hello!!!

I havnt posted in a loong time.
So yeah, i need to post pics of my wedding cake.
give me a few minutes.....
here is my cake. I love the flowers, they took forever, werent as hard as i thought though...but yeah, forever.



my partner found my camera haha:


lets see, i had a fun thanksgiving with my family in hayward. Made tooooo much carrot cake.
hmm, Saw BOLT! I loooved it!

hey guys. so i feel like i haven't posted in a while, but it's only because there isn't really anything new going on with me...i'm still knee-deep in college apps, and i still FUCKING LOVE MY JOB! yay.

today i went in for my dj friend casey's morning comedy show from 8-12 (if you're just joining us, i intern at a radio station ;) ), and that was HILARIOUS. it was so much fun. then i got a text from my boss asking me if i could take the afternoon shift for the cafe (it's kinda hard to explain, but basically the studio shares a storefront with a cafe...the revenue from the cafe helps keep the station going). so i ended up staying until 5 working the cafe, but that's kind of good because now i don't have to go in tomorrow to work my normal shift.

dude, no one even cares about my job at all except me, sorry. i'm just overly obsessed with it. but at least i acknowledge that.

it's just that this is the first job/internship i've had that i actually, seriously, loved. and i guess i think it's kind of cool and special that i've found a place to work that i enjoy so much, because i always hear my friends bitching about how much they hate work, but i love working here. even though i don't get paid. that's another story, whatever.

oh yeah, and here, go and play "word round up" it's the shit:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/apps/games/wordroundup

Awkward greeting time!

Well, hey there NorCal DF!

If you didn't know me, I'm Sara, and I just recently (about fifteen minutes ago) became part of this swell little blog.

Here's a few facts about me-

-I've never really blogged before, so chances are, I'll mess this up.

-I have the unforunate habit of saying "lawlz." It's a whole different story.

-Currently listening to- "Sophisticated Side Ponytail" by Natalie Portman's Shaved Head

-I'm a little awkward and strange sometimes.  I try to think of it as "quirky".

So, pleasure to make your collective acquantince!

Ohhh, Twitter!

Who has it?

Mine is http://twitter.com/drummer4sale

It's strangely addicting; much more than I expected actually.

In other news, my band is playing their first show soon; I'll let you know when I have more information.

Thanks and happy giving :)

-Michi

Somewhere over the rainbow...

Hi everybody!

Hi Dr. Nick!

We just arrived in Ashland for Thanksgiving. We had to eat at The Blackbear Diner like always, and, like always, it was dreadful. The only vegetarian things on their menu are toast, a cup of under ripe melon, and pancakes that they stop serving after 10 am. The drive was traffic-free though, so I'm thankful for that.

Tonight I'll be having dinner with my aunt, uncle and cousin then hopefully going to see The Boy in the Striped Pajamas in the later night. I love it up here. I can't imagine living here, but visiting is so fun. There are lots of independent bookstores, coffee stores, and an old-style movie theatre. They also show plays in the spring and summer, but not now. 

I saw a truck today with a NoBama bumper sticker. It made me smile because we won and he didn't. 

There is nothing really left to say, but I'm really bored. Someone post entertaining videos. 

I have no title...

Hi guys! It snowed!

Okay, kinda. For maybe fifteen minutes. I was walking to the bus stop after coming out of Kaufhof (it's like Target) and it was raining. The rain got more and more frozen, and when I got to the bus stop it had turned to snow. But a couple minutes later it was back to rain. It's supposed to continue to snow this weekend.
It was fucking cold. The bus was a quarter of an hour late, so I was standing outside for almost thirty minutes.

So. I'm staying here until summer break. But! I'm visiting California from April 2 to April 19 (Easter) because if I don't, I might not be able to get back into America in the summer. The reason is because I don't have US citizenship, and my greencard would possibly be void if I don't set foot in the country for over a year. So let's plan a meetup then as well!

This weekend, I'm not doing a lot. Tomorrow night, two of my friends are celebrating their birthdays, so I'm going to their party.

