April 20, 2000: Some changes

First off, I think I should have a better explanation for my new links page. Then again, I guess there isn't much to explain since I did it on the page. Oh well, I just thought it was lame of me to just slap it on the bottom of the 17th's update without saying much on it.

The idea for the page just came to me that day as well. I just started thinking about all the links that I come across. I try to share them in here, but they're all embedded in here. So now there is a new concise location for these links. Weee! In other words, it's an easy, more interesting way of redoing my "cool links" page, since it's soooo dated.

Well, after that, I also did some minor changes on my front page and my index page. There's an automatic refresh from the front page to the index. I found the nifty code off my sister's page. As for the index page, I put everything closer to the center, took off some links I didn't like anymore, and added some extra text. I likes! And I hope you guys do too.

This is just a start to all the changes I'll be working on. Mostly updating my other pages to reflect my current state. (Yes, Mike and Jim, there will be a new friends page.)

School: Well, this week has pretty much sucked. I dunno. I think it all started on Monday when I got my CMU midterm back and wasn't happy with the score. Tuesday was a so-so day. Things went back to bad again cuz I got my CMU hypothetical back and I'm not happy about it. So I guess my main gripe for the week is my CMU class. It isn't going the way I want. *GRRRRRR*

Another thing that annoyed/frustrated me this week was my psych class, as always. So we have a midterm tomorrow. But it's material from weeks 1-3, this is Week Four. So nothing we talked about this week is on the test. And to me, that seems counteractive since this new info will interfere with the old info, hampering our ability to do well on the exam! ARGH.. Maybe I'm the only one who thinks like that. Other than that, there's the usual complaint about how lectures are structured..rather, the lack of it.

The only thing that seems to make me happy is my Classics class. But I'm two days behind on the reading, since this week we read from the course pack...about Greek History. How boRING. I like reading BOOKS. Thankfully we are supposed to read "The Clouds" for tomorrow...but I know I'm not gonna get that done. I'm just happy that we're reading books again.

Today was okay, aside from psych. At least the guy who normally sits behind me wasn't there, so there was no one kicking the back of my chair. Instead of going home, I went to the puter lab for a few minutes since I had an advising appointment an hour later. I hadn't checked my email at all yesterday! Can you believe that? I was surprised I went this long without touching my puter.

My advisor lady was running late. In fact, my appointment was at 1.30, and she called some other guy in. D'oh. I went in about 20mins late. But that's okay I had a quick thing to ask. Since I got into the psych school...I'm good, but they aren't processing the paperwork until May 1, and I have to register for summer next Wednesday...so I had to get yet another premajor extension. Ah well. She wondered why I wasn't more happy about things..but hey, if you know me, I don't really get excited about anything....if you really know me, maybe you can find a thing or two. *shrug*

So then I turned in my paperwork and went home. Caught the end of "Passions" which was really good..and then I fell asleep for an hour or so. I woke up and made something to eat, Jim called me, I said I would call him back. In the meantime I finished my psych notes and baked a cake. He called me before I called him and we didn't talk so long cuz Lar came home at 8'something. That's so late. So I had to leave cuz I had to tell Lar about this coffeetable I saw outside.

I walked past it when I was home, but it seemed heavy, so I didn't get it. And I didn't think that he would be gone so damn long..so of course it wasn't there when he got home. D'oh. There wasn't a place to put it though. But still..free stuff..on the street! *L*

That's all from here. It's gotten pretty late. I'm surprised! But I have time to review my notes for the exam and that's it! I don't care!!!!!!!!!!! Going home for the weekend..."American Psycho" isn't playing down there, suck!!! Don't really have any kind of concrete plans but I'm sure I'll end up doing something. I want to end up at Annie's to have some leftovers from Easter dinner...her mom makes the most amazing ham! *EG* Food....

Last old entry was April 17, 2000.

April 24, 2000: Ah hahahahaha!

So! My weekend was off to a gReat start. Well, foist..let's go back to schoo.

Classics lecture was interesting enough. I'm trying to remember who the lecturer was. I'm hoping it's that really cool old guy and now that I said so, I really think it was. Hmm. Anyways, I was more concerned about going over my psych notes since the test was next period!

