10 hours of disneyland with 2 7 year olds and 2 adults is exhausting.

death cab was awesome tonight! without ben gibbard, that band is nothing and they know it.

lets start with the bad... UCLA has fucked me over yet again. i am ineligible for financial aid apparently. thankfully i am only there 2 more quarters. sadly, i have no money to pay for those 2 quarters. i can't say i don't know where my money went. becuase it went to rent and a lap top. all things i hadn't planned on paying for when i set ( Read more... )

superman returns. hands down. it might be as good as spiderman 2 even.

and pirates is pretty good still, even with the addition of captain jack sparrow. i have been to disneyland 3 times in 4 days. awesome!

i dropped my summer school class today, so now my mission is to find a library to volunteer at. if i had 1 more child development class i could've applied for an actual job through city of LA, but with my luck i would've been stationed in the san fernando valley or something. i need to up my hours at borders though, or find a second job. becuase ( Read more... )

it only took me 3 days of class to realize that i do not want to be a classroom teacher. the though of being in charge of 20-30 young children is not only terrifying but sounds like suicide. i also realized that my expectations of myself as a teacher are not realistic and i could never attain the love and care i would want to provide my students ( Read more... )

so my boyfriend is in arrowhead working on his next novel aka his grad school thesis. he comes back sunday but will only be here a week. then he's staying up there for about a month and only coming back down for specific events and food. it's silly but the longest we've been apart for almost a year is like four or five days and we're still less ( Read more... )

my birthday has gone off pretty well. it started on friday when christian and i celebrated it. he took me to see les mis and then we went to pink's. we learned that their chili fries are more awesome when you put nacho cheese on top. and we also decided that they should close the doors once the show starts. if you miss curtain, that is too bad ( Read more... )

having my body on summer hours really sucks when none of my friends are on the same schedule. for instance, my boyfriend goes to bed at 1030 and wakes up at 5. i on th eother hand go to bed at 2 and wake up at 9 ( Read more... )

well, my first year at ucla has come to an end. i feel like i wasted an entire school year. the whole time all i could focus on was summer. i couldn't see the here and now becuase i didn't care. i simply didn't want to be there anymore. even the thought of being there made me miserable. i learned a lot though. academically and personally. i ( Read more... )