Events and Thoughts, by Me.

hard times man.

2010-02-08T17:57:00.000-08:00

still here...and still unemployed. More experienced, yet unemployed. as of now, until SOMEONE calls to tell me different! *sigh*

I have returned...a little older, a little more worldly

2009-01-07T21:42:00.000-08:00

Last time I wrote, the only international countries I had been to were Canada and Hong Kong. Now I have 3 more stamps and SO many more memories, refer to my xanga for all of that news LoL. I have met so many people on the way. So many more than I thought I would, well I connected with so many more than I thought. Most of the time when I meet new people, I'm polite with them, but I rarely connect with them. I felt like I connected with Jose last year, that was weird because I only spent 1 night with him, but there was just something there, sadly I didn't get his number and like so many things in life, his presence was transient. Things easily slip through if you do not make the same effort.

I'm currently outside on the balcony to get some wireless, but I am so freezing. LoL I think it would be better to try this during the spring or fall when it gets hot. anyways. so in Costa Rica/Panama, I spent 2 weeks straight with the same people. We had no way of escape, I saw them for every meal, and we slept in the same areas every day. We did different activities every day, so it meant we weren't around each other every SECOND. But a lot. I think that could have created major schisms or created major bonds, and I think because the nature of the trip and the mindset of all involved, it created major bonds. We all just really bonded together and while 3 of them left for the second two weeks, we still had that strong bond because during that time we were together for most of the time. :) Hence at the end of those four weeks I was BAWLING my eyes out that day. I had to say goodbye to the Spaniards 3 TIMES! :( first time I didn't cry, I just hugged them, second time I got a little teary after they left for their trip and I wasn't sure if they'd make it back in time, and then the last time when I was actually leaving and I knew it was the last time I was bawling. It was a very weird experience I haven't had that....ever. Besides when I was a kid and I would bawl when my mom left me at little trees daycamp.

I just saw steph and I started crying so hard, I had not cried in public like that...ever perhaps? saying goodbye to everyone. so sad.

However when I left the program, I wasn't sad at all really. I was sad to see John Hall go because I don't think I will see him again. But, I think I've been a bit desensitized to the whole goodbye thing. the ISV trip was the first time it got to me. (I didn't even tell about when lexi, ashlee, matt and christina left. man) All before, I had just accepted that people leaving was just a fact of life and we are all islands. Or island chains. All before I spent a whole year with this girl volunteering Katie, but I never even learned her last name, I went to her house and hung out with her once before she left.

Somehow my mindset has always been people enter your life when they're meant to and the make their mark somehow, if that is their only singular role in your life, then so be it. That's just the way it was meant to be and it never made me sad. it could be though that I always thought that so I never held them too close. But it also may be the reason I'm so horrible at keeping in touch. LoL ISV was different.
I truly missed having them from my life. Australia I missed having people I knew, but there are people in the program that I'll never talk to again and I'm okay with that, not in a horrible way, but in the way that they entered my life, had a presence and then ended their chapter.

Another quirk I have always felt is some people I just click with. When I click with them, it's quick, within the first couple of hours of meeting of them at least. I think feel easily comfortable with people that I can joke with and that can joke with me. I haven't had that recently even though I have been meeting new people

There was no purpose to this. just to get some thoughts out I suppose.
I don't KNOW what I've learned from these past experiences, I think they are too new. I just know that I've experienced a change and with time it will make itself apparent. As I have time to reflect back upon it, as they say everyone can see 20/20 in hindsight. :)

B+

2008-06-09T23:41:00.001-07:00

I'm just too freakin' sensitive right now to deal with criticism even if it is constructive. I just can't deal.

Leavin'

2008-06-06T15:36:00.001-07:00

Ohh man, I can't believe this song is my new guilty pleasure...guilty indeed.

Leavin - Jesse McCartney

Accomplishments thus far.

2008-06-01T19:32:00.000-07:00

I have come to the conclusion it is very weird to be about 21 and see actors or other people in the public spotlight who are the same age. It's like they've have more or less the same amount of time on this planet, yet they are famous. I'm not expecting to be famous at any point in my life, but it's like they have set out to accomplish a huge goal and they have attained it. Most of them have had to work hard and such, but it feels like they have had so much success in a short life time and I haven't even begun; it makes me feel very slow and unaccomplished. Life in the slow lane. I'm sitting here at a desk practicing photo identification of marine mammals and they're walking red carpets and on the set of the next major blockbuster. I wonder if I'm every going to do anything spectacular in life, to make a mark on this world or if I will just be here and gone like so many others. I suppose that's up to myself, but I wish I knew what or even if I have my spectacular moment, I wish it was bright and flashy like a movie.

Hmmm

2008-05-20T19:29:00.001-07:00

Teri is...just a little bit lonely. Curse of enjoying cheesy stories/movies, it usually just drudges up memories of how alone I am LoL. Or at least gives me a lame excuse on why I'm not reading papers for my term paper and or studying for my midterm and or working on my lab report. *sigh*

I'm just in a bit of a spring rut. Technically right now I'm in a chair in the Science and Engineering Library. But mentally I'm just in a spring rut. I'd call it senioritis, but I'm not graduating until next year and I really do not want to start my senioritis this year. LoL Although my senioritis next year will probably be more like FREAKING out about entering the real world...and finding a job. Working...for money? PREPOSTEROUS! I just don't want to do anything, I need a break, which is horrifying since I only have two classes (and a lab). I just need two days of doing nothing at home. Living at school is awesome 99.9% of the time but .1% of the time it's nice to relax at home. Maybe I'll do something outrageous this weekend eh?

420

2008-04-21T15:32:00.001-07:00

...If I had a dollar for everytime my mom said "big pot party" I'd have 3 dollars. Thank you UCSC.

Dear Cupid...

2008-02-11T17:24:00.000-08:00

Dear Cupid,
For Valentine's Day I would really like a hockey guy with hot hockey hair. Or a cute Scottish guy with a melt-worthy Scottish accent. I suppose third on the list would be anyone else from the UK or Australia, I'd even settle for a Welshman. :)
Please deliver ASAP. (I only put that in because I haven't gotten shit from you for these past 21 years)

Thank you,
Teri

Pro's and Con's

2008-02-11T11:22:00.000-08:00

Pros: being a 10 minute bus ride away from the beach :)
Cons: being a 10 minute bus ride away from the beach :(

It's killer, this week is going to suck MAJOR I have so much crap due and two midterms. Not only that, our 40 days and 40 nights of the Biblical deluge is finally over and it's GORGEOUS outside! And it's SO sunny and SO clear and I just want to go outside and lay out in the sun. BUT NOOOOOOOOOOOO. I have to study for my Ecology midterm and my Evolution midterm and read articles for marine environment and ecology and evolution! And it sucks chunky malls. gr.
So back I go to studying....and not watching shark byte episodes online or ranting at my blog

Positive spin

2008-01-28T13:02:00.000-08:00

Sometimes you need to look on the bright side of things. I think that would be the best thing to do today. So to start with the negative. I woke up at 8:40am to take a 9:30 shuttle to the Long Marine Lab so I could find a professor to sign off on my academic plan and declare my major by jan. 31st. If I do not declare my major by Jan 31, they will put a hold on my enrollment, which is definitely no bueno. Anyway, so this was perfect, I would take the shuttle down there, get there by 10am, when the professor's office hour's start, and then definitely be out of there by 12 when the shuttle arrives, and get to my class at 2:00pm with PLENTY of time. And then tomorrow go to bio department to get the department to sign off and then be fully done before thursday.

The day starts out well, I get there, get on the proper shuttle, get to the lab a little early even. I find his office at precisely 10am...no one's there. :( So I read some of the posters, occupy myself for 10 or so minutes. I let him know that I was coming today to sign off so he knew at least someone was coming to office hours. I wander for a few more minutes and then look around at the other doors, and right behind his office was his lab, the lights were on, and I saw someone inside, so I knocked and asked where I could find the professor. They were kind enough to tell me he probably wasn't going to be in today because his child was sick. So then I walked ALL the way back to the nearest bus stop...which was pretty freaking far from the lab. And there was no pedestrian walk way, just sorta a wide road....and I had to walk in the squishy damp muddy part, so as not to get run over by cars. And then when I arrive at the bus stop to find that I just missed the bus by 15 minutes and it only comes every hour.

Now for the bright side of things. I was smart enough to bring both my umbrella and sunglasses, both of which I used today. :) I got to the lab a little early, so I took a little walk around the Seymore Center, it's RIGHT off of the cliffs, and there's a trail that goes right to the cliff, you can see into the water and watch all of the waves come in. It's so beautiful, I'm so luck that I can go to a school where I'm just a 15 minute shuttle ride from such gorgeous scenes like that. So I did wait 10 or 15 minutes, but I didn't wait the whole two freakin' hours like the fool I sometimes am. I had enough sense to knock on the door and ask someone :) AND the dude that answered the door was HOT. I knocked and started out with my question, but about half way through, I was just nearly bumbling...good thing it wasn't a very long question. LoL I'm sure I sounded like a food, but the dude had short brownish hair and deep blue eyes. *sigh* AND he had a french accent! YEAH. That 90 seconds was totally worth getting up at 8:40am. :D It's fabulous how a cute guy can perk up any day. Anyway, so then I found out that he wasn't there, I searched really quickly and I found that there is one other professor I can talk to who happens to be ON campus like 30 seconds away from my class and who I can see tomorrow. (his reviews are NOT that good, but I'm not going to be in his class, I just need his signature LoL). And then I had the long walk back, but I am SO lucky there's a break in the 2008 deluge, and the walk back was really nice, it didn't seem too long I had my iShuf and it was great to be out in the sun. Again it is not raining, so I 1) won't get drenched waiting for the bus for the next 45 minutes and 2) I can use my laptop to get some of my article reading for wednesday. :)

Some crappy things happened, but then nothing that can't be remedied hopefully tomorrow. Just next time definitely need to keep on top of deadlines LoL. :)

Lunch

2008-01-14T13:20:00.001-08:00

For lunch (which I made up myself) I had 1 egg, combined with about 4 oz. of cheddar cheese (crumbled) , a sprinkling of parmesan cheese, one slide of deli canadian bacon ripped into pieces. Scrambled it and cooked until the eggs were done.

Put it over (reheated) steamed rice and topped it all off with green taco sauce.
MOST GREATEST LUNCH EVER. (This quarter anyways) LoL Mighty tasty, I'll probably have it three more times this week.

Okay,that is all.

Good Idea, Bad Idea Compilation

2008-01-11T18:54:00.001-08:00

Some of life's best lessons learned from Animaniacs!

Into the Night

2007-12-31T20:19:00.001-08:00

Just testing out how this iMeem thing works :D

Holidays...like woosh

2007-12-31T20:18:00.000-08:00

Geez, these holidays went SOOO QUICK! Insanity. I got all of my Christmas shopping done...not really in the happiest mood though, it seemed like all of my initial ideas got SHOT DOWN. and so I had to go to like multiple stores to find what I wanted, and I didn't seem to get one day at home before Christmas, so I was sorta Grinchy. Christmas came though, and I got a BEAUTIFUL blanket from my aunt (handmade) and some warm fuzzy socks, lots of jackets and slug-wear :D some cool calenders and a greys anatomy board game which I can place with my friends or at home WHOOT! :D

Just got back from southern California. We went to Knotts Berry Farm and Universal Studios. I hadn't been to Knotts since I was 4 maybe, definitely too small to ride most of the rides. But it's been a few years and I've grown a few feet LoL, and we went on ALL of the huge fast rides. They have some pretty good rides they, but they aren't, as my sister would say "Disney efficient." So some of the lines took quite a while. :( But still it wasn't that crowded at all, and my legs weren't completely dead after. That night we ate at Mrs. Knotts famous fried chicken restaurant. The fried chicken was good and moist, but it wasn't like extra crispy fried chicken, just like flour, not really battered. I definitely had my fill of boysenberry though :D. Boysenberry funnel cake, boysenberry punch and of course boysenberry pie :D. It was great. :)

Then we went to Universal Studios, which was again a lot more crowded than I remember. But then again, it was a saturday this year. We went on the 29th this year and last year we went on the 27th. But last year it was practically empty! They had pretty long lines at universal, but they moved pretty quickly which seems a whole lot better than if you're in a "short" line that takes forever to move! But they had already taken out back to the future :( sad. They're going to build some Simpsons ride...which I think is a bit weird, but oookay.

Besides sharing a bed with my sister, it was a totally awesome trip :)

I got a LOT of stuff done...considering how not productive I've been lately LoL. I went to the bank to cash a check that I've had since the beginning of december, I finally opened an letter which I got around dec. 12th LoL, I went to exchange a gift, I emailed a lot of people I needed to, I bought a late christmas gift I'm going to give someone at school...I just did a lot YAY! Ooh and I got word back from ISV, although I'm trying to change my host country...we'll see how that goes. I hope I don't have to call them, but I just might. Uhm...and walked a dog for a bit. lots of stuff :) yay!

Tomorrow I'm going to revert back to vegetating.

Gracias, Merci, Danke, Grazie, Thank You.

2007-12-09T11:59:00.000-08:00

Es ist gut. Finals aren't every very fun, but what makes them better? The same thing that makes everything better, COOKIES! more specifically, BUTTERCOOKIES! Everything is better with butter! :D So I wasn't planning on checking my mail box, but I carry this silly hope of mail, so I like to check it every few days or so, and usually it's empty, but yesterday, it contained MAIL!!!!!! WHOOT!

I got a Christmas card from my mom, :D :D Which I was uber excited about in itself, and it also contained the little slip that says I have something large enough it won't fit in our boxes! WHOOT! The little paper said "over sized envelope" so I was like...uh maybe someone sent pictures? or something from EAP or something, but as the guy fished out through the packages, he brought out this big envelope with what looked like some sort of square box inside. So I get back to the apartment and open it up and it's a BOX FULL OF BUTTER COOKIES! Home made from my Auntie Karen.

I feel soooooo good right now. I don't know if good is the way to put it, probably not...but then again I'm a marine bio major, not a lit one. LoL I just feel so special and lucky that I have such great family members. My aunt who mails cookies to me during finals :D and my aunt who sends me back to Santa Cruz with a cacti garden, that day and tons of awesome food to remind me of home and my mom who sends me greeting cards for Thanksgiving and Christmas and just because, just so I have some mail to pick up. :D

That's definitely a huge part of my life, but also my college life is awesome. I'm going through the motions of classes, and that's the "work" hard part of it, but the "play" hard of it is so good. Before I moved here, I knew it would be a change and everything, but I didn't expect it to be this good, and now that I'm here, I know what a unique experience it is and will be.

I am just really appreciative of all aspects and people in my life right now. and I am DEFINITELY not taking it for granted, I'm taking and holding on for all it's worth. :D

Brush that dirt off your shoulder

2007-12-06T20:27:00.000-08:00

DAMN I've been slacking. Brush that dust off the blog...A convenient time for me to finally post in. When I'm supposed to be studying for the first of my "finals" LoL oops. It's really still a quiz, we have three quizzes throughout the year, and no "final" each quiz is %25 of our grade. I"m not too worried, hence my blog entry LoL, Monday I'm more freaked out 60% of my genetics grade rides on monday. I hate that feeling. and I don't really feel like I've learned anything. it's a weird feeling. I'm just freaking out about that class and my coping mechanism is to suppress it. not the best, but eh. I have all day tomorrow (after 10:40am) and then there's a study group from 4-7pm and then on saturday another review session. Just thank god I have no papers. I hate papers....they scare me.

