Hurrah. Junior year of college is over, and I think I actually did well this semester despite the bajillion news stories I had to write. We'll see if journalism really is my thing.
The campus is relatively quiet. Still a lot of party kids around, but most of my friends are gone. And I am going home tomorrow, but before I do, here is a short photo essay!
So yea, college really is a lot of fun and games, but those fun and games force you to write unorganized 2am papers.
And is doesn't help that youre diet isnt great. Last week, I ate a personal record five straight meals of various kinds of pizza. I think I ended the streak with either Burger King or hot wings. Either one doesnt really make your diet better...
And when I'm tired of writing that 2am paper, I actually take a break by doing dishes. Tyler would argue that this doesn't happen THAT often, which is probably true. But yea, apartments equal tons of dishes. Even if you eat out everyday.
But my most common breaktime activity is looking at people's profiles and away messages compulsively. Like, three times in twenty minutes. And you know, sadly, it's still the same away message, yet I keep checking if its different...
and finally, laundry laundry laundry. This picture is old. My laundry stack is now an extra two feet high. And I'm not kidding folks. I think one week equals two feet in the hamper. But hey, here's looking forward to next year with a washer and dryer in my apartment.
but for now, summer!
Taiwan in 5 days. No more Andrea//Marge//Alex. tears :(
Ming Young: May 16 - July 20 @ Taipei
Jon Lee: May 19 - mid-July @ Taipei
Roger Lin: May 23 - July 31 @ all over the island
Jessica Sun: May 26 - June 21 @ Taipei
Michelle Hsu: June 1 - July @ Taipei
Anna Wu: June 3 - June 23 @ Taipei
Jon Chen: June 10 - June 16
Jeremy Chen: June 10 - June 16
Kelly Huang: June 27th - Aug 2 @ Taipei (Loveboat)
Alice Wang: early July @ Kaoshung
Alvin Wang: early July @ Kaoshung
Karen Lai: July 3 - July 17 @ Taipei
Jessica Fu: July @ Taipei
Pauline: Late July - August
Mayline Wu: Late July - August
James Huang: Late July - August
Marco Ku:
Leo Ku:
Cindy Lee:
Jason Lee:
Linda Kuo: May 24 - June 7? @ the Southern tip of Taiwan
Jason Kuo: @ the Southern tip of Taiwan
Eric Chang: Lives in Tainan
Steve Lin: Lives in Taipei?
Other Taiwanese Kids:
Stl's Jack Chiu: May 17th - ?
UVA's G-race: Early-Mid June - Early August @ Taipei (Loveboat)
UIUC's Calvin:
ooohh...5 more hits until #20,000.
who's it gonna be?!?!?
the new taf site is amazing. I'm quite proud of our little camp.
So yea, has anyone else noticed how people leave messages for other people in their profiles? It's the newest form of communication. E-mail, IM's, cell phones and text-messages are once again not enough to talk to each other.
but oh man, how burned would you feel if you got dumped that way? Ouch.
But you know, some of you might have already read this on my info. Which illustrates my point. You know you're all addicted to reading every away message. I should just start making blog entries in my profile. Or I should patent the idea of publishing blog entries into profiles...
anyways, a picture post should be coming soon.
I Power Blogger.
haha...
Taiwan Update
Jon Lee: May 19 - mid-July @ Taipei
Alice Wang: early July @ Kaoshung
Alvin Wang: early July @ Kaoshung
Jessica Fu: June - July @ Taipei
Ming Young: May 16 - July 20 @ Taipei
Roger Lin: All freakin' summer @ all over the island
Anna Wu: June 3 - June 23 @ Taipei
Gill Chieu: ?
Jinny Chieu: ?
Annie Chieu: ?
Linn Wu: ?
Juliana Wu: ?
Michelle Hsu: June 1 - July @ Taipei
Margaret Chen: mid-July - August
Alex Chen: mid-July - August
Karen Lai: July 3 - July 17 @ Taipei
Jessica Sun: May 26 - June 21 @ Taipei
Cat Yeh: ?
Pauline: Late July - August
Andrea: May 7 - 29ish @ Taipei/Taichung
Kelly Huang: June 27th - Aug 2 @ Taipei (Loveboat)
James Huang: Late July - August
Mayline Wu: Late July - August
Marco Ku:
Leo Ku:
Cindy Lee:
Jason Lee:
Linda Kuo @ the Southern tip of Taiwan
Jason Kuo @ the Southern tip of Taiwan
Eric Chang: Lives in Tainan
Steve Lin
Other Taiwanese Kids:
Stl's Jack Chiu: May 17th - ?
