Simplicity of this page is on purposeYou should be aware that between the summer of 2002 and 2003, I haven't touched this page... (I suck at updates, okay?) Visit my comic strip: CHIBIThings to do this semester list:
The people in your neighborhood(actually I don't read them myself that often ^_^)the PoT-obsessed dorks =PObsessions that are good for you (and me)(under construction) ArchivesThe Quotable Quotesme: you know, you look like a handsome feminine boy from this angle... "Don't trust me with fish" ~me "She's walking around with a wet butt" ~Kitsu "I like evil people" ~MJ "I can no longer tell the difference between guys and girls. It's because of anime and Wellesley" ~Candy "Half the wonderfulness is that they actually are boys, or that you can't tell" ~Ann "and i have nooooooo nooooo idea where i would be. hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm mmmmmmmmmmmmmm" ~MJ "hehehehehehehehehhe muhahahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh hhhh i'm going insane hhhhaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa" ~MJ (again) "So are you calling my grandpappy a liar? Back in West Virginny, thems grounds for stealin' your auntie's recipe for possum pie..... sorry, that's the way I imagine the West Virginians....like the Beverly Hillbillies. I am still disappointed that you don't talk like that." ~Wendy '03 me: shit, i'm screwed. "There are people who lick each others' ears!" ~Izzy "It's not my fault that you can't spell." ~Prof. Andre "A haiku in honor of [MJ] (or why I am not an English
major): "I'm normal, I'm normal, I'm normal, I'm not normal... Ack!" ~MJ
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Saturday, September 20, 2003 11:07 a.m. Why why why do I have to read this book. The type is big and it isn't that taxing, but Moll does nothing in her life except marry, spend money, and have sex with her brother. This is fine for a few pages but - 400 some pages?! C'MON MOLL can't you spicen it up?! Do some new tricks here! And sleeping with your uncle doesn't count! Saturday, September 20, 2003 12:33 a.m. KNN, I really hate the pop-ups on your site! >=O Friday, September 19, 2003 11:20 p.m. A bunch of us convened so we could see pictures from the people who went abroad last year. Joy was there with a *ton* of awesome scrapbooks from Holland where their language is more throaty than Yiddish (I'm not even going to bother trying to pronounce them). Not to mention she also had a ton of nifty Dutch treats!!! I can imagine how happy Mom would be if she knew they had chocolate sprinkles with their bread and butter in Holland... And Aimee, Bena, and Trang had pictures too... which kinda made me, Candy and MJ rather sad that we didn't go anywhere at all last year. SOOOOooo... we're gonna go backpacking, after graduation, the three of us. Or, try to... assuming we poor college students have enough money and Candy has time once she gets accepted into med school (and I say "once" not "if" because trust me Candy you WILL!). And of course the obvious place we want to go is... JAPAN! It would be more advantageous for us to go there anyway, in a way - MJ and I know rudimentary Japanese (oh ye lord, I'm not doing so hot in class, by the way), and Jenn and Aimee can give us good tips on doing Japan the cheap bastard way. (Oh yeah, if we ever get really desparate we can ring up Maeno-sensee, assuming she's in Osaka ^_^) It'll be the revenge of the People who were Left Behind Junior Year =D Now the big question here, is, Can we afford it? I've been trying to pick up extra vid/proj jobs so I can pay off the expenses of drumming lessons (oooh! have to mention that too)... because I don't want my parents having to deal with more of my expenses. BUT I REALLY REALLY REALLY WANNA GO!!! :_: Two of my older sisters went backpacking thru Europe, and all three of them had high school senior trips; I've never had any of that (whine whine whine). So if they can do it they why the hell shouldn't I try! NYAH!