Late Night Phone Calls Are Amazing

People don't call each other enough anymore. I mean, sure AIM and stuff works, but phone calls seem more... I don't know, close? So anyways, I've been calling some of my friends really late and just talking for a while; it's been pretty fun. A lot of people don't stay up late enough for my phone calls though... But anyways, I've talked to Simon and Zach. Simon and I just totally rambled about a ton of random stuff; it was rather amazing. Then I TRIED to get Zach to talk about his feelings, but being the meanie butthead he is, he refrained from telling me ANYTHING until I passed out at 4:55am. Then he said something, but I don't know what it is. Loser. Then I tried staying up until 4:55am again yesterday/today, because if I made it until then, he would've told me, but I passed out at like 4:30am? But so did he, so whatever. I'm doing this again next weekend. Must find out what he said. xD

But yeah, late night phone calls are probably one of the best things I could do... er... late at night? xD Need to find more people to call; Vivian's on my list, and maybe Hsiang, if he's up to it. xP This is fun; it's going to be my new late-night hobby. =D

Finally Fifteen!

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So my day started out sort of crappy. But this was like, before I actually woke up, if you get what I mean. Meaning at about 12:00-1:00am, before I had gone to bed and actually woken up on my "birthday." But yeah, I cried myself to sleep because something one of my friends said made me feel extremely crappy about myself. Totally not their intention, but what can I say. Then I got a text from one of my friends which was amazingly sweet, and it made me happy and even sadder at the same time. So yeah.

But anyways, today was pretty amazing in general. Courtney and Robyn were waiting for me in the office when I got there with presents. It made me happy. =] And then Lynette and the office ladies wished me a happy birthday, and Lynette was like, "You're only fifteen? I keep forgetting because you're so mature. You're always here on time and so responsible!" I almost laughed at the mature part. xD

Chem was sort of stupid; our whole lab team got marked off because one of our chemicals was misplaced with another lab group's, but that totally wasn't our fault. We gave our chemicals to the TA to fill up, and he only had two bottles, and just happened to mix the two up. I was like, are you f-ing kidding me... But it's okay for me I guess, since I didn't get any deductions. Still sort of pissed though. And the third lab took way longer than I thought it would; I didn't even get to my unknown... -sighs- Well, I have one more day, so I'm good.

Physics was boring; we finished up the Castle labs and got homework (-cries-). Alex was actually here; she's getting her wisdom teeth out at a later date. xD So we're probably going to work on the boat more this weekend. Sort of a bummer, but hey, it's got to be done.

I got two cakes during lunch (from Zach and Clarie) and just presents in general. So I ran around a bit giving everyone cake. xP But yeah, I love my friends. Like seriously, even with me blatantly not telling them when my birthday is, they still found out. That's saying something.

French was fun; we watch Sleeping Beauty and ate pastries. And cake. =P

After school was amusing since Ross thought he had Kumon, but then we got there and it was closed. xD What a fail.

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Then before I went to Chinese school, we went to go buy a cake since Jess was coming back, then while we're deciding, the counter ladies were talking about how amazingly pretty they think I am. It went something along, "She's so pretty! I can barely take my eyes off her; think about the guys at her school!" Ranks up there in some of the most awkward times of my life. With Mrs. Turbeville's handshake. xD

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Chinese school was fun. Lucy actually came JUST to give me my present since she had forgot it at home. I was like, she seriously did not need to do that; she could've given it to me Tuesday! But yeah.
We had a helium tank and balloons; I spent a good amount of time inhaling helium. Then I sang the Star Spangled Banner in a helium voice, it was EPIC. Like everyone around me just stopped doing whatever and listened to me sing and totally cracked up. New ice breaker technique for anywhere where there's a helium tank. Which is not many places, but hey. xP
Then Lance, Michelle, and I had this battle on that iTouch app where you unroll a toilet paper roll. The high scores went: Erica, Lance, Erica, Lance, Erica, Lance, Michelle, Erica, Lance... xD Then Gilbert came along and totally beasted us. Then Eric and I had a Tap Tap battle. =P

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We went to pick up Jess from Berkeley, then when we got home, we took pictures (with the cake), and cracked up while doing it. I love my sister. ♥

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So total count of presents (so far): Yogurtland gift card + AMAZING sketch of a kitty (Ross), two bags of candy, like literal BAGS (Courtney + Robyn), earrings (Vivian), teddy bear (Hsiang), Abercrombie gift card + brownies (Lucy), stuff for our secret plan + cake (Clarie), and more cake (Zach)! xD It was a pretty awesome day. I think Simon's coming over some time tomorrow. Not really sure when, but whatever. xD Gotta love my friends! =]

Sometimes I Wish...

