| | I hate it when Biology professors make a point to try to convince people that "they are not special". I shudder to imagine what it would be like to walk around and truly believe that I was nothing but a multicellular organism being used by an immortal set of genes. | comments: Leave a comment   |
| Last night I had a random craving for blackberry pie (my favorite). So I looked up a recipe online, walked over to the grocery store across the street, got the ingredients, and baked a pie.
Life doesn't get much more awesome than that. | | comments: Leave a comment |
| I think the brain is fascinating. Sometimes when I'm lying in bed I like to let go of the steering wheel and see where it takes me.
On a side note bacon, hardboiled eggs, and honey are some of my new favorite foods. | | comments: Leave a comment |
| I had to drop Human Sexuality because of complications with O-Chem. OCHEM!
Just...wrong. | | comments: 1 comment or Leave a comment |
| I just finished reading the 'His Dark Materials' series for the second time last night. In retrospect, it probably wasn't good timing on my part since the ending of "The Amber Spyglass" is the saddest piece of literature I've ever read. I woke up Christmas morning heart sick and distant, but I managed to have a very nice time in front of the fireplace with my family.
It's hard to believe that words on a page can get you so entwined with a fictional character and elicit such strong emotions. | | comments: Leave a comment |
| I play with my hair. All the time. I wish I knew why. I'll never forget Sarah telling me how Freud thought it meant you want to pork your mom. That Freud seemed like a classy guy.
Also, I've decided that even though I'd like a girlfriend, my laziness prevents me from actually putting much effort into obtaining a girlfriend.
i.e. I wish a girlfriend would just fall into my lap.
...giggity. | | comments: 1 comment or Leave a comment |
| Things are very chill at this point in my life. I really don't have any complaints, though I rarely ever do, which I hope won't bite me in the butt later in life.
With the constant and sometimes frightening urging of my mom, I stopped playing WoW. I'm sure it was the right thing to do, but I admit I sometimes have trouble filling up my days. So far I've been filling up the spaces with running, working out, and cooking.
Cooking is my new passion. I love being alone and working on something edible. I guess I take pride in being able to feed myself without ordering out or getting fast food every night. Last night Jonathon and I made pork ribs that I had marinated in beer, honey barbecue sauce, and spicy tomato juice. And I was happy. | | comments: 2 comments or Leave a comment |
| I had a dream the other night that I was watching a play about a Father who spoiled his kids while neglecting his wife. He gives them everything they could ever want, but even though they seem normal and happy, he is still miserable.Eventually he realizes that unless he changes something, his wife will leave him, so he slowly starts to take actions to mend their marriage.
At the end of the play, he is alone with his son and daughter, both under ten years old, and as they leave the stage the boy nonchalantly mentions to his sister that today is the date he died on. As it turns out, the entire play had taken place through the eyes of the grief-stricken father, who had consciously created figments of his passed on children in order to deal with his undeserved guilt. As the curtain closes and the sounds of the boy and girl fade, the Father breaks down, then slowly gathers himself back up, marking the end of his guilt and hallucinations.
Talk about a drama =P Made me wish I could actually write a play. Sort of like a cross between 'A Beautiful Mind' and 'The Sixth Sense'. Whatevah, I just wanted to get it down on e-paper so I wouldn't forget it.
Things are good. I moved the majority of my stuff into our Townhouse up in Davis with the rest of the guys, and although I'll miss Parker a lot, I think having my own space is going to be awesome. Our place is PIMP, totally a chick magnet house (i can already tell). Going to finish working at the Creamery at the end of this month, then head up there for good. Fresh start should be nice! | | comments: 2 comments or Leave a comment |
| I went to my Grandpa's funeral yesterday. It was nice to see him one last time, I had been too scared to look in my Great Grandma's casket and I had always kinda regretted that. My family and the foreign exchange student had gone up to visit him just a week before he died, and it made me so thankful that they got to see him right before he passed. They said he seemed very healthy and happy (he died of a heart attack, very out of the blue), and his last picture was with our smiling french student Amelie.
The hardest part was watching my Grandma suffer. I had never seen anybody show so much grief, they had been married 57 years, and she kept saying "I didn't even get to say goodbye, I didn't even get to say goodbye." I have faith that I'll see my Grandpa again some day, but when the church bell started to toll as we carried his casket out from the service, it just seemed so final.
Please keep my Grandma Muniz in your prayers, because even though I already feel better, she has such a long way to go. | | |
| | Subject: | iWork | | Time: | 01:11 pm |
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| So yesterday I went to work and did "Chocolate School Training" with Noelle, Danielle and Thomas. It consisted of us tasting different Ghiradelli chocolates side by side with Hershey chocolates and then writing down how much better Ghiradelli is (it is good, i guess). Afterwards we all went shopping at the Gap and at Ross and Thomas found a sweatshirt for me and I lent him money to buy a preppy jacket. I then met Lizzie downtown and we had a good long talk over coffee and Chipotle. That girl is a wise one.
Then I played video games until 3 o'clock in the morning.