~ So, yeah, MJ, find us some good temples in Japan to sleep in =) Yesterday I had my first drumming lesson. SWEET! The instructor really knows his stuff and man he's good too. I don't quite have any coordination, though - he had me trying to do three things with my feet and hands, and I kept getting lost. But fear not!! I'm hoping Kitsu will drive me into Boston tomorrow =D so I can hit the drumming store near Berkeley and buy MY OWN DRUMSTICKS! Sweeeeeeet ^_^ And something my instructor said would happen, is happening, interestingly enough - now when I hear rock music I'm straining to hear what the drumming pattern is. He said that most rock and roll is done in 4/4 time with the 2 and 4 beats stressed, and you know - HE'S RIGHT! Except for the Rolling Stones' "Paint it Black" all the songs I've heard are doing 2-4. Tres cool, huh? You know, though, I'm a very sad Wendy to be in my room on a Friday night. I'm still trying to read Moll Flanders so I can start this paper. You noticed the way I talked earlier bout the trip to Japan and financing it was very mimicking Defoe? (Aaaacha, I hate it when that happens - talking like the books I'm reading!) I guess it really should be back to Moll Flanders... Wednesday, September 17, 2003 11:55 p.m. It's all about Rurouni Kenshin and Full Metal Panic. At least, that's what I'm obsessing over right now. Awwwww yeah. Tuesday, September 16, 2003 07:48 p.m. So sometime yesterday I got infected with the Nachi virus. Ooops. I feel kinda dumb for letting that happen to me because I had taken all the precautions necessary not to get infected, only to wipe my harddrive clean when I replaced my OS and then forgot to reinstall the updated protection. I had been reinstalling so much crap, I forgot about it ^^ and then early yesterday morning I awoke to discover my ethernet drop shut off. D'oh d'oh d'oh, I really do feel like an arse for forgetting - because Candy and Kitsu and everyone in IS was telling everyone to update virus protection etc.! But OK, I'm clean now ^_^ and they gave me back my ethernet - down only for about 28 hours. I'm standing outside a classroom in Pendleton because I'm actually doing a projection job and am bored out of my mind... tried doing my Japanese reading but who knew little Mariko-chan was so pissy annoying (sorry - lots of vocab I have to keep looking up). Uuugh, did not want to do this job. Was looking for this video (a movie called "America" by D.W. Griffiths - hmmmm) since last night and was having a hell of a time locating it. Was the trouble really worth it?? Was seriously considering upping the hours just because it felt like I was looking for it a long time. But I need to remember to not stress out over a lost video, since it's the professor's responsibility to put the videos on reserve (and this video hadn't been put there yet). FEH. I think I'm just slightly tired and cranky now X_x On a positive note, I can start taking drumming lessons this week!! And I don't need to take Music 111 like I thought I had to. I get exempted because I'm a senior ^____^ that makes me happy, I thought it was either lessons with 111 or no lessons at all. So I start on Thursday night - can't wait! This Friday is the deadline for credit-non. Must remember to do that... or else I screw myself over... Sunday, September 14, 2003 11:42 a.m. ALLELUIA! After months and months of having shitty little problems horde my poor KatieScarlett/Rocky, I finished installing XP Professional and ALL the problems DISAPPEARED! My DVD player works! I can access FileMaker! I can tap into Community and 24 Hour Drop! I CAN SHARE FILES! Oh so wonderful so wonderful! The FileMaker access is probably the most important one - because I've felt lately the urge to earn more money instead of being a financial black hole. I can finally monitor the Media Services reqs and claim more jobs from my room, instead of seeing them go to overzealous newbies who claim a dozen jobs before realizing they haven't even received training in that area yet. I was a little bitter last week because, after months of being somewhat sluggish in claiming jobs, I finally started checking the reqs and claiming only to see 4 of the jobs I claimed spirited away by a professor who had already promised those jobs to her own students. And, according to my boss, we're only suppose to take 1 semester-long projection job, and we have to claim all the dates in that job to get it. Hmmm, I didn't know any of that =/ but at least the first rule gives me a better chance at getting more work. Because this one person, V., who must be a newbie, has claimed at least two semester-long jobs and is basically not falling short of being a job-hog. And then she emailed me about getting trained in a Pendleton room, and the first meeting we scheduled - she didn't show up. HARUUUUUMPH! Like I said - could all the newbies PLEASE stop grabbing jobs before they're properly trained?! But yeah, so now that I have FileMaker back I can check the reqs more often... Just what the hell are the people above me doing? I really wish I had a broom or something that I could keep banging against my ceiling in retribution. Or a basketball would work, maybe. Just something to annoy them as much as their noise is annoying me... Granted, a lot of the noise is coming