...That I had a friend who I could call at any time at all when I needed someone to talk to and cry on. Just someone to listen to all the worthless crap I have to say. Someone to call when I'm upset or mad, or feeling crappy about myself. Someone like that. I'm sure none of my friends would care if I did end up calling them at midnight, since they're just amazing people like that, but I wouldn't want to bother them with trivial stuff and crap I could eventually deal with on my own after a period of time...

I guess I just want someone who understands me completely. Wouldn't that be nice...

Well, That Was Fun. xD

Anyways, I went to that school-wide award thing. Pretty boring, as always. But all throughout, I was making comments to Courtney; like when Mr. Corti mentioned "outstanding students," I would add, "like Courtney Laux," and then when he said "teacher nominators," I said, "Mrs. Turbeville" (Courtney got her award from her).

Then we were saying how we should just sit out and not go down since we'd have to shake everyone's hand and everything. Or like, how we should go in the wrong year, so I could be a freshman or whatever. xD Then I was like, "When they ask for my name, I should totally be like, 'Batman.'" And if they questioned it, I could just go, "No. Batman." xP Some dude said his name was Tom Cruz. And then there were two people who said the same name consecutively, the announcer was so confused. =P

The actual thing wasn't too bad. I made Courtney go before me, so I could scream her name. =P I just shook a ton of hands. xD Then I got a fist bump from Mr. Shack! I feel special. =D And Mrs. Turbeville held her hand out too, so I went to shake it, but then she went to fist bump it, and we kept alternating until she just grabbed my (semi-curled) hand and shook it. It was literally probably the most awkward handshake in the history of Cal High. xD

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Anyways, TA was boring. Handled everything by myself today; Robert showed up literally, the last minute of the period. Then, when the bell rang, he said, "Oh that was fast." I really wanted to punch him. No sh*t it was fast, you were here for a minute!!!

Then in chem, we had our lab final. I finished the first two labs, but literally spent 1/3 of my time that period was spent trying to get people to understand the first lab. So I was waiting for Mrs. Breton to give me a solution for the first lab (to test for a mixtures of unknowns) and then Sean comes up to me, and asks me for help, and so I figure, I'm waiting for Mrs. Breton, might as well. And then I get my unknown, and keep helping him, and pretty soon, about 1/4 of the class is gathered around me, listening. xD Ate up a TON of my time, but whatever. It was nice helping people, and Mrs. Breton was sort of standing there, smiling. And she said I'm a useful person to have in a class. =P Then after I finished the first lab, I helped people more, then I was just like, okay, I need to do this, so I finished the second lab like 10 minutes before the bell rang. By then, people were already cleaning up though. But I figure once I finish the third (and final) lab Friday, I can help people for the rest of that class, plus all of the class after that.
It was ridiculous though, even with all that helping people, I still finished most of the final, so I figure if I was mean and refused to help people, I would've finished the whole thing today. Which is weird, since it's pretty long and is supposed to take 3 days. But anyways, I got the first two labs (three experiments) totally perfect. No hash marks (deductions)! I was so proud of myself, it was actually sort of sad. xP Ah well, one lab to go. =D
Her solutions were pretty colors too; the first one I got was yellow, then the other two were a pale green and a nice red/pink. I'm waiting for a blue or purple. ;D

Physics was pretty easy; we just continued Castle #3. Alex, Brit, and I seriously had a food fest. I ate my Twix and brought out raspberries, which we dipped in Alex's caramel (we also dipped apples and M&Ms in caramel), then Brit had Razzles and pita chips too. It was pretty awesome. Every single time we're in physics, the three of us always have something to eat. xD

Lunch was pretty uneventful. Nothing out of the ordinary at least, although I did sing "Xiao Jiu Wo" with Hsiang.

French was spent in the lab, researching our business. We didn't do much, Sarah spent most of the time emailing/texting her friends, so I just put together most of the PowerPoint.

