I love the sun

I feels like summer and I loveeeeeeeeee it.

Also, goodbye midterms! See you next semester….

Life confuses me. I don’t know what I’m doing this summer. I don’t know what I’m doing after I graduate (but only for a year). I think I have been having too many “I don’t know” moments and it’s throwing me off.

Rawrrrrrrrrrrrrr okay time to beast it out for the rest of the summer.

Ugh I sound delirious. I haven’t slept before 2 all week. SLEEEEEEEEEP.

My lab is always ridiculously cold

And somehow, I never learn my lesson. Must bring sweatshirt next time!

Why do you pee more when it’s cold? Or is it just me?

In the two hours I’ve been here, I’ve already been to the bathroom five times. And I haven’t even been drinking as much water as I usually do! I’m sure there’s some scientific explanation for this…

Also, why is it 86 degrees in Berkeley in October? My body is so confused!

I hate rain.

There better be a shitload of May flowers to make up for all this miserable weather!

On a happier note, I’m going to Sun God after finals!  C. kept asking me to go, and I finally decided that it would be my one chance of fun before hunkering down for a summer full of studying.  Hehe.  I love my friends.

Hmmm what else is new?

I had two concerts this weekend for University Chorus, and we sang Beethoven’s Mass and Porgy and Bess.  I actually had a lot of fun performing, and my roommates came to watch me!  Yay they make me happy.  Every time I hear an orchestra though, I can’t help but feel nostalgic for my CYS days.

Apartment hunting is turning out to be a bitch.  We had the perfect place, and then Everest Properties screwed us over so basically we hate them and have to find a new place to love.  Okay, I guess I was being unrealistic to think that everything would work smoothly and we would get an apartment just like that, but I’m still bitter.  Also, their customer service is shitty, and a guy basically hung up on me yesterday morning.  Way to go.

I think the rain is making my allergies worse.

Awkward turtle

Sometimes I am just so awkward!

Especially when I have to call people I don’t know.

Why why why why why?!

I think I am too self conscious for my own good.  But I’ve been working on that too!  Really, I have.

Here is my very own awkward turtle.  My roommate and I created him on our rocking Friday night.  His name is Patrick.  We love him.  And yes, he does have glasses!  Kudos to K for mailing me a rock painting kit for my birthday.  Teehee!

Isn't he adorable?

On a happier note, it feels like summer and that is enough to make me smile.

Seesaw weeks

Ever since I got back to school after Spring Break, I feel like there have just been so many extreme ups and downs.

Not failing two midterms!  Epic failing one midterm.  Getting rejected for the second time.  Not getting rejected!  Having a visitor!  Screwing up a paper.  It’s all swirling around in my head and I’m slowly processing all the information.

I think I’ve started to just accept things rather than react to them.  There’s no use being sad about something that I can’t change.  But at least I still know how to be happy about things that matter to me.  I guess I have a soul after all.

Anyway, I’m just glad that my brain is getting a slight break until finals, which are coming up way too soon.  Then again, summer is just around the corner!  I love the sun and summer clothes and warm nights and relaxing.  Okay fine, summer session is probably going to kick my ass, but at least I’ll have three day weekends every week.

I think I’ve been doing a better job being happier recently.  Hahah that sounds horrible, like I have to work so hard at it.  But if you know me, you know it’s not easy for me to let things go when they bother me.  I’m getting better at it!

I also love weekends and sleeping in.  I feel so refreshed!

Spring

It’s been sunny and nice the past few days and it is really making me look forward to Spring Break!  Even though I have two midterms and an eight page paper due the week I get back, I’m excited to get to see most of my friends and go home.  Can you believe I haven’t been home in three weeks?  That’s a pretty long time for me.

It’s weird, sometimes I feel like I go home too much, but then isn’t that one of the main reasons I chose Berkeley?  I don’t know.  But not going home for a while makes me look forward to it so much more!  My bed, my bathroom, my washing machine…ohhh the things I miss.  Or maybe it’s just because I’m a widdle freshman and still need some home loving.  Righto.

Speaking of choosing schools, college acceptances are coming out!  Tis the season for both joy and sadness.  I am excited for my 09 friends, but also feel really weird because they’ve always felt like my little siblings to some extent, and now they’re all grown up!  Time really does fly doesn’t it?

