Before I forget everything I did, I’ll blog about it.

I could easily just break each day up into one blog and pretend I posted it on the day that it happened, but fuck it. I’ll do this thing again where I label the day and shit.

Thursday: Typical summer session day. Went to class, took notes, etc. I got home, went online for a while and then got something to eat. When I came back on the computer, I refreshed Twitter found out Michael Jackson had died. That sucks, I thought. I also thought WTF? I leave the internet for like 15 minutes and Michael Jackson dies?! Wack. There were many grieving, and many making way-too-soon jokes about it. I guess I’ll post my view on it now. As a person in general, he did a lot of fishy things. All those accusations of molestation and shit, and the whole thing where he was swinging a baby from the window and who knows what else. What the fuck was that all about? Anyway… he was an amazing performer and pop culture icon. He was the king of fucking pop! I would even always say when there was a dispute about what song should be played that “you can never go wrong with Michael Jackson.” Ever. RIPMJ♥

Friday: Mom woke me up so I could start cleaning the house in case people came over. Well, a few rooms in it anyway. After that, I went to this salon nearby with my mom to check out hairstyles and stuff for Chava’s wedding. I didn’t find one that suited me, but whatever. At least my mom did. I kinda already knew how I wanted my hair to be anyway. Not so long after that, I went to get my nails done at this nail/spa place nearby. Gosh, I love where I live. All these places are just walking distance from my house. Anyway, Nery walked into the place when I was getting my nails done and I left with her when I was done, since we had already planned on going to the movies that day. We picked up Danny, then met up with Rick and his sisters in Hollywood. We watched Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen at the Arclight. Movie-wise, it was okay I guess. Not the best movie in the world, but not as boring as others said it was. I mostly liked the effects and all that shit. It was pretty tight.

Saturday: I woke up at 6:30 ’cause my mother and I had appointments at the hair salon at 7am. Gosh, I looked so dead when I got there. Got my hair and make-up done there. Not much to say about that. After that, I pretty much just waited ’til it was time to get ready for Chava’s wedding.

We got to the church with a lot of time to spare. The ceremony itself was nice. Apparently the minister was a family friend or something and they surprised Cristina by having him marry her. My tio Ruben was singing with his group during the mass. That was cool too. Angie, Jay, and two of Cristina’s family members did some of the readings, and the minister joked a lot. It was cool.

The reception was fun too. My cousins from my dad’s side seemed to have a lot of fun, it was cute to watch. The food was spicy and the cake kicked ass. Woot. Also, they had these really cool liquor things on the table with Cristina and Chava’s names on them that everyone liked and many took home:

As for me, I was walking in heels the whole day for the first time. Boy, I sucked at it. Hahahaha. The day was fun, though. Congrats big brother and new sister in law!

Sunday: Despite the fact that the previous day had been long and left me a bit exhausted, I woke up early to help my mother with the food and stuff because people came over. I made two salads. I swear, that’s all mom ever makes me do when she tells me to help her cook. I just make salads. Sometimes rice too. Meh, I don’t mind. Anyway, a lot of family members came over for lunch or whatever. We had birria and chicken. At one point, mostly all the dudes and kids were in my living room watching the USA vs. Brazil soccer game. It looked something like this (except less blurry):

Later on, I went to the beach and Hollywood with my cousins from Colorado. It wasn’t as fun as I would’ve wanted it to be, but still pretty cool. It’s nice to get out of the house and go somewhere with people you don’t see very often.

Monday: I woke up thinking something along the lines of Awesome, History class got cancelled today. That means I only have one class! When I arrived to my Health class, though, I came to find that that class had also been canceled. I love it when that happens, even though there’s also the whole thought process I go through where I realize I could’ve just stayed home and not missed a thing. Hahaha. I stayed at school for a bit ’cause Zack texted me that his Sociology class got cancelled, so we hung out after he got out of his first class. We ate at Thai House (no surprise there). He threw up. We brushed our teeth. We met up with Dan. I swear, I don’t know if I can fully get into the habit of just saying ‘Dan.’ I actually typed ‘Daniel’ and then backspaced because I realized that if I wrote ‘Zack’ instead of ‘Zachary’ then I should write ‘Dan’ instead of ‘Daniel.’ Anyway… we went to Pasadena, just for the hell of it. It was pretty fun. Like usual, we went to Barnes & Noble, the Apple Store, Urban Outfitters, and a few other shops. Is it proper to call them shops? Or are they stores? Because when I call them shops, I picture like, more of a local family-owned little store.  I felt kinda bad, though ’cause we kept physically hurting Dan. Pobresito.

