It's definitely OKAY to eat, argue and live

Tue, 13 Jun 2006 01:09:57 GMT

the scariest thing just happened...i locked myself outside of my lab with all my stuff and I mean ALL of them inside the lab...i just blanked out on the access code for some reason...i knocked on all the office doors and thank god someone was there (despite the fact it's their summer vacation) and opened the lab for me..pheww....

Tue, 30 May 2006 22:39:50 GMT

THis is an interesting article.....

Senior Lounges a Sanctuary for the Upper Class
Grads-to-Be Get a Special Place for Waning Days of High School

By Ian Shapira
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, May 30, 2006; B01

Inside the cafeteria at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, an invisible line cordons off the regular lunch tables from a members-only area furnished with pleather couches, foosball and pool tables and a 61-inch television hooked to a Nintendo video game player.

In one corner, seniors are belting out battle cries, claiming their turn to play Super Smash Brothers. On the couches, classmates are collecting money to finance a Humvee limo for the prom. And over by the back wall, two groups of soon-to-be-graduates are spinning foosball rods and aiming pool cues.

Would-be interlopers -- i.e., any underclassman -- at the Fairfax County public school know not to intrude. This is the inner sanctum of cool, the ultimate sign of high school status: the senior lounge. Right now, with graduation looming, its occupants and those in senior lounges across the Washington area are at their peak of prestige.

In these waning days of final exams and adult supervision, the lounges give seniors a heady VIP experience, their last taste of elitism before they endure postgraduate plebeian status again.

They are teacher-free sanctuaries where seniors can fully luxuriate in their senioritis, listen to music, text-message their friends at other schools and write term papers -- while someone two feet away concocts a strange sludge made of mustard and saliva inside the refrigerator. In other words, lounges are where seniors prepare for college, and perhaps, adulthood.

"Everyone in the cafeteria watches you walk in when the door opens. Everyone turns," said Lauren Jost, 17, captain of the girls' varsity swim team, lunching in the senior lounge at Osbourn Park High in Prince William County.

Senior lounges have existed in U.S. high schools for decades, becoming especially popular during the 1970s, when high school students tried to emulate the independence of their college counterparts, said Bruce Hunter, associate executive director of the American Association of School Administrators.

Back then -- though it may be hard to believe in today's anti-vending, anti-smoking era -- students were allowed to smoke in some senior lounges. These days, lounges come with rules, and if the rules are broken, schools shut them down while administrators and class representatives embark on peace talks. Students usually make promises that they will bus their lunch trays or refrain from chucking milk cartons against the wall.

At Osbourn Park, seniors past and present have painted the walls of their lounge, a private cafeteria room, with murals, some incorporating names and occasional references to sex and drugs. "Can't Spell DOPE without OP!" one graduate wrote, referring to his school's nickname, OP.

In some schools, lounges are among seniors' most conspicuous perks, especially in May, when exams are petering out and class work includes watching the Bill Murray movie "What About Bob?" for a psychology course -- at least at Montgomery County's Montgomery Blair High School. Seniors can listen to music or exchange cellphone text messages without getting into trouble; they can talk about college rejections without fear of being judged.

In the District, the lounge in the private Sidwell Friends School is plastered with college rejection letters; students once called it "Rejection Row." At the private Severn School in Anne Arundel County, students hold a table tennis tournament in the lounge.

Lounges can be a breeding ground for cross-clique solidarity.

When someone is having a party at home to watch a TV show, that person might say, "S'lounge is coming over," or "I invited senior lounge," said Sally Simms, 18, sitting in the Thomas Jefferson lounge recently.

Her friend Eunbee Kim, 18, chimed in: "There's like an aura. Underclassmen think it's off-limits."

And what goes on in the lounge during class hours when students are supposed to be at their desks? "They just cut class and game," Simms said, as all of her girlfriends shared knowing laughs and glanced in the direction of an all-male group gathered zombielike around the television set.

At Blair High School, seniors have their own courtyard with lunch tables, rocks they have arranged into the '06 of their class year, and a grooved concrete surface that provides a ready-made court for games of four square.

As Blair seniors sat down at a courtyard lunch table one day recently, talk turned to which kinds of students go there and which don't. Although some minority students use it, Dan Donnelly, clad in a pink lacrosse T-shirt, characterized the demographic bluntly: "It's the white people and the people who hang out with white people," he said.

