2008 Roundup

I didn't really realize today was the LAST day of the year. Even though I have been thinking of what to do for New Year's for several days, I didn't really get that it was A NEW year. Really weird. It's always bizarre to think about things that happened at the beginning of the year, because you wouldn't believe they happened only twelve months ago.

This time last year: TMV went to Jackie's house and played cards on her living room floor on January 1st. I visited UCSD at the end of winter break and we played Bang every day.

Success of the year: Getting into Haas, becoming friends with my floormates after winter break (which I cannot believe was only a year ago)

Regret of the year: Getting a bunch of B's for the second semester of sophomore year and during the summer

Most played song of the year: The Parentheses by the Blow (154 times), but I suspect it may also be Benji Hughes - Waiting for an Invitation because I played that song a TON on youtube before I finally bought it on iTunes last week


Number of songs I added to my iTunes this year: 1,373

Best show of the year: In terms of best new show that I've gotten hooked on, Chuck. Which happened only a few weeks ago! Mad Men goes way over my head most of the time. Actually, cross that out. I MAY have started watching 30 Rock this year. So best new show of the year goes to 30 Rock but honorable mention to Chuck

Worst habit I've picked up this year: Coming back from the gym every morning and watching The Daily Show while eating a bowl of cereal before class. It's fun, but it's started a habit of watching online content to start my day. Plus, if The Daily Show really goes off the air (its destiny will be told in a few short hours), I wonder what would take its place. NEWS?!

Best purchase of the year: Airplane ticket back home for Veteran's Day

Total amount of my own money spent this year (since June): $7,747.41, not including school tuition, airplane tickets, or clothing my mom bought for me when I came back home

Obsession of the year: Trader Joe's hummus. And it's probably fair to say, Kristen Stewart for a few weeks.

Cool memory of the year: The Lookout, entering my apartment and being greeted by party steam, baked goods and my drunk RCSA friends, everyone coming to my birthday dinner at Ichima

Letdown of the year: Google Chrome, which kept crashing on me so I switched back to Firefox. Maybe one day I can own a laptop that doesn't go beserk when I open a browser window

Emotional rollercoaster ride of the year: Ending sophomore year and being really excited for summer. Hating summer - the living space, the fact that I was living alone, summer school, and work. Pledging to stay in school as long as possible so I could put off working a full-time job. Starting junior year and hating it. Deciding to graduate early so I could start working earlier in life.
honorable mention: figuring out that my old crush has a girlfriend now

Number of hours spent on the elliptical this year (at least, since August): 23 and a half hours. Just short of an entire day of stepping up and down on a machine

Number of laps swum this year (since August): 3,200

Things I wish I had known this year: That the economy would go to shit and maybe I should have pursued a double major on top of business. Although if I cannot get a job with a business degree, what other job could I possibly have gotten?

Hope for the new year: That I look back at 2008 and laugh at myself for worrying so much about getting an internship. That I share a little more of my "private life." That I make friends my age so I can actually celebrate my 21st birthday in Berkeley. That I get really fit and can wear my dream item: a simple, white long-sleeved shirt that is made of thin material.

Happy New Year everyone

Winter Song

If you have a heart, you will love this song and put it on your playlist after watching this video! So cute

Wanted: a friend

I do not have "a person." This is Grey's Anatomy's detached way of saying "best friend." I have people but I do not have a particular person. I have been wondering to myself, if I had some sort of big news, who is the first person I would tell? I cannot tell. (HAHA I meant that as "I can't figure it out," not some mysterious "I WILL NEVER TELL") I assumed it would be someone in TMV although I'm starting to wonder if I should not limit this person to TMV. But even if I had a non-TMV person, I would still have to have A person in TMV that I would tell things to first. Even though we rarely have full group gatherings, I wonder if most people would rather be told things with everyone present or if they want to be told individually. It is nice to be told individually, but only if you are one of the first to know.

I figure that "a person" is someone you tell important things to first, and you ask them how to deal with things because they know you best. Chrystal always knows exactly how I would react to a hypothetical situation, but I only go to her for advice and I never tell her about my personal stuff. There are other people who I would consider "my person," but I know that I am not their person, so it makes me hesitant to really make them "my person." If they are not going to tell me things first, then why should I tell them things first? It seems unbalanced.

