What a week.

School is going ok, parents got the warning note about the Cs from Anal and Bio AP. If my mom found out about  another C from English, she might of power-uped her voice to the uber-fast korean level, but she does have a right to be concerned...So much to say but all I could of done was just to face the ground looking semi-guilty. But we can all improve, we're only a forth done with the semester.

At home we have two exhange students, one from Korea and the younger from Hawaii, staying at our house. So my parents are a little stressed and worked up. They are loud.

Both middle schoolers. Cute, a little annoying sometimes.

They think, including my brother, that they are staying for five years. Only their parents, our parents, and I know that they're actually staying only for a year. We plan to tell them them this winter...gosh, and all three get along so well together. I have a feeling that Johnathan, the Hawaii kid, is feeling a little confused though...

gah! better get going to bed

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 Hey, *yawn*  awoke from my deep xanga-slumber. Lots to write about, but that'll come later.

School finally started, very busy, but relatively sane. Hope everyone's handling it all well.

Must go and do some hw, but here's a story by our TA Jinsoo...

The Cluster 6 APB

Chemistry is all about bonds.  Bond breaking, bond formation, ionic bonds, covalent bonds, Barry Bonds, and so on.  What better way to form bonds than to share some story and a scoop of ice cream?  This is Bakthan¡¯s brainchild for our clusters, so they can see the importance of chemistry (fragrant esters in this case) in the real world.  He told me to arrange everything with the RA¡¯s and asked if I could drive.  I figured a scoop of ice cream on a hot afternoon sounded like fun so I agreed to go along.  I think the phrase ¡°thrown into the lion¡¯s den¡± is a pretty fair description of my Thursday afternoon.  Let¡¯s take a walk through Jinsoo¡¯s afternoon.

The culprits: We reserved three vans, but one of ¡®em was late ¡®cuz Cluster 3 was taking their sweet time comin¡¯ back from one of their field trips.  So the last van was me, Bakthan, Desun, Kelly, April, Alice, and Katrina (the girls all got stuck in the last van ¡®cuz they were waiting for Katrina and Kelly).  Lemme tell you something, these girls are nuts.  Not just a little nuts either, a lot nuts.  Kelly Clarkson came on and they started jumping around the back of the van and singing (although they didn¡¯t know many of the words).  I think I heard Desun chime in when they started in on Backstreet Boys or N¡¯Sync or whatever, but he was a lot quieter.  And yet, the pop group in my van was the least of my concerns.  I had my foot on the gas pedal for about 30 seconds before Bakthan chimed in about how I didn¡¯t know how to drive and that he would tell me all the shortcuts through town since I didn¡¯t know where I was going.  Let¡¯s compare routes.

I scream: That was a fun ride down, but my day still hadn¡¯t been funny enuff.  So I was waiting to order and this haggard lookin¡¯ dude standing in front of me dropped 5 bucks.  I picked it up and gave it back to him, at which point he decided to tell me in big smelly breaths that he was a bit drunk and how he wasn¡¯t a bum, he just wanted some ice cream.  I kinda just wanted him outta my personal space.  He ordered his ice cream, but then couldn¡¯t find his money.  While he was looking for it he got ice cream on his jacket and Alice had to clean him up, at which point he dropped the 5 bucks again and I gave it back to him again.  He offered to buy my ice cream, but I told him I was sticking it to Bakthan for backseat driving the whole way.  I thought that whole thing was done, but the dude tapped me on the shoulder and grabbed my hand to shake it.  Then he spent 10 minutes telling me how there was still good people in the world ¡®cuz I gave him his $5 back.  At least he did it in front of the whole cluster so everybody saw it.  I tried to collect myself by discussing the finer points of cantaloupe ice cream with Autumn and Ashley, but my new ¡°band¡± kept haranguing me about being their tour manager and lining up some shows so I didn¡¯t really get to preach my cantaloupe gospel.  Somehow this story made its way to Cluster 4 ¡®cuz I got teased about it the next day too (thanks, Rebecca).

Home sweet home:  As we were piling into the vans I somehow got pulled into an informal agreement that I would sing with the girls all the way home.  I wasn¡¯t about to do it, but I didn¡¯t say anything ¡®cuz Kelly kept threatening to fight me.  The girls got so amped even Bakthan started rapping part of ¡°In Da Club.¡±  Then Natasha Beddingfield came on and I swear there was a minor earthquake.  I thought there was gonna be a brawl when I stopped the van, I actually scoped an escape route.  So then I went to return the keys to Emily and my band shouted at me that I had to come listen to them sing.  I asked if I could hand the keys in first and they said no.  So there I am listening to teenage girls serenade me to a Kelly Clarkson ringtone when Emily comes out and asks if she can have the keys.  I¡¯m sure that didn¡¯t look weird to anybody in the surrounding area.  Apparently the singing woke some people up from naps.  How¡¯s that joke go?  On the 6^th day God created man.  On the 7^th day he rested.  On the 8^th day he created woman.  Since then neither God nor man have rested.  Lemme tell ya, if you asked me to TA this cluster again, I¡¯d do it without a second thought.

Is that a tree on top of the SAC?????

"[PREPPY] CORRECTION TAPE"...

sigh...sitting in my boxers listening to Country Roads by Jon Denver, about to start homework...

Have you ever wanted to say "WTF" with just one look? JUST ONE LOOK?

Well, here you have it.