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[shazzer]

I went to his store at the end of my date.
He likes Japanese sweets, therefore we went to my friends shop and ate there.

 

[MissUMana]

I went to his store at the end of my date.
He likes Japanese sweets, therefore we went to my friends shop and ate there.

Then I think you can trust his opinion.

 

[faith]

Speaking of candy, apparently they call it lollies in Australia.
My friend was telling me about how he tried to bring in a box of lollies for his coworkers but ended up eating them all because they were so good.
I thought he really meant he ate and LIKEd a whole box of lollipops.
Lollipops are gross.

I'm sick. Like the too hot and too cold at the same time entire body aches kind of sick. Plus, I have respiratory problems.
This morning I vaccuumed a spot on the floor and forgot to put the vaccuum bag in, and this happened immediately after.
My guess is it kicked up something between the floor boards.

I might need to talk to the rental agency.
This isn't the first creepy stuff growing under the floor shit I've had to deal with.
I'm just hoping it's not something toxic from back before they reworked the building rules...O_O
dying is one thing. Being ill from contamination for the rest of my life is another.

 

[PureElegance]

Lollipops are gross.

I'm not a fan either. I just like my M&Ms... and things like that. I've been walking home taking snapshots of the moon and eating M&Ms lately.

I forgot to reply to this:

You admitted to that? I think this makes your moral character inadmissible to the bar.

From the first day when Iska posted about it on the reading thread I had no idea what the big deal is because to me this kind of thing is completely normal. You can even see my post where I said the same thing, I don't get why this is a big deal, I even said this has been written about for years. Years later I still don't get what the big deal is, except that it actually has a good storyline and is written well (later on), but I do think it has a positive impact overall so that's the great thing about it.

I'm not sure if people are just uncomfortable to admit that a lot of people (and women especially) have certain needs and fantasies or what because I have no idea what the big deal is. I still don't. I'm just glad it came out so we can talk about these things seriously and not just dismiss peoples' needs as silly or as a big secret or as the "stuff of romance novels."

The same Contracts professor looked around the room in class to assign a case and asked me what he normally chooses me for, and then he said, "Oh yeah, your feminism and religious insights." I just like how those two are together for me now, haha. I *did* say a while ago that I want to be a Renaissance Woman and that I wanted "theologian" to be part of the title.

I'm procrastinating on srs business, but I wanted to say I had a nice little night of studying the day before with Caroline. She's really my only friend in law school so it's nice when I get the chance to see her. We got a study room and studied away, with her working on her short memo re-write and me doing Contracts. Of course we also talked and fooled around too. We talked about Stephen Collins' alleged molestations of young girls, which we were totally shocked about. I played the recordings to her and we were aghast.

I also asked her about the whole priests marrying thing with her because she's a Catholic and she said she's been conflicted about it for a while and can't make up her mind. But then she said that she went to a protestant church too sometimes because it was closer and the priest was married and then later was found to be abusing kids so she doesn't think marriage makes things better or worse.

She also thinks that no one is twisting your arm when you take the vow of celibacy and I agree. I guess for me it's a commitment you make just as any other one. She also wondered if not having a love life is bad for your mental health, but I said there are plenty of non-priests who don't get married or have kids or have any romantic attachments and that's how they want to live their life. (Not for me ) She also wonders about priest shortages.

I kept saying Father Albert Cutie was a jerk I'm sorry, but that riles me up! He even gave me communion when I was little, everyone loved him, and everything. What gets me annoyed to is that he only asked for a time of "reflection" AFTER he got caught with the woman kissing on the beach. It wasn't as though he asked for it because he realized he was starting to have feelings and needed some time to sort it out and then proceed with his decision. It was only after the cat was out of the bag that he did that and then he had the nerve to be all, "OH MY DILEMMA~".

Caroline also said that it seems as though Squire and I are best friends forever now and I laughed. I'm not sure if I'd call him a "friend" like I'd call Caroline a friend and I'm not sure why.

