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Friday, November 24th, 2006
4:04 pm	bullshit ok, so i lost my job a little over a week ago. ever since, i've been a wreck. but why did i get fired? over complete bullshit. so i have a principal who doesn't know what she is doing. so in order for her to complete her duties, she dishes them down to the teachers and myself to do. i confronted her and told her that it is not our responsibility to do her job. so, that kinda sets the stage. she doesnt know what she's doing. she makes everyone do her job for her. she's insecure and defensive. so, sometime last week the principal was out and i was in charge. she's out of her office like 3 times a week. the next day she asked me how things went. i said fine, and this was a true statement. no kids got in fights, the school didnt burn down, nothing out of the ordinary happened. well, she found out a student was sent to my office and saw that as me withholding information from the principal. and in the most unprofessional way, she doesnt even confront me but takes it to the executive director and has me fired. what a bitch. yvonne flores is a bitch!! (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, November 13th, 2006
9:44 am	funny funny so it's monday, and it's back to school for students and teachers. i had one student come in early today and i asked him how his weekend was. he shrugged his shoulders and said boring. and then he asked me what i did. i told him nothing. and then he looks at me like i'm not telling him the whole truth and asks, "chris, did you go clubbing?" i replied with a no. he proceeded to ask me why, and i told him i dont like to dance. this is the best part... then my student cries out, "no, you're not suppose to dance--you're suppose to bump and grind." hahahaha!!!! (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Saturday, November 11th, 2006
6:01 pm	hahaha you guys are all great. i had know idea y'all were still reading. i feel so special. and yes, i'm back in portland. and the weather sucks right now. but not as bad as everyone thinks. it doesn't rain that much... but it is winter right now. shout outs to all my homies- much love liz, marge, ash. peace. (Comment on this)
1:46 pm	dear ashley, i think you're the only person who now reads my journal. i know that i dont update as often as i use to, but i'm glad that you're still interested. remember how we met? sitting in the back of that stupid pop culture lit class with denim boy. i cant beleive that was over 4 years ago. how fast time flies by. and it was such a coincidence that we both knew cody. what a small world. last night, i got so stoned. and i was driving to taco bell cause i had the munchies. and well, it was dusk time and everything had that weird sepia glow to it. and i was at a stop sign trying to make a right turn, and as i was about to go i realized that this girl was crossing the street and i almost hit her. of course she was wearing clothes that blended into this weird sepia lighting and i didnt see her. she smiled though. i took off as soon as i could and ended up peeling out. how embarrassing. (9 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, November 7th, 2006
9:35 pm	fill'er up! the gas station is one of my dogs' favorite places in the world. they get so excited every time i pull up next to a gas pump cause they always get fed dog treats by the attendants. that's right, here in oregon they pump the gas for you, and feed your dogs if you have any. they're so fucking cute. (Comment on this)
Tuesday, September 19th, 2006
7:12 pm	claw machines! i miss santa cruz!! i want to walk down laurel and cedar. i want to skate that sloped crosswalk on ocean and barson. i want to play the claw machine at safeway. someone take me to santa cruz, please. (Comment on this)
Wednesday, September 6th, 2006
11:39 am	bored. i'm like checking my email every 10 minutes and there's never anything in it. i wish someone would send me a nice message or something. i'm so bored i'd even enjoy deleting junk mail. what should i do after work? i only have $9 until next monday since rent was due yesterday. ughh... i hate dipping into my savings. write me. (Comment on this)
Tuesday, September 5th, 2006
3:30 pm	rip steve irwin my summer sucked. i quit my summer job too soon and ended up broke because i moved into a new apartment. good thing is that school started and i'm back to work. yay. nothing too exciting over here. my dogs are doing well. and i got a new rat. still need a name for the rat though. it's a girl. (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Thursday, August 18th, 2005
