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11:13 pm
[Link] | I MADE IT.
That is all.
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08:49 am
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La jizzle.
So winter break was an incredible 4 weeks long, and I got in a good mix of everything. I also went cross country skiing for the first time and loved it! So if anyone is crazy like me and enjoys the xc, let's go up to the mountains sometime. Drove the eight hours back with Zach yesterday, and now at the house. It's supposed to be sunny, 68 degrees today. Mad unpacking, cleaning, errands to do. High hopes for the quarter, and pretty damn excited about only having three classes. Lacrosse double days start tomorrow, which also means tryouts. Oh boy. Cross your fingers everyone.
PS. Texas did cheat. All I can say is, not the first time someone from the Lone Star state manipulated their way to victory.
Current Music: lots of Brad Paisley
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08:11 pm
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Oohwee.
What an awesome New Year's! Cheers to 2005, and lots of love to 2006! It's our last week of break, let's live it up.
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09:18 pm
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Winter break A-list
1. Hermitage. I don't think anyone really appreciates/understands it though.
2. Catching up on movies...except they're not playing Brokeback Mountain anywhere remotely near me. Sacramento on January 6 does not count. I mean, it's showing at a local theatre in Tulsa, OK, aka the middle of the heartland, but not in progressive Davis? Or "the most diverse city in the state" Sacramento? What the heck.
3. The ARC. It's freakin sweet.
4. Books for fun! I finally finished two that I've been waiting to read forever.
5. PLANS--cookie-making, hot tubbing, shopping, thai food, formal dinner parties, tiny road trips, cross-country skiing.
6. Seeing people.
7. Driving around the country. "Sprawl" is not in our vocabulary.
8. My queen-sized bed. I can stretch without hitting the edge of the bed.
9. My crazy family and getting together with all 8 aunts and uncles and 11 cousins at the Wong Family Christmas Gathering!
10. Going to sleep and getting up exactly when I want to.
11. The cold weather. As much as I will always be a summer girl, there's something about that feeling of being bundled up and warm when it's cold outside.
I've thought of a couple new year's resolutions I guess. Ah who knows. Currently thinking about study abroad.....
Where did this music come from? It's listed as "dreampop."
Current Music: Disconnect the Dots - Of Montreal
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06:02 pm
[Link] | Mm wow so I have essentially abandoned all forms of online journaling...but I started to look back on last year and it's fun to read what I wrote about my freshman year...so here are some pictures and things from fall quarter.
( fall oh-five )
Current Mood:  hopeful and thankful
Current Music: KINGS game...too bad they're not so good anymore
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10:35 pm
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Life in a nutshell.
( Life in a nutshell )
In short, college is just incredible. To everyone in my life, I love you. Go be amazing!
Current Mood:  loved and thankful
Current Music: Kanye West - Late Registration (love it)
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08:17 am
[Link] | I'm back in SD! I moved in yesterday and now begins the long process of putting my room together. Everything is in boxes and trash bags and I don't have any sheets...but the room is very nice, new carpet and new paint on the walls. We are also decorating the house so it's getting nicer, I'll take pictures sometime when everything is done. And my housemates are awesome too. There are a lot of things that need fixing so I will definitely be cleaning for a while, but other than that I am just trying to get everything put together before classes start Thursday.
Other big news: my parents gave me the stationwagon to drive around down here. I was really surprised because I thought all summer I wasn't going to have a car but they decided otherwise like, the day we left to come down here. I feel really spoiled actually because now our house has one car for each person, but here you sort of have to drive to get anywhere and you know what they say about Southern California, no one walks. So the Tank isn't exactly glamorous, but hey, functionality first, I have my entire life to buy a really nice car.
Well I don't really have time to post because I have a job interview in 40 minutes so I am a little rushed and anxious. It's a really really part-time job so it's not that bad and interviews aren't 100% terrible I guess. Wish me luck!
Current Mood: a little anxious
Current Music: birds outside on the fence
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09:16 pm
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"George Bush doesn't care about black people." --Kanye West
( President Bush's Roots )
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02:41 pm
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Good little Asian intern strikes back by slacking off...gasp
I mean...that never happens...
Happy 18th Birthday Emily! 1987 love!
( end of August ramblings )
Current Mood:  back to work!
Current Music: the fan in the hallway and the co-workers gossiping
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02:48 pm
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Shuffleboard anyone?
Doctor's orders, I’m sitting 4 feet away from my computer and I had to change the font size to "large" to relax my eyes.
