I think I'll try defying gravity.

bookworm82787 @ 2009-07-13T19:45:00

2009-07-14T02:51:20Z

Lesson for the day: Don't loan money. Ever. Unless you expect it to be a gift.

So basically

2009-04-07T14:52:49Z

I have a place to live now. :) Not sure if my roommate is coming with me or not but I'm living in a pretty cool place not too far away from where I live now but definitely in a safer area of Berkeley with some pretty cool people.

Basically this means I'm way less stressed cause I have a place to live--yay. It's decently close to a bus route that goes to work, which was one of my primary concerns.

I'm in Berkeley for the summer, my job in Oakland is hiring me for a full-time position, so I'll be hanging out around here.

bookworm82787 @ 2008-11-05T20:18:00

2008-11-06T04:25:43Z

Measure GG won--yaaay.

Barack Obama won--yaaaaaay

So many emotions right now.

bookworm82787 @ 2008-08-04T20:47:00

2008-08-05T03:59:57Z

I feel bad when I turn down people to hang out because I've been at work for twelve hours and literally all I want to do is go home, take a shower and go to sleep.

It's creepy that the summer has gone so fast but again with the mostly twelve hour days...

On the other hand, house to myself tonight, priceless...

Big Read...update to come...

2008-06-28T05:26:44Z

The Big Read reckons that the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books they’ve printed. Well, let’s see.

1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicise those you intend to read
3) Underline the books you LOVE.
4) Reprint this list in your own LJ so we can try and track down these people who’ve read 6 and force books upon them ;-)

1 Pride and Prejudice- Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
34 Emma - Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones’ Diary - Helen Fielding
69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession - AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

Yay. I win at books

bookworm82787 @ 2008-04-14T22:04:00

2008-04-15T05:40:42Z

Meme from Cambria...

1. Leave a comment-- 'hit me' or 'Ooh ooh me!' will work.
2. I will respond by asking you five personal questions so I can get to know you better.
3. Update your LJ with the answers to the questions.
4. Include this explanation and offer to ask someone else in your own post.
5. When others respond with a comment, you will ask them five questions.

1. Congratulations! You get an all-expenses-paid dinner with the celebrity/famous person of your choice. Who's it gonna be, and where will you go?
Hmmmm... I'm gonna say Hillary Clinton, and we're totally going to California Fats. Yummy chinese food with amazing person... <3s.

2. If you could wipe ONE cultural product from the face of the earth - one movie, TV show, commercial, book, etc. - what would it be?
I don't like excessively dumb romance novels. People should have to at least write something to be published.

3. If you could make everyone on Earth experience one cultural product - movie, TV show, book, band, etc. - what would it be?
I want everyone to watch Cool Runnings at some point during their lives.

4. Were you interested/involved in politics at all before Mira Loma, and if so, how?
I was interested, I just wasn't involved other than stamping my Uncle's letters when he ran for school board in exchange for beanie babies.

5. What is your ideal household? (Pets, children, significant others, relatives etc.)
I want a husband who loves me and understands me and makes me laugh, and is strong enough to carry stuff and reach the top shelves. I want at least one cat, and at least one puppy (preferrably a lab of some sort). I want two kids and to be the best mom ever. I want to live decently close to my family cause otherwise I would miss them too much and my mom loves little kids.

California Progress Report

2008-02-07T23:37:31Z

Check it Out :)

http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/2008/02/youth_vote_up_t.html

Iowa...

2008-01-05T11:21:10Z

On my way to Chapel Hill in about an hour, yay to getting out of Iowa.

I had a lot of fun here but also learned a lot ie never ever missing Christmas again, or the family reunion or preferrably New Years. I miss my family and Sacramento and it's not worth it, even though it did give me some props here for staying and being one of the out of state volunteers who stayed the longest and I probably learned more because of it.