2:35 pm	bad habits. so i picked up this bad habit of flashing gang signs. REPRESENT! anyways, i feel like its gonna get me in trouble sooner or later. walked to santa cruz roasting company. didnt have enough money fo coffee. had to borrow a quarter from the casier to afford a cup of java. how lame am i? WESTSIDE [flashing some more gang signs at the computer]!! i called my mom today and asked her to send me pants. i need pants. oh, and fellow friends... i have changed my email address. i felt like it was time for a change. dinosaursgorarr@hotmail.com (Comment on this)
1:29 am	step-dads. ok, things have been going really well the past few weeks. plenty of time to relax, and work isnt much of a burden. here's a funny story... i went to the boardwalk the other night. i havent gone much at all this summer which is one thing i miss. i use to go all the time, but for some reason this summer i havent made much effort. anyways, i wait in line for the giant dipper [the best ride] and this eleven-teen girl behind me is having an asthma attack. her mom has this look of helplessness on her face, like she is truly concerned but doesnt know what to do. her dad though is being a total jerk and playing doctor as he continues to push her forward with the move of the line. he's telling her to take deep full breaths and exhale all the air out of her lungs. i'm sure he was trying to help, but the kid couldnt breathe. she was having an asthma attack. she started crying and coughing. i felt so bad. i wished i had asthma at that moment so i could lend her my inhaler. anyways, we make it to the front of the line and took our places for the ride. cody and i got in the very front, and the family was right behind us. the dad says (and these are his exact words, i kid you not), "she's not feeling well [bending his arm at the elbow and pointing as if his daughter was diseased] so i'm gonna go on this ride." what the fuck seriously? the mom and the girl leave the ride and the dad rides the roller coaster by himself. i told my old housemates about what happened, and this is where it gets funny. they were like that was not her dad. that sounds more like a step-dad. hahaha!! it only would make sense. i went to the monterey bay aquarium today by myself. i had so much fun. the jellyfishes and the touch pools were my favorites. i got to pet a shark, skate, and sting ray. i am the fucking man, if you ask me. i ended it up making the whole trip into a skate trip, and skating around monterey. i also met this group of kids at the aquarium where we played tag for 30+ minutes before i realized i should get my money's worth at the aqaurium. emily got it right saying i'm such a kid. it feels good to have no worries. the drive was fun, windows down and music blasting. fugazi and against me. i wonder why i haven't played repeater for so long because that is one fucking awesome album. spent some time with linzy at the bar. did you know its free pool every wednesday at the rush? she actually came out which i didnt expect since she said she might not cause she has to get up early in the morning. but she came out, which i think is a good thing. note to self, make linzy a mix tape before she goes on her road trip. love to all. hope everyone's smiling and pooping once a day. gotta stay regular. (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Friday, August 12th, 2005
2:25 am	yo. havent updated in a while. in a long time actually. kinda falling out of this. dont know who's reading, and the regulars aren't posting. anyways... life is good. kind of fell off the face of the planet but i like that feeling. no attatchment to anything. i moved out of my old place and into my new studio. its nice to have a place all to my own. my mess is my mess, and nothing to complain about but my own faults. the studio is really nice, but my friend curt broke his foot one night while we were out smoking in the backyard. kinda dumb, kinda funny. feel sorry for him though because he needed surgery and has a backpacking trip to south america soon. fingers crossed. moving into my new place has been the big event of my life recently. and i feel like an old person going to places like cost plus, ross, bed bath and beyond, thrift stores, etc. to find shit to fill up my place. so far my major purchases have been a papasan chair, a cute kitchen mat, bath mat, sweetheart orchids, and food to fill up my fridge. i even bought flowers and gardening stuff to color up my yard. but its nice doing stuff like mowing the yard and planting flowers than to be doing nothing all day. my puppy comes home at the end of this month. that's less than three weeks. i have officially decided to name her bea wepeel. bea for short; bea wepeel for the full and formal, and b-dub for the nickname. hahaha. i