i have a midterm on monday!!!
and i'm still catching up on readings. hahah.. this is horrible, but kinda good that the same time? why and how, you ask? well, let me explain, but let me go back a few weeks.
right after finals on thursday i drove up to norCAL with brian and his friend pat. ok, i didn't do any of the driving. we didn't leave daygo till like 9pm and got home around 5am. not too bad...about average time. i can't remember specifics of what we did and when, but i did a pretty good job showing them around. i was pretty impressed with myself. we went to a family dinner the first nite with my uncle who just flew in from hong kong. our house was pretty packed cuz my uncle took over my room, brian and pat slept in the living room, and i was on a futon in my parents' room. another day we drove out to chinatown dimsum and sightseeing. went to golden gate bridge, lombard street, ghiradelli square, the canary, fisherman's wharf and pier 39. a lot packed into one day, that's for sure. another day we went shopping downtown then walked around the haight. my family left for vegas on monday, and i treated brian, pat and jamie to dinner at this pretty trendy place called sake lab. it was pretty hip inside, but i was an idiot and made a reservation on a monday nite ((we were the only ones in there!)) oh, and we definitely clubbed a lot.. friday, saturday AND monday! friday brian, pat and i went to boondock for some sort of event.. i dunno, it was ok. saturday the guys, me and jamie went to some filipino afterparty on vanness. that was kind of a bust cuz they ended HELLA early and it was all bay area music. then on monday after dinner, they were opening the lounge for clubbing, so we got in for free cuz we ate dinner at the restaurant. haha, you can also see it as an expensive clubbing experience, but with free food! however you want to see it. =P
tuesday the four of us drove up to washington state to visit brian's family. apparently SF is pretty central CAL cuz it took about 3-4 hours to get to the oregon border. crazy, huh? and when we drove through mount shasta, it SNOWED! yes, ladies and gentlemen, it SNOWS in california. awesome. but yea, the drive took about 13-14 hours. CRAZZZY. i slept for most of the way though. hahah, poor baby drove the entire time. it was jamie and my first time in washington, and it was pretty gloomy. =( however, i got to ride the ferry that took my car on it, went shopping in downtown seattle ((which looked a lot like montreal)), went to the space needle, went clubbing at some place that went from midnight to 6am ((cali parties never run that late!)), had some good ass dicks' burgers, went bowling, ate some washington pho, WORKED OUT ((insane, huh?)), and met a lot of brian's family. his cousin just had a baby girl, and she's soo adorable. it was pretty relaxing after the somewhat fast-paced time we spent in SF. i was trying to squeeze in a lot in a little time, but i managed for the most part. we left washington on saturday and this time i drove half way... like from oregon back home. i drove through snow, guys! it was amazing. and i almost got pulled over for speeding, but i lucked out. phew!
got back to daly city around 3-4am i think and crashed like no other. the next day i brought my car into the dealership to get my foglight fixed, but apparently it's gonna be a little more complicated than changing the bulb. so looks like my toy car will not have its foglights until i make more money. then i went to costco to get my tires rotated, which took a goot 3 hours. little did i know the dealership had rotated them for me BEFORE the drive up to washington. wonderful... so much time wasted when we could've been on our way back to daygo. anyways, the drive back wasn't as bad compared to driving to washington, but i still didn't get to bed till like 4ish and got up at 7 for school and work. yay!!
this quarter isn't supposed to be that bad in terms of school. i'm taking all comm classes: COCU 100, politics of world music, and evolutionism vs. creationism. COCU 100 is pretty tight cuz professor hartouni is awesome. world music is fun cuz the professor is really into it, we watch movies, and listen to music ((one day we listened to daddy yankee, madonna and watched the intro to xena: warrior princess. haha!)). evolution class is kinda boring, but we get to go on field trips to museums and whatnot. my classes lined up perfected where i only have to go to campus tuesdays and thursdays. monday, wednesday and friday i'm supposed to find a hotel job. so right now i'm in week 4 and i've never been so caught up in my classes in my entire college career. however, caught up for kristen doesn't mean she's ALL caught up. i've been doing my readings as much as i can, and i'm feeling pretty proud of myself, even though it could obviously be a LOT better. which is why i said in the beginning that catching up is good and bad for me.
