Cotton Headed Ninny Muggins

It's been almost a month since I've last had fast food (including Subway). It's also been a few weeks since I've last had beef. I have been craving In n' Out as of lately though... I really hope my no beef streak can last a little while longer... It gets tough sometimes when things like pastrami, spaghetti, tacos, etc. all have beef or come from beef.

Work Hard, Play Harder.

It's my first official day of winter break! Too bad I did work today. Of course as usual, SSARC work never ceases. I did some e-mailing and got some reading done. I still have PLENTY of work ahead of me to do over break... most likely I'll end up procrastinating and getting it all done the weekend before winter quarter begins. Don't get me wrong, I ABSOLUTELY love my job and am fully dedicated to it... however, sometimes when I'm on a holiday break.. I wish I could just fully enjoy it without doing ANY work whatsoever. But that's not reality.. unfortunately if I want to avoid doing a halfass job, I have to be on top of my shit. That means, checking the SSARC e-mail daily, read up on grad school material, researching grad schools and grad fields, and constantly looking for ways to improve the SSARC. Right now it just sucks cuz I really need a BREAK and time to relax after such a hard quarter. But this break is crunch time for me with studying for the LSAT. It's time to work hard and play harder.

I'm super excited for the next upcoming week though with everything that's going on! My list of things to look forward to:
- Happy hour party at Sharkeez
- Medieval Times
- Thales's 1yr Birthday party
- Sundial hangout
- Sundial Christmas dinner
- Visiting the Getty/Griffiths Observatory

Wee! Excitement!

And to recap on the SSARC Social & Secret Santa Gift Exchange last Friday:

OMG I had SO SO SO SO much fun! It was the best way to celebrate the end of finals week. Kristal slept over on Thursday night, so we got to spend two days hanging out and shopping together. I absolutely love this girl to death. Friday night, we were running late to the gift exchange, and rushed over to SST 318 to find out that Dr. C and Andrew were also running late. So we pretty much rushed over for no reason. But the gift exchange part of the evening was GREAT! It was exciting to see who had who and what we all got each other. Tiffani had me, and she got me a purple scarf, which I LOVELOVELOVE, some Lindor chocolate, which is SO BAD for my diet right now, a penguin notepad, and a Starbucks giftcard! Bestest secret santa! I really love everything she gave me. (: LOVE YOU T.RAZO! Then afterwards we all headed over to Souplantation for dinner. Dinner was GREAT! I love eating in good company. I was even more excited to introduce the newbies like James and Andrew to all that is good of Souplantation. I know for sure James loved it haha. And to wrap up dinner, we had an early celebration of Steve's 22nd birthday with carrot cake. I think that was the highlight of the dinner (: After dinner, was game time at the old SSARC. But in between, Kristal and I, along with Steve, had to make a quick stop at my apartment because I forgot something. Luckily we did this though because we ALMOST forgot to return the Dvd we borrowed the night before. So on the way to school we made a stop at Albertsons to return the Julie&Julia dvd. The line was semi-long so it took us a good 20 minutes or so just to return this stupid dvd. Then when we got back to the old SSARC, we played Wii and Rockband for a good amount of time. I was having so much fun I didn't want the night to end! But since it was getting late, all of us had to get going and we had to call it a night around 10pm. :( I couldn't have asked for a better Friday night. Absolutely ADORE my wonderful co-workers! <3

DUNZO!

Yesterday at 6:30pm, I finished my LAST final, of my LAST fall quarter, of my LAST year in college! So exciting! It feels like such an accomplishment. (: Unfortunately, however last night I also found out I got a B- on my Econ 13 final :( FUUUUCKK. I'm so upset with myself for doing so terrible in a lower division BASIC economics course. It should've been a GPA booster for me, but ironically it's bringing my GPA down now instead. Oh well, what can I do now? All I can do is hope to God that I get a B- in the class.

Last night, Kristal and I spent the night shopping at Downtown Disney, girl talking, and watching Julie & Julia. What a great night to relieve some stress and enjoy my time off. Tonight, we have the BIG SSARC SOCIAL and Secret Santa gift exchange!!! I'm so stoked to give my person their gift! I know they'll LOVE it.

It's Effing the 6th!

Today I woke up and realized that my 22nd birthday is exactly one month away from now. FUCK.

TGIF!

It's Friday and I'm staying in to study :( I REALLY hope I can finish my research paper by tonight so I will never have to touch it again, until I turn it in of course. Saying my prayers that finals this quarter will be good to me.

Anyways, as I was taking a study break I was on textsfromlastnight.com and saw this...

(918): New dating criteria: what kind of ex will this person be?

This is a criterion I should use from now on. haha

End of My LAST Fall Quarter!!

It's pretty surreal to know that I'm finishing up my last fall quarter of my undergraduate college career. I'm being specific here because I'm pretty sure I'll be returning to college shortly for more schooling soon after I graduate this coming Spring. I'm happy that this quarter has come and gone so quickly. Even though it has been VERY stressful, it has been a good 10 weeks. Now I just need to get through the next week of finals and start prepping for my future this winter break.

There are SO SO SO many things I would like to get done before I graduate... but I definitely don't have enough time. In addition to taking 16-20 units next quarter, I want to start my LSAT prep class, do research with a professor, and pick up another internship. But obviously I physically just won't be able to do all of that at once... I just really need to take the time out to plan and prioritize. We'll see what happens though....

Until then... it's been a great quarter. Glad it's done. Now time to kill it on my finals and move on! Wish me luck everyone (: