I've been writing a lot this week. I worked on a story about the history of UCI's mascot and did some thumbing through the very first issues of the school's newspaper, then called Spectrum. Apparently, in 1967, there was a controversy over the presentation of Oedipus and a writer for the Anthill - as the school newspaper changed through several ( Read more... )

Band T-Shirts. Today, August 20, happens to be the birthday of two of my favorites musical personages ever in the history of, well, musicians. On this day in 1948 Robert Plant in some corner of that huge island across the pond and in 1975 Monique Powell was born unto the right time and place in good ol' Orange County, California ( Read more... )

While there has been a fat mound of things happening so far in this wonderful summer of ours, tonight, it's all about one damn thing.


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If you just finished school by means of graduating or just finishing another quarter of school, this goes out to you!!!

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HOORAY!

So we had to do videos for our 85C class. We had to represent new media in some form and put the video on YouTube. It was tough coming up with something because I had to work with what I had. I didn't have a camera and would resort to using my digital camera's video mode if I had to film something. I didn't want to do a slide show because that ( Read more... )

I really can't wait until I have my own garden. I love planting all kinds of flowers and love to see them all lined up in a yard. I would absolutely love to work at a Green Thumb nursery or something. Around the end of last summer, Pielow and I found one somewhere in Orange County and went out to buy a potted flower, since I don't have a yard quite ( Read more... )

There's a lot to be said in the long period of time I haven't been keeping up in here. Yet between that moment of academic frustration and some time in the near future when I'll probably actually take the time to make a viable post, this happened ( Read more... )

This is a bit too multi-layered for me to just think about it in my head so I'm going to have to lay this one out so I can see things clearer ( Read more... )

It's an absolutely beautiful day outside. We've had weeks and weeks of rain, grassy knolls hiding patches of mud and puddles on uneven areas of pavement. It's sunny outside, it might even be a little bit hot, dare I say. As always, there are pounds of work to do and not enough time to sit outside and enjoy the day ( Read more... )

Pielow's right. This is pretty much what Zibil's morning ritual is like. Down to the slight touching of the face with the paw. Oh wow.

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