April fools day!

Or is it? This was on the mind of Maria Bui all day today....

Anywho, Maria called me this morning after I had got back from clubbing. I got home at around 6 or 7, and then I had to dry my blanket. I had put it in the wash and forgot to dry it... So I was freezing cold on the couch this morning. I fell asleep with a quilt that just covered my torso. Maria called sometime at 11 giving about four hours of sleep. She wanted to know if I still had wanted to go to the beach. I did.. however, I also wanted to sleep. So, She said we were going, I said I'd take a shower and she said that she'd call me back. She then told me that Justin was getting replaced by Kai cause Justin had to do something.

Next thing ya know I see that she called while I was in the shower. I called her back and she said she was going shopping real quick for beach stuff... I said I need to go real quick too.

So we went real quick to the great mall. We walked through the Van's skatepark where I was thankful that they created this place. Ya see.... If the skaters are at the skate park, they are less likely to be in contact to the fender of my car.

Anywho, we got these cute clothes and headed to eat. I grabbed food from home and then we went to Kai's house where he made us pizza. Yum. Finally at around 2:20 we head out to Carmel by the Sea. Well, I fell asleep. When I woke up we were in Monterey and I was groggy. Maria asked if we were supposed to turn.. I said... we're fine .. or something in my grogginess. As I woke up I realized that Maria was right. We needed to go down the Monterey Peninsula. Then low and behold a sign we never seen before appeared that said Monterey Penninsula. We go on it and eventually we get to this highway 68 which we follow all the way to Monterey and Carmel.

Carmel was cold and overcast. We staked our place on the beach and ate. Maria was cold. Then a patch of sun came out for a moment. Not that long though.... we then left to go home.

On our way home we decided to go the long way by going to Santa Cruz. As we traveled away from Carmel, the overcast disappeared. There were a lot of artichokes. I love artichokes. To the point where we stopped at a fruit stand to get some... and strawberries.. and bananas... and ice-cream. Strawberry pits and banana peels make great bombs when they are discarded out of a moving vehicle.

Maria made some very interesting maneuvers that made me say my patented "we are going to die" saying. Not seeing poles.... almost hitting backs of stopped vehicles... all very exciting. Things like that make you see your life flash before your eyes. I say kindergarten, 1st grade, second grade.... Thank god for Maria's driving... or I'd never remember these memories... Ha ha

Anywho, we went to Seacliffe beach. There was a derelict ship there. The beach was smelly but it was sunny. We laid there and made fun of people. Especially this lady that was trying to fly a kite.

I then went home and made a nice risotto and mussels and halibut steaks... yum

Funny thing happened today. I started missing Mr. Cutie Head again. I guess it comes and goes. So, I'm doing one of those exercises that I learned during priesthood training at the temple.... meditation through celibacy. Let's see how long it lasts.... ha ha

 

Kai, Kai

 

Bowling is tiring. I was so hungry at the bowling alley. I scared this guy by dropping my ball. He was slightly hysterical. Almost in a homosexual sorta way. Well, whatever.

Stayed up most of the night watching the presentations on the congressional subcommittee on human cloning. Quite interesting. I must say. There are a lot of crazy people out there

Mariae whole company got laid off today. Very sad. But she's happy cause now she gets to move to Texas! No more carpool for me :(

Oh, and we're planning a highschool reunion at my house. Yah! It will be Italian themed I suppose.

I spent the day with Mr. Cutie Head. We had fun cooking roast beef and eating and drinking. I bought him a jug-0-chianti from Macaroni Grill . Mr. Cutie Head is what some people may consider to be a lush.

Happy Happy Happy

Ok, for reals now.. I;ve decided to go to UC Davis for my PhD. I sent the rejection letter to UC Berkeley and the acceptance letter to UC Davis and everything. Now the fun part. My co-worker and I are planning to move into together and be poor in the fall. Most likely we'll move to Concord or Walnut Creek, but maybe into the city. Who knows. Anywho, Maria and I are off to the driving range.

