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Saturday, May 16th, 2009
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7:36 pm - rough week
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this has been a terrible two weeks, but ehsyrbrt.
-broke my glasses
-grandpa died
-i am an idiot
in summation, bad. But still love my friends and having good times!
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| Friday, May 8th, 2009
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10:18 pm - SOOOO TIIIRED
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And I took a nap! But I feel like I'm dying, and I need to clean and go back to bed so I don't die tomorrow.
Today Kurt and I had delicious cupcakes! Snickerdoodle for him and I got a Mexican Hot Chocolate one. Deliiiicious! Spicy and sweet! Trophy Cupcake is the only place that makes buttercream frosting that I like (besides mixing sugar with butter, that is).
New criteria for apartment hunting
-must be above a thai food place
-and a coffeeshop
-next to a movie theatre
-within delivery radius of all delicious food
-by an H&M, Urban, and Pitaya
-allows cats
-THICK WALLS. that is the most aggravating thing about my apartment. I can't have people over late because the walls are so thin. But that's a plus if you like tejano music at 8am on a Sunday, as I do.
Oh and I kind of think my life is falling apart, but thats also due to immense stress and nonunderstanding of finance.
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| Tuesday, April 28th, 2009
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9:09 pm - Failure at School
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I am trying to study/write paper, and instead I'm listening to Ella Fitzgerald. She demands attention and will not be background music! Porgy and Bess, Ella and Miles OHEMGEEEEEEEEEEEEEE so delightful.
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| Sunday, April 19th, 2009
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12:42 am - we're all suckers
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Two of the greatest things of my life happened today.
1) when I was looking up sample cover letters (cause-- I don't know what to say to a PAINT STORE), one of them said "gain appreciation for the art you're your Company exhibits". YAY.
2) I was bringing clothes from the downstairs fitting room to the upstairs fitting room, which had a huuuuuge line. I go to the front and hang by the corner, bc the girl in there was helping a customer and I didn't want to crowd them. A chick behind me goes in the snottiest voice ever "You DO know there's a line?!". I just turned around, looked at her (she went OH and then didn't say anything) and then turned back around. And then gave her a death glare, but she was avoiding my gaze. Oh, customers. Bitch thought I was some crazy chick who thought she could cut in line. WHO would think that?
kurtl be proud of me, I'm applying to internships (ugh)
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| Thursday, April 2nd, 2009
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1:13 pm - sad abi
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When googling my prof of Finance, Adam Kolasinski, I found an article he wrote entitled "A Secular Case Against Gay Marriage". It was full of retardation, as you might expect. His basic case was that straights should get the state-benefits of marriage because they will have babies, which is in our interest. And since gays can't make babies then they haven't proved that they should get the benefits. Ohhh, so lesbians can have babies? Well then it is bad for the kids, because even if they "WONT NECESSARILY MAKE [the children] GAY" they will be messed up with not having a father around. Cause all kids of nongays are growing up in a 2 person unit?
UGH I am going to be giving him the death glare SO HARD in class. I hate it.
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| Wednesday, March 25th, 2009
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11:12 pm - grades
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SOooooooOOOO I finally looked at my grades, after putting it off for forever. I don't want to talk about it. EUuuuush. OH WAIT I GOT A 4.0 IN RETAILING! YAAAAAAAAAY! Easiest class ever, I don't care!
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| Monday, March 16th, 2009
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12:27 pm - clotheeeeeeeees!
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| Wednesday, March 11th, 2009
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2:44 pm - last class
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Last class, last day of class! YAYYYY! I am so happy that this quarter is so close to being done. And, it is a beautiful day out. I have been messing a LOT up, but so close to being able to make a fresh start in beautiful spring quarter.
Still having the dilemma of whether to take OPMGT 490 (supply chain management, the apparel project) or Modern Chinese History. Cause I feel like I should take opmgt, but ohhhhh how I want to take China!
I'm still reading MAO. Have been since Christmas, it's very slow going. I've been addicted to Salinger, which has interrupted Mao. But, since I keep forgetting to get Nine Stories from Vic, Mao has to do. It's fascinating, but I think I definitely am more interested in the first hand cultural revolution accounts, which are more like stories than pure history. But, I want to read Mao, so that I can read the older Mao books and compare the propaganda. Ahhh, why aren't I doing a thesis on this? Because I am stupid and doing business.
