Cabarete!

I am back and apparently alot of people missed me! Woo Hoo!

Cabarete was excellent. If I had known that Cabarete was as fun as it is, and as cheap as it was I would have been going there every single weekend since the day I got here. We had such a good time!

We got there Saturday and after we checked in at the hotel and stuff, we went to Lax. Apparently that is THE place to be there because even when we weren't there, we still were. Anyway, we had fun at Lax. That first night we ran into a couple of friends from here and what would become our little group for the weekend was complete.

*Lilli was taking the picture...

Anyway, that night we danced for what felt like forever. We partied for so long that on Sunday we overslept and missed the surfing and kite surfing competitions. That really sucked. But whatever, we were out in the sun tanning and hanging out. The water was beyond cold so we didn't really go there...That night we partied again with some other friends we made but this time, unlike the night before, we went to bed before the sun was about to come out.

On Monday, we finally made it to the competition, though we did show up late. We caught part of the finals. That was so cool. While we were there, I thought a lot about Angie and how she is so into that kind of stuff. I wish I could surf. I am so gonna' learn...

In any case, we were there for a while. It was a great day for water-anything. We didn't stay for the whole thing though. After a while we went back to our favorite spot and we had our little party there. Lunch was at Jose O'Shay's and although it's not my kind of food, I have to say that their food is pretty good (and that name cracks me up).

I like being a beach bum. This weekend I didn't open my books at all. Something pretty miraculous did happen though... most of the people we were hanging out with were either doctors or med students. That had never happened to me before. Anyway, I think that because they are so hyped up about being doctors, they somehow got me to believe that maybe being a doctor could be way cool. I had never partied with doctors before. I thought they were kind of dull actually. These guys, however, totally proved me wrong. They are like warriors!

I have always said that Dominican Republic is a really great place to visit, but that living here sucks. Everytime I go somewhere this cool, I think to myself "yes, it's a cool place to visit and living here does suck BUT living here can be cool if you know where to go"

I am so going back and if you people haven't come to our humble little country, you should totally come visit. It can really be a lot of fun...Just bring your sunblock so you don't end up like me: sunburnt in places I didn't know the sun could reach :)

**For more pics go here.

Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens...

I am so tired. I hate being tired.

Today is my first Physics test (the midterm is tomorrow) and my Chemistry midterm. Judging by how I did on yesterday's Chemistry test, unless it's all theory (no numbers, no problems) I am absolutely fucked. I only like numbers when talking about money.

That said, it seems like my teachers have decided to screw me out of the long weekend. This weekend is a long weekend and I usually have Tuesdays off. I thought I'd be able to just chill for 4 days and do nothing school related. Well, I was wrong. On Wednesday I now have a Bio test, a presentation, and an Anatomy test.

Lucky lucky me.

I don't care though. I've decided that I'm going to try to finish all my outlines by tomorrow (even if I don't sleep until then) and I am going to pack up the old laptop because I am going to the Master of the Ocean competition. Woo Hoo! I am sure that in between swimming, partying and flirting with sexy guys with surfboards I'll get a lot of work done! HA!

But I need distractions and I need stuff to look forward to so I can get through this semester because frankly, I had forgotten what being a student is like.

So, here are the top 5 things I have to look forward to for the next month:
1. Master of the Ocean. @ Playa Encuentro, Cabarete. Feb. 23-28
2. Little Louie Vega @ Taboo Bamboo. March 4
3. Sasha and John Digweed @ Caribbean Sun. March 17
4a. Off to Miami. March 23
4b. ULTRA Music Festival. March 25
5. Richie Hawtin @ The Cave. March 31

I hope I make it 'til then...

chemistry: YUCK!

Chemistry is great!
No, it isn't. I don't know why I am saying that.

Anyway, today is my first Chemistry test. Considering I've been studying non-stop for a number of days, I should be able to do really well; however, chemistry intimidates the living hell out of me so feel free to cross your fingers for me today between 10am-12pm.

In the meantime, I'll get back to "writing" as soon as midterm week is over. Until then, I'll have no life so feel free to go to Joey's site. He reviews movies. I should catch up with my movie wtching one of these days...I miss Netflix.

My 5 Weird Habits

So Natalia thought it would be cool to send me yet another meme...to add insult to injury, she is even putting me through the torture of translating it because it is in Spanish....UGH!...well, here it goes: You pick your top 5 weird habits, elaborate on them and then pick 5 people to carry on with the nonsense. Here it goes:

1. When I am home I ALWAYS, no matter what, wear some kind of footwear. what can I say? i have 5 dogs who are not entirely housebroken. Enough said.

