monopoly

i've been studying for finals for the last couple of days and haven't had time to play monopoly with sam. we haven't played for months! this one is written by sam. i love it!

Jeanne is quite mean.
Too busy to play a game
of Monopoly

eek

in the middle of studying for my upcoming exams, i realize that i'm screwed. i can't study nearly as much as i should for my classes. i do this to myself... writing haikus instead of studying the language in which haikus originated. so here i am now, cowering to finals and to the end of the quarter.

i lie in my bed
and hide under the covers,
too scared to come out.

what now?

a lot of shit has happened this past week/weekend and i don't know what to make of it all. in fact, i can't even remember it all. perhaps that's a bad sign but maybe some things weren't meant to be remembered. anyhow, i need a break from life. i'll be off in my own world for the next few days.

i have never been
more detached from my feelings
than i am right now.

here kitty kitty

in japanese lecture today, we learned about qualifying/modifying sentences. i'm not sure, i wasn't paying too close attention. one example sugamoto-sensei had was: "the cat which someone threw away." us kids in front all went "ooooh no..." it made me think about the cat that someone threw away and found her way to my house. she now resides in the backyards of the houses on delta avenue with her kittens.

thrown away kitty
takes refuge in my garage
from nightmarish world.

hello stranger

whenever i'm on campus, i never see anyone i know. i know i don't have very many friends but my facebook says i have at least 80 that go to ucla. i guess 80 out of the million that go here isn't a high percentage at all. i miss seeing familiar faces or someone to wave to. maybe i should start smiling at random people.

what are the chances
of finding you on campus
just to say hello?

lost and have yet to be found

four years ago, i was a very different girl. there's the obvious: i was 16, in high school, without a care in the world and i loved knowing that there's nothing that could hurt me. now, i don't even know where i am or who i've become. maybe i've become that same naive girl again.

i am in search of
something i lost long ago.
where could it be?


*i'm sorry that this post doesn't make much sense.

it's been a long, long day

it's not even 5 in the afternoon yet but i'm le tired. as usual, i'm spending my time at work writing this haiku and updating. i'll stay later than what i'm scheduled for to make up for it... yeah, sure. anyhow, i can't wait to go home.

thoughts of my soft bed
and of you holding me close
helps me through the day.

i'm hunger

i know that i should be eating three meals a day but sometimes, there's just no time to stop and eat a full, healthy meal. there's always homework to be turned in, lecture that can't be missed, or work that i can't be late for one more time. all i have is one minute for lunch because ten minutes is not nearly enough time to walk from melnitz to life science, so the vending machine is looking pretty good to my growling stomach.

peanut m&m's
does not suffice as a meal
but i think it will.

donkey-sama

i just came back from japanese lecture and as many of my other japanese classmates know, there is a boy in there we call donkey-sama. you may not know him intimately but i'm sure after sitting five rows in front of him or three rows behind him, you'll hear every word of his conversation with his slightly embarrassed friend. i know there's one like him in every class.

he has greasy hair,
a loud annoying deep laugh.
that's donkey-sama!

it's been a while

i wrote this one a while ago. i haven't had the time to really sit and write about something worth while lately but i thought this one was very good so here it is now, months from when it was first written. coffee and cigarettes are always the best combination for long conversations, i think.

cold night, cold coffee,
broken thoughts and broken hearts;
ashes fill my mind.

star light, star bright

every wednesday, ucla's astronomy department has a planetarium show and telescope viewing for free. i'm waiting for the griffith observatory to open but until then, this is a pretty good second. the geek in me wants to go but i always forget and no one wants to come with me. i missed one more clear night tonight. *sigh* perhaps next week... but that's what i said many a wednesday night ago.

millions of fierce stars
outnumber the lonely moon
but none glow as bright.

*wink wink*

the first line is actually something i saw from an artist being featured at giant robot recently. i really liked it and the more i looked at it, i realized that it was exactly five syllables -- the perfect line for a haiku. this one was made around that line.

wink is half a blink,
smile is a fourth a laugh,
kiss is all a kiss.

pink's

pink's is famous for it's hot dogs as well as it's lines outside. wednesday night, like always, is pink's night for me and justin and danny and eric and jay. nothing can really describe the the nacho cheese chili fries or the bacon-poli-burrito dogs or the double-poli-chili burgers but i think it's worth a haiku.

"my usual"
spicy polish dog
slathered with chili and cheese
is my heart attack.

my head hurts

i've had headaches for the past two days. i think i should go to the doctor because i can't figure where they are coming from. i'm drinking gallons of water, getting plenty of sleep, and eating normally. argh!

persistant throbbing
from a disappearing mind.
vicodin is loved.

break time

i thought it might be time to update so i wrote this one quickly. spring break was fun but as always, much too short.

party with loved ones,
being silly with best friends;
that was my spring break