Man tonight sucks. The whole day sucks. I drank too much yesterday and woke up in a beer soaked haze trying to get schoolwork dont that should have been done last week. I'm at work right now and I fel like crap. Not sick really just hungover stupid like I'm mentally impaired or something. Im supposed to be writing a paper on the effects of liberalism after the French Revolution but everything I write sounds like it was written by a fourth grader. I have a page so far and I've pretty much given up on writing any more of it tonight. I'll start up again tommorow when I'm smart again.
After suffering through the last lecture of my anthropology class today i went and got some greasy food and then went to Randy's (who is crazy by the way, we had been drinking all day and this fool decides he wants more. You should have taken that whole 20 pack that ended up in lauri's fridge. He also forgot to tell you how in our drunken wisdom we walked from Lauri's to Tim's with open beer cans in our hands. Its only a block and wouldn't be a huge deal but Lauri lives in a town where the police would have driven us to Down Town LA and booked us into county. It happened to Danny, they didn't put him in county but they told him to piss himself in the back of a squad car, true story.)to recover my senses. Randy was watching Buffy the Vampire Salyer which wasn't my cup of tea so I went to Lauri's to take a nap before I had to go to work. I didn't work my boss paged me and wanted me to write an incident report about the other night. Long Story. After that I went to work and her I am still feeling like crap watching the minutes tick by. But don't cry for me Argentina all this suffering is my own fault. You see as Master Yoda teaches us: fear leads to anger, anger leads to suffering and suffering leads to the dark side. Something like that. The force is strong with me and I will make it through this shift. Right now I just really want to take these damn work clothes off I hate wearing ties. Well thats all for now I'm gonna take a walk and get outta here like Vladimir.
Tuesday, May 31, 2005
May 31, 2005
I couldn't think of a clever title so sue me. Anyway not much going on today, just sat around and watched TV. I know what you're thinking when do I not sit home the majority of the day and watch the TV. Well for your information almost never.
So when I woke up in the morning yesterday I had a injury on my head. Nothing really bad just awfully noticeable and embarassing. The part of it all that makes no sense to me I have no idea how it happened. After work on Sunday Pete, Lauri and I went back to my house to hang out you know watch TV drink beer have a snack, hang out. BTW no digits from Sara because she wasn't working. So we are all sitting around watching Star Wars, eating taquitos and drinking beer. Lauri and Pete go home cause Lauri was falling asleep. Now the 2 of them combined before they left had a total of 6 beers. I had had 4 or something, doesn't matter basically they left and I wasn't tired so while watching the rest of Star Wars and miscellaneous TV I drank the rest of the beer. It was an 18 pack, so I drank 12 beers on Sunday night. Not really a big deal to me. Back to the point somehow, someway, sometime I did something that caused this mysterious injury to my head. Lauri said it looked like I fell and got a rugburn. But for the most part I was supervised all that night and nobody who I was with remembers it. OH well who knows what really happened. Just thought I would share.
So yesterday I went over to Pete's house to celebrate the memory of soldiers lost in warfare, Memorial Day obviously. I celebrated by having chicken and potatoes and beer. Everything was delicious. We had a good time Katie, Lynlee, Lauri, Pete, Tim and I were the crew partying. Katie was sick which sucked. After we hung out at Pete's for the majority of the day we went over to Tim's later had a few brews there and then I got Alex to pick me up at Lauri's and I went home. When I got home though I was not tired and thought I could drink some more.
So I started walking to 7-11 to get some beers and some smokes. Pete called me while I was walking to 7-11 and said I was crazy. I said I wasn't because it wasn't that far and I wanted beer. So when I got to 7-11 I didn't know what to get so I just got 2 Miller High Life tall boys. It's the Champagne of Beers. I got some snacks too. Then I walked home. So I was thinking I would plop down on the couch have a beer ro two then go to bed. I got there though, home, and didn't feel like drinking. It was weird I usually never have that problem. But hey now I have 2 tonight if I feel the need. Ok I am done for now I think I will come back and blog later when I have had those 2 High Lifes and am all by myself. My brother Alex is going out to see "The Longest Yard" with the virgin Kelly. He he. PEACE OUT!
So when I woke up in the morning yesterday I had a injury on my head. Nothing really bad just awfully noticeable and embarassing. The part of it all that makes no sense to me I have no idea how it happened. After work on Sunday Pete, Lauri and I went back to my house to hang out you know watch TV drink beer have a snack, hang out. BTW no digits from Sara because she wasn't working. So we are all sitting around watching Star Wars, eating taquitos and drinking beer. Lauri and Pete go home cause Lauri was falling asleep. Now the 2 of them combined before they left had a total of 6 beers. I had had 4 or something, doesn't matter basically they left and I wasn't tired so while watching the rest of Star Wars and miscellaneous TV I drank the rest of the beer. It was an 18 pack, so I drank 12 beers on Sunday night. Not really a big deal to me. Back to the point somehow, someway, sometime I did something that caused this mysterious injury to my head. Lauri said it looked like I fell and got a rugburn. But for the most part I was supervised all that night and nobody who I was with remembers it. OH well who knows what really happened. Just thought I would share.
So yesterday I went over to Pete's house to celebrate the memory of soldiers lost in warfare, Memorial Day obviously. I celebrated by having chicken and potatoes and beer. Everything was delicious. We had a good time Katie, Lynlee, Lauri, Pete, Tim and I were the crew partying. Katie was sick which sucked. After we hung out at Pete's for the majority of the day we went over to Tim's later had a few brews there and then I got Alex to pick me up at Lauri's and I went home. When I got home though I was not tired and thought I could drink some more.
So I started walking to 7-11 to get some beers and some smokes. Pete called me while I was walking to 7-11 and said I was crazy. I said I wasn't because it wasn't that far and I wanted beer. So when I got to 7-11 I didn't know what to get so I just got 2 Miller High Life tall boys. It's the Champagne of Beers. I got some snacks too. Then I walked home. So I was thinking I would plop down on the couch have a beer ro two then go to bed. I got there though, home, and didn't feel like drinking. It was weird I usually never have that problem. But hey now I have 2 tonight if I feel the need. Ok I am done for now I think I will come back and blog later when I have had those 2 High Lifes and am all by myself. My brother Alex is going out to see "The Longest Yard" with the virgin Kelly. He he. PEACE OUT!
Monday, May 30, 2005
Sunday, May 29, 2005
howdy ya'll:
i'm writing to you from the great state of texas. where everything really is bigger.
i arrived last night, perfectly on time. and the flights were surprisingly relaxing! my mom, dad, leslie, sharon and her boyfriend colin, all came to greet me at the airport, which was nice. so we drove home, i toasted a frozen waffle for dinner, and before i knew it, we were inflating the aerobed. this afternoon, leslie and i went out to look for curtains and a queen-size mattress for what will soon be her new bedroom. and now i've sat down to write about my days while dinner is being made. we're bbq-ing burgers and dogs...mmm. i'm a tad disappointed at the weather though. i was expecting to swim all day and tan to a golden brown crisp. but alas, no sunshine. today it's been raining, off and on-- warm enough to go swimming i guess, kind of humid. we'll see what tomorrow brings!
every single time i come out here to visit, i think of how easy life would be if i just lived at home. leslie does it! sharon does it every few months! they both drive amazing new suv's and have clothes and spending money galore! and it would benefit my future immensely if i could just move back home and go to school full time. but then i come to my senses and think of how wonderful it is to finally have flown the coop. sure, i work for a company overrun with people i can't stand and i do a job that doesn't even tap into a fraction of my brain's capacity. so i live paycheck to paycheck and buy the sunday paper just to cut coupons like an 80 year old. and i'm probably one of two people left on the planet without a cell phone (you're the other one, pete) cuz i wouldn't be able to afford the bill. but what i do have, i love. hey man-- to each, his own. but i'll never move back home just to drive an suv. wow... that was a tangent.
well, i think there's some bud light in the fridge. from what i heard, they don't sell pacifico around these parts. shameful. have a super evening everyone...
i arrived last night, perfectly on time. and the flights were surprisingly relaxing! my mom, dad, leslie, sharon and her boyfriend colin, all came to greet me at the airport, which was nice. so we drove home, i toasted a frozen waffle for dinner, and before i knew it, we were inflating the aerobed. this afternoon, leslie and i went out to look for curtains and a queen-size mattress for what will soon be her new bedroom. and now i've sat down to write about my days while dinner is being made. we're bbq-ing burgers and dogs...mmm. i'm a tad disappointed at the weather though. i was expecting to swim all day and tan to a golden brown crisp. but alas, no sunshine. today it's been raining, off and on-- warm enough to go swimming i guess, kind of humid. we'll see what tomorrow brings!
every single time i come out here to visit, i think of how easy life would be if i just lived at home. leslie does it! sharon does it every few months! they both drive amazing new suv's and have clothes and spending money galore! and it would benefit my future immensely if i could just move back home and go to school full time. but then i come to my senses and think of how wonderful it is to finally have flown the coop. sure, i work for a company overrun with people i can't stand and i do a job that doesn't even tap into a fraction of my brain's capacity. so i live paycheck to paycheck and buy the sunday paper just to cut coupons like an 80 year old. and i'm probably one of two people left on the planet without a cell phone (you're the other one, pete) cuz i wouldn't be able to afford the bill. but what i do have, i love. hey man-- to each, his own. but i'll never move back home just to drive an suv. wow... that was a tangent.
well, i think there's some bud light in the fridge. from what i heard, they don't sell pacifico around these parts. shameful. have a super evening everyone...
Saturday, May 28, 2005
Saturday Night Lame
Hey hey hey, what's going on? I'll tell you what is going on here a whole bunch of fucking nothing. I have been sitting at home all day and am so beyond bored I don't know a word that could describe how bored I truly am.
Last night Pete, Alex and I didn't really do much which was cool we had gone out Thursday night after all. We got some Carls' Jr. for dinner got a movie and a game from Blockbuster Video and chilled the rest of the night. We saw "Assault on Precinct 13" it was decent more or less what I expected. After that Pete and Alex started playing "Tony Hawk Underground 2". I watched cause I personally haven't liked the series after Pro Skater 2 just my opinion. Well after a while of Pete beating Alex at almost everything Pete went home and we watched some TV and went to bed. I am not really elaborating too much because there is not much to elaborate about.
Today like I stated earlier I have done nothing which while the sun is out I don't mind too much but once the sun goes down it gets cooler and I want to do something. I am not going to tonight though in all likelihood which is probably good I will save some money which is always a good thing.
