so i've been back in san diego for a week.

highlights:
friday the 23rd [and quite a bit into the 24th]:
most importantly, it was my first [and not last] free friday of the semester. after lunch, emily's friends matty and willie came over, along with aryanna. matty drove us all down to the mexican border so that we could a. go shopping and b. eat delicious tacos. shopping spawned a fantastically flannel idea- we all buy the same flannel shirt and wear it now and over emily's birthday weekend excursion. finding [delicious and authentic] tacos was harder than we all expected, but we found some. most of us ditched the flannel- no need to look like a gang that close to mexico. we spent the rest of the night at horton plaza, the hotel del coronado, driving around downtown, and gambling. yes, i gambled. :] and i was the only one to win anything. i netted around fourteen dollars and won emily about tweleve. everyone was jealous of my two cent/five cent slot skills. after we were back in the dorm, aryanna and i lasted until four in the morning. ridiculously awesome night to say the least.

saturday the 24th:
that morning, my phone went off, waking me up. it was a san diego area code and i ignored it. when i got around to checking the message that had been left, i discovered it was chipotle. i had won a free dinner for four. :D i was uncharacteristically lucky that weekend. emily, aryanna, and willie helped me eat the burritos.

sunday the 25th: opening claire's care package brightened up the beginings of sadness. saved it for just that reason. essentially not stopping since mid-january caught up with me. now i have an exciting new chicky plate and water cup.

new classes: art history: gothic-modern, sociology, communications, statistics, rhetoric and written argument.
[fucking comm is the new fucking philosophy].

also:
i was right in at least one case [ten points.]
i just don't know how to feel about some things. [most things?]
that's all you need to know.


yogurtland tonight. :]

i am nearly done with my first semester of college.
but more importantly, as of 1:40 this afternoon i am DONE WITH PHILOSOPHY.
XDDDD

i am beyond excited. the final went pretty well. i only missed one on the online portion and the written final went about as well as the last midterm that i somehow pulled an A on. so let's hope for another A. [speaking of....i've been getting a lot of A's. its been really great, especially since i was freaking out in august, thinking that i would fail every class/wasn't cut out for college. it got so bad i couldn't sleep some nights. ugh.] it did piss me off that the teacher didn't even show up for the final, he just sent his TA's. but i got over it because a. i don't like the teacher. and b. the TA's are hot. :D

now i don't have anything to do except study for my last final [anthropology], sell back my textbooks, and pack.
i leave wednesday some time before lunch.

i haven't done much in december because i didn't buy a bus pass.
highlights:
     i went shopping with my maam at horton plaza on saturday. i think horton is even better than south coast plaza because it has tons of affordable stores that i actually like to shop in. plus it has the biggest forever twenty-one of my LIFE.
     friday i went to sea world with emily and abby. i love walruses, narwhals, beluga whales, and sharks. i could live in the shark encounter. i love it there so much. it's toasty and there's water noises and sharkies. i would stop the moving walkway and just lie on my back and watch sharks all day.
     that night, after sea world, abby dropped me and emily off at SOMA where we waited in line with hordes of seventh-grade scene whores for the 3OH3! concert. i had to restrain my compulsion to yell 'FUCKIN' SKANKS.' i did. inside, emily and i snagged some bench seats along the wall by the front of the stage- we had no desire to be smother/stomped/moshed to death in the pit. they ended up being the best seats ever. no one got too close to us because we were close to a pole and when we wanted to, we could stand up and rock out four feet higher than everyone else. the first band....pirate something or other was okay. I really like the two-man band 'chain gang of 1974' that came on next. their cd was free on myspace. sweeeeeeeet. the third band, innerpartysystem, was awesome. they had this crazy lightshow and so much BASS. then 3OH3! came on. THEY WERE SO GREAT. i freaked out. the crowd freaked out. intenssssssssse. the whole crowd was jumping- it was 2000+ people in one room all rocking out. if you haven't been to a standing-room only rock concert, you're missing out. there's this INTENSE energy that the band starts and the crowd feeds on it and then off each other and then the band gets crazier...... its amazing. it was definitely the best concert energy-wise that i've been to. and every band had the INTENSE BASS that vibrates in your fucking soul and changes your heartbeat and just rocks. so overall, a fucking great night.

that's pretty much all i've done since thanksgiving besides the occasional yogurtland or in-and-out visit.
i can't wait to come home.

i just bought shoes online.
how exciting is that?

i kinda thought it was.
especially since i said it was a gift. i'm too cheap to pay extra to get it giftwrapped for myself, but i did send myself a note with the package.
in 6-9 days, i will be getting a decent-sized box filled with shoes AND a ridiculous note.
one of which may not fit [DAMN YOU CLEARANCE SHOES!]

but it'll be exciting to get another package.
i've gotten one letter and one package since college started.
both are from my dad.
:/
they count, but not really. [they count just about as much as sending yourself shoes counts...]


today was an easy class day- i start at eleven with linguistics and finish at three-fifteen after rhetoric written argument.
and that's with an hour and forty-five minute break in between.
tomorrow is my 'hard' day.
i start at eight with art history and go until eleven-fifty with an hour break between ten and eleven.
anthropology is a fun class; i have a great teacher who is funny and interesting. she showed the class the myotonic goat video that lain showed me last year. that only reminded me of pappert's class and of fun times with lain. D;
philosophy, my last class of the day, nearly goes over my head. half the things the teacher talks about i don't want to think about and the other half i don't understand.
my plan for that class is simple: extra credit. :D

two days ago, emily and i went on an adventure to the fashion valley mall.
its pretty much the COOLEST MALL OF ALL TIME.
and i've been to a couple of malls, mon amie.
after some difficulties with public transportation, we made it to the mall. its set up as a two story outdoor mall and has nearly every store you'd want. well, every store i wanted.
thanks to bargain hunting i bought various tanks, shoes, and bags. [surprise!]
we crammed our way on the trolley with our bags around eight o' clock sunday night.

on saturday, emily's friends matt, willie, and kristin drove down to visit.
the five of us spent the day in downtown san diego at the beach, seaport village, salvation army, in and out, and yogurtland.
the waves were really calm but the ocean was too cold and choked with seaweed for me to stay in long. it was nice being in a car for the first time in a week and a half- walking everywhere really takes its toll [especially on my calves- they look hot btw. :D]
most of all, driving around at night with deathcab and crazy indie music blasting just made me miss my friends back home.

i should get back to reading for anthro and philosophy class tomorrow.
i'l probably end up watching some more of last season of the office.
:D