Kevin-Quote of the moment: "We're the best thing to ever happen to this school" -referring to him, me, and mario (he actually said some stuff funnier than this but sadly its the only thing i remember).

At the gym yesterday, me and vic discovered that discussing the concepts of gradient vectors and directional diravitives makes benching a lot easier. (i'm actually still not quite sure what they are, but its ok cuz the midterm isnt till tomorrow).

Continuing the intricate process of learning to write, my warren writing class just watched a movie called rock n roll high school. The ramones were a central part of the movie, so their music was played throughout, and i actually kinda liked it. The movie was cheesy, but a lot better than the other movie we saw with the who (not that theres anything wrong with the who). It contained such educational topics as learning how to make out with a sex doll, excuses for getting out of class, and mixing up chemicals to blow up the school. Oh, and one of my classmates from that class was talking about how her uncle designed the little gate leading from fantasy land to frontier land, and that it was named after her family. Kinda cool.

Surprise of the week: Seeing 50 cent on vic's playlist.

"When I saw the break of day
I wished that I could fly away
Instead of kneeling in the sand
Catching teardrops in my hand"

How bout them grammys? No Doubt won one, which makes me happy cuz now i can say that one of my favorite bands is grammy award winning No Doubt! They put on a pretty good performance too. Nsync did a cover meldy of Bee Gees songs, which was just about the greatest thing ever in my opinion. How can u beat nsync and the bee gees? (well, maybe nysnc and the beatles . . .). Nelly had a funny outfit if you saw it, and his performance was cool too. Norah jones was the girl of the night, winning just about every award that anyone cares about. To be honest, i didnt really care too much for her song when it first came out, but over the past few weeks i've really started to take a liking toward it. Its very soothing and relaxing. I also just recently learned that she's saying she doesnt know why she didnt come, not call. Oops. Well, hopefully she is able to stick around.

"Out across the endless sea
I would die in ecstasy
But I'll be a bag of bones
Driving down the road along"

I had a cold over the weekend, which really sucked cuz i had to write an essay. Having a cold anytime sucks, because it ruins things if you have something fun to do, and makes it even worse if you have something unfun to do. But its okay cuz i'm all better now. *sneeze*

Time for figuring out my spring schedule while trying to get some quality midterm studying in. See ya.

"My heart is drenched in wine
But you'll be on my mind
Forever"

Random stuff:

My chem T.A. is kinda cool. On valentine's day she literally threw candy it us. Really. She even hit some people in the head. But how many teachers do you know that rain candy down on their students??

There's this old fat guy in my chem class. Yesterday in chem jan ended up sitting next to him, and she was literally covering her nose with her jacket the whole lecture because he smelled so bad. Uck.

I was watching some of the american idol special last night, and there was some pretty funny stuff. Its amazing how bad people can be at singing and still think that theyre really talented. Hahaha.

2 midterms, 2 essays next week. Here we go again . . . !

Happy 2 / 3 / 4 day weekend!!

Quote of the moment: "I have two weapons; my legs, my arm, and my brains." -Michael Vick, Atlanta Falcons quarterback.

I went jogging again this morning. Now my blister hurts again and I have a cramp in my right leg. Exercise truly makes you feel alive!

So i was rummaging through some school stuff on my computer when i ran across that one romance story that we wrote way back in the beginning of AP English. Hahaha. It was even cheesier than A Tale of 3 Murders!! I couldn't bring myself to read all of it, because the first few lines made me gag pretty badly.

I've got another ethics and society essay to write. I got a B- on the first one, so i need to do well this time if I'm going to get an A in the class. That being said, i think it's time for lunch.

Wow, its been raining like crazy. Very soothing. Although the drive to school was a little interesting. It was raining so hard on the freeway that i could barely see the car in front of me. People were going like 50 mph (on the freeway!). People driving below the speed limit in the morning (not due to traffic) is something i havent seen in a while.

Me and vic paid a visit to the gym yesterday, where i discovered 2 amazing and wonderful things; jogging in the pouring rain, and cute girls in spandex shorts running on treadmills. I also have a killer blister on my foot now.

Well, its almost the time to start enrolling for classes for spring quarter. The quarter system really does go fast, doesnt it?

