February 23, 2000: Okay okay..Am working on an update. I suspect it will be rather long since it's been a LONG time since I last wrote in here. A few interesting things have happened, and you will all know about them soon! :DLast old entry was February 3, 2000. February 26, 2000I've been pretty bad about this page, haven't I? Things have just been really busy since the last time I updated.Well, for the past few weeks I've actually been studying. It helps a lot! Last week was two second midterms and a paper. I checked the scores for my 209 exam and I only missed four. So I can see that studying really does help since I missed a whopping twelve last time. Ug! I can't believe I did that bad the first time! I haven't gotten my score from my 355 test, but I do know that I got a 31/40 on my CMU exam. It's not great, and I know I can do better. So yeah, I have been pretty busy. That paper was due last Friday. It was about sex and violence. I did mine on "8MM." I waited for Weese so we could talk it over and you know what he did? He took one of my good points for himself! Ug. Like I'm gonna tell him anything anymore? ;P I went home Friday evening. I was pretty tired after all the driving so I just stayed home while Betty handled the laundry. *heh* The next day everyone left me: Parents went to Seattle and Betty went to Portland. So I hung out with Annie all day. She invited me to a family dinner, but I didn't realize it was a FAMily dinner. See, I'm used to her grandparents, but she had an uncle and an aunt come by and I was like: uhhhh, this is a family dinner! But s'coo...we ate in the kitchen and the food was good as usual, traditional American food. Wee! We tried shopping but didn't buy anything. I just didn't really feel like looking around. Later Allan came over and then we went to the auto mall, which was closed! *shrug* They took me home around 11pm. I tried calling Lar but the line was busy as usual. :P Sunday I laid around and watched a lot of Discovery Channel. I helped my mom cook some stuffs. They took me up that evening so that was coo cuz they did go up to Seattle the day before. Lar wasn't even home when I got there cuz something came up with his group project. When he came back we just hung out and laid around. My eye started swelling that morning, I don't know why. And by that night my eye was looking pretty bad. :( So I went to bed early. We were out a long time on Monday. My eye went down a little, it wasn't noticeable unless you were looking for it. Lar and I went out to look for beds. We are finally getting one. Yes!! We went to so many bed places. I think we are gonna go with IKEA in this case because we can get a mattress and a bed frame for $500. I'm pretty excited about this because we're making this apartment into a real home........Oh yes! I haven't told you the funniest part! On Valentine's Day Lar and I broke our fridge! I was defrosting cuz the night before the freezer door didn't close and I lost a new thing of ice cream! I was pissed! So after I took my 355 exam, I went home to defrost. I had him help me with the bottom of the freezer and he ended up jabbing too hard and we broke the fridge. We were pretty pissed about everything since we had to pay for a new one and stuff. But we still went out for dinner. We went to Marie Callender's. Things were looking up since we didn't wait very long for a table. But then we ended up waiting about 25mins after we finished our salad and appetizer for our entree. When they arrived, it wasn't my food! So the guy apologized and said they were gonna fix it ASAP, but I was pretty non-plussed and full from the salad that I just asked them to forget about it (nicely of course). He apologized again and when he came back he said that everything was free that night since we waited so long and they messed up my order. Hooray!! If that wasn't good enough, the manager came by and said the same thing, and also told us to take a pie on our way out. COO!!! Vday turned out to be pretty nice. We had pie, though we had no where cold to put it. *G* Our new fridge arrived on Wednesday. It's NICE. It's all clean and white and pretty! It has a separate freezer compartment and it works...and also frost-free. Yeaaaah. It's beautiful. *heh* But going back to the real home bit.... So we'll have a real bed. We have a nice new fridge and we'll also be getting new flooring cuz it's falling apart. We'll turn the other room into a guest room/study room and it's gonna be gReat! Oh! Ellen sent me mail on Thursday. It was a box o' stuffs! I got lotsa candy and CREED. *Droool* She spoils me! *LOL* But I was so happy to get mail that day! Meesh has been doing well in Norway. She's been calling us but I keep missing them!! Whaie! She got my mail and Valentine's card too. Wee! She, Mike, and his mom are gonna travel Europe next month. I'm so jealous!!! I wanna!!!!! The next day (Sunday) I wanted to go