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| Saturday, February 17th, 2007 | | 9:10 pm |
sore all over
for some reason my entire body is sore. I am suspicious of the following: - biking like the kidnapped son in les triplettes de belleville - gyming instead of studying - my hammock shaped bed so the tentative life plans .. stay in Austin for 2 years as a junior consultant for Illuminas then 2 years at Terry in Georgia for the MMR. feels good to almost have that settled so that i can focus my attentions elsewhere. AMAZING WEATHER IN AUSTIN : BEWARE if diagnosed with any of the following symptoms, contact your local garrett immediately - excessive rolling down hills - outbursts of, oh my f24#%ng god or jesus ... it is SOO nice outside - the desire to go rollerblading | | Tuesday, August 1st, 2006 | | 10:03 am |
one more
so its like those crane games kids always pump money into except for adults. In my crane game you grab beer. brilliant! | | Saturday, July 29th, 2006 | | 12:06 pm |
| | Sunday, July 23rd, 2006 | | 7:29 pm |
quick last month update (i plan on getting to this thing more frequently) - family reunion -haven't seen that side of the family in 5 years. made my grandma smile from ear to ear. -moms side of the family is humongous... large in numbers and height -learned how to make the perfect margarita -taught my uncle how to float -played the nicest golf courses i've ever seen in my life. -i think the idea of spotters is hilarious.. but you know a golf course is good when they pay a guy to stand in front of your drive and pay another to bullshit with you on the first hole. -the amish make good pie -really friggin pumped about acl. got ma ticket -read hitchhikers guide to the galaxy.. still think the meaning of life is 56 not 42 -taught Xilong how to golf -free spindoctor's concert... something i've been wanting to do since i was 7. oh yeah and free beer. -learned how to make a few more chinese dishes. | | Tuesday, June 20th, 2006 | | 6:42 pm |
back to work after a good weekend of feasting on homecooked chinese food and hanging out with my roomate. this weekend i found an amazing trail that goes wayyyyy back into the woods and eventually enters into a wildlife refuge. anddd i didn't get poison ivy. also rode around university of north carolina campus and enjoyed its antiquity. fun fact - UNC was the first state school opened in the us. 176- something. really old. work is going well... i have everybody fooled that i am smarter than i really am. as long as you can do that and catch up/find out what people were talking about or assigned you to do while asking just the right questions and not the stupid ones then your set. actually i take that back. ask all the stupid questions but just to one person and make sure that they know they are your stupid question dump.. also make sure that yall are cool. what are these north koreans doing? | | Friday, June 16th, 2006 | | 11:00 pm |
my roomates father died today. Xilong was born in communist China during the early 1960's, lived throught the cultural revolution, and moved to the US with his wife and two sons 10 years ago. currently he, like me, has sought summer housing while moving for work. Xilong's father worked for a gov. run architecture/engineering company and was sent to a remote region in the north east of China to help develop the region on what was said to be a temporary assignment when Xilong was very young. In 1976 many of Xilong's family members including his mother were killed in a great earthquake. This left Xilong, the oldest, to take care of his family and himself. eventually they were allowed to relocate to where their father had been assigned and left by the government for over 20 years. luckily because of his family's status before/during the cultural revolution, xilong was able to receive a good education. as a traveling scholar he graduated from Northwestern and practiced medicine for awhile and has since transitioned into the research heavy side of neuropharmacology working for bsf. he has been published over 40 times, written books, and even written a chapter in an encyclopedia but longs to spend more time with his family and dreams of being able to move back to China. Many factors including the government and his children restrain him from being able to do this. I'm grateful to have randomly gotten the opportunity to live with someone with so much experience and wisdom yet still has the eyes of a child when you talk to him. I hope the best for him and his family. | | Wednesday, June 14th, 2006 | | 10:35 pm |
notes