Since Thanksgiving, I have changed my mind about who my person is like four times. It is weird because I feel like every year except this one, I have had a person. But I always thought of it as a person I spent a lot of time with. Now I am realizing that the people I spend a lot of time with may not necessarily be the person I would tell secrets to or whatever.

HAHA This is how I turn a blog into a three hour ordeal. Time to sleep. Christmas Eve is upon us. Sigh. Maybe I will find my person in the New Year. There is no rush I guess. I have no problem that needs to be solved and I don't think telling people about my thoughts would clear my head or anything.

A PMS inspired rant

I am pretty sure I am pms-ing right now. BUT WHATEVER. I'll rant if I want. Why do people call me or IM me and ask "what are we doing today?" If I had planned something, wouldn't I have fucking called you? And the way it's asked, it's like if there had been no plans, suddenly I am the one who is like "oh yeah, why don't we do this" and I have to plan everything when I was not the one who wanted to do anything in the first place. Why don't people call and say "hey I wanted to eat lunch here, would you be up for it?" Why don't you take a second to think about what it is you want to eat before you go around calling people? I feel like people get annoyed because it seems like we always do what I want. I feel like that makes me very controlling and selfish, but if everyone is always asking me what we are doing, it is obvious that we are going to be doing things that I want to do. So suck on that.

Chuck season one is kind of annoying. I am glad I watched season two first, otherwise I might not have continued watching it.

AGHHHH I WAS SO RIGHT. From now on, I am going to trust my instincts. LSJDFSLDFLSDF I cannot tell whether to be sad or happy. Those are two adjectives that are not the exact emotions that I am debating between, but I can't figure out what would be more appropriate adjectives. I feel like I won a bet with myself that I did not really want to win.

If my life were a TV show...

This song would play when I break up with someone that I still liked

Disney is EVERYWHERE

Yesterday I was searching for music and I came across some artist named Drake Bell. I really liked his song and downloaded four more off limewire. And then I figured I would look for similar artists so I went to last.fm. And I was incredibly horrified to find that his similar artists were Aly & AJ, The Jonas Brothers, and Ashley Parker Angel. Drake Bell is YET ANOTHER Disney artist. AGH

This is not the first time that I went "OMG! What a cool poppy song!" and then realized it was some young Disney star. I have been tricked by Aly & AJ, The Jonas Brothers, and Jordan Pruitt.


But how can you resist a catchy beat and melodic voice?

Chuck

NEW FAVORITE SHOW guys! Chuck is AMAZING. And proof that guest stars really work! I got sucked in because they had Jordana Brewster for a 3-episode arc. I watched one episode, and got really interested in the love triangle. Even after the Jordana Brewster character left, I was like OMG I MUST KNOW MORE.

I have watched a ton of tv in my life, where there are bajillions of tv couplings. But I have never been like "OMFG JUST BONE ALREADY!" Chuck and Sarah are such a cute couple! And every episode, there's always a moment, like "OMG IS THIS THE ONE?" but it never is.

Sarah, Yvonne Strechowski, is my new favorite TV blonde. HAHA sorry Kristen Bell. But you are no longer on tv, except as a narrator. She is Australian! But sounds so American. She is as kickass as Jennifer Garner in Alias, I swear.

They have really good music. I have to go look up the songs they play. But, OMFG they had an episode where they went to a high school reunion, and they played BSB and Paula Cole. You know it has to be a freaking good show when they can play Paula Cole's "I Don't Want To Wait" and you LIKE IT. WITHOUT having to picture Dawson's Creek in your head. THAT is a good show.

There is also an AMAZING number of guest stars on the show. In the few episodes that I've watched, there have already been SO MANY faces that I recognize. I LOVE recognizing faces.

Nicole Ritchie AND Ben Savage (Cory from Boy Meets World! who will probably look the same when he's 60) I actually believed that Nicole Ritchie could act after the episode. PLUS, she gets her ass kicked in by Sarah in a pretty amazing fight scene.


Any fight scene with Prodigy's "Smack My Bitch Up" is automatically cool. Please ignore the horrendous voiceover.

