One of the many things that get to me about my AsAm class:

My professor chewed me out for trying to use anecdotal evidence and said it was unbecoming for a pre-law student like myself.

The whole part of being a trial attorney is cobbling a story. And there are stringent rules that an anecdote must pass for it to be used in trial, but once the evidence has met the requirements, it's evidence - law is about anecdotal evidence, so that one can put a case together - put eyewitness reports together and try or defend a case.

Hm. Too much fun.

*insert adjective* conversations I have with people in the suite over because they are too lazy to walk up the stairs to watch their own TV, so they come over to my suite to watch our TV.

Belle and friends want to watch the Daily Show.
Child A watching TV in the suite that is not his, but mine.

Belle: Hey, can we watch TV at 11?
Child A: No. I'm watching the World Series
Belle: Oh, really? The game is gonna take that long?
Child A: It's only the 5th inning. *clearly annoyed that I'm speaking to him*
Belle: *passive aggressive* oh, then maybe we'll just watch it in your suite.

*Belle walks over to the third suite and sees that they are also watching the game*

- ten minutes later (10:40PM) -
*Yankees 4 runs behind*
*Yankees got a run*
*Child A cheers*
Belle: Oh awesome. But they probably aren't gonna win. I mean they are too behind.
Child A: I don't want to hear your comments. *rudely*
*Belle shocked to hear how rude it was*

- 10:55PM-
*cleaning dishes in the kitchen*
*conversation about how we wanted to watch TV*
*Child A sits there and keeps watching TV*
Arron: So what did you want to watch?
Belle: Oh, Jon Stewart, it'd be nice if I could watch TV in my own suite.
*Child A sits there and keeps watching TV*
Arron: Hey, can you watch your own TV?
*Child A glares at him, and runs quickly (even though it's a commercial for the game) to his suite*

Uh. You have a TV in your own suite that no one is watching - you can't climb the stairs? Hell, you can take the elevator up there. I can't believe how rude he was in a place where he was already intruding. WTF.

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Child B comes to our suite to watch TV and he just happens to pass by as Belle plays Owl Child.

Child B: Owl Child! I love them!
Belle: Oh really? I just discovered them, they're pretty cool.
Child B: Have you heard (some song)? It's so raw.
Ilya: Raw?
Child B: It's really good in the Bay Area
Ilya: See, raw is what a steak is.
Belle: Yeah, I have never heard of that. Raw is a steak.
Child B: Well, I grew up in the ghetto.
Belle: Really? I thought you were from a nice part of Palo Alto.
Child B: Oh, I'm from Oakland.
Belle *incredulous*: Really?! Cool! Which part?
Child B: West...
Belle: You get off at the West Oakland (BART) stop? Awesome! What high school did you go to?
Child B: College Prep.
Belle: You're not from the ghetto!!! Oh, were you on scholarship?
Child B: *pause* No. That was the only high school I could've think of in Oakland.
Belle: Yeah! You're from Palo Alto or something.
Child B: Los Gatos.

Asshole! You're wrong. Then you pretend to be ghetto - not that they would say raw either - then you lie about from being from Oakland!
I like Child B though. He's pretty cool, even if he can't walk up the stairs to his own TV.

By the way, it takes like 30 seconds to walk up the stairs.

I finally found the perfect music to listen to for my paper - an Epicurus critique of Exodus:

Christina Aguilera - Stripped and Back to Basics I.

Why do I always complain about papers of the Greek/Roman/Judeo-Christian nature? Columbia really believes in Western culture and thinks it's utmost important that we learn/question/analyze/be indoctrinated by it.

Or better yet,
Phelan Guan: they (white people) still dont' realize that they're a minority in the world

1000 more words to go. :D

All I can think about is how ANGRY I am.

I just came from Board Bonding which means no sleep all night, not until you get back to your dorm which was 8AM this year. That's fine. That's about four hours of blissful sleep which makes it satisfying because you crave it so badly. I was hella looking forward to it, I only slept for about 30 minutes on the train.

Then I come back to my room and the heater is gurgling. I'm not kidding, it's fucking gurgling. The logical answer is that there's water in the system and it's moving around and whatnot. The illogical reasoning as this is made at 8AM without no sleep is that it sounds like a mouse running around.

I didn't realize how much the noise bothered me until I tried to sleep. I can't. It's too inconsistent, too random, not enough to meet expectations for sensory adaptation. I can't sleep. I am sooo cracked out right now. I ended up trying to sleep in the lounge but that doesn't really work because i'm too tall for the longest sofa and there are people walking in and out.

I keep telling the heater to shut up. How drunk, how stupid, how irrational is that? (I didn't do any drinking at Bonding but a lot of others did) The heater can't shut the fuck up, but it needs to shut the fuck up.

The maintenance people who didn't come until about four hours after I asked for them said that they can't do anything about it. It's just water going through the system so it can be heat up for when it gets cold. I am also the first person to complain about the problem. Of course I'm the first person who is having the problem. It's not Maintenance's fault. It's not their fault I can't sleep and that I'm running on almost no sleep but if I can't sleep, I need to move out. I need to fucking get out of here, this is ridiculous.

I know who I might be able to move in with, and I know it would only be sleeping on the floor at different places but I fucking paid good money to live here and to sleep. I don't need the heater on, I need to sleep.