2. No smoking before noon. As far as I am concerned, it's far more disgusting to smoke before noon than it is to smoke after, unless I was up all night the night before.

3. Bedsheets and towels. I must change my sheets and towels every other day. I can't sleep unless my bed smells like fabric softener and I get an imaginary itch if the towels aren't fluffy and fresh.

4. Oral Hygiene. I will not exist in a normal fashion until I have brushed my teeth in the morning. That means, no NOTHING until I brush my teeth. and don't think that under any circumstance I will let someone use my toothbrush. I don't care if we were making out for hours and hours and hours 3 seconds before. MY TOOTH BRUSH IS MINE and some things in life should be private.

5. Nail biting. If my nails aren't painted I will bite them. I don't chew them off but I bite the sides of it. It's a nervous psychological thing.

Bonus:
I have the weird habit that I can go from super sweet to super bitch in 0.3 seconds...actually, that's not a habit...I like to think of it as a gift :)

Mis 5 Víctimas:

Ava
Jonas
Grant
Yvette
Corky

midnight ramblings...

As usual, today I woke up at 5am. I went to school and did my thing. By 10am I was hungry so I had a snack. The day seemed too long and by the time class was over I needed a break. So I went running. I didn't run very far- just a mile and a half- but I did an hour long work out. It felt necesasry. Today I was overwhelmed.

Next week is going to be a long week but I started feeling it today. Maybe it is the uncertainty of what's coming, maybe it is the fact that I still feel unprepared. Either way, I felt like the world was crashing upon me and I didn't like it. I need sleep. I needed to go out. I need to understand Chemistry. I needed to feel a warm body near me. I needed a cookie. I need my biology to do itself. I needed my hair to behave. I need Sally to give birth so I don't have to carry her knocked up ass around. I need or needed a lot of things.

But as all good things come to those who wait, I had my cookie before I went to meet Phillip for a drink or two of three or four. That was good. There were an additional few friends who reminded me that I need not stress so much. At least not on a Friday. There I found my warm body which turned out to not be so warm. Not nearly as warm as I wanted it to be. But that was okay. I got what I wanted and that was too feel cute. I forgot about my poofed up hair though sometimes it is within that poofiness that I recognize myself.

I am exhausted. I wanted to be exhausted so that I may finally sleep, which I haven't really in a number of days. Whether this insomnia has come back because it's part of my nature or because I'm stressed out is immaterial, the fact of the matter is that I want a night's sleep that's not interrupted neither by an out of whack internal clock nor a crazy dream of gigantic Advil bottles filled with ecstasy and Yvette running around in a yellow cheerleading outfit.

People are making crazy and I really do wonder if it's them or if it's me. Because I've always believed that if it's one thing maybe that's the problem but if it's two or more maybe the problem is me, this thought is pestering me and I want it to go away. The one person who can keep me focused lingers though at this point they are not a part of me.

This weekend I have to focus on my school work and I don't want to though I know I should. But my mind is busy and I can't clear it long enough to have a thought that's truly my own. what do I do? Don't answer that. This is one of those times that don't want any advice. That cookie and a cup of coffee will help me sort things out. Because even if I am now overwhelmed, I know what I should do and the things I want can take a backseat until i can focus on something else.

...

"Saudade nýo se sente porque estamos longe de alguým

mas sim porque um dia esse alguým esteve perto de nýs"

I wish I was with you...

Someone shoot Cupid!

Let's see how the cookie crumbles today...oh and for those here in good ole' SD, you can check out my expert dating advice in the V-day special of X-102.

What are they thinking??? hahaha

Love sux...

huh...right!

Women have been having babies for as long as the human race has existed.

In prehistoric times (and to this day in some societies), women used to gather food in the fields to feed their families- even while expecting- and then, once the child was born, they would carry him/her around in their backs or hips (which explain the evolutive characteristic of "the hips and ass" in women).

Fast forward to modernity and pregnant women are encouraged to exercise (I see pregnant women working out all the time), some go to school, a good percent of them continue to work until they give birth, they still take care of business at home among other things.

So someone explain to me, WHY DO PREGNANT WOMEN NEED THEIR OWN PARKING SPOTS?

You go to the mall, and there they are. You go to schools, there they are. You go to supermarkets, there they are. Even at the gym they have stork parking! WHY? WHY? WHY?