My dad is visiting me in three weeks, so I'm looking forward to that. But he can only stay for three nights.

Otherwise, I still like school. My class likes to mess with some of the teachers that are easily tricked or won't punish us. Like on Wednesday during PE, some of us told the teacher that a guy (Tim) had bit his tongue and was bleeding hard. It was actually red food coloring, but the teacher believed them and started explaining that aspirin thins the blood, because Tim had said that he had taken one that morning.
And during physics, the class randomly gives big rounds of applause, sometimes interrupting our teacher.
Things like that. I guess they're kinda immature, but they're funny if the teacher just doesn't get it.

Okay, that's all. I hope everyone is doing well!

Lena

god.

so basically i need a job.

my family sucks, and i've been having to pay for necessities i need for everyday life myself lately.

i have an unpaid internship at the moment.

i spend about $50 on BART each week in addition to food, gas, and random things like that.

so where has this money been coming from? well, i've been withdrawing money out of my bank account for the past few months. there is a certain amount that i like to keep in it as a baseline, and that threshold has long since past. i can't keep taking money out of my bank account; it's not like a never-ending source. i need to get a job.

i wish my parents weren't lame, and i wish that at this point in my life my parents could be adults and have their shit together enough to be able to take care of me, but they don't.

so, like i said, i need a job. i need a way to be more independent (even when i ask for money i usually don't get it), and i need a reason just to be out of the fucking house.

i recently moved my schedule around so that right now i get out of school at 115 everyday, and starting in late january, i'll be getting out of school at 1145 each morning. so i think i'll have time for a job.

after college apps are done (which should be in the next two weeks) i'm going to start looking for a part-time job.

where should i work?

Updates updates

Hmmm. What is new with everyone?

It has been a while since I've updated, so I thought I should write up a blog. Right now I'm watching Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. I SHOULD be waiting in line for Half-Blood Prince but Warner Bros. decided they were going to be giant butt-wipes. July is so far away!

Oh! I totally aced my chem test which means I have a B in the class, so I don't have to drop it. That is a huge relief. I did drop that horrible history class I've told some of you about. I wasn't about to stay in a class I was pulling a C in. Fuck that, the humanities are what I'm good at. When I went to drop it, for some reason it wasn't allowing me to drop it myself, so I went to this guy's office to ask him to drop it for me. He was like "why would you take this class? This is the worst teacher on campus." Jeez, thanks Joe, is there a reason you didn't tell me this when I registered? 

Next semester I have:

Physical Anthropology

French (maybe. Apparently a lot of people don't like the professor)

Archaeology

Finite Mathematics

Econ

English IV 

Has anyone else picked classes yet?

Oh yeah, before I forget, Lena, it turns out we're just going back east this year because I have to start classes in July for winter session. La-ame. 

What else? Uhhhm. There is nothing like trying to blog about my life to show me just how boring it really is. Okay, I've updated, now it's everyone else's turn. 

Hello Everybody!
Sooo, I've been bored lately and spending an excess amount online, which led me to the board which led me to twitter. So if any of YOU have twitter, my u to the r to the l is, www.twitter.com/FRyan47.

In unrelated news, the stupid fire alarm in my building went off first at 6 am and then again at 8:30 am (at which point everyone ignored it) and again at 9 am (at which point everyone was scared into evacuating for fear of getting a stupid $2500 fine). Someone in our dorm loves fire; first we had to take down all the paper objects in the hallways because someone was lighting them on fire and now people pull the fire alarm ALL THE TIME! Somebody pulled it at like 3 am last Monday. I hate them. I don't know who it is, but I am not in love with them.

I am in love with the fact that I get all of next week off from school. I'm so excited! I'm going to spend the weekend with my sister and then spend the rest of the week with my fam in Hollister. I also read about the possible meet up soon on the DF which made me extra excited because I'll actually be able to go to this one. I've never gone to one before so...

