If you care:  Happy Belated Birthday…You know who you are…

Well, these past few days have been difficult, mentally that is.  My sister was really sick on Sunday so her boyfriend and I brought her some tea and hot water.  She looked like she fell into a sewer and then somehow managed to slosh back to USC:  Greenish, nauseous, and tired.  She thinks it was food poisoning from a Vietnamese sandwich or something. 

Actually, since Thursday I had been studying for my stats final which was the one final that I was dreading most of all (so many equations…).  I went to a review on Thursday and then started studying on my own from Friday until Monday.  It was horrible… 

Well, long story short, I just studied, studied, and then studied some more…I started from chapter 4 (where we started) and did all of the odd problems in each of the sections all the way until chapter 9.  What did I learn?  I learned what it felt like to have a false sense of intelligence.  The questions in the text are waaaay too easy, and because of that, I was like, “whoa, I must be really smart because these are ‘so simpo!’”  I did my first practice exam on Monday and realized that I wasn’t smart at all, the textbook was just really easy…I can’t do factorials at all…without replacement?…Permutations?…why is this all so foreign to me?!!!

Monday afternoon I went to Stefan’s review which was pretty packed with all of the stupid people who were cramming…including myself…(sigh)…

I left after 1 hour and went to commons with Daniel, ate some Wolfgang’s, and then just did another practice exam.  How the time flies!  We were there 3 hours and it felt like maybe 1.

Monday night was just more studying, finished the practice exam I started at Commons and did the super-tough Spring 1998 exam which, by far, is the most difficult final…if Spring 1998 was hard, Fall 1999 was easy, and Fall 2002 was hard, does that mean students were once smart, regressed into stupidity, and now are making some sort of miraculous bounce-back?  Or is it that I’m just looking too deep into things?  Nah, can’t be that…

I set my alarm to wake me up at 6:30 am, which would give me enough time to ooze into the shower to wake myself up.  I actually woke up at 6 am…damn…whenever I have to wake up early, and my life depends on it, I wake up REALLY EARLY.  I woke up once at 5, and then fell asleep until 5:45, woke again, and then slept 15 minutes more.  I took a shower, did my makeup, ate breakfast, and met Brian downstairs, and we walked with noticeable resignation toward our impending deaths. 

The final wasn’t that bad, but it was still bad.  I couldn’t understand the first two problems at all…I hate math!  And I think I f-ed up a lot of the lower problems on each page (like each problem has an a, b, c, etc, and I messed up whatever happens to be the last part of each problem…my answers were pure, unadulterated B.S.)

Well, now I have to study for my mythology exam tomorrow and my ITP exam the next day…alas…

**–**Loretta “not to clever” Wang**–**

Here is a truly inspiration chat for all of you people out there who want to become the next big music star.  My sister and I composed original songs as children and here is a part of that chat where we reminisced about our creative past…

watermelonwish: i came back online b/c i just thought of something

watermelonwish: do you think we were smart kids?

watermelonwish: i sometimes question that because we sang songs like, “peter rabbit hadded to do habish tabish too”

watermelonwish: hahahahahaahhaa

watermelonwish: ahhaahah

AbsolutAngel64: hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

AbsolutAngel64: I forgot about that one!

watermelonwish: what does it mean?

AbsolutAngel64: well i know peter rabbit had to do something

AbsolutAngel64: and hadded must mean past tense of had

watermelonwish: habish tabish too apparently

AbsolutAngel64: habish tabish too must be some sort of jewish thing?

watermelonwish: hahahah

AbsolutAngel64: hahahahahaha

watermelonwish: i know i have to do habish tabish too at least once a week

watermelonwish: so it makes sense

AbsolutAngel64: yeah

AbsolutAngel64: so peter rabbit hadded to do something jewish

AbsolutAngel64: there you go

AbsolutAngel64: in answer to your question

AbsolutAngel64: we are intelligent

AbsolutAngel64: we were composing our own songs

watermelonwish: jewish songs even

watermelonwish: very impressive in my opinion

AbsolutAngel64: we composed a song without dreidels and latkes

AbsolutAngel64: that makes us unique

AbsolutAngel64: orrrr

AbsolutAngel64: molly mcbutter butter buttr

watermelonwish: hahahahahaha

watermelonwish: datsun, datsun, were talking about a datsun, datsun!

watermelonwish: hehehehe

watermelonwish: another of my personal favorites

AbsolutAngel64: hahahahaha

AbsolutAngel64: yes yes

AbsolutAngel64: we should come out with an album

watermelonwish: sylvia and loretta sing their childhood favorites on 50 Cds or 75 cassettes!

AbsolutAngel64: yes!

AbsolutAngel64: with hits like molly mcbutter

watermelonwish: and that summertime favorite, Datsun!  Datsun!

watermelonwish: as if these are hits…

AbsolutAngel64: And who can forget Peter Rabbit Hadded To Do

AbsolutAngel64: hahahaha

watermelonwish: hahahahahah

Oh yeah, I was watching SNL on Saturday and on the Weekend Update there was this funny thing…

“Harry Potter will have the largest pre-printing in history with an unprecedented 8.5 million books…the fifth book is scheduled to be released on June 21, under the title:  Harry Potter and The End of Trees.”

