friday- cal3 test, today- chem test. I’ve mostly been studying for the past week. Not much to ramble about.

I’m thinking of starting to write at least one time a day that way I don’t end up taking a long time to write everything all at once.

just a brief note about friday: for the first time gary was able to go out with me and my family at a pub (which we weren’t really about to be there becuase we were under 21…) past midnight. we mostly just sat around. half the time we were hiding and the other half we played pool, played a basketball game, and listened to his battery dying ipod. this event reminds me to buy a cute black bag, make sure my gadgets are charged and of course- bring the gadgets. we could have had more fun. buuuuut the good thing is that we had a headphone splitter so we weren’t doing the odd earphone sharing thing- that wouldn’t have been bleck.

ummm. i think that’s it

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[monday]

mondays aren’t really horrible for me seeing as I only have 2 classes that I go to (cal lab and cal lecture). my mom picks me up at around 10:50 so that we can go do the laundry- where I usually just sit around watching whatever series I’ve been watching at the time. this week it turned out to be the last few eppies of everwood. other than that monday was not too exciting. well, except for realizing that someone in my cal lab smells horrid… like mildew or something. which has made me want to gag every mon and friday. my morning stomach cannot take it but have no idea how to solve this problem. for one thing: i don’t now who it is- and if I did- how would I approach them?

but I do have a photo for your viewing pleasure… gary, me and him, the fleming building, and my socks:

[tuesday]

tuesdays are even better than mondays. i only have chem from 11:30 to 1:00 pm and i get to wake up at 9 (opposed to 7). I *could* wake up at 10 if I wanted to be desperate for sleep but 9 usually gives me the opportunity to check up on the internet, wake up, eat breakfast, and take my time getting ready.

after chem I made the decision to ask for help in chemistry. so I went to the help desk with brian and it turns out it was super busy. lucily- brian went to the help desk monday so he was able to go through 8 of the 12 problems with me. which was really helpful.

i wasn’t being too interesting beyond that on tuesday because I was studying for my bio test that was on wednesday.

[wednesday]

this is where most of my stress starts catching up to me. I was pretty much worried about wed-fri starting sunday, but once the actual initial stress day came my mind started spazzing. my first bio exam was on wednesday. my first exam of the semester. the stupid thing that pissses me off is that I knew the information and sitting in that test made me feel so unprepared… where I should have felt that I could get an A, but, maybe I cannot tie together many details of what I know- or loose an important piece in the seconds that count? in the end I knew I passed but I knew that the amount of effort and knowledge I have wasn’t demonstrated as wonderfully as I wanted it to be. I’m disappointing myself already.

I couldn’t wait to get home to do some work, so I called my mom to pick me up instead of going home with gary at 5:30. I probably would have stayed if I had brought my work with me, but it turns out I had left the stuff I needed to do by my bed, unintentionally. my mom ended up making me wait till me wait around 2 hours before she came to pick me up (an hour and a half before gary would have taken me home). mostly because my brother has this scholarship thing at the university that he has to go to at 4. so she didn’t want to come get me and then have to go back an hour later. for an hour and 20 minutes I went to the satellite wih brian and his freshmen sister to help them go over the material on the bio test. which of course made me feel worse because I was talking about the information like a genius and I was still uncomfortable with my performance. the next 10 minutes was me walking over to the architecture building. and the last thirty minutes was me waiting for my mom to pull up. which should’ve just been 15 but I think there was traffic on the way to the school. so while waiting I took 2 photos of the architecture building and what was about 45 degree in front of me while listening to some songs I downloaded off the OC soundtracks.

after maybe 20 minutes of waiting, gary had called me and told me that there was a whole storm watch thing and that the school was going to close at 5 and reopen at noon the next day. during the phone call my mom pulled up and I told her what gary said. it took about 10 minutes for my bro to walk to the building he needed to go to and ask if the meeting was canceled. turned out it was. so I ended up waiting 2 hours for something that wasn’t even going to happen.

so my chem homework assignment was due on wednesday at midnight. I worked on it for about 4 hours and couldn’t get higher than a 7/12. sadly, out that out of the 8 brian showed me I always missed one and I couldn’t figure out how to do the last four running on stress. it is better than getting >6, because that would count towards my list of failed quizzes that could get me dropped, but it was depressing to know that I asked for help and still couldn’t get to a higher grade. maybe next time I’ll ask for help earlier. at least the concept has sunk in.

a happy part of the day was finishing everwood and choosing to start watching heroes. well- at least starting the downloading process. I don’t really like getting shows that aren’t finished. but at least I will have one other show besides scrubs that is running on air.