Went to Unique last night.. hated it.... Went to 1984 tonight with Petra.. fun fun fun...

I went to eat McDonalds with Maria and had their chicken wings dealio.... I was pleasantly impressed by them and think I will eat them again one day.

I then went home to change. I bought this cute belt from the mall with studs and stuff from Macy's. !984 is an 80s club so I wanted to be in 80's attire. I end up wearing a black tank top with pleather black pants and a black leather belt with two rows of metal studs on them.

I ended up getting to Petra's place in Berkeley late. I picked Petra and her friend Misha (sp) up and we headed out to the city. Parking was horrible and we stood in line for what seemed an eternity waiting to get in. We finally get in around 1 o'clock in the morning. So we do the dancing thing and the drinking thing. There was a guy dressed up like who knows what. In drag nasty looking man and a nasty looking woman. It had very long hair and was dancing with a feverish fever that annoyed many people since the quarters were already so cramped.

We finally started getting sick of the music cause we didn't recognize the obscure ones they played during the twilight hours so we decided to leave. As we're leaving we stopped to dance one more time and Misha's heal broke off. Poor girl.

I drove them back to Berkeley and said my good byes to Petra and Misha. (Hope your having a wonderful time in the Czech Republic Misha!)

EXCITEMENT ENSUES....

Well, as many of you know, my license was suspended due to the fact that I am gay and enjoy driving five miles over the speed limit. At any rate, this was my last night of suspension and since it was 3:00 am it was "tomorrow", which meant that my license was no longer suspended... sorta. Anyway. I'm driving home in the usual very slow under the speed limit sort of way. I make the turn onto Ashby Rd in the hopes to hit the 80S in order to get home. However, I somehow get lost and make it to the 13S. Well I knew that the 13S would hit 580S so I decided that it would be fine to take the 13S.

I'm driving in the slow lane at 55 MPH in a 65 MPH zone.. which is ok, since it's a 3 lane highway with no posted minimum speed. I see a car in the distance behind me through my rear view mirror. I notice him speeding toward me, but I figure he can just go around. Before I knew it this guy was tailing me.. as in about a foot or two away from my car. However, I was not an idiot and figured that if I stayed at 55 MPH he would just get frustrated and go around me. Well he followed me for a while and finally slowly merged over and passed me. As he passed I noticed the beautiful insignia of the California High Way Patrol... the Blue Star of Glory. Thank god I was driving safe. What pisses me off is that the cop purposefully tailed me for so long.. Is this legal?

Anyway... I'm sorta freaked cause there was a cop and my license was not completely unsuspended until I pay a fee to the DMV. So I drive some more and I see a sign saying 880 all the way on the left side of the freeway, so I figure I need to be somewhere on the left and I merge over to the middle. As I approach the sign there is a mini arrow pointing to the right. So I say, "fuck" and signal and swerve over to the right side to make the exit to 880S. All is honky dory.. but then the car behind me starts flashing red.... "Shit, Shit, Shit," quoth I. The COPS!

So I exit and pull over cause there was no shoulder and I park and get my suspended license and registration ready. Now there happens to be two cops in this patrol car. I was getting my registration and I look up and I see the chest and torso section of a cop standing in the "at ease" military style. I didn't see the face. The cop was just standing there through my passenger window. Then I felt the all too familiar warm glare of a flash light from the open driver side window. Before the cop even said anything, I had transformed my visage into my patented "I didn't do anything, pity me, I'm so cute, don't be mean, I'm so sorry" look. And I told him that I didn't do anything wrong, it was just that the sign was in the wrong place and that I was trying to get home on a highway I'd never taken before. He then looked at my license and registration and insurance things. He was quite cute by the way; Spiky golden blonde hair and a very proportionate stature.

He then said that He was just making sure I wasn't drunk and that I was free to go. Then he looks over at the other officer and makes a funny look and says, "Oh, my partner wants to talk to you..." I'm like... what the heck." So, I roll down the passenger side window and the torso bent forward to reveal the other officer's face.

"BASTARD!"

