flying high

NSU all cast was tonight - it's going to be an AMAZING show! FamPo just blew me away, I love love love Step Up, and Yosakoi made me wish I had the time for it again.

I am approaching hour 40 of no sleep (2 naps totaling less than 2 hours thrown into that) but I am very awake because I'm so pumped for the show! I was really stressing because I don't feel like I have mastered the JCREW dance but our choreographer (who i thought was hella mad) really liked the part of the costume that I actually did wear tonight. I didn't wear the rest of it because I didn't want to look too...I dunno. Like I was trying too hard. I did the socks thing mostly as a tribute to my father and my cousin, and they turned out to be a hit. Yays!

And then I also got an email and my section really liked my ethnography presentation board, so I guess the all-nighter was worth it ~ hopefully this means I get an A? or at least not a check minus?


So combine those three things and you have a very tired but pretty happy Katie =) I'm also really starving and I've got another project due in 8 hours sooooo I best be getting to sleep!

Panic Mode

There are 11 days of class left, a trip to SoCal, and Culture Show coming up, so I am in full-on panic mode.

Here's what is running through my mind right now:
-I procastinated on a project that is due at 9:30am because I really REALLY dislike both the prof and the GSI. I know that the only person this hurts is me, but I just had a ridiculously difficult time getting motivated after my main informant fell of the face of the planet.

-I'm tired of people that promise the world and can't deliver. Or rather, people that promise 10000 do-able things so that it turns out that NONE of them are do-able together. I learned my lesson in over-commitment last year and it was a tough thing to learn - I recieved my first (and hopefully last) D/NP as a result. I am not so patient about it anymore, especially with some people that I've watched make the same mistakes over and over again. Sometimes I just want to tell people to get their heads out of their asses...

-For some reason my CAD would let me copy and paste blocks, but once pasted, the block became un-selectable, making me unable to move, rotate, copy, change layer, or even delete! After a couple of save-as tries and lots of internet growling I finally got it to work again. I have no clue why it was doing that, as I had turned on and unlocked all the layers!

-Tomorrow is going to suck majorly (7am to 12pm "out-and-about") but at least I love everyone in CS!

-I think I should disable g-chat. 95% of my conversations on there just lead to more stress and most of my friends are on AIM...but not all of them =/

I should get back to work now. I am going to make a real effort to update this thing on my UCLA trip and Thanksgiving...hopefully by Thursday night. Oh look there I go doing exactly what I hate in other people - not keeping deadlines and knowing full well that I won't as soon as I set them!

UCB NSU Presents: ~VOICES~

PLEASE COME SUPPORT ME AND THE NIKKEI STUDENT UNION! What do you know about today's Japanese American youth? Its community? Go beyond the tiny blurb in your high school history text and discover today's diverse voices!

We've been working hard all semester to put on a great show for you. I'll be in a hip-hop piece entitled NOppresion!!!

Tickets can be bought from me, $5-10 sliding scale. Please contact me by Monday, Nov. 26th at 7pm so that I can reserve you a ticket!


Countless VOICES, one community.

WE DID IT!

http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/article/16826

More exciting news about my trip to LA and the campaign to follow soon =)

Sick or not?

For the last three weeks, my body has been unable to make up its mind as to whether or not I'm sick or not:

I wake in the morning with a sore throat and that whole deal, as well as being lightheaded...by 10am I am fine.

In the afternoon I am especially tired, and my body aches. Then again, I spent 3+ hours dancing on Sunday, 2 today, and a lot of un-clocked time in addition to that.

My ability to stay up late is severely limited and I can't get myself to wake up easily, despite getting 10 hours of sleep some nights.

By the time late-night dance practices are over, I feel like shit...the way you feel right before you develop a cold. In the morning it's often gone though.

I've had a headache for 5+ days that won't go away. It's not excruciating, but it affects my balance perception at times (makes dancing oh so fun, not! I end up looking like this out of control fat spazz cow as a result). And advil doesn't do a great job for it.

I was hoping that it was just signs of dehydration, but I've been drinking LOTS of water lately to combat everything. It isn't helping.

The only position I seem to be comfortable and semi-productive in is when I'm lying on my bed...because I don't get so dizzy cuz my heart is about level with my head.

My mother says I have a sinus infection, but I have no nasal drip.

So am I sick or what??