Mass genocide is the most exhausting activity one can engage in, outside of soccer.

Well I wouldn't really know, but I sure am tired right now. I also can't walk, but that will pass.

I had some soccer games, and it seems like the only thing that my teammates have to talk about with one another is pregnancy and giving birth. I think there are like 5 of us who don't have kids, and we definately feel like a minority. Luckily I just put on my headphones and blissfully listened to Franz on Soren. Yes, I named my iPod Soren. I was going to name him Pascal, but that's Blaise's last name, and really I like the name Soren better. And besides, if I named him Pascal, some people might think I really like math, since it seems that's the only thing Pascal is really known for.

Of course, nobody out there will know who Soren is. Well, a few of you might, but the majority of people won't. Teleological suspension of the ethical! What could be cooler? Okay, a lot of things, but still, Soren is a cool name.

I guess a post like this is what I get when I try to post something when I should be in bed. But I have to wait for my comforter to finish drying, so you get the pleasure of reading this when my mind isn't really functioning. Lucky you.

I want a farm in Africa.

Watching Out of Africa made me want to live there. Or maybe it made me want to live there around WWI when it was being colonized. I think there's always been a part of me that has wanted to live on a farm. No, I take that back. A part of me has wanted to live on a ranch. And yes, there is a huge difference between a farm and a ranch.

Ranchers get to ride around on horses and fix fences all day. Farms have to milk cows all day. (Yes, I know I'm simplifying, leave me alone). The only thing I wouldn't like about living on a ranch would be getting up early. Maybe I could be a late night rancher.

I probably just feel like this from all my summers spent on my grandparents and I associate ranch with adventure. But who cares! You do get to have adventures on ranches! You get to chase away coyotes from the cattle, and hunt stuff, and ride horses! Not to mention try to get lost and sleep under the stars.

Hmmm, I think I need to go camping.

Snob?

So last night was HP discussion group at Russo's. I got there a little early (meaning on time) before the people in the discussion group who don't work at Russo's had arrived. Rachel promptly told everybody that I want to work at Russo's and would fit right in because I'm a snob. Not having any argument with this statement, I asked what I'm a snob about (yes, there's more than one). Rachel replied "She doesn't like people with low intelligence. *pause* She doesn't even like people with moderate intelligence." I don't think that's really true. I'm not that much of a snob. I just don't like stupidty. Is there something wrong with that?

Later I was telling Chris about how Rachel thinks I'm a snob. I started with, "Apparently I'm snobbish," and continued with the story. After finishing I said, "So I'm a snob." Chris replied, "You're also a bish." If you don't see why that's funny, trying saying it out loud.

Yesterday I watched most of Lawrence of Arabia, which is an awesome movie. Rachel didn't like how much of it was "wasted" on shots of the desert, but I think that visually it is amazing, and that is what makes it so awesome. But it made me want to be a nomad, probably because Omar Sharif is so awesome. And I want to wear Arab/Jedi robes (the robes the Arabs wear make me think of Star Wars, what can I say?). Hey, they're like dresses!

Troll alumni?

Last night Chris and I were watching the news after 24 while playing Scene It with Paul (how's that for a sentence?). Apparently the city of Bakersfield wants to build a new freeway - through the IT building at BHS. While being outraged (as any good Driller should be) Chris promptly said, "We're going to be troll alumni. Aren't they the ones that live under bridges?" Of course this is only preliminary, and at least a couple years off, but still, how could they do that to one of the oldest (not to mention awesomest) high schools in the state?

And the salt in the wound? They're going to name it the Centennial Corrider. Sounds like a dirty and rotton plot by the Golden Hawks to me.

Disturbing

Yesterday after church my parents and I went to pizza for lunch, and as I was leaving the store I looked at the vending machines (you know, the ones for a quarter or 50 cents). Now, from the creators of Homies, you have "Trailer Park" action figures. These include (but aren't limited to) the fishing guy, a girl in a bikini pumping gas, not one but two seperate figures with guitars or banjos, and commando boy. So apparently Oildale is a big market, who would have known?

The scary thing is the huge market (apparently) on eBay that these things have (I had to find a picture of them).

Due to technical difficulties, I can't upload the picture right now, but I will.

Schleepy scheepy

Last night was Movie Night. I know, some of you are wondering, "Isn't every night movie night?" and the answer is "Yes, of course!" but there's a difference between movie night and Movie Night. Last night we watched The Great Escape (after having it taped since December) and Chris and I actually got Rachel to come hang out with us (only because it's a historical film, or maybe because of Eddie). It was a night full of quoting various things (mostly Dress to Kill) and enjoying ourselves.

But unfortunately The Great Escape is three hours longs, which I had forgotten. It doesn't really have to be that long, but the director had to get ample footage of Steve McQueen (disguised as an American man) riding his motor bike. I think there's about half an hour of unneeded footage of this. So because it was three hours long we all got to be late, and now I'm fighting against sleep.

Also, since this is a post of links, for those of you not in the know (and who don't check blog profiles frequently enough) there's a new quote board of sorts here. If you'd care to contribute, let me know and I'll set you up.

More like Lamespace

A friend of mine has just joined the dark side. In the world of blogging, there are blogs (I unfortunately have to include things like Xanga in this, and of course independent weblogs) and then there is Myspace. The two cannot be mixed. Or at least shouldn't be.

But a friend (I won't disclose names) recently did the unthinkable and made a Space. I looked at it and really can't figure out what to do. I mean, there's nothing to read, and the profile is the exact same thing that this person has on blogger. So what exactly was the point? The thing with Myspace is, to do anything you also have to be a member. Well I for one will protest!

In other news, is it bad to have seen more movies in a month than there are days? I think perhaps I need to think about my priorities.

Okay, I've thought about them and I see nothing wrong with it.

I think we should all just go to my Quik-E-Mart

I hate how convinienent stores don't have prices on most of the products they sell. It's annoying. I don't know if a package of peanut butter cup is going to cost me 60 or 80 cents. And since you don't get a reciept or anything, If you buy more than one product, you'll never know. You can guess, but you won't know.

On a completely unrelated topic, what does everybody think works better: negative or positive reinforcement?

Sad day.

I wish I was in high school again so I could play two hours of soccer a day. Instead I have to be frustrated as I watch high schoolers play poorly. I can't decide if I think coaching would help or make it worse, but it doesn't matter since I have no time to potentially coach with. Asi es la vida.

Fans Part Duex

Did I spell two right?

I decided today that fans don't really care if the ref hears them, they are just trying to out-do the other moronic fans around them. I just wish they would go away to do that. It annoys me that I can't tell them exactly how stupid they are. It's not fair that there would be such a great opportunity to trash somebody, and not be able to take it.

This month I've seen (so far) 12 movies that are on one of AFI's lists. Go me.

You've got me? Who's got you?

They say confession is good for the soul, and I have one. I love Superman. It doesn’t matter what it is (cartoon, movie, tv show); if it’s about Superman, I’m probably going to be a fan. After all of the disappointments of hyped up movies lately (I won’t name them because it’s too depressing) I have refused to get excited about any more hyped up movies (until I think of X-3 at least) but I can’t help it when it comes to Superman. Even as a kid I would get excited as soon as I heard the intro to the theme song.

Most people don’t really root for Superman because there’s almost never a question if he’s going to succeed (of course he will, he’s Superman!), and in order for him to potentially fail, the plot must draw in space aliens or space rocks of some sort. Sometimes even huge evil robots. He’s not one of those superheroes that is just normal and uses gadgets or good training to fight (Batman) and doesn’t have a couple powers here and there, but really needs a team to kick some butt (X-Men). He works it. He goes against any human, and he’s going to win. He doesn’t have to be crafty or cunning. He's just a big super boy scout in a blue suit.

But deep inside the story of superman are real moral questions. Why does he save the world when he really doesn’t have any connection to it other than it’s his adopted home. Why is he so good and was never tempted to do evil (I’m sure in some version of some story he is tempted and commits evil, but not in the mainstream stuff as far as I know). Superman is good, but why? What makes him so innately good that his father knows he will use his powers for good and not evil on Earth where he could be Supreme Ruler of All?

So I don't care what other people think. Superman is the coolest super hero there is.

ABCrap

Just kidding.

Every time I see a headline that says something like “Arrested Development renewal unlikely” a little part of me dies. But then I realize they are talking about the fact that Fox hasn’t officially canceled the show and "probably" won’t renew it, and that little part rises from the dead. Duh, we all know that. What I want is more information on the possibility of Showtime or ABC picking it up (ABC would be much, much better). If ABC picked up the show, I would partially forgive it for killing the best thing on tv and not giving it a chance to come back after Garner can take a more active role in the show (stupid pregnancy). I hate ABC!

Technology is Kant

I don't understand technology. Now don't get me wrong, I know more about technology than most people. I can write my own html and once upon a time knew some basic C+(or was that C++?). I understand that everything is based on 1's and 0's which basically are either closed or open gates that lets the little pulse of energy go through. And I can pretty much figure out how to use any computer program there is with minimal instruction and a lot of playing.

But I can't let myself think about how little gates and an electric charge makes music, or a picture, or a video game show up on my screen because I just don't understand it. And I don't like things I can't understand, so I try not to think about them if there's no hope of me understanding.

It's the same as Kant's phenomenal and noumenal worlds. I can use the phenomenal world pretty well. I think I understand it pretty well, know physical laws and stuff like that, can calculate the air speed velocity of a swallow, know how hard to kick a soccer ball to get it to go a certain distance, that sort of thing, but once I think about why, about the how behind what I know, I have to stop thinking because I don't know, can't understand, and will never know or understand. And I hate it. Stupid noumenal world. All I have to say to it is, "Mahnoumena!"

