black friday

Man!!! I had a good-ish day today, but I'm kind of irritated now.

So I got off work at midnight. I was sitting by the bus station, waiting for my ride, when this girl about 17-19 years old comes up to me and asks me: "Could I please have $5 or $6 for the bus? My sisters and I really need to get home."

Okay, I do have about $30 in my wallet, and I can afford to give them the $$ - after all, I wouldn't want to be stranded at the bus stop; it's happened to me too. Just to make sure, I ask them what bus line they're taking, and she quickly responds, "The 77." I decide to give her the money and watch her and her sisters walk away from the bus station. After about ten minutes, I turn to look at the bus station... and I suddenly remember that no buses run after 11pm. AND... the bus stop closest to me displayed, in large numbers, 77.

Ugh. I hate being conned out of my money, even though it's only $5.

SO STUPID!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Why do people have to be so dishonest and play on the pity of complete strangers?! People like them are why people nowadays are so cynical and unwilling to help others; because it might be a con. Despicable. If they really needed $$ that badly, they should have at least told me the truth. Truly despicable.

I think I would still be willing to give $$ to strangers who are in desperate/tough situations, even after this incident. I mean, you never know; you could truly become one of them, and no one would help you because they're so cynical and want to hang onto every drop of their money. Karma. But what if someone is simply trying to con you out of your money? I guess that's a tough judgment everyone has to make when faced with this situation. I should have judged the situation better. I mean, it's only $5, but who wants to be conned out of even a dollar? The person could be a drug addict, for all anyone knows. How could you make the judgment wisely? You wouldn't want to be on the streets, with young mouths to feed, begging for money, yet strangers with spare dollars are unwilling to give up even one.

Anyway, enough about that.

Today, work was a little less tiring than yesterday. I worked 4pm-12am, and it honestly wasn't that bad. The management got us hecka junk food, i.e. pizzas, buffalo wings, chips, chocolate-chip cookies, oreos, 500-calorie muffins, sodas, and A HUGE TIN OF CHOCOLATE!! I pigged out during my break and lunch.

Today I worked the register about 98% of the time. It was kind of fun. I rang up this lady who bought 50 items!! Yes 50!!!! Well, technically 48, but still. I stuffed her items into 5 huuuge and bulging bags. Her transaction came out to a little over $400, because she used a 20%-off coupon. Geeeez. Luckily she didn't beep when she went out the doors!! I was so proud and Luke congratulated me. lol. But then... he noticed a bag sitting on the ground and I freaked out, thinking that it was hers. He tried to run after her, but he couldn't find her. So sad... I stapled her receipt-copy to her bag for her if she came back, but she didn't. In retrospect, I think maybe that wasn't her bag--I had stuffed her bags, and the bag was only half-full.

But seriously, people crazily shopped this weekend. Yesterday on Black Friday I worked from 7:30am-4:30pm, and I worked the registers for about 95% of the time. I had this guy who bought $600 worth of stuff (with a 20% -off coupon) because he would dump clothes onto my counter, then run around the store for more. Repeat, repeat, repeat, and repeat. Geez. And then he beeped when he went through the doors. lol. I made Edison go through the bags, looking for the unsensored item :D

Then on Friday, after I got off work, Thannie and I met up! We shopped a little, and then went to Outback to have a crazy pig-out fest.

CHEESE FRIES. Look at that grease. Mmmmm.
And that's just the appetizer...lol

Then after killing our diets completely, we went to watch Twilight! We were the first ones in the theater; we came in at 7:30, half an hour before the show was supposed to start, and the cleanup people told us to come back in ten minutes. lol.

The movie was pretty good, but these teenage fangirls behind us kept shrieking and laughing and commenting on how ugly each character looked. "EW!!!" loudly commented one of them as Jacob made his initial appearance. God. So annoying. Edward was being all sweet onscreen, but the girls' laughter made his actions seem ridiculous. Thanh said she wanted to tell them to shut up. grr. -__-

I wanted to get this jacket that I'd tried on earlier in the week, but I was too late; shopping at 5pm on Black Friday is not a good idea. :(

Anyway, I have a lot more to blog about, but I'll save it for tomorrow; I'm dead tired. lol. goodnight.