back to Seattle, but it was hard to convince the rents since they were just up there the day before. But we woke up lazily and I helped my mom cook and we left around 6pm. There wasn't much left to do but watch The Simpsons and then mess around. I don't remember what else happened..... But so we all had Monday off (well, most of us did) and Lar and I wanted to go look at furniture stores for beds, which I already talked about above, but it's pretty coo. This past week was alright. I was feeling really tired. I think it had to do with those greasy mattress salesmen, convincing us that we were 'tossers [in bed]' because the mattress was uncomfortable. Well, we aren't sleeping on a mattress! We're sleeping on a futon PAD, HAHAHAHAHA. Anyways, the salesguy was like from the car lot. In fact, he snapped his fingers at us and referred to the really big, nice, expensive beds up front as "the cadillacs." Hmm. So anyways, I slept thru Tuesday classes as well, I'm horrible. I did go to Wednesday since it was my short day. I had lunch with Annie, Dawn, and Jim at Orange King and it was nice. And oh! I saw Larry on-campus too, I never see him so it was weird but nice of course. After lunch I wanted to go on the Ave to "buy stuff." I bought some cards at the bookstore and then looked around at other things. I filled my Rx and I knew something was wrong when she told me to "wait 20mins." This particular one requires overnight... So I made another trip back out there soon after with Larry. But it was a beautiful day so it didn't really matter. My Rx was fixed and we looked in the stores and it was just really nice. :) Thursday was my long day, which is the worst day. I had a quiz the next day in 209. Apparently we got our midterms back on Tuesday when I skipped and we had a guest speaker today who wasn't all that interesting. I rushed to CMU only to be more BORED, so I spent an hour going through all my papers. I checked my planner to see if I was current. I read my paper assignment thoroughly and started reading the article for it. It was pretty boring. But at least I got something done for another class. Weese and I both left at the break. I made a stop off at the HUB to look on the for-sale lists. Lar and I do want to get a bed, and we do have the IKEA one in mind. But hey, if we can find a whole bed for sale, used, then we'll get it and then buy a new mattress. And I suppose it was kept low-key that Bill Bradley was at campus because there were news crews and vans everywhere. I think they might have caught me walking in the background. *heh* Went over to the Psych building to do a few things: get my exam, get entry codes, check grades. It took a while to find my TA's room but when I did, I just asked for my exam. She asked me if I had questions. I said I didn't. She offered to print something out for me, I said I would check online. She then asked if I had more questions. So then I started to leave. I mean, she's really nice and all, but I had a lot of things to do that day and I really didn't have any questions, honest! I checked my psych grades and they're just as I thought they would be. I had to wait about 15mins for the psych advising people to return from lunch. By then, I found out I needed an APPOINTMENT to see one of them for the entry codes. But luckily one of them came out and I asked quickly about it and just as I suspected they ran out. What did I expect anyways? They were giving them out on Tuesday and I was checking on Thursday. But that really sucks. Finally home! Lar and I took a nap. We've been tired lately. I think I tried reading some since I had two quizzes the next day. Friday I woke up DEAD tired. I had vaccumed the day before, which kicks up all sorts of dust....that caused an allergic reaction of wheezing! (weezing?) It sucked, I couldn't breathe, so I didn't sleep at all. But I still went to class! Thankfully, my 209 class was short. We got back some papers and then took the quiz, which I'm sure I got full credit on. YAY! I went to the puter lab for a few minutes and sent Meesh an email and then went to CMU section. It was pretty boring, but hey! The TA knows my name so it's easier to get his attention, etc. Since I was so tired, I went straight home instead of going to lunch. I didn't sleep but just laid around and stuff. I did sleep later that day for four hours though. I was tired! Didn't do much else that night but go out for dinner (burritos). I found a dollar on the floor. Lar and I ate and watched TV. We stayed up pretty late. I was hoping to get my updating done last night, but by the time I got online, I was too lazy for it. :P Today was a good day though. I was woken up by my sister calling me. She's still surprised that I'm not awake before noon! *L* So I called her an hour later and we set out! Plans were to see "Wonder Boys," which I said I already hated since Michael Douglas is in it......and then