Halloween

Finally finiahed the Halloween costume. I wasn't as creative I have been in years past, but the price was right on this one. It cost me a sheet and a necklace. I am going to be Nike, the Grecian goddess. And guess what color my toga is? Haha, no guess necessary, its blue. I was thinking of using a less than standard color for myself, but after researching Nike, it had to be blue, I mean first place is ALWAYS the blue ribbon, not the green, red or purple one. Yes, my costume is a toga, but it is definitely more than just a sheet now. I designed it with one strap. It has darts to fit in an empire waist and wraps around the front so that I can pin it to drape in the front. So it is A-line, but not. It also has one sleeve that too drapes. Weekend plans Halloween party and haunted corn maze to come. I hope, possibly I can convince poeple to go look at the stars again, but we will see if that works out. With Halloween on Tues, we can probably carve pumpkins on Monday, then wait the next day for our 6 trick-or-treaters.

Colors

I came to a somewhat disturbing realization today. I miss autumn. As I was walking from class to my car. I saw some brown trees in the distance between all the green trees and in front of the brown hills. In the area, if it turns color, it usually turns to brown. There are no Sugar Maples here, or atleast very few, and the leaves just turn brown and fall off. Most of the trees are evergreen, not pines, but mediterranean evergreens. No bright reds and yellows and no smell of dusty dry leaf piles. In my plants class we learned of plants that color in the fall, but its usually one simple color, like a tulip tree turning yellow, or a camphor tree turning red. I miss the riot of color that self paints anually. As I neared my car I passed the one type of tree that does provide me with some solice, Liquidamber styraciflua. I pulled a leaf off the tree to glance at the twisted colors within. Greens, reds, oranges and yellows, brought a smile to my face. But yet, I still miss seasons. I have decided that if I intend to live in California longer than academy requires, I need to live near the mountains. There I could reach my dose of snow and surround my home with a grove of Liquidamber. Where I can rake them into piles to fall in, so that I can smell my fill of dusty dry leaves in the fall.

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100th Post!

Wow, that took too long to get to 100. But sad news comes with it. I will be taking only one final during finals week. Unfortuneately it is on Friday of finals week. I emailed the teacher about possibly taking an early exam, but all he could offer was taking an incomplete and finishing the final during winter quarter. That is something I definitely don't want to do. So I can leave for home on the day after Friday the 15th of December. :)

Thanksgiving Plans-Jeff, Doug and I are staying in town. Doug's parents are coming down, and his mom is going to make us dinner. Hopefully his mom will let me make the stuffing. I am very particular about my stuffing. ;)

Sharks!

Ok, so not much happened this weekend. It was Kevin's birthday during the week, so we got together for some dart games and a movie. Very quiet, very nice actually, well other than being the only female present, but what can you do? Most of Saturday I loafed around, took a nap, did some laundry and then Jeff and I planned to go to dinner at Firestone's Grill. We got downtown, only to find that there were crowds and crowds of people. Apparently there was some Bible Study Convention in town that brought everyone out on the streets and to any place Jeff and I decided to go to dinner. We finally ended up at IHOP. The only place without a line. But I got good food and that it what matters. Later, after a rather dissapointing game of DOTA some of us decided to go for a drive. Doug ended up taking us up to Santa Margarita, where there stars are probably the clearest Ive ever seen them, except maybe in high altitude, or in Minnesota in the winter. We saw so many shooting stars. They were so good, the trail was left behind them. I probably spent too long looking up, but it was rather peaceful in the country, with just the sound of a snickering horse, the wind through the brush and the lingering twang of someone's radio half a mile away. I love when looking at the stars makes you wanna fall in to it. Wwe were lucky I suppose that we decided to do this last night, as there was no moon, just stars from horizon to horizon. The drive home was rather interesting. But there was a sad part too. Doug ran over a hare. It wasn't his fault, he slowed down, but it was just the hare's time. Luckily we did not run into any other animals on the road. Not the cat, not the skunk, not the grey fox and not the random steer walking across the road.
Road trip coming up on November 18. Jeff is a big hockey fan so he is driving me, Doug and Kevin up to San Jose to see the Sharks and Flyers(Jeff's Team) play in the HP Pavilion. We will also be going to Sanra Clara so that Kevin can see the area he will be living in during his internship this summer.
Fifth week starts tommorrow. I can't believe it. I'm out.

Napolean Bonaparte

OK, so the last few days have been kinda annoying. I lost internet two days ago and after much time spent troubleshooting, I could not get it to work. It wasn't the router as we all could pick it up, there as just no internet. So, I called AT&T and got a trouble ticket ordered. Finally today, I thought I would give it one last try. I Moved the system away from my computer and tried different jacks throughout the house. BTW, apparently this whiole house was strung for Broadband connections as I found a box in the Laundry Room with labels of what goes to what and which lines go where, which then explains why most of our telephone jacks in the house don't work. Anyway, as i moved around the house, i noticed some bare wire on the cord that connects from the wall to the router. I looked at it carefully and saw only a tiny bit of wire connecting what was actually a large wire. In my looking, it would actually disconnect, but touch when straightened. We were getting internet from one wire touching the other, not from an actual connection. Apparently we were getting internet this way for atleast 6 months. Since Julies pet rat, Napolean Bonaparte chewed it. Im suprised it lasted that long, but I am also glad I noticed the problem before the cable guy embarrased me by finding the fact for himself. Thank goodness for the "one more check". I'm out.

Goodbye fisheries?

First midterm of the quarter tommorrow. Its in my Politcial Science class. Let me just say that this is only for my gen ed requirement and not because its what I want to do with my life. I find the class rediculous and pointless. The professor spends two hours lecturing on global issues we should all know about anyway, and leaves the class feeling as though we are meeting the end of the world. Most of the global issues presented, we have talked about though my own course in Landscape Architecture, but would you believe it, we do a better job at it. You know why? Because we actually discuss solutions and new ideas, as opposed to showing one sided information that is meant to brainwash the common people taking the course. Of course there are more people in poverty now than there were 50 years ago. How many more billion people are on our planet? Oh well, just gotta get through it the way the prof wants us to. I just dont like wasting my time in a class that leaves me depressed with all the doomsayers.

Thursday

Not much happening here, just trying to get through the week. Tiin brought me my passport today. I had forgotten that I got my passport on September 12, 2001. It's kind of that it will expire on the tenth anniversary... This week, I think due to the boringness of it, has been kind of melancholy. Due to my odd class schedule, there are some friends that I never see anymore, especially since they changed my desk to the dungeon of Dexter. It's also kind of odd not having any classes with either of my roomates, I barely see them now either. What with their early bedtimes and such. It rained last night, first of the rainy season. Hmmm, lets hope the weekend brings a better week. I'm out.