I would eat than whether I got in it seems.
- I'm not thin. Boo. I was really hungry before my review session so I bought a sandwich from Free Speech Movement Cafe. It was ridiculously good, but 50% of it may have been my hunger. The bread was surprisingly really good - it tasted a little biscuitish. I got roast beef, which I haven't had in a long time. There was chipotle sauce which I usually don't like (after eating that terrible Cuban Panini sandwich) and little pepper things or whatever. So good. But buying stuff from FSM is using cal debit, which is real money, and those sandwiches are freaking expensive. So no more. I think this was the thing that made my stomach expand *cries*
- Midterm tomorrow! The one actually important midterm I have this semester. So far, I've been able to get by without leanring anything from this class, just using past knowledge from Econ1. But I studied the last chapter we are responsible for and I think we're heading into unknown territory. Uh oh. I don't remember exchange rates very well. :( I really hope I get an A in this class. I'm under this belief that grades don't really matter this semester, as long as I can get into Haas, but that is really not true. If I were to interview for a company, the main thing I can rely on would be my GPA, and if I get any more B's, it'll get harder and harder for me to get a job. X__X Must do well so I'm employable my senior year! This is far more stressful than thinking "I need good grades to get into Haas."
- Some of my floormates are planning to come down to socal! I heart a lot of my floormates. But sometimes I wonder if I annoy them. But even though I really like my floormates, I don't have that "we're lifelong friends" feeling that you always hear about. I wonder if this is because I already have TMV, which apparantly not everyone goes to high school and has a super close-knit group of friends. I mean, I would invite both groups to my (probably never) wedding, but I can't imagine having the same connection that I have with TMV with anyone else. Group-wise I mean.
- I really want to start running 3 miles on the treadmill a day. Caroline freaking runs 7-9mi in one go. And then when I told Angelica this she was like "yeah actually Ryan and Dave run about 9 miles a day too" and I was like OMGGGG WHY AM I SO UNFIT. So ... I want to be able to run 3 miles easily by the end of the semester and then if I live in Berkeley for the summer, it's going to be massive exercise. Sigh. Last summer I was like BY THE END OF SUMMER I WILL HAVE ABS and that did not happen. At all.
- Uh oh, I don't think I'm ready for bikini season yet.
- I'm getting more annoyed lately at (:D). I also get very annoyed with myself because I'm very easily influenced by others. I know that I like to be liked, which affects a lot of my actions. Well, I started off one of my friendships thinking this person knew a lot more about the world and knew what to do in social situations when I didn't. I put the person on a high pedestal and their beliefs/actions changed me in ways that I wish they didn't.
Well ... I'm realizing more and more every day that ... well I wouldn't say their beliefs/actions are completely wrong, but they're not things I would want to believe/do. It just really bothers me that I used to go to this person for a lot of things and take what they said really wholeheartedly. Also, their actions kind of rubbed off on me. It's like that episode of HIMYM where you find out that one annoying trait about a person and you just never forget it. That's happening here, but it's also somewhat similar to how I picked up a few of their traits and I can't undo it anymore. Ugh.
- I kind of made an agreement with a guy that I would room with him, and while I still think we would be good roommates, I found people I'm much more closer with and I kind of don't want to live with him anymore. I don't know how to say "uhh remember when I was so excited to be you roommate? Never mind ..." I could never break up with someone. It's so awkward. I better do it soon though - but I also better be 100% sure that I'll have roommates next year. If I am living with my planned roommate though, in the apartment that I want, I think I would be very, very happy.
