There's a new sheriff in town

Actually I'm just a ranger.  Well, technically I'm just a park attendant.  But to the untrained eye I look like a ranger.  Anyway, I still get to walk around and give people pieces of paper with "WARNING" written at the top.  We like to call them citations even though their recipients are under no obligation to pay a fine, stay out of the lagoon, or respond to them in any way.  While I'm not being menacing out on the trails, I spend most of my time feeding poisonous animals, cleaning bathrooms, and explaining to tiny children that lizards are not "land-fish" and that I don't actually carry a gun or any weapon other than the occasional pair of pruning shears.  Other than the fact that I work Friday through Monday from 7:00AM to 5:30PM this job is awesome.

PFT

PR of 294. maxed out pullups and situps and ran a 18:54 3 mile, a whole minute faster than the PFT i ran 4 weeks ago. and Ive been lifting this whole quarter, not running!

Memorial Day Morning

the night before memorial day monday. so early morning. like 0dark30 morning, the party was still raging. in celebration of my friends bday we got cake and tons of alcohol. and we've still got 2 5L things of wine, 4 32oz. beers, and 2 30 racks, and a good amount of bottled stuff in the fridge. poor timing with finals coming up. but someones gotta finish it. also my jackass friend punched the window and broke it, and bled everywhere... the poor managers

My roommate

Is a pure 100% untainted jackass. a few weeks ago he left the stove on once while boiling water. which was fine, it only slightly scorched the MY pot. but he did it again today. with pasta in the pot. and him and i left for drill. leaving James, the smarter of my 2 roommates sleeping in our apartment, whose smoke alarm does not work btw cuz the unnamed jackass disabled that. so james wakes up with an apartment full of smoke, no alarm going off, a pot of pasta on fire. list of things ruined: 2 couches 2 speakers 1 pot 1 plate 1 bowl 1 cup i thought people in college were intelligent. i thought i was unintelligent! im worried.

Thrift store

check fb for a great find. and i got a tommy bahama shirt for 12 bucks and then went to Men's warehouse for some super fancy clothes. mom's gonna be sad she can't send me off to a formal looking all handsome (a sorority's formal this sunday, got myself invited after 1 meeting with this girl, very cute, and Chinese! mother would be super proud). prepare for pics later next week.

Finals

Does anyone else think it's kind of backwards that you have to take finals at the end of the year when you're burned out and tired of school?  They wouldn't be nearly as frustrating if I took them at the beginning of the year when I'm fresh.

Classmates

SCREW THEM! not in the literal way. in the way that i destroyed them all on my most recent exams in o-chem and physics and am now celebrating by seeing a midnight showing of the avengers on thursday

Walk of glory.

On monday, I was doing the quarterly counseling with my major. the army's major happens to walk in and say "We need three-four guys for as dates this friday." My maj says "well faix here is a good guy, and he can grab 3 others for you." and SSgt proceeds to threaten me that if im not on my best behavior i'll die and that he will be at the army ball watching us. empty threats. Friday, myself, Amis (who unfortunately was not set up with a date), and 3 of the cutest freshmen i could find rendezvoused at the assembly area, then head out to the army ball with mints in hand in our sexy chokers. our orders from the army major were to talk to the girls and dance. and that we did. amongst the dark army uniforms, 5 guys in chokers really stands out, it was a wonderful thing. after the wonderful meal, the dancing started. we carried out our orders in good faith and for a while, it was us 5 NROTC guys dancing, alone and unafraid. after 10 min the army slowly warmed up the guys dominating their party and it got going good. then we went to an army guys apartment south of wilsire and in the morning i had to walk across westwod. it took the same amount of time for ryan to drive up from irvine and then i gave him a tour of UCLA with his family and we got bbq chicken for lunch. end. o-chem time can't waste any more precious seconds.

Just the tip

My friend and suitemate Alex sawed off the end of his finger yesterday.  Apparently he missed the bone and only removed the fleshy part so I guess it's not that cool.  But still, I heard the blood splatter was awesome!

