InsaneJournal

Current mood:

tired

Border State Park + Fashion Valley Mall
Conclusion: I'm naturally horribly out of shape.

Last night's mistake #1: Downing over 6 cups of green tea shortly before I sleep, no matter how nice it is to drink or weak unc and auntie say it is does not encourage sleep. Mistake #2: The blankets I bought with my sleeping bag, in additional to the newly fixed heater (which I'm glad got fixed) made it extremely hot to sleep. Mistake #3: I probably should've bought a pad for my sleeping bag; getting up I was stiff enough I cracked my joints from my neck to my limbs.

All in all, I was tired enough to try to sleep at 10 PM. I sort of dozed off twice and then snapped awake two, three hours later whereupon I studied the whiteness of the ceiling for another two hours before I admitted defeat and got up to fiddle with my comp. Tried to sleep again around 3 AM. They got me up around 7 AM like planned, but we ended up leaving around 8:10 AM anyway.

Got lost twice on the way to Maiko's, got lost once after picking up Maiko, and I think we got lost after the volunteering. I also got flipped off by an impatient jerk when I stopped momentarily in the right lane (leaning into the right) to try to figure out where the restaurant was (when he passed easily me ANYWAY) and then honked by an asshole when I turned out of the parking lot. The space was large enough for me to cut in, either he was speeding or just being an ass. The first time I can kind of understand, the second, hell no. Do SDers have huge gouges in their shoulders or what? (And this time I'm in SD proper. UCSD is technically in La Jolla.)

I think Maiko got a somewhat poor impression of me.;; (She's the latest intl Jpn student who mailed me on Conversation Partners and I thought it would be a lovely chance to meet her and take her out with the others. Unfortunately we also kept lapsing into Mandarin [DD:] and... well, tired and cranky me is potty-mouthed short-tempered me. I did manage to get her and the others to laugh a couple of times though.)

Volunteer work was simple but I got tired quickly. :D;; We widened the horse riding trails. Essentially we just broke off or cut the overgrowth of 'chlora canthis' (I have no idea how its spelled, but this was roughly what it sounded like). We saw a number of riders with their horses. I haven't seen horses in a long time, so it was very cool. Had lunch at the House of Pancakes, where I ran into those rude drivers. Then we drove down to the Fashion Valley Mall to have a look-see... it's pretty huge.

Nice day. Could've been better, but it was interesting and kind of cool. ^^ Tomorrow, the zoo! And I drive home.