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Monday, February 27th, 2006
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1:45 am
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Man, finishing a fifteen page rough draft is a great feeling. That burden is so last week.
I cannot believe that we are going to be leaving DC in a mere eighteen days. I miss Davis, sure, but I could also see myself living here in DC and working in the office I am interning at. Just thinking about working full time makes me realize I have no clue what I am going to do when I graduate. All that depends on receiving at least one positive response from law schools, I guess. I still have not heard anything new, other than rejections from USF and UC Davis. Golden Gate University said they would make a decision by Friday of this week.
Spring quarter in Davis will be so fun, though. There shall be parties, sayeth Rob.
I have also decided that people in Georgetown are rather snobbish. I accidentally bumped into people with my briefcase walking way too slow for a crowded sidewalk both Saturday and today, and I get horrible looks even after my apologies. That, and I just generally do not trust Georgetown.
Ok, work starts again tomorrow. At least Congress is not in session, so I can get away without a suit.
They hold my hand and ask me to pull through,
A voice I know says, "Dear, he probably can't hear you"
I finally hear you.
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| Tuesday, February 21st, 2006
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7:48 pm
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I am not a fan of research papers. Especially research papers on the Rules Committee.
Washington is fun again, mainly because I set something aside that was on my mind for a while. Also, three-day weekends are excellent. My parents came out and we explored some of DC, and I gave them an extensive tour of the Capitol. It is too bad that I am a horrible tour guide and do not know half of what I am supposed to know. On a lighter note, my bags will not be nearly as packed as they came, since my parents took some of my unused stuff back.
Why are my stocks not performing as well as I want when I want them to (which is all the time)? It is not all too bad, since CapitalSource earlier today announced that quarterly dividends are to be paid on or around March 31. How radical is it that my stocks are slowly paying for themselves?
I am starting to feel like I am actually helping out the people of Sacramento at Matsui's office.
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| Thursday, February 16th, 2006
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1:35 pm
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...and rescue me from me, and all that I believe...
This weekend is going to be interesting. I have a lot of research to get done with, but my mom and dad are coming to DC later today until Monday. Thankfully, I will be able to get some work done this weekend on either Saturday or Sunday.
The District is starting to get boring. I know the places I have been to all too well. The people are cool, but the places are the same, and this fact gets me thinking about going back to Davis. Although we have a month left here, I could go back to Davis anytime now.
I do not think I am really happy to be here anymore. I only say that because I am already thinking of the near future. If my mind is not on where I am right now, then what does that say about where I am right now? For Spring Break, I am thinking about driving out to Keams Canyon, Arizona for my long-desired return to the top of the mesa. Whoever is interested in coming along, let me know.
How do we know if we are meant to be somewhere or to do something? Sometimes I am sure of everything, but other times I am not so sure of anything.
Too late to turn back now...
*EDIT*
Research is very dull. I am listening to Dispatch, and the song Hey, Hey came on, and I realized how defeating it is when the words of others mean more to a person than his or her own words.
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| Monday, February 13th, 2006
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12:13 am
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I don't believe that anybody feels the way I do about you now...
The snow has arrived, but pictures have yet to.
I was talking to some of the Berkeley students here, and have asked a few of them if they heard of James Lee, or the student who jumped off the Arc de Triomphe last year. No one could exactly recall the incident. I am sure they have heard of it, processed it, then went on, but I am wondering why I am still thinking about it. I knew James growing up, but I did not know him after high school, and obviously not about anything going on with his life.
Why is the grass always greener on the other side of the fence? Can we not see both patches of grass at the same time to observe that fact? Talk about a Captain Obvious statement. I say, the grass is always greener when one is not looking. My perception of what is in front of me and what situations exist cannot be different for myself, even if situations differ to another observer, so really, there is no point in stating simply that other views exist on a matter because obviously, others views always exist. Sure, the person may be attempting to mold my perception of something, but that is why the grass is always greener when one is not looking. Only when we analyze what is at hand do we see its flaws, and only when we ignore the flaws do we see the beauty of something.
Prediction: Work will be fun this week.
There are many things that I'd like to say to you,
But I don't know how
Because maybe you're going to be the one who saves me...
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| Friday, January 27th, 2006
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1:31 am
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Sorry, long time gone...
So, I turned twenty-two and had a great time. Tuesday was the actual day, but since we work on Wednesdays, about ten of us went to the bar across the street and had a few drinks. The surprise, however, was on Wednesday night when I was going upstairs to "meet some Berkeley and Irvine girls", only to open the door and see and hear about forty people yell "HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!" A SURPRISE PARTY! I was so confused and happy at the same time! Anyway, I have work in the morning, so I need to go.
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| Tuesday, December 20th, 2005
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3:18 pm
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I'm not sure where I'm going, I'm not sure where I've been...
Ah, John Denver, how come you are so wise, like a miniature Buddha?
