so i got back from my trip and had three relatively normal days...saturday, sunday (good to be back at mosaic), and monday. (on monday i went to work, then hung out with yoon, who had all of 4 hours to hang out that night, then she was leaving for korea the next morning. we went to the grove where esther met up with us, and just had a pretty good time talking and just hanging out...too short! esther and i had dinner after i dropped yoon off - shabu shabu at seoul garden - the best! annie called us in the middle of dinner, so the three of us had a memorable conversation...me relaying everything annie was saying to esther, vice versa...)

anyways, tuesday morning, i woke up sick, so i didn't go into work, but then wednesday was anne's (she was a temp in the office that we all love) last day, so i felt i should go in, so i worked wednesday. then i got called into jury duty on thursday, where i started feeling worse, so it was a good thing that though i was called to serve a case, they settled before the end of the day. i rested the rest of the day, but i still wasn't feeling well enough to go to work on friday, so i just did a whole lot of resting...

to make a long story short, on saturday, i was changing to meet up with mel and tina for lunch, and as i was bent over to change my pants, i had a bad coughing fit. i coughed especially hard, and all of a sudden, i felt something go in my back. it was kinda sore, so i just stretched for a little bit, but it didn't seem too bad, so i went ahead and met up with the girls at king taco. after lunch, we went back to tina and albert's place, where i decided to stretch it out a bit. big mistake...i could barely get up and walk after that. after a coupla advil, it got better, but i felt so crippled! since then, it's gradually gotten better, but it's still kinda bad. plus, my cough got much worse, and where i thought i was feeling better on saturday, i started feeling bad again on monday at work. argh!! my body's falling apart!

in other news, i had orientation yesterday at ucla. it went pretty well, and i think i got a better impression of the program than what i know about michigan. i met up with susan there, and i think some of her excitement rubbed off on me (that girl's pretty crazy). also, i haven't had a good chance to even think about school what with everything that's been going on, so it's starting to hit me, i guess. anyways, i'm starting to get excited, though this quarter is going to start off very, very slow...i'm going to work (part-time) more than go to school. hopefully that will change next quarter.