am obssessed with my puppy. away from the big move, i have been spending a lot of my time fishing up at the lake. i havent had much luck catching trout these days, but its gonna get slow it being the end of the season. i've been trying to read a lot, but this summer has not been the summer of reading like the last. i did go to the boardwalk today by myself. i played a bunch of games. mostly skeeball. and this jurassic park shooting game where the raptors are pretty scary. i took a bunch of pictures in the photo booth. i got made fun of later when i told my friends i went alone. there's nothing with spending some time solo. santa cruz is great. planning on sticking around for a while longer. then i'll see where to next. gonna visit portland in a bit. not going to stay for too long. just to say hi and what's up to the family. gonna surprise them with the puppy. i bet my folks will think i'm stupid for getting a dog. whatever. my camping trip got cancelled, but its ok. i kinda didnt want to go either all of a sudden. just too much stuff happenning where i just dont want to leave it hanging. man, the orchids really look good. they're all white and pink, and miniature. tiny orchids. and the vincas. if you could see them. they're doing so well. but the other flowers... not so good. i am in love with my manager at work. i only wish i can tell her that. i bet we're both making a thousand excuses of why it wont work, but thats because we both dont know anything about each other. i wear a size 9 shoe and my eyes are brown. shit, i think thats enough about me. out like trout, over and trout, three strike and you're trout! (11 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, June 21st, 2005
7:17 pm	kerouac summer. its been a while since i have written in here. guess i had nothing to write about. but now that school is done and over with [forever] and summer has started, nothing is holding me down. take for example my last 24 hours consisted of: fishing up at loch lommond with cody and keith. we were out there for 4+ plus and we were actually having luck catching trout. it was really fun. i dunno... sitting on a boat in a lake surrounded by forest, and catching trout. we caught a total of 4 fish. that's the best luck we've all ever had considering none of us has ever caught something at loch lommond. we tried to catch and release every catch, but one just didnt have the will to live. it was a real wuss. damn farm trouts arent cut out for the wild. wimps. so i took it home and gutted it and cooked it up. butter, garlic, salt, pepper, and rosemary. best trout i've ever had. after fishing, we headed over to beka's place and hung out with her and el nino. the boys and i had been talking about the moonrocks eariler, and beka brought it up all of a sudden, so the best thing to do is just go. we were tired. under the sun all day, stoned, beka trying to get booze in us, and just plain tired. but we were soldiers. we drove out the 20-some minute drive, hiked the 20-some minute hike, and made it to the top of the moonrocks. i dunno if its a full moon yet, but it looked just fine. the moonrocks were just glowing and the tempature was perfect. we explored around, smoked in a cave, hollered out and listened to our echoes carry, climbed into the womb, watch beka set her hair on fire [by mistake], carved our says into the ground [i wrote 'trout'], and just chilled. eventually we trekked our way down; sliding on some footpaths on the way down. way chill. after the moonrocks, we were all hungry. we're always hungry. and lately we have been talking about how the east coast and the city always have tons of places open all night to chow. we started talking about how good chinese food would be right then and now, so we decided to drive up to the city. beka, this whole chinese food excursion being her idea, passed and opted for sleep. the boys and i decided the night wasn't over and drove up to san francisco. well, as far as all night chinese joints... bullshit. we drove around chinatown for nearly two hours before the first anything opened up. we hit up a bakery and grubbed on some janky ham sandwiches and coffee cake. finally some dim sum joint opened up and we hit it up only to be ripped off. i dont think anyone should have to pay $30 for breakfast at some janky chinese joint. but man, they had some mean looking cats in there. we ate our food and left to go back down to santa cruz. but before we hit the freeway, i bought some pop-its from some chinese dood. five boxes for a dollar. keith, cody, and i all got one and we started having a pop-its war in my car. huge mess. rocks and sawdust all over my car. we threw it at chumps and joggers too as we drove by. cody