Me
my name is melissa. i am 27 years old and i'm still not sure what i'm doing with my life.
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Thursday, October 31, 2002
i stayed until almost midnight working on that annoying castle for homecoming. it was kind of fun though. we wrote our names on the pole ^^ and i didnt sleep at all last night so i could get to school by 5:30, and combined with the lack of sleep the nights before, i fell asleep in half my classes. monica was weird enough to come early too, which is kind of odd cuz she was a lot more involved in our homecoming that she was in hers, but thats okay. the class dance was fun. yay for the seniors. we own :D
yay for korsunsky who wrote me a lovely rec. i read it cuz she made me fold all of mine myself 0:)
mel was bored at 7:48 PM.
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Wednesday, October 30, 2002
yay. i finished my wellesley app and turned it in and i almost caught up on gov hw (i did 15 16 and supreme court stuff so all i have left is ch 14) i'm kind of depressed that my mom is gone cuz i'm missing her cooking already. monica and i are seriously gonna lose weight these next two weeks, and its not cuz we're trying to.
mel was bored at 2:48 AM.
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Monday, October 28, 2002
yesterday i finished my wellesley essay, only to discover as i was turning it in that it was too long because the max for wellesley is 500 words. i did lit as best i could but after comparing it to other ppl's hw, i think it was too short. gov was the only fun part of my day cuz we learned the class dance. today, after school i went home and slept instead of going to homecoming because i didnt feel well. i woke up, got lost on the way to youth commission because the city has issues with numbering streets, and as a result, i was ten minutes late. for the new officers, i was nominated for both vice chair and chair of the youth commission, and as a result, my votes were split and i lost both elections 6-5. so now i have no leadership on the youth commission (or anything for that matter) i have to catch up on gov homework, and i need to rewrite my wellesley essay. i've been eating mint and creme oreos to make myself feel better and now i feel like a fat bloated blob. and i'm still hungry. oh yea. my mom leaves tomorrow. and call me crazy, but for me, thats a very bad thing.
mel was bored at 9:56 PM.
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Sunday, October 27, 2002
YAY for my day. well, saturday. colin's a dork and called me at ten in the morning to go out or whatever, but i went back to sleep :D my sister found tree's calculator stuck in my car door or something weird like that. i drove my mom around so she could get new glasses cuz her glasses' frames broke in the middle and she really cant drive without glasses, and her problem is that her new lenses have to be transition, bifocals, light, and a ton of other things. and she's leaving on tuesday. soo uhh.. she might not have normal glasses in taiwan :\ then i finally went to barnes and noble (which i've been wanting to do for days, but NOT FOR LUNCH ::cough leo::) and read each and everyone one of the little house on the prarie set again. and after finishing those, i realized that i still had an essay to do. jason came to bn while i was there, so my mom took my car home while i went with jason. we watched tv at my house until i fell asleep after which he left without waking me up. booo to him for that. but yay for my day. and yay for the yummy food like spaghetti and see's chocolate.
mel was bored at 2:00 AM.
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Thursday, October 24, 2002
i paid thirteen dollars to see my SAT scores today, and my scores piss me off. i got a 740 on my writing, which is okay i guess. i want a 750 but a 740 is close enough. but math... oh my god that was so bad. i got a 760 the first time, but i got a 630 this time. i dont know how, i dont know why, but i swear i must have been one off in my bubbling or something. there is no way i could have deproved by 130 points.
colleges better take the highest score and not the average, because i refuse to take the stupid math test again. ::kicks collegeboard::
mel was bored at 10:16 PM.
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i had my wellesley interview today. there were so many coincidences that it was just odd: she went to collins, miller, and graduated from lynbrook in '92. she did speech and debate, and liked keller. she majored in intl affairs with a minor in economics. we applied to a lot of the same schools. the only problem is that she spoke about her major and minor and then asked me what i wanted to do, and i said the exact same thing, and my mom brought up the idea that she might think i'm trying to copy her or something. i dont think she'll think that but you never know. and i stammered a lot in the beginning. and i dont think i should have answered the where else i'm applying to question, but she just seemed curious and its obvious wellesley is my first choice or else i wouldnt be applying early decision. and it was the same schools that she chose anyway so she wont think my choice of schools is bad or anything. i also think i blinked too much cuz it was really bright in her house but other than those minor things, i dont think i did anything horribly wrong... at least i hope i didnt :\
mel was bored at 8:36 PM.
