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yesterday a tragic thing happened - my blow dryer died. it was awful. i had had that blow dryer for years. i couldn't go to church this morning because i couldn't take a shower because i wouldn't be able to blow dry my hair. poor God. luckily i was able to buy a new one today. i went to the mall with Katherine, and it just happened to be next to a linens and things. yay!
let's see. life in dc is decently boring. everyday, i wake up late, hurry to arabic, get a 15 minute break and have tea, back to arabic, home for lunch and then a nap. when i wake up, i generally read, watch buffy episodes and play computer games until patricia comes home. then i get distracted. we go out for dinner alot or just chat or watch a movie. around 9, i realize i haven't started my arabic homework and do that for a few hours and then go to bed. that is my life. exciting, huh?
weekends are generally quite boring. patricia leaves every weekend and ayuko leaves most weekends. i am left to amuse myself. i generally go into the city for touristy stuff and looking for pandas.
this weekend, i took no pictures of pandas. yesterday, i cleaned th bathroom and the kitchen. stuff was so dirty! i really needed a mop. i read some book about a sex aholic who thinks he is the son of jesus. (it wasn't very good). then i went to the mall and wasted my money on a watch. katherine had wanted to go to a party, but she fell asleep :( today, i read a book about kids on heroin, did my arabic homework, and went with katherine to the mall. (see: blow dryer) such an exciting life.
i was really annoyed with yoko today (see: ayuko). i had spent hours yesterday cleaning the house. and she left another cup of iced coffee on the kitchen counter! she does this all the time, but i thought, maybe, since i had gone to all this work to clean it, she could could pick up her shit, but no. and then, she doesn't even thank me for cleaning, just for washing her pot. i would have almost preferred for her not to aknowledge my work at all then just her stupid pot. it's not like her pot can really be cleaned anyway because the bottom is black because she burns every single thing she cooks. o well.
i used to just feel ambivalent toward yoko. patricia and katherine disliked her for leaving shoes and iced coffees all over the house (see: today) and for being a rich snob, but i had been okay wtih her. then she ordered me to call facilities about our clogged shower even though she could have done it and then ordered particia to make sure it got done! stupid bitch! o well. it is fun to complain about her.
i think arabic is going well. i got an A first session which raised my gpa to an almost acceptable 3.5. but now i have a much harder teacher. hopefully we will get our tests back tomorrow and i have a better feel for how i am doing. and the jerk from princeton has stopped showing up for class. hopefully he will get dropped! he used to go on rants about the stupidity of the arabic langauge. that is not exactly appropriate behavior for class. granted, arabic has no 'to be' verb, no 'of', most plurals are irregular, each verb has like 12 different connotations (see: i, you, they...) there are 4 different ways to spell grandfather depending on the number of them and placement in the sentence (and that's just for the one word i know) and no one actually speaks the kind of arabic i'm learning, but o well! i still like it and enjoy myself. danny is just sucky.
umm. i hang out alot with my roommate patricia. she is really sweet. and she likes spending time with me for some reason. she is from brooklyn, where she lives with her grandma. she is taking orgo this summer and working for the admissions office. she is a french major, italian and bio minor, and pre-med. she has a really serious boyfriend, alex, who goes to chapel hill that she sees like everyother weekend. (alex's dad is an author who writes teen books! that is so awesome. i even read one that i checked out from the library) trish is gonna be my ra next year. that is really nifty because she will live on my floor so i will actually see her. she won't be just some friend i made this summer that i see occasionally. she likes cats! she thinks my bunny is grey. she tells people i call her douche bag. ummm. she speaks spanish... katherine is her best friend (see: mall trip)
without trish, my summer would really suck. i would probably have no friends becuase people in my arabic class aren't good friend material (either too old or too male) and i would only know ayuko. even with trish, i would rather be at home. it's so upseting that i can't be there for stacy. or lynnie. i still haven't met tim! (hugs to my and jack too!) i never said goodbye to Quesadilla. i can't take little out driving. o well. i'm coming home in 3 weeks. i am muy excited. yay home! yay no more mosquito bites! yay temps over 100! yay my car! yay my bed! yay lynnie squad!
