+ Thanksgiving came and went. I don’t know. It’s probably one of my least favorite holidays. I mean, it’s nice cuz the family gets together and people take the time to give thanks…but I hate the food part of it. All people do is eat. I don’t even like turkey that much. Oh gosh. I’m such a downer.
+ I cannot believe we’re going into week 10. That’s so crazy. One more week of classes and then finals. al;skdfjasfd.
+ I’m almost done with my Christmas shopping. I have the 3 hardest people to shop for left. Completely stumped.
+ I came back to the apartment last night and I realized that I really enjoy living by myself and that I really am a kind of hermit. I liking having it quiet…with some of my music playing while I get work done either for tutoring or school. I enjoying being able to take occassional breaks to make food or brew some coffee without bothering anyone. Honestly, I can’t wait to be done with school and finally having my own apartment to decorate and lounge at.
+ Jon came back tonight. It’s weird, we were only apart for a few days but it felt quite long. I’m so lucky to have him.
+ We had Christmas skit rehersals tonight. It went ok. There were quite a few people missing which sort of sucked. Something else I’ve noticed, I’ve completely lost my authority over the youth group. They don’t listen to me the way they used to. I guess it really does make a difference that I’m not there.
+ I was watching CNN and they were doing some special on people with Autism. I miss doing things like Best Buddies. When I start teaching, I’m definitely going to help out with the program with whatever school I’m at.
+ Yay! Almost winter break, almost Christmas!
Center of Attention November 26, 2006
Rain King November 21, 2006
So, it’s the night before my Hum paper is due, the night before the last day before break, and instead of thinking about how the sense of “self” is defined in Martin Guerre and Montaigne, I’m thinking about how much it blows being a woman.
Sure, we don’t have as much stress regarding out careers, but we’re still secondary to men. We still do as they say. We still clean up after them. We still cater to their needs.
I’m no feminist. I just want some balance I guess. Perhaps it’s just the way we’re engineered. Woman are just more sensitive to another person’s needs. Something about that isn’t fair though.
My big conclusion? Men should learn.
Santa Baby November 21, 2006
Angela’s Wish List ~ 2006
1. Silverware and/or plates (nothing fancy)
2. White, men’s CK crew neck shirts. (Size: XS and/or S)
3. Gift certificate for Coach
4. Laptop lock (Kensington Security Cable)
5. “Santa Baby” CD from Starbucks!!
6. Juicy Velour Basic Cargo in Café au Lait
7. A cool cookbook! (with practical dishes and such)
8. Flowers. 
These are by NO means the only things I want or the only things I’ll accept. Contrary to what some people believe, I have never (and will never) return gifts people give me. It makes me sad that ppl think so lowly of me. 
Sob.
Note: I was asked to make it fit a rather large price range, so hopefully this does it. Also, things are in no particular order.
Down and Out November 16, 2006
I got a Macbook cuz my ibook died. Err. Will die in about an hour more of use. The Macbook is amaaazing. I love it to death.
People have been asking me to put up a Christmas wishlist cuz I’m “hard to shop for.” I dunno though. I never liked doing that in the past because I feel like Christmas should be more about the giving part of it than the “getting what I want” part. We’ll see though. If ppl are really straining over it, then maybe.
Almost Here November 15, 2006
Oh man. I just wrote an epic and deleted it on accident. Great. I don’t have the time to rewrite it right now. Maybe tomorrow…or some other time…
Sunday Best November 12, 2006
So here I am. Finally.
Not too much has changed and not too much has been going on. It’s still school, tutoring, work, and church. Week 6 and 7 were especially rough. I was so burned out and exhausted…I spent most of those two weeks sleeping. Now I’m paying for that by working my butt off for the math midterm on Wednesday and catching up in two books for the Hum paper due before Thanksgiving. All in all though, school’s going well.
Tutoring’s alright too. It’s sort of frustrating when I spent hours preparing for that one hour meeting I have with my student and I find out that he was rushing to finish the homework 5 minutes before I got there. Or worse, sparknoting the chapters I assigned. Or worse, not remembering I gave homework. I understand that they all have so many obligations outside of school and my tutoring them is probably just an extra burden thrown on by their parents…but I don’t know. I guess it’d be a nice change to finally have a student who wants to learn and wants to do well.
Work. Lol. Work. So, many of you know that two weeks before school started, I went into work to give them my two weeks notice. I knew I’d be busy enough with 5 classes and tutoring, and since I had finished the main project the hired me for, I figured they didn’t really need me anymore, especially since I was only going in once every other week or so. Somewhere between putting my two weeks notice in and school starting, I got suckered into staying so I’m still there…but without my original supervisor. He moved back to San Jose. So yes, things at the legal department in VIA Telecom are a bit hectic. I have a new supervisor who I’ve known since I started working there, but he’s always in trial or doing other things for his own private firm. A couple weeks ago, my new supervisor told me that he wanted me to pick up some of the work my old supervisor used to do. I’m pretty sure I laughed when he told me this. I hate law. I hate politics. Who am I to be doing real work in the legal department of a company? I told him I wasn’t qualified to do being this sort of stuff and he said, “Don’t worry. We’ll make it work.” Well, last week when I went into work, I received an email from the CTO and VP asking me to pick up some of the work my old supervisor had done. Oh lovely. Just lovely. Can’t so no to the VP…so yup. I’ll be blindly doing God knows what. This should be interesting.
We’re just starting rehersing for the Christmas skit for church. Lol. That was another frustration and headache all on its own. I’m not even gonna get into that in detail, but really, we need to figure things out better with our delegation process at church. We delegate but things don’t get done. See, in Poli 10 I learned about the principal-agent dilemma…but the dilemma was that the agent would act in terms of his best interest, and not necessarily do what the principal wanted. The dilemma was not that the agent wouldn’t work! So yes, while I may have a few tricks up my sleeve to solve the classic principal-agent dilemma (but really, not even…since I hate that class), I really don’t know how to even approach a solution to this newly styled dilemma. Despite all that, I’m hoping (and expecting) a good final product with the Christmas skit.
So, I have 4 turtles at my place. There’s Poli and Dot and then there’s Moli and Spot. Hehe. Poli and Dot came together first and then Moli and Spot. The names? Well, lets say, it was Jon and me being nerdy. Anyway, ever since I got Dot, she’s had her eyes closed and she’s been spending her time just floating around. She’s still alive and for a while, I think she was eating, but not so much anymore. I threw her in today with the other three turtles to see if she’d react more with other turtles around, but no such luck. She just kept spinning around in the water due to the current the filter created. It was cute though.
Ok. I need to go prep for tutoring. Till next time. 
Black Balloon November 8, 2006
I want to make a post because it’s been a while and I have some updating to do, but more than I want to make a post, I want to sleep. My eyes are glazed over as we speak and I have jury duty tomorrow morning.
