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| Thursday, April 30th, 2009 | | 4:55 pm |
well this settles it
April 30, 2009 Dear Blake, Congratulations! I am pleased to offer you admission to the University of California, Berkeley for fall 2009! You have been admitted to the College of Letters and Science. | | Saturday, April 25th, 2009 | | 12:32 am |
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Dear Blake: Congratulations! It is our great pleasure to offer you admission to UCLA for the Fall Quarter 2009. You have been admitted to the UCLA College of Letters and Science with Communication Studies as your academic major. | | Thursday, March 26th, 2009 | | 12:12 am |
today I am grateful for! 1) The new Subtle album I downloaded (awesome!), my ipod shuffle and the long steep slab of concrete where I did my awesome interval work out today. Remember that giant hill next to the reservoir in Elesian Park, Ma? Yeah, so do I because I sprinted up it 11 times today. 2) The strange therapeutic quality that I derive from wondering around a super market late at night, reading labels and buying 3 grapefruits and a plantain. 3) Text messages from friends who share in some of my crazy and make the world less lonely (and I didn't want to make this an official point of gratitude but I saw something happen between a few cops and a young woman who had just been beaten up by the father of her child-both were may be 19-and I was grateful that there was a woman cop there to say things to the young mother that only a strong woman can, It mad me feel like cops do good, it made me proud to pay taxes, it made me sad) | | Wednesday, March 25th, 2009 | | 9:32 am |
from yesterday, I wrote it but forgot to post it!?
today I am grateful for 1) U.S. solders serving in Iraq, Afghanistan and anywhere the media doesn't cover with responsible regularity. This weekend was the 6 year anniversary of the invasion of Iraq, this normally gets me all mad and political, but this year I am mostly just grateful for the lives of those serving our country... I know that this doesn't sound like me but its how I feel. I just want everyone home. 2) A president that doesn't make me flinch every time he holds a press conference. 3) the fact that I will soon be leaving lacc | | Monday, March 23rd, 2009 | | 11:44 pm |
oh love
Gratefuls 1) There is a couple I serve every monday night at the restaurant. Two waters, one no ice, two orders of mushu one pork, one vegetarian-add fried tofu. Luis is usually late his receding faux-hawk greased over with fresh equinox yoga sweat. His boyfriend, waiting anxiously, talks with me nervously about school. They have been together for 13 years, yet he is always nervous that this may be the time Luis just doesn't show up. That perhaps in the last few hours he came to the conclusion that their relationship is a sham. As he tells me this he can see how ridiculous I think this logic is, and I explain to him that Luis is almost always late. He tells me, "I know but..." and proceeds to go on for an eternity in waiting tables time recounting everything that makes Luis such an amazing man. They are on a 13 year honeymoon, and despite the chaos of sunset/West-Hollywood shallow-fest they are in that kind of love that only exists on eharmony commercials. And when I see them regardless of whatever madness I am engrossed in the evening suddenly smooths and my manager usually tells me its time for me to go home. 2) Today is my friday. Fuck yes. 3) I worked my tail off on my econ homework, and not only did I do a kick ass job in class, but I also totally understood Marketplace today. | | Sunday, March 22nd, 2009 | | 12:39 am |
garlic
today I am grateful for 1) The future. Weather its a race or another college or plans for saturday night, the future helped me tremendously today. My mother loves giving her self something to look foreword to, a treat, a prize, a trip, a yoga class whatever, just some kind of carrot. Today was filled with this kind of logic. Go to work in the a.m. so I can see the friends in the p.m. Do the Econ homework so I can maintain the gpa that I take so much pride in. ect ect. I was listening to NPR the other day and they were interviewing an old sandpaper throated jazz singer, she was talking about one of her favorite lyrics that she never got to record and the line she kept saying was, "don't look back, lets just go on from here" and suddenly I was filled with a feeling that although I love the life that I have (ok maybe thats a stretch) I often feel like I am living in the past. This simple cliché line made me feel as though my life is about what I am doing and have yet to do rather that what I have done. I am not finished. 2) 1110 Lillian, and my true college friends. I am getting a new tattoo soon, and I am grateful for the friendships that inspired it and the lessons we gleaned from each other. The first rule about write club is...well I guess we never had any rules. 3) Crunchy and salty snack foods. Most notable today was the olives stuffed with whole cloves of garlic. | | Saturday, March 21st, 2009 | | 9:44 am |
I was so tired last night I didn't get these down... yesterday I was grateful for; 1) Living in the hood! Despite symphony of sirens and the percussive rhythms of police helicopters and gun shots. We got character. People know each other. And the graffiti seems to to work like Raid on the Mormons. 2) With unemployment over 10.4% in California, I am fucking thrilled to walk out of a restaurant with a pocket full of jingle 5 nights a week. 3) My truck finally is fully and legally operational. This puts me at so much ease its crazy. love! | | Friday, March 20th, 2009 | | 12:59 am |
short because I am tired
