My aunt and cousin are here. It's a good thing cos I get to enjoy the toursity bits of San Francisco that I usually forget about. And I also get to go shopping :) Always therapeutic. I picked up a pair of hiking boots this weekend from Napa Valley outlets. Now I can't wait to get to use it.
We're going to Disneyland for Thanksgiving. I can't wait. Can't wait to sleep in a nice hotel bed, and have it made for me the next morning. Not that my new apartment isn't as lovely but is just such a luxury to return to your room at 5pm and find the room all spiffy and the bed all made.
And I can't wait for christmas. Presents, gifts, the tree. Not to mention christmas break. I already started playing christmas music.

My eyes are swollen this morning, nose is red and I have a big fat zit right in the middle between my eyes. Nothing could be far worse.

I'm going to say I fell asleep with my contacts on. That gives you big fat bulgy eyes right?

Right now, all I want to do is go home, curl up in bed and eat tons of ice cream. Ben and Jerry's phish food that is. And put in my sarah cd and play it on repeat.

love has made me a fool
it set me on fire and watched as I floundered
unable to speak
except to cry out and wait for your answer
but you come around in your time
speaking of fabulous places
create an oasis
dries up as soon as you're gone
you leave me here burning
in this desert without you
Sarah McLachlan

Is a good day. I can blog twice.
Last night had to have girlfriend remind me that am not a "failure" as I had so claimed in earlier conversation.
"you can get any boy you want, how is that failing?"

Um, unless you count the one that I want and can't get. The the fantastic ones whom I can't seem to want. Make sense? Like my wardrobe. Entire wardrobe full of cute skirts and dresses, I just have to have that one in the window that's (1) not for sale, (2) can't fit into, (3) don't have the money for. (3)'s actually not as bad as (1) or (2) cos it means you can actually get the money for it. Just a matter of later than sooner. (1) and (2) are almost impossible to rectify.

Either way, there's a problem right there. And it needs to be rectified NOW.

Went and met with 2 of my committee members today. People are excited about the thesis, except for me of course. It's been somewhat of a bane the last 4 months or so. I hope it turns out as good as the committee members hope it to be.
My arch rival in class is also writing a paper with my advisor. Don't know how I feel about that. Am feeling particularly competitive, but at the same time, think that that's sorta wrong. Bad karma to be so bitchy you know?
George Bush, to add to Tuesday's list is going to start a trade war I tell you. He just imposed quotas on textiles from China. He must have skipped out on the international trade class while doing his MBA. Or maybe he really didn't study at all.

George W. Bush
Curriculum Vitae

ACCOMPLISHMENTS

In my first two years in office over 2 million Americans lost their jobs.
I cut unemployment benefits for more out-of-work Americans than any other president in US history.

In my first year in office I set the all-time record for most days on vacation by any president in US history (tough to beat my dad's, but I did). I signed more laws and executive orders amending the Constitution than any other US president in history.

I attacked and took over two countries. I cut health care benefits for war veterans.

I spent the U.S. surplus and bankrupted the US Treasury.

I set all-time record for the biggest drop in the history of the stock market.
I shattered the record for the biggest annual deficit in history (not easy!).

I am the first president in decades to execute a federal prisoner.

I set an economic record for the most personal bankruptcies filed in any 12 month period.

After taking the entire month of August off for vacation, I presided over the worst security failure in US history.

I set the record for most campaign fund raising trips by any president in US history.

I set the all-time record for most real estate foreclosures in a 12-month period.

I appointed more convicted criminals to administration positions than any president in US
history.

I set the record for the fewest press conferences of any president, since the advent of TV.

I presided over the biggest energy crises in US history and refused to intervene when corruption was revealed.

I set the all-time record for most people worldwide to simultaneously take to the streets to protest me (15 million people), shattering the record for protest against any person in the history of mankind.

I dissolved more international treaties than any president in US history. I am the first president in US history to have all 50 states of the Union simultaneously struggle against bankruptcy.