- I'm not thin. Boo. I was really hungry before my review session so I bought a sandwich from Free Speech Movement Cafe. It was ridiculously good, but 50% of it may have been my hunger. The bread was surprisingly really good - it tasted a little biscuitish. I got roast beef, which I haven't had in a long time. There was chipotle sauce which I usually don't like (after eating that terrible Cuban Panini sandwich) and little pepper things or whatever. So good. But buying stuff from FSM is using cal debit, which is real money, and those sandwiches are freaking expensive. So no more. I think this was the thing that made my stomach expand *cries*
- Midterm tomorrow! The one actually important midterm I have this semester. So far, I've been able to get by without leanring anything from this class, just using past knowledge from Econ1. But I studied the last chapter we are responsible for and I think we're heading into unknown territory. Uh oh. I don't remember exchange rates very well. :( I really hope I get an A in this class. I'm under this belief that grades don't really matter this semester, as long as I can get into Haas, but that is really not true. If I were to interview for a company, the main thing I can rely on would be my GPA, and if I get any more B's, it'll get harder and harder for me to get a job. X__X Must do well so I'm employable my senior year! This is far more stressful than thinking "I need good grades to get into Haas."
- Some of my floormates are planning to come down to socal! I heart a lot of my floormates. But sometimes I wonder if I annoy them. But even though I really like my floormates, I don't have that "we're lifelong friends" feeling that you always hear about. I wonder if this is because I already have TMV, which apparantly not everyone goes to high school and has a super close-knit group of friends. I mean, I would invite both groups to my (probably never) wedding, but I can't imagine having the same connection that I have with TMV with anyone else. Group-wise I mean.
- I really want to start running 3 miles on the treadmill a day. Caroline freaking runs 7-9mi in one go. And then when I told Angelica this she was like "yeah actually Ryan and Dave run about 9 miles a day too" and I was like OMGGGG WHY AM I SO UNFIT. So ... I want to be able to run 3 miles easily by the end of the semester and then if I live in Berkeley for the summer, it's going to be massive exercise. Sigh. Last summer I was like BY THE END OF SUMMER I WILL HAVE ABS and that did not happen. At all.
- Uh oh, I don't think I'm ready for bikini season yet.
- I'm getting more annoyed lately at (:D). I also get very annoyed with myself because I'm very easily influenced by others. I know that I like to be liked, which affects a lot of my actions. Well, I started off one of my friendships thinking this person knew a lot more about the world and knew what to do in social situations when I didn't. I put the person on a high pedestal and their beliefs/actions changed me in ways that I wish they didn't.
Well ... I'm realizing more and more every day that ... well I wouldn't say their beliefs/actions are completely wrong, but they're not things I would want to believe/do. It just really bothers me that I used to go to this person for a lot of things and take what they said really wholeheartedly. Also, their actions kind of rubbed off on me. It's like that episode of HIMYM where you find out that one annoying trait about a person and you just never forget it. That's happening here, but it's also somewhat similar to how I picked up a few of their traits and I can't undo it anymore. Ugh.
- I kind of made an agreement with a guy that I would room with him, and while I still think we would be good roommates, I found people I'm much more closer with and I kind of don't want to live with him anymore. I don't know how to say "uhh remember when I was so excited to be you roommate? Never mind ..." I could never break up with someone. It's so awkward. I better do it soon though - but I also better be 100% sure that I'll have roommates next year. If I am living with my planned roommate though, in the apartment that I want, I think I would be very, very happy.
Saturday, March 8, 2008
More complaints
OMGGG I'm FREAKING fat right now. Just 5 days ago, I had a freaking flat stomach and I was like "ok TOMORROW I'll probably be at my goal weight and all I have to do is maintain it." And now I have this giant belly to get rid of. DAMN. I'm going to say it's period bloating. BUT ARGH. There's only two more weeks before spring break. WHEN CAN I WEAR A BIKINI? I would really like to slut it up before I become too old to slut it up.
It smells in my room. It makes me a little annoyed. If only I could open a window. >:O
Other than that, I am happy happy! It's 2:30. I should have gone to bed at like 11:00. I bet I could have too - I have been getting a lot less sleep than usual. But then I ended up going out with my floormates, and honestly, going out > sleeping. I've noticed that every day I always have the mindset like "this will never be here forever." Like, I walk around campus and I think "enjoy this view because you won't be going to school forever." Or I go out with my floormates and I think "enjoy this moment because you won't always be living on a floor with your friends." Is this a little pessimistic?