OC stars Rachel Bilson AND Melinda Clark!

And further proof that Chuck is as cool as Alias, there's Dixon and Marshall!

Since I haven't seen any of the first season, I didn't know that this character was added after the second season started. But if I HAD been watching episodes in the correct order, I'm sure I would have went OMG! when I saw his face...

BUSTER FROM ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT! Who is now a series regular. I think it's BIZARRE that his Chuck character sounds so similar to his Arrested Development character. I thought he was faking the voice but ... I guess ... it's his real voice.

I also freaked out when I saw the last episode (WHICH MADE ME TEAR UP!) when I saw CARL WINSLOW OF FAMILY MATTERS. OMG. Family Matters was like my childhood show. One of the MANY black family shows that I watched as a child. Seriously, I don't know how I ended up watching Sister Sister, The Smart Guy, Family Matters, The Jamie Foxx Show, and the Wayan Brothers as an eight year old, but it's certainly impacted my image of black people. He played a donut-eating cop on the episode, which made me laugh out loud. LOL!

I think that episode also has that alien guy from MIB. But I'm too lazy to see if it is. HAHA Brian does like a perfect impression of the alien guy from MIB.

And finally, see if you can spot the guest star here.

Ok, so it's not really a guest STAR. More like an actor just having a job as an extra. But still! It's Mr. Wu from Veronica Mars!

This post took up a LONG time. Just looking for pictures. I was going to go to the library and then get a gym membership. But now I don't feel like doing anything. FATNESS YAY

Chuck: Morgan! Do we carry any Rush cds in the store?
Morgan: No need, I've got them all on my Zune
Chuck: You have a Zune?!
Morgan: No, no HAHA I'll go grab my iPod

Finals time = Fun time

This sounds strange, but I think my favorite time of the school semester is finals time. It's the beginning to an end! And as long as I make a good study schedule and stick to it, I don't really stress out too much. My favorite thing is taking all the papers that I've accumulated and sorting out which ones I can use as scratch paper for the next semester. And then it's so satisfying to rip out all my class notes after studying.

The absolute best thing about this semester's finals was FREAKING CROSSROADS! I have been going ever since Wednesday, but I missed one day because I was too cold to leave my slightly warmer apartment. It's AMAZING. Crossroads is our dining commons and during finals week, they open it from 10-5am. It's so close to my apartment, it's warmer, there's internet, AND they have FREE drinks and baked goods. My stomach feels a little rounder after drinking like 12 cups of hot chocolate and eating muffins and pastries late at night. How is the dining system here SO COOL?

Ok, it turns out the outlet I've been sitting next to totally doesn't work. My battery life is about 30 minutes so I guess I basically came here to blog. I will just post this because it feels very awkward to blog while everyone else is studying.

Not So Silent Night

(You MUST play this before reading)

OMFG The Oracle arena is an AMAZING concert venue. NSSN WAS AWESOME. MAJOR MAJOR hearts to Franz Ferdinand, Bloc Party, and THE KILLERS. Death Cab and Jack's Mannequin were also there but OMGGGGG

I wish I had gotten to dance on the floor but then I wouldn't have seen the entire stage and the thousands of people. I should remember not to sing when I am recording because my annoying voice totally covers the music. HAHA I think Jon will kill me when he listens to his videos and hears my voice.

The lighting effects were SO GOOD. I am amazed by how quickly people can go in and out of the Oracle. I LOVE how it is CONNECTED to the bart station. I thought it would be insane to take the bart back, but there were tons of empty seats! It is nice to see a huge crowd of students, knowing that we are all Berkeley kids who just came from the same concert

I enjoy the small, moshiness of an Academy Is concert, and I've gotten to sit/stand like 10 rows away from the stage in a seated concert, and now I've gotten to sit REALLLY REALLY far away from the stage. All three are such fun ways to watch a concert. :D:D:D

OK. GRADES ARE NOW DOWN THE TOILET. I won't even try studying tonight. There's no way I can retain anything. I can barely type!

