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Successful Attempt

Day one of Beat the Funk was quite successful, in my opinion. Knowing that it would be blistering hot today, the first thing I asked my mom was if we could turn the air conditioner on, and she said yes. A positive move in the direction I'm facing. I watched a bunch of movies, and pretty much spent my entire day parked in the living room because my room is much too hot to do anything recreational in sadly.

The thing about my room is, it's the coldest room in the winter, and the hottest in the summer, there is no happy medium. Although, I have to say, I prefer the winters because I love getting wrapped up in blankets like I'm the filling to an especially tasty burrito.

I actually ate regular meals today, which has considerably improved my mood. The thing is, I find it odd to eat by myself now. I'm always so used to having someone else in the kitchen, having had three roommates for the last three years. I have become a social eater, and tend not to eat as heartily when not in the company of others. That is most likely linked to my funk that I've been wrestling with.

Day two looks like it shall be as much of a challenge as day one, but I will try my best to overcome it. (Fighting!) Tomorrow's high is 101 F, and I will not abide by that at all. I will be turning on the AC once again, and probably get started on the orange sherbert that's been sitting in the freezer. Yum.

I also took a look at my camera, and it's on its last leg. The touch screen is starting to go, and while it still takes perfectly fine pictures, when the screen goes, I'll have no idea what I just photographed/recorded until I upload it to my computer since it doesn't have a view finder like the older model point and shoots. Plus, with SDCC coming up, I don't want to have to take mystery pictures and hope that they turn out for the best.

I'll look up if there's anyway to salvage my camera, but I'll also be looking into a replacement if no such solution can be found. I'll most likely look into buying another Sony, just because I have memory sticks for them, and it would be a waste to just shelve them. It's not like I have a psp or the like that would take them.

It makes me sad, but the camera's going on almost four years, and it was one of the first gen touch screens to be released (in the camera department). The tech has very much changed, and it is time for an upgrade.

Getting Over It

Funk be gone!

I've resolved to do everything in my power to get out of the summer time blues.

Starting, tomorrow.

The last couple of days have been hard, but I've considerably improved since then. I'm making plans for future goals, and looking forward to seeing them through. One of them is to look up law schools, and buy myself an LSAT study book. As of right now, I'm not sure where I'm gonna go with this, but I'm eager (baby steps!)

I've started tweeting, I think that's the word for it, I thought about how my focus of study has been so linked with online sociality, that to refuse Twitter is to refuse a learning experience. So I've opened myself up to (The?) Twitter, and maybe become more interested (if not invested) in it.

Saw Get Him to the Greek with Lisel tonight and I thought it was hilarious. The only thing that really struck me the wrong way was the rape joke, not funny, didn't laugh. Since that was the only sour part of the movie for me, I would love to watch it again, but I would not drive out all the way to Tulare to do it. That's just me. This movie was a massive improvement over Forgetting Sarah Marshall.

I'm gonna go see Toy Story 3 again with Lisel, only in IMAX, and she has promised to buy my ticket to The Last Airbender (because I have qualms over the whole race issue).

Once again, planning on sending out a SDCC message to everyone in my hotel. Ideas for transport, things to bring, sleeping arrangements shall be discussed, along with the matter of payment. I think shall prefer cash over checks, just because I'm worried it might not clear in time (I deposited a check last week, and it still hasn't cleared. Very anxious since I currently have imaginary money.) I have a few thoughts on how we should meet up and what we should bring, so it might be a little lengthy, but I am open to suggestions/amendments.

I want to start writing again, but I don't quite know how to get started back up on that. (Read: Needs motivation and inspiration).

OH MY GOD it is so hot where I live! Tomorrow it's going to be 106, which will feel like 115 indoors if one hasn't got an air conditioner or a swamp cooler. I. MUST. GET. OUT. OF. PORTERVILLE. There's no way I'll survive this summer here, I need to get back to the coast and cooler climates. I voluntarily took a cold shower today because the heat was that unbearable. Plus, the pipes were so heated up that the cold water came out hot for like ten minutes. Grr.