Free company stuff

Chris gets gift cards and movie tickets. Robert gets food and movie screenings. I get a turkey, an ice chest bag, and a jacket, and the ever present carrots. My free stuff sucks. Why can't I get toys, food, and movies? Curses!

Act like you've scored a goal before.

I don’t understand fans. Now, mostly I’m talking about the kind that you see at their kid’s game, or niece, neighbor, or whatever, but I also don’t understand the type that can watch five football games in a row, yelling at the ref, players, and who knows who else in the process. The first kind are the people that I laugh at while I’m reffing (I have to do something to entertain myself, and I can’t always count on trying to translate the Mexican teams’ Spanglish). I get such a laugh out of the people who yell, “Go go go!” the entire game, no matter what’s happening on the field. Someone needs to thank them for reminding the players to actually do something. “Run run run” is perhaps the only thing funnier. Because they wouldn't otherwise.

Then there’s the people that carry on for 5 minutes about a call that the ref missed. I especially love the case when a coach will turn around and tell the person to shut up because the person is so obviously a moron and doesn't know the rules.. Granted, it doesn’t happen often, but when it does, it’s great. Last night I heard one parent yell, "Cheater! Offsides cheater!" Yes, I'm cheating for the other team because it matters to me if they score. Why the hell do I care who wins? I get paid either way.

I guess I’m strange because when I watch a game I tend to be very quiet and analytical. I don’t want to yell the whole game, and I don’t want the people around me yelling. I don’t cheer. One “whoo!” is about all you’ll hear from me, and only when something worth celebrating happens, like a goal in a championship game, or when you’re behind. Perhaps it’s because in high school and college we were very relaxed on the bench (and our parents were, too). This might have been because we were used to good things happening (like winning) so we didn't feel the need to celebrate. I actually heard Leslie say, "Act like you've scored a goal before," when an underclassman was celebrating too much after a goal. I've wanted to say that on numerous occasions to numerous teams.

When the cat's away...

... Becca will buy a new mouse. Unfortunately, my mouse that I've had since my sophomore year of college could no longer run it its little wheel. It might be that I just need new researchable batteries, but I decided to get a mouse with a tail anyways, because you have no idea how annoying it is to be playing Warcraft III and have your batteries die. So now even if my wireless mouse is miraculously resurrected, I'll have a back up.

The only problem is that I don't like the new one. For one, the thumb button is much too small, and is too high. And it just doesn't fit my hand very well, either. But it's the best that was available. All the other ones at Best Buy (or Best Buys as all of the older people I know call it) either were wireless or didn't have a thumb button at all. So after who knows how long, I finally picked the only would I could, and got to more important things.

Chris was looking for an "adventure strategy" game (which he later changed to "adventure mystery"), so we got to spend some time looking at the computer games. Unfortunately, the place decided to close early on Sunday, so we didn't have nearly enough time to look at movies. Or maybe that was a good thing since I didn't end up spending too much money.

The other thing I don't like about this mouse is that the wheel doesn't click. And I can't click the wheel to scroll, it cycles between windows. And yes Rob, I realize I can change button assignment, but I shouldn't have to.

Get off the road!

I hate people who don't turn on their blinker when they're at an intersection with no turn light. You know, the one where you have to yield if a person isn't turning. I turn on my blinker so that they know my intentions, why can't they? Jerks.

You play ball like a girl.

Yesterday The Sandlot was playing where I had lunch. There's just something about that movie. There are so many classic parts in it, but that could just be because I grew up with the movie. It does, however, raise an interesting question.

What's with categorizing things as "children's," mostly in regard to books, but also movies. I can understand that the books and movies you read to five year olds (and only five year olds) should be categorized as such, but where should the line be drawn? I can remember when book stores had a children's section, and a fiction section, but now there's Young Adult, Teen, Pre-Teen, and who knows what else.

The most obvious example of this is Harry Potter. I can understand that it's a "kid's book," but to categorize it like that is almost an insult. It is so much more than a children's book, much in the same way The Cronicles of Narnia and the Wrinkle in Time trillogy (or however many there are) are so much more than children's books. It's not like there is a difference between what makes a good children's book and an adult book: interesting characters, a driving plot, and usually some mystery or adventure.

This isn't to say that there isn't 'children's' literature out there that is truely children's literature, but where should the line be drawn. I started reading both Ender's Game, the Wheel of Time, and the Recluse Saga in Jr. High (I was 12) so does that mean that all those books should be considered Pre-Teen? I don't think so.

Okay, I think I'm done.

What would Dumbledore do?

Die. I hope that if you haven't read The Half Blood Prince you don't plan on, because I just ruined the book for you, and you deserve it.

If, like I think, Snape killed Dumbledore on his (Dumbledore's) urging, should Snape be held morally accountable for the action? Even if Dumbledore wasn't urging Snape to kill him, if Snape killed Dumbedore to get in Voldermort's good graces in order to betray him, should Snape be held morally accountable?

For those of you who've read Shadow Puppets (Orson Scott Card), should the Sury be held accountable for "betraying" Peter only to be able to betray Achilles?

Here's to a new one!

Well, another year is over, and every Jan. 1 I sit and think about how arbitrary time is. I know, there are a lot of things that make me think about time (too many philosophy class topics on it), but New Years is one of the biggest. That and Leap Day (if that's the name of it). But in the hopes of not boring everybody, I'm not going to talk about what I think about, I'm just going to mention that I had thoughts. I know, you're amazed that anything is going on in my head now that I have a job.

Today the Armstrong family started their Mammoth trip, which the three college grads had to miss out on due to jobs. I was okay with this idea when there was hardly any snow, but beginning like Friday the heavens decided to open up and rain down beautiful snow in the mountains. So now Tim letting me know exactly how much snow Mammoth got up, and I'm no longer okay with missing out. Hopefully I'll be able to make it up there a couple times this year. Otherwise I might cry, and that isn't a pretty sight, rare as it may be.

I spent most of today playing Civ IV (be jealous Stacy!) and getting absolutely nothing done, because that's just how Civ is. And Chris and I decided to becca-and-christen his TCM version of Scene It yesterday. I won, but mostly because Chris didn't get any "my plays," and most of the "my plays" that I got were really easy, like who is the director of 2001: A Space Odyssey? That and who played Spencer Tracy's daughter in Father of the Bride.

But if you've ever played that game, you know that the hardest part can sometimes be answering the final questions. So after a couple rounds of Final Cut with neither of us getting a correct answer, we decided to play a tie breaker and let it go from there. I had the birthday closest to Jan. 7 (I don't remember what the significance of that date was) so I won.

Women should be kept illiterate and clean, like canaries.

This week at work hasn't been very much fun, since my distractions have been gone for the most part. Luckily, it's the end of the month, so I've had some stuff to do. I've discovered some of my new favorite movies lately, which is very exciting. I've watched High Society, a musical with Grace Kelly, Bing Crosby, and Frank Sinatra, based on The Philadelphia Story. It also has Louis Armstrong, as himself.

I also finally finished Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, and was throughly impressed. I'm sad that I had never it before. Robert hit it on the nose when he quoted Freeks and Geeks saying, "I wish I had never seen it so I could see it again for the first time." Or at least I thinks that what it was.

You should check out this commercial. It's pretty awesome, and there's no CG at all. It made me happy.

And now I'm watching Cary Grant in a comedy, so my day is complete. If anybody is in town on Saturday, we're going to be playing frisbee at 11:00 am at Cal State.

Feliz Navidad, prospero ano y felizidad

So it's Christmas, and this year was actually enjoyable for me, unlike most. Now, there are bits and pieces of each Christmas season that I enjoy, but for the whole, they are stressing and I don't want to be home. This year, however, we all seemed to get along. This is probably due to the fact that there was hardly a time when all five of us were home, but if that's what it takes, that's what it takes.

I got a ton of clothes this year, which was interesting and a surprise. I knew about three pieces, but my brother and dad decided they needed to go to Buckle in the mall and buy me new jeans and a t-shirt. We'll see how long those stay.

Friday was Christmas with my friends (sadly Natalie couldn't make it) which was so much fun. Any excuse I can have to hang out with them is great. Saturday we had family over for lunch, and I think we're expecting more throughout the week. I also have watched three classic movies this weekend, and I'm thinking I'll get through a couple more tomorrow. Tonight Brandon is bringing over Civilization 4 so we're going to play that, which is exciting.

Now, I know that you didn't need all that information, but some people were accusing me of not updating, so I figured I would when I can. I'll put up my philosophical thoughts about Christmas later.

The pellet with the poison is in the flagon with the dragon. The chalice from the palace holds the brew that is true.

Okay, okay, I get the picture. I'm boring, need to get a life, and need to update more often.

It may be hard to believe, but I haven't had a lot of free time at my computer lately, and I feel (somewhat) badly when I update at work. However, I will do it anyways. Actually, I made an update to post yesterday, but for some reason blogger didn't want to publish it, so I emailed it to myself to publish later, and just didn't have an opportunity.

Right now they guy sitting next to me is playing some very interesting Christmas music. Some of it is good (Judy Garland singing "Have Yourself A Very Merry Christmas," but then there's what's playing now, and I don't even know how to classify it it's so bad. Unfortunately, I keep forgetting to bring in some speakers (I'm going to steal small ones from the family computer that nobody uses anymore because I think bringing in my computer speaker system would be a little over the top), so I can't listen to my good music.

I feel like I'm re-living the teenage days of pinning up magazine covers and pictures in your room that I missed. The room I'm staying in belongs to an 8th grader, and I've been catching up on who's hot and who's not as I try to fall asleep and end up staring at a wall covered with teen magazine covers.

