March 30th . . . time sure flies by, doesn't it?

So now spring break is drawing to a close and soon we'll be back on the fastlane speeding through one more quarter before summer. It turns out that i actually escaped winter quarter with grades that keep my happy, so hopefully ill be able to continue the streak for another 10 weeks.

Friday was really hot and sunny. Me and vic drove down to ucsd so i could pick up my parking permit, but unfortunately the parking office was closed due to a 'university holiday'. Still not quite sure what the holiday was exactly. So we ended up walking around utc for a good while. I saw my chem ta there, but she either didnt recognize me or didnt like me because she looked away with a disgusted expression when she walked by.

We ended up having dinner in the food court with the ice rink (actually, it was me eating dinner with vic checking out the hot skaters). Brings back memories of broomball way back when in the good old days. I remember vic slamming against the wall and me having 3 awesome shots getting blocked. My hands really hurt after that, and i guess so did everyone elses when we got together for boat building the next day. Hahaha. Ahhh the memories.

After utc me and vic decided to stop by la jolla shores where jen was spending the day at. Despite both of us having lived in sd for a long as i can remember we somehow managed to go down the wrong road leading away from la jolla shores and had to sit in a bit of traffic. But we drove by a really cool church. Eventually we found our way to the beach where we ran into jen and her friend hanz (from harvard) almost immediately. We decided to head back to poway for more good games of pool. Me and vic vs. jen and hanz in what was cleverly dubbed ucsd vs. harvard. We got swept 4 games to none (but they were all close!!!).

So today i'm just trying to make the most of my last moments of no responsibilities. They showed a 1945 movie of the picture of dorian gray this morning. Hahaha. I watched a little bit of it. I was hoping to see wrestlemania today, but after about 2 hours of trying to figure out how much it cost, i discovered that you have to subscribe to 200 extra channels just to order it. So i guess ill just wash the dishes, finish the laundry, and maybe even get a bit of exercise in instead.

Well, here comes spring quarter. The past 2 have gone pretty fast, so this one should too . . . Here we go again!

Yesterday was fun. Me, vic, and eric headed down to best buy cuz vic wanted to look at the new linkin park cd. Jon met us there, and we played some pretty cool video games too. Me and Jon played this fun little mickey mouse skateboarding game, and then vic found a game called war of the monsters. It was actually pretty cool, pretty much consisting of 2 monsters beating the heck out of each other and destroying the city in the process. You can grab helicoptors and trucks and other stuff to fight with. It reminded me a lot of the similarly named king of the monsters, which was one of my favorite games back in 3rd gradish. Ah the memories. Vic decided that because he no longer owns linkin park's first cd, the right thing would be just to burn the new one, and the old one too.

So we headed over to family stix for a good round of pool, along with chang who met us there. The games were pretty good, consisting of the usual scratch on the break and drop the 8 ball in the wrong pocket shananigans (i know, spelling, but its vacation ok?). After hanging outside for a good 20 minutes like we usually do, we headed over to ihops for some dinner. Notable notes include all of us helping jon do the puzzles and the back of the kid menu, finding a victoria's secret catalog in the trash, and the waitress making a heart out of the cream on jon's pancake. The waitress was kinda cute actually, and her heart was obviously broken in two when she saw jon smear the heart. How sad.

Afterwards, we spent some quality time with my ps2. After some funny plays with madden, we watched vic beat devil may cry in 2 hours on easy mode. Haha, easy mode is awesome! I'm never playing it on anything above hard again!

Go here for some good fun!!

Okay, so recently i've gotten the urge to change the title of my blog. I know how much all of you like "Mike's Thought Cloud", but like most of the things that i've ever come up with, what started out sounding cool and clever has started to seem a little cheesy. Unfortunately, changing the title required that i actually come up with a new one to replace it, and after lots of brainstorming and even more cheesy title pulled out of nowhere, i decided that Mike's Thought Cloud isnt such a bad title afterall. So i'm keeping it for now. But it could change sometime. Sometime soon!