back back for who knows how long. There probably won't be alot of interesting updates telling stories of travels or adventures.. because I'm an apprentice for the summer. working and learning are the two big words this summer. before we get into THAT lets step back about a month. flashhhback *blink *blink zoom in... ripples. had a great experience hiking around the highlands with liam before coming back to america. We took off on a drizzly saturday morning with our backpacks.. full of pb&j, cameras, books, energy and fantasty images of our trip to come. traveling on trains never gets old. as soon as the train steams out of the dark historic cities everything starts to blossom and roll as fields of mustard and lambs can be viewed from the big greasy train windows. mmm adjectives. Our destination: The Isle of Sky. first stopp Inverness to be tourists at Loch Ness. mission accomplished accompanies by experiencing the all to common but beautiful Scottish mist over Lock Ness, speculating about why liam thought more rich people lived in the counrty, freaking out over the cute but all too common baby lamb, Dram of Scotch #1, trying what the Scots considered fried chicken, clean hostel, good cookies, a weird pub where bathroom brawls ensued and drunk people tried to show off magic tricks. BACK ON THE TRAIN until we hit the end of the line so we proceeded to hike across the majestic Skye bridge into KyleAkin. Dropped off the bags and grabbed a quick haggis, scotch and futbol in one of the quaint seaside town's only pubs. Went and checked out the ruins of saucy mary's castle and napped in the grass a little. almost got a guys little dog drowned while skipping rocks. the dog jumped into the dark kelpy water and swam out trying in vain to find my sunken rock while its kids yelled at it from the shore. cute dog. went back unpacked... played a friendly game of futbol with some fellow backpackers using cones and a vacant lot. the universal sport, why don't we play it here? arg. ima buy a football. and kick it. that night, went to saucy mary's pub after a nice sunset and fooled around with shitty pool tables while meeting some people. interesting folks: 1) swiss? guy who worked with some film festival who's dream it has always been since he was a kid to ride around the highlands on a motorcycle... and he had a classic. 2)Canadian/Australian wine making couple who'd met in KyleAkin while backpacking 10 years ago and were doin an anniversary trip. 3) funny french guy who told us alot of reasons he hated the french.. then exhibited each one later on after drinking a bit. typing more tomorrow few ideas/thoughts for me to remember: -why doesn't Subway have a drivethrough? -humans are funny creatures who try to hide/make themselves look as far from an animal as possible. -Yankelovich should turn its marketing research microscope on its own markets -sleeping the proper amount, eating right, and excercising make me a happy person i sleep now. | | Friday, May 12th, 2006 | | 9:57 pm |
not enough recycling is a problem right? i think alot of cities and organizations are going about it wrong. the trashcan sized recycling bins that are seen around campus and in buildings are a good idea, they cover everyday to and fro recycling. in my opinion the big problem is that mass recycling is too much of an inconvienence and it has been unable to gain a foothold as a part of our culture. at least this is what i view from my perspective... i suck at recycling, most of the people i know don't flinch when tossing out stacks recyclable materials .. you know how it is. the main situation i'm thinking of is jester at UT. where 7000 people live and there isn't a convenient or obvious place to recycle (except for paper)so heres what i propose. (adapted from something they do here in edinburgh) essentially the plan would be to have massive, well designed, recycling bins (dumpsters) placed in high foot-traffic locations. The primary purpose that this would serve is to make recycling a visible activity. they would act as a reminder. if people are forced to walk past highly visible recycling points daily after throwing away tons of recycleables they may be more inclined to just bring their stuff with them on the way to whereever they are going. Why don't people do this already?... because truthfully, its just a little odd to bring your trashbag full of recycling to one of those trashcan sized bins. we already see this tactic working somewhat on ut campus with the daily texas newspaper huge orange recycling boxes. personally, if i were to walk past a point every so often and saw people dropping their stuff i'd do it. im sure that somebody could design a container that could be picked up by a truck and still look good, be easily accessible to the public. i don't recycling stinks, so that wouldn't be a problem. just an idea. | | 12:47 am |
if you were a real hippy you'd be naked... always tomorrow is Pablo's going away party. yeepah | | Thursday, May 11th, 2006 | | 6:14 pm |
