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Friday, January 30, 2004

NEED HELP


Ok - so I'm designing a record company web site for my web design class - but I can't think of any good names for the fake company. It's probably going to be a site for alternative music - but I might also do a site for jazz.

I know you all are creative - so any suggestions will be helpful (serious suggestions only please).

Thanks!!!

Had to brag...


Ok - I rarely think it's "kosher" to brag about how well I did on an assignment or a project (at least to non-family members) - but when a professor puts a post-it note to my project that says this:

(actual post-it note)



....I feel that it's not only my right, but my duty to brag. How often does that happen?!

Day 6 Challenge


(posting a day late...)

"Today write the opening sentence of your debut novel"


Here's a go:

Perhaps it’s the fact that I haven’t had a consistent temperature shower in over 3 months (I think my neighbors get off on the shrieks they hear when I’m briefly scalded or frozen each morning)…perhaps it’s the nightly faithful, drunken, hoarking episode of the man across from my living room window (I can’t tell if he’s vomiting, or masturbating) …perhaps it’s the weekly 7:30am, frantic ringing at my doorbell, after stumbling my way, frightened to see what disaster lies outside my door, only to open it to a man shoving fruit and tamales in my face (with a smell so potent it makes me feel like I have morning sickness)…perhaps it’s a combination of all of the above that finally led me to that desperate, decrepit, lonely place…the La Macarena Inn on Main St…the place where my life changed, and my story begins.

Thursday, January 29, 2004

The truth in every person's knowledge is that they really don't know a thing. The more "knowledge full" a human being is, is directly related to and dictated by how great of a bullshitter they've become. So maybe knowledge is really the art of being able to bullshit your way through life and its little events...I don't know, this is all just bullshit anyways.


Knowledge, which is the highest degree of the speculative faculties, consists in the perception of the truth of affirmative or negative propositions. --Locke.

Go Locke!

Wednesday, January 28, 2004

Day 5 Update - Successful!!!



I went around to various bathrooms at school (it's the only place that I could really get away with it - security and such). I wanted to post some on the payphones - but by the time I had some free time, there were way too many students and security guards around - I figured it was better to just keep it to the bathrooms....although...I'm sure that the people in the area watching me go in and out of the bathrooms might have thought that was a little strange.
Here are a couple of photos:

Bathroom stall: ____________ Hand Dryer___________ Tampon Dispenser:



Enjoy - I did.

Day 5 Challenge



Out of OrderMass Social Experiment - Cut out and stick this sign on any item of public infrastructure you might encounter today, including, but not limited to: elevators, garbage trucks, cranes, phone booths, toilets, ventilation units, escalators, entrances to subway stations. The aim is to achieve comprehensive social breakdown across the US.

This is going to be fun!!!

I had a dream that infectious, white rats were taking over the city through cloths left on the floor - when the rats got to your legs, they had this ability to attach on, and then morph inside of your body - essentially turning you into a zombie, rat puppet.

I looked up rats in my Dream Encyclopedia:

Rats: Rats are often associated with the decaying conditions of poverty or illness. Dreams of rats can also indicate need to take some time out from the "rat race".

Great - so I'm either completely broke, dying or overworked - that's helpful...tell me something I didn't know!!!

Day 4 Challenge



Ok, so the challenge was to color in this map according to where you've been, want to go, etc:

Green = "Been there, done that"
Blue = "Intend to go there this year"
Yellow = "Intend to go there some time before I die"
Red = Happy never to set foot there in my whole life"

The results are as follows:


It would be interesting to see a few years down the road how some of this might have changed.

I'm frickin tired - g'nite.

Day 3 Challenge Update



Ok - so the day 3 Challenge is something I actually like - I wound up throwing away a few things that I liked, but they were either torn, old or whatever. In total, I threw away:

- 7 bottles of lotion
- an old suitcase
- a pair of pajama bottoms
- some food items

So that's not too bad. :) I think I should impliment this challenge once a week - and make it mandatory that I throw something away (or start my own e-bay business) - I definitely have too much crap!!!

