Please pray for the women and people of Sudan: Widespread rape, harassment still haunt Sudan's Darfur region: UN

SAD!! I just wrote the longest blog about my weekend, moving, thoughts on the Olympics, wedding stuff, etc., and it somehow disappeared. Perhaps if I feel inspired later I'll try to recreate it. But in a nutshell: I moved (thanks to Joy, Phil and Justin for the help), goodbye to apt.1006, Olympics were fun, don't yell at Paul Hamm- it wasn't his fault, those crazy booing Greeks, hooray for wedding dresses! I think that was about it.

I am really stressed out. Here are a couple reasons why:
4. Am moving tomorrow. Must finish packing. Why do I have so much stuff all of a sudden?
3. Have to take a cab to the UHaul place. That sucks. Why isn't it Metro accessible???
2. Have to drive a big ass UHaul cargo van. Have never driven a big ass cargo van in my life.
1. And the NUMBER ONE reason I am stressed out: Yesterday, I threw a couple bags of garbage down the garbage chute, and in doing so, also THREW MY KEYS DOWN THE GARBAGE CHUTE. I screamed as I heard my keys fly and clank down the chute. And then I almost cried.

I just want to be moved.

Have you ever wanted to cuss/scream/swear/throw large objects/cuss some more out of frustration and stress?

Yeah, me too.

I HATE MOVING!!!

I'm at work, and still tiiiired. I got in on Sunday night past midnight, and have had trouble falling asleep at night, and waking up in the morning, since then. The time difference thing always kicks my ass. But I think it's getting a little better. Work has been low key, since two of my bosses are out this week. It's given me lots of time to surf and think about....

MOVING! I'm moving on Friday. I started packing last night, and oh man, I sure have a lot of books. I'm renting a uhaul van, which is a little nerve wracking, cause I have never driven a van. I hope I can manage!! If you're in the DC area, and not doing anything Friday, help a sister out!!!

I've had many thoughts running around my head lately. More on those later. But hey, if you want to see something cool, check out Yu.S.A.

Last night at home!! SAD!!! Just got back from watching "Princess Diaries 2." Awful movie, but so fun. Anne Hathway gets to wear the prettiest clothes in it. Too bad both of the guy love interests were butt ugly. Props to Jo and Sarah for accompanying me.

It's been a fun week. Went to the beach Tuesday, hung out around the hood on Wednesday, and then went to Napa on Thursday. It was awesome. Stopped by Robert Mondavie to look around, then went to Sterling, where we took the gondola up to the winery and enjoyed the most beautiful view, then stopped by Beringer Brothers just to look around. Friday hung out, and then said bye to Jess.

Other fun thing of the week: going wedding dress shopping with Jo. Pretty pretty, lots of pretty dresses.

Been watching the Olympics all week. Go gymnastics! Go swimming. My fave. I dislike Michael Phelps, mainly cause I'm sick of him, and I love Gary Hall, Jr., cause he may be arrogant, but he back it up, and he's fun. Looking forward to synchronized swimming. I don't care what people say, that crap is HARD. You try swimming underwater for long periods of time, lifting yourself out at exact heights, chucking people out of the water and treading water while holding another person up, all while synchronizing with seven other people. Plus, it's pretty. Oh, and has anyone seen that trampoline event? It's CRAZY. When did trampoline become an olympic sport?

Oh, and Yayayayayayay! to my roommate Joy, who just finished her last day of work!!! You kicked Cov's ass!!

That reminds me. I have to move next week. BLAAAH.

I sooooooo do not want to go back to DC. I want to stay in warm, sunny, not humid Sunnyvale forever!! Also, I love my family so so much. It's awesome being here. I can't believe I have to go to work the day after tomorrow. That sucks biiiiiig time. Pray for me. Ugh.

Alright, time to go pack. Goodbye Sunnyvale. DC here I come!!

