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Saturday, September 23, 2000

"Lemme get a jumbo jack and chicken sandwich, both with extra tomatoes. And a regular Coke, no ice." I took my food and sat down at the counter seats, facing out onto the busy downtown night streets. People walked by with "Old Navy" and "Macy's" bags left and right...homeless sprinkled about, the strange juxtaposition surprisingly normal. The quickstudies workshop had just ended, and I had decided to grab a quick dinner at Jack's place. As I sat there, I noticed the people around me. There were 2 construction workers conversing at a table near me, 1 man in the corner conversing with himself, and 2 black men loudly discussing "business" near the middle of the room. Right next to their table sat a quiet, elderly chinese woman, in a knit purple sweater. She hunched over her small sandwich and water, taking small "grandma" bites out of it and chewing each thoroughly before taking another. A tiny lady, completely innocent looking and harmless...I easily imagine her baking pies, or spoiling grandkids silly. I turned around and began my meal, just groovin' to Big Mountain and observing the hustle outside. Halfway through my chicken sandwich, a third black man joined the others, standing next to their small 2 seat table...they continued their talking, interrupted occasionally by bellowing laughter. All the while, the elderly woman chewed, and chewed, bit, and chewed, staring past the empty chair in front of her, and out the window. As the three talked longer, the standing man began to look around for a seat to get more comfortable. The nearest seat just happend to be the one right across from "grandma". Pausing for a split second to weigh the option of dragging a chair from another table to join his companions, or simply bending his knees and falling into a conveniently placed seat, he chose the latter. As he plopped down, slung one arm over the back of the chair and got comfortable...a booming voice declared, "GIT.....yo ass UP!!" Perfectly enunciated as if Ice Cube himself had possesed this seemingly sweet old woman. Fire burned in those piercing wrinkle rimmed eyes...*complete silence*...*all eyes on grandma*...*eternity passes*...*man slowly gets up...walks across the room...drags chair to table...sits down* The fire subsides, and she goes on chewing, and chewing, as if nothing happened. 3 grown men look at her in astonishment. Myself...I feared for her grandkids.
Moral? DON'T MESS WITH GRANDMAS.
9/23/2000 12:13:46 AM

Thursday, September 21, 2000

Wow, I'm done with the bulk of the week now. Just had my Perspective and Digital Illustration classes...came home just about 20 mins ago, and now...loungin'. No class tomorro(even though I'm gonna hit up one of those drawing workshops). I haven't been getting much sleep at all these past days, 2 to 4 hours tops...and now that I finally have a chance to catch up tonite...I'll probably be up till the buttcrack of dawn again. Reminds me of those days when I was a kid, and waking up for school each morning at around 6:45 was such a big ass hastle every time...but when the weekend rolled around, I'd gladly wake up at 6:30 to watch Jacye and the Wheeled Warriors and the rest of the saturday morning toons. Go fig.
I've been getting some good comments from instructors and students on some roughs I did for class. Hope I can carry through with it and rock it in Illustrator. Man, positive reinforcement is so important, especially if u kno its not just ass nuzzling, but deserved remarks about your work.
Ah yes, I DID pick up a mirror today...I won't be caught off guard again dagnabit.
9/21/2000 11:31:09 PM

Wednesday, September 20, 2000

I've just made the first few invites to my virginal page...and in no time, the counter shall steadily climb...1...to 2...to 3...and hot damn, thats 3 steps closer to RULING THE WORLD!
9/20/2000 07:12:17 PM

