Stereotypes

We're taught that stereotypes are a bad thing. However, isn't there some degree of honesty in stereotypes? If not, it seems like they would fade over time.

I'm not saying that we should take stereotypes as universal truth or by no means assume 'one size fits all', but what's wrong w/ identifying traits of a culture, accepting it, & maybe even laughing about it then moving on? It seems like stereotypes are politically incorrect but I've seen so many people who I consider 'good' & those who aren't so 'good' do it.

I guess what I'm wondering is if stereotypes are somewhat true, why do so many of us mutter under our breaths about them after looking behind us before saying something?

Take me for example. I'm Asian. Though I'm in no way fobby & am probably more American than Chinese...yes, I love my rice. I also love playing the piano, I strive to make my parents happy even if they can be over critical, I have a strong prescription for my glasses (which I wear more often), & when I have time I love to read. So what? All of this is true about me. A lot of this falls under the Asian stereotype; at the same time, a lot about me doesn't. Like I said, stereotypes seems to be true to an extent. If that's the case, is it so wrong to use them to establish a vague understanding of one another but keep in mind we're all individuals & proceed as necessary? As long as we don't fall into assumption that all stereotypes apply to each person, I don't see the harm. Then again, I guess that could open up a whole can of worms so maybe that's why we leave everything as is?

Regardless, I hope all of you had a good Christmas & are enjoying the holidays (:

Merry Christmas everyone (:

You better believe my mother bought me those pants for Christmas. You're jealous.

So. Much. Pain.

I woke up this morning & my mom told me I was getting my last two wisdom teeth pulled today.
No big, since I wanted to get it done before we left anyways.


TELL ME WHY IT TOOK JUST UNDER TWO HOURS TO GET ONE TOOTH OUT BECAUSE IT WAS RIGHT BY A MAJOR NERVE & EVERY TIME SHE WIGGLED THE TOOTH IT CAUSED ME MASSIVE PAIN EVEN AFTER TEN LOCAL ANESTHETIC SHOTS.
In that time I also had to push my jaw in the opposite direction that she was pulling w/ my hand just to compensate.
The other, of course, only took about ten minutes to do.

My gums are still bleeding & it's been seven hours since I got stitches...kill me

Break! Yay!

Since getting out of my last final (yesterday at 12pm) I have:

- gone out to lunch w/ some of the pharm kids

- tuned the guitar, retaught myself a few notes & chords since last playing (the summer)

- played the piano

- taken a nap for once

- gone to Mexicantown w/ some friends from down the hall in the dorms last year

- went to D'Mongos, met some cool &/or foreign kids & went w/ them to an abandoned church party

- actually got to hang out w/ people I haven't seen in a long time

- slept in till 1:30pm

- watched mind numbingly bad TV

- had Bangkok Cuisine (& spilled curry all over myself, fail)

In the next 12 hours I will:

- be going to a party in Rochester & seeing a bunch of people that I haven't seen in a very long time

- go skiing w/ my dad (:

In the next two weeks:

- vacation to mainly hike part of the Appalachians

- read, sleep, eat, & run

- hang out

- do whatever I want.

AKA I'm super pumped for these next two (short) weeks of freedom & I'm determined to make every day count. Even if that's sleeping, I'm so ready.

Mustwriteextracreditpapermustwriteextracreditpapermustwriteextracreditpapermustwriteextracreditpaper

Eat breakfast? Yeah, that sounds good.

First good sleep in over two weeks (:

Finding happiness/comfort within

So I just looked over this post & realized that the title has pretty much nothing to do w/ what I wrote in here (or barely) but I guess that's the main thing that's going on in my life now other than school. Just a heads up for you.

In the last few weeks:

- Over thanksgiving we met a father & daughter new to the family friend gatherings. I introduced myself & the dad (who is Chinese too) said, "oh, so you're still in high school right?" & when I told him I was quite a bit older than that, he apologized & said he only thought that because I "looked so little" hahah

- I bought the one of the warmest comforter I've ever slept w/. It was pretty expensive but I still got 40% off the original price soo I'm sure it'll earn its worth for the upcoming years

- One day a few weeks ago (AKA before it started snowing) it was raining & I was walking to work. On main campus it stopped raining so I went to fold in my umbrella. Little did I know that my finger was over the button to eject it still so when I took my hand off to put it in my backpack it flew up & I got umbrella face slapped. A girl saw & laughed. I win. (:

- I'm slowly taking the baby steps in the right direction for me. At least I think so, this semester has been really interesting, full of change, & a bunch of emotions. It hurts now but hey, no pain no gain, right?

Even still, I wish that it was easier to make tough decisions (go figure, I know) but I guess we all can't progress if we don't go through life w/o a few bumps in the road to do what's best for the long run & not just the short.

It still sucks. But I'm trying to be positive, brownie points? ehhh? I really could use some (:

- Anyways, one practical & one final down, one practical & six more finals to go until freedom for a few weeks. I'm ready...maybe not for all of my exams just yet, but I'm ready for them to be over. But no worries, I've learned this year how to cram like a pro so hopefully I can combine that w/ how I used to study in years past to make a killer test machine (hahaha I'm so lame.)

Current Beats:

Valerie - Amy Winehouse (I've never listened to Amy Winehouse before but I love this song)

Keep Your Head Up - Andy Grammer

Chasing Pavements - Adele

River Flows in You - Yiruma (azn fo sho)

Dammit - Blink 182

All For You - Sister Hazel

Lost - Michael Buble

All the Right Moves - One Republic

Time After Time - Cyndi Lauper (holla)

Follow You Into the Dark - Death Cab for Cutie

Mr. Brightside - The Killers

Don't Worry Baby - Beach Boys (thank Zach for this one)

Happy break everyone! Though I have mentally checked out for six days, it's time for me to get back into the swing of studying, so the majority of my break will be spent in the library or something like that. I'll probably see a few friends but I really plan on spending time w/ everyone during break. So, just an FYI, I guess (:

Buuut anyways, I watched Inception for the first time earlier today. Ahhhh. My mind's still turning from the movie but I'd say it was good. I don't think it was astounding or the best movie ever but maybe that's because I have to watch it again & again or something. Loved the effects but something about it didn't quite satisfy me, overall though the plot was written very well.

Today I have once again eaten the worst foods ever & called it a "meal" but I'll have the next few days at home to detox. However, I finally have informatics done! It only took me a 2.5 hours but that was also in part to Chris, Matt, & the librarian so thank all of you for that (:

So in the spirit of Thanksgiving, here's what I'm thankful for:

1) An incredibly strong network of friends. You guys have really picked me up when I was down & I can't believe all the support that I've been given from those I leaned on & those who I never expected to reach out.

In specifics: My close friends because they've been through the ugly, seen the less desirable, continue to stand by me, & have even helped me through everything.

2) My family.

-I'm so extremely thankful that I'm able to celebrate another

year w/ my dad

-For the motivation, flipped perspective, & humbleness I get

because of my mom

-Andrew well...being Andrew, hahah. The brother he's always

been (:

-All of my cousins, aunts, & uncles that I miss so much.

3) Finally coming to terms w/ myself & finding inner peace.

