i lost my freaking cell phone about a week ago. have no clue where it could have gone. well, i do know, but i couldn't find it at any of those places. so i basically have no one's number now. been snowboarding twice now and might go again tomorrow with tom. we'll see. overall, been really fun. maybe a little too fun. i love this place so much, but i'm kinda ready to go home. miss some of the utah things. leaving maybe sunday. not looking forward to another semester. happy new years everyone.
Thursday, December 30, 2004
Monday, December 20, 2004
wal-mart announces massive rollback on employee wages!!
Pisces: You'll be sued for slander, sexual harassment, inciting to riot, and a half-dozen other crimes when you decide to let your dancing speak for you.
how i missed the onion. so we strolled in colorado two nights ago at about 1 a.m. and made sunday a nice little time of santori time. without the santori of course. so good to be here. i'm typing this from tom's apartment in boulder at 8:30 in the morning because it is soooo windy out right now and way to loud for me to sleep. today's agenda includes as much last minute shopping that i can get in since tomorrow i'll be snowboarding with joe in breck. need to go pick out some shoes for kim with tom and get my mad discount. i can say this cuz i know that kim won't read this while we are here. she hardly reads it while we are home. still waiting for all the grades too. this will be a crappy week of checking every chance i get near a computer. that's really about it. the trees outside are all bending in ways that trees shouldn't bend. wait, today is the 20th? maybe its wednesday i'm going snowboarding. hmm. i'll have to look into that one. either way i'm crossing my fingers for a day at breckenridge with my bro, then a day at copper mountain with tom and rye next week. well, gonna watch a movie until tommy boy wakes up. miss my utah peeps. hope you guys are surviving without me. i know its tuff. i can't even do it.
Flashback FM: i rode a stupid pony when i was like 6 in cub scouts. probably 1 of 2 actual things we did the entire time i was in cub scouts. and it wasn't really a ride. more like a stupid photo op. crappy part is hell only knows where that picture is. this the only time i've ridden one of our four-legged friends and it wasn't so hard. don't see what the big deal is about riding horses. maybe i'll try it out when/if we go to aruba or when i own my thousand+ acres of land in montana in 30 years. are there horses in aruba?
how i missed the onion. so we strolled in colorado two nights ago at about 1 a.m. and made sunday a nice little time of santori time. without the santori of course. so good to be here. i'm typing this from tom's apartment in boulder at 8:30 in the morning because it is soooo windy out right now and way to loud for me to sleep. today's agenda includes as much last minute shopping that i can get in since tomorrow i'll be snowboarding with joe in breck. need to go pick out some shoes for kim with tom and get my mad discount. i can say this cuz i know that kim won't read this while we are here. she hardly reads it while we are home. still waiting for all the grades too. this will be a crappy week of checking every chance i get near a computer. that's really about it. the trees outside are all bending in ways that trees shouldn't bend. wait, today is the 20th? maybe its wednesday i'm going snowboarding. hmm. i'll have to look into that one. either way i'm crossing my fingers for a day at breckenridge with my bro, then a day at copper mountain with tom and rye next week. well, gonna watch a movie until tommy boy wakes up. miss my utah peeps. hope you guys are surviving without me. i know its tuff. i can't even do it.
Flashback FM: i rode a stupid pony when i was like 6 in cub scouts. probably 1 of 2 actual things we did the entire time i was in cub scouts. and it wasn't really a ride. more like a stupid photo op. crappy part is hell only knows where that picture is. this the only time i've ridden one of our four-legged friends and it wasn't so hard. don't see what the big deal is about riding horses. maybe i'll try it out when/if we go to aruba or when i own my thousand+ acres of land in montana in 30 years. are there horses in aruba?
Thursday, December 16, 2004
chalk up another
semester is now officially over. on the drive home, started thinking about other times in my past when semesters or school years would end. as many things, turns out that the ones that stick out aren't the greatest of times. now this could be because i generally only remember bad things (or so i've been told). but even tonight didn't really end the way i had it all pictured. kinda bummed it didn't.
always picture me using this blog as a way to write down events in my life prior to starting it. my greatest fear in life is losing the memories i have so someday i hope to be able to find the time to just start writing. so maybe i'll start right now. here's a glimpse of some of the last days of school in my life. sorry if its all the bad memories, but like i said, that's all i remember. all the others were probably just too ordinary to remember. and there's nothing worse than being ordinary, right?