Awards ceremony

also i got 450 dollars for being in drill haha, one of 2 people selected for being super motivated, which everyone knows im not

Party!

was crashed by cops kinda.... they stopped by, took my ID gave me a warning to turn down music and keep it down. and that if they come to my place again im going to jail....YIKES! will be more careful. but its silly cuz when we had parties in the past we threw things in the pool next door. and that pissed them off so they called the cops this time... i guess we wont party at my apartment for the rest of the quarter... the people in our building dont even complain about the noise we make! crazy ass lady across the alley needs to mind her business.

SALAD!

I've been watching TEDTalks on food and got freaked the hell out so i made myself a salad. good thing im going down to pendleton today to eat MREs, the most processed food known to man-kind...

Keenan's Advice

Me: I need to learn how to take off my shirt

Keenan: Its like taking off your shirt for a shower only you will not take a shower

1st weekend of spring quarter

was awesome.
friday night- had a younger midn wetdown for a recently graduated person
saturday night - had a bigger better more chicks involved party with older people for the same graduated person. with wine, sake, tequila, beer, and champagne all being consumed and even more great unspoken adventures.

Extra Spring Ball

Because free time is for the soft.

Also, my friend Nick (the starting strong safety) won't be able to practice all spring.  Why?  Because he drunkenly challenged my friend Peter (tight end) to a fight where each person was wearing one MMA glove.  Of course, he got his ass beat by the bigger, more athletic Peter.  Attempting to avoid being killed he started backing up, stepped back awkwardly on some stairs, and broke his foot.

More Madness!

http://vimeo.com/39091174

roommates

decided the WATER boiler was good for boiling milk...
have decided that not washing dishes is the best call, because rotting vegetables in the sink is appetizing
and on top of that i was forced into eating cereal out of a cup with a fork b/c they didnt clean shit up.

Spring Break!

Going back to SD to lay in the sun ... and get a background check (so I can work for the Department of Parks and Rec).

Physical Encounter (Nope, not as dirty as you think it is)

I was chilling outside of office hours waiting for my professor and one of the grad students who ta-ed my physics class last quarter saw me and told me to come into his office so he could help me. We solved my problem and then I asked him what he was working on and got a free 30 minute mini-lecture on particle physics. He was telling me about bosons and fermions and how physicists named different quarks: strange, beauty, truth, and charm. It didn't really understand it, but it was some pretty cool shit.

SCIDM

Southern california invitational drill meet

this year it was held at northrop grumman's facilities. we set up in a giant parking lot and drilled! awesome. basically the USC airforce ROTC hosts this and tons of chair force ROTC units come and a lot of different JROTC units come, navy and AF.

so we go and apparently had to be there for the opening ceremony at 0800 but it dumb and no one gained anything valuable from it. our first event was at 1200 so we sit there and play with ourselves and burn up in the beautiful southern california sun (not to mention how completely cloudless the sky was).

our first event was inspection. which reminds me, airforce cant drill for crap so they bring a bunch of marine drill instructors up from SD, very intimidating. before we got on we heard our SSgt say that they had one entire squad crying from a JROTC unit. stupid high school kids... we fianlly get on and they just start yelling at us and w.e luckily we kicked ass and yelled really loud and knew a all our knowledge. the only issue was our M16A1's from fricking vietnam. first off we took them on a field exercise so they were dirty from that, but due to the oldness they had rust everywhere AND they sealed the bastards together so we cant take them apart to properly clean them. terrible deal. so that was shitty. but due to our loudness and intensity we gathered a whole crowd of people who watched in awe. Kornowski says i was 2nd loudest, only behind one of the girls who was shrieking the whole time, the DI's actually picked on her cuz they found it humorous that she was so damn high pitched. i got inspected twice, by one of the di's who finished with 2/3rd sqd early. luckily i only partially jacked up my 6th general order of the sentry.

Apparently our regulation was good, which is interesting b/c during practice we were always unaligned and such.

thats really it

the interesting part was our celebration. Most of the drill team came over and we had an awesome time. I skipped dinner to go get the party supplies. then decided while I waited for everyone to get here that I would fill up my stomach with some jack and coke instead of eating. needless to say i had a wonderful time. usually when we have kickbacks people throw cans and other random stuff into the pool next door. luckily last night we limited the beer cans, added a beer bottle, and then added a shopping cart a mop and a bucket!

everyone made it back safe and i woke up at 0900 and remained in my state of intoxication till around 1500. and now im having an awful time trying to do physics...