I am now a twit

I made a twitter today. If you really want to read it, my page is twitter.com/ilovehatefood

I wouldn't recommend reading it though. Very often, I will say to myself "I am NOT going to eat that under any circumstances" and then an hour later I am saying "OMFG I JUST ATE THAT." So my twitter is going to just be me posting what I want/should eat and when I succeed/fail at that. The point is, that if I put all of my food angst into twitter, it will not pop up as much in my blog.

I showered yesterday and brushed my hair without really looking and an hour after watching all my tv shows, I stood up and looked in the mirror and had AMAZINGLY PARTED HAIR. So I went out and a lot of people complimented me on it. Most people didn't recognize me and when they did, they were like "WOW your hair!" I then tied my hair, showered, and realized that I had absolutely no idea how to redo my awesome hairstyle. I woke up today ... to disappointing results. Alvin is the only TMVer who was witness to my magnificent hair. Let's all have a moment for my one day of beauty.

Music music music!

In the span of one week, I've had these as my favorite songs:

1) Kanye West - Love Lockdown (remix)

2) The Decemberists - The Engine Driver
(just scroll down!)

3) DBSK - Mirotic


Most RANDOM assortment of music. Danny sent me a whole bunch of music while I was finishing up accounting homework. I am just surprised my laptop didn't blow up from the strain of downloading. My sudden Korean music obsession came after we had an RCSA coords bonding event at Andria's. It was supposed to be game night, but we ended up just talking, which is always fun. Kristen told us hilarious stories about her high school. I ate cheez-its and now I feel sick.

But that might also be the GIANT, oily omelette I had for dinner today. I went with Laura to try out that new cafe on Dwight and Telegraph. It is VERY cheap food, not amazingly delicious but very filling and pretty good. The restaurant is also very empty and I feel bad for it. They have a slow kitchen, but it is otherwise a cool place to take a giant group for committee meetings and such. Also, they have free wi-fi, so I might try studying there from time to time.

I am now DEFINITELY sick. BOO BOO!!!

"And if you don't love me let me go"

After a day of replaying this song, I guess I've ended up really liking the original song too. I want all of their cds.



I am super stressed. But I am still going out tomorrow (twice) and Friday (twice) before I will really try to study. Part of me still wants to go shopping over the weekend, but I really should not.

Yesterday at work, I got really tired of tagging company after company so I thought I would actually read one of the 10-K's and find out more about the business. I happened to be working on a company called Female Health, which turned out to be a female condom manufacturer. I learned a lot more about condoms in that 10-K than I ever did in sex ed classes.

Also, I saw a group today that was like "I don't normally do this, but I lost my phone!" To which I wondered, how often are you losing your phone? I've never joined one of those phone groups because most of the people who send that to me ... I don't really want calling me. But I wonder, is that really the best way to get people's numbers? I feel like tagging people in a note titled "I lost my phone! Please publicly post your number here" would be better.

Running the streets of Berkeley

I finally did something I have always wanted to do: jog around Berkeley. I did not set a goal for myself, which saved me the trouble of falling below it. The sweat on my skin and my heavy breathing tells me I did ok.



This is one of my favorite covers by her. It was one of the songs that I hadn't heard before, so now I feel like hers is better than the original. And, I know this just highlights my stupidity and lack of knowledge, but before she covered Girl, I always thought it was a song by Rhett Miller because I had that song and not the original Beatles one. HAHA I really should try to look for more Beatles songs besides the ones on their One cd.

I was jogging in search of the track near Clark Kerr. I was trying to get from point B to point A (backwards yes, but I'm too lazy to fiddle with google maps)


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I ended up going around Clark Kerr, through some parking lots, and then suddenly on Claremont Ave. I just jogged around more familiar streets and decided I'd try looking for the elusive track another day. If you want to waste time, zoom in on that map and you can see a disturbing amount of detail at the street view.

The streets of Berkeley are nice to jog on in terms of scenery. But my lungs kind of hurt from the cold air, and today was not even a very cold day. It feels like a huge accomplishment to make it through an uphill street. But running downhill sucks, because I feel like I am prematurely ruining my knees. One might say, I am depreciating them at a double life rate rather than straight line. Ha. HA! Accounting humor.

