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looking back on my journal, i see that i havent had a real update for three months now. i guess that is due in part to my monotonous life. but, i suppose i could try and recollect what interesting things that i may have done in the past three months or so considering that it's about 330am and i dont feel the least bit tired.
where to start?...perhaps i should start at the beginning of the fall semester.
so this fall was the beginning of my second year in college at CSM. for those that are inept in deciphering acronyms, CSM stands for college of san mateo. but i suppose if you are reading this journal, you have some idea of where i am at. anyways. so, this semester was different from my previous semester at csm because i actually had a goal set. i had my mind set on doing well. well, i would just say that this semester wasnt so bad. even though i didnt get straight A's (as if i actually thought that i would), i am actually surprised that i was able to get through the semester without dropping any classes. but i guess one reason for not dropping any of them was because they weren't all that hard. i was taking fundamentals of music, calculus with analytic geometry 3 (sounds harder than it actually is i suppose), zoology, and weight conditioning. music was a cinch, as was weight conditioning, but that's a given. music was just simple because i guess the teacher was cool. we didnt really have any homework and the quizzes were reviewed a lot. they were pretty basic also. calculus wasnt as hard as i expected it to be. i literally slept through the whole semester except for a few classes here and there. but i came out with a B. i could have gotten an A in that class, but there were circumstances that i'll go into later. zoology was probably the hardest class this past semester. the tests were somewhat hard and i was very inconsistent with them. it was mainly reading and memorizing material from the book. but there was a lot to remember, and i mean a lot. i ended up getting a C in that class. i kinda was expecting that after the first two tests and i hadnt tried any harder to do better. in the end, i got the grades i deserved in the classes. actually, i'm not even sure if i deserved A's in the two classes that i did get them in, just because it would sound too conceited of me.
and so, during this semester, i was also still working at starbucks. but at this time, i was promoted to shift supervisor. i guess this meant that i had more responsibilities and i actually had to work more also. one thing about me getting promoted was that i had to open up my availability because there was some company policy about that. i usually ended up working about 24 hours or so a week. it wasnt all too bad, nothing i couldnt physically handle. i was still able to wake up in time, usually, for my 8am class everyday. oh, on a sidenote, one thing that actually motivated me to get up was being able to see this one person in that class. i know it probably sounds stupid of me, but i guess it worked. but then, i think that i just used that reason as an excuse for myself to actually want to go to class? probably not though. that sounds even stupider. and so, having been going to school and work so much, i hadnt really had much time to do anything. i would go out here and there. watch a couple of movies. just stay at home and do nothing cause it felt so good to do nothing. i didnt even wash my car for a couple of months because i thought it would take too much energy. also, during the christmas season, the mall closes at 11 sometimes. and me, being the closing supervisor, would have to close. this meant less sleep at night? no, not really. it just meant that i would be more tired before i actually went to sleep at night. but, me, being the forgetful and lazy person that i was, didnt think to ask for finals week off. or at least certain days. so, i ended up closing on the two days before my two days of finals.
i had my zoology final at 8am on the thursday and i had closed on wednesday night. i actually thought that i would stay up all night to study for it, but i ended up waking up for a few minutes ever hour or so and read a few lines and fall back asleep. i finally gave up and just went to bed. i had all of tuesday to study. and i actually stayed home all day to study, but i just didnt have the dedication to do so. ive been telling everyone that i hadnt done so well on the zoology final because the study guide that the teacher had given, didnt even have half of what was on the final on there. although it was true, it was merely an excuse to make myself feel better. after my zoology final, i had my music final. i passed that easily. but after that, i had work again. closing. i wasnt too worried about working. but i was just mainly worried about whether or not i would actually have time to study before my math final at 2pm on friday. oh, and another responsibility that i had taken at work was to sort the weekly tips. i think the reason that i had done this was because i dont really trust anyone else. im not sure if the other workers trust me, im sure most of them do, but i cant say that i would trust some of the other people. so, i usually do the tips on friday morning. i woke up at 8 or so and headed over to starbucks. got finished with the tips around 10 and then i headed up to csm. i tried studying in the library. but i just kept dozing off. it eventually hit 120 and i figured i should really get cracking. i crammed in what i could, and reviewed what i thought i understood already and headed off for my final final.
