wow! I just spent literally almost a week in my apartment. I went out last saturday, and I didn't leave again till friday. pretty sweet. I'm pretty proud of myself. I mean, I really need a job, but after so many years of school, and summer school, I really need a break. And I'm taking it! wee! So, how's school/work for everyone else??

I got my wisdom teeth out a few days ago. man. I have never gone under for a surgery before. I was wondering if you dream. You do not. I am feeling better, now. Good enough to be chewing, at least soft foods in itty bitty bites. I am a real sucker for pain. By that, I mean, I hate it. The first day I was conscious, I think, about 20 minutes the entire day. total. And the second day, I finally got up and walked around the apartment. Oh yeah, pictures coming soon. It is a mess cause I have been moping. Today I HAD to leave, and not by choice, thankyouverymuch. I had to meet to finish my senior project, duh duh duh! it's due tomorrow. I wasn't quite feeling up to it, but now it is done. And then I made the mistake of going to farmer's market. nick talked me into seeing the bourne ultimatum, and it was alright. But that was too much action, too soon. by the end I was not feeling the best.

I tried to sell books back today, and they are not buying them back, WHAT?? WHY do I even bother keeping these? f*ckers.
p.s. I love harry potter fanfic. and yes, liz, I blame you for starting this obsession in the sixth grade.
p.p.s. why do people supposedly love vicodin so much?? it is lame. it makes me dizzy and woozy and nauseous and super tired. and It is hard to move and ride in cars and stuff.

So, I just got my first filling EVAR, and since I was so scared, my dentist, (Dr. Aro, for anyone who cares--he's really nice) novacained me up! woo! I can't feel, like, most of the left side of my face. It's so strange. And, no, I can't taste on that side of my tongue either, go figure. :P

so.. I am convinced I saw an alien at borders today. WTF is up with borders and Creepers? Robby? ANYWAY. So There was This Guy there, aka the Alien, that was looking at magazines. He had:
The Advocate
Instinct
Guns and Ammo
Gun Magazine
Coin Value Magazine
The Avengers
and
Teen Bop Magazine

And he was wearing TWO (2) jackets, both unzipped, and no (0) tee-shirt! And he was literally touching the magazines to his face to read them. Nick thought Maybe he was illiterate? But then changed his mind to say that he is a wizard pretending to be a muggle. I think it's an insult to wizards. I think he is either a) an alien trying to get an understanding of american culture, or b) a gun- and coin- collecting homosexual who likes little boys. wow.




allllso, in the spirit of all this moving crap, I have to say I friggen love my new place! It is nice and big! it's not the cleanest or nicest, but I would rather sacrifice niceness for price at this time of my life. And, yes, living with nick is nice. We've had a couple little tiffs having to deal with cleaning up (or, me doing all of the cleaning and putting stuff away when he reads, poo head). I'm being unfair, but it's partially true. And his roommate isn't all moved in yet, so he speands all his time at his GFs, so it's like having an entire apartment all to ourselves! weee.


also, firefox comes with spellcheck now?? wow, annoyying.

But, I couldn't stop reading! LAst night was fun, after I finally got the book. I was standing in line, furiously trying to finish re-reading book 6. and now it's over, I feel like I've lost something, like a friend died :(. The end of a long, good ride.

I am planning on living with nick for about 6 months because I want to stay here in town for a bit, enjoy not studying, earn money. basically, not go home because the situation isn't the greatest back there. BUT, he was already going to live with his friend from HS that is basically a lazyass, and is letting ME do all the work for finding a place, including searching, lookin at  places, applying for him, turning in the application, and paying the fee. And he is REALLY REALLY messy. And if I were staying here for a year, I would totally tell nick to ditch him and let's find a place together, but the rent for a 2bed per person is so much cheaper than a 1bed or studio (a robbie will tell you :P). AND last week he went to Yosemite for a WEEK and didn't tell us that he was going to be gone that long. So we applied to a place too late and now we probably won't get it. So basically, I am pissed, and I don't know what to do.