I'm just writing this as I waste time before I go to my least favorite class ever, Econ. Never take it if you don't have to (although I'm pretty sure you have to). But I just get really bored and want to fall asleep the whole time that I'm there. I just woke up from a nap though, so hopefully I won't . Anyway, I hope everyone else is having a nice day and feeling good about life and hopefully I will be able to meet all of you soon!

alright guys.

the OFFICIAL "intern hour" is:

SUNDAYS, 5-6 PM
87.9FM SAN FRANCISCO
stream online at WWW.PIRATECATRADIO.COM

so listen! basically, it's a bunch of the interns and i on talking about whatever we want and playing whatever we want. last week only two of us were there (out of five), so there could be nights when it's only a few of us, and there could be nights when there's all five of us. i will try to be on every week, though.

if you ever have anything you want me to play, let me know! the only rule is that it can't be mainstream. if you give me something to play and i do, i'll give you a shout-out!

ALSO, if YOU or SOMEONE YOU KNOW is in a band, i can play your music! give me mp3s/myspace urls!

who knows....you could land an interview on the station one day! (haha, actually it's not that hard to do...lemme know if yuo or anyone you know is interested...)


okay guys, so that's it!

oh yeah, and after a few weeks we might work it out so that we will rotate every five weeks and have our own shows, so if that happens, i'll give you all my dates :)

So it's almost break...

What is everybody doing? I don't have many plans except to lay around and sleep and maybe go see my aunt for dinner that Thursday. As far as school goes, it's all smooth sailing so far, and I may get to go spend a week with my friend Jay next summer. Huzzah!

And in response to Rebecca's post, did anybody go to the rally in Sacto? I wanted to go but in the end I couldn't find a ride. How was it?

Oh, and any meet-up news for us? Let's get that thing planned!

-Michi

I dream of marzipan roses...

...and wake up in a cold sweat. haha

OK so im bored.
Lets see, I cut Quiche's nails today, he DID NOT like that. But i think afterwards he realized it was a good thing. He seemed happier. He is the cutest, i let him run around in my bathroom and he plays fetch with himself and chases my sister around. I love that little piggy.

I need to submit my wedding cake drawing on monday. Im freaking out man! I dont know what i want to do, or what i am capable of doing. sheesh. I cant believe it'll be due in 2 weeks. eeepers!
OH and my final, like my FINAL final, is in a month. scary! We are freaked. I really dont wanna fail. And i'll probably be moving out of my apartment in about a month and a half. I hope to get an internship in the east bay or SF. It'll be easier, and i can live at home.


This has gone by waaay too fast.

Since Nee-Sa posted photos from BFD

I'll post this:

Tiger Army - Afterworld

I don't know if it will work, if not, click the link and watch.

Anyone going to the rally in Sacramento?

Is anyone going to the Sacramento rally on the 22nd?

Peace. 

Hello everybody!
So this weekend I went home (sort of). I went back to Hollister for all of one night before I drove two and a half hours to Modesto to visit my friend and see two local bands from Hollister play. It was a little ridiculous. We went to a no on prop 8 rally and got flipped off and talked to by, for lack of a better term, religious zealots. All I have to say about that though is it's useless to argue with someone about religion because there's not much logic in religion and it's going to take more than an hour of argument to change someone's beliefs. Obviously my protest wasn't half as exciting as everyone else's. Anyway, my friend set up this whole show for the band, Exhibit A, and told everyone that he was going to have all of his new friends come and that there would be people there to watch and the audience ended up being mostly people from Hollister. I think there were five people from Modesto and around 15 from Hollister. So it seemed like a waste of time almost except that I had all kinds of fun. I saw people from Hollister that I hadn't seen for so long and got to hang out with my friends, but then I had to drive back at 1:30 in the morning which sucked. I didn't get home until 3:30 and that was only because I sped the whole way. I was going to come back on Sunday and do homework but instead I came back on Sunday slept, read, and slept some more. So I woke up early on Monday and finished a powerpoint for my science class and emailed it to my professor 45 minutes before class started and I had to present. I'm kind of happy I did that though because otherwise I would have been at that mess at Stonestown (while I am a twilight fan I am not that huge of one, I would have been going to get christmas presents for my megafan friends.) So I'm happy that I have today off, it's a nice little break, but I have a group project to do with these two other people due tomorrow and we were going to get together last night but it didn't happen so I'm probably going to spend all of this afternoon working on that. ALSO, last night at 2 am the stupid FIRE ALARM went off in our building so I had to evacuate. That did not make me happy, but whatever. I feel good today. I hope everyone has a great week! I cannot wait for Thanksgiving break.

