That being said, how are you all? Besides slightly upset at me for not writing?
Well, here come my excuses- I've been frightfully busy, extremely tired, and then I went home, and then I got sick.
Let me explain:
November 15th- Showed my family around campus while they were here!!! I got to give a full campus tour before we got lunch and I had to dart away to class. The rest of the day was me showing them around, us all hanging out at the hotel room, then going out to dinner :) I love spending time with my family.
November 16th- Most of that Saturday was consumed with roaming around the campus and waiting for the big game. We were all dolled up in USC gear, which made me proud :) The game itself was the absolute BEST game I've EVER been to at USC!!!!! Did you see it???? Us vs. Stanford. Yeah. It was the best. game. ever. I'm STILL. Getting over it. Plus, my dad went to Stanford, and he was there watching it with me. Hahaha, Stanford. WE WON!!!!!
Anyways... That was exciting :) Afterwards though, I had to say goodbye to everyone because they were flying out the next morning. It makes me so sad to see my family go... I'm always the most homesick right after I see them...
November 17th- Well, this day was my Dad's birthday!!! So even though they'd just left, I had a great excuse to call my dad again and wish him a happy birthday :) My day was pretty consumed doing homework, as far as I can remember though. According to my little daily calendar I have in my room, I got to hang out with Thomas, and then with Kieryn, Sneha, and Jinny. I don't remember what we did, but I'm sure it was fun!
November 18th- Again, I can relate specific events of this day because of that little calendar. I turned in my hours for Intro to Production after my Acting class, which meant I'm DONE with any and all shop hours for the rest of the semester!!! I got declearance to take voice lessons next semester as a scheduled class. Then, I was feeling really productive and happy, so when I saw Kieryn in the lounge, I made us tea and we had a bit of a tea party before I started on homework. Homework and classes and working out and by the end of the day, I guess I was exhausted because I wrote, "Too tired to study more...ugh..."
By the way, I have a blank paper calendar up in my room, and I try to make a habit out of writing down everything I did during a certain day on the calendar. I've been doing it all year for 2013 :)
November 19th- I had another midterm for Intro to Production, but I got out early!! So instead of more class I went to Literatea with Thomas and Annelle (one of my new friends. We're in the same Philosophy class!). More class, and then I went to Intervarsity. It was nice... but then they went dorm storming to share verses and prayer with people in the dorms... I didn't go, and I still feel a little guilty for it. I had to go rehearse with my scene group for Acting class, so it's not like I left early for no reason... but still. God calls us to share him with others around us, and I didn't...
November 20th- Ok. This morning I remember VERY well.
The day before, my time slot opened up for class scheduling. There'd been one class I'd really been interested in taking, and that fulfills 3 of my requirements for USC- it's a Gen. Ed class, it fulfills the Diversity requirement I need, and it's linked to my freshman writing requirement. Plus, the timing of it worked perfectly with the other classes I was planning on taking next semester. However, the website said that the lecture was full, so I had looked for other options.
Then, the professor that teaches the class sent an email to those of us who live on the South Side of campus, Me included. He's a resident professor on our side of campus, and he let us know that he was going to open up 20 more spots, just for our dorm area!!! I responded fairly quickly, I thought, so suddenly I had a spot in the class!!!
Or so I thought. Turns out I didn't respond soon enough, so I had to find a plan B, fast.
So during my registration time, I got myself in a fairly interesting Gen Ed. class on Comparative Literature. Not bad, and I wouldn't have minded taking it... but there was still possibility of more spots opening in the first class.
So. The morning of the 20th, I obsessively checked the registration website to check for openings during my acting class. I was rewarded- a spot opened up and I was suddenly able to register for it!!! So I excused myself from the class (it was about to end anyways, it's ok) and set out to try to get it.
Problems: 1) the writing slot that was linked with the class suddenly got full, and 2) the discussion session got full, and 3) I had to switch around a couple of other class times to get it to work, and the worst of all: 4) the Internet at USC is REALLY slow. I spent an hour trying to get it to work, and actually went to the writing center to get clearance to take a different writing course with this class that I wanted. Which was a pain. But FINALLY we got it all worked out... I missed the discussion session for my Philosophy class... and the online course viewer was experiencing bugs, so I couldn't see what my schedule actually looked like for a while... but it's done... and for all that horrific, excruciating stress, I have a perfect schedule to show for it. HA.
Well, then more stress came when I went to talk with my Philosophy TA and discovered that my entire outline for our second paper wasn't going to work out, because my objection to my argument was too strong for me to come up with a response.... so all that work had to go down the drain and I had a week to get another outline to him to be able to look at... *sigh*
November 21- Got to sleep in, but hung out outside after class... It was an absolutely beautiful day.
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| A selfie, of course |
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| Look how gorgeous the sky was |
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| Plus, it was the perfect combination of sunny and chilly :) |
November 22- Had to leave voice lessons early because I felt like fainting... I know... I'm a total wimp... Singing is hard work though, and I pushed myself too hard. The rest of the day was mostly studying and working on my project for Text Studies. It's a group project on the play "Death of a Salesman." At the end of the day, Kieryn, Sneha, Jinny, and I watched 500 Days of Summer. I liked it a lot until I realized I'd missed the entire point of the movie... Humph. It wasn't a romance, it was a reality movie. :P A very, very good movie!!!! Just... not a good one for an idealist like me.