eventually gave into exhaustion and fell asleep in the car. keith and i being wonderful friends, also known as dicks, tried to throw pop-its by his face to wake him up. lucky dood got nothing but duds thrown at him, and keith and i just ended up looking stupid. as we're driving on the last stretch to santa cruz, fishing still in our bones, we decided to pull over and try to find the road that takes you to this huge resevoir off the 17. keith and i went to check it out as cody slept in the car. the place looked fishable, so we grabbed our poles and tackle box, and headed down to the water. place sucked. we kept losing our hooks and lure. said fuck it, smoked a bowl, and bounced. finally hit santa cruz around 9:30am. cody is just a zombie. walking out of the car and into the house. keith and i took our dim sum leftovers and left the at beka's door along with some pop-its and a rude awakening. didnt phase her. she didnt even call me until 1 or 2. but the story is, this summer's motto is skate or die trying. but i'm applying it more to than just skateboarding. i'm living here. its fun. i'm exhausted. and i also won a free massage. i'm going in thursday. i really need one too. good thing i won. and its legit. not those happy ending massages. batman begins is a let down. unsane and red sparrow are awesome. julie is hot. rock shows are fun again. spider bites hurt. today is national go skateboarding day. and i need sleep. peace. (Comment on this)
Friday, June 10th, 2005
2:06 am	hello. family's coming into town soon. they'll be here in less than 12 hours. it's weird. i havent seen them since christmas, and i do miss them, but i am not entirely enthused that they'll be coming here. i just hope it'll be easy. graduation in less than 48 hours. i think. i'll have to double check my graduation time and also let my family know when it is. i figure that kind of stuff is important. peace out. its sleepy time. (Comment on this)
Sunday, June 5th, 2005
11:47 am	yo freaks. graduation in a week. final exam and paper due tomorrow. haven't read anything for weeks. family's coming down for it. new weezer album sucks. but it's growing on me. but i still think it sucks. the new alkaline trio album is really good. well, i think it is. turned 22 last week. i feel old. stuck in a spot in life where i dont know the answers to the questions "where to next?" or "now what?". chicago? i dunno why i am drawn so much to the windy city. i've never been. cut my finger last night on a pizza cutter. thing is sharp. felt it slice right through me... and then the pizza. hahaha. how gross. i need to start studying. i need to pay rent. it's been a while since i enjoyed a jamba juice. but coffee sounds nice right now too. i always feel cold. what happened to my circulation? (4 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, May 2nd, 2005
6:02 pm	is this thing on? 1. i hate school. 2. school is almost over. 3. forever? 4. lady with slight amnesia. 5. crazzzzy. 6. fernie lucille. 7. sexappeal fool. 8. best laugh ever. 9. class canceled. 10. only when i try to go. peace out. (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, March 28th, 2005
8:26 pm	i can smell the up-g coming in. spring break has ended and school has started up again. i have mixed feelings about school. first of all, i'm almost done. this is my last quarter. second, it is always fun to look at all the new faces in class. but then, there is reading to do and papers to write. all this stuff called "work". for spring break, cody, ann, and i went down to san clemente. it was fun. nothing but eating chocolate, smoking, staying up late, skating, and surfing. san clemente is really something else. i know i didnt get the full vibe while i was down there, but i know i would love it. honestly, if cody can get his grandma's beach house, i'm there. skating was mediocre. i had fun and the photos to prove it. but we didn't know the area very well to find some decent street spots. there was this awesome sloped wall... i dunno, a wall; maybe an embankment. but it was so fun to ollie up and try to ride it out. almost like quasi-wallriding. we also skated some spots in astascadero. that was a lot of fun because i like skating at night. no one really out there to kick you out of where ever we are. surfing was great. we only got to go out once and the water was a bit choppy, but i caught my share of waves. i'll tell you one thing- surfing wipes you out. and i had to wear a zipperless wetsuit which was like trying to crawl back into your mother's womb putting it on, and giving birth when taking it off. i'd like to go out again. now that i'm back in santa cruz, i have fallen back into the same rut. smoke, skate, sleep. and