I have had trillian on my laptop since September 24. Almost two weeks. Excluding the fact that I usually go on aim on several different computers, the people with the largest logs are:

1. Cheez with a total of 56 kb. The majority of which is just me ranting. For every line he says, I say about 10. I think it probably comes from my repeated OMG. OMG REVIEWS?!?!?!?! To listen to me talk about nothing. That\’s what CHEEZ is for!

2. Not surprisingly, Tanner comes in second with a total of 24 kb. I am sure it was because of my long rant of misery (hello quarter life crisis!) early Friday afternoon that caused it to be so long. It\’s surprising that he made it into the top 5 since we talk on the phone more often than we talk online. OH TANNER.

3. Benjamin Bunny with 16 kb of logs. I have no idea how he comes in third because we only talked ONCE during the last two weeks. We rarely speak to each other, but I suppose when we do we usually have very long conversations…about me, of course.

4. My sister of 13 kb! YO LADY. Of course half of our conversations are about trying to get the other person to pay attention. Mostly because we happen to catch each other at the times when we\’re away from the computer. pat the lady!

5. In near break for fifth place (April would have gotten this except that she talked on two different sns!), it is Seth with 12 kb of logs. No you\’re not a terrorist Seth. Just some smart person that I lent my GRE book to and still have yet to get it back even though we only live two blocks from each other and omg i\’ll see you tomorrow and omg i won\’t knock over my orange juice again so that it looks like barf while you fall asleep and don\’t take notes and i anxiously take notes because i think i will fail the class but i don\’t really because although i am a cog sci major i am supposedly better than all these eecs people including that girl you want to meet despite the fact that she is very religious and very into God but not like the person i don\’t talk to anymore who wants to thank me some day and i should probably thank him too but he didn\’t bring me to movies like Underworld and omg you paid for me and i paid for you but this movie sucked and i regret going to see it yet i thought it was amusing how you were so excited and that reminds me of how you used to live in the hall where that guy used to live you know that one yes that one and i need to take a picture of the jaywalking ticket just like how I took pictures of your glove when you got me a I\’M (SO) BLOGGING THIS t-shirt and you\’re like only two blocks away oh you terrorist.

For everyone else, WHY AREN\’T YOU BUGGING ME? Most people are probably bothered my incessant babbling (not like who cannot be naimed however). Well some people probably already know the real reasons. :) The others probably don\’t have my sn (use your 1337 skillz to find it).

In other news, there\’s some guy that\’s riding around in a car speaking into a loudspeaker…throughout southside Berkeley…who is talking like AHHH-nold in preparation for tomorrow\’s impromptu election. I can\’t tell whether he is trying to make a satire of him or not.

Election Day tomorrow:
No to Recall or Ahonold or…Bustamante?

According to this article, the bay area is the only sane area in California. Why is everyone else thinking that a governator will do a good job of ruling a state that is in an enconomic downfall?

I finished my photolog for October 2, 2003!!! Looking over my photolog, I realize how busy I always am each day. That particular Thursday, I woke up, went to work, small lunch, class, meeting with Jason the grad student, idle, research interviews, honors society meeting, work, phone call with Tan Tan, chat with CHEEZ et. al, \”homework\”, shower, sleep.

I like how many times I appeared here for talking about asian egg donors and having a G-rated blog. And let me repeat Rekutyn\’s line, friends are just enemies that don\’t have the guts to kill you. That\’s right. I don\’t have the guts to kill any of you…yet.

My relatives smothered me with their compliments again. She\’s so smart! She probably really loves her dad! Uh. I am still so thankful for the language barrier.

My relatives from Hong Kong are here…their first time in the United States. My last memory of them was when my cousin was scratching (and biting?) my arm. Fortunately only his mother is visiting. It\’s very odd how they kept complimenting me, comparing me against my cousin (who failed his O levels – the test that one must take to graduate from high school- and spend the majority of the time playing video games and basketball). SMART! BEAUTIFUL! (My aunt says that I should enter a beauty pageant. Where did that come from?)

Unfortunately, there\’s a very large language barrier so I have to succumb to my broken Chinese. As a result though, I can remain the supposedly smart girl I am without ever disproving myself.

