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Saturday, March 22nd, 2014
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2:25 am - Poetry - 1st World Problems in Los Angeles
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STREET CLEANING: PARKING ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE STREET
I'm gonna go and move my car today.
Don't worry, it's not very far away.
Just turn around, it's very quick - it's
Best to avoid more parking tickets.
I'm gonna go and move my car today.
There isn't any parking spot in sight.
Maybe I'll wait to move my car tonight.
Wait just a minute - someone's leaving!
Shoot, someone took it - now I'm grieving!
I'm gonna wait to move my car tonight.
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| Wednesday, December 25th, 2013
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4:59 am - Quote of the Day
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"Life is like a game of Catan. It doesn't matter if you blocked me as long as you offer a profitable trade."
- Teng "Ben" Lu
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| Tuesday, May 29th, 2012
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11:57 pm
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Tomorrow, they start putting up the framing. Finally! I can't wait to see where all the walls will actually go.
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| Monday, May 28th, 2012
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10:02 pm - Photos of Michael and Steven and Me!
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| Sunday, April 8th, 2012
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11:45 am - My Milkshake Brings All the Boys to the Yard
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My first time ever posting on Reddit, and my post already is a smashing success.
http://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/rz2t2/my_milkshake_brings_all_the_boys_to_the_yard/
I didn't make the flyer. The flyer belongs to a fellow USC MFA Animation student, but every time I ever passed by his/her desk, I would just die from amusement. I took a photo one day with the intention of posting it online, since he/she never did. I was thinking about it yesterday, and finally got around to posting it. And I'm so glad I did. Now everyone can share in the amusement : D
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| Friday, April 6th, 2012
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7:39 pm - RIP Tablet
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RIP my Intuos 3 4x5 tablet. You were my first. We made many wonderful fan arts together. You helped me to get into art school. You and I date back to the days before even Northwestern, the days before Nekoni, the days before Goheh.... but definitely after the day I met Jorieke, so I guess you aren't my oldest friend here, but you're pretty darn old.
I stored my tablet away at school last year, just in case I needed to use it. It was never stolen, but I always suspected there was a possibility someone may have borrowed it for any reason. All I know is that it was working fine, good as new, until one day I came to my desk and tried to use it, and it was dead. The blue light blinked once, then shut off, and no amount of effort was ever able to jumpstart it again. It always has the quick blink of blue, and then it shuts off entirely. I'm thinking it short-circuited. Whatever the case is, it's dead. That, and I've NEEDED it for a good half year now, for my Maya class, and I've put off getting a new one because I had that faint hope that maybe I could get it to work again. But, no luck.
So today I went on ebay and bought a used one of the exact same type to replace it. I know that Intuos 5 is out, but I really have no need for an Intuos 5 for the price of $250+ after tax and shipping, when I can replace my exact tablet for $49.93 and free shipping. I just need it for Maya, not for drawing. I have my Cintiq and my Intuos 3 6x11 for drawing.
So I mean, it's a happy day that I found it so cheaply, because it's literally the tablet by itself, no pen or anything else (and that's all I need, because I have a bunch of tablet pens already). It's bittersweet, however, when I simply recall the good times that I've had with my tablet. This particular one. It has a lot of history with me.
I am trying to clear out junk while I'm packing up readying myself for my move, so I have to throw it out. But I'll always remember it. I think it even had a name at one point, but I can't remember. All I know is, I told people that this tablet was the best investment I've ever made in my entire life, and I still stick by that. It's because of this tablet that I got so into DeviantART, that I met the friends I met, that I traveled where I did in the world, that I pursued art, and ultimately went to art school. It's because of this tablet's pen breaking that I got my 6x11 tablet as an emergency, simply for the tablet pen (because I had a deadline and I couldnt find any tablet pens for sale online, ANYWHERE at the time. ANYWHERE. Including ebay, amazon, wacom.com, etc.), and it's because of that other tablet that I managed to finish my squirrel comic, which became my squirrel animation, which got me into graduate school, and ultimately why I'm here.
