Student government elections are so ridiculously intense!
I talked to Muhi who is running for Maize and Blue president (which is what I voted for), and some other random guy for Unity Slate sort of followed me after Muhi left to talk to me. The politics in this are unbelievable! I've heard some real crazy stories about what people on each side will do to win a vote or put the other party to shame. It's sad that politics are just this way but I'm pretty happy that there are such dedicated students out there vouching for things I didn't realize the student body had any power over.
On a separate note, the weather this week has been incredible so far (I'm sure I don't have to convince you - if you're in the area, you know what I mean).
Yesterday, carpooled with Steven and studied for Econ with him. It gave me an excuse to be late enough for work that I didn't have to go. I don't usually play hooky but I have to say, it was really nice to get out of class and have the rest of the day under my control instead of booking it to Ricardo. And Steven and I got to geek about our aquariums (his 60 gallon looks amazing and I am jealous!)
Speaking of which, I've decided that at the end of the semster, I'm going to do 1 of 2 things:
- Completely scrap my 25 gallon and start a saltwater tank since I don't have the money to buy a BioCube or
- Move my 25 gallon's gravel into a new 20 gallon, temporarily move what are left of my fish to my 5.5 gallon, and start over with the 25 gallon picking and choosing which of my plants and fish I want in that aquarium.
For sure, I need a centerpiece fish. Either a dwarf cichlid or an angel fish. I'd really like a discus fish but those might be too high maintenance for me to handle.
Tuesday, March 27, 2007
Monday, March 26, 2007
Undeveloped thoughts
Spent the weekend nights with D, Tom, and Alandra and got to see Ava yesterday!
And spent the majority of this past Saturday doing a real thorough cleanup of my room, the bathroom, and the laundry room. Unfortunately while my bed sheets were in the laundry, Romeo puked on my bed twice (bleh) so I have to figure out what else I can do to clean it off.
Worked on my tanks a little bit too. I'm thinking when the semester is over, I'm going to sell my unwanted fish and unwanted plants back to Choice, move my wanted fish and wanted plants to my other tank, scrap the entire tank's setup, and start a saltwater tank. It'd be prime to buy a BioCube because those are more for saltwater tanks, but unfortunately, I don't have that kind of money to burn :(
I recently started a new scrapbook for myself. It'll be a compilation of major events in my life of 2007. I've never completed a scrapbook for myself before, I don't think. But I've made many for other people. What I really need to do is get a big scrapbooking bag with tons of pockets so I can organize the ridiculously large amount of equipment I have, but again with the money! I can't believe how expensive those bags are!
Anyway, Catherine moved in with Gary because her apartment lease is up and they're getting married in August anyway. She gave me this awesome crockpot because Gary already has one. It has a deep lid that I suspect you can flip upside down to use as a tray or to heat something else, and the pot itself sits on this heating thingie that you can also use as a skillet! For the first time, I can say I successfully made chili for the first time this past week. The recipe called for garlic, which messed it up a little, but now I know not to use it. The best thing, too, is that I bought these new Reynold's slow cooker liners that came with a little booklet of recipes. When I was done with the chili, all I had to do was throw out the liner and wipe down the moisture that collected on the lid.
I have a couple other things but I'm getting kinda drowsy...
And spent the majority of this past Saturday doing a real thorough cleanup of my room, the bathroom, and the laundry room. Unfortunately while my bed sheets were in the laundry, Romeo puked on my bed twice (bleh) so I have to figure out what else I can do to clean it off.
Worked on my tanks a little bit too. I'm thinking when the semester is over, I'm going to sell my unwanted fish and unwanted plants back to Choice, move my wanted fish and wanted plants to my other tank, scrap the entire tank's setup, and start a saltwater tank. It'd be prime to buy a BioCube because those are more for saltwater tanks, but unfortunately, I don't have that kind of money to burn :(
I recently started a new scrapbook for myself. It'll be a compilation of major events in my life of 2007. I've never completed a scrapbook for myself before, I don't think. But I've made many for other people. What I really need to do is get a big scrapbooking bag with tons of pockets so I can organize the ridiculously large amount of equipment I have, but again with the money! I can't believe how expensive those bags are!