Any calories I burned will of course be ruined by FREE IHOP PANCAKES! For all the grief this economy has caused me, careerwise, it's given me a lot of joy from free food.

Untitled because I plan to make this short

Today was not a very good day. Nothing terrible, eventwise, but I came to some realizations about my life. I was actually very happy this entire semester until a few hours ago. Not sure what set it off. Actually, I think I do. But I'm going to do that vague bloggery that people often enjoy doing. Listening to Bon Iver makes me feel more mopey than I would otherwise be.

This picture makes me smile though. It's Christina at our retreat. Not photoshopped, but definitely some angles at work

UCSC Retreat

I finally found the remix that I like! Took a long ass time, given that it's the one played on 94.7


I went to my club retreat this weekend at Santa Cruz and now I'm blogging about it because I really cannot pull it together and study for my accounting midterm tomorrow. Santa Cruz has a weird smell. We called it brewer - a mix of beach and sewer smell. It is also very diverse there, a lot of Greek and Mexican food places. I had the most amazing pita bread EVER the first night there - they were almost like breadsticks.

Every time we have a retreat, I come back and I feel like I can cook anything. We try to buy the simplest foods and people make them into such delicious meals. It is amazing how delicious a giant bag of pancake mix, bananas, and chocolate chips can be. That pancake mix has served maybe like a total 40 people for four different meals, and it probably cost like $15.

Kristen: We call her the Siren. She showed me a photo album of all the guys she has dated and NONE of them look alike AT ALL. She's dated huge athletes, skinny nerds, emo guys...
Me: I think you just called her a slut

I also participated in several very girly discussions about the love lives of our ex-com members. All of us have been single, and suddenly this weekend it pops up that within two weeks, three of them are pretty much in relationships. HAHA I particularly enjoyed the five-ten minute long conversation dedicated SOLEY to how Christina should write her text. And I can recite it by memory because we literally examined each word

(Name!) I had a lot of fun tonight! Too bad it was so short. See you in Berkeley! Gnite =)

HAHA We all got really pissed when she said "see you in berkeley" instead of "let's hang out sometime!" Gosh, there are so many ways to misstep when dating.

There was also a VERY cute cat who was in the backyard and we eventually let it in. We had no idea where the cat came from and we didn't have any food to feed it. It was the most AWESOME cat I have ever met. Everyone loved it and I wanted to take it home with me. It was exactly the kind of cat I would want if I got a cat - a doglike cat. It was very easy going. You could pretty much do anything you wanted and it never hissed or clawed at you. I bet it got its personality because so many people rent the beach house that it's gotten used to strangers.

The Santa Cruz boardwalk had a clam chowder bakeoff. There were a ton of tents set up with people who had their own giant vats of clam chowder. You would buy a ticket to sample 5 different clam chowders and then vote for your favorite. It seemed like a very small town thing to do, except there were TONS of people. Very cute

On the radio

I am live streaming 94.7, the top dance station of not only the Bay Area but probably the entire nation. I feel like I am doing homework in a gay club because of the constant dance music. Unlike KIIS fm, there are very few commercials and very little blabbering from the DJs. I keep hearing one commercial where the DJs are talking to a caller and they say "we did this report where people who skipped breakfast in middle school were more likely to have sex earlier" and the caller responds "I have found that to be true" and they all laugh and then dance music will start to play. I have never skipped breakfast. Which probably means I will never have sex. *glares at bag of cereal on table*

My roommate said that he is going on a diet and he is already very lean and never even exercises. I cannot figure out why he is suddenly dieting. I wonder if he met someone he likes. HAHA I remember a few years ago I was watching tv and a character was like "he's been working out a lot more. I bet he's thinking of having an affair and is trying to impress someone" and I thought "that's ridiculous! There are so many reasons why you would want to work out." But now I think it is true too. I always get competitive when people are dieting. Knowing that others are dieting makes me want to diet too, whether they are thinner or larger than I am. If the people near me are going to get thinner, that means I have to as well, to keep the proportions constant.

