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first, the big news.
Jared is back from Thailand. alive and well. haven't had the chance to talk to him yet, but my brother said he called. he and his wife are both fine, and it was a different Jared i found on that list. he was never injured. but they did experience some major shit.
they were scuba diving when the tsunami hit. they were staying at one of the resorts in Phuket and happened to be out on a dive that day. they were under water when it came, so it pretty much swept right over them. they couldn't have been much luckier. when they came up from under and steered that boat back towards land, everything was destroyed. they had to wait on the boat for two days, floating amidst debris and dead bodies as far as they could see. i can only imagine.
good to have them home. they're up in phoenix for the weekend, but hopefully we'll get to hang out soon.
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in other news...
i had an allergic reaction to something. who knows what. broke out in hives on the back of my hands and my forearms thursday. they're starting to itch now. i hope that means they're healing. taking benedryl. also fasted today and drank copious amounts of green tea and raw honey to help flush my system out. i think i OD'ed on nuts. been eating a shitload this past week or two. got hella cashews, almonds, and sunflower seeds from the bulk aisle at sunflower and i kinda went crazy lol. that's the only thing i could think of as being the trigger.
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nothing else to report, so without further ado... the answers to the two "10 things about me" memes i posted the day before LJ crashed hehe...
10 things about me
1. I'm an ordained minister
TRUE... i was ordained by the Universal Life Church back in 1999. that's when i felt secure enough in my beliefs... in the tangible spiritual organization that had accumulated in my head over the years... to be able to say yes this is me, this is what i believe in... and to have found an Organization that would let me legitimize that to an extant and be able to act in an oficial state when the need or want arose, it seemed only fitting.
2. My father was a Commie
TRUE... my father was a radical during the 60s and 70s, and was an active member of the Red Guard. an asian american Maoist organization active at the time alongside the I Wor Kuen. he also acted as a sort of counsel for the Black Panther Party... he taught the first Ethnic Studies courses at Oakland Community College and also at Cal State Hayward... and he opened and ran a chinese immigrant legal services center out of a storefront in Oakland's Chinatown. i was a new generation Red Baby... grew up with the communist Chinese flag on my wall and Mao's little red book.
3. When I was little, I wanted to be a policeman
FALSE... with number 2 true? i don't think so lol... i wanted to be a scientist or a teacher. then, later, a writer.
4. I'm 30 years old and still sleep with a teddy bear
TRUE... his name is Doodlebug ;) i've always slept with a stuffed animal of some sort. when i was a kid, my two favorites were a stuffed koala and seal named "kowawa" and "seawee" respectively. creative, huh? lol... when i was with mel, we slept with Doodlebug and a matching pair of stuffed frogs. the most painful moment of our seperation was when i was unpacking my things i'd retrieved from our apartment and there they were staring me in the face. they were representative of us. the frog prince and his princess. we had a photo album of our fave pics of eachother, and on the cover was a photo of them together. anyhoo. i'll probably still sleep with a stuffed animal til i die :P
5. I used to study ballet
TRUE... my brother and i both studied ballet under an old french woman named Anita who used to dance with Russian and French ballet companies. she'd danced alongside many of the greats, and a lot of her lessons are still with me to this day.
6. I was on the swim team in high school
FALSE... i don't know how to swim!
7. I'm a member of the "mile high club" ;)
FALSE... the most i've ever done with someone on an airplane is snuggle
8. My phone was once tapped
TRUE... there were two seperate occasions. when we were living in Oakland, first our phone was tapped when we took our friend Dan in as a roommate... he and my friend Teresa were two of the peace workers who the Serbs arrested and held during the Kosovo conflict back in 1998. when he was living with us, someone tapped our phone, and often he would catch black cars following him... the second time was when Joshy was living with us. that was when he was embroiled in a big mess of UFO conspiracies with all kinds of craziness going on. i still don't know what to believe. but i know that there is a very real and tangible "they" where he is involved. who, what, or why, i don't know.
9. I'm afraid of bananas... never eaten one, never will!
FALSE... heh. i love bananas, yo.
10. I first learned to drive in a Yugo on dirt roads in Oklahoma
TRUE... summer of 1992. my friend Nate tried teaching me how to drive in his Yugo GT(!)... backroads in Oklahoma, all dirt and mud. we gave up when i slid us off the road and nearly into a drainage ditch.
