Friday, June 27, 2008
suspense!
i interviewed tuesday, and now it's friday and i still don't know what's going on. everyone keeps asking me how i think it went and they won't accept my answer when i tell them i don't know. who knows. i just know i am going to be disappointed if they don't hire me.
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i'm watching beside you in time. before that, i watched aatchb. two trent shows are coming up, and i haven't been feeling the same excitement i did all the previous times. i didn't feel the same nervousness in getting the tickets. but watching these dvds has me all excited because now i remember what i'm in for. ok, so the new album isn't my favorite, but that doesn't change the fact that there is nothing better than live nine inch nails. i wish i had gone through with my plans to go to more than two dates. but i'm hoping they'll tour more later. that seems possible.
k bye.
ps- ROBIN!!!!!!
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i'm watching beside you in time. before that, i watched aatchb. two trent shows are coming up, and i haven't been feeling the same excitement i did all the previous times. i didn't feel the same nervousness in getting the tickets. but watching these dvds has me all excited because now i remember what i'm in for. ok, so the new album isn't my favorite, but that doesn't change the fact that there is nothing better than live nine inch nails. i wish i had gone through with my plans to go to more than two dates. but i'm hoping they'll tour more later. that seems possible.
k bye.
ps- ROBIN!!!!!!
Tuesday, June 24, 2008
Sunday, June 22, 2008
deux choses
1. the arcade fire's "neon bible" is one of my favorite albums in such a long time. i can't stop listening to it. it's so beautiful and surprising.
2. this heat makes it impossible to sleep any sustained amount of time. my room is the pit of hell and is definitely the hottest one in the house. last night i woke up in hour long intervals because it's so uncomfortable in here. why oh why i don't i have ac?
2. this heat makes it impossible to sleep any sustained amount of time. my room is the pit of hell and is definitely the hottest one in the house. last night i woke up in hour long intervals because it's so uncomfortable in here. why oh why i don't i have ac?
Friday, June 20, 2008
i'm intimidated
i got an interview with the one company i was really interested in working for. they sent me an e-mail saying they liked my resume, and gave me questions to answer. i had no idea how to answer one of them (name an ailing brand and how you would revive it), but i tried my very best and apparently they liked my answer. i now have an interview with a lady named zoe on tuesday. i am trying not to get my hopes up too high, because it's only one interview and you can't expect to land a job on your first try.
...but i reeeeeally would like this job. i'm super nervous about this interview, because i've never been on one of these professional, fancy interviews before. and unlike so many of my peers, i never went to those seminars that teach you how to put together a resume or present yourself in an interview. =/ then i started looking around at mean entry-level salaries for this type of position and now i have visions of dollars signs (and paying off school loans) and health benefits dancing around in my head. LASIK!
yeah i'd have to live in la, but on the bright side i'd have money to buy a season ticket to the kings!
did i mention i'm really nervous? i'm obsessed with this and i can't believe i have to wait until tuesday to just get it over with. i mean, even if the interview goes badly (and here's hoping that it doesn't), i'll just be relieved to have gotten it over with. we'll see.
the con? the office is off of the 101. i can't explain how hard that makes me want to cry. if i ended up working there, obviously i'd have to move further out in that direction. tuesday i'm going to have to leave school, go 405 north to 101 south and i'll probably be so frustrated the entire time. :( i'm so scared of being late, though, so i think i'll leave two hours in advance.
OY! going out into the "real world" sucks but it's also kind of exciting.
...but i reeeeeally would like this job. i'm super nervous about this interview, because i've never been on one of these professional, fancy interviews before. and unlike so many of my peers, i never went to those seminars that teach you how to put together a resume or present yourself in an interview. =/ then i started looking around at mean entry-level salaries for this type of position and now i have visions of dollars signs (and paying off school loans) and health benefits dancing around in my head. LASIK!
yeah i'd have to live in la, but on the bright side i'd have money to buy a season ticket to the kings!
did i mention i'm really nervous? i'm obsessed with this and i can't believe i have to wait until tuesday to just get it over with. i mean, even if the interview goes badly (and here's hoping that it doesn't), i'll just be relieved to have gotten it over with. we'll see.
the con? the office is off of the 101. i can't explain how hard that makes me want to cry. if i ended up working there, obviously i'd have to move further out in that direction. tuesday i'm going to have to leave school, go 405 north to 101 south and i'll probably be so frustrated the entire time. :( i'm so scared of being late, though, so i think i'll leave two hours in advance.