UVA's G-race: Early-Mid June - Early August @ Taipei (Loveboat)
UIUC's Calvin
No more Ruth Ann, Emilaay Huang, Susana, & Karen Chien : (
hmm. this new blogger interface is odd. but anyways, summer is almost here for the tafCrush kids. Three of us, Ming, Roger, and I, will be spending a majority of our summer in Taiwan. So come play with us.
Ming is leaving the 16th, I'm leaving the 19th, and Roger is leaving the 23rd.
But yes, as the year finishes here, I leave you with this amazing picture of our Vice President, or Secretary, of tafCrush.
hahahaha.
i heart Friends forever and ever.
its hard to imagine that I watched that show when I was like...ten. ten years old. thats like, SO long ago. I dont even want to comprehend what has changed in those ten years. But somehow i still watch a lot of freakin Friends...
anyways. i have a final tomorrow at 8am. and then my other final is next friday at 8am. so i have a full week between finals. yay for not doing anything for a week!
HOW IN THE WORLD HAS IT BEEN TEN YEARS SINCE I FIRST WATCHED FRIENDS?!? it seems like yesterday...
a wise man once said "if it werent for the last minute, 99% of things wouldnt get done."
well that really applies to me and school.
ive got a ton of crap due friday, but im only slowly working on it. looks like i'll be piling it all on me thursday night...after Friends of course.
great.
*edit*
deleted the wrong Karen, hehe, Lai is going, not Lin
Taiwan Update
Jon Lee: May 19 - mid-July @ Taipei
Ruth Ann Day: ?
Alice Wang: early July @ Kaoshung
Alvin Wang: early July @ Kaoshung
Jessica Fu: June - July @ Taipei
Ming Young: May 16 - July 20 @ Taipei
Roger Lin: All freakin' summer @ all over the island
Anna Wu: June 3 - June 23 @ Taipei
Gill Chieu: ?
Jinny Chieu: ?
Annie Chieu: ?
Linn Wu:
Juliana Wu:
Michelle Hsu: June - July @ Taipei
Margaret Chen: mid-July - August
Alex Chen: mid-July - August
Karen Lai: July 3 - July 17 @ Taipei
Emily Huang:
Jessica Sun:
Cat Yeh:
Susana:
Pauline: Late July - August
Andrea: May 7 - 29ish @ Taipei/Taichung
Kelly Huang: June 27th - Aug 2 @ Taipei
Karen Chien:
James Huang: Late July - August
Mayline Wu: Late July - August
Marco Ku:
Leo Ku:
Cindy Lee:
Jason Lee:
Linda Kuo @ the Southern tip of Taiwan
Jason Kuo @ the Southern tip of Taiwan
Eric Chang: Lives in Tainan
Steve Lin
i dont think i spelled kaoshung right.
awww yea, fu is coming to uiuc! for a visit that is. but the home of tafCrush is her #1 choice! hollaaaaa
we got a pretty solid recruiting...i mean...freshman class for next fall. albert and jessica and maybe karen chien...aww yea, out of stater's baby!
its all about the I - L - L, I - N - I.
anyways, what do y'all wanna do in taiwan? hang out at the night markets? pretend to be american pop stars? be taf like and play big booty in the middle of crowded department stores?? ok!
i think im gonna buy a 20gb iPod before i leave. suggestions?
Alright alright, I got my tickets to Taiwan.
Leave US on May 19th
Depart Taiwan June 30 as of now. I might rebook a ticket in mid-July.
And here's the updated list.
Ruth Ann Day?
Alice Wang
Alvin Wang
Jessica Fu
Ming Young
Dave Hsu
Roger Lin
Anna Wu (may or june)
Gill Chieu
Jinny Chieu
Annie Chieu
Linn Wu
Juliana Wu
Michelle Hsu
Margaret Chen (mid-july)
Alex Chen (ditto)
Jessica Sun
Cat Yeh
Susana
Karen Lai
Emily Huang
Pauline
Andrea?
Kelly Huang
Karen Chien
James Huang
Mayline Wu
Marco Ku
Leo Ku
Cindy Lee
Jason Lee
Karen Lin (mid-july)
camper Steve Lin
Oh and don't forget, the older guys, Eric Chang and speaker/former PD Steve Lin are living there.
So i made this soup the other day. It was really really good. I used a can of Campbells Cream of Chicken, some peas and carrots, and then canned tuna for meat.
so is it chicken soup or tuna soup???
