No Comprendo

Ohmygosh. I don't think I've ever been so unprepared for a midterm ever. Shit. Even with staying up most of the night and spending a crapload of time reading. And then waking up early skipping more classes to study until the very last minute. I guess I could of started earlier, but when I think about it even if I had more time I would have had trouble reading through this stuff. As interesting as comm is, the readings are seriously hard to understand. I feel like I'm not made for active reading or analytical thinking. How come we didn't learn this in hs? Or why I didn't learn this in hs.
Waaaaaaah. I have no faith in myself getting any As this quarter now. Fabulous.

This bites

While I was sitting ever so quietly during class today. A pimple suddenly popped up on my upper lip, the 'stache area. Then it grew bigger, itchier, and made it onto my actual upper (literal) lip. I whip out my cute little mushroom mirror and to my horror I saw a huge mosquito bite! WTF! On my lip?! Really out of all the skin surface area on my body it picks my lip? And since it's a mosquito bite it turned white. And so part of my lip looked like it was missing, like it got cut off or it never grew. Ew. Okay, now that I think about it, it's even sadder I didn't notice a mosquito on my mouth. What if...I ate it...NASTY!

Info Processing Machine

I've always known reading the newspaper is good for obviously being informed, but I never really put much effort towards reading them. With this comm paper due, I've been forced to read through 4 weeks worth of The Guardian (only 8 issues lol). I feel so much smarter already. Last year I thought I should start reading the newspaper and at the very least because I should support Kelsey's writings. I kept that up for like a week (haha sorry Kelso) because I wasn't personally motivated. However, now I suddenly feel like I WANT to read about the news even if it is just the school's paper. At least I'm trying to become a more informed individual. Yay!

In light of this revelation I feel like I must also confess that I may have done poorly on my econ midterm this past Monday. My evil self thought that the class would be easy peasy. I will not underestimate this next midterm next Monday, or the one in 2 weeks, OR the next econ midterm. I will study as a student should study!

How come...

I think easy access to the internet has created a new brand of ADD for our generation. I absolutely cannot concentrate when any of my studying or working is done on the computer. I'm constantly itching to go on YouTube, read blogs, and research anything unrelated to homework. Lately though, the temptation also consists of feverishly searching for jobs. Anyway, random searching has led to this funny find I'm going to blog about. There's this website that cataloged funny Google searches in an article. The searches consist of beginnings of questions such as "why is..." or "is it legal to." They're hilarious. My favorite is

"Is it wrong to....sleep with your step dad after you mom dies"

AND

"How come when I talk to girls on facebook they don't answer me back"

Lol what kind of question is that? I can't believe it's actually a popular search! Haha okay so here's the link:
http://xatal.com/internet/funny-google-suggest-searches/

Enjoy (Unless you're David, in which case you've probably already seen this)

P.S. Happy Birfday, again, little Martini! Isn't it beautiful to be 19?

Ignorance

I don't know why I wasn't aware of the CA budget crisis sooner and it's effects on, well, everything. Talks about affecting higher education have been going on since January of this year. It is now October and enlightenment of the situation occurred when I saw the walkout on the first day of class. Moreover, I didn't even fully understand or attempt to understand the foundations of the issues until yesterday when I went to a teach-in, as part of a comm assignment, about the university crisis. I feel so tiny in this insane mess. How am I, or we, suppose to prevent this from happening? How involved should we get? When I think of activists I think of extremists, but they're just fighting to protect what they believe in. The more research I have to do for the project, the more uneasy I feel about the situation. I don't think my voice is loud enough for this. And I feel so scared and powerless.

Santa's Pet

Earlier today, I was reading an article on language deaths which discusses how languages die out. Then I come across a paragraph on how a Siberian language, Tofa, has a massive amount of words that could describe reindeers since their people mainly herd reindeers. I had always thought reindeers weren't real. I thought they were made up horsie creatures like unicorns. Now that I know they're actual animals, I think it'd be nice to have a pet reindeer. I have looked up pictures and they are adorable and soft-looking.