OY! going out into the "real world" sucks but it's also kind of exciting.
Thursday, June 12, 2008
sleeping is for losers
it's past four in the morning, and i have to be up around 7:30 to get ready for noelle's graduation tomorrow. well, later on today. graduation ceremonies are torture. i hate them. it's outdoors, so it's going to be hot. and crowded. and parking is going to be a bitch. then i have to sit through a bunch of obnoxious speeches by "important" education people. then i have to sit around and wait while she bids farewell to hundreds of people. then i finally get to come back home and go back to bed... and then i have to repeat all this shit on sunday, except this time with the added inconvenience of driving to los angeles, and then having to wear some goofy ass outfit (the robe is ok, but that hat and that big gold braid need to bounce) and yeah. graduating is fine, but the ceremony is awful.
it was nice, but weird, having the day off today. it's so strange not having the guilt of what i "should" be doing looming over me. there's always something i should be reading or writing or studying, but nope. not anymore. and no work, either. i kind of didn't know what to do with myself. but it worked out. peek profited from my need to be doing something constantly because i took her on many adventures. then i rented grey's anatomy season 1... which was a mistake because now i want nothing more than to just stay up all night and watch it. it's so addictive.
i got my comm 130 final grade: 28/30. that score of 28... there's no way i always just miss two questions. there's no way that for 6 professor kelly tests, i got the same exact score. he's just fucking with me. but whatever, i got my A. unfortunately, i think that's the end of my As for this quarter. i don't know what to expect from my von blum paper (they're mysterious... i'm expecting a B but who knows.) and i think i'm getting a B in Comm 10. which is hilarious. first of all, i've never gotten a B before. I've had one B+, but never a plain B. it's funny because Comm 10 is the basic comm class that you're supposed to take at the beginning. that class was seriously the biggest pain in the ass ever. fucking EVER. i threw many tantrums just at the thought of what i had to go through. going to class was torture. probably worse than going to graduation ceremonies. but it's over, whatever. i look forward to a time that i won't have to obsess about grades any longer. i just can't help it. i can't settle for a B and think it's good when i KNOW there's something better out there. i'm done with this.
trent tickets go on sale tomorrow :) i'm excited.
oh, and i want to find a big version of this picture:
but it's nowhere. i actually found this one on accident, looking up "paul banks." hmmm... is he in the picture? i don't know. i just know jack white is, in very tight trunks, and therefore i must find the larger picture.
k bye.
it was nice, but weird, having the day off today. it's so strange not having the guilt of what i "should" be doing looming over me. there's always something i should be reading or writing or studying, but nope. not anymore. and no work, either. i kind of didn't know what to do with myself. but it worked out. peek profited from my need to be doing something constantly because i took her on many adventures. then i rented grey's anatomy season 1... which was a mistake because now i want nothing more than to just stay up all night and watch it. it's so addictive.
i got my comm 130 final grade: 28/30. that score of 28... there's no way i always just miss two questions. there's no way that for 6 professor kelly tests, i got the same exact score. he's just fucking with me. but whatever, i got my A. unfortunately, i think that's the end of my As for this quarter. i don't know what to expect from my von blum paper (they're mysterious... i'm expecting a B but who knows.) and i think i'm getting a B in Comm 10. which is hilarious. first of all, i've never gotten a B before. I've had one B+, but never a plain B. it's funny because Comm 10 is the basic comm class that you're supposed to take at the beginning. that class was seriously the biggest pain in the ass ever. fucking EVER. i threw many tantrums just at the thought of what i had to go through. going to class was torture. probably worse than going to graduation ceremonies. but it's over, whatever. i look forward to a time that i won't have to obsess about grades any longer. i just can't help it. i can't settle for a B and think it's good when i KNOW there's something better out there. i'm done with this.
trent tickets go on sale tomorrow :) i'm excited.
oh, and i want to find a big version of this picture:
but it's nowhere. i actually found this one on accident, looking up "paul banks." hmmm... is he in the picture? i don't know. i just know jack white is, in very tight trunks, and therefore i must find the larger picture.
k bye.
Monday, June 9, 2008
this isn't happening
it's almost 2:30 am and i'm up studying for my two finals tomorrow. one in the morning, one at night... who planned this for my very last round of finals?! it's fucking evil is what it is. both of these classes require memorization of lists and lists and i keep getting the concepts mixed up for the two classes... indeed, there is a little bit of overlap between the two, but mostly i'm just so over this.
everyone i know is out of school already but i just have to get through this one...last...day....