Another thing that I loved about this weekend. OMFG It's not even the weekend. HAHA But, I went to study at Crossroads yesterday, the dining hall. I went with some RCSA friends and it was SOO COOL. They open it until like 5am during finals, and even if you don't order anything, they put out all these baked goods and you can get free coffee/hot chocolate/cappucinos. Their hot chocolate is the BEST I have ever had, because there is a SHITLOAD of cream and it's extremely chocolately. I stayed yesterday until like 1am. SO FUCKING FUN. If you remember studying at Arcadia library with me during high school, it was a little like that. I actually got work done though. A very minimal amount of work.

I also had Ethiopian food yesterday. The lamb and salmon was really good but the beef was way too spicy. Ethiopian food is REALLY interesting to eat. I went with my RCSA ex-com, and it was SO perfect because Ethiopian is great for large groups. We all ordered something different and it comes all together on a huge plate and we just shared. I would have never been able to try so many dishes at the same time. I LOVE my ex-com! All of us are really into trying new things.

THESE PAST THREE DAYS WERE SOOOO GOOD. Tomorrow is another "fun day" too. WHY do I go out all during finals week?!

Other concerts I want to go to in my lifetime: Miley Cyrus, Paul Oakenfold or DJ Tiesto, Jimmy Eat World, and Britney Spears if she ever attains the performance ability she once had

"Fat people are the new tiny dog"

OMG I found ANOTHER video blog that I love. I had like two hours before I was supposed to go out for lunch, and instead of studying, I've decided to watch every episode of TV is the Answer on televisionwithoutpity.com

I LOVE video blogs. They are like tv shows. UNSCRIPTED. But not reality shows! I LOVE hearing people's opinions. If I could be anything, besides celebrity, I would want to be a video blogger. A successful video blogger. Because that means that I would be witty, people enjoy watching me talk, and I actually have some knowledge of the world.

I wish I could embed the video but if you are truly interested, you will have to take the effort to click on the link. I cannot tell which one is Val and which one is Beth. The one on the right reminds me of SOMEONE but I cannot place it. She seems like the kind of person I would want to be good friends with.

My study schedule should have started Saturday. But in those seven days, I would say that three of them consisted of me just sitting on a couch all day discovering youtube videos, and the other three, I just went out and had fun. Usually I set aside one FUN day so I can gear up for studying. But lately, FUN days seem to drag on until the actual TEST day, after which I have MOURNING week.

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After watching like five more episodes since I posted, I think I realized ... the woman on the right reminds me of KRISTEN STEWART. If Kristen Stewart were more amenable to humor. But kind of looks like Jenna Fischer to me.

Gosh darn it

I really was not planning on blogging. I was actually just checking my blog and I thought to myself "I would like to not blog until maybe Thursday." But sometimes when I read someone else's blog it makes me want to blog.

I will maybe write a little bit and then try to finish studying. So the prior weekend, I didn't study very much because it was one of those weird times where you can't study too early, because you wouldn't remember the material when the final comes around. So Friday-Sunday, I sat around the apartment a lot and didn't really care that I would learn one little thing every two hours. But NOW I'm kind of screwed because my exam is tomorrow and when I was reviewing things, I didn't remember like half of it. Fuckers. I also have to take the sample exam which I should have done by noon today. The exam is in twelve hours. I can't believe I wanted an A+ in accounting. Now I'm like "I hope I don't get an A-"

I get random cycles of loneliness. I am in one right now. Oddly, I think I get more lonely after something majorly fun happens in my life. Probably because the following days, I will do nothing and then I wonder "why can't my life just always be that fun?"

I feel like it is very hard to meet people in college. I kind of go through life with the perspective of "I probably will not see them again so it's ok if I don't get too close to them" which seems logical but it's probably faulty logic. I'm the type of person who makes few, but very close friends. I wouldn't want to be the kind of person who is friends with everyone, but only has superficial relationships. But I do wish I could have an additional group of friends in college. That sounds greedy. I have like, two groups, but one of them consists of people who are all older than me. And the other is people all younger than me, and most of them are going abroad next year. So I am thinking, what am I going to do next year?

I am listening to Paramore right now. I uploaded two of their cds onto my iTunes. All of their songs sound the same. I also need to pee but I hate getting out of this sofa because it is so cold and my toilet seat will be even colder.