So Pete had to work tonight, which sucks but hey at least he is making the cheddar. He had said he was going to get Sara's phone number or give her mine since I was retarded and forgot to get that important information so I could see her tomorrow before work. I haven't gotten a call so I am not sure if he did or did not. It really isn't his responsibility anyway I was the moron. OH well no biggie que sera sera.
Well I guess I am going to go back to being bored yeah I can't really think of anything witty or cool to say. I might be back later tonight depending on how the rest of the evening goes. BYE.
Last night Pete, Alex and I didn't really do much which was cool we had gone out Thursday night after all. We got some Carls' Jr. for dinner got a movie and a game from Blockbuster Video and chilled the rest of the night. We saw "Assault on Precinct 13" it was decent more or less what I expected. After that Pete and Alex started playing "Tony Hawk Underground 2". I watched cause I personally haven't liked the series after Pro Skater 2 just my opinion. Well after a while of Pete beating Alex at almost everything Pete went home and we watched some TV and went to bed. I am not really elaborating too much because there is not much to elaborate about.
Today like I stated earlier I have done nothing which while the sun is out I don't mind too much but once the sun goes down it gets cooler and I want to do something. I am not going to tonight though in all likelihood which is probably good I will save some money which is always a good thing.
So Pete had to work tonight, which sucks but hey at least he is making the cheddar. He had said he was going to get Sara's phone number or give her mine since I was retarded and forgot to get that important information so I could see her tomorrow before work. I haven't gotten a call so I am not sure if he did or did not. It really isn't his responsibility anyway I was the moron. OH well no biggie que sera sera.
Well I guess I am going to go back to being bored yeah I can't really think of anything witty or cool to say. I might be back later tonight depending on how the rest of the evening goes. BYE.
Darmok and Jalad at Tenagra : Picard and Dathon at El Aldril
This is a scene from my favorite Star Trek TNG episode titled "Darmok".
Friday, May 27, 2005
Hey I Write!!!
Ok I do write just not all the time like everybody else. I was at work this past wednesday and thursday. First let me tell you how i did what I did wednesday. So my booking service called me about 2 weeks ago during the time they had no work and asked me if I would be willing to butt nude on some National Lampoon's Movie. Because there was no work I said sure. 2 weeks pass no money in my account I want the job cuz I would get 100 for 8 hours instead of the regular 54 for 8 hours. On tuesday I got the call to work on the movie. It was at Long beach on the Queen Mary (which is haunted). But let me get to the story. Only some people had to drop their clothes. I was one of them and their was a guy next to me who also had to drop trou in the scene we were hidin in the closet cuz the girl's husband came home and we were doin her (I guess). So it's ourfront so we are covering our package and it feels very uncomfortable next to some guy you don't know who also is coverong his package as well. We didn't work a lot so while we waited to do a scene I explored the Queen Mary I was by myself awhile and I didn't get lost but I found a door and there was a sign pointing at the door sayin PARANORMAL RESEARCH CENTER. I'd be a fool not to look so I opened the door and I feel cold and a little flusterd as i walk in but I find the light and turned it on. The room was filled with old TV's and notes explaining what happened with each one of them noone was in the room except me so this isn't made up. One TV turned on and off by itself the other showed half of the Tv and the other half showed scary images the note said (claims ghostly images in TV. Complaints about doors opening and water running by itself. I left and met up with a guy i met called Tim and we went to another place taking pictures and along the stretch we walked it got wierd and we felt wierd he took a couple pics and we see blemishes in the picture and it was digital so we left that place. I told him about the PRC and he said he tried to get in but it was locked. So we went in again this time we didn't turn the light on so we closed the door for 10-15 seconds and took pictures no blemishes in them. The final scene came and the scene was everybody running (away from the huband) on the port side. Oh yeah we were nude showing ours butts covering our packages. I tripped on the stairs going up at the top. But my hand never left my package Igotup & when we got to the front of the ship where the scene ended there were girls in the parking lot and were screaming at us WooHoo! They were probably screamikng at the good looking naked guys. THat's it I wrote something There.
The next day
So nothing really went on Thursday that you don't already know about except what I did. YAY!
On Thursdays I usually lounge about doing what I do. If I have to say what I do you don't know me well enough and we need to have a serious talk while watching some TV. So I woke up and watched an episode of "SVU". Just a side note I always have a ready supply of 2-3 episodes of "SVU" just in case. After watching that episode I realized I still had some homework due for my Thursday night class, Career Strategies, so I went off to my brother's room(he had left for work early) to finish it up. Unfortunately I didn't feel like doing it so instead I blogged. I started blogging around 1 or so. Another side note everything in my life is structured around what is on TV or what will be on TV later. The reason for that side note is because I thought "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" was on at 2 so I thought I would blog till that was on. But to my dismay when I went to turn on the TV at 2 Buffy had been on at 1 just another reason the world is against me. So instead I watched some show on VH1 about Awesomely Bad Fashion. It was lame compared to Buffy. So after some of that I decided to actually attempt to do some homework. It went so-so I disn't finish it all but I didn't really care due to Advanced Senioritis. As I was doing my homework Alex came home in a foul modd I think due to lack of sleep. So he came in here and laid down to get some much needed beauty sleep. I picked up the computer and moved to the living room to finsh whatever homework I felt like doing. After deciding I had done enough homework I packed up my computer and waited for Mandie to arrive so I could go to school. Side note Mandie is a totally awesome girl who takes me to school every day we have school.
I will spare you details about school excpet to say my teacher was not happy with me since I didn' do all my homework, eh WHATEVER! So during school Pete called me and said everyone was going to the Crown to celebrate Tom's, his brother, birthday. All this did was want me to leave school at that moment for the rest of my time at school all I could do was stare at the clock and wish I was gone. We took off at 9 and I got home and changed into something a little more suitable and took of for the Crown with my brother. In the car we heard System of a Down yelling about sending the poor somewhere and some other random songs.
We got to Crown and met up with Pete and Lauri and assorted friends like Lynlee. While there we drank quite a bit and ran up a bit of a bill. So much so that now I only have 3 dollars in my wallet. Oh well it was worth it. Pete and I began discussing philosophical ideas none of which I can remember but it was fun, until ALex got mad at us so we stopped. Anyway after we had drank enough to not feel feelings anymore we left. Lauri had already gone home since she unlike the rest of us had a real job to go to in the morning. So we took Pete home and then came home. I made a turkey sandwich it was delectable. Then I had a cigarette and went to bed. I was kinda tired and being drunk didn't really help.
All in all a typical Thursday evening in Rocks Harder's life. No it is Friday so it is time to REPEAT last night's fun!! PEACE OUT. See you tomorrow for another exciting installment of "RAT RACE".
P.S. Sorry if I forgot to mention anything else super cool that might have happened.
On Thursdays I usually lounge about doing what I do. If I have to say what I do you don't know me well enough and we need to have a serious talk while watching some TV. So I woke up and watched an episode of "SVU". Just a side note I always have a ready supply of 2-3 episodes of "SVU" just in case. After watching that episode I realized I still had some homework due for my Thursday night class, Career Strategies, so I went off to my brother's room(he had left for work early) to finish it up. Unfortunately I didn't feel like doing it so instead I blogged. I started blogging around 1 or so. Another side note everything in my life is structured around what is on TV or what will be on TV later. The reason for that side note is because I thought "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" was on at 2 so I thought I would blog till that was on. But to my dismay when I went to turn on the TV at 2 Buffy had been on at 1 just another reason the world is against me. So instead I watched some show on VH1 about Awesomely Bad Fashion. It was lame compared to Buffy. So after some of that I decided to actually attempt to do some homework. It went so-so I disn't finish it all but I didn't really care due to Advanced Senioritis. As I was doing my homework Alex came home in a foul modd I think due to lack of sleep. So he came in here and laid down to get some much needed beauty sleep. I picked up the computer and moved to the living room to finsh whatever homework I felt like doing. After deciding I had done enough homework I packed up my computer and waited for Mandie to arrive so I could go to school. Side note Mandie is a totally awesome girl who takes me to school every day we have school.
I will spare you details about school excpet to say my teacher was not happy with me since I didn' do all my homework, eh WHATEVER! So during school Pete called me and said everyone was going to the Crown to celebrate Tom's, his brother, birthday. All this did was want me to leave school at that moment for the rest of my time at school all I could do was stare at the clock and wish I was gone. We took off at 9 and I got home and changed into something a little more suitable and took of for the Crown with my brother. In the car we heard System of a Down yelling about sending the poor somewhere and some other random songs.
We got to Crown and met up with Pete and Lauri and assorted friends like Lynlee. While there we drank quite a bit and ran up a bit of a bill. So much so that now I only have 3 dollars in my wallet. Oh well it was worth it. Pete and I began discussing philosophical ideas none of which I can remember but it was fun, until ALex got mad at us so we stopped. Anyway after we had drank enough to not feel feelings anymore we left. Lauri had already gone home since she unlike the rest of us had a real job to go to in the morning. So we took Pete home and then came home. I made a turkey sandwich it was delectable. Then I had a cigarette and went to bed. I was kinda tired and being drunk didn't really help.
All in all a typical Thursday evening in Rocks Harder's life. No it is Friday so it is time to REPEAT last night's fun!! PEACE OUT. See you tomorrow for another exciting installment of "RAT RACE".
P.S. Sorry if I forgot to mention anything else super cool that might have happened.
Wow lot's has happened
So it seems like a flurry of activity since I last blogged. Good to see people good to see. So I know I promised a conclusion to my last blog and so I must. I don't like to lead people on. However like most cliffhangers the payoff is so unsatisfying.
When we last left our hero he was lying in bed at 4AM when suddenly...I couldn't fall asleep so I got out of bed put some shorts back on and went to go watch more TV. Hold on don't leave yet. When I got to the couch after stepping out to have a cigarette I decided to watch the first half of the "Alias" episode that I had already seen the second half of. So I hit info on the remote scrolled through the plot and the characters as I regularly do. My finger slipped and hit the DEL button which as anybody knows means delete. OH NO! Luckily the DVR asks if you are sure you want to delete it but in my flustered state of desperation of missing the season finale of "Alias" I hit the OK button. NNNNNNNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!! And that was it the season finale of "Alias" was lost forever.