Anyway, I am doing my best to avoid outlining my paper (how am I going to write eight pages arguing something about Greek myth?!) so I’m kind of just rambling on here.

Hm.  You know my life is kind of sad when I get locked out of my room and decide to call my mom while I’m waiting to be let in.  Just kidding, I love my mommy.  She loves my grammar.  Harhar!

Being materialistic is fun

Until you realize how much money you’ve spent!

It’s okay though, I can justify my little shopping spree with the excuse that I won’t be able to go shopping anytime soon.  Haha, some excuse that is.  Whatever, I’m happy with what I bought,  especially my rainboots!  I was kind of sad when it stopped raining last week just when my rainboots came in the mail, but today they had their glorious debut.

Rainy days are just so much more fun when you don’t have to worry about getting your feet wet.

It’s raining, it’s pouring…

The old man is snoring!

Sorry, I just always think of that when it pours like crazy.  Which it currently is.  I don’t think we’ve had a dry day here since Thursday, which slightly depresses me.  I guess yesterday was a slight improvement because it only started raining after 4.  Oh, Berkeley, I like you more when it’s sunny.

I am very excited because I finally ordered my rainboots online!  I am tired of having soaking wet feet and sitting uncomfortably through ninety minutes of lecture.  I kind of went on an online ordering spree yesterday.  Oops.

I am too cold to work

The next two, maybe three weeks are going to extremely hard because of midterms and presentations, but I am looking forward to them being over because I always feel so much more accomplished after working my ass off.  Anyway, I should probably blog less and study more so I can stress out less.  Mmm yes.

I am jealous of the high schoolers who have this entire week off.  Or maybe not- February break was always kind of mediocre compared to April break.  Whatever, I will get my week in March!  What a compromise.

Okay, back to studying and cheat sheets and models and reading and that pile of work that awaits.

The weather kind of matches my mood for the day.

Adventures in the rain, Friday the 13th

Well, well, well.  It is currently pouring like no other and I am freezing down to my toes.  But not to worry, I have an endless supply of hot chocolate on hand.  Mmmm…

Friday the 13th did not start out well.  I woke up twice last night (at 2:34 and 4:39) because people were screaming in the hallways.  Again.  I had to get up rather early for my first real ochem lab which was rather ehhh.  Then I found out I had a pop lab quiz!  How wonderful.  I also managed to spill something on my hand when dumping it into the waste bucket, so I had to rinse my hand under running water for five minutes.  Stupid acid/base crap.

BUT.  I did fine on my pop quiz.  After lab I had a nice lunch and settled in to watch two hours of tv.  My roommate got back from class and I decided to ditch my next class to go watch “He’s Just Not That Into You” with her.  Amazingly, this is the first time I’ve missed class all semester!  And so began my adventure in the pouring rain.  I guess it was kind of fun being out in the pouring rain, just because I’ve managed to avoid it for so long.  But I really want rain boots now and I hate how indecisive I am about the weirdest things.

One cutesy movie later and an agonizingly cold and wet walk back and I am here in my little dorm room getting ready to be a hermit until tomorrow when it will hopefully not be raining anymore.  Toodles!

I think this is the first chick flick I’ve watched without crying, which pretty much supports my suspicions that I am becoming a bitter old hag.

It’s always sunny in Cupertino

Just kidding, that’s a complete lie.  But it’s sunny right now and I am in love with how bright my room is!  I think my room is the best one in the house.

So yesterday afternoon, my brother drove down to Berkeley on the way to picking my parents up at the San Francisco airport.  We walked around campus and made a stop at Starbucks before going to the airport.  It’s kind of fun to talk to him now because we’re both in college and I feel less like the dorky, crazy little sister.  Oh crap he reads my blog.  Hi Eric!  Anyway, we headed to the airport to pick up my parents and totally surprised them because they didn’t know I was coming.  Hehe we’re so sneaky.  It kind of sucked because they had a shitload of luggage and I had a duffel bag and my hamper.  But hey, one little Camry can fit a lot of stuff!  We made a stop at In-N-Out on the way home and I was a happy camper.  And a fatty, but whatever.

I’m glad to be home for a weekend even though I’m basically just doing laundry, eating, and reading.  When I’m home I can always count on a few things: food, free laundry, clean bathrooms, and relative peace and quiet.  No crappy cafeteria food, no paying for laundry, no public bathrooms, no crazy people at 3AM.

See, it’s the little comforts I miss.