This winter break seems more of a transition for me than the break feels like an actual break. In less than two weeks, I will leave a world behind for ten weeks while I enter a new world. Not a new world in the sense of new people/laws, but Washington is just so vastly different from California that I am not sure how I want to approach our nation's capital.
I also am not sure if I want to keep a life going here in California while I am gone, as in keep up with the way things are going, or if I just want to be gone for being gone's sake. This is a pretty dramatic take on the situation, but the result will be closer to either the former or the latter than it will be a neutral position. I do not want to just leave the California life behind in an attempt to focus on studying in DC, but I am not sure whether or not I can maintain something that I am not even sure is there to begin with.
I have yet to hear back from any law schools. I will most likely get all the bad news next quarter. At least for this past quarter I have for sure a B in HIS 174C. I even got a 90.5 percent on the final!
That is really all for right now, I believe. Happy break, everybody...
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| Tuesday, December 13th, 2005
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11:35 am
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I feel so un-alive. It was not one single act, however, that did the trick:
A small part of me died when mankind was given free will. Choosing poorly will eventually end us all, but choosing the best at all times is impossible. With no single force or rule that every single person on this planet is willing to acknowledge, we are all doomed.
Another part of me died when mankind refused to administer absolution. Whatever is forgivable should be forgiven, but not everybody can or should forgive everybody for everything. It is a lot easier for Americans to laugh at or make light of al-Qadhafi's hypocrisy than it is for the family members of all the people killed by agents of al-Qadhafi's terrorist training camps.
Another part of me died when people attempted to centralize justice. Your justice is not my justice, just as your beliefs are not my beliefs. Justice is not for people to decide, anyway. Instead of laboring for "retribution", why not labor for progress instead?
Maybe someday we will all come to our senses to work towards a common goal, rather than our own personal advantages.
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| Sunday, December 4th, 2005
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9:11 pm
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The Sharks won two games in a row so far, and I have a feeling that Joe Thornton has a lot to do with the wins. Thank you, Reuters, for the photo:
This is the last week of school before finals, and the last week of classes I will take here in Davis until March or April. Washington is coming up quicker than I can really process, and I am starting to get nervous about living over there. Living in DC, though, will be quite fun.
I saw this editorial cartoon by Matt Davies, and I liked it a lot:
Hopefully I can go the season without a rant about the holiday season in general, but I hope that for the coming month or so that the public realize there is a world out there in dire conditions who need help in whatever form we can offer.
Okay, last week of classes, bring on the pain!
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| Thursday, November 24th, 2005
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12:15 am
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This is for the one and only Jan Edquilang. Here's to you, my main mack. Thank you for all positive signals you subliminally feed to me that make me realize that you totally dig me and my style.
School breaks are not really breaks if there is no break to break the school. School is really piled up high for me this weekend, and I have a lot of reading to finish, but I shall prevail. I have to go clothes shopping sometime this weekend, too, for suits and whatnot for DC. I'll feel so high class, walking around Capitol Hill in a London Fog coat and all...
I am not a fan of Thanksgiving, but at least school is out for the rest of the week.
Why do lies prosper, yet truths are easily forgotten?
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| Thursday, November 17th, 2005
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1:52 am
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Applying to law schools is FUN!! So far, I have applied to Golden Gate, University of San Francisco and California Western. In the next few days, I will apply to UC Davis and possibly Oregon and/or Washington.
The future we cannot see, and the path we do not know. We tell ourselves what our own paths are in order to make for ourselves what our futures will be. That is hardly allowing fate to run its course, unless there is no such thing as fate, or the only fate we have is to do whatever we will ourselves to do...
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| Sunday, November 6th, 2005
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6:59 pm
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So being a history major finally pays off. I received an e-mail from my dad with the following picture. I, being an astute student of history, was able to correct what he thought he knew. This article is not real; it is indeed fake:
My history class just went over this very advertisement in one of our textbooks, as it was only discovered after publication that this article is a fake. It should be clear (in my opinion) why this advertisement is so obviously fake: The magazine this article was supposedly published in is called Housekeeping Monthly. The readership of such a magazine, especially in the fifties would have been very predominately female. Further, the editors of a women's magazine would have been established females. I find it very hard to believe that well-off women with a sense of independence and financial stability would allow such a sexually degrading advertisement to be published in their magazine.
While I cannot prove that this article is physically a fake, there is no way in the world that this article could have actually been published within the pages of the said magazine. Call me crazy, but I just do not see this article as being authentic.
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| Thursday, November 3rd, 2005
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10:51 am
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Congresswoman Matsui's office just extended my way an internship opportunity. I am excited. So far, this internship is looking the best out of the three places I applied to (mainly because they're the first to say 'yes').
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| Thursday, October 20th, 2005
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6:55 pm
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I have been so busy with school and life that I have barely had a chance to relax this week. Starting off on Sunday, I saw Carlos Santana, which was way cool. But alas, I got sick, and am just now getting over the sickness.
