So, it's Saturday
for some reason, I get semi-sick every week, right before weekend. I usually get sore throat, headache, and so on. But if I stay in and sleep a lot, I feel OK by Saturday evening. I guess I'm too tired by the end of week. This is when I feel really old--my body can't deal with crazy weekday schedule any more. sigh...
Yesterday, I woke up at 5:30am to finish up results and method section for Ohio Scales manuscript. Although I hated waking up early, I think I was working very efficiently and I really liked how productive I was. I don't think I can keep getting up this early to do work, especially because I have classes from 6-10pm but I like doing work early in the morning. After that early morning paper writing, I babysat Karen and stayed for her 1st birthday party. At the party, I met a few other moms and babies, and it was quite interesting because they were definitely not the type of crowd I usually hang out with (obviously!). Babies were absolutely adorable--I really don't think I can handle one of my own yet but they are definitely cute to look at and fun to play with. Moms were really cool, too. Akiko-san (Karen's mom) cooked great food (Japanese food!). One thing I felt bad about was that there was a Filipino lady whose husband is Japanese. But she didn't know Japanese while everyone else did and kept talking in Japanese. I should have talked to her in English but I was too busy playing with babies or too busy eating and didn't put enough effort to talk to her. And for some reason, I felt awkward switching to English...maybe because the dominant language of the environment was Japanese or...I don't know.
After the party, I went back to school to finish up the paper and went home to watch TV and relax. Today, I went to Manhattan, walked around a bit in Midtown, and did some reading at a coffee shop. I was thinking about how I spend most of the day by myself without interacting with anybody. This is very unhealthy! I should start hanging out with people at least once during weekends. As a student, I feel guity for doing something fun when I have tons of homework or some other stuff to do. But I also know that I don't spend full 48 hours during the weekend studying. In fact, I find myself watching TV quite a bit on weekends. So, I should go out and do something fun, instead of watching TV all day. Only problem is going out costs money, and I'm broke. Oh, and I don't have that many friends to hang out with...(well, I have some friends but I'm not that close with them)
Oh, I just remembered that something strange happened last Friday. When I came home, after walking around all day running errands, I noticed that there was gum stuck on my social psych book that was in my bag! My bag was open all day long while I was walking in Manhattan, so someone probably spat gum into my bag (either accidentally or intentionally). It was really disgusting but it was also kinda funny. I find myself amused by little stupid things like this. :-p
Yesterday, I woke up at 5:30am to finish up results and method section for Ohio Scales manuscript. Although I hated waking up early, I think I was working very efficiently and I really liked how productive I was. I don't think I can keep getting up this early to do work, especially because I have classes from 6-10pm but I like doing work early in the morning. After that early morning paper writing, I babysat Karen and stayed for her 1st birthday party. At the party, I met a few other moms and babies, and it was quite interesting because they were definitely not the type of crowd I usually hang out with (obviously!). Babies were absolutely adorable--I really don't think I can handle one of my own yet but they are definitely cute to look at and fun to play with. Moms were really cool, too. Akiko-san (Karen's mom) cooked great food (Japanese food!). One thing I felt bad about was that there was a Filipino lady whose husband is Japanese. But she didn't know Japanese while everyone else did and kept talking in Japanese. I should have talked to her in English but I was too busy playing with babies or too busy eating and didn't put enough effort to talk to her. And for some reason, I felt awkward switching to English...maybe because the dominant language of the environment was Japanese or...I don't know.
After the party, I went back to school to finish up the paper and went home to watch TV and relax. Today, I went to Manhattan, walked around a bit in Midtown, and did some reading at a coffee shop. I was thinking about how I spend most of the day by myself without interacting with anybody. This is very unhealthy! I should start hanging out with people at least once during weekends. As a student, I feel guity for doing something fun when I have tons of homework or some other stuff to do. But I also know that I don't spend full 48 hours during the weekend studying. In fact, I find myself watching TV quite a bit on weekends. So, I should go out and do something fun, instead of watching TV all day. Only problem is going out costs money, and I'm broke. Oh, and I don't have that many friends to hang out with...(well, I have some friends but I'm not that close with them)
Oh, I just remembered that something strange happened last Friday. When I came home, after walking around all day running errands, I noticed that there was gum stuck on my social psych book that was in my bag! My bag was open all day long while I was walking in Manhattan, so someone probably spat gum into my bag (either accidentally or intentionally). It was really disgusting but it was also kinda funny. I find myself amused by little stupid things like this. :-p
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