Monthly Archives: August 2002

Well, I finished the Richard Lewis autobiography. Hmm, well, I actually didn’t even finish the book. I don’t know what I was expecting. I always thought that Richard Lewis was funny and I loved his show with Jamie Lee Curtis, Anything But Love (Gawd, I feel like I’m dating myself with that one.) I had heard that he was a recovering alcoholic and stuff. I guess I was expecting something a little more upbeat. However, the title of the book is The Other Great Depression; so I guess I was warned. So the book just went ON AND ON about his alcohol, his fear of commitment, and his recovery. At the end, I was just skimming the pages and finally, I gave up with 20 pages left. That’s really odd for me to give up on a book like that. Usually, if I can’t get through the first 50 or so pages, I’ll stop reading it and come back to the book later. I did this with Robert Jordon The Eye of the World; the first time I read it, I couldn’t get pass the first two chapters. A couple of weeks later, I picked it up and next thing I know I have the whole series in paperback.
Anyway, there were some things in the book that made me think. For one, I wonder if I should become an alcoholic. I feel that my life is somewhat shitty, but it’s nowhere near rock bottom. Why not head for rock bottom? Once I hit it, I got no where but up to go. Actually, I would probably stay at the bottom forever.
Well, tomorrow’s reading looks like the Elvis biography. I hope it is a better read than tonight’s read.
Current mood: disappointed
Current music: U2 – When Love Came To Town

Been entertaining myself at Japaner.com, a site that has Japanese Commercials staring Western Actors/Actresses. It’s interesting to see these people that you would never see in a commercial here in the U.S., doing commercials in Japan. I really like the Ewan McGregor and Nicholas Cage commercials the best.
Well, the first day of school has come and gone, and I am glad that I am done with classes. I was expecting us to get behind again on transfers, but we were able to keep up with everything. It almost scary how well we did today. Tomorrow will def. be a different story; I expect a shitload of transfers for notebooks and clothes.
Speaking of clothes, there was a nice lack of clothes today around campus. Fall semester is the best semester when it comes to girl watching. You got all of them freshmen girls in their tightest, skimpiest, outfits looking all hot and everything. Don’t know how many accidents Tim and I almost got into cause we were staring.
Going to fix something to eat and take a shower. Maybe tonight will be a movie night for me. I still have several DVD’s that I have bought that I have not watched yet. We’ll see.
Current mood: dirty
Current music: 10,000 Maniacs – Because The Night

And finally, shopping and being poor….
Still adjusting to being poor. Went to JCPennys to finish paying off my bed, and was so tempted to shop with my card. I might not have any choice, with Suzanne, Angie, Amber (work Amber) and Mew’s birthdays all coming up. **sigh** I could use a rug for my room, along with a bed spread set, and some socks, and some other things. Blah. We’ll see how long I last.
At least I got my plane tickets to see my parents for Thanksgiving (Thanks Dad) and to see Mew for her birthday (Thanks Mew/Amanda). Going to see Mew in October should be fun. And with my parents, I’m hoping that my plane will be overbooked and that I can give up my seat to get plane tickets for Xmas. We’ll see..
Oh yeah, I got pushed into buying tickets for some Police Rodeo thing for kids in Hunter’s Point. I swear, that cop caught me at the perfect time; at work wit h5 different things going on. So now I have to fork over $35 for this police thing. And it’s not like I can back out of it, cause you know that they will get my license number and harass me or ticket me or something. So much for having some money after rent is paid. Oh yeah, I def. see a shopping spree at JCPennys in my future.
Current mood: depressed
Current music: P Diddy, Black Rob, Mark Curry – Bad Boy 4 Life

Next, the BBQ
The BBQ was good, (pics are here) One lingering question was brought up by Lesa. “Rate your life on a scale of 1-10. Mia and Amber said 9 and 10. Lesa, as usual, didn’t answer the question (or I didn’t hear her answer, I was carrying Antonio in and out of the house.) When I did answer, I answered with a 5. It could be that low because of post-breakup syndrome, but I don’t think so. I think that I will write more about this, but tomorrow. It’s something that I need to think on a little more.
What else? decided for sure that I am not going to my 10 year reunions next month. Def. not going to the Vaca High one. There is no point. I’ll get all of the 411 from Amber or Kili. I really have no desire to see anybody. Part of it does have to do with the fact that I just got my diploma. But truth be told, I was never that close with many people from my graduating class. If anything, I need to attend the next 2 reunions after this.
Current mood:
Current music: BT – Dreaming (Evolution Mix)