Tablet, you were the best investment of my life, and I'm so sad to see you go.
I can't say that I "love" many electronics beyond the standard superficial appeal of their functions, but this tablet is truly something that I loved. It traveled all over the country with me, and was my best friend when I needed an artistic outlet. I love this tablet, and I will miss it a great deal.
Thank you, Intuos 3 4x5 tablet for all the wonderful memories.
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| Wednesday, April 4th, 2012
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11:29 pm
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I am SO amused by tonight's episode of South Park. Cartman is now Jewish.
It's been a sort of joke for years that Cartman and Kyle have this sort of unofficial magnetism pairing. There are many who truly believe that Cartman is a closet homosexual, and many of those beliefs were realized when Cartman did his "Hennifer Lopez" hand puppet that gave hand jobs to Ben Affleck. And then there were several episodes, one in particular, that pretty much directly paired him with Kyle, including that AIDS episode, in which one of them got AIDS from the other.
But now this takes the cake. Cartman is now Jewish. That opens up a whole world of possibilities for pairing him with Kyle as a joke. For example, there may be an episode in which Cartman wants to date someone Jewish, and Kyle is the only other Jew in town. That leaves Cartman in a predicament, but there will no doubt be a great deal of homosexual undertones that will not go unnoticed by me. There's so much potential to make jokes in light of it, even having him try to bond with Kyle over his newfound religion.
I don't know how long Cartman is going to end up Jewish, but I think that it's a great twist on things. I really, honestly, do see Cartman coming out of the closet at some point in his life. He's only ever obsessed about a boy (Kyle) consistently, and never once set his eyes on a girl.
I approve, South Park Studios. Great episode. Great plot twist. I look forward to seeing how it all plays out with Cartman. There's a whole wealth of opportunity for jokes about it.
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| Saturday, March 31st, 2012
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2:34 pm
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Jorieke~~~~~ <3
I finally cooked that Rendang packet. Mmmm, beef rendang, with rice. I'm going to miss rendang so much. I wonder if there are any markets around here where I can get it. Indonesian and Malaysian food is a rarity here. But it's sooooo good.
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| Thursday, March 22nd, 2012
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2:26 pm - Summon the tanks
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I woke up yesterday with a severely painful sore throat that left me almost unable to speak. And then by the evening, it turned into a runny nose, and this morning I woke up with a completely stuffed nose, sneezing and coughing. The whole shebang. No use denying it anymore; I have a cold. How troublesome.
So I pulled out all the artillery today. I used the Neti pot twice today, took two max dosages of Airborne twice today, took a hot shower for about 45 minutes to clear out my chest and sinuses, took pain meds, and rested for most of the day while playing League of Legends. The only thing missing is a hot chamomile tea. And maybe chicken soup. But, today and yesterday my appetite has been severely diminished, to the point of almost being defunct.
I have a workout tomorrow, and a friend coming over tomorrow to stay for 4 nights, both of which I'm not sure what to do about. I told my personal trainer I am coming down with something so I may have to cancel tomorrow / take a raincheck, but I don't know how to tell my friend coming into town. She's extremely ill, without even having a cold, and being around someone else who is sick is not good for her immune system. I really, really need to get better by tomorrow night because of that. I don't want to get her sick.
To prepare for her, I have to clean a lot of things, and it's unfortunate how I'm lacking all my energy today. Oh well, what needs to get done has to get done. So I'm going to go prep the house... miserably D:
The last time I was sick, it was around this time last year. Maybe it's a change-of-seasons thing. Happy second day of Spring, by the way.
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| Sunday, February 5th, 2012
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9:40 am - Writer's Block: Super Bowl Sunday
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TEAM JACOB
No, I kid. The Giants. I went to high school with Kevin Boothe.
Which team are you rooting for?
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| Sunday, January 22nd, 2012
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3:12 pm - Writer's Block: Fairytale Endings
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What is your version of happily ever after?
When a 16 year old falls in love with a wealthy adult male at first sight, disobeys her father by running off to live with the guy, uses body language to sexually attract the adult male into falling in love, and in the process she ends up assisting in the death of her aunt, and abandons her entire family to elope with the guy, all within 4 days.