[thursday]

my chem class was delayed until noon, but since I was tired and stressed the night before I didn’t want to work on my bio lab thinking if I woke up at 8, two hours would be enough to do my postlab and at least read for my quiz…it turns out since I waited until the last minute I didn’t realize that I tore out the appendices I needed to understand the post lab last semester AND the stupid prelab reading was hard for me to understand because I HATE conversions and pH calculations. it srsly takes me a while to refresh my mind of those things- and I have to have someone to show them to me. so after thirty minutes of realizing how screwed I was I just re read some of the old material skimmed over the new and gave up working on the post lab because it kept directing me to a certain appendix section. not a good start to my day.

so i get to chem lecture and already we’re a little behind and cutting a chapter out the test, so the prof decides to warp speed the lecture and concepts until I ended up loosing him the last thirty minutes of lecture.

bio lab felt strange since I knew I was losing about 30 points from not completing or hardly doing the postlab. the quiz wasn’t too horrible but I do know that would have went a lot better if I had been able to do the postlab and read the appendix material. to make it stranger we were working on pH stuff and I was in a group of 5 boys and me. all of which were those type of future doctor experiment hoggers. which I didn’t completely mind but also made me felt useless at times. luckily- I did interrupt at times and made it go by faster because they were adding an extra step or trying to skip important steps… like boys.

we ended finishing earlier than most the class and I got to rest my head for a while, and even got to snap pics.

when I got home I started watching the heroes episodes and copying cal homework from the solutions manual. mostly because it was faster and because I didn’t feel like doing derivatives and I knew I can practice this weekend.

i really like the show heroes. I’m already on episode 16. which is a shame because I know that I’m going to have to wait for the second season to end next semester, but I think having something to look for next summer will be interesting.

i didn’t go to sleep until midnight again because I had to also work on my postlab and prelab for chem lab. and I was stressed about my quiz in cal lab.

[friday]

otherwise known as sleepy headache day. i woke up feeling like I had just fallen asleep. i don’t think my brain shut off because I remember having a weird dream… just not what it was about. gary made me feel a little better because we did our friday tradition and bought tacos and a glass of hawaiian punch with ice from exxon. but I was still sleepy. then I got to make my journey to my cal lab which is never fun and enter a classroom that upset my stomach. icky. after lab was lecture and for some strange reason I felt like I could just sit straight, close my eyes, and sleep- which almost never happens to me. after lecture was cal lab. more blah than the last experiment we had- except after every so often we had to put our test tube in a machine, take it out, and put it back in the water bath. i couldn’t deal with watching the clock so instead of possible ruining our experiment by falling asleep at the watch- I took charge of setting up each step of the experiment- which was fine until the last 30 minutes where I ended up not having anything to do besides clean up behind my partner and stand around. i guess the only good things that happened were that my TA said that we wouldn’t have a quiz or have to turn anything in next friday and I realized that if I left my goggles in my drawer I wouldn’t have to remember to bring them.

since gary had a physics test on friday and was getting out at 7, I decided to call my mom to pick me up. i was so tired that I wanted to go home and nap… hoping when I woke up gary would be able to come over.

turns out i came home, tried to sleep, and couldn’t. too much noise and blah. so I started watching heroes while my head was pounding at me.

i should have known gary wasn’t going to be able to come. which added to some stress. we argued for a while before i went to bed. mostly because I was so tired and my head was hurting when I should’ve gone to bed earlier instead of waiting for something I knew wasn’t going to happen…

in the end it’s always alright. somehow he gets me more than I get myself and I was happy to let the bad 3 days end there.