today I am grateful for 1) Cala, a friend who I know from work who insisted on getting me not one but two care packages (the first was stolen out of my truck) after the shit I went through last week. Its one of those undeniably simple and beautiful things like a chubby faced baby smiling at you or an old labrador dropping his heavy head in your lap. It just makes you feel like all that is good in this world is tied together so that when you feel weak it pulls you in. 2) public radio 3) Michelangelo, I can totally relate, bro. | | Thursday, March 19th, 2009 | | 12:18 am |
jackfruit
today I am grateful for 1) The free health clinic at my school. I have this clogged tear duct (how emo?), its a big personal issue because its gross, kinda painful and in my eye(thats on my face!). I went the the clinic last week and the Dr. told me to put a hot damp washcloth over it a few times a day (totally bogus by the way). After a week of frustrations, insecurities and a growing boil on my eyelid i decided to go back to the Dr. today. She stabbed and squeezed for a while and the result is favorable although not quite 100%. Regardless I am grateful that she was there, she was free, she was nice and she knew what she was doing. 2) Marinated Jackfruit from the vegan joint next to Orange 20 and the cook who recommended it and her one line drawing tattoo (the band). 3) Martin Bernal, "The Black Athena", and a fascinating Anthropology class. Professor mentioned some conspiracy theory sounding stuff about the roots of the pyramids in south america and anti-Semitism manipulating historical perspectives last week, did some digging, and it made the 3 hour class a lot more interesting . honorable mention; the weather, my bike, text messaging | | Wednesday, March 18th, 2009 | | 12:03 am |
yes, for the weather
So for the past few weeks Rob and I have taken up the practice of finding 3 things in our days to be grateful for and sharing them with each other each night in the 15min. in which our two ships flash Morris Code high-beams before we drift back into our respective chaos. I think I want to start writing them down as well, so I will do that here today I am grateful for; 1) The 2 A's that I got on my first 2 tests of the semester. The gratitude is not on the grade rather the ability to lay off of school a little and focus on things that bring me light, things that are intrinsically valid and fun with out the validation of a bigger mechanism (academia, society, my boss, god). Ok honestly this is about being able to ride my bike for an irresponsible amount of time and still be a smart kid. Fuck yeah! 2) MUSIC, my head phones and open space. I am so sorry I forgot about you girl. (nightswimming-r.e.m.) I love emusic and the $12 a month I spend there. 3) the weather, yes, for the weather. This is why I pay so much in rent, today was unbelievable. that is all for today. everyone is welcome to participate in this by the by, on line, at home, with friends or alone, its a nice way to cap the day. | | Monday, January 19th, 2009 | | 11:52 pm |
for Erica and Nick
A. Each tagged person must post 8 things about themselves on their journal. B. At the end, you have to choose and tag 5 people. 1) I just made food so hot that I became emotionally uncomfortable, like Rob was trying to talk to me and I was thinking "not right now man, honestly, I think I'm gunna break down and cry if you tell me one more interesting fact about Idlewilde"-this happens often 2) My restaurant has been closed for a month and I rode over 100 miles this weekend on my bike, I am afraid if I am unemployed any longer my legs will turn into spokes, and those spokes will be coated in spandex (shut up) 3) I applied to Berkeley, UCLA, UCI and SF State. I am horrified that I will get into all and none of them. 4) One of my new year resolutions is time travel. 5) I talked to my Grandmother for the first time in six years this Christmas, I had bit of anxiety about the ordeal, the woman is southern white class like wonder bread...I pulled up to her house and read "Catholic woman for Obama" and started crying with pride. 6) I am listening to Everclear's "Strawberry" rite now and, Art is repeating "yes I guess I fucked up again" in the most empowering and personal way. I loved 8th grade. (I know Im the only one) 7) I started playing guitar again for the first time since lao broke up last night. 8) I like being around people, but constantly confine myself to...myself, I think Im done with that. I am tapping; Rob, April Jones, Brian and Kat...and jeff (winterdale jeff) | | Thursday, January 15th, 2009 | | 8:44 pm |
| | Sunday, January 4th, 2009 | | 9:51 pm |
| | Thursday, December 18th, 2008 | | 11:16 pm |
| | Wednesday, November 12th, 2008 | | 6:00 pm |
eeek a real post
So I haven't made an "actual" post in a long time and I think that in the ten minutes I have before work I should make an attempt. I have been interesting. This the most honest way I can articulate the way I have been. Not good is catsup and bad is mustard I am the orange chunky relishy bits left on the paper plate after the hot dog. I was seeing someone (more serious and grown up than ever before) for like seven months, we broke up this weekend and I am slowly getting back in touch with reality outside of the struggles and accomplishments of the relationship world. I bought a sweet new bike. I am procrastinating on getting started with my applications because I am scared. I am kind of lonely, partly because of the break up, mostly because I am a deeply sentimental person and I am kind of at a loss for stimulation (school and working out are loosing their escape power), so I dwell... I love the friends that I do have there is more but I have | | Monday, October 20th, 2008 | | 12:07 am |
| | Thursday, October 9th, 2008 | | 9:18 am |
| | Sunday, September 28th, 2008 | | 10:16 am |
| | Wednesday, September 17th, 2008 | | 9:49 am |
| | Wednesday, September 10th, 2008 | | 6:05 pm |
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