10 things i've done while drunk
1. Snorted lines of sugar and salt
FALSE... but some friends of mine did. i just witnessed it.
2. Had sex on the hood of a Chevy truck for 4 hours
TRUE... again, summer of 1992... her name was Carrie... she was the town slut so to speak... pretty much everyone i met there had sex with her at some point... when we met, we were out drinking Mad Dog 20/20 and Busch beer by an abandoned power station in the woods... everyone warned me about her before she showed up... then, even she warned me about her. we hit it off. she was telling me how she was a nympho. she made me promise not to let her have sex with me. she also told me how she'd just finished up her treatments for... some sort of STD, i can't remember which. something serious though like ghonorrea or syphillis, along those lines... anyhoo, we got totally trashed and were lying next to eachother on the hood of Olin's chevy when i passed out... i came to, staring at the stars... looked down and she was naked except for a bra, and my pants were pulled down to my ankles... i told her to stop several times, and when it became apparent she wasn't going to, i started to say "wait, i have a condom in my pocket..." but didn't get to finish the sentence. she was saying, "I'm sorry, I'm sorry..." over and over again as she stradled and put me inside her. i was too disoriented and didn't have the strength to move. she just kept going, saying "I'm sorry..." and i just lied there as i slowly awoke from my drunken fog. when my senses started to come back, i just said fuck it, what's done is done and i might as well go with it... so, go with it i did... for the next four hours! lol... we even took a piss break at some point and then hopped right back on the hood where i went down on her and we went back at it. my friend nate danced around, poking and slapping our asses and laughing up a storm. eventually, he passed out in the cab, but woke up from the rocking and puked while we were still fucking. when i finally came inside her, the sun was starting to rise. that was the only time i'd ever seen her. our paths didn't cross again while i was there, but in the years to follow, she'd still tell nate or mike to say hi when they came home to visit. and i still often wonder about her.
3. Gotten into a streetfight and ended up in the ER
TRUE... you can read about it here.
4. Passed out on BART and woke up in the train yard
FALSE... but i did pass out on the 28 riding home on muni one night... woke up the next morning to the driver telling me to "get the fuck off" his bus lol.
5. Tied up a passed out friend and hung him up from a tree branch in the front yard
TRUE... when we used to have parties at my friend Pete's house (at one of which i first met Mel), we would often fuck with people who passed out... especially this one dude, Ivan, who often passed out before anyone else. one time we went a bit far, though, tied him up in his sleep and dragged him outside.. then hoisted him up as he awoke and hung him from the tree out front. i don't think anyone ever remembered taking him down, but when we woke up the next day he was back inside with us lol. man we were some mean bastards. i remember when it got to the point that we started coveting flashlights and shit when we crashed in case anyone tried something we could wake up swinging lol.
6. Drank a bottle of prune juice when the booze ran out
TRUE... man oh man... i was hurtin' the next day!!! i feel sorry for bart and gard's toilet lol.
7. Went to the grocery store and ate a rotisserie chicken while pretending to shop
FALSE... but that really does sound good hehe.
8. Lost my pants and walked home half naked
FALSE... though one time, when i was trippin on acid, i did tear the back of my sweats off when we hopped a chain link fence... wandered the neighborhood tripping my balls off with my ass hangin out the whole night. didn't realize it until i got home and got undressed haha.
9. Puked chinese food in my girlfriend's hair
TRUE... Nuncia, Nate and i drank a fifth of jim beam and a case of bud one night, had chinese food for dinner... i puked in my sleep, woke up to Nuncia screaming at me, mid puking, because we were sleeping together and her head was right next to my face when it happened. ewww. that was a hell of a mess to clean up. because i jumped out of bed still puking and not knowing what the fuck was going on. it got all over her, the bed, a bunch of books i kept near the bed, my closet door, and the walls. bleh.
10. Gave ballet lessons in the middle of a crowded dive bar
TRUE... one night at The Other Place, during my binging post-seperation, Molly and i were talking about how we used to take ballet lessons when we were little. some others there took interest, and next thing ya know, we're in the middle of the bar demonstrating the different positions, correct posture and breathing, and even did a few of the routines we used to practice. silly emi.