Ok.  X-2 ROCKS!  It was seriously a great movie.  The special effects were great, and Nightcrawler’s powers were done beautifully (exactly like this dream I had where I had Nightcrawler’s teleportation powers…that was one of the best dreams I’d ever had!).  The ending is cool, and has left me and my friends with many questions…I guess we’ll have to wait for the third installment to find the answers.

We went to Hollywood and ate at CPK which I had been craving for a while.  After we went to Mann’s Chinese Theatre and gawked at the handprint/footprints.  We took our picture with John Woo’s prints because he’s Chinese and so are we…we also saw the guy who played the mail-guy on Just Shoot Me!

Stupid security.  They wouldn’t let me inside as long as I had my camera (they wanted me to go put it in the car!  How ma-fan!) so Daniel and I walked out of the theatre and we went a little distance away, put the camera into Daniel’s pocket, waited 5 minutes and then went back in. 

We went into the theatre at around 10:30, so we prepared ourselves to wait for a good 1.5 hours before we could see the movie.  The Just Shoot Me guy sat one aisle away from us!  In the middle of our wait, he rips his clothes off revealing a skin-tight Spiderman costume and he puts on the mask and runs around!  It was so funny.  He got hoots and a standing ovation.  But the security broke it up.

The film started and of course, in pure opening-night fashion, there was a lot of clapping and shouting and cheering.  It was exciting actually…sometimes you can’t help but cheer when the mutants gain the upper-hand against the stupid, oppressive humans…THE MOVIE WAS AWESOME…GO SEE IT!  GOOO!  NOW!

I just bought some really expensive sunglasses…BAD LORETTA! 

Today (Saturday), I went to Tai Chi class with sweaty palms and fear in my heart.  We had to demo…for kids…the cruelest and most judgmental of all audiences; they go to a school across the street from the community center where TCWR teaches.  I was so scared that I’d F-up 24 in front of all the kids, and the fact that I messed up during practice didn’t help.  Luckily, when we had to demo it, my mind started working (for like the first time in weeks) and I didn’t miss a move…phew…

Tiffanie actually went first with a straight sword demo and her plan was to just wave her sword in front of the kids (“ooh, SHINY!”), do a pose, and then run off into the depths of Chinatown…and then we’d find her a few years later…living in the community center…or a supermarket…

After that was Tai-Chi (vomit with fear), then Dean demoed, Tuan and James did this thing…, Jessie did southern form or something, beginners Wushu did a sequence, (possibly more, but I don’t remember at all), and then these three guys did some stuff with swords.  Two of them wore yellow silks, and one of them wore orange silks…James called them Jolly Ranchers…but they’re fancy-schmancy uniforms one-upped us so I feel no remorse…they’re already rocking with their wushu skills…they don’t need pity….Oh hahaha…those three guys are actually really good friends…so good that like the group F4, they’re called W3, for wushu 3.  They’re so close…they make me sick with their wushu, their friendship, their speaking Chinese to each other, their running together…their doing PUSHUPS together…(don’t shift your eyes at me!  Tiffanie understands!  “yeah, strawberries make me fart…JEALOUS?!…” *at that moment, Tiff pushes Loretta into oncoming traffic and then claims that Loretta wanted to jump*  LIES!)

Then we went back to the community center and Jenny taught us the next part of 24 (which we forgot before…I can’t do a drop stance at all…sadness…) and then Brian went home but Jessie, Tiff, and I stayed behind to go get food with James, Jenny, Tuan, LeRon, and Michael. 

After lunch, Tuan took us home and I stayed in Tiff’s apt to help her with Java.  I actually fixed her java in like 15 minutes but it wouldn’t execute so I thought it was just a problem with her project.  I re-did the project again, and tried running it, but to my horror it wouldn’t work…stupid Borland JBuilder…

While Tiff got ready for a B-day party, I used Tiffanie’s laptop this time and redid the project one last time and this time it worked!  Yay!  But of course, the problems never seem to end, and Tiffanie had problems zipping the file.  But we finished eventually and went off to Café 84, which stopped making Krispy Kremes, so I’m sorry my precious Hawaii friends, but I can’t bring them for you…sadness, but X-mas next year, I promise. 

I bought a Jamba Juice, 5 bags of cheetoes, and then went home, ate my lunch leftovers (which leaked TWICE…bastard useless Styrofoam container!), printed out a past Statistics exam, and now I’m gonna shower and study until I die…I really don’t want to study but I have to…ahh, its really hard.  I know I probably won’t be able to go to Tai Chi this week and I’m missing out on a trip to a temple tomorrow…oh shit…life sucks…

Must eat soon…stomach eating own lining…but X-2 will more than make up for it!  Hooray!  More to come!