No real desire to ever go back to this crazy state, as a volunteer you basically get treated like a non-human entity, which fine whatever but now its over and I'm out of here, with no real desire to volunteer anywhere for awhile, particularly anywhere out of state. Go John Edwards but my enthusiasm only lasts as long as there's food around, I've eaten more Cheetos and pizza this week than I really care to dwell on. I'm done with canvassing for six hours in - degrees, and being told I'm a silly California Girl because I don't like weather where I have to look like a gigantic marshmallow, and never did find boots so my feet always end in ice. I can leave the cracked lips and dry skin behind, as well as the room WITHOUT HEAT, and the boss who forgets to bring the heater back from the office (where there is heat btw). I'm done with worrying how I'm going to get home, either to Raleigh or to Sacramento because one ride flaked or another, and I was going to get a ride from the Texas people before they started freaking me out by telling me that I'm a bitch because I reminded them to recycle on their first day, and stand in the wrong place, and them threatening to leave me on the road, maybe with, maybe without my stuff.

There's a debate tonight so I may not be able to find a ride to the office at 2 in the afternoon, which is okay. Everyone here was told to go to Nevada or South Carolina and there's no real choice in the matter, and unlike here where I didn't know where the Des Moines office was, in Chapel Hill I actually do and know that someone will give a DAMN when I get there, and its work I actually enjoy believe it or not unlike voter contact that oftentimes made me want to smack something after 8 straight hours of phone calls that were never quite enough.

I'm okay being in a tiny town that has a coffee shop and a health food store and a bookstore, with Beth and Sara and Jessica and Matt who will be crazy busy but will be people, and care, not necessarily about me but about everything else. I'm tired of Elise who didn't care and Steve who seemed nice and ended up just trying to use the opportunity to get lucky, which is fine in theory and in reality is just sort of annoying when he leaves me at a random prescinct in Cedar Falls and Elise fails to answer her phone.

It's not perfect, it's not idealistic and fanciful and I'll still end up working my tail off without any real rewards but I can have a bed to sleep in, in a heated apartment, wearing only two layers and not five so score. I miss Sara and Jessica and Beth in our little closet of Correspondence, and warmth and diet pepsi. I want to be helpful and not in the way as much as possible, and hopefully it'll work out that I can do that there, at this point its funny so it's fine.

bookworm82787 @ 2007-12-27T22:48:00

2007-12-28T05:06:37Z

I'm in Waterloo, it's kind of cool.

My friend is here so I actually get to LEARN and be treated LIKE A HUMAN BEING, but on the other hand I have no current idea how I'm getting to Chapel Hill or home after that. My other friend was supposed to give me a ride but at the moment the car is full so hmmmmmm... I called Pauly (the national intern director) and am currently telling everyone I can so I can figure it out sometime, I may end up going via New Hampshire, who knows? I'd like to figure it out soon though...

That said, in the last week I've been to Des Moines (AND lived through crappy supporter housing), and Indianola (with better supporter housing) and now am in Waterloo, after a fairly interesting but odd Christmas where Kim and I tried to make mashed potatoes without measuring cups and then Rania tried to ignore me a basically be a bitch but whatevs, I got some books out of it from Kevin's mom, I traded a Linda Lael Miller for a Barbara Taylor Bradford, a Nora Roberts and a Fern Michaels :) And now I'm in Waterloo and while I'm the only girl volunteer (that's under 60), there was another one here but she had to leave because of a death in the family the day after she got here, it's still cool.

So sometime I'll figure out how to get to the next spot, but that's tomorrow's project. For today I'm just still semi-mad at Miranda who should have been here, and Sean who was supposed to give me a ride to Chapel Hill where I'm still dying to go since I miss everyone there and seriously want to go there at least for a little while to answer e-mails and relax and see Matt who I miss like crazy...

I miss my family, there's a big family reunion tomorrow and I won't be there for the first time ever but oh well? Nothing I can do about it from here and I am learning a lot. There's a new volunteer--its his first campaign and his first day and at the rally today with John Edwards and Danny Glover I made him get a picture with John Edwards :) Score :)

Everything else will work itself out?

bookworm82787 @ 2007-12-22T09:45:00

2007-12-22T15:52:28Z

Des Moines totally sucked majorly, supporter housing was a nightmare and I just wanted to go home. I told them they should never ever again use that supporter housing, it was SO BAD. I asked to go to Ames (since I have a friend there) but they sent me to Indianola instead, but I got a ride with a really sweet lady who's originally from Santa Monica and she gave me her phone number in case it gets bad again.

