I had what I would qualify as a pretty crappy week. I have a new theory: the weeks that are supposed to be "short" because there's a day of vacation in it, such as this past week and MLK Day, are weeks that actually feel longer. No way did this week feel like just 4 days of school.

I started school on Tuesday. I had to do all those little things, like send in my Econ form, buy my books, etc. I also had an 8 AM class that day and I didn't want to oversleep.

On Wednesday, I went to my Religious Studies class and I thought it was gonna be cool to learn about religious things. The professor started talking about all this stuff, like mysticism and spirits, and how the soul and spirits differ. I had no idea what he was talking about. In fact, I'm pretty sure nobody did. This was not what I expected. I expected some kind of comparative religion class, but it seemed like it was just going to focus on Native American and Catholic stuff. I just went back to my apartment and immediately began looking for another class, because I knew I wasn't going to do well in trying to figure out the topic of Mysticism.

The crappy thing was that most of the classes in Berkeley were already full and people were already waitlisted. All my roommates and friends were really supportive in helping me trying to find a new class. This was something I never really had to deal with before. I put myself on a few waitlists, I even went to an American Studies class and sat in for an hour and half, but the professor said there were 15 people already waitlisted (in a 50 person class), so I probably didn't have a chance. I went to see a Scandinavian professor who had a class that was open (only 4 people showed up the first day according to her) and she seemed thrilled to have me interested in her class. She gave me the first reading assignment, and I just looked at if briefly and didn't understand what it was talking about. Eventually, Ed told me his Asian American class had a few openings left, and that's what I went for. I don't know if I'm going to do well in this class, but I know I didn't have a chance tyring to understand mysticism.

I'm already behind in all my classes because I spent so much time trying to find a new class. Next semester I'm going to sign up for 21 units and then just drop stuff, which I know people do. That's way smarter than signing up for 14 units and then trying to find a replacement. I was even so desperate, I was willing to take a decal class (a class at Berkeley taught by Berkeley students) on Romance Novel Writing. I emailed the person in charge and she said "thanks for the interest, but we're overflowing with people. Good luck." What the hell?

On Wednesday, the day got even worse when i bought a Vietnamese sandwich for lunch. As I was picking at it, I bit into what i thought was a green pepper. I realized I thought wrong when my mouth started burning. Water does nothing to relieve the pain. I actually had to go buy myself a class of milk because I remember watching on Home Improvement that milk is the only thing that works. Unfortunately, my 2% Milk wasn't as effective as I thought. I was just walking around campus drinking a glass of milk.

But it wasn't all that bad of a week. I did have dinner with Shannon this week and we did some good catching up. It was pretty fun. We determined that we are thinkers, haha. It's always good to have someone to talk to about life because you can't bottle it up inside of you for too long.

Brian mentioned the other day how we haven't done Karaoke in a while. I agreed, and went home that night looking on eBay to see how much a Karaoke machine actually costs. That got me thinking that maybe I should blow some extra cash I have lying around on a Karaoke machine, a couple of mics, and some CD-Gs. But then again, there's no point in having a Karaoke machine if I'm going to be the only one using it, so I might as well buy it and have regular Karaoke nights at my house. The downside is I was saving for a PS3. I'll have you guys vote on what I should do:

1. Buy a Karaoke machine so we can have regular Karaoke nights at the Lem household, but have no PS3.
2. Save for a PS3 and spend my nights playing video games, but have no Karaoke machine.
3. Sell my PS2 right now so I'll enough cash to buy both a Karaoke Machine and a PS3, leaving me with no game console for the next 5 months.
4. Use my money to buy some drugs.

I found a good website for all you Chuck Norris fans. I thought it was pretty funny.