So my master plan over the summer of updating my Xanga regularly has somewhat failed (please note understatment). But it being a week when I have SO much time on my hands . . . you know, right before finals . . . I thought I'd do a little update. Let's see, the last time I wrote was before school started. So, year-to-date in review . . .

Beginning of fall quarter: Very busy. Forgot how much energy just being part of frosh orientation took. Nevermind helping run the darn thing.
Middle of fall quarter: Slightly less busy. Slightly more drama.
End of fall quarter: Wow drama. Never again (until next time).

Winter break: Niiice and relaxing. Caught up with the HKC, whoowhoo! And slept like none other. Tahoe ski trip with the SYZsters, tons of fun. Even the seven hour drive in the snowstorm doesn't seem so bad in retrospect.

Beginning of winter quarter: NEVER BEEN SO BUSY IN MY LIFE. No, not kidding. I know I have a tendency to overload myself. But never again will I do the sorority-rushing party-planning tourney-hosting website-launching madness on top the normal class, practice, staff, etc. stuff that's part of the daily craziness. Much thanks to everyone who lent me an ear to complain to, and specifically to Jenny, Wenfei, and Vishal for taking in more than their fair share of my stressedness and responding with mass generosity.

Since then . . . been trying to get my priorities in order. Lately I've been feeling like I've lost sight of the big picture. Assuming that I saw it before. I can't help but feel like I'm not taking advantage of the full Stanford experience. Like I've got the extracurric and procrastination part down pat. But I'm not giving 100% to academics or even spending time with friends. I try to tell myself that things will just turn out right, kinda like they did in high school. Back then I never planned on getting into a really good college, didn't try to do things specifically to increase my chances . . . I just did what I wanted to do, and whatdoyaknow, everything worked pretty well in my favor. But I can't shake the feeling that my dumb luck is running out . . .

Oh well. Back to studying. I'll figure this out . . . later.

Please take note of my new profile pic that is very representative of how I normally look in photos: highly amused and with my eyes closed. One of these days I'll figure out why I can't seem to keep my eyes open during photo ops, but until then . . . sorry for all the pics I ruin (in more ways than one, I'm sure)

I'm home, home on the range . . . until next week anyway. Justin came out and visited today, and got shown all the sights of Stockton and Lodi. And he didn't think it was so bad! BUT the major triumph is that in all his many hours here he didn't get hit by a single tumbleweed!!! Marisa would be so proud. I think.

Following mon's example . . . putting up old pics of us when we were oh-so-young&innocent. Wow, this was almost three years ago. When we were the tender age of 17 . . .but aren't we cute? hehe.

So, I have gone and done the unthinkable, and actually am starting to update my xanga. How about that. I refuse to become an addict though. I don't think my life is interesting enough to update this thing constantly. Although I do have some good pics!! ---->

This is from our SD roadtrip ~ goood times!!!

That's all for now . . . more to come soon! But not too soon, since I'll be on vacay all of next week with the family. Oh, but we're going clubbing tonight in SF, so maybe there'll be some juicy gossip to impart later. EXciiiiiting.