i guess it's half timing

U!
C!
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UCLA FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT

GO BRUINS!!!

:D



I can totally dream that we're not going to get our asses kicked by the Trojans. Damn, commercials make you feel so good about being a UCLA fan.

My brother and I now own all 10 seasons of Friends omg.

This is so hilarious. Kevin bought 1-4 while Black Friday shopping, and I went to Target this afternoon to see what was left. At first I thought it was just season 10 and season 6, but then I discovered that there was an entire display devoted to Friends and there were a bunch of copies of all seasons except 7. So I txted Kevin that I was a liar and we had all of them but 7. Then I went to Best Buy to see what they had (Target was $8.99/season, Best Buy was $9.99), and lo and behold. Only one box of Friends, and it was season 7.

Clearly Kevin and I were destined to walk away from our first Black Friday (sort of) shopping with an entire television show.

I, uh. Also bought 2 apples at Target.

Nothing eventful here guys. It's kind of cold, though.

I might try going shopping tomorrow. I said I'd split the cost of season 3 of Psych and the first four seasons of Friends with Kevin. That only comes out to $25. I also said I'd check and see if the stores out here hadn't been mobbed today and still have the last 6 seasons of Friends, hahaha.

I think I might buy Emily's Wii off her. Then I won't have to worry about freezing to death running around East Campus!

I have so much dessert to eat before it all goes bad.

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

Yesterday I spent basically the entire day running around doing Thanksgiving-related errands. Whooo~ Man, it is chaos the night before Thanksgiving. I've never been grocery shopping for Thanksgiving, so I never noticed.

So it turns out that we didn't paint my apartment this morning. Yay.

Instead I woke up, made breakfast/lunch, washed dishes, cleaned, boiled, peeled, and mashed potatoes. I knitted a little, sent an important email regarding final papers, and talked to my dad and grandmother. I also did that voice meme for junefield but whatever.

Around 6 I picked up Yao and we went to Emily's for dinner. Emily made a turkey breast and stuffing and a pumpkin pie, Yao brought fruit for dessert and juice, and Jordan brought a carrot souffle and green beans. It was a pretty impressive spread for 4 people. After some mishaps involving the turkey and gravy, we sat down to dinner and a Patrick Swayze movie, which then was changed to Casino Royale because, well. Daniel Craig. We spent most of the night being silly and tipsy and talking about hot actors. And... other random things, like when we were young or babies (totally started because we were talking about Professor Rojas's totally adorable baby).

After the movie we helped Emily clean up, then sat around for a while before heading home.

I hope everyone got to spend time with family and friends~ ♥

Because rainmage is pretty awesome and I admire her.

LEAVE A COMMENT WITH A QUESTION OR ANYTHING YOU'D LIKE TO HEAR ME SAYING AND I'LL POST THE ANSWERS/WHATEVER YOU ASKED ME LATER IN A VOICE POST.

Possibly an mp3 file, depending on how lazy I am.

Within reason, guys, please.

Shut up it will happen it will so happen.

It won't, but don't tell me that yet.

It's really hard to take the "Ride of the Valkyries" sequence in Watchmen seriously.

Like. Really hard.

I only have to write 4,400 words per day :D At the rate I've been going, I should be able to do that by writing for 2 hours every day. If only I had 2 hours every day.

I'll have to think of something to post to wrimobuddies later. Right now I need to stop my feet from freezing and finish writing up this internet exercise.

Well, Pau Gasol's back, at least for the time being.

Which is good for me, since I, you know, didn't put him in my starting lineup for Thursday. And also because lol my team is kind of fail and I am a fail manager and my record is 8-19 at the moment.

Ugh maybe I should start watching games. Like, for real. On the television.

Or I could just start watching UCLA lose to CSUF in two overtimes. What is this. I don't even. No wonder Sarah was mad.

I'm going to take it as a fluke and move on. UCLA fans learn to dream big, right. Right. USC game is Saturdaaaaaaaaaay~

Hahaha. If you look at the UCLA football site, I'm pretty sure that's a victory picture from the game against ASU in which the drum major of the band is being held up. omglol

SPEAKING OF BANDS.

Mt. Carmel's field performance went up on YouTube. I actually really like their show, partially because it's entitled Snakes!

In case anyone was in any kind of suspense over AFOB results (yeah right), Riverside King took street sweepstakes and street music sweepstakes, while Rancho Bernardo took field and field music sweepstakes (Chino took the high percussion award). Rancho Bernardo took home all three tournament sweepstakes awards.

