Homeless Upon 21

It explains it all

2004-09-26T07:57:00Z

gah, they changed lj again!

anyhoo, I went through some things back home and found two pictures from my fourth birthday. The calendar on the wall says 1987. On the table to my right(left side of picture)is a bottle of MUG rootbeer, a stuffed cat, a plastic cop on a motorcycle,a turquoise pony, and some party junk. In the middle of one of the pictures is me cutting the cake with a large knife. On my left is the original Memory game, a bert and ernie sesame street puzzle, fruit, a musical phone, and a box that says "Whiz-Kid" "A child's bridge to a personal computer!" etc.

I vaguely remember that thing.

parents yelling at me again so I'll continue this later.

go visit my other life

2004-09-22T02:02:35Z

</a></b></a>lysandra

homelessupon21 @ 2004-09-20T22:23:00

2004-09-21T05:24:27Z

minor problem with rearranging keys on my keyboard for dvorak: I am having a hard time trying to find all the keys since I have my NAME on the home keys and others are somewhat random. hmm...

homelessupon21 @ 2004-09-20T22:18:00

2004-09-21T05:20:39Z

alright, I've decided to go back to being lysandra

Also, I will rearrange my keyboard to good ol' dvorak.

that is all for now.

homelessupon21 @ 2004-09-20T21:14:00

2004-09-21T05:02:32Z

warm, gooey (because it's not completely cooked) egg yolk on properly cooked(according to my mother) rice has an interesting texture. Probably not a good idea to eat eggs that aren't fully cooked, but stopping the cooking process right before the yolk is completely solid leaves it all gooey and... interesting.

Chad always adds more water than I do to the rice. Which way is correct? There's a saying that floats around now and then in my family that translates to "one home village, one set of customs." Multiply out the number of "hometowns" and you can have just as many sets of customs. And a lot of people prefer what they are used to. I can't say that I do it "the right way," although I do prefer it cooked with equal parts rice and water.

I have an eggplant! I'll have to cook it tomorrow.

I keep boiling veggies for soup, but then I don't feel like eating the veggies afterwards.

I have an idea for an art project. yeahyeah, I know, I have a bunch that I've not finished yet. But I want to do something like a ship in a bottle, only a person trapped in a bottle. Maybe a series of people in a series of bottles dealing with their situation in different ways. hmm...

homelessupon21 @ 2004-09-20T16:34:00

2004-09-21T00:09:58Z

my cds are completely mixed up. Shit, I should have labelled them.

... and there's some that I don't think I burned myself... whoa. porn.

Alright, who rearranged my CDs? *looks around* grr...

homelessupon21 @ 2004-09-20T01:14:00

2004-09-20T08:22:27Z

I am alone in my wonderful bed. How sad.

at least I feel loved.

homelessupon21 @ 2004-09-19T23:22:00

2004-09-20T07:06:45Z

The female fuzzy that kept having all those babies is dead. Twig said he found it the other day limp and with a bloody gash, the babies scurrying about like crazy. Sad, no?

I tried letting my computer update, but when I restarted it, I got nothing but text. An attempt to fix the problem using the install DVD failed and I could hardly even log in. (translation: everything went kablooie.) So I said bye bye to my data and reinstalled Fedora. What a POS. Of course, my sony vaio didn't come with much on it and didn't even have a restoration cd for when that went kablooie so i'll work with what i have for now.

Mom gave me a bunch of yummy buns and a 50 lb bag of rice, plus a mango and some other things. yay, rice!

I miss chad. He just sent me a link to:

ocw.mit.edu

orgasmic.

homelessupon21 @ 2004-09-19T21:26:00

2004-09-20T04:45:20Z

I <3 apod.

that is all

stole it from serenegarden i believe

2004-09-17T10:25:30Z

Make a list of 15 statements about yourself. Three of the 15 statements must be LIES. Post your list and have people guess which three are lies! I mean it, people. GUESS!

1. I named my old computer "cardboardbox"

2. I have a guitar.

3. I <3 pho

4. I used to understand vietnamese.

5. I like being spanked occasionally.

6. I think pot brownies are better than pot cheesecake.

7. I enjoy teaching

8. I live with a guy we refer to as "Twig".

9. I learned to play the piano this year.

10. I <3 instrumental music.

11. I currently have over $3000 in the bank.

12. My middle name in chinese was supposed to mean "dream".

13. I've never been drunk.

14. I'm a virgin

15. I miss the beach

homelessupon21 @ 2004-09-15T13:41:00

2004-09-15T22:17:37Z

I need some more fake ivy and stuff to decorate the bed.

I have no idea where the charger for the batteries for my digital camera are. ack! damn this moving business!