4) New beginnings

5) Blankets

6) My running shoes

I am now ready for two back to back days of Asian thanksgiving (:

"Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end"- Semisonic (Closing Time)

We say that everything happens for a reason, it's part of a bigger picture that fate or some higher being has in store for us.

Is this really true or is it bull we say to console ourselves & justify the situation so we can move on & adapt accordingly?

Anyways, I'm enjoying spending time w/ Vanya at State, it's been a good weekend so far! Trying to focus on studying (as I have been trying since the Patho exam), I've already done more than I have the past three days combined...all I've done is gone through 3/4 of the biostats lecture writing down definitions, shows you how productive I've been.

Buuuut I got my highest grade of my grad school career thus far Wed of an 86%! Discluding med terminology, bc let's face it, scoring 100% on what "diarrhea" etc isn't that hard. Lolol man do I miss my As in undergrad.

Oxymoron?

Is it strange that as I'm reading my dosage book which is talking about new ways to treat previously incurable cancers, I'm thinking about how many more lives that saves, which means more resources, which means overpopulation, which could eventually mean the destruction of the human race as we use up nonrenewable sources & turn against one another (provided we don't develop the technology to find other sustainable sources)?

^ Run on sentence at its finest.

But really, I wonder how many diseases & conditions exist because we as a human race have interrupted natural selection. We have the capacity to delay/fight off death which is great, I know I'm personally grateful for the technology that exists today (& maybe w/o it, I wouldn't be around to write about it). But, I'm curious to the degree of some of our diseases & if their existence/extent is because we 'saved' individuals who should have died to reproduce & pass along their faulty genes.

I guess that second part didn't really go into world overpopulation etc but that's what I was really getting that. Is it ironic that I'm thinking about this stuff when I'm studying for a profession meant to save people's lives through the use of drug therapies? Hmm.

"What did the man say when he walked into the bar?....Ouch!" HAH. not.

I need to start remembering when my mom gives me bananas; by the time I stumble across them they're always overripe.

Time is Running Out - Papa Roach

I removed the survey that I posted last night because it was really just a way to pass the time & no one's going to read it.

Anyways, today was an interesting day: took my biochem exam, ran over to main campus to present my poster at the Undergrad Research Conference for the grant I got over the summer, bought a $90 textbook (depressing), awkward times at the Health Clinic (I went w/ Jim, I thought he was going to get a flu shot or something; he was actually buying condoms. They totally thought we were doing each other), took another nap at the UGL, got dinner, & hung out w/ Zach for a little.

It was also a day for being offered rides, I must have missed the memo.

Encounter One: walking from my class to my car this white minivan stops me & I hear this guy asking if I "know where Joy Rd is." I say no & take a look at the two oh so classy wiggers w/ the backwards fitted & tattoos all over their arms & hands who possibly just got done smoking some crack as their lips had a white tint to it & no offense, but they looked like junkies. They respond w/ "oh, okay. Thanks. Do you need a ride somewhere?"

Encounter Two: walking from the conference to the UGL I pass a grounds maintenance crew & I make eye contact w/ a late 40something-ish worker. We make small talk as I pass by, a minute later I hear "do you want a ride anywhere?" Looking to my right I see said worker in one of those two seater John Deere smart car-golf cart hybrid hahaha

For the record, I turned down both offers but I thought it was funny that I was offered two rides in one day, which is the most I've been offered ever from strangers. If they had only said 'free candy'. Their loss.

You know, overall, today was full of creepers. Like stick guy from freshman year, he was at the conference as a guest & came over to talk & still remembered my name & everything, I was super surprised.

Every time our fridge turns on (as in the cooling kicks in) its moves. Hah.

So, the weekend plans are to study for dosage & patho. Mostly patho because I need to kill this exam, dosage I need to focus on too. Fun times ahead.

There are times when I like knowing when things will end (such as class) but I hate timestamps on relationships. I know there's usually an expiration date on each one we get into but it usually doesn't reveal itself until later on in the game when things start to go bad (like C. tetani in canned foods....I can't believe I just said that either, I'm such a nerd.) & I was asked if all but one relationship fails in some one's life (assuming he/she gets marries) then why date at all since the odds are against you?

For me, dating is all about the process of figuring out what qualities you like/dislike, what you expect out of a relationship, learning about yourself in a way that's only possible through interactions like this, & the general experience. When does the point come when 'this one's just another stepping stone for the real deal' to the 'real deal'?

I have turned into a girl.

Mm sleep

Gotta love daylight savings time...more time to study!

Don't worry, I've already given up my 'cool' card

All things considered, a good day: got some laundry done, pretty productive in biochem, hung out w/ some friends in Royal Oak & got hot chocolate & Astoria, did some yoga. What would make my day complete is playing some piano...

Revised: daylight savings time...more time to play piano! (:

It's been one of those days

First off, I'm not one for complaining & I always enjoy laughing at how much I fail or the bad luck I have.

Today, however, is an exception.

It feels like I'm a house of cards; there's a bunch of stuff going on that normally wouldn't be a back breaker in itself but they've been piling on top of one another and that last card needed to bring down the house was just added. I'm emotionally & mentally exhausted

Time to keep moving

Chilling in Traffic

I'm losing it- that took a few minutes, fail.

Aanyways, my dad's birthday is this weekend. I'm a bummed that I'm not going to see Vanya but I'm still excited to be home & celebrating another year w/ my dad around (:

Besides, it makes this no-more-partying thing a lot easier. Yes, I'm swearing off partying. As much as I enjoy going out, meeting people, & having fun, it's not worth risking something/some one that I value a whole lot more. So, I'm going to end up being the new bum/hermit but that doesn't make a huge difference since I'm still not old enough to go out w/ everyone anyways. Whatever, there are a bunch of other things that I like to do which I'll have more time for & really, it's for the better. I really think it is, not in a 'trying to convince/justify this to myself' way.

Though then again, the fact that I wrote more about not partying more than anything else indicates that maybe I am trying to justify this to myself (because honestly, though I know there's a few of you that read this, I'm not writing this as a 'newsfeed' about my life for others to read though that's kind of a side thing since I've always liked feedback on my ramblings)

Hmm...

Dear Pharmacy School,

I have a feeling w're going to have a love/hate relationship of epic proportions.

In the past six days, tonight is all nighter number four. Which, I'd like to mention, is being spent at the coolest place ever- on the 3rd floor back in the lab area of the school. You're jealous. I'm not sure what's worse, the fact that I'm pulling an all nighter here, that it's my fourth one of the week, or that I prepared for a possible stay over by bringing snacks, a meal, & comfy hoodies to use as a pillow.

Last midterm at 10am

Meeting at 12:30

Work at 2 (which is going to be br00tal)

I can't wait to get my life back for the weekend.

A summary of this past week

-Byblos has stolen my heart w/ their chicken shawarma, wifi, & chill atmosphere.

-I love my lab: my professor/PI/faculty mentor made aliquot "bombs" w/ dry ice & water after our lab photoshoot for the college website & then we played soccer on the floor w/ the leftover dry ice

-In ultimate, we played a double header Wednesday, no subs, in the rain (which was a lot of fun, I've missed playing on wet fields), & won both. I love beating teams who talk trash before & during the game...on top of being complete assholes. If anything, I played one of my best games because I was focused on winning. So, I guess thank you for that? Though in all fairness, I was a jerk at times (sorry? competition is what I strive for..)