I so need to lose weight. I wonder if I could ever get a really perfectly flat, toned stomach. UNLIKELY. Sigh, boo.
It smells in my room. It makes me a little annoyed. If only I could open a window. >:O
Other than that, I am happy happy! It's 2:30. I should have gone to bed at like 11:00. I bet I could have too - I have been getting a lot less sleep than usual. But then I ended up going out with my floormates, and honestly, going out > sleeping. I've noticed that every day I always have the mindset like "this will never be here forever." Like, I walk around campus and I think "enjoy this view because you won't be going to school forever." Or I go out with my floormates and I think "enjoy this moment because you won't always be living on a floor with your friends." Is this a little pessimistic?
I so need to lose weight. I wonder if I could ever get a really perfectly flat, toned stomach. UNLIKELY. Sigh, boo.
Thursday, March 6, 2008
I'm freaking tired
I'm sitting in my sweaty, smelly gym clothes right now eating Panda Puffs from Trader Joe's. It's 12:30, and a week ago I would have been like "OMG I have to go to bed NOW!" but now I'm like "ok ... I guess it's time to start homework!" Panda Puffs, by the way, came very highly recommended to me but I don't think they're that great. But I've only had them dry - maybe they turn magically delicious when put in milk. Ok, I just dropped one on the ground, picked it up, found two other ones I dropped earlier today, and ate those too.
Anyway, I'm super busy everyday ... like busier than I've ever been really. And this is going to continue until April 12th, except for one glorious week of spring break. And I guess for another week after spring break, I have as of yet, nothing planned but I know I will end up having to do a lot. So in my life I have:
1) RCSA volunteering: high school seniors are coming to check out Berkeley and I signed up to volunteer to answer questions. I love this because you get to talk to strangers and you're in the position of power. LOVE! I get to do this next weekend in socal, and I hear it's incredibly tiring. It's straight talking from 8-4 ... like absolutely no break. Then you go out and blow off $64 for dinner. I guess $64 is not that much, including tip and tax. What am I saying ... I usually try to spend $10 a meal. I hear we're going to a delicious sushi place - so I'm debating whether to get a shitload of special rolls, or one of those combos that no one ever gets because they're so expensive. Hmm...
2) Work: I've actually skipped a lot of hours because of volunteering. Sigh. I want to make more money. I've planned out my paycheck. Tuesday = new pair of jeans. Thursday = new pair of heels. Friday = new purse. Next Tuesday = bikini. Next Thursday = Boots. Next Friday = more tshirts. THEN I'll begin saving.
3) School: I officially don't understand economics anymore and I refuse to go to lecture. I don't think I could do any better on homework even if I went to lecture. That professor really pisses me off. Terrible lecturer!
4) Gymming: Agh! I've been so busy these past few days that I didn't even go to the gym yesterday. I went running just now, which is why I'm all dirty. Maybe I should have showered first. Well, I really want to lose all my stomach fat by the beginning of spring break. Let's see how that goes. Yesterday, I magically had the stomach I've been working for, but then today it just got progressively worse. *cries* It'll never be good enough
5) Edu96: Is the class where I teach 2nd graders science. I know ... ME? CHILDREN?! I am quite terrifed too. Today was the first day we went to teach. I had to wake up at 7:30 ... which is actually not at all earlier than I normally wake up. But somehow, knowing I HAD to wake up at 7:30 made me very anxious so I ended up waking up at 6:15. The day before, I had to wake up at 7:15 and I ended up waking up at 5:40. Very weird biological clock. This is after sleeping at 1:30 both days.
So first impressions, I thought the teacher was incredibly mean. She's very controlling and likes things done her way. Usually we're supposed to have control of the class and the teacher just lets you do whatever you want. But she kept interrupting and leading the class. She's also very mean to the students in my opinion, and I think she says some pretty hurtful things. I excused a lot of kids to recess but some of them just left, since we were running a little late. I didn't really care, but when she went out, she came back with one kid, and was yelling at him for leaving without being checked off. I was like ... whoa. So Angelica and I walked out of there like W..T..F.