i had planned to take summer classes this year cuz i fucked up so badly this year, but with a strange twist of fate, i'm going home to SF and working at the law firm again. apparently there's a big case that needs some extra help, so paul offered me a job again. it was actually quite the ego booster cuz my aunt said that i'm the only person he's offered to work 5 days a week and only cuz he trusts my work. not to mention, i'm hoping the money will be pretty good as well. granted, going home for the summer means a lot of things. for one, i will not be looking for a hotel job this summer down here. i want to explore this career, however that will have to be put on hold cuz i'm pretty strapped for cash at the moment. it sucks having to ask my parents for money, especially if it's for my own personal spendings. secondly, because i'm not taking summer classes, i won't be graduating until the end of next summer. i still get to walk in the spring, but i'll be down in daygo taking classes till the end of summer. thirdly, my housing options have narrowed down because now i won't be needing housing until september. so this means that either the people i want to live with will have to find a place available in september, OR i will just end up finding a room on craigslist or something like that. i really don't have a preference as to how it works, cuz i figure i won't be home that often anyway. plus i still have my friends, so it's not like i have to become best friends with the people i live with. and finally, i won't be spending the summer with my boyfriend :( yea, i think that's gonna suck a lot. i'll probably fly down 2 or 3 times over the summer to visit and whatnot, but depending on how much they need me to work, i'm not sure if i can take all that time off. but of course there are the brighter sides to this situation. i'll be making money and he'll have some time to deal with his business without a girlfriend bothering him all the time =P either way, this can't be that bad for us both personally, cuz we'll be able to get our shit together. hahah, i can hear that reunited song playing in my head right now. LOL.
in conclusion, i have to say that this year was a real eye opener. talking to with my roommates, a lot of shit went down this year, and it totally sucks. school, family, friends and life was pretty much being a little bitch. but hey, i think we've all grown a lot. we've learned a lot, realized what's going on in life, and hopefully, just maybe we have some sort of insight as to what we are doing with our lives. even if it's a little fuzzy, i'm sure somethings are a LOT clearer than before. growing up is a completely new and foreign territory to my friends and i, but i have faith that we'll conquer it. whether or not it's all together or all separately, we'll be there to support and motivate each other. one thing for me to learn is to let other people in. i know i can be somewhat of a hermit when it comes to socializing about my life and the things that are happening, but that's one of the lessons in life that i've learned so far. to care for others, you need to let others care for you. on that note, i believe it is time to bond with my wonderful bed and comfy comforters. cuz i care about it a lot, so i should let it take care of me for now. =P
right after finals on thursday i drove up to norCAL with brian and his friend pat. ok, i didn't do any of the driving. we didn't leave daygo till like 9pm and got home around 5am. not too bad...about average time. i can't remember specifics of what we did and when, but i did a pretty good job showing them around. i was pretty impressed with myself. we went to a family dinner the first nite with my uncle who just flew in from hong kong. our house was pretty packed cuz my uncle took over my room, brian and pat slept in the living room, and i was on a futon in my parents' room. another day we drove out to chinatown dimsum and sightseeing. went to golden gate bridge, lombard street, ghiradelli square, the canary, fisherman's wharf and pier 39. a lot packed into one day, that's for sure. another day we went shopping downtown then walked around the haight. my family left for vegas on monday, and i treated brian, pat and jamie to dinner at this pretty trendy place called sake lab. it was pretty hip inside, but i was an idiot and made a reservation on a monday nite ((we were the only ones in there!)) oh, and we definitely clubbed a lot.. friday, saturday AND monday! friday brian, pat and i went to boondock for some sort of event.. i dunno, it was ok. saturday the guys, me and jamie went to some filipino afterparty on vanness. that was kind of a bust cuz they ended HELLA early and it was all bay area music. then on monday after dinner, they were opening the lounge for clubbing, so we got in for free cuz we ate dinner at the restaurant. haha, you can also see it as an expensive clubbing experience, but with free food! however you want to see it. =P
tuesday the four of us drove up to washington state to visit brian's family. apparently SF is pretty central CAL cuz it took about 3-4 hours to get to the oregon border. crazy, huh? and when we drove through mount shasta, it SNOWED! yes, ladies and gentlemen, it SNOWS in california. awesome. but yea, the drive took about 13-14 hours. CRAZZZY. i slept for most of the way though. hahah, poor baby drove the entire time. it was jamie and my first time in washington, and it was pretty gloomy. =( however, i got to ride the ferry that took my car on it, went shopping in downtown seattle ((which looked a lot like montreal)), went to the space needle, went clubbing at some place that went from midnight to 6am ((cali parties never run that late!)), had some good ass dicks' burgers, went bowling, ate some washington pho, WORKED OUT ((insane, huh?)), and met a lot of brian's family. his cousin just had a baby girl, and she's soo adorable. it was pretty relaxing after the somewhat fast-paced time we spent in SF. i was trying to squeeze in a lot in a little time, but i managed for the most part. we left washington on saturday and this time i drove half way... like from oregon back home. i drove through snow, guys! it was amazing. and i almost got pulled over for speeding, but i lucked out. phew!
