Gobble Gobble!

So I hope everyone had a good Thanksgiving 2006!

Mine was pretty typical.

Dinner at my mom's house on Thursday (thank goodness my mom didn't invite more guests than our immediate family-- it woulda been too crowded), some shopping with my family on Friday (which forced me to skip my usual high school friends' get-together), and a typical weekend after that (although I should mention that I visited the former bain of my existence-- Stuyvesant High School-- on Saturday and it was pretty boring).

This year, we cooked our Thanksgiving turkey breast-side-down and it came out especially well! We had a bunch of dark meat immediately available to us and it fell RIGHT OFF THE BONE!! I just finished some leftovers I took back to my apartment.

Otherwise, though, this weekend has been incredibly lame.

I'm thinking about taking the GMAT's (i.e. the SAT's for business school) sometime soon, so I've been doing this workbook each day and it's been making me feel worse than I normally do.

I feel like my life is back to studying and evaluating myself all the time. And I worry that my score won't be high enough-- especially considering that I've very little to differentiate myself from other candidates and NEED a perfect score to be considered by the schools I'm considering.

Right now, my target is to have this done by the time I'm 25 and apply for the entering class of 2008... =/

In other news, I had a shitload of work last week, but I didn't get most of it done and now I'm a bit stressed about tomorrow's day.

I think I should go to bed now and wake up at 5AM, so that I can get some extra stuff done tomorrow.

Oh wonderful job... =(

A week of good news and fulfilled prophecies...

So there seemed to be a bunch of good news this past week!!

First, the Democrats won both houses of Congress-- which I consider to be wonderful news, since Bush has been creating an incredibly divisive atmostphere in this country. (Not that I'm a die-hard Democrat or anything, but I'm REALLY glad to see that our country is going in a more moderate, balanced direction.)

Next, I read something cool about one of my longtime crushes/role models-- Michelle Kwan has been named to a diplomatic role!

Although part of me finds this kinda disturbing (since she's going to be "promoting American values" around the world-- which is one of the reasons that many countries in the world hate the United States), I'm so proud to see that a fellow Asian American (who has really shown tremendous grace, stength of character and perserverence) has been selected to represent the United States.

And the final bit of good news is that Kevin and Britney are splitting up!!! (i.e. K-Fed becomes Fed-Ex! hahahahahah!)

Although this is the most un-important piece of news this week, I also feel that it's the one that everyone will probably understand as being good news. And moreover, it made me realize something about my favorite cartoon from the late 1990's/early 2000's: "MTV's Daria" PREDICTED THE FUTURE!!!

Exhibit A: Kevin and Britney

On the show, there was a couple named Kevin & Britney (probably spelled differently, but whatever...). Kevin was a jock with a ton of confidence and no brain, while Britney was this blonde cheerleader with big boobs and also no brain. Just a coincidence, or a parallel with Kevin and Britney Federline???

Towards the end of the show, Kevin and Britney would fight all the time-- with the two eventually going their separate ways (him to another year of high school, and she to a crappy college) and likely breaking up on the last episode.

Exhibit B: One of the main supporting characters-- Trent Lane (i.e. Daria's crush for most of the show)-- is the cartoon embodiment of my favorite musician, Ryan Star.

Look at this comparison of the two performers:

Trent is pretty much a charicature of Ryan!!

And also notice the lyrics to this one song that Trent sang:

Icebox Woman

"You're an angel in black,

You sure have a knack,

For putting my heart on the shelf in the back!

I've waited my turn,

Oh, when will I learn?

My poor heart, you're giving it freezer-burn!!"

Does anyone else see the striking similarity with Ryan's "Psycho Suicidal Girl" song?

I think we need to continue to look towards MTV's Daria, if we want to discover the future of pop culture (i.e. waste time)... ;-)