I finally got my EAP application in. Mucho drama at the end there. Long story short, I had issues contacting my instructor and so after a month of going back and forth, she forgot to write it for me, and I had to turn in my application 3 days after they started accepting applications. Which I thought wasn't too bad, because when I went to a drop in office hour, the adviser told me that "it didn't fill up in the first day, but it does by the end" ....but yeah. So it took a while for the letter to get to me, and then I emailed the adviser how many spots were left (because it's essentially first come first served for qualified applicants) and so I got the email that said she had received 4 apps for 5 spots. I had turned in my application first thing that morning...so I really hope I was the fifth app. I don't what I'll do if I'm not :( I sent her an email asking about it, but she's out of the office from wed-fri, so I won't get a response no earlier than monday. :( I'm slightly stressed out about that, but then I've done what I can now, so there's nothing else I have control over.

Things at school have been going well otherwise. Normal day to day stuff, with lots of naps in between ;D I went home two weeks in a row, and BOY did I hear it from the housemates. Even though I had reasons, first week was Thanksgiving of course and second weekend was I went home because we bought and decorated our Christmas tree! YAY! looks pretty awesome. So yeah got a lot of slack for that LoL...but it's better than them wanting to kick me out ;)

Had a good breakfast for lunch today with Susan and Caroline :D went to the owl's nest before they stopped serving breakfast, that place is CRACKIN' at least at around 9:45-10:20am....which is the time I was there waiting in line and waiting for my food. Met up with Suze and Caroline at 11 ish, Caroline treated for drinks and I brought french toast and muffins ;D TASTY!!!!

Lots of little things in between. uhm....I have a new love for imeem, it went lost on me for so long LoL.

Okay study break over, back to studying for Earth Catastrophes! :D...yay? remember folks, Oil and Otters don't mix :(

I should do this more often really.

By the way, tonight is the first rain since sometime in october, FINALLY I love the rain here, it's so misty and ethereal :D *sigh* and so cleansing, plus it makes the tree smell like 5000x more, it's like putting in a new pine tree air freshener outside :D AWESOME!

Kicking butt!.....untill my butt gets kicked...

2007-10-24T10:58:00.000-07:00

I just got my results from my first university "quiz" (quiz that's worth %25 of our grade LoL) but I got an 86% :D Which is pretty good considering the average was 68 and it pretty much looked like a bell curve. So to curve it a bit, he's adding 11 points to everyone's score :) and that means I have a 97 :D

All that's great and well, but this is my lower division class and it was probably the easiest out of all my classes. Genetics on Tuesday...is going to kick my butt. I just blank when I try to do those problems and that midterm is 40% of my grade, so I can't mess up this up. Then Thursday I have my biostats "quiz" :( better than genetics, but still :(. At least after next week, I won't have exams for a while :) and I'll have a reason to celebrate! whoot!

WHAT THE HECK IS UP WITH THIS FLIPPIN WEATHER?! It's 76 degrees outside! and it's only 11am! :( It's practically November, what the heck? At 9:15 this morning I walked out and it must have been 70, way too hot. :( Although if this keeps up, it may call for a celebratory visit to the beach next Friday :D

2007-09-29T18:17:00.000-07:00

MAAAAAAADNESS BEDLAM! INSANITY! And I'm right in the middle...and loving it :D College is so different and so not at the same time. It's crazy. classes haven't really started yet, just a lot of intro. Genetics is 40/60 midterm and final, so that's a bit scary...probably a LOT scarier when it comes to midterms and finals time LoL. Stats seems alright, the instructor seems really nice and the grade is spread amongst quizzes, homework and exams, so not so bad. Earth catastrophes is three exams throughout the quarter and homework problems. *takes a deep breath*

Outside of school is great :) I'm getting along with my roomies "quite" well :D and having lots of fun with them :) I need some pictures of them soon :D as soon as I get some they'll be up

...Captain's Log Day 3 09222007

2007-09-22T11:35:00.000-07:00

So three days in, first day was...alone. second day was sucky :( didn't really meet anyone and got back to the apartment at 4:30 LoL had reheated spaghetti (which was actually quite good :) but had no one to hang out with. Yesterday, I met one of my apartment mates :) who has mild dementia when he ingests milk, but other than that, seems very cool :) And I met someone else in the building across from me who's very cool, we're very much on the same page :) things are looking up...but I haven't even started classes yet :/

Movin' on in

2007-09-20T18:25:00.000-07:00

Gah, it's times like these when I get reminded about how totally socially inept I am! Either everyone already went to the workshops this morning knowing someone (unlikely) or they met them there. I have no idea what I'm doing wrong, but I suck at meeting people LoL Hopefully things will be a little bit better once my roommates get here, but they've been here for two quarters and probably already have friends to hang out with here. :(

Moving here wasn't so bad. The parking thing is a bit confusing, I thought you buy a pass in the lot you're in, but actually you have to go to this tiny little parking hut at the bottom of the hill and buy a pass for the day. Once we got that though, we couldn't find parking! :( I'm not sure why so many cars were here, not that many people were moving in... But after about 40 minutes of driving around looking for parking and stuff, we found one space (but we had two cars). I went wandering around for the residential life housing office...which was not where it was supposed to be, because they had a freaking old map posted on the website GAH!. So I went two different places before I found where I needed to be, but once I got there, I got my key and ID card and such :) very good. We got to the apartment building and I'm in the building with an elevator WHOOT! very nice especially considering I'm on the fourth floor, made moving in a lot easier.

So I got everything settled and now I'm here by myself until the other people in the apartment come in on saturday. I expect it to be a mad house here LoL. Some things I learned...turn on the thermostat, it's not automatic. THEY DON'T SUPPLY YOU WITH TOILET PAPER! ...good thing I brought my own.

I hope things get better Saturday. Had a crappy night's sleep :( I like my own bed way more, and going to these workshops is freaking me out about the workload. bleh.

I suppose that's it for now...

2007-09-10T15:29:00.000-07:00

After listening to "Don't look back in anger" I'm just coming down to the extremely frusterated level...

"And I regret to say that there were moments when my deep and loving pity for her merged into a desire to kick her fairly hard. For she is a girl who cannot walk her troubles off, or work them off; she is a girl to sit around and glare."

pg 72 I Capture the Castle.

A hand to hold...

2007-09-10T12:18:00.000-07:00

THE DOCTOR:
There's a lot of things you need to get across this universe. (indicates) Warp drive... wormhole refractors...

Rose holds her hand out.

THE DOCTOR
You know the thing you need most of all? You need a hand to hold.

He notices Rose's outstretched hand and takes it, grinning.

David Tennant Singing and Eating Ice Cream

2007-09-07T20:50:00.001-07:00

...Quite possibly the most entertaining 31 seconds of my life. (oh, to be an ice cream cone) I wish I could have caught Blackpool when it was airing.

Housing worries

2007-09-04T20:48:00.000-07:00

I am so very very frusterated. Arugh. I should have gotten something from the housing office...but I haven't. It's been a week since they should have sent out our packets and I haven't received anything...I also haven't received any other messages besides 1 from possible roommates. Which gives me just an teency silver of hope that maybe no one else has gotten anything either. But then the one girl that did send me a message (that was on august 27th or something) said that she had gotten at least two pieces of mail from them since. And I have gotten zilch. So tomorrow I'm going to be calling the housing office and trying to speak as calmly as possible. And seriously hope that the U.S. postal service has not screwed me over...YET again.

Arugh. The worst part is that I can't do anything but stress out right now because it's 8:51pm and the office, sadly, is not open 24 hours a day. I wish there was a pressure release valve in my head...THAT would be awesome!

Plane

2007-09-01T21:45:00.000-07:00

I feel like I've agreed to board a plane to an unknown destination, and now I'm secured in and awaiting takeoff. There's a bit of excitement that usually comes along with going on a plane ride, the possibilities of adventure in a new land, but there's also this anxiety that the plane could go crashing down in a fiery inferno 2 minutes after takeoff. Or it could be slow and painful as pieces of the plane fall off one by one and you fall from an even higher point into a fiery inferno.

Good Busy

2007-07-06T19:53:00.000-07:00

Late Happy 4th of July..man. Saturday, Had a rousing success of a BBQ at ...the park across the street from the Berkeley Rose Garden...started with a C and was just unecessarily long. LoL Slightly confusing and bumpy start, but then everyone arrived and it was just an immense amount of fun :)

Great food, brought by everyone. We did some hiking, which really thrilled Elisa, and even some climbing...LoL that was definitely one of the funnier points of the day, I was laughing my butt off while Tiff and Elisa were coming up. So then dinner at Gerry's Grill, wasn't bad, we ordered some pretty good stuff, the grilled squid I could have done without, but watching Jeffery trying to eat the "head" was pretty funny. Ahhh and then surprising Tiffany with the cake. AWESOME. And she actually seemed genuinely surprised :) Very exciting :)

Then Tuesday I went to the A's game, where they won, yay!...but still it's baseball and wasn't all too interesting, but the fireworks at the end were really good :) And I got a malted ice cream :)

Wed, actual fourth of July, to satisfy Elisa's desire for a fireworks show and because Elisa plans super awesome random days :D and because fireworks are pretty cool [well the cube ones anyways] we went to San Francisco, to see them go off. Had dinner at North Beach Pizza out on Pier 39, really good pizza, pasta, eh. Then we walked down past Fisherman's Wharf to Ghiridelli Square and sat on one of the few remaining pieces of grass, still good seats :) Phillip joined us afterwards and since he hadn't eaten, we went to go find him something to eat, sadly, he had chosen the restaurant with the DECEIVINGLY short line, only about 12 people in front of us and it took over 45 minutes, it was just absurdly long and slow. *grr* Still got back in time for the fireworks and even had time to learn a new drinking game. That can still be played without alcohol :) Leaving that area was just madness though, a whole lot of cars just basically stopped everywhich way. Finally got out, dropped Phillip off at his place and then got back home at 1am or so...

Thursday, went to Six Flags..uhm discovery ....something? Marine World Africa USA. Whoo! ROTFL. :) With my mom and sister, went on a few rides, saw a few shows, had to wait in an absurdly long line because of absurdly slow attendees again. But other than that, a really good day. It was sunny, and like high 80's low 90's but a wind was passing through, so it wasn't unbearable. :)

Today, deal with everything in real life, i.e. making appointments to talk to biology advisors, fill out health form stuff to let the school know I'm not a leper...still have to get more shots probably...ah but overall very relaxing day at home WHOOT!
:)

Good times in Santa Cruz

2007-06-17T16:30:00.001-07:00

Originally uploaded by teriberri21

Too tired to blog the whole thing LoL but there's a pict, I'll add details later :)

MOST awesome way to kick off the summer :)

2007-05-30T12:47:00.000-07:00

Ack! So much done, so little time! :) I don't do anything for 5 months...and then I do a whole lotta something. This, I like. If this is any idication of the summer months to come, I think it'll be quite the fun, if not interesting, summer :)

So Thursday 5/24 last day of finals boy that one was a doozy...but all is done. Sigh of relief, not necessarily joy but relief at least :) Asked Chrissy if she wanted to go to lunch, but I was DE-NIED :(

Friday 5/25 Went to lunch with Tiffany! :) Good Mexican food and good talk, couldn't ask for anything better :) Good way to eaaaase into the beginning of summer break :)

Saturday 5/26 Didn't do anything for most of the day, was a freaking lazy bum LoL then I went out to Best Buy to go buy the James Morrison CD (which was one of the "best buys" of the year AH! geddit! LoL. and then I wanted to buy the new Plain White T's CD with the song Hey There Delilah, but they ran out ah friggin a. Oh well.

Then I get a random missed call from elisa...and a voice mail :) yay! so I gave it a listen...and well with such a persuasive voice message like that I couldn't not go :) so at around 5:00pm Elisa came over, Benny was supposed to come over as well, but apparently he had to help his cousin do something so he was late...either way he was "very very sorry" LoL so we forgave him. And then we embarked on our adventure :)

So when Benny came over we spent a little while decided on where to go, and then we just decided that Chuck E. Cheese in San Jose was definitely on the list so we'd go there, and figure out where to eat from there. Elisa and I both wanted Italian, so yay for trusty handy dandy GPS system, got to Chuck E. Cheese and then searched for italian restaurants around there. Okay, so after searching through 5 billion lame pizza places with lame pizza place names...I found Il Fornaio I told them it was good, a bit pricey, but not too bad. So we ended up going there. When we first got there, everyone was dressed up all nice. I had been to the one in Burlingame and I never dressed up...so that was a bit weird, and then when we told the hostess that we wanted a table for three she gave us the weirdest look...but we got seated anyways. We had a waiter who's great-grandfather donated the land on which UC Davis is built (totally random) LoL and who I thought looked like Biff (sp?) from back to the future, Elisa and Benny disagree, but they're probably right since I've only seen back to the future about 0.5 times. The waiter asked what we were doing after or if we were there for any special events...thinking that going to Chuck E Cheese was not an "event" we just said we were just eating and hanging out. Then we asked him what sort of events were going on and he was like oh 2 graduations, that convention, there was a music concert, symphony or opera (I forget) and the people next to us just came from a funeral.

As we were walking there, though there were a TON of people going to the convention center, and Benny was intrigued, I admit, I was intrigued as well once I saw two guys dressed up a Mario and Luigi LoL so we asked someone on the way and apparently there was an Anime convention that day at the convention center across the street. On our way out there were definitely a bunch of interesting costumes we passed :)

Then on the way to Chuck E. Cheese :) We got there at like 8 at night so there weren't too many kids around, although there were more than I thought there'd be that late. We played some ticket games, Elisa got some super good luck and hit the 150 on one of those "hit-the-button-to-make-it-stop-on-the-amount-of-tickets-you-want-to-get"..games. And we totally cheated on those smash the allegator games LoL And of course I had to play one of thse Skee ball games the first time I just totally sucked butt at it and then the second time I redeemed myself and found that I am infinitely better when using my left hand to throw, interestingly enough.

Then we went up stairs to play some arcade games, I'm terrible at those shooting games LoL We played a car racing game which I ended up in first place only because Benny's car malfunctioned at the start of the race and I drove Elisa off the road in the last lap LoL She was ahead of me for 7 of the 8 laps and then near the end I got close and "accidently" drove her off the road LoL :)

The last bit when we were counting I spotted a cup full of tickets...no one else seemed to be around and no one else claimed, so we took it and it was full of about 70 tickets :) Overall we made 250 tickets exactly. but OMG. freakin' a, there was a TON of people waiting in line at the prize desk and there were only 2 people. And it seemed like everyone ahead of us had like 25000 tickets to spend geez! So we spent like half an hour in that line alone, but we weren't going to waste our tickets since we probably weren't going to be going back. And so when we finally got up there, Elisa and Benny got cotton candy for 200 tickets and then I got 5 bracelets :) two of which glow in the dark :) awesome!

So then it was about 21:30 and then we went off to see Pirates of the Caribbean :) Yay again for the handy dandy GPS system :) which found us a movie theater, turns out there was a drive in theater right next to it, but it was a bit late for that...maybe some other time :) Anyways, yeah and we got there just in time for the last showing at 10:30. And we got student rates so it was only $8.50 :) I thought it was a pretty good movie, definitely didn't deserve the lashing it got from the critics, but oh well. A bit of a long movie...we got out 1:30am? or so...then benny drove back. But when we got out of the theater, we waited until the end of the credits to see the little movie clip at the end :) There was NOBODY left! The whole place was freaking empty, we didn't even see any employees ready to close up...just the lights on at the concessions! It was freaky like something in 28 Days.
Eventually got to sleep at 2:30am Oh well I knew it was nearly three hours when I agreed to go, and I also knew I had to get up at 6:45am the next morning too, but such is the price to pay for fun :) and Fun I did have.

