Update on My Life:
2-29 Currently i am supposed to be writing a paper on the role of gender in conversations, but instead i am updating this.
The biggest update that i wanted to say is that i miss my residents soooooooooooo much. If any of you are reading this, i miss seeing you everyday. it was so fun to walk around the building and just chill with you all. Oh how i miss that.
Thats it, back to the paper. Peace out ya all.
12-4 I am not very good at keeping this thing up to date. But I really only do it when I am using AIM. I was off AIM for 3 months. I was amazed that I was able to do it.
I am writing a paper on Warren G. Harding, and I must admit that he was a crappy President. All of the polls and such that I have looked at rank him as the least Great President out of all the Presidents. I concur.
7-26 Not to long ago 4 top british journalist met with Prime Minister Blair for an 'off the record' session. The reporters asked Blair, 'where are the weapons of mass destruction?' Blair responded by saying, 'you just dont get it do you. You just don't get it at all.' The reporters were confused and Blair clarified, 'The War in Iraq wasn't about that at all. We went to War so we wouldn't have to go again.' This confused the reporters even more. What was Blair talking about? Blair further clarified, 'we showed Iran what we can do, so we don't have to do it again'
Next on the
list:
Syria
Iran
Deal with Russia
From that point on, america will then control oil, thus controlling the East. Global domination is three steps away.
My hope lies with the russians.
7-23 I had a really good conversation the other day with someone who i know really well, and who knows me really well. I miss that. I miss that alot. We did not talk about her at all though, we talked about me the whole time. She showed real concern for me and my happiness. Next time I want to have a conversation about how she is doing.
Life is difficult sometimes, i think you just have to deal with it.
7-20
This was my away message:
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Margaritas at my place. Come
over.
Some people say i am an alcoholic and self destructive. I often sit
down with a nice cocktail to think about this, but i end up getting fucking
plastered. Oh well.
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I made pancakes for everyone this
morning. It was fun. Then all of the sudden i got extremely tired,
and went to my bedroom and passed out. THIS IS THE SUMMER OF MY
LIFE. I WILL LET NOTHING RUIN THAT.
7-17 So I am writing here way more often then i ever have in the past. I think when school begins all that will end. Yeah, probably.
What is going on? I have been on duty alot this week. Sadness. Lets see what else...i went to Karl Strauss on Wed. night ($2 pints/College Night). I did a presentation on why California should secede from the United States. When i first thought of the idea, it seemed radical and illogical. But, when you really think about it, it is not that bad of an idea. One of my quotes in my speech was "California will not be held down by a country that still flies the Confederate Flag, and has a foreign policy based upon pre-emptive strike.
Who in their right mind can honestly believe in a foreign policy of pre-emptive strike. Everyone does realize that it means that we attack before they attack us?? This idea is completely ridiculous to me. I feel like saying WHAT THE FUCK! How can our whole nation buy the idea. We just kinda accept it. The whole idea of pre-emptive strike itself is 'anti-american/anti-democratic'. Lets blow them to hell just in case they may one day at some point in the future have bombs that may be used against America. Using the idea of pre-emptive strike, we could attack anyone at anytime and be perfectly justified by it. Lets attack whomever we please and get away with it. Iraq had nothing to do with weapons of mass destruction, but with oil. Bush went in the fucking country to get oil. Same with Afghanistan. Guess who is gonna get the billion dollar oil contract in Afghanistan....you guessed it!!! ...a top american oil country. When history looks back on this period, we wont be considered the technology boom, or the computer age, we will be the fucking OIL AGE. OUR LIVES RUN ON OIL. WE DO WHATEVER IT TAKES TO GET OIL. Bush and Cheney made their fortunes in the oil industry.
Do you know the origination of pre-emptive strike policy. So Cheney and Rumsfeld, and Wolfowitz (VP, Sec. of Defense, and price of darkness respectively) a long time ago when Bush I was president wrote this long memo regarding how the then current Bush I administration should use a policy based on preemptive strike. Well, this was even too radical a notion for Bush Sr. He didn't even buy it. You know something is bad, when the former director of the CIA/right-wing conservative doesn't buy into it. So, they waited. And waited. Now they are back in power using 9/11 as a cover to do anything to anyone they want. Anytime they want.