TILL HARRY POTTER!! AHHH SHIT YEAAAAH. SO EXCITED. OMG. but it will be so bittersweet. I am in the process of re-reading book 5, after having seen the movie and being slightly dissappointed by how much was cut out/changed. I mean, I guess it's a moe of a 880+ page book, all crammed into just over 2 hours, but COME ON. This, granted, is coming from the hard-core pride and prejudice fan that will only ONLY EVER watch the 5 hour version of the movie, and I am still dissappointed in the end CMON PEOPLE ITS THE BEST PART, WHY DID YOU CUT OUT THE BEST PARTS. ahem. ...... what?
and basically:
looking for a temp job
looking for a place to live
I fucking hate my landlords, but I won't waste space here on those useless pieces of fucking bird shit.

TRANSFORMERS IS FUCKING AWESOME. omg. omg. I was going to post some bullshit about how this house selling shit is continuing to be full of inconsiderate, noncommunicative assholes, and then end it with a rant about politics, but HOLY SHIT IT WAS AWESOME. nick and I saw it last night and it was sooo good. I was tired at first and just wanted to go home but he insisted, and I am glad he did. And, since I really don't remember the whole "transformers thing" beyond kinda watching it with my brother but not really understanding what was going on (happens with a lot of movies. remind me to watch star wars again), I was lost for the first like 20 or so minutes, but then it got aweeeeeeesome. I hardly ever see movies in the theaters twice, but I am planning on seeing this one twice. DO NOT RENT IT. GO NOW. TWICE!

you know? like, after not posting for a while, then there are so many little things to post that it's overwhelming so you don't do it anymore? And then after a while the little things don't matter and then there are only big things? But if there are only little things, then you are screwed and have nothing to post.
BIg things:
I walked for graduation!! Which means nothing, except for the fact that I have a few (a very few) pictures and there was a party.
I am in summer school, and that sucks.
Will I have to move? No one knows. They are selling the house (yeah, thanks for not even BOTHERING TO TELL ME YOU ARE GOING TO SELL THE HOUSE, assholes. They specifically said, like, last month, that they are not going to sell the house, and now, I might not even have a place to live in a few weeks. WHAT THE FUCK) that I live in currently, and nothing is clear. Everything is maybe maybe may-fucking-be. And I don't necessarily want to stay in SLO after december or so.... so.. uh, yeah. confused.


to add to number b: DO NOT PUT OFF SENIOR PROJECT TILL YOUR LAST QUARTER. I mean, wtf. I have NO motivation.
also, serious physics your last quarter sucks.
basically, I have been hit with the biggest senioritis in the world, which is pretty monumental for me because I am used to getting good grades.  So basically I have been sleeping and watching an insane amount of movies.


bottom line: senioritis. aaand don't know how long  I am staying in SLO, don't know what I am doing after I am done. I have no job. I might stay  in SLO for a year? Or maybe 4 months? Get some shit job? But I need benefits. But I don't want ot be tied down. Then, I don't know what I am going to do. I don't know what I want to do or what type of work I want to do or where I want to do it. :) Welcooomee to my life.

who else thinks this is funny? eh?? shiiiit.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_uuN5kuq74

omg. OMG! I just tried to search for a map of australia without realizing tha tI had clicked onthe address bar instead of the search window for google, and it brought be to the lonly planet site!! I didn't even put ina URL! wtf. I am overly amazed right now. But, wow. I don't know if it is just firefox or my computer or what, but putting in a search word or phrase is the same as searching and pressing "I'm Feeling Lucky" on a google search!
also, I changed my iGoogle skin!
I ahve been having trouble with sleep. I have trouble falling asleep and then a TON of trouble waking up, no matter howmuch sleep Ig ot. And then i am tired all day, and often take a nap. This sucks!! Besdies the fact that I haven't done shit for two weeks and I have/had two finals this week, and frankly, I an't be bothered to study. But I *Did* buy 30+ dollars of music on itunes just now.
:)

must remember to blog later, when I have more time, about:
graduation/cake
knitting
stupid fucking cardinal grapje

It was great!! But what did I watch, you say? I am ashamed :(. I watched a show about kiddie beauty pageants and felt like a molester the entire time, but i really wanted that Joann bitch lose. STUPID 6 YEAR OLD. I wanted Kynnedy to win! or Jordan. She is so real, man, so real.