Then Brit and I basically just wrapped our whole boat frame in duct tape today; it was pretty amusing. We were talking about how like, by the time we were done, our boat could go across the Atlantic Ocean and still not leak. xD And she had this DELICIOUS lemon-raspberry cake. And cookies... ♥ Then we just lay on her bed and read books, since Alex is the clearest on our design, and we didn't want to screw anything up. xP

Today Was... I Don't Know. Weird? Eventful? Annoying?

Anyways, TA was boring as always. Courtney didn't show up until like, the last 10 minutes of the period though. Seriously. I don't care if she woke up late. She needs to get her butt here on time. Her and Robert both, I'm sick of having to answer a bajillion phone calls from annoyed parents AND write passes for late students because both of them feel like sleeping in. Maybe I'm just in a bad mood today, but I'll get to why later.

Math was boring. We learned stuff, and I did my chem pre-lab plus the math homework (since he changed it ><). Then I shredded the old homework assignment. =D

We watched Cyrano de Bergerac (or part of it, at least), in English. It's not a half-bad movie, I actually really like it. We're watching a play production in the new theater next class too; I'm happy for that.

Lunch was pretty awesome until the end. Basically just all the regular poking/punching/crap. But then near the end, there was a condom on the floor (unused, but still no idea what the hell it was doing there), and Robyn, being Robyn, decides to pick it up and chuck it at people. So I was just like, okay, that's sort of gross, but whatever. Until she tried to shove it down my shirt. Yeah, that's right. She picked up a condom, and tried to put it down the front of my shirt. I think I went into like a shock phase for a little bit, but then afterward I just got mad. I just didn't even want to be around that place anymore, so I just got my stuff and left. Right as the bell rang, in fact, which was good timing.
Robyn, if you're reading this, I love you and all, and most of the time, however much I may complain, I really don't care what you do. You're fun to be around, and one of my best friends, and generally awesome. But you really need to learn what going overboard is...

Then in Euro, I was getting ready to take the final, then Mr. Lambert asks me for my grade in the class, and I told him. Given that I have an A-, which I guess most people don't have, he says I don't need to take the final and REFUSES to give me a test. I was like, "WHAT. THE. HELL. I want to take this DAMN test!" I was PISSED. Seriously, if I somehow fail the book report essay thing, and end up with a B+ in the class, I'm going up to him and like, MAKING him give me an A. I'm sure refusing a student an opportunity given to other students is against some rule. But that, combined with the whole lunch episode, just made me so frustrated that I just sort of went, "Just screw this." I laid my head down in my arms and cried for a little bit, to be honest. Then I fell asleep until like 2:30, but then when I woke up, I felt much better, so that was nice. I'm still slightly pissed though... Weird as it sounds, I WANTED to take that damn final...

So after school, Alex, Brit, and I went to Brit's house to work on the boat project, but we had to drop off Claire before. So we did that, and as Maria was backing out, this teenage guy like, makes a left turn and clips our bumper, then SPEEDS off. So Maria GUNS it, honking her horn, until the guy pulls over, then get out of the car pissed. The first words out of her mouth were, "WHAT THE HELL?! YOU JUST HIT ME!" No kidding. Brit was all like, "Aw crap. She's pregnant and pissed." So the guy tries to deny everything, and Maria's just so annoyed. In the end, they just trade insurance information and stuff, and we went on our way. But yeah, at the time of the scrape, I was just thinking, "Damn, this is NOT going to be a good day..."

So we did absolutely NOTHING on our boat today. All three of us were so amazingly tired, we just sort of sat around and looked at each other, and reached a consensus that we were not going to get sh*t done. Then Kayley (sp?) comes over, and she and Brit had this rather... interesting talk about guys. And Brit's current crush. I was just sort of like, "Meh..." I really don't get all this girl gossip and stuff... But then after Kayley left, we ate some food, and watched some Youtube videos, and just ignored our boat. Joy. Ah well, whatever, it was relaxing for once.

So all in all, more eventful than my average day. Not exactly in a good way, but... -sighs- Whatever, I guess everyone has amazingly stupid or just plain bad days in their life. I'm going to go sleep more now, and re-energize.

This Boat Project Will Be the End of Me

Seriously. I'll go into that later.

