Dryer Cycle: Whites and Colors.

I have to stay up doing laundry because I won't have time in the next few days. And my normal underwear has run out, &I'm left with my Filipino So-en period panties. Not cute. At any rate, instead of studying for my MCB midterm on Tuesday, I've decided to blog. I had a damn busy week, but I lived to tell the tale.

Miraculously, I finished both 6-page papers due the past week, but at the expense of my sleep. Regardless, I was pretty pleased with the end result. Of course, I wish I had started earlier so I had more time to revise. But you play with the cards you're dealt.

Concurrently, there were worknights in Sproul to prepare for Senior Weekend. I went to the worknight on Wednesday at like, 10PM, and didn't leave until about 6AM the next day. I spent 8 hours in a room with Bianca and Vincent. Never have I spent so much time with two people in such a small space. We were getting delusional. But we ordered Nude Sushi, and that was bomb 'cause they deliver.

Senior Weekend finally rolled around. It was all just amazing. (Although the bridges programming could've used some major improvements, not gonna lie.) Weird how I was an attendee only a year ago. Oh, how the tables have turned. After experiencing firsthand just how much work is put into a single weekend, I could not believe the results could be so rewarding. Seeing the seniors get so excited about Cal and about coming here next schoolyear was amazing. Talking to them about college and PASS made me realize how fucking privileged I am to be a student here and to be a part of such an impactful organization. And hearing the students say they were going to SIR as soon as they got home was so goddamn satisfying. The Pamilya Program was an absolute success. Being a co-chair in its implementation, I'm so glad it all worked out because my committee worked really hard to make it go smoothly. We got hella good ratings on the evaluation forms. YEE. Reading the students' comments made my heart soar. I can't wait to have them come to Cal next year. &I can't even begin to express how happy I am.

Saturday afternoon, after closing, Bianca and I were already experiencing SW withdrawal. Haha. We helped Paddycakes follow up on the students to make sure they got home safely. And we had a really good sushi lunch. I knocked out in Paddy's apartment on his hella comfortable beanbag chair that isn't filled with beans but with air. Hahaha. We played some pattern game called Set and I learned about Mensa -- some organization for the top 2% of people with the highest IQs. Wtf? Then we played Mario Party. Vincent randomly went to Salinas without saying anything, so we were missing a fourth player. Stupid CPU Luigi kept pissing us off. Haha. Ended the night with a very late dinner at Thai Noodle. Eggplant with basil will never get old, I can tell you now.

I've come to realize the dichotomy between the two places I call home. I guess after living in San Diego for so long, things are starting to get old. The novelty of Berkeley is something I embrace. Not just that, but I feel that in this new chapter of my life, I can't keep juggling between the two cities. I love Cal. The people. The urban life. The endless adventures and possibilities. Maybe it's time for me to break away from San Diego. It's not going anywhere. The people stay the same. Nothing ever changes. It's stagnant. Static. Stationary. The second I step off the airplane, it's exactly as I left it. In the future, I'll probably just stay up here for the summer. No use regressing back to my former environment. It personally doesn't foster growth for me. I guess I'm realizing that it's different now. It's all just a matter of letting go.

On a less serious note, Alice and I were talking about how we never watched a birthing video during sex ed. So we decided to look one up. It was so intense. And scary. Not just that, but some babies looked really freaky. Like aliens! &One woman's baby weighed 9lbs! Wtf?! But there was one video with really nice, calming music playing in the background as the woman gave birth. It didn't seem that bad, and it was actually kind of nice. But I think it was just the music. Haha. We also saw videos of like, water births. The babies just...popped out like nothing. It looked too good to be true. I'm still not sure whether or not I want to have babies. But I am sure that mothers have my respect for being brave enough to go through that. Intense!