Relief

Mood: Good

This is the first time in a long time that I've had true alone time. It was nice at first. My roommate and good friend was off in Davis doing their band thing, another friend was in norcal as well, a bunch of acapella friends were in D.C. for some choir thing, Darius couldn't come down because of a volunteering event, and wellp, that about all the people I hang out with on the weekends.

I spent my Friday night meandering around the Spectrum. I bought myself a nice strawberry pastry from the little French patisserie I love so much and sipped water contained in a clear cup. Under the shade on a bench I read Harry Potter on my kindle and enjoyed the scene of children, senior citizens, pets and lovers walk by. Later when it started getting dark I bought myself take-out pizza from CPK with a gift card and then went home to watch south park.

Saturday i woke up early to stoll around the farmers market. I bought a bag of oranges, three avacados and kettle corn. i did my usual Saturday stuff and by the time dinner rolled around i was feeling lonely. Out of nowhere Scotty texts and asks when we should have dinner! My friends here to save me from wallowing in misery (: It turned out Sara Wang was in the neighborhood too and we had a nice dinner and talked like old times.

Today I did lots of homework and browsed around shops in Costa Mesa. I had dinner again with old friends (Sara, Monica and Emy). While we were standing in line for 85 degrees bread, I laughed to the point my stomach hurt and I couldn't breathe. This is the first time in a while that i laughed to the point of pain. It felt good. Only these girls could do that to me so easily.

I'm glad to know I have friends out there who unknowingly bring me out of loneliness. I'm glad that i actually want to be with them. The most amazing thing about them is that even though i may not have seen them in a while, like Sara, i don't feel awkward and we still have things to talk about. I just have to say....I'm pretty darn lucky.

First Impressions

Mood: nice
Word: Diabolical

Today in writing class, our teacher divided us into the groups we'd be working with for our final project. Our assignment for the day was to talk to the members in the group and write our professor an e-mail telling him about our first impressions on each of our new friends. Since our professor has a crude sense of humor, I was not afraid to be honest. Here's the e-mail I wrote him:

Professor Daly,

I met four new people today whom I would not have met otherwise if you had
not divided us into groups and forced us to introduce ourselves to each
other.  I will give my first impression of each person in the order we
each introduced ourselves beginning first with me:

Victoria Lieu: Victoria is a third year math major who plans to graduate
this year.  She offered that everyone could call her Vicky.  Victoria
mentioned that she, like Aaron is also in an a capella (a co-ed one).
After she finished introducing herself, she posed the following question
to the rest of her group: "If you could have any super hero power what
would it be (and why)?" Throughout the rest of the class period, Victoria
probably talked the most, never ceasing.  She is very obnoxious.

Aaron: Aaron is a third year chemistry major.  He is in an all male a
capella and likes all things musical.  He also enjoys sports such as
basketball and baseball.  If he could have any super power, it would be
super speed.  Whenever our group talked about something, Aaron liked to
stray back to the subject of music or a capella.  My first impression of
Aaron is that he's very "deep" and by that I mean he's probably usually
deeply engrossed with his passion for music.  I bet Aaron frequently
ponders the meaning of life.

Harrison: Harrison is a fourth year math major and has wild hair covering
his whole face.  He reminds me of Jesus, the son of God.  I've seen him in
many of my math classes before and after talking to him today, I am
surprised to discover that his personality is not awkward like his
appearance.  He told us that he would like it if he had the ability to
shoot lasers from his eyes and when I asked him what he would do with that
power, he said that he would probably find some way to make money off of
it.  From this I gather that Harrison is either a business man, or evil
(which contradicts his Jesus-like beard).  I found it funny that his eyes
are about all anyone could see of his face.  The rest is obscured by hair.
I have already decided that Harrison is cool and that he's probably one
of those people who think I'm crazy.  He's probably also one of those
people who mistake enthusiastic for crazy.

Kyle: Kyle is a fifth year Earth science major.  He cannot wait to "get
the f*** out of this place" (his words not mine).  He likes to play what I
call "rock band instruments" for example: guitar, bass and drums.  When
Kyle talks, it is sometimes difficult to hear.  Although Kyle's physical
appearance seems a bit rough around the edges, I feel like he has some
kind of big cute secret, like he owns eight cats or likes to garden.  When
it comes to super hero powers, Kyle is torn between choosing invisibility
and flying.  Kyle might be an indecisive kind of guy.  I think
invisibility suits him more because he seems shy.

Candice:  Candice is a fourth year Chemistry major.  She would also like
super speed as her super power.  Candice was very keen on sharing her love
for T.V. shows and movies.  When I asked her what her favorite T.V. show
and movie was, she revealed that she loves action movies and thus loves
"The Mummy".  She was more reluctant to share her favorite T.V show for
fear of embarrassment.  However we later connected over a heated
discussion on the recent happenings on the show "Gossip Girl".  I
immediately liked Candice after she shared about how much she liked T.V
and movies.  I think that Candice is "shopping buddy" and "girl's night
out" material and I feel like if we got to know each other better, we
could be really good friends.

These are just my first impressions on the members of my group.  I hope to
be able to get to know them more and see how my impression of them changes
or stays the same.

~Victoria Lieu
UCI-2PM technical writing

Orbs

kim on pimples that haven't be properly extracted:

"an orb of material"

Petit Gateau

Mood: hungry

Lately I've been nursing a little obsession for French things. What started as a weeny craving for a macaron has now become a full-fledged addiction. I cannot stop thinking about those adorable soft almond "cookies" (a french person would shoot me if they heard me calling a macaron a cookie), warm, flaky and buttery croissants, deep rich coffee, romantic films and luxurious high fashion.

I thought this phase would end but its been ongoing since fall of last year. I want to do nothing more than to read a good book in a cute little french shop sipping coffee that has not been burnt and eating mini treats served on a white square plate.

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