But later I talked to other people in the class and they were like "I know exactly how she comes off but she really cares about the students." I guess she was the one who actually started this entire fun in science program, where Berkeley students come to teach kids and do science experiments with them. And after hearing other students' stories about crazy teachers, and then the leader of our class explaining why they're like that ... it's very interesting. I mean, I know teachers have lives outside of school, but you still think teachers all sort of fit a particular mold. Like they HAVE to be nice and extremely patient or else they're bad teachers. But there are a lot of different ways to treat kids, and they can still be effective. I can tell that the students I teach learn a LOT and a large part of that is because the teacher is so controlling and demanding of her students.
And the kids... omg there are some really cute ones. As a teacher, I love the really shy kids. SOO cute. But there are a few that annoyed me within the first hour I worked with them. The interesting thing is that ... they totally fit the stereotype. And when I told Angelica this, she knew who I was talking about and while she somewhat agreed with me, she reminded me how last semester, she noticed that adults see small characteristics appear in kids, and they immediately label them. Like, one of the kids I'm talking about, to be very non-pc, was a kind of chubby black kid. He was pretty rude sometimes and I could easily see him in a few years being those loud, talky guys you hear on the street and assume he's up to no good. But if he does become that, maybe it was partly because adults steered him in that direction. I guess you have to remember that these kids are still growing and become nothing like what they are now.
Panda Puffs are so sugary. I should go shower.
You have no idea how nice it is to have a functioning keyboard. Thank your computer now.
Anyway, I'm super busy everyday ... like busier than I've ever been really. And this is going to continue until April 12th, except for one glorious week of spring break. And I guess for another week after spring break, I have as of yet, nothing planned but I know I will end up having to do a lot. So in my life I have:
1) RCSA volunteering: high school seniors are coming to check out Berkeley and I signed up to volunteer to answer questions. I love this because you get to talk to strangers and you're in the position of power. LOVE! I get to do this next weekend in socal, and I hear it's incredibly tiring. It's straight talking from 8-4 ... like absolutely no break. Then you go out and blow off $64 for dinner. I guess $64 is not that much, including tip and tax. What am I saying ... I usually try to spend $10 a meal. I hear we're going to a delicious sushi place - so I'm debating whether to get a shitload of special rolls, or one of those combos that no one ever gets because they're so expensive. Hmm...
2) Work: I've actually skipped a lot of hours because of volunteering. Sigh. I want to make more money. I've planned out my paycheck. Tuesday = new pair of jeans. Thursday = new pair of heels. Friday = new purse. Next Tuesday = bikini. Next Thursday = Boots. Next Friday = more tshirts. THEN I'll begin saving.
3) School: I officially don't understand economics anymore and I refuse to go to lecture. I don't think I could do any better on homework even if I went to lecture. That professor really pisses me off. Terrible lecturer!
4) Gymming: Agh! I've been so busy these past few days that I didn't even go to the gym yesterday. I went running just now, which is why I'm all dirty. Maybe I should have showered first. Well, I really want to lose all my stomach fat by the beginning of spring break. Let's see how that goes. Yesterday, I magically had the stomach I've been working for, but then today it just got progressively worse. *cries* It'll never be good enough
5) Edu96: Is the class where I teach 2nd graders science. I know ... ME? CHILDREN?! I am quite terrifed too. Today was the first day we went to teach. I had to wake up at 7:30 ... which is actually not at all earlier than I normally wake up. But somehow, knowing I HAD to wake up at 7:30 made me very anxious so I ended up waking up at 6:15. The day before, I had to wake up at 7:15 and I ended up waking up at 5:40. Very weird biological clock. This is after sleeping at 1:30 both days.
