July 2008 Archives

i just got off the phone with a buddy i haven't spoken to in quite a while. told him all about quitting my old job, packing my bags and heading out west after ten years of living in the south, and how minae and i are both absolutely loving it here. it's hard to believe we've only been in san diego for eight months, and even harder to imagine going back to life in north carolina. and to think i almost chickened chick0ned out a couple times, cuz it meant having to leave a safe, albeit unhappy, life back east. unhappy because of work, because everyone i knew eventually left, and because everything was always the same even when things changed. safe, because it's what i had planned from the beginning of grad school and even though it wasn't what i imagined, it was always there for me. hell, i even bought a house there thinking i was gonna stay there forever! or for at least another five years. but if there was ever a time to just say fuckit and go for it, it was then. i guess it's all about risk versus reward.

and so now i'm able to eat korean pastries on a beach on an island that only takes twenty minutes to get to. plus trips to las vegas every two months! sweat!

canon ef50 f/1.8 + 400d

a larger city typically means a larger cultural base and better artistic venues. i'm a bit surprised at myself in having not explored more of these places such as the museum of modern art here in san diego, or listen to groups like the san diego symphony or the la jolla chamber music society. the latter is coming up with a couple of nice programs in august celebrating brahms with piano trios and quartets, so i'll probably be going to check them out. the symphony is also a video game music performance where they'll be playing music from mario, zelda, halo, etc... some old-school tetris, anyone?

wolfie does what wolfie wants but doesn't always get it. yeah, right. whatever.

the truth being that solis is really bad at dr. mario. i'm unsure whether he's enjoying or dreading his 0-5 losing streak against anjali, but the moment harks back to an earlier time when we would blame the controllers rather than ourselves for our downfall... the earlier time being 1987, when this game was released and when we were seven. well done, my friend, well done!