from usual activities like moving a chair, but it's still incredibly loud for one measly piece of light funiture. We saw Once Upon a Time in Mexico last night. Wow was that disappointing. Nowhere nearly as good as Desperado was. And Antonio Banderas didn't look nearly as good as he did in the earlier movie; the only bonus part was Johnny Depp all in black with the shades. Robert Rodriguez, where did you go wrong?? Saturday, September 13, 2003 12:09 a.m. the people above me need to SHUT THE HELL UP Wow, I'm in a cranky mood. I feel like doing nothing but complaining and whining and worrying over stuff that I had forgotten about five hours earlier. Entertainment does that to you I guess - replaces the real shit you have to deal with with somebody else's fake shit. Well, I needed the comic relief at the anime showing tonight ^^ I want to move out of my room. In the rotten mood I'm in now, I want to move out. The people above me - whoever keeps moving her chair around - are pissing me off. The bathroom also gets me annoyed although really, it's such a minute thing it shouldn't, and yet I'm playing the anal neighbor. This room is a lousy one in terms of the sound levels - there's always some stupid noise to have to deal with. But what also disconcerts me, I'm usually not this anal about my living situations - what's wrong with me? Am I making legit complaits, or did I somehow become spoiled and easy to piss off over the sumemr? I'm not a prick, really! I'm also still scared by the senior-year shit. I don't want to leave college. I don't think I'm ready to do that, although I'm sure I'll want to leave eventually. But I wish I could put it off, and not have to worry about being a burden to anyone. I think that's where more of my worries come from now. When I was living at home and my parents would harass me about something, I would be defiant to them and didn't care what they thought. But now I feel I've burdened them with so much crap, especially of what I cost them. Especially my goddamn teeth. If I can't support myself after college, I'm going to feel even worse about it. Everyone else around me is going to be able to handle stuff after graduation and I'm going to be the one person who bums at home. Ugh. This must be the weenie chick mentality overcoming me. Gotta remember. I will not be a weenie chick about this. I will not be a weenie chick. I will NOT be a weenie chick! But I guarantee, I will be finding more things to complain and worry about... very easily... Friday, September 12, 2003 10:23 a.m. I'm one of those people who work in the IS department who kinda slack off in terms of never going to meetings/trainings... Well Kitsu had convinced me to go to last night's because it sounded big and important, so although I was thinking of skipping at first I went... and for some frickin' reason ended up sitting in the front... The head of the Help Desk was about to go into some anecdote - "This poor student doesn't even know I'm about to call her up here" and we don't know what she's talking about yet. And then she calls *my* name - and I'm freaked. OH NO, she knows I didn't go to training last year and is going to make an EXAMPLE outta me!, I thought. I'm in deep shit. It turns out the story was about a spastic professor who had deleted some mail accidentally and - I had forgotten about this - posted on FC and I had replied online how to get the mail back. I didn't realize the Help Desk people had been sweating over this but they were ^^()() so the moral was basically check the CQ conference... but yeah. Talk about the big scare of the night. And everyone staring at me while I'm up there thinking I'm going to lose my job I'm going to lose my job! Imagine if I had decided to ditch that meeting like I originally wanted to. Ho hum, my ass would've been on the line for sure, huh. So the moral (for me) is, Don't ditch IS meetings! Thursday, September 11, 2003 01:11 a.m. Hmm, well, I suppose I could just update... My 2nd oldest sister is moving to Minnesota. She and my third oldest, Amy, will both be at the Mayo Clinic working. Wow, that's kinda cool, but I wonder if the two will be seeing much of each other and sharing apartments. Maybe they won't see each other that much - Mayo is huge, and they're probably busy enough as it is. I'm bummed out that Amy won't be coming home for Christmas. Three weeks a year for vacation, and be assigned to work Christmastime - that's LOUSY! This means that I probably won't see her until May. *whimper* It turns out Reggie (who attends St. George's) is really interested in Wellesley. I'm somewhat scared by the idea that my little cousin is