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What is the point of having a weblog, if you don't fucking use it?! It's the first day of school, and finally, I have time to sit down and write something. I really do hate writing, but I like talking. Isn't that
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As you can probably tell, I don't have the pictures up from Sabrina's wedding yet. I swear, I took like 8 vacations this summer, not to mention random jaunts to Cali and various other close sights. I told Jeff I was going to get the pictures on disk and send them to him, but I don't have his new address. Didn't you and Julie move recently? If you are reading this, send me an email with you new address, and I really will send you those photos. Promise. :D
I am so inspired by school this year. Last year I was way less enthused to be heading back to school, but I feel really good about this semester. I'm taking 3 classes. Astronomy 104: Stars and Galaxies; Psychology 270: Psychology through film; and Chemistry 122: Which doesn't have an interesting title so I won't bother. ;) One of the huge things that I did this summer was go and visit my college of choice that I'm planning on transferring to next fall. Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff, AZ will be my home for 2 years (on and off, of course). It's taken me so long to freakin finish school. I guess I had to find myself along the way. I guess most people save that for their mid-life crisis: NOT ME! I had my mid 20 something crisis, and now, I'm ready to face the world. You wouldn't believe how many people my age put off their emotional well-being by drowning themselves in school, work, bad relationships, and the like, and wonder how they can be so unhappy even though they have their college degree. I'm not saying that my way is better, I'm saying that it was better for me. I don't think I would have been able to handle real college right out of high school or even 3 years out of high school. Or even 5 years out of high school.... YIKES!
Speaking of High School, It's been roughly 6 years since we all graduated! :O That is insane. The time passes so quickly. It's funny, but people still look the same to me. Tara and Bootie came to Vega$ last week, and it was just like old times. We attached crab arms to Jean-Luc Picard and acted like dorks. It feels good to laugh like that. When I was considering Universities, I was considering moving back to Edmonton and going to U of A. I was really contemplating it. But it's too far away, and the opportunities for advancement in my field are much greater here in the USA, so the idea was quashed. Plus, U of A charges a million dollars more than the college I'm currently attending, so why not just stay here.
This totally cheered up my semester! I got a scholarship for $1500! It's called the "John Glenn Scholarship" (for those of you that don't know, he was the first astronaut to orbit around the earth). $1500 doesn't sound like alot, but it will pay my way for the rest of my time here in Vegas. It covers books and tuition, so I can get all the books that are recommended not just required! Yes, I am a geek. I actually felt like a geek when in my Astronomy class today my teacher asked if anyone owned a telescope, and I was the only one who put up my hand. Then he asked a little while later if anyone was an Astronomy major. You guessed it, I was the only one. DIEPPE. Oh well, if you are a geek in the Astronomy/Phyiscs field and you don't know what a dilithium crystal is, you're really screwed. Sometimes, I really do feel like the comic book guy from the Simpsons. Biggest. Geek. Ever.
Speaking of Star Trek, the convention was fun. Our Vircon Vega$ group met up from the Trek BBS and we had wild and zany times. The action figures were a little much at times, but it was all in good fun. Seeing everone again was really cool too. God knows when I'll have the pictures up from that little event.
Brandon and I celebrated our one year aniv. in San Diego. We decided to drive to Victorville Friday night, and then the rest of the way on Saturday morning. If it weren't for the assholes that were partying in the room next to us, we would have been on the road at like 9am. I swear, how lame is it for people in Cali to be partying at a Motel 6 at 4am? LOSERS. The funny part was, that they were the type who would look like they'd get in at the VIP or something at an upscale club. They finally toned it down when for the third time they were asked by me( the first two times, the front desk lady came up to tell them to quiet down) with my crazy morning hair, no bra and racoon mascarra eyes, to please quiet it down because we had to drive in the morning. They really did shut up. I must have looked really bad. Or seemed really pissed off. On Saturday, we went to see his Uncle Steve (not to be confused with my Uncle Steve) and his Aunt Francine. They were really nice, and in the best tradition of family, put us to work in his front yard. :) He was cutting down some trees, and we conveniently arrived at the moment when he started his clean up. It was all good, yo. Then we went to meet his cousin Tim who was working at the local YMCA skate park. I was in "shock and awe" when Brandon was offered a skate board and took off on it wearing shorts, sandals and no helmet. He was all over that place. Considering he hasn't really ever skated in a hard-core skate park before and hasn't even been seriously on a skateboard for about 6 or 7 years, he picked it right up. I was amazed. We then left and went back to talk to Francine for a while, then left to check out the sunset. We went to the Pacific Beach Pier (or the other one, with the Motel rooms on the pier and watched the sun slowly get sucked into the ocean. It was one of the coolest things I have ever seen. I place that with the time that the northern lights exploded in the sky above us one summer day in Edmonton, with purples, yellows, greens, reds. It was as cool as that. We then checked into our hotel. We stayed at the Gaslamp Plaza Suits in Downtown San Diego. It was a nice hotel. It was originally an office building build in 1913, but just recently converted into a hotel. The view from the roof was really cool. We then ventured out to the Hard Rock Cafe for dinner and drinks, and then made our way back to the hotel for some really amazing sex. Didn't think I was going to write that, did you! HA, here in Dee's World expect the unexpected! The next day we tried to get on to one of the aircraft carriers, but there were no tours that day. BOO. So we went and spent the day at the San Diego Zoo. We watched bears pee, giraffes pee in each others mouths and give the metal pole inside the cage head. I was expecting to see some monkey's humping or something, but that didn't happen. The rhino came really close though, and you have to be careful. Rhinos can pee up to 20 feed directly behind them. The elephants were burping for almost a whole minute, and Brandon and I were like two kids, cracking up the whole time. We then left the park and stopped at the Whole Foods to get dinner and drove home. I drove and we made it home in 5 hours. That's pretty good coming from San Diego. Then I slept the whole next day. Mmmmmmmm....sleep. So that was my trip to San Diego.
We've been having alot of thunderstorm here lately. We had a pretty bad flood a couple of weeks ago. My area of town wasn't affected, but the city of Las Vega$ did have to declare a state of emergency to get funds to help clean up the mess from the areas that were affected. The weather here has been really strange. I can't remeber out of the 5 summers that I've been here, of seeing so much rain and storms. Not that I'm complaining, I love the rain, and storms are scary/exciting, so bring it on!
The new season of Enterprise is starting, and I was really excited about this new direction it's taking. Until I saw T'Pol's new catsuit. What was wrong with her old one? Why change a good thing? The new one is red. RED! RED! To make matters worse, it looks velour. Like she went to Gap Body while they were docked at Earth and picked up some new sleep wear. She does not match any of the cast, and she seems totally out of place. I guess I'll watch, try to give this new look a chance. I just hope they have her give some sort of explanation for the obvious change in threads. I'm just wincing thinking about it. :(
Well, I guess I've done enough catching up for one night. I really will try to write more, even if I'm the only one listening. To those of you who actually got through that whole post, I commend you.
Love TOX