Read this NY Times article! It's kind of long, but oh man, after reading it I'm so mad. Some people are lying liars, and are mean spirited, bitter lying people. It is obvious they are lying about John Kerry's military service just because they didn't like his anti-war stance, which he had every right to speak up about. I mean, half these guys are contradicting themselves, their memories conveniently different than they were a couple years ago when they defended the guy. And the other half are talking about events where their presence at the event is completely undocumented and unproven. Talk about a credibility gap. Swift Boat Veterans for Truth=Crazy Bastards. And hm, imagine that, the group is funded by Texas Republicans. I'm shocked.

Friendly Fire: The Birth of an Anti-Kerry Ad
An ad questioning John Kerry's war record sprang from an alliance between Texas Republicans and veterans angry about Mr. Kerry's criticism of the Vietnam War.

God is not a Republican.Or a Democrat.
Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson, and others on the Religious Right claim that God has taken a side in this election, and that Christians should only vote for George W. Bush. The Bush-Cheney campaign even told volunteers it was their "duty" to make church directories available to the campaign.
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Also, an article from Washington Post
Pastors Issue Directive in Response to Reelection Tactic
By Alan Cooperman
Wednesday, August 18, 2004; Page A04
Ten teachers of Christian ethics at leading seminaries and universities have written a letter to President Bush criticizing his campaign's outreach to churches, particularly its effort to gather church membership directories.
The Aug. 12 letter asked Bush to "repudiate the actions of your re-election campaign, which violated a fundamental principle of our democracy." It also urged both presidential candidates to "respect the integrity of all houses of worship."
The letter's signers included evangelical Christians who teach at generally conservative institutions, such as the Rev. George G. Hunter III of Asbury Theological Seminary in Kentucky and Richard V. Pierard of Gordon College in Massachusetts. Other signers included the Revs. Paul Raushenbush of Princeton University, Walter B. Shurden of Mercer University in Georgia, James M. Dunn of Wake Forest Divinity School in North Carolina and Ronald B. Flowers of Texas Christian University.
"When certain church leaders acceded to the request of the Bush/Cheney campaign to hand over the names and addresses of their congregants, they crossed a line," the letter said. "It is proper for church leaders to address social issues, but it is improper, and even illegal, for them to get their churches to endorse candidates or align their churches with a specific political party."
The Bush-Cheney campaign has defended its outreach as a "peer-to-peer" effort rather than an attempt to enlist churches in partisan electioneering, which would violate Internal Revenue Service rules. Bush supporters also charge that some African American churches routinely support Democratic candidates.
The campaign has come under growing criticism since The Washington Post reported July 1 on an instruction sheet for Bush's religious "coalition coordinators." It listed 22 duties, beginning with: "Send your Church Directory to your State Bush-Cheney '04 Headquarters" and "Identify another conservative church in your community who we can organize for Bush."
The ethicists' letter said that "Christians, individually, should prayerfully seek God's direction when voting, but when any church leaders contend that they speak for God and have the right to tell congregants how to vote, such leaders have assumed prerogatives to which they have no right."

Yeah dude. I've been really irritated lately how it seems that there's this idea that if you're a "good" Christian, you should vote for Bush, because he's a man of God. Just because you're a man of faith doesn't automatically make you a great president. You can be a man of God, and an awful president.

Dude. This election is taking over my life.

Home Day 4. Yesterday we hung out all morning, and then headed up to SF to go watch the SFGiants play the Montreal Expos. We won!! YAY! It was a pretty close game, but we pulled it out at the end. J.T. had a single, and an AWESOME catch. It was very fun, and I'm glad that Jess, Sarah, Jason, Jeff, Jo, David and McG could come with. Funniest part: eighth/ninth inning, a bunch of Korean American guys were sitting behind us heckling. They kept making fun of the Expos left fielder and his big "goon deng," (his big ass) and worrying about the seagull ddong. Jess, Sarah and I were shaking with laughter. After all the junk we ate that night (hot link, garlic fries, hot chocolate) the laughing hurt a lot. But it was fun.

Today, me, my sister and Jess went to Santa Cruz and hung out at the beach! Went to Pleasure Pizza, then sat at the beach and played in the ocean. It was a GORGEOUS beautiful wonderful day. We went to the Boardwalk and rode the Giant Dipper roller coaster, and then got ice cream and Marianne's. All in all-- GREAT DAY!! I love California weather. It was absolutely perfect today.

