Public Transportation

Dear People Who Ride Public Transport with me,

I apologize for taking up my own personal space and the space next to me (usually occupied by my backpack or bag or tennis rackets or groceries). I realize that I am being obnoxious and that I am a rather small person so that almost anyone can fit next to me comfortably on any form of transportation. Due to some unfortunate experiences where people two or three times my width have chosen to occupy the seat next to me (regardless of anything I put there) I dislike sitting next to ANYONE during travel. I know it looks funny, I know its rude. Bear with me or lose some weight. Big boned is fine, you can sit next to me all you want, but if you are sitting next to me because you can justify taking up more than your space because I am petite, I will hurt you while you are in your diabetic (type two of course) coma drooling on my hair.

To the normal sized people I apologize for my rude-ness and would like to point out to you that you would think the exact same thing if you choose to sit next to me. If you ask me to move my bag, I will. I thoroughly enjoy sitting next to people who do not take up more space than they need. If the bus is packed, please do try to sit next to me instead of letting a very hefty person take your place. I will offer my multigrain cherios (for long trips) and try to be as polite as possible if you do.

All that being said, I am going to sleep. Bus rides make me tired.

Aikido

For those who I've talked with on the phone in the last few weeks, you'd know that I was debating getting a few free aikido lessons a couple blocks away from my apartment. I'll have to post again about the final verdict on such things, but the first day was fun and interesting. It conflicted with the footwork for taekwondo and with the footwork for karate, but was similar to the footwork for fencing in that most people are right handed and I am left (our front feet are always supposed to be on the same side apparently.) But I learned a few things with footwork and learned a few throws. Hopefully tonight's thing will be better in that first off, there's weapons practice. Secondly, there's another sensei that will be teaching tonight. Lastly, I will have bought an actual uniform and not be using something that smells like a bum on a hot summer's day.

We'll see. One thing I can mention though, is that my hamstrings and butt are more sore than I expected. I guess the having a good arch in your back for good posture thing doesn't really work out too well in aikido.

In other news, countdown to mcats is 24 days. I'm reviewing physics now and setting myself up to take a practice test tomorrow and/or several practice sections of physics and random verbal sections (never really have problems with biology for some reason). Wish me luck!

note to self: walgreens ice cream is disgusting after the first few bites. get ben and jerry's for the extra few bucks and have less time spent feeling nasty.

ewwy.

Missed Calls?

Apparently I've been answering my phone late at night and not knowing it. (aka I talked to my brother last night at 2:45 AM and didn't remember a thing) Heh, so we'll just pretend that I secretly hate missing calls and will always pick up no matter when you call. Whether or not I'll remember that you called and/or the topic of conversation is a different matter entirely. But I wonder, how many times have I done such a thing? Anyone got a story for me that I don't remember? Leave a comment :)

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whops.
sorry for not reading the previous comments.
i didn't think people actually had read anything ^ ^;;
i shall respond from now on. sorry-ness.

July 4th Weekend

This weekend is one of those weekends that I wish I could spend with people I miss, hanging out, kicking back, enjoying fireworks and maybe grilling up a few burgers and hot dogs at a park. It makes me violently aware of the fact that I am sitting in my apartment with just my books and some food waiting for something interesting to happen. I was thrilled earlier when I rediscovered torrenting but the amusement of it wore off quickly when I realized I was still going to have dinner by myself tomorrow. I toyed with the thought of taking myself out for dinner, but I thought it would be too depressing.

As a side note, Tiger is hanging out with his parents who decided that they wanted to visit (which is a good thing) while my brother is busy working his ass off. Meanwhile, dad is at home with mom and sister so that leaves me all alone for this fourth of July. Too bad all my Philadelphia friends are at home. It makes me lonely. I even posted a thing to craigslist to find a tennis partner for this weekend. Joe's tennis shop is closed this weekend so I can't bother him to find me a tennis partner (joe is a 60 something year old man who keeps giving me tennis gear).

I was looking out my window at the skyline and I heard a ton of people just hanging out talking outside and enjoying the cool night air (its a really nice temperature right now (65-ish)). It makes me wish that I was somewhere with friends sitting on a patio and enjoying the conversation or just human company. I miss my college friends and college in general. Though I could go up to New York to find people to hang out with, I should be studying like normal. Maybe I'll make my own little picnic tomorrow instead? One mcat book, a bag lunch, and a few bucks? We'll see. I'm still hoping someone will be available to play a quick, albeit, bad game of tennis with me.

Korean-American Women and Materialism

http://www.ichoson.com/20090525737/People/are-korean-american-women-narrow-minded-and-uncultured.html

Here's an interesting take on the average korean-american woman that I am inclined to agree with. While I have met several exceptions, we are notorious for having the reputation stated in the article. Thankfully I know only a few of those and tons more of the exceptions but visits to the homeland and reaching out to embrace Korean culture have swayed the resolve of the lesser maintenance KA girls, myself included.

I'll write a second post to this later, I'm going to set about reading this webpage...