I think, everything they say about Haas is true. And there are more ugly truths that are not said. But the main thing I'm thinking of is that "people in Haas are Haas-holes." I agree with it. I know that I am one too. I am cocky about being in Haas and sometimes I do feel a sense of entitlement. It is hard not to, when they throw all this free shit at you the second you get in, and then all the professors say things like "YOU'RE HAAS. Employers want you. You'll do fine."

I look around the classroom and I'm always like ... I don't want to be friends with any of these people. Which is very strange because I actually have a significant handful of Haas friends, but I became friends with them before getting into Haas. I know them through Li-Ting, who knew them from PBL. Whenever I meet new people associated with this group, they are like "are you PBL? RCSA? Or TBG?" Anyway, I think all of THOSE people are some of the nicest people ever. So there HAS to be more like them out there, sitting in those Haas classrooms. But I never get that sense of "hey, I could be friends with that person" when I look at people

Instead, I just see 1) overly confident, competitive people who are probably going into consulting because they don't know what they want to do in life, beyond wanting to make lots of money 2) fobby people who hang out in their own fob groups and are probably all going into finance 3) people who try too hard and seem really uppity and 4) people who just don't seem to care and are probably not in Haas

I get the feeling that in other majors, if you want to make friends, you make friends because ... you want friends. But in Haas, it just seems like you make friends to network. You make friends because you want information about jobs, or because you want to share homework solutions, or because "you never know when you might need someone." Every time I talk to a friend about how I haven't really made good friends in Haas, they are like "you really should though. You never know when they'll help you in the future." It's annoying because it's true. Do people even think like that in other majors? Maybe they do sometimes, but even then, it's probably not said so blatantly.

Despite my ranting, I assume this would not even be an issue for me if I HAD become close friends with some Haas people. I'd just be like "oh friends! YAY!" I think my problem is that thus far in life, I have enjoyed success through my own efforts. Some people, in high school, were able to do well because they made good friends who helped them out or sucked up to the teachers who always gave them a break. I think the number of those kinds of people increases when you get into college, and increases exponentially in Haas. I've always been kind of uncomfortable with that - doing well when it wasn't 100% your effort - but it is ridiculous to think that you can do everything yourself. Put very bluntly, I hope I can learn how to use people because you can only get so far in life by your own efforts. At some point, and I think that point begins with recruiting, it's who you know and what they can do for you.

Superhuman power

Right now, at this moment, if I could have any superpower, it would be the power of telekinesis. I'm sitting at my dining table, studying. These past few days have been incredibly cold. I swear, it's colder in my apartment than outside sometimes. The table is right next to our bay window, which makes for very poor insulation. I'm wearing socks, "warm" slippers, gloves, a sweater, and I've wrapped a giant blanket around myself, and somehow I'm still cold.

If I had telekinetic powers, I'd be able to control my computer and turn the pages of the textbook with my mind. Unfortunately, I have to leave my arms exposed to the cold to do this the ordinary way. :(

But if it were any other weather, I'd still want the ability to dictate my metabolism.

I do not enjoy eating yet I am hungry all the time. Conundrum! I plan to eat out very rarely before I go home, because I want to save all my money for Arcadia.

I think my love for hummus has ended. What shall be my next food craze? They seem to get progressively healthier and healthier

Freshman year: Granola bars
Sophomore year: Yogurt and granola
Junior year: Hummus
Senior year: Unknown.

I keep dragging out my study sessions. What should take an hour to read ends up taking five hours. I can't help but listen to my iTunes. And when a good song comes on, I look for cover songs on youtube. They aren't good enough to put on my iTunes, but they are good enough to waste my precious study time


Very interesting way of singing Dakota by Stereophonics


Her voice is amazingly similar to Jaymay



I realized that I particularly like cover songs when sung by the opposite sex. It makes them automatically different and not as immediately comparable to the original.

WHY AM I WASTING TIME?

I've lost a glove! My right hand will be exposed to the deathly cold. FROSTBITE!

I totally forgot about that

I was reading gofugyourself.com and it reminded me of the time ...

this happened.

