and the dude said, "let there be light"

weird thing just happened. i hear this bigass truck stop outside my house (it's 10:30pm) with yellow strobe lights flashing on like, four different cycles (lots and lots of flashing...). i wonder wtf he's doing 'cause this bigass truck has a hydrolic lift on the back. i thought at first that he was trying to trim our tree (our neighborhood has these 'community' trees that residents can optionally have in their front yards between the sidewalk and the road....very interesting. turns out he's not cutting trees...i notice he has no storage bins or anything of that sort. instead, he lifts himself up to a streetlight across the street which, i notice, is dead.

very odd....what a job. he works alone *shrugs*

either way, i wasn't really planning on blobbing tonight 'cause i was really tired...but then my mom just went to sleep and, contrary to logic, i have a renewed vigor. i wonder if i should be worried that solitude brings me warmth...

well, regardless, here i am. been a few days, very unlike me, sorry. if you're wondering why it's because i basically haven't been home a whole lot since saturday night. went out, came home and slept. went out, came home and slept. went to work, went out, came home and slept (two hours, monday). went to work, went out, came home and slept (five hours, tuesday night). went to work, went surfing, and here i am. i spent today at windward community college in kaneohe (about a half hour drive from UH, under the ko`olau mountain range which seperates the windward from the leeward side). it's just another state-owned school (duh) so we work in conjunction with them sometimes....and they got a new bookstore so me, my boss, and three other guys were sent to help them move....which basically meant we do all the work and they sit around seeing if their old pens work as they empty their desks. meh. took six trips with a BIGASS truck and took about five hours. it was really hard work...we got treated to some good lunch at the cafeteria, and got home five minutes after 4:30pm (pau hana time). a very trying day.

after that i went surfing with thomas. we were going to go to kewalo's but it was HUUUUGE, so we were gonna go to diamond head (deep reef) but traffic sucked so we went to the kaiser bowls instead (close to kewalo's, just outside of waikiki) which i had not yet surfed (i used to bodyboard there all the time, though). by this time it was actually kinda late but it was also HUUUUGE here. i actually got another big scare and did something i can't really ever remember doing...i panicked. i was trying to dive this REALLY big wave when i got caught inside and i think i slipped on the board or something so instead of going under i got POUNDED. and (fill you in) when you duck dive a wave, most people exhale so you can sink more....unfortunately this means if you fuck up, you're underwater with no air in your lungs, which is what happened to me. so i was getting tossed around underwater by this wave with no air, and i panicked...i started flailing with my feet trying to swim up....definitely NOT the thing you should do when this happens because there's REEF. rather shallow reef too, so you're just supposed to kinda relax 'till the wave dies and you float up...but i freaked and kicked, and kicked the reef with my left foot again. i got a bruise/scrape on the side and a bruise/scrape/possibly sprained ring toe. dumb dumb dumb. guess there's only one way to learn...huh.

but, as usual, everytime i go out i make some milestones. after that happened and i'm still alive, i can deal with it better next time...i also took off on some pretty gnarly (yes i said gnarly) waves and had some great rides...even though i could barely see 'cause the sun had already gone down.

that's it for the surf review today.

so yeah, i'm enjoying being 21. cat seems to have a renewed interest in haniging out with me now that her boyfriend went back home (east coast) and i can come drinking with her now....skeptical, still, but we have a lot of fun together. candace's friend kristi is a day younger than me too, so we went out. i ended up having a decent time even with candace around. i mean, i had a good time, actually...but a lot of that was because 1) matt wasn't around, and 2) i took every opportunity to ridicule her, degrade her, and embarass her under the guise of good fun. the result? not a single serious word passed between us and she took it. *shrugs*

so that's me, who're you?