-After ultimate/showering/winding down, Zach & I walked to Mario's. SO good. Out of budget for a college student but it was definitely worth a traditional Italian meal (my first): bread, platter of some types of food to eat, salad (best house dressing ever), soup, & then ravioli. My bank account cried a little, but it was nice to experience different culture (& learn about eating etiquette because there is no such thing in Chinese culture).

- I'm so thankful for letting Dimitry write all over his apartment windows in permanent marker since it helps me study

- Sleeping through Friday classes cannot become a habit.

- I'm going to be SO happy once this week's over...five exams in four days along w/ a quiz.

- The days are blurring together & becoming one conglomerate mass

- I'm slowly getting back into my high school schedule of 4-5 hours of sleep & still fully functional w/o caffeine, good stuff

- Cradle robbing of epic proportions going on

- I love duets w/ Vanya over Skype

- ohgodI'mgoingtodie vs. I can do this

I'm suspicious...it's Monday but I've been having an amazing day

Ahhh I just got my last grade back from my week of exams/hell. Not only did I pass but w/ the curve, I have a B in biochem! I have absolutely no idea how I pulled this off, but I'm so thankful. This means I've passed all of my tests which is excellent considering I started studying hours before patho & biochem, & dosage...well, whatever, I put in enough time to pass (which ended up being an all nighter & a few days haha). I'm still not where I want to be but man does this make it take some pressure off midterms while keeping me focused.

Along w/ this morning, getting a new stand that messes w/ the speakers less on the keyboard (piano), ice cream, the weather, & playing the piano for a little bit, I've really had a great day. I hope it stays this way!

Vitals/HEENT assessment tomorrow, it might be a good idea to start reviewing the proper way to document everything

Saturday Morning

Woke up early, chilling in bed eating donuts & studying pathophysio. Biochem, pharmaceutical calculations, dosage, & practicing vitals/HEENT are in store today.

Along w/ piano, yoga, Coldstone, & maybe some guitar it sounds like a pretty good day! Anyone who wants/needs their vitals taken let me know (:

My hair is getting long

Train Stations

I liked this: Love. Live life. Proceed. Progress.

Here's to a better week, getting back on track, & moving forward w/ the best of friends by my side

So far, so good.

The Week's Soundtrack

Lately I've found that I have different songs that help me make it through each day.
Saturday through Wednesday: Thinking of You - Katy Perry (the only song of hers that I like), Black and Gold - Sam Sparro, Please Don't Go - Jordan's cover of Mike Posner, & Responsible - Sarah Bareilles (alright alright, emo/angsty, I'll admit. BUT, Sam Sparro is very catchy & I suggest you take a listen)
Thursday: For Good - Wicked Soundtrack
Friday: Dammit - Blink 182
Today: Details in the Fabric - Jason Mraz feat. James Morrison


It's been a tough week full of stress from both an academic & personal standpoint. However, I'm building from the ground up, the primary goals are inner peace & no more cramming the night before.
PS- I lost my last nose stud Wednesday night. I told myself that if/when I lost it, I wouldn't buy any more, so goodbye to the nose piercing (I guess I thought this was important enough to archive on the world wide web)

Shells & slugs

I'd just like to take the time to point out that I have internet in my apartment again...noted.

One more positive to add to the list

Responsible - Sarah Bareilles

Black & Gold - Sam Sparro

So my mom bought me almond milk...I'm not sure how I feel about it at all. I don't want to be rude & tell her I don't want it but in all honesty I will probably never drink it. Hopefully there will be recipes or something that I can use it for.

The last few days have been absolutely crazy, but overall, I've learned/accepted a few fundamental things about myself. I'm not necessarily happy about the way everything panned out but I think in the big picture it was important for me to figure these things out (w/ some help of course).
Such as how to bathe.
(:
No jk, but hopefully things will be a blessing in disguise, a catalyst that will force me to be more real w/ myself & others than I ever have been & in turn, allow me to let go of some inner demons, people, & habits that aren't necessary & build up from there. We'll see, but I'm hopeful.

Aaaanyways, I shouldn't be procrastinating much longer, I still have all of patho to study for as well as writing a paper, thinking about/writing an abstract, coming up w/ poster designs, & starting to cram for biochem. Love school.

The countdown to Friday & regaining my sanity starts now.

First all nighter of the year

Yup. It honestly wouldn't be so terrible if I didn't get about eight hours of sleep combined for the past two nights, but here I am, w/ my Boh Caramel Teacino studying dosage so I don't fail my first exam of pharm school. This blog might turn into a picture/writing comb considering I've been using pictures more, but I think that makes it more fun to read, right?

Hopefully by doing this, I can study enough to be able to play an hourish of ultimate later today

I realized by writing that, my priorities are still in the wrong order. Maybe I'll reorient them next week

Anyways, back to solid dosage forms; two lectures done, five to go. Bring it.

EDIT: I'm pretty glad it's storming out because the thunder's keeping me awake hahah. Though this will mean soggy fields & unless it stops raining in the next few hours, a soggy bike seat because there's no way in hell that I'm walking through bipolar torrential flood & my car has been blocked in by my housemates, fail.

EDIT 2: though I think it's kinda funny that the lightning just set off some one's car alarm, GO AWAY. Even w/ noise cancelling headphones some of the bolts must be really close & hugely distracting

EDIT 3: 6:30am- four lectures done, three left. After spending the majority of the last 10 hours on a stool, I've decided that a butt massager will be necessary for future all nighters. (though other than food/drink/bathroom runs I did take a break to polynesian dance which was fun!)

I miss all of you so much.

A Typical Day in the Life of Jo...

...you know, where I fail ALL the time. I swear, if there was a Nobel prize for failing, I would retire it.

To give you an idea of what I mean:

-I fell asleep in class today while typing

-While I was power walking to the med school, I was annoyed that the sidewalk went around this hill so I decided to save myself the time & just walk over it. Good idea, till the hill got steep & next thing I know, I'm on my ass sliding down the hill. Yup, poop colored mud on my butt & pant legs. It was an uncomfortable rest of the walk over. When I get there, the lab prof who we're in collab w/ laughs & asks if I want to wash off my pants which I decide to do. So in this bathroom which is normally abandoned, five women walk in to see me pantsless washing my pants in the sink...no one them said anything back when I said "hi." So I wash the butt of my jeans to an acceptable color of mud & am drying them via the hand dryer thing, until I look at my watch & realize I'm about to be late to our confocal appointment which charges us over $20/hr for usage. -I ended up spending the next four hours in a dark room battling sleepiness in soggy jeans looking for experimental data that never materialized because our slides kept drifting likely because we put too much DAPI+mounting media on the slide. Approximately a few hundred dollars & lots of time wasted. Back to square one.

-When I told my prof what happened to me, he just laughed, then said, "oh maybe I shouldn't be laughing." Hahahah ohhh man.

-I'm also pretty sure I messed up my toe when I slipped, it hurts considerably to move it. Some one rate my pain scale now (vital signs ftw?)

And now, time to start that studying I put off, oops?