That's not the point. The point was that I watched the end of a movie from 1934. I looove old movies, but this one was strange. A majority of the plot development, at least of  what I watched, was stills of letters to the main character and also newspaper clippings about him. And basically, he was in love with a whore and this other,totally attractive and down to earth nice-girl loved him. And at the end he is leaving for Australia and she is like "OMG I am crying, I will miss you!!one!!" and then he is like, "alright, want to marry me? When I get back?" and she is like "uh, meh. whatever." and then the he sees the prostitute either dead or really really sick, and then when he sees the cute girl is like "I have decided not to go. I love you!" and she is like "oh, alright." and he is like "will you be my wife as soon as possible?" and then they hold up traffic crossing the street so cars honk their horns, (which is a really lame way, in my opinion, to not have to write any dialogue) and then she is like "oh, I guess. If you want me to" and they get in a taxi. THE END. WTF?? exqueese me? There is a lot more lameness/strangeness to it, but I can't be bothered to explain.

Also, There were two old guys (like 40's? maybe? I tried to not look at them) that were sitting in the sun by campus market today, and they were making me really uncomfortable (cussing a lot, sitting with their shirts wide open (wtf?), talking about their "cribs" (I kid you not!), talking about this one guy's ex wife or girlfriend or something and evaluating the girls going by, [which is why I assume they decided to come to a college campus anyway because Dude A was depressed about being a douchebag and his wife leaving him, so they decided to come checkoutthegiiiirls-- but okay. public school. I know, right? Young girls. even better, but THIS HAS TO BREAK SOME RULE. ]) so I called the cops on em. HAH. literally. I WAS PISSED OKAY. It made me feel good to express my anger in a way that hurt them! I hope I ruined their day!


p.s. If you are wondering, Joann won Ultimate Grand Supreme. twice.

1. i just spent like 2 hours on a message board for 13 year olds. wow. I am stupider. Also, that first sentence took me a long time to write. I keep making stupid spelling errors. = PROOF!!
1a. that time I spent on message boards was for.. research? for my book? yeah...
2. the other day when I was pissed off about being awake, I ended up going back to bed and sleeping till 5:00 pm.
3. This world is going to die from stupid children.
4. I have done JACK SHIT TODAY. wow. If you never thought it was possible to sit in one place for 14 hours with the world of things to do on your shoulders and do NONE of it, I am proof  that it is indeed possible.
1b. those kids are A DECADE younger than I am. wow. That just made me feel old.
5. I have been having trouble falling asleep/staying asleep for the past month and a half. arrgh.
6. I am revamping the first sweater I ever knitted! Cause it is an atrocious, shapeless wool thing.
7. Does the hot/warm milk in a latte counteract the caffeine of the espresso/coffee? Because I swear, after my caffe latte in the mornings I am tiiired. It makes sense to me
8. www.lolcats.net is back uuup!
9. I have a meeting with my Sr. Proj advisor tomorrow and I have SHIT to show him! yaaaaaaay! what the hell is wrong with me??

It's not too early, but it certainly feels like it because I should be sleeping in till noon today. But I had never before seen the picture for my personalized google homepage this early in the morning, before. It changes according to the time of day. Right now the little fox is fishing and there is a rooster crowing.
The reason I am up and cannot go back to bed is ebcause i am pissed off! I had to wake up to drive nick to school because 1)he has had two midterms, one of which is today and so didn't get much sleep this week 2) the bus didn't come 3)it's RAINING, wtf. BUT it is open house weekend!! and people are FUCKING IDIOTS WHEN THEY DRIVE, AND WALK, AND PARK, AND DIRECT TRAFFIC. OMG. basically it should have been the easiest drive in the world at 7:20 am on a friday but instead i was cut off by everything imaginable and stuck behind everything imaginable that stopped every 10 feet cause it was lost and was driving really slow, and also got yelled at by traffic directors (not even a cop, just a student) that tried to force me to park when all i wanted to do was drop nick off, so when I stopped so he could get out they all started shouting and it was like stfu, wtf, i wouldn't even be IN this damn parking lot if YOU didn't force me in here. So I am pissed off and can't sleep anymore...boo.
p.s. I made myself a little journal. 30some pages, hardbound with a sewn spine! but not a real cover, I didn't feel like gluing the pages to the spine and just sewing it together is easier. I will post pictures...............sometime. Along with that picture of those socks......oh yeah and of the necklace I made last night.......

so... i have been smelling something not so good in my room, and for a while I thought it was the nair that I used. but then I took out the trash and still smelly. It turns out the smell was from a couple of old lemons that I put in a bag in a box and forgot about. And now they are stinking up the kitchen. hah!
p.s.PLEASe someone force me to work on senior project!!!