I’m wearing shoes made by Dr. Scholl’s.
I have grey hair on my head.
I get sleepy after 9:00 o'clock.
My transportation is actually a golf cart, yes like in retirement communities, top speed is 25 mph (26 if you’re flooring it).
...um, remember when I said I was too old to be 18? I didn't mean this old. Who knew that this summer would transform me from a freshman into a fogey.
EDIT: Crap, I thought of more...I enjoy watching the Lawrence Welk show and I sort of like the taste of Ensure! Okay, that's it, I'm officially 90. Bring on the dentures.
Current Mood:  look, bifocals!
Current Music: silence, i'm at city hall...shirking work
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05:44 pm
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My, how you have grown.
Summer self-discovery 101:
I like the thrill of the chase.
I'm confused easily.
I love my hometown.
I'm a little more country than I thought.
I'm intrigued by intrigue.
I thrive best in warm weather.
I'm charmed by old-fashioned manners.
I don't like goodbyes.
Friends come and go.
Old habits die hard.
I'm a workaholic.
I'm too old to be 18.
Current Mood: lazily reminiscent
Current Music: Give A Little Bit - Supertramp
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01:53 pm
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"Let's go to San Diego, that's where all the kids go."
I love this album. It's like drawling, indie, a little breathy 70s harmony, occasional organs, and country twang. I think they're from Dublin (yes, Eire) but settled in San Diego, however that works. It's hard to describe--like Wilco meets Belle and Sebastian meets the Mamas and the Papas. Okay that's a terrible description.
Speaking of Dublin, I thought it was funny, I found out there's a Dublin in Alabama, Arizona, California, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland, Michigan, Mississippi, New Hampshire, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas, and Virginia. Call me the queen of useless almanac facts.
Hey it's quality family time! Seeing "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" with my family.
Current Mood:  easy like sunday morning
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08:56 pm
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Family matters.
Eating dinner at political function number five million six hundred fifty two thousand four hundred and seventy-nine:
Mom: Where's Meilee?
Me: She's in the bathroom. Why?
Mom: Well, maybe they accidentally put peanuts in the food.
Me: But we just asked the owner of the restaurant and he told us there wasn't.
Mom: Well sometimes they switch out the ingredients!
Me: Well you could go check and make sure she's not keeled over next to the loo.
Dad: Maybe that's their secret ploy...get rid of the daughters so Mom will drop out of the race.
Mom: What race? I'm not up for re-election for another three years.
Me: But Dad, what about me? I don't have food allergies.
Dad: No one cares about you.
Me: Look, Meilee's coming back from the bathroom right now.
My family. Is insane.
Current Mood: contemplative
Current Music: Homewrecker - Gretchen Wilson
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10:12 pm
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A day in the life.
6:00 a.m. wakeup
work
lunch
work
4:00 p.m. home
midafternoon snack
work out
shower
watch a netflix movie or some other form of relaxation
10:00 p.m. or 11:00 p.m. if i'm lagging crash
rinse and repeat.
This is why I'm a hermit and I'm slightly amazed I still have friends who actually still call me and want to hang out when I basically blow off everything all the time. I want to go out with you but I am running on super empty! Other than that, life is excellent.
Meanwhile I had the most fantastic three-day weekend I can remember driving down to SD with Leah and spending time at the Scripps house with our incredibly awesome subletters and fellow lacrosse players. Pictures (mostly drunken pictures, but really, what did you expect?) to come soon.
Current Mood: money is money
Current Music: Piazza, New York Catcher - Belle and Sebastian
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05:02 pm
[Link] | You might have already read it in Meilee's lj, but in case you didn't...
Upside of job: getting to drive these GEMs (that's Global Electric Motorcars, LLC, to you) around and teaching the environmental folks of Davis to do the same! Wahoo! My oh-so-eloquent sister puts it best: "Cruising the mean streets of Davis, OPEC-free." Take that, war for oil!
Another part of job...working on 4th of July! I'm a co-stage manager, so I'll be up on stage in Community Park for the whole day of festivities and the fireworks too...come visit me! Maybe I can get ya backstage to meet all the famous bands performing this year (wink wink).
Current Mood:  thankful
Current Music: Redemption - Switchfoot
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06:51 pm
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I love my job, but...
#1 PET PEEVE OF JOB: not being able to hang out with your friends. Or acquaintances, or sister-like cousins named Emily, or participate in pretty much any social event. RAWR and a half.
