Nine Fifty Five...
New PR today in the 1.5 mile, pretty exciting stuff there. Of course tomorrow I'm going to try to run a 10k as a part of the Relay for Life, so that should be interesting, twenty five laps is a lot.
Oh right, I'm down in LA, went to see another of my sister's plays tonight, and tomorrow I'm doing the twenty four hour relay thing with my whole family and some of our friends. Should be interesting.
Took three hours to get here, which sucked, but I was ecstatic to see they finished the road work in Oxnard, so Highway 1 wasn't detoured anymore. Since I saved time I decided to stop at Port Hueneme and check out the models they have out front, which I'd seen from the highway but never up close. Turns out they have a full size F-14 sitting out there, which was a plane I'd never seen up close. Those things are a lot bigger than they look. It's similar in size to the F-15, so it was pretty neat to walk around it and snap some dig pics.
It's actually been a really good few days, on a social perspective.
I really have to give a huge I love you to pieces to my friend who kept me company on a Chumash trip on Wednesday night... I was originally deciding not to go, but given how short my time is here, decided to squeak in one more trip before the final Monday, since I missed the previous Monday due to Memorial Day. So yeah, she finally caved and went with me, although it took quite a lot of convincing. Even with a paper due the next morning. How cool is she. How lame am I, is a better question. ;) So yeah, few hours later we came home with five Benjamins, largely due to a 2nd place finish in the Blackjack tournament out of 140. I ended up coming through with my end of the deal, which involved helping her out with an art history paper. All in all I had an awesome night with her, and am beyond thankful, for everything. It's really neat how amazing things just tend to happen, when you least expect it.
So yeah the next day I had a final Cranium showdown, where my team took 2nd again, mostly due to the fact we couldn't roll purple. That's about all there is to say about that. Very fun though.
I'll end with the news that it's now official, two of my best friends here are now engaged. As if enough timers weren't already running on me. Dun dun dun.
Wednesday, May 28, 2003
Maid of the Mist...
Fog is so cool. I love fog. Especially heavy fog. When I used to walk out my front door at home and not be able to see across the street. That was awesome. Running in fog is so refreshing. It never seems like you have a long way to go, because you can only see ten or twenty yards in front of you. Tonight was foggy. It was nice.
I'm up too late again, largely because I didn't hit the sack until very late last night. I ended up getting a phone call from someone I haven't had a decent conversation with in one heck of a long time. I've known her since 1st grade, but for the most part we always drifted in different circles, so we were never close. But geez, it's been a while since I've been on the phone for that long. Just had a lot to catch up on I guess...
It was actually nice to get a female perspective on some things that have been happening, especially from someone on the outside without any personal bias. Nothing worth talking about here really, just the same old shtick. Unfortunately I'm learning more and more the definition of the word hypocrite, from the type of person you'd least expect it from.
So yeah, was awesome catching up her, I'll have to be sure to keep in touch with her in the future, you never know when you'll need the help of one of those intellectual types. Two weeks from today I have my first three finals. Sigh.
Fog is so cool. I love fog. Especially heavy fog. When I used to walk out my front door at home and not be able to see across the street. That was awesome. Running in fog is so refreshing. It never seems like you have a long way to go, because you can only see ten or twenty yards in front of you. Tonight was foggy. It was nice.
I'm up too late again, largely because I didn't hit the sack until very late last night. I ended up getting a phone call from someone I haven't had a decent conversation with in one heck of a long time. I've known her since 1st grade, but for the most part we always drifted in different circles, so we were never close. But geez, it's been a while since I've been on the phone for that long. Just had a lot to catch up on I guess...
It was actually nice to get a female perspective on some things that have been happening, especially from someone on the outside without any personal bias. Nothing worth talking about here really, just the same old shtick. Unfortunately I'm learning more and more the definition of the word hypocrite, from the type of person you'd least expect it from.
So yeah, was awesome catching up her, I'll have to be sure to keep in touch with her in the future, you never know when you'll need the help of one of those intellectual types. Two weeks from today I have my first three finals. Sigh.
Sunday, May 25, 2003
Reviews Galore...
So here we are halfway through a long weekend, and given I'm still in town, might as well update.
On Friday I ended up catching two flicks, both very different. The first was the new one with Jim Carrey called Bruce Almighty. There was one particular scene in this movie that had me absolutely cracking up. The rest of it was pretty funny. Didn't knock me flat, but it was the type of good fare expected from a Carrey movie. I'll go with 4 M's out of 7, which is pretty good for a comedy, given it's almost impossible for them to get up to 6 or 7. I do enjoy laughing my ass off every once in a while though.
