“Imbuing our daughters with a sense of social responsibility is important … because making a difference in the world - however tiny - is the antidote to the pervasive narcissism of our consumption-crazed culture.” - Arianna Huffington 

“People think children are our future, but really they are the present…” - Mayerly Sanchez, activist and nobel peace prize nominee 

 p.s.
i returned the feet pajamas b/c i didn’t like how they fit. 

a few months ago i was feeling nostalgic and thinking about how when i was young and growing up in chicago, feet pajamas were one of my favorite parts of winter. they were so cozy, comfortable, and warm. they would fit like a glove. i was talking about this with one of my friends and she shared the same sentiment. tonight, i went over to her house and she showed me the feet pajamas she found at target. they were for kids but we are pretty small so she got a L and it fit her perfect (and even a little loose). i was so excited, i drove to target from her house and got myself a couple. it was a really good price too: $12 each! i got a pink one and a green one in XL children’s sizes. the only bad thing is that it’s a pain when you go to the bathroom… especially when the bathroom is cold. anyway, i’m excited and happy!!!

i’m trying to get back into blogging and i’m gonna try to post everyday. this time of year was when i first really got into blogging.

i can’t believe thanksgiving is this week! eek! time went by sooo fast! it still hasn’t hit me yet. i still feel like thanksgiving is a month away - haha!

last night i dreamt that the world was being taken over by aliens. they were going to take us back to their spaceship and enslave us. i was with my family and we were all hostages. in my dream, i was really indifferent to the fact that the world was ending as i knew it and that autonomy was no longer mine has it has been surrendered to these alien beings. ironically, the only thing i feared was being sucked up by the ufo because it seemed painful.

i woke up this morning and i was pensive. i came to the realization that every man that i had a romantic relatioship with has lied to me. not just little white lies either, but huge, life-altering whoppers. yup. and i thought my trust issues were bad before. i think they just got turned up another notch. lol.

today, i ran errands and had brunch with my mom. it was cloudy and the weather made me feel very excited that it is winter and the holiday season so i came home and made this layout. normally, i would say something depreciating about the layout but i actually really like this one so i’m gonna leave it be. yay. i am also excited that it is saturday and i can spend all day vegging in my cozy pajamas and watch tivo or a christmas movie. btw, i’m celebrating christmas earlier this year b/c i am going to cambodia dec 20 and i won’t be back until jan 5.

hmmm… not sure. yes, we won on sunday night but it doesn’t change the fact that we sucked on offense almost the entire game and definitely during the second half where we were totally shut out. all we needed was a first down at the end of the game and we couldn’t do it. the defense and special teams definitely won the game for us - oh - and let’s not forget peyton manning, adam vinateri, and (something john madden didn’t want us to forget) many of the starters for the colts were injured (boo fucken hoo). i would also like to think that the fact that it was raining didn’t help the colts since they were used to their cozy (covered) dome and for once, i can be proud of the crowd at the Q for being loud and at least being partially responsible for a couple false starts.

the sad thing is that charger fans could not be proud of our offense. in fact, it was pretty embarassing. if the chargers are known for anything, it’s our offense which was considered to be multifacted and runs like a well oiled machine … in past seasons anyway. sigh. now, we barely have a pulse and evidence of any type of rhythmn is neglible.

still, no matter how grim things look, i am still not sorry that marty is gone. norv turner is not proving to be any better of course, but he’s so new that i think the probably of getting rid of him is much higher than a coach who is just good enough to get to the playoffs but never good enough to win anything in the post season. bascially, someone who is clearly bad vs someone who is bad but hides it well.

anyway, we end our week holding more firmly than ever to the #1 spot in the afc west but the feeling of victory still eludes us.

i am having a rough night in general but i’m comforted by the fact that my cat follows me everywhere i go and sits next to me for comfort.

