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Wishing you all a happy new year, and remember that cup o' kindness when you get there.

(I'm going to hit 2005 16 hours before the San Diegans will. Here, I suppose, it's also going to be the year 94. I'll get back to you when I understand why.)

By the way, when you're in Taiwan, blogger is in Chinese. My hands are frozen blue because of the air conditioning in my dad's office that I can't turn off, but otherwise I'd tell you about my two weeks on this little island.

(If you liked Oliver & Company, you'd love it here. I don't know about the stray dogs in other parts of the U.S. or world, but here they go in gangs that walk , sashay, and sniff across the streets like nobody's business. Seven or eight dogs of every color, size and tail situation just staring down cars without a fear in the world. It's always great to see the littlest of the bunch go double-time but cool as you please to keep up with the rest. Those dogs are smart as hell. Wazow.)

My dad and I walked into the office: Suite 111, Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery. The walls were painted orange, Norah Jones was playing, and there was a red candle lit which made everything smell like apples. I sat, filled out some papers, sat some more, and my dad and I were finally ushered into an elegant little room where we watched a corny video about wisdom teeth and surgery.

"It's all bullshit." my dad said.

And it's true, isn't it? Nonetheless, I have a lovely little appointment card sitting in front of me for two and a half months from today.

I hit a tree. That's right folks. My poor beautiful silver civic is now dented... and missing a mirror. This stupid tree decided to just lie down for a bit across Del Mar Heights Road. My poor car was no match for the rain and the giant tree so I skidded right into it. I then had to reverse and drive over the very top of it. After that tree were three others also taking naps across the street. Someone needs to teach those trees some manners. Needless to say, I'm still a little shakey. Man that sucked!

All excitement planned for winter break has happened already. I'm long back from Oregon (and what a fantastic time I had) and my family and I have just returned from Christmas in Las Vegas (that was fun too). What now? I'm not overly eager to return to school, but I'm looking foward to it just the same. It will be a welcome break from my family and the monotony of having nothing to do. Only another week...

I hope everyone had a fabulous Christmas whether you celebrate or not. New Years is quickly approaching and no one seems to know what they're doing. I don't seem to have a purpose of posting... I just got a cute lil laptop for christmas so i'm sitting with it in bed enjoying my wireless internet. I don't have to go back to school til January 24th... I have a feeling I'm gonna get way bored.

i feel really bad for our little webpage... no one seems to write on it at this moment. it just sits here with old, out dated posts. and i feel like i need to bring it back to life, only i really can't because there's really nothing interesting to say about my life. so post people! please liven my mundane life.

anyways, i guess something of interest is that as of monday, i will not be able to take out my fake tooth anymore. instead of being part of a retainer, it will be screwed into place in my mouth. i'm excited because it's one less thing to worry about at night, but i'll miss my little retainer that i have been so dependent on these past few years. we've been through a lot together (i had my first kiss with that tooth). is it weird that i'm talking about my sentimental attachement to a fake tooth? wow, i need a life.

please help. i'm bored. and alone. and unloved. *sigh* no. a sigh doesn't quite cut it. *AHHHH!!!!!* there. that's better.

JULI!! I can't believe no one posted Happy Birthday to you on Thursday. Unfortunately, I didn't have internet/computer access in Oregon, but dear, i'm just here to wish you a...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

I apologize for the lack of posting. I've just been super busy. I had tons of studying to do, and then the second finals were over started birthday stuff and then right after that was christmas stuff (mostly shopping). Now I am off to my Grandma's cuz it's her bday and then I'm going home for our family christmas party. December is way too hectic! I still need to get two presents and my roomie is leaving tomorrow :(

i was talking to my neighbor who's in my chem lab class and he wrote this to me: "our chem lab professor has a tendency to just look at you and smile when you ask him a question, not really ever answering it completely. i can't figure out if it's a 'i don't know what to say' smile or a 'you're such a dumbass' smile" it's very true, and very weird, however, i'm not goign to deal with it again because i'm DONE!

progress report on my controlling my big mouth:
there is no progress report because there is no progress.

well, that might be a lie. i've been told i've been getting better. but really, if there's something on my mind, it's takes a lot of self control not to say it. how do you people do it? even if i don't say anything, my face, the traitor that it is, reveals that something is on my mind and then i get asked until i spill. to make things more confusing, the people who tell me that i need to control what i say are the same ones that bug me to tell them whatever's on my mind.
i also have trouble deciding where other people's boundaries are. is it really that bad to tell someone that you dated a convicted felon within 5 minutes of meeting them? i mean, she looked like she'd think it was funny, of course. where do you draw the line? at the story about the time when your aunt got drunk and peed in the punch bowl? or when you accidentally thought that augusto pinochet was a fancy cocktail? it's all very confusing...

I'm a wimp.

I'm going to Oregon tomorrow, and California girl me didn't realize it was going to be like New York and Boston cold. So i'm running around packing every warm thing I own; my sister and I packed my suitcase twice, as tight as we could but everything still wouldn't fit. So now i'm one of those girls, the ones with the huge suitcases.

hello, my name is jen... and i'm a nerd. and a science nerd at that. physics was my favorite class of the quarter (mostly due to a fucking amazing professor), i like organic chemistry. i get abnormally excited when i understand a completely new concept. i think the fact that a lot of the world's phenomena can be explained by four equations is incredible. i get made fun of for the amount of time i spend studying for my classes. please help, i need it.

on the note of my physics professor, he sent us all an email thanking us for taking his class, how we were one of the favorite classes, and how he was going to miss all of our smiles and our laughing at his bad jokes. what kind of professor does that, especially in a lower division lecture? a really good one.

So the girl who tried to pick a fight with Rachel, Raquel, and me a month or so ago by calling us "ugly bitches" and trying to get in our faces sat in the seat next to me in my Bio lecture this morning. That was the most uncomfortable class ever cuz none of my friends showed up for class... I was slightly scared.

Then I gave her an evil look in poli sci :)

Long awaited zoo pictures:

Happy Haunukkah.

I miss my family.

i have some pictures from this past quarter, and i decided i would try and upload them onto the blog. please forgive me if i fuck up the images in any way, i'm not really all that adept at computers, or taking pictures for that matter.

tori, zak, me, and milan (he looks funny in all the pictures i have of him)
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ryan, brian, zak, indian sohrab, stu, persian sohrab, shaeker (sp?)milan, and tim (i think that's his name, he's the one i don't really know)
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aneri and amrita: the indians
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and, just because i think they're fun and i have time to waste (not really), some pics from coachella that was way back in may.

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i have pictures of elefant, the flaming lips and the cure also, but most of them a blurry for some reason *tear*

last night was a little weird. i was partying it up in celebration of my buddy milan's 19th birthdayand people told me they thought i was cool (or "tight" or "sweet ass" or whatever weird slang you kids are saying these days). i'm really not used to being considered cool. nerdy, yes. asain, yes. capable of carrying 2 tons, yes. not cool, though... that's like the adjective that has always eluded me until last night. it was cool (there's that word again!). other stuff went down, but it involves more explanation than i bother to write to make you understand just truly how awkward (and funny) some of the moments last night were. but, people think i'm cool! and that's all you really need to know.

P.S. eric, i met someone here who owns the home movies DVDs

Who's going to the zoo tomorrow? *raises hand* That's right, I getta go freeze my butt off and look at the cute monkeys tomorrow morning instead of going to some dumb class and for free too! I'm excited, except for the freezy part. Maybe I'll find a cute monkey to post a picture of :)