I got a turkey yesterday and thought to myself, "What the heck am I supposed to do with a turkey?" So I took it home and put it on the counter thinking that my mom will somehow dispose of it to a worthy cause. She did. But it made me feel all "grown up" to get a turkey. (Not a word, Amy).

So, does this suffice for an update? There hasn't been anything happening in my life recently, and I didn't want to remind myself of how boring my life is by posting about the boringness, but "my friends" have made me, and now I feel depressed. Thanks a lot.

But you hate women.

Anybody know what that quote is from?

I've been busy lately, which is why I haven't posted an update in a while. Besides, I figure everybody else is too busy to check my blog due to finals, holidays, and what not. Lately I've been working, watching movies, and not much more.

Saturday we saw Narnia, which I will refrain from talking about here, because I don't know who's seen it and who hasn't. Suffice to say I was disappointed, but I'm hoping King Kong is much more satisfying (don't fail me Pete!). From what I've seen and read, it looks amazing, but we'll see.

Not much more than that has been going on in my life except work, and I really don't care to talk about that much, so I won't.

"I'll call you if anybody anywhere gets drunk."

Name the movie that this quote comes from and you're super cool.

Yesterday I saw the awesomest thing. When I come home from work I drive through Kern City, which for those of you who don't know, is like a retirement community near West High. But before I even got there I had to pass a little old lady driving a gold cart. There were like plastic doors on it, I guess so that the wind doesn't make her too cold. It even had a liscence plate and lights and everything. I want that to be my car when I'm old. That or a little moped (is that how you spell it), but that could only work if I live someplace like Italy.

I think that the people I work with think I only care about two things: old movies (well, maybe movies in general) and soccer. That seems to be all I really end up talking about, mostly because if I start talking about some of the other things I'm into, they'll think I'm even stranger than I am. However, I do think it might be time to bring a toy or two to work, just because my desk is kind of lame right now. I don't think it will be legos, though, because those would be too tempting for somebody going through the office to accidentally nab.

I've been settling into my job, which is nice because now I am pretty much able to do my work without needing to go to somebody and ask if I'm doing it correctly. I think they've finally realized that I kind of know what I'm doing, which is both nice and not nice, since I might now be getting more to do. Ah, things that are bitter sweet.

I'm hoping this post is as random as I'm feeling right now, but if it hasn't been, I'd like to add that last night I dreamed about playing high school softball again, but I had pissed off my coach so much that he made me go coach the JV team. If only that had happened for real my senior year.

Tonight Rach, her sister, her sister's husband, and I are all going to laugh at Chris who is in the Boar's Head, which is a play at his church. I think he's in a comic role, but even if he isn't, I know I'll be laughing. Actually, especially if he isn't I'll be laughing.

Trying to enjoy a day

The reason I asked the question in the previous post is that I really don't like Thanksgiving very much. I don't think I ever have. Part of the reason is that I don't enjoy stuffing myself silly, and don't particularly like most of the traditional food of Thanksgiving. Turkey and gravy? No thanks.

Some people say that Thanksgiving is a day that you remember what you're thankful for. I think that's stupid. I rememeber almost every day what I'm thankful for. When you go around a table and everybody says what they're thankful for all the answers are so lame and cliche. I guess I don't think there should need to be a day where you're reminded to be thankful for what you have, you should just be thankful.

So, needless to say, when I wrote that post I wasn't in a very Thanksgiving mood (I don't think I was at any point that day), and just thought I'd say something. Maybe I should watch A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving, or whatever it's called.

Question

In your opinion, what is Thanksgiving supposed to be?

101st Post!

Go me! This is my 101st Post! I feel so special.

This weekend was the official end of the fall soccer season. I know I might have said that before, but now it is true. My AYSO somehow made the playoffs (some of the teams above us didn’t have a team ref, which you need to go to the playoffs), and we had our game on Saturday. Unfortunately, we didn’t win, but the team played really well. We just couldn’t seem to find the net, and the ref was pretty horrible. She didn’t call any fouls, and when she did, they were wrong. I think we played the team that Natalie’s dad coaches, though.

Then on Sunday we had our adult league Scramble Tournament (don’t ask me why it was called that) when they decided that everybody could play six games. Granted the games only had 20 minute halves, but six of them still adds up to 3 “real” games of 40 minute halves. Take into account that we normally only play 35ish minute halves, and you have a long day. I wasn’t looking forward to the games because I thought that the co-ed and women’s games would be playing at different times so I would have to play for both teams, but I only ended up playing with my women’s team.

That was fun because we can actually play well, plus I actually enjoy talking with some of them now, and can joke around. We had a couple people come out who I know from high school (one person coached the JV team when I was a senior at BHS and she was more like a teammate than a coach). Plus it was a potluck where each team brought something and then everybody pigged out during our hour long break at lunch. So a huge lunch for the 3 dollars I had to pay for my team’s part.

The holiday season officially starts this week, and it is going to be weird working. I keep thinking that I’m going to have the whole Christmas time off, and have to remind myself that I won’t. That means figuring out when I’m going to hang out with friends gets a lot harder, and figuring out when I’m going to make it to toy stores (BN, Toys R Us, Best Buy) is getting tough because I don’t want to go on weekends when all the stupid little kids will be screaming. Oh well, the rest of the world seems to find a way to exist around the holiday season, so I’m sure I will too.

We were oozed.

I drank gunk today. Well, not really, but it looked and had the same consistancy that I would think gunk would. Bolthouse has a little store on site, and it has the new juices that Bolthouse has started producing. There's one called Green Goodness or something like that. It wasn't bad (I think it could grow on me), but I just can't trust a liquid that I can't see through, with the exception of milk, I think. Luckily, the label on the bottle is solid, and covers most of the bottle, so I didn't have to see that what I was drinking was opaque.

I found out that my little soccer team might have made the playoffs, which is good to know now instead of like Sunday after the game. It does mean that the season hasn't really ended yet, but that's okay because my women's league has one final tournament on Sunday. I can handle one more weekend of soccer.

Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn.

Just because Rachel for some reason got this connection in my previous post.

This weekend was my final weekend for soccer, which I guess is bittersweet. It will be nice to have more free time (especially since I'm working every day now), but I know that I'll miss soccer. The good (bad?) news is that high school starts this week, so I'll have plenty of refing to do, so I'll still be involved in soccer. But I won't be playing, which isn't good. I have one final hurrah in my adult soccer league, but I don't think I'll be able to play the whole tournament.

I've been playing Fantasy Football this year, and have been doing pretty well until the past couple of weeks. My two star running backs decided to get hurt - my big name is out for the rest of the season, and my quarterback has been sucking. Yesterday he got me five whole points. Quarterbacks should get at least 15, and mine usually gets more than 20. But yesterday he decided to throw no touchdowns and 3 interceptions, which is horrible. But my excuse is that I was playing my brother and I wouldn't want him to feel bad by getting beat by his sister at football.

In other news, Cal got stomped by SC and I'm really tired. That's it for now.

Play it, Sam. Play "As Time Goes By"

Since Rachel isn't available to do so, I will wish everybody a happy Armistice Day. Too bad WWII came along and made it so today isn't Armistice Day, but Vetrans' Day. But on the 11 hour or the 11 day of the 11 month a long time ago we stopped the Germans. Or something like that. Which is good, because otherwise we might all be speaking German right now, which would be bad for everybody except for Amy and Nat who probably remember some.

Last night was HP Discussion group, which was fun, if small. Then I came home and watched some Tomb Raider, which is surprisingly like the game, at least from the little bit of both that I've seen.

Yesterday while I was here, I created Pascal's Triangle to the 17th line without using a calculator. Yes, I was that bored. But it was fun to make the Triangle and think about Pascal's philosophy, which I always enjoy thinking about. I also started my Top 100 list of movies, but I'm having trouble thinking of ones to add to the list, so it'll take a while, but it appears that I'll have time.

You know what they say... no noose is good noose

I have news. I, Rebecca Jennings, now have a full time job. Not a lot of people knew I was looking for one (myself included), but this one kind of appeared, and it doesn't sound too lame. Hopefully it isn't too lame. Not a great job, but not a bad one either, and we can't all get our dream job (Robert).

The only bad part (besides working all the time) about it is I'm either going to start at 6 or 7, which are both way too early. Oh well, I guess I'll get used to it, much like Chris has gotten used to waking at 5:15.

I've been officially ditched by everybody for the next three days, but that's okay, I have some movies. And GuildWars. Oh, and I don't get to see Hilary Putnam because somebody left me in charge of a certain HP discussion group, and it happens to be at the same time. I think I'll survive.

PS. Name that movie.

You're the best around!

Last night The Karate Kid was on, so I watched it because that's the sort of movie that you have to watch when it's on. It is a very interesting movie, one that I don't hink would be able to be made now. For one, the action sequences aren't very good. They are all short, and there isn't much karate. That would flop these days. We want long, loud, totally suped-up fight scenes, not just a series of three quick kicks or a couple punches then it's over. It's still a classic movie, though, and one that our generation will forever cherish. I mean, who can ever forget the line, "Wax on, wax off?"

Volleyball is finally over (yay!) which means that I will now have all sorts of extra free time with which to do nothing. That is, until soccer starts, and I spend even more time making even less money. But I like soccer more, so its okay. Also, my AYSO soccer season is winding down, which means I really don't know what I'm going to do with all my time.

Today I'm in a seventh grade English class, and the GATE class just started reading The White Mountains. It seems like just a little bit ago that I was reading that, but when I think about it, it was a while. I'm surprised that they haven't gotten new curriculum by now, but I guess that just shows you that good books never get old. It does make me wonder if any of the newer good books will ever be in curriculum, Harry Potter for example. Although I guess the really good ones in the series are towards the end, so it would be hard to teach them well. But there are all sorts of good children's (or young adult) books out there, especially now that HP has done so well. Will they ever make it into the schools? Probably not. The California school system sucks.