I screamed at him as my brain made it's pass of recognition. It was one of the many police officers that I just happen to know. He chuckled and asked me what club I was heading back from. I told him 1984 and he's all.. a straight club.. sheesh. They then told me to drive safely and escorted me back to the right direction on the highway and they speeded away.

I ALMOST HAD A HEART ATTACK. If your reading this... YOU ARE A BASTARD! YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE MR. BASTARD COP! ha ha! Oh, tell MR. BASTARD COP'S PARTNER I said hello... smooch

Anyway. I was scared to death all the way home and shivering from the dose of adrenaline I just got.

I get home and I sleep......

 

I went to see the washing of the feet with Mariae at a church in Palo Alto.... very interesting... very interesting indeed.

I then spend Friday at Mariae's office watching her be very mean. You see, there was this auction that was supposed to happen where employees can buy things from the office at cheaper prices. The point was that they had to overbid the liquidator. So they decided to talk it out ahead of time so that people who needed things got what they needed. Well it was discussed that Mariae would get to bid on the projector so that she can put it in her game room in Texas when she moves.

Well the bidding began and people started actually bidding instead of letting her have it. So the price got boosted and it was just ugly. It was really greedy and sucky for those other people to just come in and ruin the pricing. The point of them discussing it all before hand was so that they wouldn't have to pay the investors any more than they deserved.

So she was really mean to people and grumpy for a bit. Then she got better and we went to see Josie and the Pussycats.

I will admit it.. the movie is no deep drama nor does it reveal anything. It is a movie designed to entertain people that want to just have fun...

Mariae and I loved it! Most likely because it was a strange reflection of us... Ha ha. I had no choice but to download the music from Napster and burn my own CD (don't worry I ordered it too... very into the supporting the artist crap)

On Saturday we spent the day shopping and running errands. I had to get my brother a birthday present and get stuff our beach trip. I didn't know what to get my brother. We went to electronic stores and then we made it to Good Guys where I say some car stereos... I needed a new cd player for my car. They had some neat ones with really lively displays. Maraie seemed tired so I took her home and I told her that I'd probably go back and get the stereo for our trip to the beach the next day. So she said she'll rest up a bit and pick me up so we could go to find my brother a present. I went back and found this awesome stereo and paid the million dollars for it. Mariae then picked me up and I was thinking that we should go to the sporting good store since Maraie suggested I get him something sporty. We walk in and at the door was a Ping Pong Table. He'll love that thought I. And after a bit of waiting and some interesting manuevering to get the box in mariae's truck... we went to my house to give my brother his present.

My brother loved it and my stereo was awesome. What can I say.. perfect people always end up having things work out... ha ha.

OUR DAY AT THE BEACH:

We went to the beach... my brother and his wife came, Mariae, Kai, Justin, Romania, and Mariaes co-workers... fun fun fun

I then went to dinner at the best vietnamese/chinese ghetto restaurant in the universe : Boda

Pictures ensue below.

Oh to have energy. So on Friday I spent the day running around the city with my head cut off with Mariae trying to get goodies for the reunion party I was gonna have. I was tired. But then Michael called and asked If I wanted to go clubbing. I did and I told him top call me back when he was about to go. So later that night, I get a call and he tells me he has to get up to the city to do some business by 10:30. It was already about 9 and I didn't have time to get the groceries put away yet.

So, he tells me that he's gonna pick me up, so I get ready and put the groceries away. He then calls me again about the time he should have arrived and told me that I should drive up to mountain view so cause he was still in Palo Alto. I was a little hesitant due to laziness but decided to venture onward.

We get to the city way to early and I tell them to take me to Sparky's so I can get something to eat.

Afterward we headed to the End Up and danced the night and morning away. Michael got a little weird cause of some stuff and then we lost him in the crowds. Then I noticed that the sun had come out and realized I needed to get back to do all the things I needed to do.

I started being grumpy cause I was tired of dancing to music I didn't like and finally the boys let me go home.