Hmm, so by tomorrow I will have applied for three Washington internships: Congresswoman Tauscher's office, Congresswoman Matsui's office and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. If the work to be done at RFE/RL turns out to not be substantial, I will gladly accept an invitation from Matsui's office, if invited. The prospects are looking pretty good for that one, however...
Papers to write and books to read, I have become an academic nerd so caught up in the cycle that I am not sure if I can (want to) stop.
I decided to stay active this quarter in Phi Alpha Delta, so that will be another thing I am running around doing. Hopefully I can make it to Michelle's party on Saturday in Woodland.
Oh, the aching,
Because I'm kissing you...
Yeah, I wish I had some girl who made me ache, in the positive sense of the word, to just be around...
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| Thursday, October 13th, 2005
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12:20 am
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I have forgotten what it feels like to have an upper. T.S. Eliot said he will show me fear in a handful of dust... I want to be to shown something that will get some kind of rise out of me.
I do not know why, but I feel like the world's most apathetic and meaningless person right now. I am still searching for some reason for something, and I have obviously lost this battle.
What sucks the most is that I know these feelings will die out eventually, but when it hits, it sure hits. That fact only makes me wonder why the feelings are even around in the first place, if they are only temporary. Not just the bad ones, but the good ones, too. I am starting to wonder if feelings even mean anything anymore. What is temporary only lasts forever if and only if there is never a break in what is temporary. Who would want to even bother with the constant change of moods just to justify the good times? I would, and I will admit it.
I think that is where these feelings come from. The fact that I realize feelings are temporary, and will sometimes lead me to troubled times, yet I still want the feelings. It is almost as if wanting to have any feeling in life is masochistic.
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| Sunday, September 25th, 2005
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10:15 pm
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So talk about bowing down to popular opinion...
President George Bush opposed the Supreme Court ruling in the matter of the University of Michigan Law School's case for affirmative action. The President had the Justice Department file an amicus brief in an attempt to overturn the decision, thereby forbidding any form of ethnic or racial preference in the national public school system. Fortune 500 companies, the American Bar Association, and even the United States Military Academy at West Point was in favor of the University's stance. Only after the President's (and the plaintiff's) position was voted against did George Bush claim to "consistently recognize the value of diversity on the nation's campuses," according to Alberto Gonzales, then White House council.
By attempting to hinder the advancement of people coming from an unfair position in this society, I do not see how the President could have ever recognized the value of diversity in public universities. Oh well, maybe this is just me...
Not too much else is going on here. I am just waiting for school to start. We are painting the a-boards tomorrow, which should be a grand ol' time. Tabling on top of that, too. It sounds like the whole Phi Alpha Delta thug crew will be back together in no time...
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| Friday, September 16th, 2005
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1:52 am
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It has been a long while, but then again, I have had nothing to say. I really do not have anything now, except that the Giants completely suck. What was their deal tonight? We were sitting in great seats only to see a horrible game (from the San Francisco perspective).
Is it the least bit sad if Mobb Deep seems say what I (be) feel (feelin')?
You all alone in these streets, cousin...
So I finally finished the Dark Tower series by Stephen King... Talk about an absurd ending! I am glad I finished it all, however. That puts me at four completed books this summer, and I am sure I can make that five, with some vested interest.
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| Saturday, August 27th, 2005
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1:18 am
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Ain't no angel gonna greet me...
Bah, sometimes I wish that what is in the past can stay in the past, and our minds do not have to reflect over things we do not wish to ever remember. But then I remember that we need to remember the bad, so that the same evil does not happen again. It is as if life is too simple to be simple or real. Everything is always so complicated, yet when we recognize the complication, there is always an easy way to look at the situation from a distance.
What is real, then?
I feel saved enough to want others to do well, but the thought of nothing catching me as I fall scares me a little bit.
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| Wednesday, August 24th, 2005
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11:55 pm
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| Monday, August 15th, 2005
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3:18 pm
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Walk away me boys, walk away me boys
And by morning we'll be free...
Wow, so summer work finally finished, and here I am back in Davis for a couple of days before going to Walnut Creek for some various random things. I learned a lot this summer while in Oregon, mainly construction stuff, but also about people, myself included.
At debrief in Sacramento, we watched this film called "Invisible Children". The documentary was very depressing, but also makes me happy knowing that some people who did not know of a situation truly care about the condition of others.
Here is a picture of my staff on our last day in Oregon, at Crater Lake. Ah, staff... The scenery was amazing, and the background looks fake it is so clear.
This is (from left to right) Philip, Ashley, Sean, Liz, Yours Truly, Kelly and Nick:
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| Monday, July 18th, 2005
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5:14 pm
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A really quick update:
Oregon is alright. The town of Chiloquin is really awkward and depressed both socially and physically.
My construction job is going well. I have so far supervised a deck and stairs, currently working on a huge paint house, a roof and an awning. The rodeo was last weekend, but our site director did not want us getting hurt, so we were not allowed to ride the bulls. Super lame.
Anyway, I gotta get going, hear from me later, y'all.
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