So while I was waiting in line for Rocky, the host came over and slapped me in the ass with one of those leather paddles. <3

"Thanks to obesity in American woman, Chris can fit into women's clothes."

Things are going ok, well kinda.

Syphilis apparently didn't clear up. So I'm back on that treatment for 3 weeks. If it doesn't clear up, I'm going to have to do a lumbar puncture and possibly do IV treatments for every 4 hours for 2 weeks (that means 2 weeks in the hospital, fun).

Dr said this happens quite a bit to those co-infected. Instead of taking 10-20 years to progress to neuro-syphilis, it can happen in a very short time (months) for those co-infected.

After having HIV for 3 months, I got my CD4 count and viral load as well. I was at 839 (high) for CD4 which is good, and 40,000 HIV copies/ml blood (not good but not horrible). Anyway, since July, my viral load has shot up to over 250,000. Treatment usually begins around 70,000. Dr wants to see how that number changes over the next month, since infection usually goes like this in the beginning, and then naturally lowers over the initial year. If I go below 70,000 naturally, then I don't need to start treatment, which is supposed to be a good thing.

If I don't get accepted into IUPUI's MA for ENL/ESL, then I must apparently fail at life.

http://translationparty.com/#3939731
and
http://translationparty.com/#3939845

Seriously?
Really?

We have nothing better to do than to make a movie about a girl who makes a blog about how she's gonna learn about cooking through an old julia child's cookbook with intermittant scenes from Julia's past?

Julie/Julia: 2 hours of making Chris hungry.

Thanks Columbia pictures.

Well it took this long to delete his contact info
I know it sounds silly but it feels a bit better, knowing that there's no communication left.

It's like finally moving away from what's happened earlier this year and continuing on with my life.

working there is great
but now im not getting any sleep
thanks to drinking so much coffee while working

Not a lot is going on these days
but I am tired of not getting any work done on my MA

So instead of waiting to get this teaching license I've decided to start applying to some grad schools. Not really sure what schools to think about, but I wanted Purdue.

My undergrad overall GPA (2.59) isn't that hot, but it meets University of Florida's reqs (upper division-last 60 credits need to have a 3.0 and I got a 3.0 for that)

But my grad school work in Taiwan is an 82%, which calculates to a 3.0 for GPA...

Oh well
So, what I'm doing now for Spring atleast:

Apply to both Purdue's MA and Graduate Certificate program in TESOL
Apply to University of Sydney's Graduate Cert in TESOL
Apply to University of Florida's MA of Education (TESOL)

So hurry must-do checklist:
Finish my last research project for my teacher in Taiwan
Get Tunghai Uni's transcripts mailed out
Take GRE
Write the app packs.
Finish summer school >.>


Oh hurray, so far I have a 4.0 in summer school.
Finished COM 250 and EDCI 270 with A
COM 114 is on the way for a borderline A-B, won't know till august
ENGL 205 is the same cuz I'm churning out B work pre-workshops >.>

If I get A's in COM114/ENGL205, then my upper division GPA will be over 3.1 - -

Cyanide & Happiness @ Explosm.net

Oh god, I know how you love to toy with me.

So, I canceled painting on Wednesday at my grandma's cuz it was supposed to rain.  Oh hey, it didn't.
So I planned to do it Thursday cuz it was supposed to be warm and sunny.  Oh hey, it rains and is cold.
So i did some this morning and guess what.  Grade 2 ankle sprain from falling off a ladder!

God 3, Chris 0

Ice compress for the next few hours and not supposed to do much walking at all.

Much luv, Chris (insert msn ^o) smiley here)

I just found my dream set up.

Working at a public school in Guam or the US Virgin Islands and doing my MA there.

ie:  I'm not adapting too well to living inland.....


Actually there are universities on both islands, University of Guam and University of the Virgin Islands; both have Master's of Education so...I'm considering it.

Going through some boxes today, found some pics of me and Zhang. lol'd a bit  especially at the halloween pic (me a stripper, him my gf)

I finally give in, I quit caring if people think I look like I'm 18-20.

Apparently no one believes me that I'm 26 based on looks.

Fuck you maymester >.>

Oh hi, 3rd day of classes will have a test!
Glad I never took maymester before :D

3 years of my life now in 2 suitcases.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30344675/?GT1=43001


Americans are becoming really stupid and over protective these days.  Why the hell should parents have to bend over backwards and let children rule their lives?  I'm totally for the mother driving off.  It's not like the two children were toddlers dropped off in the middle of no-where.  They were teenagers dropped off in the middle of a huge-ass city and they even knew their addresses.

Since when did children have to be so babied?  Can they not figure out how to use the phone to call home or what?  Hell, here in Taiwan, I see teenagers on their own quite often.  It's not like it's a perfect world over here either, so I don't see why we have to treat our children in the USA like little babies who can't do anything on their own.

I like how you've been all nice these days;

A motorcycle accident 3 weeks before I go home,
high grade fever a lot recently.

Oh, and thanks for having my friend drop his water on my cellphone, thus shortening it and ruining it 11 days before I go home.
Woo

Here is the story: http://tv.msn.com/miss-california-controversy/?GT1=28103&


Anyway, while I support the girl for being true to her values (although  I don't agree with them), I do think she is a retarded blonde.

Why?

Its so damn petty to say that she lost the contest only because of her answer.

Wow, watching the episode of Desperate Housewives where they remember Edie's good side and spread her ashes was really touching...