[saturday]

after the arguing and before the sleeping gary made a plan to come over to my house the night before. he wanted to go over cal stuff, install vista on my laptop, and pretty much spend time with me.

when I woke up, for some odd reason, my laptop charger was being wonky and wouldn’t charge my laptop. without the adapter plugged into the laptop, vista isn’t able to install- some nonsense about crashing from low power. so I wasn’t able to get vista, but we were able to work on some cal stuff. we mostly studied and talked. around 6 my brother called me and asked if gary could drive him over to the outdoor skatepark. we decided that it would be okay because it would give us an oppurtunity to take a break and pick up some Burger King. after getting: texas double whopper, spicy chicken sandwhich, 2 large french fries, 1 medium chicekn fries, 1 medium onion rings, 1 small cheesey tots, and 2 iced BK joes we went home and ate while watching the ending of not another teen movie. then we went back to studying and before we knew it was 8:30, my brother called and said he was with my mom and that they wer eon their way to pick up gary to take him home.

[sunday]

not much to mention about Sunday. I spent it working on Cal stuff and watching the last few episodes of Season 1 of Heroes.

i really enjoyed watching heroes. it was a good story to watch and figure out how hiro was going to get everything to save the world. at times it was a bit frustrating becuase I wanted the storyline to move faster- or for sometone to out their secret to another person they were involved with that had a secret- and I couldn’t imagine watching it regularly becuase the anticipation of a week would kill me- but I think that’s the part that made it so succesful and interesting. overall it’s a must see. one of those things that reminds me of the magic/super powers that I loved about charmed.

that’s pretty much the end of that week… how I am here Wednesday writing about 3 days ago is beyond me… damn exam weeks.

testing a new blog program called windows live writer

friday:
after my last blog gary wandered over to the fleming building and we walked to the car.
we went to best buy and spent about an hour in there.
we looked at some headphones and external hard drives.
after decided that I didn’t want to spend 200 dollars on a 160 gig hard drive and expensive headphones, I spent 111 on a 120 gig hard drive and some cheaper green headphones. this decision was also due to the fact that gary said he might be able to make my extension cord thingamabob work on my 50 dollar headphones that I bought in march, and he did. So now my kickass headphones actually have a respectable size cord.

and that’s my cute little external hard drive!

gary was a bit sad at the store because he wanted to buy something but he didn’t really like any of the headphones or they were too expensive. when my mom picked us up to take us home my brother had a blue ipod nano in his hands. the little fatty found it at school! to gary’s happiness it had the newer headphones that gary had wanted to buy when they came out earlier this year. my brother sold them to him for 5 dollars.

when we got to my house we fooled around with the blog and I hope you’ll notice some of the changes!
when my mom left we decided to walk to the parisian bakery down the street and we bought some combination sandwiches and ready to drink cold cofee. then we walked next door to a raspa shop and bought a mangonada, 2 mini gorditas, and a churro. then we walked next door to that to buy a big red.
it was my day so he was fattening me up and fixing my computer.

saturday:
i woke up and went through my planner writing stuff down.

then I was watching everwood and going through 12.1 of calculus.

I watched the last couple of eppys of season three.
was a bit pissed off at ephram and happy about dr.brown kissing the next door lady.

well at around 4 my mom asked if I wanted to go to my brother’s girlfriend’s house for her birthday party thing.
which was just gonna be us, her mom, sisters, and her sister’s kid.
plus yummeh food! so I decided to go.

here is what I ate:

after I ate I sat out the couch bein’ a fatty watchin’ drake and josh

when we got home I decided to work on my gaia home because the current “theme” didn’t match the angelic bed wendy gave me.
after about an hour of buying and putting everything together this is what I came up with:

sunday:
after I woke up I went to the kitchen to brush my teeth.
came back to my room and signed on and such.
then my cousin, her husband, their baby, and her mom knocked on the door.
after we ate breakfast I took a picture of the baby:

she’s not so much a “baby” anymore, but she’s just about 6 months old.
they mostly came over to take the parrot my mom caught last week.
apparently it was driving my mom bananas so she decided to give it to them.

and now I’m here.