Happy Memorial Day Weekend to everyone. Sorry its a little late.

This weekend was packed with family stuff. Hung out with a bunch of them on saturday, when we had lunch at this chinese buffet in poway, looked through some stores, and played some xbox. We also had dinner at fuddruckers over in mira mesa. There was this family that brought mcdonalds food there. Haha. America's greatest burgers and theyre eating mcdonalds. Hmm.

Monday we headed over to mission bay and spent the day at a really nice park right next to the water. It was nice there, and very relaxing.

Sorry i couldnt hang out with any of you guys this weekend. I seriously was looking forward to it. My mom has that habit of letting me in on her plans about 5 minutes before it happens. Oh well. The end is near, so in just a little while we'll all be hanging out again and everything will be peachy. Right?

Me and Liz have a frank exchange of ideas over AIM:

Liz: meowwww
Me: ruff
Liz: tweet tweet
Me: cluck cluck cluck
Liz: oink!
Me: mooooooo
Liz: caw caw cawwwww
Me: squeak squeak
Liz: ribbet ribbet
Me: baaaaaa
Liz: bzzzzzzzzzzzzz
Me: hiissss
Liz: heee haw
Me: hoowwwwwllllll
Liz: cockadoodledoo
Me: roooaaarrrrr
Liz: grunt grunt
Liz: do u know chinese?

Yesterday we did the bulk of experiment 7, the 2nd to last one. Exp. 8 we actually get partners, so it looks like the worst of chemistry 6bl is just about over. Phew. Thank goodness. You know, looking back on it now, i would almost say that it was kinda fun . . . ah screw it, lab was a pain and i say good riddance. Hahaha.

As far as i know matrix this weekend is still a go, although the only person i've actually talked to about it is vic. I believe raymond is in as well? Anyway, if any out of towners are coming home for the summer, make sure to give one of us a call so you can come too. Maybe we can go play pool after.

Its actually going to be a hop, a skip, and a mad dash while shooting machine guns and jumping in slow motion through finals.

SunGod last friday. See vic's blog for a more interesting description. All i can say was that there were some funny stands, TONS of people, and many many slutty girls, and some pretty ones too. (And Lesbians! Seriously!)

Hey, this is gonna seem a little out there, but wwe raw is coming here on monday june 2. Now, i know that none of you are even remotely interested in wrestling, but if nothing else think of the wonderful bonding we could have if we all went. But seriously, i think checking out the event would be fun if a good group of us got together, even if wrestling is not your thing. Anyway, tickets would be about $20-$40, so i just thought i'd throw that idea out. Let me know!

3 more weeks of classes!! Summer is just a hop, a skip, and a mad dash through finals away.

Well, the challenging road that was this week is just about over. 2 essays written, and 2 midterms taken. I thought my essays were fairly decent, but everytime i've thought that bad things happen, so ill pretend i didnt say that. Psych and bio went great, especially considering i spent half a day studying for each. And chem lab is drawing to a close, thank the goodnesses. Freakin experiment 6 is finally done. Stupid 19 procedures. And experiment 5 writeup with its 20 some calculations is done and turned in too. So i think we've pretty much made it over the last peak, and the rest of the quarter is downhill from here (that's supposed to sound good).

Oh, in case any of you out of towners didnt hear, san diego experienced its worst traffic jam in history last wednesday. Phew. Forced me to take the old miramar route to school. I havent driven through that way since almost first quarter. Ah, the memories.

By the way, i totally support the idea of watching matrix memorial weekend. Hopefully most everyone will be home by then, and we can add another notch to our ever growing list of awesome (and not so awesome) movies seen together.

Weekend was interesting. Saturday drove with my mom to see one of her coworkers who lives way over in el cajon. The drive was quite long, and it was really hot down there. Felt like palm springs. There was this one stretch of land with a lot of farm-looking houses and cornfields, and even a bunch of buildings that look like the ones in wild west movies. And we also happened to miss a turn, and ended up driving for about 15 minutes in the direction of Mexico. I think it was when we saw the border patrol that we figured we might want to turn around. Anyway, made 2 new friends, although i cant really tell how much they like me yet (more on them when i have the energy).

Got back at about 5, started my takehome midterm / essay for lit. The questions are kinda difficult . . . its like i'm not quite sure how he expects me to answer them. Anyway, it took me forever to get anything written, and what i did write sucks, so now i have to revise it before tomorrow.