So first impressions, I thought the teacher was incredibly mean. She's very controlling and likes things done her way. Usually we're supposed to have control of the class and the teacher just lets you do whatever you want. But she kept interrupting and leading the class. She's also very mean to the students in my opinion, and I think she says some pretty hurtful things. I excused a lot of kids to recess but some of them just left, since we were running a little late. I didn't really care, but when she went out, she came back with one kid, and was yelling at him for leaving without being checked off. I was like ... whoa. So Angelica and I walked out of there like W..T..F.
But later I talked to other people in the class and they were like "I know exactly how she comes off but she really cares about the students." I guess she was the one who actually started this entire fun in science program, where Berkeley students come to teach kids and do science experiments with them. And after hearing other students' stories about crazy teachers, and then the leader of our class explaining why they're like that ... it's very interesting. I mean, I know teachers have lives outside of school, but you still think teachers all sort of fit a particular mold. Like they HAVE to be nice and extremely patient or else they're bad teachers. But there are a lot of different ways to treat kids, and they can still be effective. I can tell that the students I teach learn a LOT and a large part of that is because the teacher is so controlling and demanding of her students.
And the kids... omg there are some really cute ones. As a teacher, I love the really shy kids. SOO cute. But there are a few that annoyed me within the first hour I worked with them. The interesting thing is that ... they totally fit the stereotype. And when I told Angelica this, she knew who I was talking about and while she somewhat agreed with me, she reminded me how last semester, she noticed that adults see small characteristics appear in kids, and they immediately label them. Like, one of the kids I'm talking about, to be very non-pc, was a kind of chubby black kid. He was pretty rude sometimes and I could easily see him in a few years being those loud, talky guys you hear on the street and assume he's up to no good. But if he does become that, maybe it was partly because adults steered him in that direction. I guess you have to remember that these kids are still growing and become nothing like what they are now.
Panda Puffs are so sugary. I should go shower.
You have no idea how nice it is to have a functioning keyboard. Thank your computer now.
Sunday, March 2, 2008
omg what am I doing
I just ate a calzone from Gypsys. WHYYY. I notice that a lot of the times, it's ME telling other people "omg we should eat out!" and in the end when I'm standing in the restaurant I realize "oh no don't do this you'll regret it" but I can't not order because I'm the reason we're in the restaurant in the first place. So I eat ... and then I don't lose weight ... and then I blog about it.
Some crazy ideas I've had to lose weight:
- Drink alcohol after large meals. This will lead to throwing up, which I cannot bring myself to do with my finger. However, there's the problem of tooth decay. And also, I wouldn't know whether this qualifies as alcoholism or bulemia.
- Exercise when I feel hungry, because after exercising, I don't feel as hungry
JUSTTTT KIDDDINGGGGG. Well ok, I really did have these ideas but I would never do them. -_-
Anyway, I better start making some rules for my eating habits. I learned that when you write stuff down, you are more committed to them. I have ugly writing so I don't want to actually write them, although I should. I kind of want to type them and print them out ... but how embarassing to print them out at the computing center and have someone potentially look at it.
Rules:
- One meal per week. HAHA Ok, I said this to Chrystal and she was like "... what?" What I mean is, in a good day, my "meals" consist of: yogurt parfait, fruit, then another yogurt parfait, and a meal of spinach leaves with tofu and pho. On Tuesdays and Thursdays I eat a lunch consisting of spinach leaves, tofu, omelette, and english muffin with cheese and deli meat. The rest of the day is yogurt parfaits and apples galore. In my mind, these don't count as meals. Meals = when I eat out and eat a crapload. X_X So ... from now on, only ONE MEAL a week. Which sucks because there are so many restaurants left to eat at in Berkeley. Let's see:
There are 12 weeks left in the school year (12?! I thought there were like 7)
Restaurants I want to eat at with friends:
- La Note
- Brazil cafe
- Cheeseboard
- Fin Fine
- La Med
- Crepevine
So I have half of the rest of my semester planned out. HAHA
Ok I feel really sick. I drank a lot of water and that + the calzone = large stomach = makes me gross about myself. I also really need to read for econ but I hate that book. HATE!