Bwahaha this is so sad and mean. Found this somewhere.


anyway.

I had packed my bags beautifully last night, but I got to the locker room 5 mins before badminton and i'd forgotten to bring along my P.E. shorts!! ahh! Sucks. I had my badmin shoes, my laundered socks, my t-shirt, my new grip, racket, water, everything... but no shorts. And of course I can't play in my skirt. So I decided to skive off badminton and do homework in the library :( :( So bad. Oh well. A trip to Smash City will make up for 2 tardies/absences! The thing is, I think I need to make up like 4, because I keep running late for badminton. heheheh. I need to hit up Smash City.

At 12:30, I headed to English and we listened to some presentations. I got my in-class essay back...

WOOTWOOT!

So messy and nasty looking, but I still scraped a 92. :) :) :) :) I thought I'd gotten a B, or a C.

Then Spanish at 2:15. As usual, it was a long 3.5 hours... but we got our tests back. Luckily I'd managed to get 87/90 because I forgot some stupid accent marks.

I guess I need to focus on Stats a little bit--I mean, I got 45/53. ARGH. And I missed the supereasy problems, like accidentally computing combinations when I'm supposed to do permutations. That's 8th grade math!! ARGH!!! Luckily we have another test coming up, for which I must study.

Badminton is iffy - I'm going to have a B or a C if I don't get over to Smash City twice. LOL. Sad, huh? Karate -- I just need to memorize the seisan, but I suck at it. Microsoft Word - well, I'm on Chapter 2 and I have three more weeks to finish the book. I'll just have to do a chapter a day or something. Microsoft Excel - I just need to take the unit test. Then I can get my expert's qualification! :D

Tutoring was ok today. Lindsay felt so overwhelmed :( I guess I was going too fast. We just did review today, and I tried to go really slowly. Argh. Must keep myself in check next week.

Anyway, I was reading the SJCC newspaper today and here's what I saw:

LMAO that is SO sad. I would be so upset/embarrassed if I were on the SJCC football team.

"Agony is Finally Over; Jags football team ends its painful 3-7 season."

dude man, that's not exactly painful... painful is 0-10. I don't know why the journalism staff decided to write that; that's so mean! The newspaper has a lot of typos, too. They need Mr. Crowther as an adviser!

Off to do hw.

Come play badminton with me! I'll be free this Sunday :) anyone?

one-liners

1. I'm glad that right now, you're enjoying the life which, four years ago, you confessed to me that you always wanted.

2. Volunteering, working, running, socializing, all while studying super hard for grad school - nice, keep it up!

3. Can't wait for you to come back - it's not the same without you!

4. This won't last if we have zero to bare-minimum communication and contact.

5. What kind of friend are you if you keep being cheap/defensive/untrustworthy and spouting lies/excuses?

6. In the past, our friendship was never stable, but now it's looking up; I'm looking forward to it.

7. You're enjoying your life right now, but I'm worried about you--please don't be so reckless or you will really regret it in the future.

this week has been super super so far. a great week. school is funnish; i feel like i actually want to study and study and study. the people in my classes are cool. i have two people to tutor now, perhaps a third one. work is exhausting but the people are great and friendly. i got a customer compliment today :) the customer was standing in line for a super long time and watching me while i was busy with these two fussy people who bought lots of things. i was unusually bubbly at work. it just seemed so fun to be at work. geez, i feel weird. but its' cool being able to comprehend how to use the register. and things like that.

today i had work from 6-11pm. my feet hurt. ah, so tiring; i had to tutor at 9am, at this cozy little bakery/cafe called "le boulanger" in willow glen. my pupil was really bright, so it went by quickly. at the end, we were packing up, and this lady sitting near us asked for my contact info because she wanted a tutor too. lol. wow, i hope i don't get overwhelmed. tommy hilfiger is going to have a lot of hours now that the holiday season is here.

i am working 7:30am - 4pm on black friday and 4pm-10:30pm the saturday afterward. joy...not. lol. i'm looking forward to seeing how crazy it'll get. i looked at the projected sales for black friday and it's $97,204.00. crazy huh? a typical day, projected sales are like $2,000 (?) - $4,000.

i have a small hill of hw to complete and a lot to study. mm...i'm tired. but it's only like 12:30am.

