Ruben's BDay

Blog No. 147: Ruben's BDay

Ruben, as you may or may not know, is my cousin that I lived with for most of my life and is now in the marines. He was pretty much my source of video game knowledge, street culture, and manswers. Now he's off doing his own thing in the marines with a few pals in Virginia, dressing up in uniform, guarding stuff in Guantanamo, guarding stuff in Bahrain, training with the French Foreign Legion, the usual... XP

Well he's been home for a month to grace us with his presence and to celebrate his birthday with us today, 5/27. At the stroke of way-to-early tomorrow morning, he takes connecting flights to North Carolina, where more stuff will happen...

And I didn't have a gift for him yet! XP

So today I woke up early, around 8 AM, to get ready to go for a walk around Natomas. I took my usual walk over the freeway in the direction of my mom's apartment, where the party was, when my mom started texting me.

"Where are you?"

"Walking."

"Are you walking yet?"

"Yes...?"

"Where are you?"

"Halfway down [street name] toward [street name]." I took street names out to prevent stalkers showing up at my door... XP

"You might want to wait. You can get a ride at 1, it's too hot to be walking!"

Then I started typing: "Well, I'm already outside walking in the heat, doing the same walk I've been doing for the past few years, and I have a bottle of ice cold water in my shoulder bag---" When my mom called me to restate her text.

Truth is, I've been on this walk a lot longer than she realizes. During high school, I've walked from my house to It's a Grind every weekend to visit the Blonde, where, after she was done working, we would spend our lunch at the next door Panera. After she would take me home, like no one knew I was gone... Everything else is true, I've walked on hotter days, I stocked up on my water, I even wore one layer instead of the normal 2-3, and I'm walking a shorter distance than I usually do, with less side trips. 

Anyway, I walked to the Natomas Marketplace, where I stopped at Rubio's for "brunchfast", a combo of breakfast and lunch where it is more breakfast than lunch. 

Then walked over to Petsmart to see the animals. A bird escaped its cage and flew over my head to the support beams on the cieling. One of the fish tanks was haunted by a very lively plastic plant floating up and down. Then twin poodles came over to lick my hairy legs. Very odd day at Petsmart indeed. XP

At Walmart, I went over to the men's clothing section, which was just a small space in the corner of the entire clothing section, over looking the McDonald's dining area. You see, Ruben is a tough person to buy gifts for, seeing as he can only take what he can carry, not to mention he doesn't cling to most materialistic posessions. All I really had to go on was how he dresses, which was oversized grey scale T-shirts with skull and wing designs. I did have a variety of shirts to choose from, granted most only differed on the amount skulls relative to the amount of wings on the design. XP

At Starbucks, I sat down to drink a cup of iced coffee, when a KT Tunstall song came up. So I texted Kaylah to try to inflict her wrath:

"The only thing good about starbucks is that they would often play kt tunstall music..."

"Finally seeing it my way? :)"

"Well, I'm waiting at starbux and so far I've heard 'Stoppin' the Love' and 'Little Favours,' whilst sipping a venti iced coffee..."

"YOU HAVE SINNED!"

"Please forgive me Mother K, I am not worthy! DX"

"Haha. Just go to IAG in the near future and all will be forgiven. :)"

She's easy to please. XP

Then I walked directly to the apartment. A 2-hour painless trip.

I combined my purchases with my mom's card with cash inside. Then I went online while my mom watched her soaps. She fell asleep at some point. So there I am, staring at a computer screen, in a dark, dark room, with cliched melodrama in my ear, surrounded by 5 whirling fans. The inside of my mom's room could easily be a convenient way to store ice cream and other freezer items... No wonder my mom's chocolate survived this long. XP

I had to walk out of that room so that I wouldn't die from hypothermia. So I walked into the room Ruben was in to watch Charmed with him. I don't know why he likes Charmed, but I guess he would agree that there was nothing on that day.

Eventually, my aunt finally came home with 4 Marie Calendar's pies. She then started to cook dinner. My grandfather had walked, too, only he lives a shorter distance away. He and my mom sat at the table, talking and what not, while I did some crossword. We had some carnitas and mexican rice, apparently Ruben's food of choice, then some chocolate pie.

I heart chocolate pie. XP

... And yeah. :P

Boredom At Its Finest

Blog No. 146: Really Bored...