Sunday 5/27 Rolled out of bed at 6:45am and spend the morning at the zoo, came home, showered, ate and napped yeaaaaaaaah :) And also found out that we're not going to be changing our starting time from 8:00 to 8:30 so early days only now *sniff*

Monday 5/28 Off to Davis :) Elisa came by at about 9:15am or so and we left for Davis :) We went to Benny's house because we were following him there, then we made a pit stop at 7-11 LoL :) And off we went, traffic wasn't bad at all and we got there at about 10:45am.

We went to eat at Fuji's which apparently everyone knows you have to line up at if you want to eat when the open....we got there at 10:45 and there were more than 70 people ahead of us and the restaurant doesn't even open till freaking 11:30! people were all serious with their fold out chairs and everything! So we waited in line, where Jeffery met us there, talked for a bit, had to pull all the freaking bugs out of our hair every 5 minutes, eventually we got up there. Definitely did not get in for the first seating, we put our name down and the dude told us to come back 20 or 30 minutes, so we walked around a bit. :) Went back, but they still weren't ready and so about an hour later we got seated, luckily at the bar though, cause then we didn't even have to get up to get the sushi. I definitely ate my fill, good sushi even more awesome oranges :D

Then we went back to Benny and Jeffery's place, hung out there for a bit, definitely a boy's apartment, both Elisa and I asked if there were any towels to dry your hands on after you wash them LoL no. :( Hung out for a bit, Watched some car race with a driver named "Farnbacher" but the way the announcer said it sounded like "Faanbaakah" Had a few laughs, then spent 10 minutes trying to convince the Katherine Heigl and Ashley Judd are two different people! LoL Then after messing with Elisa's foreign phone, we left Jeffery to "study."

We went to one of the transfer dorms, but couldn't get in because all the doors were locked, Elisa couldn't really see how they looked inside :( Then we went to the athletic center where Benny rented some ping-pong equipment and we played in the gym. Benny decided it's now pong ping ping pong LoL if the game of pong represents just the paddle sounds. ah it's a complicated conversation LoL After a while of ping pong, Benny suggested we try raquetball. Sounded like a good idea at the time.

It is so crazy, you're in this giant room two regular walls and two walls made of like bulletproof glass, high intensity, will not shatter stuff. and you have to hit the ball against the back wall and then the other person has to hit it, and all the while you have to run for you life trying not to get hit LoL yes. Not exacly the game for people wearing flip-flops, i.e. me. LoL Still a fun game for unathletic people like me though because you don't have to go chasing for the freaking ball and you just have to hit a wall :) so it was a lot of fun, but they seriously need to pump some more air conditioning in those rooms, it was so freaking hot by the end LoL

Then we went to get Jamba Juice to rehydrate :) and we also wandered through Borders for a bit as well :) Overall awesome weather, it was a little hot in the afternoon, but nothing unbearable :) 80 something in the shade :)

Then we picked Jeffery back up for dinner and we headed out to Cattlemans's for their Monday night special $1 beef ribs :) Elisa and I ate two each, and that was plenty for me, Jeffery ate three I think and Benny ate four. They were really good, tender and tasty :) And we split from there for the night :)

And

Tuesday 5/29 I went to a party like I had never been to before. But I think I'll write about that later because I think I'm getting carpool tunnel syndrome. ;)

Time to unwind

2007-05-24T15:40:00.000-07:00

FREEEEEEEEEDOMMMMM :) Finally done with exams...doing well on 2 outta 4...well that's okay right? ...*calculates* wait..that's like 50%...maybe not so good, oh well as long as they're done. I'm just sorta mad because I had a bad case of test anxiety and totally freaked out on my first ochem one, I went home later that day and realized I screwed up on a bunch of stuff that I really did know. arugh. I just really want a B in that class, I got a B on my past exams and my labs and such...plllllllllease just lemme get through that with a B :)

I have no idea what to do with myself now though LoL I've been stressing and focusing all of my energy on that so far, I just am at a loss now LoL. mmm me thinkith it's time for a new hat. or at least to try and make a hat period. hm...

uhmmmmmm besides that I think I need to do some shopping and some definite unwinding is in order :)

HOT.

2007-05-08T09:33:00.000-07:00

AYYYYYYYYE AYE AYE AYEEEEEEEEEEEEEE.

I have a bio lab practical I should be studying for...but I am soooo not in the mood to study. I am just feeling so bummed, and it's like 80 degrees outside and I have to sit in classrooms all day. I just wish that school could be ooooverrrr. Although I'm not sure what I'd be doing instead...Probably interrupting Janice's or Chrissy's lives. Actually calling tiffany, since I now know that the fact she is constantly busy is actually a myth. So..after school lets maybe something fun...a movie. I haven't seen a movie in a while. Pirates of the Carribean: At World's End comes out the day after finals end...coincidence? I think not.

Oh well, back to studying monocot shoot monkey faces, and phloem sap yuuuuuum.

As they say, you can wish in one hand and crap in the other, and see which gets filled first. I'll give you three guesses.

Spring Break

2007-04-14T11:57:00.000-07:00

WHOOT. WHOOT WHOOT indeed.

Soooo. totally awesome spring break :)

Monday went to Napa with my aunt and my sister. Did some major eating :D First went to this place called Copia, it's a small food museum type of place. They have a gallery upstairs and an exhibit about food, pretty fun and interactive :) And they also had a food demo based on their theme this month, which is Australia. So the food demo was for ginger and macadamia nuts (which originated from Australia, not Hawaii as most people think). There were also a sample of this flavored salmon made into a panini sandwich. GOOD! :D

Then we went to Dean and Delucas :D awesome! bought some cookies there and went to the vineyard across the street to get some lunch. They have a deli there and so my sister and I shared an Italian sandwich and we ate outside in a picnic type area.

We had dinner at this restaurant called "Ad Hoc" which was opened by Thomas Keller (of French Laundry fame) and was suppose to be temporary, but turned out to be such a hit that he kept it open. It's a great laid back place not stuffy at all, but some really awesome food. They have a set menu every night, and they only serve that set menu (you can ask what it is before you make reservations though). Monday night was fried chicken. :D There was a salad of baby green (i'm not much of a salad person :( ), then buttermilk fried chicken, collard greens and pancheta, roasted baby potatos :D awesome! Then there was a cheese course, sooo creamy served with a kumquat marmalade and an upside down banana cake with vanilla coconut ice cream for dessert. It's safe to say I left feeling quite satisfied :D
They also served the best ginger ale I have ever had there. Vernors, apparently it's more a localized thing in detroit, but it's sooooo goooooddd!

Tuesday: WHEE FUN DAY! The fabuloso Janice and Chrissy came to surprise me. Sorta, they were here in my driveway for like 10 minutes before I actally knew they were there. They called, but it showed up as out of area (even though it was a 510 number) :( so I didn't pick up, then I checked my cell phone and saw the missed calls...oops. LoL So I got ready to go and we went out to eat lunch at sushi avenue :) Sushi is good. Then Chrissy drove us to Stoneridge mall WHOOT I haven't been to the mall in such a long time before that. Chrissy and Janice both bought new shoes...I however lose. :( No new shoes for me. Although It would have been awesome if that song "New Shoes" by Paulo Nutini would have started playing LoL

Then back to Chrissy's house for Chicken and Rice. I hadn't had that in such a long time *sniff* brought back so many good memories :) so many tasty memories :) And jonesing for something sweet, we went to bakers square for pie. taaaaasty pie. (All this after telling myself I'd eat light cause of all the eating major I did the day before...oops)

Wednesday and Thursday...school work days. Got some stuff done, but probably not as much as I should have oops. hey it's spring break.

Friday, I had to go to the museum for an art history paper I have to write. My mom said she'd go with me..cause I didn't really wanna go there by myself. We went to the Legion of Honor in SF, beautiful works there :) There were quite a few artists in the gallery working on replicating works of art. So cool to see them in action, I wish I had talent...any talent LoL. Found a few paintings I could do, I just have to choose one later. Shady business though, on the wall at the admissions desk they list all of the prices, adult, child, people who take public transit even get discounted, but they don't list that they have a student discount rate, unless you ask. So if you don't ask then you get ripped off $4! lame. Those tickets are also good for their sister museum the De Young in Golden Gate park, so we went to lunch. Pretty good chinese place noodles and dumplings my favorite :) And then headed to the other museum. The De Young is more modern, like from the 1700's and on...The really modern stuff, I don't get....but seeing the stuff from 1800's-1900's were really cool. and then back home :)

Saturday. Oddly enough Friday the 13th went really well...Saturday the 14th, however I just can't say the same. So I was sorta excited, going out on my first trip where I'd actually have to identify fish and such. I got up at 6:15am and left the house at 7:00am to get there by 7:40am, which I did so :D I even straightened my hair the night before so it wouldn't be a very angry mess after all the wind on the boat...:(

Got there, got on the boat at 7:45...stood around...looking awkward cause no one else was there yet and I had no idea what I was doing, it's my first day (actually working, it was my second day on the boat)! Then it's 7:55 and more people start coming around and a face I recognize :) the other intern James shows up. But no one else shows up...as in the group that they're supposed to take out on the boat and teach. They're supposed to board at 7:45am...but nobody. They wait around for a while, and we chat a bit. I mostly stand there looking awkward and lonerish. And so they're not going to go out if there's no group to take out. I waited around a while to see if there was anything else I could do, but it didn't seem like it and I was only planning on going for the AM voyage and not the afternoon, so since they weren't going out, I just said adios, and left. Arugh. so freaking frusterating.

Second days are always the worst. First day at the zoo, went fiiiine, nice keeper I worked with everything went well, left with all my appendages and fingers and toes. Second time I go in, suddenly there's a different keeper on that string, but no one tells me so I have no idea who I'm looking for, again looking awkward and lost. Then I meet her, she's nice, morning goes fine, after break, she leaves me to clean one of the night houses, fine. But I'm still new! so it took me a lot longer than I thought and I didn't have a key, so she left the fence locked and I was just going to jump over. Jumped over..half way, then fell the other half. ugh not graceful. Then I couldn't find her! ran literally all over the freaking zoo, like a chicken with its head cut off. Finally found someone with a radio and talked to her, she said "meet me at the main zoo" I thought that meant the main entrance, not the bottom of the zoo, so I wait there for 10 minutes, until I radio her again only to find she meant the bottom of the zoo. O.M.G. I was so wigging out that day and so stressed. I thought my head was literally going to explode.

Second days are never good. At least this saturday wasn't ...that that bad I guess...
Although on my way home today, after getting up at 6:15am on a saturday of spring break, and wasting $4 crossing a bridge only to come back home. A rock. hit my windshield...and left a big honkin' chip in it. ARUGH. I was so pissed, I wasn't even driving behind a big truck let alone anyone, the only car in front of me was a van in the next lane over. ARUGH. Now my nice windshield has a BIG effin' chip. and so do, on my shoulder.

I really wanted to go out on the boat today damnit.

Work hard, play hard.

2007-04-02T19:33:00.000-07:00

Last week was the epitome of the saying, "work hard play hard"

As I predicted yeah, last week sucked. But that was a gross understatment. GROSS understatment. I had never been as mentally fatigued as I was on thursday afternoon, I was about ready to just breakdown. I don't know, tomorrow I find out if it was worth it because I get my results back, gah.

Friday I went to eat dim sum with elisa yay! that was definitely good and it was good to see her, I don't think I've hung out with her since we went to eat at Titos (chili's LOL) in mid january! :) although she got back to work late :( sorry 'bout that.

I guess it's good to start with the good :) Saturday I went to a training for the fish database internship thingie and I got there okay and the training, it was a little bit slow at points, but it was very informative. Also I got to go out on the boat later in the day to see first hand what an intern does. The people I've met so far have been really great and nice, very friendly and outgoing. The zoo's good, but people wise, not the most sociable volunteers there. After the training and before the boat we had time to go to lunch, so I went out and the only place I could find was Applebee's so I went in there, by myself...and when I entered the song "ALLL BYYYY MYYYYYSELFFFFFF DON'T WANNA BEEEEE ALLLL BYYYYY MYYYYSELF" was playing, LoL I was so cracking up. It was hilarous LoL On the boat, I got to check out some of the fish they caught, I'm definitely going to have to brush up on my fish identification...but hopefully by the summer, or maybe even spring I'll get better at it, and like with most things practice makes perfect. So I'm planning to do that in the summer.

After all of that fun and enjoyment in the day I went to chrissy's house at night :) I hadn't spent quality time with her in a really long time, so it was definitely good to have some laughs. Laugh inducing moments included a three teated cow, trying to put her puzzle together, billythewitchdoctor.com, making chrissy watch Ben Affleck striptease at a gay club, and last but certainly not least. Thank you myheritage.com I think I lost a few pounds from all that laughter. And from being a crackhead, some of the MANY celebs my heritage is linked to, donny osmond, some korean communist leader, viggo mortenson, the rock, this ooold lady Grace...uhm i can't remember her last name, but the eptome of an OLD white woman, GARY FREAKIN' BUSEY! THEY LABLED ME AS GARY FREAKIN' BUSEY! I was a crack head for the rest of the night.
They just traced chrissy back to all of these fobby asian girls. Me, I'm now ~~Gary~~ Teri Busey.

And Freakin' a. Chrissy has this lego block calender from hong kong which defeated both of us.

Sunday, less good :( So I got at the zoo to volunteer and like normal started preping the diets and such and the keeper got the rest of the diets, but as we were about to go, I notied one less bucket...so me and my friend were like, aren't we missing something? and then he told us that one of the sunbears died a few days before. Arugh. that was heartbreaking.

A few months ago, they had brought in a new sunbear from the San Diego Zoo because in SD they were trying to mate a male and another female and so this bear was sorta the third wheel and we had a very large enclosure here for only one bear so they thought they would try to put our sunbear and the san diego sunbear together. When she first got here they said she was very agressive and anxious and just a very bad tempered bear. Then they put them in separate cages next to each other, they didn't really get along, but that's pretty normal when introducing two mature females. They would bark and growl every once in a while, eventually it seemed to lessen slightly although both seemed pretty stressed. Since it lessened and it had been a few weeks, they decided to let them in the enclosure together to see how they'd do. They just fought and fought until the keepers could get one back into the nighhouse.

After that fiasco, they kept them separate and would just rotate them inside and outside, but after that fight outside, I could tell that Kaika (the sunbear which was here first) was just worn out and she wasn't pacing or anything unless Ting (the sunbear from san diego) started barking or growling. The past few weeks Kaika was just more submissive so I thought maybe they'd finally start to get along a bit better, but it turns out the life was just draining out of her. On Friday they found her comatose in the nighthouse and they couldn't wake her up, so she died. They did a necropsy and found that something made her lungs stop working, but the couldn't determine exactly what, so no conclusive answers were found, but the keepers basically say it was just the stress. I'm sure she was just shocked to have this new bear come in and then start challenging her, then they got into the fight which probably cause her to be a lot more nervous and stressed out. It was just not a good situation and she wasn't as young as she used to be, so it just consumed her.

There have been 2 other deaths on this string with the animals I work with. One was from advanced cancer, Spike, the othe sunbear was put down and then Macho one of our deers was also put down because he was getting very very old and stopped eating. Both of those were unpreventable, but this one was worse because it was a stress induced by the keepers so it might have been prevented. It could have gone either way though, ting could have been a great companion, they didn't know until they introduced them.

The whole thing just sucked because our keeper took it especially hard and it just made for a very depressing sunday. At least she's no longer under that stress...

At least saturday was good :) and today I got my art midterm back and I did pretty well on it, so there's always a balance to life.