We need a damn liberal in charge and not one of those wimps who dont have the guts to stand up for gay marriage.
I strongly believe that there should be a revolution every 100 years.
That is all on this.
7-13 My sister Brandi came down to SD today. That
was fun.....she was getting really annoyed with my Ma Carmela I think.
Wait, i know she was. Today has been a really weird day.
The morning was wierd...starting at 2am...then waking up was wierd....then going to jeremy cogans house was wierd...then my sister randomly showed up, then that sister and my other sister went to a party in la mesa, and my other sister brought my niece. it was wierd.
That is all i can say about that.
7-05 Sometimes I feel like life is just too easy. Sometimes, i feel like it is not. There are a lot of tough decisions to make, and a lot of tough things one has got to do. My Dad once told me to take every single good opportunity in life. I have learned that the hard part is determining which are the good opportunities.
Sometimes I feel that no matter how hard I try, I cannot succeed and that I cannot be happy. It is just not within my realm.
I went home for the day Friday (today). My Ma Carmela (grandma in American terms) moved in with my parents for three months. She is hard to be around. She is an old (88 yrs) really short peruvian woman, that always seems really nice, but is very mean alot of the time. Although she knows English, she has forgotten most of it, and always falls back to spanish. I guess the reason she has always seemed really nice to me is because she talks to fast and quiet for me to understand. At the dinner table, she asked me in spanish if I had always drank milk. I understood that, so I said yes. She then asked if I had always drank it when i was growing up. I again, said yes. I thought I was misunderstanding what she was saying. She then said, (in spanish) "Why aren't you tall". THIS IS COMING FROM A 4 foot 10 inch (MAX) person. I was a little shocked......she kept saying that I should be taller....after she kept saying that for a while, I told her I was like a giant to her, and she ignored me. That was the end of that.
She does make sure I remember where I came from. Me, her, and my Mom played scrabble together. We kept letting her cheat and use spanish and english words (even though she didn't spell any of them right). Ok, so reading this over, I am being a little harsh. I think that is because the whole time I was home, she kept insulting my Mom, and I couldn't do a damn thing about it. I think my dad would have reacted differently to the situation, but he doesn't know a damn word of spanish.
I woke up to a beautiful morning. The nights in SD have been incredible....
oh yeah, I am so over this RA gig. I am on duty the saturday after the 4th. that sucks. Booo summer RA.
6-24 This week is going very well. It is strange to have free time. Very very strange not to have something urgent that I have to do all the time.
I am now a part of the thing called the CORE. The CORE is an exclusive club composed of me, jeff, todd, and edgar. Here is a list of people who are not in the CORE: q, janine, jeremy cogan, cynthia, jenn pae, mike, harish, preston, or anyone else. Shane is an ex-officio, and q is a moon. Todd has 9 votes, i have 7, edgar has 1, and jeff has 4. The function and purpose of the CORE is very difficult to understand and even more difficult to explain on a website. IM me if you need further details. Edgar and I just decided that the CORE will now use IRV.
If you dont know my screename, my primary name is: welovejp my office screename is: jeremycogan (i am really funny).
NEWS FLASH: The CORE just had a vote! We just voted to raise Edgars number of votes to 4, and lowered jeff's to 1.
What else is going on.....lots of fun stuff. Going to a Beck concert tonight, got four free tickets, that is fun. Hanging out with cool people. Having quite the time of my life.
Oh, i got written up the other day. that sucks. oh well. The international students are fun. We hang out. My residents move-in on Sunday. I am kinda sad about that, because I know that there is no way they could be as cool as my residents last year. I am glad some of them are going to be in my building over the summer.
Okay, gtg to the concert with JBK and Edgar. Peace out and IM me sometime.
6-08 So, i just looked at my web pages statistics thing and it says that my site has been hit 1238 times....that is crazy. This thing has only been up since december, and i hardly update it....