Now I'm off to see Zorro with Nat and Rob, which should be fun. I'm feeling like an action movie, and you can't really go wrong with those two.

Putnam

Hilary Putnam is going to be in Bakersfield, and the one person who might (might) be willing to go with me is half a world away. Boo. Wait! Jessica! Come up from la and see Hilary with me! You know you want to. I need someone there who'll understand as I make fun of him.

In other news, Rob and I just saw Wallace and Gromit with his mom, which was pretty fun. A lot more adult humor than I would have expected, but I'm not complaining. That's it for now.

This is Halloween, this is Halloween!

You'd all better know what that quote is from. I love Halloween, because its the one night of the year that I don't have to explain myself or get strange looks when I wear a costume. This year, I asked my mom to finish the Jedi outfit that has been like three years in the making. I've had the cloak, but could never find a good enough pattern for the tunic and stuff. Well this year I found one, and it turned out awesome, if I do say so myself, and I do.

My mom also helped Rach to make a very cool Quidditch robe, which rocked. Chris and Rob were Buster and GOB (respectively), and I even got Chris a hook to be his hand (If you haven't seen season 2 of Arrested Development, don't worry about it). We had a fun night going over to Ronnie's house (a friend of Rach) and playing first Cranium then Apples to Apples. Chris and I were on the same team for Cranium, so we won. We were in dead last place (getting beaten pretty badly) and pulled out the win, which was pretty rad.

The only problem is now I'm struggling to stay awake, which will make volleyball interesting. Luckily I only have one game instead of the usual two, and then it is time for home for another small nap, then some tv. Tomorrow night I think will start the two weeks of movies that Rob and I have planned. Hopefully I'll put some pictures up on my site from last night by tomorrow, so you should check them out. Maybe that'll make me put up the rest of the pictures I've been avoiding, but probably not.

Everybody hail to the Pumpkin King!

You know, that would be a great way to get kids to drink their milk.

I don't get Alma Maters. I mean the songs. Last night I was at a volleyball game and looked to my right and saw the Ridgeview High Alma Mater standing above the doors to the gym. I read the words and really can't understand what the big deal is. I remember some of the words to my high school's song, and don't see why you should sing "We pledge our hearts to the purple and gold," (from Ridgeview) or "praise and tribute bring" (from BHS). Maybe it's the same thing as saying "Once a Driller Always a Driller" or "We bleed blue."

Last night we celebrated Rob's birthday by trying to take him some place that was about to close. We had to do that because it was done for my birthday, but who would have thought a bar/diner would close at 9? Anyways, we ended up going to pizza and drinking some beer there. It was fun, mostly because we sat around for at least an hour and a half talking.

Tomorrow is another day full of soccer, which will almost be the last. Chris and Rach leave on Tuesday, which means that Rob and I are getting ready for two week when we'll have to entertain ourselves, and it looks like that might be done by raiding Chris' movie collection and watching as many movies as possible. I'm looking forward to it.

To die will be a great adventure.

So I've decided to make the subjects of my blog quotes from movies I've seen recently. Or at least for a while. Chris got the previous one, but will anybody get this one? I sure hope so, mostly because there are a couple possibilities. But if somebody says the one I watched recently, more power to you.

I thought that my previous post would garner some comments, but I guess not. Any thoughts out there about the difference between Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and Bonnie and Clyde? How are one group heros and the other villians?

Sunday I got a hat trick in my soccer game, which is impressive considering I usually try to miss my shots. You might ask why I do this, and I have a pretty good reason. The reason is that I and my team can pretty much score at will against most of the teams we play, and I really hate running up scores, something that the rest of my team doesn't really seem to have a problem with. Anyways, I usually try to miss, but make it look like I tried to score. But on Sunday I had three completely break aways that I couldn't make look good by missing. So I scored, and they were pretty good shots, if I do say so. But after I scored the third one I subbed out. Apparently I was playing too well.

I watched Clue last night, which is awesome. Tim Curry is great, and there's some other great talents in it. Plus its just plain crazy, which is awesome. I'd been holding out watching it just because Chris likes it so much (much like Chris refused to read Harry Potter because Rach is obsessed with it). But I really did enjoy it, and am glad I watched it.

The stuff that dreams are made of.

I watched AFI's Top 100 Movie Quotes tonight on Bravo. Well, I started at about 79, but that's okay. It was pretty cool because they had all sorts of people talk about the movie for about 5 minutes, showing clips from it, and working up to the point of the quote. I think I ended up seing about half of Casablanca since it had so many quotes on the list.

Seeing all those great quotes made me want to watch more old movies, since most of them are from before 1980. I've seen quite a few older movies lately, which is great. I think I've seen three Tracy Hepburn movies in the past month (No, Tracy Hepburn isn't a single person, for those of you in my generation and uneducated). Now I really want to see Guess Who's Coming To Dinner. I don't think you can get a better duo on screen than those two.

I was looking at the AFI Heros and Villans list, and I'm a little confused. On the heros list is Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. But on the Villan list is Michael Corleone and Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow. Doesn't really make sense to me. I also throughly appreciate the fact that Han Solo is 14 (although he should be higher!), instead of somebody stupid like Luke. Luke really doesn't get interesting until the books, while Han is always interesting and the kind of hero you can root for. Luke is just whiney in the movies. He must get it from his father.

Catcher in the Rye

I've had a great week. Tuesday my friends attempted to kidnap me. Well, they successfully kidnapped me, but weren't too great at not letting me know where we were going. We tried to play golf and storm a castle at Boomers, but they were closed. So instead we checked out the Elephant Bar, which was fun.

Yesterday Manny was feeling sick, so I had Dr. Robert come over and check him out. I think he is feeling much better now. By the way, Manny is my computer. Then, after practice, Rachel came over, on the pretense of working on her novel. I tried to make her work, but we didn't get much done. Instead she looked at old pictures on Dave (her computer) and we watched the end of Woman of the Year. The entire movie is good, except for like the last 20ish minutes. Its like The Taming of the Shrew. I love the movie, but have to turn it off before the end. Oh well.

Anyways, here's to a good weekend where I get much done, because I need to get work done. Stupid GuildWars.

What if...

... Luke and Leia were actually Anakin's older brother and sister? Then, instead of trying to save him later, Luke would have had the chance to influence Anakin towards the light as a teenager.
Or what if there was a duck that had the healing properties of a phoenix?

Wow

Oh the things I never thought I'd see. And I shall say no more.

Themes

Lately my dreams have had themes. Not song themes (that would rock), but all the dreams that I've had in a night have had a common theme running through them. Last night it was camp. I was (at various times in my dream) at Calvin Crest (well, it didn't look like Calvin Crest, but that's what it was in my dream), a sports camp (Patrick was there for some reason), and a couple others that I don't remember.

A couple nights ago the theme was school. I was both at BHS and Whitworth. And before that it was the night of epic adventures. Quite a few of them were movie adventures (Star Wars and LotR), so it was pretty fun.

In other news, our Harry Potter discussion group finished The Philosopher's Stone (I'm going to rebel and start calling it that), so now we get to start on Chamber of Secrets. I've usually kind of ignored this book, because I don't like it as much, so I'm looking forward to giving it some time and thought. Maybe I'll begin to like it more. I think the movie especially ruined it for me, because the movie really isn't good at all.

I got to paint today (sadly, it wasn't with my fingers), which was fun. I made a blue pumpkin, based off of Pascal's - er, make that Picasso's - blue time, or whatever it was called. I like it, and I think that it really speaks to the blueness in me and others. Haha, just kidding. I did hang it up on the fridge, just because I can. So far my family hasn't said anything, but I think they expect things like that - like when I came home from camp (as a counselor) with a finger painting. My dad put it nicely: "You're like a big kindergartener."

Fallacies

Did I spell that right? I really don't care, so I guess it doesn't matter. Anyways, for some reason I've been hearing some things on the radio that really bother me. Every once in a while, some radio talker-person will feel the need to share the latest scientific study with their listeners. This morning (afternoon I guess) I got to hear about one which has shown that if you eat breakfast in the morning, you're less likely to get sick.

What's so wrong what that, you might ask. Oh, nothing, except I'm sure that this so-called study just polled people as to whether or not they eat breakfast in the morning or not, and then found out how often they get sick. They didn't bother to compare the fact that people who eat breakfast in the morning are going to (on average) have a healthier life than people who don't. But instead of breakfast being a sign of a healthy life, and this being the reason the person doesn't get sick, breakfast is the reason.

Let's see, what was the other one.... oh yeah! Apparently if you sit down to eat as a family five or more times a week for dinner, you're kids are more likely to do well in school, less likely to do crap they shouldn't, and quality of life will all around increase. Now, let's think about how they did this little experiment. Is it see what happens with meals, then use the same family without meals and see what happens? Or is it poll families and see how often they eat as a family, then rate the kids? So once again, we have a sign (generally) a healthy family, blah blah blah, and its taken as the reason.

I probably will name it wrong, but isn't this Ad Hoc. (Yes Will, I do expect correction if I'm wrong, I never did pay attention to those stupid names). And I don't really know why its making me so angry, but it is, so now I've vented, and its out of my system. Until I hear about the next stupid scientific study. Is this what Universities are getting grants for? Because that's pretty lame. They can give me the money and I'll tell them why their tests are stupid.

Weekend update

Well, I haven't done much this weekend. Actually, I did a lot, but none of it was really interesting. This weekend was the Business Conference, so AYSO games were all canceled, well at least the ones at Cal State. Did this mean time off for Becca? Of course not. What this meant was that I could get out to Hart Park earlier to ref more games. Luckily I only had three, instead of the four he was sort of threatening me with. Then I came home and collapsed into bed, which was nice.

