go look! go look!
that's what my life has amounted to for the past week and a half, working on and off on images and shiz. and the best part is, it's not even halfway done.
so this one time, at band camp... band camp is three weeks away.
the olympics start in thirteen days.
the democratic national convention just ended.
i'm going to see the bourne supremacy and harold and kumar go to white castle.
i am giddier than an orgasming schoolgirl, and more excited than a cheerleader hopped up on acid.
go bears.
migblog
7.31.2004
7.27.2004
for a few days, been hanging out with my babe. good times. my babe is so cute.
i assume that the next few days will be plenty eventful: today, we just welcomed the new chancellor here at berkeley (yet another robert b., this time a physics professor and former president of the university of toronto, robert birgeneau). tomorrow, a little something special planned. thursday, more babe time. friday, hopefully something cool.
in two weeks, i'll be so unavailable, it's not even funny.
progressively getting more tired, which is a good sign, since that means i've been working myself just fine. then again there was the alcoholic run that was last week, and last night, wine-age. but being with my babe was good enough for me.
sigh. good times.
i assume that the next few days will be plenty eventful: today, we just welcomed the new chancellor here at berkeley (yet another robert b., this time a physics professor and former president of the university of toronto, robert birgeneau). tomorrow, a little something special planned. thursday, more babe time. friday, hopefully something cool.
in two weeks, i'll be so unavailable, it's not even funny.
progressively getting more tired, which is a good sign, since that means i've been working myself just fine. then again there was the alcoholic run that was last week, and last night, wine-age. but being with my babe was good enough for me.
sigh. good times.
7.26.2004
r.i.p. liam, one year to the day.
there was a stretch of about three or four days when i saw kat and david almost nonstop, and then shat too, which was really awesome since it felt like one long day where we did all this crazy shit together, from taking pictures in the lighting studio in wurster to hanging out at david's and talking about hula hoops with magnets on them (silly koreans).
and then we all ended up in southern california, where for about twenty-four hours we wreaked havoc by playing a four-hour game of trivial pursuit genus one, sleeping for four hours, and then playing our asses off for nine kids at chatsworth high school as david grilled meat and i ran back and forth to audition kids with bob.
i had work the next morning.
at one point in time we were all overcome by the appetite for steak, thanks to the garlic aroma surrounding gilroy, california. we had weezer sing-alongs, listened to yakko warner sing about the countries of the world, and rocked out to the beatles. i won in the license plate game. david and shat did a half-chinese fire drill (okay, so david's half-japanese and shat is full korean, but still. close enough.) on a stretch of the 152. and we had a good breakfast, thanks to wolfman's parents.
we thoroughly enjoyed the breaks in buttonwillow and at random stops to regain the feeling in our asses and our legs. and you never really find it weird until you buy stuff from mcdonald's and bring it into a carl's jr. and no one does a double take.
i saw i, robot with jon yesterday. it could have been better.
also, speaking of which, last week, i went to the city five times, three times just for shits and the other two to meet up with friends and to visit a relative. it was disgusting -- i took bart a whole bunch of times, and then there was toll for the bay bridge, and then there was meeting new people from pennsylvania and people who were amazed that i go to cal and people who lived in orange county but i never really knew.
much has happened since the move, but for now, i'm taking it easy. it's the proverbial calm before that fucking storm.
so now, i just wait.
there was a stretch of about three or four days when i saw kat and david almost nonstop, and then shat too, which was really awesome since it felt like one long day where we did all this crazy shit together, from taking pictures in the lighting studio in wurster to hanging out at david's and talking about hula hoops with magnets on them (silly koreans).
and then we all ended up in southern california, where for about twenty-four hours we wreaked havoc by playing a four-hour game of trivial pursuit genus one, sleeping for four hours, and then playing our asses off for nine kids at chatsworth high school as david grilled meat and i ran back and forth to audition kids with bob.
i had work the next morning.
at one point in time we were all overcome by the appetite for steak, thanks to the garlic aroma surrounding gilroy, california. we had weezer sing-alongs, listened to yakko warner sing about the countries of the world, and rocked out to the beatles. i won in the license plate game. david and shat did a half-chinese fire drill (okay, so david's half-japanese and shat is full korean, but still. close enough.) on a stretch of the 152. and we had a good breakfast, thanks to wolfman's parents.
we thoroughly enjoyed the breaks in buttonwillow and at random stops to regain the feeling in our asses and our legs. and you never really find it weird until you buy stuff from mcdonald's and bring it into a carl's jr. and no one does a double take.
i saw i, robot with jon yesterday. it could have been better.
also, speaking of which, last week, i went to the city five times, three times just for shits and the other two to meet up with friends and to visit a relative. it was disgusting -- i took bart a whole bunch of times, and then there was toll for the bay bridge, and then there was meeting new people from pennsylvania and people who were amazed that i go to cal and people who lived in orange county but i never really knew.
much has happened since the move, but for now, i'm taking it easy. it's the proverbial calm before that fucking storm.
so now, i just wait.
