Review

By Jae-An Wang

Hello!

As I write this, I sit alone in my room. Kyle left on Monday, Jonathan this morning. There’s a string of tangled lights sitting on my desk, but I’ve been too lazy to hang them up, so they’ll be unlit for a while. The fridge is open and empty; we had to thaw it out yesterday and wipe up all the water so it wouldn’t get all nasty on the inside. Now that my suitcase is out of the wardrobe, the doors are finally closed. It makes the room look bigger than it actually is, although it’s still a lot of space for one person.

These past several weeks have been…strange, I guess? I meant to post something around Thanksgiving break, but never got around to it for whatever reason. I guess I’ll start from then, even though by now it’s already been three weeks, I think.

This is an insult to pizza.
I still tried it tho

I stayed in the dorm for Thanksgiving. That’s pretty much about it, I think. I didn’t go out much since all the places to go were closed, although I did go on a walk or two at night just to get some fresh air. I kind of wish I had gone home, since Jonathan did and Kyle was hardly ever in the room so things were slightly lonely, but I don’t think it was a bad experience; missing people and friends is proof that you appreciate the relationships you have, and is a nice reminder that you probably need people in your life to stay healthy and happy. It was weird to walk around and not see anybody on campus, though. It was like I had the whole place to myself.

Although I didn’t get much work done that weekend (I might have written something like half a page of my research/oral history paper that was due last week?), I did rewatch Kimi no Na wa and watched another Japanese animated film for the first time, one called Koe no Katachi (Shape of the Voice). Phenomenal. I also had Chick-fil-A for the first time! I actually plan to go again this evening, since the dining halls will be closed. Chick-fil-A has a fairly good reputation as a fast food restaurant, and I suppose deservedly so. While the aesthetic of this particular location is slightly reminiscent of Burger King for some odd reason, I noticed that each and every chair in the restaurant had a pleasantly comfortable cushion on the seat, something that struck me since most fast food places I’ve been to have relatively hard chairs that allegedly are designed to encourage customers to leave quickly (so that more people can get food). The chicken was quite good as well.

The view last Wednesday, I think.

He's styling and he knows it

After Thanksgiving, things quickly started going downhill, as I was quite behind on the previously mentioned research paper. That being said, I didn’t start getting stressed until a few days before it was due, when my brain realized, “Oh, I can’t start properly studying until I get this done.” I am still terrible at working on multiple projects at the same time. I’m working on it. Adding on to that, right around the middle of last week, a brush fire broke out that spread dangerously close to campus. People could see the fire from UCLA on Wednesday morning. Although it was quite serious, it was kind of funny to me in a way. With so many people suffering through finals and ash in the air and the fire burning so close by, it felt like some divine joke trying to give new meaning to the phrase “Hell Week.”

Luckily, the fire got classes canceled for two days, so it gave me some extra time to work and study. I turned in my research paper, took chemistry and Asians finals on Sunday and Monday, and that leads into these past couple of days. I’ve mostly just relaxed, since I don’t take (or rather, didn’t take, I suppose) math very seriously. Well, I guess I did a bunch of problems to practice for the final today, but it was more of something to blow off steam, not really “work.” Ugh what’s gotten into me, doing math problems for the heck of it…And finally the math final today: it went alright? I messed up a little bit on one of them because some little partial fractions side note that I never learned in Calc (you’re still the best Ms. Huybrechts), but at least I know how to do it now, I suppose.

I’ll just wrap it up here before this post gets too messy~

holy moly calm down there

I love you Pooh, but I'm still broke.
($20? For paperback?!)

i see you

i see you

Courtesy of UCLA Memes for Sick AF Tweens

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