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Wednesday, October 23, 2002
i finished soldering my electronics project today just as the class was ending, so i didnt have time to trim the leads. i brought it home and the leads bothered monica too, so we decided to just cut them off. my mom wasnt home and i didnt know where the wire cutters were so i was thinking about using the paper cutter or something. monica suggested using scissors, and being eager to make my project look pretty, i didnt think very clearly, and i used the scissors. i think i killed them. the scissors still cut just fine, but now you can see little scratches on them from where the wires were, and it makes a scratchy sound when you open and close them. sigh.
mel was bored at 4:37 PM.
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Tuesday, October 22, 2002
i just finished my interview with hardy and er. bleh. i think i talked too long when i was answering her questions. and i think my grades are just too low in general. the first thing she asked me after i'd sat down was what happened to my grades. all the college people always are like "your testing is fantastic but your grades.... [dotdotdot]" they seem to think ppl that score well in standardized testing would do well in school as well. i guess i'm just an anomaly. sigh. i wish they would at least make it total gpa instead of university gpa, because then my gpa would at least be over 3.5 instead of my current 3.38. she said out of the blue that pomona was a reach, and when i asked about wellesley, she said that she really had no clue because "wellesley is sort of like an ivy league and you never know what the ivy leagues want." how lovely. at least she seemed relatively impressed with my youth commission stuff. she was also interested in the fact that a nice little chinese girl wanted to do something that wasn't related to math and science. she asked me a lot of questions about diplomacy and traveling and why i'd like to go into politics.
she said she respected me more for the fact that most people work hard at school and its their top priority, while i chose 'the road not taken' and i was dedicated to stuff outside of school like yc conferences and camp campbell. i hope ppl reading my app's at wellesley feel the same way :\
mel was bored at 3:29 PM.
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Monday, October 21, 2002
i would just like to say that people that eat spicy cheetos with chopsticks are weird. and so are blog stalkers. but people that eat spicy cheetos with chopsticks are definitely the weirder of the two.
my weekend wasn't all that great. i went to leo's house after school and it was funnn. boys are weird. who the heck cooks steak like that?! i have to admit it was pretty yummy tho. i left the party at like.. 6ish so i could get to the meeting place by 6:30. but then the coordinators realized they'd left the food so they had to drive to the office in milpitas and all the way back, so we didnt even leave until 8. and then the stooopid driver got lost, and made us sit in the car for an extra hour. an extra hot, stuffy, twisty-road hour. i was this close [picture index finger and thumb a millimeter apart] to puking all over everyone. and then we got there, and i climbed into my bunk, and i immediately fell asleep. saturday morning, i was woken up by ppl turning the lights on. for all that dont know, that is pretty high up there on my list of the worst ways to wake up. we spent the entire day over-analyzing the youth commission: how we see ourselves, how we want to be seen by the community, what our goals are, etc. the next day, we did a ropes course, which was fun except for the fact that we had loooong debriefs after every activity. "use a metaphor and apply this activity to your life" and stuff like that. but home was good. i hit the bed and fell asleep almost immediately, woke up for dinner, and went back to bed. then i woke up to do my term paper and take a shower, and i thought i'd done a pretty good job, but when we got to class everyone's paper was twice as long as mine. oh well. i'll just get a b in that class. after school today i slept, then went to vf to get some ppl presents. and now i have to the stupid act iv stuff for lit. die hamlet. oh wait--he does. die study questions.
mel was bored at 9:25 PM.
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Friday, October 18, 2002
fresh choice: people that went to fresh choice today are cOoL. there were a lot more ppl than i expected, so yay for seak :)
stats: booooo to stats. even though this hw is a million problems long, its still only worth sixth points. what a waste of my time. its past two and i'm not even finished yet. grrrr to people that leave half the questions blank and copy off the board ::glares:: blaschke better be there tomorrow because i want to get credit for my homework.
weekend: tomorrow after school i will go to leo's party and then i will go to gish and then we will go to some camp for our yc retreat. and i get back sunday afternoon. i hope i dont have too much hw to do over the weekend :\
random: odd how i keep using tomorrow, when it's actually today since its after midnight. hrm.
mel was bored at 2:20 AM.
