NEW:

* "I mean, who really gives a fuck anyway?" -- Chrissy, feeling a bit frustrated during midterms and paper writing
* "Don't make me be a vato." -- Chrissy... and you don't want to know the gesture she did with it
* "I think I'm gonna." -- Bryan
* "That's okay. I'm not doing anything that requires a brain." -- Me, when Chrissy asked if she could turn the TV on
* "Yeah, I'd tax it." -- Bryan speaking his ghetto-talk
* "Damn, she looks like a deuce and a half, maybe even a tre!!" -- Bryan
* "Definitely part of CT." "CT?" "Club Thickness." -- Bryan and me in a Vegas club
* "You know, butter face! She's got a really nice figure, nice chest and ass, everything 'but her face.'" -- Bryan explaining apparently common knowledge guy-talk.
* "Ow, my back hurts. If I knew what 'throwing it out' meant, I would say I might have done it." -- Chrissy, after studying in a funny position on her bed
* "What's the real word for 'scaredy-cat'??" "Chicken." -- Me asking Chrissy for a word suggestion for my history paper


QUOTES & LYRICS:

* "The problem is that God gives men a brain and a penis, and only enough blood to run one at a time." -- Robin Williams
* "Relationships are hard. It's like a full time job, and we should treat it like one. If your boyfriend or girlfriend wants to leave you, they should give you two weeks' notice.There should be severance pay, and before they leave you, they should have to find you a temp." -- Bob Ettinger
* "Sometimes I think war is God's way of teaching us geography." -- Paul Rodriguez
* "Divorce... from the Latin word meaning 'to rip out a man's genitals through his wallet.'" -- Robin Williams
* "Women need a reason to have sex. Men just need a place." -- Billy Crystal
* "In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary." -- Aaron Rose
* "Change is the only constant in life." -- ?
* "Giving up too early is like killing the patient to cure the disease." -- Aaron Beagle (hi, Aaron!!)
* "If you shoot for the moon and miss, you'll still be one of the stars." -- ?
* "Procrastination: Hard work often pays off after time, but laziness always pays off now."
* "'Cause where there's a man who has no voice, there ours shall go singing." -- Jewel
* "If it has tires or testicles, you're bound to have problems with it." -- Linda Furley
* "You've got to dance like nobody's watching and love like you've never been hurt." -- ?
* "The old dreams were good dreams; they didn't work out, but I'm still glad I had them." -- Bridges of Madison County
* "I'm not into working out. My philosophy: no pain, no pain." -- Carol Leifer
* "To fall in love is awfully simple, but to fall out of love is simply awful." -- Bess Myerson
* "Hate is not the opposite of love... indifference is." -- ?
* "A relationship is like driving a car. You can't go too fast and you should look at the signs along the way." -- ?
* "In this world, for every ounce of pleasure, there is a pound of pain." -- ?
* "No matter what the armor, the heart is always exposed." -- ?
* "Of all the words of mouth and pen, none is sadder than what might have been." -- ?
* "Into each life, some rain must fall. Some days must be dark and dreary." -- Henry W. Longfellow
* "If eyes were made for seeing, then Beauty is its own excuse for being." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
* "Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
* "When my smile gets old and faded, wait around, I'll smile again." -- "Bent," Matchbox 20
* "Sooner or later, you will long, and when you wake, you will see / Sooner or later, all the songs that make you shake will be by me / Sooner or later, all the throngs of feelings we used to appreciate will come rushing back." -- "Letters," Stroke 9
* "Don't worry, guys... it's me." "Prove it." "You're a dick." "Alright." -- Wolverine and Cyclops in "X-Men"
* "The mere thought hadn't even begun to speculate about the merest possibility of crossing my mind." -- L. Prosser, "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"
* "There's an infinite number of monkeys outside who want to talk to you about this script for Hamlet they're worked out." -- Arthur Dent, "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"
* "Although I would like the world to change, it helps me to appreciate those nights I know it's dreams / But my friend, I'd sacrifice all those nights if I could make the earth and my dreams the same." -- "Higher," Creed
* "Won't be the first heart that you break / Won't be the last beautiful girl / The one that you wrecked won't take you back / If you were the last beautiful girl in the world." -- "Last Beautiful Girl," Matchbox 20



FRIEND QUOTES:

