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Man, I am hurting to see those Amsterdamn picks, but I think it's kind of like my roommates and the dishes: it's not going to happen until it finally fucking happens. Know what I'm saying?

I have one final tomorrow (Tsunokais) and one on Friday. I have pretty much already thrown in the towel - they're going to be so easy - but I wish they would just finally be over. I've been dicking around HARD CORE pretending to study, so it would be nice to be done completely.

Nick and Jakes birthday, unfortunatley, fell on the weekend before Finals week so it was slightly uneventful. Nick was studying for about 72 straight hours over the weekend but I think he did go out Friday night (I got off work at 10:30 and, knowing I had to work again the next morning at 8:30, went home and got in bed). I went over to Walkers/Andrews Sunday night for home-made lasagna w/ Jake, Mary and Jen. Not sure if it was a birthday celebration or not but it was some socializing at any rate.

One of my coworkers is going through some hard shit right now - she and her son moved in with her boyfriend, then four days later he flips a shit and kicks her out, pulls the i'm-putting-all-your-shit-on-the-front-lawn move, and she has to sleep on her parents living room floor with her kid while she trys to find a new place slash figure out what the hell happened with her boyfriend. So some of us Terra employees have decided to all get together Monday night and have a potluck style food/wine/beer fest... which is something we've been trying to do for a while, but it only now came together because Jeannie got fucked. Anyway, I'm hosting so it should be a blast. I think Nick will be the only roomie in town then so I hope he's not too irritated.

Robin mentioned having a party this weekend which of course makes me simultaneosly shit myself and vomit my heart. Nice, huh? You know how I am... as if I'm not anal enough, we have to go and get busted by the cops with a $1000 Noise-Disturbance ticket, and now Rob wants to have a "chill" party? Yo I don't think so. But whatev. I bit my tongue when she brought it up... I'm sure I'll be snapping it this weekend when I get home from work and there's a rager at the house.

Mitch came up for a night this past weekend so we could see The Golden Compass (it sucked). You know what else sucks? Having a boyfriend that doesn't live in the same town/city/whatever as you. THAT sucks. It's hella lame. Everytime he visits I get sooooo happy and soooo excited. It is always so nice to see him, and the whole time he's visiting I'm happier than I have been all year. Seriously, the happiest I am up here is when he is visiting. And then THAT just makes me kinda depressed when he leaves. He's my best friend now and it just sucks that I only get to see him every couple weeks. He usually leaves Sunday morning before I have to work, so I end up spending my whole shift thinking about him and how much fun we have together and how happy he makes me. (Cheesy, huh?) I'm way stoked to see him over break.... not sure if I told you or not but he has his own place in Seattle now. It's super sweet, and I stay with him when I'm visiting instead of with my mamma, which works out because Mitch works during the day so I hang out with my mom then and with Mitch at night. I like staying there because I can kind of pretend it's my own place sometimes, like when he gets up early to go to work, I get to sleep in, and when I wake up I have the place all to myself so I walk to the corner cafe and grab a coffee and croissant and eat it at his place while watching Twin Peaks or Lost or something. It's totally awesome to not actually live with your boyfriend but just stay at his place for a week or two and pretend you two live together, because then you don't actually get annoyed with them or pissed off at them, it's just really fun. Like playing house. Anyway, I've just found myself lately missing him a lot... maybe it's because he was just visiting, but it sucks no matter what.

Well I don't have to miss you two for much longer! It's kind of weird that you'll be back in the states but not back here. I don't know why thats weird, but it just is. I feel like you should come to Bellingham first, that that should be your return-culture shock. I'm leaving town around the 18th anyway and coming back on the 21, then going back again on the 24th and returning to Bellingham (probably for good) on the 27th. Can't wait to see you guys!!!!

And I thought I had something exciting to write about...

But in reality, it's nothing compared to the post I just read from Jessies blog.

Basically, it snowed ALL DAY on Saturday in Bellingham, steady fat snowflakes. One day later the snow is gone. The next day its 61 degrees.

Come to think of it, my post is WAY more exciting than Jessies.