now approaching the college age - I really, really, really do not want to admit I'm getting older. But anyway my Emo called me this week and apparently she and Emoboo and Calvin were all up in Massachusetts with Reggie, and I didn't get to see them! Boo. If Reggie comes out to Boston she might visit me. The idea is exciting, but oh, Wendy, I think I can understand how you must've felt when your sister came to Swellesley... Too bad Paul (my other cousin at St. George's - other side of the family) can't attend Wellesley =D DAMMIT. I swear there was something I really wanted to digress over and I can't remember what. Thursday, September 11, 2003 01:08 a.m. I was going to talk about something deep and intellectual just now but I forgot. Thursday, September 11, 2003 12:33 a.m. Where have I been for the past few days? Well, I've finally got my schedule squared away for this semester; I've never had such a crazy time getting it straight. Dropping classes, trying to get into full classes, changing classes, getting into classes only to drop them... I'm a SENIOR, dammit, senior year isn't suppose to be this stressful! At least, choosing classes isn't! The Center for Work and Service has been hammer our class with all these meetings and workshops about careers, recruiting, internships and fellowships, and they're using scare tactics like saying these meetings are mandatory, etc... and when I mean scare tactics, I mean they're scaring us so we piss ourselves, that's how stressful and despondent these meetings are making us. So, I'm not too keen on this whole "what are you going to do with your life" question. I am probably going to end up one of those people who moves back in with her parents after graduation and sleeps until 3 PM sustaining on Cheez puffs and watching all the cable TV I can get... *sigh* But I absolutely promised that was not going to happen to me after college, that I *AM* going to find something that'll take me away from home. Yes yes. I may not know what the hell I'm doing after school, but I know as hell what I'm *not* doing. I want to get a Mac now, PCs are being such a pain with all the security leaks and viruses going on. Bill Gates really has his hands and money all over this one; practically everyone is at his mercy. And yet, who knows, maybe Apple is introducing these viruses/revealing these security leaks to get the public pissed at Microsoft. Heh, I love conspiracy theoring. Seriously though I do want to switch, but I promised myself I would *not* get rid of my current computer until the warranty ran out, which is about another year and 3 months. Not only that but I've been guilt-tripping over how much money I spend. I've had this problem before, last summer, where I was actually in the red at one point. So I'm bound and determined not to spend so much this year and work even more than usual so I earn a decent amount. I mean, as if several thousand on my teeth wasn't expensive enough already! If I don't start earning my own weight around here I'm going to be racked with guilt for costing the parental units so much for a long time. *sigh*... on a happier note - wait, waddam I saying? A guy just got stabbed on campus!! Just WHAT is going on in the world... *sigh again* I am going to enjoy this senior year whether it kills me or not... Monday, September 1, 2003 12:49 a.m. HOORAY! I've finally got my hands on Yoko Kanno's "The Other Side of Midnight"! Thanks all to Kitsu. Poor girl. We Wendys are cheering you and IS on! Don't let the blasters get you down! I've learned something rather disturbing - Candy and MJ's minds and personalities are getting more and more in sync with each other. Does this mean that, guilty by association, Candy becomes weird? Because MJ seems to be rubbing onto her ^_^ Heh heh, I think I should be given the opportunity to torment them considering they want to kill me. Tomorrow's Labor Day and Tower Court. OH GEEZ. I haven't even been fully initiated into SBOG (Schneider Board of Governors - the student activities board), and yet it seems like so many people want to pass the buck to us. I mean, Tower Court is the largest and most infamous mixer (along with Dyke Ball), and interestingly enough Tower Court (the dorm) is NOT sponsering the mixer. HELLO? TOWER RESIDENTS, WHAT ARE YOU DOING? This is YOUR mixer! And of course no one works Labor Day so they get the free manual labor from us. Typical. And what's really embarassing is of course I haven't been to any major campus parties since Tower Court my first year. Uugh. No wonder Dawn was like, "What the heck are you doing on SBOG?!" I didn't go to Everclear last year, or Shaggy the