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i wonder if it's common practice for other blogs to randomly change their blog names once in a short while. because i did it first and then connie did it and we both do it now to a ridiculous degree. so i'll just go rename my blog now again.
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Sunday, March 31, 2002
i want to see princeton. i want to see schools. i want to go to new york on tuesday. i want this pair of diesel shoes here on ebay. i want to go to sleep.
i was driving home with my mom yesterday and at an intersection, these kids in the car in front of us had a spongebob doll. and they kept waving it at me. so i waved back. and they just kept on waving it. then the light turned green and the car turned left.
hmm i'm ditching our first match of the season tomorrow to go see princeton. i'm such a team player. i don't think it really matters though. i went to see death to smoochy today. it was pretty funny, but some of the humor was very austin-powers-esque, especially when robin williams was involved. some parts were really sad and it made me feel for barney and pee-wee herman. and these two guys in the back kept laughing really loudly for long periods of time. that was funny, too. apparently there's no alias tonight b/c of this dinotopia or something. maybe i'll watch law and order, instead. criminal intent looks interesting. i watched a really old episode of it last night and i got hooked. that'll last until school starts again.
happy easter to you, too. :o)
wow, i really have nothing to blog about. this is what happens when you are on vacation and you have nothing to do except.. blog. hmmm. after eating at chili's, i felt extremely bloated (i guess that's kind of random and unrelated) and i got a haircut. and now i am home. i wonder if the alias is new tonight. that show is addictive. my mom hates the whole cliffhanger-on-every-episode concept and wonders why anyone would ever watch it. but we determined that the show is geared toward people like me in the 18-24 television bracket who like that stuff (although i don't technically fit there..hm). anyways, i wonder if the alias is new tonight. i said that already. see, i really don't have anything to blog about. i've been scared of growing up since junior year began. and it got a lot worse when i started studying for sats and then the full-blown version hit me when i turned seventeen. ouch, it kind of hurt. the truth hurts. where have i heard that? i don't know. but it does. i feel like breaking out the old school disney movies and playing with legos and plastic kitchenware. maybe i should become a elementary school teacher so i can keep pretending that i'm little again. denial is the best way to go. haha..
hey, don't think too much about college yet...i remember older, wiser kids telling me that high school goes fast, and it really does! so enjoy it...ha- i talk as if i'm off to college next week. bah, i couldn't sleep last night b/c i was pathetically worrying about college, and i think pastor al said the word "rejected" in his sermon this morning and it gave me quite a fright.
and oh yeah! ellen you're not even on spring break...but you're doing the motivated student's spring break! =) awesome... "fan-bloody-tastic" , as mrs. doubtfire would say. "i was in a band..." "aahh! a boy-eee! i don't hurt with the males...cuz i used to be one!" "my first day as a woman, and i'm already getting hot flashes!" hooray for mrs. doubtfire. i remember around this time last year, i finally figured out what sat II's were. heck, i didn't even understand the whole sat concept, like how it partially determines your future, required for college, etc. until december junior year. when i realized i had to take sat II's, i vaguely recalled my mother asking me freshman year if i should take them b/c all her friend's kids were taking them, in bio and stuff, and i waved it off saying it was probably some special smart kid scholastic genius optional competition thing. i don't know why i'm reminiscing here, but i guess there's a moral to the story: SATs and the boat load of pain they bring with them aren't really worth it. see, i didn't even know what they were until i registered for them, and i survived ok! hmm, 20 dollars says i eat my words by friday?
happy easter kids. it's a super cool day -- god <3 you and easter rocks. =D i went to a sunrise service here; the congregation was a combination of churches from around the boston area, mostly college kids. i really liked it...
boston is super cool. it's nice to know the schools i want to go for...it makes me more motivated in hs (since as of now...my lack of break has caused me to have no concern for doing actual work.). hehe. for the first time ever, i can kind of realistically imagine what i have ahead of me. it's kind of a weird feeling. it's also really scary to imagine a life different from what it has been for the last 17-18 years. ahh is anyone else scared of growing up?? i'm listening to upenn's a capella group (off the beat) right now -- they are so freakin good.
never call in for your SAT scores. it's a scam, a rip-off. the evil people at ets are just trying to milk you of more money, and as it seems, some of you have already been drawn in by their tempting offers...
i went to NY yesterday, and stopped by Columbia. It's very nice and a lot less crowded than other parts of NY. Oh and there's this cool food place called Stroko's near it. It's has just about everything; i had a tough time deciding what i wanted to get. After like 10 minutes of vacillating between choices, I ended up splitting a pizza with my friend. And hey, it's cool when you use SAT words in real-life. So my future should be determined by thursday or friday. I feel oddly...indifferent about it right now, even though i had quite a scare today. So frances called today and was like "have you heard? have you heard?" She was referring to Princeton. Apparently erkal got in, and i started getting a little jumpy because my mail hadn't come yet. My mail is so sporadic on saturdays; it comes whenever it wants to. So i was tempted to get in my car, track down the mail man, and demand my mail from him. I overcame this temptation, though, and just waited for it to come. It finally did and i didn't get anything. I figured i got waitlisted/rejected bc when i applied early, the deferrals/rejections did not come until a day after. It wasn't until later did i discover that erkal hadn't actually heard from Princeton. I found it rather amusing b/c he was like "so...what's this i hear about my getting into Princeton?" Yeah i thought it was pretty funny. um...have we had this conversation before?
merry easter (!)
so the piano competition was really humbling today ... sooo many freaky awesome players. ellen, you should have been coming with me in may! what were the judges thinking?! we'd kick butt ... =( but hey, april 14th awaits, right? well, i'm heading off before i lose too much sleep and end up croaking the high notes tomorrow (er, today) ... blarg. Saturday, March 30, 2002
yay! after making a promise several months ago that i would blog, i'm finally blogging! (there you go derek, you can stop nagging me now, j/k) taiwan for the entire summer?! wow..aren't you going to some fobby school for american kids who want to learn more chinese? what do you do there? hehe, very interesting..i want to go to taiwan (i've been saying this for a very long time now), a few weeks would be fun, but i can't imagine going for the whole summer. of course, i haven't been back in like..11 years. i'll be staying home this summer for once, anyone else sticking around to keep me company?
i got a root canal when i was a wee little girl. haha. and it's not like i coated my gums with sugar all the time either... it was something like my parents didn't know they had to have me brush my teeth when they first started coming out. i don't remember. but it was pretty scary. i only remember going under the gas mask and waking up with my cheek the size of a small apple. and drooling all over myself because the novacaine hadn't worn off. mmmm.. it was fun.
i went to new york today and wandered aimlessly around the nyu campus. i wonder if i could live in new york for four years or so. hmm. that's a tough question. i really cannot stand the smell of the city. but everything else is so nice. man.. if i lived in new york, i'd probably gain about twenty pounds within the first week. and lose all of my money on knockoff merchandise. there was a flea market-esqe thing going on in greenwich (hm, probably not spelled right) village and i wanted to buy a lot of things. but i didn't. there was this one stand with mousepads that looked like little oriental rugs.. i was so tempted to buy one. okay, not really, but i thought they were pretty nifty. haha... dur, my dad needs the computer. bye bye all.
derek, if you stay in taiwan for that long, there's a chance that i won't see you ever again! well, from before school's out until...christmas. derek!!
i don't think my root canal hurt that bad. but i think the nerve was already dead. my root canal lasted over a period of several weeks, and i had to keep going back to the ...endometrist? endomologist? it began wiht an e. but i do remember how annoying it was to have a giant rubber tube coming out of my gums for a month. imagine eating wiht that...yuck. and now my tooth is all better...except for the fact that there's a pin permanently jammed into it. ooh! and i can relate this story to car accidents! cuz that's the cause of my root canal. trauma. yep. i quite reluctantly introduced my face to the back of the front passenger seat in 8th grade on my way to school when those dang tractionless tires gave way and hydroplaned on the rainwater and we rammed into the back of a pickup truck. huh. if i didn't turn my face, i probably would have broken my nose instead, and that probably would have been cheaper than the root canal. ah well. i guess that didn't exacly cross my mind as my head was flying through the air=) hehehe, i like making my stories interesting:) oh, and to add onto it, i went home in a cop car, went back to school, ended up cryign hysterically in the nurse's office, went back home, and watched toy story 3 times in a row. and i didn't even get marked absent cuz my homeroom teacher was handing in the attendance slip as i walked in the office so erased my absense and didn't know i went back home. so lucky me, a free cut day. and a root canal. i want to go back to taiwan again this year. my mom's going to china in three weeks. maybe she'll bring back a chunk of the wall. my blog's birthday was on thursday. i think i will "shamlessly" post that here=)
i saw "les miserables" today- peter lockyer is my new boyfriend! i loved it! hooray for broadway musicals with peter lockyer. i was supposed to see "death to smoochy" yesterday but i slept instead. weird...by this time next week i'll have an idea of my future. i don't want to grow up! there's an intimidatingly large toys 'r us in times square...it has a real ferris wheel! and a huge empire state building made out of legos complete with king kong! and a guy wearing bunny ears peddling karate hamsters! and a huge moving tyrannosaurus rex! you should check it out.
guess what- i'm seeing guster in may! ok, well i'm excited about that. check out "selling it" in the new consumer reports..the one with a swiss army knife with all the knives sticking it out and it's mispackaged and labeled as 'comfort massager'. i found it hilarious.
i haven't watched any of those movies that are supposed to be good, i feel so deprived. and so i didnt even do well in that piano competition, but congrats to lee-shing, you rock at that song!! =) wow, ouch, root canals hurt. correction: they REALLY hurt. i need a painkiller. NOW.....
mm, we saw "o brother where art thou" too. i think the kkk scene was funny, even though i can't remember exactly what it was. "lethal weapon four" was good, except jet li was the bad guy. actually, that was kind of cool too, when he got to beat up mel gibson and all these other people. i want to see "romeo must die". i want to see kung-fu movies with jet li. or hong kong action films with chow yun-fat. we have to have a hong kong movie club sometime.
oh jessica, i was proud of that long blog. speaking of accidents with cars, someone today scratched someone else's car at church and it must be kind of embarrassing. i think everyone has at least one accident, and then they become experienced drivers. then again, i haven't even really driven a car yet, so who am i to say these things. i want to drive stick and learn how to power slide and .. yeah. umm. calling for sat scores, eh. i'm not going to spend another thirteen dollars just so some automated voice can tell me a number. my mom called for my scores in seventh grade. i don't know why she was so eager and excited to know. and then christine tried to beat me up. oh, i was talking online to crystal yesterday. and she's horribly busy as she always tells me. she used to blog but now she doesn't blog. i think my mom mentioned that we might stop in hong kong or japan when we go to taiwan this summer. i'm going to be in taiwan for a really, really really long time. i think i'm leaving two days after school ends and coming back august twenty-something .. sigh. hopefully it should be educational and i should come back fobby and no one will recognize me. or they will. mmm. i just played four hours of tennis again, like i do almost every week because i have so many lessons to make up, and this time it was in the harder class and they played knockout and i kept getting aced and but i actually got to serve a few times before losing again. my dad is laughing really hard for some reason. he's watching this weird eighties british comedy on channel thirteen. anyway, then i played this girl and i actually did well because i was winning five-one and she kept yelling "amanda!" when she screwed up -- i think it was her name -- but then she went to the bathroom and something happened because i lost three games in a row. i wonder what she did in the bathroom. this tangerine jelly bean is pretty good.