I think I might have to relocate after Comic-Con, this heat will slowly force me down into more of a depression if I can't get away from it. I haven't yet set up my XB0X 360 because I fear that will heat up any room I am in to a dangerously unhealthy level and I will die. T_T That means, I haven't been playing video games. (Tears) Although, I just got my wireless mouse back from my mom, so I might be able to do some quality pc gaming now. I've been meaning to get my hands on some STEAM deals.

All in all, I've had a pretty crummy couple of days, and I've got some choicer crummy days to come, but I will try my very best not to let it get me down.

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If Only

Conversation with my dear friend James.

(2:12:42 PM) James: if valve were a woman
(2:12:53 PM) James: i'd have to contemplate asking it's hand in marriage
(2:13:03 PM) mary: if valve were a woman
(2:13:09 PM) mary: she'd already be taken
(2:13:18 PM) James: i know ;___;

<3

I Wish . . .

Sometimes, I wish I had an older sister. Someone I could talk to about things I don't feel comfortable talking about with anyone else. All I've got though, as an older half-brother, the generation gap between us is simply too massive.

I would take, in place of an older sister, an older woman friend, someone I could look to as a mentor that isn't directly related to me by blood or marital connection. Where can I find one of those? Why I'm writing this is because I've been feeling really quite down in the dumps lately. Too much free time will do that to you, and I spend most of my days cooped up inside the house because it's too hot to go out during the day, and there really isn't anything to do in this town even if I wanted to go out.

I remember back in Dollhouse episode "Briar Rose", Topher made Echo into a woman who was meant to go talk to a troubled little girl, only to turn out to be that same girl who'd gotten ahead in years and had gotten over her issues. I basically need an older me that will help me through my current hangups.

Currently, I miss Santa Barbara and all the freedom of movement I had there, I miss my friends from there, and essentially feel incomplete without Santa Barbara things taking up my time (even at its most stressful I wouldn't trade it for where I am right now). I miss trying Mika's mystery food, I miss yelling across the hall to my roommates knowing that a screaming match is just around the corner, I miss photoshopped audio.

I've officially outgrown my hometown. Pure and simple. I feel like I need a trip to SB, to reboot my batteries. My last week there was filled with too many stressful parameters, and I feel the need to go back and give myself a proper sendoff into the summer.

The Pandorica Opens (Spoilers, LOTS)

Holy crap! That was an excellent episode. There's something that bugged me though, and that's the whole "Only the Doctor can fly the TARDIS," bit that was introduced minutes before the episode closed. I do not for a minute believe that River Song is an incarnation of the Doctor. If that's so, why would she die at the end of Forest of the Dead, why didn't she throw herself into the crack in Flesh and Stone? If she were indeed the Doctor, then her statement about being a complicated space time event stands. The theory just doesn't hold water for me. Wibbly wobbly timey wimey is not an acceptable answer.

I thoroughly enjoyed this episode though, lots of villains, and Matt Smith was rather excellent. He gave that speech that sent all the villains scrambling, only to have to have it turn out that they weren't there for a fight, they were there to set a trap. Also, RORY! And Rory NO! I think that hurts the most out of everything that was thrown into that episode. Bringing Rory back was expected, but not to have him be a betrayer, it just breaks my Wholigan heart.

I feel like rewatching all of the episodes up to now because I feel like there was so much that I missed the first time around, and now I have all the time in the world to re-investigate this new universe that Moffat's created. It goes without saying that the next episode can not come soon enough, OMG, I need it to be 06 26 2010 already!

Too Much Free Time

Waking up today, I had a very strict set of things to do lined up for me, and I was pretty much dedicated to accomplishing them. I sent out my financial aid forms, and did some grocery shopping for some much needed snacks around the house. I got all of that accomplished in the span of three hours, which I think is pretty snazzy.

I am still in the process of unpacking essential items, and I've nearly got all of my toiletries out on my bathroom counter. There are still some things that I'm still looking for, like cords and books, but once I've got that all sorted out I'll be a happy camper.

