I really want to change the layout now, because when I am not reading the blog from the b2edit, it\’s tearing my eyes out. Yet I want to impress those people who take days to realize that the graphic has MICE in there and NOT GRAPES.

A few weeks ago, a girl (to her guy friend) started singing Backstreet Boys – I Want It That Way at the top of her lungs as I was waiting to cross the street. During the short-lived teeny bopper stage a few years ago, I was infatuated with some guy. I would sit at the computer talking to him, playing that song over and over again. It was those times when I would go to sleep with flushed cheeks and wake up the next morning thinking that life…for once…is good. Pressing repeat every time it ended, sometimes catching it after it went on to the next song. When I listened to that one song, this is exactly how i feel right this is how i feel about someone. And I listened to it during the last stage of our pseudo-relationship…listened to the chorus of BSB members sing I want it that way as we argued over the philosophy of life. It\’s strange how I look back and discard these times almost with embarassment. So when I heard that girl singing that song, I found myself humming along, I never wanna hear you say….

Next song, please.

When I woke up today, I had a massive headache and my eyes hurt as a result of last night (not a direct cause of the party, mind you).

And that\’s how I went to see Michael Moore talk at the Greek Theatre.

It took nearly an hour to get everyone inside the theatre. The sun made it sweltering. Gina, Xing and I had to sit at near the top on stone benches. I hadn\’t eaten anything substantial since 3 pm the day prior. So I spent $2 on chips and $2 on a drink. Eninem played on the loudspeakers. I wonder if Michael Moore choose that song in particular.

It was absolutely great to hear someone so left-wing speak to a crowd of Berkeleyians.

During a press conference before the talk, someone had asked him How do you like preaching to a choir?

That\’s right. Because almost every five minutes during the talk (to 5000+ audience, this show was sold out three days ago!), someone would scream MICHAEL MOORE FOR PRESIDENT!

He read a chapter from his book Dude, Where\’s My Country where God speaks about the mess He could not prevent, namely the DUBBA administration. Michael Moore also talked about the war in Iraq as well as all the stupid white men prancing around in this country we called USA.

It was so good that I think I want to splurge $27.01 for his book.

Angie, Angie, Angie! One of the few female workers at Residential Computing. Unlike her, I don\’t have to be surrounded by guys all the time. ;) Happy 21st b-day, Angie! (Despite it being on the 14th!)

Frequently Asked Questions (of Jenn)

(with a very confused look) What is a blog?
It\’s a bad word. You know, like flogging the log.

Where are you?
I am at home. I am in Berkeley. I am in Lafayette. I am in my apartment. I am on campus. I am at work. I am on my laptop. I am on my desktop. I am on AIM. I am using Trillian. I am outside in the freaking cold…just for you.

How did you get to be so great at computers? (usually when I am working in the dorms helping people with their computer problems)
(with a surprised laugh, sigh) I just learned on my own. You can too. All you need to do is get to know some computer gurus. Don\’t know any? Learn about google.

What is cognitive science?
It\’s the study of the mind. Yes, it\’s the study of how I can read your mind.

What are you?
I am AMERICAN. I am insulted. I am not a THING. Nor am I made just solely out of one element. I am a human being with four appendages. Two eyes for sight. With the most elastic skin known on earth. What, was that not the answer you were looking for? Did you want to ask about my ethnicity? Why didn\’t you ask what my ethnicity was? I 8 U.

How do you get to University (avenue)?
University Avenue is on the other side of campus. Westside. What you need to do is take a left on Bancroft then turn right on Shattuck. Then you\’ll see University within three blocks.

What time is it?
7:01 pm.

My computer is broken. Can you fix it?
I am not on duty.

How did you get to Berkeley?
On the 24.
OR
It was by luck.

I DID A TALK SHOW with NOLTE aka rekuytn (talk show wholly his, he is known for the big bang theory which is OBVIOUSLY SO MUCH BETTER THAN MIKKEEE WHO NEVER SPEAKS TO ME ANYMORE OMG BECAUSE HE\’S A LJ WHORE). Click here to listen. No it\’s not live. It was digitally recorded. It\’s best to use winamp to listen to this stream.

