April
2003
Monday, April
21, 2003
Ever wake up feeling wasted? That was me today. Dragged ass all day and couldn't
tell you why. Came home and talked to Pam and found out she was the same way.
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Sunday, April
20, 2003
Today was a very eventful and funny ass day. The day began by watching the Lakers
stomp all over the Timberwolves like they were wicked stepchildren. You had
to have felt their pain.
After doing some
stuff around the house I called up Virginie and went on a hike. We hiked and
talked crap for a long ass time. Normally this particular hike would have taken
an hour - we made it close to 3 hours! Partly because she was a chicken about
crossing streams and going up or down any kind of hill. Too damned funny.
Then it was off
to Kinko's, Land of Morons. The people they had in there were freaking clueless.
At least we ended up getting a fat discount. Virginie was craving a beer and
steak, and I was craving salmon and fries, so where else to get both, but The
Santa Barbara Brewing Company? The hostess annoyed me because she sat us right
next to the food service station. When asked if we could sit at another booth,
says that they were for 3 or more people. At one of the booths were just 2 people
and she says that was because all of the 2 person ones were filled. Shortly
thereafter I look up, and one of the guys who work there was laying in on the
hostess. From the little lip reading I was able to make out and the way he was
gesturing, he was giving her a hard time for not letting us sit somewhere else.
She was defending herself, saying that's how she was taught and tried showing
him the seating chart.
Next time I'm just
going to move on my own be damned the consequences.
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Saturday, April
19, 2003
Made a stop at my favorite camera place and talked it up with the owner. Over
the conversation, I tell him about my car problems. I started out telling him
what it would take to fix it, and he finishes what I was going to say. His wife
had a car like mine, and they went through the same pain. Solidarity. Yay.
Today my roommate
Dave had his retirement party and a bunch people came over. It was a very interesting
mix of bowling friends and people from their lodge. Since moving here, my closest
experience with a lodge was on The Flinstones. I think there were 2 or 3 parties
in his honor in the last couple of weeks.
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Friday, April
18, 2003
I swear they are giving away driver's licenses these days! Damned Mercedes Benz
M class started drifting into my lane! On the left was this over-priced, POS
Benz and on the right, was the person doing what they were supposed to be. The
thing was about 5 inches from my mirror. Morons. If I ever am able to buy a
car that's worth more than $40,000 and I start acting like an ass, somebody
please smack me!
After dropping
my car off to get worked on, I went to class. My last class of the day was History
and I had to leave early. The professor was loving the sound of his own voice
too much. He droned on and on and on, and 98% of the time just read from the
overhead. Thankfully my major has a ton of great lecturers.
Then I went to
the gym and had the pleasure of listening to a couple of meathead assholes talk
about women. Usually when I go to the gym I have headphones on and I zone into
my own little world. Today I didn't have the car, where the CD player and headphones
usually reside. Close to the end of my workout, I overhear these two guys going
on about they're 'women'. One of them says that the girl he's dating has gained
some weight and he's been telling her she's gotten fat and should take her "ass"
to the gym. The other is like, yea I agree, "why do women let themselves
go like that?" I have NEVER in my life hear of any such crap in person.
No wonder women call us asses sometimes.
I called to check
on my car and the guy is like, there is something wrong with your power steering.
He says that he checked the cost of the parts and wondered why they were so
cheap till he looked at the labor to do the job. It would take a single technician
1.5 days ALONE to work on my car. They would have drop the engine AND the transmission
to get to the rack (think rack and pinion steering). And the cost…jeezus.
We both agreed that the engineers who designed my car should be shot. Trust
me it's not just this thing. Other things in the car are located in really annoying
and hard to get at places. GM engineering at its finest.
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Thursday, April
17, 2003
To quote Missy, last night I worked it in my Hip Hop aerobics class. Cathy really
kicked our collective asses and I'm feeling it today. In class she called for
a bunch of to go to Q's, and I would do that in a heartbeat!
For the last couple
of days I've been listening to DMX. Hard core rapper. Yup. Heavy hip hop artist?
Most definitely. User of color profanity? Oh yea. But DMX (which stands for
Dark Man X) is one of the most passionate and REAL artists out there. If you
get hung up on hip hop, cause of some curse words, don't listen to DMX. For
that matter don't listen to Limp Bizkit (I refer to them as Limp Bisquick, but
they're my boys anyway…haha!) and some rock bands who are purveyors of
profanity. I hate that damned double standard. If the song is set to a lead
guitar it's ok, but if the bass line was sampled its 'that urban' music.
