whodoyouknow

do you ever wonder who it is that you REALLY know? deep down, good and bad, up and down, understand. i KNOW my mother, my sister, my brother. i do believe i will never understand my father. i do believe i will never understand any girl i've ever been with thus far.

i have friends i feel like i KNOW. and they are my best friends. they are the people who are most honest with me. they are the people who are not afraid to tell me who they are. they are the people who are least afraid of telling me who they think i am. they are the people who are proud of who they are, ashamed of their faults, but responsible for everything they do. they are people i will trust.

how many people do you KNOW? how many people would you like to know?

(wanna know me? start with reading 4 years of this stupid blog, haha!)

tinker

it's interesting how electronics sometimes just need a little nudge. i've solved car electronics problems by shorting out components. sometimes just has to burn off an internal short or confuse a computer enough that it'll just restart...

switches often behave as such.

but i was MOST surprised this morning. two days ago i dropped my phone for (what i thought was) the last time. the screen went buggy for about 3 seconds and then the top 4/5 of it went dark blue. i couldn't fuckin' read anything except "menu" and "contacts"...but of course i couldn't tell what contacts were what 'cause all i could see at the bottom was the number....and really...who even knows their best friends' phone number anymore (all i know is my mom's and my x-girlfriend...).

so...useless, so i plugged in my 3 y/o piece of shit that i SO almost threw away a few months ago. it works, but the buttons are sticky, the vibrator doesn't work, the sound is AWFUL, and people on the other end of my line say i'm really quiet and broken up. oh, and the screen is so hazed over (long story) that i can't see anything in the sunlight (have to shade it to see anything).

BUT, decided this morning to open up the one i just dropped to see if i could find anything blatantly wrong or, possibly, salvage parts between the two (two generations of thes ame phone, LG F9100 and F9200). with it completely apart, i thought, well, let's see what happens if i power it up. low and behold (what does that even mean?), full screen.

booyah.

grognog

we have a caroloke party tomorrow night for a friend's b'day

it was suggested that i make grognog.

i've made grognog. it tastes like i'm drinking some kind of lemon cake...yummy!

you can't taste the huge load of rum i put in it and now i'm buzzed.

which leads me to an experiment. i have an oral final tomorrow (wednesday) that i feel pretty well prepared for after the writtin final (monday)but i'd like to brush up, try and figure out the things i couldn't on the writting (which i tried immediately after the test and couldn't...that felt good). the experiment is motivated by chronic insomnia when i get into things (i.e. studying). how 'bout i just drink grognog while i study 'till i'm tired?

i need to cut the grognog tomorrow anway, so i need space in the jug (too much lemon).

on another note (along with my generation test post)...i routinely go over 150 lbs. only once a year. after thanksgiving (not because of thanksgiving) when eggnog goes on sale...although i've been makin' my own since last year so i guess it's just when it gets cold. of course "cold" for me is 70 degrees...but it still feels nice to have a warm tummy.

*opens book....takes a sip*

best fly lice ever!

decided to clean out the fridge hawaiian style (okay maybe chinese style but it's what we do here....) and make what i thought was some of the weirdest fried rice I'VE ever seen, but ended up being awesome : )

bacon
Portuguese sausage
scallops cooked in bacon (leftovers from a party)
asparagus (was supposed to grill them at said party)
LOTS of garlic paste (it was expired, had to use it!)
shoyu
pepper

i wasn't entirely sure how all these random things would mix....but i figured, everything tastes good with bacon, and through some high level deductive reasoning established that any two items that taste good with bacon MUST ALSO taste good with each other!

my hypothesis was correct and i think asparagus will definitely land itself in my next batch of fried rice. i will however have to plan ahead and buy it like 2 weeks ahead so it gets that funny smell again...

i'm kidding. turns out asparagus keeps very well!

