breaking the (bubbly) habit

Today I ran across a 6-degrees windy blustery drizzly campus just to get my hands on a cup of ice-cold bubble tea. CLEARLY, THIS ADDICTION NEEDS TO STOP.

I couldn't feel my hands when I got back :(


yeah, that's kind of the only thing I had to say today. other than the fact that despite all its negative qualities, i have the strangest urge to scribble out an ode to bubble tea, and also all my resolutions to work on my two mofo long essays this three-day weekend have completely failed me. it is Sunday evening and I have a grand total of half a paragraph of one essay done. (Japanese midterm on Tuesday - have not studied, have to read The Histories by Herodotus for Tuesday - have not begun, have to do PoliSci reading for both last week and this week - have not begun and do not intend to.)

the stupid Core Curriculum (which is partly why I came to Columbia in the first place) is eating up so many of my credits and hours that I CAN'T EVEN BEGIN TO START DECIDING ON MY MAJOR. fml. how to decide between polisci and sociology and EALAC (East Asian Languages And Cultures - where i can specialize in either polisci or sociology, amongst others) when i don't even have the time of day to breathe with Japanese (5 credit class hello) and Lit Hum (next year CC) and Uni Writing (next year Frontiers) not to mention all the other required classes. Taking upwards of 19 credits is supposed to be suicide (24 is the absolute max you can take without the dean's approval), but those compulsory classes alone take up 12. Which leaves me one more class if I want to be able to sleep humane hours, and two more if I really want to push my mental faculties to breaking point. I crack under pressure. bei tahan. :'(

this frustration currently stems from the fact that I'm supposed to be registering for spring classes in a month and I planned myself a 19-credit (i.e. borderline suicide level) timetable today (instead of working on my essay as I rightfully should have been) before realizing I don't even have a single polisci class in there, fml. Just Sociology and Introduction to Japanese Civilization, which I'm only taking for my global core and also because my advisor recommended me to major in EALAC. :/ I wanted to take French too (4 credits) but i guess that's a no-go. :'( meh, maybe I should go ahead and take that 2.5 credit decelerated Korean class for fun after all......

/academic rant

back to topic, a friend of a friend drank the bubble tea here for 30 days straight and gained 20 pounds. ...this does not bode well for yours truly.

yummy this chicken dumpling soup is super nommy



i work on my essay starting now. >:CCCCCCC