i went to school in san jose at trace elementary, which was a third-fifth grade school. loved the place to death. felt so special that i was in this really smart school and in the "smart" math classes. also loved seeing this girl day in and day out. her name was emily kine (i think i'm spelling it wrong, but it sounds like i spelled it). she had long blonde hair and was reminiscent of dj from full house. i basically went all three years without really talking to her or showing interest. when the end of fifth grade came around, she signed my little "yearbook" which was basically about 6 sheets of colored paper stapled together. i still remember her little cursive writing on about the second page in, which was as far in as anyone signed from my lack of friends. so the last day is here that i'd be at that school and as i walked home alone, sure enough there she was about 100 feet away getting on her bus. i seem to remember looking over to her and smiling and her maybe waving back. or maybe that's what i wanted to happen. i probably just kept looking up and down, hoping she'd glance and think i had happened to glance in her direction as well. either way, i walked home listening to my mom's tape of garth brooks on my walkman. never saw her again and i'm sure she forgot about me right about the time she hit 7th grade.
in fresno now "graduating" middle school from el capitan. had some really interesting friends at the time. loyal and good as far as friends go, but just kinda weird. white fat kid me, mexican paul, mexican adrian, hindu or indian or something "bicky" as we called him, white trash aaron, and brian tolmachoff (sp.). this was our little group for most of middle school. i had a few other and probably closer friends, but never hung with them because they were on a different track schedule than i was. and of course there were my gangster "friends" that only liked me because i did all their homework. then there were the elite types like tommy forester, brandon lee, a-hole ralph, and mr. ryan clay. we all knew each other, but i wasn't cool enough to be more than a close acquaintance. ryan was everything i wished i was. he was actually the first person that i ever heard utter the word "weezer." he had the girl i wanted (andrea alonzo), was good looking and smart and witty and athletic and i hated it. i wanted so much to be close to him, but just never happened. the closest i ever got was when he would make fun of me. but we were cool so come graduation, he was taking off to another school. i had this image in my head for some retarded reason that during all the mingling i would go to him and shake his hand, give him a hug (didn't sound this gay when it was in my head at the time) and tell him thank you for being my friend and good luck to you. clad in my first tie i ever owned (and still own), i walked to him and basically stuttered out a goodbye. he and ralph were looking around for someone else so he did say bye, but like the two years we knew each other, he was too busy doing other things to really notice me. maybe i really didn't want to be noticed anyways. who knows.
jump to end of fall semester, freshman year. we were playing this little winter concert at the school cafeteria. one of the songs was o holy night which the first, second, and third trumpets each had solos that eventually turned into a nice little trio. the song is 12/8 time (for some reason i'm actually thinking it was written in cut-time, which i also didn't know) and of course my gay beginning band teacher the year before never taught that, so i had to give up my little solo because i didn't know how to play it. so i practiced forever and a day to get it right and learn 12/8 and 6/8 time and the day of the concert i went out on a limb and asked sly, our band director, if i could take the part now. of course he said no and i was so bummed. to top it off, my first girlfriend ever broke my pathetic little heart a short time before. so there i am playing in this concert, crying during o holy night because i was too retarded to play the part and my oblivious ex-girlfriend was tooting away on her flute. to this day i can barely sit through that song.
duncan olds was the epitome of cool. as a junior in colorado, my only goal was to be a senior, graduate early, and head back to california. so i took some senior classes my junior year which included senior english technology taught by mr. olds (before that clown mr. foley), who happened to be duncan's dad. he was my jordon catalano, except my name's not angela and i didn't want to jump his bones. he was one of the first people ever in my life that cared about me just because he was a nice guy. a truly, genuine, nice guy. popular, good looking, and as perfect as can be, and here he was looking out for me. i didn't even have to do his homework for him to care. at that time i was ditching class for the first time in my life to hang out with patti and for some reason, he was concerned and wanted to make sure i was okay. so we began talking and out of nowhere i was friends with this guy. it only lasted a semester because he was a real senior unlike me. at grad time, i ran around the arena trying to track him down. i pushed my way through his crowd of groupies and this time, unlike ryan, i got my nice goodbye. cried afterwards because i was so sad i'd never see him again (although i did a few years later). there are a certain group of guy friends in my life that have come and gone without a friendship fully blossoming like i had imagined or hoped. another crappy feeling of what if. is this all because i lacked a real father figure growing up? who knows, who cares now i guess.
cut to what feels like so many years later. semesters are never what you hope but can sometimes surprise you beyond belief. oh how much a few classes and months can change a person. lots of good, lots of bad. i'll never know if its the good or bad that has been the predominant outcome of each semester. haven't determined what i would classify today as. ask me in a few weeks when i have more time to reflect . . . goodnight all. see you in colorado.