"When you find yourself multitasking on trivial things, (like crunches on a yoga ball while holding down the X button on a Final Fantasy game, or, singing Paramore while practicing frisbee throws on your indoor furniture), or making trivial things more complicated, (like trying to spread peanut butter with your feet or rearranging an already clean room and making it disorganized in the process), you find that it's about time to come up with a better routine to survive your time off."

--Rabbiman. :P

KFC, Bracelet Weaving, and a Curious Face

Blog No. 145: Bracelet Weaving

My mom stole me for the day, 5/25, in order to do some grocery shopping. I can't really get out of that, seeing as she has to get some stuff for the apartment and for my grandfather. Plus, it's a chance to grab some toiletries and some extra stuff I wouldn't ask for. Seeing as my mom is not physically able to do normal everyday chores, I came along to help.

Afterward, we ran by KFC to get my grandfather some fried chicken so that he doesn't have to cook... After we had bought some food for him to cook... Then wheeled around to his place, where I took everything up the elevator to put all the groceries away.

Then took all the groceries in, including mine, so that when my sister and brother-in-law comes over, they can take me and my groceries home. I had visited a little bit with my cousin, Ruben, talking about his life on the east coast and overseas. We had watched some bits of Final Fantasy: Advent Children, which he opened for me. I had got that movie long ago with intent on watching it, only to prolong watching the movie in its entirety. I still haven't watched it all the way through though... SOMEDAY! XP

My aunt had these styrofoam blocks out, along with strands of thread and beads. I had asked what they were for... You see, she told me that she and her husband had made a bunch to sell and told me to pick one. So I did. Mine looked like one of those surfer bracelets you would find at a gift shop with a small shell in the middle and green glass beads along the side. Then my aunt sat me down with one of the blocks and had set me up to make another bracelet. I thought this was a wonderful way to spend a day off, with extreme emphasis of sarcasm. I had decided to make a purple bracelet that I would give Kaylah at a future date.

By the by, she's expected back in Sacramento around June 14th! Can't wait! XP

Audrey, John, and Lennox came over for a bit. The parents left to have a movie day to watch Night at the Museum 2 as well, leaving Lenny in the care of my mom and yours truly.

Lenny had some bowel troubles and what not. He kinda puked on my mom's shoulder, too, which made me flinch on the inside. I find that this was one of the reasons why I can't be alone taking care of infants/children. Granted, it looked more like a spit-up than an up-chuck, which I could somewhat tolerate more of, but still.

I fled to the computer screen for awhile, IMing a little bit with Kaitlyn and Taka. After awhile, I thought it was silly to stay away for much longer, so I went and sat with him and my mom in the bathroom, where my mom had turned the water faucet on to try and calm Lenny's nerves. It was funny because he kinda stopped crying to stare at my face. He had this funny look of curiosity on his face, so I stole a picture of him:

The cutest little thing! He almost reminds me of...

XP

Anyways, while I was taking this picture, he reached his hand toward my face to try and touch my facial hair. My mom and I had a B'AAWWW~ moment. :P

Then Audrey and John came back, and we left soon after! 

Summer Plans Redux

Blog No. 144: Summer Plans Redux

I've been fine tuning my schedule a little bit. Here's what I have:

Summer:

Wester Civilization (Pre-Rennaissance Era)
Hist 300 C. Jardine MW 6:15-9:25 PM 
--->Thanks again Dictator Roze for planning to take me home over the summer! XP

[Insert +1 Class here]


Fall:

Chemistry (-of DEATH.)
Chem 400 B. Weissbart MW Lab 8:00-11:20 Lec 11:30-12:50

Italian II
Ital 402 E. Martinelli TTh 7:00-9:10 PM

Western Civilization (Post-Rennaisance Era)
Hist 302 W. Wrightson TTh 1:30-2:50 PM

Beginning Statistics

Stat 301 B. Truong TTh 3:00-4:20 PM

Piano FOUR

Muivi 351 H. VanRegenmorter MW 1:30-2:50 PM

[Insert EITHER Concert Band or Choir here]


Spring:

Italy.


FIN.