7.18.2004
as far as i'm concerned, it's still friday.
thursday was fine with the work and all, but then friday came along and then everyone had a party at my place because we just had chicken and waffles at the house of chicken and waffles at jack london square. wicked awesome food to be had by all. it was insanity.
everyone came over afterwards to finish my alcohol (no more leftover vodka nor gin nor kahlua, no more red stripes nor guinness extra stouts). we actually got knocked on by one of my neighbors at around three in the morning because we were being just a little bit boisterous, so we had to tone it down. (mind you we were watching south park, 48 hours investigates, and listening to built to spill and mae on my stereo.)
there's no cable internet at my place yet, but it will be there soon enough.
saturday woke me up with the extension calso, the last one of the summer. it was a little sad since all the counselors were being all sentimental, but it was great since we played for the pre-freshmen and they were all really, really excited.
(side note: this new blogger text interface reminds me a little too much of xanga.)
after the calso i headed the recruit tour to tellefsen hall, where we had our annual northern california barbeque. we had a nice turnout for both the band and recruits. it went over real well, considering we only had about twenty recruits but around fifty bandsmen there. hopefully next week we have the same numbers or better for our southern california excursion.
after the tiring saturday afternoon, i went to vallejo for the solano county fair to watch tower of power give a concert. the berkeley crowd (basically our entire group) were the only people there standing for the whole time; everyone else sat in between songs. it was an amazing show; their musicianship and their energy really got us pumped. a few of us were hoarse afterwards merely from singing along. (i even nearly broke jimbo when they started playing you're still a young man because i just started smacking him. i think he was afraid for his own life.)
the concert ended, and so decided to head over to nation's on san pablo and central to enjoy the ritualistic chili cheese fries and strawberry tart. can you say damn that hits the spot after an awesome hour and a half concert?
and jon swung by after his shift ended, so we got to watch a bit of the eukanuba tournament of champions dog show on animal planet before we both passed out on my futon. we even caught the south park movie on comedy central, uncut and uncensored. amazing times to hear all those curse words on the air.
i went to dim sum today at ten, and then had to give a tour at noon. i'm currently mulling over details for the upcoming weekend, basically so that i don't have anything to do for this next week.
i am so tired, but i feel great.
the summer finally began.
thursday was fine with the work and all, but then friday came along and then everyone had a party at my place because we just had chicken and waffles at the house of chicken and waffles at jack london square. wicked awesome food to be had by all. it was insanity.
everyone came over afterwards to finish my alcohol (no more leftover vodka nor gin nor kahlua, no more red stripes nor guinness extra stouts). we actually got knocked on by one of my neighbors at around three in the morning because we were being just a little bit boisterous, so we had to tone it down. (mind you we were watching south park, 48 hours investigates, and listening to built to spill and mae on my stereo.)
there's no cable internet at my place yet, but it will be there soon enough.
saturday woke me up with the extension calso, the last one of the summer. it was a little sad since all the counselors were being all sentimental, but it was great since we played for the pre-freshmen and they were all really, really excited.
(side note: this new blogger text interface reminds me a little too much of xanga.)
after the calso i headed the recruit tour to tellefsen hall, where we had our annual northern california barbeque. we had a nice turnout for both the band and recruits. it went over real well, considering we only had about twenty recruits but around fifty bandsmen there. hopefully next week we have the same numbers or better for our southern california excursion.
after the tiring saturday afternoon, i went to vallejo for the solano county fair to watch tower of power give a concert. the berkeley crowd (basically our entire group) were the only people there standing for the whole time; everyone else sat in between songs. it was an amazing show; their musicianship and their energy really got us pumped. a few of us were hoarse afterwards merely from singing along. (i even nearly broke jimbo when they started playing you're still a young man because i just started smacking him. i think he was afraid for his own life.)
the concert ended, and so decided to head over to nation's on san pablo and central to enjoy the ritualistic chili cheese fries and strawberry tart. can you say damn that hits the spot after an awesome hour and a half concert?
and jon swung by after his shift ended, so we got to watch a bit of the eukanuba tournament of champions dog show on animal planet before we both passed out on my futon. we even caught the south park movie on comedy central, uncut and uncensored. amazing times to hear all those curse words on the air.
i went to dim sum today at ten, and then had to give a tour at noon. i'm currently mulling over details for the upcoming weekend, basically so that i don't have anything to do for this next week.
i am so tired, but i feel great.
the summer finally began.