always picture me using this blog as a way to write down events in my life prior to starting it. my greatest fear in life is losing the memories i have so someday i hope to be able to find the time to just start writing. so maybe i'll start right now. here's a glimpse of some of the last days of school in my life. sorry if its all the bad memories, but like i said, that's all i remember. all the others were probably just too ordinary to remember. and there's nothing worse than being ordinary, right?
i went to school in san jose at trace elementary, which was a third-fifth grade school. loved the place to death. felt so special that i was in this really smart school and in the "smart" math classes. also loved seeing this girl day in and day out. her name was emily kine (i think i'm spelling it wrong, but it sounds like i spelled it). she had long blonde hair and was reminiscent of dj from full house. i basically went all three years without really talking to her or showing interest. when the end of fifth grade came around, she signed my little "yearbook" which was basically about 6 sheets of colored paper stapled together. i still remember her little cursive writing on about the second page in, which was as far in as anyone signed from my lack of friends. so the last day is here that i'd be at that school and as i walked home alone, sure enough there she was about 100 feet away getting on her bus. i seem to remember looking over to her and smiling and her maybe waving back. or maybe that's what i wanted to happen. i probably just kept looking up and down, hoping she'd glance and think i had happened to glance in her direction as well. either way, i walked home listening to my mom's tape of garth brooks on my walkman. never saw her again and i'm sure she forgot about me right about the time she hit 7th grade.
in fresno now "graduating" middle school from el capitan. had some really interesting friends at the time. loyal and good as far as friends go, but just kinda weird. white fat kid me, mexican paul, mexican adrian, hindu or indian or something "bicky" as we called him, white trash aaron, and brian tolmachoff (sp.). this was our little group for most of middle school. i had a few other and probably closer friends, but never hung with them because they were on a different track schedule than i was. and of course there were my gangster "friends" that only liked me because i did all their homework. then there were the elite types like tommy forester, brandon lee, a-hole ralph, and mr. ryan clay. we all knew each other, but i wasn't cool enough to be more than a close acquaintance. ryan was everything i wished i was. he was actually the first person that i ever heard utter the word "weezer." he had the girl i wanted (andrea alonzo), was good looking and smart and witty and athletic and i hated it. i wanted so much to be close to him, but just never happened. the closest i ever got was when he would make fun of me. but we were cool so come graduation, he was taking off to another school. i had this image in my head for some retarded reason that during all the mingling i would go to him and shake his hand, give him a hug (didn't sound this gay when it was in my head at the time) and tell him thank you for being my friend and good luck to you. clad in my first tie i ever owned (and still own), i walked to him and basically stuttered out a goodbye. he and ralph were looking around for someone else so he did say bye, but like the two years we knew each other, he was too busy doing other things to really notice me. maybe i really didn't want to be noticed anyways. who knows.
jump to end of fall semester, freshman year. we were playing this little winter concert at the school cafeteria. one of the songs was o holy night which the first, second, and third trumpets each had solos that eventually turned into a nice little trio. the song is 12/8 time (for some reason i'm actually thinking it was written in cut-time, which i also didn't know) and of course my gay beginning band teacher the year before never taught that, so i had to give up my little solo because i didn't know how to play it. so i practiced forever and a day to get it right and learn 12/8 and 6/8 time and the day of the concert i went out on a limb and asked sly, our band director, if i could take the part now. of course he said no and i was so bummed. to top it off, my first girlfriend ever broke my pathetic little heart a short time before. so there i am playing in this concert, crying during o holy night because i was too retarded to play the part and my oblivious ex-girlfriend was tooting away on her flute. to this day i can barely sit through that song.
duncan olds was the epitome of cool. as a junior in colorado, my only goal was to be a senior, graduate early, and head back to california. so i took some senior classes my junior year which included senior english technology taught by mr. olds (before that clown mr. foley), who happened to be duncan's dad. he was my jordon catalano, except my name's not angela and i didn't want to jump his bones. he was one of the first people ever in my life that cared about me just because he was a nice guy. a truly, genuine, nice guy. popular, good looking, and as perfect as can be, and here he was looking out for me. i didn't even have to do his homework for him to care. at that time i was ditching class for the first time in my life to hang out with patti and for some reason, he was concerned and wanted to make sure i was okay. so we began talking and out of nowhere i was friends with this guy. it only lasted a semester because he was a real senior unlike me. at grad time, i ran around the arena trying to track him down. i pushed my way through his crowd of groupies and this time, unlike ryan, i got my nice goodbye. cried afterwards because i was so sad i'd never see him again (although i did a few years later). there are a certain group of guy friends in my life that have come and gone without a friendship fully blossoming like i had imagined or hoped. another crappy feeling of what if. is this all because i lacked a real father figure growing up? who knows, who cares now i guess.