Semi-Productivity

Today was super duper productive, all the way until 8 pm. So I suppose most of the day was but it mostly was making sure I went to meetings, classes, the gym, and eat. Ahahaa.

So at 8, Carrie and I embarked on a journey from Warren to Muir on bikes. Me on mine and Carrie on Danielle's bike. Danielle's bike is way to tall for her so we couldn't bike at an incline and had to walk to even ground for her to get on. Even there Carrie couldn't get on the bike, so then she wheeled the bike backwards onto the handicap ramp at the computer science building (I think or whichever building David said he was gonna be at a lot). And from there she crashed into the handrails down the ramp lol. She tried again and made it off the ramp and we were able to actually bike.

Ok I realize this post is mostly ridiculing her, but it's funny and she didn't get hurt. So after I came back to the room at night I tried to work, but Letty is extremely talkative today. I have done no real homeworking up until now. To further distract myself I'm here typing. I guess I could attempt studying again, but I don't really want to. There's also a fruit fly lingering above my desk. It either found its way here from the trashcan in the bathroom full of pads or else the nasty kitchen one confined to the smelly ass closet.

I'm excited for Halloween, but I've realized that I have no means of transportation to a fabric store to purchase massive amounts of yellow felt. I would also have to find yellow leggings. It's hard being Pikachu. I need a caaaar! I need to fufill my Pikachu dream.

Can I have this?

I was researching clever names to give my future bake shop and I looked up Once Upon a Cupcake, but someone already owns that! Booo! However, they make fantastically cute cupcakes. See below!

Aren't they the sweetest cupcakes you've ever seen?! I wish I were one year old Ethan :(

Me llamo

Discussion is mandatory for comm class and the TA takes attendance. Alphabetically my name comes up right after Esteban's. Since the TA tries to be accommodating, he says Esteban's name with a Spanish accent. When he arrives at my name he says Monica with an accent, too. Every time I raise my hand I notice people watching me with a confused look on their face. I'm clearly not Latino.
Anyway, Letty and her friends have just cooked up a midnight snack and it's making me so damn hungry. I must resist though or else I have to rebrush my teeth.

Wrong Turn

I don't see why I get so excited for school to start all the time when I know I'll be super annoyed when it starts lol. Well I guess just with having to use my brain. This year has started out with so much fun! Last night I went to a Starfucker show at The Loft. They're amazingly good and cute. I don't mean looks cute. They were dressed up as girls and one of them had a prom dress on hehe. Except my ears really hurt now from Deelay Ceelay who went on before them. They were these two guys who both played on drum sets, with strobe lights underneath them, and a projection of random videos in the background. My head was spinning like crazy. Waaah! Really though, it was so much fun!
As of today, I'm a member of The Loft Street Team :) It's also a partial internship. I the position entails other members and myself to do the grunt work, but it'll offer a sense of purpose. I also get to go to the shows for free. OMG! You guys can't tell, but I'm bursting with excitement. Well on the inside, since my roomies are studying haha.
I also went to Warren Field and ran 3 laps today. I didn't know it was the size of three soccer fields!! Instead of that being a motivator because I get to run less laps, it actually slowed me down. Since the starting point for the laps was so far away all the time.
Chinese class is also proving to be harder than I thought. And I like how the professor keeps telling us that Taiwanese and Cantonese people are not speaking Mandarin the proper way. I guess she's not doing it very condescendingly, but I'm certain she is implying it.

Year 2

Week 1 isn't even over yet and I'm tired. AND I haven't even really been studying at all. So far my classes all seem okay. Phew!

DARK SIDE:
However in Chinese class, we have a super duper know-it-all who reminds me of a certain giant Asian from our high school days. I'm sure he's not trying to be annoying, but I'm still extremely peeved by him. I also unknowingly switched into the tutorial that he's in too. So I must enjoy his insightful responses in class 4x a week :(

BRIGHT SIDE:
I have a new cute planner. It's lime green and such a cute little size. I have also stopped bumping my head on the underside of my bed. I was so pissed at myself during Week 0 when I literally hit my head 5x a day. I thought if I kept it up, I would've probably had to drop out of college for lack of brain cells by the end of the year. Lol.