7.14.2004
sick, and tired, and relieved.
the past two weeks, i've been living in oakland commuting from 45th and broadway to campus because my place didn't have a bed. thank goodness jon and andi let me live with them for two weeks. it was good times.
only thing was, jon was kinda sick during a weekend, and i caught this nasty head cold thing from him. i ended up in bed for a few days. oh well. such is the summer weather swing.
dayquil has been my elixir of choice, and now these silly nagging sinus headaches are disappearing. i can actually say "mom" and not have it sound like "bob."
on another note, my parents visited over the weekend to help me get a bed and fix up my new place. i found out recently that i had just broken three of the largest family infractions ever:
1) spending more than eight hours with family. especially not cool when your brother and the rest of your family is kind of weirded out. plus, i was sick and headachey all of saturday, so i wasn't much help when they wanted me to answer any questions.
2) going to ikea on a weekend. that place is motherfucking CROWDED on weekends. it was a bad idea. i could hear people groaning. the worst exclamation i heard was "someone's not following the arrows." so many yuppie gay couples, starving college students, and people expecting babies -- all of them carrying bright yellow bags and trolling around huge carts with forty pieces of unconstructed furniture. makes me wonder how they carted all of that home.
3) going to ikea on a weekend with your family. disaster beyond all proportions. enough said.
granted i had a great time seeing my mom and my stepdad -- food was provided for, and now i have a sleeping surface in my apartment now -- there's always a point in there where i just had to get out of earshot and just curse and mutter under my breath about how frustrated i was. i mean, seriously -- who needs to argue about the depth of dressers if they're not the ones who are going to be using it?
sunday started off marvelously. brunch with the family and final fixing-up of the apartment happened. soon after they left for socal, though, my body decided to wreak havoc on itself, and i was bedridden the whole day. the next day, i went to the doctor's to make me feel better. and tuesday was definitely a no.
i did see anchorman last week, with jon and andi, along with the third year crew. this week's agenda involves chicken and waffles, so i'm mighty excited to take in some more cholesterol than usual. plus, pants is getting a free dinner cos i owe him that much for helping me move.
giving a tour when you're sick isn't exactly fun, but it impresses people that you can walk ninety minutes backwards through campus while you're saying "that's the cabpadile behide us right dow." (okay, so it wasn't that bad, but my knees were about to give out when we were nearing the college of chemistry.)
and my new place feels very cozy. i just put up posters from the london underground, jennifer garner (gotta represent the ALIAS freak), the romeo and juliet poster i've had forever, and i'm thinking i should leave some space for the football and basketball seasons.
cable television is fucking awesome. i get to watch the daily show every night. i even get to watch conan! (that might not sound like a big deal, but the east bay has really crappy reception of nbc, which translates to no conan in oakland and really bad reception up near the eastern foothills here at berkeley.) i'm so excited that i have comedy central, cnn, and mtv. no more trashy talk shows anymore -- just real world / road rules marathons, headline news, and the occasional newlyweds or the assistant with andy dick (which, by the way, is a fucking hilarious show).
mm. chinese food. and beer.
the past two weeks, i've been living in oakland commuting from 45th and broadway to campus because my place didn't have a bed. thank goodness jon and andi let me live with them for two weeks. it was good times.
only thing was, jon was kinda sick during a weekend, and i caught this nasty head cold thing from him. i ended up in bed for a few days. oh well. such is the summer weather swing.
dayquil has been my elixir of choice, and now these silly nagging sinus headaches are disappearing. i can actually say "mom" and not have it sound like "bob."
on another note, my parents visited over the weekend to help me get a bed and fix up my new place. i found out recently that i had just broken three of the largest family infractions ever:
1) spending more than eight hours with family. especially not cool when your brother and the rest of your family is kind of weirded out. plus, i was sick and headachey all of saturday, so i wasn't much help when they wanted me to answer any questions.
