So I waited a day after I spilled water on my laptop. I turned it on too early and it wouldn't turn on at first and I was very sad for a day. Then I waited another day and it turned on but my keyboard does not. Every day, I feel like another key stops working. Lately, I've been using the onscreen keyboard to "type," which takes about a minute to write a full sentence. Right now I am typing on my friend's computer. Every time I have access to a functioning keyboard, I just sit at the computer and think of everything I could possibly do. Which wastes a lot of my time.
So I went to get it fixed and this is what happened:
1. Walked to school computer store
2. Asked where the keyboards were - I was planning on buying a new keyboard and just plugging it into my laptop, which will look incredibly ghetto
3. Keyboards were very expensive
4. Bought a new mouse instead.
Logic: My current mouse's aaa batteries don't work so I've had to use the touchpad for the past few weeks. Using the onscreen keyboard is even worse when using the touchpad. So naturally, when my laptop's keyboard doesn't work, I buy a new mouse.
New plan over the weekend - we're going to my floormates city so we can eat at the Souplantation at Fremont. HAHA Last year Chrystal and I wanted to take the Bart to Soupie, but it was a $7 bart ticket and we would have had to walk a bit. We were planning on even getting fake club vegs so we could have fake birthdays and eat a free meal. We decided not to. So now I'm going to Soupie with other people and I want to go to Frys so I can buy a cheap keyboard. Then, since it's yet another thing taking up my USB port, I kind of want to buy a USB hub.
So, I guess I'll see how long I can last without actually using my laptop's computer. It's just going to be a screen that I look at. HAHA
Wednesday, February 27, 2008
Saturday, February 23, 2008
The worst thing ever has happened
How fucking typical. A few days ago I was talking to Chrystal and I was like "I think my most prized possession is my TMV ring. Or ... actually maybe my music." If I lost my ring, I would be super sad for a very long time. If I lost my music, I would first be insanely angry, like wanting to drop my laptop from Campanile angry, and then sad, and then super super depressed the first time I download a new song. And I was like "I bet something is going to happen to my music."
ANDDDDDD yesterday night I fell from my bed. And I sleep on the top of a bunk bed. I oddly got up with only a small bruise on my arm from hitting the table. I sprayed it with bactine, which Danny gave me after he found out I had gotten an ear piercing. It stung a lot, whichh makes me wonder why he used it for his ear piercing. I don't think that's that it's used for. Good thing I never used it for my ear.
Anyway, some time during my fall, I knocked over a cup of water ... all over my laptop. I didn't notice until a minute later and all I did was kind of shake it and wipe off the keyboard with a paper towel. I went back to bed because it was 5:45 in the morning and I wanted to just go back to sleep and pretend none of this had ever happened.
Now of course, my computer will not turn on. I'm using my floormate's computer - I woke them up but I think they don't mind considering my story was pretty hilarious to hear. I am insanely sad right now because if I lose my music, I think I'm going to cry. Seriously cry. Also more ironic (I've heard so many 'that's not the right use of ironic' that now I'm not at all sure what it means and I know this is the wrong use but I don't care, I will be the average American and misuse phrases left and right) it's taken me a month to force my floormates to watch Memento and FINALLY we were about to ON SUNDAY. NOW the movie is unaccessible from my computer, none of us have a copy, and they are too scared to use DC++. ARGHHHHHHH
I was extremely unstressed but now I suddenly have everything piled up at once
1) Gym immediately after this, even though all I want to do is stare at my laptop and hope it magically turns on
2) Do laundry
3) RCSA club event at 2:00
4) Homework? I can't even think about what I have to do. Econ reading, econ homework, Physics and Music hw. Thankfully I don't have a giant paper due
5) Look for apartments
I'm going to gym now ... and be very sad. On top of this sadness, I ate a chili bread bowl last night even though my brain was clearly telling me "DO NOT EAT THAT. YOU CAN JUST SLEEP AND THIS HUNGER WON'T EVEN BOTHER YOU ANYMORE. DO NOT EAT THAT!" But I did. And now I am fatter than I wish
FROM NOW ON I WILL NEVER:
1) Leave my computer top open
2) Leave open cups of water near my computer ... I've actually spilled several
3) Eat at late night
4) Sleep so close to the edge of my bed
Going to cry. Goodbye
ANDDDDDD yesterday night I fell from my bed. And I sleep on the top of a bunk bed. I oddly got up with only a small bruise on my arm from hitting the table. I sprayed it with bactine, which Danny gave me after he found out I had gotten an ear piercing. It stung a lot, whichh makes me wonder why he used it for his ear piercing. I don't think that's that it's used for. Good thing I never used it for my ear.
