30 April 2007

it's playoff season, kids

spurs are in it. about to start game 4 (up 2-1) in denver. i love my spurs.

tony parker is so hott. i hate that i still think this, but there's no denying it. i love tp.

and charles barkley on tnt. this is also a big reason for me loving basketball on tv. he cracks me up. i wish steve kerr was here with him. oh steve.

oh yeah, that timmy guy. he's got game. HA. timmy. please squash melo yellow and yank on one of iverson's tight tight braids. thanks.

wouldn't it be so cute if iverson and carmelo came out with matching braids for game five? all the spurs are shaved or cropped close. i wonder if popovich makes them do that...

ok, watching the game now.

25 April 2007

sanantonio

been in south texas since friday afternoon.
 
i've already done mini graffiti tours in san antonio and austin, spoken to two teenage boys about their sweet rides, been poked prodded and hugged by at least 20 little old ladies (lol's) and danced the boot scootin' boogie with about 20 of my cousins.
 
time well spent with my ma, pa, bro and grams. i love them and this place. i really am ready to come back. forrealz.
 
this afternoon, after some pizza and mexican coke, my dad dropped me off at my mom's elementary. they kids were making little fiesta floats out of shoeboxes. i loved doing that when i was in school. then we went out to play in the toasty sun. after a water break and snack one of the kids asked if they could listen to john mayer (he asked in spanish) and all the other kids cheered. yes, these little kiddies love the j.may. i love that.

18 April 2007

happy

happy cos i'll be in texas in two days with my family. it'll be warm there too. and i won't have to do work for a week.

it's fiesta week and there's tons of stuff going on. a luncheon, a wedding, and a baby shower. parades and festivals. hiking trips, movie dates and graffiti explorations.

i lived in san antonio for 16 years. then on and off for the last 8. (even though i've been working in boston the last two i still consider myself only here part-time.) every trip home is great and especially now, i haven't been home since x-mas- almost 4 months- it's like a big re-connection for me.
i need to charge up my 'hometown' batteries. climb a giant hill with daddy and just cuddle with mommy. pinch baby david. get full of shrimp fajitas and whataburgers and cherry limeades. it will all be good for the soul, ya know. it'll help me get over the grey slump of current life and get more pumped for spring in boston.

i'm so happy. feel like singing a pat green song.

(i feel happy like this only when i stop watching the news and don't troll the internet for the latest updates. still. the latest news today has me sad about the families of the dead, sympathetic to all the vtech kids, worried about all the outcasts at american college, and horrified by the number of people killed in iraq.)

16 April 2007

manic monday

this morning i woke up to more rain showers, as was expected.

drove to work and spent the day obsessively reading news reports on the tragedy at virginia tech. i have this weird addiction to newsfeeds, particularly when something horrible happens.

this really was horrible. the first report with one dead and 7 shot, from the morning, was sad enough. being out of college for only 2 years, this setting and location is so close to what i know. the reality of it makes it scarier.

today is ending with 33 people dead including the gunman. the biggest mass shooting in us history. completely tragic.

when reading the same news report for the third or fourth time today, it hit me though- 33 people died, not a small number at all. but compared to the number dying everysingleday in iraq and elsewhere in the world its only a small sample. those people in the middle east were also just going about there business - schools, cafes, parliament- when they get killed by bombs and guns and suicide attacks. nyt reports that 34 people died in baghdad on sunday. thats one city and one day alone. these things happen everyday.

i think the repetitiveness and frequency of foreign casualties has caused me to not notice as much. i see the headlines everyday, but they never stick out. it's nothing "out of the ordinary", per se. i grew up with outkast singing 'bombs over baghdad' and for much of my life its just song lyrics and stories from far away. then things like this happen. peoples faces that could be pulled from any street in america and classic college campus scenes i recognize being shown with armed men racing across and injured people being carried away somehow help me to grasp the horrors overseas much clearer. 33 american college students and faculty, people just like me, died today. but also those 34 people that died in iraq on sunday were also like me, because they were human. every death is horrible and tragic. it's ridiculous that it takes events like today to remind me of the relative tragedy near and far every day. reminds me that i am just an ignorant kid living in the american bubble even though i try not to be. i'll just have to have to work harder. can't keep waiting on the world to change.

