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1962 hits
2006-04-11 01:41:34
This is from a message to someone on the internet, & describes my weekend:
fucked up! I spent maybe a total of 10 hours at home, to sleep. Friday was at pasadena, and the freeways were all closed (!), but got dvds at fry;s on the dtour, & got drunk & watched 'em with my mom (which was great except for the unexpected implied sex scenes), then threw up @ 2am & went to sleep.
Saturday....was that Saturday? It blends together....now, that WAS Saturday. Friday I went downton to the Farmers Market that I didnt know exosted, and spent the time hunting for a tank top, because I had worn a really hot shirt & it was hot out. It was fun to have time to shop, a little money, and no pressing obligations. Got a mad sin tank, it's super cute.
Sunday, finally went to ipso facto. In case you dont know, its an "infamous" clothing store in fullerton. Got cute dress & skirt, and the cash register guy took me to a club later tht night. Club was kinda dead, but I love to go out, so I got a little tipsy & rocked the dance floor, then me & his friend went back to his house, & watched tv & talked about crap. Apparently, he can perform the amazing feat of not having a girlfriend, but be dating someone. How is that possible? Anyhoo, it was god times, met my 2am curfew, went to bed around 5am, got up at 9am, got coffe & went to class.
Cant wait for spring break! Hoping to go to brazil (!!!!!!), but kinda doubt that'll actually happen. Or maybe Hawaii........In high school, I remember the break being 2 weeks, whereas in college it's just 1. But, my 1st 2 classes on wednesday were cancelled, and everyone but like 5 people in my night class tonight left after a few minuts, so I bet no one will show up on wednesday, so I might just start mine a little early. Yeah, I'm doing that.
I really need to think of somehting to do tommorrow to fill at least 3 hours, becuz we have contractors here all day fixing the windows, and the noise is unbearble. My mom's school has a half day, so I'm thinking she'll be taking me to hollywood to hit the htrift stores. Oh yes, that's what she'll be doing. I just need to make sure she knows it ;) Seriously, we've both been wanting to hit the out of the closet & such for cutesy velvet chairs & crap like that. I've begun to babbel. -
1941 hits & another crazy day
2006-04-07 22:46:27
Woke up, contractors were due to arrive. Remembering past experinces, I spent the very first hour of my day frantically "contractor-proofing my room & bathroom. That basically meant anything that could be damaged or destroyed by being stepped on or knocked to the floor was moved out of the line of sight, becuz the previous contractors went out of their way to be destructive. I managed to fit my largest painting into the closet, just in time to see facces outside the window. They came, and I went to put on my shoes, and they were gone. I got a coffee & called my mom, and told her that they had left, blah blah blah.
So mom came home, they still werent there. I went to my room with Hildy, one of my cats, becuz the door to the garage was stuck. She was freaking out, so I took time to pet & confort & lint roll her, which she enjoyed. She went up on my bed, I passed the time by going online. I later found out that she once again had massive diahhrea in my sheets, but fortunately this time it was on the washable one. So I took it outside, removed most of it with paper towels, & put it in the wash.
Oh! I need to put it in the dryer. Wonder if someone else already did....maybe I'll remember to do it later. Whatever...
After that, the contractors left, and there were chores to be done. I went downtown to deposit some checks, and noticed that it was busier than usual, then remembered that the grand prix is this weekend, today thru sunday. I got free passes from my bank, and tried to convince my mom to stay. I love downtown, it's so much fun. There is apparently a farmer's market every friday, so we went there for about 3 hours. Even tho my house stays about 60 degrees, even with the heat on, outside it was about 80, or it felt like it. I wore a warm sweater, and spent most of the time looking for a shirt to buy to replace my hot one (I need some new clothes anyway...) Saw some cute merchants, took a few generic crowd video pans on my camera, applied for a job at big 5 (who knows? maybe I'll get it...).....uh.....got parfait at tcby & brownie....walked...to clothing store. I didnt know for sure if it was a clothing store, but there was this store on pine with biker looking people hanging out outside. When I got up close, I saw a shirt or dress in the window, and decided it was indeed a clothing store. Inside was awesome, like hot topic but not so generic, and more indie band shirts. Found mad sin shirt for the same price as a mad sin patch at a merchant in the farmers market, and got mom to buy it for me (she was like, if I buy this, can we leave?). The fitting room was crazy, dsorienting, and next to it was this room with a bunch of antique and modern sterilization instruments & trippy paintings & a barber chair, which I later realized was probably used for piercings. Too bad my body hates peircings......Got a cool video of that, changed into cute mad sin tank top that I am still wearing.