OH YEAH, i forgot! :D :D :D my mom said that if i went to sleep before midnight every night for a certain allotted period of time, she would let me drive the car and GET INSURANCE. wootwootowootwooot. well, she made her decision because i suddenly started to get all these jobs and i was taking the bus to all of them. well, it'll suck sleeping before midnight.

awesome.

oh yeah, old pics, from a nice peaceful afternoon with curtis.

the worst thing about this week is that we haven't talked very much. like, one phone call and a few texts? and no IM's. so upset. such a change. marrs what would have been a near-perfect week. this week feels lonelier, i must admit.

okay okay, really tired now. lol. sleep.

A great day!

Can this day get any better???

I woke up at 8, rushed, and got to the bus stop at 8:35 while the bus idled there at the stop. I ran onto the bus and the familiar bus driver was like "Don't worry, you still have some time" with a nice grin. Cool. So I sat down and watched movies/mv's on my ipod the whole trip, which was surprisingly fast. I looked up and the bus was already like 5 minutes away.

Badminton was awesooome. I got there right on time and with some time to spare. Unfortunately I had just missed witnessing Trevor trip over his own feet as he did footwork. sucks. Oh well. Then we played for like practically the whole time, and won all our games :) I had no idea why I couldn't smash at all. Like, I would smash, and Carl + his partner would drive my smash back at us. Ugh. And then after our games, Trevor and I "practiced" smashing... or rather he goaded me so I could work up some anger into a nice smash that would actually get past him. He kept returning my smashes with his racket between his legs. However, with one minute left of class, I got really frustrated, screamed, and smashed with everything I had. He couldn't return it :D bwahahaha.

And then after badmin, I went to the library to meet up with my group members for the English presentation. We got a key for a study room, and went up to the third floor. We discussed coordinating the presentation until 12:30, when we went to English. The first group that presented gave us candy for answering the questions :D My chocolate fix right there. Then we went up. It was kind of daunting because the first group that had went was pretty good, so we were all a little nervous. I presented my fallacy first, then Jenny, then Tipi. I guess our presentation was good; people actually answered our questions and laughed at our Youtube clips. Cool.

But the best part! We got back our take-home essays for A Separate Peace, and I actually got....














an A!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!








an A!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!





YEAH!!!!! So cool. Pathetic really, I haven't gotten an A on an real English essay/paper ever since junior year. My professor asked me if she could make copies of my essay to show the class an example (with my name blacked out, of course). That made me pretty happy. I haven't felt smart since 8th grade. So sad, I know. At last, a decent essay!




Compare. Ugh, horrible.

At 4, I went running around the track and up/down the bleachers. Hace frio, but it was alright.


It was pretty sad; I died on the first lap. I stood there dying by the fence until I got mad at myself and ran around and around and around and up/down the bleachers. Total track time: less than 45 mins. I'm sadly out of shape.


All nasty and sweaty:


The prettiest time of the day.


Geezus. In my experience, college guys are so much more forward with girls than high-school guys. Seriously. In high school, I found that most guys are really subtle and won't tell girls straight-out that they like them, unless pressured by friends or after a period of time. In college, most guys flirt easily and obviously--sometimes as soon as a girl walks past them. It's kind of funny/annoying because it's so completely shallow. I mean, it's so hard to find out if someone you meet genuinely wants to be your friend, if they are obviously flirting. I guess that's why I support the idea that a good relationship begins with a good strong base of friendship. Relationships that start right off the bat --like within a week/month of meeting the person-- generally don't make it very far.

I wish this great day would never end. Alas, it seems to be coming to a close; i've got a ton of math hw to do!!