Sunday is soccer day, with two games after church. I can always expect to lose the first one (its a co-ed game and almost all of my team has never played competitivly before), and win the second one (its a women's game, and almost all of my team has played in college). This week was true to form. Then afterwards I went to church.

Frequently throughout Sunday, I'll be at my computer, checking for scores. NFL scores, to be exact. It looks like this week I might win, which is awesome. That'll take me to 2-3. Unfortunately, my first three games, I played tough opponents, and my key players didn't produce how they should have. That's changed these past two weeks, which is good, so I have high hopes for the rest of the season. I'd say right now in the standings, I'm in the upper middle of the pack, which is a good place to be, because people aren't gunning for me, could underestimate me, and I'm still in the running.

Plus, football has given me a chance to brush up on my excel skills, which I never really had to use in school. So don't ever say that fantasy football is worthless.

Compassion

Its interesting to see that an action which can cause compassion, or a sense of empathy in some people, will cause a desire for vengence in others. Yesterday, I was the center ref in a U14 girls game. At halftime the score was 8-0, which is almost unhead of. Its not unheard of because its impossible, but its almost unheard of because most teams have more class than to score 8 goals in a half.

So at half timeI go up to the coach (who is also a ref) and ask (fairly nicely) if he's going to make his girls show some restraint. He turns to me and says, "Well, that was us three years ago. We got beat like 18-0, so its our turn now. We're going to run up the score!" Finally, once the score was 14-0 or 15-0 I walk over and say, "If you don't make your team back off, I'm going to yellow card you for unsportsman-like behavior."

Finally, he made his girls not score (sort of), but the game was still horrible. Here's the thing. You would think that if a team had that happen to them in the past, they would be more willing to show some class and not run up the score. Most the teams I've ever played on have been like that. And the worst part is, in a game where the score is run up like that, neither team learns anything, because one team has no chance, and the other team has no challenge. Its lame all around.

So I have more to say about my life for the past week, but I'll do that later.

I want some!

So awesome! Why didn't they have these when I played? I would have picked a cool demon name and everything. Don't know what I'm talking about? Check it out. All I can say is, "Cool!"

Huge Pink Bunny

So I've been wanting to post about this for some time because I saw a link to it on a friend's website. But alas, I didn't save the link and am too lazy to search for it. But check it out. I just laughed when I saw that. Talk about too much time on their hands.

PS. Thanks to Amanda for having the link in her AIM info, so lazy Becca didn't have to search for it.

Deep thoughts

"I would not live forever because we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever then we would live forever, but we cannot live forever, which is why I would not live forever."

Miss Alabama
--Responding to a question in the 1994 Miss USA contest

That's so deep, I have nothing to add. Or maybe I have nothing to add because I have to go to work.

Basque food and soccer

Last night my family got together in honor of my grandpa's birthday. We would usually go to Woolgrowers for a gathering like this, but couldn't for some reason, so we went to Benji's. Both have Basque food, which is pretty fun. There's the "Set up," which includes bread, vegetable soup, beans, tomatos, salad, tounge (yes, tounge), and french fries. Then you order your main meal, which comes with either red or white wine.

It was great fun, as anything with my extended family is. We were there for about two and a half hours just talking and carrying on. It was hard to tell which half of the table was louder, the young side or the older side. Only one of my cousins was there, which could have had something to do with it, since the more of us there are, the louder we get.

Today was the second week of the women's soccer league I play in, but I couldn't play last week because I was camping. The new team I'm on is very interesting. They are all older than me (which I've come to expect), but only a couple years. The "manager" was actually my coach for a year in high school, and is somewhat difficult to get along with. A lot of them have small children running around, which is funny, because when the ball isn't near a person, they tend to look over to the sideline to make sure their kids are behaving.

I don't have much in common with them, except that most of them have played before and know how to pass. There are a couple really good players who have lost a bit of touch, but it doesn't matter because of the competition. It was nice being able to make a run and know that the person with the ball would be able to get it to me, so I got to do a lot less running.

Fantasy Football

So, those of you who know me well enough know that I don't particularly enjoy watching sports, I enjoy playing them much more. This is the main reason that I don't really follow professional or college sports. The more I watch a sport, the more I want to play it, and I generally don't have the opportunity to (with the exception of soccer, which I can watch because I play often enough).

Hi, my name is Becca and I am dumb. :)

By the way, that was Jason, and he made me not delete it. Anyways, back to fantasy football. Apparently, this is something that's really huge, and tons of people waste all sort of time checking sites and planning rosters. So I decided to play this year with Chris and his brothers and their various acquantiances. Its fun, mostly because of the smack talking that can go down.

Anyways, my team plays Chris' team this week, so hopefully I'll win, mostly because he's done all his research and I haven't. I'll let you know how it goes. Last week I had the third most points of anybody, but got creamed by Paul, who had almost 30 more points than anybody else. It was insane.

Its been fun, but I think that fantasy soccer would be more interesting, because there's less points and stats in the game, so you would have to be very careful in who you pick and play.

Meanderings

"He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they
are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.
Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have
proceeded from the unmarried or childless men; which both in affection and
means, have married and endowed the public."

I got this through my daily philosophical quotations, and it kind of made me think. I seem to remember reading part of a book that was along these lines. Its Sci-Fi, so bear with me. Basically, there's kind of a rebellion while these people are on a ship, and one of the teenagers realizes that the parents can do nothing to stop the big bad, its only the un-tied down teenagers who can really do something, because they don't have a family that can be held as collateral.

Anyways, it makes sense. We see all sorts of movies (most recently The Negotiator comes to mind, even though I didn't see it) where the weakness that all these heros have is their family. We even see it in normal life, where working people with families have to have their priorities straight.

I don't really have a point, just thought I'd share what I've been thinking/reading lately. Although I read the book forever ago.

The Aftermath

So I just got back from the camping trip. And by just got back, I mean that I've had time to take the necessary nap and shower to recover from the camping trip. Let me just tell you upfront, it was great. One of the better times I've had in the past couple years, I'd say. I'm sad for all of you who couldn't go, because you missed some fun happenings.

Let's, see... where to start. First, the camping site that we were headed to was a bit of a wild card. I had never been there, but the site we wanted to go to was not available, so I found this site though the Reserve America website. We weren't entirely sure how to get there, even with instructions. It turned out to be a pretty sweet place, but more on that later.

So Thursday night, Chris, Rob, and I went grocery shopping for the trip, which was really brave of Nat, because she trusted us to buy the food. And I'd say we did a pretty good job. But we had to do speed shopping, because the store was closing at 9, and we got there about 8:30. What kind of grocery store closes at 9. We made it safely out with a couple minutes to spare, almost forgetting the S'more fixings, jam, sausage, and tortillas, but managing to get everything we needed. I was impressed with us.

We left Friday around noon. Well, we were supposed to leave around noon, but I showed up late (11:30), and Rob couldn't tear himself away from the tv, so we left a little later than we thought we would, I think around 12:45. After various errands we still had to run, we left Bakersfield probably around 1:30. We headed to Santa Maria and beyond.

Now, Chris had done his homework to find some different wineries that we would go to, but saw so many that he decided we would kind of just go where looked fun. We were expecting something along the lines of Paso Robles, where there are huge signs that say, "Wine this way!" but alas, this is not the case in Santa Barbara County. We got off at Bulleton, and put in the Sideways soundtrack to get us ready. But we could find no wineries! We finally found one, but there was a w-word going on (Rob and Chris kept sushing me, but I say, if they want to have their w-word at a winery, they can deal with the noise! I'm not sushing) but it was so crowded, we decided not to fight the crowd.

Feeling defeated (and somewhat confused) we decided just to head to camp and check that out. Hopefully it would be more of a success than wine tasting was (on the first day). Turns out that it was a success, because the campsite was pretty nice. There was a (mostly dry) creek running pretty close to it, which we got to explore, and also held some nice wood for us to gather. Nat showed up about an hour after us, and then the real party started.

A little about the campsite. There were some very interesting people camping by us. One party had four tents (I think) but 5 SUVs and one little car. Another site had a "Mystery Machine" van and that was it. I think we sometimes saw an air mattress lying around. Another site had four tents, a psuedo-tent for keeping bugs away from the table, a bike, and an air rifle. All of this came from one truck, not to mention probably 5 or 6 people. The final site had a motorhome, and old beat up car, and a tv. So it was an interesting place.

On Saturday, we decided since we had no luck and Nat had never been wine tasting, that we would forgo the hike and exploring in favor of finding some wineries. We headed towards Lompoc and scored! We found a very nice winery by the name of Melville, where there was a very fun pourer who gave us the hookups. Not only did she pour us very nicely sized portions of each wine (about a third full of very large glasses), but she told us of some of the better wineries around the area. It was great.

The rest of the day was kind of normal, except for the last one we went to, which is owned by two Aussie brothers. There was a very different atmosophere there than most of wineries, which was fun. It was much more laid-back, and struck me as I think an Aussie winery should.

Sunday, we hit a couple more (2) wineries on our way out after breaking camp. They were pretty good. The thing about SBC wineries that's different from the PR wineries is that all of the Paso wineries are located at the vineyard, which I think is pretty awesome. It gives you the whole atmosophere, and just plain looks cool.

Most of the SBC wineries are not located on vineyards. A lot of them are like little stores in the small towns around there. I think I prefer the Paso wineries better. Plus, SBC doesn't make a lot of Zin because the grapes need more heat. They can turn out a lot of Syrah, which is nice. But Paso has the Zins, of which I am a fan.

And if you read this whole thing, I'm impressed and amazed. Check out my site soon for some of the quotes from the trip, which are pretty funny.