i'm deprived of moulin rouge. and i'm deprived of memento and pretty much every movie you guys have seen except for beautiful mind and o brother. the stupid E.T. tape was broken. what a pity. so i stayed up until 1:00 watching lethal weapon 4.
yay! after 48 hours, my fever is finally down! but my tummy still hurts...which is why i'm still up..
derk, we should just have a movie marathon, you and me and whoever else is deprived of BOTH 'a beautiful mind' AND 'moulin rouge'....yeah....i need to see more movies...i don't think i've seen one since thanksgiving break besides 'memento' at my house with alyssa and pete and eric and alex in like january...i need to see movies...! i want to see "ET" too...and have a marathon of back-to-the-futures....yeah. i got my prom dress today...and when i had it on, i was thinking that it looked vaguely familiar...and when i bought it and came home i realized it was janet's sweet sixteen dress...except unless i find something else over break, i'm sticking with it...because nothing else fits me. NOTHING, i tell you!!! NOTHING! it's so frustrating. but i definitely love that dress...so purty..! everyone seems to have done REALLY well with these march sats...at least the few people i've talked to who have called for their scores...all breaking the 1500 border, and some perfect scores. scary. now i have to sit and wait for next saturday. aaaah.. anyway...i'm out. =) smile! Friday, March 29, 2002
i cleaned a bit of my room today. actually, i folded a lot of clothes and put them in my closet or in the laundry hamper, and then i decided i would clean my room when there's sunlight. because my room has really bad lighting and it's hard to clean when it's dark. i think i have somewhat of a signature. except it's probably really easy to forge, so i should have a new one. or maybe on official documents, i'll just write my name in both english and chinese like my parents do.
i loved therapy last year, too. 3 days a week of doing 30 minutes on a stationary bike with varying gears. after which my legs felt like they were going to fall off. and those rubber balls were fun, though it felt kinda stupid rolling around on them like some seal.
once i hit a baseball into a 2nd floor window, but the baseball happened to be one of those soft kinds, so nothing broke. i bet if i sat on the roof i would be able to see a little bit more of that watertower. maybe i'll try that sometime, when i can fly. so high. elevation. we watched oh brother where art thou, today. sometimes its funny, but sometimes its so sad. i don't see how it really followed the odyssey at all. i'm in the jailhouse now. my parents just pulled out an old bootleg copy of E.T. which we're going to watch after my delinquent brother, michael, finishes his hw. my dad has assigned me the spring break hw of designing a signature for myself, which i probably should have done a long long time ago. this will take some serious thought and hard work. time to get crackin.
AHHHHH now both my knees are screwed up, blah. wow, i think i should learn how to get over hurdles on my left leg soon, i cant do it at all and thats why i fell, ouch. every single hurdle on the WRONG foot, how bad is that?????? i'm so mad at myself for doing that. i hope its not too bad... bah humbug. i dont get online very often. and then i get all weirded out when i do get online. weird. and i have another piano competition tomorrow, another saturday wasted, and another audition or competition next week, how stressed out am i gonna be? i need to mail out my bio SAT application thingy. or maybe i should apply online. i cant decide.....
wow 1600... boy do i feel stupid =) serena, you know what? the people who were playing tennis who i thoguth were my dad and my brother really weren't.. so i was spazzing about absolutely nothing after all. my dad and my bro were at holmdel park, not the hs.. der. i should have stayed for the race. wow u ran a mile, i'm so impressed. i have to run half a mile at therapy on mondays, wednesdays, and fridays.. and i always feel like i'm goign to collapse or pass out or both after i'm done. actually, i've been getting better lately, but the gasping for breath at the end is still quite depressing.. i need to go to the mall! but now i have to save up money and can't buy clothes... cause see i am a COMPLETE MORON. and i backed out of my garage too fast and turned to soon last night.. and i hit this wooden thing we have outside on the right side of the garage.. and it scratched the paint off the side of my [NEW] car.. and it kind of shattered a little part of the covering on the right headlight.. so now i have to get hte cover replaced and that section replaced.. my dad went to get it estimated this morning and he bargained it down to $330. that means i have to give 22 music lessons ($15 per lesson, half-hr lessons) to have enough money to pay my parents back, cause they're paying for it now.. so i have to give almost 2 months of lessons before i'll have enough money, which means i cannot cannot spend money. which is STUPID because it's spring break and i was soo looking for to shopping! UGHHHH... well.. i have about $80 right now, so maybe i'll go shopping with that.. and then start my 2 months of lessons after break? I AM SUCH A MORONNNNNNN!!! somebody slap me. very hard. please. and now i must be off to therapy, what fun. they make me balance on one of those really big rubber air-filled balls. it's really really hard.. i feel like im in a circus. and whenever i'm doing it, one of the therapists always starts humming the circus tune.. u know how it goes.. and he makes me laugh and then i almost fall and the other therapist who's standing behind me to make sure i don't kill myself has to catch me really fast. it's kind of funny.. but not. wow i realize that i haven't blogged in awhile. anyway, everybody have lots and lots and lots of fun on break! i doubt my parents will let me go out much because of my little escapade with.. the wooden thing outside of my garage. ehhh.. they were also yelling at me yesterday to start organizing our history outline project thing. yet everyone's on break. why do they always expect me to be so responsible and BLAH? oh welllllll... oh yea, i was playing frisbee with my brother outside yesterday afternoon cause it was just so gorgeous outside. and the stupid boy threw the frisbee too high and it got stuck on the roof. and so we had to climb out on the roof and get it (which was actually pretty fun) but then i got yelled at for that too. "how could u even think of going on the roof with ur knee?! what if ur knee had given out?!?!?!" etc etc etc.. but yea, i guess they were right.. that time.. but i just couldn't resist going out on the roof! it's just so.. exhilarating. okayyy, u probably all think i'm retarded now. and i think i'm really going to leave now.. in my scratched car which i haven't even had for a month yet. ERGHH.. okay bye. one last thing..... **yuck**
wowie 1600 thats something i can only dream of... but right now i dont feel like wallowing in SAT/college stuff... sorta depressing especially since i saw some old friends yeseterday. i went to the track meet which was really really fun. It makes me reminiscint of my trackee days... i also played some tennis and i watched eric and richard play against eachother. They're both really really really goood! gooosh.. it makes me wanna play tennis, richbert even let me play with his really cool racket! Then christina, eric, and i went to the mall, where i got really tired walking because i ran a mile in gym in the morning... how pathetic. maybe i should start running again. ooooh... Ellen(the cousin of richard) are u ok? i saw u fall in ur race.... u didnt lean forward enough when u went over with ur left leg! i did that in 2 races last year... on the last hurdle... fell right down at the end... gooooosh always lean! so i think thats about it... hope everyone's spring break is going well, someone invite me to do something! hehehe, byessss
hey kids, i'm in boston now! it's been fun -- i'm staying with emily at wellesley now (tomorrow i'll be going to bc and other miscellaneous boston schools). anyway, so college is looking so much more attractive than high school ever was. i went to two classes today and they were seriously so much better than any classes i take normally in school. hey, and i stayed awake. now that's a good sign. i haven't met too many people, but i did get to talk to a few on emily's floor and it;s pretty nice here. but i'll say that about every school i visit. yay wellesley! ok anyway. i really have nothing to blog about; its really cool someone got a 1600! you guys should form a "1600 club". that would be really cool. really. cool.
oh my gosh. someone got a 1600. kungfucius is my hero. our class is too smart, but i suppose we're only so smart collectively because we put all this pressure on each other and feed off each other. feed off each other's minds. doh. now i have to go make lunch for my brother.
Thursday, March 28, 2002
i am chewing on a girl scout. cookie. these samoas are really addictive .. and they're orange and brown. i told ellie that my new site coming up during spring break was going to be colorful, and she said "what, green and brown?" ouch. anyway, i remember this week when this fat girl was in the way and i just bumped into her a little bit and she goes "excuse YOU". and i said "sorry". but i really wanted to say "you fat ghetto girl, why don't you exercise and then you wouldn't take up the whole aisle", but that would be mean. but it's true, because she's in my gym class and while we do crunches and ab exercises, she lays there like a um. a whale. not to be racist, but i do really think it's strange when minority groups such as african-americans and hispanics underperform in certain things. then again, i can't play basketball.
eh, i had a blog before, but then it seems to have disappeared from my computer while i was at price club. anyway, i should be angry, but somehow i don't feel very angry, and so i'm not. i feel a bit tired. my mom just showed me this message from the school where it says i have twelve absences in physics, which is ridiculous. and she doesn't even read the note before saying "you've lost your credit for honors physics!" and that's really annoying. she gets so emotional over stupid things. anyway. i can't think creatively at the moment while i'm supposed to be making a flyer for the spring outreach in a few weeks -- the flyer was due last sunday, but then no one's asked for anything and sheila wanted me to have it done by today and hand it out in school, except i have no means of making mass duplications of this and so. not happening. and it won't be done by tonight either.
i'm not a "key returner" either. actually, i'm not a returner at all. yay, i found the battery pack for my md! i'd been looking for it for well, a pretty long time, and then today i thought "maybe it's in that messenger bag sitting over there" and i looked inside and next to the fobby cds was the battery pack. so now i can listen to hours of extra music with it attached. i wonder if it can really have fifty-plus hours of continuous playback like they said happened in lab tests. i looked online today and my md is now around two hundred and forty dollars, down from about three hundred when i ordered it last year. i think when the current netmd ones are around a hundred dollars, i want to get one. i remember being in the sony building in tokyo during the summer and playing strange japanese video games. hm. download "sci fi wasabi" by cibo matto. what's up b, wasabi. but listen to "flowers" by them first. they're such a weird group. i think i'm going to get my hair cut and clean my room tomorrow, completely clean my room not like every time where i leave it half done. or i think this time it's about three quarters done. i found two quarters in the seat on the school bus on monday. actually, i found sixty one cents .. two quarters, a dime and a penny. after i clean my room, i think i'll set up the mini computer my uncle gave me, except it's running windows me and apparently office two thousand doesn't install on it for some reason and it's a bit strange. i want a new computer. this should be enough to last me until i go to college, and hopefully then my parents will make good on their promise to buy me a new computer, like they said five years ago when we got this one and they said "this should last you until college". i'm jealous of steph's computer that we saw last time when we went to watch "memento", and it has the wineglass bucket harmon kardon speakers and it's black and sleek and well. i want this one: sony pcv-mxs20, i think it is. it's very pretty. that math test today was difficult. i want to see "moulin rouge" and "a beautiful mind".