2) going to ikea on a weekend. that place is motherfucking CROWDED on weekends. it was a bad idea. i could hear people groaning. the worst exclamation i heard was "someone's not following the arrows." so many yuppie gay couples, starving college students, and people expecting babies -- all of them carrying bright yellow bags and trolling around huge carts with forty pieces of unconstructed furniture. makes me wonder how they carted all of that home.
3) going to ikea on a weekend with your family. disaster beyond all proportions. enough said.
granted i had a great time seeing my mom and my stepdad -- food was provided for, and now i have a sleeping surface in my apartment now -- there's always a point in there where i just had to get out of earshot and just curse and mutter under my breath about how frustrated i was. i mean, seriously -- who needs to argue about the depth of dressers if they're not the ones who are going to be using it?
sunday started off marvelously. brunch with the family and final fixing-up of the apartment happened. soon after they left for socal, though, my body decided to wreak havoc on itself, and i was bedridden the whole day. the next day, i went to the doctor's to make me feel better. and tuesday was definitely a no.
i did see anchorman last week, with jon and andi, along with the third year crew. this week's agenda involves chicken and waffles, so i'm mighty excited to take in some more cholesterol than usual. plus, pants is getting a free dinner cos i owe him that much for helping me move.
giving a tour when you're sick isn't exactly fun, but it impresses people that you can walk ninety minutes backwards through campus while you're saying "that's the cabpadile behide us right dow." (okay, so it wasn't that bad, but my knees were about to give out when we were nearing the college of chemistry.)
and my new place feels very cozy. i just put up posters from the london underground, jennifer garner (gotta represent the ALIAS freak), the romeo and juliet poster i've had forever, and i'm thinking i should leave some space for the football and basketball seasons.
cable television is fucking awesome. i get to watch the daily show every night. i even get to watch conan! (that might not sound like a big deal, but the east bay has really crappy reception of nbc, which translates to no conan in oakland and really bad reception up near the eastern foothills here at berkeley.) i'm so excited that i have comedy central, cnn, and mtv. no more trashy talk shows anymore -- just real world / road rules marathons, headline news, and the occasional newlyweds or the assistant with andy dick (which, by the way, is a fucking hilarious show).
mm. chinese food. and beer.
7.04.2004
obligatory question: fireworks? tonight? what for?
non-obligatory answer: disneyland.
really non sequitur answer: my cat's breath smells like cat food.
happy birthday, america. you still have a lot of growing up to do.
non-obligatory answer: disneyland.
really non sequitur answer: my cat's breath smells like cat food.
happy birthday, america. you still have a lot of growing up to do.
7.03.2004
WHO THE FUCK DO YOU HAVE TO FUCK IN BERKELEY TO GET A FUCKING FAKE ID IN THIS MOTHERFUCKING TOWN?!?!?!
7.01.2004
now i don't usually do this, but please read it. and oppose it.
Military Draft expected to start June 15, 2005
Mandatory drafting for boys and girls (age 18-26) starting June 15
2005, is something, I believe, everyone should know. This literally
affects EVERYONE since we all have or know children that will have
to go if this bill passes. If there are children in your family, READ
this.
There is pending legislation in the House and Senate (twin
bills: (S89 and HR 163), which will time the program's initiation so the
draft can begin at early as Spring 2005 -- just after the 2004
presidential election. The administration is quietly trying to get these bills passed now,
while the public's attention is on the elections, so our action on
this is needed immediately. Details and links follow.
Even those voters who currently support us. Actions abroad may
still object to this move, knowing their own children or grandchildren
will not have a say about whether to fight. Not that it should make a
difference, but this plan, among other things, eliminates higher education as a
shelter and includes women in the draft -- also, crossing into Canada has
already been made very difficult.
Actions, actions, actions:
Please send this on to all the parents and teachers you know, and
all the aunts and uncles, grandparents, godparents.... And let your
children know -- it's their future, and they can be a powerful voice for
change! Please also contact your representatives to ask them why they
aren't telling their constituents about these bills -- and contact
newspapers and other media outlets to ask them why they're not covering this
important story.
The draft - $28 million has been added to the 2004 selective service system (SSS) budget to prepare for a military draft that could start as early as June 15, 2005. Selective Service must
report to Bush on March 31, 2005 that the system, which has lain dormant for decades, is ready for activation.
Please see website: www.sss.gov/perfplan_fy2004.html to view the SSS annual performance plan - fiscal year 2004. The pentagon has quietly begun a public campaign to fill all 10,350 draft board positions and 11,070 appeals board slots nationwide. Though this is an unpopular
election year topic, military experts and influential members of congress are suggesting that if Rumsfeld's prediction of a "long, hard slog" in Iraq and Afghanistan [and a permanent state of war on "terrorism"] proves accurate, the U.S. may have no choice but to draft.
http://www.sss.gov/perfplan_fy2004.html .
