Hey people...its 3am and I just got off the phone with "she"...she just IM'ed out of nowhere and asked if I had some time. So I called her up, and we just talked for 3 hours...it was really nice to talk to her again....just to talk...we used to talk for hours...every night...I remember the first night we talked, I had to get up at 6am and be at work at 7...and we talked straight through the night...I almost died the next day at work...but it was totally worth it. *sigh*=)
I'm so stoked....guess what......I GOT A BED!=) I jacked it from one of the other rooms...well, I asked my landlord Kenny, if it was alrite, and he said, "oh sure sure...go ahead" So I now have a bed...ooh, Dan's livin' in the lap of luxury now, I tell ya=) And I also grabbed this huge cooler...I figured I could put all my clothes, and loose junk in it...while I was doing that, I came across a CD that Ger burned for me the night before I moved up here, I met her up at my favorite Pho place down there in San Diego....it says, "Dan's Sad Love Songs"...heh....she knows me so well.=) Well its such a great CD...I threw it on around 2am...and its still running....Thanx Ger...u're great=)
Yesterday, I turned in my Digital Imaging homework...its a work I'm pretty proud of. Mainly because I played around with the colors...and being as how I have no background in painting in real media, I thought it turned out well...and so did my teacher. Now, there's a million things I would change next time around, but basically I learned so much doing this piece...and I'm thinking about doing something on my own to play around more with colors and stuff....maybe a children's book type thing. I could totally dig this illustration thing.
At the workshop today, there was a model I recognized as being one of my classmates...I really wasn't feelin' like drawing today, so I cut out 20mins early, and headed down to Jack In The Box as normal...grabbed dinner, and headed home.
Man, I just cannot get my housemates to stop cooking for me!! haha....I swear, they're the nicest 2..funny too. But yesterday, I came home around 11pm...and I heard they were watching TV in their room...so I put down my stuff in my room...wash my hands, and decide to cook myself up some spaghetti...quick, easy, cheap...a student's best friend. And then I hear their door open...I peek my head over.."Hey, how's it going?" *wave* He nods, and I go back to cooking...next thing I kno...he walks in the kitchen...I think he wants a midnight snack or something...then he pulls out some pre marinated pork...and pours some oil in the wok....I turn to the girl, "Whats he doing?" "He's cooking you something." "Oh NO!! Nonono...tell him to stop...how do I say stop in Chinese?" "I don't understand English right now" "What?? C'mon..tell him to stop..." *motions to guy...waves hands* Heh...man, they're too nice to me. I gotta find a way to return the favor...but...its hard to think of what to do for them...they're from China, so I don't think they'd really take to tastes of foods from different cultures...I'd asked him if he ever heard of spaghetti, and he said no....whoa.
My man Jeremy called me up the other day with his NEW CELL PHONE...heh...nono, its not gray....its PEWTER gray...so fancy schmancy...heh. Good to hear from him though...I think I was bitching about that mouse being in my room again...we were trying to come up with ways to get rid of it...he said, "clean u're room dude"...of course that wasn't happenin', so we continued the brainstorming...He's named it "Gus"....me?? I don't wanna name the little bastard...heh...I think the best idea that he thought of with was tying a bag around my feet and jumping around till I "shmooshed" ol' Gus....yeah...that was probably the best one...heh. I'm an artist! Not a mouse catcher! But I think he's gone now...and preventive measures are in place....basically, a towel stuffed under the door. That night I ended up sleeping on my "couch" with my legs on my sax case....for about 2 hours...then around 6:30, I woke up...groggy....and I just said, "fuck it...if a mouse crawls up my butt, whats the worse that could happen..." So I rolled onto the ground, and under the covers...
I think I'll check up on some other people's pages...I've only been checking a few in the last couple of days....mostly due to this game eating up my free time...heh...
Ahh...yesterday, my phone line cut out on me so I couldn't blog...I was afraid I was gonna have to call the phone company today, but around 6am, I heard the dial tone that comes on when the phone is off the hook...so all is good. I think I'll stay up till 4 tonite...yeah, I've got to get up at 7, but what the hell, after class tomorro, I'm in the clear...my weekend begins, so I think I'll be alrite.