mmm.. spring break is yummy. i went to mcdonalds and ate fatty food for dinner. it was great. my brother went crazy and ate ten dollars worth of food. i was like.. what the? yes, he's a growing boy. haha :)
beat the geeks is probably the coolest game show on television. i was watching it today and.. wow. those guys are really geeky. but in a cool way. what happens is, there is a geek for each category of pop culture (movies, music, tv) and every week there is an honorary geek (this one was for horror), and the contestants have to challenge the geeks and stuff. it's really cool. when there's a tie, they have the geek-qualizer and geek-offs (wait, i think that's at the beginning. i don't remember). the contestants on the show i watched were named kirk and cameron. hahaha.. i wonder if they did that on purpose. anyway, cameron was really cute. haha.. and he was a kindergarten teacher. (aaaawwwwww.. ) he didn't win though. :o) hm, i think i'm going to look at college websites now. i am so tempted to call the stupid ets people and find out my score. but i won't. because i'm cheap. and because it'll be such a letdown if i spend thirteen bucks just to find out a crappy score. so i won't. but anyways.. yes. i want to see death to smoochy. edward norton is SO COOL. you guys should see primal fear and keeping the faith. :)
i am so incredibly tired from playing tennis and watching the track meet with erkal, srik, eric, ann and serena for 3 hours.
ah i wish i were a "key returner". i feel like i've been snubbed out of a place with the team in the preview again. like george from our tennis club says, i've still got to represent. ::sigh:: i guess it's not that important, but i can feel a little fireball burning passionately in my soft marrow. ahh word wealth tomorrow. section 3, unit 5? oh wait there's no school tomorrow. strange. it doesn't feel like spring break. it's so early. maybe i'll get started on chapter 16 of chem and maybe Iris will actually have its first practice. we'll be a good laugh. Wednesday, March 27, 2002
strange, before it said the last post was posted tomorrow at midnight. which is strange, because it's today and not tomorrow yet and well .. i was a bit confused. um, and i was just completely snubbed online. anyway, i remember reckage assignments and how i had a hard time coming up with twenty points. well, not that hard, because i had it done ahead of time -- but then christine and srikar had it done within the first week or so. crazy. i signed up for driving lessons yesterday with gene's driving school and so i have a woman named janet who's going to be picking me up the day school starts after spring break and then i'll have my permit. and so i'll be getting my license a little over six months behind schedule. i realized today that i have very little upper body strength. i need to do push-ups of various intensities. or at least that's what that sheet said. everyone should listen to john mayer's "not real slim shady" cover. i want to have t-shirts printed with bears [like this *], except i would have to buy in huge bulk and sell upwards of eighty shirts to have it down to less than eight dollars per shirt. i think maybe i'll start taking orders soon. i feel kind of -- aimless.
ahh, i just finished doing stupid reckage assignments. that man is a psycho. gym is not supposed to be a real class! hmph. :o)
anyways.. i am a bit perplexed/upset. i accidentally left my black everything folder in the commons after school yesterday and it wasn't anywhere to be found today. bahhh. it had a check for a lot a lot of money in it from a girl on my field hockey team and now it's gone and i feel terrible and terribly stupid. grrrr.. oh well. i just have to call her now and make my pitiful apology. and hope she won't be pissy. :-/ a streetcar named desire is .. yes. it's a classic. but it's really funny if you watch it with the standards of modern movies. blanche is very very annoying and stanley is amusing to watch. he's actually not bad looking (the young marlon brando, that is) but his voice is odd. very nasal and whiny. totally does not go with the buffmonster-wet-tshirt look he has for the movie. hehe :o) mm, i need food. Tuesday, March 26, 2002
i'm glad i have my pseudo tennis uniform from last year, which actually fits me.
"a streetcar named desire" was too scandalous for me. i don't know if i can take it anymore. there was nothing i could do except hide behind my math book. where's the warm weather? where's the food?
i'm angry at the tennis coach. okay, so this guy tell us that the way we're going to do fundraising is that he's going to order a lot of ugly white t-shirts with tacky designs that are changed to say "holmdel tennis" instead of something like "suchandsuch summer tennis camp" -- i told him that i could design and have shirts printed front and back with three or four colors for around five dollars, "these shirts have many colors" he says -- and then anyway, we pay him a hundred dollars and he gives us ten shirts of "assorted sizes" to sell. and he orders twenty-five medium, fifty large, and twenty-five extra-large, even though i think i told him not to order any x-large and add some smalls. how many extra-large people do i know, grr. i'm going to call him soon and ask him questions and then tell him stupid things without him knowing it. want to buy a tennis t-shirt? they're really ugly.
oh, that and my tennis uniform is extra-large too. i'm angry. Monday, March 25, 2002
mm hm. i don't know what i'm supposed to be doing. i don't have homework, at least i don't think i do, i came back from this guidance office "all you ever wanted to know about college crammed into a two-hour presentation" program at the high school around nine-thirty, hm. i want to read some good books. so i didn't get a chance today to call and set up driving lessons -- i fell asleep for three hours or more after i got home. i really should use my alarm clock. umm, i have so little to say lately. i probably have something i want to say but i just don't know it ..
wow its so nice and quiet outside in my neighborhood at night. and the sky was red like that experiment that professor at brookdale did with the tyndall effect.
doesn't seem like i'm going anywhere for spring break anymore. oh well. i just downloaded this song called "the ballad of bilbo baggins" its pretty funny, thought a bit...sketchy?
i like michael vartan. and books. read "motherless brooklyn". or "harry potter anything". or "the virgin suicides". or "song of solomon". or "ghost soldiers". i want to read "driving mr. albert". it looks quirky.
you know what's sad? i'm graduating high school in about 10 weeks...and there was a question on my western civ test today that said "who invented the printing press?" =( i mean, haven't we been doing projects/learning about johann gutenberg since basically the 2nd grade? i'll be learning about it forever, i guess. it's just one of those things. Sunday, March 24, 2002
hey cool -- i just finished reading "red sky at morning" (such a good book! best i have ever read for school purposes), and a real, actual quote from it is "i want to go to columbia." well ain't that cool. hehe. oh! i forgot to blog about my columbia trip last week. i was there with eight people (dave & leesh too) for a journalism convention. there was a bunch of workshops, etc. etc., but there was also a WB screening! we got to watch a screening of the show "maybe it's me," and have a press conference with two of the actors (reagan dale neis & andrew walker) afterwards. i've never seen the show until then, but it was pretty good. anyway, two of my friends and i got to meet/get autographed headshots and pictures with the actors and that whole deal. andrew walkeris very nice to look at. very. very nice. in person he looks like a younger, buffer version of michael varton, and we all know that that is a good thing.
steph's car rocks. many thanks to her for letting me sit in the driver's seat and push every button in sight. =D i just finished booking my train tickets to boston! i'm super excited for the trip. it's shorter than i originally planned, but that's ok. hopefully i'll get to spend nice, quality time with my brother, play, and visit schools. ...with more emphasis on the first two. =)
wow then all of a sudden all these blogs pop up. ahh new car!! nice, steph. i'm so jealous. actually i'm jealous of anyone who can drive by themselves at all. lately it seems i've been very troublesome to my parents with all these places i have to go and no time to take me there. maybe if i just took the van by myself for now...license schmicense.
mm, what is mature in the "caucasian mature way" .. is it different from being mature asian-ly? anyway, it seems that along with allison's car, steph's new civic also has that thing in the trunk so that you can open it from the inside. and it glows in the dark! i want a car too. like a volkswagen. actually, any nice car would do. but i know, first i have to get my permit and license and i have to call tomorrow to set up lessons -- i didn't have time to on friday. eh, i want to see a movie. i want to see "moulin rouge". and i have to do homework number four for chem now. sigh.
woa steffy a new car!!!!!!!!! thats awesome awesome, i gotta see it tomorrow! Congrats! i went to my cousins sweet 16 yesterday in OB. So many white people, lots and lots, i've never felt more azn. I saw my old best friend Brittany from grade school there. It's so odd to see her again, because in my memory she is 10 and always will be. But now I've seen her at 16 and she looks... very mature in that caucasian mature way. I pointed her out to my mom when she was grinding with some random guy on the dance floor... my mom sorta shook her head in disapproval, I thought that was funny. I guess I've been feeling that incomplete feeling lately, like I'm missing something or someone in my life... *sigh* I really hope I find it soon because its awfully lonely like this...
where's my blog from last night? i thought i did click the little post and publish button. it's the case of the disappearing blog.
AHHHHHHHHHH NEW CARRRR!!! =D so cool steph, congratulations! hehe, you could pimp it up and change your screen name to "CiVic RaCIn GrL" or something. or actually, not. hehe. i think today is the day for new cars! my friend drove by my house this morning with her shining new red jetta. and then my other friend drove me in his new green bug to the movies today. wow its a volkwagon world. my dad told me a story today of how the company got the name "jetta" for their car. anyway its not that great of a story. something about a baby being born (eventually named jetta) in a really old volkswagon. hm.
speaking of the movies and blade II, i saw the movie that was NEXT to blade II...sorority boys. it was very obvious during the movie that the producers, writers, etc. were all males...and they were. well, anyway. i actually laughed in it, but i don't remember what was so funny. its a movie that is very easy to forget. i want to go to columbia (!!!!!). Saturday, March 23, 2002
guess what guess what guess what guess what??? i am now in possession of a car. a new car. a civic. a blue one. i can't believe it. i'm wondering if my parents should trust me this much. AH! :o) i've been in a state of excitement since obtaining it this afternoon and it's making me really hyper and jittery. woo! i feel like running and screaming around the house. and banging on things so i can lose weight.. hehe. oh wait, most of you weren't there. darn. i hate when jokes don't make sense and no one laughs. that happens to me a lot. i should cut down on the bad jokes. ho ho ho.. i am so hyper right now. whee! i saw blade II today with my brother. it was so so so so so so so so so gruesome. eeew. the vampires were, like, ultra-vampires and their mouths opened extra-wide for maximum blood-sucking. it was so gross. the action was pretty good.. but it was so... video gamey. when the vampires died, it looked just like in those video games when the bad guys die crumble into a million pieces. the first blade was definitely better. stephen dorf was cool.
hey, the oscars are on tomorrow. i want to see the pretty dresses. :)
you crazy kids... "it's quite hard, actually, unless you're really trying to fail." since you have not experienced such pain, don't assume! people rarely want to fail. i know i don't. i never failed much until this year. and believe me, it's not the same as getting a high c.
2 hours and 19 minutes left of day 1 of my last weekend in high school of doing a lot of work/studying. all i did today was eat, sleep (a lot), and do homework. tomorrow will be the same, minus the sleep and adding church in the morning. i hope i have it in me to complete everything...i best be going now, bio and western civilizations are calling my name! hey hey.
i still failed though...i failed to get an A+
i saw time machine last night. it was quite interesting. it made several references to fizziks. provoked some deep thought that led to nowhere. tennis was funny today. my court was feeling a little wacky, so we started doing these "corkscrew serves." and when i tried one, i completely screwed up and the ball went over the curtain to the next court and almost hit the instructor there in a bad place to be hit. who wants to buy a tennis shirt from me? they're really cool!
an a- is kind of far from a failing grade. people always say "ahh i failed that test" but then they end up getting an okay grade. mm, i probably do it too, and my definition of "failing" is probably a high c. like i thought i "failed" a couple of math tests, but i ended up with low b grades, so that didn't count. i can't remember actually failing anything. it's quite hard, actually, unless you're really trying to fail.