Anyway, Catherine moved in with Gary because her apartment lease is up and they're getting married in August anyway. She gave me this awesome crockpot because Gary already has one. It has a deep lid that I suspect you can flip upside down to use as a tray or to heat something else, and the pot itself sits on this heating thingie that you can also use as a skillet! For the first time, I can say I successfully made chili for the first time this past week. The recipe called for garlic, which messed it up a little, but now I know not to use it. The best thing, too, is that I bought these new Reynold's slow cooker liners that came with a little booklet of recipes. When I was done with the chili, all I had to do was throw out the liner and wipe down the moisture that collected on the lid.
I have a couple other things but I'm getting kinda drowsy...
Wednesday, March 21, 2007
Makes for a funny story I guess
Last Friday, I was at the Michigan Collegiate Fair as one of Ricardo's representatives. What was ironic, though, was that I should have been on the other side of the table as one of the students visiting booths. Most candidates I even talked to were either graduating, graduated, or going back to school for another degree and I am barely and undergrad. One of the perks of going to these things: they had this amazing buffet for the employers and employer representatives. I walked off to eat lunch and take a look around and Lynda was like "Just don't get another job!" Ironically, little do they know, I have been applying to a ridiculous amount of other summer internships that are mostly out of state.
My mom's birthday was this past Friday and we ended up celebrating on Monday at Tuesday's (when she said she wanted to go to Tuesday's, I thought she meant she wanted to go on Tuesday). She likes it there because they have this great salad bar (all-you-can-eat of course).
Friday night, D was supposed to get home from Europe but instead, his flight from JFK to Detroit got canceled. From there, every possible thing that could have gone wrong, went wrong. All night, Maggie and I were trying to figure out what to do. If he took a bus home, he'd have to take 4 suitcases with him on a taxi for almost an hour to Port Authority before getting on a 15 hour bus ride and paying extra money for having so much luggage. There were no more cars to rent except round-trip cars, and even if he could get a car, he would have to pay extra for not being at least 25 and then drive through the bad weather. There were no more train tickets available for the time being, and the airline reps told him the earlier flight out to Detroit he could definitely reserve a ticket for was Monday afternoon. It was such a mess. Saturday, he was supposed to get put on 3 different flights - one was a standby flight that he waited in line 3 hours for, and the third flight was delayed 3 times before finally arriving in Detroit 10:15pm (over 24 hours since he was supposed to be home). His luggage was on the previous flight he was supposed to be on to top it off.
The first thing we did Saturday was rent The Terminal and laugh about it :)
My mom's birthday was this past Friday and we ended up celebrating on Monday at Tuesday's (when she said she wanted to go to Tuesday's, I thought she meant she wanted to go on Tuesday). She likes it there because they have this great salad bar (all-you-can-eat of course).
Friday night, D was supposed to get home from Europe but instead, his flight from JFK to Detroit got canceled. From there, every possible thing that could have gone wrong, went wrong. All night, Maggie and I were trying to figure out what to do. If he took a bus home, he'd have to take 4 suitcases with him on a taxi for almost an hour to Port Authority before getting on a 15 hour bus ride and paying extra money for having so much luggage. There were no more cars to rent except round-trip cars, and even if he could get a car, he would have to pay extra for not being at least 25 and then drive through the bad weather. There were no more train tickets available for the time being, and the airline reps told him the earlier flight out to Detroit he could definitely reserve a ticket for was Monday afternoon. It was such a mess. Saturday, he was supposed to get put on 3 different flights - one was a standby flight that he waited in line 3 hours for, and the third flight was delayed 3 times before finally arriving in Detroit 10:15pm (over 24 hours since he was supposed to be home). His luggage was on the previous flight he was supposed to be on to top it off.
The first thing we did Saturday was rent The Terminal and laugh about it :)
Tuesday, March 20, 2007
Love and hate
Easy
Too easy
To give into the words that you say
Stupid, stupid, I must admit
It's really weird because... doesn't it seem like the people you love the most also hurt you the most? I feel like people who want what's best for me end up upsetting me more than anything.