P.S. Random trivia: Ursula is the sister of Triton. That's actually canon. You learn a lot by watching the behind-the-scenes interviews with the Disney creators on their special edition DVD.
P.P.S. King Triton's original hair color was red, according to the behind-the-scenes interview DVD. That's why he favored Ariel as his favorite daughter, because she reminded him of himself in his youth. Funny, how there was a sequel/prequel made, and they made King Triton's hair black. I guess nobody consulted any of the original Disney crew to learn the hard facts.
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| Monday, December 19th, 2011
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11:36 am - Quote of the Day - Learning Japanese
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11:21 Doug: I'm learning Japanese.
11:29 Laura: yatta!
11:30 Doug: Autokono kowat tavatae emas.
11:30 LauraNeatO: LOL what
11:31 Doug: Do you know what I'm trying to say?
11:31 LauraNeatO: no idea. it's that bad.
11:31 Doug: The old people are eating.
11:33 Doug: it's rosetta stone.
11:33 Laura: lololol
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| Friday, December 16th, 2011
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6:06 pm - Ik ben weer terug naar Nederland!
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I leave for the airport in about 40 minutes to fly to Amsterdam <3
I'm so excited, Jorieke <3 <3 <3!! So excited <3
I baked 6 batches of my grandma's Italian Cookies (I call them Ricotta Cookies) today, and I packed a couple dozen into small container to bring to Holland with us.
I keep thinking and fearing that I'm forgetting something important, but then I think back to the past few days and realize that I haven't forgotten anything at all. I haven't missed anything while here in Florida, so I'm sure that I'm good to go when traveling overseas. As long as I have my passport, everything's A-OK.
I'm bringing my laptop this time. This is the first time that this laptop of mine has ever traveled overseas. I have only brought my laptops twice in the past, once when I was living in London for a couple of weeks, and once when I was living in Prague for six weeks. I don't bring it unless my trip lasts longer than 10 days. Since this particular trip is lasting 14 days, I figure there may be a reason to need it. Like, for example, if I get into a film festival and if they want any materials right away, I'd be able to still provide it to them.
Which brings me to another topic: I got into another film festival!! The MIX International Short Film Festival! It's taking place in Richmond, VA in February. I'll see if I can go or not. I think I'll have a much better idea of my monetary situation after my trip. If I spend too much in Amsterdam, I may forego the flight to VA. I don't have any friends currently in VA to house me, and it'll be pretty expensive to travel alone. I have two friends -from- Virginia with whom I'm close, but both of them are in Cali now permanently (though their parents are still from VA).
In any case, I'll worry about all of that later. The taxi is picking us up in 28 minutes, so I'm going to shut down my laptop and prepare for the long 12 hour trip, and a crazy hammering of jetlag. I'm still on California time, so being 9 hours off, heading east, is going to be a real killer to me. That's almost an entire half of a day off!
I'll see you guys after the flight : ) Hurrah for traveling <3 And I'm so psyched! I knew I'd be back again someday, Jorieke, and here I come now <3
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| Friday, November 18th, 2011
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12:34 am - Poster comes into fruition
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I got an email from Irvine International Film Festival today asking for my film poster ASAP. So, I had to forgo going to anime club and anime club dinner in order to arrange, draw, and color this.
I designed it so it'll be easy to add future laurels in case I get more. It would be super funny if one day the laurels accumulated even more. I love the symbolism/ metaphorical usage of the laurels as well, to have "the laurels keep on raining from the skies."
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| Saturday, November 12th, 2011
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11:42 am - Quote of the Day
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"You can't move on unless you stop re-reading that chapter."
-Tumblr
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| Friday, November 4th, 2011
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9:19 pm - Ponderings Ponderings
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If a man already in jail with 300 years of life sentence ends up getting a head injury that swipes his memory, to the point that he has total amnesia, can't remember his own name, his own family, and even has to relearn how to speak... Will he continue to serve the rest of his life sentence in jail, considering his mind is now innocent and can't remember doing the crime of which he had been convicted? Or would he be set free?
