goin' home home on the range

Just bought tix: Dec 20th-29th

Home to big skies, dirty cold snow, old friends, here I come!!

my tits are too big

So ... Sunday nite... here I am...

Mom went home today, after a very short and very sweet visit. Just right. That's about as much of a quick parental visit as I needed right now... It was amazing going throuhg all of her photos from Cambodia, freaking incredible place, wracked with disease, trash, poverty, and an insane amount of beauty and simplicity. At some point I hope to make an online gallery of some of my favorite photos that her travel buddy Vasna took, a professional photographer who supposedly was funded for this trip to take photos of the orphanage. Mom gave me the organisation's info so if at some point in time I can do something like that, I'd leave this crazy place for some simplicity in a second.

Beside that, things are goood- I went by REI today and forked out a hundred bucks for a tent (thanx Mom) and went by Josh's to pick up his camcorder. It's going to be fun to use, I have a feeling I'll have my digicam in one hand and the camcorder in the other, with nothing to do but photograph and film every exciting stupidly boringly warm and entertaining thing that happens to us or we incur on our adventures south this week... At least (knock on wood) the weather's going to be fine as hell for us... !

... I just got 9/10 on the last stupid quiz I had to take for the broadcasting class, and one more paper to write and the final to take, that'll be over with. I have to figure out what I'm going to do for the final project for the shitty astronomy class, something about Mars, I'll watch a video or two and pull something satisfactory out of my rectum when we get back from SD. And, I have to re-write the not-so-Intelligent Design paper for English, and I think that'll be it for that class, I already completed the silly paper for Psychology, I think it's sufficient, I may go over it again but chances are I'll risk it the way it is... Hm- sounds like that's it.

- bcst paper
- bcst final
- astr paper
- astr fieldtrip
- astr fieldtrip paper
- astr final
- psych final
- english paper revise for next week
- english paper final revise

AND THEN IT"S OVER WITH!!!!!!1 Whee.

So: for tomorrow:

- go to class 10-12
- go to Stonestown - eye exam / glasses / sunglasses
- packing (5 to 6 days worth stuff, reused and stinky to pack light, of course)
- sleeping bag, pad, tent, solar light
- 1 pair jeans
- 1 pair nice-ish pants & shirt etc. for going out with people
- 1 nice outfit for Turkey Day
- 1 pair shorts/skirt (could apply to above, reuse)
- bathing suit & towel
- sufficient socks & undies
- sufficient tops
- 1 warm thing on top
- flipflops & shoes
- toiletries, including first aid stuff jic
- snax to munch on, water, matte!!
- camera(s), film, xtra batteries, phone, money, brain
- school shite (to make good use of vacation time, yep yep)
- call Miles in L.A.

This sounds like a lot now but it's really not... Just enough, not too much, and all will pack nicely in my sack, no problem...

I love adventures...

14:30 and it's a C maybe B paper done

Sweetness... it's only a few hours into the clickity clack of my sticking and dusty keyboard, and 5 pages of Wal-Mart bullshit pain, good enough to qualify for minor satisfaction. I'm thinking, considering I've gotten an A- on my first two papers, most likely got a B on the last one, that this one might get a B. I didn't really follow through on the guidelines of the rhetorical means of writing, but we'll see... maybe this one will be the one I end up revising for the final.

Now, I get to think about the upcoming visit from Mamacita, in two days, and what we're going to concoct for supper on Friday, how much ridiculous cleaning I'm going to rock out manana, and hopefully it'll be a good one. I also have to start thinking about what I'm going to do for my final project for that stupid Astronomy class... Argh...

Well, other than that, things are cherry. Now that I have a few hours left over and I feel freed by a mediocre essay about the evil Wal-Mart empire, I'll make m'self an ensalade and go to the gym before handing in the 2nd to last paper I have to pull out of my ass this semester... Whoo hoo.

'ciao bao bambino...

[phone pix]

Bright Eyes at the Civic auditorium last month...






Amy got hit on her motorcycle today, by some asswipe who entered a roundabout the wrong way without obeying his stop sign. She's ok, sore, busted, bruised, but no bones broken... Her bike's totalled, according to Jan, and she just put 400 bones into it at the shop last week, and now it's fucked. Lame. And, the guy left. At least she has his business card and it was totally his fault, though he'll most likely deny it. 'tis a dangerous game we play...



Funny how that happens, they're chattin it up outside my window this morning, "have a safe ride," I hear... and two hours later I come back from school to a freaked out roomate... that's no fun. We went down to the crime scene and took some photos of the skid marks and street scratches, the guy probably lives up the cul-de-sac...

Oh well... And, I'm having a tough ass time writing this stupid Wal-Mart paper. Ugh. I do do some of my best work last minute, that's for sure... We know what Tuesday will entail! I think I'll go drop in on that yoga class tonight. That'd be cool.

