even though i woke up early to do work, i have been doodling around for an hour or so..am feeling a little hungry cos i finisehd all my good cereal and am only left with this gross maple buckwheat cereal (which my apartment said tasted like cardboard) that i refuse to touch and cos i prob ingested 1500 calories last night and so i'm too guilty to eat now...after my lousy presentation (though ONE person commented how i had nice pics, layout and fonts! =P) i couldnt bear doing any more work and so went out for dinner at this place my roommmate and i have been wanting to try for a long time.. it's this diner place and it had such good sandwiches and the best fries! it's like crispier mos fries but soft inside and with more seasoning.... and almost everything on their menu was less than 10 bucks!! haha and we had to discover it only 5 days before my departure... and then on the way to Georgetown to return our library books we spotted this ice-cream place... and somehow i gave in to two scoops of yummy ice cream despite feeling bloated already... it's pouring incessantly outside and even though i really want to go grocery shopping and inquire at the UPS store i'm now stuck indoors... ok shall be couch potato and try to finish up my paper (but i know i won't....)

i finally finished my powerpoint presentation! i'm too sleepy now so i think i'll go sleep and wake up early tmr to think of what to say... haha i'm very proud of myself even though i'm sure i spent half the time fretting over whether my chio font would show up on their computer tmr, cropping my pictures and attempting to arrange them in a tasteful fashion... like anyone would care... i'll probably be the only one who appreciates all the effort gone into that and the only one who will derive pleasure from looking at them... half the ppl would prob be asleep or extremely bored tmr since i foresee this last batch of ppl sitting through perhaps 4 hours of presentations... i had better not get too nervous and screw up...

tonight i am stuck at my desk tediously editing my paper and trying to link all the sections together but not much luck so far... roommate is at multi-purpose room presenting her paper, so is apartment mate... mine's on Friday, thankfully, but i'm not sure i can articulate a coherent argument by then... Prof Thurston was really nice to read through my whole paper and thankfully she thought it was fine... but i was embarrassed for some inaccurate bits of info.. she too agreed with my GSI that i need to fit this into a 'larger argument/significance'.... i dunno why everyone seems to be able to write pretty brilliant papers in short periods of time whereas i spend so much time and keep changing things as i go...
tmr's my last day of work! and by this time next week, i'll be back at Berkeley... i dunno. i'm very confused now i really dunno if i should be sad or happy... yest an innocent phone call led to a series of silly thoughts and me getting really upset for silly reasons. and at the most inapproriate times... sigh sometimes i really dun understand myself...

after some major reorganization of my paper last weekend, i thought i solved the problem of a disjointed paper... only to find out today that the whole thing doen'st seem to be very focused and requires reorganization again....stressed! prob have to tweak all i've written once again... tiring... not in mood to write also. =(

whole of last night wasted cos this program mate suddenly decided to hang out in our apartment after one whole sem...unexpectedly narrating her party experiences and hook-ups... such a bewildering conversation...despite my roommate's subtle hints, she stayed for a really long time... she's nice, just hmmm... a little random...
my hair was getting really unkempt and so decided to risk another haircut in the US... and i'm now devastated! dun get why ppl here cannot do layering... and i guess after she trimmed my hair i was visibly unsatisfied and so attempted to tell her what i wanted but it wasn't of any use... cos hairdresser insisted it looks fine and better than when i first came in... aargh. exasperated. she prob thought i was the pickiest person on earth... =P and so paid and came home and tried to trim my own hair once again for like an hour... but it prob didn't help that much... wish i didn't had such thick hair that sticks out.. =( aaah so chou3... i'm goign to be depressed for a week.

and so my roommate claims that i'll miss her after i leave this place.. actually i think i will. i'll prob kinda miss my apartment mates too, cos if i actually think about it, they have been really pretty decent and cool people =) the sad thing is i prob wun ever see them again... unless i visit my roommate in LA or bump into them on campus...
this sem has also made me a lot more 'acquainted' with the idea of exercising.. cos one roommate exercises every single day, even more than once a day, while the other two exercise moderatly... i'm like undoubtedly the laziest person in my apartment... even though i try now to exercise like once a week... but hey seriously, exercising is so 'bu hua suan' for shedding calories.. if i like do a slow 20 min jog on the treadmill, i prob only shed 150-200 calories for all the work, and that's like the equivalent of one white choc macadamia nut cookie, or like 22 potato chips... haha so i figured the best way to not put on weight is to exercise self-restraint and not eat rich foods... and so i have been trying to stay away from ice cream... haha but in place i have fallen in love with chips... the lightly salted Whole Foods tortilla chips are so good! and so are the new Kettle Cooked Lays potato chips....(which are always on sale for $2 at Safeway) =P

and so my roommate claims that i'll miss her after i leave this place.. actually i think i will. i'll prob kinda miss my apartment mates too, cos if i actually think about it, they have been really pretty decent and cool people =) the sad thing is i prob wun ever see them again... unless i visit my roommate in LA or bump into them on campus...
this sem has also made me a lot more 'acquainted' with the idea of exercising.. cos one roommate exercises every single day, even more than once a day, while the other two exercise moderatly... i'm like undoubtedly the laziest person in my apartment... even though i try now to exercise like once a week... but hey seriously, exercising is so 'bu hua suan' for shedding calories.. if i like do a slow 20 min jog on the treadmill, i prob only shed 150-200 calories for all the work, and that's like the equivalent of one white choc macadamia nut cookie, or like 22 potato chips... haha so i figured the best way to not put on weight is to exercise self-restraint and not eat rich foods... and so i have been trying to stay away from ice cream... haha but in place i have fallen in love with chips... the lightly salted Whole Foods tortilla chips are so good! and so are the new Kettle Cooked Lays potato chips....(which are always on sale for $2 at Safeway) =P