Monday, January 26, 2004

Day 3 Challenge



Throw something away that you like day....

Hmmm - seeing as how the day is almost at an end, I figure I better start searching for stuff now...I'll post the results soon.

On a side note - I've decided that I'm giving up my crazy schedule, and I'm dropping out of history (yet again). The 11 hour school days has been wearing on me - and the amount of reading, studying and projects that I have for my classes has made me feel like I'm literally suffocating. So, I've decided for my health that I'm ditching the class - and I'll take it next semester (with the same prof who's AWESOME!!!) I love the class - it's just too much...so maybe I'll apply that to my "throw away something you like day" challenge - hmmmm - naw, that's too easy (and nobody would really believe that I actually like History anyways - but I really do - hee hee).

I feel free now. :)

Day 2 Challenge - failed miserably



Well - like it says above - Day 2 really didn't go all that well. The closest I got to actually working on this challenge was running through a list of guys that I know and thinking which ones of them could possibly even spark me...nothing. Don't get my wrong - my male friends are, more often than not, really attractive - I just can't really imagine them being anything but friends....blegh. So, No Mr. Koo Koo Roo proposals or sudden lesbian tendencies - all in all - I think that challenge sucked.

Sunday, January 25, 2004

Day 2 Challenge


The Love of Your Life

Today, gaze at everyone wondering whether they might be the one true love of your life, the one destined for you and you alone, and whether you might be passing them by forever...act in consequence.

Ok - this one might be a little interesting - considering I'm staying home all day to study. My friend Tova is coming over later (ummm...let's not go there with the love of my life - she's a great friend, but I just don't swing that way) - but I think we're going to go to Koo Koo Roo for lunch - maybe I'll find my true love there.

Day 1...completed


Ok - so I completed the following tasks from the Day 1 Challenge:

3. Triple-tie your shoelaces. - This was actually very beneficial for going out dancing last night - I didn't have to tie my shoes once!!!

7. Set all your clocks to exactly the right time - There's something comforting about not having to look at 3 clocks and then get the mean to figure out the time.

8. Whisper a white lie when no one's listening. - There was this dance couple on the floor last night, before anyone really started dancing - we named the woman "chicken dancer" - because she had this *ahem* interesting way of flapping her arms around like a chicken (I'm not even going to go there with the guy in leather pants...Mac does a killer impression - ask him to perform it for you some time.) Anyways - I leaned over the balcony and whispered that they were the best dancers in the club - hee hee - and then I giggled to myself.

12. Hold the phone up to your other ear. - This proved very difficult while driving my stick and holding the phone to the right ear...next time I'll have to rethink that.

13. Tell someone your middle name. - I already told you...It's René

16. Bookmark a new website. - Eric Conveys and Emotion

19. Insult an insect. - Please look below...

20. Go on a one-minute hunger strike. - Please look below again...

Definitely was an interesting day - I enjoyed myself.

Saturday, January 24, 2004

spiderI would like to officially announce that this spider dwelling in my home (whom I've named "Fugly") is a lazy, ugly, murdering bastard who uses people for anything he can get. Fugly - get ready to check out of Casa Del Teri - cause the bottom of my shoe is coming for you!

Check #19

This Book Will Change Your LifeRealizing that the mundane daily task of going to school and studying, might be leaving me a little "boring" these days, I decided to pick up the book: This Book Will Change Your Life, by Benrik
(for those of you who don't want to spend up to $18 on this book, you can check out the Web Site with similar ideas and such.
Anyways, I've decided that instead of praising how cool this book is to all of my friends, while I secretly allow it to collect dust on my bookshelf, that I'm actually going to pull it out and try some things in it:

Day 1


Choose one of the following options:
1. Do one press-up.
2. Perform a striptease (in private).
3. Triple-tie your shoelaces.
4. Learn to play "chopsticks" on the piano. - Already know how to do this
5. Increase your typing speed by three words per minute.
6. Jaywalk in a pedestrian zone.
7. Set all your clocks to exactly the right time - I should do this anyways
8. Whisper a white lie when no one's listening.
9. Fantasize about your partner. - No partner, so I think that rules this one out
10. Use a different thickness comb.
11. Say "yo" instead of "hello".
12. Hold the phone up to your other ear.
13. Tell someone your middle name. It's René
14. Try a new sandwich filling.
15. Leave work five minutes early.
16. Bookmark a new website.
17. Give your genitalia pet names.
18. Decide which one of your toes is the prettiest.
19. Insult an insect.
20. Go on a one-minute hunger strike. Starting now........

