It was still warm outside! Yaaaaay!! Past several days, I have been shopping a lot. Yeah, I had a pay day last Friday, but now all money is gone. Ouch. I got new jeans, jacket, brown pants, two shirts, four socks, and employee of the month t-shirt. Okay, I am not going to buy anything until I save $1000. Although I really really wanna buy pokemon coliseum, I am not going to buy it!!

In this afternoon, I went to Banana Republic in downtown. I needed to buy couple dress shirts and I had 15% off coupon, so it wasn’t all that bad. I like shopping in the downtown because there is nothing you cannot find. However, I hate people working there. Because it’s downtown, there are so many tourists, and they will buy whatever even thought they don’t get any help. I think sales staffs know that, so they are so unwillingly to help anyone. Seriously, that really annoys me. I usually don’t dress well, but I am not that bad. But, everywhere I shop, no one helps me until I ask their help. Last week, I was looking for shoes and wanted to ask some questions to guys working at Nordstrom, but hell noooooooo, they were just chatting each other and totally ignored me. They just lost a customer who might spend $250 for a pair of shoes!! Today, same thing happens. I was looking for white shirts for my suit and I needed some help, but no one seemed to be interested in helping me. After 15 mins of staring, one guy came to me and said “do you need a help?” Well, I just asked him if I could try on the shirts cos all dress room were locked. I wanted him to help me choosing the size, but as soon as he unlocked the door, he just left. Ugh! So, I had to go back to shelves to get other sizes!! By the way, there were only few shoppers in the store and, in fact, there were most sales staffs than customers! I was pretty pissed off, but I asked him again (nicely) that I was looking for couple shirts for my suit. I also told him I needed solid color shirts, no patterns, but obviously, this guy had no idea what he was doing. He was like “Umm, well, we have nice shirts over there.” He pointed the shelves where all colorful crazy stripes shirts were. I was just pissed off and told him “no, that’s not what I want, I need something looking more professional!!” Since he was pretty much useless, I just picked shirts by myself and went home. Seriously, I can do 100 times better than him and sell millions of shirts! FYI, the store I went was the Banana Republic’s flagship store on Michigan Ave. So much for that!!

Although it’s spring break, I had to work. Well, I could take week off, but since I am here and no plan to go anywhere, there was no reason for not making money! I met couple other students worker who I had never met before. They were working extra days because it’s, indeed, spring break! I guess they want to make lots of money! I am not really into working a lot, I am just working same schedule.

After I got off work, I went to Bloomingdale’s because I needed to buy a tie. I have couple ties, but I have been unable to locate my silver tie which I am thinking to wear for tomorrow’s interview. Hmmmm, dude where is my tie? I was checking ties and realized ties are expensive! I don’t remember how much I paid for my silver tie because I think I used my dad’s credit card to buy it. I usually don’t care how much it costs when I shop with his credit card. Well, yeah, it does put me in trouble, but you know, my dad is in Japan, he has no intention to take my card away, so I am A OK!! I ended up not buying any ties because I felt I can find a tie. However, I haven’t been able to find my tie yet. I really don’t want to wear my blue tie because it’s blue!

I think I gained 5 lb over past month. 5 lb!! It’s just unacceptable. I don’t know what to do. I guess I shouldn’t eat anything sweet or sugar or ice cream or cookies. Suuuux. I decided to run 5 times a week until I lose 7 lb. I hate getting fat!

Spammer!! I hate spam. My site is getting lots of spam comments in the past couple days. I do like porn site, but I don’t want spam on my site!! I think I am gonna just close all past comments!

I had an interview at NU today. Well, I have no idea if the interview went well or not because the lady I talked to was very nice and talkative. So, when the interviewer is nice, you feel like you had a great interview, but actually, you didn’t. You just don’t know it. So, I think that’s what happened today. I think I did ask what I had to ask, and I did say what I had to say. By the way, I couldn’t find my silver tie, so I had to wear my blue tie! It took me 10 mins to figure out how to tie a tie…. And it looked so awful. I must learn how to tie a tie!!