The main hallway near the Blair cafeteria is filled with black, Hispanic and Asian students. Many of them, seniors included, dismissed the lounge. They likened the hallways to the liveliness of a city and the courtyard to the sedate ennui of a suburb.

"They play tag. That's not cool," said senior Krysta Byrd. Besides, if you're outside in the senior courtyard, "you'll miss all the fights."

Back at Osbourn Park's lounge, Michelle Quiroga was enjoying her lunch with fellow seniors in their private cafeteria away from the dregs of the underclassmen. She pondered the idea of senior superiority and how the lounge, even if it doesn't have a velvet rope or a gated fence, has been good practice for her adult years.

"Yeah, there will be other senior lounges in life," she said.

R.J. Hogren, the school's National Honor Society vice president, nodded slowly.

"That's deep," he concluded.

Tue, 30 May 2006 22:12:03 GMT

I am bored.................................................................................................................................................................................... i think I need to start on my DS essay.........but I don't want to!!!....

I am really bored......................................................................................................................................

Mon, 29 May 2006 18:40:46 GMT

I had sushi for the first time...okay...maybe my second time, but last time I just had a bit of it and spit it out. This time, I actually like ate about six of seven of them. So one of my friends took me down to Old Town Pasadena last night as a little celebration for getting through the college admission process and whatnot, which was very nice of him. I never been to that section of LA before, so it was really cool. It's an almost urban hanging out place for "young professionals and Asain teenagers" as my friend has so accurately described. SO yah, back to sushi. I guess it wasn't that bad when I stopped thinking of it as like raw fish. It really wasn't. I can't say I was in love with it but I didn't think it was gross.

So what was my first offical sushi experience. I can say I was happy! =D

AND AND AND...we did like intuition/math/probability problems during our sushi dinner! So that was good.

Sun, 28 May 2006 02:52:14 GMT

I went to Cindy Montanez's rally today. i had to wake up really early to get there by 8AM (the rally's at 9 though)...but I didn't..I woke up at 8, freaked out, and got there by 8:30. It was really good!!! Dolores Huerta was there and we got to do the union clap and chant "si se puede, si se puede." Then Assemblymember Lloyd Levine spoke (omgish, he's so hot...but yah), Assemblymember Pedro Napa spoke, City Controller John Chang spoke, and then Cindy Montanez got the crowd all hyped up!!!! I LOVE that lady, I hope she wins.

SO after the rally, i went phonebanking for Cindy. I called like 300 people for 8 hours....got a dozen "yeses"...no "nos"(thank god!!!), hell lots of hang ups (damn, people are RUDE!) and refusals to answer. BUT ONE LADY MADE MY DAY.....

So I called her, and she was like "yah, I am gonna vote but I don't who to vote for" and she was hang up. I jumped right in and talked about Cindy's consumer protection bills, and she wasn't that impressed. I asked her "well, what type of issues do you care about?" She said education. So I jumped right in...talked to her for like 10 mins about Cindy's bills on education and other things about her and how her opponent is sponsored by big corporations and how Cindy doesn't have that much fund because she's endorsed by unions and the working class instead of big businesses and etc. So she asked me if I believed in Cindy. I said yes. She asked if I were a volunteer. I said yes. She asked me if I were volunteering for a school project. I said no, and I am senior, I am done with school. THhen she said "okay, I vote for Cindy only because your passion about her and her policies."

WOW>..I was so happy I almost cried. I mean, after like 100 people hang up on you and say taht you are bothering them or that they don't care about politics, it's so great to have someone reward you for your hard work and your political believes and passion.

I am happy.

Sun, 21 May 2006 18:53:02 GMT

So this Sat, I woke up at 8AM (that’s early for a Sat) volunteered at the Legal Clinic after like a month of disappearance due to APs and whatnot. It felt really good to be back in action, listening to woeful stories about vile employers’ mistreatment of workers and proceeding to take some legal actions against these base and inhumane activities. But then there was one client who just had to ruin my Saturday. The first question she asked me when I sat down with her was “do you know about the WARN Act?” I shook my head because even though I think it has something to do with mass layoffs and employers’ obligations to pay wages up to 60 days or something like that (and it was something like that…see, I do remember stuff from law classes), I didn’t want to say “yes” and get it wrong and look like an idiot. Then the woman proceeded to ask me “are you a lawyer?” I said “nope, I am a high school student.” I could just see the disappointment on her face. See, normally, I would have felt bad about disappointing someone, but she was just so condescending in her attitude, like the way she asked those two questions, in the tone of “I know more than you do, so I don’t appreciate you taking time of your Saturday and volunteering to help those who need legal advice since well, you know, you are not a lawyer and you don’t know anything.” Well, first off, it’s a FREE legal clinic!!! We only have one supervising lawyer and the rest of the staff consists of volunteers, which means they work for FREE! They are usually law students. AND AND AND her case had NOTHING to do with the WARN act!!!! She was inquiring about workers comp!!! AND AND AND if she had read the flyer we have, she would have known that we don’t offer services for workers comp since it’s such an intricate subject. So I just referred her to the SF Bar Association, which will refer her to a workers comp lawyer. I just wish she was more appreciative of the services we do offer.