Either way, I call it Jessica Simpson Soup.
har har har har har!
a bunch load of people added to the list. Three unintended hyphen-ations. i know i forgot someone...but i cant remember who...
no more tafers will be added though, since all y'all are crazy xanga-ers and i can just watch the blogring...so yea.
anyways, Taiwan Update:
Ruth Ann Day?
Alice Wang
Alvin Wang
Jessica Fu
Ming Young
Dave Hsu
Roger Lin
Anna Wu (may or june)
Gill Chieu
Jinny Chieu
Annie Chieu
Linn Wu
Juliana Wu
Michelle Hsu
Margaret Chen (august)
Alex Chen (ditto)
Jessica Sun
Cat Yeh
Susana
Karen Lai
Emily Huang
Pauline
Andrea?
Kelly Huang
Karen Chien
James Huang
Mayline Wu
Thats a large amount of people...holy...
So yes...its Music from the O.C. Mix 1. Since I'm O.C. obsessed (and soon to be Meteor Garden obsessed) i decided to listen to it. and its GOOD.
You should listen to:
Alexi Murdoch - Orange Sky
Finley Quaye - Dice
Jem - Just a Ride
88 - How Good It Can Be
Spoon - The Way We Get by
Joseph Arthur - Honey and the Moon
and its not on the cd, but Mandy Moore and Jonathan Foreman - Someday We'll Know is good too...cheesy and some random lyrics...but good and catchy...
yes.
haha yea...
so i lost 23 dollars in online poker today. i guess thats not that bad since some people i know lose hundreds of dollars. but still, 23 dollars, that can buy me a lot of meals at Mandarin Wok.
oh, and its Mom's Weekend here. moms at parties tomorrow night?!?! Should be interesting...heh heh heh...
wait...that sounds dirty.
ok president bush...lets think before we speak...
oy...Bush Angers With Joke
and after watching Britney Spears live in concert, it all but reaffirms my belief that she is ma girl. heck yea. haha. in case you all didn't know, shes pretty darn hot. and of course i took pictures! but my camera got taken away in the middle of the show, hehe, so only Tina got pics from the last half.
I was able to go thanks to these girls, Christine, Keelin, and Tina, and of course the girl who bailed on them who was supposed to drive. how do you NOT go see britney spears concert when you already have tickets?? that girl be what yo.
This is a zoomed in view of the pretty lady. woot woot.
And here she is walking down some stairs...
singing to the audience...
and playing the piano. shes actually pretty good...SO MUCH TALENT. haha yea i said it.
so yea. I would recommend going to one. but not if youre a little girl. or boy. there were some upclose screenshots of a guy in tighty-whities grabbing his crotch. eew.
but if you do go little ones, dont dress up like youre in college...please dont....i saw too much little girl skin. klsajdlksjalkajsd/ blech. oh and ALSO, dont scream as high pitched as you possibly can cuz thats just not good.
but yea, britney, she ma girl. friend. puahahaha. yea ok.
happy easter y'all. jon lee here, general manager of the Hotel TAF @ uiuc. three guests booked this weekend, karen chien, susana, and her boyfriend jason. oh yea oh yea.
karen might come here next year. how about dem apples eh? our campus is pretty. reeaally pretty. i think these might be the last visits of the year. i dont know if that makes me happy or sad...
but yea, in all honesty, u of i is a really good collegiate place. lots of pretty flowers too. and boba. boba boba boba.
jh campers...you all should come here. maybe by then ill be rich and i can buy a big mansion from one of the frats, and you can all live there for free. yea. definitely come here. visitors bring taf love. visitors come a lot. so yea, theres taf love pouring out all over the place.
haha ok,
Newest person to be in Taiwan:
Kelly Huang!
from the end of june all through july. yay!
ok so who else did i forget?
so alice and harmony are here. and theyre about to go sleep in my bed. that makes them persons 5 and 6 to occupy my bed this week. Man...my bed get a lot of action. I'm just not in it 5/6ths of the time...
haha right. ANYWAYS.
Updated Who's Gonna Be in Taiwan this Summer List:
One definite:
Jessica Sun
Two new maybe's:
Catherine Yeh
Susana Lou
And two more might-be-maybes for internships:
Pauline Wu
Andrea Hong
lets convince them alright?
