i remember live journal.

fyi.

almost time for a chang and a tropical sunset.

i love my life.

ummm so i figured id update since why the fuck not.

IM BACK IN CALI! west coast baby! i mos def got my fill of the u.s.of a. well the southern part. pretty pimp trip, 15 days and 5000 miles (plus or minus a few).

got stuck in vegas on a lay over for 6 hours due to a missed first flight, on day one but managed to explore the strip with the this 19 year old turkish girl trying to get to new york. she had been in colorado for the summer and needed some help figured out how to get to the strip and back to the airport on time to catch her plane so i helped her and we explored together. all things considered with having such delays in san francisco.

here was the trip from sarasota:

Sarasota, FL
Miami Beach, FL
St Augustine, FL
Savannah, GA
Hilton Head, SC
Charleston, SC
Atlanta, GA
Montgomery, AL
Mobile, AL
Glufport/Biloxi, MS
New Orleans, LA
San Antonio, TX
El Paso, TX
Santa Fe, NM
Las Vegas, NV
Home.

11 states total (we drove through Arizona too obviously). Each place was awesome for being what it was, though Vegas was by far my least favorite. Go to New Orleans for drunken debauchery. Though the hurricane devastation was more than sombering and depressing, New Orleans was my favorite, with Charelston and St Augustine coming in a close third and fourth. San Antonio and Santa Fe were awesome too, and El Paso was basically Mexico. Border towns are the most fascinating of all.

Anyway, in two weeks I'll be moving to Thailand, coup and all.

Peace

eight and a half hours to go.

sweet action!

the thing is, its so much more than just being able to drink legally.

so pretty much the new outkast is the best thing ive heard in a long time. its not out yet, but its on myspace. so good, i cant wait til it comes out!

sometimes i forget im moving to thailand and then it hits me again, and its like, no fucking way!!!!

oh, also if anyone cares to know, im leaving seattle indefinitaly on tuesday, september 5th, 2006 around noon. but im totally down for bumbershoot the weekend before! and a BIG picnicesque thing on the fourth. too bad its labor day and people will be everywhere, but whatever.

the GRE costs $130!? what the fuck?

i have 25 days to study

um, it is 112 degrees here. yes, one-hundred twelve.

i am ever so bored right now, so i do believe i shall do something.

i guess i will do this. its something right? BLARG!

well lets see. i will write how i used to, like about my life and whatnot and the things that i do. actually maybe not.

longboarding is really quite fun! i was doing it on saturday last and was going down the hill from red square to drumheller and turned to go in between johnson and bagley. it was quite a tight turn but i managed. however! there was a puddle of water that i hit midway through my turn at the point where i began to straighten out and the board totally slipped and threw my face first into the concrete. i roadrashed my right elbow pretty bad as i fell on that, my right hip and the right lobe of my forehead. it hurt, but luckily no one saw so i jumped right back up and was a little worried i had rebroken my radial head (as only a month had past since i broke it in the first place) i walked back to the hub lawn where heather and jon were put the longboard down and claimed never to skate again! as often negative reprocussions occured. i cleaned the scrapes, got a drink and got back on the longboard. it seriously is one of the funnest things in the world to do. if people participated in the sport in thailand i would buy my own, but alas no. possibly when i move back to america in nov. 2007.

there is my story.

here is another one!

i wish it was tomorrow so that i would be out on the open road!

that was shorter. but still good, still good.

this is fucking lame. i hate livejournal.

does anyone want to travel through india with me late sept - late oct 2007? it would be cheap and tickets arent so bad. think about it.

would anyone be interested in spending a weekend camping (in a tent) in the san juans? i can bring a tent up easy from california and think that it would be lovely. preferably the last weekend in sept.

yay! i booked my plane ticket for tampa! so im officially doing it and we can earlier than we have previously thought.

so i literally leaving tahoe and going to florida.

the next couple months are going to be crazy. i cant wait!

pretty much im bored.

i did just determine that my favorite kind of people are the ones who assume themselves to be incredibly open minded and knowledegable when in reality have no true perception of themselves whatsoever.

i need to stop stalking random people on myspace when im bored.

is it 5 yet?

but i did find out that pattaya beach is one the most increidble party spots in all of asia. next year is going to be sick. i scheduled all my physicals today and shots and whatnot. oh, so, fun.

well, its official. im moving to thailand. crazy! i got my placement today as a secondary school teacher at Benchamaratrangsarit School in Chachoengsao. yeah. its like 50 miles east of Bangkok and 30 miles north of some of the most beautiful beaches in the world (chonburi and pattaya). oh fuck yeah.

so it looks as though im not leaving for florida until the end of sept ... which is fine. so now ill have three weeks at home before tahoe and the trip. so im thinking i may stay in seattle an extra week and not leave til the 10th or so! so i may be a-sleeping on someone's couch for a week or so if they allow me and my boxes to move in!

but i found a one-way ticket to tampa bay for $150 and a one-way ticket to Bangkok for $553 ... not to bad.

best weekend ever

usually id leave it at that but a quick glance as to why:

sunsets at golden gardens, indian dinners, seeing the most beautiful place (being rivaled only by the cinque terre) in the world, swimming in pristine mountain lakes in the olympics, ferry rides and sunsets, strong margaritas, bbqs, guster in-store, and star gazing.

im spent ... yay for the 40 hour work week ahead!

i am so sleepy!

thank god its friday!

and sunny.

ima gonna nap in the grass after this.

i learned a very valuable lession two nights ago: longboarding home from the bars drunk is a very bad idea.

oh well, im quite enjoying my fractured radial head (aka elbow) and hand. its quite fun!

haha.

well im bored at work and cant think of anything else to do so here i am.

ok, so i think that i found another really good program for grad school. i wouldnt get an mpa through it, but i really like it and i think it would be a good stepping stone. this could get me into the field and maybe later get an mpa or something. but the program is at ucsd and its at the school of international relations and pacific studies. its cool because you have to pick a regional specialization and career track, one of which is international development and nonprofit management. sweet! and having written a 45 page paper on Bolivia as well spending a year in Thailand i would be a good candidate for either the latin america specialization or southeast asia.

yeah, thats a boring entry but im excited. i like knowing more school is coming. it eases my trepidations.

the thing that impresses me most of life is the time will always pass. that and everything always comes to an end. it honestly blows my mind. i know that seems really frivolous, but when you enter certain parts of your life that you expect never to end either due to sheer enjoyment, boredom, hatrid, comfort and indifference, it always ends.

im on this strange emotionalesque rollercoaster where i get so sad that college is over and im leaving in september, to excitement for all the future holds, and my return to see everyone come october 2007.