After my interview, I stopped by Priyada & Josh’s apt. You know, since I was in Evanston, why not! During the interview, the lady told me that Priyada was sick on Monday, so I thought maybe I could check her up. Well, she didn’t like she was sick. She told me that she was studying for finals too much and was sick enough of studying to not show up for work. I was hungry, but they didn’t have foods, so I ordered Chinese. I ordered shrimp in lobster sauce. Well, it was bad bad choice. When I was eating it, I noticed that there were chunks of pork in the sauce!! Nooooooooooooooooooo!! I thought I was having heart attack! I mean why are there piece of pork in the lobster sauce? It just doesn’t make sense. Maybe there is a conspiracy that someone tries to make me eat meat!

Oooh, I saw iPod mini at the gym for the first time! It looked so small! I wanna one!!

Seriously, when I was walking to the gym in this morning, I thought I was gonna be blown away! It was 8:30am in the morning, and it was actually warm, but the wind was just hostile. I saw old lady walking in front me, and she was swinging left to right to left to right to left to right to….well, you got my point. I know I am living in the windy city, but I am not sure if today was windy. I think it was stormy! But, I must say, I like stormy day because it’s cool!

I finished reading a book about Japanese-American family during the WWII. Actually, the book was very shocking to me. I had no idea Japanese-Americans were sent to concentration camp after the Perl Harbor. I was talking about that to Laura and she even knew! And I was chatting online earlier and they knew that! So, how come I did not know that? Did I just not remember? If I knew the story before I came here, I might reconsider coming to the U.S.

As you may know, I love watching TV. I even like TV ads. However, there are some TV ads I absolutely hate. One of them is Charles Schwab ads. In their ads, there are four women talking about perfect guy. I guess they are supposed to be “sex and the city” kinda girls. At the restaurant, they are talking about guys, but all of the sudden, one lady says that it is harder to find a perfect broker, and other three ladies agreed! Oh, c’mon now! I assume smart and confident girls like them should invest their smart money into the stocks. I just hate the ads feature “sex and the city” themed girls. One another such ads is whitestrips ads. In the ads, of course, four girls at restaurant are chatting. One girl comes in late, and other three think she met a boy because there is something different about her….mmmm, what can it be? Oh, of course, whiter teeth, brighter smile, thanks to whitestrips! There is another version. A girl is meeting up with her friends at restaurant (again), and telling her friends that she finally made a commitment. But, her friends tease her because she is the queen of non-commitment. But, it was only 7 days! She could whiten her teeth using whitesrips for only 7 days! Yaaaay!! She finally did it!! I really think people created those ads are just pathetic as hell.

Finally, I had Mexican food for lunch in this afternoon. I had been craving for Mexican food for…well, pretty much everyday is my craving for Mexican day. I tried to go to the Mexican restaurant last weekend, but it didn’t work out. I tried to go to Mexican restaurant last night, but it didn’t work out neither. So, I was very happy when Laura and I could go to the Mexican restaurant for lunch. As usual, Laura was pretty fucked up after only one cup of margarita. She was saying “it’s because of tequila!!” Well, yeah right. Since she was drunk, we had to call Andrew because that we do when we get drunk (well, I wasn’t drunk though). I was forcing her to get more drinks, but she refused to drink more. Well, so much for that! I tried to get to the gym before it closed, but I couldn’t make it to the gym today. If I really wanted to go, maybe I could, but it was already past 7pm when I got home, so I didn’t see the point going to the gym (the gym closes at 8pm in the weekend).

I don’t now why, but I sweat a lot. Seriously, I am sweaty kinda guy. Especially, my hands get sweat unusual amount. If I am holding a paper for 30 seconds, the paper will get wet. When I am typing, my keyboard gets wet. There is no way I hold someone’s hand more than 10 seconds! Other day, I saw a guy was having operation for his sweaty hands problem on TLC. Basically, his sweaty nerve in shoulder was cut out. I really really really wish I can have that operation because I am sick of my sweaty hands.

