but they've got planes and trains and cars

aight it's been a busy week. and stuff is still continuously comin' at my face. it's amazing.

being in a real hall this time is amazing. was a bit nervous that my high expectations and intense anticipation would let me down in the end. but man, i think when i said i really wanted to live in a hall, i wasn't kidding myself. hopefully, this won't kill my gpa anymore than i already am :/

moved in last...tues? night early to be a move-in assistant (MIA). it was fun and cool to meet new people before it got busy. i think it made the transition easier. our floor turned out to have the most MIAs prolly cause we're just awesome (no actually, quite a few of them all lived on the 2nd floor last year and just transitioned up to the 6th this year). and helping peeps along the way was fun and felt good. we all actually got bored when traffic was slow (usually in the mornings).

we also helped out the RAs with their floor decorations. since 6north had so many MIAs, they had to split us onto different floors. ended up working on the floor right below mine and found out that one of the RAs was from agoura high and that max hirsch was moving into that floor. he better appreciate my effing yellow brick road (guess what the theme was :P). oh. and his mom is really really nice, him not so much. loser.

anyways, like i was saying before. halls are awesome. my door actually stays open. and when i open it, people actually come in and hang out. when it's closed...people still knock just to say hello. when you're bored you can walk down the hall and into other open doors to hang out. there's a ton more social events/stuff to do and people actually do them instead of locking themselves in their room or leaving to hang with old third year friends (or something). plus there're more people in the first place.

bathrooms aren't too bad. never had a problem with sharing but i guess i'm not the more hygienic person in the world. :/ room space is also smaller and older but hey. still managed to get a double so i'm happy. guess you get used to the squeeze here. we can just call it "cozy."


so the night before everyone started moving in, since someone had a car here, we all packed in and went to k-town for the most amazing korean bbq i've ever tasted. it was also buffet so it was death basically. a very delicious death. afterwards we got onto the wrong freeway back and ended up taking a detour to sawtelle to get some volcano boba. was tempted to get some but decided against it since lion dance already goes there way too much o_o


then stuff happened, people moved in, we had our 6 hours a day of shifts, had random night sessions of taboo and cards and plain hanging out....and then sunday night was the beginning of this year's bruin bash.

T.I. was our guest for the big concert this year as the general theme was hip-hop/rap. concert wasn't as long as last year's prolly because there was one less artist this year and....rap music is probably generally shorter than rock music. it was okay since i wasn't like 3 feet from the stage this time but i didn't really care. the huge dance party was held afterwards and the turnout was better than last year prolly cause people were better notified this year.


then more stuff happened, i don't remember cause too much was going on all at the same time...

then today...marissa and i, along with the help of tiff, embarked on an epic journey this morning to...take cool pictures of us jumping in the air. as a part of our room project, we've planned to rasterize photos of us and paste them in our room. we decided last night it would be cool to have us jumping in the pic.

it all went down pretty smoothly actually and was a ton of fun. it's amazingly easy to catch someone suspended in the air after some experimentation with the camera and angle (nm, tiff was actually a natural at this. i suck at taking pics). it also helps if the person jumps higher.

in the afternoon, our floor played a game of ultimate frisbee. a personal first time, it was 2 hours of awesomeness. wish we could've played a second game though. then we headed back, showered and relaxed and had dinner as usual.

ice cream party yet to come followed by MIDNIGHT CAPTURE THE FLAG OMG. been waiting for this moment for a whole year (didn't do this last year which made me sad >:o). it'll be north side (of the floor) vs. south side. and i won't lie, we'll prolly win. mebbe. which reminds me...i gotta find a black shirt soon..


school starts on thursday :( and i got a wonderful 8am chem lab lecture greeting me into the next school year. disgusting. hopefully, i'll be able to handle the load this quarter (all the classes i'm taking are impacted ones too lolz) but i'll have until end of second week to drop...which really doesn't help actually.

lion dance retreat to occur on the weekend of oct 7th? i think. they promise it'll be a real one this time (rather than a sadistic all2daypractice..i hope). excited. they won't tell us where they're taking us. sketchy.


now for the random stuff. it has occurred to me again while i was moving in that it always feels like such a waste to use one whole hanger for girl clothes. they're thin and small and can be folded up into tiny compact squares. but it's probably just me.

been having a ton of dreams lately probably because so much has been going on and i've been really tired every time i go to sleep. had one though where i was rushed to the emergency hospital down into some sketchy basement operating area where in my first operation, someone stuck a couple of huge tubes into my knees and a lot of other ones all over my upper body. the tubes on my knees sucked though cause they kept popping out and all this blood kept gushing everywhere and soaking the sheets and stuff and the doctor kept telling me to hold still. eventually, it was stabilized and the doctor punctured a hole through the crook of my right arm and left arm, another one through my left arm higher up and two through my upper chest kinda like above my heart and stuff. and then came the cool part.

then he stuck a tube like the ones they use for IVs through my right arm, out again, into my left arm, out again, into my chest and somehow pushed it all the way out through my right arm again and pulled so it all just kept running through my entire upper body.

yuh. lemme tell you. it was a REALLY weird feeling.


OOH OKEY WE WATCH HOUSE NOW! YAYZBYE

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HOWSE party was awesome. so many people love that show on my floor this year, it's sweet. midnight capture the flag got competitive and we finally had to stop at 2am cause there was no way any side was going to win. it was fun though and i found out i haven't completely lost all my sprinting abilities. and after reading the last part of this post again, i have no idea why i posted that dream. weirds.

ohwhoa. and i just realized that the time for this post is way off prolly cause i actually meant to write a post in the early afternoon...and procrastinated all the way till like 8pm. i'm good like that :D i don't know why i'm saying this.