11/4/2000 03:12:27 AM
Thursday, November 02, 2000
Quick, non-articulated blog tonite...its 4 in the morning. 3 hours of sleep last night....went to school, fell asleep in class...got midterm back...got 98%...yay....went to Lee's Deli...got samich....eat samich...go to computer lab...stay for 10 hours...finish Digital Illustration homework....very proud...go home at 11pm...get home...hop on computer....play game...see mouse...another one....Jeremy name it "Gus"...I hate Gus...cannot start preventive measures with Gus inside...or else trap Gus inside instead of keep Gus out...cold as hell...freeze nutz off...can't sleep...no mattress...afraid Gus crawl up butt when sleep...try to sleep on "couch"....very tired...tomorro wake up 7:15am...take shower....go to school...go to Kinko's...print homework...go to school...do homework...go to class...hand it homework I ideally finish already...don't want to blog tomorro before tomorro happen....more later....ooga booga....me go try sleep now....cold.....
11/2/2000 04:06:49 AM
Wednesday, November 01, 2000
OMG! I saw the mouse...he just went underneath the door! Alrite...I'm going to plug up the crack underneath the door...done. Whew...aww man, now I can sleep. I plugged the crack with my dirty laundry. I just had an idea. I'll buy a floor mat, and put half of it in and half of it out of my room, and when I close the door, it'll seal the crack. *whew*
11/1/2000 02:52:53 AM
FUCK! Damnit...gad...what the hell. I'm sitting playing my game....I look up. There...sitting...starring at me...is a mouse. FUCK! Argh...I'm really gettin' sick and tired of this crap. After looking at me, he ran behind some boxes in my room...and the thing is...my room is FUCKIN' MESSY...man, there's no way I'm finding that lil' bastard...ugh...he was small enough to fit under my door...I thought I was immune. Now there's a mouse in my room right now...and there's no way I can get him out. If I open the door, more might come in, because I heard some squeaks comming from outside. I saw this mouse try to make a break for the door crack again, but he wasn't willing to try to go underneath again...MAN! And I sleep on the ground...no mattress, no nothing. GAD, did I mention that I'm pissed off right now?? It seems like RIGHT when I adapt to one thing, something else comes into the picture...like the powers that be are just tryin' to bring me down! FUCK....but all they're doing is gettin' me pissed...tomorro...buy mouse trap...set up in room...eliminate mouse in room...from now on, put cloth in crack of door. Damn...I almost feel defeated right now...really...ALMOST...ugh...I don't think I can go to sleep on the ground tonite...and I had a huge amount of work to get done tomorro...not to mention a 9am class. Dude...what to do...what to do....
11/1/2000 02:41:25 AM
Well, I just got home...its 12:48pm...I didn't plan on getting home this late when I left for school today. I went early around 2:30 to school...did some homework, and went was 10 mins late for my 6 o'clock...afterwards, my friend and I grab dinner...its a ritual. "Hey, u wanna try this new place? Its down near O'Farrel...a Tai place...spicy" So I agreed...we drove down there...a mere 5 blocks away, because we were lazy...ooh....let this be a lesson against laziness...we spent damn near half an hour trying to find a parking spot, when we could have gotten there on foot in about 5. Anyhoo...ate...it was spicy. I think...when food is too spicy, it almost makes your tongue numb...so you can't really enjoy the food...can't taste anything but the burning sensation on your tongue. sS I made up my mind then and there, "Dan...u don't like stuff thats really spicy." Worst of all, I was hungry as all hell...and its like, when u can't eat something quick because its too hot(temperature or spice), it sucks! Its sitting there...culinary bliss...right at your hungry fingertips...its like a guy, trapped out on the desert for 5 days with no water...then the Culigan man drives up in this truck filled with dozens of those big 10 gallon drums of water.....he says, "Come here...I've got all the water in the world for you....Oh...I forgot to mention, you can only have a drip at a time." DamN! Right.
