09.22.04

Posted in Uncategorized at 19:36

mmm… :)

i am totally loving the weather here in so cal. the evenings are absolutely gorgeous. if i had a laptop, i would be on the roof enjoying it right now. though there’s a chill in the morning, it’s never been enough so far to make me wish for a jacket. the afternoons are plenty hot, but after the frosty indoor climate, a brief walk to class in the heat feels quite nice. cloudy days are a refreshing treat, and have thus far coincided with weekends rather nicely. i wonder if i can talk someone into going to the beach with me saturday… this place is major dead on the weekends, which is great for studying, but kinda lonely too.

09.16.04

Posted in Uncategorized at 13:02

visa…it’s everywhere you want to be. except los angeles. here, atm is the big deal. tack an extra 70ยข on to that hamburger because you’re gonna pay some bank fees. if they’ll even take that. carry cash here or you’re liable to starve.

cash…it’s everywhere you want to be. and everywhere you don’t.

i like carrying dollar coins, so i made myself a coin pouch out of duct tape. not too high quality, but it works.

09.13.04

Posted in Uncategorized at 09:57

/skipping class/

i was late to a class today. i knew i was going to be late and i knew what the professor would do. i went anyway, hoping against hope that perhaps his watch was a bit slow, or maybe i would make the one minute margin. i wasn’t the only one late. at least two others came at the same time. he kicked us out.

i don’t care so much about my grade, or the $15*, but i really wanted to hear his lecture. exodus-deuteronomy is my favorite class. it’s really hard to have a good attitude about this, but i know i probably would have lost some of the respect i have for the instructor if he hadn’t done what he said he’d do…

jackal

* one of my other professors said he calculated how much tuition students pay for a single class period, and got about $15. ouch.

09.07.04

Posted in Uncategorized at 23:52

The young man walked toward Adams Hall, feeling somewhat self-concious. He reassured himself that there was nothing wrong with going to visit Cindy in the all-girls dormitory. It was well into visiting hours. And it wasn’t as though he were walking into the bedchambers of a nunnery; most of the girls had desired to be in the coed dorms, and had been disappointed to find they’d received their last choice of campus housing.

He entered the building, walked past the front desk and into the hall of the first floor. Stairs… He spotted a door at the end of the hall and walked toward it.

/Fire Door
Please Keep Closed/

Why did those signs have to look so much like the ones on emergency exits? He opened the door. No? Ah yes, stairs. He began to ascend. He approached the door on the landing. Locked. Perhaps only a closet between the floors. He continued upwards and found himself at the highest point one could reach by these stairs. The door was locked. Nay, it had not been a closet. The doors to the second and third floors were locked. This would not be a problem for a female with the key to her room, but our hero was not a female and had no key, even for his own dorm building, which was newer and granted access to those with properly programmed student identification cards.

He tried knocking on the second floor door. Though he could hear voices on the other side, no one opened. He rattled the handle and knocked some more. No answer. Perhaps in the lobby he could find a girl with a key to let him in. He walked down the stairs to the door through which he had entered the stairway. He turned the handle. /Oh no./ Locked. He was trapped in the stairwell of an all girls dorm. This should not be. The doors should not be locked during visiting hours. A bad design. Suppose a girl had forgotten her room key? An emergency exit mocked him. Oh yes, certainly it would be unlocked. But he knew his predicament didn’t quite qualify as an emergency. Why should a whole building be evacuated because of his entrapment?

He produced from his wallet a Safeway discount card and attempted to circumvent the locking mechanism. This, he realised must be how they catch those foolish enough to attempt to gain access after visiting hours. He put away the card. No luck. He was trapped. *sigh*

09.05.04

Posted in Uncategorized at 14:39

hello to everyone. it’s been quite some time. i’m now at college, adapting to living in a dorm. long drive out, but few incidents. my stepdad ran over something in my car causing one of the front tires to explode, but we bought new front tires so that’s happy. then driving through the desert in western az, what appeared to be the grille of a car came flying at me at 65 mph and broke off my driver side mirror.

orientation week. that’s going to be fun… oh well. classes start wednesday. laters.

j4ckal