15 April 2007

freaky sunday

spent all day in the house cos it's rainy and cold out. horrid boston. oh well. texas in 5 days. woohoo.

i am now fully caught up on 'black donnelly's', which they were showing on nbc, but now may or may not be cancelled. i hope not. i really like it.

turned on the tele and found 'day after tomorrow' playing on fx. i remember watching this movie the day before heading to nyc senior year. and at that time the ground was coated in snow and i freaked out anna by telling her, what if that happens when we're in nyc!?!?! what if we get stuck in the public library?!?!

now its a rainy rainy day just like the start of the movie, before the blizzard hits the east coast. movies like this are scarier when your surroundings are similar to those in the a 'scary' movie. it's so farfetched and so feasible at the same time. freaky.

favorite parts of the movie:
americans fleeing into mexico
the librarians freaking out about book burning
librarians arguing about which books to burn
every scene with jake gyllenhaal

13 April 2007

tried to make me go to rehab

i said no no no.

i heard amy winehouse's rehab song on the radio twice today. once on the drive in to work and once on the way home. both times on fnx. both times it was the first song i heard when switching from cd to radio. and both times i had just been listening to amy winehouse's cd back to black which i am in love with.

i'm glad she's getting played cos i love it and now when i hum/sing the song to myself people will not think i'm an alcoholic or crazy. at least not totally. no more than amy winehouse

whatever.

i might go to her concert on my own next month. i think it'd be good for me to be able to attend a concert on my own. we'll see.

chocolate bubble yum?

from mcsweeney's reviews of new food, http://www.mcsweeneys.net/links/newfood/#BubbleYumHersheysGenuineChocolateFlavor:

Bubble Yum:
Hershey's Genuine Chocolate Flavor

Submitted by Angela Colford

I didn't expect chocolate-flavored bubblegum to taste good. I knew better than that. I wasn't surprised by the sensation of eating a never-ending Tootsie Roll. I was only slightly alarmed by the odd shininess that the gum acquired after a few minutes of chewing. I was even prepared for the cocoa-powder-meets-inner-tube texture. The only thing about this chewing experience that seemed extraordinary to me was that, though the flavor's brand was purported to be Hershey's, the chocolate flavor waxing my tongue was oddly Nestlé-esque. Also, it cost 95 cents for a five-piece pack, which is just too expensive for something so fucking gross.


i love chocolate. but of course, one must expect this to be disGUSting. so reading this at 5pm on a friday afternoon is funny.

12 April 2007

it's super grey and rainy out

i do wish i really did have a secret boyfriend. that would be fun.

(probably only my roomates will think that is funny.)

(i'm lame.)

btw, listening to chester french and brendan benson and loving these dudes. i like finding things on my computer that i dl ages ago...

10 April 2007

haha... um.

these are definitely not all true for me, maybe i'm too young... still, i 'get' the jokes so they're funny none-the-less.

You Know You're From San Antonio When...

  • You lost your virginity at mission drive-in
  • You know exactly how to get to the "Ghost Tracks" from anywhere in town.
  • You think "pro-choice" means flour or corn tortillas.
  • You've never been to the Alamo.
  • You think a health drink is a Margarita without salt.
  • You think being able to read the Taco Cabana menu makes you bilingual.
  • You used to live in a neighborhood you wouldn't even drive through now.
  • There has been a road crew on your street since before the Alamodome was built.
  • You remember when Crossroads Mall used to be called Wonderland.
  • You've been to Midget Mansion.
  • You know all about the "Dancing Diablo" and the "Donkey Lady" bridge.
  • You know that Wheatley and Brackenridge is the same school.
  • You remember the Captain Gus show.
  • Your subwoofer has twice the value of your car.
  • You have three rodeo outfits but never have been on a horse
  • You're an expert with the brake pedal, but you have no idea what a blinker is.
  • Your idea of culture is wearing a Hard Rock T-shirt.
  • You think the last supper was at Mi Tierra restaurant.
  • You do your grocery shopping at a flea market.
  • You think local politicians are crooks, but you still do not vote.
  • You have a "Selena Lives" bumper sticker on your car.
  • You care if San Antonio is in the "national spotlight".
  • A formal occasion is getting a glass with your longneck.
  • You believe Tacos, barbecue, tequilla, and beer are the four basic food groups.
  • You rented Pulp Fiction to escape the everyday violence of the city.
  • You think wearing bows in your hair will get you a husband.
  • Your White mother learned how to make Tamales & Menudo from your neighbors.
  • You know the "real" definition of FIESTA is "stay home if at all possible".
  • You have ordered Mexican food at a Chinese restaurant.
  • You had breakfast tacos at Taco Cabana on Christmas morning.
  • You remember the Joske's Christmas display.
  • You remember when JC Penney's had a restaurant.
  • You remember hamburgers from Whopper Burger.
  • You're elementary field trip was to the Butter Crust Bakery.
  • You actually get these jokes and pass them on to other friends from San Antonio.

