'Tis the season to be studying falalalala

Hey everybody,

So, I see Carin's answered questions... but I don't see any questions haha. Oh well, I'll just talk about anything then.

I wish I didn't have to suffer through finals to reach winter break. I want to just sleep through finals and pass them in my dreams, and complete my 20 page+ essay in my sleep too. Wouldn't that be awesome? Yes it would.

So what's happened lately... well, I'm glad we're getting the Secret Santa thing organized =) I'm pretty excited for it, especially since I actually made a legit wishlist this year that has things I really want on it haha. If I don't get any of them... eh, at least I can get it myself eventually.

Speaking of Christmas, my dorm building (Stern Hall), is well... stern on their rules. No hanging stringed lights, no decorations on the outside of doors, no candles... basically, no Christmas spirit in the dorm building! =( How lame, right? Well they can't keep the Christmas spirit out of Angela, no way! I've found ways to work around the rules lol ;] I made a big paper Christmas tree and taped it on the inside of the door so no meanie sees it and tattles on our room. And then I'm making decorations for it; it looks cute to me =) I can show pictures when we get together haha. Actually, the original reason for making it was because I wanted to get a picture with me and my roommates in front of a big Christmas tree like the ones in Downtown so I planned a day for us to go there, but then one of my roommates cancelled... and there isn't much time left to go, especially with finals just a week away sooo I'm bringing the tree to us =D
Oh, I've also made a Christmas playlist on imeem that has like 60 Christmas songs I put together and I play it like all the time in the room, even when I'm out, to bring Christmas jolliness in our room =P Haha, I've gotta put a rest on it sometimes though, I think it might bug my roommates because it surely bugs me... that's when Katy Perry, Britney Spears, and Natasha Bedingfield take over until we recover from the Christmas spirit overload... then back on!

When I have time, I still work out, but lately I haven't been running as much with all the work I have now. But I've discovered a bunch of new places to do pullups =) You know those bars in closets where you hang your hangers on? Yup, that's Pullup station #1. The con about it is I can't do a full pullup without banging my head on the closet ceiling first. Pullup station #2 is the bar that holds up shower curtains in the girls' bathroom. It is a lot sturdier than I thought. Negative about that: I can only do it when nobody's in the restroom and it is square shaped so it's a big sacrifice for my hands... But my favorite place to do pullups here I guess would be the pullup bar at the track. Every place has bad things about it and for this one they are the fact that people can see me doing my pullups, it is far away from the dorm room, and my hands slip off fairly easily. Anyways, I think that's enough about pullups, I'm sure no one cares haha. If I weren't me, I wouldn't care either.

Onto social college matters... any cute guys? Eh... none that I am interested in, but if white guys are your thing, there are plenty here, take your pick. Oh, a lot of Korean and Chinese guys too. Fair amount of Indian. I know a few African-Americans if anyone wants to meet them.
I feel like I'm getting along better with my roommates, not that I wasn't before, but like, we can talk about personal things now which is pretty cool. Especially when we go on rants about why we hate boys -.- No we don't hate men, we hate boys, that is, people of the male sex that have not yet matured into the age that they are. And it's funny how in Berkeley, a place that supposedly has so many intelligent people, boys are still prevalent. I'm also kind of sad that classes are ending because I've met so many people I probably won't see anymore.... which is why I'm thankful for Facebook haha. Well, there's always my architecture classes, I'm sure basically everyone will be the same there; I'll probably have those classes with the same people for all my four years here. I wonder if I can get sick of them?

Oh, did I mention I highly dislike campus food? It's not that the food is bad... well, there are some things that you should never try... but it's very, repetitive? The dining common food is decent, but only if you go on the right days. Some days they have leftovers of the stuff people didn't eat the night before which I don't find very reasonable because if we didn't finish it off the night before, what makes them think we'd want it the next day, after it has been sitting out and reheated? Pizza is ALWAYS on the menu, same with pasta and rice and al dente broccoli. I think my expectations for college food were really low when I first came so I was content with the food... maybe I've just become a picky eater now >.<>.<

Speaking of mirrors and vanity, I want to reply to Carin's post about those freaky 6-year-olds. Those are really really scary looking >.< It's like... the makeup makes them look old but you can still totally tell they're adolescents, probably from the shape of their face or something. It's so creepy!! But I don't know if the makeup will ruin their face for the future. If they're used to wearing that much makeup now, I'm sure they won't mind wearing more to cover up any pre-mature wrinkles and nasties they get later on. Or for rich folks like them that can afford dolling up their kids like that, laser surgery and face lifts are never out of the question for them. It'd be interesting if something went wrong and they ended up looking like Michael Jackson though. =) I guess if the parents think their kids are more beautiful covered in makeup, it's their choice how they raise their children. Hopefully their kids don't look like that at school too... It would be a sad day to see a first grader avoiding a game of kickball or tag because she didn't want to smudge her mascara.

Well I'm tired. I think I'll write a better entry some other time. Need to study... and sleep. =)