I did say that Caroline and he are the only ones I really talk to at school about "things" so I'm really glad I have that. He makes me laugh so much and the conversations are always interesting. I didn't tell her that Squire reminds me of many good things that I once had before and I suppose that's a reason I sought him out in the first place. The anticipation of a weekly time full of good conversation and laughter is something I missed deeply. When he taught us about economics and pharmaceutical companies I felt really inspired and engaged and I thanked him and it made me want to learn more about the subject. As the awkward weeks went on I saw him a few times in the hallways or in the cafeteria and we'd make eye contact. I felt as though I just had to talk to him and I knew he'd help me somehow. After our first meeting I felt great, relieved, and my pizza blanco was amazing.

I told Caroline that a few days before I went to see him I was having the group lunch with our Property professor (Mr. Crestfallen) and he asked us how we liked that week full of economics. People thought it was great, that they felt as though they learned a lot, and I agreed. I also said, "Oh, I'm going to meet with Squire one of these days to talk about that." Our professor said, "Starstruck?" Caroline thought that was a weird comment and me too, but I told him, "No, I just want to learn more about economics and talk about those things. o.o"

Is that a form of academic jealousy??? Squire doesn't seem to be full of himself and when those old men were going on about his business genius he just kind of laughed it off and he came over to say bye. Then last week I had to visit my Property professor and Squire was off to a meeting and saw me and came over. We talked about Virginia Woolf and how she's distracting me from my economics readings. This lady talked about how he's so well-liked and he laughed and I said bye because I had to roll.

(I felt awkward at some points during that visit to my Property professor, haha. I had to look through my notes to find something about property rights over water and he just sat there quietly and I felt as though his eyes were looking into my SOUL. Like, I felt pressured to look faster just to make it stop!)

Anyway, Caroline asked if we ever talk about our love lives and I said I think that's the only subject we haven't brought up. I haven't said a word about that except for that guy a few years ago who said I was cute and pretty while I was waiting on line and then he dropped that, "Oh I thought you were Indian." Squire talks about his friends' love lives, who they're dating, but he hasn't said anything either about himself.

I did say he teased me about an outfit I wore in some pictures and he said, "I think I have like eight pictures of you in that outfit, did you wear it to every school picture day too? " Caroline laughed and I just hated him. I said talking to him is a lot of fun and he laughs a lot too. I also think he's a good thing and part of the Shanghai story because then I never would have found out about Emilio Botin dying, or at least not this week. I alerted the pengyous and they started commenting on old pictures and sharing his obituary, and Karen was in disbelief that she sat right next to him once. Prateek said he lived a fantastic life. Then they all started commenting on old Shanghai pictures, and I find myself scrolling through them again and thinking about what an amazing time that was.

Squire asked if I'm keeping up with the pengyous and I said yes and I do go to my parties. I said I met a nice accounting girl and so that was great. She's super nice and he was glad to hear it. He also said he's glad I'm managing to get away from this provincial life, but I never said it was "provincial"! He said that was the implication and I said he's putting words in my mouth.

Ina and I:

SHE LOVES ACCOUNTING! XD And I have Coke in my hand. And that's my beloved peplum top.

I told Caroline I keep threatening him about me transferring and he thinks that with the social life and my food troubles saga and his supposed small-mindedness there's no hope for me staying.

After studying and finishing up Contracts and Legal Research Caroline and I went to walk across our school's courtyard, or whatever that place is with the streets and statues that's very pretty. It was a bit chilly and my cheeks were cold, and it was around 10pm. There was no one around except us and I said it was so pretty! It was quiet and pretty, with hardly anyone around, and you don't see often around these parts. There was a big archway with lights, covered with plants, and I said, "This is so romantic! Imagine strolling with your love under these lights right now, forget that there's a law school on the other side of the tunnel, haha." Oh it was so pretty, and I had to take pictures. There are also other areas with benches and trees and I kept saying how pretty it was. She agreed and said it seems very "away" from the city, and that I could take someone here one day. Also, Caroline is a really nice person and I'm glad that she's a friend, haha.

Anyway, I found this BEAUTIFUL Celtic instrumental version of "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGCAJNr0g1Q
I love it! ^_^ And it makes me nostalgic too for some reason. The guitars and flutes and accordion and everything, wow! It's just so pretty ^^~ OK leaving for a few days because AHHHHH HOMEWORK~

 

[faith]

I'm still alive - didn't suffocate after all last night. I know everyone cared.

Bandmen be weird today.