Some things never change, right?

Gosh, it's not my fault my parents called me from AFOB to tell me they were at AFOB. Otherwise I never would have remembered.

I realize this is my third time posting today, and I'm sorry but it's because I love you. Also because I'm afraid that if I stop moving my fingers, they will actually just freeze.

As part of my 101 in 1001 I'm trying to watch all of AFI's Top 100 American Movies (the 2007 version). For whatever reason, I decided to start with Clint Eastwood's Unforgiven, which won the Academy Award for Best Picture in 1992. Normally, I don't say anything meaningful about movies that I see (for instance, my extremely insightful comments about Transformers 2), but I figured I should do... something since this is one of my goals.

Morgan Freeman was fantastic as Ned Logan; this may just reflect a bias on my part for his other roles and his amazing voice. Clint Eastwood as the main character Will Munny was also quite good - I've not seen a whole lot of movies featuring him in any way. As I was watching, I felt like a number of the characters were superfluous and even downright annoying (I'm sure someone has criticized the Kid before me), but the more I think about it the more I think that they are all integral pieces of a very fragile and intricate puzzle.

Unlike most movies that I watch and enjoy, it's hard to glean any one particular meaning or worldview from the film. Removing characters removes part of the multitude of questions and positions raised in the film. As with other movies I've enjoyed, such as No Country for Old Men, the film has a very subdued quality. Dialogue and character development beats around the bush. In fact, I hesitate to say that there is character development, only character revealing. The final scene is quite powerful, and I like the clean storytelling combined with complex story.

I thought it was a good film, and one that I will probably be thinking about for some time, and maybe even recommend to others. However, I'm still a bit old-fashioned - my preferred Western is still The Magnificent Seven.

1 down, 99 to go! After I finish my Sex and Money exercise, I think I will move on to Ben-Hur, which has "Jesus Christ" as a key subject in the library search. Should be good.

I've been awake since 5:30.

I left my apartment just after 7, when it was a mere 41F outside. I had to drive with my windows rolled down because of the condensation on the outside of the car.

I got to WSSU at 8:30.

I left Winston-Salem at 1.

I got back just before 3.

I'm exhausted.

I'm thinking about watching Unforgiven before I have to take it back to Lilly instead of writing my exercise for Sex and Money.

Also, we're back to the weather where I can't feel my fingers very well and need to keep stopping typing to blow on them or warm them against my breasts. My aunt sent me those fingerless gloves, but my fingers are so short as to defeat the purpose of being fingerless.



ETA: ALSO. MOSTLY FOR EMLEE and maybe Alex idk. AFOB videos are trickling up - and by trickling I mean Dana's is up on YouTube. When did the drill team and flags get new uniforms? THEY ARE A SIGNIFICANT IMPROVEMENT OVER THE OLD ONES.

ETA2: PS I CHANGED MY LAYOUT AND GOT NEW ICONS.

ETA3: An okay version of the high school went up on YouTube; it wasn't the run where they went past the judges though. Not that it makes a difference at AFOB anyway.

Oh hay.

Forgot to mention.

I have work today!

In Winston-Salem.

An hour and a half away.

I've been up since 5:30, yes.

I'm going to go... get in my car and start driving now.

Maybe I'll be able to stop for food or coffee or something ;___;

It's actually been a long time since I've heard what's going on at my lovely alma mater (there may or may not be sarcasm there). I checked the website just now and lookit all the cool headlines:

A Brief Interview with John Krasinski: In which John Krasinski spoke at Rose Hills and debuted his film based on David Foster Wallace's Brief Interviews with Hideous Men. Apparently he was also at the memorial service last fall, which I didn't attend.

Kenji Yoshino... to speak at Big Bridges: The first year book was Covering, and the opening lecture was on my birthday. ;___; Sadly I was... in North Carolina.

Professor John Seery Wins Prestigious Phi Betta Kappa award: I did not know this, and I should email him to congratulate him.

Michelle Moran Delves into History for her Best-Selling Novels: Which include Cleopatra's Daughter, Nefertiti, and The Heretic Queen. I didn't know she was an alum.

Pomona Donates Rare Condor and Other Birds to Museum: I am so envious. I would have been in that class, if I were still at Pomona because I'd failed my senior year. I can see classmates/labmates in that picture. That is so cool. /bio geekery

Scientists discover the most distant gamma ray burst ever: Okay, this makes me realize that I knew a lot more when I was in high school.

