So Ronald Reagan is the Greatest American?
He's greater than Martin Luther King, George Washington, and Abraham Lincoln?
As my mom says, it's a "sympathy vote." Siiigh.

I got a letter to serve jury duty for the first time--luckily it's in August, so I can get out of it. But I was somewhat excited, because I got called to a District Court, which means that it was a bigger case than the usual court case. Thrilling, huh?

That is really all that I have to say. Sadly.
I hope everyone is having a good summer!

I finally saw people today! (After living in the cave of my house.) No, I actually enjoy the peace and quiet and mild boredom that immediately follow finals week. Of course I will probably get tired of it in the next couple days, but this past week has been nice.

Corie and Matt drove by my house randomly and invited me to hang out at Starbucks and meet up with Brigitte. It was fun. We talked about a lot of random stuff. Brigitte may convince me to go sky diving, if it doesn't end up costing an arm and a leg, which I think it may. But I'd definitely like to try it...if I'm brave enough. Hehe, that's the other catch. But more importantly, I have a job interview tomorrow, to be an intern at Epson (again!), and hopefully I can get a job there for a short time, so that I can travel around Europe as much as possible when I'm abroad!

[added note: I realized today that hanging out with boys for a majority of my free time this past school year seems to have made my mind much dirtier than it ever has been before. Is this what it means to be truly "one of the guys"?]

ps-I was reading this girl Marlene's blog, who I'm kind of friends with (she was in my German class two quarters ago). Yes, I guess the fact that I don't know her that well and I'm reading all her private thoughts makes me something of a stalker. But her blog is so witty! I'm jealous.

Hey, y'all, I'm not in Germany yet!
I'm in Monrovia, trying to get a job for all of the six (five?) weeks that I'll be here. Not much news--my seester's going to Costa Rica for a month for a community service abroad program, so I'm helping her get ready for that. And we watched Magnolia last night, which I must say is a very odd film. I was about to give up on it the entire time, because it was SO LONG, but I wanted to see how it ended. And then I didn't understand the ending. Oh well.

Dylan got a facebook profile! Yay!

Dylan and I had fun in San Francisco! We stayed at the Mosser, which is an awesome little hotel off of Powell Street, and we saw a show at the Fillmore, Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks (Malkmus used to be the lead singer in Pavement, for anyone who's heard of that band). It was cool, I wasn't expecting to like the show, since I'm not really a fan of Pavement, but the band kind of reminded me of Nada Surf, except more funky and more rock, less emo. Good times.

Dylan and I also took photos at the Musee Mecanique, near Pier 39:


The top photo is "dazed and confused", the second one is "explorers," then we tried to do the match-up of profiles, and then the traditional smiles, except I look really sarcastic. It was fun.

I AM LEAVING ON SUNDAY!
(that's the day after tomorrow, by the way)

I'm done with finals! Woo-hoo!
Dylan and I are going to SF on Wednesday for a night (we're seeing a show at the Fillmore, too, very exciting).
Then my dad's coming up on Friday to help me move out, and I'm leaving Davis on Sunday!

Very mixed feelings about going home. And VERY mixed feelings about leaving all of this behind and going to freakin' Deutschland. I'm definitely going to miss hanging out over the summer, since I've already gotten a taste of it in the last few days.
I hope nothing changes too much. . . .

EDIT: My mom shared some Buddhist wisdom with me in a letter I got from her today, which is that "most of our miseries as humans come from our desires to hold on to transitory things." Therefore, I guess I should try to accept it if things do change. If I have to.

AAH! FINALS!

Welp, I did it. I changed my blog. It's probably not the best time to do it, since I have two papers to write this week along with finals. . . .

But oh well! I like it, except that it seems a little cluttered. Expect some changes before I'm done with it.

I stole these pics from Kaylan's site, they're from when she came up last week to visit


Girl group photo in the parking lot before she left

(not sure what I'm doing here...perhaps rocking out to the music in my head.)

Awww...

YES!

For some reason it was at Armadillo Music on Monday.
I haven't actually had a chance to listen to it yet.

But I am EXCITED!

Should I change the layout of my blog? I've kept it this way for 2+ years, but it's pretty easy to get a higher-tech layout that's still a pretty green color...I'm not sure.
Any opinions would be carefully considered! :)

Happy Birthday to my Daddy-o! He's 51! (And I don't think he reads this blog either, but oh well)

I realized the tactic I use to get a paper done is potentially detrimental to my health. For example, I have a paper due tomorrow, and I wrote 3 out of 5-7 pages. So this morning, I told myself I wouldn't eat breakfast until I wrote another page. It's now 3:48 pm and I still haven't eaten breakfast....
I think it's time to give up on that tactic.

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Kaylan came up for a few days! It was really nice. We went shopping, swimming, ate ice cream at Cold Stone's (she'd never been there before), saw our friend Alicia perform with her a capella group The Spokes, and pretty much just hung out. This morning, we watched Power Rangers: Space Police Department on ABC Kids. Anyone seen that show? It was pretty violent, considering it's for little kids. But we all had fun making fun of it, nevertheless.

And now Kaylan's gone, and I may not see her for more than a year, if I don't visit her in Fresno this summer. I guess I will really have to try to drive up there!

Now, on to my paper.

Whoa! So Jack White got married recently to Karen Elson, a Brazilian model. She's in the video for "Blue Orchid." Random.

I am passing on the "musical baton" short music survey that I got from Hannah's site:

Total volume of music files on my computer:
3.45 GB, or 2.6 days. My iPod mini doesn't hold much more than that, sadly.

The last CD I bought was:
The Ebb and Flow, a SF band. Bought it totally on a whim.

Song playing right now:
"Tomorrow Morning," Jack Johnson

Five songs I listen to a lot, or that mean a lot to me:
*This is a very difficult question (statement?). These are just a few that popped into my head.
"The Universal Soldier" Donovan
"While My Guitar Gently Weeps" The Beatles
"Feel Good Inc." Gorillaz
"Love in a Trashcan" The Raveonettes
"One by One All Day" The Shins

Five people to whom I’m passing the baton:
Corie
Billy
Elaine
Ivan
Kaylan

Fun! I realized that I like short music surveys.