This weekend

I'm going camping this weekend. I know you're all jealous that can't go. You'll just have to get over it. So there will be no new posts until at least Sunday, when you will get to hear all about the crazy adventures we had over near Santa Barbara. In the mean time, I'll leave you with this quote.

The man you want to keep bound to you should be chained by food and drink. - Plautus

My blister is healing nicely

So I guess my previous post was pathetic, because only one person commented. Lets see if I can do better. Monday, Chris and I decided to play some golf. Bet you didn't know that I can play golf, did you. Well, neither did I. The last time I played was like summer after sophomore year in high school, and I really sucked at it. And I mean really. The problem was that my muscles were so used to swinging for softball, that they automatically did that any time I didn't put my full concentration towards a golf swing.

My hope was that after not playing softball for four year (well, except for church softball in the summers) I would be able to golf better. But really, it wasn't a big hope. It worked! I didn't suck nearly as much as I used to. I would almost say I didn't suck at all, it was just normal new golfer stuff. And I beat Chris on two holes! Woohoo! Not that that's saying much (sorry Chris).

Last night after planning our camping trip, Chris, Rob, and I played some Cettler, as we've taken to calling it. I won again, but it was close because Chris had 9 points. It was an interesting game, because we were all playing in the same space. Luckily, the 3's were rolling last night, so I won.

Okay, that really wasn't interesting. I'll try to do better tomorrow.

2-0

Even though the games don't count towards playoffs, my team is still 2 - 0, which is pretty awesome. We still need to work on our defense, though. Todays' game was 5 - 3, which is good, but not great.

We had out second DA meeting on Thursday, which was fun. There was more to talk about in the first 5 chapters than I would have thought. We had a 100% comeback rate, plus one new person (it was Rob so it doesn't really count because he should have been there before). All in all, a good time was had by everyone.

Last night I had a dream that I was moving out of a dorm room. Does this mean that I'm actually ready to get past college? I don't think so, because I was moving out of my Jr. year dorm room. So I really just want to be a Senior again.

I have two hours before I have to go lifeguard, so I think its high time for a nap. I did get up at 6:15, after all. And Chris, I don't want to hear it.

Adventures

I was in Mervin's because I had to take something back for my dad, and decided to wander in the women's area. I remembered why I hate shopping. Instead of having nice sections that tell me what's there (casual, sporting, and so on), they have Petite, Junior, Misses, Misses Career, and Women's. Utterly confusing. And not only that, but all the sizes were weird. In the women's section, there were no S or M, but 1x, 2x, and 3x. What the heck does that mean? Then there's PS, PM, and so on. What is the world coming to when you can't even shop for clothes simply?

Last night I totally (on accident) took out one of my players at practice. I was trying to show them how I wanted a sweeper to clear the ball, and asked Maddi to dribble at me. I said, "When you're about to me, kick it a little ahead of you." So she did, and I got ready to clear it. I looked up at everybody to make sure they were watching, and to say something, but Maddi had decided that she was still dribbling. So she had touched the ball again after putting it in front of her, and was following. So instead of clearing the ball, I cleared her. Bam! On the ground. Luckily, I hit her foot, so no damage was done. Instead, I got to give a lesson on the importance of fouling at the right time. I think they'll have a healthy fear of me from now on.

Amanda left for Davis today, which means that there are four of us left in town. Well, three and a half, because Rachel is gone all the time during the week. Hopefully Rob will get a job soon, and there will only be two and a half (not that I want you to leave Rob, but I hope that you get a job).

I have an interview tomorrow, which should be good. Hopefully it pans out, because I need a more full time part time job than subing. Peace!

Breakthrough

I had a breakthrough today. Well, Chris helped. BECCONOMICS! How awesome is that? Its amazing that I'd never made the connection before. Well, maybe I had, but didn't pay enough attention. I think it will be like horsism, but not non-sensical. Well, less non-sensical. Anyways, I don't have much more to say, other than that.

Inconceivable

My soccer team had its first game yesterday, and I think we did pretty well. We won, which is important, but more importantly, they played pretty well. After the first quarter, that is.

Yesterday we had a small bar-b-que at Chris' house in celebration of, uh, nothing really. It was fun. After we went shopping for the necessary food, we had a little bit of time before we needed to start cooking, so Chris and I turned on TCM, which has been having its month of stars, which is that every day is devoted to movies that a particular person stared in. We watched Adam's Rib, which was very interesting. There was all sorts of nominalism vs. realism. Very fun.

And right now I'm watching the Princess Bride as I type. I bought this at the same time that I bought my tv, as sort of a warming gift to my tv. So many classic lines in this movie. Its great. "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it does."

PS. The title was for the movie, not the fact that my team won.

New occurances

So last night Rob, Chris, and I, after watching some Simpsons (I actually had seen the two episodes we watched), decided to play some Settlers. I think I prefer the three person game to the four, because there's more room to expand, and I think the game is more interesting. Rob won on a two (very unlikely roll), which was kind of funny, except for the fact that he won.

In other news, I am now coaching a girls U12 AYSO soccer team. I'm still not quite sure how it happened, but oh well. It should be interesting to see if I can water down how I think a game should be played and teach them some stuff. I've decided that I don't really care what our record is, as long as I can manage to teach them a lot. We'll see how well that goes over with the girls, though.

For some reason last night my calf was mad at me. It could have been because I ran around yesterday at practice with no shoes on. Or it could have just realized that I had started being around a soccer ball and remembered all the fun it had had waking me up in the middle of the night cramping during high school and college. Anyways, its still really sore this morning, which is strange.

What else is new. Oh, my first volleyball game is tomorrow, which should be very interesting. I'm not playing, but refing, and I have no previous knowledge of the sport, unlike when I started refing soccer. But it seems really easy (although there are some people that just can't seem to get it, so maybe I'm missing something difficult), and Robby enjoys it, which tells me it can't be hard.

Oh, the other new thing is that today Brandon officially went to Basic (for the Army). I hope he has fun.

2-1-1

I believe that's my record thus far from playing Settlers of Catan, although I could be missing a loss in there. And yes, you can tie a game if you run past your allotted time because somebody has to go to bed. Anyways, last night after the Fantasy Football draft (yes I'm playing FF) Chris, Rob, and I decided to play a game of Settlers because we didn't quite have enough time for a Freaks and Geeks episode. So we played, and it was a very interesting board set-up, because all brick hexes were low (except for one 6 that Robert had but was always blocked). I had no ore or brick, but lots of wheat and a wheat harbor.

So after a while I realized my only hope of winning would be through D Cards. I think I ended up buying 8. And I won! Woohoo!

My family is a patron of two different pizza places, Rusty's and Papa O's. Its always a tough decision when we need to pick one. Rusty's (in my opinion) has far better pizza. But Papa O's has stuffed crust, which my family loves (I personally don't like it). Rusty's also has Bust-a-Move, which is one of the best arcade games ever. However, Papa O's has a lot more games, some of which give tickets, and most of which are newer. Which would you choose?

I have an eating disorder...

... its called laziness. Its really not a good thing. As I was going to bed last night, I realized just exactly what I had had to eat during that day. It wasn't pretty. So I've made a pact with myself to start fixing more food. Like right now, I'm fixing myself some ravioli (yummy!). Its a start.

In other news, Rachel's first HP discussion group is tonight, so we'll see how that goes. Even if its just us there, I think it will be fun. But I don't think it will be just us there, in case you were wondering. We'll see what wonderfulness we come up with that needs to be in Book 7.

Does anybody out there have a copy of Photoshop that I could have? I'd really like to have it. *coughRobertJasoncough*

Thunder only happens when its raining?

So Rach listens to this band called the Cors, and they have a song which has a line that is the same as the title to this post. And when I was in her car once, I mentioned that its not true, because you can have lightening storms where there is no rain. Well, as luck would have it, we had one of those last night. While it did sprinkle for like, a second, most of the thunder was happening when there was no rain.

Actually, it was pretty cool, because it was huge thunder and lightening. There was a black out for a second, followed by the longest roll of thunder I've ever heard (I think). Anyways, it was awesome. And then this morning, the sky was all cloudy, which was also pretty cool.

Also, last night Chris and I decided to play Oil Power, which is a game similar to monopoly, but a little different. Basically, you have to buy leases to all these fields, and once you have all the leases to a field, you can drill on the field. You can either get a gusher, 100, 50, or 0. Then, if a person lands on that field, they have to pay you money.

Chris killed me the first game because he kept getting lucky on his drills. He had something like four gushers and two 100's on his only field, and I couldn't find oil to save my life. But I won the second game pretty well, so it made up for it. It was a fun game. Its funny that I haven't played monopoly in a long time, and now I've played it and a game like it twice in a week's time.

He's going to be all right.

So last night was fun. Chris and I joined Rachel at a night of Major League Improv, where she was Ms. Voice. It was fun because there was a large audience, when there usually isn't. The only bad part about that was there were some suggestions that weren't very good. Major League Improv, for those of you who don't know, if like Who's Line Is It, sort of.

Afterwards, we went to Lengthwise, where Rob caught up to us. Poor Robert just had his wisdom teeth out, so he was a littl puffy, but I insulted him till he braved some real food (french fries), so I think he's glad he went, because now he knows he can eat real food, it just takes a while. Then we went over to Chris' where Nat joined us. It was a fun evening.

Lately I've been wathing Arrested Development, which I think I've mentioned. It is one of the funnies shows I've ever watched, because its so bizarre, but with the characters, bizarre seems normal. That might be the reason I like it so much. They manage to make strange an every day occurance, which takes some work. So its awesome, and very much a show that we would enjoy, which we do.