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| Tuesday, November 1st, 2011
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2:31 pm - Kickboxing!
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Let me get one thing straight: I have never enjoyed working out, and I have never enjoyed sports before, ever. I used to play tennis, but the drive wasn't from me. I used to get tired of it after 30 minutes and then start counting down the minutes until it was over. I used to do crew, and I stopped enjoying it after 10 minutes. I think I viewed it more as a job instead of an enjoyment, and that's why it wasn't that hard to give up my membership on the crew team. I've never enjoyed running except in 5th grade when the mile run was basically a running competition with my best friend Crystal (we had a rivalry between us as to who was the better runner, and I have the feeling that if she and I didn't move away the following year and stayed in the same school throughout middle school/high school, we would have been rivals on the track team. How's that for an AU?).
But even though I've been opposed to sports, and I haven't taken any joy in working out, I've -really- enjoyed my time with my personal trainer. It doesn't even feel like a "work-out." It feels just like fun social time in Pan Pacific Park, but I'm working out my body too. I didn't even REALIZE I was sweating until the lesson was nearly over and I realized that my hair and back were soaking wet.
Today I started on kickboxing. And I absolutely love it. Kickboxing is so much fun. It's amazing how having one-on-one lessons can make such a difference as to how you perceive a sport and how it motivates you. I completely understand how Daniel-san and Mr. Miagi had such a great student-master relationship. I've never taken a martial arts class before, ever, and I never was interested in one because of all the formalities involved with it. I'd need to wear a certain uniform, and the belt-color-promotion/labeling system made it feel mechanical and rote. And I never was interested in having to divide up my active time while waiting for my "turn" to learn. My personal trainer told me that even though I haven't played sports in years, I move like an athlete and he's very impressed. Then he saw where my flexibilities were strongest, and he said that I'd be great at Jiu-jitsu. So, who knows, maybe I might one day look into a personal Jiu-jitsu trainer. Seeing as how I've really enjoyed kickboxing so far, we'll see if it graduates into a thirst for martial arts knowledge.
I completely understand why yoga and martial arts are great for animators. I learned so much about balance and the true strength and power and force of punches today. Because I do animation, I really was all that more conscious of what every part of my body was doing. I learned so much today on so many levels, and I apparently got a work-out from it as well. I say "apparently" because it was so much fun, that there was no "work" feeling in the work-out, and I'm not going to feel any soreness until tomorrow or the next day. But I know that I definitely was physically active, punching, kicking, and enjoying a really great time in the park while doing so.
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| Tuesday, October 25th, 2011
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5:15 am - Quote of the Day
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"If you make your opponent flinch, you have already won."
-Miyamoto Musashi
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3:49 am - Yesterday in Summary
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Yesterday, for me, was one of my greatest days in the past year and a half:
(1) Just yesterday alone, I found out that my film "Ad & Subtract" got into two film festivals (Irvine International Film Festival and Los Angeles Film and Script Festival)
(2) I discovered that I won the award for "Best Animation" from the Los Angeles Film and Script Festival
(3) I received an awards check in the mail from SkyFestVI Film Festival for a substantial sum of money that made my evening.
(4) I got a call from a friend, offering me a ticket to the X Factor live show tonight (!!)
(5) I had an amazing celebratory dinner with my film composer. (Wow, we're both reeling from hearing back from two film festivals in one day that want to screen my film.)
I only started applying to film festivals about a month ago, and my film has already been awarded four laurel leaves. I have been on a real high over this, and hearing back from two festivals that are going to actually -screen- my film on the big silver screen, with an actual audience of people watching, and a Q & A afterward... that's just surreal to me! I'm already nervous for the Q & A. However silly it may be to worry about this, I'm terrified someone may ask some kind of deep question about my film to which I don't even know the answer.