Even though I rushed to get there and I wasn't very far away to begin with, my choice seat was taken! So once again I found myself sitting amongst Greek peoples. Haw. Oh well, no time to think about them, right? The test itself was okay. But I got the sniffles during it...so I became the Hated Person Who Sniffles During Exams. Oops! :P Like it was some joyride for me? *L*

Then I got home and talked to Annie. I was gonna go over there later that day to hang out and have dinner with her and Wilson. Okay that last sentence had really bad structure. Soz! I packed for home and then received a sneaky-looking email from the CMU advising office. It was sent to "new CMU majors?!" So I ran downstairs to checke de mail..and yep! I'm IN!

When I told people about this, many of them asked which one I was gonna do: CMU or psych. And so I'll answer it here cuz I won't get your questions or nuffin....I'm doing both! I guess no one remembered that I was gonna double major so there. I said it again. :)

Over at Annie's and I just laid around. I did have a dose of "TRL" so I was happy. *G* Weese came over at work and then we went to teriyaki. I just bought stuffs for Lar since I wasn't very hungry. Then I went home and took a quick shower since it was a hot day.

B and I went home at 8pm. Got there at 9pm...watched "Making the Band." Then we went to Blockbuster redeemed our free "Sixth Sense" and got another movie "Shooting Fish." They were having a pre-viewed movie sale..so B got "Rushmore" and I bought "GO." Weee! Good movie deals tonight.

Then we went to Albertson's since we needed smoothie-making stuffs: strawberries and bananas. Got home..popped in the movies...made the smoothies and they were so GOOD!!! I waited up for mom to come home but she was still gone when I went to bed at 2.30am.

The next morning we all went shopping and it was pretty fun. I got a nice pair of lounging grey pants, which I'm wearing now. :) I talked to an old HS semisorta friend, Kayte. I'm sure I wrote about her somewhere...she's the one with the big ole tattoo of an anchor on her back. Anyways, she was doing good and planning on going to Central next year for her teaching degree.

I went over to Annie's and we hung out til Rebekah and Christina came over. It was definitely interesting to see Christina since she's gone thru a lot of changes since I last saw her. Those of you who know me...know this..so I won't say it in here. Anyways, we all went out and it was pretty fun. Went to Blockbuster and everyone bought movies. *G* I know where the steals and deals are! *LOL*

Sunday we all left for Seattle. Mom decided to be up in Seattle already before Dad returned from Vegas with that friend of his. So she was staying over at that guy's place with his wife...okay that all sounded very bad...everyone is friends with everyone, how about that? :P

We got stuck in traffic. One hour. Multi-car accident. I think it was prolly about 12 cars. You'd reach the first bunch of 3 cars...drive a lil' ways...see 2 on the other side...and repeat. So that really sucked. I'd like to extend a big "FUCK YOU" to the people who caused this damn accident. This is also gonna apply to those who have 'rubberneck syndrome' and insist on slowing down to look at what's going on in the median. Haw!

I was tired after all that, so I fell asleep from 6 to practically 10pm. I was thinking about continuing sleeping into Monday but I snapped awake and ended up staying up for a while. I found my old-school Nintendo while I was at home so I was busy trying to hook it up..but we need the audio/video cable, which I'll get at Radioshack this week!!! Me Happy!!!!!!!!!!!

Oh, so today is Mom's bday! Before we left for Seattle yesterday, B and I gave her stuffs: card, money, chirping chick, and M&M's. It sounds/looks a lot better than in print..and I think she liked it. Especially the money since she's a gamblin' foo! ;) *L*

Classes today were fine. Lecture in Classics was by the other TA. And BOY I'm so glad I have the TA that I do..cuz this one was not good at all. I don't think I could stand having him as my TA if I did. UG!! Then in psych there was a big old discussion on what SCHEMA are. OMG. Just give us the definition..from a freaking textbook.. and MOVE ON! Sheeeesha..so I spent that whole time writing a letter. :P

Got some good email today..Meesh wrote..and so far she hasn't received our mail. I hope nothing happened to it. Erin wrote to say that she was back from the interview thingie in Florida. Jen wrote briefly about how her birthday went. This girl sent a notification that she updated her journal. She was the one who got me started on 'em. Just a good email day.

Anyways, enough rambling here. I should get to bed!! 12.40am! If I think of anything else, I'll add it latta! Byeeeee.

April 26, 2000

So I was all worried about my Classics quiz yesterday. It was really easy, though many people thought it wasn't? I know I missed something cuz I forgot what Thucydides wrote. I spent psych lecture writing Nancy a letter.