Remember 24? That game we used to play in math class back in middle school? Well, there's this one puzzle thats been floating around that found its way to me, thanks to raza. It took me a good while to figure out, something like an hour and a half. For comparison, it took raza 10 minutes. Anyway, humor yourselves and try it out (for those of you that forget how to play, you use each number once in order to get 24, using addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division):
21 : 10 : 5 : 3

For those of you who have never seen it, The Fly starring jeff goldblum is an incredibly gross and disturbing film. They just showed it last week, which reminded me of the first time i saw it when i was much too young to see it, scarring me for the rest of my life. Yes, its kind of interesting in a freaky sort of way, but you really dont need to see it more than once. Ugh.

Rain is best enjoyed from the warmth of your home . . . Thank goodness for no-class-tuesday!!!

Kevin quote of the moment: "The square tables are less gay". . . (???)

This weekend I . . .
Watched 3 of the greatest movies ever (or at least part of them)
Failed to talk to that cute girl
Found out what my mom's job was
Bled all over the bathtub
Beat a video game (with some help)
Saw a legend play one of his last games

All in all, this weekend was somewhat bland.

So i get an email back from the chem folk asking me for my high school so they can exempt me from chem lab. I pull out my old friend the little red planner to look for its address and number, and i'm suddenly treated to an interesting trip down memory lane. Some funny things i found:

Lots of tic tac toe games (which i won)
Vic's drawing of Balboa park with Freudian suggestions
Vic's stick figure drawings of Jen with Freudian suggestions
Lots of Stusseys
Note from Sara telling me I'm hot

Quote of the moment: "This is where they make the monsters" -yet another quote brought to you from Keven, said while we were walking down some halls we'd never been to and passed by an o-chem lab.

Well, I decided to make yet another one of those fun QuizYourFriends things. I think this makes 3? Anyway, humor me and take One more Mike quiz, with feeling!!

Riddle of the week (a question taken from an actual chem quiz, i kid you not): What do chemists make guacomole out of?

Quote(s) of the week:
"I'll pat my head for A, clap my hands for B"
"Yell out 'C' for C, and call your cell phone for D"
Me and Kev as we walk to our chem midterm.

Wow, asking that philosophical question increased my visitors per day drastically! UPN should hire me to help improve ratings. On that note, here's an all new question that we can discuss using the magic of tagboards:

If you could know the day you were going to die, would you want to?

Who is lilly?

Answer to Riddle: Avogadros

"You're beautiful, that's for sure
you'll never ever fade
you're lovely but it's not for sure
that i won't ever change
and though my love is rare
though my love is true"

Phew, what a week. Yesterday was quite an interesting friday. It started off with nice, sunny, hot san diego weather which put me in just the right mood for a calc midterm. The test went swimmingly well as far as i can tell, so that was good. Then i made the long walk down to revelle to meet kevin and mario for lunch at plaza. I havent eaten there since last quarter with chang! What memories.

So then we headed over to clics where the real fun began. It was about 1:30 at the time, which gave us 6 hours to study for our chem midterm later that evening. Studying in groups is always interesting, and jan came to join us later which only added to the fun. Between the *ahem* studying that went on, many interesting conversations came up, including jan not liking certain types of people and the fact that me, kevin, and mario all go by names other than our real ones. Turns out kevin is really jin in disguise!! Ha ha ha. Vic's talked about a guy named jin before, and all this time it was really kevin.

"Your faith in me brings me to tears
even after all these years
and it pains me so much to tell
that you don't know me that well
and though my love is rare
though my love is true"

So eventually jan got bored with us and went back to her dorm to watch seinfeld and springer. Mario got tired too and went to go play computer games. I hung around with kevin, then got bored and went on the computers to try and work on my essay. I think i wrote about 2 lines, and actually deleted about 6. So I actually made negative progress.

Eventually the library closed, so me and kev went back to plaza for dinner, where we ran into jan and mario again. We passed the remaining half hour or so distracting kevin from studying anymore. Then we headed all the way up to peterson to finally take the midterm, and it wasnt too bad (famous last words). I finished the test about 5 minutes before time, so i could get out of hall before the masses awoke. Wow, i dont think i've ever had a test so late before. And we get to do it all over again in a few weeks!. Then I drove home and watched the bourne identity, which was decent. I couldnt sleep so i did a whole bunch of other things i dont remember.

Allright, now that the 2 midterms are out of the way, i have 2 essays to write. Happy February!

"I'm like a bird, i'll only fly away
i don't know where my soul is
i don't know where my home is
i'm like a bird, i'll only fly away"