Well, spring break has begun and it hasnt exactly started on a high note. First off, i sucked and pretty much each of my 3 finals, but thankfully i wont actually know my grades until later this week. 2ndly, the net on my basketball hoop got stolen. Fine, so i havent shot any hoops since summer and the net isnt exactly the most important part of the hoop, but it still sucks to see the hoop without it. Its like getting your dog's tail cut off. And the other thing to happen on only the 2nd day of spring break happens to be the latest edition of stupid things that we've all done. Check at Vic's blog if you havent already.

So there's my little ray of sunshine for the day. And now i've got a whole week with nothing to do but put off all the little things i was putting off till spring break. Time for some fun.

"Some people are pragmatists, taking things as they come and making the best of the choices available. Some people are idealists, standing for principle and refusing to compromise. And some people just act on any whim that enters their heads. I pragmatically turn my whims into principles".

Calc final sucked, and the fools wouldnt buy back the $100 textbook. But it was the last math test i'll ever take, so there.

Now i have to go study for my chem final which will almost definitely be exponentially harder. That being said, i'm off to take a nap.

Well, one final over and done with. Thankfully, i woke up in time this time to take my 8 am ethics and society final, and i think i actually did decent. I got to drive my dad's accord today, becaue reubens is paying a visit to the doctor to get his tires changed. Mr. accord is definitely a nicer car to drive for several reasons, the most obvious being the knowledge that you wont tip over if you turn too fast and the smaller distance between the drivers seat and the radio buttons.

I had to bring a self addressed stamped envelope to my last meeting with my warren writing teacher this morning. Unfortunately, i didnt have any stamps at home so i just picked up an envelope with the plan of getting one at the price center. I walk into the bookstore and ask for a stamp, and the cashier tells me that they only sell them in tens, but that i can get a single one at the post office. Not wanting to walk all the way across the price center, i figure ill just get 10. As i go to put the stamp on my envelope, it occurs to me that i wrote my address on the return address spot. Blast!! So i end up going to the post office anyway, where i buy an envelope with a stamp already on it. And when i get to my ta's office, he isnt there. So now i'm left here with nothing to do but wait and update my blog.

Two more finals to go.

"It's too late now
I don't think I can fade
It's too real now
Fulfillment just adds fuel to the blaze"

I've been spending a good portion of the last 48 hours making outlines for answers to possible essay questions that may appear on my ethics and society final. Explaining why its wrong for a company to pollute in order to keep medications at an affordable price gets tiring after a while, especially when you have to apply your argument to a totally different situation where you stop sounding moral and righteous and start seeming evil and cruel instead. Bleh.

Me and the folks went to have lunch at souplantation today. It was the first time i'd been there since the summer, and it was pretty good. I overheard the waitress tell this one guy in a plaid orange shirt that he looked like the ghost of the dad in casper. Now does being told that you look like the ghost of a relatively handsome man count as an insult or a compliment? Theres a question for my ethics final.

Well, better get back to explaining the difference between performing an abortion and dropping a nuke.

"But of course it has to leave my clutch
But enough's never enough to make a dent"

Thursday evening, i'm driving home with vic. We're having an enjoyable time singing to "I Swear" on the radio, when as i start to make a left turn onto paseo montalban, some idiot runs the red light and amidst yells of "Whoa! Whoa! Stop! Stop! Stop!" by vic, and stop in time to avoid a disastrous crash. There are two interesting points with that event. First of all, its not the first time i've almost gotten into a crash making a left turn. So the lesson is, make sure i avoid left turns if u ever get a ride from me. The 2nd thing is i still havent quite figured out whether or not i stopped before or after vic's warnings, which makes me begin to wonder whether or not he saved our lives. Which would be strange, because oftentimes when a best friend saves another friend's life, they eventually become arch enemies. Just take superman and lex or batman and joker for example. Which makes u wonder, if me and vic ever became mortal enemies, which one would be the good guy and who would be the bad guy??