Today was an easy day. But I am SO TIRED. Larry and I did go to bed early, before midnight, but we stayed up talking for a long time. Then I had registration at 6am and that took a while. I got the two CMU courses I wanted and I didn't get the psych stats since I'm not "officially" a major. :P A couple hours later I had to drag myself out of bed and out the door.

I checked my exam score...I BOMBED. What the hell? I guess I'm just not made to take multi-choice tests. :P I suck!!! Psych section was boring, but more informative than lecture. I rushed to Classics and apparently Allan and Annie saw me but I was too busy walking to notice.

This class confused me since I thought we were gonna learn about Plato. The guy stands up there for 45 mins talking about some kind of war..and this brick wall connecting two cities...rewriting the Athenian constitution...horses not being able to breathe which makes them valuable...etc. So as you can tell from those fragments I was actually sleeping the whole time. Near the end of class he finally associates these things with Plato...such as one of the rewriters was related to Plato like dis..and one of the lalala was related to him like dat...blah blah blah! Useless!

I went to the puter lab to check my email. I emailed psych advising and the prof about my situation with the stats course. I got responses back. Advising was not helpful at all; they just said to go to the first seminar and that the class prolly won't be full. The prof was more helpful and offered to put me on her list first if she needed to. But now that I'm home, I checked and there's only one person registered. Ah!

Then I went to the HUB for this so-called job fair. It was a woman sitting behind a desk. I talked to her briefly and thanked her and left since summa schoo won't work with this job. So that sucks.

Thankfully I'm home. I just got off the phone with Annie..and now I am gonna take a nap before this damn class. I want to miss it but since we have another midterm, I really can't. :P

So I bought the missing cable to my old school Nintendo and picked up Mario 2 yesterday. I'm in heaven!!!!

April 27, 2000

Today, today....I suppose it was a good day in all. I'm a bit clouded though since I'm really anxious and nervous about next week. *sigh*

Anyways, so we got our Classics quizzes back today. I did worse on this one, but not by much: 45/50. Last time I got 49/50. A lot of people still complained that it was hard but I didn't find it was too terribly difficult. Aren't tests supposed to be hard? But he talked about what the midterm would be like and that makes me really scared though.

I did talk to that student aide guy for psych in that class. We actually had a good conversation, even though it was about tests in this class and in psychology. His personality...is interesting. I can't find the words to describe...but I dunno..he seems very formal and kind of...professional..but that's not the word I want to use.

Psych was another useless day. Typically, on Thursdays we have the TAs come up and talk about some good homework examples, which were turned in yesterday. And the talk was the WHOLE PERIOD. OMG..that class is horrible! I am trying to just dislike the teacher as a teacher and not a person..but it's getting there. And I don't like it cuz it's not fair....but how...to cope...?

Instead of going straight home, I had to go down to Guthrie so that I could get the Questions and Answers from the midterm...to make an appeal. In class he said that they were gonna talk over some of the questions and so maybe we could get points because they were too ambiguous. That would be cool...speaking of, I said that I would type my appeals TONIGHT..but am I getting them done? I am not sure..I don't think that they will collect them tomorrow since he also told us to wait on making them. So Monday, perhaps?

I talked to this girl I was in cognitive with last quarter..the one who wanted my Classics book? Turns out she ended up dropping that class..so I'm spared. And it's not like she can find me next time, in autumn quarter, eh?

But I finally made my way home, and Larry was still getting ready to start his day. *L* I watched my soaps and messed around with email. Meesh got her package from us! I was so afraid that it would get lost in the mail or something. *whew* Then N*Sync were on Donny and Marie and of course I watched THAT. *LOL*

Made pad thai for dinner and Lar came home. We ate and rested...then went to Northgate so we could buy more AE pants. Hey they're cheap! You should stock up on something you find that you like, okay? :) I ended up getting a cream pair in the same style as my grey pair..with all the zippers and pockets. :D Lar got another pair of green cargo pants. But what I really want are those blue parachute pants with the orange bungees!

Went to Electronics Boutique and I finally bought Jigglypuff! I was buying him for when I got into the psych school...so I did that. But what do I do about CMU? *Hmmmm* Suggestions? Now we're home and time has just gone by..I was busy looking up some info on the "Guess who's in it, to win it" contest on Kiss 106.1. Lar found what he thinks is the final person..so tomorrow we're getting up and calling!!!! I'm lucky for people!! But it'll have to be me who says everything..and I'll say that I live in Olympia, just in case they don't like how he won the Christina Aguilera contest last time...same addresses and all. :)

How exciting!

