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Right now I'm supposed to be studying for a Pre-Calculus exam, but I still have about three hours to study so I'm going to take the time to catch up with you all about what's been happening lately.

So thanks to Pauline, I have discovered extravagant long term parking around UCI which is about a mile and a half from her apartment. As a result, each time I decide to park there, bringing a set of wheels such as a skateboard is a must.

So how did last Friday go? I'm glad you asked.

So I've learned a few things other than the parking thing, which I've mentioned above. I learned that I need to take my own pillow. I've learned that the shuttles do not run on weekends. I learned that making food really isn't that hard and that I'm just lazy. I learned that Pauline is really good at air hockey. I learned that I need to re-learn how to skate. I learned that landing on Income Tax on the first dice roll in a game of Monopoly is certainly a bad omen for the rest of the game. Finally, I learned that bed head is a lot of fun.

I arrived at around 1PM on Friday and did not go home until 6:30PM the following day. Those hours spent there felt like a dream, almost. It feels like it has been a while since I could enjoy myself so much like that in a long time.

Walking around in a park in the middle of the night. Air hockey at 1AM. Board games. Sitting and talking about anything that comes to mind. I realized how much I missed the simple nothings of sitting around on a lazy day and talking.

About the pillow, I suppose that it was a little too big, leaving me unable to sleep due to the slight discomfort. After jumping in bed at 3AM, I did not sleep until 6:30 when the room started to become a little brighter after I took a corner of my blanket, folded it into a pillow and used that. I ended up getting a grand total of about 4 hours of sleep. My mom woke me up at around 8:30 by calling me, which I gladly answered...I fell asleep right after the call, only to be woken up again at 10:30 for the last time.

Sunday was my hell day, essentially. Work...not fun when tired!

By Monday, I was already wishing for the week to be over. The day was just like any normal Monday. Wake up. Go to Physics. Pass time until Architecture. Go to Architecture. Get out of Architecture. Go home.

It's interesting that my dad, a 19 years' architect, is trying to convince me to go into law. It must be some kind of warning. As a result, I'm going to be looking more into both fields to see what the benefits of both fields are.

I went with Rikio and Danny to the midnight release of Fable II, which Rikio wanted to buy. After finding at the gamestop that we went to at the Ghettoria was closed, we went to the one by El Camino and waited there for a half hour, only to find that we had to go to back to the Galleria one. Another half an hour passed and we were let inside to wait another half an hour before gamestop opened their doors. Rikio got the game and we got out and went home.

Half an hour later, I'm still typing this and I don't know why it took so long to write. Pre-calculus needs my attention so I'm going to get back to that now.

Physics is a love/hate relationship

So it's around 1AM and I'm studying for a physics exam at 9AM about Work, Forces, and Friction. Conservation of Energy is not a very fun concept to grasp with the whole Kinetic/Potential energy bull. By now, most people are sleeping, except Khiem, whom makes sporadic appearances on AIM. Never mind he just signed off. I'm only awake right now because I drank a cup of coffee and I'm feeling okay. In the back of my mind, I'm dreading the near future of today. I must wake up at 8AM to be at class by 9. I will most likely be able to leave early, so I'll take that time to head over to the library to study for a Pre-Calculus gateway exam. I hate those exams with the passion of a thousand burning suns and their mothers. After taking the gateway and being assigned a retarded workload of homework for that class, it'll come time for me to go to work from 5-10:15. I enjoy closing shifts on this day because I can have a bento waiting for me on Friday morning, waiting to be warmed up. However, tomorrow, I am dreading such a thing because I will most likely be pretty tired. I don't particularly enjoy working while I'm low on energy and I'm sure that I speak for many others as well. Once I am through with work, the glory will have arrived: well earned rest time. I plan to wake up at a late 9AM to go shopping some, fill up the gas tank, do whatever else I need to do that might come to mind while I'm doing these activities, and make the 45 mile trek to Irvine to beat Pauline at Monopoly.

Monopoly. Yes. The board game. We have an active bet for a single game of Monopoly. Loser must jump into the swimming pool there fully clothed. Sounds like fun (Only if it turns out to be a retarded warm day again, that is). So I won't be losing this event. Food making will be in order and there will be fire, death, knives, and vegetables.

Parking for UCI is most enjoyful when the close parking only allows you a pathetic 60 minutes of permit time. However, it has been established that there is more long term parking (up to something like 3 days? It's some rediculous amount of parking time) about 1.75 miles away. Danny is supplying me with a skateboard and my plan is to skate over. I do hope I don't forget anything in my car this time. So, to sum this weekend up, I have homework, Monopoly, studying, and work in mind.

Physics has me on a leash right now and I've been given the confidence of several supportive (and not so supportive :P) friends that I'll do just FINE.

That is the sort of confidence that treads in dangerous waters. Not to be overconfident, I remain awake, still on a coffee boost, attempting to study.

Alrighty, I'm going back to studying. Wish me luck for the exams because I'll need it!