I heart California.

It is 9:21 Sunday morning, and I am sitting in my brother's room typing my blog from my home in sunny, beautiful Sunnyvale, CA. And that makes me incredibly happy. Flew in yesterday-- my flight left DC at 6:50 AM EST, and I landed in CA at 11:00 PST. It was looooong. I slept/dozed for most of it though. Got home, ate some grub with the fam, and then Susanna Han came over and we hung out all day. Good times. Went to Fantasia, Westgate, El Paseo-- it was awesome. Also got to hang out with Secret James Noh. Dang. That kid is TALL.

Jess Ko is coming over tonight, and the rest of the week is going to be spent hanging out with my mom and sister, showing Jess around and eating. So far I'm thinking we're gonna go to a Giants game, Santa Cruz, maybe Gilroy, Napa Valley... anyone have any other suggestions?

Dude, it is so sunny and BEAUTIFUL outside. Forecast for today is sunny and mid 70s. Someone please tell me why I ever left?

Wow. James McGreevey resigned. That is crazy-- reading that headline yesterday was crazy. I think the whole situation is pretty sad. Poor wife and kids. And McGreevey- man. I would hope that in this day and age a man would come out of the closet because he wanted to, not because he was being blackmailed and extorted. But DUDE. You're the governor! A little discretion please? Didn't the clinton/lewisnky thing teach you anything? Don't screw around with your aides, male or female! I guess the guy had to resign, due to the whole extramarital affair being sued for sexual harassment thing, but I wonder if he would have had to resign if it had just come out that he was gay? Do you think our country is in a place that it would accept gay public officials in all levels of government? Just something to ponder....

Wow. James McGreevey resigned. That is crazy-- reading that headline yesterday was crazy. I think the whole situation is pretty sad. Poor wife and kids. And McGreevey- man. I would hope that in this day and age a man would come out of the closet because he wanted to, not because he was being blackmailed and extorted. But DUDE. You're the governor! A little discretion please? Didn't the clinton/lewisnky thing teach you anything? Don't screw around with your aides, male or female! I guess the guy had to resign, due to the whole extramarital affair being sued for sexual harassment thing, but I wonder if he would have had to resign if it had just come out that he was gay? Do you think our country is in a place that it would accept gay public officials in all levels of government? Just something to ponder....

What is wrong with my Giants??? Why aren't they doing well? This is seriously stressing me out people. They need to start winning. If they do not go to the playoffs, I will be very very sad.

Two more days till I go home. Hallelujiah. The only thing I'm not looking forward to are comments from my mom and other church ladies-- "hannah, it looks like you gained some weight." Sigh. Maybe it will inspire me to get off my ass and exercise some more.

Whenever I hear or see my mom cry, it makes me cry too. I don't know what it is. Something about her crying just sets it off in me too.

I am addicted to Flaming Hot Cheetos.

The Olympics start on Friday. Man, I used to be so obsessed with the Olympics. I couldn't wait to watch them, couldn't wait to see the Opening Ceremonies. This year, I completely forgot they were even coming. I just don't have the same excitement about them that I used to. But I'm still rooting for USA and South Korea. Especially that Gary Ha11 Jr. What a cutie. If I have time, I'll try to watch some swimming, synchronized swimming, soccer and gymnastics. Hey. Whatever happened to Amy Chow?

Weekend Fun

Christine.Byun was here this weekend. Good times. On Saturday, we sat around in Dupont and people watched, then walked around Georgetown, ate some dinner, headed to the apartment and watched Trading Spaces at NU, then made our way up to Adams Morgan. What happens in Adams Morgan stays in Adams Morgan. Sunday we dragged our asses outta bed, went to church and then stopped by the church picnic before dropping off Byun at Dulles (and almost making her miss her flight. ooops. Sorry Byun). Overall, it was wonderful hanging out with my girls, laughing eating drinking. Dude. My college friends are awesome.

