Personality

I have to take these personality tests for my psych class, and some of them have been pretty interesting. I'll start posting the results of some of them sometime soon. I'm too tired to do it now. Yeah, yeah. I know. I'm getting old. But I'm gonna be at school for 11 hours tomorrow, so shuttup.

Today

1) The new MacBooks look pretty cool.
2) I started blogging over a year ago. The anniversary passed and I didn't even realize it.
3) Whenever I get something "new" chances are that it's broken and I have to return it.

Me

I realized two things about myself recently:

1) I need failure to bring myself back to the ground and closer to God.
2) Not getting enough sleep is my kryptonite.

The first thing isn't just school related - a lot of things in my life are going kinda haywire right now, but surprisingly, I'm not as stressed as I've been in the past. The reason is probably that I've been praying a lot more (not for a way out, but for God to supply me in these situations), and reading the Bible a lot more. It seriously makes a difference. So in the end, maybe these failures aren't such a bad thing after all. I hurt, but I have faith He'll carry me through.

I'm not sure what to do about the second thing though. If I slept well through the whole night, I'd have a solid 7-8 hours of sleep everyday. The thing is, I think my mind is awake behind my back in my sleep (if that even makes sense). What brings me to such a conclusion? In the past week I've woken up in the middle of thinking about a problem more than once. And it's not that I'm non-functional during the day. It's more like I'm careless and make stupid mistakes/say stupid things, etc...Basically it's like being drunk all the time, but not feeling good. Sigh...only 2 more months (of this semester).

This is a little off topic, but I can't seem to bring myself to submit the rest of my grad school aps. They're all pretty much done and all the info is loaded online, but I know it'll sting to pay the fee. And I don't think I'd even consider going to MIT anymore. I know I wouldn't be happy with two more years of constant intellectual beat downs and weird and/or non-social people. It took me way to long to find people I like at Berkeley. Sigh...only 2 more months (before they're due).

Oh man.

...WHY DIDN'T I THINK OF THIS?!?

http://everythingiate2008.blogspot.com/

Gotta keep remembering...

...That there are bigger things in life than school.

good pick-me-up

this made me pretty happy

http://www.ebaumsworld.com/pictures/view/821312/

keep scrolling right

work bathroom etiquette

1) if you're taking a dump, LOCK THE STALL so that you don't blind 21 year old interns.

2) wash your effin hands.

3) don't talk to me across a urinal, especially if that's the only time you're gonna talk to me

my mom is going to drive me crazy

my sister's laptop broke, so we're helping her get a macbook/ipod touch combo with my student discount. basically, my mom is doing a pretty good job of being the most effin' impossible person to work with. the following are the text message convos that happened over the past 2 days (she texts me at work like every 5 minutes - ARGHHHH!). commentary in italics:

monday:

mom: channon and i want to get christina a mac. she need laptop because hers broke. do u have discount?

me: she said she doesnt want 2 get one until she goes back 2 school. so ittl last longer

me: but ya. up til sept 15 i get 100 bucks off and a free ipod //it's a pretty sweet deal

mom: can i pick you up after work today and we go to mac store?

me: we can wait until the weekend //usually my sister takes eons to decide what she wants, and i wanted to make sure she wanted a macbook. if you get her something she doesn't want, even if it's nice, she won't fake appreciation and this usually pisses off my mom.

me: ask christina if its ok. she might want 2 pitch in too. //she told me she wanted to spend about 500 for a cheap laptop.

mom: i want to surprise her. //usually a baad idea with christina

me: she might b more mad than happy

mom: can i use your discount? if not its ok. //which in momspeak means, to spite me, she'll go and get the macbook without me = without discount. and she's a tech retard/easily suckered, so this is not good.

time for damage control. i called channon (my other sister) to talk things over with her and we fixed things. in the end, i was gonna be sly about seeing if christina really wanted a macbook (i kno she wants an ipod touch), and we were all gonna split the cost. when i came home from work, christina was looking at macbooks and she really wanted to get one. she was talking about ordering it online by wednesday because she's leaving next monday, so it was time for plan b. i said, "think about it a little more because i'm pretty sure you can get the deal in stores too. that gives you until friday to decide." i said i'd help her look at options at work tomorrow (today) to help her decide. phew!

tuesday:

me: she wants one. want 2 pick me up 2day and get it?

mom: k //so far so good

me: i have my bike so bring one of the restaurant table cloths in the garage //she's really anal about getting her car dirty. my dad has a restaurant. we don't jack table cloths.

mom: can u bike home first or we can go 2morrow //see? but if i go home first and then we both leave, then christina will get suspicious.

me: No she said she was gonna get it by wed

mom: did u tell her we were going 2 get it 4 her?

me: No. me n channon talked. i pay 100, chris pays 400, chan pays 500, and you pay 200. that way everybodys happy.

mom: how did u know chris wan it

me: because i'm cool. i have 2 work now. ill b back at 5. pleasant hill.

mom: i don want ur bike in the car //MASSIVE EXPLOSION OF BAD WORDS IN MY HEAD

maybe i'm just tired, but hot damn. i had to get this out so that i wouldn't be pissed at work.

question.

do lady suicide bombers get 50 virgins after they die, too?http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080728/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq

People suck.

I was riding BART to work the other day, and lately it's been packed. I dunno if its the gas prices, or the heat, or whatever, but there's never an open seat on the morning train anymore. Basically, this means that I get to work grumpy because I don't get to nap on the way to work anymore.

The train was as crowded as ever yesterday--no open seats again--and this prego chick got on at a stop. The effed up thing is that NO ONE got up to give her a seat for a couple stops. I would have, but I was standing too. Finally, a retarded person in a seat by the doors got up, so I let prego know that a seat was open.

How messed up is it that a retarded lady had to give up her seat to a pregnant girl on the train? Kinda makes me afraid to like have a heart attack or something on BART. Mofos would probably keep minding their own business, or take pictures with their cell phone cameras. Nice world we live in.

More bad new. I gotta take the GREs this Saturday. Wish me luck.

I wanna end on a good note, so I'll just say that there's a company picnic this Sunday with free booze. AND I found out that my boss isn't gonna be there, so :)