The Indianola office is pretty sweet. There's three guys and a girl and me (the only volunteer) and everyone's really friendly. Indianola has a different definition of "potato skins" but unlike Des Moines people the Indianola folks asked me what I wanted to eat. :) The Des Moines office got a bunch of pizza from the Steelworkers Union but volunteers had to sneak out to get it, even though there were 17 pizzas.

I'm staying in this very awesome housing with this super sweet older lady who's letting me use a spare room which has comfortable sheets and is really cozy. She made breakfast this morning and gave me a hug last night and is so incredibly nice. And did I mention incredibly nice?

I'm going to Waterloo on Christmas Day, but for now I'm content and safe which is two things I never felt in Des Moines :)

bookworm82787 @ 2007-12-20T00:37:00

2007-12-20T08:58:47Z

A little freaked that I'm waking up to go to Iowa in a few hours. I wish Miranda was coming with me but understand that she isn't. I'll figure it out, it'll just be very very cold while I do.. but at least I'm going to Chapel Hill afterwards where I'll have reliable work/housing etc. I find it a bit hard to think that dental emergencies come up THAT quickly but it could be true...

It was great to see everyone tonight :) Thanks so much for having the pizza night on the night I could make it :) I hope everyone has a good winter break :)

I had a great night and got some super comfy pajamas from my mom and a poem and hat from my dad along with some other stuff :)

I'm so glad finals are over, I'm so glad I'll sleep on the plane tomorrow. :)

I'll figure everything else out I swear :P

bookworm82787 @ 2007-12-18T19:01:00

2007-12-19T04:58:50Z

Packed? Check. Need to add toothbrush/toothpaste in the morning and then official check...

Ready for final? Not so much. Need to study tonight/review notes/call study buddy and ask list of questions.. Yay for it being NOT at 8 AM, and instead at the more logical time of 12:30 which is sad cause I get to Sacramento later but less sad cause I can study in the morning without waking up at 5 AM like I did for physics..

Yay for seeing Jenae/Jill in the past two days and hooray for pizza tomorrow :)

I can't wait til my final is over tomorrow, I want to enjoy the study-free happiness I keep hearing about but haven't yet truly experienced :)

Finally talked to the people in Iowa AGAIN, after three more calls and an emphasis that I'm getting there THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW and I DO NOT WANT TO WORRY ABOUT THIS TOMORROW, only to find out that instead of Waterloo I'll either be in Indianola or Ames. They don't know yet, but I should take a cab to the office and wait there. Oh, and they're shutting down two days for Christmas, but whatever.

At least I get to go to Chapel Hill afterwards :) I talked to the guy who's giving me a ride who says it shouldn't be an issue so yay :) I miss everyone. I miss the huge baked potatoes. I miss the pretty southern trees. :)

Now time to actually study........

bookworm82787 @ 2007-12-09T07:57:00

2007-12-09T17:02:01Z

I love Pauly (the intern director from Chapel Hill) but communication before 8 AM on a Sunday is too early. There was phonebanking yesterday that was all over e-mail which is okay, and basically the only way it's possible with finals insanity.

I leave on the 20th. And sometimes I just don't feel ready, especially when finals are insane and I just want a hug, and my mom's in Sacramento and my boyfriend's in Chapel Hill. My boyfriend who everyone said was going to be moved to Iowa probably isn't, because life is insane that way, so I'm here in California and he's far away without really knowing what's going to happen. Because god bless politics, or something. Just. Don't. Know. And I hate that because I'm such a control freak, and because it's been two months since I was in Chapel Hill and saw him and it's hard to keep fighting.