cut to what feels like so many years later. semesters are never what you hope but can sometimes surprise you beyond belief. oh how much a few classes and months can change a person. lots of good, lots of bad. i'll never know if its the good or bad that has been the predominant outcome of each semester. haven't determined what i would classify today as. ask me in a few weeks when i have more time to reflect . . . goodnight all. see you in colorado.
They will detail their pain
In some standard refrain.
They will recite their sadness
Like it's some kind of contest.
Well, if it is, I think I am winning it,
All beaming with confidence
as I make my final lap.
The gold medal gleams
so hang it around my neck
cause I am deserving it:
the champion of idiots.
In some standard refrain.
They will recite their sadness
Like it's some kind of contest.
Well, if it is, I think I am winning it,
All beaming with confidence
as I make my final lap.
The gold medal gleams
so hang it around my neck
cause I am deserving it:
the champion of idiots.
as she said, "We are finished!!!!"
The Big One (1997): i think the last of the michael moore movies on my list. this one was the worst of four i've seen, but it was still not a bad movie. just had less of a point to it than the priors. not much really else i can say about it. just another moore film. funny and makes you think and so on just like the others. its just not as funny and doesn't make you think as much. still worth buying though.
so school is pretty much done with. all that's left is to turn in a final tonight and i can go back to having a life of movies and sleeping for the next three weeks. i've been neglecting so many people, both friends and fam back home, because of this last month of craziness. i feel pretty bad but i hope they understand. kinda surreal that its over though. the first 3 months flew by like nobody's business, but from thanksgiving on it felt like the world had come to a standstill.
now we just wait for grades to be posted. family law i'll get an A. constitution i should get an A. drugs and crime i was smack in the middle of an A and A-, but i pretty much bombed the final, so i could get anywhere between a B+ and an A. law society is pass/fail and i better get a freaking pass. legal research should hopefully be an A. the ones i'm worried about is drugs and research. when i know, you'll know . . . maybe.
watched commentary for star wars IV and it really sucked. was hoping to get more about the story and maybe some little tidbits on things that connect the first three with the last three. ended up being mostly about crap everyone's heard about a million times over. its sad when the bruce almighty commentary was better than star wars.
i'm outta things to say already. today is my last day at work until january something. i guess i have to say that i'm pretty lucky to have a job where i can take off 3 weeks if i want. and since i got no homework i'll start watching special features for the last samurai today. but i still hate the job. xmas presents are still slowly coming along. i got a haircut that only 1 person has noticed. my hat goes off to that one person. i was thinking about shaving my goatee today, but i decided not to. not sure why. i usually get rid of it after each semester for like a week or so. i just want change but then my face looks all fat to match the rest of me. i'm just ready to go home so i can: 1. watch commentary for episode V; 2. send off letters and xmas package to my utah people; 3. eat pb to the mo freakin j; 4. fall asleep during episode V; 5. turn in final; 6. dare to ask teacher to bless this poor soul with his grace on paper; 7. sleep in tomorrow till about 1. and this time next week, i'll be livin it up.
i'd say you could call me on my cell phone, but for month number two, our minutes are over (again) because of g-ma using up our plan for the year. i keep forgetting though and have been using it here and there. so expect another $500 bill this month. you can still call me though after 9. i'm not really sure who i'm talking to right now, but you can still call if you want. time for a little cruise and a little sword wielding action biotch!
so school is pretty much done with. all that's left is to turn in a final tonight and i can go back to having a life of movies and sleeping for the next three weeks. i've been neglecting so many people, both friends and fam back home, because of this last month of craziness. i feel pretty bad but i hope they understand. kinda surreal that its over though. the first 3 months flew by like nobody's business, but from thanksgiving on it felt like the world had come to a standstill.
now we just wait for grades to be posted. family law i'll get an A. constitution i should get an A. drugs and crime i was smack in the middle of an A and A-, but i pretty much bombed the final, so i could get anywhere between a B+ and an A. law society is pass/fail and i better get a freaking pass. legal research should hopefully be an A. the ones i'm worried about is drugs and research. when i know, you'll know . . . maybe.
