Tuesday, July 10, 2007

I wrote this yesterday.

Today, my MVC declared that my HOUSE must be pregnant and gave birth to my MVC. He also said that perhaps the HOUSE married Bill O’Reilly. He became dead to the HOUSE. Then, my MVC declared that he would never get married. Later, he said that he doesn’t have a girlfriend and didn’t miss anyone while on vacation in Peru. This made his girlfriend call him cold after I forwarded the email to her. Then, as I called my VP to say “Happy Birthday!” someone in the background sang the song very loudly. I asked him if they were Asian and he said now. Then, after more noise in the background, my VP firmly said, “It’s not my mom!!” after some murmurs in the background. I heard something about “related” and said “I’m related to you!” Because I am. The CEO, VP and MVC are all siblings. Then, I picked up the words “your girlfriend” and some giggling. He said “WHAT?” I said “UM OKAY BYE!” and that was the end of the awkward phone call. My MVC was online at the moment, so I told him about it. I asked him why I’m always paired with Asian guys who are my age. And then… I remembered that I’m sometimes not paired with Asian guys my age. (COUGH COUGH WILLIAM PAIRED ME UP WITH _________ COUGH COUGH.) Being a very loyal and supportive employee, my MVC said “close enough”. On the bright side, he actually called me young for once. But this is not the moment to be optimistic. Many things happened today considering how the people involved barely left the house.

Thursday, July 05, 2007

我在想念別的州

Exactly a year ago, my parents were in FL for the house inspection. My brother and I stayed at Aaron's house and we pretty much spent the whole day with him and his brother. On July 4th, there was a parade that went from somewhere in Hill Farms to Rennebohm Park. I biked there and found Maia, who later found Claire. We had an interesting time at the park, where lunch was served to everyone who had anything to do with the parade. My brother was in it with Aaron's brother, I think. Claire's brother, Dylan was with Aaron at the park. I went to Maia's house after that and we played Mario Kart: Double Dash on her GameCube. Those few days were pretty awesome because it was probably the last time I did anything out of the ordinary before I moved away less than a month later. The night before we left, I went to Julia's house and Aaron's house for dinner. Rose came to give me Mario and Luigi: Superstar Saga, a game I never finished, and completely refused to not give me a good-bye present. She stayed with us and we played card games until we had to leave. On the way home (we walked), my parents, brother and I stopped at Shanmin's house to say goodbye, too. They promised to come and visit us during the winter. And the next day, we went to a really boring building in which legal papers were passed on to the family who was buying our house. We drove to McDonald's for lunch and I don't know why. To do this, we went in the opposite direction and passed by our house for the last time. And then, after a boring trip through Illinois, Missouri, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Georgia, we finally arrived in Tallahassee. CHS was the first "landmark" I saw in Tallahassee. That was August 1, 2006.

钢琴. 在 佛羅里達...

I probably can't live without it. Some time before 8th grade, I went for about a month(or three weeks or something measly like that) and I felt a bit depressed and horrid. But I never play enough every day. Sometimes, I play for about 20 minutes, abandon it, and think I'm going to go back later. Then, I forget about it because I'm busy being bored and the day ends with no accomplishment.
During the school year, every day is the same, unfortunate reminder of where I'm spending the last few years of my childhood. And if I don't perform well in unbearable conditions, then I won't be able to move to somewhere I actually want to live.

Wednesday, July 04, 2007

Tiny Subtle Hints

I finished reading CIG: Internet Privacy and Security. Throughout the chapters, some things were repeated so you could understand everything without having to read them in numerical order or any order at all. This got a bit annoying. Also, it was written in 1991 so much of it has changed by now. Fortunately, it provided many subtle hints as to how hackers can get into your computer. They were vaguely mentioned but sounded as if it were trying to point you in the correct detention for illegal activity. A sort of transparent bug was mentioned that is in the form of a very tiny GIF image that you can't really see when going on a webpage. A "backdoor" to internet networks that hackers use was also repeated once or twice. And then, there were a list of webpages that you should contact to ask for your information to be taken away if you feel like it, but they were technically lists of resources for stalkers. They weren't exactly amazingly useful resources, but they were there. I didn't learn much from the book and I'm not hinting that I already know how to maneuver myself into your computer.
The book's copyright date clearly indicated that it was too outdated to help me stalk. ;)
I'm kidding.
I almost forgot.
And in honor of this special day(I do not take credit for this picture):

Tuesday, July 03, 2007

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Internet Privacy and Security

