Happy Birthday Dad and more

Play hard, work hard day today~
I unfortunately woke up a bit later than usual (7ish) so I had to take an under 5 minute shower and get ready really fast, not the most pleasant way to start a morning. The morning began well aside from that; in English we're beginning to read Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, a manly-man change from the female themed books we read earlier this year [Pride and Prejudice, The Awakening, A Doll House, Beloved]. I've been brainwashed a bit more feminist from all of the literature and outside forces as well though, so I might actually miss blaming society for oppressing women a bit. I actually enjoyed each of the books mentioned, except maybe The Awakening. After it is graded, perhaps I'll post my essay though, I think I had a fairly interesting thesis. I had a statistics test on inference and what-not (Ch. 11 in Yeats, The Practice of Statistics). I felt like I did well, but we'll see how that confidence bites me in the behind when we get back our scores D:... Biology likewise seemed not-so-difficult, but I'm pretty confident in emerging victorious on that test. In Econ, we're talking about monopolistic competition. Quite relevant. Spanish class we get to read some Gabriel Garcia Marquez. What a coincidence, because I must start reading 100 Years of Solitude for English. If even Danel cannot do it in Spanish, I think that I might have to shamefully read translated version only. Following school, I went to grab a bagel (or two) and and icecream sandwich (or two) with Shelley. She gave me a few brownies from a batch she had made earlier. There are many inside jokes. Afterward, I stopped at school to summon some people to go to Barnes and Nobles. Tiffany Guo, Vincent Mai, and Thomas Ngo joined me in a semi-productive trip to Barnes and Nobles. Vince sucks at shogi hahahaha but did not do so horribly at Xiangqi. I shouldn't be one to judge that though, as a beginner myself. I just purposely set myself up to lose multiple times, giving up territory and leaving things undefended on purpose, etc. etc. etc. I guess there is a larger learning curve to some things. Got some strange questions on Formspring, and must decide now whether or not to answer them.

Perhaps most importantly is celebrating Dad's birthday :) Mom prepared a photo album over quite a bit of time, asking extended family members to send in pages and such, quite a feat.. and came out quite well. We ate dinner at On the Border and I ate a usual burrito. After, we went to Home Depot for like an hour. Home Depot is practically a Spanish-English dictionary. Then we presented cards/gifts and ate Mom's tasty berry dessert.

요즈음 한국어를 공부하고 싶어 그러나 바뻐요 :( 숙제 많고 벽화 프로잭트 있어요. 드라마는 있지만 지금 행복해요. 피곤해요... 꿈꾸겠어요 :)