EDIT (10:00) - I take that back...last minute planned dinner at Guadalajara celebrating Anli's birthday with all the old Davis crew. And supergiant burritos yum. Not to mention two friends of his from Alabama roadtripping across America. How great is it to sit between them, Anli, and a bunch of born-and-raised Davisites and discuss politics? Hey what's your take on gay marriage? Haha oh awesome times. Especially since I missed El fuego haha.
Meanwhile, work at 7 a.m. is slaying me. Really, Starbuck's, here I come. Coffee is my new Diet Coke aka I am addicted--Madeline and Mario please tell me you are working the early early morning shift soon. Pictures from this weekend in Monterey to be posted. Okay this edit was pretty much pointless, I'm just happy I got to hang out and see people and not just slave away at work all the time. And that is "helllllla sweet."
Current Mood: tired
Current Music: my family eating dinner
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07:59 pm
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Home after third day of work.
San Diego: no paper recycling, no visible efforts to promote recycling, city picks up bottles/cans/glass once every other week, no one cares and usually mocks me for being a "hippie."
Davis: separate recycling receptacles next to trash cans, one bin to hold all of your recyclable materials (plastic/glass/aluminum on one side, paper on the other my how revolutionary), everyone recycles at work, city picks up lawn clippings on a weekly basis, people are driving GEM electric vehicles and biking and using solar cookers instead of ovens and planting trees...
For this reason, I LOVE DAVIS.
I can hear my dad mowing the lawn with our electric (not gas, doesn't pollute and is runs off of a rechargeable battery) lawnmower.
Current Mood: vroom vroom
Current Music: my neighbor Jay chatting about guitars
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08:13 pm
[Link] | These things are somewhat cliche (like those "list five things no one knows about you...list three things you are wearing right now...") but still interesting...oh well, ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) aznposseandajew made me do it!
List five songs that you are currently digging ... The Good, The Bad, The Embarassing. Just post 'em. Make your friends empty out their musical closets as well.
I listen to way too much music, so I tried to dig up stuff that is a little more obscure that I like, by groups you perhaps have never heard of before. I guess it's like a little plug for the not-so-mainstream (not that I don't like that genre too).
1. Wilco | A Ghost Is Born - a tie between "Hummingbird" and "Theologians"
2. The Life Aquatic Soundtrack - everything on there by Seu Jorge (it's acoustic Bowie sung in Portuguese, enough said)
3. Hayden | Elk-Lake Serenade - "Home by Saturday" (I like the whole album, as well as previous album, Skyscraper National Park)
4. Low Millions | Ex-Girlfriends - "Eleanor" (can't vouch for the rest of the album yet because I haven't heard it)
5. Spoon | Kill The Moonlight - "All The Pretty Girls Go To The City" (you might have heard "The Way We Get By" on The OC)
Honorable Mentions: Sense Field, Creeper Lagoon, Nada Surf, Tegan and Sara, Steadman because no one knows who they are and they deserve way more credit than that. And this is all fairly mellow, so you don't have to worry about anyone screaming or swearing at you on this list specifically.
I realized that not many use lj anymore, but if you're out there: woosterooster , antiu , rei_dolor , zeewaywho , keiko321 go for it! Speaking of music, my sister and I made good use of my semi-old birthday present from Jesse across the hall (hey if you ever read this) which was $30 to Tower. We got John Legend, Switchfoot's old album "Learning to Breathe," and Weezer's "Pinkerton" (on sale for 9 bucks!). And some sweet posters.
Current Mood: artsy
Current Music: Number One - John Legend
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11:36 pm
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Stream of consciousness.
Home. Eight hour drive. It is HOT. Unpacking. Started xanga against better judgment. Tired. Queen bed at home sweet. Summer's starting YES. Coherency to follow.
Current Mood: sweet dreams
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07:29 pm
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Say It Ain't So.
A summer's thanksgiving list:
MY SISTER. <3. And her crazy life.
Re-connecting with old friends who you thought maybe forgot about you just a little.
Making road trip plans for the summer.
Chats with your little cousin who's suddenly not so little anymore.
Nicknames.
Tripling your music collection.
Last night in town partying.
Can't get too nostalgic about the end of the year, it makes me sad. My roommate left today and to say the obvious, our room feels so empty. I'll miss that crazy cool girl. She definitely taught me a lot about what it means to have a good time and live it up. Now off to dinner with cousin Zach and my aunt and uncle, who have become sort of my parents sometimes. I'm excited to be home, but I can't believe I'm leaving.
Current Mood: NOSTALGIA
Current Music: i'm in the quiet lounge so shhhh!
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