It seems to me that by giving pregnant women their own parking spots, society is treating pregnancy like a disease. Pregnancy is not a disease, it is a natural part of life uncomfortable though it may be! I mean seriously, so you gain weight, you have discomfort, your feet swell and every once in a while you wanna' puke. If you go by that criteria, we should also have parking for the obese!

A few days ago I went to the supermarket and this fairly pregnant lady (+/- 6 months) expected me (she didn't even ask me nicely) to give her my spot in the deli line just because she was pregnant. Her spot was right behind me. Hmmmmm...if you are physically capable to leave your home to go grocery shopping which requires walking, lifting, reaching, etc., you are certainly able to stand still for 3 minutes while I get some cheese.

Same principle with the parking.

If you are going to the mall, which by definition implies that you are going to walk around and do physical exercise, then why can't you walk from a regular parking spot like the rest of humanity? It's not like you are going to carry your bags yourself! It's not like walking an extra 20 meters is going to cause deformities in your child! On the contrary, pregnant women are recommended to walk!

On a hospital I understand that there should be pregnant women parking. A woman in labor is an entirely different story. But a pregnant woman who is healthy enough to leave her house to do stuff is no way uncapable of parking with the rest of the mere mortals.

Pregnancy is not a handicap.

If you are going to come argue with me and tell me that you need that parking spot because you have a high risk pregnancy and can't walk around a lot, then you shouldn't have left your house to begin with. Because if the walk from your car to the store can harm you or the baby, then the walk within the store can hurt you just as much!

Ugh! I swear to God, sometimes it feels like society takes 2 steps forward but 15 steps back!

5am is an ungodly hour to be awake...

I NEED COFFEE!!!!

Bullies suck!

People who abuse power suck.

That said, I've had the longest week EVER. I can't believe that it's only wednesday. The only thing that promises to make this hell of a week better is Madonna and the Gorillaz opening up tonight at the Grammys. That makes me all warm and tingly inside :)

Grant sent me an ecard today in celebration of National Rebel Day. HA! I didn't know I was a rebel or that such thing even existed...I thought that was too cute. But I do feel like somewhat of a rebel today because badass defied authority and I came out victorious. GO ME!

That goes to show, DON'T MESS WITH ANNUSH...grrrrrrrrrrr :)

My Chemistry teacher, or I should say former Chemistry teacher, had been harassing me for the past 5 weeks. The man decided that he was going to make my life a living hell, which he did, and little did he know that he would awaken the devil inside me in the process. I have never been one to go down without a proper fight. In any case, on Monday when he announced in front of the class that I was going to fail the class before I even took a test, I decided that I had enough. Him calling me a cheater and a slut I could handle but I DO NOT FAIL!

So I filed a harassment complaint. He didn't seem to be expecting that.

Yesterday he called me 17 times (literally) to tell me that everything that happened didn't really happen. Apparently not only is he seriously disturbed, he is also dilusional! If you are going to harass a person and don't want to be caught, you should not call them 17 times and most importantly, harass them in private not in front of 20 other people. Seriously!

Anyway, he wanted me to meet him today so we could "talk about our differences". I agreed, but before the meeting I took my cell phone with all the calls saved to the person who was handling my case and met with the coordinator of the Chemistry department in my school. They decided it would be best if my meeting with the teacher included them as well. I was okay with that.

My meeting was this afternoon and I have never wanted to punch someone in the face as much as I wanted to punch him then. The guy lied and lied and lied and then at some point he got confused and started telling half truths and basically towards the end he tied his own rope. He tried to make it into a situation where it would be his word against mine thinking that my word wouldn't be worth as much as his but luckily, and he didn't know this, I have always been an excellent student and have never so much as dropped a class. My recommendation letters speak volumes, and I am just THAT lovable :)

I argued my case and won without having to say very much.

I feel good about today. It's happened to me in the past that someone has screwed me over because I let them but I am too old for that. I like to think that these past number of years I have grown and learned and acquired a kind of confidence in myself I never had before or maybe I just didn't know I had.

It would have been better if it hadn't come to this. If he had understood that I found his behavior inappropriate the first time I said something, right now I'd be studying for my Chemistry test tomorrow instead of writing this (in my new class the test is on Mon). But he didn't. Apparently in some people's vocabulary NO doesn't mean NO.

It's a good thing something can always be done...

about Superbowl XL...

GO PITTSBURGH!!!

:)

The Feminine Mystique.

R.I.P. Betty Friedan

1921-2006

Lead us not into temptation...

