12:38 AM | •
Went out for dinner with Kon, Noel, De, and Irving. It was the last time we'd ever eat together, so we were kind of in a melancholy mood. Afterwards we wandered around K-Mart cause Noel wanted to return something. Heh heh, we're so lame.

I packed the last of my things when we got back to the apartment. Started throwing away trash and cleaning. I want to do as few things as necessary tomorrow morning before the commencement. I'm so excited. I'm actually graduating college. For the first time in my life I feel like I've really accomplished something. Well, ok, I still need to take 2 courses during summer school before I really finish college, but still.

So now I'm entering the real world. No more going to classes, doing homework, watching TV all night, playing computer games, or working an easy part time job. No more fucking around. Now I have to start paying bills, start a career, meet a girl and start a family. I'm really scared cause I have no idea where to start. I don't have a real job waiting for me after graduation(stupid economy) and I still don't have a girlfriend. And I have no idea what I'll be doing a year from now. I'm tempted to go to grad school just so I can put this off for another few years.

I suppose I should start by looking for a full time job during the summer. I want to work up north somewhere, maybe Seattle or San Francisco, or maybe even New York. I should move even if I don't find a job. I have a feeling that if I don't move now, I'll never get out of Irvine. Not that Irvine's a bad place to live; it has its little charms and special places. I just need to see more of the world before I get too old and entrenched in routines.

The commencement ceremony starts in about 10 hours. I should unplug my computer and move it out to my car soon.

6.15.2001

6:22 PM | •
Confessions of a Car Salesman is a great article about the tactics salesmen use to sell cars. A writer was sent undercover at 2 dealerships and he wrote about his experiences. I might be getting a new car soon so this article was especially helpful.
[ From Jejune.net ]

12:29 PM | •
Monty Python and the Holy Grail will be showing in a few movie theaters with 24 seconds of new footage! It's playing in LA tonight but I probably can't make it. Oh well. The article says it's going to be released on DVD this fall, so I'll wait for that.
[ From Slashdot ]

12:21 PM | •
This homemade mech is very impressive. Look how big it is compared to the people standing next to it!

10:13 AM | •
The first Simpsons DVD set will be released September 25th. It includes all 13 episodes from the first season and a ton of extra material. Best of all, it's priced at $39.98. Hopefully the other seasons will be affordable too, unlike the $149 X-Files sets.

10:05 AM | •
I had a ratty old pair of Allstars that I wanted to get rid of, so of couse I had to tie the laces together and throw them over a power line. Irvine doesn't have power lines though, so we threw them over a streetlight instead. It took us a few tries, but we finally got them stuck on a screw or something that was sticking out. Irvine's officially a ghetto now.

9:49 AM | •
Yesterday I took a lot of my stuff home to Pasadena. Unloaded everything, emptied some boxes so I could use them again, and then came back to Irvine. The rest of my stuff I'll put in one of the storage rooms around here(cause I'm coming back in a week for summer school), or take back with me tomorrow. So moving out's not as bad as I thought it would be.

6.14.2001

4:55 PM | •
Homer Simpson's Phrase In Dictionary
I never thought I'd see the day when "Doh" is an official word.

1:59 AM | •
Nation In Love With Girl From Record Store
Heh, it's funny cause it's true. Why do all the cute, cool girls work in record stores?

6.13.2001

9:27 PM | •
I'm about to go see Evolution with my posse. It's so relaxing being finished with finals.

9:15 PM | •
So I finally got around to shooting a test roll with that new camera I got a month ago, remember? Fucking hell, only 10 exposures out of 24 came out ok. I don't know what happened to the others, but only about 1/8th of an inch of each frame was exposed. I really hope it's the film itself that was messed up, not my camera. I'm gonna shoot another roll as fast as I can.

12:41 PM | •
Robbers Snatch Exam Papers Instead Of Cash. The worse part is, the kids have to take their finals over again(or the best part, depending on the kid).

6.12.2001

11:24 PM | •
I took my little change jar down to Albertson's cause they have a change machine there, and I don't want to carry all those coins back home when I move out. Anyway, the total came to $54.57. I had almost $55 worth of pennies, nickels, and dimes sitting in my drawer! Actually, I had around $60 in change (the machine takes 8.9 cents for every dollar), but still, that's a lot of freaking money. Forget Vegas, I'm going to the market from now on.

3:06 AM | •
I got back from my first final yesterday and a small crowd was standing around the stairs leading up to the apartment above mine. Two police cars were also parked along the road. My roommate said that one of the girls upstairs had stabbed her roommate in the forehead with scissors. Jesus. I can't imagine anything that would cause someone to stab her roommate. And I can't imagine that 2 people could not get along so much. Now one girl is in the hospital and the other's probably in jail.

I've been lucky. All of my roommates for the past 4 years have been cool, and we got along fine. Well, there was 1 guy that I didn't have anything in common with, but at least we got along, he just didn't say much.

I'm gonna start calling the apartment upstairs "The Stabbing Apartment" from now on. That place gives me the creeps.

6.11.2001

10:30 PM | •
The Godfather DVD collection will finally be released on October 9th. All 3 movies and an extra disc with a 73 minute documentary, behind the scenes material, cut scenes, and interviews. Nice packaging too.

7:30 PM | •
Resident Charged with Having Sex with Chicken. Damn, what's wrong with this guy? That's a really bad picture too.

7:24 PM | •
ASCII pr0n is porn created using ascii characters. It was popular back in the 70's and 80's, the early days of home computers, but it's making a comeback. More and more people have PDAs, cellphones, and other wireless gadgets with limited graphic capabilites, and these people want jerk off material.

7:17 PM | •
Japan had a really fucked up "reality" TV show. They took this guy named Nasubi, stripped him naked, and locked him in an apartment with no food or clothing. The only way he could get stuff was to win it through contests. So if he wanted food, he had to fill out postcards and enter contests and hope he would win. He had to win $10,000 worth of prizes before they let him out of the apartment. And apparently the guy didn't know anything about the contest when he auditioned for it. Man, they have sadistic game shows in Japan.

7:12 PM | •
Oh man, there's 3 shows coming up I want to go to: The Aquabats at the Glasshouse on June 22nd, ohGr at the House of Blues on July 1st, and Rammstein at the Palace on July 4th. And I thought summer was going to be boring.

6:12 PM | •
Woo! I'm done with finals!! This is the happiest moment of...uh...this week! Time to party now...

11:21 AM | •
Well, I've been studying all weekend and I think I know everything now. I guess I'll find out later today, eh?