:(
i want nothing more than to do nothing... which i plan on doing starting tuesday... granted, i start summer school next week, but it's just a twice-weekly von blum class. i'd go to his lectures even if i wasn't enrolled. he's fantastic.
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i seriously can't believe the hockey season is over. i know i say that every season, but it's so depressing. i have games i recorded on my dvr from throughout the year saved, but i tried re-watching one and it was so boring compared to these insane finals between the pens and the red wings. i'm excited about next season though, since they changed the format and now every team will play every other team at least once. that's rad. i'll get the opportunity to see so many teams i've never seen in person- including the flyers! and i'm optimistic about the kings this season. towards the end of the last season they were getting it together, and the forwards especially were making it happen. too bad i won't be living in la and i won't be able to go to games all the time. that's gonna suck so hard. i got so spoiled living here the past two years.
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enough of this. i really have to study at least two and a half more hours. bye.
everyone i know is out of school already but i just have to get through this one...last...day....
:(
i want nothing more than to do nothing... which i plan on doing starting tuesday... granted, i start summer school next week, but it's just a twice-weekly von blum class. i'd go to his lectures even if i wasn't enrolled. he's fantastic.
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i seriously can't believe the hockey season is over. i know i say that every season, but it's so depressing. i have games i recorded on my dvr from throughout the year saved, but i tried re-watching one and it was so boring compared to these insane finals between the pens and the red wings. i'm excited about next season though, since they changed the format and now every team will play every other team at least once. that's rad. i'll get the opportunity to see so many teams i've never seen in person- including the flyers! and i'm optimistic about the kings this season. towards the end of the last season they were getting it together, and the forwards especially were making it happen. too bad i won't be living in la and i won't be able to go to games all the time. that's gonna suck so hard. i got so spoiled living here the past two years.
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enough of this. i really have to study at least two and a half more hours. bye.
Saturday, June 7, 2008
socal sucks :(
that's just a snippet of everyone who turned up for the stanley cup rally in detroit today. that's the main page of detroit's main newspaper. this soooo didn't happen for the ducks.
Friday, June 6, 2008
on the world's mysteries
and by "the world's mysteries" i mean "my grades."
why is there an inverse relationship between the effort i expend and the grade i receive?
ok, so intercultural comm. mwf, 11 am.... and i've NEVER been to it all three days. i read all the material from the reader the night before the midterm, and missed more than a third of the class meetings and got a 28/30. but that just means i make good use of last minute studying. so then there was the paper. last quarter i wrote what i thought was a pretty good paper for another one of his classes, and got an A-, which made me get an A- in the class...which is really annoying. this quarter i wrote the paper the night before it was due. but even worse, i didn't actually do any of the research the paper required. all of my facts and observations were works of pure fiction. only one thing in that paper had actually happened. besides that, my "analysis" was fairly superficial and obvious because my grasp on the class material is weak because i'm never there and don't do the reading until the last minute. guess what? i got 40/40 on the paper. WHAT? are you serious? i bust my ass on von blum papers and the past couple times got Bs. I mean, honestly, i was expecting a C because i thought the paper was so shitty. but no, a perfect score.
so i think the moral of the story is: never go to class, study at the last minute and rush through your papers with fabricated evidence.
why is there an inverse relationship between the effort i expend and the grade i receive?
ok, so intercultural comm. mwf, 11 am.... and i've NEVER been to it all three days. i read all the material from the reader the night before the midterm, and missed more than a third of the class meetings and got a 28/30. but that just means i make good use of last minute studying. so then there was the paper. last quarter i wrote what i thought was a pretty good paper for another one of his classes, and got an A-, which made me get an A- in the class...which is really annoying. this quarter i wrote the paper the night before it was due. but even worse, i didn't actually do any of the research the paper required. all of my facts and observations were works of pure fiction. only one thing in that paper had actually happened. besides that, my "analysis" was fairly superficial and obvious because my grasp on the class material is weak because i'm never there and don't do the reading until the last minute. guess what? i got 40/40 on the paper. WHAT? are you serious? i bust my ass on von blum papers and the past couple times got Bs. I mean, honestly, i was expecting a C because i thought the paper was so shitty. but no, a perfect score.
so i think the moral of the story is: never go to class, study at the last minute and rush through your papers with fabricated evidence.
aww
anderson cooper is so cute. and totally gay. forty seconds in.
though i expect most of you have probably seen this. i'm always late to the party.
though i expect most of you have probably seen this. i'm always late to the party.