Anywayz, afterwards, we were closer to the Van Ness Underground Muni Station, so I told my friend to just drop me off there. On our way, we saw this HUGE party going down near the Civic Center..."Holy shit dude! *points at party* Man, if I didn't have class early tomorro...man...and if I didn't have homework..." He nodded in agreement....we watched as people in costume were walking toward all the flashing lights...the street was barricaded off....music was pumping in the distance...
10 minutes pass....
After finding parking, we hopped out and made our way toward the party=) It was pretty crazy man...wierdo people, cool peepz...madness, reminded me of a rave. His friend called and asked if we wanted to go down to Castro...pretty nutty stuff going on over there too I heard.
On the way home on the muni, it was SOOO crowded...I've never seen it so crowded...I had to pass up the first few cars because they were literally overflowing with people...u couldn't squeeze anybody in there. Sardines man....crazy. It was pretty cool to just see everyone dressed up in their different costumes...I saw some really creative ones too...ideas for next year=P Well...I'm off to play some of "the game"....only an hour...only an hour....kay. ANd then do a wee bit of homework...tune in tomorro, same bat time, same bat URL.
11/1/2000 01:09:34 AM
Tuesday, October 31, 2000
her: so have u ever slept alone in the nude? me: whoa, look at the time! her: lol me: I gotta go play my game now her: come on dan!
Alrite, alrite...here it is. Sleeping in the buff...the nude...Mel Gibson a la Lethal Weapon...point out to me someone who HASN'T and I'll show you someone who probably eats the same thing everyday, takes the same route to school/work everyday, after takin' a whiz, does the shake 3.5 times....routine....boring...blah. Variety! Curiosity? Drunken stupor...all contributing factors. Sure I've done it...can't remember the last time...I kno YOU have....unless you said, "Whoa, how does he know those things about me??" after reading the above description. So let the world know...proclaim it to the stars above...Dan has slept in the nude...alone...before.
Well...there it is YOU(points at you...u kno who...you). Y'kno guys...it occurs to me that my blog as of late has been kinda taking a nose-dive in terms of quality. I guess I'm just in that part of the cycle...I should be back in the groove sooner or later. I'll try some new writing styles...I'll try not to make it seem like such a list anymore. First of all, even I have trouble reading my shit in its entirety.=) But hey, if u're reading this, u've decided to stick it out a bit. Just kno that I kno that you think that I think that I'm off my rocker...heh. Also this game....man, its nutz...I'm peanuts over this game here...I started playing at about 12...said to myself, "Dan, one hour, then u do homework"...as the hours passed...I said, "Aww...its cool...just figure out this puzzle..." Then it became..."Well, I can go to school a little early and finish my homework then." And now its 4:45am and I figured..."Yeah, I should get to bed." Excess...excess...I'm not too worried, because I kno things will balance out soon...when? Probably when I beat the game.=)
10/31/2000 04:47:51 AM
Monday, October 30, 2000
I just got back from school...another monday...you should know the routine better than I do by now...laundry, first thing of the day...then whatever..usually homework..and today was no different. I went to the library to do my digital illustration sketches...tomorrow, I'll scan them, rearrange it in Photoshop, and import it into Painter and do my thing....a thing...which I've never done before...hah. And I'll have to do it with the mouse instead of the pen and tablet, because everywhere I've looked, they either don't have or are out of the Intuos Pens...argh. Maybe I'll just order it online.
I took a dinner break with a friend of mine I saw at the library. We spent about 20 minutes wandering Downtown SF for somewhere to munch because I didn't wanna eat burgers again, and we ended up eating at Jack in the Box.=) While he was groovin' with his #7, and I was devouring my Jumbo Jack, CHicken Samich, and onion rings, he said, "Man, I don't kno if its the age thing, but now, whenever I'm walking...everyone's passing me up! Even little girls walk faster than me...its sucks. When I was younger like you, I was always in front of the pack, but now, I just watch everyone pass me, and I'm left saying "Wait for me!"" I laugh..."Dude, u're only 28! Geez man...I kno I give u shit about u bein' an old fart all the time, but don't take it to heart man!" "I don't kno...if its like my stamina, and I just need to go to the gym, or if its this old age thing." "U're talkin' crazy talk dude...heh. But one way you can tell is observe who's passing you up. If they're all younger than you, then u're just an ol' fogey....but if u see some grampa with a cain, waddling past you, then bro...u need to hit the gym...nyhehe" Gah, he's a nut....only 28 and already lookin' to a lifetime of prune juice, white picket fences, and retirement...geez...heh.