Then after I got out of the clinic around 1PM, I went to Chinatown with my mother. We bought all the pendants for necklaces as gifts for teachers and whatnot. I had boba, and I was happy!!!

Then around 8PM, I went to a promotion for a summer leadership conference. I was supposed to be giving a speech about leadership and its meanings and my experience as a senior. All the speakers and camp workers showed up but no students. I really wished they did a better job advertising it, but hey, it’s their first year and there’s limited budget and time, so it’s all good. We just had pizza and ice cream and talked about how to make the camp experience better and how to recruit students.

I came home around 11:30 PM, called Azziz up, talked for a while, then went to sleep.

I did absolutely no homework.

Thu, 18 May 2006 21:24:15 GMT

I had my first experience in being 18 years old actually mattered, and it's was really really sad, at least in my opinion. So my mother after she got gas wanted to buy a lottery ticket. Now, I usually don't support this type of activity that involves useless battles against probability, but I volunteered to get it for her because I thought it would be really cool to show everyone (in that stupid gas station) that I am 18 and an adult!!! So I walked to the fat guy behind the counter, asking to buy a lottery ticket. He told me that I need to show my ID. My idiotic self left it in the car, so I went and got it. I showed him my ID, and he's like "I can't take a school ID, it needs to be a CA ID." I don't have a CA ID, so I was pissed.

Now everything would have been a "whatever" if my mom didn't get involved in it. After I told her what happened, she LAUGHED!!! SHE LAUGHED FOR LIKE 5 MINS!!!...I felt like a dumbass. So yeah...

that was my dumb story of the day.

Tue, 16 May 2006 17:20:51 GMT

I finished my Model UN position paper!! YAY!!! I am so proud of myself because I am actually caring about a HW assignment!!!

Sun, 14 May 2006 21:19:11 GMT

I find it extremely annoying that I cannot say anything un-profound (which is often the case) AND admit to people that I am in love with the Disney without people reminding me that I am going to Yale. What the hell does that have to do with anything? I am not THAT dumb that I cannot even remember where I will be next year.

Next time people ask me where I am going for college, I will just say "I don't know yet."

When two repubicans get together...-__-

Sun, 14 May 2006 04:12:03 GMT

Okay, so I was in AP Spanish class on Friday, and we had a sub who happened to a Republican. Now, you see, when he bashes the LA Times and how liberal it is, I don't mind, since I don't consider FOX "News" a news channel - it's even. BUT the things is, my friend in that class, who’s a Republican - super duper ultra conservative. So then they started talking, more like bashing all the liberal media (but how can you blame the media for being liberal? The media is about informing people and making people be aware of social issues - it's an educational outlet...of course the liberals need to take that part over!...but anyways) and I was sitting there, trying my best of ignore their ignorant remarks.

BUT THEN!!!..oh lord...my friend started bashing social welfare! He's like "my mother is a very important supervisor (like we give a shit!) for this welfare place, and the stories she tells me about people there cheating the government, man, we just cannot have social welfare. Like my parents were immigrants too and they came into this country refusing any welfare and they still made it ….blah blah blah…we don’t need welfare..i don’t need welfare….(and more shit like that)”

