Quick Break from Blah

I've got some pictures I want to share with you real quick. I'm procrastinating doing my homework and studying like a bad girl, but I really needed a break. So, here are four pictures I pulled from my phone that I think you all will enjoy seeing.

#1 - (Anyone who guesses what it means gets super brownie points) I recently bought this customized shirt from an airbrush tee shirt booth on the Boardwalk in Santa Cruz. I was so giddy when I got it. It made me happy. ^-^


I am Super Girl! I mean... Look at my cool new tee shirt! What a cluttered desk behind me. I wonder whose desk it is?

#2 - I snuck this picture with my iPod during a break one day in class, when two of my classmates were catching a quick nap, because they were both so exhausted. I hope they don't see this because they might kill me. They are (gruff voice) buff Marines who don't look cute, they look deadly (end gruff voice). I couldn't help myself though, I had to take a picture. They looked just so adorable together like that! The three Marines in my class truly are like real brothers (fighting and horseplay included)

Oh, Noh Kyeong Cheol and Moon Seong Hoon, the adorable but deadly Marines.

#3 - I snapped this picture last weekend at the singles cooking activity. These are the dishes my group made. It's pasta and chicken with pine nuts and peas, and a lemon and mustard sauce. It was really yummy!

Dish entitled 'I Pine for Lemon', garnished with lemon curls and parsley. Mmm, so yummy!

#4 - I just took this picture today, but I've been meaning to take it for a while. I have a lot of shoes, but what I always thought was funny about my shoes is all of them are from completely different clothing styles. And I wear them all, they don't just sit in my closet collecting dust. So I finally put them all together and took a pretty picture.

Photo entitled: I don't fit into a mold

If I punch someone this week, you'll know why

I wanted to start blogging more regularly next week, as I know that talking about things helps me feel better. However, due to the completely INSANE homework load we were given for next week, I won't be getting anything done other than homework. No exaggeration. At the end of the week I'll let you know how many dozens of hours I spent on homework over the week. It won't be pretty, I'll tell you that right now.

I don't we've ever had a homework load anywhere close to this large before... Prayers and mail will be craved.

Sorry

I'm sorry for not posting more often. I'm super busy and extremely stressed out with class right now, so I barely have time to relax to save my sanity, let alone get anything other than homework. Everything's sort of okay right now. I mean, I'm pissed off for various reasons, and I'm listening to Kamalot, which is my "I'm in a bad mood" music, but I'll be okay. I'm going to get homework done as fast as is humanly possible, get MTT over with, and go to bed early. Maybe tomorrow will be better.

Anyway, just a few quick notes before I sign off for another long while. I had the best weekened ever last weekend; I went to Stanford with my singles ward and had a blast with the Stanford wards in a Iron Chef activity. The week before that I had my first date in a really long time with a guy in my ward, and this Sunday another guy from the ward took me to the beach because I mentioned in passing that I hadn't been. Both are amazing guys, and I'm really looking forward to seeing where things go from here.

This coming Monday is my first semester two test, and I really hope I do well, so I'm going to be studying all weekend. Because I did really bad on my last test.

That's all. Until next time, 끝. (End)

Seasons, and how they became backwards

So here in little pretty city by the sea, a strange phenomena has happened. At least, it's strange to me. First, we had a nice bit of summer. It was hot in the afternoon, enough that I managed to break a sweat at pt, and it was beautiful and sunny, and the sea was a pretty color. Then, it was spring like, with warmish weather during the day, cold at night, and yellow pollen dust attacking everying with a vengence. Today was the start of winter, with strong, freezing cold winds, rain, and a stormy sea. (Perfect day to be without a jacket... Stupid me...)

So, as you can see, time runs backwards here in little pretty city by the sea.

Payday!

My mom on her blog talks about her payday as a mother, and tells stories all the time about when she gets her payday. I got my first payday today as a writer.

At this very moment, one of my roommates is reading my very first novel, the one I wrote in 2008 for NaNoWriMo and got one copy published. She's reading it, and she says that she is completely hooked on the story. Which is awesome, because I know she's not much of a fiction reader.

So, cha-ching! When she started talking about how much she was enjoying reading it, it made my heart flutter and my chest swell with pride. This is what I want to do, this is what I want to feel. I want people to read my books and enjoy themselves. I want people to love reading my books as much as I love reading my favorite authors' books. I want to write my stories to make other people happy.

And I have taken another step forward towards that goal, even if the goal has been put off for the moment while I get my mandatory training done.

Hallyu Holla

Well, I've been waiting to tell everyone about this fabulous endeavor I've started, but I've had to be patient and wait until it was ready and open before saying anything. And as of yesterday night, Hallyu Holla, Noble Rabbit's Korean Wave website, is officially open!

For all of you who have been lurking and wondering what all the fuss about Korean stuff, Hallyu Holla is the place to go. As I work on it, adding regularly scheduled posts and spontaneous posts, you will be able to find everything about the Korean Wave there, from dramas, to music videos, from singers and actors profiles to posts about the Korean language.

So come dive in and discover the wonders of Korea!

Hallyu Holla

Immersion

Today was my class's first day of immersion. We spent all day in our school house's auditorium, only speaking Korean. I was really worried about it beforehand, because I didn't know  what to expect, but once I was there, I didn't worry anymore and just had fun. It was a real blast, and I got a very small taste of what it would be like to be in a place where only Korean is spoken. It wasn't exactly the same, because I have a harder time understanding my fellow classmates than I do my teachers when they speak, but that's probably as a result of me watching dramas a lot.