the recent holloween hate crime that took place in my neighborhood was tried today in the courthouse next to city hall where I work. I was advised not to go to the field today because simular hate crimes could occur. memories were recalled of the Rodney King trial which caused major riots throughout Long Beach. I just find it so difficult to ( Read more... )

last friday at around 1, I was shopping for a christmas gift at an art store on 4th and Long Beach Boulevard. when I walked out of the store there was a huge traffic jam on Long Beach Boulevard complete with yellow tape, ambulences, something like 40 police cars,... I continued to go about my business. I went to wallmart against my better judgement ( Read more... )

I havent updated this in a month or so. I noticed my cousin has stopped updating hers. so... there it is ( Read more... )

there are 66 green parots with red faces sitting on the telephone whire outside my livingroom window. what the heck?

finding myself tired but excited about where this semester is going. classes are challenging enough. work is good. work is so good right now. I and a friend of mine go out in a city car and measure the cracks in the roads. old men who have nothing to do come up to us and ask us what we are doing. we tell them it is a city-wide survey of the ( Read more... )

I try to avoid it whenever possible by riding my bike or taking the bus, but this morning I did it. I endangered the lives of countless other drivers, pedestrians and small animals by driving to work this morning. I stalled it once at a red light because someone honked at me while I was getting the engine started so I just let go of the clutch and ( Read more... )

we got a TV entenae and now we can watch PBS. this is good because I was getting tired of watching Seinfeld season 1&2 over and over and over. that's good because I was starting to talk like George. we can also get broadcasts of seinfeld from other seasons and local news. I think I am going to start watching the news. I didnt even find out that the ( Read more... )

after riding into work this morning, when I pulled off my helmet, I noticed something stuck to my forhead. it was a barcode tag from a target towel, and it was stuck to my forhead ( Read more... )

that's half the stuff in my trash can! apparently we californians are no longer allowed to throw these things away because they are dangerous to the environment. they are to be taken to special facilities. who does that? I guess I do now... as of today I will no-longer be throwing my batteries, lightbulbs, electronics and murcury in the trash. I ( Read more... )

yesterday after work, I went home and re-aranged things before I went to school for a doctor's appointment at the student health center which lasted till 5:07. my first class of the semester started at 5. by the time I got there (15 minutes late)everyone was gone except the people trying to add the class. the professor for this class knows me ( Read more... )