Friday, March 22, 2002
ah someone just called, and my dad and i answered the phone at the same time from two different phones. and whoever called hung up right after we answered, so my dad and i were left talking to each other. phones are funny things. people who hang up right when you answer the phone are really annoying. maybe archibald should lynch them.
i'm so happy. i got an A- on my paper!! i didn't fail!! Thursday, March 21, 2002
happy birthday derek! dont forget to go get your permit, i cant believe you didnt get it yet... go get it!!! =) its ok i've had birthdays where absolutely everything has gone wrong and it cant get much worse and then it does, and even worse, i got OLDER..... how terrifying. =D
i need sleep. why am i running the 100 again, did they not notice that i was in dead last place?! grrrRRrr...... i need my block measurements... i need to stop shivering... i need to find my sexy black spandex.... i need to practice flute (or rather i should).... i need to do my world civ hw.... i need to stop saying that i need things.... and i need more sleep....
hey, i'm seventeen. i feel tired. sigh, i don't know why, it hasn't been a wonderful wonderful day and i have this sort of sad bittersweet feeling inside .. mm. i'm going to sleep.
it's derek's birthday? well then, happy birthday! and you didn't invite me to your sweet 16?! hmph.
we had a band concert last night, it was pretty good...i had a solo! a piccolo solo! i played it right. i was happy. i only have 1 more band concert left in my high school career. which is a little sad, because i like playing music and stuff. i sure will miss the shouts of "yeah band!" and stares that say "woah, look at how dorky the band people are! i am glad i am very cool and not dorky like the dorks in band!" yep, band rocks. i had fun these four years. :] especially when i empty my spit valve and a gallon of spit comes pouring out...i feel like a real musician. it's like...waterfalls. the faucet of life. congratulations ellen for the nhs thing, and for being the official nhs dj. yay! i made a birthday card for a friend today and one page is entitled "random cute sticker page" and i just stuck a bunch of stickers like pochacco, hello kitty, veggie tales, asian stickers. and there was still space, so i added a few reinforcements. that's my life today...i really should post all this stuff in my own blog. and only respond to comments made on other people's blog. hm.
hmm. our guest conductor for orchestra today was from middletown south. we should get mr. knier as our conductor. that would be really cool. i know a srikar named desire. hahahhahaahhh......that's so last year. i'm hungry.
Wednesday, March 20, 2002
i love running in the rain -- it reminds me of the nike commercial and then i feel all cool and athletic. i used to like running in the snow until i slipped while running a four winds. that wasn't bad, but the snow in my spandex was...
yesterday was nhs -- you know, when all thirteen of us south juniors were inducted. somehow that number seems really pathetic compared to previous years and/or other schools. supposedly the admissions people were tired of having parents complain and a million people in nhs, so this year they made it "impossible for more than fifteen people to get accepted." no joke, that's what was said. anyway, the nhs at south is ridiculous. i do, however, have respect for nhs for giving the best ceremony ever. it was unorganized and sloppy -- and man we all had a good time. highlights: mr. lane's speech on the "21 things for success," which can also be thought of as alanis morrisette's (sp) song "21 things i want in a lover." also, having the pocahontas song "colors of the wing" as the recession song. also, turning off all the lights while i was in the middle of playing the national anthem (which btw, they asked me to play the DAY BEFORE induction), therefore causing me to make up/improv the last half of the star spangled banner. my friends said i put in a new melody. that is so wrong -- i'm such a bad american citizen...ah i was freaking out though!! i'm going to columbia tomorrow for journalism/newspaper. but i'm really going to go so that i can pretend and imagine that i'm a student at columbia. kids that would be so cool. meet my new boyfriend john. he's cool. =D
derek, i love your version of girlfriend. how original. =) and so i finally caught up on smallville and alias today, and i noticed that when you look at michael vartan's profile, his nose is really....protruding. he reminds me of a bird. but he's still hot from other angles. :) i am in the most random mood and i have been saying the weirdest things lately. my grammar is like on vacation.... the other day i told someone that 'i didnt found that one too!' and then i spelled optional obtional and then i read d-h-g-i 'd h g one', and there was something else retarded that i did and i cant remember it now, but it was pretty dumb. so yeah. wow, no track for girls today, i saw about 3 random girls rejoicing in the hallways and about 4 guys told me 'you suck.' how pleasant. i was actually thinking that we would have track today. running in the rain is fun. when its above 50 degrees outside. which it isnt. oh and happy first day of spring!!
dude! there's this movie coming out sometime called "the man from elysian fields"! and it's casting mick jagger. that's crazy.
today has been a painful day. i got umm...literally "face-raped" by karthik and the soccer ball. but it was all good. it reminded me of that brady bunch movie/episode when marcia gets hit in the face with a football. so archibald reminds me that i have to go do this columbia app thing. mr. bird always seems so happy when it's someone's birthday. we should say that it is someone's birthday every day for the rest of the year. then we could see if his personality changes over that period of time. and we could publish a paper titled "The Effects of Students' Birthdays on Very Masculine Math Teachers".
wow, i do such idiotic things sometimes. anyway .. it's raining, it's raining, i wish it wouldn't rain. and it's still really cold. spring, psh -- i'll know spring when i see it. mm, weather.com says that tomorrow might be the best day out of this whole week. it still looks pretty bad.
"ah doh no wah yookeh / he doh eben no yadeh / kahee dola ya eye / eh hedoh la ya sma / ga yoo no da ay feh / da meedle ah da nai / eh he guna be baiya sai / oh wihee runa hai / yoo dohno ka thee ain klee-a / eh beh-be wen yoo crah / eh he guna stah baiya sai / duh da mah eben no yoo ah lai / ah ga anah dee / wa yoo be ma go fen / ah tree yu guh / ah noyu hee yo fen wendeh seh yoo sha / ka ifu wa ma go fen / ah be yo shanee stah / da wanda shoyu weh yoo ah / go yoo sha be ma go fen". so i was bored and decided to write out how i would sing "girlfriend" by nsync if i was a fob. eh, the song is really catchy with its beat and chorus and ahh .. it was stuck in my head the whole day. i think i'm going to eat something, and i'll come back later.
"eba sinsai sah ya fay / nathee enma la ha beh da say / evee deh ah seh yanay / witha yoo ma wo wuh en / ah sera ron diho daplay / eh evee thee seh yoo shuh bee ma go fen" .. Tuesday, March 19, 2002
speaking of teaching, someone asked me today if i would help them with sat verbal, but of course they don't know how i'm not able to teach at all. so i told them to ask richard. i'll give you an einstein bagels bag instead. i'm tired and blogging is slow lately because i'm lazy. sigh.
good evening, Professor Tsai. ahhhahahaa. you owe me a Chili's bag. i won't forget. i need some more warm weather.
Monday, March 18, 2002
if i were a teacher, i wouldn't do the things that some of my teachers have done to me. i wanted to be a college professor for a while. maybe i will someday, except everyone says that i can't teach at all and i can never explain anything to anyone. sigh. i was going to say something, but i'll say it some other time.
derek, i mean this in the sweetest way possible.
you would kill yourself if you were ever a teacher. love you!
i'll pass on some advice my piano teacher tells me every week, i find it quite helpful: "play that song again, but don't make mistakes." oh well. my piano teacher is a nice man, though. maybe you should get a man piano teacher. maybe you're lucky your teacher drum out the beat on you while you play. because that would suck. man piano teachers, man teachers, and man lifeguards are better than girl ones.
i was feeling really angry a few minutes ago. so my piano teacher comes to my house every monday night to give me a lesson, and not only is it a really annoying time to have a lesson, but she always talks with my mom while i'm playing and i just, eh. she has this habit of banging a rhythm or beat on the top of the piano while i play, or she plays the part a few octaves higher while i'm playing, and it's really distracting and i can never concentrate and then i get frustrated and angry and. and then she doesn't push me enough, she doesn't write things down systematically and tell me what i should work on and what i should practice, but then she comes every week and just listens randomly -- i wish i had a more organized teacher. and real lessons, instead of ones where the teacher chats with my mom while i play. i think all my piano teachers have done that banging-playing-while-you-play thing. i hate it so much. i wished a bear would eat her.
ahh the simpsons had that episode where homer goes into the 3D dimension, and he says, "i wish i had read that book by the wheelchair guy!" that's hawking! and then he falls into this wormhole-like thing.
so these past few days have been very odd, b/c it seems that every minute of the day i am very hungry. voracious. i'm either eating or thinking about what i'm going to eat next. is this good? my mom says it's because i'm growing. maybe i have a hyperactive thyroid. maybe i'm hyperactive (i doubt it). maybe i'm a hypochondriac. maybe i'm not. maybe i'm just hungry. i think i'll go to sleep earlier tonight. i can't find any gummy bears at home. i have m&m's though. jessica just called me fat. i don't know why. should i be offended? why does this blog seem so disjointed? why am i asking these questions? i don't think this FDR outline will be finished by tomorrow. i think what i'm really trying to say here is that i should go back to chem hw. yes. so that's what i was trying to say. goodbye.
wow, i'm finally done, i'm going to sleeeeeep.... i soo told you guys i would be up all night doing this project~~ =P
Sunday, March 17, 2002
eh, stop with these one-sentence things. what paragraphs, what are you talking about. it seems to work fine to me, try looking at the actual web page, it's probably just some glitches in the blogger interface that they mentioned sometime before on the main page. mm. i'm going to go revive my journal .. i'll blog again again again later.
ahh grace it was you?!
i went home last night and helped my mom put together flyers for the Committee to Elect Mr. Ray Tai to HBOE. ahh manual labor. so we went to karthik's house today to watch wallace and gromit, but we had no vcr (or we thought we didn't). dance dance revolution would have been fun if the pad wasn't screwed up. i've been surrounded by techno music all weekend. there was michelle's sweet 16 yesterday. then today i read new york times magazine, which was all about "outsider music" which is random genre-less stuff like moby, which is all techno. and then all that ddr. there is this very odd version of snow white showing on abc. there was this alien guy that popped out of nowhere and gave snow white and her dad some milk. rather disturbing. what am i doing? i have to go find some homework to do...there has to be something worthwhile! or not.
mickel's candles were great last night...jess and i were talking about how it almost seemed like a stand-up comedy routine....hahaha. "i h8 derk"
ellen h.....i did that once....!! i felt soo accomplished when i did something ahead of time...and then i thought i should do it more often...and then i never did it again. except now i think i really should...last week was one hell of a hell week. every night i went to bed past like 2...and i was so extremely tired by the end of the week that i wanted to cry all the time..blah! i'd rather be back to my crazy self with just a little more sleep. it's much more fun that way =) bink bink. good bye.
BLAH! i feel like throwing up...emails from two specific people totally kill my day!! i hate having to "work with them"! i wish they weren't on the board! i hate teamwork! there is an "i" in teamwork! they're so...awful! argh!
happy st pattie's day... why does there hafta be so many projects? it seriously annoys me. because i'm such a procrastinator that i always do them at the last minute and i end staying up until 4 in the morning doing them. i guess i should stop procrastinating, i tried that once and i ended up being really happy that i wasnt still writing that essay the day before it was due. it made me feel like i was so organized. but i know i'm not. so anyway maybe i should start that latin poster thats due tomorrow. just maybe.... see you at 4 in the morning.
