Allow me to toot my own horn here for a bit. I just typed up a six page essay in under an hour and it KICKS ASS! OH YEA! Anyway, is there a way to make myself feel pressured to do something even though it's not due for like... a week? That's the ONLY way I do work, I have to feel pressured into doing it by due dates :(

Now on to the book!

Friday: "defy superstition day." Looking at the superstitions on the page, I realized I defy superstition every day. I whistle inside all of the time, I've broken a few mirrors, I put my keys on the table (well, actually I put them on my desk, but my desk is my table, my desk, my workstation, my kitchen and my study!). So I really didn't have to go out of my way to defy superstition, but I DID go out of my way to step on cracks. I felt like the opposite of Melvin Udall. On my way to Spanish class some girl on a bike gave me a weird look because I was kind of walking in a zig-zag formation to step on as many cracks as possible. It was fun!

Today: "brithday day." I'm supposed to write down at least 15 friend's birthdays... I don't KNOW that many birthday's but the book says it is okay for me to ask. So if I ask you when your birthday is today, don't think it's because I'm going to get you a present, I'm just doing it for the book. You self-centered assbag.

Tomorrow: "romance day." I have to give someone a compliment they've never received before! I thought I did this day already, but I looked back in the book and that was "compliments day" where I was supposed to give out many compliments and see if it got me anywhere. This is going to be tough... what is a compliment that is still flattering that a person has never heard before?

Donna the fat bizwad quit today!

I'm so happy, I'm so happy!
I'm so happy and dappy and YAY!

This is going to be a long post. So make sure you have enough time to read it! Or don't read it. See if I care. Jackass.

The days that were incorporated into yesterday were: journal, barefoot on grass and apply for knighthood days. So the two days will be incorporated into my journal account of my day.

I never really kept a REAL journal or anything, so I didn't exactly write down EVERYTHING that happened to me. Just little things here and there, lucky you, you won't get a full account of my day. Not that it was that exciting or anything, it was actually pretty boring.

8:00 - 8:45 am: Ah wake-up time. I hate waking up, I just want to sleep ALL day. I'm going to skip work today. Damnit I can't skip, I didn't go to work Monday... I JUST WANT TO SLEEP. Okay fine. I'll go to work. Damnit. AHHHHHHHHH FUCK YOU WORK. (note: yes, I'm very grumpy in the mornings)

9:00 - 12:00: Okay, I have to read about 160 pages for history and write a Spanish essay. Luckily my work doesn't give a crap if I do homework or not so I'll just sit in the back room and do it there! Hmm... Donna (fat ugly mean lazy bitch ass woman at work) just asked me to help her. I told her I was busy and then she just gave me that "oh, i'll just do it then," I hate when people do that so I offered to help her and she said "no, that's okay, you go do your homework." That seems like a pretty big "okay!" to me and that she wasn't bitter about the whole thing... But then Delia came in the back office not one minute later to tell me that Donna complained about me. So now I have to help the turd. Great... Oh well, I'll just sit back here and read for ten minutes THEN help her. The biz.

Wow... this history is really boring. I just read about the impact of McDonald's on the consumption of betel nuts in Taiwan... RIVETING!
Okay, time to help the hog.

So, I'm helping her, Emi is helping her and Katie is helping her. Actually, we are "helping" her. We are DOING HER WORK and she's off making personal calls. We all hate her. This is the most tedious work in the world. Folding envelopes to stuff into other envelopes...


Hmm Katie left for class and I'm covering for Emi while she goes into the EGO lounge (student lounge) to do some work that she also had to do that was interrupted by that whore, Donna. So it's just me! YAY! Boring. I'm going to go ask Delia if I can get out at 11.

She said yes! weee I'm out of here in an hour. I'll just deal with this for the remaining time. Emi should be back in 30 minutes and Katie should be back in about 45, so I won't be alone the WHOLE time.
And they're back! And now I'm leaving.

11:00 - 1:00: Time for more reading! Oh wait! I gotta go walk on the grass a bit! Hmm... I don't really feel the herbacinium like effects... I'm supposed to be relaxed by the grass, but I'm already really relaxed. I guess the grass will just keep me relaxed. Anyway, let's see... Korea and McDonald's. They were/are reluctant to accept McDonald's into their culture because of an extreme nationalism that makes them almost xenophobic. The only way McDonald's was really able to penetrate the market was to align itself with already existing Korean companies and force a sort of partnership with them. Haha... some of these have funny neams: ShinMc (McDonald's and Shin), McKim (McDonald's and Kim) etc etc... I'm getting sleepy and this book is kinda boring... Hah oh crap, it's now 12:30, I must have fallen asleep. I still have like 40 pages to read. I'll just read the first sentence in each paragraph. DONE! Now off to class.