Anyway, some time during my fall, I knocked over a cup of water ... all over my laptop. I didn't notice until a minute later and all I did was kind of shake it and wipe off the keyboard with a paper towel. I went back to bed because it was 5:45 in the morning and I wanted to just go back to sleep and pretend none of this had ever happened.
Now of course, my computer will not turn on. I'm using my floormate's computer - I woke them up but I think they don't mind considering my story was pretty hilarious to hear. I am insanely sad right now because if I lose my music, I think I'm going to cry. Seriously cry. Also more ironic (I've heard so many 'that's not the right use of ironic' that now I'm not at all sure what it means and I know this is the wrong use but I don't care, I will be the average American and misuse phrases left and right) it's taken me a month to force my floormates to watch Memento and FINALLY we were about to ON SUNDAY. NOW the movie is unaccessible from my computer, none of us have a copy, and they are too scared to use DC++. ARGHHHHHHH
I was extremely unstressed but now I suddenly have everything piled up at once
1) Gym immediately after this, even though all I want to do is stare at my laptop and hope it magically turns on
2) Do laundry
3) RCSA club event at 2:00
4) Homework? I can't even think about what I have to do. Econ reading, econ homework, Physics and Music hw. Thankfully I don't have a giant paper due
5) Look for apartments
I'm going to gym now ... and be very sad. On top of this sadness, I ate a chili bread bowl last night even though my brain was clearly telling me "DO NOT EAT THAT. YOU CAN JUST SLEEP AND THIS HUNGER WON'T EVEN BOTHER YOU ANYMORE. DO NOT EAT THAT!" But I did. And now I am fatter than I wish
FROM NOW ON I WILL NEVER:
1) Leave my computer top open
2) Leave open cups of water near my computer ... I've actually spilled several
3) Eat at late night
4) Sleep so close to the edge of my bed
Going to cry. Goodbye
Friday, February 22, 2008
Little things in Berkeley
This was first a general "little things I love" but I realized every one of them had to do with living in Berkeley. Which makes sense ... because I live in Berkeley.
1. Swimming in the rain at Spieker Pool. The heat from the pool hitting the cold air makes a really nice mist that rises up. The huge overhead lights perfectly light up the rain drops coming down, which you see every time you come up to breathe. It's one of those things you could never completely capture on film or camera.
2. Walking or driving around Berkeley, especially College Ave. I want to sit at the back of the 51 bus and just film the street as we go down.
3. Walking through campus on an overcast day, when there are fewer people and I'm not rushing off to class. Favorite spot to walk around: the entrance of Doe library
4. Responding to an e-mail. Even though a lot of it is just school/club stuff, it feels very adult. As a kid, you might view e-mail as something you can easily ignore, and if asked, you just reply "oh I never check my e-mail." That doesn't work anymore, especially as you get older.
5. Buying Odwalla with my mealpoints. Also, having the option to buy Naked juice at the gym, but since they rarely have gold machine, I never really bother.
6. Seeing dogs run around on campus. I've noticed that they never bark. They're just quietly happy to run around the grassy fields. Every time I see one, I just want to have a dog so I could take it to Memorial Glade and play with it.
7. Walking to the RSF, turning my head left, and being able to see the marina even though it is a few miles away.
8. Walking to the RSF, turning my head right, and being able to see the Berkeley hills. I will take a picture of it one day.
9. Being able to go out and get food at restaurants that are still late, late, late at night. Especially going to late night dining with friends even though I try not to get anything.
