Oh mom!

So today I was getting ready for work. Putting together all the things I need to take, changing clothes, and taking the dog out for a quick walk before I leave. I was rushing around because I was getting dangerously close to being late. But as I picked up my phone to take with me, I noticed my mom had called. So I decided to give her a call back before I left, thinking it might be something important.

When she answered her phone I asked "Did you want something?" expecting her to tell me that my grandma called and wanted me to know something, or that I needed to do something before I left for work. But out of nowhere she answered with "Oh, no, I just wanted to ask you who you thought was prettier, Yoobin or Narsha."

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For those of you who don't know, those are both Kpop celebrities. Yes. My mother was calling in the middle of the day to ask which Kpop celebrity I thought was prettiest.

When I asked her why the heck she was calling for that, she told me she was looking up pictures of of Kpop celebrities who's names she has heard me mention. She was doing this at work...and possibly discussing it with her coworkers...

Oh mom, only you.

For anyone who is curious, this is what the two look like:

Yoobin

Narsha

Late-night Cravings

My stomach is a weird thing. As the day goes on, I become more and more of a "fattie." Each morning when I wake up, I have no appetite at all. In fact the idea of food usually makes me wanna puke, much like a pregnant lady.

Within a few hours, I develop an appetite. Not a huge one, but enough to eat. And at lunch time I'm legitimately hungry, and am probably at least able to crave whatever sounds good that day.

At dinner I'm usually starving and this is when I really start to crave things. food is so much more satisfying at this point.

Sometime after dinner, I almost always get hungry again. Not for a full meal, but a snack, possibly dessert. And after I eat that, you think I'd be satisfied. well you're WRONG.

At that point I turn into my full-on obese fattie self and start having cravings for the most random foods ever. Most of them impossible to fulfill without going somewhere far away.

As I type this I am currently having massive cravings for:

-Krispy kreme doughnuts

-Soft-serve icecream

-Some sort of pasta

-Rice

-Hummus

-Thai tea

& -BBQ chicken

So unable to satisfy my late-night cravings, I lay in bed convincing myself that "it's okay I can go get the food tomorrow!" But when I wake up in the morning, the craving is lost and my morning-sickness stomach is back. The cycle starts all over.

I'm in College too!

Since on everyone's blogs they're talking about their college careers, and while I'm left out of certain conversations, like dorms and new towns, blah blah blah..., I'm also in college! It just happens to have the word "community" in it's title...

The very first thing I learned in college, was that parking is really, REALLY effing horrible. I've heard about it from others, but without seeing it in person, I never knew parking could be this bad. I mean, not only were all the parking spaces filled up, all the sides of the roads were filled up, as well as the illegal little crevices of the parking lots/roads. Today I was actually lucky enough to find an open space after only 10 minutes! But it happened to be on the opposite side of the campus.

My new Japanese class is pretty durn fun. There doesn't seem to be TOO many obnoxious nerds. I mean yes, there are a few, but it's a smaller amount than I expected. Most of the nerds are quiet a nice, they don't bother me. :] But there are a few people who I can't stand....

At one table is a group of boys who like to whisper nerd jokes to eachother. They like to try to make jokes, but they end up not making sense and confusing everyone. They also use weird vocabulary/grammar that they probably got from anime. It's usually wrong and confuses the heck out of the teacher.

The worst of the class is a kid who I've disliked since he first opened his mouth on day 1. He has THE worst accent I've heard in the class. But unlike most of the people with strong accents, his grammar and vocab skills are pretty good. It sounds really awkward to hear someone speak quickly and confidently, with a really strong accent. But even more annoying, is his need to constantly interrupt the teacher to either ask stupid questions that aren't actually related to the lesson, or to tell a joke that is related to the lesson, but it incredibly, incredibly lame.

Every time he tells a joke, the classroom is filled with this awkward tension, as if everyone is thinking the same thing. You think he'd notice that no one is laughing...

The most awesome part of this class, much like our high school Japanese class, is the teacher! Aki sensei is just as entertaining as Yuko sensei, but in different ways. Her expressions are just as hilarious, but she also makes random sounds. It's hard to explain by typing...But it's much more fun than monotone boring lectures. One biiiig difference though, is that she actually understands people's jokes. Even if they're pervy!

So far we're only learning things that I already understand. Which yeah, is a little boring, but gosh it makes me feel smart! :P

So yeah. Thats pretty much my daily college life. Arrive, spend 20 to 40 minutes finding parking, fight over a spot and get honked at for stealing one, run to class, sit in class annoyed at that one kid and laughing at Aki sensei, trek back to Betsey, go home to have my severely shortened lazy-time, and go to work!

I'ma grownup!

While most people are starting new exciting college lives, moving into dorms across the country and making new lifelong friends, I've been starting my own adventure right here in the same little Washingtonian town. I like to call this adventure "working like a grownup."

Recently, I was hired by the YMCA to be a group leader. Basically that means I do all the same work as the site director, minus the paperwork and extra inchargeyness. Oh and I get payed less...

Today was my 3rd day working there. (Or my 2nd normal day, since Friday was kind of a freak day with a sub and me working more than my normal hours. ) I'm pretty sure at this point that I'm going to really like this job. That is if I can ever get used to the idea of this goddamn-grownup-schedule.. For the first time in my life, I don't have my afternoons open to laze around like the fattie I am. From now on, my work schedule is from 2:45 to 6:00 every weekday.

From what I can tell after three days of working there, there are 4 different types of kids in the after school program.

1. Kids I like: Most of the kids fall into this category. These ones are well-behaved, not usually annoying, and for the most part, listen when I ask them to do something.

2. Kids i Love: A few select kids have clung on to me since day one. They're extremely well behaved, and most importantly, A-freaking-DORABLE!

3. Sorta Annoying kids: These children are annoying. And if I wasn't being payed, I probably wouldn't choose to be around them. But hey they aren't too bad. They behave some of the time at least.

4. Horrible Monsters: Ho-ly crap. This kids are CRAZY. I understand that some of them have problems at home, but it's hard to handle these ones with only two staff members. The worst is a pair of sisters who spend their time deliberately breaking rules for attention, peeing their pants on purpose, slapping other kids across the face, kicking staff members, and licking eachother. D:

My Site Director was saying that in October they might try to add another 20-something kids to our program...all I have to say is that if they add any more kids, they better plan on adding more staff.