weird story for the day:

walking to my opti class today, i walk by these trash cans that (as usual) have a goodly number of bee-like insects hovering around. (you can probably see where this is leading, eh?) so as i enter the building, i first go wash my hands, due to the delectable gyro i had eaten previously, then walk to my classroom.

i sit down, and i smooth back my hair, as we all know i have multiple hairs that like to fly away, much like flyaways. so as i'm smoothing it back, i feel this rough thing in my hair; at first i thought it was my hair caught on the metal clasp of my hairband, but as i continue smoothing, it pricks me, and then brushes away onto the ground. i look at the annoying burr that caught in my hair, and lo and behold, it's one of those bee-like insects! what the heck! the side of my index finger kinda of hurts, but i do not know whether i've been stung or not. perhaps the body is just a prickly thing. my neighbor eddie steps on the bugger and swipes it aside with his foot under the seat in front of me.

i spent the first half of class staring at the still-twitching body of the wasp. as i look back at it a little later, i notice it has moved. where did it go?? that bug had flipped over and started walking!!! i pointed it out to eddie, telling him he did a poor murdering job, in hopes that he will smash it. instead, he picks up the insect and starts playing with it for the rest of the period. he also continues to tell me that it is a drone wasp, and that it wont sting(i was wondering why he was playing with it). it might not sting, but an hour later, my finger is still sore. anyways, we named it bob, and at the end of class, he placed it back onto the floor where he got it from. stupid wasp cant even fly, i think he should've killed it and gave it a quick easy death. ahh, well.

that's probably the most interesting thing that's happened to me of late.

btw, HAPPY 21st BIRTHDAY to ERIC LIU!!!!!

this week
on the DOWN side:

i lost my planner yesterday, and i was quite sad

did bad on the programming test. my own fault; it was open notes, and i didnt print up the practice test. man, i cant believe i missed that last problem. i'm a stupidhead.

econ test friday! i think i'm going to bomb it...i'm so lost.

lost quite a bit of sleep this week so far.


on the BRIGHT side:

found my planner today! whew!

losing sleep for good reason. :)

got 10 bucks in 15 min. for a psych experiment!

got 20 bucks for 1.5 hours for a hci(human-computer interaction) experiment!

what a good weekend. the best weekend i've had in a while, really. why you ask? WELLL.....

friday, i was able to finally just chill, the first real time i could just do nothing and relax. slept in (no class till 1:30 hehe), then pool @ the new henderson on nice tables, and watched bend it like beckham for a dollar. pretty decent movie, very greek wedding-ish.

sat, hung out w/ the PIs. i think we've all noticed the dynamics of the group have changed a bit, since we no longer eat our meals as a group. we went to PNC Park and watched the pirates beat the phillies. plus it was fireworks night, and they were superb. at first i thought it was going to be just a small firework show, but those people really did an awesome job. fire works are sooOoooO spiffy! sometimes i feel like i'm going thru warp when those huge ones explode and long stringy pieces come flying into my face. watching those boys chase each other, quite amusing. then some minor chilling at henderson watching some random extreme japanese psychos, and iron chef. o yea, and played alittle more pool. nice pool tables are great. AND....my day was quite made in the morning by seeing....THE OSCAR MEYER WEINER TRUCK. yea....i know tran. you already saw it. but did you get the WHISTLE? soo kool. too bad i had no camera.

sunday, ds try outs. fun experience, esp cuz i'm a crappy dancer. heh at first i wanted mirrors to help me out, but now i realize i'd probably just be laughing at how weird i look. all in good fun tho.

so why was i up that early to SEE the oscar meyer weiner truck? cuz i'm teaching princeton review sat. and sun. starting @ 9:30. i cant complain tho, cuz i get paid well to wake up, and it was of my own accord. so "technically" i work around 18 hours a week including csw classes during the week. but we all know csw is crap. heh. yea...i need to find a job 2nd semester now...

o yea, i decided to not go to australia 2nd semester, and go during the summer. so anyone who wants to join me next summer...give me HOLLA!!!

and sorry, no pictures on this one. but kenny took some pictures of the baseball game if you're interested...so here ya go.

hi lo every body! as you can see, i'm obviously in a better mood than my previous blog. just got back from ifs practice. so much fun! thanks to albert for teaching me the basic 6 step. and all those other people who had tips too. i feel kinda retarded doing some of those dance moves that those kool dancers do, it's like i'm dancing w/ 2 left feet. too bad we had no mirrors today. i think my upper body is too tense, probably cuz i'm concentrating so hard on the legs. :)
anyways, i'm sure you didnt really care to hear about my own critiques. it's a lot of fun to go do it tho, so for all you people who wanna learn how to dance, join ifs!

today was activities fair, i think we did a fairly decent job of promoting aaw. PLUS i got some more condom lollipops from my other club (pha). and i signed up for east end penpals again(like last year), FINALLY signed up for alumni relations council, and this fairly new club about business solutions that seems interesting. we'll see how that all goes. first get this party going and then i'll worry about the rest. it's nice staying busy, but it leaves little time for more fun stuff.

yay! dont have class till 11:30 tomorrow! makes me happy.

dragon boat festival this saturday kiddies! wake up around 11:30-12ish, i wanna leave @ 1. tripi-phipi and whoever else wants to accompany us!