Christmas Break 2005/6
Its been super long since I updated. I therefore am going to forget 90% of what I intended to report on from this Christmas break.
Hung out with Shalane a bunch. Went to grandparents house in Camarillo for Christmas. A few days later Kristy came down and stayed with me for most of a week, which was strong sauce. For New Years we went down to San Diego to hang out with Sashie, Little Colleen, regular Colleen, and others, at regular Colleen's brother's place. Among other things Kristy and I went on a hike at Holy Jim Falls in Mission Viejo.
There's a bunch of other pictures from break loaded up on my new paid flickr account (because Kristy is awesome).
Kristy rode with me back up, and even braved my crazy stalling car and drove for a good bit. First we went to Fort Kristy in Pleasanton, then this morning we attempted to drive from there to Davis. This was thwarted for 40 minutes or so by my car refusing to start. Eventually it did, but it later tried to kill me by stalling in intersections in Davis. As I tried to leave my apartment to drive downtown, it stalled in the intersection of Lake and Portage Bay but I had enough momentum to coast to the shoulder on Portage Bay. Got it running again and drove 100 yards to the intersection of Russel and Lake, whereupon it stalled and came to a complete stop in the middle of that intersection. )= Fortunately it started again a minute or two later.
After talking to the advisors in the Dean's office I think I might PELP (P(e)lanned academic Leave(p) or something, basically taking a quarter off school) since the classes I've managed to get this quarter are complete shite and I can't afford to waste units on shite classes since I can only pull two more quarters out of this place before I hit the ceiling and get bounced out.
Little brother (Eric) has been trying to get his active duty extended in the Marine Corps. They finally did it today.
Otherwise he'd have been just short of the new years of continuous service necessary to get Hella College Moneys, due to being deactivated for ten days between bootcamp and activation.
Picture of the Day
Quotes
Following a dinner time discussion between my parents and grandparents on whats new with various acquantances -- Grandmother to parents: "I guess people your age worry about divorces, we worry about deaths." Tobin: "and people our age worry about marriage!!"
Mother, to grandfather: "Want to join my betting pool on which of my children will get married first? The youngest has a girlfriend with a baby, the middle one is in a serious relationship, and the oldest one, well, he's probably getting desperate."
"potted plant? I puked in one of those last night!" -Eric, volunteering information at dinner, New Years Day
"Oh! I think a certain dampness is coming from the sky onto the ground! Yes it is coming quite profusely!" - Mother. Translation: it is raining.
And there were many more I'm surely forgetting.