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~*Home is where the heart is~*
I wonder where my heart is sometimes.
Is my heart still buried beneath piles and piles of books and clothes back in my room in Ithaca?
Is it still waiting to be packed up in cardboard boxes and duct tape here in my dorm room at Bryn Mawr?
I’d like [...]
Sometimes, I feel slightly embarrassed that I love the Legally Blonde musical. If you haven’t seen it, chances are you’ll roll your eyes and think it’s complete rubbish((Don’t deny it. I was you once.)). It’s not. The music is fantastic; it’s not meant to be a masterpiece but the songs are great and the characters [...]
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I checked the weather report on my iGoogle homepage. Apparently, we’re going to get rain for the rest of the week.
Theoretically, I should like rain.
I don’t.
Rain drowns the world, it makes mud and water seep through my cheap ‘great while they lasted’ Target rainboots.
Flower petals on the pathway stick to [...]
I wish..
there was a pause button for life.
Bryn Mawr had kitchens in their residence halls. I know we have dorms like palaces but I miss cooking a lot.
I knew why my Last.FM client has stopped working.
I could be more assertive and less shy.
I could figure out why that girl suddenly turned so cold towards [...]
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I need to make a Daydreamer/Idealist playlist. I’ve always viewed myself as a cynical optimist (since I was thirteen at least) but I’ve become more of an idealist recently. I think our new administration has a lot to do with it; I’m pretty much in love with the direction that [...]
Like most college students, I sometimes just don’t have time to sit down and eat or I’m not hungry at dinnertime1 so I usually get take-out from either Haffner or Rhoads.
Last night around eleven-ish, I reheated my take-out from Haffner without knowing that one of the dishes was mayo-based. (Later, my roommate kindly pointed that [...]
I predict that the next two weeks will be incredibly hellish for me.
I have three group projects to work on, a 15 page paper for Human Rights, finals to deal with, and reading that should somehow magically get done. Needless to say, I think Starbucks is going to become my new best friend. BUT AFTER [...]
I am enthused about:
1. OLIVIA’s new SAILING FREE single. I’ve been listening to it via streaming on Anna et Olivia and they sound excellent. “Undress” sounds very western pop; the guitar and melody sounds so familiar that I feel like I’ve heard it before. Also, Sailing Free has the best PV to date (OLIVIA! As [...]
ME: I’m hungry. Oh hey, I have celery and peanut butter and a hugeass carton of raisins.
ANDREA: … ER.
ME: … *looks into nearly empty 24 oz carton*
ANDREA: Well, you’ve seen me eating raisins for the past week right in front of you.
ME: … IT WAS HALF EMPTY A WEEK AGO. HOW DID YOU MANAGE TO [...]
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… There’s nothing more disappointing than a mediocre cup of chai.
Good Earth Chai Vanilla, you are now put on notice on my blacklist.
On the bright side: Andrea and I got up early (for us, which is before 2 PM on Sundays), had brunch, and went on a Cupcake-Finding Adventure! Unfortunately for [...]
Written last night at approximately 11:30 PM:
This evening one of Andrea’s classmates invited her to have dinner with her! And invited me along! So we had sushi at Sushi Land om nom nom nom~! It was delicious.
After getting back to campus, Andy and I realized we had no plans for tonight since Andrea’s plans had [...]
This is one of those days when I want nothing more than to bask in the sunlight like a cat, soaking up all the warmth into my skin.
My skin is so fair that my Chinese relatives–from the older generations–always exclaim admiringly over the whiteness of my complexion, they consider it to be a desirable trait–fair [...]
Ever got a paper back so covered with red marks that you’re even too afraid to touch it, even when given the opportunity to rewrite it for a higher grade?
Yeah, that’s me right now.
Oh my god. I think I managed to get food poisoning at breakfast because I spent my last class quietly trying my best not to upchuck and/or faint.
I have to moderate a freaking debate on Chinese Human Rights in an hour and I can’t skip that.
This is so hilariously ironic. Andy and I never get [...]
