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| It's like my whole family's on facebook now. Two of my aunts and my uncle just got one. They comment on a lot of my stuff. It's only going to be a matter of time until my mom gets one.. not cool.
Anyway, I really like my human sexuality class. It's a three hour class but it only meets once a week. Professor's really cool and the guest speakers are awesome. I took this class cause I thought it would be an easy and interesting capstone requirement but I am definitely learning a lot.. and we've only had 4 classes. Communication is the most important aspect! The only thing that sucks is that there are like three really immature and very unfunny guys who ruin the class. There is so much more to sex than just sex.
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| It's a Tuesday afternoon and I'm on the 4rd floor of the library with my buddy Kyle looking out the window watching the birds. It's been raining cats and dogs all day but the weather has actually put in me in a pretty good mood. It's that kind of rain that's heavy but still looks really nice because there's still a lot of sunshine. This semester is going to be really tough. I like my art history and human sexuality classes but my three design classes are going to take a toll on my body. Men's choir looks promising.. we recruited new tenors but lost some basses.
I'm doing research on exoskeletons of insects for my next project. It reminds me of that episode of Smallville when the bug guy got swarmed with his own collection of kryptonite bugs. Insects are interesting and all but I don't think I would ever be able to start a bug collection. Sam and I watched Coraline 3D for valentines day and it was awesome! It was probably the most amazing work of stop motion I have ever seen, after Nightmare Before Christmas of course. I definitely want to work in the film industry when I graduate. Speaking of movies, who's excited for J.J. Abrams' Star Trek to come out?! How cool would it be to design the props for that movie. I miss my friends and family at home. It seems like time is going by so slowly but everything is happening so fast. I didn't even notice that I've been in school for about a month until yesterday. Happy belated birthday Steven.. wish I could've been there.
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|  SAN FRANCISCO (Map, News) - A man slit his wrists before stepping out onto the ledge of a swanky condominium near the Union Square shopping district, drawing a crowd of more than 100 witnesses before plunging four stories to his death Thursday afternoon. The jumper, a tall, medium-built white man in his late 30s or early 40s, stood on a top-floor ledge above the H&M clothing store near the corner of Powell and O’Farrell streets for nearly 45 minutes before jumping, witnesses said. Police were called to 181 O’Farrell St. at 2:25 p.m. and immediately closed off Powell Street, but passersby gathered beyond the barricades to watch. “This guy was standing, frozen, for about 45 minutes. Then he looked at the crowd, and about five minutes later, he let go and jumped,” said Hicham Benkebil, a Hotel Nikko employee who came around the corner to examine the scene. “It’s crazy. It’s freaky. I didn’t think he would do it.” Police crisis negotiators arrived at the building and discovered that both the man’s wrists were cut, according to police spokesman Sgt. Neville Gittens. They attempted to talk him down, and that’s when the man jumped, Gittens said. Angelo Valero, who works at the hat store Lids — directly across the street from the scene — also witnessed the man’s plunge. “All of a sudden he jumped, and landed right in front of the doors [of H&M],” Valero said. “It was depressing to watch, really ugly.” After the man fell to the sidewalk, paramedics took him to San Francisco General Hospital, where he died, according to police. The Medical Examiner’s Office had not identified the man at press time. Streets around the site reopened just before 3:40 p.m. H&M remained closed until nearly 4 p.m. Lisa Sandberg, a spokeswoman for the clothing seller, would not comment on the incident, nor would a building manager for 181 O’Farrell St. --------
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| I decided to go to community college to buy myself some time and to save money. It's now two years later. I'm more broke than when I started out and I'm even more confused about what to do or where to go next. This is my last semester at CSM and all I'm really excited about is the measly 60 cent raise in my paycheck. My first raise. Did I mention I've been working there for over a year?