got back to daly city around 3-4am i think and crashed like no other. the next day i brought my car into the dealership to get my foglight fixed, but apparently it's gonna be a little more complicated than changing the bulb. so looks like my toy car will not have its foglights until i make more money. then i went to costco to get my tires rotated, which took a goot 3 hours. little did i know the dealership had rotated them for me BEFORE the drive up to washington. wonderful... so much time wasted when we could've been on our way back to daygo. anyways, the drive back wasn't as bad compared to driving to washington, but i still didn't get to bed till like 4ish and got up at 7 for school and work. yay!!
this quarter isn't supposed to be that bad in terms of school. i'm taking all comm classes: COCU 100, politics of world music, and evolutionism vs. creationism. COCU 100 is pretty tight cuz professor hartouni is awesome. world music is fun cuz the professor is really into it, we watch movies, and listen to music ((one day we listened to daddy yankee, madonna and watched the intro to xena: warrior princess. haha!)). evolution class is kinda boring, but we get to go on field trips to museums and whatnot. my classes lined up perfected where i only have to go to campus tuesdays and thursdays. monday, wednesday and friday i'm supposed to find a hotel job. so right now i'm in week 4 and i've never been so caught up in my classes in my entire college career. however, caught up for kristen doesn't mean she's ALL caught up. i've been doing my readings as much as i can, and i'm feeling pretty proud of myself, even though it could obviously be a LOT better. which is why i said in the beginning that catching up is good and bad for me.
i had planned to take summer classes this year cuz i fucked up so badly this year, but with a strange twist of fate, i'm going home to SF and working at the law firm again. apparently there's a big case that needs some extra help, so paul offered me a job again. it was actually quite the ego booster cuz my aunt said that i'm the only person he's offered to work 5 days a week and only cuz he trusts my work. not to mention, i'm hoping the money will be pretty good as well. granted, going home for the summer means a lot of things. for one, i will not be looking for a hotel job this summer down here. i want to explore this career, however that will have to be put on hold cuz i'm pretty strapped for cash at the moment. it sucks having to ask my parents for money, especially if it's for my own personal spendings. secondly, because i'm not taking summer classes, i won't be graduating until the end of next summer. i still get to walk in the spring, but i'll be down in daygo taking classes till the end of summer. thirdly, my housing options have narrowed down because now i won't be needing housing until september. so this means that either the people i want to live with will have to find a place available in september, OR i will just end up finding a room on craigslist or something like that. i really don't have a preference as to how it works, cuz i figure i won't be home that often anyway. plus i still have my friends, so it's not like i have to become best friends with the people i live with. and finally, i won't be spending the summer with my boyfriend :( yea, i think that's gonna suck a lot. i'll probably fly down 2 or 3 times over the summer to visit and whatnot, but depending on how much they need me to work, i'm not sure if i can take all that time off. but of course there are the brighter sides to this situation. i'll be making money and he'll have some time to deal with his business without a girlfriend bothering him all the time =P either way, this can't be that bad for us both personally, cuz we'll be able to get our shit together. hahah, i can hear that reunited song playing in my head right now. LOL.
in conclusion, i have to say that this year was a real eye opener. talking to with my roommates, a lot of shit went down this year, and it totally sucks. school, family, friends and life was pretty much being a little bitch. but hey, i think we've all grown a lot. we've learned a lot, realized what's going on in life, and hopefully, just maybe we have some sort of insight as to what we are doing with our lives. even if it's a little fuzzy, i'm sure somethings are a LOT clearer than before. growing up is a completely new and foreign territory to my friends and i, but i have faith that we'll conquer it. whether or not it's all together or all separately, we'll be there to support and motivate each other. one thing for me to learn is to let other people in. i know i can be somewhat of a hermit when it comes to socializing about my life and the things that are happening, but that's one of the lessons in life that i've learned so far. to care for others, you need to let others care for you. on that note, i believe it is time to bond with my wonderful bed and comfy comforters. cuz i care about it a lot, so i should let it take care of me for now. =P