There are five different types of ethical systems:
1) Ethical beliefs revolving around "do no harm"
2) Revolves around "be fair" (US)
3) Be communal (be aware of community's needs- Japan)
4) Respect authority (Saudi Arabia)
5) Keep clean (umhum)
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| Monday, March 9th, 2009
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3:38 pm - it's abi, bitch
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ARGUGUGHHHHH I don't want to do this presentation! 50 minutes until it's GO TIME! But then I will be DONE! DONEEEEEEEEEEE! with that class. ew.
I am having such a hard time paying attention in class. Thank goodness the last couple days of retailing and advertising have been presentations. But IBUS and product management both are still lecturing. I'm not learninnnnngggg!
But, I just got my 25% of my grade test back in IBUS and I missed 2 multiple choice questions, and got 100% on the essay/calc part. Now for that class I just have to do my giant paper. Which I need to completely make up, because I didn't keep a diary of my trades sooooo. Due wednesday.
but retailing is completely done
product mgmt have my final
ibus have my project due wed, and final
advertising- final on sat
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| Wednesday, March 4th, 2009
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3:01 pm - work
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People always ask me if I like working at H&M. Which I do. I always say that I love it. I love the people that I work with, and I loooove working with clothes. But at the same time, it's frustrating. So much so that sometimes I don't want to go. I have to work 130-930 tomorrow, and I really really don't want to go. It's not just because I am busy with school (which I'm sure it partially is) but that it seems so...mundane? Same thing over and over?
I know that part of it is because of the new store manager. Not only does she not seem friendly, but her efforts to make us more efficient end up causing a lot of work for the managers and sales associates. I really like my dept managers, but Jenny is just not my style. She also doesn't get when I joke, or like to joke around at all.
I may just be getting bitter. I know what to do, and I do it well, and some customers are just awful. AWFUL. Some are fine/great, but many are just jerks. I know I used to smile wayyyy more, now I don't even make eye-contact all the time.
And I don't feel challenged or like I'm doing anything worthwhile. I guess me being there is benefiting my coworkers, cause I am in the better half that work there. But that is hardly why I am going to school, is it?
I just want a break. I still love working at H&M, but dag, yo, it is getting harder and harder to be happy about going to work. And any shift over 4 hours (like...all of them) is making me bitter. And bitter means stress, and stress causes wrinkles.
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12:19 pm - my team is AWESOME!
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Ahh, Twitterpation. (A state of infatuation, if anyone is curious. It's from Bambi, NOT La Bamba as I originally thought.) As of yesterday, we had 7 minutes of presentation material. We thought it was a 10 min presentation, so we decided to do a little Aaron Cartering to fill in time. Today, we found out it's a 15 min presentation, about 10 min before we started. SNAPS!
14 min 47 seconds! YAAAAYYYY!!!! My group is awesome, we didn't prepare much at all and rocked it out. Now for this class (retailing) we only have to finish our marketing plan and turn it in monday. Life is good! (And my retailing team is amazing! I was driving yesterday and categorizing us, and I came up with three types. Bitches (abi, kurt, ryan), nice kids (sammy, lindsay) and confused (Mackenzie, who is a finance major and refuses to touch the financial part of our business plan). I think we work well together, even if the bitches are all a little high strung. In the best way that includes snapping and dancing to Aaron Carter in Ode.)
And my procrastinating and learning about bacon and chocolate paid off. WTF!
(note: stole our website from vosges.com, which I explored last night. It made me want delicious truffles. Instead, I had a bran muffin. mmm, fiber.
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| Monday, March 2nd, 2009
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12:52 pm - mktg 410
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The really ugly girl in my mktg 410 class upsets me. Fortunately I've only had to look at her like 6 class periods. But she's really unfortunate looking. It's causing me distress and thus wrinkles.
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| Thursday, February 26th, 2009
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12:49 am - schedule so far
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14021 HSTAS 454 HIST MDRN CHINA TTh 330- 520 MEYER,MAHLON D.