The Book in the xBox: It's about video games and alums and stuff.

... I guess I should really read stuff more often.

o1. The Great Asheville Adventure

Sooooo... two weekends ago Jordan, Emily, Yao and I drove out to Asheville. We started super early, so the first thing we had to do was stop for breakfast for everyone but me because I ate at home. Then we drove for a long time. There are a lot of fucking trees in North Carolina. We stopped at a McDonald's for coffee and Emily bought sketchy chapstick at a sketchy gas station. Because the south is totally sketchy.

At some point during the drive out this woman in the car next to us turned to stare at us. Like. Hardcore turning in her seat to look backwards at us. We couldn't decide if it was because Jordan has University of Alabama stickers on her car or if it was because Yao and I were Asian.

Started in the historic shopping area, wandering around (Emily bought yarn and Yao bought some bread mix), then ended up at a Mexican restaurant for lunch~ And an entire pitcher of white Sangria. I cannot imagine drinking Sangria like water. Ugh. I think I'd die first. There was a little boy in the restaurant and he was our best friend. I love small children sob.

Then we drove up part of the road that leads to the Biltmore manor, but you can't get very close at all. ): So we turned around, got lost, and then eventually ended up at the Grove Park Inn. We made our way out onto the patios to look out over the valley and take pictures. It's really gorgeous up there; I wish I had the energy to post pictures but I'm falling asleep at my computer as it is.

We ended the evening in downtown Asheville wandering around the shops. I bought some beads, we saw an awesome humor store, I almost bought prayer beads, we got lost in a bookstore, and I found the cutest pink flats in a sex store. Instead of having a vegetarian dinner, we started driving back to Durham and stopped at a McDonald's on the way back. omg hamburgers.

It was after midnight by the time I got back ♥

o2. Alex came to visit

So last week we had this fantastic tropical storm come through. With tons of rain and wind. Thursday night I drove out to the airport to pick Alex up, then we came back and watched John Stewart and Stephen Colbert. Then we stayed up watching... Mushishi, I think. And eventually I passed out because, well, I was tired.

Friday we ran errands all day. I had to take Emily to the airport, so we did that (and we saw Professor Rojas lol), then picked up heeled boots for me at the Nine West outlet. Then we drove out to Cary, where we got vegetables and other random things like bao and cake at the market. We had lunch at a Szechuan place, then stopped at the Japanese market for sake, kamaboko, and udon bowls. Then we dropped off the groceries and went to the student store, where I discovered that even the small size has shoulders wider than mine are. Thanks, mommy, for always complaining about my wide shoulders. The last thing we did was go to the Kroeger so I could pick up... stuff. Then we sat and watched Jeopardy, Wheel of Fortune, more Mushishi, and then White Collar. We also watched Community, The Office, and 30 Rock online because we'd missed them the night before. We were up until almost 4 in the morning, I think, watching TV and playing cards and having philosophical discussions.

And then Saturday morning I drove Alex back to the airport. Saturday afternoon Yao and I went shopping. Now I have sweaters and a pair of brown pumps and cheap jewelry.

Sunday I went to Emily's with Jordan to check on her cats.

Tuesday I picked Emily up from the airport.

o3. Owww my head hurts



Quiet don't judge me just be impressed that I'm doing it at all.

I have an internet exercise on surrogacy or the selling of body parts on Monday. My final posting for vampires is due this coming week. I have a final paper for Sex and Money and no topic. I have to come up with readings for Monday. I have a final paper and no topic for vampires. I have an 18-20 page research paper for EACS which I've started but quite frankly is going to eat me alive.

Also Wednesday I slept for almost 15 hours. I'm mildly worried.

I Am Legend is so far a really good book.

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen was entertaining but needed more robots ):

THE END

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John Cho is one of People Magazine's Sexiest Men alive.




In the words of bebopsamurai: "yeah, I'd hit that XD"

Pau Gasol out until Christmas?

Dammit, I need another center.

I stole it from nerdish.

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Off to make one more post, then sleep, because I went through all the trouble of getting both flu vaccines only to get a cold.

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IN THE FUTURE.

Okay, so I'm kind of made of fail. BUT. I love getting mail. Mail is nommy. Mail is awesome. Mail when it comes in BRIGHTLY COLORED ENVELOPES is even better.

I am in the habit of occasionally sending out letters in said brightly colored envelopes. If you would like one because you think mail is awesome too (or because you think I'M AWESOME, which is totally true), you should leave your address below in a screened comment.

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