Ever have one of those days when you're just not feelin' your sexy ass self? Where all you wanna do is go home, turn on some tunes, and curl up and go to sleep till the whole thing blows over? Today, was one of them days. First off, I woke up at 6:30am, getting two measly hours of sleep(my fault), and off I was on the Muni, which is PACKED in the mornings. I'm talking sardines...u're practically butt-hugging complete strangers because things are so cramped. Knowing this, and my stop being near the beginning of the line, I chose a choice seat, right next to the door, and a single seat, so no sitting next to smelly people. But about half way into my trip when things are pretty crowded, this woman with an injured foot asks for my seat, which I'm more than happy to give up. I totally believe in that "giving up seat for people" jazz, but when I stand up there just happens to be this big guy's armpit in my face. Goodness...I don't know what it was, but it was definately time to breathe through my mouth. Although it doesn't really matter, just the thought that I'm inhaling someone's funk ...ugh.
Well, Art History II went pretty well actually...sat next to some cute chickidies. But(yeah, another one of these) when it came time to compare and contrast two paintings in pairs, I just happened to turn to the girl on my left to pair up. "So, what do u think?" *blank stare* "uhhm..I'm going to look..in here...for some stuff on it..." She had no idea what was going on...great. I'm not sure who she thought she was fooling by thumbing through her course cyllabus looking for information...man, it was crystal clear to me she hadn't heard a single word the instructor had been saying for the past 2 1/2 hours. Aiyah...but okay, its alrite...cuz I'm almost outta class.
So finally, class ends at 12, and its off to the drawing workshop. I get there early, and find a good seat on a drawing horse. Next to me there happens to be a girl I recognize from one of my classes, so I strike up a conversation during break. Mid-conversation...I get a nose bleed. DAMN, I hate these suckers...they sneak up on you like nothing else...So I'm like, "excuse me...there's like...blood comming outta my nose".(now thats some slick thing to say, no?=P) So I find a restroom, do what I gotta do...and while I'm looking in the mirror washing my hands, I see...my hair...now, to understand, you first gotta know that living in a less than stellar condition, there is no electrical socket in the bathroom, so I do my hair in my room...without the aid of a mirror. And, for the past week or two, things have been going great...but today...fate played a pretty funny joke(yeah, pretty damn funny...ha..ha) on me. My hair looked like a retro take on Alfalfa's classic cut. "Oh crap!" So I try to tame it with some water..."Down boy...down!" After a short tussle, there was no resurrecting it...I had killed it...and it lay there...like a wet soggy...thing. SO I come back to the workshop looking like I fought a tornado on my way to the bathroom. Ahh...I was/am supposed to meet William down at Jillian's to play some pool, but man, I'm just not feelin' up to it.
Well yeah, it was a semi-crappy day. But I'm still not taking back my whole "dope year" thing, cuz I understand there's gonna be the bad with the good...ying and yang baby. And now that I'm home and just kickin' it, I feel much better. Damn I'm glad I took the initiative to find a room for myself, cuz I don't think I would wanna deal with 4 roomates right now. Moral of story: purchase mirror
9/20/2000 05:58:30 PM

Pssst...guest book is workin'. *wink wink*
9/20/2000 03:46:04 AM

Speak of the devil. I finally got around to reading some stagnating unread e-mail while I happen to be in my account setting up the guest book, and I got an e-mail from a very old Web buddy, Jennie. Her e-mail pretty much went something like "*smiles*...happy...bouncing off walls...yippy..*smiles*"=P Things seemed to have worked out really great for her...which reafirms the "this is going to be a dope year" theory. Man, I wonder what it is, Jupiter's moons aligned just so, gas is so damn expensive nowadays that fate decided to compensate by giving everyone a dope year, or some cosmic all-knowing force...burped. But ahh, why question.
Well, it seems I have a new housemate. I came home today from a late night anatomy session when I saw the light in one of our vacant rooms on. Turns out he's an older guy who needed a temporary place to stay because of family issues. He seems pretty cool so far. Definately much more talkative than my other housemate, who, incidentally I've seen once in two weeks. I think the conversation went something like: "Hey, how's it going...my name's Dan" "Hi, I'm ***" "Nice too meet ya ***" And that was that. Off I went to my morning shower, and he was never to be heard or seen again. And another strange factoid. I've seen his room before he moved in...and I nicknamed it the "prison cell" because there's no windows. No way to tell day or night. So I hope he doesn't spend all his time in there, because people need sunlight, and usually, human interaction as well....
9/20/2000 02:31:05 AM