I hate taking nap. I feel taking nap is such a wasting time as well as going to the bath room. However, in this afternoon, I took an hour nap! Nooooooo!!! I think that’s all because of my stupidity. I stayed up really late last night and was doing nothing. After I came back from Laura’s house yesterday, I just sat in front of computer and just browsing, chatting, and not studying for fucking 7 hours! 7 hours!! I was supposed to finish writing a paper, but noooooooo, I didn’t even open the file! Because I did not go to the gym yesterday, I went to the gym in this morning and ran a lot. Also, I did tons of sit ups, so I can have nice solid abs. Well, I wish. Anyway, it was good work out, but after I got back from the gym, I was dead tired. Also, watching spongebob made me really sleepy. So, when I realized, I was sleeping on my tiny couch! I really hate taking nap! By the way, when I was a kid, I hated going to bathroom so much, so I always waited until I couldn’t hold anymore. As a result, I often had bladder infection and constipation. Yeah, I was a stupid kid. But, I do blame Japanese school system because going to bathroom, especially, pooping was the most humiliating thing! There was nothing worse than pooping at the school! You will be pooping joe until you graduate. I really think teachers should teach children pooping is A OK!

Today is my last day of spring break. When I looked back my first spring break as a graduate student, I did pretty good….., just studied over the break. I only played one video game for less than three hours. I did not play FFXI because I knew if I started playing it, I would not be able to come back to the real life. Well, I did spend too much money on shopping, but I do that all the time, so it was cool. But, some reasons, I still have so many readings to do. Why?

Last week, I ordered Panasonic Pour Cleanser through amazon.com, and I finally got it today! Yaaaay! I was so excited to receive product because I am addicted to cleaning pour. I use biore’s pour cleansing strips regularly. I just love seeing all dirt coming out from my skin. It’s just gross, but also, it’s satisfying. So, I was gonna try my new pour cleanser, but I had to charge for 8 hours. Stupid. After I got back from the school, I took shower, so my pour would open up. Then, I used my pour cleanser! Well, it was very interesting. My pour will get smaller if I keep using it. Hmmm, really?

I have been getting lots of virus infected emails past couple weeks. I think today was the worst day. I just kept getting it throughout the day. They were all infected the virus called w32.netsky.b@mm. Of course, I knew this virus has been around for a while, so my computer is fine. Thanks to Symantec! If you got any emails have attachment, don’t open it.

When I was at work, Lindsay (my boss..kinda) bought birthday cake for Stephanie who is one of the student worker buddies. Her birthday was last Friday, but last week was spring break, so she got a cake today. I wanted to my birthday cake, but since my birthday is November, I am not sure if I can get one. Dave was teasing me about me on diet. He was like “whhhy??” But, when I tried to give a piece of cake to Dave, he was “oh no, if I eat it, that would be too much.” Huh? So, I guess he does care what he eats too…well, but he was having French fries and chicken pita for lunch. Hmmmm. Because we had nothing to do, Dave and I were talking about excise, and I was whining about my not seeing result work out plan. He was telling me that I should try liquid amino acid. Hmmm, maybe I will.

I think I gave up on my multicultural counseling class. Everything we discuss, I always have opposite opinions from everyone. This class really makes me feel I am an awful person who doesn’t care about anyone at all! Well, I guess that’s true though!!

It is not great at all. I just found out today that I didn’t get an internship position at NU’s career center! Damnit! I was really hoping to get a position there because that was the only lead I had. Now, I have to make cold calls tomorrow to see if other sites got my resume or not. Suuuuuuuux for big time! I should apply more! Ugh!