Now while to you and others this may not be a big deal, to me a crazy TV addict this was big. Because of my inability to roll around and just fall asleep I lost a season finale; it is akin to losing your baby because of stupidity. Anyway after that I was pretty depressed so I just crawled back to my room and fell asleep crying.
When we last left our hero he was lying in bed at 4AM when suddenly...I couldn't fall asleep so I got out of bed put some shorts back on and went to go watch more TV. Hold on don't leave yet. When I got to the couch after stepping out to have a cigarette I decided to watch the first half of the "Alias" episode that I had already seen the second half of. So I hit info on the remote scrolled through the plot and the characters as I regularly do. My finger slipped and hit the DEL button which as anybody knows means delete. OH NO! Luckily the DVR asks if you are sure you want to delete it but in my flustered state of desperation of missing the season finale of "Alias" I hit the OK button. NNNNNNNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!! And that was it the season finale of "Alias" was lost forever.
Now while to you and others this may not be a big deal, to me a crazy TV addict this was big. Because of my inability to roll around and just fall asleep I lost a season finale; it is akin to losing your baby because of stupidity. Anyway after that I was pretty depressed so I just crawled back to my room and fell asleep crying.
The Original Purpose
Just a remeinder to our new members that the original title of this blog was "Life Outside the Rat Race" it was intended to document our strange lives living for so long outside the 9-5 workforce experience. Of course for me it has become a place to post random crap that pops into my head and I've also used it to bitch about work. BUT, don't forget to put the random crap on there too like what you did last night and what you did on the weekend. And what you do in bed at 4am (still waiting...). Alright, well on that note I'm gonna talk about last night...
We went to the crown last night and had some beers for Tom's birthday. It was pretty fun. As usual when Randy and I get together we had a lot to drink and we started gettin all philosophical and emotional. And Alex as usual got mad because he wasn't drinking and didn't want to hear our crap. I won't go into what was said it was probably mostly unintelligible anyway. When I got home I made some popcorn. I don't know why but I've been doing that alot lately. I was actaully a bit drunker than i had realized because I was shoving huge handfuls of popcorn in my mouth with my eyes closed. I think I also ate a slice of ham but I can't be sure.
Just a sidebar...I was reading the Calender section on the toilet just now and there was a blurb on the Star Wars ad that said Episode III was better than the original Star Wars. I'm sorry but whoever wrote that should not be allowed to review movies anymore because they are clearly a moron. The quote come from the New York Times, I can't beleive it.
I think I might have done some sleepwalking last night too. I don't know what makes me think that but i just remember walking around and possible drinking some orange juice and thinking that I felt really fucked up. I took a sleeping pill last night so the combination of that and the Vodka might have put me out of my head. Who knows. I don't remember walking into anyone's room naked so thats good.
I had dreams of driving to Yosemite. I had a dream that the whole crew was going to meet there at different times. Me and Randy were supposed to leave at like 6pm and get there at like 10pm, but instead we got so engrossed in watching TV (yes, we watch tv even in our dreams) that we didn't realize how late it was and then didn't end up leaving until 10:30pm and then I woke up. When I woke up I was actually dissappointed about not having to drive to Yosemite. Weird. Anyway, I can't wait to go its gonna be so refreshing to the spirit and boy do I need it. Vacations have always been a part of my life and I haven't had a proper one since the last time we went. Its going to be great.
We went to the crown last night and had some beers for Tom's birthday. It was pretty fun. As usual when Randy and I get together we had a lot to drink and we started gettin all philosophical and emotional. And Alex as usual got mad because he wasn't drinking and didn't want to hear our crap. I won't go into what was said it was probably mostly unintelligible anyway. When I got home I made some popcorn. I don't know why but I've been doing that alot lately. I was actaully a bit drunker than i had realized because I was shoving huge handfuls of popcorn in my mouth with my eyes closed. I think I also ate a slice of ham but I can't be sure.
Just a sidebar...I was reading the Calender section on the toilet just now and there was a blurb on the Star Wars ad that said Episode III was better than the original Star Wars. I'm sorry but whoever wrote that should not be allowed to review movies anymore because they are clearly a moron. The quote come from the New York Times, I can't beleive it.
I think I might have done some sleepwalking last night too. I don't know what makes me think that but i just remember walking around and possible drinking some orange juice and thinking that I felt really fucked up. I took a sleeping pill last night so the combination of that and the Vodka might have put me out of my head. Who knows. I don't remember walking into anyone's room naked so thats good.
I had dreams of driving to Yosemite. I had a dream that the whole crew was going to meet there at different times. Me and Randy were supposed to leave at like 6pm and get there at like 10pm, but instead we got so engrossed in watching TV (yes, we watch tv even in our dreams) that we didn't realize how late it was and then didn't end up leaving until 10:30pm and then I woke up. When I woke up I was actually dissappointed about not having to drive to Yosemite. Weird. Anyway, I can't wait to go its gonna be so refreshing to the spirit and boy do I need it. Vacations have always been a part of my life and I haven't had a proper one since the last time we went. Its going to be great.
Not a good morning!
So i stroll into work around 9-ish, its Friday, nothing big happens. A machine that hasn't been working now works (at least it did yesterday). This morning the machine decided not to work. The day was off to a great start! I go next door to help but everyone seems to be in slow mo' and i feel in the way. So i'm starting to get irritated. I realize while i'm in this room that there is just tons and tons and tons of "hand me down" shit all over the place. Things we will never ever use and we took it cuz it was free. This company that i work for has a huge problem and its me. I'm a very very organized person. I give things away if its old and i'll never use it. I clean regularly. I keep things in their place. My company is a two building PACK RATS!!! Because one building wasn't big enough we mover to a bigger building. Now here we are in a bigger place and there isn't enough room so we bought the place next door. There is crap everywhere you turn. When in God's name will we ever find the need for almost 10 hoods? Now i know you don't know what a hood is (at least in my terms), its a really big desk thing that has doors and you get in it to mix smelly or corrisive liquids and it has a ventilation system. So there are those things around. Then there are tools and stuff that belong to Jim from over years and years. Well anyways, i'm straying from my original gripe. So its not a good day. Its a very P.P.R. day. And its only 10am and i've already eaten a cookie. I've put the girls in a room so i don't have to see them all day and i just really hope that i can hide in my office all day long until 5pm roles around and my 3 day weekend can start. To all of you who are sitting around a pool or going to happy hour or doing anything fun and outdoors.....aaaahhhhh, its not fair! And on a final note, my computer is freaking out, i have to do a defragment on it so i'll be out of commision for a while. TTYL
attn:
in all my excitement, i forgot to acknowledge the fact that i wrote the blog directly beneath this one... let alone title it. what a nerd! but this morning i'm going to follow the steps to becoming a member and then there'll be no mistaking. --sheila.
Thursday, May 26, 2005
although i'm a stowaway on rat race's blogspot, it's cool to see that everyone is on board recently. well, except for alex i guess (yep- that's a hint). pete, i was elated to see your post with the lizard photo! that's awesome and it was good to laugh first thing in the morning. lauri told me i was going to wear out the funniness of it all here pretty soon, so i'll give it a rest. but it's still damned funny!
my friend megan and i are getting together at my place for dinner tonight. she's bringing the chicken and i'm supplying the... no, not the stove top sillies, the rice-a-roni. and then we're going swimming- without waiting an hour. only one more day of work and then it's off to texas! last weekend, megan said she'd have no problem taking me to the airport on saturday. then i talked to her last night and she told me she has a hair appointment. i'll forgive your mom for that one, pete ;) so her hubby, doug, will have to drop me off. whatever- the song remains the same.
=o i just got word that pete has invited me to be an official member of the blog! i'm honored, really. i'd like to first thank the good lord in heaven. and, of course, my family (lauri) and friends (pete, randy, and alex). without them, none of this would be possible. literally.
okay... i have to go tie up loose ends before leaving for the day. i have a feeling that lauri and i will be switching our addictions. we're becoming blog whores. email was just the gateway drug.
my friend megan and i are getting together at my place for dinner tonight. she's bringing the chicken and i'm supplying the... no, not the stove top sillies, the rice-a-roni. and then we're going swimming- without waiting an hour. only one more day of work and then it's off to texas! last weekend, megan said she'd have no problem taking me to the airport on saturday. then i talked to her last night and she told me she has a hair appointment. i'll forgive your mom for that one, pete ;) so her hubby, doug, will have to drop me off. whatever- the song remains the same.
=o i just got word that pete has invited me to be an official member of the blog! i'm honored, really. i'd like to first thank the good lord in heaven. and, of course, my family (lauri) and friends (pete, randy, and alex). without them, none of this would be possible. literally.
okay... i have to go tie up loose ends before leaving for the day. i have a feeling that lauri and i will be switching our addictions. we're becoming blog whores. email was just the gateway drug.
Hell Yeah...
Hell yeah I was in a bad mood last night. Those Fucking Hearing Aid devices had me fucking pissed off. I've been barking about those things to anyone who will listen all season and still no one gives a shit. I give them out 'cause no one else is at the front desk, so when they don't work people comeback to me pissed off. When things go well in the Civic that stupid bitch of a boss of yours takes all the credit and when things go bad I have to deal with it. Plus all the sound problems were pissing me off especially since Al keeps blowing me off. I thought I had a good relationship with him but he has ignored me for the last time. For this whole season I've been taking shit from patrons because of his crew's screw ups. Plus I was pissed because no one was where they were supposed to be. Marcus was supposed to be splitting but was in the lobby most of the night. Tammy was supposed to be floating and was talking to Marcus. The balcony supervisor "ahem" was down stairs for the first half of the lecture, leaving the balcony manned by a bunch of incompetant fucks. Our house manager was having a lovely time in her office selling Mary Kay and telling Lauri that she noticed that Lauri has zits. Plus I've been pissed off in general lately so it doesn't take much to send me over the edge. There comes a point every year where I get sick of that job becuase I'm not working enough and the shows I am working are shitty. There is a cycle to the convention business and it goes like this. Serious Tradeshows and Theatre Events Sept. through March. Crap tradeshows and crap events in general May to June. Meetings only June to Sept. Right now we are in the crap tradeshow and crap events period.
OK Rededication
Alright I realize it has been a vey long time since I said anything. Besides how much Pete writes. Reading the posts today thought I realized I had been missing interesting conversations. So I am going to make a more concerted effort to write every day because I don't think Pete and Lauri should have to keep the blog goin alone. Oh yeah Sheila too. BTW Sheila DVR is the devil. But if you like TV and have nothing else to do I recommend it highly. Try to resist though, you will end up like me staying up till 4AM watching season finales and just random shows you like.
