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Lomo LC-A+ or Vivitar UW&S
Quality prints of my photos
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Box of Vision
Abbey Road and Let It Be Remasters (to complete my collection...not counting Yellow Submarine)
'Absolute Greatest' (2009 Digital remasters of Queen's greatest hits)
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| typed earlier today on a train:It’s 2:24PM and I was supposed to be at Fullerton around 1PM. This freaking train didn’t arrive delayed but it kept making stops in the middle of nowhere. My mom called me around 12:30PM while we stopped for a WHILE at what I thought was Irvine Station. My mom told me she was leaving the house then but a while later…I start seeing tons of foliage outside which means that WE WERE ONLY AT SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO. W. T. F. So I called my mom again (cousin picks up) and I tell her that I wasn’t even in Orange County yet (San Juan Capistrano isn’t in the OC right?). I called Vanessa who was in the Amtrak train an hour behind me and she said her train wasn’t delayed at all. My train kept making random stops until Anaheim and then the announcer says that the train to the right of us (that was stationery) ran out of power and that OUR train was going to be PULLING IT all the way to Los Angeles. So you know what that means? Our train moves forward and then moves BACKWARD so it can hook up to the train. And you know what else I found out? That we were already pulling a train. So we’re going to be THREE TRAINS hooked up to each other going to Los Angeles. My train is pretty much the only one that’s working alright. The announcer just said that we’ll be at Fullerton in thirty effing minutes. That means that I’m getting to Fullerton at 3PM, TWO HOURS after the time I was supposed to get there. Yes, I am most definitely calling Amtrak to see if I can get compensated for this. But god, my mom and cousin have been waiting at the train station since 1PM…and my mom IS a very very busy person as you might know.
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thank goodness I'm getting compensated, though. Amtrak is going to send me a voucher...so maybe it was a good thing that I ditched class and stayed stuck in a train for 3.5 hours. or not.
Anyway, my brother just told me that one of his schoolmates passed away. this guy used to be a really good friend of my bro's but of course they both changed so they kind of parted ways. Still, it's really sad...he didn't even graduate high school yet. When my brother told me, I felt like crying for him and his family. and you know what was kind of haunting? seeing the guy's Facebook profile and knowing that his profile image will always stay like that. We'll always know him as a high school kid. he'll never have a chance to grow and experience what we're experiencing
Also, a very well-known and talentedSouth Korean model died last week. And it was just SO unexpected. I read the news via a blog on Asian models and I had to re-read the headline because I just couldn't believe that this model who was so full of life was just suddenly GONE.
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From "'Look, An Asian!' The Politics of Racial Interpellation in the Wake of the Virginia Tech Shootings" by Sylvia Shin Huey Chong
Conservative pundit Patrick
Buchanan blamed the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 for causing
the Virginia Tech shootings by allowing “the greatest invasion in history”
of “tens of millions of strangers” into our national community, including
“this deranged young man who secretly hated us,” while former Klan
leader David Duke lashed out at multicultural education, claiming that
“anti-white racists” such as poet Nikki Giovanni, one of Cho’s professors
at Virginia Tech, had helped to incite his violent actions.
WHAT
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| I noticed that recently, I haven't really blogged about how I've been doing at school. Well, I'm not doing as well as I hoped I was.
Fiction Writing - at first, I just passed this class off as one of those filler classes, even though I don't take any pass/no pass classes. When people started to really criticize my writing, I was like, okay, I should really try harder with writing my stories. and I really am trying. I emailed my tutor and TA and they both talked to me. my TA is like wtf did I get myself into because he's a first year MFA student from SDSU and he didn't know that grad school would be like this. i dunno if he's really helping me with my writing, but he's really chill and we've talked a lot so I'm pretty sure I'm on his good side. still, the people in my group who read my stories don't really like my writing. there's this one girl who does almost nothing but criticize and she has never said one good thing about my story. I feel really left out in this class because I'm not THAT into fiction, I just thought this would be an interesting class to take since I wanted to be a writer when I was in fifth grade, back when Mrs. Schaffer made us write stories like every week. Everyone complained but I loved the work she gave us. Now that the standards are high, I feel like my work isn't good enough. Everyone is always talking about how much they LOVE this author and whenever someone names an author, the whole class goes MMMM HMMMM and I'm like uhh who the eff is that. also, I didn't do that well on the midterm. I talked to my TA about it and he was like Oh it's cool you'll get an A still. I dunno.......sometimes I feel like he feigns his leniancy and then when the actual grades come in he'll be like "oh yeah your work didn't add up to an A after all..." I do pretty well on the quizzes, fortunately. Not the last quiz though. I effed that one up. but I mostly get A's on my quizzes.
