be honored by my lateness

someone bought my multivariable calc book on fb! yayz.

finished summer school on friday. felt pretty good about the finals though my hand almost came off during modern art and i still didn't completely finish my essay. it was probably one of the first times in a while where i came out of finals grinning and laughing to myself in utter joy rather than shocked or dazed. don't know how my grades will turn out. the ta for modern art is pretty tough and luckily, life science is going to be on a straight curve (a very good thing considering the average on the midterm was an 86 or 90 depending on how you look at it).

and as far as how much suck it was to have the hardest and meanest ta for ls1, i realized i did actually remember things better (usually because i ended up racking my brain up before, during, and after the quizzes and was traumatized by the...lack of points). oh. plus, we were informed that section grades would be normalized whew.

...i also had a really weird dream in which i WAS modern art...like i was blobs of paint being dripped onto the canvas. lemme tell you, it was a really weird sensation.

without all the pent up stress and stuff to worry about, my body realized how little it'd physically done in the past ohhhh MONTH. also being recently itchy at the thought of biking and snowboarding....well..basically...

i actually pulled out my snowboarding pants, slipped them on, and spent the rest of my afternoon/evening walking around the house in them.

my mom thought i was crazy in the head. my sis knew better and barely noticed this as unusual behavior. ohman. my snowboarding pants are so awesome (and huge). awman. i think ima bust them out again right now.

urgh. all i do now is watch snowboarding clips, read about how to do snowboarding tricks, and rehearse them in my head. theoretically, i should be able to breeze rails and half pipes now (not). whatever. maybe pumping myself up will give me courage to try bigger jumps and obstacles this year. that. would be so cool. so excited.


saturday, went to the eye place about the contacts i should've received like 2 weeks ago. apparently some more screw ups happened and i still didn't get them. was kinda pissed with them since i've been there 2843 times already for these stupid contacts and for some reason, we have to drive all the way to monterey park for tiny pieces of shaped plastic that i could just get at like. costco.

then i felt bad cause one of the eye doctors there found out about lion dance, got all excited, and was all like that's great! because i'm getting married and my fiance and i were looking into finding a lion dance group! and asked me if we could perform for them in december. was a bit flattered and excited that a person asked for a performance to my face (actually, it's surprising how many people want performances. i've just never been asked alone before. always more flattering when it's directed at you, yaknow?). i won't lie, pocketing the business card with her email address scrawled on it made me feel legit.

so the doctor's name is dr. louie. but she looks asian. she's also pretty looking and speaks perfect english unlike most of the azns who live in monterey park. my family has concluded she is halfazn. also...none of us have ever heard of the last name louie before. it reminds me of louie louie. yes, the song. o_o

anyways, speaking of LD, we had a very engaging debate on male and female center of gravity (females are at the hips and males are at their chest/torsos) last practice while trying to figure out why guys and girls seemed to move their bodies differently when doing the dips on the sawhorses (basically, with one leg supporting you, you swing your other leg down as far as you can off one of the sawhorses, back up again, jump up off the same supporting leg, and land on the other sawhorse with the leg that just did the swinging and repeat while alternating legs. k, not important). we ended up discussing anatomy and doing dumb things to see what our bodies could or could not do. it was funny.


finally got my mountain/campus bike. yes, i'm bringing it to school. went to westlake cyclery which was a pretty big store. ended up getting an entry-level mountain/recreational bike specialized for women (though the guy did say due to my stature [and weight prolly] i could've gotten a normal bike). this new bike is amazing compared to my old one. it's reallyreally tall (or i think so. the guy said that's what i'm supposed to be riding), the brakes are sooper responsive, and my rides feel sooper smooooooth now. okay. the bike probably isn't that great. i'm just used to undersized toys r us kids bikes with brakes that don't work properly. whatevs. i'm excited for busting my ass up the hills at school (just watch me fail and never bike on campus again).


got my golden guitar hero fingers and interest in the game back probably thanks to jackie and later elmer/gabe's unannounced invasion of my house. i've progressed to being a pretty stable "expert" level player. now the only problem is that i'm going to get bored of the game soon once i finish all the songs and there's nothing left to sightread (if you can call it that). it's always more fun on your first runs for some reason.

oh. and apparently my carpet is "too squishy" for good handstand action. woe.