When I talk to people online, sometimes they just typed something and I about to respond when it says ____ is away and I think well then I guess I don't have to reply to you. I feel like my AIM manners have deteriorated because other's have as well so now I don't care as much. If I were in high school, I'd be so pissed if I imd someone and they were idle and they didn't put on an away. But I do that all the time now, because other people did it to me so often. I get very annoyed when people IM me with a thought and then immediately go on away and when I respond, they immediately come back. Why did you even go away in the first place? It always makes me think of some elementary school kid who says "I like you!" and then runs away. But maybe I'll start doing that too. People also have incredibly boring infos and away messages now. Maybe I am just stuck in the AIM world while other people have moved on from it. I guess I should grow up. And use twitter or something.

People will ask me, "do you cook?" and I say NO! Except spinach, broccoli, and soba noodles, I can't cook anything else. Then people will ask me, what do you eat? And I really have no idea. Because I know I have not eaten spinach, broccoli, or soba noodles that often. So what do I eat?! I'm certain that I have at least three meals a day. Luckily, I keep careful records of my day in my planner. So since spring semester has started, there have been thirty days of school. Ok, this is actually very hard to count, because what qualifies as a meal? And what qualifies as eating out? Does Top Dog qualify as a meal? Is it eating out if it's a club event and I didn't buy anything? Ok, I guess out of the thirty days I ate at home ... OMG ONLY EIGHT DAYS?! I used to say I did not eat out that often. But 8/30 is ridiculous.

Well, of those 22 eating out days, seven of them were free meals, like if I ate at someone's apartment or if I had a club event. So I only REALLY went out 14/30 days. But dang. Half of my lunches/dinners are outside food. How terrible of me.

But if I didn't spend all willy nilly, I would have never eaten THIS CUPCAKE (the one the the right, Matcha Green Tea)

Crappers

*Yesterday at Cafe Milano*

Christina: Mel, take this pizza!
Me: No, I don't want it
Leneve: Mel, just take it. I know you don't have other food in your fridge
Me: No! I can't be jobless AND fat. I have to have at least one thing going for me

This year really sucks. I wish I had not been born in 1988. I would like to have been born ... hmmm ... well it's hard to say. I definitely would not want to have been born in 1987 because instead of being sad about not getting an internship, I would be wondering how to deal with unemployment after graduation. But if I were born in like 1984, I'd probably have been laid off since I would be relatively new labor. And if I were born toooo far back, I probably would have lost substantial amounts of money these past months from various investments. And I have the impression that most people born after 1988 are stupider (particularly, people from AHS) so I don't want to be younger. So it's a lose-lose-lose-lose to infinity.

The war to get an internship is not over JUST YET. It will be March 4th though. So I'm counting down the days until then.

After realizing how inferior I am to many people in the world, I want to begin improving my life. If I do not have an awesome career, I have absolutely nothing! But I am so behind on all my schoolwork so I have to take care of that first. I am going to study very hard this week (which is difficult to do since I am going on retreat this weekend and it will be Thursday in twenty minutes) and I would like to be all caught up with intermediate accounting by Monday (since that is the day of the midterm). I will then study for managerial accounting after. And then I can begin having hobbies! And interests!

I like this song a lot. On Monday night, my favorite song was Kid Cudi - Day N Nite. On Tuesday, my favorite song was Kanye West - Love Lockdown, remixed by LMFAO. And today, my favorite song is Cyndi Lauper - Echo. I find it amazing that the woman who sang "Time after Time" and "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun" has a new single out and it sounds pretty good. Anyone can have a comeback.



Today I was hungry and asked Kristen if she wanted to eat lunch at Gregoire's. We did some random errands together and then walked over and ate at 4:00pm. We had coupons for a free soup, and that totally plused the meal. Then we went to eat at a little cupcake store, Love At First Bite which is one of those places that sells a single cupcake for $2.75. It was a nice random splurge. It's also in one of the cutest Berkeley restaurant areas I have been to, and there are A LOT of cute Berkeley restaurant areas. It is totally a cute date place.

I enjoy talking to Kristen a lot. She was the first person to tell me about her personal experience with the much crappier job market. Her stories definitely prepared me for the difficulties of getting an internship/job; otherwise I'd probably be wayyy more depressed and freaked out right now. But now I've kind of accepted reality and try not to bother people with my thoughts about the job market.

