Holiday Updates

My sleep schedule is so out of whack :/ From the moment I left school, I started staying up too late. Way too late. This, in combination with my lack of sleep during finals week, led to a few extremely latelate nights followed by a few extremely latelate mornings... which furthur fueled my terrible sleep schedule. In conclusion, I am living a (fun but hopefully short lived?) nocturnal lifestyle. Highlights include:

Late night pizza at Italian Express in Westwood
A looong day at Disneyland
Helping my Dad move into his new apartment
A trip back to LA
Emilie time!
Recording for Arthur's latest game: Merry Gear Solid 2
Recording for Long Live the Duke
Electronics and furniture shopping!
Bang!, RocknRolla, and plenty of laughs at Ryan and Dan's
Caroling Party!! followed by LOTS of conversation...
Holiday Party!! followed by even GREATER amounts of conversation...
Late night Del with old friends! :D
Christmas Eve AND Christmas Day Dinner
Various hangs, brunches, and lunches
An overload of Desperate Housewives watching...
And a bit of gift exchanging thrown in for good measure :)

No pictures, though. I'm waiting for my new camera. It's been 7 months... but I'm told I will get it soon. (!)
My (5yearold) iPod also went kaput. Like, completely kaput with no possibility of quick fixing it. So... a new iPod is coming my way Tuesday! Good times :)

Saturday Night

Can I say that I REALLY dislike the USC tram system? I have NEVER had a good experience. Saturday, the boy and I decided to take the USC provided LA Live bus to get to the LA Auto Show because the bus is free, we wanted to save the $14 we would've spent on parking, we had the time, and hell, it's good for the environment. NEVER AGAIN. We waited THIRTY minutes for this bus trying to get there, AND thirty minutes trying to get back. That's an hour of waiting, not including the 15 minute walk to the bus stop (which, honestly, wasn't THAT terrible. I like being outside, and walking is progress, not just waiting. But it adds another 30 minutes to our 1.5 hour total travel time... for something that is ten minutes away by car...). Did I mention that I HATE waiting? It's a waste of my time. Plus, it was raining. Normally I wouldn't mind rain - it's atmospheric, romantic, and I enjoy it (since we don't get it very often here). But I don't enjoy waiting in it for an hour, at night when it's cold, when I'm trying to not get sick before recording this week.

Next time I'm driving :(

Anyway. Enough ranting. The Auto Show was fun, and Versailles was exceptionally delicious, so all in all it was a good night.

The Worst Is Over

I think. I finished my second to last final this morning, and it was supremely terrible. On the plus side, I now have only one more final left! First, though, is the weekend. I anticipate cleaning, some recording prep for Tuesday, and lot's of HapaSC planning. I haven't done a recording in a while, so I'm excited :) As for now, I think I'm going to enjoy this rainy day and read some more of Bluebeard while relaxing on my comfy couch, glancing up occasionally at a beautifully cloudy downtown LA...

P.S.
I was going to put up a picture of downtown in the rain from my window... but I decided I like this better. Same window, no rain. Just contrast :D

The Final Countdown

What's today? Tuesday? In one week I will be done with finals. I will also be doing a recording at Chapman for a friend's scoring project. I will ALSO be cleaning my apartment, packing, and saying a few farewells before I skedaddle down to Irvine.

As for now, I will eat a grapefruit and (hopefully) study like crazy for finals. I don't have high hopes for my grades this semester. I'm going to be pretty sad when my GPA drops. But hey, I'm on the home stretch and the things I will remember about first semester senior year will hopefully NOT be the fact that I stumbled through most all of my classes, but all the good times I had, including HapaSC's end-of-semester Formal Dinner. That's the hope, at least.

In other news, I watched the Korean drama Oldboy the other night. Good movie! Very interesting. Very, "wait, whaaaaaat?". Recommended. Apparently they're making an American remake of it starring Will Smith. If it weren't for Will Smith, I wouldn't even mention the remake because remakes are usually butchered versions of the original movie starring "popular" (but generally less-than-talented) celebrities *cough*Shall We Dance?*cough*. The Korean version of Oldboy was REALLY well done (especially in the cinematography department)... but who knows. I'll watch the remake, I suppose, but for anyone who hasn't already seen it, I'd suggest watching the original first.

Pondering Thoughts

Classes are over. I still have a project to do, a paper to write, and four finals to study for. It would be less of an issue if I were more prepared for all of the above. In any case, a week and three days from now I will be done with it all, regardless of the quality I put forth.

I sang in a recital today. I miss singing. I forget how much I enjoy singing, sometimes. I feel like I let a lot of things get in the way of my singing these past few years... as well as in the way of a lot of other important, unmentioned things. And now I'm nearing the end and I just want to get out. I have a feeling that a successful college career doesn't end like this, but since I don't have any experience otherwise, maybe it does.

No. No it doesn't.

I took my Dad to Disneyland for his birthday. It was fun. More pictures are below.

P.S.
Lately I've been updating my Tumblr more than I've been updating this. Just saying.