A Quick Update

Its a week before the end of the semester and graduation, so things are a bit hectic. I'm very excited though. All these years at Ohlone with no clear end in sight and finally the end is a mere week and a half away. Earlier this month, mom and I went to Sacramento to stake out possible living situations. Turns out that theres very few options for students. There are about 3 apartment complexes that cater to students, not including the on campus dorms. But we found a great one that is a really short bike ride to school, has amazing amenities, is only a few years old and quite possibly one of its best features is that they are constructing a Target directly across the street from it! That will be so convenient, and I can probably snag a job there when it opens. I didn't take any pictures of the place, but here's one from the web site:

Definitely gonna get my money's worth out of that pool. (or dad's money's worth. thanks dad!)

Thats the floor plan of the one I signed up for. They pair you with a roommate based on a compatibility test you take. And I get my own bathroom. So I'm hoping I won't have any roommate difficulties. Normally I'd be really nervous about that part, but I think the fact that I get my own bedroom and bathroom and that theres only one roomate to deal with is making it relatively easy to cope with. Anyway. I have a lot of crap to do before school is over but I wanted to throw out an update for the record and for the 3 or 4 people that look at this blog. haha.

The Strange Sleeping Habbits of Butters

So, much of this blog has been centered around me (I'm the one writing it so that makes sense), but  the title boasts inclusion of a dog. So here's a post about Butters. She likes to sleep in the weirdest places and in the weirdest positions. Whenever I see it I usually take a picture and I recently realized that I have a lot of those. Here are some of the crazy ones.

She started young. This was her first day home. She was so tired from the flight she passed out under my desk. So cute!

This is her the following morning. She just sort of layed there like that for a while after I opened the crate.

One time I had a huge pile of clothes on my bed. Butters saw it and decided she needed to climb to the peak and sleep there.

For a while she loved sleeping on this big stuffed duck. It was adorable.

I just pulled some clothes out of the dryer and put them in my room. I left for a moment and came back to find that Butters had awkwardly made a bed out of the clothes basket.

 

I just remember that this was late at night. I don't know what she was thinking. lol

I have to admit, this photo is slightly staged. She laid down and put her head on my pillow and I just had to pull the covers up and put her teddy bear in her arms to take a picture.

Butters likes to watch lifetime movies with mom. She usually sleeps through them. This time she decided that she was bored of laying on the cushion like any other dog would and ventured to the top of the couch.

She is a strange animal.

I'm Famous!

I've been featured on the front page of the school website. I'm the awesome one on the left.

One Beast is Slain

So last year about this time I was preparing to participate in a graduation ceremony at Ohlone College where I would be awarded an AA in Graphic Arts. Well, I did participate, but a month later I received a letter informing me that I have to take a class with the school newspaper to get the degree. So I signed up for the class and I was told I would get my degree upon completion. Not a huge deal because I had already planned on being there an extra year to work on my transfer to Sacramento. So I took that class and cleaned up the whole mess with the mistaken grade. Its been a few months since I finished, and still no word. So I went to see my counselor. She said that the lady in charge of approving my degree had been let go due to budget cuts. So now its just one guy that approves degrees and it turns out the other lady never did resubmit my application. The guy felt bad, and he told me he wasn't supposed to do this, but he went ahead and approved the degree for me right there on the spot. He updated my official transcript and printed me out a copy. I was so happy! And if that wasn't enough, it turns out that getting an A in the newspaper was just enough to nudge my GPA into the Honors bracket, so now my transcript has this written in it:

Now I just need to get my AA in communication this May and then I will hopefully leave Ohlone forever.

Spring Break!...Part 2

So this is kind of late, but on the tail end of Spring Break, I went to Wonder Con to see the sights and of Course the public debut of Cory and Matt's Plotless Comics. I went on friday and then again on staurday. On friday I kind of just wandered around. On saturday, I went with Christy and our friend Idris. He bought us nerdy t-shirts (I got a Battlestar Galactica one!) and we went to the bathroom to put them on.

Then we went and found Cory, and things looked pretty busy at his booth.

Cory's table was located right next to the asile with all the "celebrities." I use the quotes because a lot of them are old and haven't been in anything important since the 70's. But this time some people from the new Battlestar Galactica were there! I love the show so I was excited to see a few of the characters there and we got to say hi and take pictures.

First we met Richard Hatch (left)  who is the evil Vice President on the new series and Captain Apollo in the original series. He was very cool. He told us he was the thumb wrestling champion and kinda looked like he was challenging one of us. I looked over at Cory Idris and Christy and no one volunteered so I jumped at the opportunity. So I played thumb wars with Richard Hatch! Christy got it on video.

Then we saw Aaron Douglas from Battlestar Galactica (left) who plays Cheif Tyro. He was basically the head mechanic. He was nice too. Wanted us all to squish in for the photo.

Then we saw the guy who played Chewbacca in all 6 Star Wars movies! He's kind of a crazy looking guy, and he's super huge despite looking kind of skinny. Idris managed to get a wookie sound out of him too!

After all the excitment and overstimulation that happens at Wondercon with all its colorful stuff to see, we got on Bart and went back home. It was a really fun time and Cory really enjoyed exhibiting there.

And That Goes Where?!

I think I mentioned here that I was sick for Christmas day, and it kind of sucked. Well I was sick for another 3-4 weeks after that. Although the roughest had passed, a cough, congestion, fatigue and a general feeling of crappiness lingered. So the doctor gave me some antibiotics because it was likely a bacterial sinus infection. It helped and I was able to get back to normal life, but I never quite felt 100% better. Recently I was feeling pretty crappy again and at times suffered spells of dizziness. So it was back to the doctor. This time he decided to pull out the bigger guns and prescribed me this monstrosity of a pill:

I was fairly beside myself when I saw it. I jokingly asked mom if she was sure this was supposed to go in my mouth. lol. Although it was frightening, it actually isn't that terrible of a chore to swallow it. And after the first day of taking it I felt better. I don't wake up with all that nastiness that comes with a dried congested nose. Nosebleeds aren't plaguing me daily and at times I can even breathe through my nose. Now I just have to do something about these allergies...

Spring Break!

Ive been on spring break since last friday. Its been pretty great. Normally I'll always get stuck with some project or paper that'll be due right after or soon after, but this year I have nothing. Its a clean break and I don't have to even think about school. It is kind of sad though because all last week it was sunny and warm. Now just in time for my break its all cold and cloudy. Still happy for the break though.

On tuesday I put my season pass to good use and went to the park formerly known as Marine World. Now its Six Flags Discovery Kingdom. This year they unveiled a new trick for Shouka the killer whale. Instead of jumping straight up in the air to hit a ball, she jumped all the way out and did a flip and hit the ball with her tail. It was pretty cool. It was a great day to go though. There was hardly anybody else there. We got to sit right up close at all the shows and walk right on to any rollercoaster. Probably like 2 minutes was the longest wait all day.

I also got this souveneir! It actually cost less to buy the one with the t-shirt on. I don't know why because clearly a whale with a t-shirt on is adorable.

 

My next spring break adventure will be going to WonderCon this weekend to see what is essentially the world debut of Cory's Plotless Comics.

Also, I've noticed that pretty much all my post titles are exclaimations. Apparently I only blog about things I can shout.