watched commentary for star wars IV and it really sucked. was hoping to get more about the story and maybe some little tidbits on things that connect the first three with the last three. ended up being mostly about crap everyone's heard about a million times over. its sad when the bruce almighty commentary was better than star wars.
i'm outta things to say already. today is my last day at work until january something. i guess i have to say that i'm pretty lucky to have a job where i can take off 3 weeks if i want. and since i got no homework i'll start watching special features for the last samurai today. but i still hate the job. xmas presents are still slowly coming along. i got a haircut that only 1 person has noticed. my hat goes off to that one person. i was thinking about shaving my goatee today, but i decided not to. not sure why. i usually get rid of it after each semester for like a week or so. i just want change but then my face looks all fat to match the rest of me. i'm just ready to go home so i can: 1. watch commentary for episode V; 2. send off letters and xmas package to my utah people; 3. eat pb to the mo freakin j; 4. fall asleep during episode V; 5. turn in final; 6. dare to ask teacher to bless this poor soul with his grace on paper; 7. sleep in tomorrow till about 1. and this time next week, i'll be livin it up.
i'd say you could call me on my cell phone, but for month number two, our minutes are over (again) because of g-ma using up our plan for the year. i keep forgetting though and have been using it here and there. so expect another $500 bill this month. you can still call me though after 9. i'm not really sure who i'm talking to right now, but you can still call if you want. time for a little cruise and a little sword wielding action biotch!
Saturday, December 11, 2004
another proud member in the long line of the "i hate ethan fanclub"
Dune (1984): way too confusing and just way too deep for a 2 hour movie. i’m sure the second one is long enough to establish everything and figure crap out. like, what is up with the giant slug squirting lightening out of his butt? are the worms really the spice? i don’t get that. i can’t imagine anyone liking this movie unless it came out when they were in middle school. it’s weird because there are so many other movies that i could see in this one like the matrix, star wars, lotr, chronicles of riddick, and a few others. but the movie sucked cuz i didn’t know what the hell was going on. don’t see. there was a ton of potential, which is why the recent version might be good. if i have time, i'll probably watch that. it is worth noting that patrick stewart looks exactly the same today as he did 20 years ago. that's the only thing i found interesting about this movie.
Soul Plane (2004): has some really funny moments, but the movie has absolutely no point. they tried to make it better by adding some stupid love story, but there is so little attention to it and the back story they added felt like they decided to do it 10 minutes before wrapping up their shoot. snoop stole the show though! and there are a ton of good songs and lots of good cameos (lil' jon shooting a music video on the plane next to the plane's casino/nudie bar). the movie is so far out there and uses so many funny references to the ghetto culture, which is all fine and dandy, but please, next time add a little story to it (such as barbershop or friday or don't be a menace to south central while drinking your juice in the hood). plus, for most of the jokes you could probably just purchase a ludacris album. see it for the laughs, but don't expect quality movie making.
been kinda weird lately. really busy with finishing up school finals and studying, but somehow found the time to watch four movies over the past 3 days. tired as hell too since i'm working saturday morning with on only 3 hours of sleep. so basically this post will probably take me hours to actually write because i'll be drifting in and out of consciousness (that's if the freaking officer decides to stop giving tickets to every driver out there). yesterday was a weird day. i woke up at 2:30 in the afternoon which is a little excessive i think. just having cool dreams about shooting people and being chased and so forth. hard to wake up when you are part of a movie in your head. got a little hw done and watched movies. then the night came and it all went to hell. i don't think i want to go into too much detail because everyone that it involves reads this. however, i'm still pissed about people jumping to conclusions, gossiping, not coming to me about their problems with me, trying to be a middleman when they shouldn't be, and a few other things i can problem complain about. we should have just went to the freaking party. oh well.
things are going okay so far with school. family law is completely finished. i ended up getting a 97% on my 37 pager, which isn't bad. stupid me was actually kind of disappointed that it wasn't 100. i'm gonna be begging for these type of scores in law school. i'm so ungrateful. he did take off points for just 1 question which i don't think he understood what i was trying to say. i really think i could argue the 3 points, but i'm going to end up having like 104% in the class so screw it. finished his final last night. we had to create a protection order and file for a divorce using utah's court website. this would normally not be worth saying, however this final is partially what ruined the night last night because someone thought i was saying i'm filing for divorce from kim as a joke and decided to tell kim. nice huh? well, IT WAS A FREAKING EXAM AND YOU DIDN'T SEEM THAT MAD WHEN I TOLD YOU SINCE YOU WERE LAUGHING ABOUT IT RIGHT AFTERWARD!!! but guess what everyone? according to this person i'm a dick for wanting this person to stop feeling they have to tell kim and i every freaking word we tell this person. anyways, i hope today will be a better day. i've been slacking like mad in the legal research department. have this paper due monday and its a nightmare. not long, just confusing and a ton of cases to read that also don't make much sense. plus by monday gotta study for the stupid exam that night.
just saw the war of the worlds teaser and hooooly cow it looks good. i need to complain sometime if i get the chance about the neighbors upstairs. this is already too long, so i'll save it. so yeah, i'm hungry, tired, hot, bored, procrastinating, and annoyed. just another day i guess.
