Archive for September, 2003

wow i was very unproductive today. i woke up at 10 am. then i chilled until noon. then i made my lunch/breakfast. grace, lynne, drea, and i went to shadyside to check out express’s fall 50-80% sale. it really wasn’t worth it. all the stuff on sale was ugly and nasty. also, there were shirts still going for $25. what kind of sale is that? today i was lucky enough to forget to bring my umbrella, and after we left express, it started to rain. boohoo. i got kinda wet, so we decided to go to panera. i just recently remembered that my old roomie from last year gave me a $10 gift certificate there. i ended up spending it on a half a sandwich and salad. i can’t believe i broke down and had a non whole wheat sandwich. i feel so bad. oh well. :/ we got back at around 3 pm and then grace, lynne, and i started to bak ethe delicious red velvet cake that we saw martha stewart make on her show. it came out really good. the frosting itself required 1 lb of powdered sugar. it was super sweet. we made the cake for ashley’s belated birthday thing. i hung out at lynne’s futon after we finished baking. i also removed all this spyware stuff on grace’s computer. before we knew it, it was time for dinner. lynne made this really good chicken and i made this egg pancake called “dan bing” in chinese. my friends liked it yummy. after dinner we quickly got changed and went to watch “the italian job”. i though it was pretty good. i heard some mixed reviews about that movie, but i personally liked it. the mini coopers in the cars were so cute too. after the movie, we came home and got ready to head out to this party ashley was co-hosting. we brought along our yummy cake. the party turns out to be this big artsy/drama pj party. we arrived, mingled a little and had cake. we danced for a bit, and then headed home. at that point i realized that i needed to start studying for social psychology. i started to make a review sheet for the exam. i have one chapter done! yay. i think i will do the rest tomorrow. it sucks that i have work. blah! okay i’ll stop rambling now. gnite! <3

i can’t believe it’s been almost a month since i’ve been in pittsburgh. how crazy is that? i have my first exam this coming friday. i’m kind of nervous, but it was going to happen sooner or later. last week was a bad week: i had all this job search junk going on. i really hope someone calls me back for an interview. it would really boost my ever-deflating self-esteem. i had a good weekend. on saturday i woke up at 9:45 am and immediately went to the basement to do my laundry. i totally beat the rest of the building. i finished my laundry by 11:30 am. at the same time i was doing laundry, i wrote my idea paper for social psychology. around 1 pm, emily and i went to quizno’s for lunch. i had my lovely caesar salad. it was delicious. i came back at around 2 pm and did my web design powerpoint presentation on ebay. did you guys know that in just this year alone, ebay will do over $30 billion dollars in transactions. that greater than all but 70 countries’ gdps! it’s pretty insane because i was looking up the financials for ebay, and the growth rate for some numbers are out of control. there are 27,000 categories in ebay, and 8 of them make over $1 billion a year. wow! so crazy. do any of you guys know how the name “eBay” came about? well the guy who invented this site was from the san francisco bay area. the e stands for electronic (obviously). pretty witty huh? after i finished my powerpoint, i made a flow chart of my midterm project. i plan on doing a john mayer fansite. maybe if it’s really good, i will actually launch it. grace, julyan, and i went to see “finding nemo” at 8 pm. wow mcconomy was so packed. that movie was so awesome. since grace still had a car for the weekend, we went food shopping after the movie. i bought all this food. i will be having turkey sandwiches a lot! we got home and decided we’d be cool and go clubbing at “touch”. that club was pretty fun for pittsburgh. the only thing i didn’t like was that the dance floor was kind of tiny. also, the guys at the club were a little too old for me.