November 23- This is where I accidentally stopped writing on my daily calendar... whoops.... I probably should've kept more updated.... What did I do on that Saturday...
OH! I'm so silly- I spent most of the day studying and working on my Text Studies project... I think. Something of that sort. Kieryn, Jinny, and Sneha watched the Day of the Doctor in the morning. I did not, because I don't really like Doctor Who. I think I did laundry instead...
Anyways, that night, Sneha, Jinny, and I went to Hollywood!!! For me, it was the first time ever, and I am definitely going back!!! I absolutely loved it!!!
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| All ready to go! |
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| One of the best Country stars |
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| Walt Disney's brother. We didn't find Walt's star |
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| The Queen of the world |
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| The cast of Harry Potter in front of the Chinese Theater |
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| At the Chinese theater :) |
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| After a really nice dinner, we went roaming around in stores at the mall where we'd gone to eat. |
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| Dr. Whovians |
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| Of course, Disneyland. And my new favorite store in all of LA. |
November 24- I'm surprised I remembered this day- not a whole lot happened. I had a study party with Thomas at Leavy (I worked on my bloody philosophy outline), and then we went to LiteraTea to "study" (we ended up just hanging out and talking), but then I left to go see a play! I saw "Time of your Life." I don't remember who wrote it... It was the Master's degree theater production... but honestly... I saw a different play a few days back (I don't remember which day... I think it was Thursday?) called "In the Blood" by Suzan Lori Parks. I thought "In the Blood" was better, and it was done by people with the same degree as me. They were undergraduate students. "In the Blood" was more jarring, that's for sure, but still... there was more of a story, and better performances in general.
November 25- We discussed both "Time of your Life" and "In the Blood" during my acting class. I'm constantly reminded of all the reasons this was my favorite class this semester. We had a great discussion, and the scenes we worked through went pretty well too, I think.
What did I do after that... I was stressed, that I remember. There was a lot to get done on Monday, and I was super stressed about... something... I know I had a lot of assignments to do. Maybe I was trying to work on those. Actually, yes. I was working on a Spanish project!! And then I talked with Aaron, my Philosophy TA, and it was confirmed that I had to start all over on a different outline.... and I had to do it by the next night... and then I had to pack for Thanksgiving.... Oh! And then I was feeling really sick, so I barely got anything done besides my Intro to Production homework...
November 26- Oh boy. Tuesday.
I got to help out my professor before my 8am class!! We had our lecture on costumes, so Duncan needed help getting examples of various costumes out of the costume shop and to the classroom. So that was fun :)
And then came the challenge of finishing 3 different tasks in 3 hours... Spoiler alert- it didn't happen.
What did happen is I packed for going home for Thanksgiving, and then spent the rest of the time (and time out of my next class) working furiously on finishing my Spanish project. At 3, Jinny and I grabbed all our stuff and headed straight over to the airport to leave for Thanksgiving. I made it on my flight just fine, but I was supposed to email the Spanish project in before 4... I would've done it, if the Internet had worked after I boarded the flight. It should've! The door was still open!!! I had to email it after we landed with a small apology though. Luckily, it was still accepted, and then I didn't have to worry about it anymore afterwards.
*sigh*... and then I was home for Thanksgiving.... and all was well.... except for the Philosophy paper and the project for Text Studies hanging over my head... But who cares? I got to see my family, be comfortable in my own house... all was well :)
Thanksgiving break itself was overall really relaxing and nice. I didn't get that outline in before Tuesday night, but that was ok. I did finish it, and I did get some work done for my project, so that's all that really matters. Highlights were definitely getting to see most of my friends again. I got to go to coffee with Will on Wednesday, as well as see a large group of people and catch up at Elsie's house that Wednesday night. I've missed everyone so much!!! We got to hang out again on Friday night, and all our parents were there too. A "friendsgiving" was what my aunt called it :)
Thanksgiving itself was wonderful. I ate way too much.
The Saturday of Thanksgiving break, I went up to San Francisco with my entire extended family! My Uncle Bill was in the Navy some years ago, so he was wanting to take us on a tour of an old World War Two submarine out on Pier 44. He wasn't in World War Two, but he did work on a submarine during his time in the Navy. It was really cool.... until I got seasick and couldn't stay on to finish the tour.... On the bright side, we all got to explore a huge collection of arcade games that was right next to the submarine! There were games dating all the way back to 1900!! Plus, lunch was at Boudin, which I've missed incredibly :)
What stunk about Saturday was the UCLA vs. USC game... I watched it at home and got so upset I turned it off after the 3rd quarter.... except then my family wanted to see the rest of it so it got turned on again.... ugh. Next year, Bruins.... next year..... >:(
I think I'm too competitive.
December 1- I spent the morning at home, getting packed up and ready to go back to LA. Dad took me to the airport in the afternoon, and as expected, a good percentage of the people on the flight were college kids. I sat next to an Industrial Engineering senior from Cal Poly Pomona. He was fun to talk to! I wish I remembered his name....
