Winter Quarter, Week One: Carbohydrates & Friends

Random things of note.

+ I must have a thing for ethnic breads. Checked to see if Trader Joe's had Pretzel Challah yesterday, they didn't, so got Tandoori Garlic Naan instead. Mmm. Carbs. hee.

+ Conversation between me & Ping {my Taiwanese Electrical Engineering PhD roomie} this morning:

P: looking at her bag of potatoes in the pantry. "Do you need any potatoes this weekend? They're gross."

Me: confused. "What?"

P: holds up a potato that looks perfectly fine if a little sprouty.

Me: "Wait, do you mean 'gross' or 'growing'?"

P: "... What's the difference?"

Me: "Gross means disgusting..."

P: "Oh! No, growing. Growing!"

Yay for international miscommunication. It makes life fun.

+ Yesterday was eventful.

Wake up at 6:45am, class from 9am-12pm, BruinLife office hours/working on my writing sample from 12pm-3pm, meet Steph at 3pm to walk into Westwood {Trader Joe's, course reader textbook store, Whole Foods for a free mini cupcake, Gushi for dinner}, dinner/faux-roomie-naptime with 213, walk to GOC at 6:30pm, GOC from 7pm-10pm, boba run around 11:30pm {ran into Emma & Shellie! yay}, bother about in 213 until 1:30am, watch Once Upon a Time with some of my favorite people until 3:30am, work by the light of our apt Christmas tree for a bit after I got back home.

I had fun.

+ Mabel brought back an 85 Degrees coffee/redbeanmochi bun for me yesterday from her overnight trip to Irvine. Happiness.

+ I'm glad the winter hiatus for TV shows is over. And that I have time to appreciate that fact.

+ Possibly interning this quarter. Fingers crossed. I'm excited.

+ I broke out the thermals-under-jeans yesterday. Cold weather is only my friend up to a certain point. My love for winter is not unconditional.

+ Why so many winter birthdays, guys? Sheesh.

+ Is it weird that I'm almost excited to read for class this quarter? Yay for liking my classes!

+ Happy Saturday! Hope you have something exciting planned for the weekend! I'm going ice-skating in an hour. Where my love-hate relationship with winter shall continue... 

Bouncing Bigfoot

{vintage pogo sticking}

Emma writing the intro paragraph to her Comm paper.

Emma: Is it Bigfoot or Bigfeet?

Shellie & I: *disbelief* Bigfoot.

*laughter*

Emma: Well, he does have two feet.

*more laughter*

Me: Can you just imagine him hopping everywhere? THUMPTHUMPTHUMP.

Emma: Like a boggle stick-- wait. Boggle stick? You know, the thing that bounces...

Me: Pogo stick?

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This girl. *shakes head*

Christmas Break Quotes: Mi Madre

Mom cooking dinner.

Me: Whatcha cookin'?

Mom: A variation of pork and beans.

Me: *confused* *looks into pan* Edamame?

Mom: It's a bean!

Me: It's a soybean!

She's right though. It is a bean.

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Mom talking about facebook.

Mom: For the amount that we pay for tuition every year, the least you could do is add 'UCLA' under your name!

Me: Mom! I'm not going to add that just so you don't have to keep telling your friends where your kid goes to school every time they ask. That's sad.

Apparently, all my mom wants out of four years of college is an info update on facebook. If only all parents were that easily pleased... *grins*

{We were kidding, just fyi. I'm pretty sure she hopes I'll get a job, too. *laughs*}

Apt 216 Quotes, No. 8: Lyrics

{... or maybe my dog. you know, whichever.}

Emma, last year, while on a roomie date with Mickeyla & I, singing 'California Gurls'.

Emma: "... so hot, we'll melt your particles" --

Mickeyla: Wait, what?

Sam: It's 'popsicles', Emma dear.

Mickeyla: Did you just sing 'particles'?

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Emma, today, lying in bed singing 'Speak Now'.

Emma: "... I heard the creature say, speak now, or forever hoooold youuuuur pea-a-a-ace" --

Sam: *pause* Um, Emma?

Emma: Yeah?

Sam: It's 'preacher'. *starts laughing*

Emma: *thinks about it* Ohhhh. I always wondered why she said 'creature'!

*laughter ensues*

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Have I ever told you how much this girlie cracks me up?

She's hilarious.

*love*

Apt 216 Quotes, No 7: Flirtation

{subtlety}

Emma reading her Comm 126 {Evolution of Interpersonal Communication} course reader while lying in bed.

Emma: "Even quite successful men don't seem to know what happens during flirtation"-- I don't even know what happens during flirtation! I don't know how to flirt! Wha-- "I just know that it works, they say when asked"...

Sam: Whaat.

I was confused because I didn't know if that outburst was part of her reading or what. And then the fact that she all of a sudden started reading again totally threw me because I thought she was still outbursting...

This girl.