Kristen: I really wanted to go to that Haas forum, where you just tell the dean about all the things you think are wrong with Haas
Me: Oh, is that what that was? I thought people only went for the free lunch
Kristen: That too
Me: If I had gone, I would have said "why do I feel a sense of deep hatred whenever I see Haas School of Business? Can you change that?"

I am supposed to help recruit new RCSA members in the coming month. I do not know if I should tell them about my feelings for Haas. Saying, "I generally dislike the people there and dislike almost all of the courses, but I still want to be in it" may not be the encouraging words a prospective freshman wants to hear.

My new favorite song

92.7 is my new study music.

Me: JON! This is my new favorite song!
Jon: I feel like every time you go back to socal you come back with a new favorite song

I totally do. HAHA

On another note I'm SO FUCKED for my midterm tomorrow! WHY didn't I do any of the homework?! What kind of professor assigns homework and makes all of it due on MAY 11th? WTF ARGH

The mall is creepy

I went to the mall yesterday and bought two things from Wet Seal! As I was inside the store, I wondered to myself why I refuse to buy anything from Forever 21, since I don't want to spend money on clothing that I think is pretty cheap and only worth a few wears, but I am willing to buy clothes from Wet Seal which probably has the same standard of quality. Shrug.

I still have never found a nice pair of heels/boots/flats/sneakers. Seriously, the only type of shoes I am NOT looking for are crocs and gladiator boots. But I still find it impossible to find a single pair of something that I like. There is a pair of Nine West black closed toe heels that I really like that are extremely comfortable and would go with anything, but my mom said I should wait until a sale. It is a very classic look and I don't think it will ever go on sale. Which means I will never be able to buy the shoe.

After I shopped, I waited for my dad to pick me up at the Borders area. I was wondering to myself why it was so dark and I realized ... it's because ALL the restaurants in that walkway have shut down! Except for The Cheesecake Factory and Wood Ranch, all of them went out of business. It is REALLY eerie. The stupid light poles that change color were shut off too, so it was really dark. Our mall is so lame. I feel like it is dragging down the quality of Arcadia. I realize that development takes years of planning and no one would have expected the economy to take such a downturn when they approved plans for construction of the promenade, but I'm going to bet that it is not going to benefit our city for several years. My dad told me that after he had dropped me off, it took him thirty minutes to exit the parking lot because the parking lots led to dead ends. That mall is such a headache to go to and not very rewarding to shop in.

I start work after next week. I want to go SHOPPING! I never buy anything because I am very picky and I often think things cost way more than they are worth. But as I threw Chuck Season 1 into my costco shopping cart without a second thought, I told myself that maybe I should have the same carefree attitude towards clothes shopping as I do towards TV dvd shopping.

I really want to buy this:


Unfortunately, it costs $410.00. But only $246.00 on bluefly.com! Which is an evil site that tricks me with huge discounts on clothing that costs hundreds of dollars.

Trigger Happy

I think sometimes I write something and decide to send it before I really think about whether or not I should send it. The second right before I click send/post, I am like "you know what, sometimes you have to be bold and take a chance" so when it's sent, I'm like "yes! Go me!"

And then the next day I'm usually like "WTF?! Why did I do that?!"

Part of it is because it's technology, and it seems so easy to just hit enter. I always end up separating what I am writing from the act of hitting a button. Meaning, when I click send/post, I'm not thinking "should I send this message?" but rather, "should I click that?" And it's very simple to say "why not click a button? It's just a button!" I think I mistake stupidity/rashness for courage/spontaneity. In the long run, I am sure I won't even remember these things I stress about. But it sure makes the present day a lot more painful.

I'm so sleepy right now. I had a very tiring day, although I did not go to the gym. I had to table on Sproul today, which I really hate. It is fun to talk with people on Sproul though. I was there for five hours and when I went home, I ate chicken nuggets and watched SATC. Then walked over to Naomi's so we could drive to Pyramids, this brewery in Berkeley, for Kristen's 22nd birthday! Woot. We drove around campus and picked up more people on the street. Gosh, I really love just sitting in a car in Berkeley, even if we are stuck in traffic.