hey guys, so i was on 87.9fm / www.piratecatradio.com earlier tonight (5-6pm) with one of the djs. wet talked about journalism, food, country music (and how much it sucks), cats, and some other stuff. i got to play six or seven songs. it was pretty sick.

so, yeah. tonight was very last minute/spur of the moment type thing, but i'll be sure to let you guys know the next time i'm going to be on!

i'm still working out my hours and stuff, so i'll keep you posted.

David Bottrill is producing Placebo's new ablum

So reading jades blog post made me gigglez. My 2 fave bands making new albums at the same time with the same producer.
I wonder how these albums will turn out...similar?
Placebo's will come out 1st of course since they have been recording for a while. Ah now im impatient.

Last night was insanly fun. The faint kick too much ass.
The opening acts sucked. NPSH was the cheesiest band ever.
And i saw Nee-sa, havne seen you in forever. And my friend Carlita was there. She lives around the block from me in newark but i still havnt seen her in like a year!

prop 8 protest. sf. 11/7/08.

so.

yesterday was the prop 8 protest in san francisco from civic center to dolores park.

it was completely beautiful. there was minimal violence, the sfpd was out, but they respected our right to protest.


and the news cam footage of mark and rich being chased down by the police had me in tears last night when i got home from the protest. it's just completely sick. i think it's great that the df came together to help out and support them to bail them out of jail. i think that what mark fought through should be inspiration for all of us.

anyway, the sf protest was completely inspiring - it was awesome just to go and see over a thousand people out there so passionate about the issue.

although, i can't help but feel slightly discouraged after seeing so many people out there supporting the cause (even though it was a small percentage of voters), and still know that it just wasn't enough.

maybe we didn't defeat proposition 8, but we certainly haven't lost. yeah, it's a let down - we thought that our state was more open minded than it has proven to be. but i think this election is proof that society (however discriminatory it can be) has the capacity to overcome barriers, whether racial, religious, personal....whatever.

society will always find a minority to oppress, no matter what.

the time will come when LGBTQI community is considered truly equal, and we just have to keep fighting for what we know is right until we get there.

- nee-sa



ps: the faint tonight! yee! one of the opening bands, natalie portman's shaved head, has proven to be pretty legit, based on their myspace page.

No, I'm not dead.

Man, I can't believe 8 passed! It makes me really sad, honestly, when it passes and even the two most homophobic people I know voted no on it! My aunt is Mormon, and I'm pretty sure she and my uncle would have CAMPAIGNED yes on it; I don't know how I should face them if the issue is risen come Thanksgiving when we usually go to dinner at her house. In other news, I do think it is momentous that Obama got elected; my hope is that, by breaking down racial barriers, then maybe people can start to accept non-racial ones as well.

Also, did anybody hear about Mark? Major bummer, though I'm glad the DF is such a tight-knit community as to bail each other out of jail! (I have many friends who wouldn't do that for each other, let alone me)

As per my situation at the moment, school may as well be killing me. I don't know about all you Bay Area folk or how your school system works, but here I'm expected to get up at 6:30 am everyday, be at school till 3:30 (2:30 on Weds/Thurs) and do 2 hours of homework as well as balance everything else in my life. I feel lucky at this point, I guess, that I'm not a drama or a sports kid because after school sports don't often get over till 7 or so, and then the musical has been keeping a majority of the drama kids at school till about 10 or even later this past week. As a result, pretty much every kid at my school doesn't get more than 7.5 hours of sleep a night. That doesn't sound too healthy...

Either way, at least my grades are passable again (B's/A's, maybe a C) and I'm allowed back on the boards again/to associate with the DF again. Yay.