Along with the original list:
Ruth Ann Day (June)
Alice Wang (July)
Alvin Wang (July)
Jessica Fu (June)
Ming Young (June - July)
Dave Hsu
Roger Lin (June - July)
Anna Wu (may or june)
Gill Chieu
Jinny Chieu
Annie Chieu
Linn Wu
Juliana Wu
Michelle Hsu
Margaret Chen (august)
Alex Chen (ditto)
Emily Huang
Karen Lai
Jonizzle
so yea. all are subject to change though of course. but id like to see everyone there. one massive glamour shot photo shoot? shower scenes optional!
more tafers are here. haha yea. alice and harmony are makin a stopover here at the University of Illinois. people love us, they really do. And also, supermarge really is super. she used her powers for awesome/good and proofread my paper. and tomorrow? off to stl.
im bored, so i'll upload some pics.
The Georgia State capital and some pretty flowers
The two main images of atlanta...the capital and Coke.
AND LOOK! a NET store! whaddaheck?!?! i too was curious my friends, so i ventured in and well, yea its just like an urban hip-hop store. haha yea...
Ruth Ann and I in Centennial Park before the game. Yay ruth ann. more than a tafCrush. a good friend : )
back in chambana after a long break. booyah for ruth ann and her apartment. and another booyah for julie and her house back home (!!!) in springfield.
home is good : )
but of course, so are taf homes : )
So in the past six months, ive covered this much of the United States by car or plane.
create your own personalized map of the USA
Other than Springfield and Champaign, since July I've driven through at least TWENTY states. I've slept in FOURTEEN different cities. In total, at least 21 seperate trips because of 3 trips to chicago, 5 to stl, and 2 to ann arbor. A friend made a very good point when he asked me if I ever went home, because I don't.
I get feelings of missing home often now. I miss walking out of my door to my car parked in my driveway. I miss home run derby at rotary. I miss adriennes couch. I miss driving on veterans parkway and monroe with the windows down. I miss Washington Park Tennis Courts. Im old kids. Im moving on. I have a summer away from home coming up too in Taiwan. But nothing is ever what it used to be. Everything is what you make of it kids. Everything is what you make of it.
I need time to reflect. You all should too. But as for myself, I can't see myself doing that in the next few months. When did I get so busy?
Ruth Ann took me to Chic-Fil-A today for dinner. Or breakfast, if you consider it being my first meal after waking up three hours earlier at 330. Anyways, I was hungy. And I felt like ordering a lot of nuggets and sharing them with Ruth Anns roommates, so I had to choose between purchasing my own 12-pack of nuggets for $3.69 or a 50-count party platter for $15. Now I can't do math THAT fast in my head, especially with decimals, but I thought I could by nuggets in bulk and get them cheaper that way. But you do the math. It's 30 cents per nugget either way. And I got way too many nuggets.
Tomorrow:
- Chic-fil-a for breakfast. No joke. Ruth Ann is taking me.
- Maybe I should give Donald and others a call...
- and of course...SWEET SIXTEEN BABY!!!
I-L-L! I-N-I!
haha ok ok ok. so i know that in my last post i said, "i'm off on another road trip tomorrow. but ohhh! no tafers this time. i think...haha." but you know. fate always has a funny way of leading you to tafers.
right now im sitting in ruth ann's living room in atlanta blogging away.
Soooo...yesterday I was in North Carolina watching a baseball game with my roadtrip mates, and we all have a friend who lives down here in atl, and he says he has tickets to the Illinois(!) vs. Duke basketball game. now that my friends, is a good thing. so we all decided to come to atlanta to watch the game on friday. awwww yea! and as the added bonus, i get to hang out here in atl! BOOYAH!
and another fun thing was calling davef on ruth ann's phone in her room, him being confused to hear my deep manly voice after reading "ruth ann" on caller id, and then ruth ann calling liz wang from my cell phone, while she was in daves room with dave! haha, oh man, that was CLASSIC. everyone should go do that. imagine how weird/cool it was to hear ruth ann talking next to liz, and being able to hear liz responding in the background while im on the phone with dave. and then switching back and forth and being able to hear all these conversations. i might not have described it that well, but trust me, it was one of those good classic taf laughing moments. oh yea oh yea.
and im done. ill update again later.
*edit*
ok back on an update...
unbelievably large piece of crap
ok to look at this with somewhat of an open mind...its probably no different that the ghettopoly boardgames. but still. id be typing expletives right now. and i dont normally do that.
So...Chen Shui Bian and Annette Lu were shot. that my friends, is whack. and disturbing. and very interesting. But all is well. You can't hold Taiwan down yo.
so yea, i was going to post these but then the news broke, so it took me a little longer. but yea, a selection of pictures from this weekend!