Upppp and doooownnn

2007-03-23T19:59:00.000-07:00

Well I'm looking into volunteer opportunities for the summer, I'm sorta excited, but next saturday I'll learn more about it and see how it goes. This up coming week though is going to seriously suck. LoL 3 exams :( OChem, Art History, Bio exam and bio lab practical. I just can't seem to get this information to stick in my head. My brain is acting very spazzy right now. LoL

My head in general is going so mental. I tell myself not to have expectations, but then it's so hard not to. I went to this dinner at the zoo, could have been ultra great, or ultra not, turned out ultra not LoL but I sorta prepared myself for that... eh, you live and learn. At least this place in Redwood City the people sound cool, and this is something that I'd really like to do in the future, work at an aquarium or do research on the boat. So it's hard not to get excited about it, although I haven't even been there yet so again, on saturday I'll know more.

I suppose I'm just writing in this now cause I don't feel like studying, although I have minimal time to cram all this stuff into my head, I shouldn't be just wasting it cause then I'll kick my self in the butt for it later. but it's just so hard to concentrat when the homework problems are filled with words like "cyclohexanecarbaldehyde" and "1,3-propanedithiol" seriously they should put those words in a lullaby and give them out to people with insomniac problems, it'll put them riiiight to sleep.

Too bad no one I know would want to do this, all my friends are doing job stuff for the summer, which is definitely more important than working for free LoL, and everyone at school in science classes are all doing something related to medicine or biochem...DRUGS DRUGS DRUGS! LoL *bangs head on desk*

Well at least this was in paragraphs..but I think paragraphs are all that remain of my sanity.

Celebrity Look alikes... or so they say...

2007-03-03T15:57:00.000-08:00

The truth comes out, "My heritage" is really Korean or white...or mexican or...Fred Savage?! LoL

But I also ran one for elisa in that picture, hers is even more shocking!

Elisa's heritage traces back to...dun ddun dun 50 CENT! ...and the guy from Gilmore Girls?! (and now Supernatural)

2007-03-03T13:04:00.000-08:00

Freakin' a! I seriously need to go out. I have not be out like just hanging out, in EONS (side note, if you ever are doing a crossword puzzle and the clue is something like "very long time" or whatever and its 4 spaces the word is usually "eons"). I need to go. I haven't done anyting fun in such a long time, and now that I only have 2 classes really I have a lot more time, so hm. Maybe next week I will attempt to make contact. (ha. that sounds something like that should be on star trek or something..."captians log 03032007 Next week we will attempt to make contact...") I'm a nerd. I really would like something to take my mind off of lame stuff that shouldn't even hold my attention LoL

plus Maria, if you're reading this...I need to give you your christmas present still LoL ... It's been wrapped up forever...and it needs to go to your loving home. I just have to get my lazy ass up and deliver it.

Happy Valentine's Day...or is it?

2007-02-14T11:09:00.000-08:00

I really haven't posted any thing interesting cause nothing of much interest has happened to me. I live such a mundane cyclic life during school. (And during summer for that matter too lol) Maybe I should do something productive..."spice" things up a bit...or not.

Eh I've gone through the 5 stages of "grieving" Anger, denial...Curly, Moe, Larry LoL and now I could just care less. It's just another day in the shortest month of the year...that happens to be drenched in pink, red and white. I can do without the candy and any other teddy bears would just be donated with my othe stuffed animals I no longer want. In the end, it's good not to collect any other crap that I don't need and I can laugh harder at the anti-valentines day cards. Hallmark.com has a pretty damn good one LoL it's a little teddy bear that has a pull string you click and the first phrase is, "Did you know Valentine's day commemorates the hanging of Saint Valentine?" another phrase it says is, "Oh How I love you, Let me count the ways...wait, I don't have fingers...too bad." LoL as dead panned as a teddy can be. LOL :)

I'm just happy because I didn't have to get up at 6:30 this morning and I only have one class today and no other classes until Tuesday :) WHEE!

I've Got A Jar of Dirt - Remix Music Video

2007-02-12T19:14:00.001-08:00

A little something to make you laugh...well it made me laugh. LoL

Advice of the Day

2007-01-29T18:00:00.000-08:00

Don't get too involved with anything. When you get involved, you create expectations and when you have expectations all you get is dissapointment. So don't bother putting in all that effort to begin with only to have everyone at the end kick you when you're down.

Lacrosse

2007-01-28T18:46:00.000-08:00

Nothing spectactular happened in life today, but I just felt like posting, haven't in a while, and I really don't want to do homework LoL. Spring semister sucks like that, I've used up all my work ethic during the fall semister, oops. Biology, we're finally moving up in the organizational life chain, to actual organisms and not just cells.

I have to check if I have to go jury duty on tuesday, it's almost exactly one year since they last called me in, I hope I don't have to go in this time, then I'll have to miss class and ugh. On the upside I do get to go to a hockey game that night :D WHOO!

Saturday night I went to my first Lacrosse game. LoL It was the men's professional lacrosse team, the San Jose stealth. Like a ninja, waaaah. So it was pretty fun, the general idea is get the ball into the net, which may sound easy but when you've got a goalie the size of the net...not so easy. LoL

I want to be a lacrosse goalie for Halloween. :D

It was a fun game to watch even though I still have no idea how the hell it's played. Guys are running on and off the field all the time and whistles, buzzers and horns are going off too, it's MADNESS! On the field guys are whacking each other with their sticks and shoving around. Plus they're running in shorts, I don't think I've ever seen a sporting event with guys running around in shorts LoL some of them have really skinny legs, like chicken legs...I'd trade 'em for my tree stump legs.. LoL they have 4 quarters and some really lame dancers the "spy girls" :( I guess I was never a fan of cheerleaders...We lost 11-10, bummer, but we had really good seats :) If free tickets come around again I'd go :)

School is alright, it's only been two weeks though, my art history instructor is very wordy which can get annoying cause she'll spend 3 minutes saying something that should only take 30 seconds, but she's seems pretty cool and everyone has said pretty good things about her. Bio...I'm not sure, I've heard of her fury, but she has yet to unleash it on us...she is very...stern? I'm not sure if that's the best way to describe her, but she's not someone that really jokes around much.
Chem is alright, same instructor and my other friend from physics is in there so yay :) I found out Nick is in the other section which is intersting, I suppose I may get infrequent updates from my other friend who's in that section too. Next time I pass him maybe I'll get more than a "hi" in LoL
I guess I should try to get back to school work...for just an hour :)

"First Day of My Life"

2007-01-27T15:34:00.001-08:00

...That's all I want, just to say to someone, "I'm glad I didn't die before I met you..." It's all I'm asking for... :)

Cleaning.

2007-01-10T13:46:00.000-08:00

I don't clean very often...but when I do it's some pretty heavy duty cleaning. So far I have a huge bag of about 20 lbs. worth of stuff to recycle, lots of old school work, old stuff and what not. And I have about 15lbs of trash stuff misc. stuff that can't be recycled.

It's been a few years since I've done a clean through and what I've found is that I like to keep stuff, random crap just in case, mostly stuff with dates on it and stuff that I think I'll want in the future for memories. But after having a few years without looking at it or touching it or missing it, I find I can live without it and chuck it. Which is good, it feels good to clear out some of the clutter. I think there might actually be room to sit down in my room now. I got rid of a lot of pictures random crap that I thought I should keep around, but really it's doing no one any good.

I gave a bunch of stuff to my sister for her "class store" thing, an incentive program when she has her own class. A good way to get rid of old crap that you're not going to use any more, small erasers, stickers etc. LoL herm, out with the old, in with the new yeah? :)

It's still madness in here though, sorta like when you dust at first all the dust flys up everywhere and it seems dustier than when you started but as it settles and gets wiped off everything ends up cleaner. Things havnen't quite settled yet, but I've got a lot of excessive clutter out :)

(Along with the cathartic feeling I've gotten from cleaning, I've also found $20 in an old pair of jeans, $30 in a birthday card [but I also owed $30 to my sister for our parent's gift LoL], $27 from an old target gift card and an aeropostale gift card :D WHOO!)
Break over, Back to cleaning up.

Pictures from the game :)

2006-12-13T19:00:00.000-08:00

Finall the rush over, now I have to prepare for the long haul, i.e. finals. AUARGHOh 4 exams, and then lab reports and notebook for only 2 classes? it's absurd, really. Whatever,

I finally got those pictures posted, and I got the ones on film back today :) not as sharp as I'd like them to be, but still not bad. When I get the film ones scanned in I'll add them in also :)

That's a sample because I can't fit them all in there, but here's the whole album :)
Sharks :)

Final Moods

2006-12-10T19:18:00.000-08:00

Last night was SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO FREAKING AWESOME!!!!!!!! :D ...more on that later when I see if I get any good pictures back...dude I hope I do, I may cry if they all turn out like crap. aurhg. anywhoo Now it's back to reality and I'm in a really irritable mood. (Beware...) But, "You take the good you take the bad, you take 'em both and there ya have the facts of life, the facts of life" ...and finals are just a fact of life

I'll post the pictures I do have...most likely December 19th. THE LAST DAY OF FINALS !!!!!!!! (it may be the 18th...i'll find out tuesday I suppose...)

2006-12-02T13:31:00.000-08:00

"Don't blame the killer whale, it's just living up to its name..."

SeaWorld's Punishment For Shamu

Just some humorous commentary reguarding the incident at sea world with the trainer and one of the whales. But seriously they're wild animals, as craig said, "it's not called the snuggly whale." They're not meant to be played with.

2006-11-15T21:28:00.000-08:00

Ehrhoff Rocks Goc

Never try to talk to boys while they're playing video games!

Random Blog

2006-11-08T19:09:00.000-08:00

Dude....seriously crazy low fog yesterday, like freakin' London! LoL I thought it was pretty cool I wish I had time to pull over and take some pictures, ooh, that would have made some pretty awesome pictures. :( bummage.

Today we didn't have to get to lab until 9 to take our quiz WHOO! ...although I wish I wouldn't have had to take the quiz at all. I studied last night...but not as well as I should have. I totally failed I only got like 3 out of 10 things right and I got last week's quiz back and I got a 6/10 :( lame. and the exam is tuesday. arugh. I'm stressing out kinda bad cause she said she was going to make the tests hard...but the first one was pretty easy and she realized that after grading it so I think this one will be a lot harder to compensate. ...blehmblehm.

I voted yesterday WHOO :) There are few things not so awesome about america...but voting is pretty damn awesome.

Went to the harvest feastival on saturday :D WHOO that was pretty fun, it's getting a little bit smaller each year, but it's still pretty big, around 200 stalls and there are shows throughout the day, during lunch we heard the band play, not bad not great and then we stuck around for the Barbary Coast Cloggers, freakin' awesome. And then stuck around for the magic show...pretty funny and some of the tricks were entertaining :) More shopping and stuff I wasn't planning on buying any more jewlery but I just got sucked in LoL 2 bracelets and a necklace I usually don't buy bracelets but these ones I could actually put on by myself and so I figured why not. ;)

Mmm if more pictures turn out okay I'll scan them in and post them I suppose that's all for now :)

Photo 50 Scans

2006-11-03T12:55:00.000-08:00

Here are some scans of my pictures for my photo 50 class. I tried scanning using greyscale, but it makes some of the areas too dark and if you scan in color, it gets more detail, but it looks brownish :( and I didn't tone these photos. Hopefully when I sort that out, the scans will turn out better. But for now here they are...

2006-10-28T18:35:00.000-07:00

Cello Journey #17, Halloween Episode: Popper Gnomentanz

"This is a special Halloween episode of Cello Journey. Me and Ross play the Gnomentanz (Dance of The Gnomes) by David Popper. It is a somewhat menacing and spooky piece with a happy major section in the middle. Happy Halloween!"

Playing a Gnome song for halloween....coincidence? I think not. Der Gnomentanz.

ARUUUUGH

2006-10-21T11:46:00.000-07:00

As per Maria's instruction I shall fiendishly blog. LoL This morning was supposed to be an awesome morning to spend Breakfast with Maria, and to cross off a "to do" on my list...Well the breakfast was good.... So Maria came over and we had breakfast and chatted :) Good "sunday morning" talk, just on a saturday morning :) Then she went to go put on her face and I was going to take 36 pictures of her magnificant face hoping that 1 or 2 shots would actually do her justice.

As I was doing this, I thought something might have been a little wrong, but it was morning and I was in denial. :( So at the end of the roll which coincided with Maria finishing putting on her make-up, I pushed the release button and then began to rewind the film...only to find that I just rewound the tail end...Which means that I just sealed an unused roll of film. :( lame.

I hadn't loaded a roll of film on in a while and I guess I wasn't thinking and while I tucked the end of the film into the side, I didn't lock the film onto the sprockets so it just fell off and I was winding nothing. :(

But as Maria's mug said this morning, "Shiitake Happens."

And so life goes on, I went to Wolf Camera, bought another $6 roll and also some negative sleeve protectors cause I needed those and then went home to load the roll of film on properly. Maybe I'll take some of my family, and of Maria and hopefully get it done by monday so I can develop monday night :)

Thank goodness for my friends and family, without them, I'd be the Anti-Scientology guy screaming at the top of my lungs red faced, balding, and veins popping out of my head. So thank you all. :)

2006-10-16T20:12:00.000-07:00

Sometimes it's like staring into a pool and wanting to jump in, but knowing you can't swim. Staring at its beauty, shimmering and watching the reflections of light dancing on the surface, still knowing should you enter it'll be your death.

What if there is no one? What if you live your whole life and no one is waiting? ...I have to learn to live the life that I have got.
The Lake House

Long time no chat

2006-10-12T23:03:00.000-07:00

Uhm. not much has gone on...I have SO much to say...and nothing to say at all. I'm way more into hockey...for the first time since the "Labor dispute" arugh. It's something to look forward to :) ...when they win LoL Tonight...not such a night. but you gotta take the good with the bad...apparently it's the facts of life. ;)

School has been going as well as possible...in fact a WHOLE lot better than last year. I'm not saying it's not tough and a pain in the butt sometimes, but it's a lot more balanced. Last semister I felt like I was about to die after the first 3 weeks or so...there's been slight ups and downs...but everything's been pretty reasonable.

Pretty crazy 2 weeks have passed though...and I think that's enough about that...hopefully there will be less excitment around the house..I have been very cranky for the past two weeks too...I hope that'll pass cause it's stressful on me too. but damn....i pinch. i want to pinch. a little pinch?

I have two fatty zits on my forehead leading me to look like a unicorn...or a rhinocerous. I got to help move a tortoise at the zoo last week...geez those are heavy mofos. and they made cool noises. Things have been going good.

2006-09-13T18:12:00.000-07:00

the Feeny Call

I love this video clip, one of my most favorite moments in Boy Meets World LoL

Feeling better today.

2006-09-12T20:18:00.000-07:00

My current mood
pissed
My personal mood
I am effin' pissed off. I just spent three effin' hours in the effin' photo lab developing pictures that still haven't come out right. And it's not that it's a difficult project, cause other people have come in and finished it in under an hour. For some reason I just can't do it and it's so effin' frusterating because it is just so damn easy!

And I'm on the rag so I am just pissed off in general and the damn hormones are screwing with me. I got so frusterated that I was literally about to cry and that made me even more pissed off.

GODDAMN DANIEL POWTER SONG! FRICKIN'A IF YOU HEAR THAT SONG, RUN. IT'S AN OMEN FOR A MISERABLE FUCKIN' DAY.

Mood changed
Today

2006-09-10T19:54:00.000-07:00

Popular - "Fire in the Hole"

The kids are doing a rehearsal of a musical about STDs, "That Burning Sensation: A Cautionary Tale."

...if this doesn't make you want to have sex, nothing will... LoL it's almost as bad as those Pepto Bismol commercials :(

2006-09-04T21:24:00.000-07:00

Mmmm, Diego Luna Dancing...

This is some seriously hot dancing...

Geez time flies. Weekend Recap

2006-09-04T19:06:00.000-07:00

Man, time flies, it just seems like thursday when I was excited for my first holiday...and now I'm sad because my next holiday isn't until Thanksgiving. LAME.