one: I just watched Meet the Robinsons, the movie from disney, last night, and ZOMg it is the best movie I have seen in a long time! wheee. BESIDES the fact that I only really like kids movies and sometimes romances, I would take my recommendation for serious, guyz, and go watch it!! It has renewed my hope of someday, maybe, in 10 years, working for Disney. Right now, no. I don't want to be Coffee bitch #3 for pre-sub designer #349. ANYWAY, I want to see it again in theaters, it was so good, and I NEVER do that because I am a chinese person (i.e. CHEAP ASS)

one b) I watched half of Wild Hogs last night because we went to the drive-in and it was playing right after. It was so bad I had to leave, which, again, I NEVER DO because I am chinese (i.e. cheap AND stubborn)

two: GrC Career day was today. yay for semi-success. At least better than being turned down 10 times by people that are like "O, no, we don't want a Graphic Designer. We only want an engineer cuz this is Cal Poly, man, what are you doing Graphic Design here for??" and being like "OMFG. NO. I am not a DESIGNER, bitches. I am a Graphic Communicator." So I went in an hour before it ended, and talked to four (hah, there were like 26 companies there) companies. I got there and one company was booked all full with interviews already, one wasn't hiring, but I am sending myresume because the guy was REALLY nice and gave me pointers on how to interview, one I was like, "no, I don't want to be sales, and you guys are based in Oakland, so okay no bye" and then I saw Agnes, who was my class twin for a quarter. When I was talking to the EFI guy (the nice guy that told me stuff), he got me an interview with some random guy that walked by, from Diamond press and printing or something like that, who I don't want to work for either becuase 1) they are based in san jose, 2) he didn't seem that with it/convincing and 3) their website sucks. YES, I am that shallow. AND THEN I talked tos ome guy from the Ligature that is a poly alum, and their company is friggen AWESOME and I have an interview that he squeezed me in for. The only problem: I am not seriously looking for a job. I want to earn money here and then go to Beijing for a few months and THEN, in, like, next march or april, I will find a job. So: what to do???

AAHH.. I can't seem to get motivated. This should be the busiest quarter of, like, my life, and I am doing JACK SHHEET. I went to bed yesterday after doing NO Homework, and fell asleep with the lights on and didn't brush my teeth or wash up or anything. I woke up this morning still all tie-tie and stuff. And Now it is only9:30 and I just want to go to beds again.

I think you will enjoy this, liz. I took a nap earlier today. Alright, cause I've been having some strange/slightly erotic dreams lately, right? TMI, but I have a point. I am going insane. It's official. I had a dream that Data from Star Trek The NExt Generation were... havin' TEH SECKS. Yeah. Oh yeah. I guess it turns out he is NOT a eunuch and is able to get an erection because millions of tiny micro chips and electric stuff goes.. down there... and .. ::hides face:: nevermind. And then people were watching us, so we had to walk  outside and put curtains up. It turns out, also, that people actually CAN walk in space without a spacesuit. We just didn't know it.

...is it bad how much I hate going home? I hate spending time iwth my mom for some reason. I mean, alright, I love her. she's my mom. I admire how many things she has gone through in her life and the last thing I want to do is to sound ungrateful at all, but I hate spending time with her.  is that bad? I feel smothered. Silence is unknown to her. And she will explain things that are common sense just to say something. I think that I am so used to being my own boss for so long and she is so used to not having kids in the house, but at the same time she misses me. And when I am gone, I miss coming home, but when I am home I don't enjoy it as much as I had hoped.  I guess I just have to remind myself that this feeling is natural, just as my mom loves me so she wants to make sure that I have everything I could never want. wheeeee.

p.s. interesting that when Eva smokes on America's NExt Top Model, they blur out the ciggy. It's subtle cause it's so small, but definitely a ciggarette. odd.

Look at the list of books below:

* Bold the ones you’ve read,

* Italicize the ones you want to read

* Leave blank the ones that you aren’t interested in.

