Open Source
So My internships winding down, and after much discussion with a couple influential people I've decided not to continue my internship. I'm a little sad but its best since i know I'd probably benefit more from taking my internships at different places.

Apple Pie
Hell weeks been slow (not much surprise there). Lots of last minute projects and meetings and things to remember. This Saturday is LA (Malibu+Santa_Monica)@ 5-10am for our 24 project. That'll be cold and fun as usual.

The DJ Plays
Music which i've been enveloped in is as follows:

• This Will Destroy You
• Delorean
• Modest Mouse
• TV on the Radio
• My Morning Jacket

Resurrection of the College Cookbook
Yes its back! Tonight I prepared, a black bean stir fry with chicken (marinated in Korean BBQ Sauce), onions, broccoli, snow peas and garlic. It came out surprisingly well! Especially since i haven't eaten anything remotely Chinese in ages. The big surprise was the snow peas. I wasn't expecting much since they were Safeway's frozen snow peas, However, they required no thawing, just microwave and serve. I probably steamed the broccoli too much, but i hate tough broccoli anyway so whatever. I'd give the taste a 6.5 out of 10.

Play the Instrumental (No Sharps or Flats)
I can't wait to be done. I'm tired of being tired. I need to stop fatbitching it and eat healthier. I also need to ease up on my alcohol consumption (even though my bar tending skills have been increasing exponentially). I'm also finding my long hair super annoying. I really want to cut it as soon as possible. Its so shaggy and big :{ too bad i don't trust Ventura barbers. I'll wait for the Asian hairdresser back home in Hi.

Cheers to the mixed bag feelings of college.

Pick Me Up
Waaaah... no update in awhile. sorry. I was chasing the foxes down their holes :]
I've been recently fighting a rather hearty cold which has made the past couple of weeks pretty distasteful. I finally received my brand spanking new macbook pro, which means i have now happily conformed with the majority of designers (...). Novembers half over in case you didn't know, and i'm still here wondering were the semester went. I'm subtley being romanced by the changing weather. These thoughts usually spring themselves between my intermittent caughing fits.

State Lines
I think its safe to resume the countdown of days as soon as my father arrives for thanksgiving. Though i'm still a year short of enjoying vegas i'm sort of looking forward to seeing what the stip is like and also how my sister is doing.

Air Preassure
My music taste has slightly tweaked towards accepting more mainstream music and some rap (thanks to my "i love the 90's" friends and my work enviornment). As far as my continued expansion into my preferred music genre i've discoverd some nice stuff:

Mates of State
My Morning Jacket's Evil Urges
Erlend Oye
MGMT
Pedro The Lion
Jose Gonzalez
Apparat
Digitalism
Crystal Castles
PlayRadioPlay(somewhat indifferent)
The Whitest Boy Alive

The Recap

Post Halloween Party


Election Celebration


Ice Blocking

Pick Me Up, Please
So this week has been full of roses. which i'll let you decide if its bad or good. but currently i feel terrible. Work stress is crazy rough. and i'm worried about appeasing my boss. I want to do well at my internship but the expectations for me are high. Which is good. But bad in the sense where when i fail to meet them, i immediately feel like shit. bad twist to a good thing.

Crashing Cars
ok, so normally i try to make the sub header somewhat remotely metaphoric of what i'm going to write about but in this case you can completely disregard the title. why? just because ^^

Cancer
I occasionally like reading horoscopes when my mind is drifting into space [which =stars=constellations=astrology (ha!)]. <-that was my thought process in a mathematical equation. heres a simplified version: never mind. Anyway i think astrology as a whole is an interesting pseudoscience but i'd never take it into consideration when making decisions. So to make some use of my weekly horoscope i'm going to fit events that happened this week to fit my horoscope. enjoy ^^

Catalysts
"During Monday, your conscience is telling you to buckle down, while another part of you wants to drop everything and live it up. Which do you listen to? Well, consult a friend and see what he or she thinks about your predicament..."

Within the week starting, everything sucked because of work, which means that i have to focus on my responsibilities. I talked to my roomate about it, but he just let me vent, so i guess that just meant that i didn't need a second opinion.

"...By the middle of the week, you're in a more no-nonsense mood. When you take care of business first, you can have your fun with a clear conscience. This policy stands you in good stead, especially when the possibility of a last-minute trip comes up during the final part of the week or over the weekend."