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Thursday, October 17, 2002
Take this Quiz
yay for orange. what a pretty color.
mel was bored at 8:58 PM.
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Monday, October 14, 2002
Who are you?
mel was bored at 10:43 PM.
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Sunday, October 13, 2002
lets seeee.
thursday: we took a test in electronics2 which was supposed to be eeeasy but i just suck at electronics and i never took electronics1 so i thought it was hard and i didnt even finish :\ and in the evening, i drove to upenn's thingy in palo alto because i couldnt attend the one at lynbrook. it was baaad because there was no parking and i had to park far far away. and then i talked to the admissions people and they basically said i have no chance because my grades suck. yay me.
friday: i went to the walk against domestic violence and got two free tshirts: one for me and one for monica; two pretty keychains: again, one for me and one for monica; lovely little mini first aid kits: one for me and one for my mom; nine mini rolls of life savers: six for me and three for monica, and threeee pretty pens that are all for me. yay for pretty pens that i'm going to lose in two days. after we walked, we ate a yummiful breakfast, and then my mom rushed me back to lynbrook and i ran to my spanish class but navarro had locked the door early, so i got stranded in the office during code red. and then i went to pomona's visit and ended up skipping most of lunch and all but two minutes of sixth period, which wasnt good because i needed to finish taking the electronics test. so i stayed in during seventh and finished it, but his electronics1 class was loooud and annoying and they kept on drilling weird things and making lots of noise so i couldnt concentrate, so i dont think i did very well. and then i went home with monica, and then we decided that we wanted to go to the football game, so we went back to school and watched lynbrook get whooped by mountain view 36-6 or something like that. mountain view has an interesting cheer. it goes like "random group: hey [insert name here] how do you feel? [insert name here]: i fell good. oh i feel so good. unh. (thats a grunt by the way. does that count as onomatopoeia?) then the random group counts one two three and the [insert name here] person does a little side motion thingy that i dont know how to describe while grunting three times. it was cute the first time, but it got kind of repetitive cuz they did it a lot. except one girl did a backflip, which was cool. i still like lynbrook's cheerleaders better though. yay for our band and cheerleaders doing the fight song.
saturday: i took the writing (which was easy) and mathiic (which was baaaad) at bellarmine and there wasnt any parking anywhere remotely close so i kind of lost my car. fortunately, i found alex and kafung so alex drove me around in his car until i found mine. hehehe. afterwards, i went home, ate lunch, and went off to judge at los gatos. i judged the semi round of HI, and then for finals monica and i didnt get called so we went home. i think it was quite productive because i ate lots of yummy nachos, and also because i learned the cup game. and then i went to tino for the tob which has major parking issues too. then we waited for a loong time for homestead's presentation to finish so we could actually move into the stands. i called leo so we found him, and we also found judy, and monica shoved her way through all the poor people on the bleachers and actually managed to find enough space for all four of us to sit. lynbrook's show was good except for the boxes. leigh's show was so pretty. their color guard is huge, and they all do everything in sync. its quite impressive. and it was funny when they carried that band guy away in that cage thingy. leo sat on the other side of the field during awards and stuff, and then he walked to judy to his car, and i called him to find out where he was cuz we had agreed to meet in the middle of the field, but we couldnt find each other. and then we both turned around and we were less than 10 feet away from each other. arent we smart? yes... okay. i saw alex and kafung there too. kinda weird how i bumped into them both twice in one day. and for that matter, i keep bumping into katherine zhang from mv. she was at the yc rally over the summer, at the upenn thing in palo alto, and at bellarmine when i was taking my satii's. how odd.
today: mom and monica took the all us girls to the renaissance fair, while they went to those outlets in gilroy. the faire cost 15 dollars for admission, but there was so much cool stuff there... first we tried on weird hats and stuff cuz there were a ton. then we played with puzzle boxes and puzzle rings and lots of other cool stuff. there was so much stuff i wanted to buy but it was all so expensive! but i played this cool city game with tracy. it was fun AND it was free AND i won both times :D i had a huge turkey leg for lunch, and tree and i kept getting up to get salt and pepper so it'd taste yummy. i also made a basket but it looks horribly ugly, but at least i made it! and.. yea.... we took a bunch of pictures. i cant remember much else, but it was fun : )
mel was bored at 11:03 PM.