Saturday, March 16, 2002
hahahaha, that was me. bink bink bink! ... okay, no it wasn't. so i got a gift for michelle (who never blogs anymore, so i can make fun of her) and i was really tempted to buy a lot of butter to give to her. like those packs of five sticks, maybe ten of those and she would have fifty sticks of butter. but then what stopped me was the fact that the butter would probably melt and instead of sticks of butter -- they would be messy puddles of butter. so i got her a bag that my mom picked out from gap. my mom looks like a bear sometimes. like when she opens her mouth really wide.
some moron just called me and he said "bink bink. hello? bink bink." and then he hung up. its been a strange day.
so i don't know what the heck i did today. i woke up at 9:30. ate breakfast, practiced piano. then i tried to do some chem hw, and got stuck on #17. so i tried some latin and did half of poem 45, with some help of course... then i tried to find someone to play tennis with, but everyone was too busy, so i sat on my butt for an hour or so in front of the computer listening to U2 songs trying to figure out how to play them on the guitar, and then i went and experimented with it for about an hour. and in the middle of it all i watched notre dame blow a lead on duke. those crazy irish. st. patrick's day is tomorrow. so maybe it is all good that tennis lessons were canceled. ::sigh:: i need to get out of this house. i'd go lie down on the front yard and read lord of the rings right now, but i don't have lord of the rings.
i think derek is in love with his bears. roar! :o) yes, and you are quite weird. stop trying to steal my identity. :P
i came home from the sats today (haha, i won't be laughing in your face any time soon, richard) and my dad had gotten cell phones for my brother and me. (it was a buy one get one free deal.. sweet, eh?) they are so cool! they'll little silver samsung phones.. and they are so cool. you can compose the ring tone, too.. my brother is doing it now. coolness. i have an urge just to sit around and do nothing. which is what i am currently doing.. hmm. i am such a lazy butt. i've been procrastinating like mad for the past week or so. i'm supposed to call the field hockey camp people and reserve spots for our team but i keep putting it off and if we can't get spots i guess it's my fault and i don't want it to be my fault and poo. grrth. and i keep putting off planning for.. everything. booooooo. i am totally against doing adult-things, like planning. totally against it. i feel like a twelve-year old trapped in a seventeen-year old's body. no wait, a twelve-year old trapped in a twelve-year old's body, which actually happens to be seventeen. yes. waaaaah. somebody save me. :o) tonight we're gonna party like it's mickel's sweet sixteen! (the rhythm actually works if you sing it like prince's song) hahaa.. i am way too corny. anyways.. it's exciting stuff. i'm excited. yay! :)
beware the ides of march. or the day after when lots of people (including me) go to be tormented by the horrible monster creation of college board and ets. hazlet is a really ghetto school, and the proctor teacher in my room was this really, i don't know, unsophisticated woman. i think this one was pretty hard .. i struggled with a lot of the stupid vocab that i wasn't sure about. okay, i don't want to talk about it anymore. i'm done with sats.
uh, so yesterday was really strange at tennis, our doubles challenge match went to three sets and it was 6-2, 2-6, 6-4. i was really inconsistent, and we completely blew the second set after doing so well the first. i don't know if i like tennis still. maybe if i was super ultra good at it. Friday, March 15, 2002
happy ides of march! i drove my aunt's camry for the first time tonight. my mom's car still rules.
the field test was a blast. anyone who took it can attest to that. oh it was so much fun. maybe sometime i'll post my story about jack wang and his roofing crew, the "jaxor monkeys", the Youngers, Catullus, Asagai, Lesbia, the little sparrow, iceman, fireball, bisonboy, arcticboy, "big rock candy mountain", and raisins. aaah it felt so nice to finally be able to let it all out. it was like another therapy session. so did you all stuff your faces at red oak? i remember i did last time i went there. i think i'll go practice guitar. good luck on your SAT's. i know you'll all be laughing in my face after this one. Thursday, March 14, 2002
in the days, when we were swinging from the trees, i was a monkey, stealing honey from a swarm from bees. "wild honey" is sweet. no pun intended...hahahahaha.....i crack my face up.
i noticed during chem today that one of my thumbnails is a couple millimeters shorter than my other one. and i can contort my hands into many different shapes. i'm really psyched for this field test tomorrow. hopefully they'll have a nice broad topic, and i can talk randomly about all kinds of stuff. and it'll be a blast. i'm hungry.
binge eating, fried chicken and beer.... welcome to kitchen americana.
english is the worst language ever invented. sentence outlines suck. why am i still doing work? i did less work as a junior! sorry this is going to be a short blog. starting NOW. Wednesday, March 13, 2002
when i read "i think i'm going to buy a bear" in derek's blog, i thought he wrote, " i think i'm going to buy a beer." and i was thinking, well i guess he really wants to celebrate winning that merck index book. i must admit, that's just craziness. did anyone ever see that brad pitt special on bart the bear, the animal actor? he's a big star in "dr. doolittle" some other movie. the edge? my class was talking about bart in physics today. well anyway. post used to be the ap bio teacher at south. supposedly, that was when the ap bio program here was really good. and then she left. and so, supposedly our ap bio program is stinky now. hey, i'm taking ap bio next year.
don't worry about binge eating. i do it all the time and i'm still in pretty good sha-- oh wait, i'm not in shape anymore. ahhh silly me. i nominate cereal and other miscellaneous breakfast foods as the best edible things ever. and its crazy, because my math classroom has been smelling like fried chicken all week, so everyday when school ends all i'm thinking is "friedchickenfriedchickenfriedchicken." i don't even like meat all that much...hm. HAPPY BEEDAY TO YOOJE! =D
oh wow i'm binge-eating. and i really shouldnt be, its going to be so painful to get back in shape, and i just got fit again too... i'm so disappointed with myself, i cant run tomorrow becuase i have science league. and caffrey is really scary, she's going to have a cow when i tell her i cant go to practice... and we're probably doing time trials tomorrow, and i'm missing them. that really sucks. and i want to go to sleep, i'm tired and up at 11.00 for no apparent reason.
crazy day, what a. so it was horribly rainy outside and i woke up today with my throat really hurting, and then we spent chem looking over tests and old chem olympiad things and physics was this dumb lab and we watched the first part of "hamlet" in english while we colored things in in history for "therapy" -- actually, i made these paper claws that were quite amusing -- and then bird talked for about five minutes before telling us to do homework. and i fell asleep quite a few times in spanish. i think i lost my calculator after school at the physics lab .. i think someone around me might've picked it up by accident. then i lounged around in the commons for about an hour and a half, trying to sleep but not succeeding, and we went to brookdale. and post said for everyone to follow me to the cafe, but then it was embarrassing when i couldn't find the way out of a building because of stupid construction that i remember they started freshman year at high tech and then it seemed like they destroyed the cafe. but they didn't, it was just adding on something. except the original entrance wasn't there anymore, so i didn't know where to go. and then we took this test where i honestly didn't know at least ten to twenty problems where i guessed randomly picking answers that i thought sounded correct and it so happens that i win fifty dollars and a "merck index" with complex definitions of every chemical substance ever. i think i'm going to buy a bear.
so i wonder what color my word wealth book will burn if i set it on fire. it'll probably be black. if that's possible.
i ate so much food today. i had a bowl of noodles and some rice when i got home. and those brownies at chem olympiad were awesome. i want more.
derek ...
you are so weird. i'm off to california, i'll see you guys next week at fellowship, you'd all better go :-) Tuesday, March 12, 2002
i was thinking -- if i'm steph, then i'm going to prom with richard. yeah monkey! i've never heard any of u2's old stuff really, except those super-popular songs that they still perform at things like well, the super bowl. i think tennis shouldn't be considered a sport. i mean, what do they do, just hit a round ball back and forth. no skill involved. basketball too, they just throw a bigger round ball to each other and bounce it against the ground and try to throw it into a basket up high. the only sport that deserves to be considered a sport is cricket. now that's a real sport. i think bears should be allowed in professional "sports" leagues.
wahoo u2! rock on. joshua tree = possibly the best album ever recorded.
i was arguing with one of the sports editors on newspaper about science/math/chess teams. he was writing a column on chess for the sports section, and well, i think that chess is NOT A SPORT, therefore the column belonging in a different section of the paper. he said that since chess is called a team and has a meets, practices, and etc., chess is a sport. i say, the word "team" is misleading. after all, if those are the criteria for sports, then technically newspaper could be a sport, or the webpage team could be a sport. and piano could be a sport. because you need to practice. anyway, i'm arguing with myself, as i think no one could care less. hehe...=P wouldn't it be funny if there was a "piano team" for schools? i think holmdel would dominate in that one. homework and extracurriculars...people are crazy about getting things down for college apps. people even start cheating on the national honor society applications. example: this girl in my english/history class was bragging about making stuff up on her application, all while forging her signatures in front of everyone. and what happened? she got in. mm, well i hear a letter was sent to the advisors after the acceptances were sent out. but still...ahhh so annoying. i know so many people who should have gotten in instead of people like her. k, anyway. back to my story about my grotesque self. a la "winesburg, ohio."
whoo! i'm in the national honor society! i'm speechless. so it was hilarious or just somewhat odd that mrs. bryer stood up on the stage while many people gave her certificates of appreciation. the candles were kind of funny. they made the whole thing seem kind of religious, and then we didn't even do anything with the candles, except put them under our chairs. someone should have kept theirs lit. there were some really good chocalate chip cookies afterwards. i like Indian food.
it's true, i have to admit it -- i am really steph. or she is really me. what's the difference? anyway, i've noticed that all the girls in my grade like to talk a lot about food. and eating it. "so my dad brought back a huge tub of ice cream last night and i ate it all and it was really good .." or like "i like fatty foods" or "mmm, butter" seem to be what i can remember probably inaccurately. i was checking my e-mail before, and you know something's wrong when the subject of one of them is "adults only: medical breakthrough" -- i have to get a new e-mail address. or get a better junk mail filter. i don't know yet, i think i might switch over to my att account, but then. i wonder if there are bears in holmdel.
relax about homework and extracurriculars and everything. you'll get into college even if you don't do everything in the entire world.
on a side note, i swear i thought stephanie's last blog was somehow derek in disguise ... sorry stephanie.
you holmdel people are kind of abnormal- CHEMISTRY IS NOT A SPORT!
"where the streets have no name" is one of my all-time favorite songs! hooray for u2 and people who like u2.
i'm so proud of you for blogging, stephanie. i have four alarm clocks, i think -- one radio alarm clock sitting on my desk five-six feet from my bed, two little ones strategically placed near the front of my bed, and i think i have one at the end of the bed where my feet go. i realized a long time ago that i have this habit of unconsciously turning off the alarm and then going back to sleep. my parents also tell me that when they come to wake me up, sometimes i say strange things to them and go back to sleep. but i never remember anything. it's been getting better lately, since i have alarms going off about every three four minutes or so when i want to wake up. why were you still up at one? i don't think we had any homework .. but i completely messed up the math test today. hopefully it's not too bad. i think i missed completely two or three, and screwed up three or four, and maybe even five or six. three definitely. i don't know why, i was really bad at time management -- i think it was because i spent so much time on the first page "showing work" and drawing triangles. umm. okay, i wanted to complain more about tennis, but maybe i will later.
har har har. it's late. i'm up. there's something wrong here.