Ok - so those are my choices - I think I'll try to do a few of them versus only 1 - I know they say to start out slow and pick one - but that seems just way too easy. I'll report back and let you know how they went today. 30 seconds...........
Hmmmmm...what can I talk about for 30 seconds....

Hmmmm.....well, the nice thing about a minute hunger strike...is that it's really not that hard to avoid getting "hungry" 45 seconds

*tummy rumble* - HEY...ok, so maybe there's something about just being on a hunger strike that makes you hungry....55 seconds

*biting nails* - FOOOOOOOOOOOOOD...I need foooooooood!!!
60 seconds *DING*

Yeah - ok, that wasn't so bad - I'm off to eat a steak...maybe I can find some ants to yell at while I'm bbqing.

I had a strange dream last night. I drempt that I was eating dinner with my mother at this lovely restaurant (somewhere in Fake Los Angeles). Suddenly, someone I know (who's represented to look like someone else in my dream), comes by our table and sneakily steals a bottle of Drambuie that we had bought for later, and winks at me. Obviously, nobody else in the restaurant notices, and no one seems to care when I say that he's stolen the bottle - so I tell my mother I'll be right back, and I streak out of the restaurant after him. Noticing that I'm barefoot, after I've been running across huge streets and up stairs near a freeway, luckily my feet don't seem to get cut or hurt at all. I realize that I recognize the area that I'm following him to, so I decide to call up one of my friends who lives up there. I ask him if the guy who stole from me lives with him, and he said yes - so then I tell him what happened and said that I'll be at his apartment soon. Eventually after winding through some fairly interesting areas (one in particular, right near my friends apartment, that resembles a Mardi Gras - but in an area compiled of mostly stairs and bridges (very French looking)). Anyways - I finally make it up to my friend's apartment, and the guy is there - I confront him, and everyone starts looking at me like I'm crazy, and that I have no business being angry with him. He finally admits that he's taken the bottle, but everyone there has already consumed it - so I demand he pays me $20 for it. He rushes back to his bedroom, and comes out holding a $10 - I tell him it's not a $20 - so he goes back again, this time he comes out with a $1 bill. This goes on for about 6 times where he keeps bringing the wrong bill out to me - and I finally stop and practically start to cry, and ask him why he's doing this to me. And then tell him that my poor mother is waiting alone at a restaurant, and has no idea if I'm alright or what's going on....this seems to strike a nerve in him, so (after I already have a $10 in my hand) he pulls out another $10 bill and I take off running through the madness of the Mardi Gras, back down the eternal stairs and past the freeway... I woke up before I reached my mother at the restaurant - but the whole dream left me with this strange feeling. A little empty inside - and feeling like I don't really have people's support at the moment. Hmmm - strange how a dream can do that.

Friday, January 23, 2004

It's been a while since I've posted here...and frankly, I shouldn't be posting now with all the work that I have to get done. It's been an insane semester at school - I'm taking 9 units this winter - which is essentially like taking 27 units a regular semester. I love all of my classes, but the workload has left me feeling a little "spread thin". However, I'm trying to embrace it, and realize that I've already completed half of the semester - only 3 more weeks to go I keep telling myself.

My mother, sister and I have all postponed Christmas - it's become almost funny how many weekends we've pushed this thing off - last year is was March before we celebrated - my friends started making comments about me having my plastic Christmas tree up a little past it's prime....they're already starting to make jokes again.

Well - I have 140 pages to read this weekend, plus a couple of projects due. When I look at all that I have to do, I get this hot feeling in my stomach - and my legs get clammy - this can't be healthy. Only 3 more weeks...that's what I'll keep telling myself...