Anyways, Jinny had gotten back before me, but after I got some work done on my Philosophy paper (due the next day, mind you), Sneha, Kieryn, Jinny, and I went to dinner together off campus at The Pizza Studio. It was quite a treat :) Especially because we watched Lord of the Rings: Return of the King afterwards, finally finishing the trilogy!!! It was totally worth it. I adore those movies...
Unfortunately, I was up pretty late working on my Philosophy paper... Thus begins the deprivation of sleep...
December 2- I got up extra early to work on my paper. In class... I didn't do as well as I wanted to on my scene... I just felt like I couldn't get things quite right... I got a lot of notes. So that was discouraging. On the bright side, I was able to finish my Philosophy paper before it was due!!! But then I had my Text Studies project to work on... Our group met up in the evening to work on it, but I was up pretty late getting my part together...
December 3- Intro to Theater Production had it's last lecture of the semester at 8am in the morning. We learned about Special Effects, which was kind of fun, I admit. I've liked that class, and I'll miss the shop track. I'm taking the same class, but in crew track, next semester.
After that, I rushed to get my part of the project together before my group presented in the next class. We went over time... but I don't think we did horribly bad. It could've been worse, at least, and at least it was over with after that!!!
The next project was studying for a Spanish interview. It was part of our final, but just a speaking portion. Of course, the topic I chose during the interview was the only one I didn't spend time studying as much as the more recent topics... my professor said I did well anyways though, which was encouraging.
Project after that? Writing a paper on a show I saw this semester for my acting class. Jinny had a lot to write too, and so did Kate, so we all hung out to drink tea and work on it together. I didn't quite finish...
December 4- I got up extra early again to finish the paper. Success! Though I was horribly tired during class... The other sad thing was today was the last day of normal Acting Class for the semester... I'm going to miss it...
I actually only got about 3-4 hours of sleep the night before, so it makes sense that I started feeling absolutely horrid during the afternoon....
I figured it was because I was just tired, so after my Philosophy class I took a long nap... but wasn't hungry at all afterwards... Went to bed early. Nothing due for Thursday, anyways.
December 5- What do you know when you sleep for 12 hours but still wake up feeling as horribly as you went to bed? You're sick, that's what.
Went to class anyways. It was the last day of Text Studies, after all!! But the rest of the day, I took it pretty easy... Didn't do much besides finish a scarf I've been working on for a while. I also made a gingerbread house! Hannah (my RA) set up a gingerbread house making event. It was really fun and I'm SUPER proud of the house I made!!!
The other thing I did get done yesterday was deciding, with Jinny, who I'm going to live with next semester. Jinny, Kate, and I are looking for a fourth/fifth person to join us... any takers?
December 6- WOW. And now we're to today!!!
I slept pretty crummy last night... my entire nose and head and throat are making me feel really icky. I'm procrastinating on sleep at the moment that I'm writing all this... Based on how gross last night was, I'm not looking forward to how I'll sleep tonight...
Well, at least I got some more stuff done today. Namely, I made it to class, and got a poster from the movie Frozen for free (even though I haven't seen the movie yet. I am DYING to see it but can't yet!!! :( ).
Classes are now officially over for first semester. All that's left is finals... wow. this semester really flew by. People kept saying it would, but you don't realize how much it actually does until you blink and it's gone...
Walking all the way to class (and to the bookstore for a blue book and to Seeds to look for saltine crackers) tired me out a ton... but I got about 15 minutes of rest before the fire alarm went off in Pardee... ugh. I decided to take the opportunity to go visit the Health Center. I've been feeling pretty rotten today, even though it's a bit better than yesterday, so I wanted to make sure it was nothing serious. The whole appointment didn't last too long. I was diagnosed with a "viral syndrome," or, just a viral version of a bad cold. I've been prescribed some medicine and hopefully I'll get better soon...
I've spent the rest of the day getting rest as much as possible... I watched two Disney movies- first "Melody Time," an oldie with a lot of memorable little segments, and then "Robin Hood" with Jinny, because it's been ages since she's seen it and I've been wanting to watch it ever since I found out it was on Netflix.
And now... here I am. Updating my blog. Finally.
Ooh-de-lally. What a past few weeks.... I really do feel bad that I haven't been keeping up with this. I'll do better this month. Now that all I have to do schoolwork wise is study for finals, I'll have a little more time open to write, hopefully. I have this entire weekend plus Monday and Tuesday for studying, don't worry. And hopefully I'll have some more adventures to write about soon too, especially once I'm not sick anymore...
I hate being sick. It's so dehabilitating. I feel like I can hardly do anything!!! I'm practically stuck... and not only am I stuck, but I feel gross while I'm stuck... Ugh.
Anyone want to bring me crackers? Seeds has been out the past two days and I'm not sure if I have enough energy to walk all the way to CVS... I'll try, but I won't like it :P
Also... thanks for reading through all this, if you did. I appreciate it, and I hope it didn't take to long to read through. It was a long post...
Fight on, my dear friends.
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