Another not so great stuff was the paper I got back yesterday in the family therapy class. Well, I have no idea why, but my second page was missing! The professor put comment saying “where is p2?” Ooops. Well, I don’t know neither! But, she gave me A, so that was pretty cool.

I think I need to get some milk shake and French fries to rejuvenate my soul!

It was the St. Patrick’s day weekend! Yaaaay! Irishous! Of course, I had lots of Guinness….way too many! Andrew was in town, so we started drinking from noon on Saturday. We went to Hey Sushi for lunch and came back to my place and kept drinking and drinking. Yum yum Guinness. I was kinda questioning the meaning of the St. Patrick’s day because I don’t think it’s all about drinking. But, oh well, who cares! I actually wasn’t really feeling celebrating stuff, and just drinking all day wasn’t good idea. Aaaaaaaaah, I think I really really need to take a vacation or something!

My digital camera has been sick. He sometime really gets grumpy and doesn’t do his job. Yesterday, I was trying to take drunkness, but he refused to take a picture. I thought my camera was totally broken down and need to buy new one. But, now, he is working fine. Ugh! I missed taking pictures of whole St. Patrick’s day stuff! Damn my camera!

In this afternoon, I had to go to Courtney’s house to work on the group project for the family therapy class. We were supposed to meet up at 4:30pm. So, I got her house 4:30pm, of course. But she wasn’t there. Aaaaah! Whhhhhy! Well, actually she was picking up Valeria at the train station which is located only couple blocks from her house…mmmmmm. Anyway, the meeting was good, and I think our presentation should be fine. I was, of course, playing with her puppy for a while because I love her puppy! After we dropped off Valeria, we went to Potbelly because I knew Laura was working there tonight. However, we went to the Potbelly which is not the store Laura works. So, we ended up with just eating sandwiches. Ouch. But, I had a lots of fun talking with Courtney.

Tomorrow is Monday. No good!

It was snowing in this morning. Yeah, snow. S-N-O-W! Last night, after I got out from the last class (which was 9:30pm), it was snowing. Shanna and I were talking that it was kinda cute. So, I was saying it was like white lovers. I had no idea what white lovers are, but coincidentally, there was a young couple making out on the street. Yeah, they were white lovers! Literally! White boy and girl were making out under the snow.

At work, I was working so hard like a mug. Well, I was working on my presentation for the family therapy class. It is group presentation, so it is not supposed to be that bad. But, I really really think my part is the hardest part. I got a part of the presentation which I have to talk about the treatment goals and treatment techniques/interventions. I mean, c’mon! First part of the presentation is the demographic info and analysis of the family we picked (we picked the family from the movie “ordinary people”). How hard is that??? NONE! Of course, as always, I do not read text book, so I had no idea what kinda interventions we have learned so far! Suuuuuuuuux!! But, somehow, I managed to put together and came up pretty good treatment plan….I think. It’s time for family therapy!! Yaaaaaay!

It is Tuesday. That means, multicultural counseling day! Hooooooo!! Last night, Lesley and I were discussing about why our professor is always angry. He always attacks us whatever we say. He never agrees with what we say in the class. But, he keeps forcing us to talk in the class. I really think he has an issue. Also, there is a Mexican guy who is also always angry. Every time he makes a comment about something, he sounds angry. So, Lesley and I concluded that minority males are always angry about something. But, I realized that I am a minority dude! So, I guess I should be angry too. But, I am not really sure what I am supposed to be mad at? But, but, I managed to be angry in the class today because I was hungry and I wanted to pee, but there was no break! Keep up good work Kenny!

I am official announcing that “cool” is no longer cool. If you are spongebob fan, you know what is really “cool.” Yes, it’s “coral.” Coral is so in! I was convincing Dave and Steph about how “cool” saying “coral” instead of saying “cool.” It is so coral!!