I lost my camera and used some Christmas money to buy myself a new one, I get paid as soon as I pick up my paycheck tomorrow sooooo I'll figure it out. Now I just have to take myself to Emeryville to go pick it up, which is good sort of because I get a lot of reading done sitting in buses, and it means taking BART to MacArthur and then the amazing Emery Go Round.

I'm frazzled and it's not helping the whole need to do school work thing, which I really need to do. I have a 5 page outline due tomorrow with a presentation I should really practice before I present it to my class tomorrow afternoon.

I'll figure everything out eventually but in the meantime I just want a hug.

The Magazine is Out!

2007-11-29T18:20:01Z

http://www.californiacollegedems.com/cdems/

The Margin. My Life. Love It :D

12, 13, 15, 17, 18, 20, 21, 22, 23

2007-11-20T07:08:53Z

Because Jessica is awesome like that and because I really am good without bad luck

Once you open this, you have ten minutes to repost with the ONE number that fits you best, or you will be single for the next five years.

0.......Ugly
1.......Single, and couldn’t care less
2.......Heartbroken.
3.......Single and hating it
4.......Want to tell someone you like them.
5.......Crushing.
6.......Like someone you can probably, never, have.
7.......EATING ANIMAL CRACKERS FOR DINNER.
8.......Taken by the best girl ever.
9.......Missing her.
10.....Imma Ten.
11.....Single but my heart is taken
12.....Like totally HOT
13.....Sick of getting (being) hurt.
14.....Its whatever
15.....Confused.
16.....Still love your ex.
17.....Talking to someone.
18.....Afraid to say i love you
19.....I am just a power ranger.
20.....Slightly mad at the opposite sex.
21.....I’m a fighter
22.....Just don’t know what to do.
23.....Taken by the best guy ever
24.....I hate white people
25.....Just single and waiting for the right person to come along.
26.....Found a quarter yesterday!
27.....Im a Ninja turtle!!!
28.....(V.I.P’S only!) iM a NiNjA dAnCeR!!!!!!!
29.....Over girl/boy friends now just want 2 fuck girls/guys
30.....Im a dinosaur rawwrrr

repost this as - - I am #___

Life's too complex for silly chain letters to comprehend.

Yay Lake Tahoe

2007-11-10T15:40:38Z

It's almost sort of funny how beyond exhausted I am and yet it's 6:45 and I can't sleep. Grrrrrrrrr.

I worked hard on the publication and registration all week, earning me stress and exhaustion but I got cheered for a couple of times at the meeting last night so there you go? The overall publication response is a positive one.

After a rocky start with some MLYDAA who were annoying at the beginning it worked into a give and take of mutually ignoring each other throughout the evening which is fine with me actually. I think of all the nights Thursday's going to work out to be my favorite, after a fundraiser in SF where I got to help raise money for a Stonewall Young Democrats group in SF and talk to many cute gay boys who were totally friendly AND polite (and still guys, imagine that?) my friend (who's 28) got us into a bar across the street and I hung out with some of my best friends in CYD who I didn't have to worry about drinking a martini and vodka and cranberry and then driving to Berkeley and then Sacramento and then Tahoe.

After Thursday afternoon where we realized at 3:30 that the publication wasn't printed and basically I was running around downtown Berkeley trying to find Kinkos (who's color copier was broken), and then other copy shops before remembering that my mom could get the password off my e-mail and print it and then rushing to the fundraiser like a crazy person, I'm rightfully tired.

After a fun Thursday night we got to Tahoe at 5 AM and because I am a crazy person who cannot sleep I woke up at 7 AM and started making reg packets and went to bed at 2 AM and woke up at 6 AM not able to sleep and here you go. Weekends are far more fun when I'm not actually in charge of something, and it's not my job to figure out if you've ACTUALLY paid or just think you have. Volunteering is easy, this should be understandable to most people but really really isn't. If they don't need anything done at E-board go and enjoy and try to learn something, same with trainings. Mostly it just forces you to go and network already which is something you should already be doing.