10. Being able to use Google Maps, street view, which you can't do everywhere. But you can in Berkeley, mainly because Google is situated in NorCal
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1. Swimming in the rain at Spieker Pool. The heat from the pool hitting the cold air makes a really nice mist that rises up. The huge overhead lights perfectly light up the rain drops coming down, which you see every time you come up to breathe. It's one of those things you could never completely capture on film or camera.
2. Walking or driving around Berkeley, especially College Ave. I want to sit at the back of the 51 bus and just film the street as we go down.
3. Walking through campus on an overcast day, when there are fewer people and I'm not rushing off to class. Favorite spot to walk around: the entrance of Doe library
4. Responding to an e-mail. Even though a lot of it is just school/club stuff, it feels very adult. As a kid, you might view e-mail as something you can easily ignore, and if asked, you just reply "oh I never check my e-mail." That doesn't work anymore, especially as you get older.
5. Buying Odwalla with my mealpoints. Also, having the option to buy Naked juice at the gym, but since they rarely have gold machine, I never really bother.
6. Seeing dogs run around on campus. I've noticed that they never bark. They're just quietly happy to run around the grassy fields. Every time I see one, I just want to have a dog so I could take it to Memorial Glade and play with it.
7. Walking to the RSF, turning my head left, and being able to see the marina even though it is a few miles away.
8. Walking to the RSF, turning my head right, and being able to see the Berkeley hills. I will take a picture of it one day.
9. Being able to go out and get food at restaurants that are still late, late, late at night. Especially going to late night dining with friends even though I try not to get anything.
10. Being able to use Google Maps, street view, which you can't do everywhere. But you can in Berkeley, mainly because Google is situated in NorCal
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Thursday, February 21, 2008
My week until the end of the semester
Lesson of the day: One bowl of seaweed salad is enough. No one really wants to eat four bowls of seaweed salad.
It's the last Thursday where I can wake up, gym, and then sit in my room slowly doing work until my class starts at 5:00. I begin work on Monday, and while the renewed source of income is more than welcome, I'm dreading the impact it'll have on my schedule. For now, I'm planning to have my week go something like this:
Everyday, wake up any time between 7:00-8:00. Get up, go to the gym, return home with a cup of yogurt parfait in hand, do some situps, shower, eat yogurt parfait while checking websites.
Monday: Class begins at 11:00 and I absolutely detest this professor. He goes over the lecture slides so slowly that he's never finished them all. In the last half hour of the lecture, he'll realize that he's only been through 4 of 16 slides, and then proceed to skip over a few, saying "we'll get back to that in a minute." We never do. He'll pass over concepts that are harder, and will take more time to discuss. Instead, he'll talk about things you would never be quizzed on for a midterm or things that are common knowledge. This class makes me want to scream.
Go to the library at 12:30 and get new books to read. Class from 1-2, then office hours for my ASUC Grants until 4:00. For now, I'll go home, do homework (that is, play tetris and do nothing), swim, eat an apple, do more homework, sleep. Depending on how much time I need to do homework, I may start working on Mondays too.
Tuesday: After the everyday morning routine, I go to work at 11:00 until 4:30. I then have 30 minutes to get something (small and nonfattening, no matter how hungry I am) to eat, before walking up the giant hill that is Hearst Ave. to my IEOR class. There are very few classes I would have the patience to sit through between the hours of 5-6:30, but luckily, this is one of them. Go home, play on the computer, swim at 8:00, come home, either talk to people or do homework. Repeat on Thursdays.
Wednesday: Wednesdays are terrible. I had a taste of what ti'll be like yesterday and by 6:00 I was really impatient and wanted to kick a wall just to get the pent-up energy out. Wednesday is my "sit in a chair very still" day. It goes, morning routine, class at 11:00-12:30, then 1:00-2:00. Do film studies reading in the hour before film class, while eating salad. Go to film class and try very hard to stay awake for three hours. Then, either club meetings or dinnertime before going to another class from 6:30-8:00. At 8:00, walk very quickly from Tolman, make sure I don't get mugged or sexually assaulted on the way back, then enter dorm and don't do anything but socialize because there's no way I can sit and do more homework.