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Wednesday, October 09, 2002
grades: i have a b in lit. and an a in everything else. and a b in lit is good because i thought i'd have a c. and plus, even though sam and tracy and amy have higher grades than me, they have b's too, so i dont feel that stupid. so what if they have b+'s and i have a b-. its still a beeeeee.
car keys: i wore a skirt today so i didnt have pockets so when i went to stats i put my keys on my desk so i could go up to the board, and john hupton stooole my keys, but then he was like laughing at me and i figured it out and i just kind of left it that. then during gov, i realized that i didnt have it, so i went through my bag and checked stats again, and when they werent there, i asked everyone in our class if they knew what john hupton had fourth period but no one knew. and when i found john at the beginning of lunch, he had my homework, but not my keys. he insisted that he gave them back, then realized lynda might have them, so then i had to find lynda. i'd seen her at the library during lunch and stuff, but she wasnt there today. and i was kind of out of it so i went out the emergency door and the alarm went off. which was pretty cool i guess, cuz i've always been curious about if they really work or not, but i guess i found out, but yea.. the librarian came out and yelled at me and was like "cant you read what it says on the door blahblah" and stuff like that and i was already about to cry cuz i'd been searching for my keys for almost an hour but then devi came and she went with me to the office and we paged lynda and she had my keys. so yay.
friday: i dont know what to do. 9-12 i have the walk against domestic violence, but at 9:00 upenn is also having their college visit, and seeing as i have 0% chance of getting into upenn right now, i figure i should go to their college thing so i have at least 1% chance, but that'd be i'd have to join in the middle of the walk and like... run and catch up to them? right-o. i should probably do the stuff thats do on friday tonight, just so i can give it to someone tomorrow so they can turn it in for me and stuff. which reminds me. i still havent done that senior resume counselor thing yet. i think friday is the deadline but i think they'll live if i give it to them on tuesday... and if they dont.. um... crap. at least i'm going to skipping the whole code red stuff on friday... i think.... actually i have no clue what i'm going to do about friday. blah.
mel was bored at 4:29 PM.
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Tuesday, October 08, 2002
i dont think i've done anything especially interesting in the last few days. jason came back for the weekend, which was good i guess. i reread all of first wive's club. its a fantastic book if you're ever bored. i wouldn't really recomment it to guys though. i've barely done any of my homework, so i'm screwed for the next few days. i'm apparently already behind in art, even though we just started clay today, so i gotta go to class early tomorrow and try to catch up. yay for subs in spanish and for lit teachers postponing homework. more time for me to procrastinate. my favorite part of hamlet thus far: "get thee to a nunnery." yay for weird smilies in aim. i think i need more sleep.
mel was bored at 12:27 AM.
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Saturday, October 05, 2002
haha yay. the football team actually won 24-0! it was the first game i've ever seen the vikings win. then again... we were playing monta vista.... but thats okay! at least we won :D and the marching band was awesome, except for the fact that colorguard seemed really disorganzed and kept dropping things, but i'm sure they'll get better. then tom and frank and colin and mike and mike's brother came over to our house and we were gonna watch dragonfly and stuff but then tom had already seen it and colin left too, so it was just frank and mike and mike's brother. then an almost dead kid opened it's eyes and sat up and scared us all half to death. and then i fell asleep sometime after that.
mel was bored at 12:16 PM.