Tuesday, December 07, 2004
not for fakes
been a busy, snowy day here at work. accidents and seizures galore. into the home stretch now with school. here's the breakdown as far as finals go:
you know, i'm just not in the mood to write today, so i'm gonna end it here. i'm just hungry and cold. i am so close to just ditchin class today, but its drugs so i've gotta be there in case he tells us crap about the exam. who knows, i still might not show. actually, i got this girl in the class that i'm somewhat friends with. her and i pretty much just screw around during the entire class and make fun of everyone, so maybe i'll tell her just to take notes for me. good thinking ethan. k, i just text'd her. so hopefully i'll be able to go home and take a nap and relax longer than 20 minutes. everyone watch for your christmas cards. if you don't get one, either 1. not done with yours 2. don't have your address 3. you are getting a gift with it and i want to send it the day before i leave so i don't have confrontation with people about why i got them a gift 4. you smell, or 5. i feel dumb sending one to you for one reason or another. okay, now i'm done for reals.
- Constitution: 100 question exam, 15 page paper: next wednesday
- Legal Research: 100 question exam, response to a motion to suppress, gay memo on what grade we deserve, portfolio of all our work throughout the semester: this monday
- Drugs and Crime: long stupid exam: ? next tuesday or thursday maybe
- Family Law: unknown take home exam. could be good or bad considering the last take home exam, however he said it would be cake: next thursday
you know, i'm just not in the mood to write today, so i'm gonna end it here. i'm just hungry and cold. i am so close to just ditchin class today, but its drugs so i've gotta be there in case he tells us crap about the exam. who knows, i still might not show. actually, i got this girl in the class that i'm somewhat friends with. her and i pretty much just screw around during the entire class and make fun of everyone, so maybe i'll tell her just to take notes for me. good thinking ethan. k, i just text'd her. so hopefully i'll be able to go home and take a nap and relax longer than 20 minutes. everyone watch for your christmas cards. if you don't get one, either 1. not done with yours 2. don't have your address 3. you are getting a gift with it and i want to send it the day before i leave so i don't have confrontation with people about why i got them a gift 4. you smell, or 5. i feel dumb sending one to you for one reason or another. okay, now i'm done for reals.
Monday, December 06, 2004
i am to snowboarding, as jordan was to baseball
i have such a headache right now. actually, i've sort of had one since last friday ever since i went snowboarding. i think i gave myself a concussion, but i'm not really sure. i've got a huge bump on the back of my neck and the top left part of my brain has been throbbing. i did have a rough landing on my head on one of my many crashes that day. the inside of my right leg next to my knee hurts to move at all. and today started another pain on my left triceps. on a lighter note, i think i improved this last friday by many times over. all of a sudden, going backwards just clicked in my head and legs. now i can somewhat slalom back and forth. my only problem is that i'm starting to go really fast now, which freaks the hell out of me so i basically just crash. also, have a tough time going between toe- and heel-side and vice versa. the split second when the board is exactly straight on is a scary point for me right now. however, i was happy to see that there was some improvement over the last time.
park city is amazing. they only have a fraction of the lifts and runs open, but even from the little they had, it was so much better than brighton. i ate at a freaking restaurant that i had to take two lifts to get to called the summit house. sooooo dang good. felt really special eating there cuz i was part of all the rich baby booming business peeps up there for the day. seemed like it hadn't snowed in weeks since everything was packed down. made for a mean fall every time i crashed. but i had a blast. even made it back to orem in time for my 3 o'clock class.
my next big "to do" for the week is the paper for constitution. i really should be working on it now, but with my headache and the fact that my work just got cable tv, i'm finding it more difficult to do this paper than it would for me to win a gold metal in snowboarding. hopefully jessIE is having better luck.
was over at brian and jAx's place last night. B gave me a copy of his blackjack game to put on my comp. i'm on the $1 minimum tables and already up $60 after playing for like less than 30 minutes. i think some time in january or february, i'll take up one of my paychecks and head to vegas with kim to blow it all to test the strategy. if we don't go to aruba this year, nevada better make way.