Some crazy ideas I've had to lose weight:
- Drink alcohol after large meals. This will lead to throwing up, which I cannot bring myself to do with my finger. However, there's the problem of tooth decay. And also, I wouldn't know whether this qualifies as alcoholism or bulemia.
- Exercise when I feel hungry, because after exercising, I don't feel as hungry
JUSTTTT KIDDDINGGGGG. Well ok, I really did have these ideas but I would never do them. -_-
Anyway, I better start making some rules for my eating habits. I learned that when you write stuff down, you are more committed to them. I have ugly writing so I don't want to actually write them, although I should. I kind of want to type them and print them out ... but how embarassing to print them out at the computing center and have someone potentially look at it.
Rules:
- One meal per week. HAHA Ok, I said this to Chrystal and she was like "... what?" What I mean is, in a good day, my "meals" consist of: yogurt parfait, fruit, then another yogurt parfait, and a meal of spinach leaves with tofu and pho. On Tuesdays and Thursdays I eat a lunch consisting of spinach leaves, tofu, omelette, and english muffin with cheese and deli meat. The rest of the day is yogurt parfaits and apples galore. In my mind, these don't count as meals. Meals = when I eat out and eat a crapload. X_X So ... from now on, only ONE MEAL a week. Which sucks because there are so many restaurants left to eat at in Berkeley. Let's see:
There are 12 weeks left in the school year (12?! I thought there were like 7)
Restaurants I want to eat at with friends:
- La Note
- Brazil cafe
- Cheeseboard
- Fin Fine
- La Med
- Crepevine
So I have half of the rest of my semester planned out. HAHA
Ok I feel really sick. I drank a lot of water and that + the calzone = large stomach = makes me gross about myself. I also really need to read for econ but I hate that book. HATE!
Saturday, March 1, 2008
20 more things because I love typing
I've somehow came home at 8:00, only to sit at my computer for 3 hours, watching Buffy and Veronica Mars. My legs are sore from inactivity. I wonder how I will react when I see myself in the mirror tomorrow, especially after Souplantation. I would love to be ready for bikini season by spring break, so I better start doing actual situps and crunches. Which I never do. Well, I'll kill some more time and then I can go take a shower and sleep at the insanely early hour of 11:30 pm. What wild weekends I have. Well, tomorrow will be all work.
1. I actually don't really have 20 more fascinating things to say about myself, so I think this will be more like 20 really specific things I want in my future house, since I am looking for apartments right now.
2. Close to a good gym
3. I probably care most about how the kitchen looks, which is funny because I don't even cook.
4. I next care about how the bathroom looks, I think because there's a lot you can do to make a bathroom look good, but if a bathroom looks bad it just makes your entire house look unkept
5. Matching sets of plates, cups, utensils ... I would hate to have mismatched cups which is why I was very reluctant to buy a Berkeley mug but now that I have one, I love it
6. I would put very little on the refrigerator except for a few pictures and a magnet especially for grocery lists and a magnet especially for important documents that I need to notice, but unimportant enough to leave hanging around the kitchen
7. Ferns everywhere and depending on how well off I am, vases with flowers in them
8. My couch would have a throw so I could fall asleep when I watch tv
9. I like bar counters and bar stools and in my mind, I would sit on my bar stool with a cup of yogurt and granola and use my laptop (hopefully a better one by this point) in the mornings before going to work. (Oddly, I wrote "before going to the gym" before I checked my blog over. I guess I was thinking about life now)
10. Uncluttered bedroom with nothing but one of those low beds, a night stand with a lamp, and some sort of table
11. I would have counters in the bathroom, but if for some reason there is very little space, I would need a stand to put my clothes on when I shower
12. No souveneirs. I hate souveneirs
13. If I have a small backyard, I would like a little table and two chairs, even though I know I would probably never sit outside.
14. Venetian blinds
15. Mainly whiteish carpet except for obviously the kitchen and the bathroom
16. Shower in the bathroom that is hands-free and has a door - I hate shower curtains
17. A cute bath mat in the bathroom
18. Lots of stainless steel in the kitchen which seems kind of guyish
19. In one of those apartment looking condos
20. Next to a few good grocery stores, particularly Trader Joe's
1. I actually don't really have 20 more fascinating things to say about myself, so I think this will be more like 20 really specific things I want in my future house, since I am looking for apartments right now.
