7:10 Yesterday Morning
Bryan: You know what I have been thinking?
Me: What? ( a little shocked that he is actually talking)
Bryan: In Ghost Busters, why would anyone be obsessed with Sigourney Weaver? She is not that hot.
Me: Well yeah but why would anyone like Bill Murray he is not that hot either?
Bryan: She did not like him until he f-ing saved the world!
Touche
In iTunes I have a playlist for songs with zero play counts. Right now this playlist has 1387 songs in it. It is a smart playlist so once I listen to a song it is removed from the list. For the past few days I have been trying to only listen to this playlist. I think it is going to take a long time before I have listened to all these songs.
So I realize I have not posted in a long time and that is because the last few month have been full of lots of personal changes and in general I think personal blog posts are boring. I am also of the belief that it is better to be evil than boring when it comes down to it. Just call someone in my family boring and you will notice that all of the sudden you are having a string of insults fired at you. Anyway I am going to do a boring post now so you do not have to read if you don't want.
So the reason for all the changes is because I have decided to get my MPH in Epidemiology and Bio statistics at Berkeley. Because of this the fallowing had to happen:
Bryan had to find a job in SF
Bryan had to quit his job in SC
We had to move out of Ledyard
Mike and Em had to find a new place to live
Bryan and I had to move in with my parents for a month and a half
Bryan and I had to find a place to live in the Bay Area and move there
I had to quit my job
I had to find a way to pay for school
I had to find a job
There were more changes but I can't think of them right now.
Today was my first day at Berkeley. It is actually welcome week classes do not officially start until next Monday. Bryan and I now live off of Grand Ave in Oakland. I have decided to sell my car and ride my bike to school. My daily ride takes me up a pretty gnarly hill but it is still really fun. It takes about 40 minutes to get to school and 30 minutes to get home. I am hoping I will get faster and cut down on the time. I also had to buy a new bike. I wanted something light that would not get stolen so I got an old fuji touring bike. After telling one girl about my ride to school she said "wow you are hard core" I was kind of taken aback by that, I wanted to say "that is the nicest thing a stranger has ever said to me" but I did not want to freak her out.
I spent this morning listening to all the great work the school does and different resources they have for students. I felt like they took 2 hours to do something that could have been done in a few minutes. The only interesting part was when one professor gave a presentation on her work on Dengue. After that we met with our program and everyone started to size each other up. People wanted to know what sort of undergrad work others had done. I decided not to engage in this and remained quiet, I hate forced socialization. At lunch the sizing up continued so I went to get my school ID with a girl I had met. While waiting in line for the ID (45 minutes) there was a guy preaching about how Jesus saves and the penis is not meant for the anus, some students got upset and started to engage with him (my guess is they were new to Berkeley) the cops came and said there was nothing they could do because of the free speech rules of the campus.
I then had to meet with my advisor this meeting was to give her an idea of what I am interested in and for her to direct me to places on campus that can help. She met with me and one other student. True to form I stumped her. I told her I wanted to work on Psychology and epidemiology, she was like I have no idea and went on to talk to the other student about infectious deceases. I then had to explain to her what I wanted to do. I want to look at grief as a risk factor. For a long time I have been interested in infectious deceases but I figure after working in grief so long and also the fact that not much has been done in that area maybe I could do some good research. Anyway finally she got the idea and I was good to go.
See how boring that was.
I know I missed the song of the week last week. I don't really have an excuse other than I have been kick boxing a lot and it has been difficult to find time at night to post because after kick boxing I can barely lift my head up.
So this week I bring you two songs to make up for last week.
The first song is Hot Chip - And I Was A Boy From School. I picked this song because I heard it on Veronica Mars last week. Can I just say that if you are not watching Veronica Mars you should be. As Em said last night "This is how TV should be, every line is funny" it reminds me of how Gilmore Girls used to be when it started you have to really pay attention to catch everything.
The second song is Feist's version of Broken Social Scene's - Lovers Spit. I heard it in the movie Half Nelson this weekend and since (if you could not tell already) I am currently obsessed with Feist I just had to go out and find this song. It can be found on the EP Bee Hives by Broken Social Scene. You can find more info on the blog Quick Before It Melts where I found this MP3. Also Half Nelson is a great movie. Have you seen it?
So the original reason I started this blog was to write out letters I received while I was in Puerto Rico. I guess I kind of got caught up in the song of the week thing. I thought I would type out another letter because right now I am just sitting around trying to let my leg recover from a contusion I got while trying to kick my co worker during Khmer Boxing.
So here is another letter for you:
Hey Katie,
How are you? Thanx for calling, I just wish I had more to say. I'm sorry I haven't written. I have no excuse I'm just a lazy bum. That's what I feel like these days lying around , no job, no school, a bum. When are you coming back? I miss you so much! You should be in no hurry to come home. Santa Cruz Sucks! It's so boring here, only depressing things happening. There are so many sleazy men in Santa Cruz. They're everywhere. It's even worse than before. Well, I'm excited about getting a job and going to Cabrillo "C is for Cabrillo and that's good enough for me!" Ha Ha! I so many plans for my future that I'm over whelmed. Everyone is doing good here. I'm still worried about H and B. But I hope she will wisen up soon. R seems happy with J. A and A are a cute little couple. I think that A1 is in a sense rebound and A2 is an experience. That's okay though, they're happy right now. How about you Kate, how's the dating scene. I am jealous of you, you're away from Santa Cruz surrounded by new people, free from your parents and all this on a beautiful island! Live it up baby! Have fun while you can, we'll all still be here when you get back. We're the unfortunate ones without you around. I wish I had a walkman so no matter where I am I can listen to music and be happy. The sky is so beautiful right now. The stars have been so bright and powerful lately. I know I'm getting random here but it fits the letter since I'm writing to Random Girl! Once again I apologize for it being so long since I've written. I'm so bad with this stuff. Okay I'll go now and write you again another day, I promise!
I miss you-
I love you-
I envy you-
C
A few notes about this letter. Until I just read it I did not realize my friends were jealous of my trip. While I was in Puerto Rico I viewed it as something I just had to do like going to second grade is something you just have to do even if you don't want to. Also how cool is it that she wanted a walkman to listen to music all the time. Now that I have an I Pod I forgot what it is like to not have music all the time.
This week I have a true song of the week. On Saturday I got the Patrick Wolf album the Magic Position, it will actually be released in the US on May 1st but it was leaked way back in January and it has been out in the UK for a while. Ever since I heard the album I have to listen to the title track at least 3 times a day. Yesterday I listened to the song and then I thought that is so good I have to listen to it again.
Check it out for yourself let me know what you think.
Also what have you been listening to lately?
Patrick Wolf - The Magic Position
So I am really late with the song of the week. And that is because until yesterday I really did not have one. I did not listen to much new music this week because I have been really busy kickboxing four days a week.
This weeks song is
Feist - One Two Three Four
Also I really like the video for this song. Check it out and tell me if you don't think Feist is an indie rock vixen.