bought my first thing of southern comfort egg nog yesterday. if i had some real southern comfort i probably could have made it last a little longer than one day. or maybe not actually. but at least my time at work here would have been a little more enjoyable.
got to turn in the family law exam last thursday. from what i heard, exams ranged from 11 pages from the law firm's fifth member, to a mighty 47 pages from the rich girls. and from the sounds of it when we were going over the questions, i'm very confident that i'll be getting above a 90% on it. that would probably make my semester cuz that would guarantee my grade in the class!
football this weekend wasn't too eventful, or shall i say, surprising. colorado looked like standley lake high school playing against the big O. not to knock on CU, but more knocking on the north div of the big 12. there are couple big named teams in the north, but if the best they got against south's numero uno is a lousy field goal then that sucks. valiant effort against them, but what can you do? looks like utah will go up against pitt. not going to be the most exciting game since pittsburgh isn't in the bcs top ten. wait, not even in the top twenty? okay then. there go the chances of utah being put the test on a national level. sadly, they won't be able to prove themselves in the fiesta to push them up as a big name team now. however, next season they will still have nowhere to go but down. with their coach heading to florida now, this last season will soon become a memorable season that most likely won't be relived. oh well, you go where the money is.
oh, and i officially own a snowboard now. my early christmas present was given to me by kim. thank to you to the lloyds for being my official sponsors. 2006 special winter olympics, here i come!
park city is amazing. they only have a fraction of the lifts and runs open, but even from the little they had, it was so much better than brighton. i ate at a freaking restaurant that i had to take two lifts to get to called the summit house. sooooo dang good. felt really special eating there cuz i was part of all the rich baby booming business peeps up there for the day. seemed like it hadn't snowed in weeks since everything was packed down. made for a mean fall every time i crashed. but i had a blast. even made it back to orem in time for my 3 o'clock class.
my next big "to do" for the week is the paper for constitution. i really should be working on it now, but with my headache and the fact that my work just got cable tv, i'm finding it more difficult to do this paper than it would for me to win a gold metal in snowboarding. hopefully jessIE is having better luck.
was over at brian and jAx's place last night. B gave me a copy of his blackjack game to put on my comp. i'm on the $1 minimum tables and already up $60 after playing for like less than 30 minutes. i think some time in january or february, i'll take up one of my paychecks and head to vegas with kim to blow it all to test the strategy. if we don't go to aruba this year, nevada better make way.
bought my first thing of southern comfort egg nog yesterday. if i had some real southern comfort i probably could have made it last a little longer than one day. or maybe not actually. but at least my time at work here would have been a little more enjoyable.
got to turn in the family law exam last thursday. from what i heard, exams ranged from 11 pages from the law firm's fifth member, to a mighty 47 pages from the rich girls. and from the sounds of it when we were going over the questions, i'm very confident that i'll be getting above a 90% on it. that would probably make my semester cuz that would guarantee my grade in the class!
football this weekend wasn't too eventful, or shall i say, surprising. colorado looked like standley lake high school playing against the big O. not to knock on CU, but more knocking on the north div of the big 12. there are couple big named teams in the north, but if the best they got against south's numero uno is a lousy field goal then that sucks. valiant effort against them, but what can you do? looks like utah will go up against pitt. not going to be the most exciting game since pittsburgh isn't in the bcs top ten. wait, not even in the top twenty? okay then. there go the chances of utah being put the test on a national level. sadly, they won't be able to prove themselves in the fiesta to push them up as a big name team now. however, next season they will still have nowhere to go but down. with their coach heading to florida now, this last season will soon become a memorable season that most likely won't be relived. oh well, you go where the money is.
oh, and i officially own a snowboard now. my early christmas present was given to me by kim. thank to you to the lloyds for being my official sponsors. 2006 special winter olympics, here i come!