and that reason is that all the teams i hate are doing really well and all the teams i like totally suck. it’s really frustrating to experience excruciating losses week after week. i am not a glutton for pain and i have gotten to the point where i don’t even care if i watch a single snap today. even though i’m doing decent on my fantasy leagues, i am just not enjoying football. i also kinda regret (for once) paying a crapload of money for nfl sunday ticket this year. i don’t know. actually, my mom has been coming over to watch it with me lately. it’s funny how some people’s moms visit them for various reason but my mom visits me because i have nfl sunday ticket. now that she’s here to watch it, i am kind of obligated to watch it even though i’d rather be watching something else.

last night was my 10 year high school reunion. i didn’t go mostly because i forgot about it up until 2 hours before the event. i actually found a date (someone has no life) but then i realized it was like gonna be $100 per person and that’s something i can’t afford right now. my boyfriend (who lives far away) actually offered to pay for both of us (which was very knight-in-shining-armour of him) but by then i didn’t feel like going anymore.

i love fall back so much! i’ve been going to bed an hour earlier because of the time change so i’ve been having so much more energy! it’s amazing! this week is going great and i’m getting so much stuff done.

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last night i slept 13 hours. i think it’s been 2 weeks since i’ve had a good night’s sleep so had to make up for lost sleep. when i woke up, i was so hungry. it was like i just woke up from hibernation! now i am just vegging around the apt with my roommate… it’s so nice. the weather is cloudy so it feels like fall. tonight, we are going to a halloween party at my friend’s house. i am going as harry potter. i’ll post pictures if there are any worth posting. have a happy saturday everyone!

i had such a good day of teaching today. i think it was the best teaching day so far this school year!

i’m excited for tomorrow. i get to eat for free all day long! they will be serving us breakfast and lunch at work. lunch, we have a choice of lasagna or tacos and i think i’m gonna have to go with the tacos. dinner, i am having a home cooked meal by my mom with my family and friends! yay!

btw, i haven’t had spicy chicken bites this whole week! yay for me! (it is like my heroin) lol

what a crappy day i am having. can’t seem to get anything done and i feel physically unwell. my lsat is this saturday. i feel like some of those closest to me doesn’t understand me and/nor supports the decisions i make. not fun. i’m just so frustrated with everything that i want to go work out but i have really bad shin splints from the run i went on on saturday so i can barely walk, much less exercise.

seriously, two out of the three top entertainment news stories on google news was about simpson’s bail.

who cares?

i spent this entire day running errands. it took ten hours. now, i am so tired i can’t even get up so instead, i set up my fantasy football team line-ups. i feel good about this week. it couldn’t possibly be worse than last week where i lost in both of my leagues. it was so depressing. i also read an article about this one commerical being pulled off the air because it was too racy. i was gonna start bitching about this commerical to anyone who would listen (including my blog readers) but i had too many other things to bitch about so i never got around to it (haha). i honestly really hated that commerical b/c the teacher was portrayed super sexual in front of a bunch of teenage male students. hopefully, you can see why this hits close to home b/c i don’t really want to spell it out. one small victory for decency. ironically, i’m going to put the commerical in my blog just because i want my blog to have a good balance of texts, pics, and video streams and right now i am definitely lacking in the video stream area.

now i am going to go see dragon wars. i seriously have a 12 year old boy’s taste in movies. the movies i saw this summer: harry potter, the simpsons, and invasion. one of my favorite movies from last year was 300. what gives?

too tired to write full post. just wanted to share some pics:

my mojito fr last week… scrumptious!

one of my bday presents: a pedicure!

pretty present… i love this card!

it is also a collage!

the box that my present came in… looks just like my computer!!! one of my favorite parts of the night.

so much is going on today…

the day before school starts. worked approx 13 hours and still not everything is done yet. oh yeah, had 4 hours of sleep the last 2 nights

got dance supervision duty on the saturday night that i was planning on having my bday party. was able to swap it though.

got told at 3pm today that my adminsitration wants me to travel 5th and 6th period tomorrow. wtf. totally ridiculous. they are trying to revamp the schedule. will hopefully be resolved by the end of the week.

