Utena, friends, grades
Well it's almost one AM, Pacific time. What a day. I woke up relatively early (though it was 9am back in Wisconsin) to my sister getting ready. When my brother-in-law left, he gave me some warning, like the TV delivery guy was suppose to come from 10-11:30 am or something and I should be showered and dressed by then. :P
The shower was so relaxing after yesterday's travels. Yay! I managed to finish the anime series of Revolutionary Girl Utena and wow, was that a mind-fuck!! Besides my mind cringing at the sexual things in this series (uhm, a Chairman hitting on middle schoolers?), there was the sad sad sad ending, which I didn't really expect. But hey, at least it's realistic in that not everybody lives happily! (But again, it's highly magical and fantastical.)
My sister and brother-in-law apparently come back every day for lunch, which is kind of neat. And homey. And romantic/intimate, too. *envies* We ate pasta, and the TV hadn't arrived yet. They talked a bit more about the wedding and meeting the relatives again after several years for my sister and ever for him. He apparently expected our eldest sister to be obese cause my father mentioned she gained a bit of weight. Obviously she isn't, but I guess his mind was thinking that if our father mentioned weight gain, it must be a lot compared to myself and my sister. Heh.
I took a nice nap after the TV deliverer came. It was only him, and I tried to help him carry the huge ass box up the stairs (it's 42 inch) but I only got in the way. :( I napped through Farah and Garrett coming home, thoug they asked if I wanted to go on their their grocery trip as planned. I was really exhausted so I said no and burrowed further in the nice flannel sheets OHMYGOD THEY'RE SO AWESOME. They did buy me a box of Fruit Roll-Ups as I asked, though. :) If we go again next week, I'm definitely buying some Ensure and carrots. I just don't want to do my usual large grocery shopping before we're moving.
Grades also came out really early. *wince*
Organic chem: D
Biometrics: C
Intro to Sociology: B+
Intro to Philosophy: A
Term GPA: 2.575
cGPA: 3.036
I thought I was going to fail O. Chem but I guess I only came close to that. I was afraid I would go on academic probation, but I do wonder how that's going to affect my GPA for my MAJOR, which is biochemistry. Yeah, it's kind of hilarious. We're suppose to have a cGPA for our major classes of 3.0 as one stipulation to be awarded a degree in that major. *coughs hard* Obviously that A in Philosophy isn't part of it.
I do resolve next semester to do better. If I get at least B's in all my classes, I'll keep my barely B average. Such a pity because Fall 2007 I was on the Dean's List!!!! Hopefully, even if my health worsens with the horrible winter hitting the Midwest, there should not be any relationship drama. I'm not going to get into any of that, and be as upfront and open about stuff like that. I'll talk about that later...
A lot of my friends got only A and B's, though, so I'm really proud of them! :D Some of them worked really hard throughout the entire semester or hard to make up work at the end. Yeah, ideally, it'd be fantastic if everybody worked hard all the time, but I'm proud they took responsibility and reached out to professors about late work and such instead of laying down and giving up.
I asked him, out of curiosity, about his text/SMS plan because I didn't want him/his parents to pay extra. (I used to have 400 messages a month and no int'l message plan until I changed to unlimited text and a certain number of int'l messages since my mom and I sometimes text and I also text some friends in Europe. I'd have to pay extra each month for them so I didn't someone to get hit by those extra fees.) Turns out he doesn't have a text message plan!!! Dear God!! And it's not just me who texts him, too, or only me he texts, because he's mentioned getting text messages from other people, too, and replying to them. >_< I'm a little sensitive about this because another friend of mine refused to get a text plan because the companies charge so much and I didn't know she didn't have one until she told me and I felt horrified she had to pay whenever I messaged her, usually about me being late for dinner or asking for our plans.
I told him I wouldn't text him as much and would cut it down to sparse ones. I might text while I'm at the airport or something and I'm bored or stuck or when it's a brief question or letting him know something but no more "conversations" through text messages! Weather is apparently horrible where he is, so that makes me a little glad to be here where it was sunny and not snowing, even if it was a bit chilly. Not so much wind!
About the other person mentioned a few entries ago, who told me to give him a call if things didn't work out between me and my biometrics partner - I told him I thought of him as a friend after he asked me what I thought of him. (When he told me a few nights ago, I changed the topic to an online American civics test.) I admit I stumbled a bit, because I'm not used to having people interested in me that I'm not interested back in- the last time I had to tell someone was Spring 2007. Hah, it's easier online, sometimes to flatly say "Friends only" than over a phone call. It's cool, though, cause he did say first and foremost I'm a friend. :) He knows, as does my former biometrics partner, that I'm nixing relationships for a while. We may or may not hang out this spring semester, depending on our schedules and stressors seeing as how we didn't really this Fall semester, but he is a nice person.
