Thank goodness for:
1. Understanding parents (of course, they’re only understanding since I’m gone most of the year)
2. Libraries with free wifi.
3. Some semblance of self-discipline so I’ve gone through about half of all the readings I need for CITIES.
4. Indescribably beautiful weather. Goodbye Seasonal Affective Disorder!
5. Sleep.
My parents are getting a little concerned since [...]
1. I didn’t get the internship I wanted so I’m not going to Nanjing to teach English this summer. This means, I need to start applying for other internships… now. FML.
2. I watched Hachiko: A Dog’s Tale which is an excellent movie, but a complete tearjerker. I was anticipating that since I knew the story [...]
Snow day!
So I’m now inclined to believe that there is a god and I’ve been sacrificing virgins or baby cows to this wondrous deity in my sleep or something. There are no words to describe how much I needed this snow day, despite finishing my paper proposal at freaking 4 AM in the morning.
I do [...]
So it’s “holy shit midterms and tests and everything is due” week. I’ve skipped a couple of classes and meals and have become an insomniac. I also managed to lose my voice for a couple of days (by ‘losing’ I mean that my voice alternated between sounding like that of a pixie fairy and that [...]
Seeing characters you need to memorize in your mind’s eye (chill out, you’ve got this), not living in Communist China–let’s just leave it at that, feeling remarkably awake even after an all-nighter, terrible 80s music (~hit me with your best shot!~), even more terrible 90s bubblegum pop (~sometimes she’s wrong/sometimes I’m right/sometimes we talk about [...]
Screw you, bed.
I definitely did not need a four hour nap today!
TO DO LIST:
Chinese homework/review of characters I still don’t know how to write (read: all).
Finish Wild Swans + paper.
Get at least 4 hrs of shelving done tomorrow, submit time sheet.
Prepare for my individual conference for tomorrow because I don’t know anything from this lesson.
Breaking [...]
Jesus, I am actually drawing a flow chart/family tree for my Japanese Civ reading.
We’re covering the first book of The Tale of Heike and I can’t keep anyone’s names straight (and I’m usually decent with names) which is a major problem. Plus I have to do a write-up for this and I’m so not up [...]
is getting lighter and I can see the sun peeping up over the hills.
I wish my brain would shut off at sane hours instead of slowing down when people are waking up.
I have to be up in a few hours for Plenary.
I’ll nap ’til then.
Then I’m going to find myself a tankard of caffeinated goodness. [...]
1. What’s up with me losing everything today? This is so not on. I’m upset over losing my favorite earring, it took me ten minutes for me to locate my iPod this morning, and another five minutes to find my iPod USB cable. :[
2. Aikawa Nanase and Shiina Ringo are the Queens of Japanese Rock.
3. [...]
So yesterday I was in an incredibly foul mood because the girls who live on either side of me set their alarms at insane hours of the morning. One of them set their clock for 4 AM and I had just finished some work and trying to succumb to sweet, blessed unconsciousness when her alarm [...]
whine and cheese; please ignore.
I am so tired right now. On the bright side, I managed to complete my hellee’s schedule and it’s only about eight freaking pages because I’m a little crazy. I finished my discussion question for Chinese Revolution, copied some notes from a class I missed, am currently thoroughly knackered.
However, I still [...]
I just realized that I’m crazy particular with carrels the same way my mom is crazy particular with parking spaces.
You see, whenever my mom goes anywhere– she is obsessed with finding the perfect parking space. It has to be near the entrance of the store and it has to be roomy (also preferably with neighbors [...]
1. Derek Morgan is hands down my favorite character on Criminal Minds.I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again, Shemar Morgan is a beautiful human being. Even Andrea conceded that he wore stubble well. :P
2. I’m getting nostalgic about music I listened to in high school. Meaning, all the Japanese rock I’m currently missing. [...]
“SNOW DAY! NO CLASSES TOMORROW!”
That was what was being shrieked in the hallways of my dorm (Merion’s reputably “the quiet dorm”, pfft– dorm stereotypes can sometimes be very off) after dinner. I had just finished making hot chocolate and was planning on turning in early because I’m really a senior citizen at heart.
Also, the Snowpocalypse [...]
I’m dizzy from lack of stress. It is a glorious feeling.
Snow days are fantastic. I could probably do with less apocalyptic thunder though.
Although I intended to catch up on work that I needed to do, I’m seriously contemplating going back to bed. I stayed up at late at Andrea’s– we were both tired, stressed, and [...]
TRUTHS
♥ Michelle Branch can’t even be classified as a guilty pleasure.
If I just breathe/fill the space between/I know everything is all right
(I wish that were true, but for now, I can pretend.)
♥ I don’t know why I’m so tired right now…?
♥ I am terrified of bombing my Chinese exam. I’ve been trying to study– but [...]
I plan on bottling all my anger and rage into being productive– so I plan on studying my ass off (with breaks for food and my PE class) for my Chinese test tomorrow, starting now.