The +1 Class I was thinking may be Chem 400 during the Summer, because I kinda want to try and take Chamber Singers during the Fall. Sure, it might ruin some people's plans of taking Chemistry with me during the Fall, (*cough* Susan Surrandon and Gonad *cough*), but I kinda want my last semester at ARC to have some fun in it. RIGHT?

As for the Concert Band/Choir debate... There are Pros and Cons on both sides.

For Choir, it would mean I'd have super long Tuesdays and Thursdays, (from 9-ish AM to 9-ish PM? TWELVE HOURS?), but it would mean that'd I'd have a music class with some friends, as well as go on the Choir Camp Winthers trip.

For Band, it would mean I'd have a super long break on Wednesdays, (From 1 to 4:30, depending if I actually would go to lecture!), but it would also mean that'd I'd have a a music class with more friends and possibly sign up for Alto Sax/Percussion parts.

It was why I was kinda considering Chemistry over the summer, so that I would have that time slot open for Chamber, which has the perks of Choir, (plus the Con of school on Friday), but without extending school time on TTh. Band could possibly be added with Chamber if the school will let me exceed the unit limit, which I'll assume they will considering my steady 3.65 GPA.

Decisions decisions.... XD

EDIT: I've also been meaning to ask Difuentez if he could take me home TTh during the fall after Italian.............

Sac Jazz Jubilee/Festival

Blog No. 143: Sac Jazz Jubilee/Festival

I've been talking about going to the Sacramento Jazz Jubilee for awhile now, since the fact that going to the Fanime convention was out of the question. 

I went to it last year for an entire day while Piper, Dustin, JT, Molly, Rachel, and a bunch of other people were in San Jose for Fanime. I had a pretty cool time. I walked the span of downtown, from the Convention Center to Old Sacramento, stopping by a few concerts along the way. I stopped by a couple of ballrooms, including the one in the Convention Center for a little bit of the swing dancing lessons. There was a concert in the IMAX and the Crest Theatre that were pretty cool. Then I'd wandered into the K street mall, where I had a meal at the Johnny Rockets, then continued my direction toward Old Sacramento, where a lot of the concerts were either outside or hidden. A lot of the live music ranged from the dixieland/big band stuff to the modern/lounge stuff. At least they had variety! XP

This was the year I was going to go with everyone to Fanime. Unfortunately, the cost of the hotel room got a little too expensive for everyone to pay for. As a consequence, Piper, Difuentez, and I, as well as the guys and Susan Surrandon, could no longer go.

This time around, I didn't get a ride so I wasn't planning on going today, 5/23. However, Taka had called me at around late afternoon to invite me to the Sac Jazz Jubilee with Piper, Yowty, and Parker. How could I resist?

Parker had picked us all up and I lead everyone to the vicinity in Old Sacramento, seeing as it was pretty close to the evening and most of the jazz would be located here. Piper called JT while we were walking to Old Sacramento. JT had gone to Fanime with a different group of his friends. We ended up just getting his voicemail though. XP

First, Piper wanted to go to the Candy Heaven store, where we sampled some candy inside the store, (Don't worry, it was legal! XP). I never really had taffy before, but I had tried a few pieces and, after that, I would seriously take one of those barrels home with me full of taffy. I liked the cherry and chocolate flavored ones. Taka had me tried pomegranate, (in reference to the weird dream and her LolPomegranate drawing that spawned from it!), which, to tell the truth, I didn't really like pomegranate flavored anything. But after tasting the taffy, the pomegranate taffy turned out to be my favorite! XP

Then, Taka really wanted to go to the Evangeline's Costume Shop to try out the carnival machine they had. For 25 cents, you grip the handle and the machine tells you how great a date you are. This time, I think I got "sexy". All I know is, Taka got the highest one out of all of us, again. XP

We walked around in circles for a bit, listening to bits and pieces of jazz concerts here and there. We passed and stopped by one in the alleyway behind a couple of stores a few times. This band kinda did mainstream old school rock songs. One of the times, we walked by it from the second story, where we looked down at the people dancing in front of the covered stage. Taka and I did some silly dances up there, like "the sprinkler" or "dodge the bullets" and what not. Someone yelled out, "FREE BIRD!" to the band, which is a pretty decent Lynyrd Skynyrd song. But Taka was laughing about it and we decided to use it at random places. XD

There was a drum circle of three guys, banging on garbage cans and glass bottles in the street, which was pretty cool. Piper recorded most of the session. There was a couple of guys from the crowd that did some random contorshonist dancing, bending his arm backwards and what not. One of the drumers banged on a dust pan lid while dragging it on the street, creating sparks as it went along. It was a pretty cool display! XP

We ended up at Round Table Pizza, the second time around. We ordered a large pepperoni pizza and some garlic bread to split amongst the five of us. The band there was the type of jazz that would lean on the big band type of music, which was fun to listen to, but hard to bear if you're trying to hold a conversation with someone across from you in a booth. We played a round of Liz's Game.