first year, or Dyke Ball never... Wow. How DID I get onto SBOG? The more I ponder the less sense it makes. The only thing I'm really really looking forward to is the Spring Weekend concert, but if we don't get a good bad/performing act to come here I will be so disillusioned... Wendy, this is *your* fault! Hmm. Maybe we can get Janeane Garofalo to do the comedy act. That would be wicked. Aimee, if you are by chance reading this I hope you've emailed a certain "haabado tomodachi" by now ^_~... Sunday, August 31, 2003 10:17 a.m. Ah, Hugh Jackman, Hugh Jackman... Ahh, I love it when I have a pleasant dream for once and not something that scares the piss out of me. Hugh Jackman was in my dream last night for some reason. He wanted to get the recipe for Susie's Better than Sex Cake from me. But somehow Joy also ended up in my dream - the house she had been nannying in was flooded with... molasses or something? Is my subconscious trying to tell me something about the guppies? Almost everyone has returned to campus, and even though earlier it was nice to have nearly the whole dorm to myself, it was getting to boring, and I've got so much gossip and stuff to dish with my girlfriends =) (hee hee, I'm talking like a teenybop!) Dammit all! I wish *I* could have gone to Scotland or England or Japan too! This is a rather lame entry, but I just woke up. Anyway. Happy 21st Asha! Saturday, August 30, 2003 10:35 a.m. Dell sends me this very nice email asking if my last computer problem had been solved to my satisfaction and if I needed any help with it still, so I reply to them as instructed and say, yes, I could use some help, here's my problem, thank you for your effort... and guess what? It bounces right back to me. And now damn Tower Court... turns out we SBOGgies have to be there to set up at NOON for a party running 9 PM to 1 AM. Which means I'm looking at probably 14 hours of work, at least, because it's labor day and we have to pick up the slack of no workers. Plus, it's in the field house, not Alumnae, so we're talking a huge, huge venue. I went pubbing last night around BU as I promised and I kinda regret volunteering so quickly to do it; BU apparently hasn't started yet so it's very empty, including the student union which was locked at 6:30 PM on a Friday, so I felt like I was massively intruding by putting the posters up. Plus, the slogan was lamely masochistic, although that was more because we couldn't think of a better slogan in time... Uhhhhh. Wendy, Wendy, WHY did you talk me into this... On a happier note, it's cloudy today... Wait, no, that's not happy... At least the upperclasswomen are finally moving in and I'll see more people than just first years. It'll be nice to see everyone back from that year abroad. I mean, my goodness, I only felt ABANDONED last year! (Just kidding.) Oh and in case I forget tomorrow, Happy Birthday Asha! Thursday, August 28, 2003 03:31 p.m. FINALLY! Scheduling plans all worked out. Now if only nothing goes wrong... So, to answer the question that has been persisting me, "what courses are you taking this semester," I've finally figured out the rest of my (sniff) Wellesley career. I'm not thesising. But I *am* going to pick up that Astro minor. (Notice the trend here, English majors doing Astro minors? Supposedly it's because people who take Astro are avoiding a more hideous science or math to fill the requirements. God, we're so shrewd =) So the plan is: fall semester, take ENG 223, 271 (which I'm already registered for), JPN 231 (not officially registered for), ASTR 206 (need to add; and it has a lab), and drop HIST 324. The professor for the history course sent us the syllabus and the first reading assignment, and the course's reading schedule scared the shit outta me. I was originally gonna use that history as my last 300 but I can take care of that with astro. Spring semester: ASTR 301, 203 (no labs!), JPN 232, and that leaves me room for one more class. Of course, if any of the professors (particularly Bauer, since I am going to ask her to be my minor advisor) go on sabbatical, or if any of the courses spring semester end up conflicting, well then I'm screwed. But so far it looks like none of the professors I need will take off, and the worse that could happen with the conflicting schedule in the spring is probably drop Japanese. Oh and I just discovered today that they changed the credit-non deadline. Before it was in the third week of October; now it's the second week of September, not even 2 weeks after classes start. HOW CRAPPY IS THAT. I knew they were discussing moving up the deadline but I didn't think they'd do it THIS