1:00 - 2:00: Ah, east asian society discussion time! woo woo. I did the reading and I'm ready to discuss everything! Here comes Kay, she always sits next to me. she's nice, but she'll probably think I'm weird writing all of this stuff in my book. Bah, time to pay attention to class!
OKAY, that was good. My TA really likes me, I think. I brought up some awesome points about nationalism and a comparison between contemporary society in the United States and Taiwan and how they are pretty opposite, modernization vs traditionalism. Blah blah... time for my next class!

2:00 - 5:00: EARTHQUAKES LAB. These are usually quite boring/easy and I finish them way ahead of time, actually, most people finish them way ahead of time. This lab is about finding fault lines based off of a topographic relief map of the world. Doesn't sound too difficult, except I hate reading maps. Dum dum dummmmmm Ozgur (my Lab assistant) sure likes to talk a lot. He's helpful though, and a nice guy, but I just want to start the lab and get it over with! LAB TIME! I'm going to get it done and then write more stuff.

Okay, done at 4:00, that's an hour early! The lab was pretty easy but there was this girl that kept asking me questions! She's pretty cute though, maybe she'll be my lab partner next time. WINK!

I think I'll eat a late lunch/early dinner now. Off to Carl's Jr I go! Yeah yeah, I know it's bad for me but I want some chicken tenders.

4:15 - 5:45: mmm food/play on internet time. I'll stop writing while I do that because I just want to relax!

5:50 - 8:00: SPANISH CLASS! I'm not going to write during this either, I gotta really pay attention in spanish or else I wont have any idea what's going on.

7:30 - late: OAKY! Time to write my letter to the prime minister to ask to become a knight! I'll write my letter in here and then transcribe it over onto nice "knightly" paper when I finally decide to send it.

Dear Prime Minister,
Hello, my name is Daniel Herrera and I believe that I should be ordained a knight! Why, you ask? What spectacular deeds have I accomplished? Well... I once saved a little kids life. He was going to be hit by a bus and I ran by and picked him up. His mother saw the whole thing and she said I should be rewarded. I still haven't received that reward, and I think that reward should be Knighthood. DO YOU WANT TO DISAPPOINT TOMMY'S MOM? That's a true story by the way. Other than that my life hasn't been particularly heroic. I do bring smiles to people on a regular basis, I think that is something that is very undervalued in today's world. Prime Minister, make me a knight and I'll make you smile for the rest of your life. With jokes...

Sincerely,
Soon to be Sir Daniel Herrera

Hmm... now I suppose I shall do very little work and waste most of my time on the internet. THIS JOURNAL IS DONE.

Ah holy crap that was long and I doubt anyone read the whole thing (with the exception of awesome people), so I'll just leave it at that for now.

I kept a journal account of my day! But I am le tired and so I'll blog ALL the details tomorrow.

ps: it's long

I have cancer. This is why I haven't been blogging lately becuase I've been trying to avoid myself. It's so horrible...

I woke up today feeling like I've never felt before. Terrified. Afraid to open my eyes and face the reality that has be set down before me.
It's such a struggle to wake up and meet the day with optimism. I've actually been sleeping in more. Missing work, missing classes... not eating.

I hate it. I want a cure. I want to be better. I want to be okay. I want to be... a super hero. I want to fly in the sky and eat large apple pies. I want to shave a bear and wear it's fur like a luxurious coat. I want to be the one who takes you across the moat. I want a big boat, a big yellow one that has smiling stars on the side that sails on dream power! I wanna live forever! I WANNA LIGHT UP THE SKY LIKE A FLAME! FAME!


Today: "practical joke day" complete (thanks for the help, Kira :)). I really don't have cancer. BOOYA! Sorry for that. But i was told i need to be more "gung-ho" about the days, so this is a start! Oh yeah, I tried to tell Sun that God doesn't exist, but I was too afraid. So instead of telling him, I whispered it to him. And he was sleeping. With headphones on... whatever. Subliminal messages can be pracitcal jokes too!

I took a little break from the book for a few days, I just flat out forgot to do the stuff. So I'm starting up again tomorrow and doing THREE days at once! Days I will be doing: apply for knighthood, walk barefoot on the grass and keep a proper diary account of my day. LOVELY!