I brought Courtney her pie today! She didn't even know what it was until lunch though (I wrapped it), and even then, I opened it for her. xD But she didn't eat any of it at school. I guess carrying around a half-eaten pie WOULD be sort of troublesome... Kudos to Ross for leading me to where their English class was though. They weren't in their classroom today; they were in the computer lab for some reason or another. So I show up, then Courtney looks at Ross and is like, "I hate you." xP I have my resources, and I WILL find you. =P

Anyways, I actually wasn't as tired today as I thought I'd be. Until the boat project. So TA was boring, as was chem and French. Our chem lab final is going to be so easy, it's laughable. You can ask anyone in the class for help. Like seriously? Wowww...
Physics was actually pretty nice; we barely did anything. We DID start Castle #3, which is rather confusing, and get our quizzes back. I got 34/35! I just lost a point on some explanation thing because apparently my evidence wasn't able to be observed. -sighs- But whatever, I was one of two people who got 34/35, and we set the offset. I think that's the only time I have, and ever will, semi-set the offset. It seriously made my day, I was so ridiculously proud of myself, it's sad. But whatever.

Brunch was rather boring. Heard a lot about Turbeville's test, apparently it was killer. Welcome to the real world. Her tests in general have gotten easier since last year though, but I heard lots of people didn't finish, which really sucks. =\

Went to a CSF meeting during lunch, but totally forgot my volunteer hours, so I'm bringing those tomorrow. Then I just hung around the freshmen for the majority of the period, but I did go and hang out with Courtney/Robyn/Ross/Tommy for a while. I stole Ross's backpack, and when he came to get it back, I latched on, and he actually swore. I was like, "OMG Ross swore!!!" It was amazing. Then I fail sang a song with Hsiang, it was sad. He's a pretty good singer though, he has a nice voice, even if it is a bit quiet. =P

Okay so the boat project. That thing is like the bane of my existence right now. We've spent a grand total of probably at least 14 hours on that thing, and it's not even CLOSE to being finished. I sense long hours in the future. But yeah, right now we have most of the frame done, we need to attach the sides and everything. I hope to God we are able to row this damn thing across the pool, because we need that extra credit. It'd be nice if we placed too (1st, 2nd, or 3rd). But you know, two petite girls in a boat versus like, two football players? Slight disadvantage there. At least it'll look awesome when we're done. We will MAKE it look awesome. xD

Boat Project

Anyways, Alex, Brittany, and I worked on ours today. Well, Alex got the whole setup and pieces done yesterday. Before I got to her house, she and Brittany had done a bit of decorating, and after I got there, we did a bit of physics/chemistry homework. Then Brittany left, and Alex and I assembled almost the whole boat. And we ate cherry pie with French vanilla ice cream. ♥ Not going into details until the race (and pictures!) but all I gotta say is it's going to be AWESOME.

Slightly contradictory to my ranting last post. But is this is cute or what? =]

Just STOP

My dad NEEDS to stop bugging me about studying. It's seriously pissing me off. It's not like he even knows anything that's going on in my life. Jeez. He never asks about my day, he doesn't know my friends (like ANY of them, excepting maybe three?), he doesn't know my schedule, heck, he doesn't even know where I AM half the time, and there's seriously no amazingly significant difference in my life from when he's at home or when he's on business trips other than I get pestered about studying less when he's gone. I wouldn't mind AS much if he actually talked to me about more than just "You need to stop talking to friends and study/play piano!" So just seriously. He needs to stop.

Kitten Love ♥

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Just to negate the big blocks of text, I'll be posting pictures of kitten love every once in a while. =D

Chinese School is AMAZING

Anyways, TA was boring. Finished two assignments in math, watched the rest of Lord of the Flies in English, did NOTHING in Euro. Got tortured a lot during lunch. xD Happy "Hug a Short Person" and "One Happy Day" today! =D

