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Tuesday, September 19th, 2006
1:51 am	Wow This journal still exists. Chris was right. Weird. What to do.. (5 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, May 3rd, 2006
7:16 pm	Life is strange I'm going away for awhile. Thanks Becca (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, February 15th, 2006
2:19 pm	I have a really bad headache. Breathing recycled air for 5 hrs is no good. or maybe I'm just becoming a hypochondriac. (Comment on this)
1:38 am	Hi again Minnesota was really cold, like 15 degrees or something. Still quite a bit of snow on the ground too. Seeing my mom's side of the family again was nice, though whenever I see them, it seems to bring out how much of an outsider I am to this family. I mean, I can only understand like 20% of what is being said at any given time, and all of my family members are so completely different from me, in pretty much every way. Just got back from the airport a little while ago, the plane arrived about 40 mins late. I'm really tired, and still in a pretty bad mood from last week. I think that whole SC thing + other crap still has me pretty irritated. (Comment on this)
Saturday, February 11th, 2006
10:02 pm	Goodbye (1 Comment |Comment on this)
7:29 pm	Here's an something interesting That I forgot to write about yesterday. So when I got to the Fund office to pick up my paycheck, I said hey what's up David, and he's like, I'm kind of having a really sucky day. Apparently, 2 guys that I used to work with, Josh and Jerome, had some..problems. Jerome was driving on the way to work and got pulled over. Apparently his license was expired, and his car got impounded. So then Josh picks up Jerome from El Camino on the way to their site in Santa Cruz, and he gets a speeding ticket on the way up 17. It turns out Josh's license had expired too, and now the now of them were sitting in the DMV, with impounded cars, instead of working. I have to admit, I laughed just a tiny bit on the inside. Like, what the fuck, for serious. I'd feel bad about posting this kind of stuff normally, but this week has been completely shitty so I think that I'm allowed to be selfish for once. (Comment on this)
1:27 pm	Ouch I just got rejected by Santa Cruz because I have too many credits. Maybe when I get back I'll have a bunch of really sucky depressing mail. (4 Comments |Comment on this)
2:09 am	Holy shit This is for Ravi and Chris mostly http://www.collegehumor.com/movies/1631769/ WTF mate? (3 Comments |Comment on this)
1:31 am	Oh.. I wish I had a puppy too. (Comment on this)
Friday, February 10th, 2006
11:05 am	The plan So the plan for my MN trip is to leave early Sunday morning, and come back Tuesday night. I'm going to miss Valentine's Day! Boo. Come to think of it, I don't think I've ever had a relationship on Valentine's day. I seem to schedule my break ups about mid January or so. I think I need to bump that up a month or so, in order to avoid the gift giving season altogether. I always get the girl a gift, and then proceed with dumping. Like this one girl whom I bought a fairly expensive piece of jewelery, and then within a weeks time, was like, hmm, You know, I don't think I really want to be around you anymore. That's seems kind of wrong. The cost vs. benefit equation is totally skewed! Speaking of money, I got my paycheck from the Fund. That's kind of neat to say. I work for the Fund. The Fund sent me. Haha, enough being dorky. Yeah, David called me this morning and said I should pick it up, so I did. I think I made like 460 bucks after taxes, which is pretty sweet. I love that guy...but I'm not gay or anything. (2 Comments |Comment on this)
12:28 am	Yeah I think I would definately be pretty content with myself if I had all of that stuff. (Comment on this)
12:14 am	If I had money.. I think I would buy an nice apartment in the city. I told Chris I didn't like the thought of living in the city, but I think that was because when I think of city, I think of San Francisco. There's other cities that I like plenty... An ipod and tons of music. Now that I finally got some of my songs back I realize how much I miss them.. A motorcycle, crotch rocket. Not really sure what brand yet, mostly because that's so far into the future I haven't really put too much though into it.. Lots more clothes. I like clothes, yep. Wearing pants is fun. So is not wearing pants. Yep yep.. Extensive tattoos. I've given the idea a lot of thought, and I really like them. It's really just a matter of money and creating something that will be the perfect mesh of ink and flesh.. A few more piercings, I think I've probably mentioned where somewhere in here.. A BMW 5 series, black, lowered, nice conservative ground effects... A Jeep Wrangler, for stuff that I can't do in my fancy pants BMW.. An AK-47, an M4 Super 90 shotgun(because it looks totally badass), and a colt python... And lots of ammo, for that zombie apocalypse.. And last but not least, sweet pair of jungle boots. Kicking ass in style. (Comment on this)
12:14 am	or.. Dry Kill Logic (Comment on this)
Thursday, February 9th, 2006
10:49 am	Mp3's Does anyone have any Taproot or Nonpoint albums/mp3's? (Comment on this)
10:10 am	About sociology Sociology really needs to have a militant revolutionary branch of study. The things that are happening in Zimbabwe and the like just make me rage inside. Saving the world doesn't have to come in small little steps, it really doesn't. I know this because i had this conversation with Alexis and Parker, and I remember thoroughly winning that. Current Music: Soulfly - Boom (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, February 8th, 2006
