mexican riviera

gimme somethin' to dooo

Omgee. We just got home from our cruise, and now the realization that I have 18 more days with absolutely nothing planned is sinking in like crazy. It sucks that I don't really know anyone or where anything is in LA. I've already finished 1.5 books, 4 sermons, I don't have gym membership here, my brother is ditching me a few days early to go back to school, my sister already flew back to Chicago, the weather is chilly (no outdoorsy activities), I really don't need to go shopping for more stuff, and...and.. I'm just feeling really bored and a bit sad. I was stressed having too much to do, and now I'm restless with having too little to do. Fantastic.

break!

Man, as many sleep-deprived nights as I had this past semester and as much as I enjoyed (most) of my classes, it was my worst academically. What a lovely feeling. Sigh.


Winter break plans:
- 7 day cruise with the fambam & friends down the west coast of Mexico
- read Prodigal God and Cost of Discipleship
- catch up on 2 seasons worth of The Office, 10 episodes of Gossip Girl, start watching 24 season 7
- hang out with my brother's new college friends, b/c I have few of my own in Cali :(
- refine my skills in Rock Band
- Netflix it up'
- try out some new recipes -- red velvet black&white cookies, yum?
- get back in shape, though I don't know how hard I'll want to run these hills
- write a business plan for Wild Manatee
- San Diego trip?
- snowboarding trip?
- practice Japanese with my grandparents
- sleep. a lot.
- pray. a lot.

"school stuffs"

It is now 5:19 AM and we are in the process of editing our 20+ page paper, worth 50% of our total grade. My group has been meeting over the past three weeks, for a good few hours every day these past 7 days to work on this, sometimes in 88-degree sauna-like rooms while getting high off of dry-erase markers that we liberally used on the board.

Research, brainstorm, analyze, repeat.

Today, we met from 1PM -- still going ... to finish this thing. So far, that is 16 hours and counting. We've been sending a "working draft" back and forth, hence my crazy orange labels for "school stuffs" that you can see in my gmail with all those attachments on the side. Even though it's so late (or early?), and all the lights are turned off on this floor except in this room, I am not too depressed! I might get a bit when I realize I am totally unprepared for my Japanese final later today. no sleep + no study = no good.

But man, such a blessing that I like my group -- none of us are finance majors, and we even have a gallatinite!! Our dynamics include chill meetings, inside jokes, snacks galore, and positive, can-do attitudes. We work as a team, and I am super grateful for that...

One of the best parts of our project is that we ended the super formal business paper by quoting our professor:

And remember Okun's Rule: "Never do anything that is not fun at least 80% of the time!"

get me outta' here....

never wanted to go home so badly in my life.

かわいい not

Credit to Jeannie for finding this site. Some of the other ones are madd cute, some are a bit inappropriate... this one's super cute though. hahaha

test your sense of pitch

J recently wrote a post (while procrastinating) about procrastinating through testing one's typing speed at www.typeracer.com, and after a few go's at it and semi-breezing through at 135WPM (I was #3! haha...) (and yes, I sound semi-conceited) I wanted to find a sight reading test for accuracy. I couldn't find one, so I settled on looking for one to test my perfect pitch.

I found this site, and although it's not a good measure to test how perfect my pitch is, it was pretty ... interesting, to say the least. http://www.nidcd.nih.gov/tunetest/dtt.asp

Essentially, the site plays 25 different well-known tunes, some accurate and some distorted, and you have to identify whether it is correct. As I was listening through them, I seriously cringed when I heard just one wrong note, let alone 10s of them throughout the test! I almost can't believe that people can't hear how wrong the note is, but that's just my superiority complex kicking in. I kind of want to know what score you guys get on it, both the typeracer and the tunes test, but if you think I'll judge you for low scores or whatever, then maybe you shouldn't tell me =P Either way though, these tests are great procrastination tools :)

But really. I want to know! Take and tell!

*Edit*

New one!!!! This one's FUN :D See how closely to the Hz you can tell pitches apart. http://tonometric.com/adaptivepitch/

Wait. This one is more fun. See how musical phrases can be translated into shapes and colors!!!
http://jakemandell.com/amvi/