The other annoying thing happened yesterday morning. I'm walking to my car and get in when i realize that i left my sunglasses. Knowing how important they are, i decide to walk back into the house to get them. As i walk up the driveway i feel something in my shoe. Thinking that its nothing but a stone i debate whether or not i want to go through all the work of taking off my shoe to empty it out. I finally decide to, and as i take off my shoe and peek inside, i am greeted with the presence of one of the grossest beetles i have ever seen. So after smashing it with one of my dad's shoes and sweeping it onto the street with a broom, i realize that if it hadnt been for my sunglasses, i would have driven the next 30 minutes with a beetle crawling over my foot. Thank goodness for sunglasses.

So yesterday in warren writing, my teacher decides that instead of bothering to catch up on the 20 or so pages that we're supposed to have written by now, he would just show some really cool records and videos he has (we are of course studying musical subcultures). The interesting part was when he pulled out this really old record by some band called 5051, and he says something to the effect of "This is a really rare punk album from the early 80s when punk was really subcultural. If you look here on this insert, theres me screaming". My writing teacher is a punk rock star! Hahaha. Apparently he even played drums for the seeds at a concert once too. So that was interesting.

Speaking of which, i should probably start my final essay now . . .

Hmm, only posted once last week. Not much has been happening recently I guess. I had a ton of stuff i meant to get done the past few days, and i dont think i accomplished any of them. Oh well.

Theres seems to be some sort of birthday party or other celebration going on at the house thats right below my backyard. It sounds like they've got a full band playing there. Either that, or just really nice speakers. Sounds like Pretty Woman.

Well, Spring Break is almost here. Sadly, my family wont be going to vegas this year due to the fact that me and my sisters breaks fall on different weeks. How sad. Last year's palm springs / vegas trip was one of the best ones in years, but i guess this year i'll have to make due with recuperating at home (sounds like every other day).

My mom brought home the Norah Jones cd, which is what i'm listening to now (the music from the party was getting kinda boring). Now i've got the perfect mood to start coming up with a topic for my final warren writing paper.

This weekend: got to celebrate two birthdays. The first was mario's, and to celebrate we went over to BJ's in la jolla square. We consisted of me, mario, kevin, and another kevin who was also chinese and wore glasses. We had this chicken something or other pizza, which was pretty good. Kevin had a potato, being the vegetarian that he is. The other kevin seemed to have a hard time accepting the fact that kevin was a vegetarian. I'm not quite sure why.

Then, my dad's birthday yesterday. I'd tell you how old he is except i'm not actually quite sure. We drove over to an indian casino that was up north somewhere in the middle of nowhere and ate at their buffet. It was decently good, but nowhere near the vegas buffets we're all used to. They didnt have any prime rib, which basically defeats the purpose of eating at a buffet. I won a good chunk of money playing slots too. I think i one $100 bucks with one spin at some point.

Eric has a blog too now, in case you didnt notice. Which is great, because . . . well, its just great.

Quote of the moment: "Wait, let me take my pants off" -Annonymous, by request.

Friday; woke up bright and early to get ready for another day of 2 midterms. TNN was having a ferris bueller day, so i watched the first half hour or so while i looked over some calc notes. It was actually pretty funny, ill have to watch it sometime. So then i headed over to ucsd to take my first mid term of the day, and it went pretty well. Afterwards i called up kevin to meet him at plaza for lunch but being the wishywashy guy that he is he didnt get there for a good 45 minutes. I ran into raza though, so had lunch with him and mario and marios roommate.

So finally kevin gets there so we head over to our usual table at clics and study some chem. Kevin pulled a vic and spilled soda all over his white sweater. He also hit himself in the head with his pencil bag, and told us about the time he fell over playing pool.

Anyway, the chem midterm itself wasnt until 7:30 in the evening, and it went pretty well. So that leaves 2 more weeks in the quarter, then finals, then spring break, then spring quarter, then i'm home free with summer and probably an internship / job.