Long Day In The Bay

First day of summer classes for me resulted in an unbearably long day.

I had 2 hours of lecture in the morning, followed by an hour of discussion, followed by 4 hours of work, followed by a lot of reading.

Professor seems nice enough, but I have a feeling I won't be challenged. That means I'm probably not going to keep up and I'm going to be annoyed at the dumbing down of the material (like today's description of van der Waals interactions which was depressingly bad...). At any rate, I'm current caught up on reading for the next day...which is actually a significant hundred pages or so, but I skimmed a lot of it since it was review. I really hope I can keep it up, but if I can't, you'll know why...

Uh, a couple more things to note. I did buy a TV, but for some reason overstock is cancelling a lot of orders (most of them didn't get the 2-year protection plan, but some did). Some people are calling in and reporting that their TVs are confirmed and will ship in the next 1-4 days, and my order is currently "Accepted" and my warranty plan has "Shipped", but I don't know what's going on with. Just crossing my fingers I suppose.

Finally, since I didn't tell this story yesterday, I'll tell it now. It's about a Corona:

I had dinner with Maggie, Coral, Kristina, Yuan, and Tyler last night and we sat around Asian ghetto for a bit while we ate. After awhile, Kristina had to go home, and I figured we'd be walking back, but Yuan was looking for a ride back (cause he's lazy and he lives far away) and we kind of followed Kristina home to see her new apartment.

We get up and I see a empty case of Corona on the floor and ask. At the same time, Yuan opens the fridge and grabs a bottle of Smirnoff Ice just to fool around. I follow suit and grab a Corona (which apparently was an "apartment" thing and not Kristina's...my bad...). I ask if I can have it. Kristina asks her roommate who says yes. I take it. Now, these weren't the screwtop bottles, but I'm fidgeting with it trying to get the cap off. I try for a good ten minutes or so before I get frustrated and start rummaging around her kitchen for a bottle opener. I look and look, but there's nothing but knives in the drawers. I start thinking about whether I should use a knife...but I hold off.

At this point everyone had migrated from the living room into Kristina's room, so I follow suit, still playing with the bottle top. After getting frustrated for the second time, I ask Kristina if she has a bottle opener. She has to ask her roommate, who replies that they don't have a bottle opener, and that I should use my hands. I try, but again, no go.

A few seconds later Kristina's roommate walks into the room, grabs the bottle, and starts bashing it against the bathroom sink to try to pop it off. I'm starting to laugh cause Kristina says something about this talking way too much effort. The cap still doesn't come off though and they start moving to the kitchen to use a knife (I was gonna do that myself...). Anyways, they finally get the cap off after much more effort than was probably necessary (GET A BOTTLE OPENER!) and I enjoyed a free after dinner beer (which was more bloating than I thought it'd be...).

Of course, Kristina kicked us out before I had a chance to finish cause she had to go to Safeway and I had to walk around the streets at night with an open bottle...underaged no less. Yuan called my a retarded drunk while we were leaving since I couldn't find the elevator (which wasn't really my fault since I wasn't paying attention on the way up). Luckily my drunken stupor hadn't settled in and I made it home without getting lost in People's Park and falling in a trap, getting raped, then waking up in the morning with a hangover. Atleast, I got home...safe and sound...and sadly unimpressed with my free beer.

Thanks though.