I suppose this is what I get for wasting
all week and not using time efficiently..
After 5 hours of art history cramming just now:
endless amount of note cards,reading 80% of Roman art last minute,
a bit of tearing up, and waves of panic..
I just have to start physics now(... . . !!@!#%&!)

except Saturday was very productive( I have to admit)
After academic-ness for 8 hours straight,
being brain dead for a few hours felt nice.

plus, it was a special day of great significance
that got the celebrating that it deserves :)
oddly empty Pacific at sunset(that glowed pink).
being warm in a fuzzy blanket & the 50 degree night air.
dancing/stumbling around deliriously in the strangely temperate water under the
1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 stars in this universe
(according to imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov).

I didn't take a single note today, no one did.

The reconstructed villa of the Papyri at Herculaneum
was exotic, magical, and full of identifiable Greek and Roman styles!
The sun was blistering and the air was uncomfortably warm.
We got to wander the entire villa ourselves and encountered some pretty exciting things:

Kouros!
archaic.conventionalized hair.thunder thighs.
I could go on, but we've already done this on the essay.

religious offerings

cycladic idols!

black figured amphora

high relief sarcophagus

dramatic lighting

hehe

we made our own:
(not even close to Euthymides' talent though)

i'm overjoyed.
I made pot roast again this afternoon(same recipe) for the 3rd time.
And it turned out fantas-tic!
The first time wasn't that great(but I thought it was great at the time)
(because it was the first time I had ever made MEAT by myself)
Then the 2nd time was a disaster(all burned and weird tasting), so that went in the trash.
today.. was a success!

well, I had everything ready, except something orange was missing.
Carrots!
"hi, um, can i borrow a carrot?"
"yeah"

So I ran the 18.5 seconds to ellen's house and borrowed a carrot.
whee! getty villa tomorrow! :)

a few months ago, a free sample lady at costco kept on repeating in a monotone voice:
"dee-no buddies. come and try our dee-no buddies".
IT'S pronounced DIE-NO.
I almost told her, but decided not to.

time to take out Christmas robot!

I was so productive yesterday,
but whenever i'm about to start Physics,
a feeling of dread surfaces and I end up doing something else.
(which explains why i'm here right now)

an injured mosquito was fluttering around.
So I put it in my multi-purpose lantern:

"sweeter yet shall blow its breezes
on the day that sets us free"
You should have seen the way he zoomed out when I unlatched the door

leaf collection, found with some help :)

gahh, this heat. dryness. bloody noses(which i'm sure will happen very soon).chapped-ness.

I dreampt of an apocalypse full of :running, hiding,
not being able to reach people,goodbyes, and finally "being saved".
it was a nightmare.
then there was part II:

murderous dolls(chucky and friends) on a rainy day.

"y a n b o v o
s o m.
y c c a h a
b t a y o.
a f t r, y a i n t t g y
c f"

When the blackout occured, I sat there smiling in the dark because it only meant one thing.

I ran/stumbled to get my lantern,lit it and put it next to my homework.
I actually got more accomplished than I would have with normal lights.
--
once upon a time,
there occurred a 4.5 earthquake.
After the discovery of the fossil hanging over the edge of the bookshelf,
I gasped and saved it from falling completely off.
My mom gasped and said, "That was a close one!"
I said, " I know! My 300 million year old fossil almost died"
She said, "what? i meant my floors almost got scratched by it!"

other people's gardens

happy twenty-second birthday!
"Today is your day!
Your mountain is waiting.
So... get on your way"

almost hidden

these pictures haven't been taken out of the album for 20 years!
the process ruined my guessitdidntdrycompletely nailpolish
but that's okay, hapsburthsday!

:edit: [and yes, you "better show up to your own party"]

there was a jungle of thick fog on the drive to school
with the sun angrily glowing through the blurry whiteness.

it's kind of hard to see and carelessly scribbled but
the great pyramids of Giza,
a ziggurat, a pylon temple entrance,
and some megalith of stonehenge are in there somewhere.

they should make a horror movie about shadows revolting

because they don't want to mimic every move their human does anymore.
And it's only safe at night
but when the sun rises...

National Geographic is much more enjoyable
when you run across something you read about last night in Gardener's.

hiroki and I had a vicious argument about what creature Anubis is
I said "dog..it's obviously a dog"
He said "cat, I'm positive"
After looking it up
-Anubis is a Jackal:
(so leah looked up what a Jackal was, hehe thanks)

1.	any of several nocturnal wild dogs of the genus Canis, esp. C. aureus, of Asia and Africa, that scavenge or hunt in packs.