*shakes head*

Apt 216, No. 6: Chicken & Apt 213 Shenanigans

{ninja salt & pepper shakers}

Emma cutting up her roast chicken from Costco, after having let it sit in the fridge for about a week.

Emma: How do you know when the chicken's gone bad?

Shellie & I: Uhh... *shrug* It tastes funny & smells strange?

Emma: Oh. Well, I don't think it smells funny. Would you guys eat this?

Me: No.

Shellie: I had a chicken from Ralph's in the fridge for a while and it was fine, though a bit dry.

Emma: Oh, this chicken doesn't taste dry. It's...

Shellie: Moist?

Emma: Squishy.

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Mickeyla lying on the floor and staring at her physics homework forlornly.

Mickeyla: This is why I'm not a ninja.

{Or at least, that's what I heard her say. She actually said "This is why I'm not an engineer." Whoops.}

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Mickeyla leaning on Steph while they're sitting on the couch.

Mickeyla: NO, my stomache does NOT need massaging!

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Mickeyla's text to me after I left their apartment around 1:30 am to walk back across the street to my apartment.

Mickeyla: Were you ravished by rabid raccoons? Harrassed by hyper humans? Or creamer-chugging collegiates? Confronted by caffeinated coolkids?

Steben {via facebook}: Accosted by aggravated academics?

These kids.

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By the way.

Did you know...



{how cute}



Apt 216 Quotes, No. 5: Classic Emma

{emma falls asleep in strange positions too!}

Emma: So this morning-- well, nooo, it was like 2 o'clock {in the afternoon}...

Shellie & I: *bahahahaha*

{this girl. she and sleep have this love-hate relationship; they love to be near each other and they hate that they get so little time to spend together. So the days she can sleep in, she does. Majorly}.

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Emma reading to herself for her Communications class.

Emma: The people filled a suit against--

Me: 'Filled?'

Emma: *pause* Oh. Filed.

Two minutes later.

Emma: Gah. I can't spell 'Chinese'.

*pause*

Me: China.

Shellie & Emma: *bahahahahaha*

{see this post for reference}

Apt 216 Quotes, No. 4: So I was on the Facebook...

{on the waterfront}

Emma: So then I read something on Tweeter and--

Shellie: Wait, what?

Emma: What?

Shellie: Tweeter?

Emma: *confused* What'd I say?

Shellie: Twitter?

Emma: Oh.

Emma & I: *shake heads* China.

{right now, China is the answer anytime Emma pronounces something funny. I guess two months in a foreign country can do that to you}.

Apt 216 Quotes, No. 3.5: Grapes & Deep Contemplation

All was silent and calm as the occupants of Apartment 216 munched on grapes, websurfed, & wrote a blog post {Emma, Shellie, & me, respectively} on this relatively normal Thursday night.

Silent & calm, that is, until...

"AUGH!"

Emma's grape munching shot Shellie straight in the face with grape juice.

It was kind of impressive, really.

Apt 216 Quotes, No. 3: Grapes & Deep Contemplation

{I love their color boards... so pretty!}

Emma: *drops down onto her seat at the kitchen table* Ugggh, eating grapes is so tiring!

Shellie & I give her a funny look.

Emma: *determined* I'm going to peel each and every one and eat them.

Me: ... Then why'd you wash them? {She handwashed every.single.one. of the grapes. Individually}.

Emma: Because I saw some pretty gross stuff on them.

Shellie: ... But if you were going to peel them anyways, why...

Shellie & I: Ohhkay.

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Shellie: Hey, Sammo? Do you know if that switch right there runs the garbage disposal in the sink?

Me: *hesitant* Um. I guess so?

I walk over & we both stand there staring into the sink.

Me: Want me to try it?... What's the safety procedure for this thing?

Shellie: *laughs* I don't know.

Me: Me neither. I've never run the garbage disposal before...

{file this under 'Things You Contemplate During College' for future reference}

Emma Quotes, No. 2: Happy Faces, Bored Legs

{free hugs!}

Emma looking at her ACA face shots for Staff Photos.

Emma: Uhg, I'm not even smiling!

Shellie: But your shirt is!

{Emma had a smiley face on her shirt during the photoshoot}


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Emma bouncing up and down while sitting in front of her computer.

Me: Emma? Why are you bouncing?

Emma: Because my legs are bored. *pause* I swear I have ADD or something.

Me: Um... I don't think that makes your legs bored...

Emma: Well, you know, I have to keep moving. *another pause* And this is supposed to make you skinnier... you know, all this... *motions to the bouncing*

Shellie & I: *dot.dot.dot.*

Emma Quotes: Growing Old & Mispronunciation

Emma moving around her giant suitcase.

Emma: Ohhh... *puts both hands on small of back* My baaack...

Me: You're sooo ooold.

Emma: *wails* I knooow! I'm aaancient!

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Emma looking at her new mattress in a box that was just delivered today.

Emma: Ooh! What? My mattress is flame-able!

Shellie & I: Flaaamable?