I’ve basically been a big ball of stress because I have so much shit to do between this week and next. Yesterday at around 11 PM, I was all “…screw this, I’m going to bed.” And I did and had wacky dreams because my subconscious likes to fuck with my mental health.
I woke up today [...]
I need to watch myself.
I know most of my faults very well and I keep track of them.
For example: I’m self-deprecating (and I’m working on that, thank you very much) and I’m afraid that I’ll self-deprecate myself to death one day. I’m unbearably self-conscious and always nervous (especially around people I want to impress). They’re [...]
1. iPad? … iPad? Seriously, Steve Jobs? I’m an Apple geek through and through but no.
2. I am embarrassingly excited for Zombieland when it becomes available on Netflix. I may have a slight obsession with zombie movies (I find them hilarious, okay?).
3. Words cannot describe how much I want the weekend to be here already. [...]
Apparently someone sitting in front of Kathy during Inglourious Basterds complained about my hiccuping (I think I hiccuped like, three times during the movie) and now I’m back to being insanely paranoid that I annoy everyone around me when I hiccup.
I’m self-conscious about my involuntarily, squeaky hiccups to begin with. I’ve been to two doctors [...]
Things I Love:
My Japanese Civilization class! (I am such a fake East Asian Studies major.)
The (500) Days of Summer soundtrack. So many great tracks. I’ve always loved The Smiths, Regina Spektor, and Carla Bruni but the movie introduced me to The Temper Trap’s “Sweet Disposition” and Mumm-Ra’s “She’s Got You High”.
My late morning classes. [...]
I’m pretty much setting myself up for a terribly difficult semester.
And while I like challenges, I do not like going crazy from stress because it seems like 3/4 classes require weekly write-ups on top of papers, group projects, and tons of readings. (And they overlap. A lot. I checked and wrote down dates– cue Inner [...]
An inauspicious start to this semester.
First day of shopping week and registration.
Registration started late but hopefully I did it right and I now have the two PE classes I want. I’m excited about Pilates.
I skinned my knee climbing out of bed today. Le siiiigh.
I had breakfast with Audra and Olivia and we went grocery shopping at Trader Joe’s so now my mini-fridge is stocked! Ironically enough, I forgot to buy shampoo/conditioner– stuff I originally intended to buy and needed.
A+ self, A+.
I just talked to Avery and I feel somewhat reassured that everyone is probably in the same boat [...]
Things I Like
Eating mantou with Andrea at 2:30 AM while bitching about how Thomas Friedman is a pompous ass. (He totally is. He’s a complete smarmy bastard and I’m so glad he got pied in the face at Brown.)
Daft Punk. I had their music sitting in my iTunes library for months and months before I [...]
Endgame
Awkward moments define my life. I just hit ’sent’ for one of the most awkward emails I’ve ever written.
I have one more final exam, and one paper to go. I have two word documents open on my laptop (one of the study guide for the Geology exam, the other of the Polisci paper) and [...]
One hour before my Anthro exam and I just discovered that the back of my Anthro text has detailed notes and drawings of hominins and premodern humans.
That probably would have been helpful six weeks ago.
Way to go, me.
I’m totally listening to my Life is my Catwalk playlist to motivate myself.
Okay, my Anthro Final review is only half-way done and it’s already 10 pages long.
I think I’m calling it a night.
Crossing my fingers that I won’t dream of either a) hominins, neandertals, pre-modern humans or b) BILLY IDOL.
If I could special-request dreams– I wouldn’t mind dreaming about Derek Morgan. :D
I bumped into Melissa downstairs in [...]
Today I’ve consumed:
A grande non-fat white peppermint mocha
a grande chai
half a bottle of Pepsi
8 oz of Coke with lemon
I have a bottle of Lipton diet lemon ice tea (I wish they had regular– this tastes awful) in my bag and I’m determined to study like hell for my Anthro final.
I don’t think the human body [...]
Dear subconscious,
… What the hell was that?
Okay, I know it’s finals week which means that you’re bound to make up crazy things just to make me freak out a little. (I still remember the cannibalistic hominid dreams from midterms!)
But Billy Idol?
Billy Idol.
I just had to Wiki him, but uh, surprisingly enough– you knew what he [...]
Leaving the five idiomatic stories to the last minute (to translate, summarize, and memorize) was probably a poor life decision.
(No, seriously. I only remembered I had to translate them at midnight . I translated two, spent an hour watching Criminal Minds with Andrea, and translated the last three in twenty minutes.)
Surprisingly enough, I think I [...]
Park that car, drop that phone,
Sleep on the floor, dream about me
–Broken Social Scene– Anthems for a Seventeen Year Old Girl–
The rain seeps in through everything, my rainboots, my socks, chilling me to the bone.
It’s not as melancholy as it sounds, since the pitter-patter of rain drops provides a beautiful soundtrack to a night of [...]