So I am sitting behind him, completely pissed!!!...Okay, it’s one thing for conservatives to bash gay rights and abortion because that’s got religion mixed it and I am not going to mess with others’ religion. BUT I draw the line at social welfare/justice and human rights. OH NO YOU JUST DO NOT BASH SOCIAL WELFARE! YOU JUST DON’T! And of course he doesn’t need social welfare, his parents earn like 200,000 dollars per year! That’s a sum most people don’t see/hear less earn most of the time!!! So how dare he say that people don’t need social welfare? Has he EVER experience poverty? Has he EVER worked for 16 hours per day below minimum wage but cannot complain or report it to the Labor Board because he doesn’t speak English or because he doesn’t understand American laws? HAS HE?? NO!!!! So HOW DARE he talks about other people being lazy and therefore being poor is their own damn fault. Well, you know what? He’s gotten a great education and some people haven’t. Some students cannot study 24 hours a day because they got siblings to take care and food money to bring home. Some people need the extra support to climb the social ladder or they will be stuck there FOREVER and people, stupid people, like him, will continue to be at the top. There will be no change to our society and those who are poor will be poorer and those who are rich will be richer. So he needs to shut his big stupid mouth because he doesn’t understand the lives of those of low income. And the worst part is that the damn sub agreed and they started talking about immigrants and their lack of rights…..

…..ERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR…………………..

(deep breath!)

……….okay, that will be a political rant of another time….

Fri, 12 May 2006 02:58:32 GMT

Question: Why Travis is EVIL!!!!????

Answer:

dustieO Opuff: Travis!
OmniJinx: Quing!
OmniJinx: Bring fire blankets to Yale.
dustieO Opuff: (glares....!)
OmniJinx: (I can't believe you chose Yale)
OmniJinx: (worse glare)
OmniJinx: then prepare to fail at life, I'm sorry
OmniJinx: now go into the dark closet that we reserve for Yale students
OmniJinx: and think about what you've done
OmniJinx: we gave the closet a name
OmniJinx: we called it "Yale"
OmniJinx: <-- evil
dustieO Opuff: you are evil!
dustieO Opuff: you wil not curse my future
OmniJinx: *curses future*

Quing is sad. Travis doesn't care. Yale will get burn down in three weeks.

Fri, 12 May 2006 02:42:08 GMT

So today so far has been a good day! Let's see. My friends have been planning something for me today after school, sort of like a birthday thing. And apparently it was supposed to be a secret, but well, if let's just look at the following conversations and let's try to figure out how I know about this "planned thing:"

Time: Monday, 5/8/06
Place: 3rd period, Kasch's classroom

Friend A: "Quing, Happy Birthday!!!I can't give you your present today but I will give it to you this Thursday."
Me: (really confused)"You didnt' have to get me anything, but okay...."

Time: Monday, 5/8/06
Place: lunch

Friend B: "Quing! Happy Birthday! I have your present!!! But you will get it on Thursday!!!! OMGish, you are legal, GIRL!!! and oh yeah, are you free after school on Thursday?"
Me: "Thanks!!!...umm...I dont; know...why?"
Friend B: "umm...nothing, just wondering."
Me: "oh okay..."
Friend B: "But seriously...you HAVE to stay after school on Thursday."
Me: "can you tell me why, please?"
Friend B: "...no...."

and similar conversations followed for the rest of the day.

I linked A with B...and yeah.....

BUT BUT BUT ANYWAYS!!....................

so back to today: I got my gifts...and for some reason, they claim that due to lack of planning, which is due to the unfortunate load of APs , my "secret party" got moved to next week. Once again, they stressed teh importance of SECRECY to ME!...oh lord, I love my friends!

let me describe this gifts to you:

they are funny!

actually, let me just tell you about the wrapping of the gifts:

they are REALLY funny:

The most outter layer is a COMPUSA bag - to poke fun at my lack of computer skills.....(I could swwar I was like "Oh hell no, they did not get me a computer chip!)

The second layer is a McDonalds bag. Now, it's not just any McDonald's bag, it;s the one with "NEW ASIAN SALAD!" on it - to poke fun of my communist country....

Now I finally reach my gifts...they are boxes with wrapping on them....they are white...and I rip them apart...on the back of the paper...Christmas decorations!!!...OMGish!!! My best friend, who's Indian to the core, wrapped my gifts in used Christmas wrappers turned upside down!!! - to poke fun at his own, renowned cheapness....

I LOVE MY FRIENDS AND I AM GOING TO KEEP THOSE WRAPPINGS FOREVER...TEHY ARE SPECIAL, AND I DON'T CARE IF THEY LOOK FUNNY OR CHEAP TO YOU....BECAUSE THEY ARE AWESOME!!!!

I am happy!

Wed, 10 May 2006 23:04:30 GMT

I love nothing more than a Peach Pleasure Jamba Juice smoothie on a hot So-Cal day! =D

APs ARE OVER!!!