14022 HSTAS 462 SE ASIA HST TO 1800 MW 230- 420 GIEBEL,CHRISTOPH
14111 I S 300 B INTRO TO INFO SYS MW 430- 620P Th 530- 620P SUSARLA,ANJANA
15155 MGMT 320 D BUS GOVT & SOC MW 1030-1220 GAUTSCHI,FREDERICK H.
I want to get into Theresa's class though (opmgt 490) if I can. And maybe histioriography (hist 494)
I dont even know. Methinks one of these hist classes will be dropped, in any case. I kind of need to take mktg 450/460
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| Saturday, February 14th, 2009
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12:12 pm
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Kale
Arugula
Carrots
Broccoli
Butter-leaf lettuce
Potatoes
Onions
Avocados
Red Peppers
Pears
Apples
Oranges
This was all delivered to my house Thursday. I left it outside, thinking it might be my neighbors. It is not. Today is Saturday, and it is MINE! And it's all organic, which is cool. I'm going to call the company later and ask them about it, to see if someone's missing a delivery, but I'm still going to keep the food. Yum!
If only I knew how to cook
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| Monday, February 9th, 2009
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1:17 am - OLD MAN SMELL
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I'm at Odegaard trying to study for my two gross midterms tomorrow, and I am sitting by an OLD MAN. Who has OLD MAN SMELL and is eating old man candy. But mostly the smeeeelll ew. I would move but all the not-by-old-man seats are taken. I realize why this one was vacant. I didn't bother bringing my laptop, cause guuhh Ode has computers and I'm here to NOT be distracted.
I'm feeling okay about my IBUS test, it may be fine and it may be horrible. I can do all the calculations (the "essay question" portion of the test) but my multiple choice skills...like always, bleh. If there is a 50/50 chance, I will ALWAYS, INVARIABLY choose the wrong one.
ANYWAY
I AM 21! YAY!
I went home Friday night to be with my family. It was nice and low-ish key, but I didn't sleep much that night because I have a hard time sleeping when other people are awake, and my mom gets up at 730 AT THE LATEST. Spent Saturday with them (kind of), my sister baked me a cake (which my cats ate some of when I came back to seattle) and we ate Subway. Came back to Seattle around 5.
AND INSTANTLY HAD TO GO SHOPPING! YAY! Vic needed fashion advice and I love to dispense my heard-earned wisdom. She got a lovely white cotton halter dress from J. Crew, and then a coral sweater from H&M (Modern Classic cardigan, orig $29.90 now 30% off!) and we parted ways to get ready for the night.
And then went to dinner at Il Terrazzo Carmine, a nice italian restaurant FULL OF MAFIA. But we felt very adult, sitting at the bar while we waited for our table (vic got a lemondrop, I got a cosmo, they matched us purely based on color).
Oh my goodness guys. Carmine's is THE MOST DELICIOUS FOOD EVER. Wonderful bread (how Vic and I judge a good restaurant) and then salads with walnuts and goat cheese. Vic got the gnocchi of course, and I got spaghetti with arugula, tomatoes, and more goat cheese. For dessert, vic had ice-cream-puffs and I had chocolate cake.
Most delicious meal ever. We were the youngest couple there by about 25 years. The only other young people in there were (a) with parents or (b) waiters. All in all a delicious success.
Then came home and I was super tired and didn't feel like going out, and other people were tired too, so we vetoed Capital Hill shenanigans until we felt more like going out. Greg and Amanda ended up taking me to Flowers, where I had a dirty girl lemonade. GUYS! I finished TWO DRINKS in about 5 hours. Well on my way to becoming an alcoholic, I am sure.
And then came home and slept for a million hours, which is why I am not dead at the library. But I still don't feel like studying, poo
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| Wednesday, February 4th, 2009
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1:32 pm - People I hate
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NEEDY WOMEN! I am in the labs and the woman behind me came up to her friend and was whining about how she (the friend) had been ignoring Needy Woman. This included accusing Friend of not saying hello when she walked into the labs, and then not acknowledging when she saw her at a coffee place. And this was a lonnnng convo and apparently Friend did not call Needy Woman back, which was a personal snub to Needy Woman.
UGHHHHHH it was so annoying.
On the plus side, Samantha Vo and I have acknowledged that we went to jr high/highschool together. Of course, we have talked more in this class already than we had in the FIVE years we went to the same school.
