I have never been so calm during a finals week before. I’m relaxed, eating, and getting 8 hours of sleep, it’s great! I took two finals last week, so I just have one on Wednesday. No MCAT classes this week (thank goodness), and then it’s party time until my dad comes to drop off my new car!!

Yay! I bought a car this weekend from SF. It’s a little RAV4! I’m so excited! Despite being a SUV, it gets about the same mileage as an Accord, so I’m very satisfied. Still, looking at car prices make me want to cry. Right now in UCLA gas prices have soared to $4.50 and climbing still. What a nightmare. But yay for more beach days! And more going out to explore LA days!

I’m going to take my dad to the San Diego Zoo next week. If you know anything about my dad, you’ll know that he LOVES pandas. He reads them in the chinese newspapers and cuts out clips of pandas and sends them to me. And I keep every single one of them. Anyway, he’s never seen a panda before so I’m super excited to take him on very necessary mini vacation. yaaayyyy!

One of my favorite pasttimes is to plan.  I love to make all sorts of lists: to do lists, cool places to eat/visit/shop/run/party/drink, school schedules, weekly lists, goals, etc, etc.  Fall schedules are about to come out, and I’m itching to replan my college schedule.  It looks like I may be able to graduate in four years after all!  But then again I won’t know until i start planning.  I must resist!  I have finals coming up and I cannot be deterred by ursa and the school registrar website. 

I have been making a lot of bad decisions lately.  I have been reckless, unfocused, dumb.  Since when did all these bad choices come back to haunt me???  It seemed like there were no consequences as kids.  And now there is nothing but consequences.

On a lighter note, I have decided not to go home for the summer.  I’m going to settle down and do my spanish requirement during the summer, study for MCATs and find a bank account to leech off of because I don’t have time to work.  If you have a bank account for me, let me know :)  The class is actually nice because I get to finish off a year’s worth of spanish classes in two months.  Of course, it also means the course will go SUPER fast and I will have to study like a maniac to do well.  But this frees up my next summer for more classes…so…go me.  Then, I will go home for my birthday (yay!) and party like it’s 1999.  And take my MCAT somewhere, somehow in September.  Party some more, and head back to good ole UCLA to finish off my last glorious year…as a senior.  wow.

Norah Jones - The Long Day is Over
Justin Nozuka - After Tonight
Nas - Memory Lane
Mac Dre - She Neva Seen

I would like to think that I have a diverse taste in music or it’s something I’ve definitely been working on. When it comes to rock, I really love quiet acoustic sounds and good lyrics. And when it comes to rap, I love a good beat and some sick bars. Stuff that makes ya think. Please recommend music to me! I always like to explore!

ROCK THE BELLS! I’m going for sure, but I’m not sure if I’m going to the one in LA or SF, but if you like some good hip hop and want to spend a day with me, let me know!!!! A bunch of people and I are going to get tickets together. Nas, Mos Def, Dred Prez, A Tribe Called Quest, Immortal Technique…what more can you ask for?!

I feel like I have been making up for my lack of partying for the last two and a half years, and I’m doing it all in the span of this quarter. Not that I am complaining, I love my roommates and friends and I love hanging out with them. Since most of my friends are graduating this year, I want to go out and make the most of what’s left of this year. It makes me sad to think they will not be around next year. :T Besides, I think all of my restless energy is coming out and it has been translating to a lot of wild adventures recently.  Los Angeles is starting to become my playground!

On top of that, I’m thinking about getting another tattoo. I’ve been dreaming about tattoos ever since I decided to get a second one. Tattoos are very addictive!!!

Today was a better day. It’s probably too early to assume anything, but hearing from good friends always uplifts my spirits. It also gives me more incentive to post more. :)

I’ve been listening to “How Does It Feel” by D’angelo incessantly. Plus this man is hawt..check it out for yourself.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ULZuCK_fgo

I’m going to see Death Cab for Cutie on June 23!!!!! I’ve been listening to them nonstop as well.

No one said it was going to be easy. I don’t know why I assumed it was.

I’ve lost track of what’s important to me recently. My passions, my beliefs, my determination, it’s all gone to shit. I have been passing through school half-heartedly for the last week, and I suppose I should have saw it coming. I started my MCAT classes last week and I just kept spacing out and wishing I could go home. Then when I got home I would stare at my computer for hours, blank. I need to get back on track.

What’s important to me:
- my family and friends
- school
- MCATs
- my health
- my happiness

Haha it’s funny that “happiness” was the last thing I wrote but right now I have bigger fish to worry about. Like my school and MCATs. This is the direction I should be heading in. *warcry

Life sure knows how to throw its curve balls.  This one caught me square in the jaw.  My jaw is doing quite well though :)

I’ve done so many edits that I’m just gonna leave with some lyrics.  Now that it seems like WordPress is working on my mac again, I can update more.

It was one hundred degrees, as we sat beneath a willow tree,
Who’s tears didn’t care, they just hung in the air, and refused to fall, to fall.

And I knew I’d made horrible call,
And now the state line felt like the Berlin wall,
And there was no doubt about which side I was on.

Cause I built you a home in my heart,
With rotten wood, it decayed from the start.

I ain’t got no food in the house!!! All I have is soy milk, chocolate soymilk, and a bunch of meat for Quy. Go me.  Someone come over and feeed me.

I would post up pictures of Vegas, which was where I went for Spring Break, but Vegas is not all that interesting. Except for the buffets, KA, and my friends. I had a great time though - it was nice to relax, get fat and laugh a lot with some good friends. Quy and I went to see the Tournament of Kings, which is a medieval themed dinner show, and it wasn’t very good. The jousting was pretty cool though :)

Now I’m just taking it easy (or as easy as I can possibly do) until my MCAT classes start.  Before you know it, June will be upon us all, and I’ll have to watch some of my dearest friends graduate.  I’m going to try to spend as much time with them as possible.

I fxn better on an empty stomach because once I eat, I go into a fat food coma.  Like right now.  I had a couple of naps last night but mostly just studying for my physics class.  I’m not completely sleep deprived, but if I look at biochem problems right now, I will knock out.  And I’m supposed to go look at biochem problems right now for a review session.  BOO YOU FOOD.  I told myself before I ordered the fat burrito too…”don’t eat all of it you’ll fall asleep”…and uhhh…I ate all of it.  So much for self control.  I was hungry since I forgot to eat today.

I’m tired.  Hopefully a rockstar will perk me up again :)  I have to study!