Pics of my new dress and new face pic, I guess?

Gala/new pic/dress Link

So....Tonight...the gala...and Wednesday...CSUMB fundraiser...where to start, where to start.

Wednesday night:
Overall it went really well and I'd go again. The people I met were extremely nice and took me serious as a college student and valued my opinion and basically said by the end of the night I was very well mannered, held myself up with poise, and they were very impressed with how well I was able to articulate. One of the guys I met wrote a book, wanted to give me a copy of it, and wrote in it to me and said "with respect and admiration." Pretty good for 2 hours! More like 3, but it was over an hour of award recipients speaking and introductions of the recipients (each award recipient had someone introduce them that was a PAST award recipient and KNEW the current recipient personally. Their intros went anywhere from 2-3 minutes AND the award recipients on average went between 5-10 minutes and they were SUPPOSE to be 3 minutes! Talk about a bore...). I had an intellectual conversation with a guy at Driscoll's (sp?) strawberries about the ocean and supporting education of the oceans, another convo with him and a guy who works sat Alliance home something corp. about the type of internships students look for, and lastly with the guy who wrote the book about various things. I'd go again next year in a heartbeat! Some well named people in our community were there too. The Panettas who are well liked around here and was Clinton's chief of staff, I believe, Chef Curtino who co-founded the Sardine Factory and is on the Cannery Row Company board or something (world famous chef and NICE guy), and some other people.

Tonight:
The gala overall was fun. Things happened that don't involve me, but overall it was interesting. Case in point: Lauren and I went and got dessert. She got a plate of all the chocolate cake type, whatever, desserts, and I got a plate of all the fruit and drizzled chocolate over it. Lauren, back at our table, gets a piece of banana with chocolate on it and goes to take a bite, it falls off her fork! The banana fits the end of my dress, which is black (check the picture link above), splatters on her dress (which is mostly pink and some white), and LASTLY falls onto MY foot (which is in a strappy, black, sandal). The dresses weren't cool, mine seems to be fine (it's black), hers will live, and you really can't see the spots, but she felt bad, but it was cool. I had no issue with it...the FUNNY part...was my FOOT! It's covered in chocolate...we go to the bathroom to see to our dresses and I stick my foot into the sink (the aquarium has grown human height sinks and little kid height sinks, I put my foot into the little kid height sink) and washed my foot. Did you know that melted chocolate is pretty oily?! So yeah, that was FUNNY. Jack, well...I was suppose to go to the event on his ticket, but he couldn't come last, last minute because his parents had to go see a relative (or something) and he had to watch his sisters. He felt bad when I FINALLY got ahold of him and it seemed like he was bummed he couldn't go. I got in, though, the aquarium didn't even CHECK to see if I could or not...I had no issue getting in. I saw lots of people I knew too, which was cool. The food was like last year. It's not bad food, pretty good, dessert was good...dancing of course there was (I didn't, but lots of others did (I left early)). We were lucky, the group I was with, that we got a table! They did NOT have enough tables for everyone at the gala, it was unbelievable. People were sitting everywhere, it seemed. But again, overall it was a nice night.

So...that was my week, overall. There was some shocker news throughout the week too, but *shrugs* Life. Nothing life threatening or anything. Finals begin for me on Monday, May 9th with my ocean final being the first and that day I also have a chem exam. I gotta start studying!!

Hope everyone is well and for all of you that are OUT next week...You better be VERY sorry about it! For everyone else, hope finals go well (and for those who are finishing up).

Jamie...you suck for being out of school next week! I still love ya though.

Yeah, so, I haven't updated in a LONG time...SORRY! I've been too lazy to update my xanga and then my Internet has been a little flakey and school and stuff. *shrugs* What can I say?

It's been pretty much the norm lately. School M-F, Work F & Sat. I'm tired, I have hw, I have tests.

I didn't write about Pismo though. My family and a bunch of other family members went to Pismo. It was fun. I got quite a few mosquito bites, but only 3 of them really festered into being a problem. One on my leg is still trying to heal and we went to Pismo on the 8th! The swelling and heat on the bite is gone, but I've got this funny kind of circle/ring around the bite. *shrugs* All I know is it's healing. And the one on my arm is doin' okay. It's mostly gone, but the one on my hand scarred or something. I didn't scratch it much at all...but it swelled up into a red bunch and now it looks like it scabed over and I picked the scab off, which it never did...it's really odd...but it hasn't changed at all. *shrugs* (I know you all just WANTED to learn about my bug bites!) The other fun thing is I got to drive my brother's ATV around a little. It was lots of fun, a bit nerve racking at first since it has gears, but I finally got it and got to 2nd gear! LoL. It was fun though.

What else have I done since then...Not much else...I got an 80% on my last math test *cough* and an 81% on my last chem test *cough.* (I took those tests before I went to Pismo)I don't know what I got on my last ASL test, yet (I took it the week after Pismo). I think we find out this week. I got a 96% on my last Ocean test, which I took last week. I don't know about my atmo test yet since I don't have that class till Wednesday.

Oh! Something cool...I get to go to Monterey's National Weather Service office and Fleet Numerical Meteorology and Oceanography Center this Wednesday!! For a time those offices were giving the weather for Iraq. I'm pretty excited about going.

Since I'm actually in present news now....I can tell about this week!

Wednesday I'm going to a $175 dinner at CSUMB. It's called A Celebration of Community and awards 8 people in the community in different categories. I'm going because it's also a fund raising event to help to get money for the local area scholarships, which I am a recipient of. All 300 seats are taken...amazing...

The other big thing is the Aquarium's Spring Gala is this Saturday. It's been a PAIN in the rear to go to, too! So...I tried to RSVP, but I couldn't because I'm on leave. I find this out the DAY I find my dress! So I HAD to make sure I could go. I call two friends, and one of them has a guest ticket because his friend isn't able to go so I'm going on his guest ticket, but I told my friend that I wanted to take her (before I found out I couldn't RSVP), so I'm hunting around for a ticket (still, in fact). So I have the dress and a ticket, I look at my work schedule and I'm all "okay, I work my normal schedule," then it clicks in my head AFTER I left work last Saturday and Anthony (one of our managers who does ths schedule) isn't around that I'm WORKING 4pm-11:30pm on SATURDAY. I panic...call work to see if I can switch with someone and luckily enough for me...a co-worker had told me that her hours were cut way down this week so she's going to take my hours. I hate to miss the hours, but at least I got the night off! I asked for that night off, but Anthony must have forgotten, oh well. I still haven't found a guest ticket for my friend, but I'm STILL working on it! I'm up to asking 13 people now...5 of them haven't responded yet, but I BETTER have a good time this Saturday at the Gala or I'm going to be one MAD person!

Okay, I think that's all for now. Gotta go change my laundry loads, eat dinner, unload the dishwasher, and study.

Hope everyone is doin' well!! 3.5 weeks left till summer...

Oh my goodness...I have been SO busy lately! This week is absolutely crazy. I have a chem test on Wed, math test on Thurs, and a chem lab due Friday, math homework due tomorrow (my brain won't function for the homework), and I was SUPPOSE to have an ASL test this Thursday, but she was sick last week so I don't think it's this week, least I'm hopin' so! I ain't ready for it if it is. On top of it all...I'm leaving for Pismo this Friday and I have to do the questionnaires and surveys, still, for the conference. I haven't even studied math yet, and I KINDA studied for chem this last weekend at work. I'm a bit stressed. I'm more worried about getting my math hw done, atm Any ways, all for now. I'll write more later, sometime.

¡¡HAPPY APRIL!! I hope no one got fooled too badly on April Fool's Day.