Summer's more than halfway over :(

Internship: Day 17

Today we went to see the Bay Bridge.

I wasn't even aware that they were building a new section. So they're replacing that part up there so that it's no longer double decked. The two traffic directions will be side by side. The new bridge is pretty, but I still like the current one better. I understand that the new one is safer (the top deck collapsed onto the bottom deck during the '89 earthquake) though. But I've always loved tress bridges for some reason ever since I was little (I suspect it's because we drove over a lot of them on the way to Seattle). And okay, I know it's more of a suspension than a tress, but yeah. The double decks are a tress, so that's all that matters.

Anyway, I got a picture of the Connolly death glare. And a recording of the Zisch death laugh. Bahaha.

On the bus ride back, Connolly was going around to everybody to time and hear their graduation speech (talk about annoying), and I didn't do mine because I forgot, so I pretended to be asleep. She probably guessed I was faking, but oh well.

She also lent me her "hiking boots" (absolutely HIDEOUS, wait until you see the pictures on FB), and when we got back, the sole came off of the right one. O__O So I hid it in my bag and just walked around pretending the shoe was fine/normal. She didn't notice anything, and hopefully I can successfully glue it back together before she hates me even more.

Internship: Day 13

We talked about invasive species today. We also watched a National Geographic video with Edward Norton in it.

And went to the airport.

I hate teenagers. They are immature, perverted, disrespectful, and disruptive.

My dear mother is bitching at me about my drivers license.

My permit expires Aug. 2, and my test is scheduled for July 31. However, I can't go to the drive test because my internship graduation is that day. She's throwing a hissy fit because I had poor planning. She's extremely urgent about me getting my license and she's blowing the whole problem out of proportion.

I asked her why I can't just retake my permit test and then take the driving test then, and she asked me why I always procrastinate. Yeah, it's my fault that my dad wouldn't take me to take the test. It's my fault she stayed in Taiwan for 5 months. It's my fault I didn't have time in May because of AP testing.

Now she's screaming about how she won't care if she's in Taiwan again and I can't get my license. Talk about immature. She doesn't care that Santa Teresa is hard and that I don't want to take my test there. She thinks that each DMV is the same and it doesn't matter if I have to keep switching around for each test. She's adamant about me taking it as soon as possible no matter what.

It's ironic since most parents refuse to let their kids get their license and mine's urging me to like all hell will break loose if I don't. Frankly, it's only because her best friend's son has his license. She's forever comparing me with him.

She thinks I'm being lazy. Don't bother factoring in that I have a research paper, a project, and a final exam to prepare for. Oh, and a speech at my graduation. Yeah. I'm being lazy as hell, just like my dad.

Too bad. If I list out all the things I have to do, then she'll say that the students in Taiwan have way more shit to do than me and they don't complain like I do. Oh ho ho.

I bought this facewash about a month ago and just started using it yesterday. It was cheap - around $5. I opted for this instead of the Burt's Bees one because I have Clean&Clear lotion and in a sudden strange fit, wanted to match my face products.

Turns out I don't like the facewash. It feels weird, and it doesn't become as foamy as I'd like. Plus, the minute I applied it to my face I smelled alcohol/perfume. So I looked at the ingredients, and there is indeed fragrance in it. Plus 14% alcohol.

Next time, I'll go for Burt's Bees.

Internship: Day 8

We watched An Inconvenient Truth (my 2nd time). It just makes me so angry and depressed. It feels like we have no hope whatsoever. The planet's going to implode on itself. And yet politicians from all over can still sit inside air conditioned rooms and debate and argue over global warming. And in the end, do nothing about it.

In the afternoon we were supposed to be researching for our project and/or research paper, but all of us were on facebook and meebo. Hahaha. I tried to load House but it wouldn't. TT__TT

Internship: Day 5

Hm. I found out that my internship is actually 4 weeks rather than 3. Great. At least I'm getting more used to it.

We assembled [mini] cars today. It took my partner and I roughly 3 hours to get it to run. -__- And then we tried to use solar power to power the car, and the motor would run, but the wheels wouldn't turn once we applied the rubber band. Sigh.

Afterwards though, Akane, Chris, Kayla, and I tried to find a fondue place called Melting Pot, but it opened at 5. We thought that was too late so we just took the DASH around. We ended up at the Diridon station so that we could figure out where to go for one of our field trips. Then we took the VTA home.

Thinking about it now though, we could have totally gone to the fondue place. Maybe next Monday?

Internship: Day 2

Leland fricken conned us into this "internship." This is totally summer school. We get homework, grades, quizzes (announced and surprise), a final exam, and a final research paper. It is nothing like experimenting a type of occupation to see if you like it at all. Fucking hell.

We had a 3 hour long class in the morning. Then we took a "field trip" to the city hall in the afternoon. It was mostly boring, because the guides kept rambling. Also, one of them asked us what we wanted to do, and Akane and I said environmental science. She looked at us like she pitied us or was disappointed in our choice and responded, "Welllll.....good luck! I'd pick medicine if I were you." It was really rude.

Then it took us 25 minutes to walk from our building to the VTA station. xP When we had just passed the Virginia station, our train broke down. The brakes wouldn't release, and so we sat there for about 20-30 minutes until the engineer drove the train backwards to the Virginia stop, where we got out and got onto another train. That train was stopped for another 15 minutes or so, then switched tracks (it was on the tracks going the opposite direction before). By the time I got home, it was 5. Our class ends at 3:30.

Oh snap.

I was expecting a 5 for APUSH, a 3 for APES and APL (that was with luck too), and either a 2 or a 3 for Chinese.......

I went to Great America for Jocelyne and I's birthday (a little late for both of us). It was kind of a hassle, and in the end only four people went. But we still had fun. And we rode all the good rides except for Psychomouse. We totally forgot about that one until the end.

And while I succeeded in my goal of getting a tan, I've got horrible tan lines (which I predicted but still dreaded) that I have to get rid of before senior portrait...

I got a haircut yesterday.

Before:


I brought in this picture of Eva Longoria, not because I hoped that by having her hair I would somehow look like her. I merely liked her hair and thought it would look good/okay on me. But as usual, the barber cuts my hair way too short...People say all the time that it's to let it look better when it grows out. Well let's hope it grows out quickly, preferably in the next 3 weeks or so.


After:



I should probably have combed my hair before taking these pictures...but I don't really care right now. It's cute I guess, albeit a lot shorter than I wanted...compared with my old length anyway. Nothing like the Eva picture right? -__- I'm crossing my fingers that when my hair gets longer it'll look more like the picture.

I changed my profile picture.

I am fully aware that I look retarded. I don't like the face I'm making either. But gosh, do I love my hair...in that pic anyway. And this is blogspot where only about two people check what I'm writing, and I know they won't talk shit about me behind my back. Well I know one of them won't, the other one I don't know well enough to really be 100% sure =)

But people talk shit about me anyway without even looking at my picture here, so whatever.