Sleep Schedule

Sat-Sun: No sleep (read for IHUM, form thesis + outline)
Sun-Mon: Sleep (in anticipation for no sleep the next night)
Mon-Tue: No sleep (write IHUM paper, due Tue)
Tue-Wed: Sleep (in anticipation for chem midterm, Wed)
Wed-Thu: No sleep (write chem lab report and prelab)
Thu-Fri: Sleep (preferably for 12+ hours)

Look, it worked out perfectly! Woooo...

BTW, "no sleep" means "little sleep." I'm not that hardcore yet.

Emo Week

Or maybe it'll be longer than a week. Who knows.

I'm pretty sure it started last Wednesday, when we learned minor scales in music class. I remember thinking it was just too ironic, and it didn't bode well for my midterm that night (which actually went OK, but not great). And after that, it was just a week of bad grades in homework, essays, and midterms, and messed up labs, drama over next year's housing, and general emo-ness. It wasn't even PMS. And then yesterday, after I got my two worst grades ever (relatively for my midterm and literally for my paper), I skipped dinner and went to sleep at 8pm. Yay for thirteen-hour naps!

There were good parts this week, too, I suppose. It's been sunny the whole week. I went running twice, outside. (The second time I almost pulled a muscle, but still.) There were dumplings today at lunch. I got free Jamba Juice yesterday at Frosh Rally (some kind of mango one, it was really good), and I got a letter from S. Plus last Thursday I went to eat at the Creamery with G and W, and although it was $$, it was really good. (oven-fried chicken? mashed potatoes? steamed vegetables? mint-chocolate-chip shake? All signs of general win, in my book.) I also went home last Saturday, so I ate two lunches. I'm noticing this all revolves around food...

Oh, and I hauled twice this week. The first was the annual Zoya Polish Exchange. The deal is that you could send in six or more unwanted polishes from your stash, along with $3.50 per bottle, and you would receive a new bottle of Zoya nail polish for every bottle you send in. I split a package with K, so that we could get over the six-polish minimum. Turns out we both sent in six. At least we saved on shipping, right? I got these:

Blair

Casey

Lael

Posh (why is this the only one with a cap?)

Richelle

Roxy

K got these six:
Akyra

Charla

Kotori

Mieko

Rea

Suvi

I wish they'd let us exchange for their polish remover, because I desperately want to try it. Plus I'm out of acetone remover.

My second haul is with the Old Navy 30% off sale. I got a black string bikini bottom, because my current swimsuit bottom is kind of huge, even though I can tie the sides. My new one looks exactly like the old one, except hopefully it fits better. Here's a picture:

I suppose it doesn't count as a good thing this week, because I haven't gotten them yet. I just paid for them.

I also watched this week's Glee episode, Bad Reputation. I really liked it for some reason. I don't know if it was the harem pants in Can't Touch This (Brittany in red Hammer pants? hilarz.) or Mr. Schuester's interrogation scene (esp. Kurt and Brittany) or Rachel's Run Joey Run music video, or the last Total Eclipse of the Heart. That last song is my current favorite Glee song, along with Like a Prayer from the Madonna episode, and Gives You Hell (whose clip I found on iTunes for free!) and Hello Goodbye, and possibly Run Joey Run. Can't Touch This is also good, but only with the video. I watched the music videos for Glee songs so many times (esp. Total Eclipse and Like a Prayer). Mum would say that watching too much TV is why my life is deteriorating. She's probably right.

I think this should be the end of this Emo Week, because I have a break in midterm season until next Friday. Plus I got all my bad grades back. No~~just remembered my psych project is coming back soon. Won't be pretty. And my music midterm is coming back next week too. I don't know if I should be worried about it. I finished in the first half hour and I was the first one done. I thought it was easy...

Looking back on this list, I'm not sure why I was so emo this week. I did forget/de-emphasize a lot of the more depressing parts here though. The housing drama and the bad grades were pretty aggravating. Also, I'm not in as emo of a mood now (knock on wood), so I'm remembering the happier parts. You know those questions on psych surveys where they ask, "Do you think you can change your emotions?" I'm pretty sure the answer is no. To some extent, mood isn't even based on what events happen in your life. If you're sad, you think about events differently than if you're happy. Stuff that might not be a big deal when I'm happy may seem extremely annoying or depressing when I'm sad. Even if something happy happens, I would just focus on the bad parts of it (because I can always improve, no matter what the situation is).

Here Comes the Sun

Here comes the sun, here comes the sun,
and I say it's all right

Little darling, it's been a long cold lonely winter
Little darling, it feels like years since it's been here
Here comes the sun, here comes the sun
and I say it's all right

Little darling, the smiles returning to the faces
Little darling, it seems like years since it's been here
Here comes the sun, here comes the sun
and I say it's all right

Sun, sun, sun, here it comes...
Sun, sun, sun, here it comes...
Sun, sun, sun, here it comes...
Sun, sun, sun, here it comes...
Sun, sun, sun, here it comes...

Little darling, I feel that ice is slowly melting
Little darling, it seems like years since it's been clear
Here comes the sun, here comes the sun,
and I say it's all right
It's all right

I don't know whether I'm looking forward to this quarter. I'm taking the maximum number of units allowed, but they're all fun classes - to me, anyways. Intro to Psych (my first psych class! so excited. I hope it doesn't deter me from the field), o-chem (they say this course is easier and more interesting than last quarter, which was already pretty interesting to me), chem lab (my first chem lab! my first lab in general, actually!), music theory (super easy now but should get a lot more interesting later on, according to the syllabus), and Chinese medicine (just because it sounds cool). I also have IHUM, but, you know, I can't help that. At least mine's more interesting than the other IHUMs. At least in the beginning. It's an archaeology IHUM, and we talk about local history - my favorite kind of history, which is my favorite area of the humanities.

This blog post has wayyy too much cheery in it. To balance it out, it was raining today and I was wearing my Target Frye knockoffs to walk to classes, from classes, to the bookstore, back to my dorm, and to the post office and back. (My wayfarers were just delivered this afternoon but I can't get them yet...grrr.) Anyways, I love my Target boots but they're slightly too big and my foot slips around in them. All that walking rubbed a blister in each of my pinky toes :( I'm going to get insoles tomorrow; hopefully that will help. Plus I wore my hair in a ponytail today and when I tilt my head forward to write or read or whatever, my bangs fall forward into my eyes. As a result, a horizontal strip of scalp appears between my bangs and the rest of my pulled-back hair. I don't know how to get rid of that effect :( Plus I haven't been exercising at all since I got back from LA. I really want to work on my abs region but I'm not sure how.

Finishing this essay is like...creating cycloheptane.

It feels like this long linear organic molecule (read: essay) is too unwieldy for me to bring the two ends full circle into a completed cyclic molecule. It's flopping all over the place (still linear and cohesive, just floppy), and I fear that the entropic penalty associated with bringing the two ends together may be too high.

STATS 60

So today I was sitting in stats class when it struck me. I'M TAKING A FRICKIN STATS CLASS. It's supposedly for my psych major, or premed if I decide to do premed. But, Physics 41 is vastly more palatable and also required for med school and my chem major. However, I can use my AP credit to get out of physics for chem, but I can't use AP credit to get out of stats (or general psych for that matter).

ERG STATS. Not only is it mathematically easy, it's a huuuge class AND it's at 9 am every day. The only good part is that the professor is interesting and we don't have homework or midterms or a final, we just have weekly quizzes.