*looking forward to lunch*

hellweeks

interesting how having only one class can bring so much stress....yay.

finished the hardest (and more important) part though, had to give a seminar to fulfill my seminar credit for my Master's. my thesis defense will look very similar anyway so it's work i won't have to do later for that. solidified a job/RAship for next semester too which is sweet, and broke it to my supporters finally that i'm not gonna be working with them once i'm done. don't think they expected me too, but still, kinda weird since i'll probably be moving like..100ft. away. and they keep talkin' about continuing on with MY work with some other chinese guy that'll probably have horrible english as well....

i don't know if it's just me, but i get REALLY annoyed hearing people around me talk in a different language constantly. especially in a lab setting where we're supposed to be a sort of team, my advisor and our postdoc never speak english to each other. we've had lab meetings where our postdoc couldn't explain something and had to say it in chinese to have it translated. and now they're getting this other guy (sounds like another postdoc) come in from china? i mean, i completely understand diversifying, but i can't even have a conversation with our postdoc. i tried. he couldn't even understand me when i was trying to tell him my seminar was in twenty minutes.

i wonder about the whole equal rights opportunities and shit...being a university setting, i do believe these jobs are supposed to be posted to give the opportunity to anyone out there. so far this postdoc hasn't impressed me with anything, i bet there are many other qualified people out there who can do it. whiiiich pisses me off even more. seems very selfish (which i've always thought of my advisor).

again, in hawaii, it's not what you know, but who you know...

and speaking of which, who keeps lookin' me up from Hilo? helloooooo?

either way, final on monday morning, oral final (same class) wednesday morning. two short papers after that (writing up seminar notes, easy) and i am DOOOOOONE!

my chemical romance on dec. 14th
sister comes in 21st i think

life will be fun. i'll have to do some work throughout break, but it's minor.

booyah kabooyah

generation test

isn't it odd how as you get older you start realizing really weird things about your body? no, i don't mean puberty....

i mean like...(to start) i can't eat shrimp that's cooked with the shells on. i don't know for SURE it's only shells, but the only times i've ever gotten a reaction has been when it was cooked with shells. and i've tried it (when i couldn't resist) without shells from time to time and still haven't been affected.

if i start work at 9am, i need a nap at noon. if i start work (even after a full day of work) at 9PM, i need a whiskey on the rocks to get to sleep at 3am.

if i have one cup of coffee, i feel good. if i have two, i shake. all day.

i don't think i can drink vodka redbulls or large amounts of sugar while i'm drinking anymore...i had a really bad experience recently and i'm afraid of it (i haven't decided on whether or not this includes jager, may have to be an experiment). i mean like beyond drunk, beyond hungover. i've never blacked out so hard nor have i felt worse than i did for the entire next WEEK afterwards.

i can't chug a beer, i can't win a hot dog eating contest, i can't do the jello snarfle, but if you give me enough time i could probably eat a whole turkey in one sitting (with a few necessary trips away from the table)

it takes me a few seconds to realize i'm awake. once i threw a dream frisbee into my bedroom wall and sprained my wrist. my girlfriend at the time was freaked out. another i laid in bed holding my breath thinking i was underwater....finally inhaling expecting water and finding air and thinking i was dead.

i can't sleep with my arms above my head. i lose circulation and wake up thinking my arm is dead. i'm not talking about needles dead, i mean DEAD. i have to pick it up with my other hand to hang it off the bed and get blood back into it (then i get the worst needles imaginable). that really can't be good for me.

my two big toes have been partially numb for four weeks (after a 3 day tournament in cleats). this happened before to one toe (long hike in steel toe boots)...it took two months to feel normal again.

when i go to sleep i'm too hot for a blanket. around 3am, without the temperature changing at all, i'll need to wake up and get a shirt and jump under the blanket.

i do indeed have swampass, it's not just an amusing name. the weird part is that people have told me that even my BO smells good.

on that note, if i eat a lot of protein (i discovered this while experimenting with protein shakes in the morning) my sweat smells like ammonia. like...wake up a passed out ultimate player sniffing salts ammonia if i accidentally leave a sweaty shirt in a bag. don't drink shakes anymore but do eat a lotta meat when i can afford it. and my sweat smells like ammonia....

also. i can drink 7-up. i can drink mountain dew. i can drink sierra mist redbull and vault. but for some reason i can't drink sprite. it makes me have to pee every five minutes for like an hour. i mean like pee my pants kind of pee...but i don't REALLY have much to pee (is this TMI?)



all this came to mind sitting here avoiding finishing my power point for a seminar tomorrow. it's 9:41pm, i guess i'm good.

*swallows head*

hottest nekkid man on earth

and quite possibly the hottest man alive.

Laird Hamilton

don't worry, i'm not switching teams.