And I should probably make a post about Knotts Scary Farm from 10/10/2008. It was quite a fun time :O


New music:

Unearth - "The March"
Haste the Day - "Dreamer"
Slipknot - "Self Titled"
Slipknot - "Iowa"
All That Remains - "Overcome"
Papa Roach - "Infest"
Papa Roach - "Getting Away With Murder"
(Yeah getting all my old music back if you hadn't noticed!)
Myproof - "Shining Stardust"
Myproof - "The Sky of Destiny"
Bleeding Through - "The Truth"
Bleeding Through - "Declaration"
RSP - "DICE"
Supe - "2nd Place To None"
Whitechapel - "This is Exile"
Whitechapel - "The Somatic Defilement"
Killwhitneydead - "Nothing Less, Nothing More"

Wow that's a lot since the last post of new music, actually.

Underneath my Chest, I Couldn't Put it to Rest

I decided to name this title after a line found in Cobra Con's song "Would You" because I didn't really know what else to title this entry. So it's been since the 22nd I guess since the last time I wrote anything. Things have changed even more since then. Imagine that. Life had been going in slow motion until recently and then suddenly everything is changing.

Starting with the most recent events on Saturday, I got a new sweater, some shirts, and a haircut. I had lost one of my rubber stoppers on my plugs so that night I got my lobes widened to 6ga from 10ga. I can now stick toothpicks and stuff through my ear now. It's tons of fun lol

Friday was a day played completely on a whim. The only thing that was actually planned was taking my car in for a service. So yes, my hazard switch is now fixed. I took it in during the morning with Danny and we had originally planned to go to CSUSB to visit German, who happened to be in Redondo anyways. We picked up Tin and went to my house and we hung out for a bit. I stared at craigslist for about 30 minutes before Rikio came by. Danny decided that we would follow an earlier stated suggestion by me: to visit Irvine to find a place to get free parking near UCI.

We left within five minutes of that, on our way to Irvine via 405 freeway. After we arrived in Irvine, I showed them the wonderful parking that UCI has for visitors and their policy. I showed them where I had previously parked. "Four, Five, Six, Seven, Eight," I counted as we passed by some visitor parking spots, some with a car in it, some without. The last car in the row had people in it. We parked over in the 8th spot while Rikio said "Look it's Pauline," which he later said that it didn't register to him that it really was her until after he had said that. It indeed was Pauline and her friend Michelle. What we did end up doing was going to a nearby plaza to grab some food, where only Tin and Danny ended up eating, the fatties. After eating, we decided to go home so we could get stuck in the 405 traffic. I guess I fell asleep in the car for a while, though I said that I was "on the verge of falling asleep." I was awakened by the ringing of my cell phone to see that Pauline was calling me and she asked if I was interested in bringing myself and friends to see a movie later. Fuck yeah I was down, though out of all the people in the car, only Tin ended up going. I took Morgan as well that night.

I had to get my car. It was 4:15 and my car was now ready, just in time for rush hour traffic. I had no ride and my dad said he wouldn't take me until he had to go out that way at 7. So I did wait. Morgan said we would arrive at my car by 7:43 and we got to my car at exactly 7:43. "My predictions are flawless!" he said. From there, we took the wrong freeway and we got off in Westwood. We had to find the 10 East freeway. I called Pauline to let her know that we were lost. Morgan said we would arrive at her house at 8:47. After driving down Pico for what felt like a millenia, we found the 10E. For the last leg of the freeway trip, Morgan was steering while I was working the pedals as we weaved between cars, trying to make it to her house by 8:47. The funny thing was that Morgan didn't even know where Pauline lived. We arrived in front of her house at 8:47. "My predictions are flawless!" he boasted again. We went to the movie theatre in Alhambra with Pauline, Iris, and Michelle. We saw Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist, which was interesting to see Michael Cera playing as a SxE guy. It was an enjoyable movie and contained much different humor from Superbad, which I thought was good.

11:30. The night was definitely not over. We decided on going to a haunted forest up in Pasadena. I called Mario to get directions to the place while Morgan drifted up and down the parking structure we parked in with my car. Morgan took the helm for the next portion of the night. Iris had to go home, so it was just five of us. We all went in my car.

I must say, it is really strange to sit in the back seat of your own car while it is in motion. I thought riding shotgun was weird...

We found the place and ran into another group that was just leaving. They said it was really creepy. I couldn't wait to go in there. The only problem was that I was wearing sandals. Michelle was too. While I talked about being rolled the previous adventure with haunted places, a bright, but familiar floodlight lit the forest where we walked with another group.

This time we did not get arrested. We were only told to leave.

So we did leave. The rest of the night was aimless driving all through LA county. Morgan took us through a canyon run in Pasadena, pushing my car to its limits. After nearly hitting a large deer and pack of opossum, we left the canyon and drove on the freeway and went back onto the street and somehow ended up on the other side of downtown where Slauson met the 110 freeway.

We did eventually drop Michelle and Pauline off and I did not get to slip into bed until around 4:30. It was a hell of a night. It was very easy to tag that night as an adventure. If we had another car of people, it would've been insanity.

I'm sure there are parts that I left out but that was Friday. It's nearly Tuesday now.

This week is hell week.

...Until Friday at least :D