My Personality

Your Personality is Somewhat Rare (ISFP)

Your personality type is caring, peaceful, artistic, and calm. Only about 7% of all people have your personality, including 8% of all women and 6% of all men You are Introverted, Sensing, Feeling, and Perceiving.

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Get to know me

For some reason, many professors believe it necessary to have the students introduce themselves to each other. It must be a very important part of education because I had to do this in all of my classes. Granted, I only had three classes so far, two of them were canceled due because the professor is out of town until next week.

I guess this is all of the information you need to get to know me.

Name: Kristal

Major/Year: English/Junior

Favorite Food: Pasta

Favorite Sports Activity: Circuit training or playing catch with the BF

Favorite Movie and Why: Say Anything... because John Cusack is absolutely sexy

Something Unique and Interesting About You: I am the only one in my immediate family that was born in the United States and I am more Filipino than Japanese, but I look more Japanese than Filipino


How can I get to know you a little better?

Summer?

No, this is not summer. I'm wasting the good weather and free time with working 40 hours a week and attending a summer class. I'm not complaining about the class. I enjoy it. But, I could take a break from everything else.

I remember...
being able to read a book in a single sitting
staying up late, not worrying about getting enough sleep for work
going swimming in friends' backyard pools and sipping on lemonade
sitting on the deck of my old cabin in Eagle River, or on the pier watching the boats go by
ice cream cones melting from the heat and licking it off of my hands
taking random pictures on the rocks down by the lake
going to the mall with a group of friends
road trips with friends and family
watching old movies on TCM until sunrise
the Renaissance Faire

That is what summer means to me. I want my summer back. But the only way to get that is to be an adoloscent again. Why is everyone so bent on growing up? I wouldn't mind being a child again.

The Three Pillars of Life

I have a friend who recently broke up with her boyfriend of five years. Yes, it came as a shock to everyone when they decided to split (and it was a fairly mutual break up). They started dating at the age 15 and now they are 20. They have done a lot of growing up in that time, just not with necessarily eachother.

Before the actual break up, she was explaining to me a theory on life; the three pillars. The pillars are career, social, and love. She explained that the pillars are never equal and at that point, her career was skyrocketing (she had just been promoted at work) and she finally felt like she had good friends to depend on. Obviously, her love life was falling behind.

This theory of hers got me thinking about my own pillars. My career life is going wonderfully. I was just given a raise and my manager told me that she basically wants to train me to take over her job. Considering that I was contemplating quitting not that long ago, this made me enjoy my job a hell of a lot more. My love life is going great. Our relationship isn't perfect, but I do not see it ending any time soon. That leaves my social life, which is nothing to be jealous of. I used to have a small group of friends who I thought would be there for me whenever I needed them. It turns out, they're not. I guess being so young, I shouldn't have put all of my time into just a few people. We all had a lot of growing up to do, like my friend and her now ex-boyfriend. Not to mention, I'm terrible at calling people.

So, what can I do about this? The only thing that I can do--be a better friend to those that I know and put myself on the line and start introducing myself to new people. And, it wouldn't hurt if anyone tried doing the same for me :)

How do I afford my Rock n' Roll lifestyle?

I have had the best two weeks of my life! And I've seen some of the best concerts as well.

Colin Hay--Great performer...and a comedian! Most of his songs are depressing (but oh so wonderful!) and his jokes lightened up the mood. That was a good night, not to mention the night of my birthday.

Cursive--I absolutley love their music, seeing that I spent about $75 on merchandise at their show. The lead singer has a great voice. He seemed like he might have been on drugs the first night I saw them, but it didn't effect his performance at all!

Against Me!--I am in absolute awe of them. I love everything about their music. They seem like such great guys, very in sync with each other. Not to mention that the lead singer falls into the category of skinny white boys. I like skinny white boys! ;) Both of their performances were excellent.

Mastadon--I'm not too into metal, but they were pretty good. They put on a great show. Bass was a little loud, gave me a headache, but it makes me understand why so many people wear earplugs to concerts.

