Life is unexpected.

Yesterday was weird.  I stayed this weekend to go to Little Tokyo w/ the Japanese/anime club w/ Theresa.  They turned out to be a weird bunch - some nice, but majority weird - and i have never participated in a conversation as clueless as i was.  They aren't just fans, they're fanatic.. We did see little tokyo, but they mostly went into anime shops, which i took no pleasure in doing.  Went to a couple of gift shops, picked up some present for christine's and khang's birthdays.  I got khang a humpty dumpty (that's what they call it) paper figurine.  It's really cute :

Zuluaga has always told me that life is unexpected.  And holy cow, it IS.  On our trip i met this guy in his 30s, who turned out to be a professor at ucr.  He lives in LA [bc apparently Riverside is dull as a ghost town] but commutes there to teach.  English professor studying postcolonial lit.  An immigrant from singapore, studied on the east coast, PhD at Brown U.  He's also an anime/manga/drama fanatic, and he giggles at cute kitten stickers.  Creepy?  Yes.  He googled the anime club at UCLA and randomly joined in with us.  Creepy?  Yes.  But he's also very nice, with a British accent.  The 3 of us had a good time just venturing the city.  We're going to Chinatown next friday.  Hopefully.

i went back around 6 &ran my ass off back to my dorm bc my parents were waiting right outside.  My mom has made a fuss all day bc we agreed for her to visit but im busy all morning.  I wanted to take her to cafe 1919 to try gelato and homemade italian food, take my dad to get chinese at rendevouz, and maybe a coffee at 1919 too.  I had all these wonderful plans and by the time they were here, all of us were just pissed off.  &i had to try to not act piss off bc she'd think i don't want her there, but i have a feeling she did anyway.  It's so exhausting, trying not to offend her.  I don't want her to think i'm ashamed of her, bc i'm not.  But stimes the idea comes to her so naturally that idk how to fix it.  &it just makes me want to cry.  Parking was a huge deal; mom keeps threatening to go home.  Cafe 1919 closed, Rendevouz closed.  I ended up taking them to Covel, but since it's a dining hall, it kinda sucked.  My dad was icky w/ the food, so yeah... B4 they left, mom gave me a quick hug &a kiss.  Dad called out from the driver seat to tell me to focus on my studies and not going out for fun (bc they guessed i went out this morning probably)  Again, i cried, but this time i watched them drove away.