Today is tuesday the 30th. Crap, that means I can’t use my TAP card tomorrow. I should renew that shit. Too bad I have no cash and don’t wanna use my own money.

Update — I actually came back to finish this blog because… I dunno what happened, but I never got a chance to finish. It is now wednesday. Boy, I’m a lagger. I guess I might as well let you know that I finished reading The Perks of Being a Wallflower today.

Also, I didn’t bother to proofread this. Sorry for the mistakes.

What I’ve been up to, I guess.

I haven’t posted a real blog since June 11^th, so I figured I’d do an update right now. I actually have two blogs with actual topics that I’m thinking of writing sometime this week or next. Most likely next week because this one has been kinda busy (nevermind me having taken a two-hour nap today) and it’s only gonna get worse.

What have I been doing recently? Pretty much, mornings consist of me going to my summer classes. I’m taking Principles of Healthful Living (Health 11) and History of the Great Religions (History 7). They’re both really easy. Health tests are open-book for the first ten minutes or so and history quizzes are five questions every day. If I don’t pass both classes with A’s… then… I’m an idiot. Nah, not really. It probably just means I got really lazy at one point.

After class, I’ve either been 1. eating with Zack 2. hanging out with Luis or 3. going home and either a. eating and going online or b. eating and reading. Right now, I’m reading Looking for Alaska by John Green. (You might’ve figured out I got the arrangement of the first sentence in this paragraph from that book. Haha.) It arrived in the mail yesterday and I’ll probably finish it tonight. I’ll write a little review or something later, though.

Also, my brother Chava’s getting married in like three days! Holy shit. That’s pretty much the reason I doubt I’ll have time for writing blogs this week and weekend. That and I’ve been spending less and less time online recently.  I’ve also been seeing people in real life a lot less. I don’t even know how I managed to do that.

Anyway, I’m gonna go finish reading Looking for Alaska now. x.

About time the semester’s over!

As those of you who know h0w I am by now probably know, I hate community college. I am soooooooooooo (that’s right, I put in extra o’s for emphasis) glad  the fall semester is finally over. Is it just me, or do semesters just drag along really slow? It never felt this way during the winter session. I hope I don’t hate school as much during summer either. Even though I’m still taking classes in the summer, I can’t help but be glad to know that this semester is finally behind me. It was such a drag most of the time. I only wish I did good in the math class I had and never needed a reason to drop it. I feel so behind now, still having to take remedial math classes. FML.

On a brighter note, I walked out of my English final in a really good mood. I don’t think I did as well on my in-class essay as I’ve done on others, but that’s okay. As soon as I turned in the in-class final essay, Dr. Norton gave me back my previous two essays. One of them was an in-class essay written in a Green Book, and the other one was one of those fancy typed-up ones in MLA format. I looked through the essay I wrote in the Green Book and read the little notes he’d written on it. It made me laugh that he put a happy face next to something I’d written. Then I reached the last page, where he wrote at the bottom “Great job, Reyna — Thanks!” followed by my grade. I noticed that he always writes “thanks” on essays and wonder what he thanks his students for. Is he thanking us for doing the assignment? ‘Cause if he is… then boy, he must have some really bad students. Is he thanking me specifically for doing good? Actually, he wrote “thanks for all your work on this paper” once. I guess he is thanking us for doing the assignment. Interesting. I guess I’d thank my students too. The mere fact that they chose to go on with their education says a lot about them… ANYWAY! I totally went off on a tangent.

Okay, back on topic… I looked through the pages of the other essay he returned (the one that was typed and all that jazz) and noticed there weren’t many markings on it. I turned to the last page to get a look at my grade, but there was nothing. I looked at the back of every page, and all the little corners and margins. Still no grade. I went up to Norton’s desk and asked if he graded my paper. He looked at it and then told me “Oh, it’s because I wanted to ask you…” then he wrote on my paper “Would you mind emailing this to me as an attachment so I could use it for future 101 classes?” I was confused for about half a second because I thought it said “lol” and not “101″ (as in  English 101). Yes, only Reyna would make that mistake. Then I was like, oh! sure! when I realized he actually meant that I did so well on the essay that he wanted to use it as a sample. It was awesome! Lmao. Then he was like “Yeah… because your grade is” and then he wrote on my paper “A+” I was so happy! It totally made my day… as if the fact that it was the last day of the semester hadn’t already lifted my spirits.