Thursday, went to class...Went to Wolf camera. found out that my pictures are going to take 7-10 business days to pick up, oops. I should have asked about that before I left, oh well live and learn. Bought 2 rolls of film, 24 exp. :( I need 36 for class, again didn't check until I got home and after I opened the box. oh well Live and Learn, I just really wasn't focused on Thursday. :( Hung out with Elisa WHOOOO and Mr. Poopie Pants, who is going to be put up for adoption :( sadly, so we walked the dogs for about a half hour, then Elisa abandoned me to go to work.

Friday, went with Maria to Barney's freaking best burgers ever. My intentions were not totally pure, I wanted to use Maria for all of her photography knowledge :D :D :D So she drove the red car! never got to ride in a Del Sol before* (for more than 30 seconds that is) We hung out at my house for a bit, she helped me use up the stupid role of 24 exp. that I used and then showed me some of her old projects and stuff and unloaded infinite amounts of knowledge on me. I learned more from her in 30 minutes than I have from my instructor the 2 or 3 weeks I've been in that class.

Then she so skillfully drove us to Berkeley to the most awesome photo shop which actually has the film I need unlike Wolf Camera and the stupid bookstore. I bought some awesome film and paper packages so when it comes time to print I don't even need to go out to get paper WHOO! At the photoshop Maria also unloaded her super knowledge of German knowing the phrase "Boring Postcards." There was a book titled "Boring Postcards" in german at the register and Maria just read it outloud, like she speaks german everday. It was awesome. And then it was off to Albany :) Barney's burgers, my first photo assignment was to photograph the "Great American Burger" or "something of special importance..." the burger seemed to fit both. LoL So I learned a lot more, took a bunch of photographs, of maria and burgers and milkshakes. I had a "Turkish Coffee Milkshake" ... which we decided was basically all of the left over coffee grounds from the past week put in with some vanilla ice cream and milk. It was AWESOME. I was seriously up for the rest of the weekend on that LoL. Ate a bacon cheese burger which filled me up for the next 24 hours. Maria gave me an awesome scenic tour of the whole east bay, and so skillfully avoided traffic. Her beauty cannot be tainted by sitting in traffic. We also dropped a burger off at Sportsmart to Ben who was working. passed the "Scrapper Gurls" car or something...interesting colors

Came back home, then went to the A's game for fireworks night. Good game, kinda cold, but the fireworks were awesome :D Man I didn't eat anything that whole day...not until noon the next day...and I didn't even eat the whole burger. oi.

Saturday went to Gilroy for outlet shopping, bought 2 shirts, only 5 bucks at the gap, everywhere was major sales for Labor Day. Jeans were like 14.99, but I didn't really need anything, so I tried not to buy anything...Ate dinner at Mimi's Cafe, had this grilled chicken with MASHED POTATOES AND GRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAVY!

Sunday Volunteered...slept, did homework, breaked, homework and then went to dinner in Burlingame (i can't spell.) at an Italian Restaurant, Il Foranio awesome bread, the actual meal was alright... But they had matchboxes which was way cool :)

Today, did homework, watched tv, studied for some quizzes...relaxed and chilled at home :) wonderful day. :)

Anxiety

2006-08-29T19:31:00.000-07:00

Duuuuude. today was such a bizarro day. I woke up and I just had this like nervousness, anxiety running through me like it was way worse than stress. I sometimes have it before something important like a meeting or when I have to do something that involves new other people. But today, the whole day I had this serious high anxiety thing going on, headaches, heart was racing and I don't even know why. The whole day I thought something terrible would happen because I felt like that, thank goodness nothing did, but I can't even think of what would provoke that :( I hope something doesn't like go absolutely terrible tomorrow... :/

...then again "Celebrity Duets" premiers tonight...what is the world coming to? . :(

2006-08-25T23:28:00.000-07:00

The Unknown Citizen
by W. H. Auden

He was found by the Bureau of Statistics to be
One against whom there was no official complaint,
And all the reports on his conduct agree
That, in the modern sense of an old-fashioned word, he was a saint,
For in everything he did he served the Greater Community.
Except for the War till the day he retired
He worked in a factory and never got fired,
But satisfied his employers, Fudge Motors Inc.
Yet he wasn't a scab or odd in his views,
For his Union reports that he paid his dues,
(Our report on his Union shows it was sound)
And our Social Psychology workers found
That he was popular with his mates and liked a drink.
The Press are convinced that he bought a paper every day
And that his reactions to advertisements were normal in every way.
Policies taken out in his name prove that he was fully insured,
And his Health-card shows he was once in a hospital but left it cured.
Both Producers Research and High-Grade Living declare
He was fully sensible to the advantages of the Instalment Plan
And had everything necessary to the Modern Man,
A phonograph, a radio, a car and a frigidaire.
Our researchers into Public Opinion are content
That he held the proper opinions for the time of year;
When there was peace, he was for peace: when there was war, he went.
He was married and added five children to the population,
Which our Eugenist says was the right number for a parent of his generation.
And our teachers report that he never interfered with their education.
Was he free? Was he happy? The question is absurd:
Had anything been wrong, we should certainly have heard.

I heart the internet

2006-08-17T13:27:00.000-07:00

...but I don't heart organic chemistry. :/

First thing's first. Anyone can have "15 seconds" of fame on the internet! :D send in a quote to jonessoda.com and it'll get posted on the top banner, send in a picture to fox sports net and it'll get posted on the "playoff beard's page" and may even get broadcasted during the next playoff game, send a question to George Duran and he may answer it himself :)
Ham on the Street Blog

Next terms' schedule, here it goes...not great, but could be worse. Monday I don't start until noon :D :D :D I've never had that, so that's good, Tuesday 9am-1pm...not bad :) Wednesday...that's where the "not great" part comes in. O-Chem lab at 7:25-11:55, bio lec 12:00-1:15 and then bio lab from 1:30-4:20... yeah Not so thrilled about wednesdays...but you've just gotta go with the flow sometimes. Photo class from 9:00-9:50 and O-Chem lec from 10:00-10:45....

Bueno: Monday I start at noon, I have no class friday's or saturday's :) and no huge breaks. Those are all huge thumb's up

Malo: Wednesday is one heck of a long day...

So the Bueno's outweigh the Malo's :) I really hope this semister goes well :D *fingers crossed*

Infinitely long post.

2006-08-10T23:52:00.000-07:00

This is going to be a long one.
As 'they' say, the best place to start is from the beginning. :D ...except when pictures are involved. People always flip through the pictures first, so I thought I'd put them at the top of the post

Pictures from Saturday and Monday are posted at Costco photos, you have to sign up :( sorry 'bout that, but I'll most likely be posting my pictures from there since they have unlimited space. Photos from Saturday and Monday

Here are some of Elisa's photos from when I went to San Francisco with her and maria and ben. Elisa's Photos

Soooo here goes.

Thursday August 3rd. Went to Texas Roadhouse to celebrate Benny's birthday with a bunch of his friends from Davis. :) Good food, good times and Tiffany got a super awesome cake for him, all the servers asked where she got it from. Sadly some of the candles burned...and burned fast dripping a bit on the cake, but wax is non toxic, so what the hey LoL :)

Friday August 4th. Went to go donate blood, first time since last october, it's been a while. I've either not had the time to go that day, or been on the rag when they have been here. I went with my mom, she dropped me off and then went to drop off my dad's shoes at the cobbler (are they still called that?). So I went through the whole thing, history and everything, that's on the computer now, still the same amount of questions but you click yes or no instead of circling it LoL. All of that was well, and then I got to the donating part. Arugh. freakin' noob. He was really weird, like he'd joke hecka loud with the other nurses or dr's there...and then he'd look at me and be all "professional" ...which seriously came off like a jerk. It was obvious he had some sense of humor, but he was just acting like an ass, and then he couldn't find the vein, so he was jabbin' me like five billion times, and had to ask the other lady to come over, then she found it and got it. And then it was all right. Only when he pulled it out, I don't think he put enough pressure on it, he told me to press down in one spot, and then move it...so I did, either way I ended up with a sore arm and one fatty ass bruise when I normally never ever get bruises that side. I looked like a freakin' junkie. but I did save three lives!. *look*

Then, me and my mom went to Pak N Save and bought the necessary groceries for the partay on saturday :D WHOOT! And then I went to sleep cause I was sleeeepppppyyyy

Saturday August 5th. I got up at 7:40am. I swear, I showered, ate and everything, but somehow I still didn't manage to leave the house until 9:10am I think I should have loaded everything the night before, but oh well went to Safeway to get ice and then left for Tiffany's house. I was the last one there, oops. So since I got there a little late, we left right after I got there to go to santa cruz. Driving there was fairly uneventful.

Getting to the Mystery Spot. freakin' out in the boonies man. Good thing I had my super deeedooper navigator there, Tiffany, who had already been there and totally knew where to go, or else I would have been so screwed LoL. I thought it'd be lame, but it really wasn't it was pretty cool, the tour guide was ...what's the word...less than thrilled? but still had a wry sense of humor. The whole thing was really cool and most awesome part? TOTALLY GOT A BUMPER STICKER!!!!!!! *insert emmense amounts of excitment here* I have seen this sticker around forever, since I was a little kid and now I get to be apart of the club too! :D :D :D

Then we went to the Boardwalk to eat lunch on the beach. Sounds like a good idea right? Well we got there I think a little after noon, and there was a strong man competetion and a beach volleyball competetion=muchos personas. We got stuck on the street directly behind the boardwalk, and by stuck, I mean literally stuck cause it was so freakin' blocked up we were basically parked. Then a firetruck decided to come down the street, so all the people were moving to the side, luckily they had wide bike lanes so there was room to move to the side, and while all the cars were adjusting, I managed to make my way out of that mess and up back around to a public parking lot. The closer one was full :( but the one a little farther away was empty and only 5$ for the whole day. So, Benny, Maria, Elisa and I took all of the stuff out of the car and walked to the Boardwalk. Kyle and co. decided to take the long route around and eventually parked at the same lot we did LoL.

We made sandwiches on the beach. and used up practically all of the goods :D WHOOT which means a lot less to carry back :) Wadded around in the water a lot, will probably be banished to the third ring of hell for making fun of the "marker" like we did LoL. Quickly walked through some of the shops with Chrissy and then bathed in the sun, feeling very serene with Tiff and Maria and Elisa :) Very Kick butt day.

Then we headed downtown parked at a free lot WHOO!!! and Walked around the downtown stores, few shops, Elisa bought some shoes :) and a lot of us bought Jamba Juices...my melon-ade wave was pink. Benny's and Justin's not pink...mine, pink. Exact same drink, but pink. the running idea was that it contained grapes...hence the pinkish hue, but they were supposed to be white grapes. oh well. still tasted good LoL and refreshing. After walking down the main street of downtown, and then walking back, we decided on going to a mexican restaurant Acapulco.

Good food at Acapulco for a good price :) I enjoyed, everyone chipped in for my meal too THANKS ALL! Service was a bit slow, but then again, they were busy..but most awesome chips and salsa. we definitely filled up on that LoL And afterwards, Gelato!!!!!!!! I had a blueberry and cream one :) soooo great, there were a bunch of flavors too :) Then we headed back to home.

Met up at Tiffany's house for a quick bit where I opened my gift from Benny and Elisa :D great game of "Would you rather" (Which we tested out a few days later) And then I went home

Got home, cleaned out all the sand...and boy howdy there was a lot of it, and went to sleep

Sunday August 6th. Woke up at 7:30am, went to volunteer at the zoo. Dead freakin' tired, but went none the less. Only me and the keeper, like the old days so no noobs lockin' me in the bear enclosures *arugh* :) nice and quiet :) Got home and napped again :)

Monday August 7th. Woke up at 7:00am, got ready and left the house at 8:00am to go to Monterey. Went with my aunt and my sister and my little cousin. Normally it's just my aunt and my sister and me when we go on these little side trips, but they decided to take my cousin along this time cause he's out of school. So, we went to the Aquarium first, it was a lot of fun, I hadn't been there in a while :) and then we had lunch at the Fish Hopper, it was right along the water. It was the restaurant where we had lunch last time, when all of us went to Monterey :) Good times. I had their soup in a breadbowl, but their bread was sucky :( Soup was awesome! Looked out side, got to see the seals sun bathing on the rocks and some birds go by and such, wonderful lunch. Went back in to the aquarium to finish off the rest of the exhibits. We went to one where they had jellyfish and pieces of artwork, and it was soooooo awesome, people can be so creative. I loved it. at like 3:30 ish, I was soooo tired from the very busy weekend and so we left once we saw everything and then walked around some of the shops on cannery row. Drove around for a little while along the beach and such and the went to dinner.

We went to dinner at a nicer restaurant called Passionfish :) I had Alaskan Halibut, sooooooooo good, it and a lot of places don't make it right, and it always comes out dry, but here it was cooked to perfection :) Me and my sister had a slice of mudpie for dessert, it was less mud pie, and more a fatty scoop of ice cream on top of a cookie crust :) good none the less.

My cousin was good, but I just lack the enthusiasm for kids, and the patience...It's not that I hate them, I just don't get along with them so well. LoL

Tuesday August 8th. Hung out with Elisa and Benny after they got off of work, went with them to eat lunch at the japanese/vietnamese restaurant, alright food pretty cheap :) Then we went back to my house to try out the new board game they got me. It's fun an all, but it works better with more people. and we watched "She's the Man" I liked it better than I thought I would....cute guys, sans shirts playing soccer...what's not to like there right? :D

Wednesday August 9th. MY BIRTHDAY! Slept in :D LoL Didn't really do much, went to lunch at Todai's with my sister and my dad, proceeded to eat way too much. Sushi was good, but their hot food wasn't so great :( they had something called "tempura sushi" and it wasn't sushi with tempura inside of it, it was deep fried sushi, it was so wrong, but so right. LoL I was super duper bummed they didn't have creme brulée, ah but they had a crepe dude, so that was alright, and they had a softie machine, so I put some softie on my crepe :D LoL Pretty uneventful night, opened my gifts from family, got a new bag, a new watch, and something from my sister, which is "on its way" LoL :)

That's about it.. :) Pictures from Saturday and Monday are posted at Costco photos, you have to sign up :( sorry 'bout that, but I'll most likely be posting my pictures from there since they have unlimited space.

Photos from Saturday and Monday

Here are some of Elisa's photos from when I went to San Francisco with her and maria and ben.

Elisa's Photos

2006-08-01T23:05:00.000-07:00

Food Network Singing Fish

Most freakin' awesome commercial ever. Yodeling is freakishly entertaing to me, don't ask why. LoL

So friggin hot.

2006-07-22T15:25:00.000-07:00

It is so friggin hot. I think this may be our punsihment for polluting the world. Shame on us...and now we roast. I don't like the heat. I'm not a fan of the heat not my cup of tea. I'm roasting and attempting to finish a paper. Not working out too well since I totally want to nap. And tomorrow is my first day back at voluteering. How nice, I'm going to go run around and scrape up rotting animal crap and food scraps in 85F degree weather. Oh well, I asked for it, hopefully it won't be too bad and the animals I work with on the string are from south eastern asia countries where they live in heat and humidity, I'm sure they don't mind LoL :) Aside from the bitterness, I'm excited to go back :)

Question of the Day:
I was listening to the radio and the DJ said she knew a butcher who is 5'11 and wears a size 13 shoe, what does he weigh?

I welcome all answers :)

Find your Center...

2006-07-18T09:46:00.000-07:00

Breathe in....and out...in...and out....Yesterday something potentially highly detremential to the furterment of my educational career happened. I was told that they are taking appointments so students can sign up for the UC Santa Cruz transfer agreements, but they were no more appointments available. I was floored. Frusterated, shocked and upset I could not think straight and the only thing I heard was that I could go back at the end of August to make an appointment in September. But I was so fuming. I just left.