I made a wedge shaped hanging rack-thing out of notched plastic drawer divider/organizer strips. I hung it on the wall using green plastic plant tie ribbon and a staplegun. It's about a foot and a half high and displays some of my origami and rubber stamps. Oh, and two cute christmas ornaments.

Chad's mom is going to be picking us up soon

bras are uncomfortable.

One of these days, I'll finish the Dalemark Quartet series by Diana Wynne Jones. I have all four books, but there's so much else I want/have to do...

homelessupon21 @ 2004-09-15T00:55:00

2004-09-15T08:17:30Z

mozart sings a bit. Twig doesn't seem to like him.

I've been cranky lately. Hope I haven't bothered anyone too much. Bugs bite me. The heat bothers me. I itch. I scratch. I have scabs. I have weird tan lines on my feet thanks to my sandals.

I miss colored pencils. Perhaps I will put down the wire and pick up some pencils...

homelessupon21 @ 2004-09-15T00:03:00

2004-09-15T07:47:14Z

my student is having trouble writing pseudocode for tictactoe. sadness. we'll work on that next time. I got $20 for almost 2 hours of talking. yay. got a ride from prettypieces. grabbed dinner at chipotle. Still at meeting right now.

old apple juice in other people's fridges scares me.
old apple juice in department fridges on campus scare me even more.

Some of the university's policies annoy me. the government also.

I miss my mommy.

My dad is moving to china for at least a couple of years. For all you people that say "If they hate america so much, why don't they just move back to where they came from?", some are. Some are. Of course, he was born and raised in Vietnam, and even taught vietnamese literature classes at some point, but he insists that he's Chinese and is a racist prick. He seems to hate the vietnamese, but all his business partners are vietnamese and they keep hiring vietnamese immigrants. Of course, his business ventures have never gone anywhere and he seems to put more time/effort/money into it than he gets back. He goes to China and GIVES AWAY technology and trains people for little or nothing in return.
I think he's a masochist as well as a sadist.

My mom doesn't seem too opposed to moving to canada with me and chad. She has friends there too. Perhaps we shall visit them sometime.

fuck you arnie

2004-09-15T06:25:45Z

https://faoman.ucdavis.edu/eAwards/html/UG_Student_Files/120_Percent_Rules_UC_Funds.html

Bye bye minors! :(

homelessupon21 @ 2004-09-12T21:09:00

2004-09-13T04:09:59Z

also: got a free cockatiel named Mozart from some guy in north davis. whee.

homelessupon21 @ 2004-09-12T19:08:00

2004-09-13T02:09:44Z

Moved into new apt., can,'t find power cord for monitor, have beautiful bed.

just sent off an email in reply to this:

2004-09-08T19:52:57Z

Job Description:
Live in house, minor chores, pick-up mail, feed and pet cat. If this work out this opportunity occurs a few times during the year for longer time periods. In actual work time it is 1/2 hr. You are free to go as you please. Live 2 miles from campus in West Davis, near bus stop.

Compensation:
$10/day

Job Description:
Pay: $11/ hr. or $3.00/page, whichever is more. Transcribe audio files, in MP3 format, of discussions, lectures, interviews, etc. Hours: 15-30hrs/wk

I love these random job posts!

homelessupon21 @ 2004-09-08T10:37:00

2004-09-08T17:38:07Z

no more marquees then, I guess.

resource leak

2004-09-08T00:30:21Z

Suppose someone were to offer you relatively new books and magazines at a very low price, say 50 cents. Would you buy it if it didn't have a cover? Not having a cover, they were probably reported as being unsold and destroyed, which I assume means that the author and peeps don't get $ for them.

If you don't buy the stripped books, they're heading to a recycling plant/landfill(blahblahblahbadforenvironmentblah) and author/whoever doesn't get paid for it.
If you do, you get a cheap book and if you never planned to buy it new anyway, the author/whoever still doesn't get paid for it and doesn't lose much, if anything at all.

Thoughts?

I need food.

homelessupon21 @ 2004-09-07T15:26:00

2004-09-07T22:30:31Z

homelessupon21 @ 2004-09-07T11:40:00

2004-09-07T19:50:32Z

I suppose I shall have to take a look at this later when I have more time:

http://www.dourish.com/embodied/

thanks to:
http://www.livejournal.com/users/tyrsalvia/605058.html

in other news, according to ian, 4 fuzzies are dead but a couple more just popped out of the breeding pair. Crazy baby machines!

yay, I get to move in today! Perhaps I will celebrate by going out and buying some rice and yeast. And a bunch of small containers to try out different rice-yeast ratios. Maybe we'll make a party of it some weekend or other.