*sigh* i fell asleep right after i ate dinner. for, like, two hours. that was stupid of me. my mom woke me up when she got home from work and it was already ninefifteen and i thought to myself, crap. anyway, after i got up i found my alarm clock in the folds of my blanket (it's a small alarm clock) with the alarm thingy turned off. apparently it rang, i turned it off and went back to sleep. i don't remember doing any of that. how bizarre. chem olympiad. i don't think i'm going to that anymore. i just found out we have our first scrimmage that day, and when we told coach that we had chem, she was quite hostile. erg. she made a little speech about how we made a commitment to the team and blah blah blah. i guess i'm going to be playing lacrosse while you guys take a cool test. and listen to a speaker. mwahaha. or not. i kind of need the extra credit. what a dilemma.. :oP ah, i should sleep now. Monday, March 11, 2002
psh, you could've just asked me and i would've told you the song. i said something today in physics and all the asian mostly chinese girls laughed and that was very weird. it wasn't even funny. all i said was "um, i have chem olympiad on wednesday -- ["we leave at 4:00" says christine] -- so that means i can definitely make it." harhar harharharhar.
so i finally decided to figure out what one of the songs was that u2 sang at the super bowl, and i found it was "where the streets have no name." man, that's an incredible song.
I want to run I want to hide I want to tear down the walls That hold me inside I want to reach out And touch the flame Where the streets have no name
ahh derek, be a man... ;P hmm i've never used that smiley before. its very interesting. so, half of last year i was playing with my aching senile back and shin splints that wouldn't go away. and i was playing sick last week with maybe 7 hours of sleep over two days, and i was ok. of course it could all just be stupidity on my part for playing while injured and sick, but it seems all good...for now. i love graham crackers. so derek, maybe you should go see the trainer, or else when you go two weeks later b/c you're really injured, she'll yell at you for 5 minutes. then she'll like you and joke with you b/c you'll look cute in your glasses.
mm, i like starting blogs out with "mm". so i was feeling sick and tired today and i had to arrive at tennis practice late because of a national honor society induction ceremony meeting to prepare for tomorrow and so i was late and there were no people to hit with me so i had to hit with the coach. how annoying. okay, he can't realize that i'm sick -- "i was out because i was sick friday" doesn't mean anything apparently -- and then i was coughing all over the courts. i wish i spit up some thick red stuff on the ground. anyway, so he runs me all over with stupid volley drills and then we play this idiotic "offense/defense" game which i would otherwise enjoy if i weren't so sick and unable to run because of my knee i don't know what's wrong with it. it just keeps popping painfully when i make sudden movements or when i run hard. someone told me that the knee is just this cap over some fleshy tissue and it just slides around and around, okay sounds good. and then we played stupid doubles and i was again playing the coach with this other kid who had a sprained ankle and the coach's partner had shoulder problems and couldn't serve or hit overheads. i think my shoulders are messed up too -- they hurt when i rotate them or when i was doing overhead extension and lateral pulldowns. anyway, so the coach just keeps saying "serve and volley!" even though the sudden serving and jumping running to the net movement is extremely hurting my knees here and then he tries to make me run. and then he serves wide and my knee is killing me at this point. i think at one point he says "are you okay" and i said "it's just my knee hurting a little bit" when i really meant "stop telling me to serve and volley and stop making me run all over the place you you you" okay. so my knee has been hurting lately, and i've been having the sniffles. how have you been?
track = aww, i wish i was doing it. =(
anyway, so my dad refused to sign my permission slip/insurance form for track this morning. he doesn't want me to do spring because "there's only three months left of junior year and it's not like you're looking for an athletic scholarship." that's not the point! ai. well to keep things short, we had a huge argument while i was trying to very very quickly eat my bagel. and then my mom, who previously encouraged me to keep running track, decided to change positions and side with my dad. they've turned into a mob. actually this is quite strange, since it's usually my dad who sides with my mom. kind of like will's CW theory. i just plugged his site. i'm so nice, aren't i? =P well anyway the morning was a start to a very horrible day. school was not such a typical day either. very somber, to say the least. i really like watching alias, though i've only seen it twice. it feeds my dream of becoming a spy. mmm...michael vartan. if you had a choice of going to virginia or taiwan in the summer, where would you go? ellie i'll hang out with you! =D
mm, i can see how last night's episode could have been boring if you didn't know the whole storyline. it was one of those where everything was really kind of unexpected with the whole roger moore is a traitor thing and sloane going off on his own little mission and sydney going to figure out the whole prophecy thing .. but then there wasn't really any action. if you don't count sloane shooting his good friend after seeing pictures of his grandson and the two breaking into the vatican archives. i'm feeling sick and tired and injured. but i'll say something about that later. ellie, take me somewhere!
i watched "alias" for the second time yesterday and i thought it was boring. so i stopped watching it. i think derek would look so cool on the show though, maybe as sloane's sidekick. not as michael vartan's sidekick though. yeah, i could see derek as sloane's evil high-tech henchman. and i mean that as a compliment! since he's your hero and all.
i did something mean today. at jazz rehearsal i emptied my spit valve all over the floor right in front of the music stand after we were done, not behind me further away, or in a trash can. so that means whoever stood there for the jazz ensemble practice right after us would have to stand in it. this kid in my western civ class hit a school bus today. not with his hand, i mean with his car. Sunday, March 10, 2002
my friend bought a ups uniform. that is not a lie or an exaggeration. he got it for i think forty or sixty bucks off ebay. you meet some strange people in college.
oh, i'm home, and i don't have a car, so if you have a car, don't want to do homework, and want to hang out with me, call and let's go to the mall because i need to buy sunglasses!
no, i've never seen it. i had a dream once that i was a ups man. okay, i lied. but i really wondered what it would be like to drive a big brown truck and deliver brown boxes while wearing a brown shirt and brown shorts and a brown hat. i watched "alias" and it seemed that the show's creative team is really trying to up the suspensefulness with their whole cinematography and plots. i want to be a director someday of .. i don't know, something. sloane is the coolest guy on that show. roger moore is going to die. when the bond guy came to talk about bonds today and said the word "bond" over and over again, i kept thinking of bond, james bond. and then pastor al says "dam safety permits" when it seemed like he said " those damn safety permits". and i wondered who would win if they had a fistfight (or maybe wrestling or kickboxing), the old bond man or pastor al. pastor al looks pretty fit and i heard he swims, while the other guy seemed to move a bit slowly and not so surely .. but then the other guy was in world war two and he was in the navy and i bet they teach you some hand-to-hand combat tricks. i have to think about this.
i want to get a job at a coffee shop like starbucks because coffee shops always smell nice, like coffee. yes i have big plans, but will they be a raisin in the sun, or will they explode? the book was so sad. willy harris is a jerk. and so is will tippin or however you spell his name. is there a new alias on tonight? today'll probably be the only sunday in a long while that i'll be able to watch any tv. i haven't gone to the mall in what seems like a year. though that's impossible b/c i had to have gone to the mall for christmas stuff. so i should probably go sometime soon, like this friday to get michelle something. i need a car. screw the license. one day, i want to learn how to fly...so high. EL-E-VA-TION!
i just skimmed through a year's worth of time magazines. my head hurts. i think i'm getting a job at blockbuster. or barnes and noble. i wish this month would just end already!
ellen's voice is just like a man's. i had this beige-colored gap winter jacket in the closet, but lately i can't find it. i think my dad's been wearing it and maybe it's somewhere in his room. i'm strangely tired. well, maybe not that strange, but i think i'm going to go take a nap anyway.
Saturday, March 09, 2002
wow i nearly died in track today, again. i suck at track, i'm so slow! grrRRrrrrRRrr.... everybody has seen mame, its too late for me to see it now, oh well. i always lie to telemarketers. and if they dont get my point, i hang up on them before they can say anything. and then i start thinking about how i would feel as a telemarketer and thats just a waste of my time, so i dont like telemarketers. it freaks me out when they know i'm not over 18, when they say 'can i speak to your mom or dad??' and i'm like uhh no you cant they're busy even though they arent, and then i end up thinking about whether my voice sounds very naive and innocent or just very little-girlish. i dont think so, i think my voice is pretty deep for a girl.... weird. anyway, i'm going to go make an md now.
i went to the mall today. (yay!) i used to be so good at malling.. but i was tired within two hours or so today. ahh, i'm so pathetic! haha. it was mostly my ankles, though. stupid bad ankles. i can't believe they're still stupid after two years. hmm.. anyways. i got a shirt at banana republic that i really really liked, but when i got home i found a hole in it. poooooo. and i wanted to get this other cool shirt but they only had one left and it was a large. doh. but i got mickel's present! so it was not a complete waste of time.. :o)
bah, i don't feel like doing anything. maybe i'll go watch tv.
i was trapped in the house the whole day. actually, to be specific, i was trapped upstairs inside my room. and i couldn't walk around too much because it would make noise. so my mom had this shore music educators association evaluation audition thing today at our house where she invited-hired a judge to sit and listen to about thirty forty students play their pieces, and this thing took about eight hours as chinese kids and their parents and siblings kept coming in and out of our house and the piano never stopped. and so i woke up to the sound of the piano where this little kid seemed to be messing up pretty badly, and i went downstairs later and watched this girl act really strangely in front of the judge .. i think most chinese kids have social problems. it's something with the culture. it seems that we're all shy and introverted and unable to speak well in public. i've been trying to get rid of that in myself. anyway, there are really some weird kids out there, and quite a few of them are students that come to my house every week. i know at least six kids who i've never seen talk or even make other noises .. they're just mute and dumb and those two words mean the same thing. anyway, so while i was upstairs, i half-cleaned my room. everything is now in piles that i can sort through later and put into organized piles that i can sort through again and clean up easily. or that's the plan. it looks messier than before, but that's because i dragged everything out of closets and corners and drawers and put them into piles. so before it was just an illusion of a clean room, but when i'm done, it'll really be a clean room. and i should have maybe a few hundred pounds less of paper in my room. speaking of which, i found these really interesting paper catalogs that i'd requested a while ago and the fibers are so amazing ..
i was looking around the house for a replacement for my defective jacket, and i found this bright yellow gap windbreaker. it looks pretty slick, but also pretty darn yellow. its more than a banana yellow. its like a highlighter marker yellow. i wonder if i should wear it. or this other old quirky tan jacket that my dad probably used to wear which has the zipper thing on the left side.
i visited a telemarketing office with my parents once, and all these people were there at their desks with phones. and my parents tried it. i have no idea why. it was a long long time ago. i was probably thinking, "cool. my parents are going to be telemarketers!" young and naive i was.
telemarketers are people too...and if you waste time by thinking of "funny" things to say, they can't do their job. so just say no thanks and good bye and hang up, so they can move on. it's not like they want to be annoying, their job is to sell stuff. like oprah's job is to talk a lot. at the end of the day, telemarketers need to put food on the table also. they aren't interested in making conversation with you, and i'm sure they know they're quite hated. but it's not their fault! that's their job!
Friday, March 08, 2002
eh, what do you mean it can't make paragraphs. the only thing that i've noticed is weird is that in the blogging interface where it displays posts, the line spacing gets a bit strange .. like someone changed the line height size and forgot to turn it off again. anyway, so i just came home from fellowship and i'm feeling kind of -- hmm. i don't really feel anything.
serena, the telemarketer was probably so taken by your sweet voice that he had to ask you how old you were. i bet if you said seventeen he would've said something other than "i'll let you go then, nice talking to you". hm, maybe next time i'll try making conversation with a telemarketer and see if he hits on me. probably not, at least i'd hope not. i want to be a telemarketer someday for a little bit to see how horrible it would be to have that as a job. i should think of funny things to say to telemarketers. there was this comic once in the new york times magazine .. i'm still not in a blogging mood.