I get home and I went to IHOP with my relatives. Then I went tot he Theater to get some work done. Then I prepared the roast for the party at 7 and then wrote a summary for my masters project which I needed to present at 3:30.

I drive up to the city to deal with school issues and get out around 5. I then home wondering what happened to my friend Petra (she was supposed to call) and worried that I wouldn't have enough time to cook dinner.

I got home and made dinner in about an hour and a half. I made a wine roasted hunk of cow, penne alfredo, rissotto ala asparagus, and a tomato onion bake. We had alcohol and all that. It was a great Reunion party.

Jane Gong, Renee, Mariae, Rich and Elicia, Joce, Robyn, Holly, Tim, and Sean were there.. did I forget someone? I dunno

We feasted and some people played ping pong, then we talked about old times and then Richard showed us Lego Porn on the internet.

:)

The next day I did the Tech Run Through for Importance of Being Earnest for Cal Rep and then Mariae and I went shopping and then saw Spy Kids. It was slightly entertaining but too wholesome for my taste. And the kids were ugly!! HA HA j/k

Today is the 23rd.. I am home sick. BLAH

I'm looking for flight information and accomodations in Padua (Padova) Italy in which Penny Gullan, my professor at UC Davis has so graciously invited to to go to a conference to in September during my birthday. Very Very exciting! I wonder what color hair I'll have then. I have so much work to do today. I have to finish the Lighting Design for Importance of Being Earnest and then I gotta deal with stuff for work. I had lunch with Mariae and some of her friends today. It is such a beautiful day! I don't want to be at work. Oh well.

It was the Final Dress Rehearsal for, The Importance of Being Earnest, at the Cal Rep Theater. The show promises to be a great one.

I went to the Museum with Mariae. We were supposed to go to the beach but the day looked a little chilly. So I tell her that I wanted to go the museum and she agreed on it. We head up to SF and stop by one of her friends work places in order to drop off a gift that had been owed. This was a silly girl. We ask her to stand on market near the curve so that we can see her and so we can quickly drop off her gift. However, she made a point in saying that she'd rather stand in the middle of the walkway. Well the walkway is a good forty feet deep so we probably wouldn't be able to see her. So, after circling the block a few times, we finally find her and drop the gift off and head to the SFMOMA.

The SFMOMA is a silly place. I like to come here and express my views. Mariae and I decided that we would be great at creating a glitzy night club and entertainment center and that the SFMOMA would be an interesting building to do it in. You see, our club would be like studio 54 in that you would have to be chosen to enter. Accept, we would require people to pay in order to receive the honor of waiting to be selected. Maraie and I would stand above a balcony and motion to the doormen who we wished to enter the club.

Anywho, back to the "ART" We laughed at a lot of things. Most of the people there were very serious. I laughed very hard at most of the paintings. I especially liked the three white panels by Roshenburg (sp). He had three large white canvas panels painted in oil paint in white. That's it. I have one of those at my house, I call it a wall. There was also a Blue painting, a grey painting and some other silly things that just makes you want to laugh. I especially like the sculpture that I themed A bigger pot to piss in.

The Strange thing is that my cell phone went off in the museum. So I started talking, but then the attendant lady told me I would have to go outside. Now, this didn't make sense to me at all. How would my speakingon the telephone disturb anything? Perhaps it was because the cell phone disturbs the dullness that blind people may enjoy at the museum. In any event, it was weird.

We, had a fun time at the museum and I decided that I would have to make description plaques for all my artwork at home.

Maraie and I then went to see the opening of The Importance of Being Earnest. Sold out crowd... Yah!!!!

Mariae and Kai hung out together today whilst I went to work and slaved. After work I went out to dinner with them at Seven courses of Beef. I think. I may be getting the days mixed up due to the fact that I'm tired. I then got a call from the director of the Cal Rep telling me that there was some problem with the lighting stuff. So, I had to go there and see what was wrong. When I got back they had already pretty much finished dinner and I just ate the meat that they lef tme... Yum.