The tour guide was really crappy. He spoke very softly so I didn't learn shit about brewing beer. The place was very nice though - so it's a restaurant that has its own beer making facilities and apparently you can actually buy the beer from some grocery stores. Everything is very clean, because they give free tours. At the end, you get free samples of five beers: lager, this apricot one, pale ale, hefe something, and iap or something like that. Iap was really disgusting because it is more bitter. The apricot one smelled nice, but my favorite was hefe. Lager is ok, but it tastes like typical beer. !!! So I was the only one in the group who was not legal. But our tour guide was white, so when he started checking ids, I was like, I'm sure he can't even tell one asian girl from the other, so when he looked down, I just stepped to the other side of the group. TOTALLY WORKED!

After, a few of us left and went to Jack in the Box. I was so excited - free curly fries! And of course I was going to get a sourdough jack. I am not close enough to my period to want the oreo milkshake though. Dude, these free deals are freaking awesome. The Denny's one is cool in theory but kind of lame businesswise. The curly fries one is FREAKING genius. Because no one ever JUST buys fries - everyone is going to buy something else! So clearly they are bringing more business in, and it's customers that will pay more. I was and still am very happy because of my delicious Jack in the Box meal.

Now it is almost 11:00 and I want to sleep. This week is awesome. I wonder how different it would be if I had gotten interviews with all four Big 4's. But woot: Little Star tomorrow! Then a pre-interview social on Thursday, then the actual interview on Friday and going home!

My life is meaningless

I just did the thing that I hate when others do it: I deleted a blog entry. HAHA It was 60% because I am trying to cut down on blogging and 30% because I didn't think it was very important and 10% because I'm starting to wonder, what is bloggable material and what are things that I would want to save and talk to friends about in person? Those numbers are very made up but I have already typed them out and don't feel like changing them.

I must be extremely bored because my desire to blog has increased dramatically. My stomach really hurts. I should not have eaten ice cream earlier. I steamed a ton of vegetables for dinner because I stupidly bought a CRAPLOAD of veggies and I have to eat all of it before I go home this weekend. I'm not even going to bother eating the mung beans or my green onions.

T.I's Whatever You Like is my new favorite song. I have to listen to it on youtube and there is a lot of annoying narrative in the music video before any singing begins. It doesn't even end properly - some lady in it just starts talking. I'm always taken aback when I see T.I and realize he is not some big fat bulky guy. I think that an artist's ego is directly proportional to the amount of movie-like scenes that are in the music video. I really hate the music videos where there is absolutely no music and there's like two minutes of "acting." You are not famous for acting! Stick to what you know.

I was facebook stalking someone and I had a few realizations:

1) I have no hobbies or interests that would intrigue others. I look at other people's facebooks and they have such cool hobbies that I really respect. Even if they seem like typical hobbies, there is evidence of how amazing they are at them. Like someone who bakes or dances or snowboards. I don't think there is anything impressive about me at all. I don't do crap! No one is going to marvel over a picture of me watching tv. Or playing tetris. I'm not even a great tetris player (nor do I want to be).

2) If I am going through every single one of someone's pictures because I am interested in finding out more about them, I wonder if someone is doing the same to me. That is assuming that anyone would be that interested in me, which is highly unlikely. Closer to impossible. But now I'm looking through my photos and I'm like "oh god I'm so ugly in all of them" or "I ... don't seem to do very much." Instead of improving my life, I could just privatize all of my photos. But I always thought it was kind of weird to privatize photos for facebook. It makes facebook so boring

3) It's very cold. And I have done very little in terms of studying. But I have watched many, many episodes of SATC

Things I used to do but don't anymore

1. Gym twice a day, elliptical in the morning and swimming at night
2. Make a daily schedule the night before and actually follow it
3. Resist eating desserts and unhealthy foods
4. Watch a movie without falling asleep
5. Do all the homework of the week the weekend before
6. Take a ton of pictures
7. Read for fun
8. IM people and have an extended conversation without wondering what they want from me
9. Worry about my GPA (I now worry about getting a job and not getting laid off)
10. Watch TV without playing tetris
11. Search for obscure music

I am very, very unhappy with myself. I've eaten so much today - I ate an entire Crepevine meal when I wasn't even hungry. Hopefully I will remember this feeling, because I seriously believe this was THE DAY that gives me the resolve to diet for a good solid block of time. I wish I didn't have to have A DAY OF GLUTTONY to force me to diet. I want to be back at a point where I would happily go to the mall and try on clothes, or when I don't force everyone to delete pictures of me, or when I can step outside without feeling embarassed about how I look. It would be nice to have my own personal Jillian Michaels who would yell at me and force me to exercise until I throw up.