2. Close to a good gym
3. I probably care most about how the kitchen looks, which is funny because I don't even cook.
4. I next care about how the bathroom looks, I think because there's a lot you can do to make a bathroom look good, but if a bathroom looks bad it just makes your entire house look unkept
5. Matching sets of plates, cups, utensils ... I would hate to have mismatched cups which is why I was very reluctant to buy a Berkeley mug but now that I have one, I love it
6. I would put very little on the refrigerator except for a few pictures and a magnet especially for grocery lists and a magnet especially for important documents that I need to notice, but unimportant enough to leave hanging around the kitchen
7. Ferns everywhere and depending on how well off I am, vases with flowers in them
8. My couch would have a throw so I could fall asleep when I watch tv
9. I like bar counters and bar stools and in my mind, I would sit on my bar stool with a cup of yogurt and granola and use my laptop (hopefully a better one by this point) in the mornings before going to work. (Oddly, I wrote "before going to the gym" before I checked my blog over. I guess I was thinking about life now)
10. Uncluttered bedroom with nothing but one of those low beds, a night stand with a lamp, and some sort of table
11. I would have counters in the bathroom, but if for some reason there is very little space, I would need a stand to put my clothes on when I shower
12. No souveneirs. I hate souveneirs
13. If I have a small backyard, I would like a little table and two chairs, even though I know I would probably never sit outside.
14. Venetian blinds
15. Mainly whiteish carpet except for obviously the kitchen and the bathroom
16. Shower in the bathroom that is hands-free and has a door - I hate shower curtains
17. A cute bath mat in the bathroom
18. Lots of stainless steel in the kitchen which seems kind of guyish
19. In one of those apartment looking condos
20. Next to a few good grocery stores, particularly Trader Joe's
Keyboards and Sweet Tomatoes
I bought a new keyboard! Yay! I think I should have gone with the one without the number pad, only because then it would actually be the same size as my laptop. Right now, I'm typing on a keyboard that rests upon my laptop keyboard. It looks super ghetto - there are wires everywhere now, expecially because I bought a USB hub thing. I don't care. I can type again!
I went to San Leandro with Caroline, which is where Jonathan and Paulo live. We basically went to everywhere that I said I wanted to go to over the past week. Frys to buy my keyboard. DSW so I could look at shoes. I almost bought one but decided not to in the end. 7 is too big and 6.5 was too small and painful. I could feel myself almost doing what I ALWAYS do at a shoe store which is say "OMG THESE ARE SO CUTE! But they hurt like hell. BUT THEY'RE SO CUTE! But they're too small! BUT THEY'RE SO CUTE~ I'll wear them anyway!" In the end, as I'm sure you can guess, I wear them once then never again.
Then we ate at ... SWEET TOMATOES. AKA Souplantation! I was so excited to eat there, I bet everyone was like wtf. We had kind of gotten lost on the way there and this Soupie was nestled in a rather large commercial center. I wish we had had more time to look around there. But, we backtracked and I was like OMG It's a SWEET TOMATOES!!! It was very nice inside. It makes our soupie look super lame. Omg. Sooooo good. They even have a patio area, which would have been awesome for us in socal, except no one ever eats outside in socal. I assume because of the smog.
Anyway, their layout is much more awesome. They have an automatic door between the restaurant and the outside patio which is GENIUS because people are carrying trays, duh! The put the foccacia in little baskets, SO CUTE. They even have little cute ice cream cones - not big but TEENY sized!
They also have san francisco wild rice, which I didn't love because I'm not used to pilaf but Paulo said was freaking good. They basically have everything we have but MORE. Ok, that's not true - their pasta section only had the mac&cheese, the rice (which we wouldn't have) and steamed vegetables instead of another type of pasta. BUT they had something that was like 50x better than anything I've had there.