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| Its Thursday morning and I'm not doing anything but sitting in my room wasting time. Taking a look around, I've just now noticed that I am a very messy person. In fact, my life is really messy.. I do not have any organizational skills whatsoever. Daniel has left for Iraq, he'll be back in 7 months.. well 6 now I think. If anyone wants his address to send him stuff, ill post it at the bottom of this. Freshman year is almost over! I'm excited as much as I am nervous. I don't know what I'm going to do with my life. All of the things I love to do can't make me any money and all of the things I'm not good at or do not have a strong passion for can. Sure I can try to find a balance, but I know that I'll eventually end up wanted to go for the money.. not because I'm shallow and materialistic, but because I'm tired of having people help me out. My parents especially, I don't know if they'll have enough money to retire on time due to the expenses my sister and I require. I know I'm still young, but they I know they won't be around forever.. and I want them to experience the quality of life they have always wanted. I met a lot of new people at my new job who are living paycheck to paycheck. They are not much older than myself, yet completely independent and barely getting by. And while I know that most people live like this, I can't help thinking about how much I take for granted. Living with my parents is such a luxury.. they take care of everything. I am pretty much completely sheltered. There are a lot of kids who haven't worked a day in their life and have everything handed to them and it just saddens me to see the majority of them not appreciate the fact that their parents worked hard to give them a good life. I was prime example.. I got handed everything and I still wasn't a very good kid. I stayed out late, didn't come home sometimes, talked back to my parents, and disrespected them a lot.. the list goes on. Its pretty obvious that i deeply regret it, but I will definitely make up for it. Well, writing this post made me just decide that I want to go for the money.
In other news, I've been quite the emo kid lately. My grandpa passed away a couple of month's ago and I took it pretty hard. He was the great Rigoberto Roliz, a championship featherweight boxer who only lost one fight in his avid boxing career, an extraordinary ball room dancer (going out to dance with special shoes even when he had all of his toes on his left food amputated), a memorable socialite always acting the life of the party, and a great father and grandfather to his 8 children and 16 grandchildren. Not only did my grandpa attend all of my high
school performances, and I had a lot mind you, but he was basically at every
major performance in my life and that is something I will be eternally grateful
for. He was there when I was born, took care of me as a toddler, picked me up from school everyday in grade
school.. we use to watch Matlock and Walker Texas Ranger as soon as we got home.
I learned that Chuck Norris was pretty damn near invincible.. he was there at
my choir concerts, at dance concerts, when I had a the lead in the musical, when our
boys volleyball team won the championship title for the first time in our
school history, he was there. He was also present at my 18th
birthday. And just last spring, outside for 3 hours in 80+ degree weather, he
was right there in the stands for my high school graduation. He didn't want us to cry, but instead to celebrate his life. I really did try hard not to. I know that God set him free and that he's happy. So we had a Celebration of life for him and anticipated seating for about 300. Over 500 people showed up from all over the country, hundreds more who sent wishes from all over the world: Brazil, Portugal, Hong Kong, Shanghai, South America.. too many to count. It was awesome.. I wrote a song for him which was recorded. I might post on youtube at a later time. Needless to say, the man was downright amazing.
On top of that, I've been stressing over the whole global warming thing.. thinking about how life is going to be later on. The new found interest has positively changed my diet and exercise routines. I eat healthier and run more often than I use to. This is mostly caused by the increasing discomforting information drilled into my head in Geography class. Am I going to be able to move around when I'm old without having to
worry about intense heatstrokes or hurricanes tearing up my house. Is it gonna be ethical to bring a kid or two into this world and letting them deal with it after we've f 'd it up? Yeah.. I know I should not worry about it and just live now for the moment, but it will was linger around somewhere in the back of my head. Today, I'm going to look for energy efficient light bulbs for my house, fill up my tires, and change my air filter. I can't afford a tank of gas anymore.. I'm going to try to fix my bike and go for more rides.
Well, theres still a full day left in today.. I think I'll try to study for finals. I'm planning to go down to socal on May 21st or so to check out schools with Samantha. I think we're gonna leave around the time Mikey and Jennie and them get down there.. but if anyone else wants to go, feel free to give me a call. I'm going to record my adventures more often here.. I always tell myself this but then days go by, then weeks, then months.. and I just end up not writing anything for entire semesters. I really hope Wash Volleyball's doing well, kinda disappointed I haven't really been around to check out their season. Anyway.. I think that all of my emo-ness will end when the warriors take the series, charles barkley breaks his hip, and when Spider-man 3 comes out this friday!! although I do have work until 11, and till midnight on Saturday, so I might have to wait till next weekend. Don't know if anyone made it this far, but thank God for all of my friends and family. What would I do without them. Thanks especially to Samantha, Will, Daniel, and Steven for the past couple of months.
If you want to send Daniel stuff heres his mailing address in Iraq:
LCPL Daniel S. Kim
2nd AABu A Co. 3rd PLT
UNIT 73565
FPO AE 095093565
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