So what's new?? Well I should be doing homework due later today but I just can't get motivated. It is like I can see the finish line but I don't really feel like running anymore. Which if you know me pretty much sums me up in a nutshell. I don't put too much effort into anything for the most part. Unless it involves watching TV.
It is SO HOT, right now I am in my brother's room because that happens to be where the Internet connection is which has got to change but anyway and it is HOT in here. I don't want to get into details but it is OH SO HOT!
So yesterday I pretty much sat around all day waiting to go to work. I had to ride the bus because Alex was working. So I sat around watched 2 episodes of "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" on FX. Then I started walking around the apartment till that got old decided I had sweated enough and took a shower. After my shower I got ready fro work and went to go catch the bus.
It was hot outsided waiting for the bus but I survived and eventually the bus came and I got on. It was kinda weird to me as I looked at the other passengers. I would have to say I was not only the youngest person on the bus but also the only white person on the bus. This doesn't alarm me or make me worry just an observation. It made me realize how much I want a car but oh well gotta wait till end of June and then I get to drive home all the way from Alaska. WOW I am all over the place today I have no continuity I am just writing whatever pops in my head. Ok back to yesterday.
So once I got to work I just did the usual work stuff. Pete seemed like he was in a bad mood, were you? Pretty much it more or less sucked except for...hmmm should I tell you? Might as well not really that interesting just wanted you to think it was. Sara from Catering wants to go see "Star Wars 3" with me. However I forgot to get her digits and unless I missed something she doesn't have mine either. So I am kind of assed out now. This always happens to me though. The whole fucking world is against me, dude. Who know maybe something amazing will happen and somehow my number will fall into her hands, unlikely though. Oh well fuck it.
So when I got home last night I started doing what I do every night. Watch TV! This is my element. So when I got home I was taping two shows so I couldn't change the cahannel the only downside of my DVR. Anyway so I watched the second half of "Alias" which is a good thing you will find out later. Then there was nothing else worth watchin so I looked up saved TV and realized I had not seen the finale of "24" so play it. Alex got home towards the end of it and was kind of mad about it but I was bored and tired of waiting. After the 2 hour finale was over it was probably around 12:30 or so(guessing). I decided to watch an episode of "SVU" I had saved. It was okay not one of their better works but not bad. During that Alex went to bed he had to work this morning at 6AM. So he needed his sleep. After "SVU" I still wasn't tired it is around 1:30 or so now. So I started the season finale "Lost" it was good I guess. The thing I hate about certain show season finales is they end right at the point when you want to know what happens. I know I know that's the point, the cliffhanger. FUCK that I want to know what happens right now. I am not very patient in certain maters. I can't stand things that don't conclude. Come to an ending then move on. Anyway at the end of "Lost" I still wasn't tired but went to bed anyway. By the time I had a cigarette and got all situated and in bed it was 4AM. No big deal. But then suddenly...
So I am going to sign off for now with no real conclusion, because although I hate watching cliffhangers, I don't mind creating them. Gotta make you guys want it. If you want it make some comments. Stay tuned!! PEACE OUT.
So what's new?? Well I should be doing homework due later today but I just can't get motivated. It is like I can see the finish line but I don't really feel like running anymore. Which if you know me pretty much sums me up in a nutshell. I don't put too much effort into anything for the most part. Unless it involves watching TV.
It is SO HOT, right now I am in my brother's room because that happens to be where the Internet connection is which has got to change but anyway and it is HOT in here. I don't want to get into details but it is OH SO HOT!
So yesterday I pretty much sat around all day waiting to go to work. I had to ride the bus because Alex was working. So I sat around watched 2 episodes of "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" on FX. Then I started walking around the apartment till that got old decided I had sweated enough and took a shower. After my shower I got ready fro work and went to go catch the bus.
It was hot outsided waiting for the bus but I survived and eventually the bus came and I got on. It was kinda weird to me as I looked at the other passengers. I would have to say I was not only the youngest person on the bus but also the only white person on the bus. This doesn't alarm me or make me worry just an observation. It made me realize how much I want a car but oh well gotta wait till end of June and then I get to drive home all the way from Alaska. WOW I am all over the place today I have no continuity I am just writing whatever pops in my head. Ok back to yesterday.
So once I got to work I just did the usual work stuff. Pete seemed like he was in a bad mood, were you? Pretty much it more or less sucked except for...hmmm should I tell you? Might as well not really that interesting just wanted you to think it was. Sara from Catering wants to go see "Star Wars 3" with me. However I forgot to get her digits and unless I missed something she doesn't have mine either. So I am kind of assed out now. This always happens to me though. The whole fucking world is against me, dude. Who know maybe something amazing will happen and somehow my number will fall into her hands, unlikely though. Oh well fuck it.
So when I got home last night I started doing what I do every night. Watch TV! This is my element. So when I got home I was taping two shows so I couldn't change the cahannel the only downside of my DVR. Anyway so I watched the second half of "Alias" which is a good thing you will find out later. Then there was nothing else worth watchin so I looked up saved TV and realized I had not seen the finale of "24" so play it. Alex got home towards the end of it and was kind of mad about it but I was bored and tired of waiting. After the 2 hour finale was over it was probably around 12:30 or so(guessing). I decided to watch an episode of "SVU" I had saved. It was okay not one of their better works but not bad. During that Alex went to bed he had to work this morning at 6AM. So he needed his sleep. After "SVU" I still wasn't tired it is around 1:30 or so now. So I started the season finale "Lost" it was good I guess. The thing I hate about certain show season finales is they end right at the point when you want to know what happens. I know I know that's the point, the cliffhanger. FUCK that I want to know what happens right now. I am not very patient in certain maters. I can't stand things that don't conclude. Come to an ending then move on. Anyway at the end of "Lost" I still wasn't tired but went to bed anyway. By the time I had a cigarette and got all situated and in bed it was 4AM. No big deal. But then suddenly...
So I am going to sign off for now with no real conclusion, because although I hate watching cliffhangers, I don't mind creating them. Gotta make you guys want it. If you want it make some comments. Stay tuned!! PEACE OUT.
Henniniger Flats Closed
I drove by the Henniniger Flats trail head on my way home from school today because Emily told me the Trail was closed. I wanted to see that for myself. So many people use that trail, you'd think the city would be up in arms. But its true, there is a sign that says "park Closed due to unsafe conditions" and in fact you can see across the canyon a huge chunk of the mountain Landslid down covering a large portion of the road. Still its hard to believe there aren't drews out there working on it. Especially since Chantry Flat is also closed. Anyway i guess we're gonna have to keep doing first water trail for the time being.
Wednesday, May 25, 2005
...and another thing!
with the heat of summer comes..... Leeeeeeeezzaaaaaaarrddss! they're sneaky. that's why you have to call them out. there are tons of little brown lizards that live in the bushes outside of our office building, see? and when it's super hot outside, they like to come in. (who'd ever want to come inside our office building must be feeling a heat stroke coming on.) so whenever lauri and i go outside on our way to the building next door, we call them: leeeeeeeezzaaaaarrddss! go on - try it! it's like saying "swiss"- you can't do it without a smile :)
shiela's my new name...
...don't wear it out!
pete, i'm taking the pbr idea into consideration, thanks. however my parents have one of those automatic pool cleaners that hovers along the bottom of the pool sucking off all the muck. like a mechanical plecostomus. leslie and sharon and i nicknamed it robie (as in robie the robot). anyhow, robie wouldn't appreciate 30 beer cans in the pool.
lauri and i are fighting an addiction: we're self-admitted email whores. we check our email every 10 minutes or so even when we know no one has written us! we could be the only people left on the planet and we'd still check to see if someone wrote us! it really needs to stop. either that or people need to write us some damned emails already!
last night i spent two hours of my life watching the season finale to "one tree hill" on the wb. what can i say? it's the new "beverly hills 90210". that reminds me of a funny story. once upon a saturday afternoon my ex, mike, and i were watching television (upn more specifically). and if i remember correctly, it was a basketball game. well the announcer thought he was off the air when he started talking about a program on that channel starring an afro-american actor and said, "...this is upn- the underpaid negro network." LOL... oops. and if mike wasn't there to hear it too, no one would ever believe me.
lauri and i are leaving now for our lunchbreak. how do am/pm nachos sound?
pete, i'm taking the pbr idea into consideration, thanks. however my parents have one of those automatic pool cleaners that hovers along the bottom of the pool sucking off all the muck. like a mechanical plecostomus. leslie and sharon and i nicknamed it robie (as in robie the robot). anyhow, robie wouldn't appreciate 30 beer cans in the pool.
lauri and i are fighting an addiction: we're self-admitted email whores. we check our email every 10 minutes or so even when we know no one has written us! we could be the only people left on the planet and we'd still check to see if someone wrote us! it really needs to stop. either that or people need to write us some damned emails already!
last night i spent two hours of my life watching the season finale to "one tree hill" on the wb. what can i say? it's the new "beverly hills 90210". that reminds me of a funny story. once upon a saturday afternoon my ex, mike, and i were watching television (upn more specifically). and if i remember correctly, it was a basketball game. well the announcer thought he was off the air when he started talking about a program on that channel starring an afro-american actor and said, "...this is upn- the underpaid negro network." LOL... oops. and if mike wasn't there to hear it too, no one would ever believe me.
lauri and i are leaving now for our lunchbreak. how do am/pm nachos sound?
For My Homies
I wrote this poem about me and my homies. I hope you guys like it.
Just some good ol' boys,
Never meanin' no harm,
Beats all you've never saw,
been in trouble with the law
since the day they was born.
Makin' their way,
The only way they know how,
But That's just a little bit more than the law will allow.
Just some good ol' boys,
Wouldn't change if they could,
Fightin' the system like a true modern day Robin Hood.
Actually I copied it from Waylan (sp?) Jennings but I think it applies don't you?
Just some good ol' boys,
Never meanin' no harm,
Beats all you've never saw,
been in trouble with the law
since the day they was born.
Makin' their way,
The only way they know how,
But That's just a little bit more than the law will allow.
Just some good ol' boys,
Wouldn't change if they could,
Fightin' the system like a true modern day Robin Hood.
Actually I copied it from Waylan (sp?) Jennings but I think it applies don't you?
Blech!