Every time I update my Facebook status, I ask myself before posting, “On a scale from 1-10, how ridiculously nerdy/lame do I sound?”
And the answer every time is “very”.
Current facebook status: Stacy wishes she were secretly saving the world every day to explain her less-than-stellar academic performance and frequent absences this semester.
(Unfortunately, I am no [...]
Today:
iGoogle weather lied to me. It said it was 79 degrees outside so I cheerily sprinted out the door of Merion in a tee and a thin black cardigan… into the freezing cold. (It’s sunny, but it’s actually 32 degrees out.)
Woke up at 10 AM because yesterday was the last day of classes for [...]
Just got back from the Extreme Keys acapella concert and caught sight of my reflection in the mirror while walking up the stairs in Merion.
I nearly screamed, “Oh my god, it’s Shan-Yu!”
(My bangs have not been cooperative lately.)
Yeah, I think I’m okay now. :)
Also, I witnessed what had to be world’s most awkward break up [...]
Dear body,
I’m still not pleased with your current shenanigans.
I coughed–> hiccuped–> nearly passed out today.
This is a problem. :|
No love,
Stacy
Epiphany: I would probably save a lot of time and energy if I got “it’s a hiccup, not a sneeze” tattooed to my forehead.
*AFTER CLASS*
STACY: *turns cell phone on, receives text notification sound*
ClASSMATE: … Is that from the Jetsons?
STACY: … Yes.
That said, this is the first time anyone has recognized it.(If anyone’s curious, it’s the Jetsons doorbell.)
I spent five minutes talking about umbrellas with my Chinese professor today. It was… interesting.
And now, because I am severely sleep-deprived, I [...]
Truth: writing a paper, in theory, is easy.
You shape, mold, and fit words into sentences and support everything you say with quotes, evidence, and years of experience from perfecting the art of BSing.
When you think about a paper this way, it’s a lot easier to handle.
Now my only problem is that I’m too tired to [...]
I’m listening to the Pokemon: The First Movie soundtrack and I swear to god, if Pokemon music cannot get me to work on my freaking Anthro paper then that means there is no hope anywhere.
I bought the cassette (cassettes! so old-school!) of the soundtrack when I was ten and I swear this is still one [...]
1. I woke up this morning at 10:55 AM. The Blue Bus leaves at around 11: 05 AM. I had never gotten dressed so quickly in my life.
2. We watched The Core in Geology lab today. Here’s the thing: I like terrible movies. I like making fun of them. However, I do not like [...]
My night is going to look like this: Canaday, 3rd floor, alternating between my J-rock and my favorite songs playlists, and alternating between writing my Chinese dialogue and my Anthro paper.
You know you’re a Mawryter when you seriously contemplate skipping one of your classes to study/do work for another one of your classes. (Will I [...]
So I had been hearing all these shrieks from my room and my first thought was “ugh, I want peace and quiet— I need to finish reading this article”. I had assumed that someone’s puppy had gotten run over by a car or people were taking advantage of the freshly fallen snow and were merrily [...]
Conclusion: I deal with stress in really weird ways.
Okay, some of them are really average.I blog, listen to music, drink copious amounts of caffeinated drinks, update Facebook, and generally complain to anything and anyone within a 100 km radius of me.
However, I also deal with stress by:
Giving people piggy back rides1.
Giving people massages.
Comforting others.
Handstands/headstands against [...]
Writing papers would be so much easier if I wasn’t so obsessed about finding le mot juste (the right word, expression, turn of phrase…).
I would like to think that as a whole, my papers aren’t terrible if not just because I’m very good at getting my opinion across and (over-)analyzing what needs to be analyze. [...]
So, I now have a new rule: I am not allowed to update Facebook before I’m sufficiently caffeinated. Otherwise, things like this can occur:
Stacy Z. Doing the walk of shame from your ex-roomie’s room to your own room down the hall is awkward. 2 hours ago via Facebook for iPhone
And then, the comments:
Nan: About time! [...]
Maybe I lied a little in my last post.
Regina Spektor can be overrated (just a little, you know the type who’s obsessed) but that doesn’t mean her music isn’t fantastic.
I’ve had this stuck in my head all night:
and it breaks my heart, and it breaks my heart
and it breaks my he-he-he-he-heart
I remember one of the [...]
I turned in my written exam today and slid it underneath Chiang Laoshi’s door and apparently she can’t find it.
I’m about ready to cry, guys. I thought Friday the 13th wasn’t going to affect me at all– but I WAS WRONG.
If it’s not there, then I don’t know where it is. Plain and simple. I [...]
Forget butterflies in your stomach, I feel like I have a colony of ants crawling all over my skin!
I need to relearn how to relax before taking tests.
Listening to Chinese oldies and feeling a little homesick.
I grew up listening to songs like Yue Ding/約定 and Zhu Fu/ 祝福 and while the music isn’t exactly my cup of tea, it makes my heart ache. My dad is big on music so he had tons and tons of Chinese CDs and karaoke music videos [...]