Thursday, June 5, 2008
Wednesday, June 4, 2008
YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
the red wings won the cup!!!!!!!
it was lame that they did it on the road because when they announced zetterberg as the conn smyth winner and then brought out the cup, the crowd booed. i think lifting the conn smyth trophy and stanley cup should be met by very loud cheering.
oh well. whatever.
that was such a good game!!!!!
it was lame that they did it on the road because when they announced zetterberg as the conn smyth winner and then brought out the cup, the crowd booed. i think lifting the conn smyth trophy and stanley cup should be met by very loud cheering.
oh well. whatever.
that was such a good game!!!!!
DONE!!! (temporarily)
finished my last paper of the quarter. not sure it's what he wanted, but i tried my best...which isn't something i can say about many papers i turn in. i really tried with this one.
tomorrow i can watch game 6 of the finals guilt free. and the finale of top chef.
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i dream of the day that i'll have the time and means to do something that's more exciting to blog about than writing papers and watching hockey games.
hey, maybe i'll actually be able to *go* to the hockey games.
SCHOOL I AM SO OVER YOU!!! i am ready to sit around and do NOTHING!!!
i'll take peek to the dog park every day!
tomorrow i can watch game 6 of the finals guilt free. and the finale of top chef.
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i dream of the day that i'll have the time and means to do something that's more exciting to blog about than writing papers and watching hockey games.
hey, maybe i'll actually be able to *go* to the hockey games.
SCHOOL I AM SO OVER YOU!!! i am ready to sit around and do NOTHING!!!
i'll take peek to the dog park every day!
Tuesday, June 3, 2008
WHY
why would you do this to me, my dear redwings?!
with less than a minute to go in the third, they let the penguins tie up the game? WHAT?! YOU WERE LESS THAN A MINUTE AWAY FROM THE STANLEY CUP!!!!!! and then overtime and overtime and overtime again, a couple very bad goalie interference calls, and then the pens win on the power play. OOOOOY! i was ready for a party!
i really don't think they're gonna wrap it up in pittsburgh. i have to look it up so i know exactly, but i just know it's not common to win the cup while on the road. at least it hasn't been the trend in recent years.
so i'm betting on a game 7 in detroit on saturday... and of course i'm working so i can't watch it live which makes me want to cry.
~~~
other than that...
one more paper. two more finals. graduation bullshit. i can't think of a worse way to spend my sunday. i've gotta come up to la a couple days early (before summer school starts), get up early, hang out with my extended family, wear some goofy ass hat (seriously, who the hell decided on the graduation hat?), and sit through some really really boring ceremony that includes speakers who aren't: prof tom, prof von blum or bill clinton. who's left? someone dumb is gonna speak i bet. k bye. then i have to walk across some dumb stage while a photographer takes unflattering pictures, then i have to pose with my family for ten million additional pictures. then we're gonna argue about what to do next. the only good part is gonna be when i demand to go to sprinkles, and they'll have to comply because it's my stupid day. can't you tell how excited i am?
with less than a minute to go in the third, they let the penguins tie up the game? WHAT?! YOU WERE LESS THAN A MINUTE AWAY FROM THE STANLEY CUP!!!!!! and then overtime and overtime and overtime again, a couple very bad goalie interference calls, and then the pens win on the power play. OOOOOY! i was ready for a party!
i really don't think they're gonna wrap it up in pittsburgh. i have to look it up so i know exactly, but i just know it's not common to win the cup while on the road. at least it hasn't been the trend in recent years.
so i'm betting on a game 7 in detroit on saturday... and of course i'm working so i can't watch it live which makes me want to cry.
~~~
other than that...
one more paper. two more finals. graduation bullshit. i can't think of a worse way to spend my sunday. i've gotta come up to la a couple days early (before summer school starts), get up early, hang out with my extended family, wear some goofy ass hat (seriously, who the hell decided on the graduation hat?), and sit through some really really boring ceremony that includes speakers who aren't: prof tom, prof von blum or bill clinton. who's left? someone dumb is gonna speak i bet. k bye. then i have to walk across some dumb stage while a photographer takes unflattering pictures, then i have to pose with my family for ten million additional pictures. then we're gonna argue about what to do next. the only good part is gonna be when i demand to go to sprinkles, and they'll have to comply because it's my stupid day. can't you tell how excited i am?
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