After Round Table, Parker took us home...

FREE BIRD! XP

Night at the Museum 2

Blog No. 142: Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian

I went with the movies with my mom today, 5/22.

We were going to see the new Star Trek movie, but my mom wanted to save that one for a better, less tiring day. So instead, we saw Night at the Museum.

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Movie Review: Night at the Museum 2

Larry Daley, once a security guard at a New York museum, becomes a successful inventor. Unfortunately, that meant leaving the museum at a time of need, when a bunch of the exhibits are doomed to a fate of storage in one of the bottom levels of the Smithsonian archives. The monkey stole the magical tablet thingy, which by happenstance wakes up the Egyptian's older brother, also located in the archives, with world conquest aspirations. Apparently, the tablet can open the door to the underworld, also in the archives, with the right combination. Thus ensues an adventure where Larry finds that it isn't how you move up in the world that brings you happiness, but it's doing what you love, or something along those lines...

I wouldn't watch so much for the storyline, really. What would grab you would be the comedy/visual effects that go along in the movie. 

Each character really ham up the screen and play their roles very well. Amy Adams as Amelia Earheart kinda reminded me of her role as Gisell in Enchanted, for good reasons. She really was the center of all the romantic cliched female roles. Granted, most of the comedy leans on the cliched side, some of it's still pretty funny lto laugh at. It's refreshing. XP

My favorite characters would have to be those singing cherubs. They reminded me of those Muses in the Disney Hercules movie.

To my surprise, those cherubs were actually the Jonas Brothers...

This video kinda made it better.

All I can say is that it's about time Joe got shoved into that corner. XP

All in all, Night at the Museum continues its comedic stride in this funny sequel.

Rating: 3 Out of 5 Thumbs Up---> Worth seeing at least once.

Pops Concert and The Drive In

Blog No. 141: Pops Concert and The Drive In

My left kneecap still hurts from yesterday's "collision" with JT... XP

Anyway, I went to the Foothill High Pops Concert with Parkarr, which is basically a concert/potluck outside near a gazebo. We met up with Piper and Difuentez in the grass with those fancy, fold-up backyard chairs. 

We saw Taka, Abril, King, Susan Surrandon, and Home Skillet Biscuit, with others, performing in the first set, Taka and Abril on flute, King on trumpet, Susan Surrandon on trombone, and Home Skillet Biscuit on clarinet. It was pretty much the Foothill High portion of the ARC Concert Band meshed amongst the current students of Foothill. 

Although, when I saw Home Skillet perform, I did not recognize it was her until the set was over and she sat back down in the audience. It kinda made me sad because I would be the person to recognize her, seeing as I sat next to her during Concert Band. She's pretty cool. Her, Bianca, and I pretty much have our own little inside jokes and whatnot. Home Skillet had brought a bunch of post it notes one time, which we've used to write on peoples folders. XP

I met Taylor, Susan Surrandon's "Boyfriend" in the eyes of Susan Surrandon's mom... (Yeah, I'm not sure how that technically works out either. XD) Susan Surrandon introduced Taylor to me as the second-most-coolest-person-on-the-planet... Me being the first apparently. XP

Yowty was also up there after the first set, playing the ukulele part for the song a couple of guys performed, "I'm Yours" from Jason Mraz. Honestly, I welcome Jason Mraz songs as a refresher from the weird dance beats on the radio... Just not this song. I also used to like that Second Serenade song "Fall For You" but someone kinda ruined it for me... Stupid radio hits...

... But Yowty was pretty cool on the ukulele! XP

Then the beginning band played... And ended.