LOL... i just had the funniest experience.. that just made my day... this telemarketer from comcast called my house... and sorta hit on me. LOL... i'll uh write the contents of the convo here... i think he was relatively young...and white.. but this is fuuuuunnnny.
Telemarketer: hi, im from comcast, are ur parents home? Me. No TM: ooh are u 18? Me: No. TM: can you take a message? ME: my parents are in charge of all that stuff, they're not home right now, but the answer is probably no TM: but its a free trial, im not really selling anything. and they get their money back if they're not satisfied Me: do you kno how many telemarketers call my house? TM: a lot? Me: tons actually, my parents usually make me pick up the phone, and come up with creative ways of saying no TM: ooh really? so is this your creative response? ME: yea, would u still like me to takea message? TM: well ur probably not ogng to right? Me: you're right! so im gonna hang up on u now TM: wait wait, don't hang up on me, how old are u anyway? Me: im 16 TM: 16? Me: Yea TM: ooh, well ill let u go then, nice talking to u So.... that was very amusing and funny. my gooosh, maybe im delusional or something... haha. ok, there are some strange people in this world, at least he wasnt some freakish pedofile. quite desperate, but NOT a pedofile. So that was a condensed version... really amusing. quite strange for a friday too... everyone have a great weekend... i think im gona... *sigh* study
wheee! this week is over! it's finished. done. finito. no more wilson outline. no more wilson paper. no more reaction paper. no more hspa. no more research paper. now its time to tackle all the other stuff that'll take their place...like umm...i don't know, but we'll probably get something. ap test and SAT 2's. yes that's it. oh and all those annoying piano evaluation things. augh. not quite out of it yet...
i wish we could see a movie in latin, like gladiator or even spartacus again. i want to watch beauty and the beast, like those punks in spanish, and listen to Gaston's song about the Beast. what is it?..."bring your forks, bring your knives, save your children, save your wives." i seem to have recently become quite friendly with the gym floor. i see him a lot during the day when we're playing indoor soccer games. people who hang around with him have a knack for getting hurt. for example, he bruised my right hip today when i got tripped, and then he hit the same hip again when i got tripped again. and he also umm "rebruised" another bruise that i got from being goalie a couple weeks ago. what is the literary technique called when one addresses an inanimate object? apostrophe. but i am not addressing him, so it is only personification.
so i want to make a list here of all the things i should've done but haven't: precalc homework, physics homework, chem studying, ap registration, prom bids, room cleaning, website making .. and i think that's it. but it's more than it seems. i hate homework. and i didn't go to school today because i was feeling a little sick, i know i'm a wimp, and i stayed home and slept for a long time. i'm not in a blogging mood.
it's almost springtime, i'm so excited! today was weird. it started out rotten and tiring and frustrating but then turned out ok. i swear, this is shaping up to be the longest month ever. it feels like forever until spring break...and the week of my spring break [first week of april- i don't know if it's everyone else's?] is going to be weird. but i'm not really dreading it, because 1. duh it's spring break 2. and i'm clinging to the hope that i'll get into college. i was looking forward to going to minnesota, but we're not going anymore. =( my family's probably going on a vaction though! i want to go to australia, but it's most likely going to be in the country.
i was reading some of derek's archives, and you talk about going to the mall a lot! it reminds me of that line from the wedding singer- "well we are living in a material world, and i am a material girl. or boy." i don't know, maybe there was a deeper meaning to your frequent shopping references. but maybe not. i wonder what it's like to get into your dream school. i wonder what it's like to have a dream school. i don't have a dream school. i wonder what it's like to be a mature collegian. i wonder what graduating feels like. this sucks- i had so many great plans after midterms because i thought i wouln't have to care about school anymore, but i still do! i don't want to care about school. oh well. i apologize for this incredibly self-centered blog...every other sentence begins with "i."
ah, i just went for a run and i've realized how incredibly incredibly out of shape i am. i wish i could eat massive quantities of food and never gain weight. i wish i could get liposuction.
stephanie, go do your hw! =) Thursday, March 07, 2002
wow i really should go do my latin thingy. but my blog didnt post yesterday, thats not nice, i feel an obligation to blog, so here we go. i dont like hills..... they're evil. and i really should go do that latin thing now, i feel like going to sleep sometime soon... track is exhausting, but the cupcakes are good~~ =)
someone tell me to go study. i just can't do this. my brain.. wants to sleep and do nothing. it does not want to learn about acids and bases. it does not want to study catullus or learn about the depression either. or trig equations. wahhhhhhhhh! too much work. no desire to complete. noooooooooooooooo........ somebody tell me to go study. pleeeeeeease.
it's funny ... i made a college blog with college people on it and all the blogs are usually after midnight. says a lot about college people, i guess.
i have a paper to write by tomorrow at 4 ... ironically enough, my ta offered me an extension and i refused it. i'd rather be done by tomorrow at 4 then have to work friday evening or afternoon ... tomorrow by 4 i will be done with school for TWO WEEKS! i'm going to california! i'm going to get tan! i'm going to disneyland!!! ... i really am.
oh my look at the time. hey its tomorrow already. i better start working on my paper now...hahaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh................today is the last day of hspas. trouble city.
i love volleyball. Last year, i was so hardcore winning. We also had quite a brainy team; we had the top three kids in our class. All except one member was not in the top 10 percent, and he missed it by four spots. We were actually really good, too, mostly because of my part =P. Heh, yeah i made solid contributions on the court, but i think my most important contribution was making all those plans/strategies and working out the optimum rotation orders so that we'd have a strong presence everywhere (i knew spanish class had some purpose). During our tournament with the A+/A/B+/B/C+/C/D/F courts, we made our way to the top and shuffled around the A+/A courts. Ahh those were the days....
life is like a game of risk. Wednesday, March 06, 2002
wow, we had a vball tournament too! our team rocked. and i seriously think we were the smartest team on the courts today. we had the number one and fourth kid with isers, the 4th, 5th, 10th, and like 14th, with non isers. yep, we were definitely the smartest team playing today. and we were really good. all those other teams thought we'd suck because we're the brainy people and they're all athletic and stuff, but we kicked apples!! yeah, we beat this one team who has like the most athletic people on it and they were really quite pissed and very suprised. haha, we told them! ok, so vball was really intense this morning and i had a really really fun time playing. i was sweating like a pig (nice imagery, i know) even after i ripped off my pants (i had shorts on) and took of my shirt (i had a tshirt on.) yep. we played 7 games and won five, we only lost by a few points for the other two. it was quite exciting. i love volleyball. it's my favorite sport to play=) ok bye!
i want a breakfast party ... oh wait, i never wake up early enough. nevermind.
i'm going to cali for spring break for a week and i may get to meet up with my friend and go to disneyland!!! i'd be sooooo excited to go to disneyland with a friend, b/c i don't like going with my parents, and it'd be fun to go with someone i know!!!
while the juniors were taking those tests i had a breakfast party, learned how to play scat, and played volleyball for 1.5 hours. yes! tomorrow is going to be the same thing, minus the volleyball.
so i have my school's entire musical running through my head. argh! it's because i've seen it so bloody many times. it opens tomorrow, come see "once upon a mattress" tomorrow or saturday at marlboro high school! but not friday because you should go to friday night fellowship. i'm not in it, i'm with the band. well, "pit orchestra." should be loads of fun. 3 weeks until the first week of april...which means doomsday everyday that week. colleges really know how to kill a spring break. i feel queasy, so i'll talk about other happening things. like prom. [end blog.]
yeah i fell asleep during hspa's too---wait, no i didn't. I took them last year. Oh yeah, and i don't have to go to school until 10:30 =P.
why thank you. so i'm actually officially playing a sport now, which i should've done a long time ago when i thought about joining track or winter track or maybe even cross country. but i didn't. i was really angry today during practice because the coach made us play double matches and he paired me up with this kid who was really bad and we lost 6-0 to the other team of only so-so mediocre players. and this was the kid who made the team last year when i didn't and he was worse than me and still is. not that i didn't make any mistakes today, i might've made three or four unforced errors, but he was really really bad and couldn't hit anything and couldn't serve at all and i got really angry because the coach asked us the score and he wasn't watching the whole time and obviously he thought the new kid sucked. new kid = me. at least he saw me win my service game when i served and volleyed even though i hate doing that but i did it and won the game. life is unfair sometimes. if life deals you lemons, why not go kill someone with the lemons (maybe by shoving them down his throat)?
Tuesday, March 05, 2002
a huge CONGRATULATIONS to derek!! you rock like no other two million dollar person can. =D
teehee...an brainy tennis team. that reminds me of track. our two coaches were mocking each grade. the frosh were the "i don't care about anythingggg...cept my boyfriend," the sophomores were the "bitchy gossiper backstabbers," the seniors were the "raunchy ones," and the juniors were the "intellectuals who have to make a difference in the world." the coaches were imitating us -- "i'm sorry, i can't go to practice today because i have to go to all the honor societies, collect canned goods for the homeless, raise a million dollars for deaf dogs, teach hurdling to disabled and blind children, and save the world." and "put us all in alphabetical order and you'll get the top twenty students of our class." haha. sadly, i think it's pretty accurate. between all the juniors on track, four organizations/clubs were formed. including my favorite, an underground magazine -- spread eagle. ;) blasted! today i fell asleep during the hspas. i still don't know how i managed to do that...well in any case, i dozed during the first open ended math question, so i didn't get to do both the first and second open ended questions. oooops. remedial classes, here i come. ah, someone please tell me methods to stay awake. sleep is now my personal hell.
no no no.. it's blasted. but with a british accent.. so, i guess it's more like "blahsted." allison was so mad when she started saying it.. hahahaha. "blahst" is allison's word.
anyways, congratulations, derek! haha.. you guys really are brainy. you'll all stun and amaze the other teams with your awesome brainpower to the point where they just won't be able to play anymore. because they'll be too stunned. right. :o) i'm tired. we sprinted.. a lot.. today. and i felt like my face was going to fall off, again. *sigh* i kind of miss the old field. the village school one is covered with holes from those soccer people and their cleats. bah. and it's a lot longer, so we have to sprint more. hahahaha.. i am so lazy.
ahh archibald! now with you, ye, erkal, and maybe steve, we're probably the brainiest tennis team in history. whee.
hmm my brother had been going around the house with his incessant colds and fevers for about a month, and i guess i'm finally succumbing...argh...i almost made it. and right during hspas and the research paper too. now i'm eating orange oranges in a desperate attempt to acquire vitamin C. as christine says: blast it.
hey ellie, i was perusing my old blog archives today and i happened to stumble upon this: your pinkworld blog. ahahaha, it was funny. i don't understand what happened to it .. how did activity just stop? i think sheila's is slowly going the way of ellie's blog and the buffalo. moo.
hm, so i think the unexpected event of the day was when i made the tennis team. me and this other freshman kid who happened to be my hitting partner all three days of tryouts. anyway, i don't know what i'm feeling -- good, i guess. strangely, i'm not feeling elation or euphoria or that "wowee i'm on the tennis team" feeling .. i think i would've felt that if i'd made it last year or the year before. mmm. you know what they say, the third time's a charm. of course, if i hadn't made the team, what i'd be saying here right now is "three strikes and you're out" ..
