It is 1:30 am. And I'm still awake.

I've got a lot on my mind. It's that time of the year when I have a lot of thoughts racing through my head, and makes it hard for me to fall asleep.

Mainly, school and the Choi family. Perspective, pain and suffering, empathy and sympathy, thankfulness and selfishness. Continued worries about school, church, family.

Night time isn't a good time to blog for me. I get a little... melodramatic.

I wonder what tomorrow will bring.

I Got No Juice

Finals are coming up, and I've got no juice. No drive, no sense of urgency, no low grade panic. No juice. That sense of impending doom is just not there. And that's what drives me to study like a madwoman before finals. Please, somebody- light a fire under my ass.

Last Night, I Had a Dream

Last night I dreamt that two hot guys were both into me. But then one of the guys hooked up with this chick, and she turned into a purple alien who tried to kill me and my friends. She even made the patio of my five story circular house explode. I had to call the guy and tell him to come back because his one night stand was trying to kill me. But then right before alien chick died, she made us realize our true feelings for each other. It sounds scary, but really, it was a pretty awesome dreams. Because two hot guys were both into me.

This is what happens when stress starts to build. It manifests in my dreams, and they get craaaaaazy.

Enemy, thy name is YouTube.

The best way to waste time when you're trying to study is doing random searches on YouTube. I think it's time for me to block the site. Because I've spent waaaay too much time looking up crazy/funny stuff. People are weird. And really like to videotape themselves dancing/singing etc. I've also discovered that a lot of people make "fanvids." Basically-- tv clips kind of made into music videos. What the point of this is, I have no idea. But it's fun looking at the crazy stuff that people make. Basically, YouTube takes time wasting to a whole new level. It. Is. Awesome.

I'm in CivPro. It's our last class for the semester. And I'm a little buzzed. :)

They don't read this but...

HAPPY 30th ANNIVERSARY MOM AND DAD!!!

Things to look forward to:

DONE WITH FIRST YEAR ON MAY 16!!!
DC trip May 20-24.
Leaving for Korea on June 6.
Free trip to Hawaii in August?

But first... must survive finals. Little less than three weeks until they start.

O.M.G.

Talk about impending doom.

New favorite show: TheOffice.
New crush: JohnKrasinski. I have a thing for geeky, witty, white guys, and he is such the geeky, witty white guy in this show.
The mock PSAs from last week were SO FUNNY.

Too bad I won't be watching any more of theoffice, or any tv at all, until after finals are over. Media blackout is on (except for occasional episodes of CheerleaderNation on Friday nights).

I am a blogstalker.

I read his blog, but he doesn't know it. He doesn't even know me-- a friend of a friend.

But I've developed a bit of a blog crush. He writes funny things and puts up funny clips. And just seems cool.

Another peril of law school: you'll find whatever excuse to surf the internet, stalk blogs and procrastinate. All to avoid torts.

Article from today's NY Times that I found amusing...

What's the Korean Word for 'Yo'?

By ROBERT SIMONSON

How do you say "surprizzle" in Korean?

That was just one of the questions facing the librettist Kevin Del Aguila and the translator Chunhwi Park after a South Korean producer decided to bring "Altar Boyz," his Off Broadway musical spoof about a fictitious Christian boy band, to Seoul.

Any time a show ships off to another country, changes must be made to accommodate cultural differences, and "Altar Boyz" was no exception. Some fixes were simple. The concert where the squeaky-clean band tries to rid the audience of sin through "Miracle Funk" will take place in Seoul, not New York.

Other elements needed no translation. Mr. Del Aguila didn't have to tell Mr. Park what a boy band was. Kim Tae-woo, who plays the group's leader in the Seoul production, which opens April 12, was a member of the now-defunct Korean boy band known — by coincidence — as g.o.d. (actually an acronym for Groove OverDose). He has been described as "the Justin Timberlake of Korea."

But some alterations were tricky. Though the band members' message is holy, their vocabulary is rife with hip-hop jargon (or, at least, five white guys' approximations of same). Trying to explain contemporary American lingo, Mr. Del Aguila said, he suddenly realized that "everything I know about Korean culture basically came from watching episodes of 'M*A*S*H.' "

For Mr. Park, the problem was part cultural and part linguistic. Though he's translating "Sweeney Todd" now, Mr. Park said "Altar Boyz" was the most difficult script he had ever tackled. "There were so many hidden double meanings," he said.

In addition to comedy, "I always have the most difficult time doing lyrics," he said. "They are just painful from start to finish, because the structure of the sentence and length of syllables and the accents are different."

Their tale of cultural disconnect can be read in excerpts from e-mail messages Mr. Park shared.

Page 14: "That's what I'm talkin' about, G!" What is G?

Page 14: "Little surprizzle later in the shizzle!" This obviously means surprise in the show, but could you explain a little more?

Page 15: "For real, dawg!" "Dawg" means dog, but why is Abe calling Juan a dog? I don't understand.

Page 26: "Mary on the Q.T." I don't understand this line. I am not that religious. Sorry.

Page 39: "Lemme axe you." Let me ask you? Or axe? Chop you with an axe?

Mr. Del Aguila's response: "Axe" is the way that rappers sometimes incorrectly pronounce the word "ask." Luke is not trying to chop the audience up.

Rain rain go away..


March was a record month for rain. It rained something like 24 days days out of the 31. Today is the first time in forever the sun has been out.

And where am I?

In the library. Quiz on Tuesday, final memo due shortly after. Yuck.