So I just finished reading the first book in the Chronicles of Narnia. What a piece of crap. Its hard to believe someone as smart as CS Lewis could come up with this. I know its supposed to be for kids but its just so bad. Nothing happens, nothing is explained, theres no history to Narnia and no sense of it being a real place. I say this as a die hard fan of Tolkein who was friends with Lewis. Man thats wierd. I don't know how these books got te reputation they did its all gobbledegook, no wonder I never finished them as a kid.
Tuesday, May 24, 2005
Does This Suck?
Man I just have to say there are some seriously crapp blogs out there. I just spent the last half hour hitting next blog over and over again hoping to find something even remotely entertaining and didn't find crap. I don't think this blog sucks but maybe it does. Maybe if you don't know any of us you have no idea what the hell I'm talking about all the time. I worry about these things
Cali Style (part 2)
I also think you should spell your name like I just did in that last blog "Shiela" Why?..."Cali Style."
Cali Style
There are advantages and disadvantages to getting DVR. The advantage is that you'll will never again have to see a bad TV show or really have to sit through commercials if you time things right. You can record every episode of your favorite show and watch them on your downtime. Its awesome. The disadvantage is that its totally addictive. You become so cought up in watching your engrossing TV shows that you don't want to do anything else like rent movies or read books or look for something new and interesting to do. With so much good TV on, whats the motivation to leave the house, or clean the house, or whatever. It's miracle of modern technology and a potential curse of monumental proportions.
Hey Shiela, I think you should buy a 30 pack of PBR when you go to texas and sit out by the pool drinking them and throwing the empty cans in the pool. When your family asks you why you keep doing that you simply reply..."This is Cali style."
Hey Shiela, I think you should buy a 30 pack of PBR when you go to texas and sit out by the pool drinking them and throwing the empty cans in the pool. When your family asks you why you keep doing that you simply reply..."This is Cali style."
sheila says...
there's an article on nbc4.tv's website about a woman living in seal beach, ca who has turned 112 years old. that means she would've been born sometime in 1893! just imagine the things she's seen throughout her life... i think i've been through a lot of bull and i'm only 25! i'll be damned if i have to go another 87 years.
on a happier note: thanks for letting me blog on your spot everyone! you might have noticed that i already have a post up, courtesy of pete. he published my poem...how exciting! (i'm patting my own back right now) i really don't have anything monumental to say. lauri suggested revealing my personal life so here goes: i just broke up with my boyfriend who suddenly turned into an anus so i've been spending my time watching lots of t.v. (what do you think randy? should i get dvr?) this saturday i'm flying to dallas, tx to visit my family for a week. they say it's bloody hot out there so hopefully i'll return with a nice tan. this winter did me wrong; i'm so pale i'm practically transparent and big hoodies left room for a big belly to grow. but fat and pastey no more guys! we'll all morph into our cuter summer selves here pretty soon! hm... what else? ah! my best friend megan and i booked a cruise to mexico for september. it's a while from now, but vacations to look forward to are always good to have. they're almost motivational. and hopefully during my traveling abroad (well, texas and ensenada anyhow...lol) i'll meet a boy who'll either fill up my free time or really love watching television.
on a happier note: thanks for letting me blog on your spot everyone! you might have noticed that i already have a post up, courtesy of pete. he published my poem...how exciting! (i'm patting my own back right now) i really don't have anything monumental to say. lauri suggested revealing my personal life so here goes: i just broke up with my boyfriend who suddenly turned into an anus so i've been spending my time watching lots of t.v. (what do you think randy? should i get dvr?) this saturday i'm flying to dallas, tx to visit my family for a week. they say it's bloody hot out there so hopefully i'll return with a nice tan. this winter did me wrong; i'm so pale i'm practically transparent and big hoodies left room for a big belly to grow. but fat and pastey no more guys! we'll all morph into our cuter summer selves here pretty soon! hm... what else? ah! my best friend megan and i booked a cruise to mexico for september. it's a while from now, but vacations to look forward to are always good to have. they're almost motivational. and hopefully during my traveling abroad (well, texas and ensenada anyhow...lol) i'll meet a boy who'll either fill up my free time or really love watching television.
So tired...
Last night i went to see Star Wars. I thought it was a good movie. I never think to much about the way the movie should or should not be. It makes it more just plain entertainable. Pete and Randy and Alex over analyze it until they decide they don't really like it. Like i told Pete, its not like its a movie about your life and they left so much out that your pissed and it doesn't make sense. You don't know what really happened, its a story, made up. Pete however brought up the point that when you know something for so long you make up in your head the way it should be, and when its different you feel cheated. I can agree with that, but its still something that should be enjoyable, not something you won't ever watch again because you didn't like they way it was done. You know what i mean? Final thought here is that i see both sides as being valid points.
So now here i am at work, i had to drag myself here this morning. I'm so tired. Of course i walk to the back mfg room and the girls are looking bored and waiting for something to do. Thats the thing that bothers me about them. Either they are super slow and mess up or they look blatantly bored and then rush through the work and mess up. Ironic huh? There isn't much to do today so we'll see what happens. I'm also tired cuz i couldn't sleep last night. I was scared. For some reason the power goes on and off in my apt. complex. I don't know why and it isn't for long. Very split second stuff. Not even long enough to make my clocks reset. Weird huh? So it feaked me out when it did it like three times in a row at 1am. I paged Pete but he didn't call me back, so i had to deal with it and hide under my covers incase it happened again. Its the weirdest thing a power outage/blackout. You really don't realize how much noise and light everyday electricity makes. They hum of the refridgerator, the light of the clocks, the plain outside light. I need a flashlight cuz it gets super dark. Then there are the noises when the electricity turns back on. Things beep and reset and blink. Its a fightening thing, for me anyway. I live alone!
Ok well i guess thats it for now. Sheila wants to blog so i think i'll lend her my info. I don't think you'll all mind, there aren't many people blogging these days and if she wants to voice something i think she can. Ok? ok. Later!
So now here i am at work, i had to drag myself here this morning. I'm so tired. Of course i walk to the back mfg room and the girls are looking bored and waiting for something to do. Thats the thing that bothers me about them. Either they are super slow and mess up or they look blatantly bored and then rush through the work and mess up. Ironic huh? There isn't much to do today so we'll see what happens. I'm also tired cuz i couldn't sleep last night. I was scared. For some reason the power goes on and off in my apt. complex. I don't know why and it isn't for long. Very split second stuff. Not even long enough to make my clocks reset. Weird huh? So it feaked me out when it did it like three times in a row at 1am. I paged Pete but he didn't call me back, so i had to deal with it and hide under my covers incase it happened again. Its the weirdest thing a power outage/blackout. You really don't realize how much noise and light everyday electricity makes. They hum of the refridgerator, the light of the clocks, the plain outside light. I need a flashlight cuz it gets super dark. Then there are the noises when the electricity turns back on. Things beep and reset and blink. Its a fightening thing, for me anyway. I live alone!
Ok well i guess thats it for now. Sheila wants to blog so i think i'll lend her my info. I don't think you'll all mind, there aren't many people blogging these days and if she wants to voice something i think she can. Ok? ok. Later!
Thursday, May 19, 2005
Shiela's comment
sheila said...
i've made up a poem to answer your question pete:
if i woke up one morning with a healed over poop chute,
i'd become bulimic so nothing would exit that route.
i've made up a poem to answer your question pete:
if i woke up one morning with a healed over poop chute,
i'd become bulimic so nothing would exit that route.
What Would You Do?
What would you do if you woke up one morning and your butt hole had healed over?
P.S. Lauri's nickname has been officially changed to "Sexy Ninja"
P.S. Lauri's nickname has been officially changed to "Sexy Ninja"
The Titles for These Thinks are Unimportant
I'm not really sure what to write tonight. Nothing much happened today. I woke up. I watched a little Star Trek TNG (thats "The Next Generation" to you non nerds). I did a little laundry. I went to school and heard an excellent lecture about the rise of liberalism and socialism after the French Revolution in my HST 324 class. I went to Lauri's and played some GTA (it was a day of three letter acronyms) when Lauri came home she was really tired and I hadn't had any lunch so we didn't go hiking, we went to Carmine's instead. Naughty, naughty. After that Lauri started watching America's next top model so i went to Hollywood Video to get some movies. Good Company and Team America. Then we watched Good Company. It was alright. Then Lauri went to bed and I went home and here I am. So thats that. I ripped some songs onto my computer so I'm gonna just keep writing while I listen to them.
I talked to Randy last night and he said basically that he no longer had time to watch movies because his time was so consumed with watching recorded TV. I don't know I think that DVR is a blessing and a curse. I reckon eventually the novelty will wear off and his life will return to normality.
Alex called tonight. He wants to borrow Batman: Year One the best comic ever written and i'm including the Dark Knight Returns in that assertion. Any of you fanboys that don't agree with me can shove it. (I'm going to continue to act as if someone actually reads this blog.) He also wants to borrow some tape for his costume for a shoot he's doing...something about a Mad Max costume.
I had some coffee at like 8pm tonight so I'm pretty wired. At this point I'm considering staying up all night and coming to terms with my life. Staying up all night always sounds like a really good idea but in the morning you just feel sick in the head and unable to deal with menial tasks so I'll probably just take a sleeping pill and bugger off.
Frankly, sometimes I wonder if I wouldn't be better of being one of those guys who follows Phish or the Grateful Dead around and just be a hippy. But now Phish are broken up and Jerry Garcia is dead. Truly, conservatism has won the day. Perhaps we liberals should acceot defeat and get business degrees and become corporate raiders...whatever that is.
What I really want to do is write. I want to write a story. If I'm being honest, which I shouldn't do...I want want to write the great American novel. an unrealistic goal of course but fuck it. It will start like this:
"Frankly, sometimes I wonder if I wouldn't be better of being one of those guys who follows Phish or the Grateful Dead around and just being a hippy. But now Phish are broken up and Jerry Garcia is dead."
See what I did there I just repeated what I just said. The next line wouldn't be the same as the one before of course. maybe what I need to do is think about what I want to say in the novel. Then again, do I really want the novel to be didactic? The best novels are the ones that are open to interpretation. You start to tell people exactly what you think and there's no reason for people to keep studying it. If i were going to wtite a didactic novel it would be about how we worry to much about materialism and tradition. In other words we work to hard trying to aquire things while the beauty of the world and our lives are passing us by. The critics will criticize me by saying that my conclusions are unrealistic and not truthful, but it will only be because they are so indoctrinated with capitalism that they are unable to see past thier assumptions. It will only be later in the 24th century that my work will be appreciated.