on sunday, my group of corporate strategy met up. we decided to do our project on the supermarket industry. specifically, we want to do giant eagle. it recently opened a gas station, and we wonder why/how giant eagle is trying to diversify its products. it’ll be interesting to do research about this because i really don’t like giant eagle because it’s always overpriced and the produce is never fresh. i wish super walmart was closer to my apartment. i’d be in heaven! i went to work after the meeting and then i met up with grace to go to the waterfront. we only had a couple of hours because everything closes at 6pm on sundays. we stopped by giant eagle because there were new weekly specials. i bought some grapes, apples, and deli turkey. hehe. oh yeah, grace bought home an apple pie from west virginia. it was very delicious. we decided to go see “once upon a time in mexico” because grace still had the rental car. it was an entertaining movie, but i wish i had seen “desperado” before watching the sequel. i can’t believe it’s monday. i have to go to my two classes, gym, and then to work. after that i will come home and make dinner. then i need to start on my hw. i’m still debating on whether i want to do the case study for this week. it’s on southwest airlines, and it’s really interesting. i just don’t know if i’ll have time. i need to start studying for macro. ahh. okay i’m going to get ready for class. bye <3

wow i can’t believe it’s already sunday. where has the weekend gone? well i will summarize what i did in the past 2 days. on friday, i went to class and worked out. i’ve been working out longer this week to prepare for lynne’s 21st birthday. i came back from the gym and showered. then tania called me and asked if i wanted to do dinner with her. we ended up going to qdoba. i ordered this fajita burrito thing. i didn’t know burritos always have rice in them. oh well. i felt so bad eating the rice, so at the end i dumped some out. next time i will get a quesadilla because they are huge and have more chicken. after dinner, we walked home from oakland and went to se the 8 pm showing of “bend it like beckham”. wow that movie was awesome the only thing bad was that i tried to save seats for people, so i used my hoodie jacket to save a seat. it turns out the seats were being saved for other people. i forgot i left my jacket on the seat in front of me. after the movie was over, my jacket had disappeared with the jerks. oh well. i walked home without a jacket. this might be the reason why my nose is stuffed up. when we got home, i helped grace and lynne prepare for her party. we cut up oranges, apples, limes, and lemons to make sangria. hehe. it was fun. then we played texas hold em. that game is so much fun when you’re betting with skittles. i’m much more daring when i’m not using my money.

on saturday, julyan made this yummy brunch for us. it was great! she didn’t even include any carbs. how sweet of her after brunch, grace, juan, and i headed to ross park mall so we could buy lynne’s bday gift. grace got new glasses (they look great). juan looked for some kind of sneakers at like 4 different sneaker stores. someone came up with the idea to build-a-bear for lynne. so juan and i split a bear. i got to stuff it and we even dressed the piggy. it was so much fun. they even have little shoes for these teddy bears!! i bought a cute tube top at charlotte russe. it was for lynne’s party. i bought a couple of things at american eagle. i finally used my parents’ simon gift certificate!

we got back from the mall and i decided to do laundry. wow what bad timing to do laundry. there were 4 broken machines. and it seemed that everyone decided to start doing laundry at 5 pm. when a washer stopped, i waited like 10 minutes for the owner to come and remove his/her things, but he/she didn’t come. i ended up dumping out two washers. i felt bad, but at least i covered their underwear with their towels so people don’t see them. i ended up finishing laundry at 6:15 pm. yay. at around 7 pm, my friends and i head to “uncle sam’s subs” to get a nice greasy sub with fries. this was our one carb day, so grace, lynne, and i were enjoying it. i got the hot italian sausage sub. grace got the pepper steak and we split them. i just remembered i have some leftovers. hehe. oh well maybe i’ll eat it tonight.

lynne’s birthday was really slow to get started. people didn’t really start showing up until like 12:30 am. haha. it was fun though. i took a bunch of pictures because i was kind of bored and didn’t really know anyone there. all in all it was a good night. we ended up walking all the way back to cat man at 3 am. fun stuff huh. i have work in about an hour and half. then i will go do macro homework with megan. hopefully the macro hw isn’t too bad. i should go look at it now. sorry for my boring blog. just wanted to update you guys with what happened! <3