Super quick blog before I begin my essay

Not much to say, really. Finals week sucks. I think I did good on my final for Journalism 105 (mass communications). It was just a scantron thing and a few essay questions. Journalism 101 was fairly easy… I think. Apparently I’m getting a B or C in that class. I didn’t think I did that bad during the semester. I guess I was wrong. I’m not sure how I did on my Geography final, though. Some I knew the answer to right away, while others I had to sit there and think about. I hope I did okay, though.

Yesterday was pretty fun. Went to the movies with Zachary and Daniel. We watched Drag Me to Hell and Terminator Salvation. Drag Me to Hell Made me laugh so much. Talking goats FTW! I’m very jealous of Alison Lohman.  She had blonde hair with dark eyebrows, a face that isn’t very skinny, small lips, tiny boobs, but she still looked beautiful! Gosh! Anyway…  Terminator would’ve probably been cooler if I’d seen the movies more recently… or at least remembered the one I saw. Hahaha.

In other news… I am a total lesbo. Just kidding. My online friend Enmanuel made a little collab video with me and some other online friends: Jason, Athina, and Veronica. I don’t know if you’ll find it funny or not. It has a few inside jokes. But I rofl’d. Here it is:

Also, I’m gonna fix the categories section of my blog once I’m done with finals. I don’t really have the time to sort everything out right now.

LACCD Cancelling Summer Classes

So, the community college district over here is getting all these budget cuts. They decided to cancel all summer sessions that start after June 1st. I was planning on taking four classes this summer, now I can only take two. Totally lame. Also, I think other forms of financial aid (EOP&S, Cal Grants, etc.) are gonna be offering less now.

I’ve never really been much of an activist… even when it comes to something that directly affects me. But I do like to spread the word about issues around me sometimes. I don’t have much time to blog about this because I have stuff for finals to work on all this week. Otherwise, this would be a pretty long post… but I’ll share some links and whatnot for those of you interested in doing something about it.

Information: http://www.laccd.edu/news/documents/LACCD_Summer_Cancellation_2009.pdf

Also, there will be a protest at Trade Tech — Information on that is here: http://laeastside.com/2009/06/community-college-and-cut-backs-protest-230-today-trade-tech/

Let’s hope this doesn’t cause me to be at ELAC longer than I had planned :/

Okay, I lied.

I don’t feel like reading right now, so I decided to write my recap blog right now. I’ll make it short, though. I just remembered I still have to finish watching Vicky Cristina Barcelona. I started it like at midnight the other night, but then I got too sleepy to finish it. Anyway, here’s some shit I remember from this week:

Monday: We were supposed to meet at the library for English 101. My professor ended up not showing up, for like the millionth time! Don’t really remember much after that.

Tuesday: I don’t recall what my school day was like. I just remember buying an ink cartridge, and then going to the East Los Angeles Library to work on my English essay, and Vincent meeting me there later on. Here‘s a photo, I guess. Lol.

Wednesday: Once again, my English teacher wasn’t there! Somehow we did book work and turned in our essays anyway O_o.  Journalism was pretty much the same way it always is. Nothing really eventful that I can remember. I went back home, grabbed something quick to eat, left my house because I didn’t wanna be there, and ended up buying a dress at one of the little shops in Atlantic Square. Then I went to the ELAC library because I didn’t have much to do, and eventually met up with Zach. We went to Pollo Loco, but he ate a philly cheese steak from Tokyo Bowl there. I totally had tacos al carbon and a Loco salad.

I went back home, and then Luis told me he wanted to chill and I was like sure, why not. Right after I agreed to hang out with Luis, my parents get home with this mattress and tell me to take all this stuff out of my room and clean it out so they can install the mattress and whatnot. I did it as quick as possible before Luis got to my house. Anyway, he got here and we he went to buy a burrito from the truck, and a smoothie from Jack’s. We were chillin’ on my porch when my mom calls me, all angry for having left the house out of nowhere. Apparently, I still had a lot of stuff to take care of in my room. Lame. I did it as quick as possible ’cause I don’t like leaving people waiting. But yeah, I pretty much spent my night talking and hanging out with Luis. It was pretty chill.

Thursday: Geography class was as boring as ever. I spent my time there IMing people when I wasn’t taking notes. (I take notes on my netbook, in case you didn’t know.) Mass communications was okay. We just finished watching Shattered Glass. I kind of enjoyed it.