trying to plan my bday party. i hate planning anything, especially something big like a party but for the first time in my life, i want a say of what kind of party i want. yesterday i picked the place & activities, narrowed down to two dates, and started on my guest list. today, i finalized guest list, picked date and time, and sent out evites.

still working on application process. got another letter of rec in the bag. one more to go… still waiting on responses fr 2 different profs.

joined my 2nd fantasy football league today. i am gonna get first pick! uploaded my team logo (lt’s face) and tried to update team name. changed my team name from my first league.

went shopping for back to school stuff in the middle of the night. got a stupid clicker thing for my keynote (powerpt) presentation but the piece of shit doesn’t work! ARGH! looked for a cushioned bench stool w/ back support and no luck. =/

all my friends are depressed and calling me to make them feel better. something i love doing except i’m so tired i am sucking badly at it. busy busy. found out one of the guys at the standard w/ me on sunday now has a crush on me. awkard. now all my friends are trying to set us up. i’m not interested in him like that. pressure from friends.

okay, i was supposed to get my eyebrows threaded and do my nails so i will look good for the first day of school tomorrow but it’s alredy 11:40pm and i still have to take a shower. i guess i will have to settle for plucking and removing my chipped polish.

all this in one day!

i have to get up in about 6 hours.

last night was my last night of summer vacation. i spent it at the standard hotel’s rooftop lounge in downtown LA. dude, the place is sooo awesome! i loved it! it was so chill and i had a blast dancing with my friends. we were outside on a rooftop w/ a pool, bar, and dancefloor. it was also b/c the backdrop was the LA skyline and it was such a nice breezy night. the only sucky thing was there was this creepy stalker guy following me around and who couldn’t take not-so-subtle hints that i wasn’t interested. i came up with what i thought was a pretty clever way to say no which was “I want to be single FOREVER.” after i said that, he was like “you’re sweet.” i couldn’t tell if he was being scarastic or if he was just plain dumb. anyway, it got really annoying b/c he started creeping my friends out and i felt really bad that i wasn’t assertive enough to make him go away. so stressful.

today, i went back to my school for teacher meetings and getting ready for the new year. it was great seeing everyone again but what sucked was some of my closer teacher friends were asking about the lsat and it wasn’t really something i wanted to talk about. telling them i have to retake it isn’t exactly great news. =/ we had a really good motivational speaker this year. he was so much better than last year’s guy and really highlighted to me the absolute best parts of being a teacher. the day went by fast but i got a lot done and my room looks great already (not to toot my own horn)!.

anyway, one of my old students from last year emailed a picture that we took together on the last day of school:

(my classroom looks like a huge mess :[)

this girl doesn’t need anymore guy friends.

pictures taken by me last weekend

this is franklin, the turtle

today i did another preptest. i didn’t do as well as i did last night but still better than the last 2 tests. i am noticing a pattern: i always do much worse in my first section than any of the others. i think that maybe i should warm up my brain before doing the preptest. i’m gonna try that tomorrow to see if it yields favorable results.

then, i did SIX (yes six!) loads of laundry. the sad thing is that i am not done yet. i think that it’s been a month since i did laundry. i have 2 more loads actually. i will probably try to do it tomorrow… either that or it’ll have to wait until next month - HAHA!! (J/K?)

wow, can this blog be anymore exciting? lsat preptests and laundry. maybe the powers that be will charge me with boring people to death with this blog and force me to take it down.

last but not least, i took a personality test today and it turns out i’m very much the type b personality (shocker).

According to your answers, you are far from having a Type A personality. The stressed out, competitive part of your character rarely, if ever, surfaces. Your attitude to life is more of the “smell the roses” type, and you know how and when to chill out. This likely means that you’re easy to be around, and people feel relaxed and comfortable in your presence. It’s a very healthy attitude towards life. Just make sure you don’t miss important opportunities because of being too blasé and easy-going (yes, it’s possible!). Taking on a challenge and getting competitive now and then can add some zest to your life.