In my nearly 5 years in a serious relationship, there have been many realizations excavated from within that region of my brain. Some only become visible after a certain amount of time, while others merely take an extreme or momentous event to surface. When they finally do, then comes the inner debate onto the importance I will place on each of ( Read more... )

As I walked off the black beach in Maui nearly a month ago, I thought nothing of the act that I was taking part of. Three small surf-smoothed stones were in my front pocket, and ready to make the trip back to Cali to show my family. There were only two black sand beaches of this kind on the whole chain of Hawaii, so I had to take a piece back ( Read more... )

This'll be a quick one, because I have to jet over to the doctor's office for my 10am appointment. I had to get up at 6 in the mo-nin' today, to get some lab work done for my yearly check-up. Hopefully for this one, no scrotal-handling is involved. I've already gotten four cavaties filled in the last two weeks, with the last two yesterday. My ( Read more... )

Every man in this room wishes they were Yuki's hand right about now

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Last sunset in Maui...

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Oink oink oink. It's been a couple weeks since I've written, and now I'm finally feeling like writing about it. My trip to Hawaii was awesome, althought the vibe was so chill that it seems like a long time ago. I biked down a volcano, sailed on a catamaran to the island of Lanai, snorkeled like crazy, drove through a rain forest, and ate like ( Read more... )

I had my first ever phone interview today, and to say it went not so good would be an understatement. My speech was HORRIBLE, and it took me 5 minutes longer to answer the only open-ended question the recruiter asked me. I lost my breath, blocked, had tons of phrase repetitions, and needed to say "whew, i'm sorry" a couple times and start over. ( Read more... )

Holy crap, I can't believe that I'm in Hawaii right now. Even though I'm only in the hotel right now, the view outside is outrageous. The hotel that I'm staying in has an ocean view, looking at the islands of Lanai and Molokai. I'll be able to get a closer look at Lanai tomorrow, because we're taking a catamaran to go snorkeling at this marine ( Read more... )

I meant to write this entry on the same day I posted the pictures below, but it didn't happen for some reason. This sense of creativity crept up on me this last weekend, and I believe it was the direct result of taking a silent but heavy load off my shoulders. I'm still feeling very positive about the future, and am starting to put a lot more ( Read more... )