I really like the Biggest Loser because the trainers are very "no bullshit," and just follow a very simple "eat less, work out more" equation. They toss aside all those little health facts that websites like MSN.com occasionally post. I realize now that, even if they are true, they probably do more harm than good. Things like, "after working out to a particular exercise, your body will stop responding" or "muscle weight is heavier than fat, so if you get heavier it may not mean you are eating excessively." I'm sure to a certain extent, they are true. But I also suspect that these are things that people cling to as an excuse, and the people marketing these ideas are profiting from our desperation to have a reason for our fatness - any reason besides eating too much and not moving enough. I now have images of Biggest Loser contestants doing insane physical feats and I think to myself, "I am not pushing myself hard enough. I don't think I ever have." I would like to stop perpetuating this image of my being fit, when I know I am extremely weak and probably wouldn't last against most of my friends in a fitness test. To do so, I will try to stop writing "I went to the gym today" in my blog.

Although I have all these fantasies of myself swimming laps at night and jogging the uphill streets of Berkeley, I look at my schedule and wonder, when am I going to have time to do anything? I think I may have to start waking up at 6:30 am to do all the fitness stuff that I want to do, because I already know I don't have time at night. It's very difficult for me to figure out how I want to balance gymming vs. socializing because both are very important to me and I feel like both are things that are best done when young. At least I no longer value academics as highly anymore. I want to buy nice clothes, but I don't want to go shopping until I have lost more weight. I want to go out and socialize, but I constantly think I do not have nice enough clothes to go out. So many things to improve about myself, and only so much time to do it all!

As much as I want to enjoy SATC, I have not reached addiction point yet. I don't think I relate to them at all. If they talked more about their jobs instead of trying to find a husband, maybe I would be more interested. Does the show even function on real time? I feel like every episode, Charlotte has a new guy that she is in love with and has been dating for several weeks. What is the appeal in Big? Does anyone think he is handsome or charming? My friend said that most people agree he is an asshole, but if you continue to watch, you realize that an asshole is probably the best fit for a woman like Carrie. Which seems like a very realistic but kind of sad message.

Agh it's so late and I have to go to the gym tomorrow.

Oddly, best semester ever

I hope I didn't just jinx myself

Here are many reasons why one might think I am very unhappy this semester:
1. I have only been going to the gym once a day and it is usually to do the elliptical halfheartedly
2. I am very fat after winter break, when I had planned on having abs at the beginning of 2009
3. I have not studied at all ... and this is not an exaggeration but a very literal statement
4. I did not get as many interview requests as I would have hoped back in sophomore year
5. I keep waking up in the middle of the night

BUT. I think this might be the best semester yet! Let's revisit those "negative" reasons.

1. At least I have actually been going every day. I had planned on jogging or swimming at night, but I always have something else to do. And this semester, I am more intent on making friends than chasing the futile dream of losing weight
2. I think I've lost any self-control I once had, but at least I have been eating delicious cookies these past few weeks
3. Alvin bought me a textbook holder and I honestly believe that it will help me study. But I won't be putting this theory to test until maybe ... after this weekend
4. I got more interview requests than I expected after last semester
5. Because I have been going to bed at like 11-12pm! Sleeping that early makes it ok when I wake up at 6 am get out of bed at 7:30

I've been going out every night since I got back from school. It is probably why I haven't gotten anything done yet. I go to the gym, and then rest. And then I either have class, or I decide to catch up on tv. Then I always have some activity to do. And once I get back from that, I decide I have to rest with some more tv. And then 11:00 rolls around and I decide to go back to sleep. It's a pretty chill semester.

Most of my close friends are graduating this semester, so I feel like I am also a senior, rushing around trying to do everything I have always wanted to do. It sucks not being 21 when my friends are all turning 22. And then next year I will be the 21 year old with 20 year friends. Lameness.