Jared is back from Thailand. alive and well. haven't had the chance to talk to him yet, but my brother said he called. he and his wife are both fine, and it was a different Jared i found on that list. he was never injured. but they did experience some major shit.
they were scuba diving when the tsunami hit. they were staying at one of the resorts in Phuket and happened to be out on a dive that day. they were under water when it came, so it pretty much swept right over them. they couldn't have been much luckier. when they came up from under and steered that boat back towards land, everything was destroyed. they had to wait on the boat for two days, floating amidst debris and dead bodies as far as they could see. i can only imagine.
good to have them home. they're up in phoenix for the weekend, but hopefully we'll get to hang out soon.
...
in other news...
i had an allergic reaction to something. who knows what. broke out in hives on the back of my hands and my forearms thursday. they're starting to itch now. i hope that means they're healing. taking benedryl. also fasted today and drank copious amounts of green tea and raw honey to help flush my system out. i think i OD'ed on nuts. been eating a shitload this past week or two. got hella cashews, almonds, and sunflower seeds from the bulk aisle at sunflower and i kinda went crazy lol. that's the only thing i could think of as being the trigger.
...
nothing else to report, so without further ado... the answers to the two "10 things about me" memes i posted the day before LJ crashed hehe...
10 things about me
1. I'm an ordained minister
TRUE... i was ordained by the Universal Life Church back in 1999. that's when i felt secure enough in my beliefs... in the tangible spiritual organization that had accumulated in my head over the years... to be able to say yes this is me, this is what i believe in... and to have found an Organization that would let me legitimize that to an extant and be able to act in an oficial state when the need or want arose, it seemed only fitting.
2. My father was a Commie
TRUE... my father was a radical during the 60s and 70s, and was an active member of the Red Guard. an asian american Maoist organization active at the time alongside the I Wor Kuen. he also acted as a sort of counsel for the Black Panther Party... he taught the first Ethnic Studies courses at Oakland Community College and also at Cal State Hayward... and he opened and ran a chinese immigrant legal services center out of a storefront in Oakland's Chinatown. i was a new generation Red Baby... grew up with the communist Chinese flag on my wall and Mao's little red book.
3. When I was little, I wanted to be a policeman
FALSE... with number 2 true? i don't think so lol... i wanted to be a scientist or a teacher. then, later, a writer.
4. I'm 30 years old and still sleep with a teddy bear
TRUE... his name is Doodlebug ;) i've always slept with a stuffed animal of some sort. when i was a kid, my two favorites were a stuffed koala and seal named "kowawa" and "seawee" respectively. creative, huh? lol... when i was with mel, we slept with Doodlebug and a matching pair of stuffed frogs. the most painful moment of our seperation was when i was unpacking my things i'd retrieved from our apartment and there they were staring me in the face. they were representative of us. the frog prince and his princess. we had a photo album of our fave pics of eachother, and on the cover was a photo of them together. anyhoo. i'll probably still sleep with a stuffed animal til i die :P
5. I used to study ballet
TRUE... my brother and i both studied ballet under an old french woman named Anita who used to dance with Russian and French ballet companies. she'd danced alongside many of the greats, and a lot of her lessons are still with me to this day.
6. I was on the swim team in high school
FALSE... i don't know how to swim!
7. I'm a member of the "mile high club" ;)
FALSE... the most i've ever done with someone on an airplane is snuggle
8. My phone was once tapped
TRUE... there were two seperate occasions. when we were living in Oakland, first our phone was tapped when we took our friend Dan in as a roommate... he and my friend Teresa were two of the peace workers who the Serbs arrested and held during the Kosovo conflict back in 1998. when he was living with us, someone tapped our phone, and often he would catch black cars following him... the second time was when Joshy was living with us. that was when he was embroiled in a big mess of UFO conspiracies with all kinds of craziness going on. i still don't know what to believe. but i know that there is a very real and tangible "they" where he is involved. who, what, or why, i don't know.
9. I'm afraid of bananas... never eaten one, never will!
FALSE... heh. i love bananas, yo.
10. I first learned to drive in a Yugo on dirt roads in Oklahoma
TRUE... summer of 1992. my friend Nate tried teaching me how to drive in his Yugo GT(!)... backroads in Oklahoma, all dirt and mud. we gave up when i slid us off the road and nearly into a drainage ditch.
