something random

Aug 23, 2009: I haven’t written anything about myself in a while, so I thought I would add something in case any of my friends still go on wordpress. I’m not really sure what to write though! Honestly, how is it that people can just pour their thoughts and emotions into a blog online? I could barely keep up a diary in junior high. It ended up being used for poetry.

Poetry.  I can talk about that. I use to write poems all the time.  I haven’t written poetry in a while, though.  I tried getting back into my poet days last summer, when I wrote a poem about a really cute badminton player. Who, by the way, ended up dating a girl in Sacramento, and for all I know still is, so it’s not likely he’ll be seeing my poem any time soon. Maybe I should start up poetry again. Perhaps I could start a collection of poems about guys who I want to ask out.

Ehh, probably not. I think the badminton player and a redheaded civil engineering major (I love red hair) were the last two guys I had a sort-of crush on. My faith in guys has gone down the drain ever since I realized that the guys I  attract want the fast lane. I told one of my friends that if these are the only guys who exist then I will never have  a boyfriend. She said no,  I will be married by the time I am 27.  Hah!  Now, I do realize that there are guys out there who think with their brains, insead of..ahem.. something else, but so far I only found one who is single and I would actually date. Unfortunately, he was on the quiet side and we were coworkers, so our conversations were basically: “Hi. How are you. Have fun at work today.” I wonder if I should just give up on relationships and accept my fate as a crazy old cat lady?

My, wasn’t that an optomistic post.

la snowbunny

Sept 13, 2008: For Halloween this year I’m thinking of being a snowbunny. Yes, a snowbunny. I just need a white shirt, skirt, boots, and… bunny ears! Cotton tail! I’m excited. It all started when I went to play badminton with my usual group of badminton friends and Kelly noticed I was wearing a pink PJ shirt and denim shorts and put me in the middle of the court, joking that I should continue looking cute so that way the guys on the other team would go easy on us (they did, but I think that was because they knew we were all beginners). Well, the bunny thing started when, as she was pushing me to center court, she was like: “no one wants to kill a bunny,” and later on I said that next time we play I should wear some bunny ears too. So now it’s a funny thing between us that someday I show up wearing bunny ears and the pink PJ shirt to be our team’s mascot. And then today, when I was waiting for my eye checkup, I thought that it would be fun to go as a bunny for Halloween, so… a snowbunny! Now that I have a costume in mind ahead of time (*cough* not last possible moment, like last year *cough*) I just need to search around these coming weeks and put my costume together. When I graduate I’m going to miss silly moments like these XD

graduation jitters

Wow, I found this saved as a draft from a long time ago. I finished it up just now.

July 12, 2008: This going to be my last year as an undergrad, and in less than 10 months I am going to head out into the “real world”. Several of my friends graduated in June, and they all say the same thing: “life after college sucks.” After talking with one of my friends on aim today about her plans for jobs, I’m even more nervous. She said that there’s really not many biochem. jobs that pay high enough for you to live on your own until you get a Masters, and all Masters programs want high GPAs. She didn’t get the high GPA she wanted so she’s going to earn a degree as a pharm. tech to support herself while she lives at home and studies hard for the GRE. All of this left me wondering what I am going to do after I graduate. So, my plans for this year are to…

1. Talk with an advisor about masters programs that will land me a decent job (can I fall back on a state university as a last resort? or do jobs not hire there?)
2. Study more seriously. That means cutting back on APhiO.
3. Go to a lot of career workshops. I should know what companies look for in applicants. Yay for the Career and Internship Center!
4. Look for an internship. I got involved in one last year, so that should help. And I’m working now, so that will look good on a resume.

If I follow my plan, I think I’ll at least be on some sort of career path like my friend. Who knew that college would be the easy part?

Ow.

Being sick is no fun

July 7, 2008: Maybe there really is such a thing as Murphy’s Law. Last week I went to a cousin’s wedding out of state and I missed 2 days of work, thinking I can pull in extra hours this week. And then yesterday, when I was biking over to Borders to join two of my friends in a jogging/walking workout, my throat felt like it was tightening or something. At first I didn’t think anything of it. I could still talk, right?

Well, five minutes into walking (me and Kelly stopped jogging after several minutes, while Edith, ever the athlete, continued down the bikepath as if jogging was like doing a few pushups), swallowing hurt. A lot. As I listened to Kelly talk about what I had missed when I was away, that little pain in my throat grew into a lets-annoy-Tamara pounding. I felt a little better when we reached the university’s horse ranch, because there was a really, really cute baby horse that was nuzzling against us and who wouldn’t feel better if a super cute baby horse was being all cuddly? After feeding it some hay, we continued down the bikepath, and I wondered if Kelly thought it was weird that I was just nodding my head and smiling and saying “oh wow” or “oh my gosh” when neccessary, rather than chipping in like I usually do. I told her about my sore throat, and she said it was probably just the smoke from all the fires in California, and that I would get used to it. She had felt the same thing last weekend, and her grandma had told her that smoke can do that to people. Relieved that it wasn’t some cold bug, we continued on, and now I even joined in with actual sentences.

That is, until we reached Borders again and my throat felt like it needed a tranquilizer. Tommy and Chris joined us for dinner, but I could barely swallow the food from Pluto’s, and so I stuck to my nodding and smiling, which sucked because I hadn’t talked to them in a while and I wanted to know how they’d been. After dinner everyone went to get ice cream, but I figured I should probably head home. After the goodbyes, I got on my bike and, in my foggy state, went in the wrong direction. I realized this once I reached the train station. I doubled back and, after several zig zags through downtown, I somehow made it back home. I thought maybe if I go to sleep early I would wake up refreshed, but instead, here I am, typing on the computer and missing yet another day of work.

As much as I want this to be the smoke like Kelly thought, I think that I have to face the fact it really might be a cold. Bleh. Someone find a cure already!

Second Time’s a Charm

blogging!

July 5, 2008: Yes it’s true! I started a blog Maybe it’s because it is the fourth of July weekend, and all my friends are away visiting their families, while my family is here in Davis and I need something to do. Or maybe it’s because a lot of my friends in Alpha Phi Omega already have a blog of their own, and so I thought I would get in on the action. Whatever the reason, this isn’t my first blog. My first one was started fall quarter, also at WordPress.com, and it lasted for a week. There were three posts, one about pilates and the others about my escapades in Alpha Phi Omega. And then I just seemed too busy to update it. Last week I signed on to my account, wondering if maybe I should add something after a 6 month hiatus, only to find that my posts had disappeared. I’m not sure if this was because I was gone for so long or a highschool student decided to have some fun in between studying for the SATs. And so I decided to start another one. Now that it’s summer, I have more time to update it and add in fun stuff like notes about music and movies. I’m also adding in pictures now to make the blog more colorful. So, while I will definitely miss my first blog, in a way it worked out. Because now I can start fresh with some new ideas. Yay for blogging!