Two of DMX's most
kick ass songs are from his "Flesh of My Flesh, Blood of My Blood"
album. The first song "Fame" has a really meaningful chorus.
Peep this:
I'm gon' live forever,
I'm never gon' die
Only thing I fear is that I'm never gon' fly
Carry my weight but I'm never gon' cry
Shit I tell y'all niggaz straight cause I'm never gon' lie
The other song
that is bomb is "One More Road to Cross". The chorus goes:
One more
road to cross
One more risk to take
Gotta live my life
Like there's one more move to make
Get it? Got it?
Goooooood. :-)
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Wednesday, April
16, 2003
The
lady in the pic is my friend Sheri, a competition body builder under the division
of figure and she's also a masseuse. She kicks ass. Why is the pic up there?
Well cause I want it there and she looks damned good. Sheri explains figures
competition as, "basically a physique competition, [where] they judge on
symmetry, composition, beauty and poise. Leanness [is critical], but [competitors
are] not as lean as a bodybuilders. There are no routines, just the mandatory
1/4 turns."
I hate those prank
shows. If someone were to mess with my house, car or other valuable and then
try to pass it off as a joke I would have to beat their asses senseless. Similarly
shows like Crank Yankers, Trigger Happy, Punk'd, and any others that fall under
that penumbra work my last nerve. I don't see how causing people that kind of
distress be considered good humor. In all fairness, some of the pranks are really
benign and I would admit even a tad funny. Like the skit on Trigger Happy where
the guy uses the HUGE ass Nokia phone and yells his conversation to all those
around, whether its at a movie theater, park or beach. It's just like when people
find it neat to use their phones and LOUDLY at the most annoying of times just
to talk about unimportant drivel.
Tonight I decided
to do something a bit different for dinner and go meatless. After visiting Tasha
and having some Soy milk, which was BOMB by the way, decided to try some different
things. Lately been thinking that I can do without red meat. I eat it sparingly
as it is, only when I think I'm in need of iron. Other than that I really don't
crave it like I used to. May be it's the training, but would much rather eat
chicken or fish. Anyway, the organic mac-n-cheese was pretty good, as was the
asparagus I whipped up, but the same could not be said for the soy Salisbury
steak. I think the liquid smoke they added was waaaay over the top. Read that
as: nasty as hell! However after eating all that I still didn't feel the same
heaviness and bleh of eating the real thing. It's NOT to say that I'm giving
up meat altogether, but I'm glad to have options for protein.
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Sunday, April
13, 2003
Jennifer left today…bleh. Other than that I've been reading and going over
class notes. I realized today the journal hasn't been updated in dog years so
you'll probably note a couple of days filled in.
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Saturday, April
12, 2003
We went for a walk on IV beach and I created a new 'persona'. I call him "Tony
T the Def Jam Poet"…mwhaha! It's to spoof the movies Love Jones and
I Married An Axe Murderer. I basically take a topic and flow on it, and strategically
insert some snapping..haha! It was funny as hell. Yes, I do know how to entertain
myself…mwhaha! Now I have new material for acting class…woohaa!
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Friday, April
11, 2003
Jennifer visited again and we went out to Outback. She orders a steak and I
order a salad with a bowl of French Onion soup. Haha!
I hate auditorium
sized classes. I hate them with a burning passion. Now this professor is going
to throw a monkey wrench into things to make it even more interesting: he is
making people sit with their TAs for each class session. Making us sit AND sign
in. Jesus H. Christ! On top of that he's giving weekly mickey mouse quizzes.
Give me a break. I never heard of such nonsense, even when I was taking upper
division Con-Law classes and we were doing more reading and research.
I hate even more
TA's who think its ok to take out whatever frustration, personal issues, whatever
on students. There was this one TA who told us about the 20 page paper we had
to write was, "I don't expect you guys to write anything ground breaking,
so just cover your bases and do the paper." WTF?
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Thursday, April
10, 2003
Got the pics back from my weekend at Jay and Allison's and they came out awesome.
When I picked them up the lady who printed told me about how they had a temp
working the machine for the awhile. The lady said how she insisted on developing
and printing my pics myself because she knows how I like them done. How dope
is that?!