I met up with Daniel after class. He was supposed to donate blood, but he pussied out. Nahh, he just didn’t wanna wait an hour and a half to do it. I still think that was just his excuse for pussying out, though. Pussy out? Who the fuck uses that expression? Did I just make it up? Whatever, anywyay… We met up with Zachary on the bus and then went to the Montebello Town Center. We spent a while there. I can’t remember anything interesting enough that happened there to write about, though. Meh, there was this lady with saggy boobs, a horrible tan,  and dry hair that walked around talking to herself at the food court. I’ve seen more entertaining people talk to themselves, though.

When I got home, I went online for a little bit and then Luis and Vincent show up at my house. We chilled here for a bit, and then at Vin’s house for a bit. Not much to say there, lol.

Today: I woke up at around eight in the morning, got out of bed a bit before nine. Went online to realize that MySpace got a new Meebo/Facebook style chat feature. Can’t say I was surprised. I logged off after about an hour and a half and then cleaned the living room, had breakfast, and showered. I pretty much spent the rest of my day sitting here, on my computer desk. Half the time, I was working on these two stories that I had to write for the J101 edition. Which reminds me… I have to go to ELAC for Journalism tomorrow. So now I’m sitting here, typing up this blog. I don’t even feel like watching that movie anymore ’cause I got tired of looking at this screen. Blah.

Okay, I lied again. This came out longer than I thought it would. (That’s what she said!)

Reading this, I realized… I never really hang out with females.

I’m way too loud for my own good sometimes

Sometimes I forget how loud I am. There have been countless times when people tell me to keep my voice down because it’s way too loud.  Something happened in my math class today that sparked my need to write about this, but let’s go back to the past and recall some memorable times when this has happened.

Ms. Mukai’s class. 8th grade. I think this was the moment that established my loudness. I remember I was “whispering” to this guy Luis during silent reading time, telling him that there was chalk on the back of his shirt. Apparently, my whisper was so loud that it could be heard on the opposite side of the classroom. (I sat on the far right, and people sitting on the far left side of the classroom were able to hear me.) Once silent reading time was over, my teacher told the class that we shouldn’t talk at all during silent reading because some of us (she looked directly at me as she said “some of us”) don’t even know how to whisper.

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. Daisy was sitting in between Zack and me. Needless to say, we both wouldn’t stop making dumb comments during the movie, nor would we stop play fighting. Not too much happened, but some chick sitting behind us told us to shut up, or mocked us, or something.

Beowolf. I decided to skip class with a few friends, like we normally would every other Monday of senior year.  We went to a little theater in Uptown Whittier. Anyway, I was there with my friends Jose, Mayra, Ricky, and Zack. Ricky was probably the only person louder than me sometimes. We were both making jokes during the movie, and then this lady that worked at the theater told Zack something along the lines of “If your friend doesn’t quiet down, she’s gonna have to leave and she’s not getting a refund.” Mayra even jokingly (I hope) moved a few seats away from Ricky and me because she didn’t wanna be associated with such loud… beings. Ahahah.

Garfield High School Library. Zack and I were killing time at the library. We were sitting and talking when somebody in front of us says “You do realize you’re in the library?” It was so hard to hold in a laugh and and not reply with something like “Oh, I’m sorry. I didn’t realize…” We joked about it the whole rest of the day.

Other times. Then there were occasional shushes we got from our Theater professor at ELAC, but nothing major. And other people telling my friend and I (usually directed at just me, though) to keep our voices down. There were some other examples of my loudness, but I can’t think of them off the top of my head. Maybe I’ll update this blog if/when I remember them.

Anyway…

Today. I was in my math class, talking to this guy Daniel. I was telling him about how this girl that sits in the front probably hates me because she’s always giving me dirty looks. I swear, if you saw the way she looked at me, you’d think she’s the Devil. (Except the Devil probably has straighter teeth.) Anyway… time passed by, I spent my time in that class taking notes and still talking to Daniel. All the while, that girl would turn around and give me the same look she always gave me. Finally, she got fed up with my voice. She turned around one final time and yelled “DO YOU MIND?!” I was gonna snap back at her, but I guess it’s a good thing I didn’t. About a quarter second after she yells at us, our professor says something along the lines of “In fact, why don’t you two drop just the class? Better yet, I can drop it for you.” I rolled my eyes, then Daniel said he’d just stop talking. At that point I was thinking fuck, I’m rude. Then I remembered I’ve always been like that and laughed to myself a little. As for my professor… Uhhh… fuck him. (I hope no one ever has.) Anyway, I think I proved my point to Daniel about that chick that sits in the front. She hates my guts!