I was mad because I went the last two weeks of June asking when they were taking appointments, and she said to come back late July or early August, so going in yesterday, I thought I would be going in early. I was upset and fume-y and ranty for a long time yesterday. And then I calmed myself down and realized I was going to do all that I could, i.e. contact my councler and if nothing else, just go back at the end of August and see how things go. So I finally had reached my center and had calmed down a lot.

So today I went back to see the secretary and speak more rationally to her and realistically ask what I could do. It turns out that they didn't run out of TAA's and therefore were no longer taking appointments. They had run out of appointments because everyone else making TAA's for other schools had booked all of the appointments. You can start turning in the TAA'S for Santa Cruz on August 1, and they accept them until October, so if I have an appointment in September, then I should still be good. Other good news, Elisa has an appointment she may not need, if so, I could use it and get all of the done and over with. Good deal.

See now if I had calmed myself even earlier, i.e. after I got the news, I wouldn't have had to stress out all yesterday. But now I am feeling much more better and a lot less freaked out. and that's good.

OOOHMMMMMMM.

Pirates of the Caribbean, YAY.

2006-07-15T23:28:00.000-07:00

Yesterday I went with Maria, Ben and Elisa to San Francisco, I guess a random shopping trip. I didn't buy anything, but a sourdough bread bowl, which I then proceeded to spill on myself three times...everytime i wear that brown shirt I always get food on it. oh well. Went all over the place, good fun though. Came back and went with Elisa (who cannot say no) to tapoica express in fremont cause she said she'd do her online test with this guy from her online class. Whose first question was, "so are we really going to do work?" YECH that's gross, and he was gross and he was wearing a google shirt which said something to the likes of "I'm feelin' lucky" or something, it was gross too. And then some black guy came in wanting some red drank and was wowed by the fishies. Ben also got owned by the eb games store in SF. Owned with glue and a spoon, but we found a lot of uses for it theorhetically. which is spelled wrong, but I am so stinkin' tired.

Then we went to see pirates of the caribbean at the old theater by New Park Mall which her friend got us in for free. YAY FREE! Then we got out at like 12:30am and then Elisa had to go wal mart to go and pick up some stuff for her mom...i hate walmart. why is there a line in that at 1:00am? tell me, it does not compute. So I get home and get to bed around 2:00am...ony to wake up at like 7:30am to see..dun dun dun pirates of the caribbean again. LoL

My dad got tickets to see pirates at 9:30am today (he bought the tickets on thursday and I didn't know I was going to see it on friday) so we went early got our free popcorn and soda :) and then I proceeded to watch Pirates for the third time. I've loved it each time. I thought there was a lot more action, love the giant hamster wheel things made of bones, the big water wheel thinge, just everything was awesome. period. I don't even know what to call them, the part sea creatures, part sailors. looked really good, dude with the brain stuck in the side of the ship, awesome. Looked like some senior citizens I've seen around san leandro... This one was a lot funnier too. LoL :) The ending frusterated me, only cause there wasn't really an ending...must wait a year for the third one. But I did like the twists in this one :) totally worth seeing three times.

2006-07-13T19:33:00.000-07:00

So, this week has been a bit of a doozy. Friday, I was supposed to hang out with someone, but she flaked. Bit bummed cause I missed out on a good Vietnamese French lunch..but so goes life sometimes. I hung out with Elisa :) who also happened to be left to hang dry since no one called her back LoL. So we decided to go shopping, we went to Stoneridge and I found a b-day card for Tiff and Elisa found a jacket for her brother...just not in the size necessary. That size was in Emeryville. So! off to Emeryville. We picked up the sized jacket that was good for her brother, I found the final part to Tiffany's gift and Elisa tried on the most amazing pair of shoes...which she didn't buy :( But maybe one day, she will :) And ate at the Elephant Bar, muy bueno. although the food took a while. Sorry Elisa!!! Next time we will go to Hometown Buffet!!! you can get your mashed potatoes and fried chicken...

Saturday, also a bit of a bummer theme to it seeing as how everyone except for Benny and me bailed on Tiffany's birthday. Got to Tiffany's house at 11am or so, then she opened her gift, from me anyways :) Elisa came by to drop off her gift, which Tiffany then brought with her to the movies :D. And then we headed to Union City. Got there noon-ish, bought the tickets to the 1:40 showing, oddly enough saw my cousin in line LoL, then we went to go have burgers and fries at In N Out :D. Ate there and walked back at 1:00...good idea to buy tickets way early...bad idea not to get to the theater way early. LoL We had to wait in line to get in and we were near the end, but we got seats together and not way way in the back, I'd say they were good seats. I snuck in the left over french fries in my bag...which now has a nice "french fry scent" to it :D can't buy that at Kragen! LoL

Then, highly satisfied by the movie, we went back home :) I went to dinner for my Aunt's birthday where my family had a rousing discussion about my henna tattoo... apparently there's not much other news in the world. LoL

The school week was laaaaaame. Had a paper due on thursday..and the second midterm for anthro, and then I had 2 music tests on thursday also. I gave up reading the books, I forgot how enjoyable these classes are. I couldn't "forget the reading (or homework)" in calculus, chem or physics, although in music and anthro, I basically can and feel moderately confident after taking the exams. Music class is such a pushover though, dude, it's 50 multiple choice questions about 50% or so is not at all in the book or in the lectures. It is however in the previous edition of the book, which they don't sell anymore and why he still uses the tests for that book? cause he's too frickin lazy to make new ones. So it doesn't matter how much you read you still won't find half the answers in the book or lectures. This is why he gives copious amounts of extra credit....whatever, good thing this isn't a prerequisite for any other class, I'm pretty sure I'll get an A in this one. I just won't learn anything.

This weekend I'm going to see pirates again on saturday :) My dad bought tickets for a fundraiser and they were only $5 for the movie, popcorn and soda. I think they made a mistake on the tickets though cause it says "voucher valid for 32oz soda and 85oz popcorn" ...85 oz is approximately 5.3lbs...of popcorn. that's a lot. LoL

Then Sunday I'm getting an early birthday gift from my cousin. She bought tickets for me to go to this Chinese Acrobat thing at the Symphony Hall....and then monday again arugh. although since my music teacher is cutting out a week early, it'll be my last week of music class LoL...the dude is such a flake.

2006-07-05T17:31:00.000-07:00

Charlie The Unicorn

...Don't watch this, it's frightening and annoying, but if you do not heed my warning and click play. you MUST MUST MUST watch the whole thing.

The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus - Face Down

2006-06-27T13:58:00.000-07:00

The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus - Face Down

Title: Face Down
Artist: The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus
Album: RJA
Year: 2006

Hey girl you know you drive me crazy
one look puts the rhythm in my hand.
Still I'll never understand why you hang around
I see what's going down.

Cover up with make up in the mirror
tell yourself it's never gonna happen again
you cry alone and then he swears he loves you.

Do you feel like a man
when you push her around?
Do you feel better now as she falls to the ground?
Well I'll tell you my friend, one day this world's going to end
as your lies crumble down, a new life she has found.

A pebble in the water makes a ripple effect
every action in this world will bear a consequence
If you wade around forever you will surely drown
I see what's going down.

I see the way you go and say you're right again,
say you're right again
heed my lecture

Do you feel like a man
when you push her around?
Do you feel better now as she falls to the ground?
Well I'll tell you my friend, one day this world's going to end
as your lies crumble down a new life she has.

One day she will tell you that she has had enough
it's coming 'round again.
(repeat)

Do you feel like a man, when you push her around?
Do you feel better now as she falls to the ground?
Well I'll tell you my friend, one day this world's going to end
as your lies crumble down, a new life she has.

Face down in the dirt she says, "this doesn't hurt" she says, "I finally had enough."

Face down in the dirt she says, "this doesn't hurt" she says, "I finally had enough."

Beef of the Day

2006-06-23T14:57:00.000-07:00

Alright, so I'm reading the chapters for Anthropology and one of the tables has a list of organisms and the number of chromosomes in them. Next to the common name of organism, they have the scientific name of it, i.e.

Human (Homo sapiens)
Chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes)
Dog (Canis familiaris)
Corn (Zea mays)
Gorilla (Gorilla gorilla)

...and therefore I frown. GORILLA GORILLA?!?!?!? What the heck kinda scientific name is that? did they just get tired and was like...eh let's be eddy the echo. :( How much more freakin redundant can you get?!?!?! Pin Identificus Numberous Numberous. :( they totally got gipped in the scientific name.

Random other updates, uhm back from NY, started back at summmer school. Things seem to be going well...I feel gipped with my music class. The instructor is nice and all, but he goes off topic a lot and talks long times about stuff that isn't going to be on the test and isn't in the book. And then it's already just a 6 week class, but he's cutting out the last week to teach some Jazz camp, so he's making it a 5 week class. It's an 8 am class and he tells us to get there on time, he usually by 8:05...and then spends 10 minutes puttering around getting papers ready or whatever....so we don't start until like 8:15 and then he lets us out kinda early and the day we had a test, it took definitely less than an hour, but he let us go afterwards...so we lost an hour that day. He doesn't seem to be moving anyfaster so I don't think we're going to make up that last week.

Anthro...I've had at least 3 I can think of now, Indian teachers and they've all had accents, but none quite like the one I have now. He speaks really soft too, but at least I feel like I'm sorta learning something...it just feels good to have easy classes. Finally a kick back! :)

uhm. the end I suppose
(Yay to Joe Thornton for winning MVP :D) uhm. the end for real.

2006-06-08T19:24:00.000-07:00

Float On

This is my favorite song to listen to when I'm feeling bummed out, but this video to go with it just makes it all that much better. I love the whole thing. My favorite part though is when he's dancing with the shoes. LoL. most awesome!

Davis

2006-06-06T21:36:00.000-07:00

Yesterday, went to Davis with Elisa :D Yay for Elisa for driving :) So we got there, with basically no getting lost LoL :) We're getting better!!! Went to the all you can eat sushi place there. Which was good, although we failed at eating compared to some other tables LoL. Really bizarre, we went up to get some food and then came back and there was this dirty eaten off plate on our table!... it was nasty and not ours. :(

It was quite toasty there that day, like 90F, not my exact favorite type of weather, but there was a breeze and stuff so it could have been worse. After we ate, we met up with Benny and we went bowling! :) Eh I suck at bowling LoL but Elisa got into a pattern, gutter ball, then strike! LoL That was really fun, and it wasn't too crowded. But near the end there was this really bizarre guy who kept on bugging us, it was weird at first and then it just got to be like harassment. But it was near the end the last like 15 minutes or so. So it didn't rain too much on our fun, but, yeah that was weird.

Then we went to go and get some jamba juice, I got the sixteen ounce, benny got the orignal and elisa got the power. LoL I can't believe that anyone could drink that much in one sitting. It was good and nice and cool in that warm weather. Then we went to the apartment that Benny shares with 4 other roomates. We played a bit of guitar hero. LoL I totally wish that was on xbox too, I'd definitely get it. Then Jeffery came back and we hung out a bit and went to dinner at Pluto's. It was good a salad and sandwich place. Their salads are massive. I probably should have gotten a side, but whatever. it was still good. and then, what else ,but MORE food. Lol We went to a crepe place and had dessert crepes. I had a caramel apple one, Elisa had a chocolate banana and Benny had a strawberry chocolate one. I liked mine, good stuff :) an excessive amount of whipped cream LoL

After that, we went to the apartment and watched a bit of tv, a tennis match and then Elisa drove home. Good day, good day.

Cut my hair today...its shorter than I thought it'd be. But hm, still long enough to tie back which is good or else there would be the horrific time of reliving middle school. gah. New look before vacation. It'll be alright LoL TIME TO WAX!

I am so spastic right now. LoL Oh yeah, and Happy 060606 666!!!!

Maria's BBQ

2006-06-04T18:25:00.000-07:00

This one's for you Maria ;)

Maria's backyard=most awesome place ever. It's like eating outdoors at a bistro, without the annoying other people. She had like jazz music playing, and a swinging chair/bench thingie, and it was just the most comfortable place. ahhhh. Plus the food. totally awesome burgers, and spaghetti :D and of course the pork skewers. LoL of which Charlie had 1,892 of them. Totally awesome, she also had a "Happy" Birthday cake LoL from Loards, and this flan type of thing was had like 700% of your daily recommended allowence of cholesterol, but tasted soooooo gooooood! :) Maria's parties are always the most awesome cause she is the most awesome! :) YAY for Maria!

Today was a bummer day, totally got up on the wrong side of the bed. Was in a sucky mood for no reason, but washed my car and my dad's car. Made ice cream, and started watching a movie about pigeons. Bizarro day.

Carry-over cooking

2006-05-24T20:50:00.000-07:00

You know how when you cook meat, there's that carry over cooking time. It still cooks after its out of the oven cause its so hot. I have carry over stress. I have been buggin' out this whole week, and now the stressors part of it is over, but I don't feel relieved. Probably because 1) don't think I did well enough to keep my B in math class. Which sucks because that consequentially means I will get a C. Although I hope I did well enough for a B. I do a very poor job at predicting my grades. And anyways. I have my period so I also feel horrific, and I feel very large. This summer I shall make a valient effort to lose weight. Possibly. I'm also not very good at achieving goals either.

I am a force to be reckoned with.

2006-05-23T13:09:00.000-07:00

Has Anyone Seen My Wings? by The New Amsterdams

I'm a saint, I'm a bonified servant
an angel on a bar stool, anyone seen my wings?
I'm always losing the damn things.
I'm the glue, I'm a permanent fixture.
I'm an anchor in the concrete.
If I went to find my fate, the foundation would break.
Allies
I never had none, but that would be one to see, yeah.
I'm your fate, yeah, your looking in the future
There's a bitter old man who's under your skin,
but don't let him in.
Capsize
Did anyone catch me?
Nobody broke my fall.
yeah
I'm a saint on a mission from the head man.
You got a shoe start running boy leave him to us,
leave them in your dust.

I have a math final I have to study for (and no note card! ack!!!) and I've been freaked out, so I lack sleep, and Aunt Flo has come to town, and I'm generally in a very cranky and vicious mood. I am a force to be reckoned with.

Snow Patrol

2006-05-21T20:49:00.000-07:00

Snow Patrol, "Chasing Cars"

We'll do it all
Everything
On our own.
We don't need
Anything
Or anyone.

If I lay here,
If I just lay here,
Would you lie with me and just forget the world?

I don't quite know
How to say
How I feel.
Those three words
Are said too much
They're not enough

If I lay here,
If I just lay here,
Would you lie with me and just forget the world?,

Forget what we're told
Before we get too old
Show me a garden that's bursting into life.
Let's waste time
Chasing cars
Around our heads

I need your grace
To remind me
To find my own

If I lay here,
If I just lay here,
Would you lie with me and just forget the world?

Forget what we're told
Before we get too old
Show me a garden that's bursting into life.

All that I am
All that I ever was
Is here in your perfect eyes, they're all I can see.
I don't know where
Confused about how as well
Just know that these things will never change for us at all.

If I lay here,
If I just lay here,
Would you lie with me and just forget the world?

ARUGH.

