Interim.

So today was a moderatly stressful day of travel. I woke up pretty early, so automatically thats kind of balls. I then cut the timing pretty close. I realized when I got to my grandparents place, since they were driving me to the airport, that I did not have my digital camera. I most likely left it in my room but there is no one trustworthy enough in my family who would go through the effort to look for me. I guess laziness runs pretty hard in my family. So no camera for this last leg of school. Then we drive to the airport and in the airport get stopped by a cop for speeding. At this point I am about 50 minutes from departure. True my gradfather was doing 60mph in airport but still c'mon, so the cop just gave him a warning. He could obviously tell we were awesome.
The flight is not bad. Terrible food they make you pay for, sappy romantic comedy movie, jerks congregating around the bathroom, screeming babies, it was pretty much normal plane fare. It went by fast at least. I then dragged out to the supershuttle and on the shuttle back realized my ipod was gone. Well shit, I left it in the magazine pounch in front of me. So I call the airport, the plane has already left back for LA no ipod was found in my seat. I then call LA to ask them to search when the plane gets in. Its a message machine, the office is only open on weekdays. For some reason Dulles has someone who can talk to me but LAX does not. I then call the airlines to try to get a person at the gate in LA who can check. They lie and tell me they dont have that number. Then after making up a hypothetical situation involving a man on the plane with a stroke, the woman concedes they do have the number they just won't tell me, obviously because they hate their customers. Well crud, I'll try when the office opens tomorrow. Looks like I was too dazed by traveling to take care of my stuff. Thats the way it goes.
Some good news, looks like I am going all around europe this summer staying at some free housing in London, Paris, and Florence. I am then probably going to my cousin's wedding in Isreal since its only like an hour away. I probably will work out this whole middle east "crisis" and then fly home. I still don't know what I will do after I get back from the trip for a year but at least I can put it off until september.
If I ever get my camera, I will post pics of Yuji's visit, but I am not holding my breath. A further continuation in my experiment with long posts.

Is that my coffee maker?

So I am in a bit of weird place right now. No I am not sitting on the back of a giant turtle, I mean metaphorically speaking. I am sitting at home in my room right now, in Los Angeles, writing on my Moms laptop. I left my laptop which is working now since in broad daylight I walked into the computer lab and "acquired" a new monitor. I didn't want to schlep the monitor home though so I am on my moms comp.
The list of things I have to get done pretty much includes: My senior paper/honors thesis (if I can swing it in time), plan a trip this summer, find something to do next year, and then if I have time entertain Yuji. My thesis is consuming my brain as of lately. I got to pick the topic, and it is something I find really interesting but it is a pretty intesive route I have picked for it so I have been reading, pondering, and writing. I do not look forward to proofreading this thing later. At least there is a chance that it will never be finished so I might not have to deal with that. If I don't have time to turn my regular thesis I have yet to finish into an honors paper, I might just write it this summer. That would cramp my summer plans a little bit though.
This summer tentative plans are to travel to Europe. I theoretically would have connections in housing in some places, and since I have been to no places in Europe, some places sounds pretty good. I have money saved up from this semester and I am getting some money for graduation I am looking forward to squandering but the problem is two fold. First organization, all those organizing the trip are notoriously lazy and unmotivated, myself included. Next problem would be making sure I have time to travel since I as of yet do not know what I want to do next year.
I have already been accepted to Law School. I have not heard back from most of the schools but I know for sure I could go to Law school next year if I want. The thing is the more I think about it, I would rather not go to Law School next year. It is not that I don't want to go anymore, since I think it really does sound like intereting stuff, but I just imagine myself falling into a suit and then never being able to take it off for the next 40 years. Balls. Well the question is if I am not going to Law School next year, what could I do that would actually be worthwhile enough to justify not going to school?
When I ponder this here quandary the only answer that comes to my mind, is nothing. I want to do absolutely nothing. I don't even want to sit around and watch T.V. I just want to go to camp for a year. I want to sit around with friends and carouse and drink, probably see a couple movies, read a few books, and pretty much just sit around. Well that clearly is not an option.
My realisticish options are as follows; one join americorp, B. teach English for half a year in some sketchy country, 3. Get a crappy temp job for a couple months then travel until my money runs out. Well americorp would be good because I would get money for school (not much) but also because I would also be doing something (hypothetically) admirable. The negatives: 12 months, and 9 to 5. This is pretty much something that freaks me out. I couldn't work 9-5 one day a week without wanting to claw off my own skin. Also I don't know what sort of organization I would work for. The next option teaching English sounds good. I really want to travel and this would give me some more opportunity to live somewhere exciting(I am thinking Taiwan, or Southern China, though I think the pay is better in Korea so maybe there), plus the money in some of these places is not bad and the hours you have to actually work if very skimpy. The negatives, if I don't like it the country I am pretty much stuck there, it could get isolating since I would not be in a program with other people like me, plus usually contracts are 1 year or at least 6 months. I did think about a loophole to the last problem though. I could just go somewhere teach for 3 months then quit after my first couple paychecks, I call this the Yuji Plan. Kind of messed up but I mean not really that big of a deal. The last option, theoretically this could be real fun, if I got a job possibly working somewhere I enjoyed. Maybe I would go back to the flower shop if they needed me full time. I like driving a van and flowers smell good. Traveling around would also be fun. The negatives; I don't know where I would work necessarily, the work could be painful if the job sucks (like 9-5 temping).
So that is pretty much what is going on with me right now. I have to sort this out, and still visit law school to make sure its something I don't want to do next year because I cant go back once I tell them no, and plus most of the schools I want to go to wont let me differ enrollment so I would have to reapply next year. Meaning I might not get in again. Meh. All this and I have to entertain Yuji this week. I am thinking I might just drop him off in Compton, or maybe the east LA Barrios. Well if anyone has any comments or advice, I am open ears. I would apologize for such a long post but thankfully no one reads this.