Summertime, and the living is easy

I'm going to be sad once the summer ends. Its like everything is put on pause for summer, and then fast forwards once its over to make up for it. Soon I'll be officiating volleyball, and subing, and maybe working someplace else, plus the occasional soccer games on the side. Meh. Oh well, it'll keep me out of trouble, I guess. Wait, what am I talking about. Nothing could keep me out of trouble.

Catan

I just spent the evening playing a very fun game by the name of Settlers of Catan. Its pretty awesome. And actually, we were playing an expansion of that game called Knights and Cities of Catan, which is a lot more complicated thatn Settlers. It also means the game takes a lot longer, so we didn't finish it, although Nat and I got pretty close to winning.

Its a great game, which has a little to do with economics, but not much. Mostly its about how lucky you can get with dice rolls, although Knights and Cities makes it a little less based on luck. Only problem was, we were too sure on the rules, so Rob, Chris, and I were at a slight disadvantage (because Nat had played before), so once she did something, we realized we could, but would have done it sooner had we known.

I just wish that there was some way to destroy the other player's towns once you get strong enough. You know, more like Civilization or something, where you use your knights to go kill and take over. But then again, I can just play Civilization.

My brother is gone for two weeks, which means my house will be very peaceful. Now if I can only get the other one to leave. Yeah right, like that will ever happen. He won't go anywhere there isn't a tv and a vcr.

School starts soon, and it'll be weird not leaving to go. I keep thinking that my life will change a lot once the summer is over (like it always has in the past), but it really won't. I'll still be here in Bakersfield, hanging out with Chris and and Rach, Nat, and Rob when they're in town. Oh well, I suppose that isn't so bad.

The Aftermath

So I'm back from my fun weekend around Santa Barbara. It was a blast! I had so much fun hanging out with my family. Some of you will be amazed that I just typed the previous sentence, but I did.

On Saturday we gathered at the Arroyo Hondo Ranch, which is now a land preserve in Santa Barbara County. It really hadn't changed at all, except that this year there were no tents in the meadow to get hit by volleyballs. We played the required volleyball game, which was awesome, but I think my team loss. Not that we really kept score. Its hard to really keep score when you're playing with at least three kids under 8 on each team.

After the main day of activities, we went to a campground where a lot of people were staying in these nice little cabin things and played cards and just hung out until about 11 when we decided that it was time to head in. So my brothers and I drove to Solvang where we were staying because my parents didn't get on reserving a cabin in time. But that was cool because I got to drive by The Hitching Post. If you don't know what that is, you're lame and need to watch more movies. Unfortunately I didn't get to stop in, because it was closed by 11:45 when I drove by.

The next day was spent at the beach with the assortment of Aunt, Uncles, and cousins that had stayed. We got there about 1 and played about an hour and a half of Ultimate Frisbee. Half of the field was in the ocean, so it was a blast. I had only expected a couple people to play, but almost all of my relatives played, which made for an amazing game. Then we played in the ocean and made a huge sand fort with my younger cousins, got sunburned, and headed home.

Its really funny that I do the same thing with my family that I do with my friends, which is play cards, sit around and talk, and this year, play frisbee. But really, there's not many better ways to waste time, so I can't complain.

In unrelated news, I'm so excited that my past couple of posts caused so many comments! Woohoo!

A Few Good Days

Got back from SB today and played a little frisbee. It was fun because only six people showed up, and all six were siblings. I was there with Robby, Chris with PJ, and Rob with Tim. So first we played older siblings vs. younger ones, and then we mixed it up a little bit more. Was really fun, but really tiring.

Billy and I had a blast over in SB doing nothing. Yesterday we hung out around the pool of my Aunts hotel, then went to the beach for a little bit. Today we hung out around my grandparents house and went on a walk with our Aunt (a different one) and cousins.

Then on the way home we stopped at the Outlet Mall, where I got a sweatshirt for 4 dollars. Go me! So it was a good couple of days, to soon be followed by another good couple of days starting on Saturday. Yay for the summer.

I need you like Ben Affleck needs acting school.

Well, I'm off to Santa Barbara today, if my brother would ever get up. Then its back to Bakersfield on Thursday, and back to the SB area on Friday. Woo! Some of you might be wondering why I'm spending so much time over there. Well, first of all, its like 20 degrees cooler over there than here, and second, my family is sort of congregating over there for this week, so I'll get to see some people who, due to school, I haven't seen in a long while.

Two nights ago, Chris, Nat, Rach, and I watched Sideways, which was awesome. In recognition of the film, we went to Vons and bought a Pinot Nior (I think that's how its spelled) and drank it during the film. Then last night Chris and I watched Team America and had some Bombay Sapphire and tonic, which was great. (There's a scene where you see some bottles of Sapphire, so that's why we had it). That is a very wrong, but funny movie. I don't think I've laughed that much at a movie in a long while. But afterwards Chris and I were talking about it, and I realized that I really couldn't repeat any of the funny scenes, mostly because they're unrepeatable.

But I do love the songs in the movie, my favorite being the two montage songs, one called Montage, and the other, well, I don't know what its called, but it makes fun of Pearl Harbor (the movie, not the historical event).

Bappy

So apparently this summer is the summer of nicknames for Becca. I think the count is up to five. So far the crowd favorites are Roxy and Cuddles. Both of which are obviously me. I'm amazed people didn't come up with those earlier.

I found out last night that I'm bappy, or fappy (adjectives, not nicknames). Not sure which one it is, although they might be the same thing. Those are from Robert, so if you want to have them explained, you might ask him, because I don't think I understand. Or maybe I do understand, but I just don't want to explain.

We had fun last night (Rob, Rach, and I) watching the last like six episodes of the first season of Arrested Development. Its a great show. It was especially great because two of my top four episodes were watched, which was awesome. On Friday I was down in LA for a friend's going away party. We came back that night (Rob, Nat, and I), so I didn't get home until about 4:30. I was a good friend and stayed up to talk to Rob as he drove. It was pretty fun, too. Interesting conversations come about after 2 am.

I'm listening to a song right now called "Bowling Ball." Its great. A line is, "You need that boy like a bowling ball dropped on your head, which means not at all." Its an entertaining song. But now its over.

Now its time to head out to more evening fun with my friends! Woot!

Freaks and Geeks

So we've been watching Freaks and Geeks lately. Well, so far I've only seen the first two episodes, and part of another one, but I will be watching more shortly. Its a great show. All of the characters are hilarious. And just watching the pilot, I already knew that I would appreciate this show.

In other news, I'm headed down to LA with my friends tomorrow for the day, which should be fun. I'm looking forward to it. A couple days ago I was driving down Ming and I passed Stine. I realized that there are two 99 cent stores across the street from each other. They're different brands, or whatever store chains are called, but come on. How much competition can there be in the 99 cent store market. It really makes me wonder sometimes how the economy can function with so little efficiancy. I mean, I know competition is necessary to keep big corporation from totally inflating prices and what not, but it seems like there should be a point when we don't have two 99 cent store on the same block.

And I'm done with my tirade. Its time for bed.

Spiderweb

I just watched a spider spin a web here in SB. It was interesting. It was very hard to see unless you got really close, but you could see that the spider was moving around with some purpose, even if you couldn't see the web. There is some sort of philosophical implication in my observations, but really I've been having a much too relaxing time to write it out right now. Perhaps once I get home next week and have to work all the time I'll put it down in cyberspace, but I don't know.

In other news, we're watching Whale Rider right now, which is a really interesting movie. If you haven't seen it, you should. I'm also about to go through more pictures and scan some so hopefully sometimes soon you might see them on my website. I love weekends like this when I don't have to do anything and can just wander around the house busily doing nothing. I think I need more weekends like this.

SB

There aren't many places I love more than my grandparent's house in Santa Barbara. It combines everything in life that is nice. Its up in the mountains above Westmont surrounded by oak trees, but there is an amazing view of the ocean (or at least there is on clear days). All of the doors are open to let a beautiful breeze through, and there is so much history in this house.

Everywhere I look there are pictures of California's past. From books to rocks and fossils to pictures of my family's past. I love it here.

Plus I'm not in 100+ degree heat baking. That's a definate plus. We went to the beach today, which was a lot of fun because I haven't gone in the ocean in I don't know how long. I mean, I've been to the beach, but not in the water. The water was just about perfect. The only downside is that SB has very little surf, so we couldn't really play in the waves, only splash around and throw mud at each other.

Anyways, I hope all of you at home are enjoying your heat. I am definately enjoying Santa Barbara. Maybe I should go to school here.

Conditioning

So the past two days I spent eight hours at the pool. And today I only had to be there for four hours. Usually, four hours of sitting in the heat and sun staring at the pool feels like forever, but today it didn't. Its amazing what a person can be conditioned to endure. And this was only after two days. Adaptability is a pretty cool thing.

Last night four of us were at Chris' house to make cookies for Amanda. Well, we're going to eat some too, but hopefully they will make it to her. Last year the cookies that were made to send to somebody didn't actually make it, but this year I think there's more hope.

An unfortunate side effect of the fact that all the other lifeguards like country and I don't really care what we're listening to, is that I now know way too many country songs. Plus I will occasionally have some of these songs stuck in my head after work. Like I do now. Its annoying.

Well, tonight is a frisbee night, so I'm excited. Its been good to be able to play almost weekly this summer. And its a great excuse to hang out with some people I don't see all that often.

Sunburned

Yes, I am a little red tonight. That's what happens when its a hot day and I have to work for 8 hours. I spent a good deal of time in the pool. I think tomorrow will be sunscreen day. I just spent about an hour and a half playing a game that I never could like, mostly because I'm horrible at it. I'm talking about Super Smash Brothers. I've never been really good at button pushing games, so it was to be expected that I suck at this game. However, I think my skills are improving. At least as long as I use Link.

On a side note, I love Who's Line Is It. I was just watching it. Its great. And I love Tim Burton. I really need to see Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. It was one of my favorite books as a kid.