I was looking at the table of computer bargain books at Books-a-Million, which is a store I've visited twice altogether. I'm on page 63 now which probably isn't a helpful fact since I'm not going to bother checking the total number of pages and edit my current page number according to the extra pages in the book. It's not bad for something directed towards people who don't know anything about the internet. There's still things to learn.
I completely forgot to watch the Wimbledon today. It's so annoying with dial-up when you realize that all these important websites are so complicated that it takes forever to load. (www.wimbledon.org)I don't usually watch important tennis matches but it would've been something interesting to do during the long, uneventful day that was unfortunately interrupted with a dentist appointment. But without that appointment, I wouldn't've found a nice book to buy and a Spanish joke book that teaches you extra vocabulary and also has the jokes in English. There's a cartoon on each page with something written underneath it. Fortunately, I already knew the vocabulary at the beginning of the book that you're supposed to know before you go off and learn more. This probably seems like a completely mundane way to learn Spanish but I wasn't planning on doing anything extra over the summer but I know I'll need a little vocab boost if I want to take AP in the future. Not that we(meaning people at this school) have good chances of passing.

Monday, July 02, 2007

Comparing Pictures

It's so depressing because almost every day within the past week, it's been really cloudy and miserable during the evenings and you can hear a lot of thunder. Finally, today, it's raining! It wasn't when I started this post. I'm really glad because I don't have to water the lawn today.
In Hefei, my mom and brother went on this little roller coaster and today, two students (probably college students considering how the article had worded it in Chinese) fell 10 meters where it had broken while on the exact ride. One of them was injured and the other died. There are pictures online in the article and I have pictures of my mom and brother riding it, which makes it even creepier.
Here is the picture I took:

And here is one of the two pictures in the article today from www.wenxuecity.com:

Saturday, June 30, 2007

Aaaaaahhhh!!!!!

Both of my "brothers" now have people who seeem to act like they like them and it is really scaring me.
Katelyn's boyfriend is currently in Peru, so she consequently acts a bit more quiet and slightly disappointed.
My VP's Korean-obsessive-person is sad even in her typing. She even described herself as sad/depressed (in Korean) in her status.
This is really disturbing (VP's) and I don't even know why. She IS Korean... But last time I checked, she was undecided about how she felt towards him. Someone else told me that she wants a Korean-tennis-playing boyfriend. And my VP perfectly matches the description besides the fact that he was awesomely born in my favorite state.
On a much brighter note, I previously edited Katelyn's boyfriend's name on her cell phone so that it read "My Lover". She put him on speed dial #2, which is the lowest number there is since #1 is (very permanently) voicemail on normal cell phones in this country.
My EIA is busily studying for his derivative tests for the National Junior Classical League convention that will be... somewhere. Tennessee? I don't remember. My Head of Marketing/Travel is also going.
I haven't heard much from the HOUSE. I suppose he's being nocturnal, going online for a minute to poke people, and reading profusely. Maybe he will read this and tell me that he is alive so I don't have to appoint someone else to be the HOUSE. I would probably give the title to myself since no one else stalks ANYONE these days.
I should probably also congratulate myself for finally writing a slightly longer post.
My VP is leaving on the 8th much to the dismay of the g girls. I'm still wondering how there can possibly be q girls. They must be in various universes.
The ARG BC hasn't been in much contact with us since the fiasco of photo comments under a certain picture in a certain album in a certain website that included a few guys who were labeled a certain orientation by a certain person who questionably acts as a paragon of that certain lifestyle.

Monday, June 25, 2007

A really flat line.

Triangles were the best part of geometry proofs back in 8th grade. Now, they are menacingly boring and would really like to torture me. This is why I can't stand Trig. And also why I don't want to do any math. I would like to just skip all this sine, cosine, tangent, secant, cosecant, cotangent stuff because it seems so useless. But of course, we use almost everything we learn in math at another time... Except stem-and-leaf plots, of course. The problem is, complex numbers don't seem that exciting either. Maybe I'll just keep slacking off and playing the piano instead of real studying. There's only so many hours of piano before you start wandering away, though. I can't even play for an hour nonstop these days. Summer brings thoughts of actually doing things, but after going somewhere and actually doing something (that was kind of disappointing), nothing is exciting now.
I suppose I should go and play the piano now.
And then realize that I have nothing else to do once I'm done.
How exciting.
Like always, of course.

Sunday, June 24, 2007

1/3

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.

Wednesday, June 20, 2007

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.