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Speak Easy

Man, Peggy S’s such a slave-​driver. She threat­ened to never talk to me until I update. So now I guess I have to. But what to write about? I guess I’ll cover Sunday…

Hmm… woke up at 7. Hopped online to find that Peggy S was still up. She had pulled another all-​nighter and had just fin­ished her project. I told her to take a nap before Amber W’s grad­u­a­tion, but she insisted on stay­ing up to make a poster for her, too. Got ready for my long day and bummed around online, because my mom was going to stop by on the way to tak­ing my sis­ter to the air­port to give me my ticket and talk to me about some fam­ily stuff.

Fin­ished up the fam­ily busi­ness at 10:30, and hur­ried to Kinko’s to print out my project. I noticed that the printer they have there is the same exact one my dad has at home home. Too bad I didn’t have time to go home and print it myself. Any­ways, he told me the pic­tures were a bit pix­e­lated, so I ran home and tried to touch it up as best I could. Got back there and gave him a higher res­o­lu­tion form of the project, and he told me it would be done by 1:30. It was 11:45.

I hur­ried over to cam­pus, hop­ing I could still make it to get a pic­ture with Amber W out on the lawn after she walked. Got a great park­ing spot and ran around the Pavil­ion a cou­ple of times, but didn’t see any­one I knew, so went to Hunan’s. Saw Peggy S and Jackie H drive off as I made the turn out of the park­ing lot, so I knew I made the right call. Stalked them all the way down­town. Lunch was cool, except I don’t think Amber W’s mom is par­tic­u­larly into Chi­nese food. And pos­si­bly was over­whelmed by the Asian in her life.

After lunch, went back to Kinko’s and added my project to Peggy S’s. Then we went to Jackie H’s to pass out for a bit, since we couldn’t get into the actu­ally 2 PM grad­u­a­tion cer­e­mony. Went after, though to take pic­tures out­side again. Met Kitty K’s fam­ily. The genes are strong. Just like Jenny L’s fam­ily. Peggy S gave her project to Thuong T and went home. :neutral:

A bunch of us went to Dos Coy­otes and Coldstone’s after. Alice C, Drew M, Jackie H, Jen L, and I split an Ulti­mate Bucket. aBB man­aged to dis­turb small chil­dren the vicin­ity with her dirtiness.

Oh no, I got creamy white stuff on myself!”

- Alice C.

Uh… do you real­ize what you said?”

- Us.

No, not at all. Now I’m putting these yummy nuts in my mouth!”

- Alice C.

Good lord!”

- Us.

Moth­ers were quickly drag­ging their infants away from earshot. We went our sep­a­rate ways after we killed the bucket… I went with Alice C to 49er video so she could use my account to rent some movies, and then I went home. Tried to cheer up Peggy S for a bit, but it didn’t seem to work. Ran­dom stuff online.

Some peo­ple went to see Bat­man, but I was too tired, and didn’t feel like pay­ing full price again. Ended up tak­ing a nap that lasted until 1:45 in the morn­ing. Talked online some more. Finally passed out for good around 4:30.

Tell Me I'm Wrong

I’m bored and broke. What to do? Hmm… sounds like post­ing time! :)

Woke up at 5:30 on Sat­ur­day because Kinko’s opens at 6, and I was going to get ready for my day and then go over there to print out my project. Peggy S wasn’t done with hers, though, despite the fact that she had stayed up until 5 AM work­ing on it and passed out unwill­ingly. She was sup­posed to take Ian R to the air­port, too, but I made her take a nap before Thuong T’s grad­u­a­tion, and took him myself, instead.

Got back and made sure every­one in my car was going to be ready, then Diana Pai came over, and we picked up Amber W and Peggy S and headed to cam­pus. The cer­e­mony was… eh. Speak­ers could have been bet­ter. But we can’t all get Wear Sun­screen. Thanks again to Kitty K for the ticket! Con­grats to Jeremy J, Linh N, Kee­gan K, Thuong T, Jenny L, Bao N, Alice W… I’m sure I’m for­get­ting a bunch of folks. It was the first grad­u­a­tion I had actu­ally gone to this year, and it made me sad to see so many friends leav­ing. Espe­cially folks I knew from high school and the dorms. Oh well. Next year. Or maybe the year after… :neutral:

After the oblig­a­tory pic­ture tak­ing for days out­side, went to Thuong T’s grad­u­a­tion lunch at Davis Noo­dle City. We seri­ously took over the place… I think APhiO had every seat in the house. The food, though… I think I could have made it bet­ter myself. And that’s say­ing a lot. But hey, I tried a new place in town, and now I know. After that, headed over to Chap­ar­ral for Alice W’s BBQ. I was pretty full, so only had a slice of cheese­cake. And then a slice of the rasp­berry choco­late mousse cake that Jen L, TJ Y, and Aywon N got for Thuong T. Played ball in the street with Mike O for a bit, but it was windy. And I hit a car. (The balls are foam, so noth­ing hap­pened, though.)