I need to make up the sleep that I lost this weekend. I need to let it stop bother me but it's so persistent.

My music is turned up but I can hear the gurgling when the song changes and it makes me cry, all of this makes me want to cry out of frustration.

The music needs to be turned off eventually - my neighbors need to sleep if I don't.

This would have never happened if I went to school in California, like what my plans always were. I wouldn't live in a building that needs heating or a building that was built in the 1800s.

Edit 101109 1337: Silence is golden. Let's see how long this lasts.
Edit 101109 2321: The evilness has reappeared.

Thursday
10:35 Midterm
2:00 Class
5:30 Work
9:30 Fundraising Meeting
10:00 VSA/AAA Collaboration
11:00 Up!

Friday
10:30AM - 12:00 Morningside Heights Fundraising

Saturday
8:00 PM Board Bonding

Sunday
12:00PM Board Bonding over
3:30 CultureSHOCK Meeting
4:30 Political and Service Committees Kickoff
5:30 Work
8:30 Work over

Monday
11AM Class

So when am I supposed a) catch up on my work, b) do my work, c) make the most out of this weekend?

UGH.

I'm writing my first paper this year. THIS SUCKS.

I need more than a paragraph because I could be reading right now for another paper.

Fake homework is really awesome. :D

I am a private school kid now.

I resent that.

Thank god for financial aid.

Stop being difficult. I should start ignoring.

Job A: Aim High Gateway
Job B: YGC - Juvie
Job C: Aim High Central

Joyous.

"Did you say it? Make a plan. Set a goal. Work toward it, but every now and then, look around; Drink it in 'cause this is it. It might all be gone tomorrow." 0524, GA.

The best wedding ever.

OCM Guide!

( I need... )

A few weeks ago, a friend and I went to the mall. We passed by Johnny Rocket's and saw an old couple dancing in front of the restaurant, extraordinarily happy and without a care in the world. That was the day that I learned what true love really was. GMH.

I was at a bookstore and an obscure author was doing a book signing. Nobody was coming over--he looked dejected. Then three teenagers came over, got his autograph & took pictures with him. It looked like it made his day. Later, I talked to them and they said they had never read his books. GMH

I am a lesbian and I was walking through a busy town holding my girlfriend's hand. As usual, we were glared at and yelled at a lot. Then we passed a woman walking with her daughter, who was maybe 7 years old. The little girl asked her mom why two girls were holding hands, and we heard her say after we passed, "Because they love each other." GMH.

My friend's younger sister was coming home by herself when a guy on the bus began hassling her. An elderly man on the other side of the bus stood up and demanded that the guy "leave his granddaughter alone". The guy stopped, and got off at the next stop. The elderly man was a stranger. GMH.

http://www.givesmehope.com/

*SHAKES FIST* ooooo. After clicking through 320 pictures, I found out that WEST POINT REFUSED TO TAKE ONE PICTURE OF:
a) Asian-American male who
b) is relatively tall,
c) very skinny,
d) and has dimples.

WHERE IS PHELAN?!

Thus, I have no picture to post.

*frowny face*

http://www.usma.edu/Class/2013/RDay%20Album/index.html

The sky is beautiful.

http://www.eonline.com/uberblog/watch_with_kristin/b123160_power_of_attorneys_no_match_amazing.html

Tammy: no one expected some little Asian girl to win. (kinda quote)

Victor concluded, "My entire life I've felt I've done what was expected of me...this was a crazy thing to do. Crazy, unexpected, completely unconventional, and it actually makes life sort of interesting."

YAY TAMMY AND VICTOR.

I forgot where my happy place is.

What is your happy place?

I am so unbelievably exhausted.

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Q: You still seem connected to San Francisco. Do you visit often?

A: I have this insane and unabated longing for San Francisco. I come up there every chance that I get. I'll spend nine or 10 hours stumbling around the Ferry Building, drinking wine and eating oysters and getting in loud arguments with passers-by.

It's like that ex-boyfriend or ex-girlfriend that gets more and more beautiful the longer that you've been broken up from them. When you were with them, they were difficult and didn't shower enough and never paid you compliments. And then you leave, and they're the most beautiful person you've ever dated. That's how I feel about the city when I come home.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/05/07/DDPQ17FIB2.DTL&type=performance

"The work of childhood should be play."

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/05/02/BUHR17281J.DTL&tsp=1

( http://thresca.tumblr.com )

HAHA: http://www.sfweekly.com/2009-04-29/news/sorry-sf-gavin-newsom-s-just-not-that-into-you/

"If I stop to think about [it], I'm gonna fall apart. We still have time left. It's too soon."
Lorelai

There are too many happy dresses on Forever 21's website.

I don't think many of us have been happy people lately.

Andrea needs to fuck off Hell's Kitchen.

California (duh)
(10/1990)
Nevada
Arizona
(12/2004)
Hawai'i
(12/2007)
New York
(4/2008)
New Jersey
(10/2008)
Massachusetts
(11/2008)
Maryland
Washington, D.C. *
(1/2009)
Virgina
(3/2009)

*Not actually a state but wants to be

States Belle has actually stepped foot in, and not just flew over, or drove through.