HOLY SHIT TIME OUT! A kid in his motorized wheelchair is standing on his knees on it and motoring it BACKWARDS OUT OF THE LAB! HOW IS THAT POSSIBLE. In the popular phrase of this week, it's blowing my mind.
AJHFLJSDLFJDSLFJLDSKJF love abi
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| Monday, February 2nd, 2009
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4:16 pm - Spring Quarter
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OMGOMGOMGOMG!
So, because I decided to do RMP that means that I won't graduate early. Boo. BUT BUT BUT! That means that next quarter I can take just ONE business class (Information Systems, poop) and then TWO history classes.
HISTORY OF MODERN CHINA!!!!!!!!! and it's not taught by Yue Dong, who I haaaaate. HAAAATE. OMGOMGOMG. I am so excited for HSTAS 454 you don't even know.
OH AND GUESS WHAT ELSE? Giebel, my favorite prof ever is teaching a class! HSTAS 462, SE Asia history to 1800. While this isn't the time period I am interested in (preferring 20th C above all) I love SE asia and I LOVE Giebel.
And then I can take IS which is stoopid but whatev.
My schedule would be
Monday: SE Asia 230- 420, IS 430-620
Tuesday: China 330- 520
Wednesday: SE Asia 230- 420, IS 430-620
Thursday: China 330-520, IS 530-620
Friday: Nothing
YAAAAAAAAAAAAAY! I love school again!
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| Wednesday, January 28th, 2009
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7:16 pm - AHHHH (or, I sold my soul to UW)
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OKAY. SO I have 2 quarters left of school. This is either Spring and Summer or Spring and Fall. And then I could be done, and concentrate on finding a real job, and be super happy because I don't want to be in school anymore.
OR.
I could do what I did. I could join the retail management program (get my R-M certification as an add on to my marketing degree) and then be in school for another year. FUCK? But I'm really excited about it, and some people I like are in the program and the advisers are AWESOME. Also this means I can spread out 34 credits over 4 quarters (no school in summer) and be lazzzzzy or be super-best Retail management student ever.
The certification isn't even that great, cause uhhh I don't want to be a manager at a store? But maybe I do? Maybe I have to? But I do want the guaranteed internship this summer in a retail place. I'm not sure where, because Nordstrom is like the HUUUUUGEST ever and tons and tons of people do it. But it seems like the only bigger retailer and I def want to do apparel. They are trying to get Adidas to do internships which would be interesting, but I would be hilariously out of place. Also Gamestop, where I would kill myself. KILL. Kohl's is doing a big thing with them, but I've never been to a Kohl's store, so I might hate it. Also Target, but same, I might hate working there, since I only go there for snacks and DVDs.
UHHHGGHHHHH. I need to finish my application for the program (even though I am already in) and then turn it in tomorrow on my lunch. I went and saw one of the advisers yesterday in her office. Look at me network! (Puke!)
Also one of the girls in the program is a manager at Victoria's Secret and I want to ask her if she knows the COR who stole from H&M, but that's awkward if she does! (But I want to gossip. Must become her friend even though I don't approve of her eyeliner.)
As evidenced by my writing and sporadic capitalization, I haven't slept much in days and am feeling rather manic.
I'm hungry.
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| Friday, January 9th, 2009
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12:25 pm - Dilemma!
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It's my day off. Should I
[a] do laundry
[b] go buy new clothes
I pretend that there is a decision to be made there. If you know me at all, you know the answer.
I've already bought so many new clothes though! But I need to be even MORE delightfully fash this quarter, otherwise I might die. I don't like the idea of school overshadowing stuff that I like. Plus Kurt is super gay and clothes, sooo I can look bad! THE GAYS ARE EXPECTING SO MUCH OF ME!
Off I go to shop!
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| Wednesday, January 7th, 2009
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1:50 pm - Day Three
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Water Centers Seminar: Way to make it impossible for me to not go! The first topic (50 minutes long) was on creating water dist. in southern China. HI! I love me some China. The lecturer spoke a million languages (Mandarin, a southern dialect, french, english). I do not fit in with all the environmental people there, but they seemed generally okay.
Possible book club books
The Kite Runner
The Secret Life of Bees (said to be esp good for women)
Middlesex
Have not looked into these, but they are pretty famous. And The Secret Life of Bees was made into a movie.
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