This week was meh.

Not much out of the ordinary.

Went to classes at ELAC, did some homework at the library, blah blah blah.

Friday, I went to the movies with Gerard and saw 17 Again for some reason. It was… awkward. After that, we went to the Montebello Town Center and tried on clothes and took photos, like always. hahaha. I like the way we matched, but Gap clothes are way too expensive.

Then I got so bored at 1am that I photoshopped our photos a bit. Here are the results:

I got a haircut yesterday. It’s not that short but I prefer having long hair. (Short hair + fat face = VERY fat looking face!) My hair is sooo damaged, though! Now I want long, dark hair instead of blonde. I got tired of it.

It used to be this long:

Now it looks like this:

I don’t even know if there’s much of an obvious difference xD

Now I have to work on an essay, search for a few things for my English class, and write a profile on my Journalism professor. Ugh. I hate Sundays. They’re all the same: church, food, internet, homework, shower, sleep.

Spring Break

Hello. I haven’t felt like updating much. I kind of feel bad when I spend my time blogging when I know I have homework or something more productive to do. I had this idea for a video blog, but I haven’t done that for the same reason. I feel kinda crappy about stuff now. Sometimes I end up getting nothing done at all. Like, on days when I don’t feel like working on homework and would feel useless if I wrote a blog or made a vlog. Boy, those are the worst. At the end of the day I realize that I got nothing done and just feel like I wasted my day. (I think that’s what my Tuesday felt like.)

I’ve realized I’ve been trying to avoid seeing people lately and I don’t even know why.  Actually, I know why in some cases. For example, Timmy invited me to go to an SCPA show this weekend and I told him I was down to go. Then I remembered what Timmy is like when no one is around but me and him and decided against it.  But anyway, there were two other times this week when people want to hang out and I decided I don’t want to. Sometimes I’d just rather be home nowadays. I don’t know what that makes me. A loser? One who doesn’t like to socialize? Nahh. I love socializing. People are great. I just don’t know what it is that’s made me not want to go out lately. I guess it’s kinda cool, though. Now I’m not bitching about not being able to go out. I actually want to be home.

I feel like updating

I haven’t felt too in the mood to write long blogs these past few days. This week was pretty cool, though. I didn’t wake up early enough on Monday to make it to my English class, but apparently class was canceled that day. Go me. My netbook finally got here on Tuesday. (Which I sort of did post a blog about.) It’s way cute, yo. I’m gonna take it to school on Tuesdays and Thursdays from now on. It’s so much easier to take Geography notes when I’m typing. It’s also really boring in that class, so I can browse the web or something when I’m not taking notes. Alt+tab FTW. Wednesday was okay, I guess. My Journalism professor made us get partners and interview each other. Meh. Thursday was okay too. I think I did okay on my Mass Communications quiz… except I think I got this question about iTunes wrong. I sooo skipped a few parts on my reading.

Today was pretty chill. I liked it. Not my usual stay-at-home-clean-the-house-and-browse-the-web Friday. I hung out with Alberta, Liz, Jose and Zack. (I can not get used to spelling Zack’s name with an H [Zach].) We went to eat at In-N-Out. Liz wasn’t too fond of the food, lol. Then we went to Target for a bit and hung out there. It was fun jamming out to “What if God Was One of Us.”  Hahahah. When I got back home, my mom had made enchiladas de camarón. Fuck yeah! I love those things. As I ate them, I thought to myself… shit, I totally wasn’t supposed to eat meat today. Fuck lent. Oh well. Enchiladas are awesome. Like, seriously. I cannot stress how much I like them.

So, like… The Twilight DVD releases tomorrow. That means there are crazy fangirls in line at midnight release parties all over the US right now. I kinda wanted to go to the one in Westwood. Not because I like Twilight, though. I just wanted to go because I have a tiny crush on Kaleb Nation. Shh, don’t tell him. Rofl. I’m so lame. The odds of me marrying him (let alone talking to him) are pretty damn slim. Speaking of slim chances… what’s the deal with people from the UK? They say “fat chance” a lot. Why is it that “fat chance” and “slim chance” mean the same thing? Anyway… I don’t even know why I find him so interesting. He’s not even that cute. Okay, maybe a little. And I like people that can write well, arent ignorant to the world of the internet, know a few things about music, and wear plaid shirts. Shit. I guess that makes him kinda perfect for me. His right eye is weird, though. It goes down like three millimeters lower than the left. Omg, I’m gonna shut up now.