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June 29th, 2007 ~ Friday |
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1:36 a.m. Today was the day of finding
things. And I’m very happy and very
excited about it. 1.)
I
found my credit card. Now before you
go and judge (“Miss Maruko, how could you have lost your credit card!”), let
me say that I have lost my credit card 3 times this month. But each time I KNEW I had lost it
somewhere in my house. I knew it was
in one of my coat pockets or in one of the pockets of my pants….I was just
not feeling the need to go look for it.
Therefore, I considered it “lost”.
Well, I knew that I had put my credit card on my dresser, but when I
looked it wasn’t there. So today, I
finally started cleaning off my dresser, and voila. Right underneath the very first CD lay my credit card.
2.)
I
found a CD from 2003 where I had backed up my files. Yay! That means I have re-found all my
compositions I wrote during college (that I was forced to compose, against my
will), all the stories I had written in high school and college
(voluntarily), and various other random happy and nostalgic documents I also cleaned out my
closet. Summer is my cleaning season,
as far as I am concerned. I don’t
believe in Spring Cleaning. Why
spring? I’m already sneezing from
allergies, why should I subject myself to dust? Summer is perfect. It gives me a purpose,
gets me organized before the new school year, and lets me purge all the junk
I’ve been keeping (needlessly, usually) for the past year. I’m telling you…I’m still holding on to
festival forms and tapes from 2001 (before I got to In the meantime, I still don’t
have my voice back to normal. It’s
getting there, but I still sound….not quite myself. I am sleeping. J
I am practicing. I am Wii-ing. I am
taking ridiculous pictures with my new camera (of George, Moose, and various
other inanimate objects that I have nothing but love for). I bought a new salad bowl and salad
hands. I’m surprisingly excited about
that. I saw them on the food network,
and I’ve been looking for them ever since.
And I bought rice bowls. And
soy sauce bowls. (Those of you who
were raised with traditional Asian parents know that you can’t just have rice
in any old bowl, it has to be a bowl specific for rice. And it has to be blue and white. J )
Okay, maybe that was just the rule in MY family growing up, but it
stuck. So after many years of guilt, I
have finally bought proper rice bowls and soy sauce bowls. My mother would approve. AND, last but not least, I made
an attempt to make Gyoza (pot stickers). It went…all right. They tasted good! They did not look good at all,
however. I do NOT have the crimping
technique down at all. And then the
grocery store didn’t have circular won ton wrappers, so I had to buy the
square kind. And they didn’t fill
properly. And I didn’t put enough
filling, so they got all puffy and then deflated when I opened the lid. It was very sad. But delicious. AND (this is really the last
one)…I am off my sleeping schedule.
Already. At this rate, maybe
I’ll go full circle by the time school starts again! Sigh. Hope you’re all having as
relaxing of a time as I am! |
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June 23rd, 2007 ~ Saturday |
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1:00 p.m. As We Go
On, We Remember, meow meow meow
meow Well, school’s out! I’ve been resting, and trying
to get healthy again. There’s nothing
like lying on your couch, playing wii all day
=D I’m watching food network and home
and garden network. And I’m a little
bit annoyed that Arthur has moved times, and is no longer on at 4:30. That was my 4:30 show! Oh well. I plan to go out into the world
today, basically because I have no food.
I also plan to get back to practicing cello. For the past 2 weeks, I have not touched my
cello at all. I’ve gotten home, and
spent the rest of the time resting in bed.
It always makes me sad when I don’t have the physical energy to do the
things I enjoy. This year, more than any other
year, I’m more saddened than happy to see the end of the year. This years 8th graders where my
very first middle schoolers at the school. Granted, both schools “welcomed” me in two
completely different ways, but nonetheless…there was a lot of change in both
places. A lot of improvement. And in the end, it was 3 years. And after 3 years, it’s harder to say
good-bye. Okay, I’m going to go rest and
then go grocery shopping. Happy Typewriter Day! |
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June 14th, 2007 ~ Thursday |
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5:00 p.m. Flu Eyes We all know I’m sick. I feel it necessary to announce it,
otherwise 10 people ask me, “Are you sick?”
Last night, my mom (who came with my dad for PV’s concert) walked in
my door, looked at me, and said, “You have the flu.” Surprised, I asked her how she could tell,
and she said, “You have Flu Eyes.” I
responded, “I do?” walked over to the mirror to look at my eyes…and they
looked normal to me. “How can you
tell? What do Flu Eyes look
like?” But my mom wouldn’t tell
me. Go figure. I tend to try to clean a lot
before my parents come. My mom has
this habit of walking around my home and fidgeting with everything. This visit was no different. She cleaned the inside of my microwave, and
my dishwasher latches. Yeah. The latches. As I lay on the floor, resting for the
concert, she was walking around my kitchen cleaning. It’s a mom thing, I guess. At least it’s my mom’s thing. But now my kitchen is really clean J Anyways, I’m going to rest
now. I’m not leaving my bed. |
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June 1st, 2007 ~ Friday |
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6:05 p.m. My dulled
rage My day started out great. Even though I only got 2 hours of sleep, I
was excited because of my geeky power point I had made (my first one
ever! My mom would be so proud), my new
zip drive, my new digital camera, and my cool pictures of George I had taken
with said camera. And even though I
wasn’t my usual cheerful self, I was in a good mood (despite my fatigue). And then…I head about my tiny
VV class sizes next year (though I’m really not concerned about the classes
themselves), and people utterly lame….it’s not enough that we’re kicked out
of our own room for a month. It’s not
enough that, for my 5 classes I teach over there, I’m in 4 different
places. It’s not enough that poor
middle school has to go looking for me every day to figure out where class
will be. I have to put up with loud
annoying and rude people walking by and disrupting my class. With flags.