Man I got a shit load of songs left to listen to. I now have 41 songs on this computer. I can't put anything on Tom's iPod though because this computer has a slew of viruses that will infect the iPod. Thats it. When you listen to songs on iTunes the songs fade into one another. Thats pretty cool.
I talked to Randy last night and he said basically that he no longer had time to watch movies because his time was so consumed with watching recorded TV. I don't know I think that DVR is a blessing and a curse. I reckon eventually the novelty will wear off and his life will return to normality.
Alex called tonight. He wants to borrow Batman: Year One the best comic ever written and i'm including the Dark Knight Returns in that assertion. Any of you fanboys that don't agree with me can shove it. (I'm going to continue to act as if someone actually reads this blog.) He also wants to borrow some tape for his costume for a shoot he's doing...something about a Mad Max costume.
I had some coffee at like 8pm tonight so I'm pretty wired. At this point I'm considering staying up all night and coming to terms with my life. Staying up all night always sounds like a really good idea but in the morning you just feel sick in the head and unable to deal with menial tasks so I'll probably just take a sleeping pill and bugger off.
Frankly, sometimes I wonder if I wouldn't be better of being one of those guys who follows Phish or the Grateful Dead around and just be a hippy. But now Phish are broken up and Jerry Garcia is dead. Truly, conservatism has won the day. Perhaps we liberals should acceot defeat and get business degrees and become corporate raiders...whatever that is.
What I really want to do is write. I want to write a story. If I'm being honest, which I shouldn't do...I want want to write the great American novel. an unrealistic goal of course but fuck it. It will start like this:
"Frankly, sometimes I wonder if I wouldn't be better of being one of those guys who follows Phish or the Grateful Dead around and just being a hippy. But now Phish are broken up and Jerry Garcia is dead."
See what I did there I just repeated what I just said. The next line wouldn't be the same as the one before of course. maybe what I need to do is think about what I want to say in the novel. Then again, do I really want the novel to be didactic? The best novels are the ones that are open to interpretation. You start to tell people exactly what you think and there's no reason for people to keep studying it. If i were going to wtite a didactic novel it would be about how we worry to much about materialism and tradition. In other words we work to hard trying to aquire things while the beauty of the world and our lives are passing us by. The critics will criticize me by saying that my conclusions are unrealistic and not truthful, but it will only be because they are so indoctrinated with capitalism that they are unable to see past thier assumptions. It will only be later in the 24th century that my work will be appreciated.
Man I got a shit load of songs left to listen to. I now have 41 songs on this computer. I can't put anything on Tom's iPod though because this computer has a slew of viruses that will infect the iPod. Thats it. When you listen to songs on iTunes the songs fade into one another. Thats pretty cool.
Wednesday, May 18, 2005
Here I am
This is my first blog on Rat Race. Thank you for having me. Its been a crazy week here at work. Since i have an ulcer i'm trying to lay off the caffine, so that means no coffee. And since i'm not drinking coffee in the morning at work, i get started working first thing. When i use to drink coffee i would actually start working around 10am or so. So now that i'm starting at 8:45am i'm still super busy. I can't figure out why though. And it doesn't make my day go by any faster either. So on that note i'm moving on to another subject. Hey Pete wanna go to Disneyland this Friday? Pete's been kinda down these last few days so i thought maybe going to the "Happiest Place on Earth" might help. Its free remember Pete. ..........So i'm here typing and relaxing finally, when all of a sudden something has to go out FedEx. I fucking hate last minute shit!!! Hate it. My day is very specifically planned on a time line. And when that gets messed up then its a domino effect. This is why my job sucks. Clocks and Calendars. Well the computer is acting weird as i type this so i'm going to stop now. Enjoy the day everyone!
Tuesday, May 17, 2005
Iconic Discordance in Modern Society
There seems to be a discordance in today's society as to which figure of legend, the pirate or the ninja is more deserving of our admiration. (Pay no attention to those who try to sway you towards zombies or vampires thats just a bunch of hooey.) I feel that its my duty as a member of this civilization to throw my hat in the ring. Having looked at the pros and cons of both the pirate and the ninja...I'm gonna throw my support behind the ninja. Now, before you pirate lovers tune out, at least let me make my case because I think pirates have a lot of good qualities. First of all, pirates can talk and their use of the dialect is great "arrrrrgh." "walk the plank" "davy jones' locker" and all that. Its good stuff. Whereas the ninja must exercise silence. Plus pirates party all the time. They are fucked up on rum half the time you see them. You wouldn't really want to have a beer with a ninja. Plus, clearly in the joke department the pirate wins hands down. But you also have to think of the downside of the pirate where the ninja clearly wins out. The biggest advantage to the ninja is the whole mask/secret identity thing. You never know who a ninja is. Your boyfriend or girlfriend could be a ninja. Your boss could be a ninja. You could be a ninja and no one would ever know it, unless you wanted them to. You have to consider the ninja lifestyle compared to the pirate lifestyle. Both enterprises are based on rewards. Both pirates and ninjas kill for reward. The pirate however is constantly sailing around running from the law, on a boat all the time, can't shower, crappy food, no women...and lets not forget the scurvy. Whereas the ninja puts on the black PJ's strikes in the dead of the night collects his/her reward and can enjoy it without fear of persecution. Then there's issue of weaponry. Sure pirates carry a sword, they have cannons and maybe single shot pistol...but...I mean...c'mon. The ninja is proficient with the sword, the ninja star, the bow staff, the crossbow, smoke bombs, the poison dart and don't forget nunchucks. Then there is the hierarchy, being a pirate is great if you're the captain. If you're just a swab you spend your whole day cleaning the ship and crap. What kind of life is that. A ninja is his/her own boss; someone tries to tell a ninja to clean something and its an instant ninja star to the eye, if your lucky. Finally, lets face it, ninjas are just more progressive than pirates when if t comes to civil rights. I mean, who ever heard of a girl pirate. A bossy drunk girl who goes around stealing other peoples shit, c'mon, we got a word for that. But a girl ninja...she takes off her mask and all that hair comes flyin out...well...thats just sexy. I still think pirates have a lot of good qualities, but i think I'm gonna be a ninja when I grow up.
Time to Panic
Was Luke Skywalker really prepared to be the last of the Jedi and to re-establish the Jedi order? I mean...what did he really do between the time that Obi-wan and Yoda told him he wasn't ready and the time when Yoda dies and he tells Luke "The last of the Jedi will you be." Am I the only one worried about this? What happens if the Empire starts to take hold again. Is one partially trained Jedi gonna hold them at bay? Because you know Han and Leia are off on their Honeymoon. Chewie is rocking the Wookie tip, he's got to get some sometime. We just don't know the end of the story, you know it happened along time ago. Maybe the New Republic eventually fell and the Empire has spread from a galaxy far far away to this galaxy. Maybe they are out there right now. Maybe our moon really isn't a moon...its a space station. I mean do you see any Jedi's around now? NO! You ever think about that? huh? huh?
Subtexts and Implied Meanings
Well...this is painful so I'm just gonna throw it out there. And then I don't really want to talk about it. Its my business. I'm not done with school this quarter I still have at least 4 classes left. There. Oh well. I was hella depressed about it, but Lauri and I went for a hike today and then she took me to a nice sushi dinner and bought me a book called The Zombie Survival Guide. That girl is just fucking awesome.
Yesterday we hung out at my house and barbaqued some burgers. It was fun and it was the first swim of the year. We got sunburned. Today on our hike we got rained on. I'll never understand CA weather.
Now I'd like the discuss the unexplored subtext of Aquateen Hungerforce. I can't watch it on TV anymore so I'm going to overanalyze it. Alex ought to love this.
The thing that first strikes one about Aquateen, beside the fact that they are talking food products, is that they are a Super Hero team that doesn't fight crime, or do anything really. It's this important fact that leads us to the implied message that the creators are trying to get the audience to see. Aquateen represent the lost hopes of a generation. Its interesting to note that in the first seasons of the show the trio did fight crime of sorts, but no longer. Seeing the pointless nature of thier actions, the Aquateen have become sedentary, accepting a life of watching TV and scraping out a living in a mediocre New Jersey neighborhood. Like the generation of youth who grew up worshipping Movie Stars and Rock gods beleiving they would become rich and famous only to find themselves disappointed and completely unprepared to live in world where everyone was just as qualified as they were for just about anything. You see, as superheros go the Aquateen are nothing special. They only real super powers they posses are Frylock's eye lightning. They aren't even particulary smart. Compare Aquateen to the previous generation of cartoon super heros. Take, for an example, the Superfriends. The Superfriends were a formidable fighting crew who could do some real damage both individually and collectively to the world of crime. The Sperfriends operating in the sixties when a generation of youth was fighting the establishment. As the Vietnam war came to an end there was a hope that a lesson had been learned, that future generations would live in a more enlightened age. The current generation wishes to live in this enlightened age. We wish to not have to fight old fights. Aquateen shouldn't have to worry about fighting the Lex Luthors of the world, that fight has already been fought so why shouldn't a trio of regular guys be able to fight crime with more of a focus on nuance than brute force. However, what the Aquateen found, much as our generation has found, is that no lessons have been learned, the Lex Luthors are still out there, and having been prepared for a more peaceful time, we and they are wholly unprepared and overwhelmed. Its no wonder that the Aquateen quickly became jaded, after all whats the point of fighting crime if your not making any difference at all. Better to live for your own pleasure and just let things cycle naturally as they are bound to do.
Yesterday we hung out at my house and barbaqued some burgers. It was fun and it was the first swim of the year. We got sunburned. Today on our hike we got rained on. I'll never understand CA weather.
Now I'd like the discuss the unexplored subtext of Aquateen Hungerforce. I can't watch it on TV anymore so I'm going to overanalyze it. Alex ought to love this.