Anna loves Illinois! and so does Xiao Ding Dong!
Gill, Ming, Betty, and Anna hanging out in ma room underneath the Taiwan flag.
Nothing like boba at evo with Julie and Jack
and then we saw charlene liang randomly there too!
After evo, Ruth Ann and Jessica arrived at UIUC!
a-t-l in the house! so get this. this year ive seen michigan, chicago, stl, kc, ohio, and east coast tafers. now atl is complete. and then in april? cali karen comes! ill have seen every contingent of tafers!
The U of I quad at night, with the Illinois Union off in the distance. isnt it pretty jessica fu and jessica sun and karen chien?!?! yea! GORGEOUS.
and lastly, a panoramic of the first ever tafCrush banquet.
i'm off on another road trip tomorrow. but ohhh! no tafers this time. i think...haha. you never know when or where you'll see a random tafers. someone come find me in north and south carolina!
haha alright...this is what happens when you put 3 tafers in a room with 3 computers.
HoChie71 (1:35:03 PM): smell this, sucka!
Mishelby84 (1:35:03 PM): i hate you
davef yan9 (1:35:03 PM): you smell SO BAD YO
coordinated. awesome.
taf weekend was sweet. heres a pic from our "banquet":
Going clockwise from Gill: Gill, Alex, Albert, Jessica, Ming, Justin, Tiffany, Me, Ruth Ann, friend, Jeff, Queena, Jack, Julie, Anna, and Lauren. Timmy Huang and Bryan Hseuh had to leave, and Roger was late. haha yea.
and simultaneously in Cali...
L to R: Ho Chie, Lester, Young, and Brendan, Michelle, and Dave
black eyed peas ask wheres the love? well. its clearly wherever tafers meet : )
heck yea...What Taiwan Wants
visitors this weekend were good. although, sad i could not spend more time with some. but hey, theres a rhyme to every reason right? ive been "missing" people lately. not that im lonely or anything, in fact alone time is good. but, im trying to not take past friends and the good memories that they provided for granted.
pictures will be up from itasa and this weekend.
i hope you all had a wonderful time and enjoyed your weekends.
This weekend looks VERY promising. oh yea oh yea.
Mandarin Wok at 6pm Saturday for a tafCrush banquet sound good for y'all?
We got some special guests yo,
- Anna Wu (Juniors Program Director) from Cincinatti/Duke!
- Ruth Ann Day (Youth Advisor) from Atlanta/Georgia State!
- Tim Huang (Youth Advisor) Alumni from Chicago!
- Bryan Hseuh (um...TAF98-99?) Alumni from Chicago!
- Albert Wu (Juniors Counselor) from Cincinatti!
- Jessica Sun (Slideshow) from the S-T-L!
and of course, youre favorite tafCrush celebrities! so be there or be a rectangle.
feel the rush. come eat with tafCrush.
High School Sweethearts to a Married Couple
CONGRATULATIONS SAM AND LINDSEY!!!
ah yes. happy i was made today to hear the news that 2 good friends are getting married. haha, i giggled like a little school girl when jenifer told me in advertising. but yes, to the newly engaged Lindsey Miller and Samuel Culli!
the left pic is from, i think, winter 2000. on the right is summer 2003.
so ive known linz since well...you know i dont actually know exactly, its been that long. we went to Butler elementary school together and so on. and then we all met sam at SHS. and then you guys started dating senior year. haha, you know what? i still remember the first time i thought you two liked each other. It was during a rehearsal for bye bye birdie. i was standing on stage doing something and i turned my shoulder and i saw you two sitting togther, away from all the others talking to each other. who knew eh? a few days later you guys called me up to see what i was doing, AFTER going to magic kitchen alone. hahahahaha. thats awesome.
i could probably rave about old memories and whatnot, but i'll leave it at this. you guys are my first good friends to be getting married so im a wee bit excited, but yes, not as much as you two i'm sure.
God gave you two legs to walk, two eyes to see, two ears to hear, and two hands to hold, but why did He only give you one heart?
Because He gave the other one to someone for you to find.
