It has been a crazy past week dealing with a series of unfortunate events. Last week survived a tornado in the tunnel below the library with other studious peoples. I couldn’t help but think that if I died, it wouldn’t be so bad since I was with some of the people that I cared about most. It’s always a pleasant surprise running into friends at the library :) Always brightens up an otherwise typical day of studying. Because when I take study breaks, instead of wasting time on the computer reading about Korean celebrities that I don’t know/care about, I can actually go and waste time chatting! And sharing contraband food!

This Saturday one of the thing that I knew (but hoped) wouldn’t happen actually happened: my car died. Twice. The first time was when I was trying to leave the library (yes, I still go on Saturdays, I am such a badass) and it wouldn’t start. To add to my frustrations, my student ID card got blown away and under the car where I couldn’t reach it. So 1) I couldn’t move my car to get my ID 2) even if I lugged all my stuff back to my room, I couldn’t get in without my ID. So I was screwed. Maybe it was a good thing I was wearing a miniskirt as I was attempting to retrieve my card, because a passing construction worker took pity on my and offered to take a look at it (and he got my card out as well). So it’s my alternator that’s dead. The man was nice enough to go get his car and jump start mine.

I was lucky enough to go pick up a friend and as we were in the turning lane (so close to home!), my car died again. Yes. jafp[awjfpc;na;wf. It was such a good thing that another friend was following us back (we no longer had faith in the reliability of my car) and he was so nice enough to use his car to push mine across the intersection and to the gas station. And to use his emergency lights, since my car was completely dead and it was quickly turning into dusk.

We were hoping that this would be the last straw before my parents finally got me a new car. By new, I don’t mean brand spanking new, but a different car. Preferably made in this century. Because, really, I was given this car because it died on my mom and it gave her a reason to get a brand new car. But it was all wishful thinking. The verdict: it’s getting looked at sometime next week by my uncle, who’s going to replace the part. And then they’re giving it back to me to drive. Commence more spazzing.

I’ve had conversations concerning why do parents give their kids old cars for their first car. My parents’ reasoning was that new drivers will make driving mistakes and scratch up/get hit/total the car, so an old car (especially ours, where we owe nothing on it) is fine because you won’t have to worry about fixing the damages. So cheap~!! >_<;; One of my friends think that it’s sooo dangerous to give new drivers crappy cars to drive (they don’t have experience to deal with situations), but another thinks that you’ll learn to become a better driver by dealing with crappy cars. Both good points.

I’m still going to keep checking out cars on Vehix haha.

And that ends the more atypical unfortunate events. The typical ones included more bad weather off and on, Japanese grammar test Friday (B- because of stupid mistakes!! T-T), Japanese oral Monday (probably bombed it due to nerves), and personality exam 9:35 am today (nearly pulled an all-nighter for that baby!).

Despite all of those, there are still fortunate events. I got to celebrate Chinese New Year (Laotian people celebrate on the third full moon of the lunar calender according to google, I just always knew it was sometime in April) with two of my best friends and her family (lots of yummy food and I got to see Jay Chou perform for the CCTV lunar year program!!), my North Face Pumori jacket came in (although, it doesn’t keep out the wind like one reviewer stated, in which his wife wore it in the northen Georgia mountains with heavy winds, but maybe she wore it inside a shell), I’m getting over my cold, my dress coat from Yesstyle is closer to being here (it’s now being ordered from suppliers), got Jay Chou’s new album Cowboy on the Run, was shown again and again what good friends I have, got to eat lots of good home cooked meals, discovered the auto sum function in Excel (makes my life so much easier doing stats), and a few other private events.

So glad that I bought this before it sold out! Managed to snag the black (right) =) The smallest available was a 55S with a bust size of 34″, which is equivalent to US size 4-6 according to their size chart. I wear 0-2, so I was kind of concerned that it would be too big. And Yesstyle has really strict return policies (no returns except for size exchanges or damaged items)…. However, since you layer under coats, it’s recommended that you buy a size up to accommodate layers. So now my only worry is that the coat will be too long for me. The website stated that the length is 36″, but I’m 60″ (5′0), so that is at least knee-length then??