I've been slightly creeping people out by figuring out their first name and club and telling them their last name. I've looked at the information WAY too many times, and I've been a facebook stalker recently so I also probably know their pictures, and where they look best. Ryan's sister Caily went to Del Campo, and is friends with a bunch of my friends from middle school, which I knew but she didn't, etc.

It's gorgeous here but because I was in a total rush to leave I forgot a coat, socks, closed toed shoes, a toothbrush, toothpaste, etc which is annoying on all kinds of levels.

I like the networking. I like my friends here, even though I forgot that some of them are boys that I typically flirt with but now don't due to the fact that I have a boyfriend, who even though he lives far far away I actually miss and care about and have no real desire to cheat on because I am probably sillily noble like that? I like the resort, it's crazy beautiful here, and the trainings today should be good except that I helped plan most of them so I know most of the info. I'm leading a chapter coaching at lunchtime, which is sort of fun, though I'm not totally sure what I'm going to talk to UCSC about. I have some issues with their former president, and her telling people it's okay to call me at 11 at night to get a quote for a press release. With any luck and some crossed fingers I'll get some time this morning to get a FULL ACTUAL MEAL which I haven't gotten in a little while, and head to Rite Aid for diet pepsi, a toothbrush, toothpaste and some socks. *crosses fingers* Oh, and some time to find my camera, which is around here...somewhere, and WHEN I find it it will be attached to my keyring forevermore.

I'm happy here just beyond exhausted in almost every sense of the word. :P

Dreams

2007-11-02T16:24:10Z

So...... I hate waking up from real dreams and wondering if they happened or not.

Basically the next time I get to see Matt is winter break, because apparently I like to torture myself in long-distance relationships like that.

That said, I'm busy almost every weekend until then anyway sooooooooooo.....

I love Fridays, though today is unfortunate cause I actually have to get a bunch of stuff namely cleaning my apartment, going to Target, and getting a recycle bin, and figuring out how to drag it home. And homework cause the publication is ALMOST OUT and I only have ONE MORE ARTICLE to write.

Sleeping in....so amazing....

YAY

2007-10-10T18:16:30Z

I'm a declared political science major!!!! :)

I got to the "declaration session" super super early because I'm crazy like that and after an hour of hearing about things that mostly don't apply to me because I'm NOT a graduating senior who forgot to declare and NOT going to study abroad or try to spend a summer in Sacramento AND I actually have my stuff together, I turned in my pretty pretty forms and have my own "folder" and am DECLARED.

And I'm crazy happy about my cold being mostly gone except for some occassional sneezes.

AND NORTH CAROLINA TOMORROW :D :D :D :D :D :D :D

bookworm82787 @ 2007-10-08T08:24:00

2007-10-08T15:31:27Z

I like a lot of things about college. Independence, freedom, etc.

I feel like crap. I'm sneezing and coughing and achy and generally feel like crap and I don't want to be in college at this moment, I just want my mom.

I've been waiting to go to North Carolina for months. If I'm still sick tomorrow I'm going to scream at something.

Work is all about exercise, climbing shelves and moving far too much for my current state to handle, which I love generally. If I had a nice office job as work I could do this, but I just want some rest, and I have far too much CYD stuff/crap to do.

Goshdarnit I'm sneezy and sick and I want my mom. I hate having to personally evaluate things. I need the money from work.

Yay!

2007-08-16T12:22:25Z

I come home in a week :)

bookworm82787 @ 2007-07-08T12:09:00

2007-07-08T16:33:50Z

I made it. I've been awake for a very long time now, partially due to a baby on the plane that cried ALL the way from Colorado through Tennessee (a couple of hours)...

The apartment is nifty, my landlord picked me up at the airport and gave me a hug which was a little odd but whatever. She's nice, and the only person I know on the east coast...

Welcome to the smallest town ever, I feel very UN at home because everyone else looks so AT home. I pretty much want to start work, but I have a whole day to kill today and a whole day to kill tomorrow and then a few hours before orientation at 10:30 am.

