31 January 2012
27 January 2012
That awkward moment...
when you have to explain to your freshman lab partner you have a girl friend.
26 January 2012
7 Weeks...
left until the common sense void leaves this place.
"You cant leave the sponge in the sink, especially in a puddle of water" - me
"Really? Why?" - other
other would probably have no toilet paper, no laundry soap, no soap, no paper towels, no clean vacuumed/swept floor....
sigh just need to make it to next quarter!
and then next year i can move out of this roach infested apartment.
"You cant leave the sponge in the sink, especially in a puddle of water" - me
"Really? Why?" - other
other would probably have no toilet paper, no laundry soap, no soap, no paper towels, no clean vacuumed/swept floor....
sigh just need to make it to next quarter!
and then next year i can move out of this roach infested apartment.
17 January 2012
SULE
Small Unit Leadership Exercises, something to that effect anyways.
well the point is we ran around campus today in our MARPATs with our pretty rifles and where shouting bang at the OPFOR.
Which was fine, in mid campus at 0600-0730. but as we ran around some more and people started showing up at work and showing up to class, we found ourselves up near North Campus, which anyone who took a tour of UCLA would know is the liberal hippie pot smoking artsy side of campus. so as we fire-team and buddy-rushed through their pretty sculpture garden we drew a lot of unfavorable-liberal eyes towards us.
one kid and his mother demanded from the Col. and the Major that they deliver to them authorization for our dangerous activity of running around with hunks of metal, without any munitions, magazines or even the ability to shoot, even if we had those materials (the M-16s had been disabled from the inside and sealed into one piece before command let a bunch of college kids play with them).
and one loyal boss bravely walked out of his building to confront the Col, Maj and SSgt and yelled at them and called this illegal and wrong and wanted to see authorization, i was hoping SSgt would deck him, but with the Col there things didnt get out of hand. im sure people called the cops, but luckily we called them first, as it is a requirement when we go out onto campus with rifles, so no one go hurt and...
wait, an army kid had to be ambulanced away because he was PTing and collapsed or something, SSgt didnt seem worried though after he had checked out the scene, so just another army kid faking an injury to get out of running all 2 miles of their loop...
well the point is we ran around campus today in our MARPATs with our pretty rifles and where shouting bang at the OPFOR.
Which was fine, in mid campus at 0600-0730. but as we ran around some more and people started showing up at work and showing up to class, we found ourselves up near North Campus, which anyone who took a tour of UCLA would know is the liberal hippie pot smoking artsy side of campus. so as we fire-team and buddy-rushed through their pretty sculpture garden we drew a lot of unfavorable-liberal eyes towards us.
one kid and his mother demanded from the Col. and the Major that they deliver to them authorization for our dangerous activity of running around with hunks of metal, without any munitions, magazines or even the ability to shoot, even if we had those materials (the M-16s had been disabled from the inside and sealed into one piece before command let a bunch of college kids play with them).
and one loyal boss bravely walked out of his building to confront the Col, Maj and SSgt and yelled at them and called this illegal and wrong and wanted to see authorization, i was hoping SSgt would deck him, but with the Col there things didnt get out of hand. im sure people called the cops, but luckily we called them first, as it is a requirement when we go out onto campus with rifles, so no one go hurt and...
wait, an army kid had to be ambulanced away because he was PTing and collapsed or something, SSgt didnt seem worried though after he had checked out the scene, so just another army kid faking an injury to get out of running all 2 miles of their loop...
15 December 2011
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02 December 2011
Funny People
SSgt- I now wait in the wardroom for SSgt to walk in and then immediately bring up a controversial topic so he can talk about it. He will go on for hours if we let him. Recently he dissed the hell out of China and how they take care of their people, and said once he's President he will find everyone wearing communist shirts and put them in jail.
Physics Prof- is a strange strange man, who decided the last lecture shouldn't be about anything on the final. Instead he gave a lecture on what his mind thinks about when he is teaching us. He basically did a lecture on what one episode of Morgan Freeman's "Through the Wormhole" was about (the one about black holes). ANY WAYS, I took a nap but before that he mentioned nonchalantly that "given enough time, the center of the Milky Way would suck the galaxy up, including us, but we're not concerned about that now..." and proceed onto his other tangent...
James Kornowski is addicted to skyrim, he cant control himself so now I hit him every time i see him playing, and Amis turns of the Xbox whenever he is playing. It's sad every night watching him heat up his frozen dinner and eating it, he doesnt cook, and he feeds off of other people's stress, which isnt helpful when he is studying...This apartment is turning in to a cluster fuck due to our oldest roommates girl issues. girls who are involved in ROTC just like he and everyone else in the apartment is...