O.K. Let’s start with the books….
Finally went back to the library and got a number of books to read. Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood continues my “reading books that were made into movies. It was a good book, I guess; sort of a white “Joy Luck Club” in a way. I will have to see the movie when it comes out on DVD.
Next was my Asian American selection, Monkey King. A story of a Chinese American woman dealing with the issues within her family. This was a mix of Joy Luck Club and Girl Interrupted. It was a good reading, but weird. For some reason has I was reading this, all I could think of was Margaret Cho playing the role of heroine, Sally Wang. I also had Owen Wilson playing her love interest, Mel. But Mel’s character is 19 yrs old, so I’m not sure how that would work out. Unfortunately, this seems to be the only novel that the author has written. A shame.
Then there’s Parable of the Sower:
Parable of the Sower is a hopeful tale set in a dystopian future United States of walled cities, disease, fires, and madness. Lauren Olamina is an 18-year-old woman with hyperempathy syndrome–if she sees another in pain, she feels their pain as acutely as if it were real. When her relatively safe neighborhood enclave is inevitably destroyed, along with her family and dreams for the future, Lauren grabs a backpack full of supplies and begins a journey north. Along the way, she recruits fellow refugees to her embryonic faith, Earthseed, the prime tenet of which is that “God is change.” This is a great book–simple and elegant, with enough message to make you think, but not so much that you feel preached to.
**sigh** This is such a perfect “Cobene the Bastard” book. Lue Cobene was my bastard English teacher at Solano. He taught me so much, and yet was such a bastard. Has soon has I started reading the book, I wanted to hate it and just throw it away. But I read it and I don’t want to say it, but I think that I liked it and want to read the next book in the series. There was another book similar to this where the settling was in the near future in a semi-apocalyptical L.A. Damn, I though that I still had the book, but I can’t find it. It might be up with my books at my parents house. Hmmm.
So what’s left for me to read? A Feast In Exile has something to do with a vampire in India in the 14th century. Something different, I guess? Also have three biographies to read (Elvis, Madonna, and Richard Lewis). Also got a book on MS FrontPage to see if there are any trick or secrets that I can use on my web site. And then I got The Complete Idiots Guide To Pro Wrestling. I’m clocking it up has a guilty pleasure. Who knows; it might be a good read like Mick Foley’s book was.
Current mood: awake
Current music: Dave Matthews & Tim Reynolds – Lover Lay Down

Went up to Vacaville to celebrate Gabi’s birthday; more like a Sunday BBQ than birthday party. But it was nice to see everybody again. Had a really good time and it was good to get out of the house and out of foggy San Francisco. Too much was talked about to go into detail here.
Anyway, I need to get some sleep. I got a busy day tomorrow.
Pictures should be up by tomorrow.
Current mood: satisfied
Current music: BT w/Tori Amos – Blue Skies

Just finish watching Ocean’s Eleven with Mike. Still think that I like the original better.
Danny: Does he make you laugh?
Tess: He doesn’t make me cry.
**sigh** I got that line stuck in my head.
Anyway, I am waiting to see if Amber is going to show up. Think that I will go downstairs and read. Should be reading The Bible, but for some reason, I just can’t get into it. Will have to find another book to read.
Current mood: mellow
Current music:

It’s all about the Orange Mocha Frappuchinos baby.
I’m sorry, i just think that Zoolander is one of the stupidiest funniest movies. And the thing is that I really don’t like Ben Stiller. But Owen Wilson and Will Ferrell are the reason I watch this movie.
(Hansel) “I wasn’t like every other kid, you know, who dreams about being an astronaut, I was always more interested in what bark was made out of on a tree. Richard Gere’s a real hero of mine. Sting. Sting would be another person who’s a hero. The music he’s created over the years, I don’t really listen to it, but the fact that he’s making it, I respect that. I care desperately about what I do. Do I know what product I’m selling? No. Do I know what I’m doing today? No. But I’m here, and I’m gonna give it my best shot.”
(Mugatu after he pokes a girl with a pin) “Oh, I’m sorry, did my pin get in the way of your ass? Do me a favor and lose five pounds immediately or get out of my building now!”
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So let’s see…Went to work at 11am today. Work on Saturday sucks, but I did get some paperwork done. Unfortunanetly, I still have two big orders to recieve in the computer, and there’s the art order that looks like it will take another day or two to complete. Well, mary called from the store and they really needed online boxes, so I left early.
What else; went with Mike to the store so that I could get some milk and a couple of lottery picks with the change that I scrounged. **fingers crossed**
Am in the processed of cleaning my house tonight. Amber is comming over either tonight or tomorrow to take me up to Vacaville with her so I can be at Gabi’s birthday party. If she comes tonight, then I will let her sleep in my bed and I will de-virginize the sofa bed downstairs. Mike is going to make curry and rice tonight since he saw me make it last week. I’m sure it will come out fine, but I’m just going to have a sandwich or something light. We are also going to watch Ocean’s Eleven. He paid $4 to rent it from Hollywood Video. I would have just went to the previous viewed movies and looked to see if I could buy a copy for that much.
O.K. I gotta to get my room cleaned.
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Current music: Janet Jackson – Special

OK, Since you can’t embed a free account, I think that I am going to use has my official livejournal account. This is the least favorite out of all of my accounts anyway. I wish that I could get tygreyes for a yahoo and hotmail account. I actually had tygreyes@yahoo.com, but I cancelled my account and somebody else took it. Poop. Anyway, I will still keep this journal active, cause it has most of my entries for 2001. I wish there was a way to combine the entries of several journals into one. Oh well. So if anybody cares is the journal you need to have on your friends list.
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OK, Since you can’t embed a free account, I think that I am going to use has my official livejournal account. This is the least favorite out of all of my accounts anyway. I wish that I could get tygreyes for a yahoo and hotmail account. I actually had tygreyes@yahoo.com, but I cancelled my account and somebody else took it. Poop. Anyway, I will still keep this journal active, cause it has most of my entries for 2001. I wish there was a way to combine the entries of several journals into one. Oh well. So if anybody cares is the journal you need to have on your friends list.
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