ETA: My mom went to Costco and bought SO many goodies! Two huge boxes of Cup Noodles, a huge box of fruit snacks, and cereal! yumyumyum

c'est difficile.

J'ai pense que tu ne le veux pas, mais naturellement je n'ai pas voulu croire que c'est vraiment la verite. Quand tu le me dis, finalement j'ai du admettre a moi. Oui, c'est la verite... est elle n'est pas jolie. Comment est-ce que tu peux dire que tu m'aime, quand nous ne pouvons pas parler ensemble? Cette semaine, j'ai voulu beaucoup parler a toi. Je t'ai dit que je suis tres triste quand tu n'ai pas me telephone pour deux jours, parce que normalement nous parlons toujours en telephone. Un jour apres, tu n'as pas telephone. Pourquoi?

Oui, je suis ... heureuse que tu me la dit. C'est la verite, n'est-ce pas? Alors, qu'est-ce que tu veux que je fais? Qu'est-ce que tu faisait? C'est normalement... nous n'avons pas la meme ecole. Mais j'ai espere que tu veux me parler toujours, parce que nous ne pouvons pas nous voir comme la derniere annee. Alors, tu ne pense pas que c'est triste que tu n'aime pas parler avec moi en la portable?

Tu m'as dit que tu veux me voir et sortir ensemble....mais comment est-ce que nous pouvons continuer si nous n'avons pas de communication reguliere?

"...with lid"

just...why??????????

(that file has been reused many, many times in my textbook)

choices

I had an amusante jour avec Curtis today. no details :P No pics either, I didn't have my camera. :(

Anyway, on the way back from SC, I was thinking about what I should major/minor in! I mean, of course I'm going to major in graphic design, but then what about double majoring? Or double minoring? I'd love to work for a magazine!! Either writing or designing is fine. But then I'd also love to do work for a design firm. Or work in the sociology field. Or as a teacher. SO MANY OPTIONS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Majors/minors I'm considering:

1. Graphic Design, BA or BFA
2. Mass Communications/Journalism
3. Sociology
4. Psychology
5. And teacher's credentials...dunno what specifications

SO MANY CHOICES!!!!! Sucks!!!! Maybe I can be a super-super-super senior. I don't mind not graduating with my class. Well, I don't mind now; I might mind later. lol.

Anyway, PEOPLE (COUGH) have been pressuring me to get a new racket, like the armortec or the whatever new one is called. Arcsaber? Sounds very.... uh... Inuyasha. Supposedly my old racket doesn't let me smash hard enough.

I don't know. I mean, of course I want to do better in badminton.. and smash harder! No one wants to play lower than their potential. But I've had my current silver racket for so long. It's been with me through the tough times: league finals, ccs, three years of varsity :( I even kiss it!!!! And paint it with nail polish after it's been painfully chipped. How can I give it up for a newer, shinier, more famous, worshipped, powerful, cliched-name racket?

This reminds me of Harry Potter! He was entitled to the most powerful and sought-after wand, but he chose his trusty and faithful old wand over that one.

But then again, change is good, right?

I don't know!!!

schedule

My Spring 2009 SJSU schedule.... click for enlargement

SJSU Transfer Information Program/Orientation

Sunday, November 9, 2008
1:33 AM

I signed up for the mandatory SJSU TIP, which is basically this program for Spring 2009 entrants for transfer/frosh students. I guess I'd be considered a lower-division transfer student, which is kind of weird. But hey, at least I get to transfer my credits!

Let's see, I can transfer....

1) Psychology 01

2) Elementary Stats

3) Bio 21 (I think?)

4) Critical Thinking (YEAH!!! THANK GOD!)

5) Any of the random credits I have right now...spanish...P.E...?

The orientation was kind of boring. The presentation took place at 9am, and unfortunately I took a seat behind a tall dude.

