Something To Believe In

Doo­bie doo­bie doo… Wow, I’m bored. Time for another excit­ing post!

In the morn­ing… I woke up and went online, of course. Tried to fix the mail­ing list for days. It actu­ally took me longer than expected, so I didn’t make it to CoHo when I said I would. Sorry about that, Carol!

So yeah, after my online busi­ness, went to cam­pus. I was going to catch the bus, but then I real­ized I was just going to go home home after­wards, so I drove myself there and parked at Cen­tral Park. Chilled at CoHo for a while. Vince was there, and he had yesterday’s quote -

Man… I hope not. I need to do good next year. I’m not TOO wor­ried, though… I think the party house(s) will be over in Sor­rento. Con­ve­niently close, but still a com­plex away.

What else… the usual CoHo stuff, I sup­pose. Gave Carol’s binder to Jimmy P. Who left a mere five min­utes before she came to CoHo.

Oh yeah, the SVPs past and present were cam­paign­ing for “ChrisT for Pres­i­dent.” Good lord. Why is there so much cam­paign­ing already? I kinda still want to do PP with Eddie C, but Michelle and Clay­ton are think­ing about run­ning for it again, and if they do, I’m not sure if I want to run against them. I guess we’ll just see how the chips lie as the end of the term approaches. The mas­sive cam­paign­ing is seri­ously a turn-​off, though. I just want to let the cur­rent ExComm do their jobs as best they can, and worry about next term after activation.

Left CoHo with Kitty and walked to her car, and then she gave me a ride to my car. Drove home home. Had French bread and pâté as my first meal of the day. Took a nap, and then my sis­ters and par­ents came home. Had din­ner with them. It was great. I miss our din­ner conversations.

I also feel like a “bad Viet” because I won’t be attend­ing the ⁴⁄₃₀ rally in Wash­ing­ton, D.C. And I dunno if I’ll be going to the 4^th Inter­na­tional Viet Youth Con­fer­ence next sum­mer. I hella feel like a trai­tor for say­ing this, but what’s the point? Yeah, it’s fine and dandy to talk about how we can try to manip­u­late global trends to help our cause of free­dom in Viet Nam, but what can I do locally, on a day-​to-​day basis? (Maybe this is seated in my issues with UCD VSA.) One of the biggest rea­sons I enjoy APhiO is because I feel like I am doing some­thing con­struc­tive on a lot of projects. Maybe not as Earth-​shattering as a change in gov­ern­ment in my moth­er­land, but it’s some­thing. :sigh: I’m SO los­ing my roots here in Davis. And I hope my par­ents never see this rant of mine. It would upset them more than when they found out I had been kicked out of school. Maybe things will be dif­fer­ent after I grad­u­ate and have some sort of skill to contribute.

Any­ways, after din­ner, went back to Davis. Went to Kitty’s apart­ment and watched the King’s game with her. We were shout­ing at the TV for days. Then we went to Safe­way so she could buy some stuff to make fruit and yogurt par­faits. Then she started doing home­work, so I went back to the apart­ment. Will N was read­ing Mon­ster on my com­puter, so I watched Eddie C play Nox for a while on Will N’s.

Then Eddie C and I went to pick up Eddy and went to Brandon’s. Chilled there for a while, played some Hold’em and watched TV. Chris had recorded a bunch of MXC, the Amer­i­can dubbed Takeshi’s Cas­tle, and we watched all of that. Man, we must have been laugh­ing at other people’s pain for hours. Eddy insists that Asian peo­ple feel no pain, while Joe M con­tends that they are immor­tal. All I know is, that show is pretty freak­ing messed up. I approve.

Bran­don had to go to sleep because he had class in the morn­ing, so we all took off. Eddie C dropped off Emily and Jenny Y at Foun­tain Cir­cle, and it was back to the apart­ment once again. Talked on AIM with some folks, and then Eddie C started watch­ing My Wife Is A Gang­ster. That movie is hilar­i­ous. I passed out some­where in the middle.

Tags: America, Computer, Eddie C, Jimmy P, Joe M, Viet, Will N, Work