i did the problems that i knew, and then i went back to the ones that i actually had to think about. before the final, i had calculated that i needed a 93% to even get an A in the class. so, after doing what i could and trying as hard as i could to do the ones that i wasnt so sure about, i just turned in the test. and seeing as how i got a B in the class, i dont think that i got a 93 =(.
after the final, i called up jay cause he came back from the air force school for a few weeks. i dont remember what we did, but we ended up at olive garden eating with olivia. that was fun. that night, me, jay, and my sister's boyfriend sonny, were leaving for lake tahoe to snowboard for the weekend. so after olive garden, i drove jay home so that he could grab his stuff and then we went back to my house to get everything ready. sonny came around midnight or something. we were planning to leave my house at 4am, and from what i recall, i think we did. but i dont know why, but i didnt sleep any. well, i know why, but i dont really wanna say because im sure most of you would think that im stupid. but after saying that, i think i'll tell you why anyways. after sonny came and we all finished packing, jay opened up need for speed: underground and started playing it. we played for an hour or two and then jay fell asleep. and then sonny went to take a nap. me, on the other hand, kept playing. dont ask me why, but i just didnt wanna put the controller down. ill juss say that that game is addicting. so, it was 3 and i woke the guys up. we packed everything into my car, which, i must say, actually has enough room for three guys, three snowboards, a sleeping bag, and a buncha bags. i was surprised myself. and we were off. i drove for a bit , and let me just say, i dont remember much until i realized that i had driven for two hours not really remembering that i had driven for two hours. so i finally pulled off the freeway at tracy and i let sonny drive for a bit. he drove for an hour until we got to burger king to eat breakfast. i felt refreshed after only sleeping an hour. after burger king, we made it to kirkwood after another hour and half. we all got our stuff and headed up towards the slopes. it felt good touching the snow again. we boarded for a bit, and then it started to snow. i dont remember much during that day considering i still only had 1 hour of sleep for the 36 hours. but, after kirkwood, we headed to lake tahoe to find a place to stay the night. dont really remember much of that part either. but we ate lunch at KFC. jay wanted a nice place to stay at cause last time we went to tahoe, we stayed at econolodge and he didnt like it very much. so, we went to one place and then we went to days inn i think it was. i was too tired to argue, so we just got a room there. moved everything into the room and then i just keeled over onto the bed for 3 hours. woke up and then went to chevys to eat cause jay wanted to eat there. after chevys, we headed over to harrahs to play at the arcade. stayed there for a bit, and then headed back to the hotel. went to sleep at around 2 i think and woke up at 7/730. cant remember. but we, were headed off after the complimentary donuts and orange juice provided by the hotel. the orange juice was exceptionally good. but, we headed back to kirkwood for another fun-filled day. sunday was much better. skies were clear and it just felt like a good day. near the end of the day, me and jay went to this one place called "the wave" that we saw last year when we went to kirkwood. we had decided to go down this thing this year, and we didnt back down. if you go here, you'll see in the middle of the picture, this thing that kinda looks like a cliff or a dropoff. that's the wave. here's a look from the edge of it. jay went first and he made it. and then i went after him. let me just say that i had a good time "going down" it. although, my body didnt look like it had fun, i must say that it was one of the funnest things that i have ever done. i cant wait until the next time that i do it. me and jay went down slowly this time, but next time, we plan on going right off of it. we'll see how that turns out. anyways. we ended that day around 3 and we headed back towards home. jay wanted to stop by travis air force base to check out their tax free store. it really is just like a target. actually, it's more like kmart, because it doesnt have that attractive look to it like target does. he was about to buy a laptop there, but there were complications, and so me and sonny ended up just buying a bunch of junk food. after that, we headed over to solano to eat dinner. we ate at applebee's. once again, i dont remember what i ate. if youve been keeping track, i actually havent had that much sleep. but after dinner, it was 11 already. we got home at 1230 i think. i took a shower and then drove jay home at 2. i got home and slept. and i woke up only to have to work!