Mastadon, Cursive, and Against Me! are touring together. Josh and I caught the show in Milwaukee (where Mastadon cancelled due to illness) and in Chicago.

So, how can I afford this? I have a boyfriend who will split the cost with me!

Welcome to the 20s!

That's right folks, as of a week ago (May 3rd) I joined the ranks of those in their 20s. Am I more mature now, more distinguished? Of course not, but I do enjoy the sound of saying "I'm 20." And when I do say it, the reactions I get are, "You're only 20?" or "I'm older than you?" and "I thought you were atleast 21!" Haha!

What I have realized is that I am very content with myself. I do not have a large group of friends, mostly acquaintances whom I rarely hang out with and a handful of really great friends that I am ecstatic to have in my life. Josh and I are back living with my parents. They love having me back and it's actually very comforting to be back home.

I'm looking forward to this summer and concentrating on myself--working on the things that make me unhappy and concentrating on my summer class. The weather has been great lately, in the high 60s and 70s, and it makes me feel wonderful. It makes me want to take control of my life and have fun. What are the 20s for anyway?


Having fun and finding who you are!

It's cold outside

And I'm having a very lazy day!

So far it consists of:
Eating
Watching Sex & the City
Napping
F'ing around on the internet

College!!!

Yes, this post will be about college, as the title suggests. It'll be rather boring.

Spring semester started on the 17th, three days after I arrived home from my wonderful vacation in South Carolina, so I wasn't really looking forward to it--I got used to not having anything to do and just relaxing. I don't remember the last time I felt so relaxed. Maybe before I had a job? And seeing that I haven't been jobless since October of 2002 (when I got my first real job), it's been awhile...

Anyways, this is how my school schedule:

*Mondays
6-7:50pm Lifetime Wellness
*Tuesdays and Thursdays
3:30-5:20 Spanish
6-7:15 Literary Analysis
*Wednesdays
6-8:45 Intro to Women Writers: Literature of the Holocaust

All night classes! To some people, that might seem crazy but to me it's wonderful! I actually feel like I'm in college (other than in Spanish due to some loud and annoying chick). That's one thing that I don't like about Parkside [a lot of people will actually tell you this]; it feels like an extension of high school and I was over the high school experience before I even graduated. And all of my classes are very interesting (other than Spanish). Lifetime Wellness forces me to workout and be healthy, I even started dieting this week and it has been going fairly well. Although, I am only on my third day and yesterday I fulfilled a craving for chocolate, but i did it without going over my calorie limit! I haven't started working out yet, but I will start that next week. Spanish is Spanish, a language I do not like, but this semester I'm creating a little group to talk to and work with in class. I loved learning Italian in high school, but when I took it at Parkside, I regressed because the professor was TERRIBLE so now I'm taking Spanish to fulfill a foreign language requirement when I just should have put up with the professor and be done with it already. My literary analysis professor is awesome, the only problem is he's too into philosophy. We're reading more philosophical essays rather than stories and I discovered last semester that I am not fond of philosophy (or biology, or politics, or Spanish, basically all the classes I took other than for my major requirements). But, the professor reminds me of Harry Goldenblatt from Sex and the City (Charlotte's second husband). He is bald, has a goofy grin, talks very similar to the way Harry does, and is Jewish but he converted to it.

And then there's Literature of the Holocaust. I've only had two classes so far and it's already intense. Amazing and intense. It's such a hard subject to teach and learn about, especially with a Jewish professor (she was actually born a Jew, racially and religously--if that makes sense). It's a three hour class but it goes by in a heartbeat and it's so challenging intellectually and emotionally.

On a different note,
I am working less this semester and taking less credits to hopefully do better than I did in the fall. It's also because my job is stressing me out and I would like to be there as little as possilbe. But, it isn't all playtime for me--I am going to be a nanny to Faith and Audrey Marschel on Mondays and Tuesdays (okay, okay, it will be playtime then). I'm excited for that because Faith is so much fun to be around and I haven't been able to bond much with Audrey yet.

I want to have a more positive outlook on {my} life and I think I'll actually be able to accomplish that before this school year is over!