Tuesday, September 19, 2000

So this morning, I say to myself, "I'm hungry, maybe I'll break open those Fruity Pebbles and milk I got the other day." And so I do. Open the box of Pebbles, which I've never had before, but they LOOK colorful enough...and the milk, I casually look at the date on it to see when I need to finish it by. "Best if used before 9/19/00" What?! Man, what kind of market sells milk 2 days before the date on the carton? I'll tell you what kind DOESN'T do that, the "established reputable Market". But then again, I live in the ghetto, and I guess I'm learning new stuff everyday...like now I gotta be suspicious everytime I buy milk. Looks like I'll be consuming a whole lot of milk from now till tomorrow.
9/19/2000 04:25:56 PM

"Yeah...this is going to be a good year, I can feel it." You ever have that feeling that things are going to turn out just fine? Thats how I'm feelin' nowadays...its strange. I would have been the first person to say "How can u categorize an entire year as good or bad?" But man, I can just feel it. I was chatting with Jeremy from back home, and we just came to the conclusion that based on our male-intuition, the upcomming year was gonna go just fine. So then it was suggested we pick a definative date that this year of good fortune started...his was the day that it happened with that special new person in his life. Man, I haven't seen him this excited over a love so new but hey, I'm happy for him...the guy deserves it=) Me, well it may seem less profound but it was day that I finally found a place of my own up here in the Bay after 3 weeks of intense, stressful search. That one event set things into motion...things that are happening to this day. And things only look brighter in the future. Ahh...*breathes in......breathes out* Damn I feel good. Heh...so that date is August 31st, 2000. A Thursday.
9/19/2000 04:30:12 AM

Ahh...FINALLY, I have something to put up on the web...and things are taking shape quite nicely...*overcome with a bout of Mad Scientist maniacal laughter* Excuse me. Ahem. But yeah, there are some things obviously still missing, like the "Me" and the "Archive" sections...and the Guestbook...and...hot damn, every single link on this page doesn't work yet. But soon...soon...*another fit of cackling* Excuse me. I'm just happy that things are starting to pay off...albeit, slowly. Damn, I went through more than 3 quarters of my bag of Toffee Peanuts already...and my ass hurts. Being as how I just moved in to my current pad a week ago, I have no furniture whatsoever...my computer monitor is currently sitting on a bucket, my mouse pad is on a speaker, and my ass..well, its conviently and uncomfortably planted on the ground. I guess I should get to reading that Art History chapter I've been putting off...
9/19/2000 01:04:03 AM

Sunday, September 17, 2000

Damn, I'm so stoked. Yesterday something happened to me that I'm sure every college kid living on his own has had happen to them at least once...I straight ran out of food....well, I did have a head of lettuce and a small bit of cheese. "Oh, thats cool...make a lettuce on lettuce sandwich" came a suggestion from Mark....hmm...*thinking it over* So early today (alrite, well, not so early because I woke up at 3 and worked on the page till 6) I walked down to the local market to do some food shopping...and shop I did, boy u shoulda saw me. I think the list ran something like this: 2 packages of Udon noodle, creme of chicken soup(mixed with rice, mmh mmh good), 2% milk(they didn't have 1%), Fruity Pebbles, a baby bag of baby carrots, a can of mexican corn, can of mixed vegis, and some toffee peanuts(damn, I love these things)...and the crowning glory...the phenominal finaly to today's excursion...the THREE ITEM COMBO PLATE! chow mein, beef and broccali, and lemon chicken. Ahh yes...and when I went up to pay, I found out that by spending the amount I did (something around 18 bux), I got a free pound of rice, and a dollar coupon toward my next visit to this magnificent market! And now, the free rice is slowly cooking in the kitchen to give me maximum satisfying potential along with my combo plate. And while my feast is nearing completion, I'm munching on my toffee peanuts. Ahhh...a day and a half of unintentional fasting, about to be ended so gloriously.=)
9/17/2000 07:43:04 PM