Another Way of Procrastination

Other than this, facebook, & incessantly checking my email, I think I have found a new way to put off studying. Though technically it's my job, it's so gratifying to tutor people, see their minds working, & finally hear the "ohhh okay that makes sense" than anything else that I've done in a long time. I think this will be a good job, I just hope it doesn't get too much into the way of school...& that it pays somewhat well (:

Dally & good food = win.

First off, I just finished making the most epic lunch ever: carmelized onions & mushrooms, beef patty made myself, mozarella cheese, toasted bread, & guacamole to make a burger. Then, the extra mushrooms on the side, celery, tomatoes, & raspberries. Oh yes. Now I just have to figure out how to cut down the cook & prep time from two hours, fail. But nevertheless, I'm pretty proud of my super cool meal.

Secondly, the potluck at our place was a pretty big success! Lots of food, a good turn out, & fun times. I enjoyed it a lot & am excited for the next one, which I don't plan on making fried rice for hahah.

Yesterday was satisfying. I had a lazy morning w/ Zach consisting of guitar, laughs, & the usual chilling. After getting ready for the day, we went met up w/ Tony & Mik for some Bangkok Cuisine Express which was delicious; on the way over I ran into one of my housemates w/ my old housemate & apparently had a hearing fail when talking to them. After lunch, Zach dropped us off at my apartment & we went to Dally! I ended up hanging out w/ Pete, Rich, Mik, Jordan, Soph, Norbert (theeee one & only!), Mark, Tony, Russel, Sarah, & a bunch of other people I met at any given point during the day. Because the weather was so shitty in the beginning, I spent lots of time in apartments working on my drunken haze that lasted for the rest of the day & night. I probably made a tard of myself between the stupid stuff I'm sure I said & hugging/laying on everyone but I had a really good time. I also bought two shirts which I'm pretty sure I got ripped off for because they both knew I wasn't completely there but oh well, they're pretty sweet & I'm glad I got them anyways. Lastly, the spins are no good.

Which means after two days of doing absolutely nothing related to school, I need to start studying & working like crazy. Goodbye life, I'll come back for you in a few months!

Labor Day Weekend

Yesterday was an awesome day:
Both of my classes finished early, lots of hanging out w/ friends, Bangkok Cuisine (yum!), & the first potluck of the school year! It was pretty chill, there were only a few of us but the food was good (I was so proud that I made fried rice...second time ever but everyone actually ate it!), the company was good, losing pretty much every game against Zach in super smash wasn't so good, but watching MacGruber after was. Not to mention that the weather was perfect & that after 1pm, I didn't do a single thing related to school.

Today has also been good:
I finally returned some clothes that I've been putting off for a while so that means some money in the bank along w/ the extra three days of pay that I'm getting from my internship because of the different holidays over the summer! The rest of the day is going to be college football & homework/studying. Chilling out at home, fall looks like it's starting to kick in.

Tomorrow will be fun:
AA to see Cat! There will also be dim sum, the Chinese supermarket, & more hw/studying involved. Possible overnight trip.

Saturday night edit: so AA ended up being a bust, my mom cancelled going w/ the rest of the fam friends (as was the original plan) because I didn't plan on coming back w/ them & staying the night. So instead I did some hw & went golfing w/ my dad (par three nine hole course) which was lots of fun & I'd say the highlight of my weekend. I meant to go to AA anyways, but I got back to Detroit late & by that point, I felt like being domestic & cutting up fruit hahah. Which I got a blister from the knife I used, fail.

Monday should be chill:
I'm thinking about going to AB&E especially since it's in Royal Oak this year & Ari's performing! More hw times ahead fo sho.

Tuesday night edit: yup, AB&E didn't happen either. Once I realized how much I still have to do along w/ the fact that Noble Fish Market was closed, I got too lazy. BUT! I did finish up (most) of my dosage assignment & took a really nice walk w/ Caleb so thumbs up for that


Stalker material, oh yeah.



I also fully enjoy cuddling. This didn't really fit anywhere else in the blog.
Oh, I also can't wait for the cider mills to open! Walks along the river w/ cider, donuts, & possibly caramel apples? Sounds perfect to me.

I've decided that I love watching the rain

Though anything beats homework

EDIT: I've also decided that my body is telling me I'm too old to keep diving when playing Ultimate, my neck & shoulders have been angry at me since yesterday

Current Beats

Details in the Fabric - Jason Mraz

Something to Lose - Corey Smith

Heavyweight Champion of the World - Reverend & the Makers

Everlong - Foo Fighters

Fast Car - Tracy Chapman

Closing Time - Semi Sonic

Airport Security - Bouncing Souls

After Tonight - Justin Nozuka

Gravity - Sara Bareilles

Serre Moi - Tryo

Follow You Down - Gin Blossoms

No Worries - McFly

Time - Hootie & the Blowfish

Island in the Sun - Weezer

Drive - Incubus

The Goldfish Song - Kina Grannis

Studying...later

So I'm sitting in Kresge w/ my dosage book laid out in front of me. It's been an hour & I haven't even glanced at it; I need a study buddy to keep me on track.

In other news, I found a pair of really comfy flip flops, a replacement for the lightning bolt necklace I lost, & a suhweet pair of kicks. I think my bank account cried a little more, but all things considered, they all will last me a few years.

This could be considered unnecessary, but look at them! (This previous statement confirms that I am indeed a female)

Oh yeah, school started. It's been going well so far I'd say, I'm still alive! Though I have a few homework assignments & quizzes to start studying for already...I guess I should get to it.

I am also seriously missing Malaysia & my family

The End of Summer

So I'm chilling on my bed & eating carrots & celery dipped in ranch after finishing some amazing curry laksa (orgasmic). Overall, today was a good way to end the summer: caught up w/ Vanya, had Chipotle w/ Vanya, Kathy, & Lindsey (sp?), finally got our bathroom clean (or at least the parts of it that we actually use), got some batteries I completely forgot that I needed till I went to Meijer w/ my roommates (hi Brendon!) & I'm about to take a shower & then look over a few things before going to sleep.

Honestly, now that I think about it, I've had at least an interesting past few days: I've gotten trained to administer just about any vaccine, hang out time w/ the people closest to me & other cool kids, I'm officially in a professional school before I'm legally allowed to drink, I've met so many people because of pharm school, & I've been eating good food.

I'm a little nervous for tomorrow but I think things will be okay, or at least I hope. This upcoming week will reveal a lot.

Anyways, I thought it'd be fun to go over my summer list that I made a few months ago & see what I actually was able to do:

1) Go to at least one concert, I'd love to go to Eric Clapton or Train. Looking at the Warped Tour line up, I'm not impressed. Then again, I have been moving away from the whole genre that warped is moving towards. Though I'd love to go crowd surfing at least one more time

Yeah this didn't happen, Justin Nozuka moved his tour back to September & the Goo Goo Dolls were playing on a Sunday before work
2) Road trip. Preferably to Grand Haven, Up North, Mackinac, or maybe Chicago (unlikely).

Eh, does State count? GVSU will happen soon though
3) More trips to Stony Creek Metro Beach, or any beach.

I didn't make it to the beach once this summer, thankfully, I never bought the season pass.
4) If I don't make the Dean's List this semester (WIN 10) then I want to make it for the SPR/SUM 10 one.

Bragging right are sweet.

This DID happen! Win 10...yup.