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Sunday, April
06, 2003
This morning we were invited over to Alison's (Allison's co-worker hehe) for
breakfast. She made these kick ass crepes. Need to run at least 3 miles to work
them off. The drive back to SB was quick and uneventful. Saw The Core and it
wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. It was actually kinda plausible.
Thanks to all of
my friends who made this weekend so dope. This was "spring break"
and I enjoyed every damned minute of it. Thanks guys!!
Till the pics from
this weekend come, check out the two new galleries. One was from the Track Day
I did with Tasha back in January and the other are some pics of some birds that
were hanging out in our backyard one day it rained.
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Saturday, April
5, 2003
Today was the funkiest and dopest!! We drove to this park with a bunch of redwood
trees and hiked for like 3 hours. The place was breathtaking. The air was cool
and crisp, everything was fresh and green. And the drive! OMG! The drive! Getting
there WAS half the fun! The road was twisty with views of the valley. Oh yes,
there will be pics.
When we got back
to J&A's I hit their gym for a bit. It was a damned good day. Thanks guys!!
Addendum:
We watched 2 shows tonight that worked my nerves. First we watched BET ComicView
and I have to say: WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT?! Yes I'm 'black', Afro-Carribean
to be exact. Yes, I think poling fun at stereotypes is funny. Yes, black, white,
asian, latin, et al do stuff differently. But for cripes sake, trying to do
a 4 minute set on nothing BUT them?! And not even doing it well?? Jeez! Chris
Rock was interviewed and he was asked about his style of comedy, use of black
vs. white vs. etc jokes and stuff. And he was like, yea that stuff is funny,
but what's also funny is the other stuff like family, life experiences, etc.
because we ALL have more in common than we do different.
The other show
that worked my nerves was The Man Show. Some parts of it is funny, but for the
most part it's just dumb. Allison called it sort of like Maxim, but I also stopped
reading Maxim. Maxim gets props in that they know how to play to the crowd like
the The Man Show does. Maxim also gets props because their photographers do
a kick ass job. May be I'm thinking too much again.
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Friday, April
4, 2003
Watched A Man Apart with Tasha, and it was actually pretty good. It showed that
Vin has some range. Tasha called it a throw-a-way movie, for contractual reasons,
but I would have to disagree. He needed a project that allowed him to show that
he was more than just fast car driving, psycho with night vision, and 2 bit
part actor in a highly acclaimed movie. It was a good move for him.
After the movie
I booked it to San Mateo, which took a lot LESS time that anticipated. There
was no one on the bridge or anything. I walked in about 10 minutes after Allison
showed up. And no more than 5 minutes later, Jay showed up - talk about movie
timing!
We then bowled
3 games, and I won all 3! Haha! Wooohaaa! It was good fun all around!
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Thursday, April
3, 2003
No French class today! Wooohaaa! Arrived in Oakland about an hour after I wanted
to, but still made good time. Tasha and I kicked and caught up before heading
over to Hoa. There we ate this KICK ASS beef stew that Hoa made. The stew was
perfect. There is no other way to put it. The vegetables weren't mushy, the
meat was perfect, and the sauce was spot on.
When Pat got home
we got to playing Gotham Racing on X-box. That boy can talk some crap! He is
officially the King of One-liners! The stuff he was coming up with had us rolling!
He's one tall lanky, trash talking mofo!! Haha!
Kim came over and
damn I missed that girl.
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Wednesday, April
2, 2003
My schedule is finally coming together! Thank God!!
The highlight today
has GOT to be lunch with my French teacher Virginie. She is friggin' hilarious!
Why you ask? Because the sarcasm levels are off the charts! We were going back
and forth messing with each other and it was good damned funny. Being able to
talk crap with someone and not have them take it personally is REALLY cool.
Afterwards I took
the pics up to the Circle Bar B. Go see their current play, "The Women"
if you can. It has some of the most talented women in Santa Barbara community
theater.
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Tuesday, April
1, 2003
2nd day of spring quarter and my schedule is no where closer to coming together!
After school I went to my internship and worked on it. It's shaping up rather
nicely. The programmers have begun to describe my project as an "application"
and it's really weird in a cool way. It's nothing major but the techniques applied
in the app (hehe) can be applied anywhere else.
Then I went to
shoot The Women at Circle Bar B. The lighting for this one was a lot worse than
any of the others. There were huge dark holes (literally) on stage. Horrible
shadows abounded. And none of the lamps had their gels.
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