I was just so tired all day today. In this morning, as soon as I got to the office, I had to go back to my room because I thought I forgot to turn of the oven. I remembered that I didn’t check if I turned off the oven on the way to work. I just couldn’t stop thinking about my oven, so I had to ask Ron if I could go back to my room. Although he hates me, he was nice enough to let me go back to my room. So, I went back and checked if the oven was on. Well, my oven was fucking off. Of course, I did turn off the oven after I toasted the bread. It was just wasting time to go back, but I somewhat felt really good and relieved that I did turn off the oven….well, little OCD action going on here!

By the way, because I am getting lots of spam comments, from now on, you have to preview the comment before you post it (just for archive though). Also, I changed .cgi name too. I am so happy cos it's working so well, and I haven't got any spam comments so far!

It was super ultra nice day today. However, I woke up with weird headache…ouch. Last night, I went to Uncle Julio's Hacienda with my friends from the program. The restaurant was very much like for tourist’s kinda place, but they had pretty good drink. I think I spend over $30 for drinks….ouch. After we ate dinner, Laura and I went out to boystown! Yaaaay! Well, not really. We just went to Sidetrack and had some frozen drinks which were the way too sweet. We really didn’t wanna stay late, so I think we left there around 11pm…ouch. Then, I got a headache in this morning….ouch ouch!! I usually don’t get headache even though I get wasted the night before. I wasn’t even drunk last night! But, I think I had too many sweet frozen drinks in short period of time last night, and maybe that’s why I got a headache!

After I had a cup of coffee, my headache was gone, so I went outside for jogging. I really really reaaaaaally enjoyed running outside today. I jogged to the Navy Pier (as always) and after I jogged back to Fullerton ave, I felt I could still run more. So, I tried to run to Belmont ave. but realized that would be too much, so I didn’t do it. I really should run more because when I got back to my room, I wasn’t that tired. Oh well, maybe next time.

I was working on the presentation for the community counseling class. So much information!! I got several books from the library, and every book has really good information. But, I have no idea how I can organize these info because we only have two hours for the presentation! Ugh!

I found out that lots of my favorite musicians are coming to Chicago next month. I must go to the DJ Shadow (4/10) and Air (4/20) shows. But, a lot of paper dues are coming at the same time, so I am not sure if I really can make to those shows….ugh. Other shows I wanna go are Muse, NERD, and SquarePushers, and those shows are also all coming next month. Since I missed Ken Ishii show, this time, I am so determined that I am not going to miss any of shows. Yeah!

Today, I kept working on the presentation stuff all day today. Michelle emailed me and she sounded like freaking out, but I am not. But, I did realize that I am such a control freak! We made outline for the presentation last week together (kinda, mostly me). But, last night, I felt we needed to revise the outline, so I revised it and sent out to other members. Of course, I did mention that if they didn’t like it, we could keep old one. But, I really really think the revised one is much much muuuuuch better. Then, I noticed that I was working on the every section even though we divided up the sections. I know I just have to work on my parts, but I cannot help working on entire presentation because I must know and control entire presentation! Ugh. That is why I am not big fan of group project.

I was freaked out when I saw the snow in this afternoon. It was fucking 60s yesterday and it was so awesome. But, now it’s 20s-30s. Ooooh, great mother nature…I think.

Although Ryan checks this site million times a day, I hadn’t talked to him since the day after I ditched him in the middle of Wrigleyville. Sooo, I was glad he called me in this afternoon. He seemed to have no hard feeling about me ditching him. He told me that he went to Terre Haute to see Doug and his first child who is only 5 month old. Hmmmm, I still cannot believe that Doug is married and became dad. It’s just crazy talk! I guess we are no longer able to go to Night Moves together!! Damnit! FYI, Night Moves is very cheap strip bar in Bloomington, Indiana. You can get lap dance for $25 there….anywho, I wish Doug is having a happy happy joy joy babysitting time!!