9:38 pm	And.. before I forget, today kind of sucked. Well, not really sucked, but was just kind of dissappointing. I've been exchanging emails with Valerie maybe once or twice a week since school ended, and we've been trying to get together forever, and today was supposed to be the day. I called her twice, got her voice mail, so couldn't really do anything. I know she's kind of flighty, but she's definately an interesting person to talk to, I think mainly because we seem to think about the same topics, just with totally different points of view. And to wrap it all up...Fuck you Blizzard. Please refund 3 hrs of my life back. (Comment on this)
9:26 pm	So.. This weekend, Sunday actually, I'll be taking a redeye flight to MN for an undisclosed amount of time. Yeah, I literally have no idea how long I'll be there. Fucking redeye, did I mention I hate taking those flights? So yeah, heading to MN. Seems like the last 5 family reunions have been basically for funerals/memorials/last visits etc etc etc, just a tad morbid.... and speaking of morbid I don't really feel all that different from when I first heard the news. I don't think my everyday life has changed in any particular way. I haven't been able to visit and truly interact with my grandma for at least a couple years, so yeah, no real change there. I think the last year or so of her life, she was really unhappy, because my grandfather passed away, plus the stroke that she had put her in a wheelchair basically and messed with her mental capabilities a bit. She had a long healthy life, all her kids and grandkids have graduated college or are on the track to (except me), and pretty much everyone is successful at what they do (except me again!). I really do feel as though I ought to feel guilty about not being more sad. (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Monday, February 6th, 2006
8:05 pm	So this morning my mom gets a phone call. It turns out that my grandmother is unconscious, apparently had another stroke. My mom bought a plane ticket to MN and I drove her to SFO in the afternoon. Just before we left the house, my aunt was talking to my mom and I think she was getting worse. Oddly enough, I don't feel very sad. I mean, I know it's sad, but I don't feel very sad. I looked up to my grandparents a lot. I think I could only hope to do as much as they did in life, and they lived long healthy lives. So yeah, death..is just a part of life I guess. Maybe I'm just getting jaded. This will have been the fifth death of a person "close" to me. I dunno really, it seems like I ought to feel more, but yeah. EDIT: I just found out that my grandmother passed away, about 5 words into that second paragraph. (Comment on this)
Saturday, February 4th, 2006
5:23 pm	Ick Being sick is the worstest. Yup. (Comment on this)
Thursday, February 2nd, 2006
6:04 pm	yeah after I got back to the office, David was the only one there. I told him that I needed to talk to him individually, and then I quit! About the job I definately think that my experience was pretty cool and memorable. The people that I worked with were definately some of the coolest people that I've ever met at work before, and are people that I could easily hang out with on a daily basis, which for me says a lot. Some of the people that we met on the street were the same way as well, most of the time these were people that contributed to us. The reasons why I quit were becase I don't have the emotional strength to handle this job on a daily basis, plus it's pretty demanding physically. For the last week, I was putting in 10 hour days, but only getting paid for 5. The base pay for those 5 hrs was borderline minimum wage, so a majority of your paycheck came from performance bonuses. What that means is that for days like monday and today, I basically got paid 70 bucks for about 17-18 hrs of work. During the 5 hr shifts, we had to stand in the same spot for pretty much 5 hours straight, literally talking non stop. That wasn't even the hardest thing. The constant stream of no's, too busy's, and other crap was kind of numbing. It was days like Monday though were it seemed like you were doing everything right, but had nothing to show for it that were crushing. Today should have been like that, except I pretty much already knew halfway through the day that I was going to quit, so I decided just to go all out and see what happened, which was apparently not much. The job was kind of like sifting for gold in the sand. It seemed like a lot of people that we greeted just didn't care about what we had to say, while others were outright mean to us. It's not like we were trying to force them to do anything or guilt trip them or whatever, they just acted as if we were a bunch of hippy jerks in their way. On the plus side, the people that we did sign up were great, and I don't just say that because they give us money. Every single person that I sign up was informed, caring, intelligent, and were genuinely good people to be around. It like wow, finally, someone who can string together a coherent thought. Anyways, that's important to me because I had been talking, probably mostly to Chris, about the large number of ignorant people that don't give a rat's ass about anyone other then themselves that seem to inhabit this world. Like, where the fuck are all the sane people? At the Fund though, it was awesome because I got to meet a ton of people that were not like that, were intelligent, supportive, understanding, thoughtful, and caring about the plight of humanity. They didn't neccesarily aggree with all of my views, but they were educated and informed, and by getting to know them I could improve my own life. They weren't pushovers, looking to please everyone, or goody two shoes. They were just...normal people. Also, our members seemed to be very much the same way. It's like I magically found the little pocket of sanity in an insane world. It's nice not to be alone. I don't know if that last paragraph made a whole lot of sense, but oh well, maybe I'll write more later. (1 Comment |Comment on this)