So yeah..I don't think I'll get anything done for the rest of tonight. What I really want to do is sleep!!!!!!

Annie's going home this weekend and is gonna see Jennifer. I'm jealous..but I can't go home because I don't ever get anything done and next week I have two midterms, in classes that I'm both behind in reading!! Well, not so far behind in Classics..but CMU? Oh geez...don't even bother asking!

BTW..did I mention that Lar and I..along with M&M are gonna go to Warped this summer? I think it would be fun since it falls on Fourth of July. *heh* I'm not terribly interested in the bands there..but I think Bif Naked would be okay. She's like No Doubt on crack and with lots of tattoos..*LOL*

Hmmm..well, I can't think of anything else to talk about so I'm gonna post this..Check out the link for today! MMmmmmm, chocolate!

April 29, 2000: No, no, no...

Okay so we didn't win that Chevy Tracker. In fact, someone else won. It gets even worse since that final celebrity's name actually passed through our lips yesterday morning as we debated about who it could be after that last clue was given in the morning show. Oh well. It does suck in that, they are constantly playing that winning call... Oy...but they are starting another, similar, contest on Monday. I don't even think I should bother. Bah.

Yes, I can be a sore loser.

Anyways, so yesterday I did my two hours of school. They were horrible! Classics was a waste since they booked this professor, who is really smart, but what he was lecturing on wasn't gonna be tested anywhere. And he was confusing to boot! Ah well, I just sat and spaced out. I wonder what I was thinking about...

Psychology was actually of some use yesterday. He talked about regrading two exam questions and it so happens that my original answers are 'okay' now. Weee! I get those two extra points and I'll be making some appeals, which are due Monday, so I could get some more. I need POINTS.

I went home to find Lar still lounging around. The sick thing was that he started at 2.30pm that day. That's so late. If I ever had a class that late I prolly would never go. That, or I would never get up 'early' to do some studying before I left. I'd be tempted to roll around in bed until I absolutely had to get up.

Anyways, I was feeling pretty tired last night. Larry just didn't want to come to bed! I can't sleep without him there, so I said he HAD to. *LOL* So..I still was tired. I figured I should take a nap right now or else I would get tired later in the day and want to go to bed. And I slept until he came back, 7pm. Eek. Lots of sleep.

But it paid off...

So we talked about our days and then went to Red Robin for dinner. We were celebrating my CMU school letter. After we were sufficiently stuffed, we went to QFC for some lite grocery shopping. We didn't get to split our groceries cuz, for once, there was no line checking out! We usually split groceries since he buys stuff that is strictly his own: cereal, yogurt, oatmeal-raisin cookys. I buy things that he doesn't eat: chips, chocolate, etc. We do take turns with the communal stuff such as milk and bread. But yeah, so I paid for everything and it was coo cuz it wasn't that much or anything. And it all evens out in the end.

Went home and watched "GO." I love that movie. It's so hilarious! He started playing Toy Story 2 again and I watched him, just him. And it was nice. He then went online to do whatever and I cleaned around him since this place has been BUGGING me lately. Then he went back out there and I had my turn. I just went thru my journal links and then to some personal homepages and a few did change, so that was interesting.

He came in and we talked a lil' but then he was snoozing away. I ended up staying up until 6am. It was light out, the birds had been chirping for a good two hours by then. I wasn't even that tired to sleep. My back hurt from sitting, so I suppose I should lay down and stretch, that kind of thing.

This morning he woke up early to help out at the engineering open house. I woke up as well, at 10.30am. I'm not tired, but I didn't quite want to start reading yet. So here I am making another update.

I need to tell you guys that Lifesavers is keeping pineapple! Over the holidays I remember they were considering replacing it with strawberry or watermelon. I mean, come on, you can buy tropical lifesavers or some shit, and there those flavors would be. But pineapple NEEDS to be in the original pack! It'd be too many red-colored ones in there if the other ones were voted in!

But yesterday afternoon I saw a commercial saying the votes were in, pineapple stays. YES. I am so happy! Such a good ending....Cuz you may remember a couple years ago they did the same thing with the tan M&M and it got voted out. That was my favorite M&M....awwwwww.

Today is just gonna be about studying. I can't be side tracked since I've already updated. HAH! I'm excited about tomorrow..."American Psycho" and going to get some stuffs to make other stuffs. Okay I had to keep it quiet cuz I'm making something for Jennifer's bday and I don't want her to know what it is yet! *EG*

Byeeeeee.