I must say, I haven't blogged in a while, but when I did, I expected I would write about a turning point in my acting career. "Starring in a National Commercial" or "Series Regular on a New TV Series". And while I am still hoping to write that blog in the future (preferably in the near future), instead I find myself wanting to talk about politics ( Read more... )

A dear friend of mine accused me of not updating my journal enough. Of course, she was right. At the same time, I accused her of sheltering her xanga posts by not importing them to Facebook. So Trinh, I'm going to update, but in return, my faithful readers are going to know you exist. All's fair in love and online journals.

I was reading Trinh's ( Read more... )

No, it's not the title of a best-selling feminist book. It's a speech given by Roy F. Baumeister, a Psychology professor at Florida State University, last Friday at the American Psychological Convention in San Francisco. Instead of espousing the superiority or deficiency of one gender over the other, Dr. Baumeister suggests to look at gender ( Read more... )

So I was wandering around UCLA, waiting for my audition for a student film (for which I was cast!) when I ran into three friends, Vince, Gerard, & April. We had a little chat, after which they invited me to meet up with them at the Coop. I agreed, and after my audition I headed over there ( Read more... )

It's been several months since I've blogged. Overall, my life has gone very well since that last entry. I often thought to myself that I only seem to write whenever I feel emotionally unbalanced, to both extremes. Sadly, this tradition continues ( Read more... )

If you asked me right now where I am in life, I would say I was in a happy place. I love my job as a chess instructor. Last week I started another part-time job teaching an ACT prep course, and had a great time. My living situation is beginning to gel. Overall, life is good. However, despite the good times, I feel like my life has lost some ( Read more... )

Earlier this afternoon, I was at my old employer's office. It was my first time there since I had resigned. I used to work at a bank, and I still had an account there and was depositing some checks. I saw some old colleagues of mine and we made some small talk. It had felt like years since I had left. And yet, nothing had changed ( Read more... )

Hmmm... have I used this entry title before? Oh well... if I did, this entry will just be a mediocre remake of the original ( Read more... )

So in the past 12 hours since becoming aware of the UCLA security breach, I've called UCLA confirming my info was in the compromised database, set a fraud alert with Experian, emailed every UCLA yahoogroup I'm on, and spent about an hour w/my roommate to set up a facebook support group. I guess it's all an effort to feel empowered when you feel ( Read more... )

Between the tasing, admission dilemmas, football upsets, the men's basketball team, and this, you'd think UCLA was the center of the whole friggin' universe. (article from LA Times website) Major breach of UCLA's computer files

Personal information on thousands is exposed in one of the largest security break-ins ever at a U.S. university.
By ( Read more... )