Physics Prof- is a strange strange man, who decided the last lecture shouldn't be about anything on the final. Instead he gave a lecture on what his mind thinks about when he is teaching us. He basically did a lecture on what one episode of Morgan Freeman's "Through the Wormhole" was about (the one about black holes). ANY WAYS, I took a nap but before that he mentioned nonchalantly that "given enough time, the center of the Milky Way would suck the galaxy up, including us, but we're not concerned about that now..." and proceed onto his other tangent...
James Kornowski is addicted to skyrim, he cant control himself so now I hit him every time i see him playing, and Amis turns of the Xbox whenever he is playing. It's sad every night watching him heat up his frozen dinner and eating it, he doesnt cook, and he feeds off of other people's stress, which isnt helpful when he is studying...This apartment is turning in to a cluster fuck due to our oldest roommates girl issues. girls who are involved in ROTC just like he and everyone else in the apartment is...
21 November 2011
Responsibility
Clearly there has been a huge mistake because, propelled by the incredibly convincing words of my advisor, I somehow got myself put on the list of Bio 40 tutors and now I'm expected to help some poor kid get ready for his genetic translation test. So, on top of preparing for my own ecology test, I have to relearn the lac and trp operons, genetic transfer between prokaryotes, and other stuff I haven't looked at in over six months. Worst of all, I've lost all faith in the tutoring system because if they let someone like me teach then who knows what other maniacs and incompetents are posing as academic role models.
On a funnier note, our star running back, Luke Sweeney (read this LA Times article for more info http://articles.latimes.com/2011/oct/19/sports/la-sp-elliott-20111020), went to a Wiz Khalifa concert in LA with my friends Peter, Jordan, and Ari. However, upon arrival he was already blackout and belligerently drunk and the bouncers wouldn't let him inside. Stumped, the group went to find some food in the hope that Luke would sober up enough to get in. But they got distracted waiting at a stoplight, and when it turned green Luke was gone, disappeared into the night. They wandered around downtown LA for several hours looking everywhere for him. They even called everyone back at school who had his number (including me) and asked us to call him to see if he would pick up for someone. But he didn't, and the search went on without results until about 1:00 AM when Peter got a call from the hospital saying an ambulance had picked the missing football player up off the streets. Worried, the three searchers rushed to the hospital where they found a disheveled but light spirited Luke. According to him, he had successfully snuck into the concert, but was later kicked out by the same bouncer that wouldn't let him in initially. Outside the venue, he once again began looking for a way in but got lost. A while later, he found himself in a sketchy neighborhood and, nervous, started running in no particular direction and jumping fences and stuff. Eventually he lay down in someone's front yard, and presumably someone called the cops and an ambulance was dispatched. This story, although a little farfetched, was much more believable given Luke's condition. He was still very drunk and, due to his clumsiness while climbing fences, gashed in his left arm and right leg. On top of that, he was shirtless and his shorts had been torn down the middle such that his dick was hanging out, a fact he was very eager to pass out to every passing nurse and hospital visitor. Eventually, his parents called to give the hospital permission to let their son go under Peter's care and someone found him some extra pants so the group drove back to school. A great night had by all.
15 November 2011
FOOD!
finally went shopping after living off of toast and honey, water and sandwiches for the past 1 and a half weeks...
son nice having milk and OJ again!
son nice having milk and OJ again!
08 November 2011
Debate Tournament
We flew up to stockton and went 5-1 in prelims and eventually lost to UCLA in Quarter Finals.
I will never forget the round I saw in Semi-Finals.
UCLA's captain (here is an article on him http://newsroom.ucla.edu/portal/ucla/headline-here-218270.aspx) has a hearing problem and has an incredibly difficult time hearing in general, let alone the fast speaking that is a norm in Debate. Here is an example of speed in a debate round http://vimeo.com/23771538.
His disability is well known across the entire debate community and the team he faced in semi-finals knew this and despite Nick's protest the other team basically spoke as fast as they could and sat down with time left to intentionally exclude him.
As expected, Nick gets up in the next speech and runs an argument called a Speed K, which is basically him saying why going fast on him in particular is exclusionary and oppressive and a reason for the other team should lose the round.
It turns, out that team prepared for that and in the next speech they responded with 8 minutes of a counter narrative saying that they are black and have ADHD and they don't want to make this a debate about who is more marginalized (but they run these arguments extremely quickly so Nick still cannot understand these arguments). It's like the team intentionally did this to exploit his disability.
After the round when Nick heard that UCLA won the round on a 2-1 despite the huge difference in speed, he cried. The judges were basically enraged at the fact that the other team intentionally tried to exclude. We were helping UCLA prepare for the final round and Nick was in no mood to debate, he wanted to concede the next round and turn it into a 45 minute discussion on speed in debate.