So by the middle of the week shit started to get crazy and i ended up missing classes for sleep and working overtime on all of my work projects (fun stuff). I want to be finished with all this shit so i can enjoy my Halloween weekend! However the way things are looking now, i've missed my opportunity to have a worry-less weekend. I've got a in-house comp presentation on Monday, and a client presentation on Tuesday. FAJCBNAKFCKAJNSCIUNASCKKACKCCK

i'll figure it out...

Reaction
So i've been oversleeping. I missed two morning classes within the past two days, and i need to change my sleeping habits.

Addiction
That show House is slowly sucking more and more time from my day with its sarcastic humor, mystery and drama. ARGH, and i'm still struggling to watch my portion sizes and food intake.

Diagnosis
Could be lupus or micro tumors, but that wouldn't explain the liver failure and delusions.
ARGSHKJkAKCMLKSA!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Grey to Gray
My classes aren't hard so there should be no reason to stress. I know its just my lack of sleep working against me. Theres a road trip to look foreward to this weekend and DCFC (oh yes). October's Fall-ing and Cali didn't burn like i hoped it would.

Every day i drive to and from work i always see that "Watch For Wild Animals" sign but even though i watch for them I NEVER SEE THEM. I keep thinking i'll see a rhinocerous something...


(those animals are crazy wild!)

Plus 5
I just got through playing the stupid game of LIFE... ugh, man i hate that game. I love how the way you win at life is by making a lot of money. Geeze...

Recollection of Homecoming Anarchy
Homecoming was last weekend which was actually a lot of fun [since i actually had friends to go with this year, Ha!]. I had a great time: Saw a lot of people, met a few people, had fun, etc. I remember the shitty carnival rides, singing that Smashmouth song Hey Now You're A Rock Star on stage, pieing friends, and watching a spider almost land on someone's head. It was all crazy fun.


Us on stage like a crowd of drunk people.

The day after we had the homecoming dance at some club in hollywood. I, of course, did not go and decided to go to anti-homecoming which was hanging out with mat-them at Claim Jumpers and having a fun party [drama free] back at the house. It was rather funny because everyone who came back seemed to have a not-so-great time and drama. All of this was terrible for my diet plan which is barely holding up :[

Weekly Physical
This week has been a normal sleepless one. Which is bad because the weather is shit, and everyone is catching colds. My musical creativity has been lacking along with my guitar playing. I'm slowly getting treble clef though! Wooo...

Man, i've been really wanting to get out of TO recently. Just to get a change of scenery. Argh, but no one wants to do anything. I hate it.

anyways...
end.

Post Traumatic Reality
Cali is burning again...

[oh geeze, an elipsis within the first paragraph...
That tingly feeling? Yeah, its going there so jump ship while you still can...]

Today's just been that kind of day where you wish the sky would burn so that you could feel warm inside.

Anxiety Cake
Mmmmm... Since Friday, work has been that ominous cloud of smoke burning in the background. I know that in this profession, creative potholes will become the cancer that either kills you or makes you. I guess this being my first flub, I should take the most that i can from it.

ugh, but i still feel sick. I want to be good at this and i know i can be which is why this is so upsetting.

I am Stupid:
So while perfecting my awesome quesadilla skills, i decided to grill a piece of chicken on my roommate's George Foreman (which is probably the tackiest cooking tool you can find in a kitchen).

I am REALLY Stupid:
Anyway so my George Foreman spider sense started to tingle which meant my chicken was about done grilling, so i grabbed my fork and steak knife (holding the pointy side down like my mom told me to) and made my way to my sizzling masterpiece. So here was the plan: I was going to lift the cover (shown in the left image) and make an incision to see if it had cooked all the way through. As i lifted the cover, a bit of steam began to rise and burn my hand. Freeze frame: So in this hand that is currently being cooked from the steam, i have my plastic fork and steak knife. Resume: so instinctively i jolt my hand back away from the evil grill towards my rib cage, knife in hand. So needless to say i poked my torso with a very pointy steak knife and in general almost Harikiri-ed myself while making a quesadilla. End story.

College Cookbook Journal Time:
So aside from that episode i've been cooking fairly awesome jack cheese, onion, and fucking grilled chicken quesadillas. Not very hard, but all the more reason to perfect the art. I also made tuna burgers again for my roommate and I. I've got some pictures, but trust me (like all hawaii food) it tastes WAY better than it looks.





[my over enthusiastic roommate]

The G4 Intern:
My internship at this small branding boutique has been going very well so far. I've been getting a lot of great oppertunities to work and collaborate on real projects and my design skills have been progressing steadily. I've recently been working on a layout for this client who wants a redesign for his dj website which is a great oppertunity to have full reign over the complete design. When the site is launched i'll post a link, but it probably wont be for awhile.

