Saturday, December 21, 2002

Alright - so the last entry wasn't the final one for the year. Here's another. Not too exciting, but I'm rather bored.

Wow - the moon was pretty bright last night. I almost went outside and started howling, until I noticed it wasn't a completely full moon. :-P It's actually still pretty bright right now and it's almost 6am.

So, I'm suffering a bit from insomnia. This past week I was sleep-deprived. I had a final on Wednesday, and seeing as how I never read or studied for anything this entire semester, I had to attempt to cram. Most of my attempts at studying failed. I get so distracted by things like the internet, it's not even funny. I think I need therapy for my internet addiction. :-P

Anyway, Tuesday night I pulled an all-nighter. I slept for maybe one hour, then tried to study for my final, which was scheduled for 4pm, Wednesday afternoon. I went into the exam feeling worried and unprepared, but what could I do at taht point? The exam question seemed a bit hard to me. I hope I didn't fail miserably.

Then I left the test at 6pm. When I got back to my place, I stayed up, even though I was going on only an hour of sleep. I don't know exactly what I was doing... Oh, I talked on the phone, watched TV, did laundry, and went on the 'net. I didn't finally get into bed until around 8 in the morning (Thursday). But - I didn't get much sleep. One of my friends, and I was expecting his call, called maybe a half hour to 45 minutes after I went to sleep. Then we hung out, so... Here I am going on less than 2 hours of sleep. We watched a movie at his place, but I never did see the whole movie. I dozed off. Don't know for how long - maybe a couple hours total.

Next, once I was back at my place, I was trying to figure out how to get to my parents' house and find someone to pick me up once I got into the area of my parents' house. I was at the train station and since it was late, less trains were running. So, I had to wait an hour for the damn train. I hate waiting. Especially when I'm alone. No one to pass the time with... And I was struggling to stay awake. Just strugglin'.

Finally, I was on the train. I sat in a seat by the window and put my 2 bags in the seat next to me. I eventually fell asleep because my body just couldn't take it. Later (I don't know how much later - coulda been 10 to 20 minutes later, not sure), one of the train conductors (or whatever he was) who goes through the cars to punch tickets came through. He woke me up somehow to get my ticket. Well, I was a bit disoriented and rather annoyed. I thought he was just a passenger who wanted to sit in the seat next to me. And remember - I had my bags in the seat, and I looked around a bit and saw some other empty seats. I was thinking: WTF? Of all the empty seats, why does he wanna sit next to me?? And I almost started to move my bags. Then I realized who this guy was. LoL... So, I pulled out my ticket and when he came back to me, I apologized. He said, "It's alright. Happens everyday." Haha...

So, by the time I actually was inside my parents' house, it was late. But I didn't go to bed. Guess what I did? Yep - internet. hehe... And I was on until about 2 or 3 in the morning. I was chattin' a little bit with my girl Nadine. But then I just had to tell her I couldn't take it any more. That my eyelids were gettin' heavy. So... After my few
days with no sleep, I finally settled into my bed. (Now, this is Friday, early morning).

I wake up, finally, after my long-needed sleep. I look at my watch and - say what?? It's 4:30pm. Can you believe? Ha. But even if I wasn't so sleep deprived, I could still sleep that long. Haha...

And now, here I am, still awake and it's Saturday morning. I wonder when will sleep finally overcome me. And I don't know what to do with myself in the meantime. Hmm...

I was gonna try to watch a DVD a few hours ago on my comp. But, I guess since I'm connected to the 'net, it wasn't running smoothly, although I have watched a DVD on here before, while connected to the internet. But, I didn't want to disconnect, so, guess I'm not gonna watch the movie for a while. It was "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs". I've never seen it before.

Right now, I'm also listening to Al-Jazeera broadcasts in the background. Tryna get myself accustomed to listening to the Arabic. It's cool since I can understand quite a bit of words. But I still need much practice.

I won an auction on e-Bay. It was quick, too. The auction ended this past Sunday and I already have the item. What was it? A Rolling Stone magazine with Shakira featured on the cover. If you know me, you know how much I sweat this chick. I was gonna get a back-issue from the Rolling Stone website, but - shit's expensive! They charge $10 an issue and that's way too much. Who knows how much, if any, shipping and handling is. So, I got my issue for $1.74 plus $3.75 s/h. That's not bad since cover price is like $4.95, I believe.

My sister will be home later today. She'll be here for Christmas. Haven't spent Christmas with her in a few years 'cause she's always been overseas. Too bad I won't see her much since I'll be going out of town soon. I may visit her Spring Break. Unless I decide to leave the country again. :)

I wanna write a poem, but the muses aren't inspiring me right now. So, perhaps I'll look at my magazines with Shakira in them. Or maybe I'll attempt to read a book I bought last night: "Cien Años de Soledad" by Gabriel García Márquez. I got that book 'cause it's Shakira's favorite. LoL.

Alright, then. I'm out...

Thursday, December 19, 2002

Okay, so it's nearly 7 in the morning and I'm still awake. Not only did I not sleep last night, I didn't sleep the night before! Save for an hour nap or so. Hmm... maybe I should go to the library. I always manage to sleep in there. :-P But, yeah, right! I ain't goin' in there! Not until next year. I finally, finally finished this damn semester. I probably failed. But I'm finished for now. :-T

I'm looking forward to vegetatin' a little bit. Wait - I always do that. Well, this time I'm allowed to do it. And I need to get to the stores. Christmas is comin', the goose is getting fat... And I still haven't bought presents my family yet.