Good job guys, you found each other.
congratulations : )
this is traumatic. and stressful. sigh. goodbye thendxcrd.
so i need a new screenname. aol is being cancelled at the lee household. and someone mean at aol wont let you keep your old screennames. boo on them. its kind of sad how sad i actually am. thendxcrd has been my online persona for 7 years. SEVEN YEARS. thats a long time man.
i have till the end of the week to say my goodbyes and notify everyone. this part is actually stressful. gotta tell people i dont normally talk to but i might in a time of need. gotta notify people of new email addresses. and of course, gotta think of a new name.
my first idea was Jonizzle. not too shabby, some ppl call me it already. the next idea was given to me by marge, thendxcrrd. i kinda like it, the double rr's remind me of "right therre" and other hip lingo. but it might be too close to the original. too much like a "replacement" rather than an "alternative".
sigh.
i am too sad over something that shouldnt be that big of a deal. but i guess its evident that i'm a child of the 21st century.
thats just the way it is. things'll never be the same.
oh no. i did not just quote lyrics from a song in a post about my screenname.
itasa midwest 2004 = goooooooooooooooooood.
pictures up later. I'll wait about a week after more visits and visiting.
i'm tired.
itasa @ umich tomorrow! oh yea yea yea! gonna see some of my favorite people and more!
and after itasa umich...
Anna Wu comes to visit! YEA GO ANNA!
and the day after anna arrives...
RUTH ANN!
man, people just love tafCrush. oh boy oh boy oh boy.
Yea Illinois! Big Ten Champions baby!
aww, poor Purdue. or should i say, Purpoopoo. puahahahahaha.
oh no i di'int go there!
oh wait, i did!
and the current list tafers in taiwan for summer04 has grown!
*edit*
Ruth Ann Day (June)
Alice Wang (July)
Alvin Wang (July)
Jessica Fu (June)
Ming Young (June - July)
Dave Hsu
Roger Lin (June - July)
Anna Wu (may or june)
Gill Chieu
Jinny Chieu
Annie Chieu
Linn Wu
Juliana Wu
Michelle Hsu
Margaret Chen (august)
Alex Chen (ditto)
Emily Huang
Karen Lai
aaannnd Me! Probably! for late May through June or even through July. TAFers in Taiwan: Summer 2004. Oooooh Yea.
*end edit*
who else who else?! wow...taiwan just might be the place to be this summer...
and hopefully i can add myself to this list sometime.
but in other news: yes, itasa midwest at the university of michigan this weekend.
and the oc is good.
and in case anyone forgot ::coughjaimeandjeanettecough::
QUI EST TON PAPA?!?!
C'EST MOI!
hahahahahahahah
Counterfeit Money Found at Springfield High
hahahahahaha...
i'm actually quite impressed with the kids at my high school. hahahaha....
time for a visually stimulating post.
went to stl for the weekend. it was a really good time. mucho thanks to julie and big weng for hosting us. a selection of pictures:
1) Alice is learning how to drive. yes, i am a proud father. i taught her how to park too!
2) At the Arch. With a pole. And Alvin looks cool in this one.
3) the group at the Arch. Jeanette wanted to see it. haha.
4) Angie has new short hair wil. My hair on the other hand...
- Illinois in a big win over Wisconsin tonight, 65-57. Boo. Yah.
- Cubs got Maddux. another Boo. Yah.
- Fantasy baseball season has begun. Boo. Yah three times.
- Currently listening to: Ryan Adams - Wonderwall. its been the end song on Smallville and the OC in the past weeks which i think is funny. and yes...i watch the OC sometimes. on that note...
and now its time for Little Known Facts About Jon Lee.
this is one of my favorite movies:
"Life doesnt hold tryouts"
hahahaha....
i forgot, summer plans (pre-TAF that is). I'm unsure of what to do yet. A) get an internship in my field or B) go to Taiwan and possibly teach english.
regardless, here is a list of people that i know/have heard are going to Taiwan. I'm sure i've forgotten some, so let me know.
Ruth Ann Day
Alice & Alvin Wang
Jessica Fu
Ming Young
Dave Hsu
Roger Lin
Anna Wu (may or june)
Calvin Chen
I hope this list expands. and if i dont go I would hope those who do all meet up and take a picture in the Hsih Min Ding (no idea how to spell that) Night Market, with the KFC logo high up in the air in the background, a la these:
yup.
this weekend: a julie visit! wait... i have 2 julies coming to visit...
like, whoa.
Temperment Sorter
this was good for the ego:
Free report for: Jonathan
You are an Artisan (SP)
Artisans are the temperament with a natural ability to excel in any of the arts, not only the fine arts such as painting and sculpting, or the performing arts such as music, theater, and dance, but also the athletic, military, political, mechanical, and industrial arts, as well as the "art of the deal" in business.