It hit me later in the day that I legitimately can start calling myself an "award-winning animator and director / award-winning filmmaker." It's a little bizarre because I feel like I haven't done anything at the actual moment to graduate from being a "regular joe" to "award-winning filmmaker." It feels like I it's a title similar to being knighted to "Sir." For the rest of my entire life, I can call myself an award-winning filmmaker. I can mention it in every biographical summary and on my resume and everywhere else for the rest of my life.
I would still prefer to be humble about it, though. Unless/Until I win the title from one of the major-major league film festivals [Sundance, Cannes, Venice, Berlinale, one day, one day], it still feels like I'm talking myself up a notch. However, I'm one step closer to it, since my film got into the Irvine International Film Festival (I still can't believe I got in).
Today, my "great day" continues as I shall be attending X Factor!! I finally get to see Simon Cowell live!! And then Wednesday night I'm attending the Animation Show of Shows, and on Thursday night my friend Yonathan is coming to stay with me and we're pulling a prank on Anime Club. And he's staying until Monday, so it'll be a lot of fun (but I'm going to have to seriously work around the clock in order to get my TOTS animation done for class).
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| Thursday, October 20th, 2011
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11:00 pm - Like a 13 Year Old's Friday
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It was 7am and I woke up. I freshened myself up and I went downstairs. I grabbed a bowl and poured cereal into it before eating it. Everyone around me was rushing out of the house so I headed down to the bus stop. While I had to catch the bus, I saw my friends. There were two spots open, one in the front and one in the back, but yet I still wondered which seat I should take because it was a Friday. Because it was a Friday, I wanted to get down. I was looking forward to the weekend because I was going to be partying, yeah. Partying 13 year old. Yeah.
So at 7:45 I found myself cruising on the highway with my 13 year old driving friends cruising pretty fast, because there wasn't any rush hour traffic for any reason on this particular Friday morning on the New Jersey Turnpike. I thought it was kinda fun. Fun, definitely fun. What, nobody else gets why this would be fun? Well, I got this, and you got this, and my friend that's on my right got this (so you can bet I took the back seat. Who wants shotgun anyway?). So, now you know it.
So once again there are two seats open in the car, and I have to decide now which one to take. I could kick in the front seat as shotgun, sit in the back seat, but I wonder which I should take?
It's Friday, and I have to get down on Fridays. It's a lot easier to get down in the back seat than the front seat if you're on the highway cruising this fast. I don't want to cause an accident.
Yesterday, it was Thursday, but today it's Friday. And because I'm going to get down with my friends here in the back, we so excited that we forget to use verbs. We so excited, that we start speaking Ebonics. A white 13 year old girl practicing her Ebonics in the back seat while getting down. We gonna have a ball today.
And tomorrow is Saturday. And Sunday comes after that. I really don't want this weekend to end.
[Rap Verse]
R-B, Rebecca Black
So chillin’ in the front seat (In the front seat)
In the back seat (In the back seat)
I’m drivin’, cruisin’ (Yeah, yeah)
Fast lanes, switchin’ lanes
Wit’ a car up on my side (Woo!)
(C’mon) Passin’ by is a school bus in front of me
Makes tick tock, tick tock, wanna scream
Check my time, it’s Friday, it’s a weekend
We gonna have fun, c’mon, c’mon, y’all
I'm not gonna bother to transcribe that, because I already established that I have someone sitting to my right and I'm sitting in a back seat, getting down with my excited friend on my way to school while our chauffeur is in the fast lane and just for the hell of it, switching lanes along with another car on his right, Woo! But he's staying way under the speed limit, because a school bus it totally passing him, which makes me wonder if I should have just stayed waiting for the bus, because I wouldn't have to drive with a reckless 13 year old speeding driver in the middle of rush hour in New Jersey. So as we're being passed by the school bus, I'm made aware of the time and I just want to scream (or maybe that's my friend I'm getting down with). Oh, yes, we're going to have fun. Oh look, I transcribed the rap, too.
Maybe I did it because it's Friday. Definitely Friday, and I have to get down on Fridays. Because of this, everyone I know is looking forward to the long never-ending weekend with me. Oh, we're going to party. You bet we're going to party. It'll be fun, fun fun fun looking forward to the weekend.
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