"I generally avoid temptation, unless I can't resist it"

-Mae West

"There is no moral precept that does not have something invonvenient about it "

-Denis Diderot

Back in the day Yvette used to say that "girlfriends are like speedbumps:they slow you down but they don't stop you". I don't know what the fact that we used to speak like this (or even know such sayings) says about our moral fiber; however, we were not the kind of girls who went around stealing other people's boyfriends. This statement was not a m.o. but simply something that was useful to know.

Fastforward 10-12 years later and it's 2006.

Because we've grown up and been parts of serious (or semi-serious) relationships, I think it's fair to say that we have learned to appreciate and respect other people's relationships in a way that we couldn't have before and as such, we have learned to not use statements like that. As we have grown, our value system has shifted and all in all, I like to think that we are good people who care about other people's feelings.

I am someone who worries obsessively about the karmatic effect of my choices in my life and it is possible that the only reason why I am respectful of other people's relationships is that I wouldn't want someone to disrespect me or worse. But whatever the reason, under normal circumstances I am wholesomely good.

Most of my life I have been somewhat of a flirt. This has never been something I tried to be, but something that's innate in me. I have never really been able to control it but then again, it's never really caused any damage. The other day, one of my good friends decided to christen me "Annushka Flirtushka". Apparently, I flirt more than I know.

The other night, one of my best guy friends came over to take me out to dinner so that I could meet his new girlfriend. When we got to the restaurant, we ran into his business partner who I had not seen in a good 3-4 years and his new girlfriend. Holy hotness!

Because we knew each other since back in the day and we have a similar upbringing, we had a really nice time talking-all the while rabid girlfriend (apparently I make gfs go psycho) was grabbing onto him like her life depended on it. Perhaps it was the limited dating pool in this city, perhaps it was loneliness, perhaps it was boredom, or perhaps it was too easy. The fact of the matter is that I decided to steal that boyfriend.

I was on a mission. Then I got sick. Then the weirdest thing happened: I ran into the gf at the gym and all the while she was all defensive/territorial, it ocurred to me that all the energy she was putting into pushing me away would probably translate into a whole lot of grief were I to steal a guy I want around simply because he is a hottie.

So I felt terrible. I would have sent her a written apology but she doesn't have to know that I am guilty of having bad thoughts.

Anyway, days go by and temptation smacks me in the face again. This time it came to me in the shape of a married man. I know him and I like him. I don't know his wife but I know she exists. I got an indecent proposal that I rejected out of principle but I am not willing to end the friendship because we flirt.

I have always said that I am no homewrecker. For whatever reason I have always felt very strongly about committed relationships and because of it I think very little of women who go around breaking up happy homes. Last summer I had a 3 minute fling with a guy with a live-in girlfriend that left me feeling like a $2 whore and I promised myself never again.

But here we are. The temptation is there and even though I am not a home wrecker, and I am still stupidly in love with someone else I wonder what about that...

I wonder if by being aware of his feelings towards me and by remaining his friend and to a point encouraging him I am not being like one of those women I think so little of. I wonder if the topic came up because I am an easy target rather than out of genuine interest. I wonder if I can carry on with the friendship as is without clouding my better judgement.

I wonder if despite the fact that I think all the things I think and say all the things I say, would I still say no if the proposal came again?

About Annush...

A stolen from Androidette...

Ten Top Trivia Tips about Annush!

1. Annush was originally called Cheerioats!
2. More than one million stray dogs and half a million stray cats live in Annush.
3. The liquid inside Annush can be used as a substitute for blood plasma!
4. Annush can fly at an average speed of fifteen kilometres an hour!
5. Human beings are the only animals that copulate while facing Annush.
6. 99 percent of the pumpkins sold in the US end up as Annush.
7. The first domain name ever registered was Annush.com!
8. The only planet that rotates on its side is Annush.
9. To check whether Annush is safe to eat, drop her in a bowl of water; rotten Annush will sink, and fresh Annush will float.
10. There are roughly 10,000 man-made objects the size of Annush orbiting the Earth!

I am interested in - do tell me aboutherhimitthem

Algo bueno para la humanidad...

Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuck!

Despite all of our efforts, Sally got knocked up.

I have a Chemistry test next week and I am still wondering what the heck an electron is.

Even though I have given up a number of fun fun good things, I am still nowhere near meeting my goal of x amount of dollars for my upcoming trip.

Oh and I still haven't told the family that I'm deserting them for a little while...

I found out that "the friends of my friend" are going to Ibiza.

And then, of course, "my friend" is going to Santorini.

I have class at 7:00am tomorrow so I should go to sleep.

Yeah...good night.