Closing:
I'm still battling with stress and fatigue (due to lack of sleep), and i've been freaking out because my weight is increasing :[ So in response i'm cutting back on food and excersisising as much as i can.

I'm sort of not that involved/interested in my classes: it is wierd because i'm going to school to be at the work place that i'm at now so my priorities are a bit skewed. I have become really interested in my drawing class. My sketches arn't anything magnificent but its nice to find something new you can do. Maybe i'll post some scans later in the semester.

ugh its 4:30 and i better get to sleep.
cheers!

Enveloping Ether:
I severely underestimated the amount of time it'd take me to do all of y chores. Its now 430am and i need to wake up for a full day tomorrow. argh. i've really been hurting from this lack of sleep. bang.

Breaching for air:
(sigh)
i've been fighting these fatigue headaches and this stupid eye infection for way too long. I'm sure they sort of go hand in hand eh? This week was surprisingly quite busy. I woke up yesterday looking in the mirror and i had like a couple mistery cuts ON MY COLLAR BONE! i mean, everyone gets them on the arm or hand or foot, but collar bone? what the hell! so that was a bit startling.

Still Life:
They toor down a building this week. Funny how i wasjust working there last semester. hmph, i guess it was a good idea to take all those pictures during work.
<My favorite movie quote of 2008>

Currently my school has begun building a new dormitory TRINITY FUCKING HALL which is causing an unreasonable amount of traffic problems. It almost feels like UH the way parking has been at night. Crazy insane.

Subliminal Messaging:
Watched TV today for the longest amount of time within the past few months. House was actually quite interesting (the main character was rather captivating). Also saw an episode of Burn Notice which was fairly mediocre.
Work has been pretty intense lately. I've done things on photoshop i never knew i could do. i was very astonished with this last job. Its hard to imagine doing this everyday of every week.

College Cookbook: [i need a cutting board that doesn't turn into a rainbow when it gets wet]
Spam, onion, and two-cheese omlette: For the life of me i cannot flip a freaking omlette!!! ARGH, i hate it.
Japanese Soba: simple. hard to screw up. good to go!
Cold Ginger Chicken: "two tsp of sugar? hmmm, ok." It was pretty fucken gross. Way too sweet, not good with defrosted chicken, mediocre recipe. Never doing this again.
Tofu Fish Patties [made tonight]: This was by far the tastiest thign to come out of that maui cookbook yet. Made with tofu and tuna it came out suprisingly great. A reminder to add more green onion and watch it when frying in the oil. I'll definitly create this again.

Closed Captioning:
This post turned out quite long, and i've got things to do before work tomorrow. I need a full nights rest. I think posting demotivational posters is something really geeky and lame but i thought this one was pretty damn funny (i'm laughing while uploading this).

Upgrade:
So it was my first night at a bar [with alcohol, with friends]. it was fine, a little cheeky on drinking fromt he pitcher and getting in, but the night was fine. I suck at darts, and pool whores are lame. learned to play 301 which was cherry. being at a bar was intoxicating [yeah, i just did that] but its still the company that makes it.

College Cookbook:
Didn't cook at all today, but i did finish a literal [k-1] mountain of dishes (which was always fun). My friend Eric made a sic breakfast sandwhich after our time at the bar. I believe it was mayo, egg easy over, cheddar cheese and bacon on an english muffin. It was delicious and probably very unhealthy. Perfect for 2am alcohol fueled hunger.

Closing:
I was a little bummed the night ended at 2. Kinda wanting to be with more company, but i know what i need to do to get that. This summer was alcoholic but i worry its bleeding into this coming semester. college is toxic. Cheers!

College Cookbook:
I attempted a revised version of Hamburger Curry [original recipe from the 49th edition of the Maui Cookbook]. It was strange, usually when i cook something i start to get hungry while cooking it, but this time i lost my appetite while cooking. Perhaps thats not a good sign. My roommate didn't even want to try it :{

After some added garlic salt and pepper it did come out pretty tasty! Would've been better with chicken rather than hamburger. the meat just made it taste... like a hamburger helper or something. meh, oh well at least it was digestible.

Goal Setting:
Argh, i'm getting very irresponsible with my punctuality. I really need to work on that! I've also got to keep up with my gym attendance. :[

Closing:
I'm not sure how good i'll be at keeping up this blog. This site was really just a random thing. heh.