Filed under: Home | Tags: berkeley, break, cold, crème brûlée, forgetfulness, game, hair, Lent, McCormick & Schmick's, procrastinate, reading, work
I’ve been waiting for this week since President’s Day. I always dread the last few days before school breaks. Last week turned really ugly with two papers, a midterm, and an in-class essay, not to mention mandatory readings. And I didn’t even procrastinate! I would have already completed at least half of the assignment the night before. The quantity of unfinished work probably made me panic, so I started skipping stuff to study. But it’s all over now and that’s all that matters.
I really needed this break. Getting sick of Cal. Literally. I caught a terrible cold a couple of weeks ago and could barely talk in the morning. I hate it when that happens.
I messed up twice already with my no-desserts campaign, thanks to forgetfulness. I swear, I have a very good memory! Don’t try anything stupid with me. Anyway, I ate a Starburst, and a few days later, a crème brûlée. I guess that’s +2 from Easter. By the way, if you live in/near San Jose and haven’t been to McCormick & Schmick’s, you have to go! That’s where I ate the custard. It’s pricey, but the food is bomb.
Mmm. You know you want it.
Recently, I’ve been seeing a lot of short hair. I thought it was about time to pay the stylist a visit. So now, a chunk of my hair is gone. No more dead hair cells! But bangs can get really irritating at times.
A little bird told me that the UC waiting game is over. Seniors: Congratulations!
And now back to reading.
Where you start is not as important as where you finish. -Zig Ziglar
Filed under: Home | Tags: Bancroft, break, bus, bus stop, College, cop, Durant, Easter, forgetfulness, keyboard, laptop, lecture, Lent, Mardi Gras, meat, memory, Piedmont, police, schedule, sleep, TeleBEARS, traffic
You’d think that there couldn’t be anything worse to a bus stop other than the occasional rapid halt causing passenger inertia.
I was on Piedmont and College, heading home. It was only a bus stop away, but I decided to hop on the 52L cause the construction going on at Boalt is kind of icky. I was about to get off on Bancroft and College when this police motorcycle rolls up out of nowhere. He blocks the entry so passengers can’t come in/out and tells the driver that “there is someone on the bus that [he] has to speak to”. There are five people on the bus, including me. I don’t know what the other four could have possibly done to warrant an intervention by the authorities, and I was pretty sure I didn’t do anything.
It didn’t occur to me for the longest time that this was my stop. So one polite inquiry, and I’m off. The weird part was when my mind sort of “panicked” while I was walking home. I mean, what if the guy they’re looking for suddenly shoots up the bus or takes a hostage? Sometimes, when a million thoughts are running through my mind, I lose track of what I should be doing, like paying attention to traffic. I didn’t bother to observe the pedestrian signals and was starting to cross Durant when I saw a dozen oncoming vehicles at full speed. And the closest one just had to be a cop car. It was too obvious. Good thing she only shook her head at me cause she had to deal with the bus issue. I swear, it’s the lack of sleep. I’ve been sleeping around 1 these past couple of days.
I have a portable keyboard I use occasionally since my laptop is small. Last week, I decided to type up essay quotes on the bed (comfort is important!) and left my laptop on the desk. I was about 30 minutes into my essay when I got up to check the laptop screen. Complete rubbish! All nine lines had some variation of “sdflk,gfgkcv…..mcv dfjgdfncvjdfgiodf ;…lkhjdfl sudxkdjfhaesi”. So much for being portable.
I didn’t even realize that today was Mardi Gras. Or the night that Obama gave his speech to the State of the Union. Or that Lent is tomorrow. I wanted to give up meat for Lent, but I don’t think that’s going to work very well. I tried to give up meat this year with my No Meat Mondays project, but it isn’t really working. More like I keep forgetting. It is a bit odd for someone to have a pretty good long term memory and forget so much. I guess possibilities work in many different ways. (:
I think I’ll stick to no sweets/desserts 24/7 and no meat on Fridays until Easter. I did that last year and failed 4-5 times (due to forgetfulness, surprise surprise), so it won’t be that difficult for me.
In other good news, I saw the tentative Fall 2009 schedule of classes! Only LS lectures though. I have half of my schedule planned out already and TeleBEARS isn’t until the middle of April. (:
Back to midterm review. I honestly cannot wait until Spring Break is here. One more month!
“Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.” -Judy Garland