Then the bigger band played. It was funny because some of the composed songs from the alumni set were made by the same person who did the composed quartet songs for this band. All of which pretty much refered to video game music, like the pokemon center music for all the pokemon games. It was quite funny. XP

We kinda had to leave during the middle of the performance to try and get to the Drive-In on time.

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Difuentez was leading us in his car while Parkarr and I followed in the red car. Originally, Piper and I would have switched cars so that Piper could lead Parkarr in case we got lost. That didn't happen for some reason... Instead, we just had to follow close behind while I was on the phone with Piper in the car ahead. We almost lost them a couple of times, but we followed OK, partly because we told Difuentez to use his blinkers. XP

At the Drive-In, the person who took our cash had attended the Italian class with us, Krystal. Either it's a really small world or a really big school... I vote big school. XP

Piper and Difuentez had went to Winco prior to the Pops Concert to grab a bunch of junk food. All I'm saying is that she got my favorite chips, Doritos Nacho Cheese, and my prefered movie soda, Grape Crush soda. She also got like a pound of sour worms, which kinda changed from a solid to plasma phase in Difuentez's car, which made them THAT much more delicious. XD

There was a list of double feature movies. We voted for the Wolverine movie, with Fast and Furious following right after. We had the set up of the four backyard chairs in the middle of the two cars with speakers turned up to awesome. Piper had pulled out her two Mary Poppins' umbrellas to block the wind blowing fro behind us. :P

So here are some movie reviews:

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Movie Review: X-Men Origins: Wolverine

You know, for a movie about character development, this movie is kinda pointless...

We already know that Wolverine lost his memories awhile back in the other two movies. This movie is basically from the beginning of his mutant life, when he figures out he can push bones out of his body, to the point where he loses all of his memories, memories of his lover, of the adamantium in his body, and of how he got the name Wolverine. It also shows at what point in time the X-Men started, (when Cyclops, physically blind, is able to lead the horde of specially picked mutants out of the plant only by mental cues of the Professor), leaving it open ended for yet another possible Origins sequel. Foreshadowing? Possibly...

The beginning montage sequence really reminded me of that of Watchmen, in that it if pushes the fast forward button through some of the boring parts, highlighting only the important parts during some recognizeable time periods. This sequence mainly consisted of James Logan and his brother, Victor, later Sabertooth, battling in the Civil War, WWI, WWII, and Vietnam. It didn't really work in Watchmen on the count of it left the majority of non-Watchmen readers confused, but here it kinda fits with the storyline, seeing as there isn't any valubale information other than Logan and Victor were in those wars.

This movie would really explain why Logan is so withdrawn from people, why he has this grudge against everyone. If only he'd remember any of it, then this movie would be a successful character development story. Seeing as he doesn't remember any of it, it's kinda pointless.

Some of the lines and plot twists are kinda cliched. For example, the last line of the movie, after the credits, was totally predictable. I kinda figured that the lover, Kayla, had the power of persuasion when she had put her hand on the bridge guy in the beginning. I also kinda knew that Kayla didn't actually die, seeing as we've only seen Victor leaving a mark on the car hood then Kayla passed out, with no flesh wounds, in the forest a certain distance away. That part really shows Logan's weakness, his animalist instincts of revenge, but it makes no point seeing as he's invinceable. XP

Weapon XI was kinda cool, but with looking at some of the mutants his powers came from, you'd imagine that his battle with Logan and Victor would've been a lot more interesting. Resulting in yet another pointless rating...

Some Pros: A good storyline.

Some Cons: Utterly pointless.

My Rating: 2.5 Out of 5 Thumbs Up---> See it only if you're willing to come to grips on how pointless the movie is.

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Movie Review: Fast and Furious

Letty dies. Cars explode. Vin Diesel.

Rating: 0.5 Out of 5 Thumbs Up---> Watch ONLY for the reasons above.