Friday: Morning routine again, class at 11:00-12:00, then 1:00-3:30. Go to work at 4:00 until 7:00. Go to gym and swim. Come home and begin to do as much homework as I can before the weekend.
So that's my week. There's very little room for homework time, because whenever I swim, I'm way too exhausted to do any homework after. The good thing is that this semester is freakishly easy. Out of five classes, I only have one with a legitimate final or midterm, which is my econ class. The next most legit class is film studies, and I only have a few papers to write for that. After that, the classes can't even really be counted on a scale of legitimacy - they're mainly fluff. If you read through all of that and retained any of it in your memory, you are a good friend. Or a very bored person.
It's the last Thursday where I can wake up, gym, and then sit in my room slowly doing work until my class starts at 5:00. I begin work on Monday, and while the renewed source of income is more than welcome, I'm dreading the impact it'll have on my schedule. For now, I'm planning to have my week go something like this:
Everyday, wake up any time between 7:00-8:00. Get up, go to the gym, return home with a cup of yogurt parfait in hand, do some situps, shower, eat yogurt parfait while checking websites.
Monday: Class begins at 11:00 and I absolutely detest this professor. He goes over the lecture slides so slowly that he's never finished them all. In the last half hour of the lecture, he'll realize that he's only been through 4 of 16 slides, and then proceed to skip over a few, saying "we'll get back to that in a minute." We never do. He'll pass over concepts that are harder, and will take more time to discuss. Instead, he'll talk about things you would never be quizzed on for a midterm or things that are common knowledge. This class makes me want to scream.
Go to the library at 12:30 and get new books to read. Class from 1-2, then office hours for my ASUC Grants until 4:00. For now, I'll go home, do homework (that is, play tetris and do nothing), swim, eat an apple, do more homework, sleep. Depending on how much time I need to do homework, I may start working on Mondays too.
Tuesday: After the everyday morning routine, I go to work at 11:00 until 4:30. I then have 30 minutes to get something (small and nonfattening, no matter how hungry I am) to eat, before walking up the giant hill that is Hearst Ave. to my IEOR class. There are very few classes I would have the patience to sit through between the hours of 5-6:30, but luckily, this is one of them. Go home, play on the computer, swim at 8:00, come home, either talk to people or do homework. Repeat on Thursdays.
Wednesday: Wednesdays are terrible. I had a taste of what ti'll be like yesterday and by 6:00 I was really impatient and wanted to kick a wall just to get the pent-up energy out. Wednesday is my "sit in a chair very still" day. It goes, morning routine, class at 11:00-12:30, then 1:00-2:00. Do film studies reading in the hour before film class, while eating salad. Go to film class and try very hard to stay awake for three hours. Then, either club meetings or dinnertime before going to another class from 6:30-8:00. At 8:00, walk very quickly from Tolman, make sure I don't get mugged or sexually assaulted on the way back, then enter dorm and don't do anything but socialize because there's no way I can sit and do more homework.
Friday: Morning routine again, class at 11:00-12:00, then 1:00-3:30. Go to work at 4:00 until 7:00. Go to gym and swim. Come home and begin to do as much homework as I can before the weekend.
So that's my week. There's very little room for homework time, because whenever I swim, I'm way too exhausted to do any homework after. The good thing is that this semester is freakishly easy. Out of five classes, I only have one with a legitimate final or midterm, which is my econ class. The next most legit class is film studies, and I only have a few papers to write for that. After that, the classes can't even really be counted on a scale of legitimacy - they're mainly fluff. If you read through all of that and retained any of it in your memory, you are a good friend. Or a very bored person.
Wednesday, February 20, 2008
Schooltime
I find myself very busy and I haven't even begun work yet. Uh oh. The good thing is that when I look at my list of homework to do, it's actually not that much. The bad thing is that I'm still constantly stressed, for what is apparently no reason. I need to go gym now so I can't elaborate. You can assume I'm stressed by the usual school, need to diet, need to gym, and now the additional need to look for an apartment.
This link will be dead in a matter of days, but why can't anything this cute be near UC Berkeley? :(
This link will be dead in a matter of days, but why can't anything this cute be near UC Berkeley? :(
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