CHOCOLATE PEANUTBUTTER COOKIES.
They look like ... little bite sized brownies - the kind they sell at costco. Only, not brownies, but cookies with a shitload of little chocolate chips and peanut butter chips on the top. Omg. I think I had 5. Caroline claims to have eaten 12, which I don't doubt. I bought back a plate of 3 and she was like "these aren't all for ME are they" and I was like oh no I'll eat some too. She ended up eating them all. HAHA When we both got back to Berkeley she was like "I feel really bad, I think I'm going to try and go throw up" and I was the one going "ARE YOU KIDDING DON'T DO THAT you better not turn bulemic on me." Which is hilarious because it's usually the other way around. That is why we are friends. She's crazier than I am though. She doesn't call herself fat, but she is more crazy about exercising than I am.
So that was my day. I don't even think of today as a day, because I wasn't in Socal and I wasn't in Berkeley, so it felt like I was off in an alternate ... universe. Ok, that probably doesn't make sense but it does to me. I want to go to the gym again later. Not really. I guesss I'll see how I feel. Until then, I'm going to try and find as many reasons as possible to type. Type type type.
I went to San Leandro with Caroline, which is where Jonathan and Paulo live. We basically went to everywhere that I said I wanted to go to over the past week. Frys to buy my keyboard. DSW so I could look at shoes. I almost bought one but decided not to in the end. 7 is too big and 6.5 was too small and painful. I could feel myself almost doing what I ALWAYS do at a shoe store which is say "OMG THESE ARE SO CUTE! But they hurt like hell. BUT THEY'RE SO CUTE! But they're too small! BUT THEY'RE SO CUTE~ I'll wear them anyway!" In the end, as I'm sure you can guess, I wear them once then never again.
Then we ate at ... SWEET TOMATOES. AKA Souplantation! I was so excited to eat there, I bet everyone was like wtf. We had kind of gotten lost on the way there and this Soupie was nestled in a rather large commercial center. I wish we had had more time to look around there. But, we backtracked and I was like OMG It's a SWEET TOMATOES!!! It was very nice inside. It makes our soupie look super lame. Omg. Sooooo good. They even have a patio area, which would have been awesome for us in socal, except no one ever eats outside in socal. I assume because of the smog.
Anyway, their layout is much more awesome. They have an automatic door between the restaurant and the outside patio which is GENIUS because people are carrying trays, duh! The put the foccacia in little baskets, SO CUTE. They even have little cute ice cream cones - not big but TEENY sized!
They also have san francisco wild rice, which I didn't love because I'm not used to pilaf but Paulo said was freaking good. They basically have everything we have but MORE. Ok, that's not true - their pasta section only had the mac&cheese, the rice (which we wouldn't have) and steamed vegetables instead of another type of pasta. BUT they had something that was like 50x better than anything I've had there.
CHOCOLATE PEANUTBUTTER COOKIES.
They look like ... little bite sized brownies - the kind they sell at costco. Only, not brownies, but cookies with a shitload of little chocolate chips and peanut butter chips on the top. Omg. I think I had 5. Caroline claims to have eaten 12, which I don't doubt. I bought back a plate of 3 and she was like "these aren't all for ME are they" and I was like oh no I'll eat some too. She ended up eating them all. HAHA When we both got back to Berkeley she was like "I feel really bad, I think I'm going to try and go throw up" and I was the one going "ARE YOU KIDDING DON'T DO THAT you better not turn bulemic on me." Which is hilarious because it's usually the other way around. That is why we are friends. She's crazier than I am though. She doesn't call herself fat, but she is more crazy about exercising than I am.
So that was my day. I don't even think of today as a day, because I wasn't in Socal and I wasn't in Berkeley, so it felt like I was off in an alternate ... universe. Ok, that probably doesn't make sense but it does to me. I want to go to the gym again later. Not really. I guesss I'll see how I feel. Until then, I'm going to try and find as many reasons as possible to type. Type type type.
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