Personally, I am in the March Madness….mentally. As you may know (or not!), I have been having difficulty finding a practicum site for the next semester. Sooooo, I made an appointment last week with Dr. S who is the clinical director in the program. Then, this Monday morning, I went to her office 9:30am in the morning. Of course, she was not there. I waited for 15 mins, but there was no sign of Dr. S. I was pretty pissed off and thinking why she wasn’t there even though it was her idea to make an appointment 9:30am in the morning. Stupid bitch! Everyone in my program seems having trouble with her. So, I emailed Dr. S (different one) who was the clinical director in the previous year. I was hoping she gave me some directions because, indeed, she is my adviser too. However, it turned out pretty awful. I really shouldn’t email her. In the email, it just said “I will let you work with Dr. S as she is Clinical Director.” What the fuck! I am your fucking advisee!! In my email, I clearly stated that I tried to get a help from Dr. S, but I couldn’t get any. Also, I did write I am starting freaking out! Seriously, I hate my program, I hate my professors, I hate my school, I hate Chicago, and I hate the fact I chose fucking Loyola! I really should choose IU and stay in Bloomington instead of enrolling stupid Loyola! So, if you are thinking to study at Loyola, DON’T!

After the family therapy class, Michelle and I were working on the presentation for the community counseling class. Well, one another member was supposed to join in us too cos she is, in fact, in our group. However, she couldn’t make it to the meeting today. Well, I should say she couldn’t make it to the group meeting….again. I think she is a good person and I understand how busy she is because she has a full-time job. However, Michelle and I started feeling that two of us are only working on this 2 hours presentation. Most of other groups have four people, but our group has only three, and one of member is not really contributing to this presentation.

On the way back to my apt from the gym in this morning, I stopped by the grocery store because I needed to buy Egg Beater (yikes!). I was checking some other stuff too, then I made a great discovery there! All Haagen Dazs ice creams were $1.99! Ooooooooooh! So, I purchased four different flavors, black walnuts, white chocolate raspberry, pistachio, and vanilla raspberry swirl (frozen yogurt…you know I had to buy at least one low fat ice cream!). I really really reaaaalllly understand why people become emotional eater. It’s just crazy…..of course, because it’s March Madness!!

I was working on the presentation stuff pretty much all day today. But, I still feel we don’t have enough stuff. Ugh. I hate that feeling. When I was working on PowerPoint, I noticed that every time I saved the file, the file size was getting bigger and bigger. Hmmmmm, why is that? I tried to take out all background, but the file size was 1.1MB! Ridiculous!! So, I looked up on the internet to see if anyone had same problem. I was able to find out couple reasons why the file size was getting bigger, but still I don’t understand why the file is still 800kb. I didn’t put any picture or anything makes the file size big. Hmmmmm, wwwwwhhhhhy!!! Oh well, what can I do?

In this week, I could stick with my plan, so I feel pretty good about that. This week’s my plan was “run everyday” and “consume as much as protein I can.” Hmmmm, sounds like my regular plan! But, I was able to run faster and longer, so that did make me happy happy joy joy. Although it was kinda cold outside today, I could run without having asthma attack! Yaaaay!

I was wearing pink shirts today because I was feeling pinky! It was kinda warm in this morning, so I didn’t wear the jacket. Then, Bam! It got really cold in the evening. Stupid Chicago weather!

Dave and I were playing Shanghai ma-jong online at work (had nothing to do!). Dave wasn’t really interested in playing the game. But, once he got the objective, we just played like a monkey! We could remove all tiles just before we left work, and we were feeling very very satisfied with it!! And, of course, we were tired too! But, I had to go to stupid multicultural counseling class.

I cannot tell you how much I hate that class. I hate people in the class and I hate the instructor for this class. Last week, he told us that he is not going to give us any papers back because he doesn’t want us to think just about the grade. Also, he told us that he doesn’t care about the context of papers, he just cares about writing…huh? Am I in the writing class?? I don’t think so! He is just unbelievable…seriously. And, I have to take his class next semester too! I really hate Loyola from the bottom of my heart!