Yesterday went to a Chinese buffet with some relatives for mother's day. The food was decent, but there was a really long line just to get food. I like vegas buffets much better. Afterwards, my mom and my aunts went to this make up artist, and needless to say spent the next 3 hours there. Got back around 5 and started the 2nd question of my midterm essay. Its slightly better than the first, but still needs some revision.

So . . . 2 essays to revise, a lab report to write, 2 midterms to study for, and a really big cut on my leg.

"If I could tell the world just one thing
It would be that we're all okay
And not to worry cause worry is wasteful
And useless in times like these."

This weekend isnt going to be much fun. Lab report, 2 essays, and 2 midterms for next week. Thankfully, afterwards things will settle down a bit before i have to do more lab reports and essays and finals. But matrix opens next week, so thatll be cool.

Chem lab: augh. We're currently doing the longest experiment of the quarter, and it sucks. The entire thing is pretty much; add "several" drops of this stuff, "a few" drops of that stuff, heat it, stir it, centrifuge it, decant it, do everything again with the other test tube, observe, and repeat if necesarry. Gah. Gets old after a while. Thankfully, after this one there are only 2 more labs, and one you get a partner for. So hopefully i can hold out a little longer.

So i hear from mario that jan hosted a dating show for revelle college tv. Haha. How funny. I could definitely see jan as a host for a dating show. She also gets high on kettle corn.

4 more weeks of classes my friends. Then finals, and its clear sailing through summer!! Then, after i convince my mom that we need to go to vegas, we should all get together and go to disneyland. Seriously. That would be awesome. (If we do, me, jon, and eric arent getting stuffed in the back again).

"I won't be made useless
I won't be idle with despair"

Saw X2 this weekend with Mario. We were going to watch it with jan, but turns out she was going down to fashion valley to see something that had to do with american idol, so me and mario figured we'd just watch it at the la jolla amc, which turned out not to have stadium seating. But its all good, cuz the movie was awesome. Definitely the best movie i've seen recently, and better than the first. Minor complaints here and there but overall really cool. They should have done more with wolverine and his past (the director was saying in an interview how they would delve into it a lot, but they really didnt reveal a thing), and not made cyclops so useless and whiny. They should have done wolverine's past like they did in the cartoon (which happens to be the best comicbook cartoon ever, with the possible exception of batman). Nightcrawler was surprisingly cool, and i liked iceman and rogue even though they didnt do anything. So a great start to what should be an awesome chain of summer movies this year.

On the completly opposite end from the special effects and action of X2, i also watched Old San Francisco this morning. Its a silent, black and white film from the 20s or 30s. I watched it in the video reserve room, where just about everyone around me was watching something more interesting (except for this guy watching a video about sign language). The movie was fairly interesting, and i can honestly say its the best silent film i've ever watched.

Happy Cinco de Mayo.

The only thing worse than someone in class who talks too much is someone who talks to much while trying to sound smarter than he really is. See, i can respect someone who has an opinion and isnt afraid to say it. What bugs me are people like this one guy in my literature class who talk as if he's some kind of genius scholar of the historical intricacies of mankind. I mean, who ever says "In addition to" in real life???

Anyway, the psych experiment i went to was pretty painless. It basically consisted of me pressing some buttons and reading some sentences. And they recorded me talking too. So if my professor makes some groundbreaking discoveries with this experiment, my voice will be evidence for it!

Got lots of tests and stuff back this week. I did well on some, and not so well on others. I will say that i wish professors would try and get back midterms / essays before the deadline to declare that youre taking a class pass / no pass. It would be helpful.

I saw lots of movies recently. The ring was cool, but so much of it was left unexplained, you kinda feel unsatisfied at the end. Road to Perdition was good, tom hanks . . . what can i say? Sweet Home Alabama was, in a word, sweet. And Reese Witherspoon was, how shall i put it, hot. So a great movie all in all. Identity. Now that was a freakishly thoughtup plot. The trailors do its freakishness no justice. Good movie though.

Hmm chem lab isnt as painful as before. Still, i'll be glad when its over. I have good classmates though, so at least i'm not alone.

I have to go to a psych experiment for my psych class tomorrow. Hopefully they dont do any weird psychological experiments on me that might turn me into the guy in identity (which was freaky by the way).

5 more weeks of classes. Halfway through the quarter!