And I'm lookin' forward to New Years! This will be my 3rd New Years where I'ma actually out the house. From ages 1 throught 20, I would ring in the New Year doing ABSOLUTELY NOTHING! Then I finally got out the house with one of my friends to chill at someone else's house. It wasn't all that, but it was better than being at home, laying on the floor, listening to music. And last New Years, I was in México! That was cool. Got to spend it with my best Mexican friend and her family and partake in a few traditions, as well as for Day of the Three Kings.

Now, this New Years... I will be at an undisclosed locale. Dancing to hip-hop and who knows what else. Getting pissy drunk 'cause it's open bar. Stayin' out 'til the early mornin'. I plan to wild out. :-D I hope I have fun...

So, this may be my last post of two thousand two. Wow. Time's a-flying! Where does it all go?

Saturday, December 07, 2002

So I still haven't learned. Still procrastinatin' like nobody's business. And the semester is almost over. I am so ready to just drop out - if I don't flunk out first!

Well, looks like November has gone, and now December is sort of zipping away. Well, let's see what things happened last month... I went to a Karaoke bar for the first time. I'd done Karaoke at friends' houses, but I'd never actually gone to a restaurant where they have that kinda stuff. Yay, me - I'm on my way to stardom. Nah... I was a bit nervous in the beginning. You know, performing in front of people, my voice was a bit shaky. But then I eventually relaxed some and broke it down for them. Lemme stop. Haha. But I did sing. And everybody else was eatin' sushi (it was a sushi bar). Gross. When I got there, there was this white chick singin' Japanese. Like, whoa. J/k.

Then the week following the Karaoke, it was Jeannie's birthday and guess what - sushi again. Sheesh. This was not at that sushi/Karaoke bar, but at one of her favorite restaurants. I always say that I don't like Japanese food and what not. But I'll try certain things (none of that seafood stuff, though). And in the end, I'm usually not satisfied. I don't know what it is. I think it's genetic 'cause my mom and sis don't like Japanese food either. Anyhow...

Afterwards, all of us went back to her house and... guess what? We did some Karaoke. Eric brought over his equipment. Jeannie - one of these days I'll play DDR with you, but you have to get really drunk so that you won't even remember you played it with me. And won! LoL

So, following my disappointment with Japanese... food stuffs. I was happy that the next day, Jeannie and JP and I got some Vietnamese food *drool* before they dropped me back off at my place. I need to be treated more often to Viet cuisine.

Now we fast forward to Thanksgiving. It was good. My dad's cousin always invites us up to her place in Philly. I was upset, though, that I didn't eat that day, then, after just one plate, I was full! I wanted to stuff my self! We ought to hold Thanksgiving more often, just so that I can eat. Hehe...

I am sleepy. I haven't slept. Like, in a while. If I stay up for another... seven and a half hours, I will have gone 2 days without sleeping. School is gonna be the death of me. This is what happened... I woke up Thursday morning with the intention of going to class. All I had was a little oral test with my conversation teacher, then the class with my grammar teacher. So, I got up - it was around 8:30 or something - and I went to the potty room. Then I saw the snow out the window! Seeing those flurries, I was like, hell, nah. And I took my butt right back to bed. :-P

So, I woke up around 11am. Not because I wanted to, 'cause I could have slept the rest of the day. But I had a presentation to work on for Friday. I also had my Arabic proficiency exam to take. So, I tried to work on the presenation. That went by slowly and I didn't finish when Friday morning came. I even drank coffee a couple times Thursday 'cause I knew I would be pulling an all-nighter.

I had to leave for the written part of my Arabic exam, which was scheduled for 9am. So, I left the house Friday at a little after 8:30 and shoot - I didn't realize the impact of the snow. I mean, I'd been holed in the entire day before. So, I had to walk to school and I wasn't wearing the right shoes for that snow and ice shiet. That was kind of annoying. But fast forward - the written exam. It was a lot harder than I had expected. It was 3 and a half hours long. And all of us who had taken the exam used up every minute that was given to us. I'm not sure how I did.

Then after that was over, I had roughly an hour to try to work on my stupid presentation. And the class for that presentation was having it's make-up session (because we needed an extra class) at 2 in the afternoon. So, didn't really have a whole lotta time to fix up what I had. And then, after I did horribly on my presentation, I had the oral part of my proficiency exam.The ironic thing is that I always thought, yeah, maybe I won't pass the orals, but I've got a good chance on the written. But after all that, I felt the written was a little too much for me, while the oral wasn't bad.

The oral was conducted by my Arabic grammar teacher and this other guy who teaches Arabic elsewhere. It was cool. I need more practice with speaking. My Arabic teacher said he thinks I would make a good linguist 'cause I'm good with languages. He was kinda braggin' about me to the other guy. :-D And the other guy had asked me how long I'd been studying Arabic. I told him not long 'cause I'd only started just last year. Anyway... I wonder if I'll pass either portion of the test. We won't find out until late Monday.

Well, I've got loads of crap left to do for this semester. Hope I get them done. When's the last day you can withdraw from a class (or two. or three)? :-P I'm already prepared for failure. =T

Anyway, I need to get off this here comp. My ass is fallin' asleep at the keyboard...