10 things i've done while drunk
1. Snorted lines of sugar and salt
FALSE... but some friends of mine did. i just witnessed it.
2. Had sex on the hood of a Chevy truck for 4 hours
TRUE... again, summer of 1992... her name was Carrie... she was the town slut so to speak... pretty much everyone i met there had sex with her at some point... when we met, we were out drinking Mad Dog 20/20 and Busch beer by an abandoned power station in the woods... everyone warned me about her before she showed up... then, even she warned me about her. we hit it off. she was telling me how she was a nympho. she made me promise not to let her have sex with me. she also told me how she'd just finished up her treatments for... some sort of STD, i can't remember which. something serious though like ghonorrea or syphillis, along those lines... anyhoo, we got totally trashed and were lying next to eachother on the hood of Olin's chevy when i passed out... i came to, staring at the stars... looked down and she was naked except for a bra, and my pants were pulled down to my ankles... i told her to stop several times, and when it became apparent she wasn't going to, i started to say "wait, i have a condom in my pocket..." but didn't get to finish the sentence. she was saying, "I'm sorry, I'm sorry..." over and over again as she stradled and put me inside her. i was too disoriented and didn't have the strength to move. she just kept going, saying "I'm sorry..." and i just lied there as i slowly awoke from my drunken fog. when my senses started to come back, i just said fuck it, what's done is done and i might as well go with it... so, go with it i did... for the next four hours! lol... we even took a piss break at some point and then hopped right back on the hood where i went down on her and we went back at it. my friend nate danced around, poking and slapping our asses and laughing up a storm. eventually, he passed out in the cab, but woke up from the rocking and puked while we were still fucking. when i finally came inside her, the sun was starting to rise. that was the only time i'd ever seen her. our paths didn't cross again while i was there, but in the years to follow, she'd still tell nate or mike to say hi when they came home to visit. and i still often wonder about her.
3. Gotten into a streetfight and ended up in the ER
TRUE... you can read about it here.
4. Passed out on BART and woke up in the train yard
FALSE... but i did pass out on the 28 riding home on muni one night... woke up the next morning to the driver telling me to "get the fuck off" his bus lol.
5. Tied up a passed out friend and hung him up from a tree branch in the front yard
TRUE... when we used to have parties at my friend Pete's house (at one of which i first met Mel), we would often fuck with people who passed out... especially this one dude, Ivan, who often passed out before anyone else. one time we went a bit far, though, tied him up in his sleep and dragged him outside.. then hoisted him up as he awoke and hung him from the tree out front. i don't think anyone ever remembered taking him down, but when we woke up the next day he was back inside with us lol. man we were some mean bastards. i remember when it got to the point that we started coveting flashlights and shit when we crashed in case anyone tried something we could wake up swinging lol.
6. Drank a bottle of prune juice when the booze ran out
TRUE... man oh man... i was hurtin' the next day!!! i feel sorry for bart and gard's toilet lol.
7. Went to the grocery store and ate a rotisserie chicken while pretending to shop
FALSE... but that really does sound good hehe.
8. Lost my pants and walked home half naked
FALSE... though one time, when i was trippin on acid, i did tear the back of my sweats off when we hopped a chain link fence... wandered the neighborhood tripping my balls off with my ass hangin out the whole night. didn't realize it until i got home and got undressed haha.
9. Puked chinese food in my girlfriend's hair
TRUE... Nuncia, Nate and i drank a fifth of jim beam and a case of bud one night, had chinese food for dinner... i puked in my sleep, woke up to Nuncia screaming at me, mid puking, because we were sleeping together and her head was right next to my face when it happened. ewww. that was a hell of a mess to clean up. because i jumped out of bed still puking and not knowing what the fuck was going on. it got all over her, the bed, a bunch of books i kept near the bed, my closet door, and the walls. bleh.
10. Gave ballet lessons in the middle of a crowded dive bar
TRUE... one night at The Other Place, during my binging post-seperation, Molly and i were talking about how we used to take ballet lessons when we were little. some others there took interest, and next thing ya know, we're in the middle of the bar demonstrating the different positions, correct posture and breathing, and even did a few of the routines we used to practice. silly emi.