Sunday, 3 September 2000 1:30am (tuesday morning)
L
abor day weekend. Woohoo. Let's see. Yesterday I went out skating with Lawrence, Jan and Lisa. First we went to Encinitas skate park, and then we skated at a middle school that is near my place here that has some really great ledges. Jan shinned himself really bad. It was swollen the size of a plum. Yesterday was the first remotely active thing I have done in a long, long time. I need to keep it up so that I don't keep gaining more and more fat.
Today was pretty boring. I spent the most part of the day copying stuff from one hard drive to the other. Man that took forever, but at least now I have a lot of hard drive space, and I don't have to worry about Photoshop crashing because the scratch disk runs out of space!
I added a new picture of my sister and myself in the Family part of my colors section. It came off the same black and white film roll as the Vegas pictures. Which you will see soon. Really. And I also did some more work on that new section of the site that I think I mentioned earlier. It will be cool.

Wednesday, 6 September 2000 12:15am (thursday morning)
T

Tonight was a very fun and relaxing night at home with the two hot chicks I live with that I'll never get. Cami made some Thai Curry for dinner and it was good. And then we all participated in making some fresh pecan pie. Mary has been craving pecan pie for the longest time and finally we made some tonight. And it was really good, and there is still some left so come over and have some before Mary eats it all.
It was good that I had such a relaxing night because tomorrow is going to be a very, very long day. Yup, last day of CAPE. Historically, this has bee pretty much guaranteed to be an all nighter every year. Some nights longer than others. The first year I did it, I think I was home by 10am the next day. So about 24 hours of working. The next time I did it, I think I didn't get home until 4pm the next day, but that was partially due to the fact that Jason and I went to Malibu Grand Prix (when it still existed) afterwards. The year after that, I don't really remember, but I don't think it was as late as 4pm. The year after that was probably the worst one ever, I got home around 4 or 5pm the next day, and there was no Malibu Grand Prix involved in that one at all.
But it'l be alright. I know I can last that long when I need to. And it will be my fifth, and last CAPE book.
Ok. So yesterday, everyone at work took that personality test from TheSpark.com. Today I found out via cami's journal that everyone who writes journals is talking about that thing. I didn't really know since the only ones I read are Cami's and Cyn's and occasionally comabound.com which is more like an update on all the journals and "reality" TV shows that are around. Anyway... since everyone else is supposedly talking about it, I'll put up the results from mine:

You are a MENTOR (Submissive Extroverted Abstract Thinker). Some would call you the most powerful and influential of all people. Those people are wrong.

The reality is that you DON'T really WANT to impose personal views or beliefs on others. Yet you are extroverted and intelligent, and you like to get involved. So you help others with the pursuit of knowledge.

You're the reason that people say teachers are also students. You are as much a learner as a master, and this satisfies you.

You won't die a lonely death, but towards the end you'll grow introspective, wondering if your life meant anything. This will last for decades, and you'll die after your spouse.


Hmmm. Yeah I guess it is more or less true that I don't want to impose my beliefs on others... but then again, I do like everyone to know what those beliefs are. And the part about being as mucha learner as a master (and liking it) is pretty true as well. I'm not looking forward to wondering if my life meant anything for decades though. That doesn't sound very fun. And I will die after your spouse. So don't marry me if you don't want to die an early death!
Anyways, I better go to sleep soon so I can make sure I will survive tomorrow. Oh and one more thing. The Vegas Update is finally up. It's actually in this journal as a regular entry. I haven't proofread it or anything yet so... well I don't really proofread anything I put up on the web so whatever. It's not as good as the long wait would seem to warrant though :)

Friday, 8 September 2000 1:30am (saturday morning)
T
his entire day has just been a muddled blur. Why? Because yesterday I left for work at 9am. I came back home from work this morning at 9am. Yup, last day of CAPE. Everything turned out fine in the end, but man, what a long day!! My internal clock is all messed up though. I mean, things that happened yesterday feel like they were today because I was awake until today. It was kind of weird driving home so exhausted and tired knowing that all these people on the road had just woken up and were on their way to work. Anyway, I slept until about 3pm today, and the whole day I've just felt really disoriented. Like my body had no idea what time it was and it was still just running. Sort of like that feeling you get in Vegas or some place like that when you've been up for so many hours and you just don't really care and you're just wandering around.
Trista, Cami's sister that I am in love with came down to visit today. Unfortunately, she's got a man, and it doesn't seem like that's going to change any time soon. Oh well.