Members of my cabinet are the richest of any administration in US history. (The poorest
multimillionaire, Condoleeza Rice, has a Chevron oil tanker named after her.)

I presided over the biggest corporate stock market fraud in any market in any country in the history of the world.I am the first president in US history to order a US attack AND military occupation of a sovereign nation, and I did so against the will of the United Nations and the vast majority of the international community.

I have created the largest government department bureaucracy in the history of the United States � the "Bureau of Homeland Security".

I set the all-time record for biggest annual budget spending increases, more than any other president in US history (Ronnie was tough to beat, but I did it!!).

I am the first president in US history to compel the United Nations remove the US from the Human Rights Commission. I am the first president in US history to have the United Nations remove the US from the Elections Monitoring Board.

I removed more checks and balances, and have the least amount of congressional oversight than any presidential administration in US history.

I refused to allow inspectors access to US prisoners of war and by default no longer abide by the Geneva Conventions.

I am the first president in US history to refuse United Nations election inspectors access during the 2002 US elections.I am the all-time US (and world) record holder for most corporate campaign donations.

The biggest lifetime contributor to my campaign, who is also one of my best friends, presided over one of the largest corporate bankruptcy frauds in world history (Kenneth Lay, former CEO of Enron Corporation).

I spent more money on polls and focus groups than any president in US history.

I am the first president to run and hide when the US came under attack (and then lied, saying the enemy had the code to Air Force 1)

I am the first US president to establish a secret shadow government.

I took the world's sympathy for the US after 9/11, and in less than a year made the US the most resented country in the world (possibly the biggest diplomatic failure in US and world history).

I am the first US president in history to have a majority of the people of Europe (71%) view my presidency as the biggest threat to world peace and stability.

I changed US policy to allow convicted criminals to be awarded government contracts.

I set the all-time record for the number of administration appointees who violated US law by not selling their huge investments in corporations bidding for Govt contracts.

I have removed more freedoms and civil liberties for Americans than any other president in US history.

I entered office with the strongest economy in US history and in less than two years turned every single economic category heading straight down.

I rendered the entire United Nations irrelevant.
I withdrew from the World Court of Law.RECORDS AND REFERENCES

1. I have at least one conviction for drunk driving in Maine (Texas driving
record has been erased and is not available).
2. I was AWOL from the National Guard and deserted the military during time of war.
3. I refuse to take a drug test or even answer any questions about drug use.
4. All records of my tenure as governor of Texas have been spirited away to my fathers library, sealed in secrecy and unavailable for public view.
5. All records of any SEC investigations into my insider trading or bankrupt companies are sealed in secrecy and unavailable for public view.
6. All minutes of meetings of any public corporation for which I served on the board are sealed in secrecy and unavailable for public view.
7. Any records or minutes from meetings I (or my VP) attended regarding public energy policy are sealed in secrecy and unavailable for public review.


GEORGE W. BUSH
The White House,
Washington, DC

This information should be useful to voters in the
2004 election. Circulate to as many citizens you think
would be helped to be reminded about this record.

Spent the night in the arms of someone I love dearly. Then he said, "thank you, for letting me be me".

For everything that is wrong in this relationship, everything that is fought about, cried over, everything that is worth walking out on, was forgiven in that one very poignant moment.

Had about 2 beers yesterday before I went to econometrics class. That, I believe, got me through 3 hours of proofs, instrumental variables and hausman tests. Must make mental note to self to tank up before classes in future or have a jug of Foster's nearby next time I do any regression analyses.

Am still procrastinating on the photos from Halloween. I know, they'll get old soon. But just haven't gotten around to doing it. Things are just flying at me now and I have to either duck or bat. Mostly I'm ducking because I need the energy to bat the bigger things. Funny that I'm using this batting analogy because anyone who's ever played ball with me knows that I cannot play ball. I instinctively close my eyes and freeze whenever I see a ball come at me. The point however, is that I'm choosing my balls... um battles that is. This isn't the worse thing to happen, but hell, I'd really really like to sit down and not do anything.