This Tuesday is the last day of school, and yet I still have to write my short story, complete those dratted outlines, and create a fucking picture book by cutting a whole lot of paper. I also need to finish a calculus project, but hopefully Jacky will take care of it. Ahem.

I told myself last Friday that I'd get a head start.

And, well… just look where that got me.

On the other hand, the season finale of Legend of the Seeker was… fantastic! And Bridget Regan, the actress who plays Kahlan Amnell, is indisputably beautiful.

However, Denna, the Mord-Sith introduced in the eighth episode, has got to be one of the coolest and sexiest characters on television.

Yes, the skin-tight leather and the torture are very… bondage-esque. But undeniably hot.

You have also got to see Denna's dungeon scene with Richard Cypher.

I must say… I do have quite the impeccable taste.

Yay Jacky! Yay Jacky! Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay Jacky! *claps hands in eager hamster fashion*

Hamster's can't clap, by the way.

Yay Jacky! Yay Jacky! Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay I hope you like the Indian curry I made today! If you come, that is.

That's right, folks. I cooked a batch of tasty vegetable curry for me English class today.

Not a typo. The "me" is not a typo.

My finest creation yet.

Update: I am a curry goddess.

People are strange. Especially people my age. That's all I can say. They're very strange…

My last AP test of the year is tomorrow. Yep. AP Biology. I've been failing this class all year.

So… things I need to get out of the way after APs: my short story (yep, I still haven't finished it), my English project (which involves reading a boring book that has a condescending attitude toward atheists), and my biology project (which involves designing a lab-in-a-box for unscrupulous kiddies). And then, at the very end of May, I have to rapidly pack up and prepare for me trip to the People's Republic. You know, the commie country.

Sigh.

Oh, take a look at this actual footage from the White House correspondents' dinner, featuring a humorous speech by Barack Obama. I was actually surprised by the kind of jabs he made at Joe Biden and the Republican Party; part of me thought it was another brilliant joke by the Onion News Network.

In my conversations with various classmates regarding their college choices and ambitions, I've often heard repeated the phrases:

"My parents are forcing me to major in…"

"My parents want me to attend…"

"I applied to this school/major only because my parents…"

"My parents told me there'd be no money in that career… so they want me to major in…"

The frequency of this type of response (accompanied by a look of supreme glumness/disgruntlement) was astounding. In addition, I noted two things:

1. The people who responded this way were all (I suppose not surprisingly) ethnic Asians, and
2. Even though they were clearly displeased/unenthusiastic, they're actually following their parents' orders.

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Back in New York for another college open house. This time in the former industrial city of Troy. I'm tired now. The Pacifier is such a trite movie.

Did you know that Troy was settled by Dutch colonists? I never knew that. Also, the famous American writer Herman Melville apparently used to live there. I read "Bartleby the Scrivener" in my eleventh grade English class. It was taught by a witch.

All this constant back and forth (this time, a delightful two-way trip of sixteen hours) along the same stretch of highway is getting a bit tiresome. Thankfully, there was a lovely Indian restaurant (with an entire page full of vegetarian cuisine — the most I've seen from a menu in ages) waiting for us at the end. We forgot to bring the camera; otherwise, I'd take pictures of that double-sided service plaza called Angola in New York.

And it rained steadily for most of the day. I like rain.

I need to buy a smoothie on the way back.

Update: Dude, my suspicions were confirmed. Rensselaer is a Dutch name.

Silly Korean ninjas.