Went to Huntington Beach today for a "bonfire" which started out not very well organized and turned out pretty well. We started out not having food, firewood or anything to do there and we ended up with stolen firewood from the back of an Albertson's, some chips and 2-liter bottles of Cherry 7-Up and still nothing to do. But its okay, because we "enjoyed each others company" so to say. Better than staying home for sure.

I really ought to sleep earlier. When I stay up late at night, I end up doing things I regret. Almost always I regret what I do the night before. Good thing that most of the time that I stay up I'm at home and I can't do anything really embarassing or harmful. During spring break I've been making purchases on eBay. While my purchases are not outrageous and I'm not overbidding the value of the thing, I find that when I wake up in the morning I think to myself "I don't really need that..."

Things I Like: #3 The smell of rain.

Nelly f/ St. Lunatics - Batter Up

Second spring break post. Bleh.

I was going through some of my old stuff while "spring cleaning" seeing as how its "spring" break and all. And because I have nothing better to do. But lets just say I wanted to clean up and I wasn't doing so due to boredom. At any rate, I was reading some of the stuff I wrote, my journal's from earlier and other school work I did in my early high school years. It really seemed like I had a lot more fun then, and reading through my journal I can almost pinpoint where my life began to spin out of control to where it is now. Not the crappy grades and lazy attitude I mean, but my mental health. And not really "out of control" because I'm still in some control, but I know when I became what I am now. But I don't want to talk about that here anyways, a bit too personal.

In reading through my old stuff, I came across some letters and stuff too that I exchanged with people back then, a few years ago. It would seem that I had more (and better) friends overall back then. I mean I've got friends now, but I guess I was more social back then. Now, not so much. College hasn't been the paradise I expected. My grades aren't horrible because school is pretty easy, so thats cool (I got a 3.36 Winter Quarter) but what Animal House and all those television shows and movies about college have told me about what college will be like. Sure, its only been a few months in freshman year, but it just hasn't been cool. But thats probably just me. As far as the friends thing goes, I keep thinking that the good friends that I did try to keep aren't really all that great. Not that the people themselves aren't good people, they are, but its just that I'm no longer good friends with them and the people who I'm no longer really trying to be friends with any more are the people who I should've tried to be good friends with in the first place. Or maybe I'm just bitter... yeah, its probably that.

Things I like: #2 When you wake up in the morning (or any time) and you get out of bed and you stretch out and like half of your joints/bones crack, that feels really really good

Sam Cooke - Wonderful World Its the Animal House song that goes "Don't know much about history, don't know much biology..." etc.

Time to update again! w00t!

Its spring break for me and most UC students and so far all I've done is stay at home. I did go watch Resident Evil. It was pretty good actually, considering all I wanted to see was some zombie ass-whooping and a hot girl doing it, I was very pleased. Good action, some good suspense/terror and all around a good waste of 2 hours of my life. I suppose I'll be doing mostly the same things that everybody is doing this spring break, going job hunting and fooling around due to a lack of schoolwork, lucky us.

At the end of the school year after finals, my hall at UCR decided to take a trip to Las Vegas on a whim. It turned out that we did nothing at all there. We spent the night in this shitty hotel called Tam O'Shanter. It cost me almost $60 smakeroos but at least it was on the strip (across from Treasure Island). When we arrived in Vegas in the afternoon, we walked the strip to find a "cheap" buffet, but as most people know there are no "cheap" buffets, not under $10 bucks anyways. Its not as though its not worth paying $11.95 for shrimp and steak, especially at Bellagio or some other fancy hotel. At any rate, we ended up eating Panda Express, which while very tasty, wasn't what I expected from Las Vegas. Then we went to sleep, woke up around 11:00pm, did nothing while getting the car which we parked on another part of the strip and went back to the hotel. Since nobody seemed to want to even walk around, I took a walk around 2:30am and played some arcade, chatted up with some security guards and explored some hotels on my own. Let me tell you now, Las Vegas is quite unlike New York City. It is not the city that never sleeps. By 3:30 the only people out on the streets and in the casinos numbered less than 300 people. The number on the streets, not including taxis and cars could fit into my dormroom. So a boring night ensued, needless to say. We then returned from Vegas, making a stop at the Calico Ghost Town and Barstow. All in all, I'd have to say that this road trip, while more entertaning than a night at the dorms, considering all the money spent and the fun factor of both, I'd take a night at the dorms over this.