The thing that first strikes one about Aquateen, beside the fact that they are talking food products, is that they are a Super Hero team that doesn't fight crime, or do anything really. It's this important fact that leads us to the implied message that the creators are trying to get the audience to see. Aquateen represent the lost hopes of a generation. Its interesting to note that in the first seasons of the show the trio did fight crime of sorts, but no longer. Seeing the pointless nature of thier actions, the Aquateen have become sedentary, accepting a life of watching TV and scraping out a living in a mediocre New Jersey neighborhood. Like the generation of youth who grew up worshipping Movie Stars and Rock gods beleiving they would become rich and famous only to find themselves disappointed and completely unprepared to live in world where everyone was just as qualified as they were for just about anything. You see, as superheros go the Aquateen are nothing special. They only real super powers they posses are Frylock's eye lightning. They aren't even particulary smart. Compare Aquateen to the previous generation of cartoon super heros. Take, for an example, the Superfriends. The Superfriends were a formidable fighting crew who could do some real damage both individually and collectively to the world of crime. The Sperfriends operating in the sixties when a generation of youth was fighting the establishment. As the Vietnam war came to an end there was a hope that a lesson had been learned, that future generations would live in a more enlightened age. The current generation wishes to live in this enlightened age. We wish to not have to fight old fights. Aquateen shouldn't have to worry about fighting the Lex Luthors of the world, that fight has already been fought so why shouldn't a trio of regular guys be able to fight crime with more of a focus on nuance than brute force. However, what the Aquateen found, much as our generation has found, is that no lessons have been learned, the Lex Luthors are still out there, and having been prepared for a more peaceful time, we and they are wholly unprepared and overwhelmed. Its no wonder that the Aquateen quickly became jaded, after all whats the point of fighting crime if your not making any difference at all. Better to live for your own pleasure and just let things cycle naturally as they are bound to do.
Sunday, May 15, 2005
Had something to write about
Hey everyone who reads this. It's about 3:00 am and I'm about to sleep but I thought I could tell you guys what I did today. Nothing! Wait that's not true I'm just so used to it. I was playing video games till my friends called me a little late by like 3 hours. Anyway my friend Nate got a playstation so I brought some games and schooled him. Then we talked about agents,acting,movies and then end up seeing scary movie and I don't know why. Oh wait we wanted to see a movie just for fun and not to think about. Next week I have my commercial workshop class from 10-5 but I'll have to leave at 9:00. It's very important that I do well so I Could get a agent. And then become famous so wish me luck.
Wait I forgot me and Nate went to the store to get some more beer cuz he already drank some and we had one left. So when we got to the store some guys were messing around with 2 CHICKS. So I was like Hey what's goin on! the guys were all like "Get away If you know what's good for you." The guys eyes started glowing red and they mad a rar! sound which showed their pointy teeth. They Were vampires!!!! The girls were screaming for help. So Nate and I acted quick he opened his trunk and threw me the automatic sunlight bullet pistol uzi (like in Underworld). As he grabbed the silver nitrate shotgun. He blew away 2 of the vampires and I blasted on 3 of them including one who tried to jump off a car onto me. I saw Nate fighting with the lead one and his shotgun was hit away. So he showed his cross and that didn't help this vampire was strong. I shot him twice and he was about to be bitten when a wooden stake flew right into the vampire's heart. The vampire was screaming in pain and yelled, "You will die someday SLAYERS!!!" and bursted into ash. We were wondering who threw the stake and sure enough It was Nate's girlfriend Caroline who was still in the car and she said, "Hurry Up and get me some candy too." The girls were leaving and left before I could get their numbers or any thanks. Nate said, "Sorry man. Then Caroline said, "You'll get a girl soon." I said, "I wonder if all this is worth it." Nate said, "We were chosen and whether you like it or not- -I said, " I know I know We Are The Aspiring Actor Slayers!!!"
Wait I forgot me and Nate went to the store to get some more beer cuz he already drank some and we had one left. So when we got to the store some guys were messing around with 2 CHICKS. So I was like Hey what's goin on! the guys were all like "Get away If you know what's good for you." The guys eyes started glowing red and they mad a rar! sound which showed their pointy teeth. They Were vampires!!!! The girls were screaming for help. So Nate and I acted quick he opened his trunk and threw me the automatic sunlight bullet pistol uzi (like in Underworld). As he grabbed the silver nitrate shotgun. He blew away 2 of the vampires and I blasted on 3 of them including one who tried to jump off a car onto me. I saw Nate fighting with the lead one and his shotgun was hit away. So he showed his cross and that didn't help this vampire was strong. I shot him twice and he was about to be bitten when a wooden stake flew right into the vampire's heart. The vampire was screaming in pain and yelled, "You will die someday SLAYERS!!!" and bursted into ash. We were wondering who threw the stake and sure enough It was Nate's girlfriend Caroline who was still in the car and she said, "Hurry Up and get me some candy too." The girls were leaving and left before I could get their numbers or any thanks. Nate said, "Sorry man. Then Caroline said, "You'll get a girl soon." I said, "I wonder if all this is worth it." Nate said, "We were chosen and whether you like it or not- -I said, " I know I know We Are The Aspiring Actor Slayers!!!"
This week in Pete (part two)
Fri.
Friday was weird. See even after watching Life Aquatic until 1am I still couldn't sleep so I was up late. I had decided the night before that I was gonna go hiking in the morning and hike along the stream for a while. The problem is that I slept crapy so I didn't fell like doin shit. Again I tricked myself into going hiking. It was hot...and it was freaking hard but I made it. I hiked down to the stream. There was a problem, however. Normally, or at least in the past I've been able to boulder hop like nobady's business. It's just a matter of shutting your mind down to everything sle except the next rock your going to land on. Its actually very theraputic, like a zen thing. But today, I couldn't concentrate. I was like Luke Skywalker on Degobah doing a handstand with Yoda on one foot and rocks floating all around. Then R2 distracts him and all the shit falls down. I had my foot go in the water twice. I hit my head on a branch. And I banged my knee. I just couldn't turn my mind off. Little snippets of song or movies kept coming into my head and ditracting me. I didn't hike back very far until I turned around.
When I got back home I took a shower and then Randy called so I went to his house. He missed school and was a couple beers in. I think he got pissed when I didn't start drinking right away. In fact I didn't really start drinking until dinner at 9 or so. I was bored at Randy's so I thought it would be a good idea to go to my house where we could enjoy the remaining sunlight. Eat some chips and play Dominoes or something. We could have gone to happy hour but I didn't want to spend the money. Randy was getting totally trashed at my house and mad cause I wasn't drinking and alex was kicking our asses at Dominoes. I thought it would be fun to get a few beers in us and then walk to Lauri's. I called it my big plan. But the boys weren't havin' it. One they didn't want to go to Lauri's and two there aren't ones to use thier legs when there are perfectly good wheels around. (Sorry comrades but you know its true.) So we wating for Lauri, decided on BJ's (which was Lovely). I had a few BJ's blondes which were great. During the meal, however, Lauri decided to bail on us for the rest of the night. And Alex had to go home because his stomach was hurting. Right away Randy and I got sinister looks on our faces. The two of us sans girlfriend, sans little brother out on the town. It would be dangerous times. Lauri dropped us off at the Gold line station and things went downhill from there.
It took the train 15 minutes to show up. and then another five before it left again. Down time like that for a couple of old men like us can really put a damper on things. Halfway through the train ride, some little wannabe gangsters got on the train and one of them started talking to this young girl. Normally me and Randy keep a low profile but we would be damned if this punk was gonna hassle some hard working young adult with potential on our train. So Randy says, " Why don't get the fuck out of here, you fucking degenerate." The gangster looked at Randy confusedly not knowing whether "degenerate" was an insult or not. So Randy says, " it means yer a piece of shit now go sit down before I sit you down." Not being used to being talked to in this fashion with his homies around the little gangster gets in a fighting position. A quick elbow to the nose by Randy put the little punk down quick, of course now we had his homies to deal with. The beauty of fighting on a train is that your opponents can only come at you single file. While Randy stood on the first gangsters neck I gave the first guy in the line of homies comin at me a strong lower palm to the sternum which had the effect of knocking his wind out but also putting him down in to the line of gangsters behind him. Of course, then it was our stop so we got off the train confindent that the gangsters had been thouroughly routed and would not be bother anyone else on the train.
The crown sucked for it being a friday night. We had a few beers before Alex showed up fresh over a case of the shits. I drank two pints of PBR on top of the three pints I had at BJ's and then a Miller Lite. We left pretty quickly and then went back to Randy's apartment. Where I had another beer and then tried to blog some. I can't so it right on their laptop though. After a short while alex took me back to Lauri's and I went to sleep.
Sat.
Saturday was mostly about waiting to go to work. We changes Lauri's oil but nothing too exciting. I got home from work and have been watching TV and bloggin ever since. Hope you enjoyed this. See you tommorow.
Friday was weird. See even after watching Life Aquatic until 1am I still couldn't sleep so I was up late. I had decided the night before that I was gonna go hiking in the morning and hike along the stream for a while. The problem is that I slept crapy so I didn't fell like doin shit. Again I tricked myself into going hiking. It was hot...and it was freaking hard but I made it. I hiked down to the stream. There was a problem, however. Normally, or at least in the past I've been able to boulder hop like nobady's business. It's just a matter of shutting your mind down to everything sle except the next rock your going to land on. Its actually very theraputic, like a zen thing. But today, I couldn't concentrate. I was like Luke Skywalker on Degobah doing a handstand with Yoda on one foot and rocks floating all around. Then R2 distracts him and all the shit falls down. I had my foot go in the water twice. I hit my head on a branch. And I banged my knee. I just couldn't turn my mind off. Little snippets of song or movies kept coming into my head and ditracting me. I didn't hike back very far until I turned around.
When I got back home I took a shower and then Randy called so I went to his house. He missed school and was a couple beers in. I think he got pissed when I didn't start drinking right away. In fact I didn't really start drinking until dinner at 9 or so. I was bored at Randy's so I thought it would be a good idea to go to my house where we could enjoy the remaining sunlight. Eat some chips and play Dominoes or something. We could have gone to happy hour but I didn't want to spend the money. Randy was getting totally trashed at my house and mad cause I wasn't drinking and alex was kicking our asses at Dominoes. I thought it would be fun to get a few beers in us and then walk to Lauri's. I called it my big plan. But the boys weren't havin' it. One they didn't want to go to Lauri's and two there aren't ones to use thier legs when there are perfectly good wheels around. (Sorry comrades but you know its true.) So we wating for Lauri, decided on BJ's (which was Lovely). I had a few BJ's blondes which were great. During the meal, however, Lauri decided to bail on us for the rest of the night. And Alex had to go home because his stomach was hurting. Right away Randy and I got sinister looks on our faces. The two of us sans girlfriend, sans little brother out on the town. It would be dangerous times. Lauri dropped us off at the Gold line station and things went downhill from there.