2006-05-19T16:48:00.000-07:00

I am just so frickin frusterated. My chem teacher decideds to pull half of the stuff on the test out of no where, and I actually studied for that damn test and all I got was an 85%. Then she says it like we should know, when its mentioned like what one sentence in the book and she doesn't even go over it in class. She makes all this other stuff seem really important and then that's hardly even on the damn test. ARUGH. I am just so sick of all my stupid classes this term. I think this term I've learned the least, they try stuffing so much shit in my head that none of it stuck, I was just trying to get by on each test and each test had hardly anything to do with what i studied, so I forgot what I studied, I never learned what was on the test and now i'm screwed for the final. which sucks because I need to do well on the final. really well. I'm borderline on two of my grades, I have an 81% in math and a 90.7% in chem. I need to get a B in math so that my GPA doesn't drop toomuch, and since the hightest I can get in math is a B, I really need to get an A in chem.
STUPID FRICKIN IDIOTS. arugh. I hate this year. it sucked ass and I'm so glad to be done with it. I hope that next term when I only have 2 science classes it'll be a bit better. ....I am just soooooooo frusterated right now, it feels like it doesn't matter what I do, cause I've tried hard on the other tests...hasn't really gotten me anywhere. damnit.

Angels and Airwaves

2006-05-17T19:13:00.000-07:00

I was never a huge fan of Blink-182, but I heard this song on the radio then found it on their website and I have just fallen in love with it! It's a really great song.

Angels and Airwaves
Click on "Videos" and then you can watch a short video
"The Adventure"

I wanna have the same last dream again,
the one where I wake up and I'm alive.
Just as the four walls close me within,
my eyes are opened up with pure sunlight.
I'm the first to know,
my dearest friends,
even if your hope has burned with time,
anything that's dead shall be re-grown,
and your vicious pain, your warning sign,
you will be fine.

Hey, yo - here I am,
and here we go,
life's waiting to begin.

Any type of love - it will be shown,
like every single tree reach for the sky.
If you're gonna fall,
I'll let you know,
that I will pick you up
like you for I,
I thought this thing,
I can't replace.
When everyone was working for this goal.
We're all the children left without a trace,
only to come back, as pure as gold,
To recite this all.

Hey, yo - here I am,
and here we go,
life's waiting to begin.
Tonight, hey, yo,
here I am,
and here we go,
life's waiting to begin.
Tonight, hey, yo,
here I am,
and here we go,
life's waiting to begin.

I cannot live and I cannot breathe
unless you do this with me
I cannot live and I cannot breathe
unless you do this with me
I cannot live and I cannot breathe
unless you do this with me
I cannot live and I cannot breathe
unless you do this with me
I cannot live and I cannot breathe
unless you do this with me
I cannot live and I cannot breathe
unless you do this with me

Hey, yo - here I am (do this with me),
and here we go,
life's waiting to begin (do this with me).
Hey, yo - here I am (do this with me).
And here we go,
life's waiting to begin,
life's waiting to begin

sports fans

2006-05-12T19:20:00.000-07:00

How can people be sports fans! It's like an emotional rollercoaster! my poor heart can't take it, especially since we're loosing :( that sucks especially since I was so happy when we were winning :) :) :)damnit i finally found something that made me happy!

back to finals and reality.

Playoff Fever :)

2006-05-09T19:08:00.000-07:00

ETA: Here are the pics of me :) from that day [click on picture for larger version]

My nails made it on the "playoff beards page" ...so its not really a beard, but they said you could submit manicures also! :)

More Playoff Beards :)

Totally got playoff fever LoL. :) ah I'm so stoked for the sharks, I hope they can pull through and beat Edmonton 2 more times and make it to the conference finals baby! :D :D :D Went to the game on Sunday. San Jose on sunday was just madness! There was some parade going on, a cinco de mayo celebration, RENT was in town, a home and garden show and of course the playoff game! So we left here at like 2:00pm and got there at around 3:00, there were all these booths outside, a bunch of bmx ramps and some really good guys riding on them, there was a DJ and an inflatible slide and a face painting booth.

I hadn't gotten my face painted in a long time, so I decided to go get that done, there were only two girls at the booth and there were like 20 people in front of me, so I was waiting out there for about an hour, it was alright though, I was chattin' it up with this cool lady in front of me. :) I finally got up there and so I got #14 on one side and the sharks logo on the other. As I was getting it done, one of the photographers walking around started taking pictures and then this dude with a video camera came around and was video taping the me getting my face painted LoL. How weird, I wonder where it'll turn up? :)

The game was awesome :) I was sitting next to this really obnoxious loud lady ugh. and behind me was this really obnoxious dude..... but besides that it was a fun game :) and we won :D :D :D (Friggin refs are blind as bats)

Went to In n out for dinner LoL, but I still had all my sharks "regalia" on and my face all painted LoL so when I walked in a bunch of people asked me who won and how the game was..etc... that was a bit weird LoL but it was still a great night

anywhoo I'll post some pictures of the logo that was painted on my face later :) ...for now, math homework i've been putting off for most of the semister and chem presentation, and chem take home quiz and physics lab write up. ...hm :( going to games is a lot more fun. :)

Sharks Playoff Game

2006-04-29T13:01:00.000-07:00

Thursday night I went to the sharks playoff game. :) Totally awesome, traffic sucked so we didn't have time to check out the radio booths and get some free swag, bummer. There were really cool baloon hats going around, and these shark fin foam hats going around. It was just teal city. :) Everywhere they had sharks stuff :D :D We got there a little late, 5 minutes into the game maybe? On the way in, we got these free towels that said "Go Sharks!" on them. The first goal was scored about 2 minutes after we got there and, oh. my. god. that was a sight to see, 17,496 people twirling these white towels around screaming and cheering. It was so much fun, and LOUD!!! I could scream at the top of my lungs (and I did) and I couldn't even hear myself LoL. It was such a stress reliever, I hadn't had that much fun in such a long time, I hadn't gone to a sharks game in a really long time either. A lot of scoring happened and eventually the game ended up 5-4 Sharks,(although it should have been 5-2, but the sharks let up in the third period and let two goals go by)

During the second intermission, normally they have these contests where fans can win stuff, so they put out these huge cards on the ice for a game of concentration, they said the two people knew each other and so the dude went first, and picked two cards and then the chick went and picked two cards, one of which was a picture of a diamond ring. And so the dude got down on one knee and asked her to marry him!!! AWWWWWWWWWWWWW it was so cute! LoL (not cheap either I'm assuming) She said yes, and yay for them :)

During the third period, Marleau completed his hat trick, and dude, EVERYBODY'S hat's were on the ice. It was sooooo awesome a ton of cheering and clapping and flinging the towel around and hat tossing! :) very cool, it was just so much fun getting into the whole thing. It's a quite experience just to be involved in something like that, after we won, everyone was walking back to their cars and this sea of teal came out and some people were waving their flags around and it was a very cool experience. :)

Plus when we got home, my dad was hungry so he ate a bowl of cereal and then decided to make some grilled cheese sandwiches. I hadn't had a grilled cheese sandwich made by my dad in a really really long time, man it was good. mmmmmm So it was just him and me having a midnight snack (literally, by the time we got outta the parking lot and back home it was about 11:45) and watching tv. Perfect way to end a really great night :)

To make this weekend even better, I just bought 2 seasons of One Tree Hill at target for half their normal price and the wb had a rebate thing where if you buy two or more seasons you get 10 dollars off :D so it's like I paid 34.00, for something that would normally cost $90 *cha-ching!*

Rain

2006-04-12T14:29:00.000-07:00

There is nothing I love more than the sound of rain. Right now it is POURING outside, pouring as in "NOAH! YOU BETTER START UP ON THAT ARK!" type of rain. and I love it, there are these huge massive drops comming down. and there is no other sound like that in the world. I love the rain :) It's very conducive to doing your work. LoL :)

Anonymous Day thwarted

2006-04-04T18:10:00.000-07:00

Ever have one of those days where you just want to be anonymous. Where you can just look and act as miserable as you feel without having anyone go "aw are you okay?" and having to put on a fake smile? Anyways, today was one of those days for me, I just wanted to a miserable loner by myself. Yet the universe saw fit that that did not happen. Today I happened to see like everyone I have ever met at chabot. ...When you see people you haven't seen in a while you can't just sneer at them or give them that blank look, it makes them think you don't like them... So you have to smile and wave.

Gah, so I just wanted to eat lunch in silence, but the cafeteria was packed because the local audubon society was there taking up a bunch of tables, so I went upstairs, and on the way up I saw one of my classmates from physics last term, who I had to smile and wave to. When I got upstairs I found 4 of my classmates, at a table studying...maybe it was rude, but I waved and then went to go sit down at a small table by myself, I really didn't want to talk to too many people, but one of my friends came over and was like "hiiiiii yaddah...." and then my old lab partner stopped to talk for a little bit too. I waved and then got out of there after eating lunch. I didn't want to go to the library where it was loud, so I went to the downstairs computer lab where I saw another one of my old chem classmates, who I had to wave and smile, and then I got in the computer lab which was more packed than i've ever seen it and so one of the only computers left was one by people in my physics class. They were doing some OChem thing of theirs so I didn't really have to talk much with them...but then I totally gave into the fact that I wasn't supposed to have a miserable anti-social day when I left the computer to study at this table and someone in my chem class sat at the table across from me. Someone I haven't talked to since like the 9th grade chatted about the lack of studying for this upcoming quiz, I was flipping through my notes and such, and then he comes over for help. Of course I have to help him, and I've just given in to the fact that today I wasn't supposed to be miserable. :)

Funk

2006-04-02T14:56:00.000-07:00

Not the type you dance to, not the weird smell when you drive by Davis St. ...just the kind you get stuck in. I think I'm in a bit of a funk. I have a feeling I'll be here just a little bit longer. But who knows, tomorrow everything could change, or not.

Edited to add: Don't believe anyone in your family when they say they can keep a secret/won't tell anyone. It's a fuckin' lie.

people's lies.

"Here is our vegetarian burger" (it's made of 100% vegetarians, cows, pigs, chickens...)
"That sounded wonderful" (...in the way a cat getting steamrolled over a chalkboard sounds wonderful)
"This dinner was delicious!" (...it tasted just like the time I mixed all my leftovers from 2 weeks ago and microwaved it for 3 minutes)
"That looks fabulous on you!" (...although no matter what you wear you'll still look like a fat cow.)
"The children were darling little angels" (did I say angels? I meant spawns of satan)
"You can't even tell there was any work done!" (...did someone pull your pigtails too tight? cause it looked like someone shrink wrapped your FACE.)
"I just stole a few of your recepies, they were a big hit!" (...I stole your husband, he was a big hit too)
"I'd love to visit you!" (as much as I'd love to visit a medieval torture chamber...they sure smell the same.)
"I'm feeling fine" (I'm not. I'm really not)

Thou Shalt Not Go Quietly Into the Night...

2006-03-20T14:09:00.000-08:00

Today's the first day of spring...but winter is not going out without a bang. :D Today walking back to my car was like arctic water pouring down. Totally freezing. but I still like the rain better than the sun. Winter has the joy of Christmas and New Years, and it is definitely a work hard/play hard season for me. Spring has its good attributes too, but nothing cleanses like a good winter rain. :)

Now and Forever

2006-03-16T21:53:00.000-08:00

This has got to be one of my most favorite songs, I could listen to this, literally, forever.

Good songs

2006-03-11T13:23:00.000-08:00

This past week has been a REALLY sucky week...and next week doesn't look like it's going to get any better. I am just so frusterated and stressed. The only good thing I can gather from physics class, is that by having this instructor, I'm learning how to deal if I have a really crappy boss later in life.

So. here are some good songs that cheer me up when the week is shit.

Daydream Believer by The Monkees
Bad Day by Daniel Powter
Float On by Modest Mouse

more to be added as I can think of them...so far, that's it. LoL

Random notes

2006-03-03T20:53:00.000-08:00

I love my Maroon 5 calendar dude. frickin hilarious, they've got the traditional stuff, Ash Wednesday, Purim, Christmas etc...but they've also got some random stuff, Adam's mom's birthday, Michael Jordan's birthday, and some really cool stuff, the day the phonograph was patented, and pi day. that's right. March 14th (3.14) is pi day :D .....I LOVE IT! :D This calendar is almost as nerdy as me!

Frickin Funniest Video Ever
Ever wonder what those guys who do the voice-overs in the movie trailers look like? ...here's your chance to see. ROTFL. dude this will totally pick up your day :D

They just don't make 'em like they used to...

2006-02-28T11:18:00.000-08:00

Aw, I was flipping through some movies today, movies I have and wanna buy...and stuff and I came across this old one "Wuthering Heights" and...I'm reminded that they just don't make them liked they used to anymore...Here are some of my favorite quotes...
"Ellen: Oh, you're lovely, Miss Cathy. Lovely.
Cathy: That's a very silly lie. I'm not lovely. What I am is very brilliant. I have a wonderful brain.
Ellen: Indeed.
Cathy: It enables me to be superior to myself. There's nothing to be gained by just looking pretty like Isabella. Every beauty mark must conceal a thought and every curl be full of humor as well as brilliantine. "

Heathcliff: Tell the dirty stable boy to let go of you. He soiled your pretty dress. But who soiled your heart? Not Heathcliff. Who turns you into a vain, cheap, worldly fool? Linton does. You'll never love him, but you'll let yourself be loved because it pleases your stupid, greedy vanity.

Heathcliff: If he loved you with all the power of his soul for a whole lifetime, he couldn't love you as much as I do in a single day.

....this one is my absolute favorite...possibly from all the movie's I've seen so far... :)
Heathcliff: Catherine Earnshaw, may you not rest so long as I live on! I killed you. Haunt me, then! Haunt your murderer! I know that ghosts have wandered on the Earth. Be with me always. Take any form, drive me mad, only do not leave me in this dark alone where I cannot find you. I cannot live without my life! I cannot die without my soul.

Twist and Shout

2006-02-22T14:06:00.000-08:00

I no longer want to sit in the corner with my head covered and wallow in silence and self-pity. I want to scream and shout. I want to be proactive and not just read the books and notes. I want to do all of this and be happy.

Quiet time :)

2006-02-17T12:02:00.000-08:00

Aaahhh today was is a good day. It's nice and quiet in the house :) and it's really cold outside :D There's a nice snap in the air...and in a week of bad days, today was a good day.

Last night Chrissy and I were looking through some shirts at the threadless site and she was telling me she bought the communist party one... :( here is an excerpt of the conversation that resulted :

9:55:56 PM Messy LoL communist... "PARTY" :(
9:56:00 PM MessyI frown
9:56:17 PM (F) Qrici (L) HAHAHA it's great
9:56:24 PM (F) Qrici (L) look at mao!!
9:56:27 PM (F) Qrici (L) he's toasting with the red cup!!
9:56:39 PM Messy:(
9:56:40 PM Messy lol
9:56:51 PM (F) Qrici (L)LOL MAO
9:56:53 PM (F) Qrici (L) HAHA
9:56:55 PM Messy AHAHAH dude the neopolitian bonaparte is funny
9:57:01 PM Messy OMG!
9:57:04 PM Messy DUDE. I JUST HELLA GOT THAT .
9:57:28 PM (F) Qrici (L) HAHAHA
9:57:31 PM (F) Qrici (L) it's great
9:57:39 PM Messy wait. was that intended as a lol L-MAO
9:57:42 PM Messy thing? lol
9:57:44 PM Messy okay lol
9:57:56 PM (F) Qrici (L) LOL IT IS NOW
9:57:57 PM (F) Qrici (L) MAO
9:58:00 PM (F) Qrici (L) dude i rhymed.
9:58:03 PM (F) Qrici (L)freestyle.
9:58:05 PM (F) Qrici (L) L-MAO
9:58:07 PM (F) Qrici (L) LOL
9:58:12 PM Messy AHAAHAH dude anyone who can fit MAO into a rhyme...
9:58:16 PM Messy totally awesome
9:58:19 PM Messy aw L-MAO
9:58:25 PM Messy he's just hilarious.