let's see. life in dc is decently boring. everyday, i wake up late, hurry to arabic, get a 15 minute break and have tea, back to arabic, home for lunch and then a nap. when i wake up, i generally read, watch buffy episodes and play computer games until patricia comes home. then i get distracted. we go out for dinner alot or just chat or watch a movie. around 9, i realize i haven't started my arabic homework and do that for a few hours and then go to bed. that is my life. exciting, huh?
weekends are generally quite boring. patricia leaves every weekend and ayuko leaves most weekends. i am left to amuse myself. i generally go into the city for touristy stuff and looking for pandas.
this weekend, i took no pictures of pandas. yesterday, i cleaned th bathroom and the kitchen. stuff was so dirty! i really needed a mop. i read some book about a sex aholic who thinks he is the son of jesus. (it wasn't very good). then i went to the mall and wasted my money on a watch. katherine had wanted to go to a party, but she fell asleep :( today, i read a book about kids on heroin, did my arabic homework, and went with katherine to the mall. (see: blow dryer) such an exciting life.
i was really annoyed with yoko today (see: ayuko). i had spent hours yesterday cleaning the house. and she left another cup of iced coffee on the kitchen counter! she does this all the time, but i thought, maybe, since i had gone to all this work to clean it, she could could pick up her shit, but no. and then, she doesn't even thank me for cleaning, just for washing her pot. i would have almost preferred for her not to aknowledge my work at all then just her stupid pot. it's not like her pot can really be cleaned anyway because the bottom is black because she burns every single thing she cooks. o well.
i used to just feel ambivalent toward yoko. patricia and katherine disliked her for leaving shoes and iced coffees all over the house (see: today) and for being a rich snob, but i had been okay wtih her. then she ordered me to call facilities about our clogged shower even though she could have done it and then ordered particia to make sure it got done! stupid bitch! o well. it is fun to complain about her.
i think arabic is going well. i got an A first session which raised my gpa to an almost acceptable 3.5. but now i have a much harder teacher. hopefully we will get our tests back tomorrow and i have a better feel for how i am doing. and the jerk from princeton has stopped showing up for class. hopefully he will get dropped! he used to go on rants about the stupidity of the arabic langauge. that is not exactly appropriate behavior for class. granted, arabic has no 'to be' verb, no 'of', most plurals are irregular, each verb has like 12 different connotations (see: i, you, they...) there are 4 different ways to spell grandfather depending on the number of them and placement in the sentence (and that's just for the one word i know) and no one actually speaks the kind of arabic i'm learning, but o well! i still like it and enjoy myself. danny is just sucky.
umm. i hang out alot with my roommate patricia. she is really sweet. and she likes spending time with me for some reason. she is from brooklyn, where she lives with her grandma. she is taking orgo this summer and working for the admissions office. she is a french major, italian and bio minor, and pre-med. she has a really serious boyfriend, alex, who goes to chapel hill that she sees like everyother weekend. (alex's dad is an author who writes teen books! that is so awesome. i even read one that i checked out from the library) trish is gonna be my ra next year. that is really nifty because she will live on my floor so i will actually see her. she won't be just some friend i made this summer that i see occasionally. she likes cats! she thinks my bunny is grey. she tells people i call her douche bag. ummm. she speaks spanish... katherine is her best friend (see: mall trip)
without trish, my summer would really suck. i would probably have no friends becuase people in my arabic class aren't good friend material (either too old or too male) and i would only know ayuko. even with trish, i would rather be at home. it's so upseting that i can't be there for stacy. or lynnie. i still haven't met tim! (hugs to my and jack too!) i never said goodbye to Quesadilla. i can't take little out driving. o well. i'm coming home in 3 weeks. i am muy excited. yay home! yay no more mosquito bites! yay temps over 100! yay my car! yay my bed! yay lynnie squad!