I also managed to wrap the presents for my sister and brother-in-law. The skills are rusty, but hey! :D Fun.
/psycho-ness filtered\
The shower was so relaxing after yesterday's travels. Yay! I managed to finish the anime series of Revolutionary Girl Utena and wow, was that a mind-fuck!! Besides my mind cringing at the sexual things in this series (uhm, a Chairman hitting on middle schoolers?), there was the sad sad sad ending, which I didn't really expect. But hey, at least it's realistic in that not everybody lives happily! (But again, it's highly magical and fantastical.)
My sister and brother-in-law apparently come back every day for lunch, which is kind of neat. And homey. And romantic/intimate, too. *envies* We ate pasta, and the TV hadn't arrived yet. They talked a bit more about the wedding and meeting the relatives again after several years for my sister and ever for him. He apparently expected our eldest sister to be obese cause my father mentioned she gained a bit of weight. Obviously she isn't, but I guess his mind was thinking that if our father mentioned weight gain, it must be a lot compared to myself and my sister. Heh.
I took a nice nap after the TV deliverer came. It was only him, and I tried to help him carry the huge ass box up the stairs (it's 42 inch) but I only got in the way. :( I napped through Farah and Garrett coming home, thoug they asked if I wanted to go on their their grocery trip as planned. I was really exhausted so I said no and burrowed further in the nice flannel sheets OHMYGOD THEY'RE SO AWESOME. They did buy me a box of Fruit Roll-Ups as I asked, though. :) If we go again next week, I'm definitely buying some Ensure and carrots. I just don't want to do my usual large grocery shopping before we're moving.
Grades also came out really early. *wince*
Organic chem: D
Biometrics: C
Intro to Sociology: B+
Intro to Philosophy: A
Term GPA: 2.575
cGPA: 3.036
I thought I was going to fail O. Chem but I guess I only came close to that. I was afraid I would go on academic probation, but I do wonder how that's going to affect my GPA for my MAJOR, which is biochemistry. Yeah, it's kind of hilarious. We're suppose to have a cGPA for our major classes of 3.0 as one stipulation to be awarded a degree in that major. *coughs hard* Obviously that A in Philosophy isn't part of it.
I do resolve next semester to do better. If I get at least B's in all my classes, I'll keep my barely B average. Such a pity because Fall 2007 I was on the Dean's List!!!! Hopefully, even if my health worsens with the horrible winter hitting the Midwest, there should not be any relationship drama. I'm not going to get into any of that, and be as upfront and open about stuff like that. I'll talk about that later...
A lot of my friends got only A and B's, though, so I'm really proud of them! :D Some of them worked really hard throughout the entire semester or hard to make up work at the end. Yeah, ideally, it'd be fantastic if everybody worked hard all the time, but I'm proud they took responsibility and reached out to professors about late work and such instead of laying down and giving up.
I asked him, out of curiosity, about his text/SMS plan because I didn't want him/his parents to pay extra. (I used to have 400 messages a month and no int'l message plan until I changed to unlimited text and a certain number of int'l messages since my mom and I sometimes text and I also text some friends in Europe. I'd have to pay extra each month for them so I didn't someone to get hit by those extra fees.) Turns out he doesn't have a text message plan!!! Dear God!! And it's not just me who texts him, too, or only me he texts, because he's mentioned getting text messages from other people, too, and replying to them. >_< I'm a little sensitive about this because another friend of mine refused to get a text plan because the companies charge so much and I didn't know she didn't have one until she told me and I felt horrified she had to pay whenever I messaged her, usually about me being late for dinner or asking for our plans.
I told him I wouldn't text him as much and would cut it down to sparse ones. I might text while I'm at the airport or something and I'm bored or stuck or when it's a brief question or letting him know something but no more "conversations" through text messages! Weather is apparently horrible where he is, so that makes me a little glad to be here where it was sunny and not snowing, even if it was a bit chilly. Not so much wind!
About the other person mentioned a few entries ago, who told me to give him a call if things didn't work out between me and my biometrics partner - I told him I thought of him as a friend after he asked me what I thought of him. (When he told me a few nights ago, I changed the topic to an online American civics test.) I admit I stumbled a bit, because I'm not used to having people interested in me that I'm not interested back in- the last time I had to tell someone was Spring 2007. Hah, it's easier online, sometimes to flatly say "Friends only" than over a phone call. It's cool, though, cause he did say first and foremost I'm a friend. :) He knows, as does my former biometrics partner, that I'm nixing relationships for a while. We may or may not hang out this spring semester, depending on our schedules and stressors seeing as how we didn't really this Fall semester, but he is a nice person.
I also managed to wrap the presents for my sister and brother-in-law. The skills are rusty, but hey! :D Fun.
/psycho-ness filtered\