But only after my final of course. I have little more than a day to study after all.

Now to figure out that fourier series related stuff and why it should matter to me...

homelessupon21 @ 2004-09-05T14:45:00

2004-09-05T21:53:58Z

UCD jobs:
Closed until Sept 13, 2004
for updating blahblahblah
But there are still non ucd related jobs. Don't see anything good, though.

Gah, it's hot.

Chad and I have been together for not quite two years. Time flies, eh?

homelessupon21 @ 2004-09-03T14:24:00

2004-09-03T21:41:48Z

I am lonely. But at least my hair is clean.

holey moses cheesecake was on the food network. It looks good, but is it really worth $46? Can I even eat the whole thing myself?

Another thing: Screw this pill, I'm on my period AGAIN. No wonder why I've been feeling like shit. rawr.

a new roomie? and possible doorbell

2004-09-03T06:56:38Z

Twig is out of town and I don't see him online. At some point, we'll have to get together and talk about his roomie situation. Anybody know anything about lilmisscourty? She made a post here:

http://www.livejournal.com/community/ucdavis/1425410.html

I like getting to know people a bit before deciding to live with them so perhaps we'll do sushi or something.

Her reply to my list of questions:
[X]willing to live with guys/chick
[_]willing to live in living room
[X]willing to share room with guy (if the guy is ok sharing with a girl)
[X]geeky (a little)
[_]picky
[_]neat
[_]allergic to hamsters
[_]allergic to books
[X]love books
[X]dumpster dive (only have once, but I want to again)
[_]pothead
[_]other type of druggie
[_]alchoholic
[_]partier
[_]loud
[_]etc

The living room will be FULL of shelves and books, some hamsters, and more books, not necessarily always neatly on the shelves. We may end up with boxes and boxes in the living room for a while as we sort through all the stuff we have.

So far, things are looking good, but Twig is the one that will be sharing the room and Chad and I are only sharing a living room, kitchen, and bathroom so he will have to agree. We're not desperate for a new roomie so a single no from any of us means no. Personally, I hate fuzzy moldy things in the fridge and will take the liberty of throwing out anything that is heinously old, mine or not. I usually ask, but some people just don't care and if it's so old that they forget that they even put it in there, I think it's safe to chuck it even if it's not mine.

I <3 clean open spaces, but I get lazy sometimes. I did pull a new swiffer thing along with an unopened tub of swiffer wipes out of a freshman pile of toss outs though(silly freshmen) so the floor should be taken care of. Dishes occasionally sit for a while, but we might have a dish washer and I'll try to clean them regularly. I don't know, we'll see. I'm not the neatest person on earth, but I will occasionally break down and clean the kitchen. Hopefully, I won't be the only one. Twig seems relatively clean for a guy. Chad ends up with piles and that doesn't motivate me to keep my piles of paper down. I guess we're made for each other anyway.

I have a bong. It is Pretty and will be used as a Flower Vase. Whosoever smokes with it shall feel my wrath. No smoking in the apartment. I don't want to wheeze and keel over in my own home.

Ah yes, the doorbell.

I have acquired some push buttons and stuff from the EEC100 lab that I'm currently in and can make some spiffy things, if only I had more parts. I set up 4 buttons on the breadboard today while waiting for lab to start. Button A, when pushed, lights up button group A. Nothing else works unless A is pushed. A+B means light groups A and B light up; A+C means light groups A and C light up. When Button D is pressed, it shorts everything else and no lights will go on no matter what you press. It's a simple circuit with a handfull of short wires and lights, but there were still people that still said whoa and asked me how long I've been in college. Odd. I thought they were doing better than I was. Maybe they're more book smart than I am, but at least I have some fun with what I learn.

Oh yeah, I might try to make a doorbell with some of those parts. Might need some more though, so every person can have their own button. That or have a grid of buttons on the door and only people we know will know which ones to push...

Circuits are fun.

homelessupon21 @ 2004-09-01T13:04:00

2004-09-01T20:21:14Z

I am on the wait list for Archery. wheee. I knew they had it, but it gets so horribly full every time that I never get in. I'm waitlisted #17. Let me in, let me in! I'm a senior! I've waited YEARS for the class!

There is a major restriction on the ecs289M class I was going to sign up for. Maybe I'll try again later.

archery or ethics, archery or ethics... I need ethics. Barr is teaching it. But that's waitlisted too. Of course, I don't know when barr is teaching ethics again. uurgh...

I suppose I'll take ethics.

Bastards. Not only do I not get to take archery or sleep in, I'll probably wake up at 7 every morning anyway because of my early lab on friday.

13.5 units + 3.5 waitlist units = 17 units if I get into everything.