its a good idea for people to change their name to a funny word or a word that makes them happy. it is not a good idea to name your kids this way though. "everybody's so concerned about heroin and marijuana and all that, until they forget the most dangerousest narcotic that exist's, and that's the narcotic that's injected into the minds of infants... it's called social narcotics..." -dj shadow couldn't agree more | | 2:35 pm |
international marketing final tomorrow... and dare i say it but it is midly hot outside. actually started sweating from just laying outside. the spaniards seem to be in their element today, equipped with fashionable shades, head bands, and tennis racquets. alas i must read this big book of bullshit. its almost as if i had written a textbook. 600 pgs of fluff, just repeating the same thing over and over in a few sentences... the entire thing could be reduced to a pamphlet. big up yourselves,.. mad D&B night tuesday. hung out w/ the americans and partied with kara for her last night. she bought me my bday whisky shot finally (THANKS TRINH). as soon as we got there this gay dude from finland got kicked out because he had one too many cosmopolitians or flirtinis or some colorful drink. the bouncer kicked him out because he thought he was doing coke off the toilet seat. half the group disappeared cuz that was his last night in europe and thats what good friends should do. i didn't know the guy so hung out and jumped around til 3 am. there are alot more good looking people in scotland than i had initially thought. once the sun came out and girls started shedding the parkas and beanies for skirts.. wow. quite bad timing for the weather, right when finals start. back to the big book o bullshiza. can't wait to get back and take a road trip with the family. my family rocks. i wonder if they'll let me bring duchess? | | Tuesday, May 9th, 2006 | | 8:34 pm |
note to self
fix the board game that you thought was great but ended up not beiung very fun. make self control software for adults. software that limits the amount of goofing off i can do on my comp per day. it would control everything including dvd play time, chat programs, games, surfing ... pre-programmed self control. so i could say that i only wanted to be able to surf the internet (excluding serious websites such as uni, bank, email etc) for one hour a day, max dvd one hour, etc etc. then after all the settings are in i would set it and there would be nothing i could do about it. hmmid use it make a digital library.. seriously though, why isn't every book every written digitized and put on the internet? 2006! and i know what you are saying, "because of copyright protection" ... well i've used small internet libraries and they are completely rigged up so that you can't just go in and copy a book. now that that problem is solved .. somebody needs to be the first to jump on that and make a shit ton of money... or it could be a big combined effort from universiteis everywhere. charge people a monthly/yearly fee to be a member. each university could digitize 10K books or so. i think it would work. stop thinking of things that you'll never be able to invent and go study. oh rght finals, shiza ima go watch the mighty boosh | | 2:53 am |
ps I'm not going to read any of these after typing ... so deal with any nonsense, spelling errors or virtual doodles that you come across. ha played pool... lost 4 games a row then redeemed myself, rubbed it in alot by doing a soft shoe with the pool cue. drank and talked about topics that me and my friends (alex and kara) think are important such as the future of the US and the future of the environment and our own inaqequencies. i love to meet someont with real concerns and interests. yay. alex gave a book that impacted his life and that meant a;lot to me. | | Monday, May 8th, 2006 | | 7:27 pm |
the mighty booosh
I haven't seen a show this funny in along time. The Mightly Boosh. rocks. ben called it the monty python of our generation and i couldn't agree more. favorite quotes, " do you love me?" "note to self, pocket cup" "I'm going to creep inside you like a warm kitten" "i read a pamphlet, so ... i once looked at a hedge" god it is so good. they need to dump a few sitcoms, soaps, suspense shows, shitass realty shows and get some more creative shit like the mighty boosh on tv. particularly day time soap operas, the OC, lost and ... well you know. so today i watched a whole season of this show, half assedly read, ran up a hill and ran into a guy from Georgia and now its pound pint night at the crags. ah. probably should study but... there is plenty of time so I don't feel it in any necessary to manage it. the trick to time management is to actually have stuff in your schedule to manage. once you make a commitment to something you have to manage it. otherwise i am a bad manager of myself. but i am good at getting involved... everything just falls into place. beer time | | Sunday, May 7th, 2006 | | 3:46 pm |
back with a vengeance