HAHAHA OMG. It's been like three months since her real comeback (opening at the MTV video awards; note, NOT the performance at the MTV video awards) and eighteen months since her first attempt to come back (her performance at House of Blues)

I think so much crazy has happened in her life that I completely forget most of it. There are times when I don't even remember that she has kids or was married to Kevin Federline. Why I think about her at all, I cannot explain.

No matter how high of a comeback she gets, I think there will always be some craziness in her. Her story makes me want to be in Hollywood more, so I can see if it would affect me the same way. Although I would never want to attain her level of popularity. I want more of an Amy Adams or Rachel Mcadams level of fame.

Today has been an incredibly unproductive day. Which explains why I am blogging about Britney Spears.

Never say no

Today was amazingly fun, especially considering I thought today was going to be painfully dragged out. I went to Paulo's birthday celebration today, which was eating at a Mediterranean restaurant in SF and then ice skating. I woke up today not wanting to get out of bed. After delaying for half an hour, I got up at 8:00 and dragged my ass to the gym. Then, I was going to do homework but instead I went to eat Crepevine with Jon, Paulo, and Victoria as a HAPPY BIRTHDAY to Paulo.

Came back and we just hung around the apartment. I started cleaning and I was halfway through sweeping the floor when I realized I was going to be late for class. I ditched and decided to go to the one a later one. After class I came back and called Caroline. After much delay and false starts (I had to go back to the apartment twice because I forgot things), we left for SF early.

On the bart ride, I already knew it was going to be a very tiring day. I just wanted to sit and sleep on the Bart. We arrived at Powell (it's been a very long time since I took the bart to Powell) and shopped. We didn't get anything. The sales are not as good as the news claims. Maybe because it's Friday. The only store that seemed to actually have the highly publicized discounts was FCUK, and I didn't want anything from there.

After trudging around SF, Paulo and the gang arrived. We went to the restaurant, which was pretty good. I regret ordering the lamb shank because it turned out to be a GIANT ASS piece of leg lamb. I do not know what a shank is. The potatoes were crazy buttery. But whatever - now I know. There was a belly dancer in the restaurant. Very strange. Harold, Paulo's best friend, had got him a cake from Coldstones. It was pretty good, but I bet if I had known beforehand that it was Coldstone's, I wouldn't have liked it.

Then we walked a little bit to the ice rink and skated for an hour and a half. I wish I could do tricks or skate backwards. Just to have some bragging rights. But at least I was lucky to have ice skated as a child.

We were crazy tired and managed to catch one of the last Barts back to Berkeley. I can't imagine what would happen if we had missed it.

Then I went back to my apartment. The hilarious thing is that I was simultaneously "hosting" a party that I wasn't at. RCSA ex-com had wanted to do a party, but no one offered a place. I was going to this birthday bash, so I thought there was no reason to do it at my place. But things got desperate and I was like FINE we can do it at my place. Turns out it was AWESOME.

I was seriously considering just going home and crawling into bed but the second I opened the door, I saw ALL these familiar faces (and quite a few unfamiliar ones) and I just went around and did the WHOO girl thing, going "KRISTENNN! NAOMI!! ANDRIA!" and so on. I have never been so delighted to be greeted with that familar blast of warm party air and loud music. I ended up catching the tail end of the party, but it was still super fun. I love that people were like PLAY YOUR MUSIC! It makes me feel good when people like my music, even though my "party mix" includes songs like destiny's child - bootylicious and journey - don't stop believing.

I love this group of friends. I love all my friend groups. In the very end when people were leaving, some stayed behind and helped me clean :) There is a SHIT load of alcohol left on my table. Kristen is picking it up tomorrow for our January retreat. HAHA It had been my committee's idea to have a bakeoff, where each committee gets together and bakes something and then all committees get together and eat it. So I thought it was super cute that I looked in my living room and on my coffee table was ALL THESE DESSERTS. I have some leftover, but they are all crazy sweet and I do not plan on eating them.

People were like "eat that one, it's rich but delicious" and I was proud to say "THAT'S MY FUNDRAISING COMMITTEE'S WOOT" I realized yesterday that I LOVE my committee. I need to do more things with them next semester. They are THE nicest people EVER - all four of them. We made a brownie cheesecake. I am horrified to know what goes into making a cheesecake after last night.