While we walked back to the school...I saw something...or someone, that I thought I'd never see again...a roomate from back in the day...nearly 2 years ago. This guy...oh man, this guy. Lets just say, he's....aww, why be subtle? He's a dick. But he's different thou...than say, your run of the mill dick...he was a dick, and he KNEW he was a dick, and somehow wanted to change that, but couldn't, and in the end, he was consumed by dick.....dom? Anywayz, I was crossing the street talking to my friend, when I meet eyes with the guy for a split second, and he nods..and says almost in acknowledgement, "...Dan..." as we pass each other in the middle of the street...only after getting to the other side did I realize who it was....I looked back. Crazy...I had heard that over the summer after we were roomates, he was kicked out of the dorm, because basically...no one liked him....we really had some big beef between us...and the crazy thing was in first few weeks of the semester, we got along pretty well....but now all I feel for him is pity. He's just a lonely guy now...going to school, and back home....mundane. Ah well....I'm gonna play some Planescape before I get on with more homework.
10/30/2000 11:35:52 PM
Man, I just love complete and utter excess....I've been playing this game pretty much the whole weekend...with brief bouts of sleep and eating inbetween...nyehehe. This is such a dope game...it really hit the spot...this reminds me of a friend...Mark was his name....before he went into a 2 month seclusion playing Diablo II. We never heard from him...we never saw him...he grew a vampiric pale white....his eye sight began to become hyper sensitive from staying in his dark cell of a room...day in and day out....until one day not long ago...he finally emerged....purged of the desires within him...ready to ACTUALLY DO stuff. Now, I'm nowhere near that sort of whacked out, but yeah...I just had an urge...and itch, thats still bein' scratched....and if u don't understand what I'm sayin', it IS 5:35 in the freakin' morning...I decided I should get off of the game and catch a few Z's....so my weekend = excess...I should be alrite in a few days...weeks...eh.=P No worries, I should rejoin the world of "light" soon enough. But for now, I'm doin' it molestyle.
My new housemates seem to be really really cool. They cooked me dinner again...I kept telling them, "nah, its alrite...I've got food..." This and that, because I began to feel bad for eating all their stuff...I'm wierd like that. But they persisted and so I joined them...the dude can cook! Wow...I hope he can teach me some stuff...he used to be a sort of chef. Me? I totally dig cookin'...when I have the time. As of late, I've been busy as hell...and me goin' molestyle over this new game isn't helping....but with other people cooking in the house, it'll probably inspire me to cook more too. Afterwards, we watched a little Tarzan...haha. Oh, and when I took a shower today...dude...the whole bathroom, and the bathtub especially, was completely clean! And it drained like a normal tub! I was like, *eyes wide in amazement* "whoa....she's a miracle worker" Man, I gotta find a way to return the favors they've been giving me...any suggestions? Hmm...
Man, I'm tryin' to stay awake to get this blog in...I think for about 2 months straight, I've been blogging faithfully everyday. I also think that I'm going through my "take it easy" phase...and I kno the "getting back to normal" phase is just around the corner. Damn, hope I can upload this blog...as u guys have probably gathered, I haven't been able to upload anything since thurs. OH, before I forget, Sarin is against NADS....I thought maybe bad experience with it, but she just doesn't like the color and the fact that its called NADS...heh...hay, if it works, it works right? Damn...if I stay up any longer I'm gonna have to prop my eyelids up just like in those Tom and Jerry cartoons. More tomorro....because as you all know, it is Sunday night still...right...right?? Right.=)
