i walked with steff and an alisa in a breast cancer walk today, and i kept getting really annoyed at the stupid little highschoolers who were shouting, "Way to go!  You're almost there!  You're awesome!" all the way through it.  it got really hard NOT to whack them with my nalgene bottle as i walked by.  it's possible that i'll get nicer over time ( Read more... )

1.  Foreigner.  Hot Blooded.  Best part was the totally stoned 40 year old who danced like a freak the entire time directly in front of us.  We have it on video.  (BTW, his son/nephew had a girl with him [we decided that she should be his sister] and they kept crawling under a blanket during the best parts of the concert.  Between acts, I was about ( Read more... )

I had a wonderful time visiting with Molly this weekend!  Mono lake is much more beautiful than i remember it, and the town of Lee Vining is like a setting for a Christopher Pike novel:  "a group of teens find a deadly secret among the tufas, an ancient grudge that has been waiting for new blood--It's the Return of Tufa Monster!"  Or how about:  " ( Read more... )

I learned a new trick ( Read more... )

One of the disadvantages to working in a converted warehouse:  when it's 109 degrees outside, the air conditioning has a hard time keeping up with the demand.  By 3:00, most everyone had had enough, and two of them spent about 30 minutes tracing out where the cold air was going in the ducts, and arguing over whether one room was colder than another ( Read more... )

One of my cousins graduated from Davis High the other day, and yesterday was her party for it.  I went, more becuase I feel like I owe her parents for always coming to my stupid crap over the years.

She told me about her grad night:

-the parents and community spent about $15,000 dollars on it
-it was a Casino Royale theme (they're the class of 2007 ( Read more... )

Didn't start well, but after half a bottle of wine, a long drive of rehearsing how I'm going to make someone cry at UC Davis, some good quality time with my brother and sis-in-law, and enough caffeine to make me hyper, I'm now really excited to be done with work and wander around Eugene and amuse myself ( Read more... )

I'm excited about going up to Eugene!  It's only for a couple of days, but it will be good to get down to sc, too, so I can meet up with people NOT on a weekend ( Read more... )

I need new pants.  Not that this is a sudden revelation, but it's just hard for me to find pants.  Strangely, the Walmart ones fit pretty well-ish, but they still smell like fumigant after god knows how many washes.  Plus, since they're cheaply made, they do this weird thing around my hips that makes them saggy, so I have to try to pull them up ( Read more... )

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good thing the weather is nice, so me and everyone else have been driving around with our windows down...