5)Get into even better shape than I was last summer. I stayed in relatively good shape over the school year so I'm pretty happy about that.

This didn't happen, but I didn't get too much fatter either. I'm still in decent shape so I'm okay w/ that.
6) Learn more about the art of Chinese cooking...or whatever you want to call my mom's cooking since in all fairness, it's a bit out there sometimes.

Maybe later... (:
7) Catch up w/ people I've been wanting to for a long time.

This happened for some people, so kind of a success
8) No hands spaghetti eating contest!

Mike, this will happen.
9) Get an apartment

Sitting in my apartment right now
10) Make & save enough money to pay for my apartment

I'll be okay
11) Saturday morning Eastern Market trips

One of these weekends
12) FUNK NIGHT. hopefully when it's not being held at the Majestic (i'm all for the underground experience)

July 2010 Russel Industrial Bazaar, hell yes.
13) If possible, borrow a fake & check out the club on the top floor of Los Galanes

I don't know enough asian of age ): Doesn't really matter though, I'll be 21 in just over

nine months
14) Read more this summer. Yes, I actually like to read books for fun.

I did read quite a bit, thought it wasn't as much as I would have liked, I still got a few good stories in!
15) Learn how to drive a manual, I'm for serious on this. It's been two years & I'm still ignorant.

Sigh...
16) More disc golf, driving range, ultimate, soccer, volleyball, & swimming

Disc golf: none

Driving range: once, where I did improve my swing thanks to Zach

Ultimate: none, unless you count throwing around a frisbee a few times

Soccer: a little bit

Volleyball: I watched

Swimming: I went a few times, lots of lap swimming. It was great!
17) Using my bike more too

I use my bike to go to the pharmacy school, or I walk there. I also used it for Critical Mass

(go figure), & for other errands & bike rides.
18) ROAD RALLY. this needs to happen.

Hahh it didn't happen
19) Finish the biofilm research & have enough material to get published! (how awesome would that be?)

Biofilm project is still in the works, however, we should be finishing by December, when my 10 page research paper is due for my grant haha

Malaysia!

Well I've been clearly lazy to update while in Malaysia, but hey, vacation is vacation, & man was this an amazing one. This is most def one of my top trips ever: I love seeing my extended family, the change of pace, & observing ways of life/differences in culture. I honestly haven't been so reluctant to leave somewhere. SO! A very brief summary of my trip:

- I love my cousins, aunts, & uncles. I miss you guys already! Thanks so much for taking us everywhere, for all the laughs, forthe generosity, & for your patience w/ the gimp American English only cousin (Andrew doesn't count, haha jk). I hope to see you guys sooner than in four years, it's seriously too long (not what she said).

- Lots of laughs & hanging out w/ my brother, something that hasn't really been possible considering he lives in Maryland & I only see him a few weeks out of the year.

- Hiking! I went on the hardest hike of my life this trip...Kota Kinabalu. Think 6km of steep stairs & you pretty much have this trail, then add rain, wind, & coldness. The sad thing is I didn't even reach the summit, meaning I'll have to go hike it next time we're back & drag myself up the last 2.5km. I'm pretty disappointed I wasn't able to finish it, pretty lame that tea brought me down. (You're forced by the park to stay on the mountain overnight before finishing the trail, so at the cafeteria up there I drank lots of tea...which had lots of caffeine. I wasn't able to sleep & because my body didn't get the rest it needed, my ankles & knees hurt so much by the time we had to leave to hike to the top that I couldn't do it. FAIL.)

- I went scuba diving for the first time! & it was gorgeous, I saw a few clownfish in anemones & of course, I thought of Finding Nemo. I also met some pretty cool people there & got some good new beats to check out from the trip.

- Learned some traditional dances at a head hunter tribe site (they literally used to cut off the heads of their enemies & have 300 year old ones on display). One was from the 17th century & was really lame but funny, the other was w/ bamboo poles & fun though pretty hard.

- Saw sooo many Malacca lizards, VERY exciting.

- Got some good asian food to bring back! Hopefully it all passes through customs

- Speaking of food, I ate a ton of excellent stuff in Malaysia that you can't get in the USA. Mmm. Especially Mangosteen, I think my obsession w/ this fruit has just exponentially increased since consuming ungodly amounts. For those of you who haven't tasted it before, it's very sweet, tastes kinda like starbursts but is so much better.

- Watching crappy movies on the plane rides while I should be studying for this test I have to pass by Tuesday, oh yeah. Whatever, it's still technically vacation right?

-We went parasailing & this new thing called flyfishing...the latter was about 432849032842 times more enjoyable (:

- The only downside of this trip other than not being here long enough: I lost my favorite necklace (one w/ the lightning bolt). So I hope it turns up, but at this point it's been out of my hands, figuratively & literally. Oh well.

Right now we're chilling in Taipei, it's 8:20pm Malaysian & 8:20am in Michigan. Our flight is around 10am/pm for a 13 hour flight back to San Francisco, then we have another layover, then we're finally back in Detroit! I'm excited to be back, but I would have loved to spend another week w/ my family. It's been so nice, but I guess it's always better to leave wanting more than counting the days till you're back. So as long as our plane doesn't pull a Castaway (w/ Tom Hanks) we'll be back in less than 24 hours! ....fuck all of the layovers & plane rides. I don't think that saving a few hundred dollars was worth the added 10 hours of traveling. (Then again, I shouldn't complain because I didn't pay for my ticket)

K-os

I can't decide how I feel about today because it's had its ups & downs. Hanging out w/ Zach & Sara today pretty much canceled out the sucky parts of my day, I'm just hoping (if I was religious, I'd be praying) that I get my battery before we leave tomorrow or I'll be a little upset.

Time to pack!

PS- I took my last exam given by Spranger EVER yesterday! & nearly herniated my stomach w/ the copious amounts of food that I ate in Mexican town afterwards, but it would most definitely have been worth it

Cult status

Soph & I are going to start a cult called Cream Cheese?*
*mayyde in Malaysia

Why? Because we know the LAST truth out of the thousand and one truths in the world!



Basically, I miss this kid

Study fail

So my plan for today was to get through the last two lectures of Spranger that I'd ever have to relisten to. Here's what ended up happening:

1) CPR/First Aid class, where I fell asleep during the First Aid video due to the lack of sleep over the past few days. BUT, I did learn it when we practiced.
2) Came home & had lunch
3) A much needed nap.
4) I realized I didn't bring home my lecture notes & left my laptop in my room; no big since I can pull up the lecture slides at home, right?
5) Wrong. I forgot our desktop doesn't support .pptx files because it's old so I spent some time trying to get some one to convert the files for me
6) Got Vanya to do it but it took a while between logging on, accessing the files, converting them, & sending them to the correct email
7) Dinner happened right after I got the email of lecture slides
8) Blackout. WTF. So instead, I went to BDubs w/ Zach, Mik, Danny, & Sara (yeah, I know.)
9) Got back, ate, did about 10 minutes of lecture before my brother called me over for this ridiculous YouTube vid, in which after we spent about an hour swapping different ones as always
10) I decided I wanted to go for a run & stick to my exercise everyday routine that I've gotten into (best run thus far- 1am, cool, not too humid, only passed by two cars, & I was able to go a lot further than I thought I'd be able to)
11) I'm blogging. fail. Buuuuuut, I'm cooling down & will instead relisten to lecture in my bed! Where I might fall asleep, maybe.