Thursday, December 02, 2004
how did i forget this? too much crap to remember
res gestae (rayz jest-tie) n. from Latin for "things done," it means all circumstances surrounding and connected with a happening. Thus, the res gestae of a crime includes the immediate area and all occurrences and statements immediately after the crime. Statements made within the res gestae of a crime or accident may be admitted in court even though they are "hearsay" on the basis that spontaneous statements in those circumstances are reliable.
they can take their red pill and shove it
undoubtedly the worst exam of my life. challenging, long, confusing, and had to be meticulously accurate and flowing. i'm trying to find a paperclip here at work that will go around 37 pages. i guess i could attempt all my might on thrusting a puny staple into it. i'll have to think about that one. next on my wonderful to do list: 15 page paper for constitution.
could be worse i guess. i could be mike right now. he's got all this crap (minus family law) and the LSAT this saturday. poor guy's life is on the line with the world's crappiest test. best of luck to him.
so i get emails from all the movie studios telling me what's coming out this week in terms of theater releases and dvds and so on. i cannot begin to tell you how fuming i was to see that they are releasing a 10 disc dvd set for the matrix movies. i realized when i bought the three dvds that they were quite lacking in the special feature department, but i had just assumed it was cuz the brothers were so weird. now i don't know what to do. i have 3 perfectly good copies of the movies, but i have to have this set. it does come with the animatrix, which is a dvd on my list, so technically i'm getting something that i wanted before they put out the set. but instead of paying $15 i'll be paying like $70. man, i was so pissed. that is the exact reason why i'm waiting to buy kill bill. i just know the second i do he'll put out an edition with more features and both flicks merged as one. so yeah, still mad.
a big thank you to jessIE for signing the roll for me tomorrow in constitution while i'm in park city. i've been thinking about this snowboarding thing lately. what if i don't ever get it? what happens if i just keep going and never figure out how to do it right? i want to go with my bro when i get to denver, but now i'm having second thoughts. he's been skiing for years and i should probably start calling him picabo. i just know that 1. i'll be totally embarrassed with my feeble attempt to snowboard around him; 2. he will get frustrated having to wait for me to get back up every time i fall; and 3. i can't think of anything clever for 3, but i'm sure there will be a 3. either way, i hope we go cuz it would be good bonding time before he heads back to nebraska. i think he has an interview to be the next nebraska head coach. poor huskers. hey, and did you hear notre dame might pick up urban meyer (Utah) as their new coach? sucks for us, good for them i'd say.
i just read that, "Meyer received a contract extension last summer that included a clause allowing him to leave Utah without penalty if he is hired as head coach at Michigan, Ohio State or Notre Dame." why would they do that for those schools? if anyone knows, give me a call and let me know at 1-866-745-5243. i set up this toll free number so its easier for you guys to call me.
well i'm checking out. got some famdamnly law to take care of.
could be worse i guess. i could be mike right now. he's got all this crap (minus family law) and the LSAT this saturday. poor guy's life is on the line with the world's crappiest test. best of luck to him.
so i get emails from all the movie studios telling me what's coming out this week in terms of theater releases and dvds and so on. i cannot begin to tell you how fuming i was to see that they are releasing a 10 disc dvd set for the matrix movies. i realized when i bought the three dvds that they were quite lacking in the special feature department, but i had just assumed it was cuz the brothers were so weird. now i don't know what to do. i have 3 perfectly good copies of the movies, but i have to have this set. it does come with the animatrix, which is a dvd on my list, so technically i'm getting something that i wanted before they put out the set. but instead of paying $15 i'll be paying like $70. man, i was so pissed. that is the exact reason why i'm waiting to buy kill bill. i just know the second i do he'll put out an edition with more features and both flicks merged as one. so yeah, still mad.
a big thank you to jessIE for signing the roll for me tomorrow in constitution while i'm in park city. i've been thinking about this snowboarding thing lately. what if i don't ever get it? what happens if i just keep going and never figure out how to do it right? i want to go with my bro when i get to denver, but now i'm having second thoughts. he's been skiing for years and i should probably start calling him picabo. i just know that 1. i'll be totally embarrassed with my feeble attempt to snowboard around him; 2. he will get frustrated having to wait for me to get back up every time i fall; and 3. i can't think of anything clever for 3, but i'm sure there will be a 3. either way, i hope we go cuz it would be good bonding time before he heads back to nebraska. i think he has an interview to be the next nebraska head coach. poor huskers. hey, and did you hear notre dame might pick up urban meyer (Utah) as their new coach? sucks for us, good for them i'd say.
i just read that, "Meyer received a contract extension last summer that included a clause allowing him to leave Utah without penalty if he is hired as head coach at Michigan, Ohio State or Notre Dame." why would they do that for those schools? if anyone knows, give me a call and let me know at 1-866-745-5243. i set up this toll free number so its easier for you guys to call me.
well i'm checking out. got some famdamnly law to take care of.
family law exam: THE FINAL TALLY
10/10 questions answered
100/100 possible points completed = potential A
37 printed pages
17,631 words
due today
100/100 possible points completed = potential A
37 printed pages
17,631 words
due today
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