Well, its been really hot lately here, so my family has finally gotten smart and decided to go to Santa Barbara. Yay for us, it should be fun.

Okay, bye.

Ahhhhhgh!

All I have to say is bravo JK Rowling. Half Blood Prince is everything I had hoped it would be, and some things I hadn't dared to hope it would be. I won't spoil anything here, so don't worry. I finished it in under 12 hours, which is pretty fast, even for me.

Anyways, I hope you all ready it. I'd even say its worth reading the first five just to be able to read this one. By far my favorite. By far. So, if you want to talk about it and are done, look me up. But please don't say anything about it (well, don't spoil it) on comments or I'll beat you soundly.

Happy Bastille Day Yesterday!

So we stormed the Bastille last night. Oh wait, no we didn't. Actually, I wanted to do a dramatic reenactment of the storming, but that was shot down. Instead, we ate French bread, cheese, and had some wine. Oh, and we watched Casablanca. It was fun. Afterwards, we sat around and made predictions about The Half Blood Prince (coming out tonight), and tonight we get to see who was the closest.

Well, its time to go play frisbee, so I'm off. Tomorrow you should check out my quotes page since I have some new ones from last night, and I'm sure tonight will reveal others.

Hmmmm

Yet another night when I'm heading to bed shortly before Chris should be getting up. I think I missed that earlier note to self. But in my defense, I'm towards the end of Knights II, and its really starting to get good. The best part about this game (well, the plot of the game) is that the whole time, you have no idea what's going on. Like, you see what's going on, but you have no idea what it means.

That and the fact that you get to either fry people or force push them into submission. And tear it up with dual lightsabers.

Maybe I'll leave myself a memo to go to bed earlier this time.

Camp

I'm going to be at camp for the next week (July 3 through July 9) so I won't be updating or anything. If you really feel like you must know what's happening in the life of Becca during that time, you'll just have to get over it. Or you could check out my other site and see the new fun things that have been added recently. Well, not really recently, but if you haven't checked it out in a while, you should.

Rob and I found a friend that also plays Gemstone today. He's actually a friend of Patrick's from school who is working in the Bay Area this summer and is down for the 4th weekend. We were talking about books, then Robert mentioned Gemstone, and Brian was like, "Gemstone 3?" (even though its actually Gemstone 4 now), so we got to have fun talking about both books and Gemstone.

We also played some Apples to Apples, and Nerts, besides just the normal random converstaions that are what usually happens when all of us get together. It was a good night of nerdiness, which was throughly enjoyed by all present, I think. So now I get to go hang out with high schoolers for the week, run around, wear costumes, and get no sleep. And the only difference from what I normally do is that I've been hanging out with elementary school students lately, not high schoolers.

Hasta la semana proxima!

Ponderings

So I've recently had some feedback that might cause me to not weblog on my site, but just continue to do it here. The only problem with that is that I feel people won't check my site if I don't weblog there. Its quite a conundrum. I haven't decided what I'm going to do, but I'll keep you posted.

Today I subbed (again) at summer school, and just watched a movie. It was kind of lame watching the same movie two times in a row, but oh well. It was Island of the Blue Dolphin, which was fun because I read that book in 4th grade and really enjoyed it.

But watching that movie made me think about how no matter how much things change in education (and they've changed a lot recently because the California government seems to think that different must mean better), some things won't change. Like the classic books we read in grade school and Jr. High, for example. Classes today are still reading some of the same books that I read, including Island of the Blue Dolphins, Fourth Grade Rats, Maniac Magee, Dealing With Dragons, and Ten Little Indians.

I'd write more, but its time to go swimming.

Up and Running

So I finally got around to putting the weblog part of my (other) website functioning again, which means that this site can go back to its original purpose.

Is there ever a time when an ethical person will have to act against their morals? I think that there us, but only in a sense. Soren calls it the teleological suspension of the ethical, from the greek work telos, which means purpose, sort of. Really, its just Aristotealian ethics, in a different form, and spelled out a little bit better.

Well, I don't really have time to go into more depth about what I've been thinking about this, but you can leave comments, and I'll probably write more later.

Que lastima!

Let's take a minute and feel sorry for Chris who became a "real adult" today. That is, he started his real job today. I'd say pobrecito, except this does mean he's going to have a more-than-steady income, which is more than I can really say for the rest of us.

In other news, Knights of the Old Republic II rocks.

Note to self

Start going to bed earlier.

Tonight

I can't sleep, and I know I thought of something witty to put here sometime over the past two days at work, but I can't remember it. Tonight was an awesome night, being that it was the first time in I can't remember how long that the entire group got to hang out. And who knows how long it will be until the next time.

Our house looks weird because the carpets are getting cleaned tomorrow and that means all furniture must be on non-carpted surfaces. Its amazing how you don't notice something until you have something else to compare it to. Like you can't really notice how bad dirty carpets are until you have an unblemished part to compare it to. I guess that's kind of like life, where you don't realize how un-green your grass is until you see your neighbor's lush lawn and can compare the two. Or at least what you percieve as lush.

Using that train of thought as a spring board, lately I've been thinking a lot about distinction. A lot of philosopher talk about distinction, especially as pertains to universals and language. A lot of people will argue that you can't describe something except by pointing out what it isn't. Some people will actually say that is the only way you can percieve the world. By making distinctions through colors and shapes.

Anyways, thinking about distinctions lead me to think about universals as the pertain to humans. What exactly is in human nature, and what about nature is different between men and women, yound and old, and even just between individual people (stupid feminists, making me take some of what they say seriously!). Ockham says, "There is no distinction without a difference," which makes me think if there can ever be a difference without a distinction. I think distinction is the cause of social injustice (ie racism and sexism and other isms), but does that mean that any differences is necessarily going to cause injustice. I think of Harrison Buegeron (not sure about the spelling), and how they tried to solve social injustice by getting rid of all differences. But its not the differences, its the percieved difference that these differences make to other people. If differences didn't matter, in other words if differences didn't cause distinctions, there wouldn't be a problem.

Just so you know, yes stuff like this is what occupies my mind at 2 in the morning while I try to sleep. As I said to Amy earlier this evening, "My mind has a mind of its own when its left to its own devices, and its scary what it can come up with." And now I've shared some of that with you. Thus endeth the rant.

Way too much fun

So if there is such a thing as too much fun, I think I passed the threshold this past week. Not only did I spend four days at the beach, but afterwards, Heidi was still in town for two days, so Chris and I had to show her the town. Last night we went to play pool (I know, random), which was fun because there were six of us and we just goofed around. Patrick, who was on my team, had to continuously remind me that I was supposed to be trying to win, but then would proceed to mess me up by talking right when I'm hitting the ball.

So tonight, which is traditionally the night you go out and have fun, I decided to stay in because I reached my fun quota for the week. Also, almost everybody was busy and couldn't do stuff. Anyone that wants to should check out my other site, because I've been adding some stuff to it recently, most noticeably, on the quotes page. Most of the new ones are from Cambria, and they're pretty funny.

In other news, almost all the lifeguards at the pool like country music, so its usually on the radio. Now, today I was at work for four hours, and during that time, I heard four songs twice. You would think that there are enough songs so that the station doesn't have to repeat itself that often. I think that is the reason that I don't like country music. Every station repeats itself about that often, some more often. For the most part, non-country stations aren't like that.

And now that I'm done with my rant, I bid you adieu (is that how you spell it?).

PS Leave a comment! I've been commentless lately!

Good times

So I just got back from half a week at Cambria with friends. It was amazing. I really don't have to say more about the week than that, because amazing really sums up the week. I might say more later, we'll see.

First day

So the pool opens today, which is good because I'll start to get a little money, but bad because its only a little. I really should find a "real" job so that I can actually start to be able to have a savings account. That would be smart, but I probably won't do it. Go me.

Definately a nerd

I just spend about an hour playing on a philosophy website. I was taking quizes and polls and other stuff like that. I'm so proud of being a nerd. And I beat the computer when it came to philosophy know-how! Go me!

Funness

Last night was awesome. First, I went out to dinner with some friends, which rocked. We had a blast. Then, we played some three-on-three frisbee, which equally rocked. My team won! Woohoo! Then a bunch of people went over to Chris' house to play Apples to Apples. I think we had nine people playing, which made for some interesting rounds. I've learned that I have to stop playing intelligent cards when I play, because if I have to explain my card, I usually don't win.

I've decided to try to start leaving shotrter posts, because then I think I'll post more often. So we'll see how that goes.

Educational Television

I just spent the night at Chris' house, and we ended up watching an educational tv show that was very entertaining. When we caught it, they were talking about properties, to which I replied, "Its Aristotle!" No sooner did I say this then their expert says, "In the 5th century BC Aristotle..." Then they talked about the different states of matter, which Chris throughly enjoyed, having taken way too many science classes. Somehow by the end of the program, they ended up talking about plasma and fusion power.

But the best part of the show was when they had little kids talk about gases, solids, and liquids and ways you distinguish them from one another. Chris almost had a fit because he wanted to answer for them. It was funny.

All in all, it was an entertaining night that made both of us feel smart and learned and everything.

Friday

So I've done nothing all week and have loved every minute of it. Or, I guess I should say nothing productive, because I've done plenty of stuff, like seeing Episode III for the second time, and playing softball (we rocked!). I also watched a bunch of Scrubs episodes with Rob and Chris, which was hilarious.

Last night I dreamed that there was a watermelon patch at the Beach Park, but when I was trying to take one home, my car broke down. It was interesting.

I've been playing SimCity lately, which is fun, but I think that last night I was dreaming about remaking Bakersfield to have higher land value and better zoning. Which wouldn't be a bad thing.