SOON. How dare they! How DARE they!! (sigh, Wendy you were right.) Grrr. But the nice thing is, I could credit-non up to 5 courses and graduate with highest honors if I get all A's in the rest of my courses... Yes I feel I'm manipulating the system somehow by calculating and determining how many courses to take credit-non for the mere sake of honors, but I'm feeling pressured. My eldest sister better not harass me about thesising again. I guess I felt pressured to thesis because of her, too, and then I tried to deny she was pressuring me by making up the excuse that I wanted to thesis on my own. Well, I still do want to thesis in a way, but I'm not going to kill myself with that after the summer I've had and the things they still have to do to my teeth... So NYAAAAH to that, sis! Thursday, August 28, 2003 09:59 a.m. Oink oink - I can be so mean sometimes =P Ahhhh, life here at Wellesley is so luxurious... I mean, now that all my Ask-me duties are done, I've really got nothing to do until Tower Court on Monday night. (And I don't even know what we're doing. This doesn't sound good.) The weather is lovely (although it's starting to warm up, and my room is especially warming up nowadays), the dorm is still relatively empty (a whole bathroom to myself, still!), I can eat and sleep for free... nice nice nice. Let's not think of what kind of hell will be breaking out once classes start and I actually need to buy books and figure out my schedule. Heh. Actually, there might be something to do over the weekend. Mops' been whining to me about going to the US Open in NYC; a few weeks ago she had planned on meeting me there and the two of us would go, but then something happened (Dad went on vacation). Mops doesn't want to leave Dad alone in the house during that weekend so she decided against the Open, and now she's whining to me literally about wanting to go. I've started calling her "Whiny Ajuma," "ajuma" meaning elder lady basically. (I also tease her and call her "Dwejee ajuma" - pig lady... I'm not very respectful towards my mother, am I. ::evil snicker::) But if she can convince Dad to drive up then I might go along after all; I don't think Dad is very eager to go watch tennis on his vacation. Ahh, but that would mean I'd have to find transportation to New York, and there's hardly any way to get off campus here in Wellesley! My journey is screwed before I even get off campus. So I have this whole day in front of me, what do I do???? Wednesday, August 27, 2003 09:06 p.m. Dude, they changed it... Finally getting the ball rolling! AAAAANNNNDDDDD... she's back! How depressing is this that it's taken me SO LONG to update this blog? Well I guess I should update about the... SUMMER OF DENTAL HELL! (bum bum buuuummm) hell, I'm too lazy, I've told this story to WAY too many people already... here I'll condense it, you need to know that this all started because i hadn't been to the dentist in 3 years or so (damn Dr. Abou-Rizk), that a gap had developed between my front teeth, that my teeth grinding was making things worse, and that my teeth were reverting to pre-junior-high-braces period: - 7 cavities - braces (AGAIN) - freeze-human skin grafted onto 4 teeth on the left side of my jaw (i haven't been able to chew on this side for the past 5 weeks; one more week to go) - all 4 wisdom teeth pulled - lost weight, reduced eating abilities - surgery to happen in the future (like next summer) sigh. so that's what I did this summer. No working at Knapp, just staying home getting the crap beaten out of my poor teeth and jaws. And although I meant to study Japanese and for the LSAT over the summer, of course I didn't... Actually, I did do *something* productive, I walked and bathed dogs/puppies at the KCHS for a few weeks. I'm gonna see if the ARL of Boston will accept me as a volunteer over the semester. Everyone's coming back from being abroad. Oh crap we're SENIORS now, how the hell did that happen? I'm on campus early to help out as an ask-me (such a worthy worthless job to have), but everyone should have trickled back by Monday at the latest... Please don't ask that "what you're doing after college" question! So far I've seen Kitsu, Izzy (back from Japan since last semester), Candy, Diem, Jakobina, Ashley... Oh I should mention that Joy spent last semester in Amsterdam au-pairing and now she's nannying in NYC. Which means she won't graduate with us as planned. =( At least she got a pet rabbit to replace those guppies I killed/let die ^^() ehh heh heh. There's of course a ton of crap to catch up on like Amy's move to Rochester and the trip to Korea but that'll have to take place later... |