wow last night’s hip hop concert was crazy. there were so many people there. i had no idea this many people even knew who pharrell was. anyway, my friends and i arrived at 7:30 pm. the concert started at 3 pm or so. there were tons of openers. when we got there, the roots were finishing up. i couldn’t see them because we were so far back and there were all these tall people in front of us. lynne, tania, and i went to buy drinks and i managed to catch a sprite cap from some guy. i put it on and i looked all “ghetto”. it was funny. we got back in time to move up in the crowd. there were no seats, so it was all just standing room. oars came on next, and wow he was on for a long time. his songs were so long. it seemed that everyone knew their songs except for my friends and i. finally he got off the stage and there was another break. grace, lynne, and i moved up even closer because we were getting ready for sexy pharrell . wow there was so much alcohol and smoke at this concert. i was coughing a lot. wow when pharrell came out, everyone started to scream. he’s sooo cute. the weird thing about him is that he was like “where are all the mosh pits? i want to see at least 4 body surfers.” at this point, lynne and i got scared because mosh pits are dangerous. lucky for us a mosh pit formed right in front of us. this nice blonde girl told us not to worry because she was with the 3 guys ahead of us, and that they’d protect us. wow there were so many body surfers. a lot of them lost their shoes. the crowd dropped a couple of bigger guys. ouch! ooh at the end of the show, pharrell took off his shirt. wow he has GREAT abs. he’s so hot. i was kind of sad they didn’t stay for longer. the concert ended at 11 pm or so. we went home and i found out that my macro hw was wrong. i had to redo that. yay. i’m glad it’s finally wednesday. i have a psych experiment tomorrow night. i kind of just want to get over my research requirement so i don’t have to do anymore experiments later on in the semester. today i only have 2 classes: social psych and macro. then i’m going to the gym to work out. after my sweaty workout i’m going to work and make some money. i should be getting the new john mayer cd by friday. it’s currently “in transit to” new stanton, pa. woohoo! i’m so excited. ok i’ll stop babbling now. <3 oh yeah click here for my photoshop hw. it took me forever to make i even used a picture of my own toilet. hehe.

woo! i survived yet another week of school. i haven’t updated much because of my boring life at cmu. hehe. today, i lost my key and id card, and i was completely devastated. i found out that it will cost me $60 to replace my key since they will have to replace the entire lock. that’s so ridiculous. i wish they would just copy my roommate’s key. most of the time i would have bought my new id card as soon as possible, but this time i tried to relax. i called julyan and told her to leave our door unlocked. i couldn’t even go to the gym because you need your id card. i went to the info desk to see if anyone had dropped of my id, but of course it wasn’t there. then i went to the campus police to see if someone dropped it off there. not surprisingly they hadn’t found it either. i walked home sadly looking for my id on the ground. i figured that it would have probably blown away by now if no one picked it up. i decided to make grilled chicken salad at around 6:30 pm because i was all depressed. after my good dinner, i checked my email (in hopes of receiving an email from a good samaritan), and THERE IT WAS. the email that made my sucky day turn into a happy day. some guy found it and he lives only 2 minutes from my apartment. it turns out that lynne knows him so we go together and to get my key. i asked him where he found my key, and he said that his roommate got it from some girl who picked it up. yay! so to the girl who cared to pick up my id/key, THANKS SO MUCH!!

in other news, here is the friday five:

1. What housekeeping chore(s) do you hate doing the most?
laundry because everyone mysteriously disappears when i start a load. also, at school, i hate when i pick the “broken” washer/dryer. it totally ruins my day.

2. Are there any that you like or don’t mind doing?
i don’t mind doing dishes. i guess i’ve grown up washing dishes, so it’s not a big deal to me.

3. Do you have a routine throughout the week or just clean as it’s needed?
well, i just try to make it an effort to clean my desk area once a week. also, i try to wash all my dishes within a day. also, i do my laundry weekly.

4. Do you have any odd cleaning/housekeeping quirks or rules?
hmm, not that i know of.

5. What was the last thing you cleaned?
my dishes!

oh yeah, i’m supposed to go to this asian party tonight. i’m really not looking forward to it, but it’s free before 11 pm, so i guess i’ll go. also, ji is going to drive me, so yay.