Cal

Woke up today at 8:02 AM, thinking it was 10. Turns out I had passed out around 10:45 right after finishing writing last night's blog, turned on the Goofy song and woke up to find my laptop was still on and the music was still going.
Talked to appa about how I might go to berkeley and SF, and tried going back to sleep but couldn't so decided to get out of bed around 930 or 10. ate some breakfast, wow i was actually pretty hungry and breakfast was so clean and simple and good, gomtang with bab and kkakdoogi and shigeumchi/sookjinamul/dubu. and the roses :) showered, plucked, got ready to head out to berk to see pranav and pavan. planned on leaving at 12 but ended up leaving around 1230.

first time driving in a month! which isn't long at all compared to when i didn't come home for 6 months, but wow, this was bizarre. the weather was legit summer. 69 degrees, balmy and blue skies. listening to good music in the car while driving the speed limit (so, slowly). when I got to the station it took a while to find parking, and then i ran up the escalator and as i turned to the right to read the RICHMOND sign I saw Carlos Soria! random!!! so spent most of the ride catching up with him, we haven't talked since high school at all and so he didn't know i was in MN and i didn't know he was at cal (he switched from UCLA to berk after appealing). he ended up walking me from the Downtown Berkeley station to the front of campus where we met Pranav. Carlos went to class at 2, and then pranav and I wandered through campus to Telegraph.

I was burning up in my black boots and black sweater with scarf, so I stopped by American Apparel and grabbed one of the first dresses i saw and threw it on (turned out to be pretty cute, black and white two tone mini dress) $36 to be able to not sweat profusely, not bad. then after stopping by wet seal to try and find flip flops we gave up and headed over to top dog, right across the street from pavan's apartment. lemon chicken hot dog, only $3 nice. we went inside pavan's place where david taube also lives, just chillin eatin the hot dogs, listening to coldplay, talking about haas and econ and cal.

pranav had to go to class at 3:30 (david too) so pavan and I went to get yogurt at Yogurt Land, except we both ended up getting shakes (my oreo royale was super watery and sweet, eck) and i had a tour of Cal. turns out i knew my way around pretty much just as well as pavan, since he's only been here for 3 weeks and i've taken classes here for ATDP. we wandered past the Cadaline whatever clock tower and most of the academic buildings, we checked out the University library (pretty! reminded me of rolvaag) and also the East Asian one. 4:40 by now.

eventually bumped into Gagan, and David again. then Melissa Chen! weird. we went back to pavan's place and began Vicky Cristina Barcelona, but after 10 minutes it kept freezing. listened to more coldplay, warning sign. 42. cuddling, it was actually kind of awkward, but we'r ereally close so i wasn't uncomfortable. but still a little weird, i've never been attracted to him physically at all or in any way other than a friend. just laying there on the bed talking, when David came in and it was super awkward even though it wasn't like anything was happening ugh. at 7 we headed out to Gypsy's to get pesto pasta and calzones, yum! super good. then I went back to change and he walked me through Cal campus to the BART station at 7:51. got on the train about 815, and back home by 930. good to see both rents.

so tired.

I don't know what to do about Byron. he's so condescending and just makes me feel terrible. i don't enjoy talking to him at all. I really don't even want to deal with him, maybe I should just tell him to get over me like he was thinking he should do. he is so condescending...

I think Kyle will come to the conclusion by himself that I'm not interested and don't want to pursue anything, and that he'll probably stay with Diana cuz she sounds like she's on top of everything, VP of the school and pres of their class? impressive. kyle and I don't have anything in common except our experiences in the Galapagos and some of our taste in music. Other than that we're so different, much diff culture. i didn't feel comfortable eating at the tav with him at all, even though he's really sweet and all i can't even see myself being comfortable hanging out with him at St Olaf, it only worked when we were in a completely foreign environment.

I'm so over boys... I love being unattached and just enjoying meeting people. I miss Kaitlin and Mads. and I hope Christine is doing okay.

Meeting Chris SF wong tomorrow for lunch and giving back the backpack. then Thurs is lunch with Aggiebear, and fri is lunch w/ piano sunsengneem. sometime in between all this i have to visit halmuni, go to valley fair to fix my ipod, and do all my stuff for school and practice piano and spend time with rents. woooohoooo. so tired, it's 1130 time for bed!