^ lol... his big head

Then near the end of the presentation an hour later, the speaker told the frosh/lower-division transfer students to go outside w/ a guide, and added that they are the ones with the printed nametags. I however had a handwritten nametag because the people at the registration desk had told me to make one, so I was unsure whether or not to go with them. Then the speaker said, "Everyone with printed nametags, go outside" so I doubtfully decided to stay. The rest of us (I unknowingly was now with the upper-division transfer kids) left to go off on our own to some of the different presentations at different locations, so I decided to take the campus tour. Luckily I did because that's what the frosh/lower-division students did the whole time until I met up with them at 11:30.

^ A new memorial. Pretty, no?


^ Campus

^ Where I met up with my designated group...

Anyway, I met this lost guy, so we decided to walk around and try to look for his group. I found out that he used to play #1-2 guys doubles in badminton for Mt. Pleasant! Cool. And then I saw a guy from my badmin/karate classes in SJCC, which was cool too.

Then at 1:15 my group went to the computer lab, where we looked up our classes and planned our schedules. When we left, we received:

^ I'm not exactly sure why they gave us books.

^ Free stuff!

oh well. I have no idea what I want to do in terms of GE's! Most of the choices look pretty interesting. I want to do Intro to Sociology, but I already filled that GE with my psych class! Darn!! So I decided to go for Child Development, which fulfills another category. Geez, didn't think there'd be so many categories to fulfill.

So far, I decided on my classes, but i still need to enroll in them once the enrollment date comes rolling around. I'm gonna enroll in them ASAP. Competition for classes are gonna be tight, I hear. VERY tight.

I've decided on 1) Intro to Art/Design, 2) Color, 3) 3-D concepts, 4) Art History Renaissance-Modern, 5) Child Development (GE), and 6) Intro to Creative Writing (GE). Yes, I still want to take Creative Writing even though SJCC's sucked like crazy!

My proposed schedule plan

Monday

8:30 - 11:20am

Color

12:00 - 1:15pm

Creative Writing

6:30 - 9:20pm

Intro Study Art/Design

THAT LECTURE IS MANDATORY!!! And the only one available. lol. darn.

Tuesday

8:00 - 10:50am

3-D Concepts

12:00 - 1:15pm

Child Development

Wednesday

8:30 - 11:20am

Color

12:00 - 1:15pm

Creative Writing

Thursday

8:00 - 10:50am

3-D Concepts

12:00 - 1:15pm

Child Development

Friday

9:00 - 11:45am

Art History

Yes yes yes, I know the classes are at crazy 8am about every day! How am I going to do it? :( Oh well, being a morning person is good. Too bad I suck at it (re: high school). Maybe I can force myself into it and go to sleep at midnight-1am like a good girl. lol. yeah right... I left plenty of time in the afternoon so I can study/do homework. I'm really determined to do well. Also, I want to attend PHHS badminton practices and games. LOL!!! I was thinking of being assistant coach, or at the very least actively supporting the team...but I do know studies come first. I'll see what I can do. I want to support the team as much as I can while doing well in my studies.

On another tangent...I was too lazy to bring my big old statistics textbook home. So I just took pics of the chapter pages I had to review. Saved me the shoulder pain from a heavy bookbag.

I love this camera!!

1000 words per pic

Wednesday, November 5, 2008
10:31 PM

I have homework so I'm not even going to write out a full blog. lol. I'll just post up the pics I took over this past week. :D



1) Brand-new, plush, SPARKLING bus seat vs. peed-on, gum-blackened, sagging bus seat

Ah... a sight for sore eyes (and butts) A beautiful new seat, only sat on twice! (estimating...)

And now the sad bus seat:

I almost sat down on this seat. The pee stain is a whole lot more obvious IRL. Probably sat on over 1000 times. Time for a replacement

2) Karate hands

My hand 9 hours after class, during which we practiced punching pads. Broken blood vessels!

Danielle's crazy Halloween nails... that must have taken a LONG time to do o_o

3) Random campus pics

In the library... lol. No one even follows this rule *ahem*


A pleasantly cool and crisp fall day

4) Old messy Spanish cuaderno vs. NEW!! freshly done notes!!!

Before...

After!!

