Occupy San Diego... Endure

I was going to post THIS around the Civic Center for everyone to see, and leave my tent for others to use until such time as I completely distanced myself from the movement, or conversely, choose to join it again. I didn't get around to posting it, instead I ended up at the Civic Center on the eighth night, hoping to be inspired enough to continue on.

Things to do before I die

Yi: Run into a university classroom while in session (preferrably philosophy)... and yell,"Lies, its all lies!" and then run out.

Excerpts from my notebook of madness.

I put my head in my un-deodorized armpit to try to cover up the sickly sweet and all too dominant fragrance wafting and permeating each molecule of the room. But I had already paid.

Round 3

Ah, so it is the end of August... it was a very long 3rd round. Now school is about to start and I have no worries. I have no vehicle because it was stolen, again, only a different one, and I was in another accident... a few actually, some more fun than others... And, while some people get all negatively excited about this kind of stuff, I am actually doing really good.

Round 2

Ah, February, the month with one too many r's. February... definitely a quick double jab followed by a left hook... In fact, I believe I grabed my left fist with my right hand and repeated slammed it into the middle of my face... but February will make a person do that. All-in-all I am still standing strong. Thinking back through my life I could only remember one Febuary that I truly loved, and ironically it involved a motorcycle... I realized that this is a fight I cannot win, nobody does. But I am not throwing in the towel... In fact, I can say with near certainty, that I never will. And thats all I can do, all you can do, thats all anybody can do. So, with the end of round two; the play-by-play reporting is over, (not that I was ever descriptive about it anyway, just a bunch of metaphors and analogies)... so, just keep on keepin' on.

Round One!

Round one and the DoubleD's are down and the count is on! After many, many hours on the phone...over many months, and quite a few pages worth of paperwork, and threats of legal action... Well, my debt has been reduced... Down to ZERO!!! Well, the biggest bill anyway... I still owe small medical debts and student loans and other things, but they are all manageable. So fucking A 2009! You want some more?! Perhaps I shouldn't taunt 09 too much, there are still 11 more rounds to go...
Well, I wasn't going to let the count run up so early in the fight... I used the last of my cash to fly one-way to Mexico City (to help a friend). Thought i would use my credit card til my student loan came in but that didn't quite work out as planned. Cashless in Mexico City is not fun. But i had friends to borrow from and eventually i got my money, made a small vacation of it, and flew back home. Mexico City had more dog crap on the sidewalks than Amsterdam and crazier drivers than India... It was awesome... in a dangerous awesome sort-of way...

2009!

FIGHT!

In the right corner, weighing in at a buck thirty, here all the way from San Diego... the Trooper of Troopers, the King of Conundrum, the Italian Stallion; Eklektek, the Undisputed Champion of the Western United States... and sometimes Canada. Rooar, crowd goes wild, clapping and cheering.

And in the left corner, weighing in at a gravitational force... the king of the ring, the crusher, the weight of the world; Despair and Death, the undisputed champions of life. Boo, Hissing, crowd throws rotten vegetables... rotten vegetable sales triple. Rotten vegetable salesman rejoice quietly, but pretend to boo and hiss with the rest.

Who will win in 09?! Stay tuned to find out. Just remember, "Float like a butterfly and sting like herpes".

(NOTE: Muhammad Ali Quote: "Float like a butterfly and sting like a bee". Just wanted to clarify that i do not have herpes... i repeat; i do not have herpes!)

When it Rains, it Pours

When it rains i wish it was snow.... 2008... after the motorcycle accident and re-learning how to walk and managing to stay current in school...           Wait For It...

the price of a quote

i just bought a book of quotes... 2,548 of them... i got them on sale for 6.99... that seemed like a good deal per quote at the time... it would be alright if the quotes were categorized but they are, for the most part, random and unsearchable... so i will give it away as a birthday present. to myself.
I have just realized i am quite unquotable. i closed my eyes and opened the book and pointed to the middle of a page. The quote was, "we are all born charming, fresh, and spontaneous and must be civilized before we are fit to participate in society". Hmmm... let me find some better random quotes. "Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies" and "a man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her" and "whatever deceives seems to produce a magical enchantment". All unrelated?... perhaps.

By the Beard of Zeus

By the Beard of Zeus! I have just epically failed two exams in greek & roman mythology, so I figure this might help:
Divine Myth: Supernatural beings & Forces of Nature and the relationships between them and gods and humans... a story of creation and origin. Outside Time. Begins before humans, gods, the universe even. Sometimes focuses on ritual.
In the beginning there was Void. From the yawning void came Chaos. From the chaos, Eros, Gaia, and Tartarus came into being. Eros is the passion, the guttural desire that all other creation is formed from. Gaia is the goddess that is Earth, and Tartarus is the deep abyss below Gaia. From Gaia: Uranus (the sky), Pontus (the deep sea), and Composition (mountains). The Eros in Gaia and in Uranus produce twelve Titans, three Cyclopes, and three Hecatonchires. The 12TITANS:

• Oceanus
• Thethys
• Hyperion
• Theia
• Coeus
• Phoebe
• Cronus
• Rhea
• Mnemosyne
• Themis
• Crisus
• Iapetus