Oh, and yes to Cheesecake Factory/Ice skating '08! :)

-Michelle

P.S. What's going on in the San Francisco area in the next few weeks? I might get to go down there and I want something other to do than shell out cash for tourist-trap things (not that they aren't bad, but I'm broke right now). Thanks!

Ho hum.

I'm so bummed that all of you are going to the march without me. I really wanted to go, I don't think you guys understand how much that would have meant to me to go. Oh well, like Rebecca said, there will probably be more rallies before they finally wake the fuck up and allow gay couples to be happy and get married.
It still pisses me off so much that people had the nerve to pass that proposition. My dad voted yes, and I bitched his ear out so bad, but ignorant people like that will never learn.


















I'm craving Cheesecake Factory so bad right now, if you all have enough money, for the meetup I'm planning (whether you like it or not) we should go to the Cheesecake Factory and then roller skating, or.. EVEN BETTER! Ice skating, since we didn't do it last year. If I got some opinions that would be fantastic, because I really really want to go ice/roller skating, it's so much fun. Please leave a comment if you want to do it, it sounds like it would be exciting.

I really fail at blogging, I don't lead an exciting life, so yeah. At least I haven't forgotten about this yet.

I just got an email from my grandma, and I fell in love with this quote:

"Handle every stressful situation like a dog.
If you can't eat it or play with it,
Just pee on it and walk away."

Also, I love the new layout, it's my favorite colors, and it's dark.
I approve, Nee-Sa

My First Blog

This is literally my first blog including Myspace, so forgive me if it's a little lame. Just to let everyone know I just moved up to SF in the middle of August to go to State up here. Before that I lived in Hollister (Not like the store it's about two hours south of here, forty five minutes directly inbound from Monterey/Santa Cruz) and it's a lot different than San Francisco. For example, I'm pretty sure that Hollister passed 8, which makes me really sad. Because basically what that means is that the people in my hometown are down with taking peoples rights away. I'm not even sure how Prop 8 was passed or how it can be upheld because it's taking away people's rights and I thought we weren't allowed to do that in the US except in times of war, or when it would threaten our national security. I could be wrong though, government was never my best subject. Despite that, I also want to talk about Obama's win. I am so excited that he won and I know that he's not some messiah that's going to change everything in a snap of the fingers but I would like to say that I am disgusted by the people I've heard talking about the results in a blase manner as if this isn't monumental. While Obama may not be able to change everything with a snap of his fingers don't you get that him being elected changed a fair amount of things? His election is monumental.

I'm really sad to say that one of my best friends is one of these people, but lately I've noticed that's she's just sort of a Negative Nancy. She's been bringing me down a lot lately and it sucks because I haven't made that many friends here so she's pretty much the only person I hang out with. I don't want to sound sad and lonely because I'm not. I'm cool with my one really good friend and the few other friends I have here, but it really sucks that the person who knows me best up here is such a downer. Besides being a joykill about Obama's win she's been making me feel really judged lately by what I do with my life. Such as the choice to go to a party with my roommate and her friends. My friend finally came with us this time, for the first time since we've been here, despite my previous invites and she TOTALLY killed the mood in the car on the way there. Neither she or I were drinking because we were sharing the burden of designated driver and even though I warned about the chaos that would be going on in the car (the yelling and loud music and general disorderliness) she refused to just lighten up and go with the flow. After this night she's been ridiculously awkward around my roommate too. Instead of just being unhappy the night of and letting it be known and then letting it flow under the bridge anytime we're around my roommate or her friends she leaves the room or sits there awkwardly not trying to engage them at all. I'm sorry if this is really whiny but I've just become really annoyed with her and her attitude, but it's not like I can just ignore her because she is my friend. I don't know if I should sit down and talk to her about this or not because I honestly believe that it's just the way she acts. I think she's just sort of socially awkward. I don't know though. Whatever.