08 April 2007

happy

easter.

went to church. missed the fam. played wii. took a nap. cut the cheese. HAHAHA!

went to catherine's. played boccie. prayed silently. pigged out. played more boccie. ate three kinds of pie. felt fat. played with cute puppies.

had a good time.

happy rising to one and all.

07 April 2007

eastertide

tomorrow's easter. pretty much the most important holiday for christians. the resurrection is core to our faith and tomorrow's celebration of jesus rising from the dead his ascension into heaven makes our holy trinity complete.

(does it seem weird that i wander from talking about snow and concerts on previous posts into a sudden religious rant? trust me. this one's more important to who i am.)

tomorrow i plan on going to an early mass and then in the evening going over to a friend's house for easter dinner. at this easter there may be 2 or 3 or even 4 christians. then some jews, agnostics and atheists thrown in to the mix. kind of different from what i'm used to.

it's weird this year. it's the first time i haven't been able to go home for easter. and the first time i really feel 'out in the world' so to speak. at home in san antonio, a big percentage of people are christian. same for tams. and bc, obviously, a catholic school. even last year i had one catholic roommate. i've always sort of been surrounded by people with beliefs similar to my own.

now i live in a house where i'm the only christian. and it's not like i'm a catholic fanatic. i'm not even a very good, by-the-book type catholic. but i do have beliefs and faith and an allegiance to the catholic church. yet now i'm the odd man out it seems, at work and at home and with friends. kind of a different place for me. it's awkward having people make derogatory comments about things i believe in, my faith. and i know they aren't saying these things as personal attacks on me and they might not even see them as derogatory. they really just don't understand, don't believe, or don't agree with things i have strong faith in.

and it's uncomfortable cos i don't like to just listen to these things without arguing back, defending and explaining my position and faith. also i don't really believe 'defending' my faith should ever be neccessary. i think people believe or they don't, i shouldn't have to convince them to agree with something i find so definite and true, just hope that they find it on their own. and besides, i feel like most times they don't want to hear the other side and it can really turn a social situation awkward by talking about my belief in the resurrection and why easter is so important and so real and how the communion at church really is the body of christ, without sounding like a lunatic or a cannibal. so instead now i just keep quiet, roll my eyes, or leave the room. i don't want to 'convert' all these people to my side of things. and i don't want to live in a world where everyone believes the exact same thing. i appreciate the diversity of life and the people around me.

just sometimes, i like being in a place where i don't feel defensive about my faith. i know it's good to question things so as to learn more and grow. but sometimes i like to sit and be enveloped in common faith. at bc and home it was great because if i didn't feel like being questioned or pushed, there are always people who are more knowledgeable and more faithful right next to me, able to help out and 'show the way.' i feel like in my immediate life situation, locally more than emotionally, i am the person with the strongest faith. and it's a heavy burden. i guess that's what they're always talking about in the bible tho. bearing that mark of faith is a challenge and it/i will only come out stronger.

/end rant

so yes. tomorrow church and food and friends but no family which sucks.

BUT.

in two weeks i will be home in dear south texas. it's spring and fiesta in san antonio. i really hope the bluebonnets will still be out. i'm so excited to spend time with my parents and baby brother. i want to go to oysterbake, a parade or two, and niosa. i want to eat bean and cheese tacos and shrimp fajitas and all the paletas i can find. i plan on hiking and shopping and walking and just sitting with people i love in the sun or in the a/c. a late spring break to spend some time with the fam. SO excited, i can't wait. 13 more days. :)

04 April 2007

why i need to move, reason #89734

it is april 4 and it is snowing in boston.

it's 80 at home in south texas.

just sayin'. there are differences. and who would actually pick to have soggy, slushy snow in april? after 6 years, its ENOUGH!

i thought of a new way to judge when it is finally decent weather - i won't have to wear sweatpants and a hoodie to bed anymore. yeah, that'd be great...

02 April 2007

yizzooo

have a wii controller and a tennis racket. now i can play wii and real tennis. how exciting. if only i had the energy/sun. sometime soon.

ncaa championship tonight. i didn't even complete a pool and none of the teams i like are even in it. i pick florida. just cos. we'll seek.

working downtown has pluses and minuses. today the plus was yummy food and the minus was ouchy feet. we'll see what tomorrow brings...

the queens just a pawn with a bunch of fancy moves... yay! gym class heroes in may!! so excited.

easter on sunday. sad i won't be with the fam. sucks. hope we have a good one here...