There's a grocery store, in the sense that it's basically a Trader's with Trader's prices. So I need shampoo and conditioner which instead of being normally priced are about a trillion dollars. Also, there's no diet coke which is a problem. It'd be great if it was a big enough area of town to have a pharmacy, and yet... I want gluten. I want transfats. I want taste and cheaper prices :/

Aka: North Carolina is entertaining. More stories to come.

bookworm82787 @ 2007-07-07T18:50:00

2007-07-08T02:13:46Z

Still crazy amounts of freaked out about leaving to go to the airport in an hour...

I disliked saying goodbye to people, even CYD people most of whom I'll be seeing in ten days anyway for the YDA Dallas Convention.

Keep in touch people :) I'll miss you. :(

bookworm82787 @ 2007-07-04T10:07:00

2007-07-04T17:58:25Z

This week has gone by crazy fast.

Risk is amazing. I love the strategy of it, and getting fortifying only to attack a country you have almost no chance winning against.

I like being at home to, a whole refrigerator and freezer and pantry that is full of yummy food with teh yummy tomatoes that I usually don't buy for myself. My room is a total mess, but I love having Mango and my family around.

I've gotten to see my dad, Debra, and spent a day with my mom where we just talked, had a massage and went to the mall which was fun basically making fun of everything... I love playing Risk with everyone, and its nice to be able to go off to hang out with Jill on a few moment's notice too. Transformers was entertaining to be sure.

I'm looking forward to my internship, though leaving is going to be hard.

Happy Fourth of July everyone. :)

bookworm82787 @ 2007-07-01T07:32:00

2007-07-01T14:53:40Z

I am...

Officially done with my summer school class after having finished my eight page paper in a few hours, expanding on EVERYTHING to get it to that length.

Moved out of Berkeley and BACK in Sacramento until 10:27 on Saturday night when my flight takes off for the Raleigh-Durham Airport in North Carolina.

More at peace with my family. I spent all day yesterday at the reservation and took a hike in the hills near the house where four generations of my family have lived, and then went to an INCREDIBLE half-hour fireworks show at a powwow at Pechanga that night. I get back to Sacramento tonight and I'm actually glad I came.

Happy.

bookworm82787 @ 2007-06-27T23:07:00

2007-06-28T06:32:00Z

I still need to write an eight page paper for my summer school class and then I am basically done with it... There's one more day of class and me feeling evil for not being able to control being half and half.

I hang out with CYD people a lot, we marched in the Gay Pride Parade for Carole Migden (SF Senator who's running for reelection...) It was kind of awesome and crazy at the same time.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/telstar/615614640/

I am going to the "rez" (reservation where my family's from down south near Riverside) this weekend, until Sunday, and then I'll be home til the following Saturday when I leave yay for Chapel Hill.

I have no idea if I'm apprehensive/scared etc for Chapel Hill, life's been crazy busy so I really haven't had time to think about it, I figure I'll leave and that'll happen and that'll be that. And a week and a half later is a convention in Dallas where I'll see a ton of people I know anyway, and then the week after that is a convention in South Carolina where I get to hang out with similar people. I have housing, I have two days there before I have to start work and I'll figure everything else out I swear.

I sent out fundraising letters so other people can help me pay for Chapel HIll (since its entirely voluntary) and some people are actually helping me out which is nifty. I like rent. Rent is awesome. Food is good too. South Carolina is basically paid for, and I'm getting help for Dallas but other stuff is up in the air.

...That's kind of my life at the moment. I'm the editor for the CYD magazine we're starting, I'm the new Food Committee Chair for the UC Berkeley Relay for Life, I'm leaving in like ten days for North Carolina for two months, I need to go see my grandparents (my Grandpa is better and now home, my Grandma Molly is better but still in ICU for awhile...), I need to pack, pay rent, etc, spend time with my family some, write my paper, etc and so much other random stuff on my list including spending time with all of you people which would be nifty before I leave for like..the rest of the summer...

I like being busy if that wasn't obvious... :P At some point its on my list to relax, its just too far down to get to. :P