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I went home with free Doritos and soda. XP

Finals and Frisbee

Blog No. 140: Last Day of Finals and First Match of Ultimate Frisbee

I arrived at ARC, after a McDonald's breakfast, completely not caring about the Chemistry final. I knew I would do a decent job if I tried, but I've come to terms with "not passing"... Apparently so much so that I had forgotten my calculator. I had to walke to the stockroom to check out a calculator... But overall, the final didn't seem too bad!... Of course we say this and end up getting something below our expectations, as always this semseter. XP

Then I had a little break after Chemistry. I met up with Susan Surrandon after getting a cup of coffee. We kinda talked about how well we thought we did on the Chem final, but niether of us were worried. We're both taking it again during the fall. XP

Susan Surrandon had left, so I walked over to "The Spot" where Kaitlyn was hanging out and working on her acting dialogue final. I decided to help her out a little, so I practiced lines with her for awhile. We also talked a little bit. Apparently she found "the one" again. She uses this internet/cell phone dating service to meet guys. I'm not too keen into that whole dating with someone you've never seen face-to-face thing. Apparently, this boyfriend goes out of his way to calling her twice a day, even when he's busy. Hopefully this one sticks for longer than 5 minutes. XP

Then I'd figured I should practice for the Piano final, seeing as I needed to start learning the final performance. Well, there wasn't a practice room available, so I kinda waited. Apparently, it was also around the time Dr. Gilman was handing out grades to his final because his theory students were spralled across the hallway. Amongst these people were Rindy, Darius, and the Bowler Hat Guy. Apparently I was invited to Dana's end of the year party, according to Rindy. I thought about it, but I figured the only people I would know there would be some of the people from the Jazz History class I took, and I seldom even talked to them. 

I also helped Rindy kick people out of her practice room, which happened to be Michelle and the Asian chick from Piano, practicing the duet for the Final. Michelle offered to play the duet with me, seeing as my duet partner(s) were nowhere to be found. Ten minutes later, we nabbed a practice room and performed the duet a couple of times. I felt pretty confident because Michelle really knew her part. Now if I had that feeling during class...

During the Piano final, I had to perform:

1. The Haydn piece, Allegro Schizoferraneousmolando or something like that, which was supposed to be performed like 2 weeks ago...
   
2. The Schubart duet, hopefully with a well prepared partner...
3. The Final performance piece, which I had NO practice time to perform...
4. The F# Minor scales test, which I also had NO practice time...

The Haydn dealt with dynamics and articulation, whereas the duet and the final dealt with playing clunky chords all over the place. It didn't help that I got the part of the duet that had a 4 bar, sixteenth note, solo... 

Piper was supposed to be one of my partners, but she did not show up... AGAIN. Heidi was worried, so she had me call Piper to see where she was. All Piper texted back was "I'm not there. DX" So how was I supposed to explain THAT to Heidi? 

"Sorry Heidi, I just got her voicemail. I suppose she's sick! :/"

Very awkward...

Here's how the performances actually went:

1. The Haydn piece pretty much went seamlessly. 
2. The duet could've been worse, but at least we were somewhat able to keep the pace of the song together...
3. Did NOT perform the final performance. I just went up to Heidi and said that "I won't waste your time or put you through that torture. I'll just perform the Haydn instead."
4. The scales tests are always a breeze. XD

Whereas Heidi, the nicest, sweetest piano teacher on the planet, said "I know that Angela's been a little mousy this semester, for whatever reason. But I just want to make sure you know that I don't put you in the same boat as her." Or something along those lines... Then she gave me a hug.

B'aaawwwww. XP

I met up with Piper and Difuentez afterward at the picnic spot, where I learned that the both of them were at lunch with Dr. Hughes during my Piano final... 

Really Piper? REALLY? Leave me in the dark why don't you??? Geez... XD

During the Piano Final, I kept getting a buzzing in my pocket. I kept on thinking it was my mom, so I ignored most of them. But it went over the three buzz limit, (my family and I have this system where one phone call and a text meant call me back when you can! Two calls and a text meant where are you David?! And three or more calls meant dude it's an emergency, PICK UP THE PHONE DX.) So I had picked up my phone during the performance, keeping it hidden from Heidi, to learn that JT has been trying to call me...

I remembered the buzzes after leaving Piper and Difuentez, and listened to the voicemail. He's going to Fanime this weekend, like I was supposed to but ended up not going to, and he's invited a few people to come along and play Ultimate Frisbee before he leaves.

I had thought my mom needed me after school, but instead she took me to Bannister Park for frisbee. XP

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Ultimate Frisbee. A game that involves running and frisbee throwing... They made that into a sport?