In other news, I took the LSAT. It wasn\’t a great experience and that\’s all I have to say. Just that I set my alarm for 6 am and it never went off. My dad came into my room at 6:40 am and fortunately woke me up. I drove 70-90 mph all the way to Sacremento to McGeorge School of Law (a branch of University of Pacific) and still got there 20 minutes early for the 8:30 am test. The best part is that I got to visit Cat! (Speaking of which, does anybody have problems with my webpage? When Cat ever presses back in the browser, it returns to a page starting with 9/8 instead of the current blog entries) And from Davis I bothered Lele and Juanie from my cellphone. YEAH, GREASY CHICKEN.

The photolog for last Thursday will be up soon!

Yesterday I was helping a resident with her computer while her suitemates were throwing a birthday party next door. At first, I was going to tell her that she could join her suitemates. I would bring the laptop outside to the common room. I didn\’t want to deprive her the opportunity of hanging out just because her computer had a problem.

Yet, I noticed that her suitemates were somewhat ignoring her. I could tell it was the relationship that I had with my suitemates when I was a first year. They laughed and made jokes about things that they only understood. The resident was an outsider to this festivity at least. This reminded me of all those times I was always on the fringe of the social group. I would be there in presence, yet not totally meshing with the group. They would make jokes that I would not understand or found funny. They would only gossip about people they know.

This bought to mind that evening in Minny Soda when someone was making jokes and I was laughing so hard. Looking back, I don\’t even recall what was really funny about that situation. Just that someone said something that was enough for me to break into hysteria.

It\’s hard to be on the inside if you\’re not invited.

There was special section in the newspaper (no online version sorry) about Berkeley and its neighboring city Albany. One person described his experience in Berkeley:

\”Growing up in northeastern Ohio, I never dreamed that there would be a place where there was such tolerance, great food, and institutionalized silliness. The first time my parents visited my wife and me, they were amazed and appalled. At the airport on the way home, my mother gave me a hug and said \’Honey, I\’m so glad you finally found a place to live where people will think you\’re normal.\’\”

There is a reason why my back hurts and why my feet hurt. Why I am so tired after 6 hours of sleep and a midterm. Why I carried a laptop throughout campus. Why you might see me rolling in a clump down the hilly parts of campus. From 9 am to 8:15 pm

THIS IS ALL THE WALKING I DO ON A USUAL WEDNESDAY.
note: one vertical line down the map takes about 25-30 minutes to walk

Remember this? If I could swear, I would swear right now. Broadband Internet providers tend to always trick people, at least in my experience. There\’s always hidden fees and they hook you in with appealing contracts of this and this. Plus there is all this technical BS that comes with it. With some of the services I have had, I have had to wait up to 45 minutes to get tech support. BUT COMCAST. I cancelled the service last month and to my dismay, I discover that they have been charging me (inadverdently according to billing) for an extra two months. I was afraid of this happening and fortunately had removed my credit card from their system right after I cancelled. Fortunately I was able to reach the billing department after five LONG minutes of navigating their phone menu system.

In other news, know any non-students in the Bay Area who are willing to do a research study ao but location-based computing for approximately 30-45 minutes…for a $20 Amazon gift certificate (or Caffe Strada, but I know people don\’t really go for Cafe things)? Come on now! I need people! All I require is that you\’re opinionated about things since it\’s basically an interview (asking for your opinion on certain scenarios).

I have an oh so burning desire to work at Yahoo now as a human computer interaction engineer. Currently I know of two blogs of people who are working at Yahoo and from the way they describe it, it seems like a nice homey place. According to this, they have everything that little geek person like me needs – you know, \”healthy\” food, gym, gift shop…non-smokers (because you know, geeks tend to be allergic to everything – have you ever seen me in a Bath and Body store? Yes. exactly.)

A few weeks ago I went to the Career fair and met a rep from Yahoo. I think I was able to give a positive impression as he chose to give my friend and me each a XL Yahoo t-shirt. I also took the step to ask for his business card. Unfortunately due to neglect and common forgetfulness, I forgot to send the obligatory thank you e-mail for him coming all the way from South Bay to Berkeley.