Walked back, had parking validated at yogurt place, drove to csulb, with transcripts from 2 out of 3 colleges in hand, only to find out that the transripts they needed were from lbcc, which I didnt have. Drove to lbcc, they were closed. Oddly enuf, they had the hours they would be open during spring break, which startes april 17th, but they didnt have their regular hours posted. I guess they close on fridays now to save money.
Since my tooth has been hurting, I went to the dentist. He ground down my back left tooth for a while, and it was more & more tender the more he ground. Finally, he said me teeth hit more evenly, instead of all on just the one tooth. Sine I had insurace, it was free :) Also, I made an appt for a couple weeks from now for a cleaning. Why not, right?
Then I was hungry, so I went to Manderin Chinese & ordered takeout. While I waited, I went thru my cell phone book of friends, and mostly got answering machines. I found out that my friend brian lost his cell phone in the grand canyon, so thats why he hasnt called in a while. Then this old drunk broad stumbled over, and she was all "Chinese sake will knock you off you ass!" Then she dropped her pen and said "See? It'll knock you off your ass." Then she talked about how cute & gothy I was, and how her grandkids were the same way, and her grandaughter who was my age adopted a 5 year old kid, and that the kid was the girls nephew, cuz her sister had drug problems & was in jail. About that time, my food came, so I picked it up & left, but not before the lady made a quick comment about thee 50s, when they had mini scottie dogs with magnets and when you put them on a table they sniff each others butts. She reminded me of my grandma when she had a few.
So by this time, it was later in the day, and the nice cool breeze was a little chilly, so I decided to wait for my mom (who had driven to albertsons while she waited for my food to get ready) in the resturant, which was warmer. The old lady came out, and suggested I wait by the bar. Oooo, I couldnt resist temptation like that, when I had my ID & credit card ready. So I sat by the bar, debating whether or not to get a few drinks, when the lady stumbled back in & offered to buy me a drink.
Well then.
A free drink!? Who am I to resist? We both got shots of sake. I was going to offer her cheers to thank her, but her shot took too long to pour, so I just drank mine. It was smoother than I thought, much smoother than rotgut gin or $6 vodka. I still dont feel a buzz, and I had only had a parfait to eat all day. I guess it was either watered down or she had had quite a few to get drunk off it. After that, I left, went home, and unpackaged my food. I was super hungry by this point. I found the chicken first, then the rice, and decided to set them aside while I looked for my dumplings. Found them, in the styrofoam box. They were really goood, especially with the green crunchy substance at the bottom. Oh, right, lettuce. Been a while since I ate a salad.....They fell apart a little easy, so maybe next time I'll try chopsticks. or not....The dumplings (8) were a meal in themselves, at least to me, who can only eat about half what a normal person can withhout feeeling sick. I got a plate from the kitchen & put the ricce on it, then the chicken on that. I ordrred the tornado chicken, which the girl said was fried, but I'm pretty sure they gave me orange chicken, especially since the girl had asked if I wanted any. My mom joked that thhey ran out of tornado chicken. I'm pretty sure it was orange chicken since it tasted like panda express, except sticky, not crunchy. It was pretty good, perhaps a little sweet, but it goes on my list of good things to eat. I used the plastic wrap I bought & wrapped up the whole plate. I havent been able to do that in forever! Plastic wrap is great! Beats the hell out of tin foil...Whenever I have alittle extra cash, I'm so buying it.
Then what? I dunno....checked email & pms, wondered why charter sometimes doesnt send out my emails, wrote in journal.....I feel like I'm leaving something out...played with cats, they were cute.....
Ooooo! Cute story for people who like animals. In the resturant, they had a fish tank. On of the 2 puffer fish attacked & bit the other one, then swan away, just like the way cats fight. The the first fish swam slowly near the end of the tank, looking sad, and another fish was looking at it with what could have been the fish version of concern. Weird.
And that's my day, long version. -
1924 hits
2006-04-06 04:11:09
just read over my last journal entry...wow! it's been a while since I've had a minute to really sit down and write in this thing, hasn't it? Keeps me sane, keeps a log of my travels thru the californi-universe from my prespective.
Today was...busy. I got up, got dressed in half the time it usually takes, got my room relatively clean, got free starbucks (mint mocha with free extra shot), realized I had an hour before my class started, went home, noticed car [parked suspiciously close to edge of driveway. Finished cleaning up room (at least, as much as I was willing to do)...even had time for both lipstick AND mascara! Remembered keys, purse AND notebook, went to school, found parking across a few streets from campus, walked to class, saw cute-ish massively weird dressing guy who hangs out in front of building wearing 2 different shoes, talked to him, realized I dont know his name, pooped, regretted eating pizza with surface entirely covered in red peppers twice yesterday, went to class, left class, talked to erica, she drove me to my car, drove home, put hair sprays into decorative wine containers, friend Christina came over, we spent the next 2 hours editiing "random shots, no story.." into "1 minute, story", mom came home, read paper, did sudoku & crossword, finished 3d class project, drove to class, smiled when realized it was still lite out, set up sculptures, nervously re-set up sculptures, looked at everyone else's, waited super nervous for teacher to begin evaluations, was amazed by some poeple's projects, felt sad mine sucked, came home, made crappy fake tgi fridays cheese sticks, drank beer, wondered if police outside were invertigating evil neighbor's car, watched tv, went online, now.