** the ones I STARTED but haven't FINISHED (Horrible, really, that I had to put this in)

 

1. The DaVinci Code (Dan Brown)

2. Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen) only my FAVORITE book of all time

3. To Kill A Mockingbird (Harper Lee)

4. Gone With The Wind (Margaret Mitchell)

5. The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King (Tolkien)

**6. The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring (Tolkien)

7. The Lord of the Rings: Two Towers (Tolkien)

8. Anne of Green Gables (L.M. Montgomery)

9. Outlander (Diana Gabaldon)

10. A Fine Balance (Rohinton Mistry)

11. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Rowling)

12. Angels and Demons (Dan Brown)

13. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Rowling)

14. A Prayer for Owen Meany (John Irving)

15. Memoirs of a Geisha (Arthur Golden)

16. Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (Rowling)

17. Fall on Your Knees (Ann-Marie MacDonald)

18. The Stand (Stephen King)

19. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Rowling)

20. Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte)

21. The Hobbit (Tolkien)

22. The Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger)

23. Little Women (Louisa May Alcott)

**24. The Lovely Bones (Alice Sebold)

**25. Life of Pi (Yann Martel)

26. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Douglas Adams)

**27. Wuthering Heights (Emily Bronte)I don't even  really know if i have read it

28. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (C. S. Lewis)

29. East of Eden (John Steinbeck)

30. Tuesdays with Morrie (Mitch Albom)

31. Dune (Frank Herbert)

32. The Notebook (Nicholas Sparks)

33. Atlas Shrugged (Ayn Rand)

34. 1984 (Orwell)

35. The Mists of Avalon (Marion Zimmer Bradley)

36. The Pillars of the Earth (Ken Follett)

37. The Power of One (Bryce Courtenay)

38. I Know This Much is True (Wally Lamb)

39. The Red Tent (Anita Diamant)

**40. The Alchemist (Paulo Coelho)

41. The Clan of the Cave Bear (Jean M. Auel)

42. The Kite Runner (Khaled Hosseini)

43. Confessions of a Shopaholic (Sophie Kinsella)

44. The Five People You Meet In Heaven (Mitch Albom)

45. The Bible (not like cover to cover or anything)

46. Anna Karenina (Tolstoy)

**47. The Count of Monte Cristo (Alexandre Dumas)

48. Angela’s Ashes (Frank McCourt)

49. The Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck)

50. She’s Come Undone (Wally Lamb)

51. The Poisonwood Bible (Barbara Kingsolver)

**52. A Tale of Two Cities (Dickens)

53. Ender’s Game (Orson Scott Card)

54. Great Expectations (Dickens)

55. The Great Gatsby (Fitzgerald)

56. The Stone Angel (Margaret Laurence)

57. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Rowling)

58. The Thorn Birds (Colleen McCullough)

59. The Handmaid’s Tale (Margaret Atwood)

60. The Time Traveller’s Wife (Audrew Niffenegger)

**61. Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)

62. The Fountainhead (Ayn Rand)

63. War and Peace (Tolstoy)

64. Interview With The Vampire (Anne Rice)

65. Fifth Business (Robertson Davis)

**66. One Hundred Years Of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)

67. The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (Ann Brashares)

68. Catch-22 (Joseph Heller)

69. Les Miserables (Hugo)

70. The Little Prince (Antoine de Saint-Exupery)

71. Bridget Jones’ Diary (Fielding)

**72. Love in the Time of Cholera (Marquez)

73. Shogun (James Clavell)

74. The English Patient (Michael Ondaatje)

75. The Secret Garden (Frances Hodgson Burnett)

76. The Summer Tree (Guy Gavriel Kay)

77. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Betty Smith)

78. The World According to Garp (John Irving)

79. The Diviners (Margaret Laurence)

80. Charlotte's Web (E.B. White)

81. Not Wanted On The Voyage (Timothy Findley)

82. Of Mice And Men (Steinbeck)

83. Rebecca (Daphne DuMaurier)

84. Wizard’s First Rule (Terry Goodkind)

85. Emma (Jane Austen)

86. Watership Down(Richard Adams)

87. Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)

88. The Stone Diaries (Carol Shields)

89. Blindness (Jose Saramago)

90. Kane and Abel (Jeffrey Archer)

91. In The Skin Of A Lion (Ondaatje)

92. Lord of the Flies (Golding)

93. The Good Earth (Pearl S. Buck)

94. The Secret Life of Bees (Sue Monk Kidd)

95. The Bourne Identity (Robert Ludlum)

96. The Outsiders (S.E. Hinton)

97. White Oleander (Janet Fitch)

98. A Woman of Substance (Barbara Taylor Bradford)

99. The Celestine Prophecy (James Redfield)

**100. Ulysses (James Joyce)

 

28 read and most of them in high school... and 11 started but not finished (mostly because school got in the way)! I need to read more!