Job.

So I guess it's about time I talk about my job now that I am pretty sure I have one. For a while I was going on trial run days but now I am pretty sure its definite that I am a hired employee. I am a full fledged driver for the Westwood Flower Garden. A fairly sweet flower shop. The job is great it is perfectly around the hours I am not in class and I get to drive a sweet van (similar to the one pictured above). I am not stuck in an office, I get to drive around LA all day and unlike most people I enjoy driving around this city a lot. The shop always smells rad, and the people who work there are all awesome. There is my boss Brian, and then a bunch of girls workin the counter area, plus a flower arranger, all of them are real fun and cool. And as boss' go Brians not that bad, he just feels like a dad though much less demanding and loud then my actual dad so its all good. There are three vans I usually drive the newest one but I will be discussing in the future the one ghetto '94 Astro van so look forward to that.

Long day

Last night was pretty fun. I went with Gouldy, Ethan, and Evan down to the Jazz Bakery on Helms St. to see Dr. Lonnie Smith. Like most people that go to great jazz shows we had some high life tall boys in the parking lot before the show. The Dr. is a pretty damn fantastic organ player, plus he was full of good ol' timey jazz stories. After that we went back to Goulds place and hit up the Mountaingate pool house areas where we shot the shit, drank some brews, and sang random early ninties songs. We carried on in this fashion until we heard a shrill scream that sounded like some person was being killed and then we spotted a black cat. These two omens plus the fact it was getting cold told us it was time to pack it in and after a 19 hour day awake I was ready to crash.

Helping.

So Paulos is building a kickass bar. Me and Mukai helped but my basic role of all of this was to act as dead weight to keep the bar down while he cut it up. The only thing more fun then building a bar will be filling it up. Anyways though its gonna be a pretty righteous set up when he finishes it up. With the newly moved couch in front of the tv, the frigde, the bar, and of course the Halo 2, that room will soon be the lazy mans paradise. All he needs is a bucket and he's all set. Oh and yes he is rocking the saftey glass' and Konoha headband combo, if I had known it was gonna be like that I would have had mine on too. Circular saw no jutsu and dead weight no jutsu is a powerful combo...

Driving.

I like to watch people driving in other cars when I am driving. If I am making a turn or waiting at a light I just stare into the cars zooming by or the people in the cars next to me. Sometimes my eye's catch with someone else's who see's me looking or was looking at me also. It's very disconcerning.

Switched back

Well I have recovered from my Anime nerdness spell, but unfortunately have fallen right back into an old video game nerdness dimension. I have been playing Halo 2 with paulos until late in the morning for the past couple days. I have spent a lot of the days playing windwaker. Fortunaltly though we beat the coop missions which were pretty damn sweet but the story line is very anticlimactic and leaves a lot open. Also windwaker is almost done though I have been trying to stretch it out as long as it will go doing things like spending hours in the cabana doing puzzles. Not video game puzzles mind you but those puzzles they give to little kids where you have to move around pieces of a picture that are all mixed up and you can only use one empty spot to shift everything around. This constant rain is also a big motivating factor for me to stay indoors, because this rain is intimidating and I am a pussy. Now suffice it to say there has also been a lot of nights of randomness, including lots of paddle tennis (PT), we gave Ethan a Mullet, made a movie, I saw a grip of movies including the first Spanish gay noir movie I have ever seen. It's called "Bad Education" and was actually really damn great besides the scenes that were a bit too graphic including one scene where you see two ten year old boys jerking each other off in a movie theater.... That scene could have been left out. I started my class' this week too one already got canceled so I am only gonna take two class' at UCLA now, which is fine with me bunch of pimps and chuds in the smc one that was cancelled. I have no idea where I am going with this post so its gonna have to end here.

New years.

This New years was definitely gave me a lot to think about. I woke up this morning and my stomach feels like that laundry cycle, not the spin or rinse cycle but the one where the machine just shakes back and forth in violent herky jerky motions. I think it was a mixture of cheap beer, Matt D's homemade moonshine, and a lot of cheese and crackers. Plus god knows what else I consumed that night night while intoxicated. Anyways driving home today I was thinking of a lot of things besides the state of my insides. The night was a big shock seeing people that I have not seen for half a year to a couple full years. I was definitely curious about a lot of the people that showed before then and it was shocking for me to see some of them after either the speculation I put into how they would be or the complete lack of thought creating a startling effect due to their randomness of appearance. It's funny people like these I know there is no chance to have any kind of interaction beyond the small talk due to instrumentation of the situation.
I like new years a lot mostly for the fact you can wish people a happy new years and genuinely mean it. Happy holidays is a bullshit term, and merry Christmas no matter how I say it always feels like its bullshit coming from a large Jew. Happy new years is that perfect phrase that makes people happy to hear and one can say to anyone they feel like, from a good friend, to a heavily medicated guy posted up next to the salsa bar at Baja Fresh.
Oh and Happy New Years everyone reading this site. (all two of you)