I was going through my Google Reader and wondering why everyone’s blog posts were x1000 more interesting than mine. And then…. I came to this life-altering realization:
Everyone (with a few exceptions like FML of course) posts pictures of their daily lives. Adorable graffiti they saw, hilarious Engrish they encountered whilst shopping… That is how they’re [...]
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her roommate laughs and calls her whimsical
the weight of the word falls onto her shoulders, she’s startled by the unexpected burden.
w-h-i-m-i-s-c-a-l
she tries the word, tasting it
instantly, she’s reminded of cotton candy, sugar hearts, and twirly pink poodle skirts.
whimsical: the taste is stuck her mouth
it turns into [...]
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When she was a child, she re-read The Secret Garden every spring: right when the crocuses started peeping up beneath the thin layers of snow.
She dreamt of all the adventures she would have when she was older because Dickon, Mary, and Colin surely must have gotten [...]
How to Know You’re on the Right Track
If you’re learning more than you’ve ever had and you don’t understand half the concepts but you’re loving the entire process anyway.
That’s when you know.
I just had a pretty kickass Anthro class.
So after my adventure of WHEN FURNITURE AND BOOKS ATTACK,I went to Comp. Sci, caught up on world news and politics, and downloaded a trashy romance audiobook. When class ended, I collapsed on my bed took a nap. Andrea joined me. :D
When I woke up, I grabbed some caffeine and was feeling pretty good until [...]
Okay.
So today I got up early, had breakfast with Katie, went into the Comp. Sci lab with a “D: D: THIS SHOULD BE WORKING, WHY AREN’T MY PROGRAMS WORKING?” face– got my programs done (<3 VICTORY IS MIIINE), went to Chinese class, wrote up my report of my comp. sci programs, bought a tuna fish [...]
SETTING: LAST NIGHT, at around 11 PM
Meegan: Everyone’s sick. I think Merion is diseased.
Stacy: I just checked Facebook and someone said that a lot of people are also sick. So– Kendra’s sick, Lavanya’s sick, Amanda, Luie, Evan, Andrea was sick. That was much a roll call.
Kathryn: Susie’s in the hospital because she had a really [...]
GOOD THINGS!
1. I have girl scout cookies! Thin Mints, Peanut Butter Patties, and Thanks-A-Lots. I’m probably going to gain ten pounds in the next two weeks but I don’t care.
2. I’m madly in love with Psych, the show. It’s predictable, safe, adorable, and hilarious. In other words: perfect braincandy for me to watch when I [...]
I had a dream that can summarized as this: James Bond and ninjas.
I’ll let you ponder upon this one for a while.
I was born two days before Chinese New Year in 1990.
Today is two days before Chinese New Year, and one day before my actual birthday.
So today’s my Chinese birthday!
… Or so my parents tell me. :)
They also reminded me to eat an egg. I told them I couldn’t find one.
What I should do is post about my trip to China. I made a promise to blog everyday during winter break but ended up in a rural village in Fujian with no internet access- so well, that had fallen through. Or I should at least blog about second semester and my classes. Or the new [...]
I’m in the process of writing my first and final sociology paper in which I talk about the effects of Affirmative Action on East Asian Americans and Southeast Asian Americans in Higher Education. I’m still not sure if even I know what I’m talking about. This… might not end well.
By tomorrow, I’m supposed to have:
a) [...]
Quick, cue the music!
Contrary to popular belief, I have not died and passed on. At least, not physically.
I’m afraid that college and work has kept me from blogging because I barely have enough time to sleep (actually, I’ll take that back– judging by a few of the disapproving/concerned looks my profs have shot in my [...]
College.
The College Experience.
College is staying up way too late and getting up too damn early. College is finding out that all the free time people talk about is in fact, a myth, like the Greek Mythology you’re trying to learn from your Classics professor. College is trying to get this time management thing down– and [...]
Okay, now I know why college students don’t blog frequently.
God, it’s been sweltering at Bryn Mawr lately! Last night, a bunch of girls from our floor moved to the hallways to study because it was cooler there. Andrea, Brittany, Isel, Amanda, and I also watched Crash which was an excellent movie but also very heavy. [...]