 

[flowersofnight]

I'm not sure if people are just uncomfortable to admit that a lot of people (and women especially) have certain needs and fantasies or what because I have no idea what the big deal is.

Now hold on lady, you're in the NO-SPIN ZONE here! I speak for the people when I say we don't care if you hit each other with spoons or whatever... but reading thinly disguised Twilight fanfiction might just be... The Most Ridiculous Item Of The Day. Disbarred!
I'm Bill O'Reilly, tune in tomorrow at 8PM when we're interviewing Jay-Z about rap music!

 

[PureElegance]

I have to wake up super early for my two day Latino Leadership Summit. ;_; Then I have to meet with my Property group on Sunday to work on our project, but I finally finished my short memo re-write today so that's a load off... but our long memo is being assigned next week. AGHHH~

Tuesday's Property class was funny because I was almost asleep throughout most of it. I don't know if it was my lack of good sleep the night before or the topic itself (we were going more into leasehold estates and fee simple determinable), but I was falling fast. Then Mr. Crestfallen asked the class, "Does anyone remember the economics classes?" I swear, right then and there I woke up and was completely engaged. I later told Squire that it was as though I had arisen from the dead. Mr. Crestfallen asked us if we remembered this formula, and most of us did, but Evil Zoe really did not remember and made it clear to us all. Mr. Crestfallen then acted worried that every single one of us didn't retain the information. Anyway, remembering that really woke me up.

Before that class I met with my Criminal Law group that had Susan and Hannah, and at the end of it I felt as though I was not liked. I'm just noticing them kind of emotionally distancing themselves from me, and I'm getting these vibes. They'll barely look at me straight in the eye. I think we just have different ways of doing things and they outnumber me. After our meeting I went to where near our classroom was and I sat on a heater and looked out the window and thought, "I have no life here." Shrisha came around, it had been a while since I'd seen her since we don't have the same classes, and I told her in a humorous way, "Wow, I have no friends." She said the same and that it's hard to make friends here and once you're not in a group then you're not in a group. She said she's always up to study with me and I said I'll let her know.

Caroline texted to report on her study group, who she hoped to make friends with. She said she was taken aback by how critical and gossipy the people in her group were. They spoke about others' study habits and said, "Well I don't want to study with *him*" or "I never talked to her but I don't like her." Caroline texted that it's like high school all over again and she didn't know why they were speaking so badly of others. I told Caroline, "Haven't I been saying that it's like that this whole time? XD" She said she knows, but this is her first time experiencing it first-hand.

Meanwhile, one of the things keeping me rolling was Squire's emails over the weekends and each day. We talked about my thoughts on Columbus Day, him winning the New England Championship for rugby in college, colonialism in the Americas and his English ancestors, and he said he'd like to talk about religion more with me sometime. After college he worked in finance for a few years before heading off to Harvard to get his JD and MBA (for some reason I pictured golf balls), then he worked at this firm for a short while (it's been ranked #1 firm in the US for ten years straight, haha) and found that he really liked to teach.

He also said of course I've made him my economics mentor even though we don't talk about it, and I said, "Wait, who made you my economics mentor? Sorry, I don't want a bumbling man..." He wrote, "I'm devastated that you've fired me as your econ mentor. You told me that you were mesmerized by supply and demand, but suddenly you've become too cool for school. It takes a certain refinement of soul, a special equipoise of temperament, to enjoy proper English pub ale, and you'll never get there if you remain so fickle in your intellectual interests." Ugh!

I sent him a flier I saw for an event titled, "Talking back to economists!" I said, "I bet you'll barge in and flip a table." He said, "Yes, at that "discussion" I'd barge in and flip tables just like Jesus confronting the money-changers at the temple."

I went to my Tang Dynasty poetry night at the China Institute, and it was really nice! I was the only young person there by far. Anyway, we went over Li Bai and Du Mu's poetry and our professor was a sassy old Chinese man. I can't describe him any other way. At first I thought he was full of himself, but he turned out to be really nice, but still sassy. Most of the room was full of rich white and Chinese people.