THE END. | | comments: 5 comments or Leave a comment |
| | Just got back from Davis Summer advising and it went just swell. That's not saying I didn't want to come home while I was up there, but I think that I'm going to have an amazing time in college. I hashed out my schedule (730 Chem lecture booo) and checked out the AMAZING Rec center they have up there. I am SO down for professional ping pong. My roomate was cool and asian (along with half the people in the BioSci major), and the only thing I'm really dissapointed in was the lack of cute girls. I'll find some though, no doubt. | | comments: 4 comments or Leave a comment |
| | I leave for UC Davis tomorrow (today). I was a lot more nervous than I am now, thanks to the help of Noelle, but I'm still a little anxious. We'll see how things go. | | comments: 2 comments or Leave a comment |
| So there's this girl that I work with at Ghirardellis that's going to be a Senior this year. I met her when I started working at the Ghir. when school was still in, and she would tell me about her high-energy, amazing life. She told me that she had dated 8 guys in LL, including that Dennis dude who became an Abercrombie model. She told me that she dirt bikes, is on a paintball team, brews beer with her dad, has a gigantic truck, and that her brother is a football star. I had no reason not to believe her, so I just listened in awe and enjoyed her company.
Today, she had me listen to a recording of her and her friend singing for her production of Rent in San Francisco. She had auditioned a couple weeks back and got the part, and she told me she was just learning how to pole dance for the role of MiMi. Only when she let me listen to her singing, it wasn't her. I looked at her a little funny and put the earbud in her ear, but she insisted that the girl singing was her and the guy was her friend Jason. What she didn't know is that my sister has been blasting her copy of the Rent soundtrack in her room for the past three months, and I know all the songs backwards and forwards, and the song she was letting me listen to was in fact from the CD.
I didn't know what to say. How are you supposed to look someone that you know in the eye and tell them that you know they're lying. So I just played along and said she sounded wonderful and smiled, but I really just felt this overwhelming feeling of pity. Pity because I realized this girl must be a compulsive liar, and pity because I would never be able to believe any story she told me again. It's not like I'm crushed or incredibly upset or anything, it's just one of those...wow moments. Wow...I really had no idea. | | comments: 5 comments or Leave a comment |
| In a strange, masochistic way, I like being sun-burned. Or maybe its just that I HATE sunscreen. The stuff sucks.
Just got back from Beach House. It was fun, sucks that space was limited though. Uhhh yea so its summer, I'm planning on joining the XC team again and running and joining the WHO(Walnut Heights Otters) and swimming and continue working at the Ghiradelli's. Sweet plans if you ask me. | | comments: 6 comments or Leave a comment |
| | Current Music: | Jeniferever - Swimming Eyes | | Time: | 11:12 pm |
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| Well today was pretty amazing. I decided I was tired of being melancholy in the middle of the day and things just kept getting better. I talked with two girls I hardly knew and knew exactly what to say. I got to see my friends at school. I got my bottom teeth shaved off (it smelled like burning insects). I finished the one act plays after school and did pretty well. And Jeremy excited me with his talk of kick boxing and running and swimming this summer.
I'm ready. As Spongebob would say. | | comments: 2 comments or Leave a comment |
| | Just got back from my backpacking trip with my Dad, his work friend Scott and his son Andrew. We figured it was our 13th and last trip. It was just like any other trip, lots of great food, a tad bit of alchohol, and plenty of frustrating card games. | | comments: 5 comments or Leave a comment |
| | Current Music: | Guster - Either Way <-- Made me tear up today; beautiful | | Time: | 11:04 pm |
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| | Not really much to report. School doesn't make me quite as happy as it used to, work is very enjoyable, and life is pretty smooth. Sometimes I miss the bumps. A lot of the time I miss the bumps. | | comments: 4 comments or Leave a comment |
| Ball was fabulous. I had absolutely no expectations (except that Sarah would look exceptional, and she didn't let me down), so I had a very good time.
And I really enjoy work. I like the people, I like the scooping, and I even enjoy the difficult customers. Because its just funny when people get so upset over some melted ice cream. | | comments: 2 comments or Leave a comment |
| | Well today was my first day of work at Ghiradelli's. Danielle Chiavetta was working there and was an absolute godsend, I don't know what I would have done without her. So yea, it went swell. Made a couple milshakes, several hot fudge Sundaes, and did some dishes. I can do this, piece o' cake. | | comments: 4 comments or Leave a comment |
| So I had my job interview today and I have to say it went quite well. I'm not 100% sure I have the job, but there's a good chance you may see me scoopin' ice cream at Ghiradelli's soon. Except they need a drug test and I was too late to get it today so I have to wait until Monday.
After interview I went over to Rudgear park and celebrated the Cinco of the Mayo with many friends. Much Ultimate frisbee and 7 layer dip was had. Then we went to the mall to eat at Mongolian BBQ and me and Daniel and Chris were walking by Johnny Rockets when these three girls call us over to where they were sitting. I thought maybe Chris knew one of them but it turns out they were complete strangers and we talked for about 4 seconds and I asked them their names. They said their names were Shakira, Pussycat, and Chastidy. Chastidy was cute. Red head.
And finally we ended up at Chris Chu's house where we played SSBM for many hours.
The end. | | comments: 4 comments or Leave a comment |
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