* "There isn't a cloud in the sky!!" "Yeah, but I bet it's fuck-ass cold outside." -- Amber's first sentence Sunday morning
* Kim's phallic mushroom
* "Bad mamma jamma." -- Bryan's rendition of Michael Jackson's "Man in the mirror"
* "Minivan it." -- meaning "to haul ass"
* "Throw them 'bows." "So fresh and so clean clean." "Hootie hoo!"
* "The ice cube is still there! It must be stuck in a wind chunnel. Chunnel?" -- Bryan in the car on our way home
* Tumbleweeds, like the one that Bobby hit and that exploded on the car behind us.
* "Guess what she is... a frigid ho." -- Bryan about Kim who was laying on the bed waiting to leave for the clubs
* "Uwaugh." -- Dying giraffe, and yes, we all agreed on the spelling of that noise
* Amber likes Hungarian sausage, while Kim prefers Chorizo.
* "Nate." -- Bryan's word that I'm trying to incorporate into my vocabulary. Used like, "That car saw the traffic and was like, 'Naaaate.'"
* Pat Benatar (Live at the Orleans)
* "Oh my God... please don't eat." -- Meghan
* "It's better than the orange fiasco that happened to your head!" -- Me
* "Month, date, and pruuuuune." -- Chrissy
* "The Cello." "The Haaahp." "The Banjo." -- Bobby, Megs, and Chrissy
* "Any girl who doesn't think I'm hot has something seriously wrong with them." -- Bobby
* "I don't get man crushes." -- Bobby
* "Cheese on the knee?" -- Either me or Chrissy... I forget who
* "I don't understand. Go back to your locomotive." -- Amir Izadpanah, CS 131 Professor
* "Oh... because I was going to say, if you choose one of them to go home with you, the other two would go home and spank the monkey." -- Some weird old man at Ackerman to me, Wincen, John, and Bobby
* "Look, it's a monsoon!" "Yeah, like a tidal wave." "What's a monsoon?" "A tidal wave." -- Sara and me
* "What time is it?" "Is it raining outside?" "It's 2:18." "It's raining outside." -- Me and Sara
* "What the...??" -- Shirley
* "Peace out." -- Asim
* "Well, Chrissy's obviously loud..." -- Christine, one of our new roommates
* "I just stubbed my toe on the tufon!" -- Christine
* "Would someone please do something productive with the ball??" -- Meghan, our ex-roommmate, during the UCLA/U$C game this year
* "The caffeine in [Red Bull] makes my heart palpitate." -- Meghan
* "I wonder if I'll feel better if I strangle you?" "I don't know, but I think I'll feel better if you strangle me. Go." -- Chrissy (with her hands around my throat) and me, the wee hours of Wednesday of finals week, Fall 2000
* "I should be SO offended!!" -- Me, when Foster made a smart-ass remark about an Asian accent
* "If I turn around and bend over, will you kiss my ass?" "Only if you grab your ankles." -- My smart-ass comment (aimed at Foster) and Faizal's smart-ass response in CS 112 discussion
* "I'm tired as fuck." "How tired is fuck?" "Pretty fucking tired." -- Me and Chrissy, no explanation needed
* "How does it feel when you walk down the street and know that every single person you pass can kick your ass?" -- Emilio to me, out of the blue
* "My dork, the roommate." -- Chrissy, trying to offend me, but failing miserably
* "If we were playing The Sims right now, I'd have two minuses over my head."
-- Bobby to me when I told him I was taking notes while playing the game Magic
* "Bobby IS God, as far as I'm concerned." -- Meghan... sarcastically, of course
* "So $40 a night times 3, that's $112...." -- A stupid blond girl at Saddle Ranch - and her friends didn't even catch it!!
* "Chrissy, can you have some of that, please?" -- Meghan, trying to liquor Chrissy up at dinner
* "I'm really drunk right now, so please go away." -- Chrissy to Jenny when she walked in with her friend
* "We think more, therefore we're superior." -- Me, talking about our superiority to guys in relationships
* "I really don't feel like having anymore liquor." -- Chrissy
* "Pusaka... I just did that." -- Chrissy as we were driving by a restaurant by that name at 2 in the morning
* "Is 'asphalt' anything like 'butt crack'?" -- Chrissy