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Thursday, October 03, 2002
stupid crazy drivers: sigh. some dude bumped into me while i was on the highway tonight, but then like.. it was dark and traffic started moving again and i couldnt get his license plate cuz it was dark and then a few seconds later he was gone. oh well, my car isnt damaged at all. i hope his car falls apart. now i'm scared of driving again : (
college crap: waahhh. almost everyone went to the college meeting thing. booooo. i feel like such a bum now >.<
yay: at least i have no homework today. like.. none at all. so i wasted my time reading fun books and downloading random songs. fun fun.
mel was bored at 8:59 PM.
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Tuesday, October 01, 2002
whine number 1: frank told me today that like.. de anza classes are out of the 5.0 scale and they count as part of your weighted gpa... if i'd known that earlier, i woulda taken hella de anza classes, especially in the summer. sigh. at least now i know why ppl have such high gpa's sometimes... but.. blah... now i'm just like.. depressed... i have even less of a chance of getting accepted anywhere : (
whine number 2: i have no clue why, but my blogger archives suddenly vanished. and all i had changed was the description, and now like.. all the stuff from more than a week ago is gone. and i dunno what happened to it. and blah. i want it back : ((
whine number 3: the more i think about it, the more i'm convinced i'm failing english. i barely got an a on the catch 22 test. the frankenstein test i got a c. the group presentations on summer reading i got a b. the tragedy test i got an f. literally. the reading quiz on act 1 wasnt that bad, but like.. i got that line where horatio says "i came for your fathers funeral" or whatever mixed up. i put marcellus on the test, and made a mental note to look it up. but then last night, i figured it was over with and didnt matter anymore so i didnt bother. and then guess what! on today's test, she asked us again! and i put marcellus again cuz i'm just stupid like that, and then i actually looked it up, and it was horatio. and i didnt know what line the play started with, i didnt remember half the quotes cuz i read it at like.. 1 in the morning, i dont know jack about themes and allusions and other literary terms, i never participate because the one time she called on me today, someone wasnt done with their stuff so she went back to them and forgot about me. other times, when i have something to say, she calls on someone else instead of me and they say it first, so i put my hand back down and never say anything. that class is seriously going to kill me. its like compsci last year. i'm getting more and more lost every day.
mel was bored at 11:45 PM.
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lets seee.. today was pretty cool actually.
school: art we presented our dolls and i went first and like.. zoned out the rest of the period. english we took a quiz which i totally screwed up on, then we had a discussion and she never called on me. and spanish we did grammar exercises for most of the period, and we took a really easy quiz.
lunch:after school me amy and tree went to kfc cuz colin said there was some buy one combo get one free or something. i drove both of them to the kfc on saratoga cuz girls are smart and we save gas by only driving one car. and we went to saratoga cuz they didnt believe me that there was one there. and that was yummy cuz kfc is yummy.
after lunch: i went home and talked to jason on the phone for a while, but the connection broke and i was sitting in bed waiting for him to call back, and i kinda fell asleep and i guess he didnt call back or else i prolly woulda woken up.
frank and tom: so yes... i was sleeping in my nice warm bed, and i get brutally awaken at 6:30 by my sister, cuz someone called me. so what if its 6:30 in the afternoon. it's still 6:30! they needed someone over 18 to go to gameshop or whatever it was with them so they could trade in their games for store credit or whatever. and i'm not over 18 and i dont even look close to it, but they insisted that they wanted me to go, so i asked my mom, and she said i didnt look old enough in my bummy atheletic pants. she made me put on a blazer, then change into jeans, then change my shirt, and then wear heels. soo yes. i went to the store with them, they just believed i was over 18 i guess cuz they just told me to put down my drivers license info and didnt even check my id, and i got out of there as fast as i could. thenn we went to visit mike at longs and buy some gs-27 scratch remover stuff for tom cuz he's hella paranoid about his car. and then my mom offered them some steak for dinner cuz we didnt finish it, and frank, being a pig, jumped at the chance. so yea.. they eat steak and potatos while i ate a salad, then frank was still hungry so we went through three boxes of bagel bites (dont ask :P) we talked for a bit, i drove tom's car around but i couldnt figure out where everything was cuz his car is hella weird, we talked some more, i drove frank and tom and monica around in tom's car, and we talked some more again, and then they left. tom owes me two and a half hours! yeeaaaa. that was my day.
mel was bored at 11:24 PM.
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