Was kinda sleepy, so I went home and took a nap. Talked online for days after that. Wrote a cou­ple of posts in between dis­tract­ing Peggy S from fin­ish­ing her project. She mocked my non-​existant love life that I men­tioned in my bit­ter post. And made ran­dom racist comments -

My back hurts. I wasn’t sit­ting right, I guess. :(

- Peggy S.

Aw… you need a back brace or something.”

- Me.

Ew, no! That’s what my dad uses. And the Mex­i­cans that work at Home Depot.”

- Peggy S.

Why you gotta be racist? Every­one who works at Home Depot has a weight belt.”

- Me.

And the Mex­i­cans have it more!”

- Peggy S.

I still don’t get what she means by that. That girl… :shakes head:

Any­ways, passed out around 3:30.

Your Friend

Wow, it is incred­i­bly hot right now. Much like it was yesterday.

Yes­ter­day, I… woke up and went online. Took Will N, Ter­ren, and Anh to cam­pus. Wrote my posts and worked on the Assas­sins kill cir­cle for a while. Kitty wanted to go to cam­pus, so I went with her. Chilled in CoHo for a while. It was kinda dead, and every­one was a bit… edgy. That’s Assas­sins for you. Wanted to play BS Poker, but I for­got that I left my cards behind in CoHo last time we played because peo­ple wanted to con­tinue after I left, and I never got them back. Instead, gave Linh a hard time about her home­work boyfriend.

I missed DL so I called him and told him to give me the answers.”

- Linh.

Damn, you’re hella demanding.”

- Donna.

It’s OK, she’ll put out and make every­thing better.”

- Jack­son.

Wait, no, he offered. He was sup­posed to help me with it, but his away mes­sage said he was doing home­work so I called him and told him it was OK, but he said he was done and wanted to.”

- Linh.

Oh… he likes you then!”

- Donna.

He just expects some­thing in return. That’s why you gotta put out, Linh.”

- Jack­son.

Man, Jackson’s got a one-​track mind. :) And did any­one else notice how Linh’s story hella changed?

Oh, and worked on the cross­word puz­zle for a while. Got about half of it when it was time for my ser­vice project.

Aiza and I walked over to the ten­nis courts and waited for Angela to come pick us up. She came with Will F and Eric AY, and we were off. The project itself was inter­est­ing. It wasn’t what I was expect­ing at all. First we had to fill out vol­un­teer forms and photo release forms. Sup­pos­edly they were going to have some­one there that day to get pic­tures of us. Then he had us trans­fer stock­ings filled with toys, candy, and toi­letries for kids from one room to another. They were left­over from Christ­mas, and the Food Bank decided to take the stuff out of them and use them imme­di­ately in other things. Then the fun part. They had just received a huge dona­tion, and had a moun­tain of empty steel dona­tion drums sit­ting out­side. We had to move them inside and stack them along the rafters in the ware­house. So basi­cally it was Aiza, Angela, and me run­ning between the hot out­side and cold ware­house with drum after drum after drum, drag­ging them up the stairs to Will, who squeezed them in as best he could. I was sweat­ing pro­fusely by the halfway point. And by the end I think I was slightly sick from going between hot and cold. But yeah, that was our two hours of service.

Angela drove us all back, and I asked to be dropped at CoHo. Chilled there, con­tin­u­ing the cross­word and semi-​waiting for my tar­get to show up, but really just wait­ing for Mommy Van’s sur­prise birth­day party. At one point, the fire alarm went off, and we had to evac­u­ate the MU. What a great way to get your tar­get to come out of hid­ing, huh? :) Hehe, no, there were no deaths that I know of in that time. And good thing, too. If a false alarm was traced back to APhiO, bad things would happen.

Jason G got out of class at 6 and the two of us walked over together. Good thing I went with him, because Mommy Tang told every­one the wrong address. (She says that’s what Eddie C told her, though.) Got there late, but was suprised to find that Mommy Van wasn’t there yet, so we just sat in back and played the wait­ing game. Mommy Van even­tu­ally came and was sur­prised. Then we ate. I wasn’t going to eat because I felt slightly nau­seous, but Jen Liu made me eat half her salad, telling me she would just throw it away if I didn’t. Damn her and her force-​feeding tendencies!

After din­ner, we wan­dered over to Baskin Rob­bins for some ice cream. Then went home. I was goign to pass out, but couldn’t. Then Eddie C and James S were going to go swim­ming at Chap­ar­ral, so I went to say hi to Mommy Van again and pos­si­bly chill in the hot tub, and see if that made me feel any bet­ter. Well, the Chap­ar­ral crew was going to go to Café Bernardo’s, but they closed or were clos­ing any minute, so I fig­ured they would stay home, but instead, they went to Cantina’s. I was in swim trunks, and with­out ID, so I didn’t go with them. Instead, I feel asleep in the hot tub as Eddie C and James S swam laps.

Went home and passed out for real.