Artisans are most at home in the real world of solid objects that can be made and manipulated, and of real-life events that can be experienced in the here and now. Artisans have exceptionally keen senses, and love working with their hands. They seem right at home with tools, instruments, and vehicles of all kinds, and their actions are usually aimed at getting them where they want to go, and as quickly as possible. Thus Artisans will strike off boldly down roads that others might consider risky or impossible, doing whatever it takes, rules or no rules, to accomplish their goals. This devil-may-care attitude also gives the Artisans a winning way with people, and they are often irresistibly charming with family, friends, and co-workers.
Artisans want to be where the action is; they seek out adventure and show a constant hunger for pleasure and stimulation. They believe that variety is the spice of life, and that doing things that aren't fun or exciting is a waste of time. Artisans are impulsive, adaptable, competitive, and believe the next throw of the dice will be the lucky one. They can also be generous to a fault, always ready to share with their friends from the bounty of life. Above all, Artisans need to be free to do what they wish, when they wish. They resist being tied or bound or confined or obligated; they would rather not wait, or save, or store, or live for tomorrow. In the Artisan view, today must be enjoyed, for tomorrow never comes.
Atisans make up between 15 to 20 percent of the population, which is good, because they create much of the beauty, grace, fun, and excitement the rest of us enjoy in life.
haha yay i make life fun for the rest of you. thats actually a personal philosophy that i have tried to uphold for a long time. interesting eh?
wow. this article is sad. not sad like oh the world is terrible, but sad that its actually a top story. from my hometown newspaper nonetheless.
I cant believe they would write about Chicken Tuesday. i mean ok, i'll admit, in high school i loved that lunch day too and i looked forward to it, but the girl who was sick, was going to stay home, but then DECIDED to go to school because it was Chicken Tuesday...thats just sad. I guess thats how you get kids to go to school at lanphier though, offer them chicken (haha ok that was mean). but yes, i shake my head in pity.
or maybe im just mad they wrote about Chicken Tuesday at that high school instead of mine.
Go Springfield High.
and on a sidenote, how about them fighting illini?!?! Man we WHOOPED msu.
ah yes. twas a bon bon weekend! it really was. im thoroughly happy with my decision to attend the ITASA 2004 East Coast conference at Yale. old friends, new friends, they make things worth it. check out me pictures. I would dealy like to get pictures from other participants of the conference as well, so please, send them to me asap.
and as for recovery, in the 24 hour time span between 9am Sunday and 9am Monday, i slept for 16 hours. SIXTEEN HOURS. out of twenty-four. thats 2/3 or 66% of a day. spent sleeping. AND i took a 3 hour nap this afternoon too.
and now, im going to sleep. goodnight!
to avoid dropping to the stagnant list on wils blog...i feel compelled to write. so yea.
im particulary angry that harry didnt go after cho more. she liked him. he liked her. what were you thinking harry, go after that. or maybe i wanted it to happen because when i pictured cho, i imagined her as someone i know. and i wanted to live vicariously through harry. i kinda want cho. but oh, inquisitive minds, who dost one think jon's cho is?
in semi-related news, i might hitch a ride down to st. louis next weekend with julie and roger etc. but yes, next weekend, which includes...valentines day. as much fun as it usually is, i'm hesitant to go down and spend that day with the kids. i think i would much rather prefer to sit alone in my apartment and sulk about having no valentine to call my own. oh how sad is that? but have no fear stl, i still might come. the one power that can overcome a college student in a state of woebegone love?
free laundry at someone's house.
tomorrow: REALLY going to itasa ec in ct.
currently: in harmony's basement after missing my flight.
see y'all on the east coast tomorrow.
harry potter. so good.
and thats all that i think there is to say today.
so other than like...5 people i know probably, who still uses friendster??!?!
yea i thought so.
but. tonight i recieved an email saying i had a new friendster request. I didnt recognize the name, so i clicked on the link to see who it was. I didnt recognize the picture, but the only way to find out more about who she was to add her. So i did.
I still dont know who she is...but hey, i guess youre my friend Audriana Partridge from California.
Yea das cool.
Friendster. pwaha.
well heres a nice big picture post.
so i went up to chicago with U of I TASC to play in an ITASA Bball tournament held at Northwestern. The U of I TASC team was the favorite, mainly because of their height advantage. Here you can see Alex shooting over a Umich defender. Bryan and Carolyn cant stop him. They could only hope to contain him.
Calvin and Truman kept score
While Amy, Bryan (who you know, was sitting out now), and Roger watched in awe.