on weekends i work. i feel more confident in my skating. i started setting up my own street spots. like up on campus, i found this great ledge and pushed a picnic table by it leaving a decent sized gap between the two. take a deep breath and go for it... clear the gap and hit the table. it was pretty sick. but i had a couple gnarly falls too. like i almost landed in a trash can head first, but managed to get out of the way and landed on my back. this girl came to help me but i told her it happens all the time and that i was all right. i bet it looked like it hurt; falling 3+ feet onto my back, but i didnt feel a thing. ok, enough about skating. school should be fun. i havent signed up for any classes, but i am attempting to crash all of them. one of them so far seems really cool. some american studies class. and then i'm trying to get into the politics of obesity and geologic principles so i can dig up dirt and know what kind of dirt it is. woo! peace out friends. emily, where's my email? (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Friday, March 11th, 2005
11:19 am	so yeah... i'm done for the quarter. well, i have one thing to turn in but its not a big deal. no finals, though. i am already sick of work [joe's pizza]. i hate giving up my weekends. but i guess i have the next three weeks or so to chill out. 1. round 3. 2. chris haslam's part in round 3. 3. kickflips on carpet. 4. sore throat. 5. finished my major. 6. spring break. 7. iron chef. 8. the beach. 9. sleep. 10. becca. (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Friday, March 4th, 2005
10:07 am	thank you, beth! i received a wonderful package from beth along with some sticky notes back from the crew up in the p-town. thanks beth. the posters are great and the zines are awesome. what address did you use last time? just curious. it's friday. it's raining. and i have to work tonight. i'm not too excited about it. plus, there's only one week left in the quarter and i have so much work to finish before then. senior essay, final essay, final portfolio, quizzes, and volunteer hours. ughh... this morning i had to go poop so bad. i thought maybe i could just hold it and catch the bus up to campus and drop one then. but then all of a sudden i thought i was going to explode. and worst part is that my bathroom is out of toilet paper. to make a long story short, i missed the bus and i went #2. like a hunter and gatherer, i searched for anything that was toilet safe and butthole soft. hahahaha. its always about poop with me. (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Wednesday, March 2nd, 2005
11:19 pm	ehhh [shrugs shoulders]. today was decent. i went to the elementary school and helped out for a couple of hours, and then skated for hours. after that i had to go back up to campus for a meeting. then kelly and i talked. with all the differences between us, i'm glad that we finally got things off our chest and concluded that we shouldn't hang out as much because i can't give her what she wants. it sounds really crappy, but i'm happy. it got a little too serious for me i guess. i'm not ready. on another note- my russian/latvian friend, kate, who has emailed me searching for "the love of a foreigner" died. i'm not quite sure what happened. her friend karen emailed me about her passing. something about getting mugged and head injuries. it's sad. but the funny thing is, is that karen has moved in on making her moves and now has been emailing me. hahaha. desperate soviets. i also got my old job back as a pizza delivery driver. its really a stressful job for how easy it is. but the tips are good. easy money. but i work weekends so that means no leaving town for a while. it would be nice to visit. 1. yeah right. 2. the beatles - revolver. 3. 50-50s. 4. rick mccrank's part in yeah right. 5. senior essay. 6. ebaum's world. 7. tips. 8. gault elementary. 9. effe. 10. ganj. (5 Comments |Comment on this)
12:42 am	it's raining. the weather matches my mood. here's a funny story: so i skated for a long time the other day. i'm sweaty and tired and in need of a drink. i go home to grab my wallet and to see if anyone else wants to come with me to 7-11. cody and i are walking to 7-11 and my junk is just causing problems. i think it was because of the sweat with my nutsac all sticking to my legs and what not. that's uncomfortable. so i reach down my pants to readjust my junk and some ladies see me and starting yelling at me for being a disgusting bastard. all i could do was laugh at them as they were grossed out. i can't help it. i'm sure not walking back home with my nuts stuck to my leg. hahaha. genatilias. the end of an era has come. the trout is dead. (1 Comment |Comment on this)