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A lot of the summer has passed. Because of the PRC trip, it has actually felt like a month or so.
Jack: what???
This is what one would say if one did nothing over the summer except run to guys' homes.
Jack: i'm spazzing
This is what one would say if one realized that one needed to study so that one could possibly skip Spanish 2.

It's always kind of funny when people ask me if I would like to play tennis with them (literal meaning: I would like to beat you because it would be fun and I hate you). Well, the literal meaning only applied for the second-to-last time, but it is still funny. I can't play at all.
I had a few minutes of ping-pong practice against my brother. It was very disappointing because it is too easy to dominate him and it was far too uncomfortable outside the house. Screens don't do anything.

Jack: what did you do to the officer positions????????
I fixed them? On the Kejing, Jack and June's family!!!!(ex-family members count too!) group that Chanyang made. I don't remember the exact number of exclamation points in the name of the group, though.
Jack is "La Hermana Baja y Feminina" and Katelyn is "Sister-in-Law".
It's perfect right now with the very limited amount of members.

Bored... so bored...

I want to go and do something but I'm too bored. Not that that made any sense...
Facebook is definitely not changing enough to keep me occupied. There's only so much one can do with a website like that.
There isn't even anything to post.

Technically not a double-post

I didn't get any sleep when I finally went to bed at about 2:30am after playing a game of the most retarded game of checkers possible with Ryan.
If you have the ability to skip a piece, you HAVE TO SKIP THE PIECE.
So France won against Russia.
He is now "Yahoo! Games Checkers Champion" because of our compromise.
Yahoo! Games needs to FIX their checkers game so it isn't made for not thinking. I am quickly losing my respect for Yahoo! as more uninvited incidents occur.

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My eyes hurt terribly but I can't go to sleep during the day.
So I still haven't made up my significant loss of sleep.
I feel like it's 3 in the morning.
And got up at about 5:30am today.

I'm sorry that my posts are so short these days because I used to rant and I liked doing that. However, I never know if my parents might storm in and yell for me to read Chinese so I don't know if I should start something. Fortunately, the autosaving is very convenient. No one likes redoing something like a long post or a long essay for school. I'm glad I haven't had to do the latter.

Facebook is structured so that it pulls hours of time from me and leaves me feeling as though I did absolutely nothing the entire time. So addicting; so evil.

Ryan's the only one online

My jet lag got so messed up that I went tooooo far with it and now I'm getting closer to Beijing Standard Time. I basically lost a day of sleep and didn't go backwards.
I feel completely awful and I hope I'm getting tired.
But I don't really feel like leaving the computer.
I don't know what I'm doing.
:(

Learning how to use the touchpad

When I got back, my bed felt like a really soft, thick sponge.
The touchpad felt so foreign that I had to re-learn how to use it.
The house smelled new again.
3 weeks did some interesting things to my mind.

And today, my brother said that he's a Gator fan "because they beat Ohio State".
*cries*

Happiness

I finished the pirated version of The Persuit of Happyness today. It was very touching. The only major flaw is that their clothing was very, very perfect and their bathrooms were spotless. In face, their bathrooms were far better than my grandmother's in China. So I didn't feel as much emotion towards the movie. It was a but fake :( Before that, I saw the Queen, which was kind of boring but it caught my attention because I was in England when Princess Diana died.
This reminds me of when I saw the pirated version of POTC1 the summer before 8th grade. It was pretty awesome!
And THAT leads me to say: Jack, June, and Ryan (in alphabetical order by first name because I always put people in that order to be fair) should have seen POTC3 by now.
I really want to see Ocean's Thirteen, too. Explosions, hacking and stalking in one movie (Ocean's Eleven) was perfection. The second one was really disappointing. I saw the first one on the way to China (and back, I think) thanks to United Airlines because everyone had their own personal screen with which to watch movies. Northwest has three large screens, which leads to 16 or more hours of absolute boredom. I was relying on the little screen to keep my frontal lobe alive.
Instead, I must look forward to an oddly-shaped chair with static electricity-hoarding blankets, writing a math test for Pre-Algebra (which isn't bad but the problem is I forgot the superhero who is the topic for the test... must ask Ann... Heh...), slowly using up the battery in my precious but inconvenient mp3 player, and hopefully reading a good book (if I can get one).
I have musical duties now o.0

Unfortunately,

A lot of people seem to be either depressed, sick, or bored at this point. The first week trickled in some boredom, but by now, people have gotten the stomach flu, sat around at home for weeks, slept late and hated it, and haven't psychologically felt any better.
I feel really bad about not finding enough presents for people. For example, one person wants sunglasses. How do I know how wide his head is??? x.x
And then there are the random people who really deserve something. I suppose I need more opportunities to go shopping.
At least Ryan seems to constistently be in good moods. His love for Gwen Stefani will never cease. :D

8:29am Tues. 5/29/07 Shanghai, CHN

I still can't believe I have internet connection. It's pretty awesome.
I'm also talking to Katelyn and Jack with Gmail chat. It's 8:30pm for them since we're 12 hours apart. Yay.

Yay for math *cough cough*

I don't feel like I'm leaving this country tomorrow at 6:15am EST. Which means that me, my mom, my bro, Diana, her mom, and her bro have to wake up at about 4:00am. Why are airports always at the edge of the city? So you can't hack into the control centers so conveniently. I know. It's sad. The probably have their own little world out there so. Their wireless connections and private servers are as far away as possible. Paranoid. But for good reason.
I never expected my first MAO test to be for Pre-Algebra, but it is. I have to go and research... Oh no... I forgot which.. ARGH. Sometimes I wish I were a genius so I wouldn't forget things. = ="

Downloading

Downloading gets SO annoying because each song takes about 30 minutes. The problem is, sometimes, they either label it incorrectly, you download something you hate, or you already have the song but they named it differently.
It gets so annoying.
I wish I'd stalked the files before downloading them. It would've saved me so much time.