go shopping. We left at a good time, though, just enough to arrive to the theatre and stuffs. There were a lot of previews but the movie was pretty good. It had Tobey Maguire in it, who has been doing a good turn with the roles he's selected. Afterwards, we went to the new Fred Meyer and I bought some junk food and then we went downtown to the International District. It was weird being there cuz I remember my family used to go there every weekend! And we would wait for HOURS for our mom to finish shopping and we'd buy Vietnamese sandwiches and candy and it was just actually pretty fun! B took me to this store, I can't spell its name..but it was coo and we bought more junkfood. Then we walked and bought those sandwiches (they had no pate though!). And then we stopped off into another store and she bought me some star paper folding thing. No, it's not like origami. It's more like paper rolling...it's really cute though. We drove around lost for a few minutes. But it was fun. She bought me lotsa stuffs and stuffs. We went to Northgate so she could look around at The Bon and then we went home. Lar was talking on the phone FOREVER. Had I known, I would have stayed out longer! *L* j/t It was annoying though. But I took some time out for a long shower. YAY! We watched TV, though Saturday tv is pretty boring. SNL was really off tonight. I couldn't watch more than an hour of it. Strange. He went to play games and I went online to update and to chat. Of course I got held up doing other things. Since no one was on my ICQ I went into Yahoo and I had some people talking to me. *L* But I think I'm about done now. It's like 2.30am, I think it's time for some bed! Talk to you later, sorry for the delay in updating. Things shouldn't be too bad for the next few weeks. I just have finals to look forward to and two papers. Not too big a deal. I can get most of my reading done in the afternoon anyways. Byyeeeeee! PS: Check out http://students.washington.edu/kyan/execs. (The avi file) PPS: Sorry if this update is all scattered and overlapping. It's hard when you're trying to remember the past! ;) March 2, 2000Well, this week has been an interesting one. First, on Monday there was a rally for Bill Bradley. No, I didn't attend, though Larry and Bennetts did as supporters. Rather, I went to lunch with Annie at By George. Usually we go somewhere to eat, such as the Orange King, but I had a feeling that both of us knew that doing this regularly wasn't very good.We just sat and talked and caught up basically. I realized that I had been pretty anti-social, especially with last week (which is still a blur to me). Registration was also on Monday at 6am. I wasn't looking forward to it because on days like these, the phone lines are full. Thankfully, since we don't live on-campus, I dialed up and succeeded after only 5 redials. The best part of was it was only 5:55am when I hung up. I only signed up for two classes, they were the ones I wanted, section and all. But I couldn't get my final class due to my lack-o-psych major. That problem was minor and could be easily fixed though. I wasn't worried about it. But what did concern me was the number of credits I would have once everything went through. I would only have 13 credits, I had to have 15. Don't ask me why because it's a long long story. :P I knew I had to do something else. Annie called me later that day and asked me which CMU class I was in. I told her and it didn't fit her schedule, since she is planning to minor. She told me of another lecture from 4.30-6.20pm on Monday and Wednesday. I was "eh" about it, but then I saw my favorite professor was teaching it! I told her I would look into this further, maybe we could have this class together. Tuesday was all about going to my psych advising appointment. I figured I should talk to someone before I did all the work to apply just in case, you know? I'm a bit gun-shy when it comes to applying to academic programs since my luck is shit. I almost missed my first class since I was so tired and didn't get up. But I ran out of here and made it on time. Not many people showed up but she did tell us we would have a small quiz the following day, so I'm glad I came! My CMU class was horrible. I didn't even reason with myself about why I should stay after the break. I already resigned myself to just fricking leave because it's so pointless. I spent the remaining time before my 2pm appointment in the computer lab. There was a guy humming next to me, I thought it was pretty funny. I kept a straight face though. But I don't think he would have been mad if I did laugh. If he's easy-going enough to hum and whistle, do you think he'd be mad? Nawwwwwwwwww. I went to my appointment. Beforehand I really had to go to the bathroom, as I was leaving a woman walked in. I looked at her, took her in, and made my conclusion. And it was this: I *hope* she's not my advisor. It's