Woah throwback

2006-02-16T16:31:00.000-08:00

Woah. Throwback to the boyband days this morning. I was watching SNL on E! and It just so happens that episode had the Backstreet Boys performing. It was so old, it was from 1998 when their single As Long As You Love Me just came out. LoL dude. I was soooooooo rollin' on the floor, god, it was hilarious, they did the whole chair bobber too. And they were all dancing...It was classic. It had been a really long time since I've heard that song LoL.
And right after that was the E! True Hollywood Story: New Kids On The Block...it was slightly before my time, but still I had some of the trading cards and what not :D I don't think we had the dolls...but maybe... LoL anyways. It wasn't that long ago, but it definitely takes you back to another time.
You can say whatever you want about that boy band phase in music, but I swear it saved me. Saved me from going nuts from school and probably falling in a deep depression. Those songs transported me to a whole different world. Wouldn't trade 'em for anythin.

Songs to Cry with

2006-02-10T20:29:00.000-08:00

Here's my list of songs to cry with, whether it be a good cry or sad cry, these songs seem to pull out emotions you never knew you had. Here goes:

Bridge Over Troubled Water - Simon and Garfunkel
Everybody Hurts - REM
Let That Be Enough - Switchfoot
Rainbow Connection - (covered by) Sarah McLachlan
All The Wild Horses - Ray LaMontagne
Life Will Go On - Chris Iaask
Somewhere Over the Rainbow- Judie Garland
Seasons in the Sun - Westlife (well they covered it....Don't let the mid-tempo beat fool ya..."goodbye papa it's hard to die when all the birds are singing in the sky")

This list is to be continued as I find more songs...

Vocabulario

2006-02-08T22:22:00.000-08:00

Arugh. I wish I had a larger vocabulary, then I could use words like quixotic in the proper context in normal conversation and I could also properly get ideas out that I need to. Although maybe I just have to work with what I've got...Maybe I just have to do that first...Sometimes it might be easier to act out how you feel. Sometimes it'd be easier to say everything you needed to say, see the reactions you need to see, and then go back and edit if need be. Yep, that'd be awesome. But we can't.
It'd also be awesome to be able to just let someone know how you feel without having to tell them with words. That'd be a great sixth sense, if people could just pick up on it. But it's not.
Too much to say, not enough courage. Maybe it's like a shot, the anticipation is the worst of it, or maybe it's like a tetanus shot and there's the horrible anticipation and the horrible feeling of soreness afterwards.

Mavericks Big Wave Competition Gets Underway

2006-02-07T11:23:00.000-08:00

Arugh, one day I'll make it out there to watch...but today, thank goodness for live feeds from the internet. The wonder of technology. It look sooo cool out there, I wish I could go...

Finals start at about 1:30 for any of you who happen to read this before then LoL the waves look. HUGE
http://www.ktvu.com/news/6784210/detail.html#

Mavericks Big Wave Competition Gets Underway
POSTED: 7:29 am PST February 6, 2006
UPDATED: 8:24 am PST February 7, 2006

HALF MOON BAY -- Fresh off one day's notice, 24 of the world's top surfers began the annual Mavericks ride-to-survive contest early Tuesday.

Back in action at the rugged confluence of storm-driven swells and jutting sea floor are the defending champion, Anthony Tashnick, and three-time winner Darryl "Flea" Virostko. Other contestants include Eraldo Gueiros and Danilo Couto, both of Brazil, and Ryan Seelbach, of San Francisco.

The hardscrabble Santa Cruz contingent usually fares well, having logged more practice time at Mavericks than others. They're also accustomed to the frigid waters and occasional sharks that Mavericks has to offer.

Santa Cruz is located about 60 miles south of Mavericks, and the contest offers the closest thing to glory for many locals who grew up surfing the smaller waves at Steamers Lane in their coastal tourist town.

Santa Cruz has produced the only champions the event has ever known in the four years it was held. And while the money is one thing, laying claim to being the boss of Mavericks for a year carries strong prestige as well.

"It's a culmination of your life of surfing when you turn and paddle in at Mavericks," said Jeff Clark, the man who discovered the quirky and powerful break in 1975.

Whether out of fear or respect for the waves, other surfers let him have it to himself and Clark surfed Mavericks alone for 15 years.

If riders time everything right, they'll survive a two-story drop onto the face of the world's most feared waves on the planet and ride away unscathed. Play it wrong, and Mavericks will dunk the best of them, and pin them on the shallow sea floor until they can muster the strength to surface.

Clark said that Mavericks' appeal comes from its accessibility. Surfers can paddle out, sit on the edge of the break in relative safety and admire a 40-foot wave even if they decide not to paddle into it.

During past contests, surfers have been bloodied and their boards snapped in half by the powerful churning waters. Experienced big wave surfer Mark Foo died surfing Mavericks in 1994.

"Every wave at Mavericks is a challenge," Clark said.

Mavericks is located one-half mile off the coast of Half Moon Bay, about 20 miles south of San Francisco.

On contest day, crowds of thousands form on the cliffs and shoreline, squinting through binoculars for a glimpse at surfers riding waves that are normally to be avoided by seafarers at all costs.

It is just one of several big wave hot spots around the globe ridden regularly by the sport's elite. Other well-known big wave breaks include Todos Santos, north of Cabo San Lucas, Mexico; Waimea Bay at Oahu's notorious north shore; Jaws at Maui's north shore; and Cortes Banks, a tow-in monster wave generating zone about 100 miles off the Southern California coast that boasts some of the largest waves ever ridden -- or attempted.

Copyright 2006 by KTVU.com. The Associated Press contributed to this report. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

My First Audio Post yay!

2006-02-04T14:21:00.000-08:00

Turn up the volume cause it's difficult to hear.

no bueno numbers

2006-02-04T14:15:00.000-08:00

It's bad when you're supposed to be calculating a constant and your numbers are 3,030 2,240 2,250 2,950 8,070...yeah. oops. and I have a calc exam monday, that lab due in chem on tuesday, and a chem quiz also. and I have to finish up last weeks laaaaab. laaaaaaaame and I'm sick as a dog.

LoL it's bad, I sound like deranged smoker man, no bueno. Half smoker, but actually I sound more like Louis Armstrong (Louis, not Lance, not Neil, Louis) "Helloooooo Dolly. This is Louuuuuuuuis, Dolly." LoL it makes more sense if you've heard the song :)

I am so digging the song "How It Ends" by Devotchka, big thumbs up :D

Yay for Ice Cream

2006-01-24T18:11:00.000-08:00

Whoo Today's chem lab was so much fun. There was a maximum amount of fun and a minimum amount of work. most awesome. We got to make ice cream :D We had these Shake'em ice cream makers, it looked like a hamster ball, there was a small metal tube inside where you put the ice cream mix, and then on the outside you put the ice and salt water and then you shake it for 15 minutes and boom, ice cream. totally cool. There was a bit of math, freezing depression etc...but it was so much fun, and since our ice cream, while good, wasn't as good as store bought, so she bought some Dryers from Safeway (and a bunch of toppings too :D ) and we got to have a bit of an ice cream party, and we got out early. Good times all around :)

Info about Ice Cream Maker dude. totally awesome.

The rest of my classes are...eh. Physics, hopefully I just get through it like last time...and math, I don't know the teacher seems alright, but everyone says her tests are really hard and two of my friends were in that class, but one of them definitely switched to a different instructor and the other one is on the fence about it, but will probably go. I'm the most stressed about that class. Speaking of which I'm off to do calc homework now.

I'm so bummed though, I had to stop volunteering for this semister, it was just taking up too much of my time so I had to make a choice. Arugh. Stupid saturday lab. I'm planning to go back during the summer and stuff or maybe go to Marin...but I have to focus on passing this semister first. LoL.

2006-01-17T20:18:00.000-08:00

Cacti don't go out to hurt people. People who are careless and get too close are the ones who get pricked.

Crypticness and enigmas, that's what little blogs are made for.

2006-01-15T20:50:00.000-08:00

I am the incompetent child. ugh. I just forget everything, and am no use for anything practical. It would be really awesome to be able to turn back time. It doesn't matter whether or not I make mistakes because it seems like I never learn from them.

Law of Diminishing Marginal Utility

2006-01-09T22:28:00.000-08:00

Economics lesson for today

Law of Diminishing Marginal Utility

A law of economics stating that as a person increases consumption of a product--while keeping consumption of other products constant--there is a decline in the marginal utility that person derives from consuming each additional unit of that product.

i.e. Too much of a good thing isn't so good after all. For example, if you work 12 hour days and are on you feet 10 of those hours, then standing diminishes in utility. Likewise, if you are on a 23 hour flight, then sitting diminishes in utility. ...there are other examples also.

Vacation, by Me.

2006-01-08T13:47:00.000-08:00

sooooooo Okay. this is going to be a mother of a long post. be prepared.

Monday Dec. 26, party harty with my friends. got a ton of cool stuff :D LEGO MAGNETS! dude. most awesome, everytime I go into that store I pick them up say, "aw these are so cool" turn them around to look at the price, see how over priced they are and then proceed to put them back in their rightful container. but not anymore because I HAVE THEM! Muchas gracias to Janice and Chrissy :) *most awesome* I got very cute pj's from maria :) MOST wonderfully wrapped. (you so have the "rapping" skills :D ) A disney mug from elisa :) MOST fun salt and pepper shakers from charlie :D dude. I showed those off to everyone in my family. LoL :) A SUPER authentic bonified tiki statue from Hawaii from Tiff :D and cuticle oil that smells awesome :) A Map from Kyle so I won't get lost :( which despite all efforts I'm sure I still will LoL... MOST random trip alarm wire set thingie. from justin. which is cool I have to set it up one of these days muahahahahaah. :) muchas muchas muchas gracias to all of youuuuu you guys are just the MOST awesome ever.

Tuesday. Pack. break for a long time from packing. pack. get on computer. pack. stop packing half way. and wait for tomorrow.

Wednesday Dec 28. Get up, eat breakfast, pack. run in circles. pack. then leave. Then we proceeded to drive down to Los Angeles. The drive was long and relatively uneventful. Traffic was none until we got closer to LA, lots of cows and fields. fields, and oh wait, MORE FIELDS. We got to the hotel and then we went to eat Japanese food at Tokyo Lobby, my uncle likes it there, and the food's pretty good. The we went back and watched a bit of tv and stuff before going to sleep since monday is disneyland day.

Thursday Dec. 29. Disneyland Day. O.M.G. All of humanity and they momma was there. The manager at the Holiday Inn we stayed at was telling us how crowded it was, and how they stopped selling tickets at 12noon because the park was full to capacity. and even that could not explain how many people there were. So we go to go on some of the big rides mattehorn was running on and off so that long was like forever long, but the buzz lightyear line was pretty short :D The line for space mountain. o.m.g. again forever long, we got fast passes but even using those it took a while, and by the time we got close, it broke down. It was working then not working for almost the whole day. Most the day it was actually not working. :( so we got to the front and they were just giving out these like generic fast pass thingies so you can use it for any ride. We ended up using it for the Indiana Jones ride, which was fun :) I like that one.
The Rose Bowl game was later in the week but there were a bunch of people there that had to do with it. Band members and USC and A&M players were walking around. I saw a few of the texans and I was like... that is one nasty color jacket, and then I saw a bunch of them and then my dad was like, those are the texas players and that they and USC were going to play in the bowl later on.
Lots more rides and then we met up with my aunt and uncle and little cousins, so we took Erin on some rides thunder mountain and pirates of the caribbean. Then we went on a few more rides and ate bbq dinner and then at like 7pm we went on splash mountain, apparently you get wetter than my sister thought cause she sat in front and she got soaked LoL sucked to be her, my legs got a little wet but not so much. :) And then we saw the fireworks show from It's a Small World, It was such a great show it was long and the fireworks were synched to the audio going on. It was just really cool. by then my legs were no longer working and my feet hurt so we made our way to the shops real quick and then went back to the hotel.

Friday Dec 30. We spent most of this day at California Adventures. The morning before California Adventures opened, we went to Disneyland and space mountain was working whoo, the line was like 90 minutes (not so bad compared to the 2 hours it is the rest of the day) and I finally got to go on it! (I went on it once like 8 years ago and it's been closed everytime I've gone since) It was fun and worth it :D so cool. Then we went to California Adventures, went on California Soaring, it's tough to be a bug thing, and then we saw this Aladdin musical thing. Which was surprisingly really really really good. The music was good, and the stage set-up was really good it was like a real musical, they had these animal things set up walking through the aisles and stuff. The only thing that sucked was that we had these "preferred seating" things, which means we got to sit up close, but they loaded up the whole theater before us, and so we were packed up on this small space on the side for 45 minutes just standing there before we did anything. ugh that ruined the beginning of it. But it was really great. We went on that big ferris wheel thingie, and California Screaming :) fun stuff and a bit more shopping
We did some other rides and shopping and stuff, and then we went back to disneyland to go see the fireworks from main street/the castle and it was so much better from there, they had these flame thrower things going on, and sparklers and stuff, it was so much cooler. It kinda sucked though because I couldn't watch the electrial parade and the fireworks. :( I chose the fireworks though cause the electrical parade would be there next time I went, probably, but the fireworks was a specal thing.

Saturday Dec 31, We tried to go to the LA zoo, but it was raining terribly so we went there for no reason since most of the exhibits are outside, so it wouldn't have been worth it. We then went to Laguna Beach to go check out an art gallery...and looked around... still raining cats and dogs, drove down to San Diego, another 3 or so hours, again, uneventful, I think I totally slept the whole way down. And then I slept some more LoL got settled in, went to Albertsons (ugh. I dislike albertsons. where is teh VONS?!) to get dinner, very good dinner :) tater tots, VELVEETA CHEEEESE!, steak, fish, and sparkling apple cider. :) good New Years Eve dinner :) watched the countdown and various channels and relaxed

Sunday/Monday Relaxed :) relaxed and relaxed some more. Lame rainy days, but aparently nothing like you guys had up here, I drove around and at the zoo entrance, a bunch of trees had blown over and the marina trail was all blocked, crazy. My sister, mom and I went to go see the Family Stone on Wed. it was alright, the ending got bad. :( but it was okay. Most of the stuff was closed seeing as it was a holiday. Thurs. I chilled at the hotel room, the rest of the family went out for groceries or something, and they found a Vons :D YAY! and it was a really nice upscale one, seating area to eat stuff that you got from the deli, wooden floors, all nice, and then you can drop off your drycleaning there! insanity. LoL
Everything down there is really really nice :D

Tuesday January 3 Went to the Birch Aquarium at UCSD, a lot of cool stuff there, it was kinda small, but they had a large kelp forest tank thingie. We went to the touch pool and I got to touch a sea anemonie very cool, it feels bizarrely sticky. :) (aparently if I were a small fix, I would be anesthetized and then digested...but I'm a human with tough skin. LoL Spent most of the day there I had fun, but my sister had less than fun LoL heh.

Wednesday January 4 Went to the San Diego Zoo, it was large and really confusing. LoL They had a ton of animals, but it's very difficult to see everything and their map and stuff is so confusing. Anywhoo I basically got to see a lot of the animals I wanted, we saw one panda, the mom and baby were in the back :( but we didn't have time to go back and see when they would be out. A WHOLE lot of walking and stuff, it was pretty cool, they had a lot of different animals and a lot of enclosures, but their enclosures were small...maybe i'm just partial to oakland. :)

Thursday January 5, we went to the spa. Got a facial...I tried it once, and it's just not my bag of tea. Went to eat at the Fish Market, very good mahi mahi :)

Friday January 6, went to go check out UCSD...just to see....

Saturday January 7 headed on back home. it's a long drive. It was shorter than I thought though, it took about 7 or so hours to get back...(I'm not sure it's it's supposed to be that short LoL but it was.

Sunday January 8 went to go volunteer at the zoo, nothing too special, glad to be back :)

Monday January 9. jury duty. my really super lame luck. I get called in and I have to go. at least it's in hayward and not oakland :)