NOTE: The only reason I'm trying right now for A&P is because I have an A- going in class, meaning if I screw up this exam I'll be a little upset at myself

Lessons learned from today (as in Friday...I'm writing this late)

1. Bring a bike pump, water, & a fully charged phone when going to Critical Mass

2. Take a big group to Funk Night; there is a direct correlation of epicness (though tonight at the Russell Industrial Center was suhweeet)

3. Keep extra water & gatorade/powerade/etc for the aftermath of Funk

4. As long as the Majestic isn't the Funk venue, arrive after midnight.

5. The Traffic Jam has a piano which they let people play on it

6. I'm going to kill myself w/ the lack of sleep that I've been getting.

7. #6 has been totally worth it

8. Don't party w/ your housemates late at night when you have to get up early the next morning for professionally related committments
9. I need to keep better track of who I invite to what because I was terrible in that department today (sorry Rich & Lenard)
10. I've eaten at Lafayette for dinner two days in a row & am still alive! Though I'm sure my digestive system is crying.

Random story of the day

Last night after taking a shower I decided to look for a bag that I thought I brought from home & left in the living room so I walk out & look for it. I don't find it but for some reason, I look up & all I see is Brendon sitting in our dining room w/ the lights off, dressed in dark clothes, & staring at me w/ only his face lit up by his cell phone. While we look at each other, we ran passionately into each others' arms.

No jk, but the first thing said was "you're not wearing any pants." hahah

& now I'm going to play drinking games w/ the neighbors.

PS- Lenard's birthday celebration on Sunday night was pretty fun- good food, meeting new people, free Astoria compliments of DK, & hanging out at Campus Martius followed by a nice run w/ Caleb then studying & a good talk w/ DK.

Cherry ice cream

Thursday

Tigers game w/ SURF & some of the PharmSci faculty/grad students, & they won! Though it wasn't completely impressive considering the number of errors, they got it done so that was pretty sweet. We decided that we should pay $5 to anyone who will be willing to jump into the pool that they have in Comerica Park and/or hotwire one of the cars they have displayed above & drive those into the pool. On the way back Allie & I apparently got whistled at by Mexican douches (you know the kind) which was pretty funny.

Driving back to main campus after the game was the first time I've ever experienced a traffic jam in Detroit. Thankfully I know my way around Detroit so I was only stuck for a few minutes.

Class, blah. However, I stayed awake & was paying attention the entire time! Which means less work for me in about five minutes when I relisten to lecture, yay.

Ethan helped me put up stars in my room (whoa the Big Bang!...that isn't meant sexually btw), got Lafayette, walked on the River walk for a few- where we saw a Detroit coroner van & a few police cars at Hart Plaza, kinda weird- & then went to Greektown for Coldstone. Sweet cream, peanut butter, & fudge = sex.

Slept over at Rich's for the night

Friday

Left my phone on Rich's bathroom sink, fail.

Cedar Point w/ Dr. Commissaris, his son Phil, Mike, Tyler, Ryan, & Matt. It was a good time & I actually used sunscreen for once which was an excellent decision because now I'm slightly tan but w/o it I would've been burnt fo sho. Mike, Tyler, & I went on the Millennium Force, Raptor, Mantis, Mean Streak, Magnum, bumper cars, water rides about 3482904832 times (hahaha), & some others before the torrential flood came around 9pm in Sandusky.

Best part of the day: When Phil, Tyler, & I were poking fun at Mike's diaper rash/swamp ass walk by imitating it because some guy who thought we didn't know him saw & we overheard him pointing out to his girlfriend that we were "making fun of that kid who's walking funny"

We also saw a woman w/ a third nipple by her armpit

Saturday (today, durr)

CPR training at 9am in Waterford, I'm now certified for AED & adult/infant CPR!

One of our family friends from Canada is visiting & it's been a few years since I've seen her, pretty cool

However, I'm exhausted from running around all day to all these places & lack of sleep. Which means either nap time, or relisten to lecture.

Nap.

Oh, & I finally changed my profile picture since pretty much everyone was telling me via my wall, message, chat, or comments on my fb, over the phone, & in person that they all hated it. Enjoy the break from weird pictures

UPDATE: I love the Michigan Interlibrary Loan system: five new CDs to listen to for free that would have otherwise been unavailable to me. Hooray!

Two thumbs up

Today was one of the best days I've had in a while- full of easygoing, hilarious, & fun moments. I'm really happy w/ all the memories I've made in the past 10 hours. To name a few:

1) Coming up w/ the name Laqueefa

2) Sticky mat fight in my apartment w/ Zach

3) Scaring the shit out of Wensley through a fb video & him pushing me off my chair in Purdy Kresge because of it

4) Two big scoops of ice creams at Freshens for $2.64 (thanks Jordan!)

5) Everything considered (AKA not studying at all), a pretty easy A&P exam

6) Getting out of lab way early

7) Ridiculous jokes & conversations continued at the Olympic Grill

This past weekend

1) Apparently I got checked out by 30something year olds outside Sala Thai, food was delicious as always, Mike was ridiculous as always

2) Wensley picked me & Tyler up then went to Fairlane where I found some amazing deals. Necklace, shoes, two pairs of shorts, a shirt, & a dress for $56.11

3) Ethan, Tyler & I had some excellent Saganaki & gyros at Golden Fleece in Greek town, where we met up w/ Mike & his friend Andrew. (PS-Ethan's place is suhweet)

4) From there, the five of us went to Windsor (the city!) & overall I had a pretty good time. It was a nice switch up from the boringness of my life. We randomly ran into Norbert (Sir Norbs Christopher of the Dirty Skee.) & some of his friends in a bar, good stuff.

5) After we finished bar/club hopping, I convinced Chris (Sir Norbs Christopher of the Dirty Skee.) & his friend to go to McDonalds w/ me so I could get a sundae, which included lots of yelling, & some carrying across the street.

6) Then we went to Little Caesars where I met up w/ my group but ended up chilling w/ Chris' (Sir Norbs Christopher of the Dirty Skee.) for a while in which some random guy was trying to get me to leave w/ him through the window...twice. hahah, he walked away, came back, then his friend punched him, & they both left

7) Chris (Sir Norbs Christopher of the Dirty Skee.) walked me back to Travelodge (thanks again!), where I found Andrew & Tyler passed out in the chair (& where he slept the entire night) & one of the beds respectively. I made Ethan & Mike walk across the street to Windsor's riverfront where we stayed for about an hour & according to them, "drunk philosophized"

8) Talked for a few hours w/ Ethan before we decided that it might be a good idea to sleep

9) Hangover free as usual (:

10) Not a very eventful trip back to Detroit; Tyler & Ethan stopped by my apt for a while & they met Rachel

11) When I got home, I told myself I wouldn't take a nap so I could wake up early on Sunday & be productive. So I'm relistening to lecture & end up falling asleep at the desk. My dad comes in & wakes me up for dinner, I try to get up but both my legs have fallen asleep & couldn't hold my weight at all so I ended up faceplanting into our carpet. Where I fell back asleep for about two more hours hahah

12) SUSHI. Mm, so good!