work wasnt so bad. but the following day was what really sucked. on tuesday, i had planned on going shopping with johnny. i woke up to his phone call and i had this major headache. so i said that i would give him a call after i slept some more. so i slept some more, but when i woke up, i still had this headache. i cant recall what i did the rest of the day, but during that night, i had woken up and i seemed to have the symptons of the flu. what could i do? nothing really, but when i woke up the next morning, i still felt like crap. this was christmas eve, and i had work. i called the store at 10 and i told them that i couldnt come in. i tried to find someone to cover for me, but again, it was christmas eve, and im sure that no one would really want to work anyways. so, i tried to see what i could do, and i was about to go to work at 3 when i was originally supposed to work at 1. i got up and got ready, but right when i was about to walk out the door, i threw up. i'm sure you didnt really want to know that, but i thought it was an important part of my story. so, my dad told me that i shouldnt go to work, and he called my manager and told him. i talked to him later, and it was ok. i felt bad for the other people closing though, cause they were gonna be a person short, even though they still had three closers. so, after talking to my manager, my dad took me to kaiser and the doctor diagnosed me with something and said that i was really dehydrated. my temperature was 94.5 and my blood pressure was really low. i ended up getting sent to the ER to get an intravenous drip to rehydrate me. i juss stayed in the bed for an hour while they were pumping saline into me. i didnt feel comfortable sleeping there, so i tried staying up. i just kept imagining myself being inflated as i was being plugged into the IV. oh, now i remember, what had happened on tuesday night. i went to buca to eat with some people. i wouldnt exactly say that i had eaten, but i was there. i remember just sitting down at the table, getting some garlic bread, feeling really really dizzy, and putting my head down. and then once in a while, i would pop up and poke at my spaghetti and eat a little. and then i remember leaving and walking to my car and driving jay home. i think that i did pretty good considering the shape that i was in. anyways, so after being rehydrated, i was feeling much better. i was originally going to just go home and drink lots of water, or at least try to, but the doctor thought otherwise. i'm glad that i got sent to the ER. it was an interesting experience. but afterwards, i went home, and rested for a bit. i went to sonny's house in cupertino because his family had invited my family for a christmas dinner. i went there with my mom, my brother and his girlfriend. i think i needed a little more rest still, cause i was still kinda out of it for the night. but that night, i was much better, and i was able to get some sleep.
other than that, i've just been sitting at home and going to work for the past week or so. new years eve was fun. entertaining to say the least. i wont go into details about that cause there really isnt much to say. but i guess that's enough for now. i hope you enjoyed reading that. i hope you actually read some of it. actually, i couldn't care more if you read it or not. not to sound mean or anything, but i think i typed most of this out for myself. so, i really do hope you enjoyed reading it as much as i enjoyed typing it all out.
until next time.
where to start?...perhaps i should start at the beginning of the fall semester.
so this fall was the beginning of my second year in college at CSM. for those that are inept in deciphering acronyms, CSM stands for college of san mateo. but i suppose if you are reading this journal, you have some idea of where i am at. anyways. so, this semester was different from my previous semester at csm because i actually had a goal set. i had my mind set on doing well. well, i would just say that this semester wasnt so bad. even though i didnt get straight A's (as if i actually thought that i would), i am actually surprised that i was able to get through the semester without dropping any classes. but i guess one reason for not dropping any of them was because they weren't all that hard. i was taking fundamentals of music, calculus with analytic geometry 3 (sounds harder than it actually is i suppose), zoology, and weight conditioning. music was a cinch, as was weight conditioning, but that's a given. music was just simple because i guess the teacher was cool. we didnt really have any homework and the quizzes were reviewed a lot. they were pretty basic also. calculus wasnt as hard as i expected it to be. i literally slept through the whole semester except for a few classes here and there. but i came out with a B. i could have gotten an A in that class, but there were circumstances that i'll go into later. zoology was probably the hardest class this past semester. the tests were somewhat hard and i was very inconsistent with them. it was mainly reading and memorizing material from the book. but there was a lot to remember, and i mean a lot. i ended up getting a C in that class. i kinda was expecting that after the first two tests and i hadnt tried any harder to do better. in the end, i got the grades i deserved in the classes. actually, i'm not even sure if i deserved A's in the two classes that i did get them in, just because it would sound too conceited of me.