Later that evening since I ended up at a matinee of the first movie and having a few extra bucks on me I decided to go check out the fare at the el cheapo pretty much ghetto $3 theater on Hollister. The showing was Better Luck Tomorrow an independent film I'd heard a lot about. Randomly two of my friends ended up at the same show, which was pretty neat. A few of the people who had seen the movie had made comments about "asian shock" or something, given pretty much the entire cast is of asian descent. I guess the reason I hardly noticed was I've been growing up in that kind of breakdown for most of my life. I'm really oblivious to people's races really, in just about all aspects of life. The main actress was pretty cute, but I'd already heard she was 28, so that kind of killed it, even though she does look 16 in the movie. Overall I really enjoyed it, especially all the cutesy wutesy scenes involving the concept of boy likes girl but girl has boyfriend and thus boy gets shafted. Poor guy. That must have sucked. False happiness is eventually achieved though, in what I'll say is a pretty unfulfilling ending. Many plotlines are left open, so you sort of leave with a "well how is that going to work" type feeling. I'll give it 5 M's though even with the crappy ending, just because it was cute too.
I also finished playing through Splinter Cell, which ended up falling somewhat flat as it went on. Initially the idea of shadows being cast by everything, including realistic shadows cast by yourself and enemies, was really cool. Sneaking from shadow to shadow to avoid being "seen," and being able to tell what kind of weapon an enemy is carrying based on his shadow coming through a doorway, led to some really neat effects though. When it came to gameplay though, it was nothing special. The set pieces in a game like RTCW or MOHAA were much better, but overall this was a step in the right direction. Of course Half Life 2 and Doom 3 will bring all this and more, but hey, you have to entertain yourself with something in the meantime.
Next on my plate is Vice City, the expansion for Grand Theft Auto 3, which should keep me busy for a few days in between books. That is, if I can ever actually get the thing fully downloaded, which seems to be more challenging than it first appeared.
And then there were twenty days to graduation, scary thought.
So here we are halfway through a long weekend, and given I'm still in town, might as well update.
On Friday I ended up catching two flicks, both very different. The first was the new one with Jim Carrey called Bruce Almighty. There was one particular scene in this movie that had me absolutely cracking up. The rest of it was pretty funny. Didn't knock me flat, but it was the type of good fare expected from a Carrey movie. I'll go with 4 M's out of 7, which is pretty good for a comedy, given it's almost impossible for them to get up to 6 or 7. I do enjoy laughing my ass off every once in a while though.
Later that evening since I ended up at a matinee of the first movie and having a few extra bucks on me I decided to go check out the fare at the el cheapo pretty much ghetto $3 theater on Hollister. The showing was Better Luck Tomorrow an independent film I'd heard a lot about. Randomly two of my friends ended up at the same show, which was pretty neat. A few of the people who had seen the movie had made comments about "asian shock" or something, given pretty much the entire cast is of asian descent. I guess the reason I hardly noticed was I've been growing up in that kind of breakdown for most of my life. I'm really oblivious to people's races really, in just about all aspects of life. The main actress was pretty cute, but I'd already heard she was 28, so that kind of killed it, even though she does look 16 in the movie. Overall I really enjoyed it, especially all the cutesy wutesy scenes involving the concept of boy likes girl but girl has boyfriend and thus boy gets shafted. Poor guy. That must have sucked. False happiness is eventually achieved though, in what I'll say is a pretty unfulfilling ending. Many plotlines are left open, so you sort of leave with a "well how is that going to work" type feeling. I'll give it 5 M's though even with the crappy ending, just because it was cute too.
I also finished playing through Splinter Cell, which ended up falling somewhat flat as it went on. Initially the idea of shadows being cast by everything, including realistic shadows cast by yourself and enemies, was really cool. Sneaking from shadow to shadow to avoid being "seen," and being able to tell what kind of weapon an enemy is carrying based on his shadow coming through a doorway, led to some really neat effects though. When it came to gameplay though, it was nothing special. The set pieces in a game like RTCW or MOHAA were much better, but overall this was a step in the right direction. Of course Half Life 2 and Doom 3 will bring all this and more, but hey, you have to entertain yourself with something in the meantime.
Next on my plate is Vice City, the expansion for Grand Theft Auto 3, which should keep me busy for a few days in between books. That is, if I can ever actually get the thing fully downloaded, which seems to be more challenging than it first appeared.
And then there were twenty days to graduation, scary thought.