yes there was a big gap. i stopped for awhile. got lazy, rethunk my reasons for writing. so check it. Spain was amazing. got deep into the culture thanks to my good friend pablo. lived next to the beach, ate a Spanish moms home cookin, enjoyed morrocan and spanish produce, road tripped to Granada - Moorish castle, steamy turkish bath, cheesy greasy hot meaty delicious tapas with cold Calicasas(Scottish and Spanish food had a gastrointestinal war), people on scooters with horse riding hats, sunshine, botellon, meeting many new faces, yad yada yada the next day i slept on the car ride home. hedonistically indulging myself in Spanish culture and natural beauty. Why didn't i study in Spain? woops. i've finally stopped asking myself 'why' when i experience something different in another culture. the trick is immediate acceptance. makes things easier. next part is for .. well read on if you like ... its not the usual recap of events iced with hints of exciteness or disappointment. ===== things are changing. faster than i like. major realizations are still floating and settling in my head. no more summers at home. no cruising around the suburbs among the fences, stop lights and street lights battling boredom and my all too easily accepted comfortable state. focus is now a part of life. focus now becomes necessary. gone are the days of jumping from one shiny interest to the next without devotion. what a shame. gone are the days of riding in the back seat with my brother. gone are the days of my warm and unconscious reliance upon the only situation i've known in life. it all depends on how i look at it i guess. its not a bad thing at all. just a change. no need to brood. i'd rather reminesce. ====== truthfully, i prefer action to reflection any day. what is there to be afraid of? what is missing? im gonna go play squash. | | Tuesday, March 28th, 2006 | | 12:19 pm |
no internet
live journal hiatus. I've moved flats and am not going to have the internet for about a month. yeah im roughin it. but ill be on the beach most of the time so don't feel bad for me. many stories to tell when I get back. | | Sunday, March 19th, 2006 | | 10:56 pm |
Happy St. Patrick's Day! friday went to a Ceilidh which is a big Scottish ho-down barn dance shindig. Ended up bein lots of international students... so it was alot less raucous and alcohol drenched than I pictured a real Scottish Ceilidh. eh well it was fun and much spinning and jigging ensued. Ima damn jig champion. St Patty's day: went with the Spaniards to a few pubs and drank muchos Guinness. Live band playin cheese rocked and we ended up being too late for another Ceilidh. I didn't get to eat my traditional corned beef sandwich. sob In other news my Dad is turning 50. Big birthday year for me and my pops. I bought him a Happy Birthday you are 5 card. hopefully he thinks it is as funny as i do. It lets him color in the cake with crayons. 11 more days of hell month. roar | | Wednesday, March 15th, 2006 | | 4:53 pm |
School is still owning me but in a fun way. Currently finishing off a prototype board game for my design, creativity and problem solving class... its called "smash" and I can't wait to playing it this weekend. look for it in a toys r us near you. can't wait for SPainnn | | Sunday, March 12th, 2006 | | 2:22 pm |
so I'm sitting here in the library, minding my own business, and I sneeze. Instead of getting a bless you the girl in front of me turns around slowly and gives me the shut-the-hell-up face...?!!?!! WTfuck IT IS SNOWING OUTSIDE>!! people are gonna be sneezing. did some research for my final sociology paper and found buried wayyy back in the library, through a series of interlibrary loans that I can get ahold of a paper that my professor wrote on the exact same topic. is it bad form to quote your prof? maybe i'll just plagiarize the whole thing. ha can't wait until i have to sneeze again. | | Saturday, March 11th, 2006 | | 2:51 am |
i just ate a mister choc croissant and wanted to tell you about it. on the front it says 32% hazelnut and chocolate in bold red letters. thats like having a croissant 1/3 of the way filled with nutella. Fuc#@$T# incredible. went out tonight and pubbed with kara, eleanor, dan, anna,annas friend, tom, tom, pablo ,david, ben. everyone was in a good mood and drinks were only 1 pound everywhere we went. wooyeepah funny thing happened at the cash machine... it didn't give me my card back. all i got was a receipt saying 'card retained'. naturally i called the number above the cash machine and asked what the hell happened to my card. the lady on the phone said that the machine must be faulty, had destroyed my card, and that i must call my bank back home and request a new card. w-t-fuck. I love this and so should you. --> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdOON54sb2Q&search=dr%20trangetting high is a crime? |
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