I have blogged abouy a lot of the problems that I have had in the past. I would say that if you are ever in a situation like mine in 2005, it is important to focus on the new opportunities that are now available to you. It may be difficult to think about anything other than how your life is crumbling around you but it is important to focus on your newfound opportunites and consolie yourself with your success as opposed to letting other catastrophic occurences drag you down too much.
Thats all that I have for this week...
Thursday, June 24, 2010
Tuesday, June 15, 2010
6/15/2010
My birthday is in a few days so I have taken this time as an opportunity to reflect on things. I have kept these things in perspective, though. People who focus on the obscure past a bit too much are always interesting to me. Especially when it is not something positive. Those people generally have an agenda if its something negative concerning someone else: I don't think that the obscure past should cause too much of a disconnect from a person's ability to perceive current reality. I definitely am not saying that the negative past never matters. I am just saying that its good to be aware of when it does and does not matter/ is or is not relevant.
I definitely am not where I aimed to be by the time I reached my birthday this year. Supposedly its still just an issue of submitting an application. Hopefully things will improve in the near future.
I was board recently so I picked up a cook book and started thumbing through it. I know how to make a few different things but I wouldn't call myself a "cook" by any stretch. Who knows...the next time I invite a girl over maybe I could impress her somehow. I realized that I don't have enough of the tools that are necessary to cook anything more advanced than what I am making right now. I don't have a blow torch on hand that chef's use to cook certain dishes... Maybe thats the measuring point of who is really serious about it and who isn't.
I definitely am not where I aimed to be by the time I reached my birthday this year. Supposedly its still just an issue of submitting an application. Hopefully things will improve in the near future.
I was board recently so I picked up a cook book and started thumbing through it. I know how to make a few different things but I wouldn't call myself a "cook" by any stretch. Who knows...the next time I invite a girl over maybe I could impress her somehow. I realized that I don't have enough of the tools that are necessary to cook anything more advanced than what I am making right now. I don't have a blow torch on hand that chef's use to cook certain dishes... Maybe thats the measuring point of who is really serious about it and who isn't.
Friday, June 11, 2010
Fun with Pets
Is it inherently weak to accuse a dehydrated man of driking all of the water? I don't mean this literally but someone thought that I was "accusing the dehydrated man of drinking all of the water" recently. Sort of thing recently...
In one of my past blogs, I mentioned that there was a cat that lived in one of my previous residences. There is also a cat at my current residence. This cat is interesting because sometimes it wants me to pet it. Other times it either ignores me ort bites me. There was an incident where someone kicked the cat recently (Not a hard but a kick nontheless). Because of the cats behavior towards me I was a bit ambivlaent toward the kick. I guess that its different if its "your" cat.
This is interesting. I am not sure how many people have ever picked up a behavior from a dog but... Once, around ten years ago, I was walking home from class when I saw a dog sitting on the neighbor's porch. It ususually just looked at me as I walked by. I decided to try to intereact with it: I started clicking my tongue and whistling at it. A Very unsettled look came across it's face and it looked in the direction opposite of where I was standing. I, feeling rejected, said "Hey! Hey!" It continued to ignore me. I walked in the diorection it was looking and stood there. It looked in the direction opposite of where I was standing. I gave up and walked away. I told a friend about it once and their response was "Andre, its just a dog. It doesn't matter." Occasionally I find myself doing the same thing that that dog did. If someone who I want nothing to do with starts bothering me I get an Extremely unsettled look on my face and look in the opposite direction. Works like a charm.
In one of my past blogs, I mentioned that there was a cat that lived in one of my previous residences. There is also a cat at my current residence. This cat is interesting because sometimes it wants me to pet it. Other times it either ignores me ort bites me. There was an incident where someone kicked the cat recently (Not a hard but a kick nontheless). Because of the cats behavior towards me I was a bit ambivlaent toward the kick. I guess that its different if its "your" cat.
This is interesting. I am not sure how many people have ever picked up a behavior from a dog but... Once, around ten years ago, I was walking home from class when I saw a dog sitting on the neighbor's porch. It ususually just looked at me as I walked by. I decided to try to intereact with it: I started clicking my tongue and whistling at it. A Very unsettled look came across it's face and it looked in the direction opposite of where I was standing. I, feeling rejected, said "Hey! Hey!" It continued to ignore me. I walked in the diorection it was looking and stood there. It looked in the direction opposite of where I was standing. I gave up and walked away. I told a friend about it once and their response was "Andre, its just a dog. It doesn't matter." Occasionally I find myself doing the same thing that that dog did. If someone who I want nothing to do with starts bothering me I get an Extremely unsettled look on my face and look in the opposite direction. Works like a charm.
Tuesday, June 8, 2010
6/8/2010
I have a payphone in the house that I live in that is the "house phone." The other day I was trying to figure out why it costs $4.50 to call the East cost of the U.S. from SoCal using the phone...Thats not very interesting but it is one of the more interesting things that has happened recently.
I don't remember a lot from when i was a kid. I do remember those "raps" that they used to make up to keep kids away from drugs or help kids memorize the the 50 states etc. It wasn't anything that a talented rapper wrote. It was always a rap that your 60 year old 2nd grade teacher wrote during her lunch break. I think that those types of "raps" could still be effective at this age. "Its not Cool to smell like Stool: Shower Power!"
I don't remember a lot from when i was a kid. I do remember those "raps" that they used to make up to keep kids away from drugs or help kids memorize the the 50 states etc. It wasn't anything that a talented rapper wrote. It was always a rap that your 60 year old 2nd grade teacher wrote during her lunch break. I think that those types of "raps" could still be effective at this age. "Its not Cool to smell like Stool: Shower Power!"
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