Friday was crazy. Had a date, midnight, after 2 tequila sunrises, the guy tells me hes "sort of living with someone..." but they have an "understanding". Felt outraged. Bought last drink, jaager on the rocks, felt too angry to enjoy it, and glad he didnt try to touch me when he danced/stood there (depending on your point of view...) Anyway, so he's a club promoter. For dive bars in the middle of nowhere. Way he was touting it, the place was in Hollywood & A-list. No. It was Glendale & mostly a bar (with a tiny stage). So he knows guys in bands no one has ever heard of. Big deal. Amazingly, he didnt rape me (he kept hinting at it 0-o). Other than that, had a good time. It was great at the end, when the drunken/high/falling down folk singer who was on first came on stage, becuz lotsa people from the audience got on stage, including 2 girls poking a 3rd girl with an inflatable flamingo. It rained, but the smoking porch out back had a covering. The 2nd band, the Geisha Girls, were really good, & 2 were really cute. Altho they didnt seem interested in me....too bad.....After 1:30am, the bar closed, so Robert (the asshole/date) offered to feed me. I said why not. Big mistake. He tried to take me to Canter's, this crappy Jewish deli which smells like old corned beef (never eat there! the food is all terrible!), but I said no, so instead we went to this diner where drag queens & drag queen prostitutes hang out. It was a wild new experience, especially the trip to the bathroom at the end. The toilet seat was up, and someone had thrown away a belt....Came home at just before 4am to angry mom, still awake, and her angry boyfriend. Spent the rest of the weekend being browbeaten & screamed at by them. I hate living at home so much. It's really too bad there are no more jobs left in SoCal...
Then came Monday, which I dont remember, Tuesday, where I was probably depressed and slept the whole day, and today, which is described in the first paragraph.
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1901 hits
2006-03-31 02:48:48
Still working on project #2 for film class. Spent the last 2 hours & 37 minutes editing it. iMovie is giving me shit for some reason....my best shot got corrupted! Then the end got cut off! I think I'll import the dv file I did manage to save, re-edit that with the different cuts, then re-save, dv codec compression be damned!
On a more positive note, I have a date tomorow with a guy I met at a club. Once again, I was hit on by someone in his mid-30s. I wonder what it is with middle aged guys & me...anyway, he's cute, looks 28, and I dont really care how old he is. Since he's a club promoter, he knows all the clubs & events going on in Hollywood, so we have like 3 options of things to do. I voted for the Scene, which has a tribute going on because of the death of a member of the band Gun Club who died 10 years ago. So sad, that. I've heard Gun Club, and they're really good. Sort of like Camper Van Beethoven meets the Darkness, with a little Concrete Blonde thrown in. 3+ bands are going to be at this thing, plus the guy has connections, so if I wanted to seriously start directing music videos for local bands, I have a feeling he wouldnt be a bad guy to know. Sweeet!
...and why does my back hurt like I got kicked in it? -
1880 hits
2006-03-28 17:45:31
Woke up Gassy today....shouldn't have eaten taco bell last nite..
Yesterday was.....exciting. My first 2 classes were cancelled, so I ended up in the park, filming myself & my friend Christina from film class in trees & climbing trees, and filming random people (who seemed embarrased to be on film!), and people I knew, then down to Shoreline Village to do the same thing over again. Shorline Village is a bit of a drive....then I got ice cream, because a $3 purchase will validate parking, then hung out with my friend for about an hour. I haven't just relaxed & hung out with someone in god knows how long! Then ot staretd raining, and we both had shit to do, so I jetted back to school/the park, dropped her off, jetted home.
Tried to cook grass-fed beef. It was an interesting experiment in what I am capable of doing to ground meat....I need more practice! It was okay in the mini-pita pockets when I added lettuce, but I still didnt eat that much!
After that, I went to my night class. It didnt go so well! I ended up gluing green foam together to form a structure; little did I know, you need a clean cut for glue to stick! I guess that's why they call it learning. I got a wire base structure out of the whole time, then went home & took a long hot shower to unwind.
After all that, I imported the footage I had shot into my computer, and spent a few hours editing. I was done by abot 2am, then went to sleep.
Now I need to decide what to do today.....
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