It Has Officially Started

Woooo! SUMMER OLYMPICS! : ) I always look forward to watching the Olympics. Track, gymnastics, and swimming are my ultimate favorite events to watch. SO INTENSE.

Here are two links for the event schedule. Watch, watch, watch!

BeijingOlympicsSchedule

Official Beijing Olympics Website

It’s Been 12 Days…

So, it’s been about a week and a half since summer school ended. What have I done? Well, I…

Finally met Justine & Jeniffer's additional family member, E-Z!

Laughed & cried many, many times during the musical, Wicked.

Took some pictures of an old-school donut shop next to the Pantages theater.

Started a journal of quick, random sketches just because I can.

Discovered the best grocery-store bought Gelato evar, Ciao Bella. The Hazelnut flavor is so delicious!

Bought Babybels just because the commercial on TV made it look cool/good. It is quite delicious, though (if you like cheese)!

Random, yes? Very. Nothing too exciting, but I do have to say that the past 12 days have been quite relaxing and wonderful blessings. It’s really weird, but I’ve become more appreciative of things; even little things like Gelato. Weird. Good, but weird. That is all.

In Case You Haven’t Notice…

Gas prices have been going down within the past month! And, it has not only been going down by 5 or 10 cents, but at least 30 cents! The 76 gas station on Rosemead and Duarte (the one that I used to say was cheap and then not cheap) is $4.34 now! Here’s some statistics from Gas Buddy about that specific 76:

Today: $4.367
Yesterday: $4.38
One Week Ago: $4.47
One Month Ago: $4.60
One Year Ago: $3.05

By the way, that 76 is now back on my list to be known one of the cheaper gas stations. Yay, 76!

One Mean Salesperson

From Half.com (selling/buying textbooks, etc):

“I would like to return the book because i recieved it at a much later expected arrival date. My class is finished yesterday Jun 15, 2008 and i received the book two before. Thank You for your time and I’m sorry for any inconvenience. Please contact me as soon as possible so I can start the returning process.”

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“I am very sorry, but you may not return the book. When you decided to buy the book from my account it meant you agreed with my Media Mail shipping method and that the estimated arrival date would be between 07/09 to 07/21 (as it is stated under “Transaction Details”). Even if you received the book at the earliest estimated date (07/09), you would have only had 6 days to use the book for your class, so you should have caught that before purchasing the book from me.

Sorry, but all sales are final. I suggest you try selling the book yourself.

Thank you.”

Daaaaaaaaaaang. Talk about snobby, huh? Funny thing is, the second e-mail is from me, not the first one. Hahahah. I realized my emails to the buyers that try to return or get a refund always sound somewhat mean. I don’t intentionally try to sound mean, but there’s really no other way to write it! I try to add in the details to explain why I won’t refund/allow returns, but it just ends up all “you should have known blahblahblah”. Anyway, I just found it funny because when I read it myself, I even said it sounded all “know-it-all” or snobby. I tried to find my other e-mail from another buyer that wanted a refund, but I think I deleted it, so yeah. Sorry. It was another not-so-nice email that would have been entertaining for you to read.

I Should Be Studying…

BUT, I couldn’t help and realize that I will be finished with summer school in less than two weeks! So, I have a midterm tomorrow, essay due on Thursday, and 8-10 page research paper due on Monday. I SHOULD be studying or writing my papers, right? Right.

Well, I FAIL. I keep thinking about what I’m going to do during my FREE MONTH OF AUGUST before I leave the States. So, I started thinking of a little list of things I want to do before my summer ends. Haha.

-FriendsFam
-Work every Friday I can before I have to quit my job at 21 Choices (I’m actually very sad about this)! : (
-Getty Villa (I didn’t get a chance to go during Spring Break)
-San Fran/Berkeley (or some short sort of road-trip with a few church girls)
-CSU Fullerton (to check out the campus/take pictures)
-UCR Museum of Photography (so apparently it’s the biggest photography gallery in the West? I might be wrong)
-Explore and take more pictures!
-Running & going to the gym everyday (well, weekday, maybe not so much weekends)
-BOWLING!

Kk. That is all. Back to studying and reading.