He said while Li Bai has been dead for hundreds of years, his poetry is young and lively as ever. It's true! He went through each line with us, analyzing the characters used, and it was so awesome! Well, for me, anyway. He also talked about how last week one poem was about romantic love and how uncertain it is, but that Li Bai, while he loved that, loved plenty of other things too, like friendship and the moon. So this day we read his poem about friends staying the night then having deep conversations before they fall asleep.

Our professor concentrated on Li Bai's love for the moon and how in China he's referred to as the "celestial poet" because of that and how great of a poet he is. In the poem the moon is watching over Li Bai and his friends, wanting to hear the deep conversation. Overhearing their thoughtful conversations it cannot go to sleep.

The professor asked if I'll come next week and I'll see if I can because I have Legal Writing rescheduled for that night, sigh. I went down the stairs and saw a book being sold named, "China Boys: How U.S. Relations with the PRC Began and Grew. A Personal Memoir."
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0984406220/

Seldom have I read such a readable a non-fiction book. Works on so many levels - a personal memoir, a history I somehow missed, an eye into China, both then and now, and a great book. I feel so lucky I chanced upon it.

I asked to see it and the girl handed it over. I thought it was right up my alley!

I went walking home down Park Avenue from the Upper East Side and I found a little firefighter teddy bear keychain from FAO Schwarz on the floor as I was about to cross the street. I rescued it just like I rescued the grey dumpling with a flower on her head one day in April when I was sitting in Washington Square Park in the rain on a bench. While I was walking I thought, "Why aren't there any China Girls?" It was really making me think.

Wednesday came along and I don't remember much (except writing my short memo), but I did go to the "Talking back to economists!" event. When it started I took a picture of the professor and the definition of "neoliberalism" on the board, and sent an email saying, "I found my new econ mentor." Squire wrote back, "You're mean."

A: They gave us candy and Goldfish crackers. I like handouts. I could get used to this.
S: You've sold your soul for baubles, just like the natives sold Manhattan.

It was pretty interesting and it made me think about these economics stuffs and immigrants "taking our jobs" or jobs "Americans don't want." 'MURICA!

Mr. Crestfallen in class said he talked to the professors who taught economics earlier in the semester and how half of us had no idea what he was talking about with the formula. He said, "It was interesting, to say the least." I thought he was exaggerating, but what was funny was that I had emailed Squire before I went to class about how I rose from the dead in Property and that it was only one girl who didn't know the formula at all. For some reason I felt like I was using my old Sponge abilities to assess things.

Thursday I FINALLY finished my short memo and had to skip out on yoga to finish Legal Research homework. It was our last Legal Research class, THANK THE LORD! After flying over to school I noticed how pretty my hair looked and then I went off to see Squire. Someone was already inside so I waited and that person took forever! We only had 25 minutes, but we got so much covered anyway.

He asked where my family was from and I said Trujillo, and he asked where it was in Peru. I (OMG I CAN'T BELIEVE I SAID THIS) said it was south of Lima by the coast. He pulled up a map of Peru and said he didn't see it there, so it must not exist. He turned the monitor towards me and we both huddled to look and I said that's impossible. So he pointed to where it said, "Trujillo" and it was in the northwestern part of Peru and I started to laugh and I said it simply isn't true. He brought up Trujillo's wikipedia page and read out loud, "Trujillo is a city in coastal northwestern Peru." He said, "NORTHWESTERN PERU! You don't even know your country!" I was dying at that point and gave him a big nudge on the shoulder and he started laughing. He said it looks very pretty and asked about why it's the "capital of culture" as it said. I also talked about how APRA was founded there and he asked what my father did.

We talked about New Orleans and me sanding walls. He wondered why I have so much "hostility" towards him. He said, "When I said the Spanish colonists were bad, you said the English were the worst, when I said our church music was great, you said yours was the best, when I said Mao killed hundreds of thousands of people, you said he was a hero." I showed him this picture and he really laughed:

He noticed how decked out I am with CAPITALISM yet I'm hailing Mao.
Squire also said I broke his heart with that email about my new econ mentor and said I was mean, especially because that professor is so anti-economist. He also listed in an email some of the great US accomplishments such as inventing the feather duster and paintball.

He told me he's really interested in religion and for some reason St. Thomas Aquinas' book (forgot which) really stuck with him over the years. I never read it, but we both read St. Augustine's "Confessions." I told him how in freshman year at NYU I changed my professor's mind on it. My professor thought it was bleak and depressing, but I thought it was optimistic and hopeful. Squire asked, "Do you see light in the darkness?" I said I do.