He has a very nice talk show voice whereas I have a lisp/misprounouciation. My first 18 years of being mute has caused me not to speak that clearly/articulately. I can\’t sing as evidence of my poor attempts in Chorus in my younger years and as evidence of the B+ in the only music class I ever took in Berkeley (I did well in everything except sight singing). Nor can I give great directions in person because everything comes out of my mouth jumbled (it\’s surprising considering how I am very concise in writing) People have always complained about how I mumble on the phone. Some PEOPLE go as far as saying I have an accent. SCREW THOSE IDIOTS!!!

What I think we need is a clearly defined outline.

I like how most people are like NO I WOULD RATHER LISTEN TO OTHER THINGS ON WINAMP. I think I asked 14 people (april, cheez, seth, shinelun, lele, juanie, stacee, cat, peggy, lydia, matt, E, Mikkeee, alecky) to listen. Out of those 14, three couldn\’t get it to work despite my step-by-step instructions. Only 11 listened. Only 3 of those 11 were interested enough to listen to the entire show. I guess this shows who is really interested in what I have to say. HMMMPH. (well with exception of cat who had homework!) Of course this gives me the opportunity to rant about certain people.

Perhaps our next version will also include GUESTS.

I really like this idea now, mostly because everything we say is fleeting. People forget auditory information more rapidly than written information.

In other rants, I don\’t like it when people deliberately speak to me in a foreign language when I obviously don\’t know what they\’re saying. Sure if they use one word or two…it\’s fine. ME COMPRENDES???

Time for the GRE once again!

My intelligence is behemoth next to yours. There was this guy who was such a behemoth that he kept knocking people over whereever he went. My goals in the future are never to sink into indigence. He who must not be naimed had a significant indigence for attention that he pushed people away. I used to admire those who had aplomb, because they never cared what others thought of them. Yet now those who have too much aplomb are sometimes arrognant because they forget their own weaknesses. When stalking someone, I may set up a bivouac outside where they live. Teeny-boppers should avoid being sucked into mainstream music when they set up bivouacs outside a concert hall. It was so craven of me to stand outside the OCF lab for 2 years because I was afraid of going inside. Despite my hypocrisy, I get frusturated at people who are too craven to say something back at me. I read the compendium of this music artist before buying a CD. I would rather read compendiums than to go through an entire work. I am sure that\’s from atavism for having blond hair in a family of black hair.

I dislike the feeling I get when I get back a test…and feel like OH I COULD HAVE DONE SO MUCH BETTER IF I HAD REMEMBERED TO DO ___!

Normally when I daze off in lecture, I mark that time of daze-offness in my lecture notes with a squiggle.

Yesterday I was studying for my midterm today and realized that there were several significant spaces in my notes without any squiggles. Then I remembered that instead of dazing off in those classes, I had gone on AIM.

I have no idea where my grandmother got this idea from, but last week she constantly told my aunt how my parents raised my sister and I to be smart. Supposedly, our dad had us start reading and doing math problems at the tender of age of 2.

I personally have no recollection of that. The earliest memory I have is when my sister put a chinese pastry in the microwave and set it for 45 minutes instead of 4 minutes. From that incident, I learned that every action has an equal and opposite reaction. In that case, my sister got a good spanking for approximately 45 minutes.

I just read this comment in someone\’s blog:
sounds a bit geeky to me. I dont understand what a blog is ? Someone with enough spare time to create a site like this must be single and needs to get out more.

It\’s people like that who infuriate me on a daily basis. I don\’t dismiss people who spend hours on trivial matters such as creating balls of twine. I probably would admire them (unless of course they\’re social dimwits to begin with).

[RANT]why do certain people think it\’s \”crazy\” that i spend so much time reading blogs/journals?[/RANT]

People who write comments like that obviously don\’t do anything productive with their free time except you know…stare at a blank wall and drown themselves in poison…just for fun.

One open-book, open-notes, closed-computer midterm down. One closed-book, closed-everything midterm to go.

I love how I can use my CS account to print out lecture notes…and anything else (that is readable in Unix) for free.

There\’s this sign in the printer room that tells us that instructional computing keeps track of our number of printed pages.

They also stated how someone printed out 2000 pages since the end of August.