After the tournament we all ate some wings, alex bryan and timmy waited anxiously
Michelle and Joy wanted a picture together, and i took a few but this is the one they decided to keep. odd. michelle actually smiled in the other ones, but they werent good enough. so i guess she just likes this face of hers better...haha...
the next day it was snowing like a mofo
so carolyn warmed up with bubble tea from joy yees. she said the bubble tea was good, so, you know, maybe she just didnt like something else.
We ate deep dish pizza. Ming had spilled one massive slice into his cup of water, which in turn spilled onto the table. he was very distraught.
after the meal, we split ways and umich went back to umich. we slept at rogers. it was fun. whee. the next day we got sushi at mitsuwa. it too, was good. Jeanette Ming and Jon agree.
and then tonight! the internet amazes me. I got to webcam and audio with jessica and linda. technology IS amazing. yea!
but wizards and broomsticks and quidditch are cool too. harry potter 3 almost finished.
earlier tonight i finished harry potter 2. it actually made me scared in a few parts of the book. haha yea....
harmony is here. and then tomorrow off to northwestern for itasa midwest bball and floor hockey. holleeerrrr.
its cold!
hmm yes so i think i am now in the midst of my own harry potter excitement. i finished the first book in 2 days. and ill probably start the 2nd one tonight sometime...
so i got into the school of broadcast journalism here at U of I. thats a positive, i guess i kind of actually have some direction in what im going to do with my life. even though i might just open up a restaurant with brian for a bit after college. yea weve got some high quality ideas, let me tell you.
yea...
i dont know if i have anything else of importance to say. oh but if you are going to be attending ITASA East Coast 2004, talk to me. id like to talk to you. har har har.
gah.
oh, yes. i cant comment on xangas for some weird reason. my computer wont let me. if you happen to read this angie, you had a ridiculously big worded paragraph. i was dumbfounded by the sheer verbiage of the text AND context of what you were analyzing about the current state of suburbia and the relative mediocrity of repetition...? does that make sense...?
right...
i want a prime rib in kc.
send me your pics! of anything! whee.
back at school = high speed connection = ability to upload photo albums.
taf new years // kc girls
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if you dont have imagestation i guess you cant view them. but if you dont i would recommend that you do sign up. its free online storage with unlimited space. pretty spiffy if you ask me.
and as for this, hahahaha.
i promised margaret like 2 years ago i would never show anyone this. but...shes out of the country right now. so she wont know right? dahahahahah... too hot too handle! maybe thats why shes wearing those oven mitts... hahahahaha!
hmm yes...U of I had more Nobel Peace Prize winners this year than football victories...
awww man! i went back to shs today to get my immunization records and then i proceeded to talk to old teachers and stuff, and it was so fun! ah yes mrs. pence. shes so cool and...well lets just say her daughters name should be stacy. har har har. im going to kill that line before the month runs out.
anyways, she knew jenifer and nicho were dating. that was highly amusing to me and ajit. hehehe. sooh fahnny. saw a few kids i knew, eek, claire, my cousin jennifer lee and some others. they were freshman when i was a senior. and now theyre the seniors. aww leetle kiddies living in their high school senior world. ah yes. good times.
ajit and i went to jimmy johns afterwards, the newly opened one close to my house! yea! and then we did some hardcore window shopping at office max, best buy, sportsmart, gordmans, bed bath & beyond, and old navy. dang...we forreal did go to a lot of places...
anyways...tonight: texas hold'em!
now what to eat beforehand...
hahahahaha. i bought a HOT PINK toothbrush today at Target. hey that rhymes! if you say target the right way anyways.
heres a HOT (pink) photo of me in action!
i am home.
the past 10 days somehow turned into one really lengthy TAF roadtrip for jon, even bigger than Novembers tafCrush Roadtrip I.
i dont feel like saying much, other than i had a great time throughout. Kudos to Jessica Amy and Christine for rockin up TAF New Years in michigan along with everyone else who helped with that, and more kudos to the large # of people that housed an even larger # of people in michigan, chicago, stl, and kc. personal thanks go to Vince, Christine, Cat, Harmony, Bryan, Jessica, and Jon and Jeremy Chen for my housing.
kc. you girls, despite you know, sending out your X chromosome to mess with our Y chromosomes, are pretty high quality. i think KC Girls are going to be hard to beat in terms of hospitality. Jessica, Linda, and Margo = good. and also, your moms should have named you all stacy, cuz they definitely got it going on.
i heart kc moms.
and now i sleep. wanderful.