Wed, 10 May 2006 21:43:51 GMT

So I am sitting here in 6th period, International Relations....in a REALLY REALLY hot room full of computers....LA summer has finally started!!!! I am supposed to be researching stuff on Model UN, but yeah....

AnyWHO!!!!!!.....So today was my last day of AP testing! AP Environmental Science...hahaha...it was such a JOKE!!!...we have never anything pertaining to the environment in that class, so yeah, I predict a score of ONE for everyone in my class. YUP!

SO I AM DONE!!!! WWWWOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!! NO more APs!!! NEVER! EVER! NEVER! EVER!!! WHOOOOHOOOOO!!!!

I am happy.

Mon, 08 May 2006 01:56:51 GMT

I have been spoiled today, and I am happy! Get bunch of stuff from both Dads. Mommy bought me my favorite Viet dish AND a fruitcake. Can I say I am stuffed!!??!!

Damn, I love it when it's your birthday!!! Even though I am on lockdown because of my parents want me to study for APs (a task I am not doing), I am still getting spoiled....heehee

Oh yeah, a certain someone wrote me two poems for my B-day....hehe...I am SO happy!

oh yeah!

Sat, 06 May 2006 18:11:56 GMT

Today is my last day as a 17-year old!! I am SO happy!!! (although I shouldn't be online..I should be studying for my AP Gov't test..but oh well!). I have jumping up and down for the past three hours, listeing to Such Great Heights on repeat and Shakira and Sean Paul, and then I calmed myself down by blasting some Carbon Leaf...

My family is not celebrating my birthday. We never, ever celebrate anything just because well, my mother doesn't believe in celebrations. BUT I DO! So I am sit my ass down today, study like crazy, and then TOMORROW (when I will be 18!!!>>>>>>>>>>>>AHHHHHHHHHHHHH!) ,throw my hands in the air like I don't give a damn, eat all the sweets I want without worrying about calories, and refuse, absolutely refuse to study!!! (of course, I have to do all that under the pretense that I am studying so my mom won't yell at me). AND AND AND then, next sunday, my friends and I are going to Disneyland...ME SO HAPPY!!!!

I am gonna be 18, oh yeah, go Quing, go Quing, it's your birthday, and we are gonna party like it's your birthday....(SO doing the sprinkles dance right now...heheehe) .........oh yeah oh yeah....

..damn APs......

=)

Tue, 02 May 2006 21:17:17 GMT

Hoy tomo el examen de AP Espanol Lengua....

.........I am crossing my fingers for a 2...I totally FLUNKED it!! but what I can say...I didnt even study....(instead, I was studying English last night...hehehe)

Verdict

Mon, 01 May 2006 04:07:45 GMT

For the past few weeks, I ditched like 2 weeks of school and just visited colleges like crazy.

Williams: Love the academic, but isolated, didn't like social scene

Swarthmore: No complaints whatsoever! I love it!!! I just love it!!!

Dartmouth: Isolated, didn't like frat scene, didn't really feel comfortable on the campus........=(

Brown: Liked it so so...

Yale: Couldn't have asked for a better place. Loved everything about it except for the fact it's NOT Swarthmore.

So my supposed-to-be-informative college trip was sort of wasted since I am back to square one: Swat or Yale? (but it was really FUN!!!..best trip ever!!!).

Much to the disappointment of Swatties and Jim Bock and to the happiness of the entire Zhou family, I picked Yale because..

1) FinAid is slightly better...not much...but just a little bit
2) I feel Yale offers me many more options in terms of access to leading figures in whatever field, etc.
3) I can make Yale my mini-Swat if I wanted to.
4) I have family support for Yale.

I am really excited about going to Yale, but I am just so sad about leaving Swat! =( It;s like Swat and I are breaking up or something... yup, I am being sentimental.....(sigh)

But I got to see Travis and Joel, so I am happy.

Go Bulldogs!!!

Fri, 14 Apr 2006 02:50:01 GMT

i am swamped with HW...=(

senior year sucks!!!

going to Swat next week! YAY!

can't believe i am missing Swat chat for hw....=(

Wed, 05 Apr 2006 02:01:23 GMT

i just discovered one of the coolest thing today when I was riding the MTA to work....they now have TVs on the bus!!!!! on a pubic bus!!! in LA!!!!!

what was on the TV, you ask?

well...the weather...commercials.... the phrase "thank you for chooseing Metro" over and over again.....

yup..that was it!!!

