just a note.

I feel that this week&weekend was an extremely balanced one.

I stressed stressed stressed the first half of it. Memorized/learned the good 150 buildings/architects/history for my architecture history class for the big midterm and also turned in a take-home 12 pager for my environmental policy&management class. Lot’s of studying with Audrey and constantly admitting “okay, let’s go back to the Mughal and the Ottoman lecture…again.” I won’t say i owned it, but i knew most of them and up until yesterday when i was hanging out with my friend the secret-genius (by secret i mean, you would assume him to be the slacker), that i realized i didn’t do as well as i thought i had. Oh dear, the Humuyan’s tomb, Humuyan’s tomb. all is past, but i am pushing myself harder for the next round. 

My second part was surprisingly chill, i finished my homework for three of my classes by wednesday. Proud moment here because i usually wait until Saturday. All to prepare for nice math marathon i threw for myself. #Hoorah! And so much room to kick the stress monster out for this weekend, which resulted in snippets of fun events!

First sushi dish of my life, yes quite embarrassing, but i finally did it…with chopsticks!

I also decided to go with a wedding landscape for my pop-up book project for my landscape arch. class. Since my older sister is getting married this year, i figured it’d be a nice gift for them. (also, this is just the rough outline of what i’m doing haha. there will be bristol/watercolor/craft/indian ink/soft pastels/etc involved).

Hung out/studied at studio with Audrey

Hung out with my hippie amigo. found him meditating while he waited for me. hardy har.

even convinced him to give me the cute box thing. win, i think so ;)

and friday a couple of us went out out, yes to parties aaahaha to campaign for our lovely Rebecca, who’s running for Senate. I love her, and i know she’ll do amazing. Plus we’re on staff so we’ll make sure she does well.

and i ended it with a nerdy math marathon today in the library. and shot this lovely bad boy on the way to the library.

and with that, Happy Pi day, all.

-Cyndy 

Midterm season has been going on for about a strong month now. Paper after paper after test after exams. (cheers cheers cheers!) With the vast amount of research and study comes the itching urge to procrastinate. 

I like to consider myself an efficient procrastinator. I mean i catch up on new music, I plan out my week, and apparently i google people. Yes I finally did it. My dear friend from high school, my best friend actually, has cut herself out from every and any social network. It saddens me, because i text for urgencies and my inbox consists of all of my Berkeley friends unless it’s holiday time. Anyway, i decided to google her name and came across her blog that we had to write in for a creative writing class in high school. I’ll be straight here, i think she’s one of the wittiest person i’ve met ever. Our combined sarcastic comments were a trademark really. Reading through it made me miss her and to no surprise i made an unsuccessful 3am phone call. She responded in the morning, but the main point being:

-Why distance ourselves from the people that have shaped who we are?

(she’s the one in the teal getting gropped, and i the other one in teal laughing at the gropping #win)

corny, but hey, i need to remind myself every week or two to phone my mother. My friend said things in the ‘busy bee’ subcategory and yatta yatta. I grant that my responsibilities were morequantitative in high school as apposed to their present qualitative nature, but i’m starting to believe that keeping a busy nature is a good thing and that involves incorporating the pleasant things in life.

You know what it is.

Yes, a little humour there. I don’t know ‘what it is’ about that song, but i seem to sing it intermittently. Anyway.

Call your mothers,

Cyndy.