I Guess I Have Some Explaining to Do...

Hi guys,

It's been a while, not just writing on this blog, but in person. I guess I have to offer some sort of explanation as to why I haven't shown my face around fellowship lately.

I was talking to my friend the other day about how he quit one of his bands. As a musician, there's nothing off-handed about quitting a band. Anyway, when I asked him why he quit, he said that he stopped enjoying what they were doing. I asked when he realized that he wasn't into it anymore and he said,

"The other day, I knew I had practice. And I said to myself, 'Man, I have practice..." That's when I knew that I wasn't into it anymore."

Every Friday, around 5 or 6, I say to myself, "Aw man, I have fellowship tonight..." Why I feel this way is still a mystery to me. All I know is that I get stressed out just thinking about going. I think part of it is that I'm just so exhausted these days that I'm IN BED by 11. We're lucky if lesson ends by then. I would rather not go and be irate and annoyed.

If that makes me a bad person, I guess I'm ok with that for now. I wish there was a way that I could hang out with you guys but not stay out so late. I'm sure this will pass sooner or later so don't freak out. I just need a little break.

What a day

Ok, so I usually don't have very eventful days at school, but yesterday was quite a different story so I thought I'd share with you guys or uh, or at least let it out to nobody in particular.. haha.

So 1) My alarm clock (old cell phone) died without telling me in advance and did not go off at all. I was going to wake up early to review a little bit for my quiz in class but I ended up waking up 15 min before class.
2) I attempted to at least make breakfast so I could have some brain power during class and for my quiz but I left my waffle in the kitchen :'(
3) My light switch is stuck and not working the day before so I needed to return it to Target for a refund but they would only allow me to exchange it for something in the home department but the same light costs $15 MORE than in SF and I was not about to pay that money for possibly another bad light so I bought bedsheets instead.
4) Then Cassie wanted to go to a Chinese supermarket which we found.. but on the way back to school, we got lost for a long 20 minutes. Somehow the street we were on, changes names at a certain point and yea.. we were completely lost..! We called so many people before a friend of ours picked up and yahoo mapped it for us and I got back just 10 minutes before we had to get to the lecture that we purposely stayed late on a Friday for
5) The lecture went totally overtime
6) I had a 5 minute dinner last night before driving and I was hungry

Yea. Not fun. And btw, I had a dream that Amanda has a white kitty instead of Cow. It was quite strange hehe :D

First blog of the school year :)

Hey guys!! I am typing the first blog of the school year in class.. muahahaha. No, actually, I'm sitting in orientation right now trying out my new laptop :D Yayyy. It's been a couple of long days here at school but I'll be coming back to the city soon. Hope I'll be seein you both at the bonfire tonight :) I'll update on the new school year later.

UPDATE on your new school year!!! (Except Kathy - UPDATE about your summer session... :))

Long week, Short Post

Amanda

Finals are coming up really soon and there are so many deadlines it's nuts. I had a really long week this week. I went to all my normal classes this week but I had an added stress. I performed a solo last night at school in Knuth. The accompaniment was really weird but I pulled of a pretty good performance. I had my piano teacher accompany me and she was awesome.

After last night's program was over, I had a lot of my peers come up to me and compliment me. I guess it made me feel like I actually belonged there and that I'm not fooling myself. Anyway, I guess I just feel a little bit validated.

I don't have any pictures this time but I'll try and post again this coming week. By the way, I have another blog. If you ever get bored and want to see if I've posted there, here it is:

http://amandapoon.wordpress.com/

Fun stuff after a rough week

Daja

Why school was so awful last week:
Last week was definitely one of the craziest weeks this semester. Usually it's a tough week when I have 2 science midterms (or exams, whatever you want to call it) in consecutive days. Last week, however, not only did I have an anatomy exam Thursday and O-chem exam Friday, I had my 10-15 pg paper due Tuesday. And did I mention I haven't written an English paper since last year? Yea. Awful. Actually, I think things turned out better than I anticipated. Not great, but not tragic either. Well, maybe I shouldn't say anything because I haven't gotten anything back yet, but uhh... I'll update on that later.

ANYWAY, enough about school because that's over and done with! Just one more set of exams in a couple weeks and then FINALS! So after all that, I was ready to jump into a new episode of LOST and relax my mind when I found out.. there hasn't been a new episode of LOST since I last watched it online 2 weeks ago. WHAT..! So to indulge in LOST without actually watching it, televisionwithoutpity is the way to go. Yes Amanda, you should check it out. The snarkiness on the LOST episode recaps almost matches up with yours ;) I love.

And some funny links to check out when you are bored, curious, or just simply in the mood to procrastinate: What Asian People Like vs. What White People Like . Some of the stuff on there are either pretty interesting or just hilarious hahah.

Tell me what you think of those sites :D Or tell of some interesting sites you guys visit so I can turn to them when I need a study break.

And in response to the previous post - we should most definitely go (even though it would've been even cooler to see you 2 set up a booth yourselves :P but I know, I know). Especially since it seems I won't be leaving the country after all, so I will be PRETTY free this summer with not much to do... hm. Any ideas for me guys?

WE ALL MUST GO TO THIS!

Amanda

This July. Us three. Let's go.

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My week so far...

Amanda

WUNDERBAR!

I had a pretty good day today but I'll start from the beginning of the week.

Sunday
Sunrise service went pretty well but I was really beat afterward. I went home and crashed. When I woke up, my mom showed me the variety of lovely Easter candies I could help myself to, including some "Lamb of God" peach flavored gummies. Odd texture, those sheep... Anyway, my mom's longtime friend gave Becky and I some chocolate... bunnies? Nope.


And they call us adults! Not to Auntie Ellen I guess...

Monday


That's the view of Sutro Tower from Safeway's rooftop parking. Michael and I went to get a snack in the afternoon. More importantly, I got some COFFEE! Monday's weather was beautiful, even in the Sunset district and I thoroughly enjoyed it.

Tuesday
The daytime was pretty uneventful. I finished a novel, did some knitting, and ran some errands. After my mom got off of work, we headed downtown to meet my dad for some dinner and some shopping. The more I shop, the more convinced I become that I'm no marathon shopper. After dinner, I was SO sleepy. Here's some random Westfield love.


Wednesday
I awoke early this morning because I planned to drive my dad to work - the beemer needed some shop work. My dad decided to tell me at 7:30am that he DIDN'T need me to drive. Then why did I wake up so early?! Anyway, I was excited because I had a date at 12. Not with a boy. With a spinning wheel. And it was AWESOME. I got the hang of it pretty quickly and my teacher was really patient. She even let me stay past the hour to finish what I was doing. I didn't get a chance to take a picture of what I spun but I ran into this character on my way back to my car.

I thought it was pretty awesome. Anyway, that's how my week's been going so far. Are you guys finding cool things in your everyday routine?