so i started reading about katy perry on wikipedia (i don't really know why. i think she was on the main page of yahoo.) somehow i linked over to christian metal, then i started reading about random christian metal bands (which are still kind of weird, in my mind.) apparently slayer's lead singer stated he is catholic. move around, got to static-x, wayne static married some porn star. went back to the metal stuff, saw slipknot. they had a christian guitarist too, but he left before they became famous. and now i'm reading about barcodes. upc barcodes are so cool. 7-bit. now i'm trying to figure out data matrix barcodes.

shiina ringo's new album is great; i was going to wait until i got home to plug in better speakers, since laptop speakers are no good, but i couldn't wait anymore, so i used my headphones, which are better than the speakers. wow, that is a long sentence. but that is how i talk, a runon.

talk talk. i wish i could. but there is no one. lonely. maybe.

so i had this really weird dream talking to this person i met at school. i haven't talked to this person for over a year. it was really random and i'm glad i woke up. anyways, i check facebook and apparently today is her birthday. weird! well, not really today in taiwan, since it's already tomorrow, but today in america. but my clocks are still set in american time. so weird weird!

being idle makes me depressed. but what can i do? absolutely nothing. only wait. why suffer?

my bmi is 19.8. that period looks weird. where is it really? does it really exist?! oh god. oh man. 19.8 is my bmi. oh no. 8!? i am severely underweight. some countries use commas 19,8. looks better, i guess. but then americans use it to split thousands. so that gets confusing. too bad chinese people split numbers into tenthousands instead of thousands. it gets so confusing.

i miss you. do you miss me? of course not, you don't even know. is this normal? what is wrong with me? why am i like this? definately unnatural. a defect.

what are you doing? push push push then pull. where does that put us? two pushes away? what am i doing? run run run. never escape.

i'm back from china. it's pretty crazy there.

i'm off to visit china! (well, the mainland. debatable whether i am in china, as i am already in taiwan.) the land of counterfeiting, poisoned toothpaste (and food), and censorship. but really, i am excited to visit. see what the potential future world power will be like. see what's all the big deal about this country.

so apparently one of the longest words in the english language (debatable) is the scientific name for titin. titin is some protein that holds stuff together in our muscles. it is the largest known protein with 34350 amino acids. so they sequenced it. then named it by stringing together all the amino acids. ending up with a word that is 189819 letters long. (what a cool number! 1's, 8's and 9's!) i think that is cheating. i will discover a longer protein! and i will get to name the longest word ever! (unless all the amino acids are valine or one with a short name.) or i will rename this titin with IUPAC standards by finding longest carbon chain and stuff. 1,1,2-3-methyl blahblahblahb. that would be crazy.

so i just read a really depressing article about a 10 year old girl named colby curtin who was sick. she really wanted to see Pixar's UP. so pixar sent it to her to watch in her room. then she died a few hours later. is it bad that i was more interested in what disease she had? apparently some vascular tumor. made her blind too. her mom narrated the action in the film.

today, it was very hot.

so today, i was scouted to be a model or something. i was with my aunt going to sogo. and we took a picture in the subway. and these people walked by and they liked to talk or whatever. they found out i was a foreigner, and they are like zomg you look like wang leehom. and they asked for my email. and they took a picture of me on their cell phones. it was very awkward. they said they would contact me or something. maybe it will be my great breakthrough! as a model in taiwan. rofl.

today, i went to NOVA, the 6 or 7 or many story building for computer stuff! i walked around. then i walked back. i went to taipei main station and went to the underground mall. bought a tizzy bac cd. came back. then i played sudoku until i passed out. i'm getting better. but i'm still slow. i'm always slow at these kinds of games.

i can't stand it anymore. so tired. ughugh. passed out. my skin is rough like an elephant's face. dry dry. but it is so humid. it doesn't make any sense.

did i say i'm in taiwan already? i'm really jetlagged. even though i didn't sleep much on the plane. and got here at night. i should have been able to sleep, but i guess my thought that i will be jetlagged made me jetlagged. anyways. the clock is wrong. on these posts. it is really 15 hours ahead. so it is 5 AM tomorrow. i'm talking to you from the future. wowow! isn't that cool.

so at the airport they are scanning people for fevers because of swine flu, h1n1. whatever. but they scan after you get off the plane at the destination. doesn't it make more sense to scan before you get in a tube with a hundred other people breathing in the same enclosed environment? i guess not. i guess countries don't care if they are spreading the disease, as long as they aren't the recievers. what a selfish view.

i'm having weird dreams of objects in the room watching me sleep. they are discussing how to divide the air that i'm breathing. it is really weird. i woke up. and i felt it was still going on. i was trying to fall back asleep, but i can't now. i got confused which was the reality. it's so weird.

so apparently in taiwan, the internet automatically changes everything to chinese. even on my own american computer. so hard to navigate!