not that she was horribly disfigured or had body odor. I just looked and saw something I knew I wouldn't like. The thing that tipped me off was just, her. She seemed to be in her late 40s to early 50s. From prior experience, I *never* do well with women in these ages, don't ask me why. She was short, just over 5ft. Her hair was a strange mix of red, brown, gold. It was set in a hairstyle that she probably had since the 80s. Her clothes consisted of a plaid corduroy jumper and dark tights, along with comfortable shoes (see: ugly). I sat in the waiting room until she came out and called me in. Hell! Things like this always happen to me. :P I told her why I was here. I wanted to talk about my plans for school for the next few quarters. Perhaps if she had any tips to help me, that would be great. I told her how I contacted a professor about the psych stats course. He wrote back and told me the advising office handles his add codes, but he gave me/them his permission to give one to me. Just as I finished my last word, she cuts me off by saying: Well, you're wrong there. (bitchy tone) Um, excuse me? HE's wrong, I'm not wrong. I'm telling you what HE told ME. I didn't say this though, I suppose I was too in shock to. But normally I don't speak my mind like that. I need some time to think things over and to come up with something. Of course by then, it's too late, so nothing ever happens. She told me that HE handles his own codes. Hey, is it my fault that he doesn't know how to manage a class? I mean, hell! Anyways, the next thing she asks me is: What do you want to do? I didn't quite understand this question at first. I think I had her repeat it. Then I said that I wanted to get in the psych school, take my classes..... And she cut me off there. No, no, no. What do you want to DO? I said I wanted to finish school.... Noooooo, what DO you WANT to DO? Okay I see here. She wanted my life plan. How the hell am I supposed to have a life plan if I'm not even done with school? And wouldn't you think that continuing school and taking classes would give me a better idea of where I want to go and what to do once I get there? I rambled on about counseling young teens. Hey, I didn't know okay? I don't have a plan, not now anyways. But of course I couldn't very well say that, since this woman would be reading my application. Saying so would mean that I had no idea what I was doing. Which is true, but I don't think they need to know that. :P My "answer" didn't appease her. She wanted more details, which I obviously didn't have. So then she started telling me that the planning starts NOW. (Why else do you think I'm here?) She told me to forget about school (wha?) and to think about what to do once I got out (huh?). I guess I "annoyed" her when I kept referring back to school. She wanted me to think bigger, BIGGER, *Bigger!!!* Whatever you know? What the hell is she doing by telling me to think about 5 years from now, when I can't even think about what I'm doing right NOW? Why is she just being so damn mean to me. Advisors aren't supposed to scare you away. They're suppose to help..to advise...hello? Anyways, she pulled up my transcript and was like: Oh, yes, you'll get in for sure. You think that would have made me happy or something. But no, I was just freakin' disappointed. This appointment was not going the way I wanted to. I just got yelled at and made to feel like crap. I was leaving. So I "thanked" her for her time. She told me to have a good weekend, and that they'd "see me next quarter!" (chipper tone) WTF? I looked at my watch as I left, ten minutes. What a waste of time. I accomplished absolutely nothing in there. I wasted a part of me in there, to allow myself to be put through that shit. Lar came by, since we were gonna walk home together. It had been raining hard that day you know. And I forgot my umbrella. At least I can go home now and take a hot shower and then get into warm pj's. But he said we had to walk BACK to the other side of campus because he forgot to turn his homework in. Nice. We did that, I complained. We got drenched. I couldn't see out of my glasses any longer. He dropped off his homework, we were lazy and waited for a bus. He got hungry during the ride (which was a few minutes), so then we got off at the Ave and grabbed boxes at La Vaca. Had we thought about it more, he could have gone to Schmidtz to clear up his status (There's a hold that prevents him from getting classes.) and I could have gotten the food. Oh well. So we went to the office building and waited about 20mins for him to do his stuff. He came out and actually accomplished nothing as well, the women said he had to do this and this before they could take the hold off. Wonderful. But we were finally home and gorged ourselves with the food. Yum. Then we laid around. Later I took a quick shower and read my psych book to prepare for the quiz. It was Buffy-Angel