Now my apartment looks pretty clean again. I need to wash towels and my bath mat tomorrow, and swiffer the floor, but other than that, it is wonderfully clean. Dare I say, possibly even cleaner than before the party.

This will make me sound religious, but I feel very blessed to have friends in Berkeley. I have my floormates from last year - small but very tight knit. I have my RCSA friends from this year, and I have my RCSA friends from last year and their friends that I later became friends with. There are so many awesome personalities that I may not have gotten to know.

I did not expect to go to sleep being so happy, but I am. :) Yay life

Reasons my apartment is crazy awesome for parties:
1) the living room is ridiculously huge
2) hard wood floors
3) large living space overall
4) cops don't come knocking because you can barely hear music outside the apartment
5) close to food if needed
6) SIZE again.

SO TIRED. And happy. Based on my life rule of "FUN ALL THE TIME WHEN ASKED," I guess I WILL watch the football game tomorrow with friends. Whoops, sorry finals. Another time.

I wish every day were today

The euphoria has died down by now but OMFG. My presentation went FREAKING WELL. We got a fucking ONE HUNDRED PERCENT PLUS he gave us an extra point to our class participation, since we were a two person team. That is MAJOR, a point anywhere really makes a difference. OMFG. I could not stop smiling for like two hours. I celebrated by eating a chocolate glazed donut. I then promptly ate an apple because the oil in the donut started to give me a stomachache.

But YES. There were SO many things going against us: 1) this was my partner's first presentation in English 2) we were a 2 person team instead of the usual 3 and 3) we hadn't had very much time together because of Thanksgiving.

But then today SO many things went well for us. We did teacher evals today (now I kind of think I shouldn't have written, "The standards are impossible and the class made me regret going into Haas") and he allowed us to show a clip of BMW Films. What would have been like a 40 minute long Q&A session thankfully got cut to a 20 minute one.

I am SO freaking happy. I hope that my briefs turned out ok so I can relax and know for sure that I won't be getting a B- in the class.

Today is the best day. I just finished my presentation and it's like THE DAY before I really have to start thinking about finals. LET THIS DAY LAST FOREVER!

Two more days

Two more days until my marketing presentation. I just want to skip to the hour after the presentation. Ugh. Actually, an hour after the presentation I will be nodding off in my microeconomics class. So I want to skip to two hours after my presentation.

Things I plan to do after my presentation:
- celebrate that the last stressful thing I have to worry about this semester is over
- mourn over the likelihood that my presentation grade will not save me from a B- in the class
- go swimming
- finish Twilight
- have fun at Paulo's birthday party
- go to 4th street on Saturday
- go grocery shopping
- have a long conversation with a friend
- start writing cover letters
- edit my resume
- make a study schedule for my microecon, accounting, and marketing finals

My list looks like a lot more homework but I'm actually looking forward to occupying my mind with something besides BMW

Diet and exercise

http://music.msn.com/music/celebrityfeature/celebrity-bikini-shots/?GT1=BUZZ1

What a hilariously opinionated MSN.com article

Time to exercise! I want this week to be over. RIGHT NOW.

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WEIRD. I just came back from the gym. I usually go in the morning before classes, around 8:30-9:30 but today I went after class from 11:30-12:30. There are totally different people who go to the gym at these times (something I've noticed before) but I was just reminded of it today.

5:00-7:30: I have never gone to the gym this early so I wouldn't know
7:30-9:30: A lot of realllyyy old men, and a lot of younger white college females
11:00-2:00: A lot of white women who are in their late 20s-late 30s, slightly more Asian females who look more bookish, and more Asian males who look like "nice guys"
3:00-5:30: I have never gone at this time, but I've heard this is when all the athletes train, so I assume it's a lot of athletic looking white people
5:30-6:30: Based on my observations as I walk to the swimming pool, it's a lot of bulky white guys. Probably leftovers from the athlete training
9:00-closing time: TONS of Asians. A lot of douchier looking Asian guys, who I assume want to work out but are the kind who wake up too late to go in the morning, and more Asian girls who look like the kind of girls who go out with the Asian boys. It's also disgustingly warm and stuffy in the gym by this time. I can't believe I spent my freshman year going to the gym at night