Chinese school was amazing today though. So Michael was seriously like HIGH. He would start laughing for no freaking reason at all, it was hilarious. xD We read the lesson over a bit, then had a party. =P Josephine and I got pizza from another class (thanks Hsiang!) and ate chips and drank whatever drinks we had. So basically, Stanley started playing "You Belong With Me" on his iTouch, then we ended up syncing four to play at once, and belting out the lyrics. It was awesome. Lance actually knows like all of the lyrics to the song, and he's not a half bad singer. And he goes really high sometimes, it's really funny. Then we folded ninja stars and threw them around (and Michael made his epic eight point ones), and played sentence pictionary, which failed since pretty much no one was paying attention.
We had a raffle drawing too. Our teacher isn't teaching next year, so I just threw all my tickets into the bag, and it was really funny, since I had like 15-20 tickets and everyone else had like three. So the first two tickets were Stanley's and Jimmy's, then she drew like 10 of mine (only got one prize though, or else that would have been unfair), Josephine, like five more of mine, Allison, a few more of mine, then Lance and Andrea. It was pretty funny, everyone was like, "OMG Erica, why do you have so many tickets?!?!"
So yeah, Chinese school was pretty amazing. Last actual day of class; next week is the end-of-the-year ceremony. I have successfully survived yet another year of Chinese school! xP Go me!

I Feel So Off...

Yes, it's 2:20am, I'm still surviving on 2 1/2 hours of sleep, and I feel very very off. I doze off a lot normally, but I'm zoning out like every two minutes now. It's really weird. Then I just feel weird in general. It's not a very good feeling; it's like there's something wrong with me. And then I'm crazy tired, but I REALLY don't want to sleep. Blah, I'm going to go try to sleep (I doubt I can though), and hope stuff gets better in the morning. I doubt it though, I've been feeling off since Sunday... What the hell is wrong with me?

Hugs

Hugs are good stuff. Yeah, contrary to popular belief, I am NOT hug-a-phobic. It's just that hugs are very often awkward. And I don't do awkward. =P But yeah, in general, hugs are actually rather nice. They're sweet. They make me feel loved, and feeling loved is always a nice feeling. =] And I have nothing against giving people hugs either. It's just usually weird if you randomly go up to someone and give them a hug. But hey, if you really want a hug, then sure, I'll give you one. And if you look like you need one, yeah, you're getting one. xD So yeah, I have absolutely nothing against hugs, so you people can just erase that mindset from your mind.

Bored in French

As always. But we're at the lab today! xD I'm so not used to a desktop keyboard anymore; it's sort of sad. Ah well.
Anyways, I wrote this whole spiel during chem since I was so bored after the test, but i showed it to Alex and forgot to get it back. =P Ah well.

So TA was amazingly boring today. I was tired as hell; staying up until 4am was definitely NOT a good idea, especially since I had to wake up at 6:30am. Yeah, 2 1/2 hours of sleep. What a fail. xD So yeah, I was just dozing/half sleeping during TA.

The chem test was harder than usual, but not too bad. I got a really weird answer for one of the work problems though, so I probably got that one wrong. Ah well. Then I just rambled for a while... Er... a page and a half. xP And finished my chem homework.

Brunch was boring; I punched Zach and got restrained (like always) in return.

I did not get ANYTHING we did in physics. I sat there and just smiled and nodded. xD We have so much homework! Ah! D= Then we did Castle Lab #2, which I half BS-ed since I wasn't there Tuesday when we started it. And I didn't get far in tutorial the day after...

Lunch was interesting. Just the usual. Got harassed a bit more than usual I guess, but meh. Then I smacked people more. And more people got involved; Ross actually wasn't passive for once! It was sort of funny; I was about to punch him, and then he was all like, "Watch out. Watch out. Watch out." so I was confused but it turns out Mr. Corti was walking by. xD Good thing I didn't punch him until after...

And now I'm in French. Fun day. Piano later, which will probably suck. And I just remembered that I was actually supposed to make a post on hugs. Woops. I'll do that later; I've got time. xP

Love...

Love is amazing. Love is blind. Love means caring more about the other person than yourself. Love means the ability and willingness to let those you care for choose their own course in life without any insistence that they satisfy you. Love is Romeo and Juliet, Paris and Helena, Orpheus and Eurydice, Pyramus and Thisbe, Lancelot and Guinevere. Love is giving it your all without asking anything in return. Love is like a bowl of ice cream on a wonderful summer day. Love is taking a walk at night, just looking at the stars. Love is that warm fuzzy feeling that goes from your toes up when you see that special person. Love is being able to joke around and tease each other as much as you want, but with another side to the play. Love is falling asleep with him (or her) on your mind every night. Love is being happy whenever you see that person smile. Love is here, and now.

...And what could be love is causing some problems and doubts for a little DINOKitty here.