I spent most of my night re-watching current season Doctor Who episodes getting myself psyched up for the upcoming two parter finale. I rewatched Time of the Angels, and Flesh and Stone to get a little more insight into the upcoming finale. There's a lot that I'm really excited to see resolved, like how when Amy was left in the ship's artificial forest, the Doctor that comes back is wearing a jacket, when they clearly made a big deal about it not even ten minutes before about how he was caught by the jacket when the weeping angels had him. If he lost his jacket in that encounter then that means that the Doctor that comes back to comfort blind Amy is a Doctor from a future timeline. A timeline, in which he goes back to see seven year old Amelia Pond and tells her something important that she needs to remember.

This would also line up with the way they alluded to the Doctor's return in The Eleventh Hour, when Amelia goes out to wait for him in the yard. I think that they are showing how events line up with Amy, she's our reference point because somehow she's experiencing encounters with the Doctor the same way he experiences encounters with River Song, out of order yet still chronologically (in a way) in her timeline.

I rather like shows about time travel when they actually do time travel well. Futurama's Bender's Big Score is an example of this, a bad example of time travel is Orson Scott Card's Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus (let's not get me started).

Tonight's plans now constitute me getting caught up on the latest and last episodes of Better off Ted, and possibly more Doctor Who with my alonely self.

I Must Have THIS

Eleven Doctors in ONE BOX!!! My heart YEARNS for this with the passion of 100 Coronas of our Sun. I hope this is available sooner that August, like (cough) July 21-25.

Such a Busy Day!

On Sunday (6/13) I walked across a stage to receive a piece of paper that wasn't my diploma. Weird. On the bright side, I got my first and probably final handshake from Chancellor Yang, it's a big deal, trust me. I sat with Mika and behind me sat Taylor, and a whole bunch of people I'd encountered in my four years at UCSB graduated before my eyes. My family and extended family was there to celebrate, and we had a wonderful dinner at Yen Ching's.

I'd like to add that Yen Ching's has THE BEST fried chicken wings I have ever eaten. My Aunt Evelyn was telling me that when I first wen there as a kid, it was during her wedding reception and they were filming a commercial while we entered. This commercial apparently aired for years and years to follow without my knowledge that I was forever immortalized in its entity. Sadly, no copy of this video exist on the internet. Come to think of it, I remember pigging out on fried chicken wings back then too, so I wouldn't want that kind of video evidence to exist against me, I'm not ready to embrace my uncontrollable glutton just yet.

There's talk of having a Grad party for me later on this month at Oxnard, anyone interested in coming should ask me for some deets.

After dinner, I went back to pack up all of my belongings from my apartment and leave Goleta for the summer. It is an absolutely heartbreaking notion to think that I have but only one quarter left of studying at UCSB. I think that that sadness just hit me today while sitting in my room after a long day of hanging out with my brother and his family. I will keep my resolve for as long as I can, tears are for when its really over, and any sign of breaking before then will simply have to be forgiven because I simply can not ask for permission to express my emotions.

I look forward to a fun summer, with the SDCC just within arms reach I can't really be too bummed. I'll be able to fulfill part of my Bucket List there if all goes according to plan. !!! Which reminds me that I'm still taking suggestions for activities to add to my list, so if anyone's got some good ones feel free to share.

Summer Bucket List

This is a list that I'll be coming back to often over the summer. It's a work in progress, and open to additions.

• Read House of Leaves 
• Meet Joss Whedon at Comic Con
• Finish watching The Misfits 
• Become Ulzzang and master the technique of creating a double eyelid with either double stick tape or glue
• Earn enough money through the Amazon Turk to buy a Kindle (then don't) ^_^
• Water gun fight 
• Eating a "Small Baby" from El Tapatio
• Get my Drivers license [At the age of 22 no less ;-) ]
• . . . .

Inaugural

I'm not sure what this blog will be about yet, but I hope to fill it with a myriad of posts.