Just to give you guys a heads up... Western is fucking CROWDED this year. I don't know if maybe they lowered their entry requirements or their recruitment team is going all out but JESUS it has never been so fucking hard to get on a bus or in a computer lab. Now it's just routine to do a computer lab tour, checking every single one, before having to use one of the retarded random computers in the library to do my fucking homework. There is NEVER a free computer lab. Also, and this might have to do with the "free bus passes" and the total shit weather, but we are packed into those buses like fucking sardines every single time. Yesterday, I was sitting on the bus outside Haggard Hall during those couple minutes where it just chills before heading downtown and it just kept getting fuller and fuller and fuller. I even had a weird visualization of the jam-packed bus being flooded with slipperly olive oil, as if we actually were sardines. It was weird and mildly entertaining. Anyway, just so you know, school is crowded.

Next week is the last real week of school before finals. Holy shit, that goddamn time of the quarter again. Yikes yikes yikes. As you know, it's really stressful and scary. Although being twenty-one is the shit during times like these. During any times, really. But I've been meeting up with a coworker every now and then for a pseudo night-cap. You know those days when you have homework to do, but nothing pressing enough where you need to stay up all night studying? Those are the days where I close the books at nineish and meet up with Sophie or Nina for a drink, maybe two. Such a nice stress reliever. We get to bitch about work, talk about the cute customers, talk trash about our individual friends (because we don't have the same friends which is kinda nice) and roommates etc, and just fucking forget about school for about an hour or so before hitting the hay. It's really nice. Sophie and I are going to do that Wednesday night and hit up 80's night on Thursday after I stop by the Western Art Gallery (the commissioned piece Walker did for Nick is hanging there temporarily, on loan from the Nicholas Glomb Art Foundation of course) and chill with that crowd for a bit. A couple weekends ago I went over to Walker/Andrews and chilled there with them, Jen, Mary, and Jake. We were playing super nintendo and drinking/smoking. I got pretty high which made 80's-era Jeopardy on the Super Nintento pretty fucking hilarious.

Other than that, pretty much just working an ass load every weekend, occasionally going to class, stressing about school, slacking off, and watching tv on dvd is what I have been up to lately. I've been getting really into eating some of the crazy shit we have at work. Basically, I've just expanded my horizons from spaghetti, annies mac, and trader joes curry sauce, to things like fish cooked in home-made curry sauce with cilantro and basil, and big bowls of rice noodles with sauteed shiitakes, portabellos, baby bok choy, and tofu fried in coconut oil. I've convinced myself to drink a cup of coffee every morning (which I still have qualms with because of the caffeine), but I make it with a shot of espresso from my coffee machine and about a cup of heated whole milk - that's what has convinced me. I never drink milk or really consume dairy (except for cheese of course) and I feel like I'm missing it from my diet. Plus the milk is from a local dairy farm so it's good to support that. Two birds with one stone yo. I've also been craving oatmeal lately because of the gray wet weather and I even found a way to make that extremely beneficial health wise. I add goji berries, which are usually sold dried like raisins, and flax seed oil. The goji berries are chock full of antioxidants and other wonderful things for you and the flax seed oil is just like magic tonic, contains all of the 3 major omegas. Plus it gives the oatmeal some extra flavor to boot. I also drink Kombucha every now and then. I love the stuff and wish I could drink it every day but sometimes it gives me stomach pains if I drink too much of it. It also makes me WAY more gassy than any other carbonated beverage... I burp like CRAZY when I drink that stuff.

So that was a bit of a food rant. I should probably split, I have to e-mail Midori and do some other really exciting things for school. Awesome.

My Official Turkey Freakout At Work

Was so fucking awful I can't even talk about. I had to take five at work and go cry in the bathroom for a while. This woman Vanessa is such a fat cow. I mean BITCH.

Anyhoo, going to Seatown tonight, can't fucking WAIT I need to get out of here soooo bad. What's new with you guys?

I love when...

A night of studying turns into a night of canadian tv watching which in turn becomes a night listening to billie holiday and elvis at caps with nick.

It's cool, I was born in Japan

The other day I gave some random asian guy coming through my line at Terra 10% off his grocerys because I thought he worked at Maki Zushi and Market Employees get a discount. How fucking racist is that? Boy he seriously must have thought I was hitting on him. I've been wanting to tell someone this but I feel like it's more sad than funny. Oops!

Gotta run home for steak, polenta, and brussel sprouts. And studying? Ya right - more like canadian tv. Holler!

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We had a wind storm that almost wiped out the Western Seaboard, whatever the hell that is. I swear to GOD I thought my house was going to be swept away to Kansas. Scubes has been trying like no other to get out of the house lately and she almost did during the fucking Tornado we had this weekend and I could just picture the result of that: a little "meow" before she's history, riding the eye of the storm. Trees fallen down, power out, etc etc. It was fucking SCARY.