Besides that, I love living in San Francisco. I have been to, while not an abundance of shows, a few very high quality ones (Tiger Army, Horrorpops, and Street Dogs). I also went to a comedy show at Cobbs (Jaime Kennedy) which was hilarious and I love love love Rasputin music and Birite Creamery/Delores Park. And I can't really think of anything else to write that would make me seem less whiny (I swear I'm not really this bad, I think it has something to do with the fact that I've had the worst cough ever this week <--- see, more whining). Anyway, this is my introduction to you and I know it's not a great one but it lets you know who I am.

F.

OBAMA!!!

Yay! I'm so happy for this country. Now we just need 8 to make a turn around and start failing, and I'll be happy. It has been a long day of politics, and now I am going to drink a nice warm mug of tea and go to bed. I hope things look better in the morning/things are looking pretty damn good. I'm very torn right now, but overall I'm just glad it's over.

Night folks.

new layout

love it...?
hate it...?

suggestions...?

the heading is slightly off center, i need to fix that. i just don't have time to play around with that right now...i'm also thinking of finding a way to put the afi widget on the side somewhere (the afi widget still exists, right?)

i was just procrastinating on homework and decided i hated the way it looked before.

hi guys!

i just wanted to say hi.

i'm really happy right now...the happiest i've been in a long time :)

the only thing really wrong in my life right now is that i broke the headphone jack on my laptop and now i have to fix it AND i lost $20 yesterday....but other than that, i'm great!

i guess it's just that a lot of issues have worked themselves out recently, so that's good, right? yeahhhh...

Hello everyone

Well, first things first. I really like it here, and I'm thinking of extending my time away for one year instead of just half a year. Pretty much the only thing that would hold me back is that I have a terribly guilty conscience because of all the people in California are expecting me to come back the end of January. What do you guys think? If I stay here, I disappoint people in California, but if I don't stay, I disappoint myself. =/

Otherwise there isn't much going on. My birthday was last week. It was good. My friend's birthday was the day after mine (on Halloween) and I went to her house. That was fun...

This week's a bit warmer than last week. It was over 50 degrees today. Last week it rarely reached 45, even during the day. Brr.

I don't have much else to say, I guess. Hope you guys are all doing well!

Lena

Apparently I'm a complete creature of habit

This fucking sucks. I always always take a shower at 7:30 in the morning, but today I wake up and find my little brother is using the fucking shower. I mean don't get me wrong, I'm happy he's finally discovered what a shower is, but there are 1,425 other minutes in the day and he needs to use my fifteen to shower. Now I haven't showered since Sunday, so I can't go out, but I can't shower because the downstairs shower is wet still and that's disgusting, I can't use the upstairs shower because that takes too much time because of the... yes that's what I'll do. Who the fuck cares if I spill water everywhere because they never actually installed the glass shower doors? Not I.

Thank you blog, good morning. 

Edit: That didn't help at all. I still feel fucking nauseated. This is so wrong. 

I'm finally here!

Sabrina here! I know I know, the party can officially start. Ha!


So I decided this is what we have to do for our next meetup. Yes, no?
It's really fun and inexpensive, just like bowling was! As you all know, I don't ever EVER post on the DF boards, so comment here if you want to go, I hecka want to.


Also, Warped Tour this year! I know, it's a little bit early, but Scary Kids is playing and you all know how much those kids mean to me, so everyone has to come and support, no excuses!

Hm.. What else do you post on blogs? I'm watching Girls Next Door, and wondering why Nee-sa isn't replying to me on Facebook chat. I guess since I finally joined she decided to just stop talking to me. I know it took me a while but jeez, it took YOU a while to invite me on here! Are Lauren and Jessie invited? Can they be? I know Lauren might post if she knew about it, plus we could plan meetups here to be more organized, but still post in on the boards so we could drag in newcomers!

Well, this will probably be my last post on here, I don't do blogs, I feel awkward cause I feel like I'm talking to myself and I feel like a crazy person. So bye!

remember when?

lookee what i found on the internet guys! spot us out:









these are all from the epic barricading adventure at bfd 2007.

speaking of the faint...lucy, i'm confused...are you, or are you not going to the faint show this saturday? please come! i got my friend maria to go with me too.