Monday, March 04, 2002
oh i forgot to mention this: try taking the humanforsale test. it's really funny -- and answer questions honestly. i think they said i was worth two million dollars or so, whee. dave is foolish. what's a senior thesis paper? okay, so hspas are tomorrow and if i do badly i have to take special ed remedial classes. which i won't. but i'm planning to write a really stupid story for the picture prompt.
my hands were freezing too, but whose wasn't? i couldn't feel the ball at all, and heck i couldn't tell if i was holding a racquet. ok maybe it wasn't that bad, but derek started making whining sounds and they eventually progressed into wookie sounds, like "arwwaorrraraoawwwwrrr." so when practice was finally over, i sat down on the carpet in the vestibule taking in all the joyful warm air.
i don't think it helps that the author of one of my works was probably certifiably insane. his neighbors apparently said he was crazy and called him "Loony Dick" (his name was Richard Jefferies). ahh why is everyone getting sick?...i think i'm getting sick too, or maybe it'll only be a 48.3 hour virus. i've had those before. so i guess that motivational speaker really motivated some people, b/c i started getting a lot of hugs during school. then i got 2 hugs and gave one hug during practice, but i don't think they had anything to do with the speaker. doesn't it make you feel all warm and fuzzy inside?
come senior year, if your teacher assigns your senior thesis paper in september and makes it due on march 12th, a foolish thing to do is to procrastinate and start working on it...*today*.
even worse is wasting your time blogging about it =)
hey derek, i know what your fingers and palms were filled with. blood. and other stuff like membrane but that's not important.
strange, i only counted two "mmk"s .. are there more? i don't think you counted right. anyway, so today was the second day of tennis tryouts, and it was horribly terribly cold and windy outside. my hands were freezing and i thought they were going to fall off when i couldn't feel them anymore. and so i played not-so-well as usual with no hands. then afterwards when we went inside and it was warm, my hands felt really fat and i think it was because of the blood going back into them and it was a bit scary and weird. like my fingers and palms were filled with something. i told a kid that his hands were going to explode and he said "no they're not you're lying", but the slightly scared look on his face -- or it looked that way to me when he looked at his hands and felt them -- let me know that he doubted himself. which was a bit amusing.
something strange. during one of these drills, the coach basically separated the people on the team from people who were trying out except for one kid on the team which he placed with the new kids, and then he stuck me with the old team members. which was a bit bad because i messed up a floater later, but i wonder if it means something. maybe he just thinks i'm on the team because i'm so pathetic to be here for the third year. or i'm going to make the team. right. i think i'm getting sick again. it's this stupid weather.
ah, lacrosse started today. it was fun. aside from the lack of feeling in my fingers and face. that was lovely :) anyways, i hope this will be a fun season. last year sooooo fun. jv rocks. varsity is.. eh. everyone gets so competitive (that doesn't look right) and it's just not fun anymore. well, it is sometimes. but not as much as jv. *sigh* sophomore year was so cool.
mmk, i should do something productive now. like work on my research paper. waaah.. i haven't started it. i'm such a lazy bum. :oP
derek's not funny. when he said, "ellen...i just locked your keys in your car," i was seriously about to cry. or kill him. actually, probably just kill him. mmhm. just for that, i will never ever again drive derek to the barnes and noble which is two minutes from his house anyway. just kidding. derek's really entertaining in a book store.
mmk so "ellen" keeps on floating around in all these blogs, and for a second (ok, maybe more) i was thoroughly confused. hehe..=P i think i should start exercising again. *shudder* i feel so so gross. maybe i should start playing at shrewsbury again, but then again i...am so sick of that place. i think my annoyance at the pros there stems from the time i was in sixth grade or so, when bob asks, "hey ellen, did you come out of the closet too??" it was around the time when ellen on tv said she was gay. mmk. then he continued to say, "so, is she your girlfriend?? *pointing to random girl*" even in sixth grade i knew that he just said one of the most ignorant comments ever. i don't know if i was just me, but i found that really annoying. so i think if i want to play, i'll just take advantage of their free court time. because i "used" to be a junior. maybe they'll still think i am... i'm so devious. ;) Sunday, March 03, 2002
i'm mean. okay, it's ten-thirty and i think i should go to sleep soon because i need rest -- or i've convinced myself that i do when it might not help me at all -- to play tennis well and i should play tennis well if i want to make the tennis team, which i think i do. i think deep down i really really want to be on the team, even though i tell myself "aw, it's okay if you don't make it" to make myself feel better if i don't make it for the third year in a row. i'll be feeling really stupid if that happens. i picked up my racquet today at shrewsbury .. they restrung it in a day. except i had to pay about thirty dollars, expensive. and todd told me that i should have at least two racquets. what do i look like, a rich kid like all the others who go to the club? yeah probably, i think it'd be hard to tell the difference. i wanted to see a cheerleading competition today, but no one would go with me.
you mean just ellen. i have a funny story about ellen. so last week we went to virginia's sweet sixteen at some nice italian restaurant in marlboro, and i went with ellen to buy presents -- which i should've done way before. anyway, so after the party, i had to get my things from her car and so she gave me her keys and i got them and it was sometime after ten and when she came out i told her that i'd accidentally locked her keys in her car. and you should've seen the look on her face. okay you're right, it wasn't funny. i don't know if i like to play tennis.
Saturday, March 02, 2002
i...went to school at 745 and then went to long branch high school for a forensics tournament and competed and ate and lost and got fat and came back to freehold, went to golden bell, got REALLY fat and now i'm home. saturdays are SO long. tournament days are so exhausting. and wearing heels for 15 hours isn't the most comfortable thing in the world. now i'm really incredibly tired and i still have to prep for 4th grade sunday school tomoddo and frankly, i'm kind of upset=( i'm a sore loser. ok, now i'm happy. because i want to end this blog on a happy note! :)
i did nothing today. well, nothing other than go to miserable chinese school and then directly to four hours of tennis .. i played well the first two hours and then only okay the third hour and then my right leg almost cramped up all the way in the fourth hour and so i stopped playing with twenty minutes left to go. and watched richard and julius li blast balls back and forth. that's a really quick way to break strings. my racquet's being restrung now as we speak, or maybe it's done or maybe they haven't strung it yet, but i feel kind of stupid doing it at the club because it's going to be crazy expensive. like thirty dollars when i could have it done at sports authority for half the price .. eh, at least it'll be done by tomorrow. i was afraid i would break strings monday or tuesday, and then i wouldn't be able to play and i wouldn't make the team, but i'll probably not make the team anyway. i know you're going to say "have some more confidence or you'll definitely not make it" but i think i shouldn't make myself too excited and expect that i'll make it and then i'll won't and i'll be sad because -- well, i did last year. and i didn't. and i was. i wish we had ice cream.
i thought it was your lord of the flies project, ellen. i'd rather do a lord of the rings project too, instead of this insane english paper. anyway, i was watching part of "absolute power" starring clint eastwood, mr. bird (ed harris), and gene hackman on TNT (they know drama). and clint asked some other guy in the movie in his real solemn tone something like "when you're looking for revenge, what face do you give to your enemy?" and i was like "ahhh gothelf!" then the 007 movie "diamonds are forever" was on and it had Blofeld from the fizziks test! but i didn't get to see any car chasing.
okay nobody listen to ellen, she was running perfectly fine at practice yesterday!
gosh, i have not blogged in about 3 or 4 weeks, so i haven't given ellen her official welcome - hi ellen! =) anyway...the first practice was interesting yesterday....lots of new freshmen girls! =) and they [in majority, there were a few falling off] were looking pretty good jogging the mile after moving equipment. ellen definitely was NOT one of the girls falling off....so shush ellen! =) unfortunately, i can't practice officially for about two weeks....poo. i finished winter track one day before spring track started [on the 27th of february]....it was amazing to run at eastern state champs, though. so i hafta sit and watch the team for two weeks so my body can "rest and be fresh for spring". i feel so stagnant. SPRING! I CAN'T WAIT FOR SPRING!! =)
AHHHH yesterday was peanut butter lovers' day!!!!!! and i didnt go online so i couldnt blog about it! awwwwwww.... =T oh well anyway i'm doing track and i'm going to die. i really really really need to get back in shape, yesterday was hell on the track. i hate the mile, i really do, i want to run the 400 and the 800 maybe and hurdles. but i'm too short. so i cant really run anything good, i suck. oh foo. i need to go do that retarded lord of the rings project. ouch.
Friday, March 01, 2002
my quads are incredibly sore. we did this intense workout in the weight room today. then in tennis, coach had us run a mile on the track, which took a longish b/c we're all out of shape, except for bisonboy. (is that proper usage of "longish"?) the girls track team was watching us, and ann yelled at us to run faster...its always fun to watch other sports teams try to play your sport (like pencil-thin xc runners playing tackle football). except we were the ones being watched this time.
i remember i was sick all through january last year, and it was all the killington ski trip's fault. i don't think spending a few days outside in negative temperatures is too good for you. what does "in medias res" mean? in the middle path? in the middle thing? ah mrs. boueil acted very strangely today.
longish? is that a pseudo adjective that functions as a noun?
Did anyone else hear that two girls were going to our prom together? We were discussing this in history because someone asked if the Board could do anything about that. For some reason, I'm a little uncomfortable about seeing that, maybe I'm just weird. And did you guys hear about that post-prom cruise thing? It's like 45 bucks to go on a boat and dance some more after dancing for 4 hours at PNC. I dont really see the logic in that. I really hope I don't get sick because it seems like there's some sort of cold/flu/mono bug going around and people are dropping like flys. Watch, I'm going to be the last one to get sick, right in time for the SATs. yippee! *mrs. gothelf said "in medias res" today.
hey! mrs. bryer didn't call me either. =( mm..i just finished an essay in twenty-five minutes! rock on. i'm reading margaret cho's "i'm the one i want" -- and it is so great. i figured, after watching the comedy act on video four times (heyy look its my normal saturday night. haha.), i might as well read the book its based upon. my goodness it is funny. a bit raunchy, but funnny.
so like, i fell asleep not only in math class every day of this week, but also in my other classes. newspaper has been my worst enemy, and it really is inhumane to stay at school for more than eleven hours. i fell asleep in history class right in front of the teacher. my teacher, who is notorious for going on forty minute lecture tangents with no breaks, STOPS speaking to say, "ellen do you need a drink of water?" apparently i replied, "whuuuuut?" anyway i don't quite remember. i'm glad she likes me enough to not say, "WAKE UP!" i also fell asleep in the hallway that day during a physics demonstration. maybe i have mono or something. or a chronic fatigue disorder. i am always too tired for my own good. my mom picked up her new car today, and i went with her to the dealer. that is such a great place. they have an awesome waiting room with lots of free food and coffee and tv and all these goodies. oh, and one of those popcorn machine carts! nice. i played in all the cars that i will never be able to own, and one of the guys let me wander on the upstairs level, which has all the antique cars that each "only has one existing in the world." anyway, i went crazy playing, and i got to drive the new car. i really couldn't see any downsides to this trip... oh, and my brother's home. |