It took the train 15 minutes to show up. and then another five before it left again. Down time like that for a couple of old men like us can really put a damper on things. Halfway through the train ride, some little wannabe gangsters got on the train and one of them started talking to this young girl. Normally me and Randy keep a low profile but we would be damned if this punk was gonna hassle some hard working young adult with potential on our train. So Randy says, " Why don't get the fuck out of here, you fucking degenerate." The gangster looked at Randy confusedly not knowing whether "degenerate" was an insult or not. So Randy says, " it means yer a piece of shit now go sit down before I sit you down." Not being used to being talked to in this fashion with his homies around the little gangster gets in a fighting position. A quick elbow to the nose by Randy put the little punk down quick, of course now we had his homies to deal with. The beauty of fighting on a train is that your opponents can only come at you single file. While Randy stood on the first gangsters neck I gave the first guy in the line of homies comin at me a strong lower palm to the sternum which had the effect of knocking his wind out but also putting him down in to the line of gangsters behind him. Of course, then it was our stop so we got off the train confindent that the gangsters had been thouroughly routed and would not be bother anyone else on the train.
The crown sucked for it being a friday night. We had a few beers before Alex showed up fresh over a case of the shits. I drank two pints of PBR on top of the three pints I had at BJ's and then a Miller Lite. We left pretty quickly and then went back to Randy's apartment. Where I had another beer and then tried to blog some. I can't so it right on their laptop though. After a short while alex took me back to Lauri's and I went to sleep.
Sat.
Saturday was mostly about waiting to go to work. We changes Lauri's oil but nothing too exciting. I got home from work and have been watching TV and bloggin ever since. Hope you enjoyed this. See you tommorow.
This Week in Pete (part one)
So last night we (me, lauri, randy, and alex) were at dinner at BJ's (which was lovely) and Randy was saying how he was reading Kevin Smith's Blog and that it was kind of just like a daily diary and that he thought our blog should be more like that and that we should all start bloggin more often. Which reminds me that I need to send Lauri an invitation to our blog so that we can consolidate. Anyway...So that's what this is. I'm just gonna catalogue the last couple of days as best I can. I will warn you...Not everything in here is going to be completely true and some of it may not have actually have happened at all. I will take license wherever I feel like for the sake of comedy or drama.
Wed.
On Wednesday I went to school even though I didn't really want to. I don't remember why I didn't want to, just a general sense of dread I guess ("normal paranoia, everyone in the Universe has that.." Slartilbartfast). But I went anyway, I tricked myself into thinking I was going to go to Lauri's and play GTA and then distracted myself long enough to get on the freeway. Really I'm not that difficult to distract.
Unfortunately, it was one of those days where the professor just puts stuff up in a power point presentation and you're supposed to take notes. That can hold my attention for about half an hour so by 2:30 I was rearranging my notebook and writing notes to myself about how bored I was. After class I went to Lauri's and played GTA and waited for her to come home. When Lauri got home we went hiking to first water. Were trying to lose a few pounds while getting in shape for our Yosemite trip.
That night we went to the Late night happy hour at the crown and ,you guessed it, I drank too much. Really I don't know what got into me but I was sowing Red Hooks I had seen Hitchiker's Guide the night before so when people told me to slow down I would claim that the world was going to end in 12 minutes anyway. Plus those people at the crown are sinister they put beers in front of you while you're not looking. Thats what I love about the Crown. (alex hates it for the same reason.) Oh yeah, thats another thing...Alex was all pissed at me because I said bad things about Kingdom of Heaven. He doesn't like it when you disagree with him about movies. We rarely agree...he likes a lot of action I like strong characters and emotion.
After getting seriously trashed at the crown, Randy and Alex dropped me off at Lauri's where I crashed my way into the house at 1am put on the copy of Wrath of Kahn that I borrowed from Randy and Made some popcorn. Lauri says I forgot to put the popcorn in the microwave before I started it. I guess that could have happened. I finished that Popcorn in about ten minutes and fell asleep ten minutes after that. When I woke up the movie was over and the tape had rewound itself. I crawled to bed still drunk and thoroughly dehydrated.
Thurs.
I woke up at Lauri's with a raging headache. There was no aspirin. I drove home in a cold hangover sweat. I took two aspirin, drank a bottle of water and went the hell back to bed. I felt like crap the rest of the day. Why do I do this shit to myself? I'll never know. When Lauri got home from work we went hiking again. It was hard this time because I was still fighting a hangover, it felt good to sweat out the poison.
I had rented the Merchant of Venice and The Life Aquatic to watch that night but we just ended up watching ER and Project Greenlight instead. I went home at 11 and watched the Life Aquatic.
Wed.
On Wednesday I went to school even though I didn't really want to. I don't remember why I didn't want to, just a general sense of dread I guess ("normal paranoia, everyone in the Universe has that.." Slartilbartfast). But I went anyway, I tricked myself into thinking I was going to go to Lauri's and play GTA and then distracted myself long enough to get on the freeway. Really I'm not that difficult to distract.
Unfortunately, it was one of those days where the professor just puts stuff up in a power point presentation and you're supposed to take notes. That can hold my attention for about half an hour so by 2:30 I was rearranging my notebook and writing notes to myself about how bored I was. After class I went to Lauri's and played GTA and waited for her to come home. When Lauri got home we went hiking to first water. Were trying to lose a few pounds while getting in shape for our Yosemite trip.
That night we went to the Late night happy hour at the crown and ,you guessed it, I drank too much. Really I don't know what got into me but I was sowing Red Hooks I had seen Hitchiker's Guide the night before so when people told me to slow down I would claim that the world was going to end in 12 minutes anyway. Plus those people at the crown are sinister they put beers in front of you while you're not looking. Thats what I love about the Crown. (alex hates it for the same reason.) Oh yeah, thats another thing...Alex was all pissed at me because I said bad things about Kingdom of Heaven. He doesn't like it when you disagree with him about movies. We rarely agree...he likes a lot of action I like strong characters and emotion.
After getting seriously trashed at the crown, Randy and Alex dropped me off at Lauri's where I crashed my way into the house at 1am put on the copy of Wrath of Kahn that I borrowed from Randy and Made some popcorn. Lauri says I forgot to put the popcorn in the microwave before I started it. I guess that could have happened. I finished that Popcorn in about ten minutes and fell asleep ten minutes after that. When I woke up the movie was over and the tape had rewound itself. I crawled to bed still drunk and thoroughly dehydrated.
Thurs.
I woke up at Lauri's with a raging headache. There was no aspirin. I drove home in a cold hangover sweat. I took two aspirin, drank a bottle of water and went the hell back to bed. I felt like crap the rest of the day. Why do I do this shit to myself? I'll never know. When Lauri got home from work we went hiking again. It was hard this time because I was still fighting a hangover, it felt good to sweat out the poison.
I had rented the Merchant of Venice and The Life Aquatic to watch that night but we just ended up watching ER and Project Greenlight instead. I went home at 11 and watched the Life Aquatic.
Wednesday, May 11, 2005
Movie Day
So I saw hitchhiker's guide for the second time today. So Lauri could see it, having been over her case of the shits for some time now. The thing that strikes me most about the movie compared to the book is that the Earth comes back at the end. And not just the planet but all the people on it. I suspect this was not in Douglas Adams version of the screenplay. In the book the new Earth isn't close to being finished and it gets abandoned anyway. But even if they did finish it it would have taken another ten million years to get to the point where it left off. One thing the ariters of the movie forgot is that the Earth, at the time of its destruction was a giant computer program whose purpose was to find the ultimate question and who was five minutes away from doing that. So if the Magratheans bring it back exactly as it was the Earth should yeild the ultimate question. Oh well, its only a huge gaping plot point that will have consequences into the sequal. More than that though I think I always admired what a ballsy move it was for Adams to just get rid of Earth. One of the funniest aspects of the book is that no really besides Arthur really gives shit that the Earth is gone. Its just Adams' way of saying "Hey on a Universal Scheme we just aren't that important. I Love that and thats whats missing from the movie. Movie makers are just scared that moviegoers won't be able to handle that sort of deep thought. I still kind of liked the movie though. I also say Kingdom of Heaven today. Yep, I did it..two movies in one day. It's amazing I don't work in movies. Anyway Kingdom of Heaven was steaming pile of crap. Well I should qualify that. It wasn't a bad movie like say Attack of the Clones was but it wasn't a good movie either like Gladiator. You realize halfway through that no matter the outcome you won't give a shit. You haven't gotten to know any of the characters well enough to care what happens to them. Ridlwy Scott is good director but think he picked a bad script this time.
i just finished an 11 page paper on Ecotoursim... go ahead ask me anything about ecotourism. It felt good to get that thing in. Well I guess thats it for now.
i just finished an 11 page paper on Ecotoursim... go ahead ask me anything about ecotourism. It felt good to get that thing in. Well I guess thats it for now.
Thursday, May 05, 2005
Dazed and Amused
On tuesday we saw the HHGG movie. I liked it. It deviated from the book a lot but you have to remember that with this story the book is not the definitive version. Unfortunately, Lauri couldn't go because she had the shits. Actually it turns out that her ulcer is back so make sure you give her your sympathy. On Wed. I went to see my college counselor but she wasn't at her office hours...for the second time. its fine its only my life in the balance. I got so frustrated I decided to get a little drunk and forget about all the pressure that the whole school situation has got me under right now. What better place to get drunk in the middle of the day when your not camping? Thats right...Casa De *** (Last name deleted for security reasons, but you know who you are. I went knocking on Alex and Randy's door at noon. Of Course, you guessed it... they weren't up yet. I even knocked three times to try and wake them up but no dice. I went to Lauri's to play some GTA until about one when I called them and found them awake and went over there. I downed three or so beers and a shot of Jack (don't ask me why) and the day was off to a wild start. later we went to Claim Jumpers and got some wings nachos and two pitchers of beer. The waitress there yelled at me because she heard me say "no one wants to go to Alaska" She was kind of cute so I, of course, froze and could think of anything witty to say. Alex said, "She Likes you." I got really hammered an it was fun. after wards we went back to the house and drank some more. Por Lauri called us because she was upset about her ulcer so she actually came over to the apartment. We ended the night at Happy hour at the Crown where we saw some friends. Actually the night ended with a trip to Mc Donalds. We had to sit in the parking lot because randy wanted some Chicken Selects and they had to make them fresh and man did I have to pee. The McDonalds was excellent. All in all it was a fun day and night. I'm only minorly hungover. Thats it.
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