First Rejection Letter

Tue, 04 Apr 2006 01:06:04 GMT

Just got my first rejection letter of the year: Harvard!

=)...(grinning ear to ear)

THANK GOD!...that's one less Ivy League to fight with my mother about! =)

Mom is sad and vindictive, though.

Yeah yeah yeah

Mon, 03 Apr 2006 06:14:26 GMT

So now college acceptance letters are in...I think I am sadder than I was before...I thought getting into Swarthmore was just enough (and it WAS!)...but now acceptances from other colleges are confusing me...So i decidely to narrow it down to two schools: Swat (YAY!)..and Yale (my mom says :YAY!...I sulk)

and since i am big on lists...here is one

Pros for Swat:
1) Great energy!!!
2) Small classes..always!
3) Awesome cafeteria food!
4) Phili! (not the GREATEST city...but enjoyable)
5) Cool people like Travis, Urooj, and Joel, and many others
6) Be on the prettiest campus ever!
7) Avoid the brutal death threats from a Chinese, WV, and New Yorker

Pros for Yale:
1) New Haven area (close to a city!)
2) Be surronded by Gothic buildings...AHHH...love those!
3) My mom will love me forever

So far Swat wins...well...duh!!!

BUT!!>.....

the biggest deciding factor of all: $$$$$$$$$$

Yale offers more scholarship....

(sigh).......

Wed, 29 Mar 2006 09:04:33 GMT

So I am contemplating whether I should go to school tomorrow. The protests against that House bill on illegal immigration at our school are spreading this rumor (or it might be true) that they are going attack anyone who's not Mexican tomorrow at school....

Okay, so first of all..illegal immigrants do not just consist of Mexicans. And 2nd, ask most of them about the bill, they would not be able to tell you about it. "it's a bill against Mexicans.." I heard some kid scream in teh hallway at this girl "hey you are Mexican, why are you still here? Go protest!"

Errr.......

And then we had another socratic seminar in class today about illegal immigrations... oh lord...thank god we did not get into the border's issue

So I think I am going to school tomorrow...

::scared::

On a happier note, I bought the 4" by 4" post-its today. Now I have every size in every neon, regular, and pastel color!! My next step... those ones with cool patters and those in different shapes!!

I LOVE post-its!!!

Weekend

Mon, 27 Mar 2006 23:14:46 GMT

So this weekend was....errrrr

On Friday I completely procrastinated all my HW assignment since I was chatting with Swatties online.

On Saturday I went to UCLA and competed in a stock market competition for the entire day... our company was Starbucks and we lost...=(

On Sunday, I woke at 4;30 AM, took a shower, and started reading Catch-22. By 12:00PM I was on page 256. By 11:30 PM I finished the entire book of 459 pages. Then I started typing my 14-page journal of the book. I went to sleep at 4:30 AM.

But I would like to mention that I finished all that work within 24 hours while I still managed to do the following:

1) Took a shower...twice...to keep myself awake
2) Washed my hair
3) Checked my email
4) Checked www.swarthmore2010.org and responded to others' posts
5) ate around six times; I had my first torta cubana
6) watched "Reba"
7) laughed insanely when i remembered that I was acceptd to Swat.!

So what's going on?

Sat, 25 Mar 2006 02:42:18 GMT

Let's have a recap of what happened this week:

1) I found out that there's no way I can go to the Speech and Debate state championship tournament because of scholarship interviews/college visits. My coach is SOOOOOOO pissed, and knowing her, I was expecting that. I am just happy she didn't rip my head off. But what a bummer! I really wanted to be in that final round at states!!!

2) I found a website for awesome Swatties of 2010!!! Disucssion replies and posts are definitely interesting!

3) I found out that Travis is not the only WV at Swat (sorry Theiman). He is pissed. I feel pretty accomplished for finding that out, thanks to LJ!

4) I invited a speaker from Amnesty International on Thursday to come to our school and talk to a couple of classes about global human trafficking. Most kids enjoyed it and participated in discussions. Some kids, however, were laughing and being rude!!! Errr...it just really upsets me when people cannot even be proper!

5) I had In-N-Out, realizing that's smth I must give up upon going to school on the east coase...=(

6) I caught severe senioritis.... you do not want to know how much homework I am making up this weekend!!!

Good weekend to all!!!

Quing