13) Finally moved a bed down to my apartment! So other than clothes, I'm pretty much moved in! Though there are some stuff that we gotta finish cleaning & repair before it's actually livable. Next phase of the apartment: cleaning the living room, bathroom, window sills, fixing the toilet so it actually flushes, painting, & buying plexiglass/the necessary equipment so I can plug in 3 pronged appliances into the wall in my room.

14) I'm screwed for this A&P exam. Not enough studying by far. Oh well, I'll still try

69 different IP numbers have been logged

this was a good day- blueberry yogurt, blueberries, strawberries, & soy milk

S. pyogenes strain HSC5 cultures

more lab stuffs

agar agar! yum. nectarine, blueberries, & grapes in basically an asian jello w/ cherry ice cream on the side

"I'm going to make you love me" - a very very sleep deprived DK hahah

lolwut- discovered near the bottom of the stone benches between General Lectures & Manoogian

On top of the first floor of state hall (they were so proud)

BEST FRANS FO LYFE!

"I am so embarrassed you saw my butt I think I might just run my head through the wall" - Best fraaaaan

Why I've had a good weekend

1) I saw Vanya today!

2) I ate a ton of fruit w/ Vanya today

3) We came up w/ a sweet new dance move (compliments to one of the Spanish soccer team members) that we did w/ her African drum

4) Vanya let me borrow their acoustic guitar. New instrument? Yes. I already have a song goal that I want to learn by the end of summer (:

5) Lots of piano playing & laughing

6) Tons of reading, I forgot how good it feels to get lost in a story.

7) I wanted the Netherlands to win, but not to the point where I was heartbroken over it, they didn't have much of an offense & their defense clearly lagged at some points in the game. Oh well.

8) Bought a pretty nice dress on sale

9) Got my room in my apartment cleaned so I can start moving stuff in

10) Rereading my human physio notes seems infinitely more productive than relistening to A&P lecture & it saves so much time

Recent news

1) I finally have a place for the fall! We signed the lease this past Thursday & I'm so excited to move in.

2) Saw the Karate Kid w/ Tony, Zach, & Mik Friday night. I didn't like how the movie left a lot of loose ends, maybe they're setting up for a sequel, I don't know. I thought it would've been sweet to have seen a showdown between Jackie Chan & the other kung foo teacher. Is it hugely nerdy of me that while we saw Will Smith's kid working out that I only thought of how Spranger said that if you exercise & lift a lot when you're 11-13, it'll stunt your growth?

3) Cat's grad party was Saturday! Where a nine year old thought my bra was the place where I was hiding their ping pong ball & proceeded to maul my boobs hahaha. FAIL.

4) My mom rented Borat from the public library...we're about to watch it. I'm pretty interested to see how it goes.

UPDATE: we got 22 min & 24 seconds into the movie before my mom got sick of it hahah

I'm the coolest kid you'll ever meet

One of the bigger fails of my life:

I was sitting in the front of the lecture hall in deRoy & there were six of my friends & their bags between me & the aisle. Halfway through lecture, I have to go to the bathroom but I was debating if I actually should because I didn't want to get up & move across all of them. In the end I decide to and after some awkward shuffling I get out to the aisle etc. As I'm coming back, I notice the aisle behind me only has one guy in it so I thought "do I really want to climb back over everyone or just climb over the chair?". I took climbing over the chair & I'm on top of my seat, swinging my foot over but it catches on the top. Apparently I said, "oh god" (I don't remember this) & then fell w/ my feet sticking up & my back on the part of the seat where my butt would be. So apparently all my friends saw & started laughing, Spranger heard/saw, stopped lecture, & was looking for me as I was still upside down while asking my friends why they were laughing.

Jo = 4839204823094328432; World = -1

Who would've thought...

My parents turned on our A/C for the first time this summer

There IS a god after all!

Wholly satisfying (& unproductive) past 24 hours

Around 2am while in the middle of watching War of the Worlds on TNT last night freaked out of my mind because I flipped to it in the middle of the movie & had to see the ending or else I'd be super paranoid, I got a call from Mark who told me he was around the area. So he stopped by & we hung out/caught up for about an hour & it was really nice.

This morning I bummed around, made a video for Brendon's birthday on his fb wall, ate some more breakfast, vacuumed, ate lunch, & then watched the USA lose to Ghana. Eh, I'm disappointed but I'm not heartbroken, they didn't play like they wanted it in the first half & overall I wasn't impressed w/ how they defended & moved the ball. After, I wikipedia'd some stuff, bummed around some more, went to dinner, where we ran into some family friends. Their daughter who's entering the 6th grade in the fall is already taller than me & she slouches hahaha. We stopped by Blockbuster, picked up The Proposal, & I went to Nat's grad party. Within five minutes of being there, I met three douche/bros who recently graduated from GVSU (and, as I found out later, crashed her grad party since one of the guys is her neighbor) & we played about 43829540832 games of ladder toss. In true douche/bro fashion, we upgraded to the oh so classy game of BP in the guy's garage while he put his iPod on shuffle, which had lots of Taylor Swift on it hahah. Then some of their friends came over & I found out that they know two girls I went to middle school which was completely random. Finally, after playing five games I walked back over to Nat's house, talked to her & her parents, then headed home. My parents just started the movie so I watched it w/ them & now I'm here typing this.

...I have my philosophy final Monday & another A&P lab quiz Tuesday. I've only started studying for my A&P quiz hahaha. As what always seems to happen, tomorrow/today is going to be another work day. Jo wins!

No complaints though, it was worth it.

To be obnoxious, a survey that Brendon tagged me in (& I might end up deleting this later as has happened lately)

1 - Have you ever been asked out?
yup

2 - Where was your default picture taken?
downtown Detroit

3 - What's your middle name?
chinese sheeeit cuh

4 - Your current relationship status?
something that will probably make you scratch your head, not many people are comfortable w/ the concept

5 - Does your crush like you back?

of course not, we're married, he's not allowed to like me!

6 - What is your current mood?
Tired & slightly worried

7 - What color underwear are you wearing?
White

8 - What color shirt are you wearing?
Beige & black

9 - Missing something?
freedom.

10 - If you could change something, what would you change?
WORLD PEACE

11 - If you must be an animal for one day, what?
Shark

12 - Ever had a near death experience?
Yup

13 - Something you do a lot?
Smile, think of really lame jokes & laugh at them, & check the time

14 - The song stuck in your head?
none right now actually

15 - Who did you copy and paste this from?
Brendon

16 - Name someone with the same birthday as you.
This girl I played soccer w/ in high school & some guy who sat in front of me in math class freshman year of hs haha

17 - When was the last time you cried?
While ago

18 - Have you ever sung in front of a large audience?
Mhm

19 - If you could have one super power what would it be?
Read minds

20 - What's the first thing you notice about the opposite sex?
Overall appearance, smile. & to be a smartass, that they're a guy, hopefully.

21 - What do you usually order from Starbucks?
Caramel frap

22 - What's your biggest secret?
Well if I tell, it won't be a secret anymore will it?

23 - Favorite color?
I go through phases?