Congress brought twin bills, S. 89 and HR 163 forward this year;
www.hslda.org/legislation entitled the Universal National
Service Act of 2003, "to provide for the common defense by
requiring that all young persons [age 18--26] in the United! States,
including women, perform a period of military service or a period of civilian
service in furtherance of the national defense and homeland security, and for other purposes."
These active bills currently sit in the committee on armed services. Dodging the draft will be more difficult than those from the Vietnam era. College and Canada will not be options. In December 2001, Canada and the U.S. signed a "smart border declaration," which could be
used to keep would-be draft dodgers in. Signed by Canada's minister of foreign affairs, John Manley, and U.S. Homeland Security director, Tom Ridge, the declaration involves a 30-point plan which implements, among other things, a "pre-clearance agreement" of people entering and
departing each country. Reforms aimed at making the draft more equitable along gender and class lines also eliminates higher education as a shelter. Underclassmen would only be able to postpone service until the end of their current semester. Seniors would have until the end of the academic year.
WHAT TO DO:
- Tell all your friends
- Contact your Senators and tell them to oppose these bills.
Military Draft expected to start June 15, 2005
Mandatory drafting for boys and girls (age 18-26) starting June 15
2005, is something, I believe, everyone should know. This literally
affects EVERYONE since we all have or know children that will have
to go if this bill passes. If there are children in your family, READ
this.
There is pending legislation in the House and Senate (twin
bills: (S89 and HR 163), which will time the program's initiation so the
draft can begin at early as Spring 2005 -- just after the 2004
presidential election. The administration is quietly trying to get these bills passed now,
while the public's attention is on the elections, so our action on
this is needed immediately. Details and links follow.
Even those voters who currently support us. Actions abroad may
still object to this move, knowing their own children or grandchildren
will not have a say about whether to fight. Not that it should make a
difference, but this plan, among other things, eliminates higher education as a
shelter and includes women in the draft -- also, crossing into Canada has
already been made very difficult.
Actions, actions, actions:
Please send this on to all the parents and teachers you know, and
all the aunts and uncles, grandparents, godparents.... And let your
children know -- it's their future, and they can be a powerful voice for
change! Please also contact your representatives to ask them why they
aren't telling their constituents about these bills -- and contact
newspapers and other media outlets to ask them why they're not covering this
important story.
The draft - $28 million has been added to the 2004 selective service system (SSS) budget to prepare for a military draft that could start as early as June 15, 2005. Selective Service must
report to Bush on March 31, 2005 that the system, which has lain dormant for decades, is ready for activation.
Please see website: www.sss.gov/perfplan_fy2004.html to view the SSS annual performance plan - fiscal year 2004. The pentagon has quietly begun a public campaign to fill all 10,350 draft board positions and 11,070 appeals board slots nationwide. Though this is an unpopular
election year topic, military experts and influential members of congress are suggesting that if Rumsfeld's prediction of a "long, hard slog" in Iraq and Afghanistan [and a permanent state of war on "terrorism"] proves accurate, the U.S. may have no choice but to draft.
http://www.sss.gov/perfplan_fy2004.html .
Congress brought twin bills, S. 89 and HR 163 forward this year;
www.hslda.org/legislation entitled the Universal National
Service Act of 2003, "to provide for the common defense by
requiring that all young persons [age 18--26] in the United! States,
including women, perform a period of military service or a period of civilian
service in furtherance of the national defense and homeland security, and for other purposes."
These active bills currently sit in the committee on armed services. Dodging the draft will be more difficult than those from the Vietnam era. College and Canada will not be options. In December 2001, Canada and the U.S. signed a "smart border declaration," which could be
used to keep would-be draft dodgers in. Signed by Canada's minister of foreign affairs, John Manley, and U.S. Homeland Security director, Tom Ridge, the declaration involves a 30-point plan which implements, among other things, a "pre-clearance agreement" of people entering and
departing each country. Reforms aimed at making the draft more equitable along gender and class lines also eliminates higher education as a shelter. Underclassmen would only be able to postpone service until the end of their current semester. Seniors would have until the end of the academic year.
WHAT TO DO:
- Tell all your friends
- Contact your Senators and tell them to oppose these bills.
you feel so small sometimes
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