Too easy
To give into the words that you say
Stupid, stupid, I must admit
It's really weird because... doesn't it seem like the people you love the most also hurt you the most? I feel like people who want what's best for me end up upsetting me more than anything.
Thursday, March 15, 2007
For what it was while it lasted
I had a conversation last summer with an old friend about wishing to never see someone again. I'm not trying to sound like a suck-up or anything, but I don't think I would ever wish to never see someone again. I might not want to see someone for awhile because of a grudge, but in my head, it makes sense to eventually see that person again (even if not to reconcile).
Someone that has hurt me - I would like to see again and find out if he/she has changed. I think we talked about this the most, actually. Even someone such as my father, eventually I would want to find him, call him up, ask him out to lunch, and tell him after years how I feel about him and what he has done to me. It might be painful, but I would hope that somehow, I could either gain some kind of closure or even better, we'd have the opportunity to start over. At the very least, I might find out he has not changed a bit and then I could just disregard the whole thing. Not that I would ever want to be, but maybe a person has to be unforgivably hurt to wish never to see someone again.
Someone I really cared about but lost touch with - I would like to see that he/she has become successful and maybe have the chance to reconnect. I wouldn't want to grow old and realize that along the way, I never tried to express appreciation to people who have mattered and made a difference in my life. This is why I love reunions. I mean, in the first place, how does a relationship with important someone even fade away?
Someone I didn't really care for - well why not see them again? It is only another opportunity to give them or get another chance to be more than acquaintances. Or I guess it could just confirm what you already think about them. It's like kids that hate certain types of foods and then grow up to realize the really like it.
Someone I have a deep history with - I don't think (up until maybe recently) I have been in a situation where I have no communication at all with someone I had a deep or lengthy history with. Even Kyle and I are still great friends and keep in touch every week or so. I think maybe I would like to see him/her again to see where life has taken them from the person I once knew well.
Someone I never really knew but should have - I was thinking recently about relatives on my dad's side of the family and have been wondering what they're up to. I don't even know how I'd even begin the search to find my cousins on his side. The last I remember, a few of my favorite older cousins were in the army in Taiwan. Maybe about 7 years ago, I saw them in uniform for dinner for about half an hour before they had to return to their base... which means by now, they could be married and even have kids.
Am I just being naive? It's just that I always wonder if people I remember will remember me.
Someone that has hurt me - I would like to see again and find out if he/she has changed. I think we talked about this the most, actually. Even someone such as my father, eventually I would want to find him, call him up, ask him out to lunch, and tell him after years how I feel about him and what he has done to me. It might be painful, but I would hope that somehow, I could either gain some kind of closure or even better, we'd have the opportunity to start over. At the very least, I might find out he has not changed a bit and then I could just disregard the whole thing. Not that I would ever want to be, but maybe a person has to be unforgivably hurt to wish never to see someone again.
Someone I really cared about but lost touch with - I would like to see that he/she has become successful and maybe have the chance to reconnect. I wouldn't want to grow old and realize that along the way, I never tried to express appreciation to people who have mattered and made a difference in my life. This is why I love reunions. I mean, in the first place, how does a relationship with important someone even fade away?
Someone I didn't really care for - well why not see them again? It is only another opportunity to give them or get another chance to be more than acquaintances. Or I guess it could just confirm what you already think about them. It's like kids that hate certain types of foods and then grow up to realize the really like it.
Someone I have a deep history with - I don't think (up until maybe recently) I have been in a situation where I have no communication at all with someone I had a deep or lengthy history with. Even Kyle and I are still great friends and keep in touch every week or so. I think maybe I would like to see him/her again to see where life has taken them from the person I once knew well.
Someone I never really knew but should have - I was thinking recently about relatives on my dad's side of the family and have been wondering what they're up to. I don't even know how I'd even begin the search to find my cousins on his side. The last I remember, a few of my favorite older cousins were in the army in Taiwan. Maybe about 7 years ago, I saw them in uniform for dinner for about half an hour before they had to return to their base... which means by now, they could be married and even have kids.
Am I just being naive? It's just that I always wonder if people I remember will remember me.
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