and so, during this semester, i was also still working at starbucks. but at this time, i was promoted to shift supervisor. i guess this meant that i had more responsibilities and i actually had to work more also. one thing about me getting promoted was that i had to open up my availability because there was some company policy about that. i usually ended up working about 24 hours or so a week. it wasnt all too bad, nothing i couldnt physically handle. i was still able to wake up in time, usually, for my 8am class everyday. oh, on a sidenote, one thing that actually motivated me to get up was being able to see this one person in that class. i know it probably sounds stupid of me, but i guess it worked. but then, i think that i just used that reason as an excuse for myself to actually want to go to class? probably not though. that sounds even stupider. and so, having been going to school and work so much, i hadnt really had much time to do anything. i would go out here and there. watch a couple of movies. just stay at home and do nothing cause it felt so good to do nothing. i didnt even wash my car for a couple of months because i thought it would take too much energy. also, during the christmas season, the mall closes at 11 sometimes. and me, being the closing supervisor, would have to close. this meant less sleep at night? no, not really. it just meant that i would be more tired before i actually went to sleep at night. but, me, being the forgetful and lazy person that i was, didnt think to ask for finals week off. or at least certain days. so, i ended up closing on the two days before my two days of finals.
i had my zoology final at 8am on the thursday and i had closed on wednesday night. i actually thought that i would stay up all night to study for it, but i ended up waking up for a few minutes ever hour or so and read a few lines and fall back asleep. i finally gave up and just went to bed. i had all of tuesday to study. and i actually stayed home all day to study, but i just didnt have the dedication to do so. ive been telling everyone that i hadnt done so well on the zoology final because the study guide that the teacher had given, didnt even have half of what was on the final on there. although it was true, it was merely an excuse to make myself feel better. after my zoology final, i had my music final. i passed that easily. but after that, i had work again. closing. i wasnt too worried about working. but i was just mainly worried about whether or not i would actually have time to study before my math final at 2pm on friday. oh, and another responsibility that i had taken at work was to sort the weekly tips. i think the reason that i had done this was because i dont really trust anyone else. im not sure if the other workers trust me, im sure most of them do, but i cant say that i would trust some of the other people. so, i usually do the tips on friday morning. i woke up at 8 or so and headed over to starbucks. got finished with the tips around 10 and then i headed up to csm. i tried studying in the library. but i just kept dozing off. it eventually hit 120 and i figured i should really get cracking. i crammed in what i could, and reviewed what i thought i understood already and headed off for my final final.
i did the problems that i knew, and then i went back to the ones that i actually had to think about. before the final, i had calculated that i needed a 93% to even get an A in the class. so, after doing what i could and trying as hard as i could to do the ones that i wasnt so sure about, i just turned in the test. and seeing as how i got a B in the class, i dont think that i got a 93 =(.
after the final, i called up jay cause he came back from the air force school for a few weeks. i dont remember what we did, but we ended up at olive garden eating with olivia. that was fun. that night, me, jay, and my sister's boyfriend sonny, were leaving for lake tahoe to snowboard for the weekend. so after olive garden, i drove jay home so that he could grab his stuff and then we went back to my house to get everything ready. sonny came around midnight or something. we were planning to leave my house at 4am, and from what i recall, i think we did. but i dont know why, but i didnt sleep any. well, i know why, but i dont really wanna say because im sure most of you would think that im stupid. but after saying that, i think i'll tell you why anyways. after sonny came and we all finished packing, jay opened up need for speed: underground and started playing it. we played for an hour or two and then jay fell asleep. and then sonny went to take a nap. me, on the other hand, kept playing. dont ask me why, but i just didnt wanna put the controller down. ill juss say that that game is addicting. so, it was 3 and i woke the guys up. we packed everything into my car, which, i must say, actually has enough room for three guys, three snowboards, a sleeping bag, and a buncha bags. i was surprised myself. and we were off. i drove for a bit , and let me just say, i dont remember much until i realized that i had driven for two hours not really remembering that i had driven for two hours. so i finally pulled off the freeway at tracy and i let sonny drive for a bit. he drove for an hour until we got to burger king to eat breakfast. i felt refreshed after only sleeping an hour. after burger king, we made it to kirkwood after another hour and half. we all got our stuff and headed up towards the slopes. it felt good touching the snow again. we boarded for a bit, and then it started to snow. i dont remember much during that day considering i still only had 1 hour of sleep for the 36 hours. but, after kirkwood, we headed to lake tahoe to find a place to stay the night. dont really remember much of that part either. but we ate lunch at KFC. jay wanted a nice place to stay at