While they decided to debate and lost the final round it is one of the few times in my life where I have seen someone overcome something like that and still fight into the final round. It's a really awesome story, he was born with a with a hearing disability and has given his all to be extremely successful in an activity that place him at a huge structural disadvantage. Even when people intentionally try to exploit his disability he still is able overcome every speed bump in the way.
31 October 2011
Halloween
Got pelted with snack size candy bars by another class while in Bio today.
Picked three up to throw back.
Ate all three instead.
So worth it.
18 October 2011
Headphones
Lost my headphones
Purchased them two weeks ago
Ryan Sad.
Went to book store today
Blue headphones were not in stock
Rasta colored were the cheapest ones left
they were purchased
15 October 2011
BEST NIGHT EVER
went to sports authority to get wrist bands to put our plays into them!
weston draw up some plays for 7 on 7 for offense, our defense seems solid but some help with that would be legit! thats your assignment.
btw one of the wrist bands is nike pink, for breast cancer. the little tab said "Dedicated to: " with space to write something. Wrote "2nd Base."
Then! went to "The little door"
http://www.thelittledoor.com/tldhome.html
Had reservations at 10, they were running late so told us "why dont you have a glass of wine at the wine bar while you wait?"
So we did. I chose some south african wine, damn good if i say so myself.
Then for dinner had some Italian Anna Maria. mindy drove home, all is well, she didnt kill anyone. she just cant navigate, even if she isnt driving so that was fun.
For dinner: Mindy: Apple duck ravioli, Trout (AHHMAZING!), and white chocolate and dark chocolate mousse.
Keenan: Salad arougulalala, with blue cheese and apple, nothing special, Chicken with polenta (not as good as mothers or italian but still good) and then delicious vanilla ice cream with hot fudge sauce and like cream puff dough on top and on bottom.
so with sports authority ($40) and dinner ($120) my stipend flew out the window in one night....
weston draw up some plays for 7 on 7 for offense, our defense seems solid but some help with that would be legit! thats your assignment.
btw one of the wrist bands is nike pink, for breast cancer. the little tab said "Dedicated to: " with space to write something. Wrote "2nd Base."
Then! went to "The little door"
http://www.thelittledoor.com/tldhome.html
Had reservations at 10, they were running late so told us "why dont you have a glass of wine at the wine bar while you wait?"
So we did. I chose some south african wine, damn good if i say so myself.
Then for dinner had some Italian Anna Maria. mindy drove home, all is well, she didnt kill anyone. she just cant navigate, even if she isnt driving so that was fun.
For dinner: Mindy: Apple duck ravioli, Trout (AHHMAZING!), and white chocolate and dark chocolate mousse.
Keenan: Salad arougulalala, with blue cheese and apple, nothing special, Chicken with polenta (not as good as mothers or italian but still good) and then delicious vanilla ice cream with hot fudge sauce and like cream puff dough on top and on bottom.
so with sports authority ($40) and dinner ($120) my stipend flew out the window in one night....
12 October 2011
The perils facing a small school football team
After a slew of injuries against the nationally ranked Redlands Bulldogs the Pomona-Pitzer football team has been further reduced to 29 active players with 11 out because of injury. Luckily we're playing the smallest Occidental team in many years with only 57 active players. This is a big improvement over the 121 players on the Redlands roster. As the most trustworthy corner left standing I have been moved from the weak side to the strong side to replace the injured second string strong side corner. I haven't missed a snap in practice since last Wednesday and haven't missed a game snap since September 17th. With 12 tackles I'm the fourth leading tackler on the team, something most corners couldn't (and wouldn't want to) say. I only have a single pick though so I guess I have to step up my game this week. That should be easy sense I have such fresh legs.
To finish things up on a politically correct note ...
Justing Meng (Middle Linebacker) to Coach E: "Hold on coach, I gotta look good so I practice good."
Coach E: "What are you, gay? You better not be."
Also, check out this new video by the guy who made the Greg Jennings video:
11 October 2011
Life
bit by a lady bug today.
did color guard, photos to be uploaded on facebook
they are going to make us pay to go to the birthday ball.... lame. 130 for me and the date. que malo.
did color guard, photos to be uploaded on facebook
they are going to make us pay to go to the birthday ball.... lame. 130 for me and the date. que malo.
06 October 2011
CRUSHED!
Had a scrimmage against ArmyROTC! they were practicing plays and defenses before the game, and we lost our wrist bands so we had no plays or any organization to begin with. i thought we were gonna get crushed. however...
42-0 at least. in our favor of course!
42-0 at least. in our favor of course!
IM FOOTBALL
signed up NROTC for this crap. BUT I CANT FIND MY GLOVES!!! whered they go? did weston steal them. i think so....
02 October 2011
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