What else what else? I just need to get through this week, and then I go hooooome! Yes! Man, I really need a vacation. My plans are to study, veg, play and eat.

Sarah came home from EuroTrip!! Yay!! Minsoo left for school! Saaaaaad. It's weird to think that he's for reals out of the house now. Never coming back. All grown up. Sarah and I will just have to mooch off of mom and dad for as long as possible, to fill that void. hahahha.

Last LSAT class is tonight!! Yes!! I learned a lot, but I have sooo much studying to do. Boooo.

Movies I want to watch:
Garden State
Bourne Supremacy
Spider Man 2
Princess Diaries 2
Harold and Kumar

Wow. This post was so random.

Operation Surprise Joy

Partners in Crime: Hannah and Byun
Our Mission: Surprise Joy!!!

The setup: Christine was supposed to come in for a journalism conference, but then told us that she couldn't come because of class. Joy and I were so bummed, but Joy even more so, cause her and Byun had not seen each other since graduation. However, unbeknownst to Joy, Christine later changed her mind and decided to come. She told me of this new development, but we kept it from Joy to make it a big surprise. Ladies and gentlemen, Operation Surprise Joy was afoot!

The plan: Christine was coming in on Thursday morning, so we decided she'd take a bus to the Metro, Metro to my apartment where I would be waiting, she could shower and change, and then we'd go to Joy's work where Surprise!!! CByunnie's in DC!!! Shrieking and laughing would ensue, and our fun weekend would commence.

Things never go as planned

The challenges: I am the worst secret keeper EVER. Seriously. I can't tell a lie worth crap. Combine that with the fact that Joy can sniff out a secret, a surprise, a plot, me hiding something from a mile away, it made for a stressful month for me. Christine's tactic was to avoid talking to Joy. Mine was to avoid the topic like the plague.

What really happened: This morning, everything was going as planned. Christine caught the shuttle and made her way to our apartment. I told Joy I was going in late, so I sat around dawdling for a while. I think me dawdling also had the affect of Joy dawdling as well. She was taking forever to get ready, and when she finally left it was 9:10. I knew Christine was going to arrive soon, but I quickly discounted them seeing each other, cause I figured Joy was going through the underground, and Christine would just go up the escalator. I'm waiting, waiting, and then I get a phone call from Christine. She's breaking up, but I can make out some laughter, and finally her saying "I ran into Joy in front of the cookie shop!!" OH CRAP. So much for surprising Joy at work!! Needless to say, Joy walked smack dab into Christine, and hysteria and laughing ensued much earlier than we anticipated. Oh well.

Conclusion: Our plan was a success!! Joy was surprised!! Even she was shocked at how she had no clue. Christine and I are master decievers. And the three of us are gonna have a FREAKIN fun weekend.

I am a master of deception.

It's Tuuuuuuesday. I'm kind of bummed, because it's one of my favorite co workers last day. Sad. Good luck and godspeed to Michelle Goryn!

I think I'm still worn out from this weekend. Saturday I hung out all day with Joy, Robyn (in town for the weekend) Julie and baby Amanda! Baby Amanda is a little cutie with such an adorable smile, and it was great catching up with Julie and Robyn. On Sunday one of my cousins and her two friends came into town, and we hung out all day. Ate seafood buffet at Phillips (I ate SO MANY crawfish and crabs), walked around Dupont, walked around Georgetown, then went to WWII, Korean War, Lincoln and Vietnam memorials. If you're ever in DC, go to see the memorials at sunset/night. They're much prettier, and it's usually cooler, at night.

I am so looking forward to this weekend. :)

I checked out the online albums of Johnny and Bev's wedding and honeymoon. They look so happy!! I was getting a little misty looking at the wedding pictures, cause it was good to see two awesome people who should be getting married getting married. By the way, remind me to ask Beverly about the church she got married at, cause yo, that's where I want to get married too.

Watch out. My why you should vote for Kerry/why you should vote against Bush essay/rant is coming soon. I've been jotting down notes, trying to organize it in my head. It'll be fun to write. If I ever find a big block of time.

Week and a half until I go hooooome!! InNOut, here I come!!