I told him he should watch Disney's "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" since he likes church music so much. It has some beautiful church music and Latin chants and organs The music and art is great and I told him about the dark themes and Frollo. I mentioned the themes of lust and genocide and torture and "Hellfire." He said he'll add it to his Netflix queue, haha. He asked which church I go to around here I said the one by the Port Authority, but I said my favorite is St. Patrick's in Miami Beach. The music there was so dramatic most of the time.

I said he's a nerd, but that it's a good thing. I also said people analyze my actions and the way I use the word "nerd" and he said someone should write an exegesis on the way I use "nerd" and I laughed. We also talked about how Adam Smith was just not good with the ladies.

It was 3:01pm and I sat there and said, "I don't want to go!" So we kept talking as if I had said nothing until I really had to go. I was so reluctant to leave, but, as I said in an earlier email, I told him that from now on I don't have Legal Research anymore so I can stay with him longer. For some reason we got a bit quiet and we both stood and he walked over to me. I checked to see if I left anything behind and he said he often loses things in taxis and I said I left my cellphone in a taxi once. I said, "I'll see you," and he said the same.

We had to do interviewing-client simulations in Legal Writing and it was fun and I was critiqued too. I also had to play a 60 year old man, real estate owner and developer, with 5 kids and 6 grandkids. I said, "Oh well after I graduated business school I worked a couple of years for the firm and then bought it and to say the next 27 years was a success is an understatement. Now I'm known as the Donald Trump of the city! I'm married to my high school sweetheart and life is just wonderful." When asked about my grandkids I said, "Well you know I have six and they're all lovely, just wonderful. Ah yes, life is wonderful! *chortles*"

One classmate and I went walking home together and we talked about what we want to do in the future. Neither of us want to work in firms and we want to do China-related things. I said I just want to do something different. He's from China and we talked China a lot, which was good for me. He doesn't like Shanghai and I was aghast, haha. He's actually from Chengdu and I told him how I love Zhuge Liang and cried on the flight back to Shanghai. It was just really nice to talk about all the China things again and my memories of the cities I miss. He said he left Chengdu for Beijing because it was faster-paced in Beijing and I said I felt the same about moving from Miami Beach to NYC. We also talked about our classes and study habits.

He asked how I was liking the law school and I lied and said, "Yeah I like it." He said he wasn't. So I said, "Okay, I was lying, I'm having mixed feelings about the place." He felt the same way, and he felt weird "vibes," and that people were competitive. I don't think I find them competitive, just weird. He said he simply has mixed feelings. I said I felt people judged me, but I'm not sure, I just haven't made many friends. It made ME feel as if my social skills died somehow because at NYU I had so many friends and I just felt great there. He felt the same way, as though something were wrong with him. I told him about me possibly transferring and he said, "Are you crazy? I would just go!" His boyfriend is at a law school in another state and his boyfriend is having a good time with the community. He also told me not to tell anyone about his sexual orientation and I said not to worry because it's not my business to share and it's his decision. He feels as though our school is kind of conservative, and he knows NYU is really liberal so these things aren't a big deal there. He walked me to my apartment building and we exchanged numbers and waved each other goodbye.

okay, now going to bed, LEADERSHIP AWAITS!... Zzzz...

 

[faith]

Hey, where y'all at?
I mean I know Hanachan's been busy preemptively turning his poor, adorable niece into a GIANT NERDFACE.
But what's everyone else's excuse?

I saw The Maze Runner yesterday.
My god the younger generation of actors is young!
Looking back on it, I feel like my generation missed out on good looking actors our own age.
Everyone was too busy being into Brad Pitt and Leo Decaprio.
Man, they OLD.

 

[flowersofnight]

I saw The Maze Runner yesterday.