So, alot has happened since March 13th. I am president now, angie and i are no longer together, and the last week of me being an RA has come. The last week of me being a Junior has come. It is really weird to think that I will be graduating next year, and that I have to figure out what I want to do with my life. I told the New York Times people that I wanted to spend the next ten years of my life traveling the world: 2 years in Mexico City, 2 years in China, 2 years in Germany, 2 years in London or Australia, and 2 years in Peru. The idea is growing on me more and more. I am definitely NOT going to graduate school. I can barely handle attending class as it is.
So, i accidentally deleted the past 2 years worth of emails. I no longer have any email saved, and none of the documents/email address's that I did have saved from Entourage (MAC email program). I am gonna have to send in my MAC to the MAC people over the summer. When i moved, i messed up the screen, and it has been getting progressively worse. Oh well, i think i will be able to live without my computer for a few days. I dont think that there is anyway that I could have been as effective and efficient and everything without such a reliable computer. The technology that I posses has really saved me in quite a few instances. Like, onetime, I had to go to a drivers school class, and i woke up 15 minutes before the class began, searched frantically for the papers, which i had lost, called my dad on the cell, and got the location of where i was supposed to go (info got sent to permanent address), used my wireless PDA to get directions, and used the PDA while driving to the class. Showed up about 5 minutes late, and played video games on my PDA the whole time.
So, I am president now. It really is unbelievable how much stress comes with the job. I would have never guessed. I think i am dealing with it fairly well though, considering. With all the drama, I am doing well. I often feel that I am living in Paradise, without a care in the world. Look at where we are at: living a minute from the beach, surrounded by a bunch of awesome people our age, and our only responsibility is to learn. Sometimes, this paradise is interrupted by by horrible, horrible people and things, with flawed ideas, but we will resist and look for change. Alot of people are mad, and dont like UCSD, but I love it. I love it with every second of the day, and every ounce of passion that I have. We have the opportunity to do great things. The opportunity and potential to impact to an amazement that we don't yet even understand. The time for internal bickering, and internal nonsense needs to end. Lets strive to live life to its fullest and not look for easy.
I have a life to live.
3-13 Busy as I have ever been. I must say that I am happy though....with everything going on the people around me are still wonderful, and I love being around them. LOVE YOU ALL FOR LIFE!
1-21
So, it has been like a month since I wrote here last. I feel like it has
only been a few days though. I was talking with Jeff the other day and we
were making fun of people who keep diaries online and how weird they are.
After we were laughing for a bit, Jeff pointed out that I do it. Then, I
didn't think that it was so weird. It is funny how things like that work
out. I have alot of really tough and difficult decisions to make in the
next few weeks, as many of you know, but the thing I keep thinking to myself, is
that I know it will all work out in the end. I used to make fun of Jeff
for saying that, but it really does. Whatever happens, happens! and it is
the best thing that could happen because I will make that experience out to be
the best.
I wrote like 4 pages of poetry of the break, but i haven't even had a
chance to edit it or critique it at all so I wont put it up.
12-21 Heres a link to my the beginning of my poem. I am currently working on an identity hall sign. It is gonna be badass. The image will also go on the shirts!!!!
12-6 So i went to take a nap last night at 7:15pm, and here i am now waking up at 7:20am. Ooops.. it feels really good to get a lot of sleep though. It has been a little stressful with finals and everything else coming up. I cannot wait for finals to be over and to have 3 weeks off. It will be awesome!
Ok, I am off to co-op oversight. Let the fun begin.
12-3 It is Angie and my 7 month today. We both have been soooo busy lately, it has been CRAZY.
My favorite song right now is CREAM's "I'm so glad, i'm so glad."
*******NEWS ALERT***** Did you know that there is some way you can send a code to the mailing list processor and figure out what list people are on. The other day I got this random ass email saying that Steve Geist checked what lists I was on. HE IS SOOO WIERD. I AM SOOO GLAD HE HAS GIVEN MY COMPUTER BACK TO ME, THAT DAMN THIEF!