2.	a person who performs dishonest or base deeds as the follower or accomplice of another.

3.	a person who performs menial or degrading tasks for another.

---
all these old artifacts really excite me

isis

and avert chaos

some of the most precious things ever;
found at the seas over the years

"suffering magnetic reversal"

NeLiHeJe got created today.
He and Je are quite bickersome though.

Wow,this headache hasn't gone away for 14 hours. This doesn't seem normal.

The piercing pain is jabbing into my brain in throbs.

In english, in between the pain, I couldn't stop laughing at Mr. Pei
and his excessive outbursts of excitement over English 4.

In physics, in between the pain, the first test of the year went beautifully.

In Chinese, in between the pain, I managed to finish translating a news article about Boomerang kids/grown adults returning to their parents houses,
and it's psychological and economical causes due to modern society... ...
The class was silent except for a:"what the hell is a boomerang kid!?"
which didn't please Mrs. Kang much.
all the words,definitions and "pin-yin's" blurred together by the time I finished.

In Art History, in between the pain, it's crucial to know that ziggurats served not only as temples for worship but as city administrative centers as well. Egyptian pyramids, on the other hand served as tombs only.
Then I looked at the handout of Egyptian Gods
and smiled because this is what school should be like.

In FST, in between the pain, the contradictions of functions, statistics, and trigonometry in the class is somehow so entertaining.

everything used to be just pickles, cyclops,
waterballoon filled cookies and naiveness of wild horses
(remember this?)

Today I found the most beautiful twig in the world on the floor.

I really wanted to eat meat today.
After finding a crock pot recipe on allrecipies.com,
I went to the grocery store and bought all the ingredients.
After washing carrots, onions, potatoes, green onions,
I cut up raw meat for my pot roast.
It's the first time I've handled red bloody raw meat by myself.
Now it'll be done in 9 hours!

back when she had long hair
fog?pollution?both?

I went outside to collect leaves and rocks.
(secretly hoping to find a root baby like in pan's labyrinth)
I forgot about going home and kept walking for the next 3 hours.

I felt silly holding a bunch of leaves so
I wished for a rubber band.

Then 3 minutes later, there was a rubber band on the floor!
I wished for a plastic bag.
Then 5 minutes later, I came upon a box of papers by a trashcan

with a perfect transparent plastic envelope sandwiched between the papers!

I ended up at Mason Park and it didn't smell today.

Crawling through the dried up stream and spiderweb infested woods
reminded me of a fairy tale.

Along the lake banks were assorted bird feathers,

so I spent the next hour collecting them
until I noticed a strange blister had formed on my finger.
Looking at the blister and then my new feather collection,
I was automatically convinced I had contracted a bird disease.

I had to call someone who specialized in infectious diseases.

Remembering that's what my dad studies all day,
I used my celluar device and described my symptoms.

"As long as you didn't touch any dead birds, you probably don't have the bird flu" he said

"then it's probably just poison ivy right? ok- bye!" I said.

the bag that was found with all the pretty contents

shadow box fun

woodpeckers, flies, butterflies, a small stream(and summer reading)

and that's how the light gets in

after 15 bathroom breaks-off to the beach we go

aquatic adventures that actually ended up happening
(after a pit stop for the bathroom at Petco)

she was clutching a dead fish and wouldn't let go
when her hand was being slurped away

everyone else was aged 2-5 in the sesame street playhouse

golden touch!

navigate us

SPLASH ZONE

creatures

speedy

me: o0oo! let's go to in-and-out!

diana: okay!

me: wait, we can't,you're a vegetarian now

diana: *thinks for a second* it's okay, just don't tell anyone.

We keep on getting lost and end up in strange places with
broken airplanes, gun shows, and labs for children.so we just go and buy a bunch of jellybeans
and devour them next to chlorinated areas
(but not the brown ones because they taste unpleasant)

today, I had an epiphany.
better late than never right?

I'm still swaying back and forth in my head.

hehe

my camera fell and broke for 10 minutes.
Everyone was sleeping while I sat there dumbstruck and miserable(and seasick)
The shutters wouldn't close all the way(see below),
but finally after pressing down all the bent parts of metal, it fixed itself!

hairy arms

more shadow play