This road trip experience has merely cheapened Las Vegas for me. Sure, Las Vegas isn't really cool unless you're 21, but still, the fact that I just picked up and went to Vegas, did nothing and came back just cheapened the idea of going to Las Vegas. Before this, Las Vegas was something you planned for. And not planning for it, while it seems interesting and spontaneous, resulted in getting a crappy hotel... no, motel room that only had basic channels (plus ESPN and CNN) and no remote control. The next time I goto Vegas I want to have stuff to do, or maybe go with people who are willing to just browse and hang out with the people you are there with, rather than re-enact a night at the dormitories in Las Vegas by sleeping and not doing anything. And the next time I go on a road trip, I expect people to have their money and for the road trip to have a focused point, even if its as stupid as "I want to see what the Grand Canyon looks like." I'll have more articulated thoughts about this later, probably.

Oh, and in addtion to my listing the MP3 that I'm listening to, I will now list something that I like about life, in an effort to lighten up my life, after every post (so hopefully I'll have lots of posts).

#1 The feeling of hot plates at a buffet line. Not just warm, like when they are almost hot enough to burn you, and you pick them up, they feel good. Unless you're using the plate for salad, then that sucks.

American Hi-Fi - Another Perfect Day

What is your meaning of life?

Gee, now that its been my longest drought since my last update, I guess I'll start updating again.

The Good:
- English class was cancelled today! Apparently my teacher was sick. This is good for me because I didn't write a rough draft that I had all weekend to write. And also! I get to register for classes pretty early, compared to most of the freshmen that I know, this Thursday in fact.
- I went to Six Flags Magic Mountain on Saturday. It was very fun. Goliath was kickass as usual. Colussus, a classic too. I could've rode that one all night. Up and down... up and down... up and down... ahem. The other rides were cool too. Too bad Deja Vu was closed. I've also found that the Roasted Corn that they sell there for $3.50 a pop is the best food in the park. Its in "Gotham City" if you're interested.
- I'm gonna go to the Pop Disaster Tour and get to see Green Day, Blink 182 and last but not least, Jimmy Eat World. And sure, some people say that Blink is a sell-out. Yada yada, they're still cool. And the more teeny-bopppers that like them? All the better for me, since most of them look like this anyways.

The Bad.
- Apparently I'm not immune enough to Hepatitis B enough to register for the spring quarter of classes.
- The other new ride at Magic Mountain, "X" was really good, but I don't know if it was worth the wait. If the wait were maybe an hour shorter, then hands-down, that would be the best ride at the park, however, its flippy turning, lie on your back and face the ground drops weren't quite worth its push and shove, stand in-line without moving for 15 minutes at a time, freezing my ass off temperatures 2 and 1/2 hour wait for the ride.
- TicketMaster is going to make me bend over and take it up the ass in surcharges for those Pop Disaster Tour tickets.

The Ugly
- In fact, I'm too immunized for Hepatitis B. I'm halfway through my second set of immunizations for Hepatitis B. The hospital lost my records of the first immunization so I started getting it again, not sure what that means for my health, being overly immunized and all, I mean isn't an immunization an injection of a weak version of the virus, so my white blood cells can get the antibodies? But now I've got too much? Oh well.
- My lips are chapped on account of the shivering bottom lip cold temperatures at Six Flags.
- In addition to the ass raping from ticketmaster that I'm receiving. I have no money in my bank account. Both checking and savings accounts of mine together don't even total $45, before buying the tickets and paying this month's $70 American Express bill.

Master P - Oooohhhweee