Well, I had figured I should start playing more sports. I used to play sports all the time up until middle school, where I had the incident of "Prepubescent David Vs. The Human Refrigerator" where I blacked out after the start of a football kickoff because someone literally ran me over. I ended up in a purple arm cast for about 6 weeks...

I guess throwing a frisbee would suffice as a sport in this case! XP

This game really involved running. Granted I did a lot of unnecessary running, but running nonetheless. I'm not used to a lot of it, which in turn made me breathe heavy and lose energy that much quickly...

But no one can say that I wasn't trying!

During the game, I was super close to catching the disc. I jumped up in the air, being in the vicinity of the disc. Then JT comes from in front of me, and we pretty much collided into each other. I rolled on the ground a little bit. We both fell, we both missed the frisbee. XP

After that, I was able to catch a few of the frisbees. I can catch, but not so much throw or run... XP

I met a couple of JT's friends he invited. I had already met Diana from archery. Marshall, Adam, and Jeff seemed to like video games alot. Most of the breaks was spent talking about some Halo games and a nostalgic stroll through the gaming systems throughout the years. Granted, I contributed to this conversation, too, but still they're geeks! XP

All in all, I caught the disc a couple of times, but I need aim and a better throwing technique. XD

After the game, JT took me home. Most of the ride home, we pretty much debated on the kind gesture of paying someone back, because it had sparked from me saying, "what can I do to make it up to you?" 

"You don't need to, I offered to take you home."

"After I asked for a ride the last couple of times you invited me to Ultimate Frisbee."

"I had already figured I would be giving you rides, so it's not necessary."

"But you're going way out of your way to take me home! You are going to Natomas and back; it's not exactly around the corner!"

"Really it's no big deal. I'm indifferent to the distance. I'd figured that once I got my liscence that I would be used as a taxi service anyway."

"But it's a kind gesture you've given me. The least I could do is offer one in return! I'd feel guilty if I was the persistent kind of person. But still, wouldn't it be kind of insulting to turn down a kind offer of returning the favor?"

"IF you were the persistent kind of person? Who was the person who texted me before the semester in all caps 'WE SHOULD TAKE A CLASS TOGETHER?'"

Well, JT can be stubborn at times. :P

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Blog No. 139: Piano Practice Part 2

Tuesday...

I seriously do not remember what happened...

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NEXT!

Deep Connection

Blog No. 138: Time for School, or, Piano Practice Part 1

Today, 5/18 Monday, I went to school, not for a final, but for Piano practice. I figured that, seeing as I missed out on a couple of performances in Piano, I should practice on an upright piano at school rather than a old keyboard at home... And I also came to finish the last two labs for Chemistry I needed to turn in.

I found Dustin, sleeping on the table... Rather, he woke up as soon as he heard my voice from another table to signal me over. When I walked over, I saw Matt at another table. We tried calling him over for about a minute, but he still didn't hear us, even after Dustin's high pitched squeals or my whistling. But he did come over a minute after we stopped calling him. Matt's apparently deaf. XP

I finally gave Dustin's shades back to him. Susan Surrandon came at some point to work on the labs with me, seeing as she, too, never finished them. XP

Susan Surrandon and I took a pleasent stroll to the chem lab stock room, where in the hallway there are computers open strictly to Chemistry students. I thought I might as well utilize my Chemistry student priveledges here to finish a lab that needed a chart. At least the teacher understands that doing graphs by hand really suck, so The Weissbart had us pull up an Excel document to enter our data in... TWO pages of data. DX

We stapled the labs and slid them under The Weissbart's door, running as quickly as we could out of the stockroom, back to the cafeteria.

Back in the cafe, we conversed some more with Matt and Dustin. I was kinda waiting for noon to go and practice some Piano music. 

Dustin left.

Then Susan Surrandon, Matt, and I conversed for a little, some of it defining what the term "fake sex" had meant. Then something went on where they said that I don't make a deep connection with people...

Matt, Lomo, and I sharing a "deep connection," whatever that meant. XP

Then Piper came to meet me in the cafe as I was getting lunch.

Dustin came back.

Then Piper and I left, heading toward the practice rooms. Only, when we got there, there were no open rooms to be found. So we walked back to the cafeteria.

An hour later, we went back into the piano lab, only to practice for an hour or so.

My mom picked me up and took me home. And that was that! XP