I have been trying to go to more (school) clubs this semester and make friends. I find it impossible to meet people in Haas. Partially because lectures are so large, and partially because I am predispositioned to not like the people in Haas. For example:

Me: I want to make friends in my classes
Laura: What classes are you taking?
Me: Finance---
Laura: You're not going to make any friends there

I wish I DID have friends, because I have one class with a friend and lecture is infinitely better when I have someone to talk to. I've been trying to go to things where I would meet people that I would be interested in dating. The first time, I ended up leaving with a gay male and eating dinner with him. Which is kind of hilarious. In a FAIL sort of way. Extra failure points: we ate at Berkeley Thai House, which is a restaurant I actually really dislike but somehow always end up eating with people there. And always at my suggestion.

Four awesome meals

Oh god. I was supposed to not eat out out after winter break for the month of January. I ended up ending the month of January by eating FOUR AMAZING meals in a SINGLE day. I have no self control, I swear.

Meal one: Cafe Durant, sundeck combo B. I don't know why I always order this. Well, sundeck combo B is clearly the best deal out of all the sundeck combos. It has two fruit pancakes (with real fruit!), an omelette, home fries, and two slices of french toast. The smarter option is sundeck combo D, which has less carbs and a bowl of sliced fruit. But I always think, sundeck combo B is TOO GOOD to pass up! And EVERY TIME, I finish 1/3 of my plate and I'm full. It's INSANE

I ate with my fundraising committee, all of whom I love. Such a freaking awesome committee. I pat myself on the back for picking all of them myself. It's too bad that John is a devout Christian, because we all really want to drive to Souplantation and eat Sunday brunch. But he must go to church, and he is the one with the car :(

Meal two: Right after I came home, I was on the computer writing e-mails and dealing with stuff and Li-Ting informs me that she came to Berkeley early, and invites me to eat. I am ridiculously full, so I say I will go out with her but not eat with her. I walk over to Laura's apt and am about to turn up her street when I hear a bunch of yelling and see them already parked outside. We drive over to 99 Ranch (oh god, I almost wrote Ranch99). Solano is so cool. I wish I had the ability to go and eat at the restaurants there. Parking is a bitch because it is a Saturday afternoon. I dread the days when the only time I have to shop is the weekends, like every other person who works full-time

We go to this Chinese restaurant within the plaza. I am tempted to eat. Then, Lucy orders the food and I am like crap guys, I'm going to eat. Even though I just had a HUGE breakfast like an hour ago. Lucy is the cutest Chinese girl ever. HAHA She was born in America but I LOVE listening to her speak Chinese. I seriously want to record her just saying everything on the menu. I would eat anything that she ordered, because she makes it sound delicious. I feel like Mandarin is a pretty neutral language, as long as it's not with a Beijing accent. Like, it doesn't sound horrendous nor does it sound sexy. But Lucy is the only person who I've ever heard speak Chinese and my ears kind of perk up. HAHA So yes, I blame Lucy for making me eat A HUGE MEAL.

In the middle of it, people dressed up as those Chinese dragons came in and danced around. Hilarity! Also, a small child of maybe three years waved at me and smiled very happily. I said "hello, child" and hid because I do not know what to do when a child smiles at me. Li-Ting paid for our entire meal. If I ever get a good full-time job, I am immediately going to take out Li-Ting for a good meal, and also Laura because I really think I owe them any success I have in the future. However, I kind of don't think I'm going to have any success in the future, so maybe I will have to thank them in other ways.

We went to Barnes & Noble and I started getting serious food coma. We went home and I would have walked home, but I was seriously too tired to leave. I ended up falling asleep on their futon and waking up to Sex and the City. Can you believe I have never seen a full episode? I missed the first ten minutes, so I still haven't. It was surprisingly good, although how annoying is it to hear women whine about how they are old and single? It seems like SATC has done much for women, by showing that they are no longer the sexually innocent people that they were portrayed as decades ago, but then they have the same characters constantly looking for a husband. I think I would like to read some academic papers about the social impact of SATC.

Meal three: Ici. The second time in TWO days. That is a luxurious life, when you can eat Ici multiple times in a week. I ended up getting Honey Chamomile flavor. I was surprised to enjoy Saffron Almond, but some parts were way too sweet and tasted like caramel, which I do not like. Yogurt Sorbert did taste like Pinkberry-type of yogurt. Today's cone had way too much chocolate in it. Yesterday's cone was much better. If they had still had Darjeeling cardemom I probably would have gotten it, seeing as how I waited several months for it. Alas, they did not.