11am. That tired me out -_- two more chapters to rewrite! but it's fun...unusually so...

5) um.... no category?

wow, gas is getting a lot cheaper. That's crazy!!!

9pm. Tired in the morning, tired at night... pathetic. Whatever happened to energized high-school days with 5-6 hours of sleep??? I get 7 now and i'm more tired.

Omg, I get my Word book after only two months of waiting. -_-

looking forward to the weekend :)

Yesterday marks a celebrated day in history! I thought McCain gave a very gracious speech. For a second I wished I had voted for him instead because he was so nice in his speech. LOL. for a second.

dry socks + my first day on the job!

Monday, November 3, 2008
9:19 PM

Halloween was really fun! Better than last year's, heehee. I had stayed home and done homework and passed out candy to (mostly) rude little kids. This year Ricky and I visited UCSC and visited Curtis, Victor, and Jenny. Jenny took the bus home with me and Ricky. While Ricky slept, Jenny and I chatted the ride away. haha. Then trick-or-treating in the rain, sorting the candy, pigging out to scary movies, and everyone falling asleep during the second movie. Love!!!
Not much time for gossip, but there's always next time, right?

School was unusually fun today. In badmin, Trevor was uncharacteristically understanding about my mistakes. lol. Maybe it was the ugly lion he had on his shirt.

EWW!!!! A bright yellow lion with bulging muscles in a tiny wrestling suit...

Ashamed to be seen modeling this shirt

(the coach is in the background)

I spent my hour and a half between badmin and English editing my essay and finishing up my Spanish hw. It cost 30 cents to print out the three pages of my essay, but whatever. I was pretty darn proud of it :) Too bad I couldn't staple it bc the LRC didn't have a stapler, so it looked pretty ugly in the stack of prettily-stapled essays. I hope I get a good grade on it. My last essay grade sucked.

Anyway, we had a timed in-class essay in English. My brain was just mush after staring at my take-home essay, so I basically gave the in-class essay a B-C effort. Sucked. I'm ashamed of it. I hope my prof reads it after she reads a more incompetent one :) hehehehehe. So bad.

Spanish was actually....fun. Time passed by super quickly. I think it was because we were learning verbs and things that I really wanted to learn so I could actually use Spanish in everyday terms, like YO ...eh...nvm. I need to go study it. LOL. anyway, at the end of the class, the prof called everyone outside individually to tell them their grade. I went outside when she called me and I glanced quickly at the grade slip she held in her hand. OMG I thought I saw an F next to my name. I was about to freak out, but then she said that I have an A-. Whew. I thought I had a B because of my first hw packet (yes, I did it but I forgot to correct it and add accents and all that jazz, so I got 75/100. argh). I want at least an A.

Then after Spanish, I walked out and it was raining. I love the rain... when it's pretty, I have my umbrella, and my socks don't get wet. I was wearing my cheapie uncomfortable flats today WHICH I had regretted buying, but now I'm really glad I bought them because they really are waterproof! AND warm. Too bad they're flats, so my socks still get wet... but only from the top :D

When I stepped out, I just had to drop my stuff into the wet puddles and snap a photo.

Left: Learning Resource Center on the 1st floor, and Cesar Chavez library on the 2nd-3rd floors. Off to the right leads to the Student Center and parking lots.

Poor Pikachu was all soaked.

Then my mom insisted on driving me to my first day of tutoring Photoshop at someone's house. She drove me over and sat in the car (:D) while I went inside at 6:45 and came back out at 7:45. It was pretty fun/easy...except for the beginning when I completely forgot how to use an Apple. UGHHHH. I was clicking around trying to remember what to do. How incompetent. Luckily I got the hang of it after five-ten mins....but geez, how embarrassing! I'm being paid to know this. -_- I basically taught her stuff like attaching photos, copy+paste, etc. to e-mails, and cropping + resizing pics in Photoshop. basic stuff. She's eager to learn, so of course I want to teach her the functions of Photoshop. Teaching is fun! I was nervous today but I stuttered a lot, but it's only the first day. yay :D