summertime
i'm sitting here eating and waiting to catch my flight back home. with this time on my hands, i've decided to write a somewhat more substantial entry than what i've been writing these past few months. well, for starters, i spent my summer up here at berkeley, taking the second part of ochem hoping to catch up because last semester i decided i wanted to become a bioengineer. now i've decided i'm a molecular cell biologist..go figure..so really i didnt have to suffer through that fast paced class. but completing it means i'm done with ochem forever. i kind of miss it now, espcially the lab portion, sitting there for hours waiting for something to heat up, you really get to know the people around you who are stressing over the exact same things you are. i feel like i learned a lot this summer, in the short 8 weeks of school. something wonderful happened and it is the following: i've fallen in love, and joshua is still the best guy ever; we got to spend a lot more time together, as compared with the school year. we even got to do things like go on bike rides, and that was one of the longest but most fun bike rides i've ever been on. my keester hurt a lot afterward. my housemates are some of the best people i know i'll ever meet. i live with wendy and steph, who share a room. i share a room with chrisy who will be moving out at the end of the summer...in a couple of days in fact. living in an apartment has fostered a different kind of independence. not the high school rebel kind, but the kind where you have to make sure the door is locked, the stove is turned off, the dishes are done, the bathroom is clean, and there are groceries to make food to eat. grocery shopping is always an adventure. because none of us have a car, we take the bus and carry the groceries back in our backpacks and large bags. lumpy fruit on your back is one of the strangest sensations. i enjoy getting groceries, though, and making food for my roommates. i like to know that they are well fed. it's funny how my mom is constantly asking me about what i'm eating because she thinks i can't cook and that i live off easy mac (which i wouldn't mind). they threw me a great birthday party complete with ice cream cake and music and a big belvedere and i just loved it. i got a job this summer that i'm not too fond of. it involves filing, making copies, filling out forms, making powerpoints..clerical stuffs. i don't know if i'm going to keep it for the year. regardless of how much it is a pebble in my shoe, especially when i want to enjoy the summer sun rather than sit in an office, it's made me realize that i had better do something i enjoy rather than wake up each morning dreading the prospect of going to work. oh, i've also grown to like kimchi this summer because my roommates love it. seeing bloc party with everyone after eating the wonderful cookies i baked was one of the highlights. seeing death cab with joshua was also something i won't be forgetting for a long time. my promise to lay off the reefer completely for the summer was in vain, so it's moderation now, and it's working quite well. oh, wendy steph and i also bought skateboards so that we can get to and from school faster. i still suck but i'm working on it. i'm probably leaving out so much because so much happened this summer. as with many other instances in my life, it passed before i had time to even catch up with it. i hope that i will never forget this summer, and i hope all of you had a just as good if not better one. i've got to go home now.