Yes, that’s right, with flags. And stupid Mr. G with his GAWFUL My Heart
Will Go On. ::: shudder ::: I wish it wouldn’t. No offense to those of you who like it,
but that song makes me want to rip off my own ears and eat them. It might actually be worse than The
Graduation Song. The Graduation Song
is a rip off and completely insipid and repetitive, but at least it’s cheesiness doesn’t cause me literal
pain. Celion
Dion causes me literal pain. And then, I didn’t get this
little sticker thingy for my car that says I’m registered and legit. So I go to the DMV. 70 minutes later, my name is called. I had no idea it would take that long. No idea.
I should’ve taken homework to grade, but I didn’t think it would take
70 minutes. So while I sat there,
bored out of my mind because I had taken everything fun out of my bag, I drew
the following: At least my boredom made my rage
go away. And now I’m just hungry and
sleepy. So I’m going to go take care
of both those things. In that order. |
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May 28th, 2007 ~ Monday |
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3:11 p.m. Small
Things In Life I am a huge believe that it’s not
the big things, but the small things in life that make life happy and worth
living. For instance, I bought new
pots and pans on Saturday. They’re
orange. And they’re made by Rachael
Ray J
So this weekend I have been enjoying cooking with Rachael Ray
cookware. I called my family to let
them know. Last night, I found out that Janos Starker (a cellist who has the most amazingly
beautiful cello sound) had his Bach Suites CD at my favorite place: Barnes
And Noble! Except my local B&N didn’t have it; Spectrum did. So at 9:30 at night, I drove to the
Spectrum to buy myself a CD. They
music area was completely packed, though there was only one other couple
hovering around the classical section.
They were well into their 60s and had some kind of European accent
(I’m not quite sure where from….though they kept speaking in a foreign
language). The woman had big frizzy
long hair, and the man had a jacket with the patches over the elbows. They blocked me from Tchaikovsky (I was
hoping to find a Janos Starker version of the
Rococo Variations) for a really long time!
They….practically set up camp there.
There were these huge stacks of classical CDs around them, and they
were listening to all the samples.
They were there before I got there, and left after I left. I tried to smile at them, but
they kept on giving me these hostile, “Why is anybody under 50 in the
classical music section” kind of looks.
The woman, especially. Anyways, I found my CD and took
it up to the cashier. And that’s when
the European couple cut in front of me!
Whatever. They bought their huge stack of classical
CDs, and then the grumpy woman said something to her husband in another
language. The husband then asked the
cashier, “Do you have Legally Blonde 2?”
I almost burst out laughing right there. Legally Blonde 2. Who would’ve thought! Nothing about this couple said Legally
Blonde (much less the SEQUEL), and I was absolutely amused. Legally Blonde 2. Heh. Okay, that’s about it. Hope you all are enjoying your 4-day weeked. I have
been sleeping. And grading. And playing Wii. And practicing. And eating potatoes. |
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May 19th, 2007 ~ Saturday |
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8:18 p.m. Rip Van
Winkle Yesterday, I took my 5th
graders at VV to the elementary festival (and they rocked it). But afterward, I was SO exhausted. I was not at all prepared for the
exhaustion that awaited me, but by the end of the day I had such a bad
headache, that I decided to forgo the
PV Carnival, and just go home. (Well, that and….2 years ago, my first year at PV, you all
kind of traumatized me a little bit when I went to the carnival, and I’ve
been a little frightened to return. ) And it turns out, good thing I
didn’t go. I got home around 4:30 in
the afternoon, and I fell asleep by 4:45 at the latest. I woke up at….are you ready….9:15 the next
morning. Yeah. I slept a lot. Even for me. I hadn’t washed my face….I hadn’t changed
clothes….I hadn’t eaten anything on Friday….I just fell asleep. And I slept through my phone ringing, which
very rarely happens. I am not a
sleep-through-things kind of person.
In my life, I have only slept through my alarm one time….and that’s
when I had mono. So needless to say, I am a bit
alarmed that I slept for so long. I’ve
been doing pretty well (for me) the last couple weeks in terms of sleeping,
that I’m rather surprised to see my binge sleeping happen. Oh well. In other news, I hit my head SO
HARD on my car on Wednesday. No
kidding. I was hopping into my car (it
does require a bit of a hop. I wasn’t
just being jaunty) and…misjudged the height of my ceiling, and completely
cracked my head on the ceiling of my car.
Right on my eyebrow. I hit it
so hard that my eye began to water (just the one closest to my eyebrow),
and I couldn’t see straight for a
bit. Feeling sulky, I got out of my
car and walked back into PV to ask the nurse for an ice pack. She gave me this “you again!” look, and
asked what happened. And proceeded to
check my head (which was becoming swollen and red). Oops….I’m just realizing that the ice pack
is still at VV. D’oh! I will have to remember that on
Monday. But in the end…I had to take
the ice pack with me to VV, and I didn’t really bruise (yay!!!). And nobody noticed, since I have bangs
covering the afflicted area. My head still hurts, though,
even if there is no lasting scar.
Stupid head-attacking car. Okay, I’m off to play Wii. |