cause last time we went to tahoe, we stayed at econolodge and he didnt like it very much. so, we went to one place and then we went to days inn i think it was. i was too tired to argue, so we just got a room there. moved everything into the room and then i just keeled over onto the bed for 3 hours. woke up and then went to chevys to eat cause jay wanted to eat there. after chevys, we headed over to harrahs to play at the arcade. stayed there for a bit, and then headed back to the hotel. went to sleep at around 2 i think and woke up at 7/730. cant remember. but we, were headed off after the complimentary donuts and orange juice provided by the hotel. the orange juice was exceptionally good. but, we headed back to kirkwood for another fun-filled day. sunday was much better. skies were clear and it just felt like a good day. near the end of the day, me and jay went to this one place called "the wave" that we saw last year when we went to kirkwood. we had decided to go down this thing this year, and we didnt back down. if you go here, you'll see in the middle of the picture, this thing that kinda looks like a cliff or a dropoff. that's the wave. here's a look from the edge of it. jay went first and he made it. and then i went after him. let me just say that i had a good time "going down" it. although, my body didnt look like it had fun, i must say that it was one of the funnest things that i have ever done. i cant wait until the next time that i do it. me and jay went down slowly this time, but next time, we plan on going right off of it. we'll see how that turns out. anyways. we ended that day around 3 and we headed back towards home. jay wanted to stop by travis air force base to check out their tax free store. it really is just like a target. actually, it's more like kmart, because it doesnt have that attractive look to it like target does. he was about to buy a laptop there, but there were complications, and so me and sonny ended up just buying a bunch of junk food. after that, we headed over to solano to eat dinner. we ate at applebee's. once again, i dont remember what i ate. if youve been keeping track, i actually havent had that much sleep. but after dinner, it was 11 already. we got home at 1230 i think. i took a shower and then drove jay home at 2. i got home and slept. and i woke up only to have to work!
work wasnt so bad. but the following day was what really sucked. on tuesday, i had planned on going shopping with johnny. i woke up to his phone call and i had this major headache. so i said that i would give him a call after i slept some more. so i slept some more, but when i woke up, i still had this headache. i cant recall what i did the rest of the day, but during that night, i had woken up and i seemed to have the symptons of the flu. what could i do? nothing really, but when i woke up the next morning, i still felt like crap. this was christmas eve, and i had work. i called the store at 10 and i told them that i couldnt come in. i tried to find someone to cover for me, but again, it was christmas eve, and im sure that no one would really want to work anyways. so, i tried to see what i could do, and i was about to go to work at 3 when i was originally supposed to work at 1. i got up and got ready, but right when i was about to walk out the door, i threw up. i'm sure you didnt really want to know that, but i thought it was an important part of my story. so, my dad told me that i shouldnt go to work, and he called my manager and told him. i talked to him later, and it was ok. i felt bad for the other people closing though, cause they were gonna be a person short, even though they still had three closers. so, after talking to my manager, my dad took me to kaiser and the doctor diagnosed me with something and said that i was really dehydrated. my temperature was 94.5 and my blood pressure was really low. i ended up getting sent to the ER to get an intravenous drip to rehydrate me. i juss stayed in the bed for an hour while they were pumping saline into me. i didnt feel comfortable sleeping there, so i tried staying up. i just kept imagining myself being inflated as i was being plugged into the IV. oh, now i remember, what had happened on tuesday night. i went to buca to eat with some people. i wouldnt exactly say that i had eaten, but i was there. i remember just sitting down at the table, getting some garlic bread, feeling really really dizzy, and putting my head down. and then once in a while, i would pop up and poke at my spaghetti and eat a little. and then i remember leaving and walking to my car and driving jay home. i think that i did pretty good considering the shape that i was in. anyways, so after being rehydrated, i was feeling much better. i was originally going to just go home and drink lots of water, or at least try to, but the doctor thought otherwise. i'm glad that i got sent to the ER. it was an interesting experience. but afterwards, i went home, and rested for a bit. i went to sonny's house in cupertino because his family had invited my family for a christmas dinner. i went there with my mom, my brother and his girlfriend. i think i needed a little more rest still, cause i was still kinda out of it for the night. but that night, i was much better, and i was able to get some sleep.
other than that, i've just been sitting at home and going to work for the past week or so. new years eve was fun. entertaining to say the least. i wont go into details about that cause there really isnt much to say. but i guess that's enough for now. i hope you enjoyed reading that. i hope you actually read some of it. actually, i couldn't care more if you read it or not. not to sound mean or anything, but i think i typed most of this out for myself. so, i really do hope you enjoyed reading it as much as i enjoyed typing it all out.
until next time.