24- Do you still watch kiddie shows or TV shows?
The only show I've gotten hooked on is Dexter

25 - What's on your walls?
paint, some awards, & glow in the dark planets

26 - What are you?
Me

27 - Do you speak any other language?
No, thanks parents

28 - What's your favorite smell?
Boogers

29 - Describe your life in one word?
Interesting

30 - Have you ever kissed in the rain?
Yeah, I'd say it's nothing special

31 - What are you thinking about right now?
How much I should be studying & some tard that I miss

32 - If you could take one person to the moon, who would you take?
Frank Sinatra?

33 - What should you be doing?
See the first half of the answer to two questions above

34 - Who was the last person that made you upset/angry?
If you know me, you shouldn't need to even guess

35 - How often do you talk to God?
Not since I was in preschool & we prayed to God to bless us w/ an apple seed star when we sliced the apple

36 - do you like working in the yard?
Don't mind it, depends on the type of yard work though, I hate tying up branches & picking up the twigs after

37 - If you could have any last name in the world, what would you want?
Pooonyoface.

1) Yes, it's late

2) I'm tired

3) When it's late & I'm tired, I get even weirder

Thus 4) This is the current state that I'm in

^I am SO READY for this philosophy final

38 - Do you act differently around the person you like?
Well yeah, you don't go around kissing/holding hands/cuddling/etc w/ your friends

39 - What is your natural hair colour?
Black

40 - Who was the last person to make you cry?
Of laughter? Steve

Yum

1) I love Mexican food

2) Mexicantown is the best

3) Out of all the restaurants, Evie's Tamales has become my favorite, hands down.

Therefore, Evie's Tamales >> everything else

Dinner Combo: Rice, beans, tamale, enchilada, & burrito + orange jarritos for roughly $7. oh yes.

Strange people

This is an open letter to the elderly man on the bike in Rochester Hills who rode within two feet of my car as I was getting in who smiled then waved to me in one of the most awkward ways possible after Zach dropped me off & to the guy who called me "beautiful" & kept trying to hit on me while sitting at a traffic light:

Thanks for making my life more interesting. All the same, you both are McCreepsters.

This past week

1) Watched the Cote D'Ivoire vs. Portugal game in the lab again on Tuesday..Ronaldo's a bitch. As my friend put it, "he deserves at least 74 of those acting awards."
2) Talked to Soph for the first time in a while!
3) I talked to Myles who moved to the Philippines
4) 104% on my philosophy exam. which means, i'm done studying for this class since 65% of my grade is an A+, holla
5) Housing plans are finally coming together (Hi Brendon!) & I'm 99.999% sure this is going to be my new place!
6) Spranger kicked some one out of class hahah
7) WTF WAS THAT MALIAN REF ON? Seriously, nullifying a USA goal when it was fairly won & hit. However, by doing so the least he could've done was to give American a PK after Slovenia fouled two other USA players in the box. There's absolutely no doubt that the US deserves three points out of this match, the ref wouldn't even say what foul was committed that gave him reason to overturn the goal! What a shaft, it's even worse that he was making questionable calls the entire game against both teams. Epic fail on extreme proportions.
UPDATE: I'll add one more thing: FIFA needs to review the process they use in which to select referees that officiate their games. If they care about the integrity of the World Cup, something needs to change. I'm not saying that replays should be put into place because that'll become a mess, but the two refs in the USA & Germany match proved the lack of judgement on FIFA's part. I'm interested to see what the official
8) Played some ultimate & soccer w/ Ethan, Tyler, Ryan, & Matt. good stuff (: until I got sick from drinking too much water haha, oops.
9) I'm planning on pigging out on ice cream as soon as I get home. oh yes.
10) Come visit me in the UGL! I'll just being doing A&P till 7ish...unless some one wants to go to the Fillmore w/ me (:
11) Michael's grad party tomorrow!
12) Seeing Vanya on Sunday!
ADDED:
13) Went to Dave & Chuck the Freak's Friday Bitches Ball w/ Major...which involved fence jumping six times, a free tshirt, & free food. all around, good stuff (:
14) Aaaand I also got a shirt from Major who got it for me in NYC. Yay!
15) Saw a guy imitating a girl by holding his fanny pack like it was a purse & shaking his hips as he walked lol
16) K so you know the post a few days down where I was basically being annoyed to death by my mom's singing? SHE'S AT IT AGAIN. W/ AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL. I can't figure out which is worse.

Typical

My first conscious thought was that some one was calling me, looking at my phone, I see it's Zach & wondering why he's calling, I pick up.
Which is when I find out it's 9am & I have an exam at 9:35am. Cue slight freak out.

Thankfully, he picked me up from my house & we booked to Detroit, & thanks to some pretty sweet driving & no major traffic, I got to my exam early (:
Win.
Another win: apparently I'm the only person in my class to get the meaning of this correct(yes, it was typed up on Word & then screen shotted to ask my philosophy friends what it meant, which actually didn't help at all)
If you're curious, it means: A is necessary in H if & only if A is true in all worlds Hi possible relative to H

On the walk over, this guy who works in the Rehab Hospital (according to his uniform) stopped me & told me I had beautiful legs & then asked me how many boyfriends I have. I told him five & he said well I'd believe it!
(NOTE: I have typical butch soccer legs. My legs are not pretty by any means at all hahah)
Right after this, I take the crosswalk across John R where you're supposed to yield for pedestrians. This asshole sees me crossing the street & instead of slowing down or keeping a constant speed, he speeds up & came less than a foot from running me over. I gave him the "wtf" look, to which he just waved at me. Bastard.

the last noteworthy part of my day: watching the Italy vs. Paraguay match in Woster's lab w/ at least three people at one time, the most being nine hahah



In other news, I've decided that I update this thing way too much

No more Jackson Five. Please. My ears are bleeding.

My mom's been singing the chorus to The Jackson Five's "I'll be There" for the past three hours.

I'm about to go insane.

Current beats

Pandora -> Create a New Station... -> Jim Croce
I wish we had more music like this produced today, good stuff.

Philosophy exam Monday, I might be in trouble for this

Just saying...

okay I'm editing this & putting in a disclaimer: I most likely sound like a bitch by typing this up, but I won't take this down because yesterday(6/11) just reinforced this for me.

It's hugely disrespectful to join a fb group for some one who has passed when you don't even know the person or while they were alive, meant nothing to you.
I don't mean the last part to be harsh, but let's be real. At least for me, I know that there are a lot of people who wouldn't do shit if I needed help or a favor at this very moment in time because they can't stand me or I'm just some random chick. I'm not necessarily saying that everyone or anyone would turn around & act like my BFF if/when I die, but I've seen the trends w/ others & it's disgusting.

If you've never even met this deceased person, laughed w/ him or her, or even waved to him or her (sorry, grammar nazi) on the street, there is absolutely no reason to join a group dedicated to his or her memory & then post ridiculous things along the lines of "OMG...i never knew him but he always seemed like a cool guy. RIP" or "we never talked but i always saw him in the hallways RIP"
No. This is bullshit, if you really care, message the family or contact them in some other way to offer your support. Don't post shit up on a wall like this just because you want attention drawn to you that you joined the fucking group & now you "know" some one who has passed. It's absolutely repulsive to see how many more "friends" some one gains after they die. Want evidence? Compare the number of friends some one has on their personal page vs. the number of members in a group created for their memory