Ciao.

sweetness.

so, after some ebaying, I purchased both an extra battery and a car charger neat thingadadood, so crossing fingers that I get them before we leave on the road trip...

Things are good, I went for a ride today on my trusty ol' GT, down to the Stern Grove- that place really is badass! It makes me seriously want a dog. A big, furry fuzzy happy bouncing running slobbering dog.... There was this one mom and two kids who wouldn't let her lab off his leash, and all these dogs were playing together and I could tell how fucked up this dog would be from not being able to run around, in effect being entirely tortured... assholes. I can only feel ok about it if that dog were some kind of attack dog and if she were to let him off his leash he would come and maul me as I sat on the grass reading and trying not to pay attention to the frat party barbeque next to me...

Anyway... shower, movie... chillin.

jeezus.

the Basement Monster is a f*cking FREAK. If I move out of here he will certainly be the number one reason. Damn. Sometimes he just drives me batty.

Anyway - here are a couple of very cool websites I've stumbled upon:

.some fancy photographer guy.

.neat flash site to explore.

Check them out. They require at least more than a few moments of browsing, each.

you know what sucks?

migraines.

but this is cool.

done my duty.

I figure if the Governator's going to spend billions on a special election, I may as well participate.
Gah.

dammit.

So I went out and bought a 50 dollar bathing suit the other day because my old blue one was not only falling apart, but also missing. Then today I looked behind Amy's towel and there it was! DAMMIT. I just realized that I had better just wear it until it completely dissintegrates and keep my new one in better condition, because all I'm doing at 24 is sitting in the steam room and doing a few laps now and then. If I don't gain eighty pounds then the new one will last a long time.
Oh well.

raaaain raaaain

Good ol' Joe, the toads echo in my ears like the sunset nights of stories at the teepee- frogs get their wish tonite! Rrrrraaaaaaaaaainn... Lokey just came in meowing and caterwauling like the rain soaked through straight to his cat soul, as if three of his lives were washed away down the storm drains in his roaming excitement. Silly gato.

I'm waiting on a tune to be sent to me from Jonathan- the antipation is killing me!

And I just finished up the Wal-Mart thing for our presentation on Weds, we'll see what the other gals think, and I printed up some badges from the documentary that's coming out soon- thought they were cute as hell and since we're acting like disgruntled "Associates" I figured these would make good costume badges. Hah, flair.



Anyways, things are truckin' along... good thing there's no school Friday or else I'd go nuts.

Gimme Raul!

Hi! (title stems from the opening scene of the Negotiator with Samuel L Jackson talking about the pit-bull Raul...

So - today's been a good day so far... I woke up at 8 with Amy and Jan babbling about something or other, then managed to get back to sleep and wake up again with the Basement Monster yelling at his laundry at 9:30.

For some reason I was really really raging with hormones and pissed off, (well not like the reason is so mysterious that looking at a calendar can't pickpoint it obviously)... so I banged around the dishes and did them as loudly as I possibly could, while Cassie and Jan giggled in his bedroom and gave me a messy crotch shot that wasn't exactly needed, but managed to squeeze a giggle out of me too - Then, I spent the rest of the morning working on the Porsche slideshow, and figured out that I'm sick to death of the one I've been using on my website, and I'm going to have to start all over and organize my shite so it doesn't try to load two slideshows simultaneously. It's been driving me absofuckinglutely nutsoid and I couldn't handle it anymore... so, on with a new program- and despite its little ad at the bottom, it turns out rather nicely for Jeffey's show... I think he'll dig it for web stuff, and then at some point later when shcool isn't killing me I'll make the DVD for his dad with him... w00t!

Link: .latest shenanegans.

And then- once that was done for the day, I looked outside and since I was cold and uncomfortable I straddled ol' Eager Elephante Apfeffeles and had a blast around town. I practiced some turns around the neighborhood racetrack and then went up Sloat by the golf course and up the Great Highway and up Susnet and down through SFState and ripped it up around all those roundabouts, gaining speed and confidence bit by bit... It felt good, and then once I made it home and managed to avoid at least 3 accidents with dumbasses, the sun started to slowly recede behind the houses...

And now, with the Basement Monster and his drunken assholic friends yelling at their football games downstairs, I've got good ol' Sammy J on the tube for backround noise as I hunker down to figure out my shite for school...

What to do!

- read BCST stuff, take rest of quizzes thru ch 14.
- read PSHYCH stuff, answer all q's on study guide for next exam on the 14th.
- read ASTR crap, finish that lame homework that's probably due Monday.
- hm... science is probably priority tonite. Yep.

Current mood: glad I don't have to bleed profusely constantly...
Current music: none, duhh...

major frustrations..

I am seriously considering scrapping slideshowpro... It's really not doing what it's supposed to at all, and it's driving me flippin NUTS. I tell it to show the gallery at startup, instead of jump right into the first one like it does as default, but the bastard thing isn't doing what it's supposed to, and nobody on the support forum visits that godforsaken place. argh.