Asian American Studies - ugh, this class is so hard but the material is really interesting. I've gone to my TA's office hours a couple of times and the first time, I stayed there for an hour because I was just so confused about some of the material. Sometimes I want to write about something but I'm not confident that what I'm writing about is accurate or reasonable. ok, by now you can probably tell that I'm not very confident in much of my work, including commentaries which are supposed to be from MY perspective, because I have a hard enough time backing up my points. so I did pretty well on the paper, higher than the average and I worked FREAKING HARD on it. Worst cramps ever and I still wrote an A- paper. Literally, I tried to take a two hour nap at 4AM and most of the time, I was rolling around in bed, wincing due to those cramps. Actual midterm...I didn't do as well as I wanted but I got above the average. I've been participating a lot more during section so I really hope that my participation grade will help. Okay so when you see Lucy participating in class, you'll KNOW that she is really getting into the material. Sometimes I like the material but I'm too afraid to participate because I don't have a good grasp on what we're learning. so yeah, I really like Asian American Studies! I just don't know if I'll do well...
Intro to Media - OMG I thought this class wasn't supposed to be hard BUT IT IS!!!!!! It takes a LOT of work in class and outside of class. and everyone is super theoretical so I'm just like WTF why are you reading into the material so much???????? But that's UCSD, everything is so theory-based, by the time you're out of school, you're able to articulate the most abstract things. BUT HOW THE EFF DOES IT MATTER? anyway, we got into abstract art recently and I love any type of artistic medium that is NOT video. Fuck, why did I take this class in the first place? I think I thought it had to do with graphic design LOL. But noooo not at all, it's based on video art, even though most of the footage we watch in class are from major motion pictures. Anyway I worked really hard on our first video project and guess what? I GET AN A-. I look at everyone's grades and the majority of the class has an A. HOW THE FUCKKKKK?? Either our video wasn't that great or my group members wrote bad comments about me. I admit that what I did for the film did not directly affect it. Okay, I guess WRITING THE SCRIPT is a big part but we had to improvise so much of it. Still, our video was PHENOMENAL, way better than we expected. Our classmates were laughing so much when they watched it and one guy was like "THAT'S LEGIT." I really hope I can get the video so I can upload it or something.
so yeah, maybe my group mates said I didn't do much or didn't write much about what I did. FUCK. I did so much, though........it seemed like only a couple of us were taking the project seriously. I'd email my group members all the time but only one girl would reply. so yeah, I didn't edit, I didn't act, and I only filmed one scene but I tried so hard to build our film. We had like a very idea of what we wanted for the video and I tried to make sense of it...HENCE THE SCRIPT. As for my midterm paper, I went to my professor's office hours and I took four effing days to write it. AND I GOT A B. UGHHHHHHH So now I have like an average of a B+! Now that this class is actually going to count for my major (oh I'll talk about my new major and MINOR soon), I have to do well!!!!!!! I AM NOT SETTLING FOR ANYTHING LOWER THAN AN A-.
Okay sooooo I declared a major a while ago! Yep, I'm officially a Communication major. Good: I don't have many classes to take for Comm. Bad: I DON'T HAVE MANY CLASS TO TAKE FOR COMM. This is why Comm majors at SD are expected to minor and get internships. I'm really afraid that I'm not going to like Comm...I took Intro to Comm last quarter and I thought it was okay, but I didn't like it thaaat much.  But what else can I do if I want to get into print media?
So yeah, my minor. It just got approved on Wednesday...I'm an Art History minor! I really want to take more art history classes so I felt that I might as well minor in this subject I love. Back when I took Formations of Modern Art, I got a really good grade (A+!!!!!!!!!!) and I enjoyed the class, so I think this is something that I'm actually passionate about. | | |
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I kind of want to do this someday. Maybe during the next time I go to China, where it's actually accepted. ugh but my tuition seriously got JACKED UP, how will I ever be able to go on vacation now? I'm paying over $2000 more than what I usually pay just in ONE MONTH. EFF EFF EFF
will rant more later. I'm sooooo tired.
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