night too. I can't believe how excited I get about it. I look forward to Tuesday night every week. I'm a big retard. *L* It's like this little guilty pleasure that I indulge in. Guilty because it's..supposedly one of those "stupid" shows. But you know something? I don't care! It's a great show! Angel can be better, but for now, I'm all about Buffy. Since getting up this morning was so difficult, I have decided to go to bed no later than midnight. I shouldn't miss any more classes and I won't. I let myself slip around 2nd midterms because I was fried from studying. I've also been watching "Undressed" on MTV. Now this is the epitome of guilty pleasures. I won't deny it. Wednesday, ah, my short day. The only thing keeping me going is knowing that I only have two hours. A girl showed up in my 355 class. I've only seen her a handful of times the entire quarter, but every time I did, we talked. So I was surprised to see her and even more surprised when she sat next to me. We talked all through class, which I have said is one of my pet peeves, but AY! I don't do it often! The quiz was only one question, and it was an easy one since the professor had been lecturing about it for a full week. Afterwards, I had lunch with Dawn and Annie. We convinced Annie to skip class. Okay we're evil, especially since she missed her first class of the day already. But AY! I don't to it often! ;) Went to their apartment and then we went to Northgate so Annie could do some return/exchange. Then we went to the ghetto Ross on Aurora. The one where I bought my skirt and stood in line for so damn long that I almost missed my music final last quarter? I found a grey shirt with a square neck. Standing in line wasn't as bad but we did wait about 20mins. (last time was 45mins) Dawn was hungry so then we went to the Burger King. Since it was Wednesday their cheezburgers were 49-cents. I ordered two of them, but the girl gave me three! Ha ha!!! After we ate, they dropped me off just in time to see Larry leaving for his geek bowl practice. I didn't do much last night. I read CMU since my final is next Thursday and I wrote a little more of my psych paper (which is due tomorrow). I suppose I should have just finished the damn thing, but I was just too lazy. Besides, Larry was using it to write something that was due today, so that has priority. Today was my long day. The girl showed up again in 355 and we talked a little. Lecture was more boring than usual, so I skipped out with 5mins to go, to "make it to my next class." I told her I would see her Monday though. She's a psych major and gave me some tips on classes (which is what I wanted to get Tuesday from the mean woman!). CMU was horrible. I already knew I was gonna leave. No reasoning behind it: I just hate it. I doodled and nodded off. Weese left too, so I wasn't alone. But tomorrow we're meeting in our groups for that salmon paper. We're actually working on it? Haw! It's about time though and I need it to be good because I want points! I went home and hung out. Now I'm working on my 209 paper which is due tomorrow. I'm getting a lot done right now, I just have two final parts to add to it and YAY! But there's not really a rush tonight since I don't watch TV on Thursdays. Going back to school....I changed my entire schedule around. That 13 credits wasn't gonna cut it. So I'm taking a different psych, one that is worth 5 credits instead of just 4. I'm also in a Classics class. Ya know why? I'm gonna minor in it. Just 5 measly classes, and I already took one of them. Classics courses will be good when I can't fit any more psych or CMU in my schedule and I LIKE Classics. I got Tink mail yesterday, and that made me so happy. I wrote him back and the letter is ready to mail, but I forgot to send it today. Tomorrow will be okay. If I finish this paper up early enough I want to write Meesh a letter and send it tomorrow as well. I hope so! Friends and fam are all goo. I'm helping my sister move at the end of this month. I'm getting her coffeetable. Heh! I have my CMU final next Thursday, 355 on Monday (@8.30am, no less!) and the salmon paper, and 209 is on Wednesday. Not too bad. I'm looking forward to this spring break. Things were a lot more stressful this time around. I caught a few scenes of "The Joy Luck Club." Now I want to read the book and then watch the entire movie. I'm really excited about it. I haven't read a book for fun in a year. The last one I read was "The Confederacy of Dunces." I read that like, as soon as Larry came here, since he brought the book with him. I think this will be a good read, cuz I have gone through and felt the same things that I saw in those few moments. I'll be looking in the used bookstores when there's time. That's all from here for now. If I can't get in to update more often, I'll try my best to do the weekly thing. Gives everyone more meat/potatoes to chew. <<<< ^ >>>> |