Afterward we headed over to Kais house and then off to the bowling alley on fourth. I felt miserable there, it was crowded and I was very hot. So, I wanted to go home. We drive home and decide that we wanted some pearl ice tea and we go to JuJubees at the Asian Mall next to McCarthy Ranch. I had mango icecream... yum

I then went home and cleaned up the house.

It's Saturday. I decide to run errands with my limited funds. I went to the pet store to buy the kitties food and litter, and I went to Fry's to find cable equipment to revamp my cable lines at home. I did of lot of busy blah work that didn't accomplish much today. It was very cloudy. Then Mariae called and said she had some time to go to Jujubees again. So we call Kai up and we all head out to Jujubees for some desert. We try and set a time to see Mariae one last time on Sunday.

I then went home again and sulked aound doing nothing. I cooked a little dinner and watched TV. Then my friend Roy called up to see if I wanted to do something. Bored out of my mind I had no choce but to say no. I met him at Santa Clara U. and we went up to Universe. Luckily Metrolpolis was happening this night so Universe wasn't that crowded. We drank, and I was in a little funk which was caused my my lack of interest in some of the music. I had two shots of jaegermeister. The bartender was very nice and gave me half cups instead of shots.

We went dancing for a bit, then I was getting tired. So I wanted to sit down for a bit. Roy then needed to go to the restroom so I let him. He never came back.. I waited for a while then tlaked to the bartender and he proceededin giving me about 4 or 5 free super shots of jaeger on the house before 2:00 rolled around. I'm piss assed drunk now and Roy didn't return.. When he finally got back Roy didn't look to sane, a bit tipsy, but that was all in good fun.

We get home pretty late that night.

Funny thing about Roy, he wants to be a Jesuit. So, that night buddhist Priest and a Jesuit Hopeful went to a gay club to party. Interesting huh.

Our last day with Mariae:

So Mariae calls me up at around 10:30. She, being catholic in nature, had been up and went to church. I, on the other hand, had come home at 7:0 from the previous days clubbing and was sleeping. She said the days festivities would be at around 1:30 so I had till then. I get up around 1:00 and am very tired and grumpy. I get ready and pick Kai up and head over to Mariae's

We then go and meet HJK at Jujubees. But they decide to go to fantasia instead. I had a peanut butter thick toast. Yum.

From there we head out to the driving range to hit a few golf balls. We spent a while there. Afterward we headed to Target Masters for some shooting. I don't like 45 caliber semi-automatics... To strong for my delicateness. ha ha. Mariae and I agreed that i was too loud and that you have to be very trusting to be around people with loaded guns in a public place. I am not trusting at all. Kai and Ken finished their shooting and we head over to some place at McCarthy Ranch to eat.

They served steaks with chowmein prepared like spaghetti. It was very interesting. We talked some more and ended our day on a calm note.

My real last day with Mariae... i think.:

Went to work as usual and did the usual answering peoples questions deal. I then get a call from Mariae saying that she's gonna have lunch with Ro and Saks. I decide to tag along and take my friend from work, Laura.

So we go and eat yummy food at the Global Vilalge Cafe. Yum Yum Yum. We talk about things and I decide to try and go visit Mariae sometime in May of July... depending on my funding situation.

Mariae will be moving to Spring, Texas soon for a long time. How sad. I gotta find another Bitch to hang out with now!!!!

Ok.. that night Kai and I go bowling with Justin. We get a lane and Justin tells us his friends are coming, so I suggest we try and get two lanes. So, there we are bowling and Kai decides that he needs a drink of water. He gets a bottle of water and takes a gulp. We look back and some of Justin's friends show up. A bit later Kai takes another gulp and three more people show up. Another gulp, Justin's friends devide to 6 people. All fo the sudden we had nine people on our lanes.

We think Kai did it, cause he finished drinking, no more of Justin's friends divided. I think Justin's friends might be like gremlins where if Kai drinks water, they multiply!!

We drive home and call Mat where we find that she hasn't left yet. So we stop by her house in order to say a real goodbye. It was so sad in a nice way... ha ha