Meal four: Gypsys! What a day of firsts. Andria had never eaten Ici, which was the whole reason we went there. Then I found out Kristen had never had the Pesto Calzone from Gypsys so I said I would share one with her. While waiting for our food, Laura, Kristen and I were just talking VERY loudly about how "rocking" Professor Brooks' legs are. SERIOUSLY. If I can be as in shape as she is at that age, I would not mind living past 45 at all. I want to be her. But 1) I am not white.

She used to work as an auditor, first in a Big 4 then in industry (freaking Wells Fargo!). She is now a fabulous teacher who is the most organized ever and has daily cartoons and accounting jokes. They would be corny and lame for any other teacher, but with her they come off very sweet and everyone laughs good naturedly. I have heard a row of guys say "Dude, I have a crush on Professor Brooks" and Kristen says one of her friends wrote on her eval "you have awesome legs" HAHA She is also amazingly thin. I wondered if she had an eating disorder at first, but Kristen said "NO! She totally has runner's legs!" She has an AMAZING wardrobe, although they said it was pretty old-school. Well, it is clothing very appropriate for her age, and everything falls onto her body perfectly. I wonder if her clothes are tailored. I'm sure they are - she must be loaded after her crazy career. She is a mystery, because I wonder why someone who has gone so high up the career ladder would give that up and just teach. I feel like most Haas professors have their own semi-successful businesses, but decide to become professors so they can exert more power over students. But she is the nicest ever! She's so awesome. I just wish I didn't always fall asleep in her class.

Anyhoo, so Laura, Kristen and I ate Gypsys while Soo-Jin and Li-Ting watched. The hilarious part of this meal was when Kristen was talking about her classes and I was watching her eat the last few bits of her calzone. She was leaving the corner for last and I was getting REALLY stressed out because, she has never had a calzone and did not know how dry and tasteless the corner would be! So as she was talking, she was preparing to eat the juicier, oilier, cheesier and chickeny part of her calzone when I could not take it anymore! She was about to start a new sentence and I went "OMG KRISTEN! I'M SORRY! I'm interrupting your story. BUT YOU HAVE TO EAT THE CORNER FIRST! YOU HAVE TO SAVE THE BEST BITE FOR LAST!" and everyone burst out laughing at me. AND THEN she ate a piece of chicken and I was like OMGGGGG NOOO!!! But then there were still parts with pesto and cheese. So it was ok.

We went back to Laura/Lucy/Soo-Jin/Robin's apartment and watched the real housewives of orange county. I feel like that show does not really deserve capitalization. It sparked a lot of interesting commentary. Finally Kristen and I left, but not until after I forced her to stay and watch THE BEST PART of The Devil Wears Prada. This is when I would normally post a clip, but youtube is mean and has removed all copyrighted material. My description does not do the scene justice so you will have to remain in the dark about which scene I think is the best.

I thought I was home free to shower and sleep in my bed, but then Kristen forced me to go to Naomi's and play beer pong. I was ready to keel over. I had been up since 7! I had gone to the gym at 8 and had been out the entire day, with hardly any time to sit and play tetris. But I went. I played a game but said I would leave after. Otherwise I would have had to face the Trollrule. So I made my escape and got back to my apartment. I showered and decided I would blog about my day.

Hilarious moments: oh so many, and I don't really remember any of the exact quotes. One thing was when we were driving back from lunch and Laura was talking about a blog where Berkeley alumni who now work at Big4s post about their experiences. And there was one with all the current lawsuits each Big4 is facing. Each one has a huge one, and Laura was like "I feel like if it weren't for Bear Stearns, EY would be ok!" Because she is a huge EY fan. And everyone laughed and was like "yeah, but that was probably the biggest one" Oh business humor, how I enjoy you.

TOMORROW IS THE SUPERBOWL! I'M SO FUCKED FOR ALL MY CLASSES! Today was supposed to be study day! I'm very glad I was out the entire day with friends that I have such a good time with though. I do not like being alone with my thoughts. This week, until Wednesday will be the most nervewracking week of my life.