The main character is "Stiles" from Teen Wolf Ka would be thrilled to hear someone watched it, because I'm sure not XD

And yeah, I spent the weekend up in Massachusetts hanging out with Matilda and those parents of hers XD Which means, more or less, I spent a whole weekend reading stories out of the "Disney Storybook" and things like that. She's already very sneaky, let me tell you. She was asking me to try my Snapple, so I let her have a sip... and then she said "NOW I GET TO WATCH A VIDEO"
Turns out the rule in their house is, she gets to watch a video on Youtube if she tries a new food XD I totally got played XD
I did introduce her to a legit new food though: the charcoal peanuts
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00BHTQFDY
My sister thought it was too gross to eat something containing charcoal, which is funny because *I* think everything they usually eat in that house is revolting trash. Matilda liked 'em though - so there.

I didn't actually get to show her a Youtube video BTW, but if I did, this is what I wanted to:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ag8Yqvs8h54

 

[MissUMana]

Your weekend made my day.

Too bad she'll have to wait some more to enjoy this wonderful video though!

 

[flowersofnight]

Too bad she'll have to wait some more to enjoy this wonderful video though!

Yeah, she might have to eat some other new food to see it now

Oh also, I found a magic wand in the basement, and it can make people do whatever you tell them when you tap them XD
It looked like this
Matilda just used it to make me fall asleep on the floor

 

[Cerceaux]

My sister thought it was too gross to eat something containing charcoal.

I remember I was looking at dog biscuit recipes and they all had charcoal in them and I thought that was really weird so I never made any.

As for the Maze Runner, has the "survival game" genre finally overtaken "supernatural romance" as the hottest thing in YA lit?
Back in my day it was all about magic schools.

I've been watching re-runs of Halloweentown because there are only three decent non-slasher Halloween movies in existence (the other two being The Nightmare before Christmas and Hocus Pocus).

 

[MissUMana]

Oh also, I found a magic wand in the basement, and it can make people do whatever you tell them when you tap them XD
It looked like this
Matilda just used it to make me fall asleep on the floor

Next time she'll make you burglarize the nearest Toys'R'Us, or eat the new food so she can watch her video, hahahaha!

 

[flowersofnight]

My sister thought it was too gross to eat something containing charcoal.

I remember I was looking at dog biscuit recipes and they all had charcoal in them and I thought that was really weird so I never made any.

I think bamboo charcoal is different from Kingsford... but I'm not 100% certain on that XD

Speaking of other aspects of Chinese culture: how to pick your English name
http://www.cctvnews.cn/2014/10/19/tips- ... lish-name/

 

[Wandering_Fox]

As for the Maze Runner, has the "survival game" genre finally overtaken "supernatural romance" as the hottest thing in YA lit?
Back in my day it was all about magic schools.

I'm trying to remember what counted at YA literature when I was that age... Fear Street was pretty popular (I liked some of his other YA books better though, like The Hitchhiker and The Snowman), so I guess our YA authors included R. L. Stine, Christopher Pike, Bruce Coville and Mary Downing Hahn (many where children's authors who also dabbled in more adult themes). A lot of them featured people getting killed off in fairly creative and violent ways and the murder targets were usually teenagers in order to appeal to the teenage and preteen crowd.

So when you think of what passes as YA these days, just remember the insanity we used to read 15-20 years ago

 

[flowersofnight]

Christopher Pike

Ah yes, the celebrated author of "Billy The Home Run Champion", "The Boy Who Hit Only Home Runs", "Babe Ruth: King of Home Runs", and many more

 

[Wandering_Fox]

Christopher Pike

Ah yes, the celebrated author of "Billy The Home Run Champion", "The Boy Who Hit Only Home Runs", "Babe Ruth: King of Home Runs", and many more

Who can forget immortal classics such as "Cheerleaders #2 - Getting Even"?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Pike_(author)

 

[flowersofnight]

LOL wait, so who was the guy who wrote all those sports books then? XD

 

[Wandering_Fox]

LOL wait, so who was the guy who wrote all those sports books then? XD

A quick Google search brings up Matt Christopher, but I was thinking Jerry Spinelli for a while because of his book Maniac McGee o_O

We also had Avi, and I think most people in my generation read "Nothing but the Truth" for class at one time or another:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avi_(author)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nothing_Bu ... uth_(novel)

 

[flowersofnight]

I knew it was Christopher something XD
Anyway, my sister was into "Fear Street" for a while when she was a kid. I was into science fiction and stuff. I'd go back in time and beat myself up, but I learned from science fiction that that just causes more problems than it solves